Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1923 — Page 1

Volume XXL Number 223,

OKLAHOMA LEGISLATORS SUMMONED

PROPUSEDTAX RATES IN THIS COUNTY FIXED Certified To Auditor; Will Stand As Final If No Objections Raised. MOST RATES HIGHER Geneva To Have Highest Rate In County; State Rate Not Determined. The tax rates fixed by the different taxing units in the county have been I certified to County Auditor .Martin Jaberg and will stand a- final unless objections or remonstrances are filed against them by taxpayers in a®y of the townships or corporations affected by the proposed rates for next year. The totals in the different townships. Decatur, Berrte, Geneva and Monroe are available, exclusive of the state rate, which will be fixed i probably today or tomorrow by the; state tax commissioners. The state rate, it is said, will be anywhere from 28 cents to 34 cents on the hundred dollars. Whatever the state levy is the figure should be added to the totals given below and the total of these two figures will be the rate in the respective township, city or town. Geneva will have the highest rate in the county next year, unless the fate now fixed is lowered by the state hoard. The rate is $3.59, exclusive of the state rate. Berne is next with $3.22. Washington township has the lowest rate of $1.27. This same town ship has the lowest rate this year. Decatur-Root township will be lower than Decatur-Washington township next year. The rates as fixed by the local taxing units in these two townships are. Decatur-Root, $2.95*4; Decatur Washington, $3.01. This year the rates in these two taxing divisions are, Decatur-Root, $3.35; Decatur Washington, $3.07, these figures including the state rate. Most Rates Increased. Figuring that the state rate will be thirty cents on the hundred dollars, next year’s tax rate in nine of the townships and in Decatur, Berne, Geneva and Monroe will be higher than this year. If the state rate is not over 30 cents on the hundred dollars, Root township and Decatur-Root corporation will have lower rate next year. In Hartford township the rate would remain the same, $2.28. In French township the rate would be bne cent higher on the hundred dollars. It is a well known fact that schools and roads take the most money, that is, the levies for these two items are larger than for any other item, including the cost of maintaining or operating the township, town, city or county governments. In Decatur the total of the levies for roads and schools is $1.82, exclusive of the state’s rate for these two items. The total rate without the state rate is $3.01. It is also a well known fact that a county cannot have good schools, build roads and keep 750 miles of macadam roads in good repair without money and Adams county is justly proud of its schools and roads. The Local Tax Rate. The county general levy of 22 cents, the county bond levy of 4 cents, the county bridge levy of 10 cents and the road repair levy of 25 cents, a total of G1 cents on the hundred dollars, is appliable to every township and corporation in the county, in mak(Continued on page two) Van Wert Fall Festival The Van Wert Fall Festival b ro be in October 17, 18, 19, 20,-that date was set at a meeting at the Trewnay club Tuesday night. It was thought by the merchants present that the week chosen will be early enough to allow entertainments to be held on the streets. It is planned to make the event this year the biggest of any Fall Festival that bag been held in Van Wert. T'.ie cumulative experience that has been gained from former ones will be of great help.

