Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 229, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1923 — Page 1

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DISCUSS PLAN FOR GIVING AID TO U.S. FARMERS tankers From Northwest A S k Coolidge To Call Session of Congress. WANT early action - ■ Seek To Save Farmers From Being Driven Into Other Occupations Now. (United Pr««s Servin*) Washington. Sept. 27-(Special <o Daily Democrat)— Calling for an extra session of congress immediately, a delegation of northwest bankers and business men today before President Coolidge took measures for assisting wheat farmers and agriculture generally. These measures were: 1 Immediate revival at an extra session of congress of the United States Grain corporation as a marketing agency for grain surpluses. 2. Creating a board or commission to advise farmers as to acreage that ean profitably be planted in various crops, so as to keep down production to levels that will not result in glutting the market with an unsalable surplus. The committee was headed by A. D. Stephens, banker of Crookston. Minn. and Prepresentative Young oi North Dakota. Shortly before th bankers - commit ‘ tee arrived. Senator. Borah held a brief conference with the president, but stated he was not yet ready to present his complete farm relief program He will return to the White House tomorrow* or next day. Senator Borah today asked Mr. Coolidge to approve a proposed am endruent to the reclamation law, giving farmers and homesteaders on government reclamation projects forty years instead of twenty U> pay. He later submitted his proposal to Secretary of the Interior Work. To Keep Farmers On Farms Spokesmen for the bankers' committee emphasized that they were not asking for a fixed or guaranteed price on wheat. They said that their sole object was to save the farmer from being driven into other occupations and to safeguard the investors in farm mortgages throughout the entire nation. They estimated that three million farmers would seek other occupations during 1923, at the present rate. If over production and lack of world markets are responsible for the situation, the bankers said the plan they presented would solve the problem. It is barely possible, they suggested. that instead of prices being held low by over-production the situation may be caused by organized buying by foreign customers. In that case they said their plan would give the farmers a higher price. 0 Airman Races To See Wife Before She Dies (United Press Service) St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 27. —Evan J. David, St. Louis board official today raced eastward in an attempt to see his wife in Lowell, Mass* before she dies. • I • Unable to obtain a plane here, he left by train for Dayton, Ohio, wher arrangements were made to have an army airplane meet him. He will be taken then to Cleveland, where he will change to a mail service plane which will attempt to beat death to Massachusetts. David was notified late yesterday •hat his. wife was in a dying condition after an operation. • — s “On-To-St. Louis” Race St. Louis, Sept 27.—W. A. Baird flp w - from Okmulgee, Okla., to St. Douis between 12:53 p. tn. and 4:45. hying time, three hours 52 minutes, in the “On-To-St.-Louis" race for •ivilian pilots, the preliminary event of the international air races which start Monday. He drove a 150 h. p. Plane. Walter E. Lees left Dayton at 11:25 a - m. and arrived on St. Louis field at 5:45 p. m., making one stop at Indianapolis. His flying time was about Ave and one-half hours. 1 wenty-four other planes from all Parts of the nation are entereuf the winner being determined by a point system.

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One Killed In Auto Wreck At Winchester Winchester, Ind . Sept. 27.—One woman was killed and three persons Injured when a Illg Four freight train struck an auto near hcjre last night. J Mrs. Ernest K. Zimmer, of Upland, died a few minutes after being taken , from the wreckage of the auto. Zimmer is in a critical condition at a I hospital here. The other two per- I sons in the auto were only slightly injured. o- — .. STOCKHOLDERS CALL MEETING ' I I 1 Randolph County Stockholder of Pollings Company To Meet Oct. 6. Winchester, Ind., Sept. 27. —Call for a meeting of all Randolph county stockholders of the R. L. Dollings company and its subsidiaries was sent out today by T. P. Best, one of the i stockholders. The meeting will be held in the court house here on Oct. 6. Proposal will be made for the formation of a permanent organization to protect the interests of the stockholders. Best, in the call for the meeting, . charges that Bert Mcßride, receiver for the Indiana Dollings interests, has withheld information on the situation from the stockholders. Best declares the Dollings difficulties should be settled in federal court. G. 0. P. PARTY CONFERENCE Fourth District Republicans Meet Today; Discuss McCray Tangle. (United pres»« Pervice' North Vernon. Ind., Sept. 