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Klan Parade To Start At 8:30 P. M. Saturday Bills scattered about the city last night, announce that the Ku Klux I Klan parade to be held here Saturday night, will start at 8:30 o'clock. The parade will form at 7:30. The bills also announce that a slate speaker will be present and that naturalization and initiation will be held at 9 o'clock. It has not been I announced where the initiation will be held. RETURN FROM TRIP IN WEST Mr. and Mrs. B. .1. Rice Are Home From Visit in Colo.; Saw Decatur People. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Rice, of North Fifth street, have returned from a delightful six weeks’ trip to Colorado where they visited In Denver,Boulder, Colorado Springs, Estes j Park and many other cities. Th.ey saw Pike's Peak, the Garden of the I Gods, the Cave of the Winds, and a I hundred other sights of interest and visited with a number of former Decatur people. At Denver they attended the church where Rev. A. H. Saunders, formerly of this city, is the pastor, and had a delightful visit with Rev. Saunders and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Saunders, ail of whom send greetings to Decatur friends. Charles has recovered his health and it attending the university there. They also visited Miss Kate '.Mangold, who is ligated there. MRS. PARR ASKS FOR A DIVORCE Young Woman Who Attempted Suicide Here Sunday Asks Divorce. Mrs. Berniece Parr, of Garrett, who attempted to end her life here on Sunday and again on Monday by drinking iodine, has filed a suit for divorce from her husband Harry Parr, in the DeKalb circuit court at Auburn. Mrs. Parr has recovered from the effects of the poison which she drank on Monday forenoon, and was discharged from the hospital here on Tuesday afternoon. Before coming from Garrett to Decatur last Friday, Mrs. Parr retained Attorney Finley A. Nash to prepare a divorce complaint for her. This complaint was filed by Mr. Nash in the DeKalb circuit court Tuesday, in the complaint, Mrs. Parr states that she separated from her husband on September 8. She alleges that ever since they were married on April 21. 1923. her husband has abused ner. calling her vile names and choking, kicking and beating her. She also said he had threatened her with bodily harm and she asks the court to restrain him from molesting her pending the trial of the divorce case. She further asks the court to restore her maiden name, of Bernice Holmes. Mrs. Parr is only 19 years old. Mrs. Parr first attempted to commit suicide last Sunday afternoon, when she started to drink iodine at the home of her mother-in-law, Mrs. John Parr, on North Ninth street. This attempt was blocked by her husband who knocked the bottle from her hand. On Monday morning she started to drink from a bottle of iodine she had purchased at the Holthouse drug store, while seated at a table in the store, eating ice craam. This time Arthur Kleinhenz, who had sold her the iodine, prevented her from drinking enough of the poison to prove fatal. Auto Stolen In Fort Wayne Chief of Police Joel Reynolds, received a telegram front the State Auto Insurance association today, asking him to watch for a Ford sedan which was stolen from Charles Corneilli, in Fort Wayne last night. The car, a 1921 model, bore license plates No. 449 -487.

REJECTION OF GERMANY’S PLAN INDICATED TODAY France and Belgium Demand Abolition of Resistance Before Negotiating. MUST END RESISTANCE Refuse To Release Prisoners or Pardon Those Ar- j rested In Ruhr District. Berlin. Sept. 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Rejection of the secret' German proposals for cessation of passive resistance in the Ruhr, made through the Belgian minister, Count De La Fille. was Indicated in an interview with the minister granted today. "Belgium and France insist upon 1 complete abolition of passive resist-1 ance before entering into any nego | tiatiqps with Germany, the minister, said. "They are not willing to accept any proposition for return ot German citizens expelled from the, occupied zone, or to pardon all of the Germans who have been arrested. especially since some of them have been charged with murders. "Stresemann must cancel passive resistance openly and frankly," the minister asserted, "otherwise France and Belgium do not intend any negotiations for a Ruhr settlement." o I, U. Enrollment Grows Bloomington, Ind. Sept. 20. —Thom as Cookson, assistant registrar Indiana university, today predicted that the enrollment for the fall semester will total about 3,600, including 300 extension students at Indianapolis, when the last stragglers have signed up by the end of toe week. There is an increase of nearly 350 in the enrollment, here, he said. oProminent Muncie Man Guilty of Blackmail Muncie. Ind., Sept. 20.—Edward Maitlen, 31., was taken to the state prison today to begin serving a sentence of from one to ten years following his plea of guilty to a charge of blackmail. Maitlen, a son of a prominent Muncie family and former student at Purdue university, admitted writing a threatening letter to Ernest Leeb. merchant, demanding $l- - He was arrested in the act oi picking up the money. BLUFFTON FAIR OPENS TUESDAY Annual Free Street Fair Gives Promise of Being Big Attraction. The seventeenth annual Bluffton free street fair will be given next week, opening Tuesday night, September 25th, and closing Saturday night. September 29th, and that city is preparing to handle big crowds. Bluffton is the pioneer in Northern Indiana for street fairs conducted on the line of county fairs, lacking only the horse racing and with the added advantage of being given on clean, paved streets and with everything free. The fairs have grown in size | and popularity with the passing years,! the management striving successfully to live up to the slogatS of “Every Year a Little Better.” The fair has become also a great annual home-coming event. This year . the fair has a big program of spec-, ' tacular free acts, while exhibits in- , elude horses, cattle, swine, sheep, poultry, agriculture, art, culinery and education departments. Music is to be furnished by three bands, the Kokomo and Marion bands, and the Bluffton Boy’s Band. The streets will be filled with attractions, the demand for concession space setting new records.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 20, 1923.

California Forest Fires j Are Burning Anew Today I San Francisco, Sept. 20. —Forest I fires which so-med controlled last night were fanned to new fury today by fresh winds and threatened towns in Marion county, across the bay from San Francisco. One thousand ■men were fighting the flames, which threatened the towns of Forest Knoll Sau Francisco and La Gunitas. Latest r< ports were that the blaze was again being brought under control. Fire in Sonoma. Napa and Solona counties were dying out. BUSTORESUME I PORTLAND TRIPS Limberlost Bridge To Be Replaced; Changes In Time Table and Fare. Being assured that the bridge across I the Limberlost will be replaced, The Decatur-Portland Bus Co., announces I that beginning Monday. September I 24th, service will be resumed between Decatur and Portland. | New schedules and fares will be in I effect, the standard railroad tariffs applying with the advantage of special round trip rates. The only difference in the time will be that, while the morning trip will be the same as formerly, the afternoon bus will leave Decatur at four o’clock going only as far as Geneva, until such time as the highway between Bryant and Portland is completed. The morning trip will go through to Portland as usual. The management believes that with this schedule in effect, in conjunction with the service rendered the G. R. & 1. railway, the public will be served to the best advantage. Careful drivers will be in charge of the cars and the comfort ami convenience of the passengers will always be a first consideration. LOCAL MARINE ON MANEUVERS William John Cruse Taking Part In Interesting Maneuvers In Virginia. Washington. Sept. 20.—Marching through the hills of Virginia with the East Coast Expeditionary Force of the U. S. Marine Corps, William John Cruse, formerly of Decatur, Ind., is taking part in a series of maneuvers, which began August 27 and will not be concluded until Oc tober 7, when the force returns to i its base at Quantico, Va„ near here. Many unusual features are being carried out in connection with the maneuvers, including visits to the Civil War battlefields at Waynesboro, Winchester and New Market. At the patter place a historic spectacle of the battle of New Market is being presented by the Marines in conjunction with the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute. Football and baseball games, moving pictures, athletic and educational features alternate between military marches and battle practice. The Marines are following a circulouse trail to Waynesboro, in the Shenandoah Valley, and will return over a northern route byway of Winchester, the entire journey being over 300 miles. They will reach Washington about October 6, where another football game and a great I military spectacle is scheduled to I take place before the force returns to Quantico. William is a son of Mrs. Lezzy Cruse, R. F. D. 7, Decatur and he joined the Marine Corps at Fort i Wayne, July 25, 1922. He is now I with the Force Train Company. More titan fifty Marines from various parts 'of Indiana are taking part in the maneuvers. Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, probably thunder storms in east and north portions; cooler.

1924 STATE TAX RATE FIXED AT THIRTY CENTS New Rate Fixed At Conference of Tax Board, Governor And Auditor. THREE CENTS HIGHER State Auditor Urged Higher Rate: Savs Rate Adonted Will Mean a Deficit. Indianapolis, Sept. 20— (Special to Daily Democrat) —The tax rate today was set at 30, cents, an increase of three cents The rate was fixed at a conference of members of the taxboard. Robert Bracken, auditor of state and Governor McCray. The conference today concluded a long series of similar meetings. The rate was higher than that insisted on by representatives of the republican slate committee and considerably lower Hum the rate for which Robert Bracken, democratic auditor of state, declared would be necessary. Bracken insisted a levy of ‘33 or 34 cents would be necessary. Bracken said the rate would mean j a deficit of $3,646,000 next year. He pointed out that $1,000,000 already j has been borrowed for the general and other funds. The state levy is divided as follows; Schools, 7 cents; educational institutions, 5 cents; vocational education, *-i-c ent; war memorial, 006; agriculture experiment, 4 mills.; Board of agriculture. 2% mills; ‘ Dunes park, 2 mills; teacher's pen-j sion, 1 cent and % mill; general fund 3 cents; benevolent institution, 12 cents. Johnson-For-President Boom Launched Today Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 20. —A Johnson for- President campaign was launched here today . John G. Maher, personal friend of Senator Hiram Johnson, California, and well known in state politics in Nebraska, told the United Press that he believed Johnson would make a formal announcement of his candidacy in the near future. Maher said, the movement here is to place on the official ballot in the primaries in Nebraska the name of the California senator for president. •— HOME WAS NEAR BERKELEY FIRE Blaze Stopped One Block Away From Here of Dr. Luther Boyers Monday. —— Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Boyer were greatly relieved last evening when they received a telegram from their son. Dr. Luther Hoyers, of Berkley. California, which read: "Change of wind saved tts by a block. All well Relatives here had been greatly worried about them after hearing of the terrible tire which broke out there Monday afternoon and raged for twenty-four hours, destroying five hundred beautiful homes in fifty blocks of the western city. Dr. Boyers had figured out that the fire was within a block or two of his son's home but, nevertheless, the news confirming his theory was wel come. The wind which blew steadily from the west for many hours, suddenly shifted to the south and stopped the spread of the fire when it was within one block of Dr. Luther Boyers' home. The fire started from burning grass and spread rapidly. The property loss is estimated at more than , ten million dollars and the fire one of the most terrible in the history of I the west.

Sea bold Funeral Friday Morning At Bluffton ! • ——— Funeral services for Chris Seabohl prominent Bluffton resident who died In the Wells County hospital late Tuesday night, will be held at 10:30 o’clock Friday morning, from the First Reformed church in Bluffton. Burial will be made in th«» Fairview cemetery. Mr. Seabold was well known by many Decatur and Adams county people. YOUNG MOTHER j DIED AT WREN — Mrs. Clyde Jones, Mother ot 3-Weeks-Old Twins, Died Last Night. Mrs. Clyde Jones, 32, mother of three-weeks-old twin boys, died at j her home in Wren .Ohio, at 10 o’clock last night. Death was due to the effects of child birth. Mrs. Jones, a daughter ot Mr. and ; Mrs. William Kiefer, was born May, 6, 1891. Besides the husband and 1 twin boys, Lloyd and Floyd. Airs. Jones is survived by three older children, Josephine, Daniel and Marcella. Funeral services ill be held from ■ the church in Wrer at 10 o'clock I Saturday morning, the Rev. Rex, officiating. Burial will be made in the j Wren c emetery. o Deputy Sheriff D. M. Hower has been ill at his home on Monroe street since Monday. Mre Hi a- sh.wmSoß since Monday. Mr. Hower was improved today, however. MORE DONATED TO RELIEF FUND Only $18,93 Needed To Make Total of $900: Psi lota Xi Sorority Gave. —_ BULLETIN FUND REACHES $901.03 The total donations to the Red Cross .Japanese Relief fund in Adams county reached .$901.03 at 3:25 o’clock this afternoon. The offer of a prominent local citizen to donate the remaining SIOO to complete the SI,OOO quota, is now due. Only $18.93 is needed to make the $900.00 total for the Japanese Relief fund and then a well known Decatur man will give SIOO.OO, making j Adams county's donation an even sl.1000. Eleven dollars were received by Miss Anne Winnes, secretary of the local Red Cross chapter today, bringing the total to $881.07. The second sorority to give towards the fund is the Psi lota Xi. the members of this organization donating $5.00 ity giving a few more dollars you'll help the suffering Japanese people just that much more and at the same time you’ll find out who the person is who is willing to donate SIOO.OO, of the citizens of Adams county raise the nine hundred. The donations are: Previoously report -870.07 Mrs. Sadie Foreman 50 Japanese offering .50 Psi lota Xi 5.00 C. I). Teeple 5.00 Total $881.07 McCray’s Creditors To Meet Again Oct. 8 Kentland, Ind.. Sept. 20 —(Special »o Daily Democrat) —October Bth will be a big day in the little court house here. On that day there will be another meeting of the creditors of Gov. Warren T. McCray, who recently suffered heavy financial reverses because of the agricultural depression. The meeting will not be so large as that, held in Indianapolis recently and it will not consist entirely of bank representatives.

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IMPEACHMENT OF GOV. WALTON IS BELIEVED NEAR Sponsors of Special Session Say Masks Must Remain Off In Oklahoma. OPPOSE MOB VIOLENCE I Governor Walton Charged With Abuse of His Office; To Meet Wednesday. tUnlte.l P-ess Service> Oklahoma City. Okla., Sept. ,20 (Siwcial to Daily Democrat) “The mask,must remain off in Oklahoma,” sponsors for a special session of the legislature called to meet September 26 to begin impeachment proceedings against Governor J. C. \V:ilton, declared today. Six members of the house of renresentatives who led in the agitation for a special session to remove the governor for his state-wide martial law and alleged abuses of his office, went on record favoring abolition of the mask and urged unreserved efforts to curb mob violence in the state. Developments Come Rapidly. Oklahoma City. Okla., Sept. 20. (United Press.) —Developments came rapidly today in the Oklahoma martial law situation bringing a showdown near in the fight of Governor J. C. Walton on the Ku Klux Klan. The governor, in a proclamation, ordered fiery crosses, which have been erected in many cities since state-wide martial law was declared ! Sunday, removed immediately. They are "pagan emblems of fear, hatred and rebellion.” the governor said. Members of the legislature who are agitating a special session to start impeachment proceedings against the executive, issued the call for the meeting. The call was signed by forty-five members of the lower house, nine less than a quorum. The governor, in the document, is accused of “establishing an absolute tyranny and despotism over this commonwealth.” Will Meet Sept. 26. The call set Sept. 26 as the meeting date. Ten editors of daily papers of the state, meeting in Tulsa, issued an address to the “people of the United States," in whit h they declared that the governor’s fight was not on the j K. K. K., but he was merely using that as a cloak for carrying out political purposes. The editors declared the governor’s statement that "rebellion and insurrection" existed, was a libel on the state. Legislators hurried to the capital from all sections of the state today in response to the call issued by W. D. Mcßee of Duncan. Mcßee sent notification to Adjutant-General Markham of the proposed meeting and asked him to have the legislative halls prepared in the face of Governor Walton's threat that the “only place the legislature members will meet is in jail.” Beat Walton To It. Opponents of the executive hurriedly made public the summons for the meeting at an early hour today when reports reached them that Walton had been in secret conference with Murray Gibbons, administration floor leader, regarding the possibility of the governor issuing an appeal for a special legislative session, and stealing his opponents' “thunder.” In asking the legislators to gather the Mcßee call said that the people of the state "for a long time past have been patiently sufferihg and endur--1 ing from charges and counter charges of certain conditions in the state and ~~ 1 now the time has come in our belief. 1 it is necessary to investigate such 1 conditions and charges in order that ’ the people of our state may know the ■ truth, which alone can make them free." Administration of Blunders. Continuing, it declared "the admin--8 istration of the present governor, if Y true, is one of repeated injuries, (Continued on page two)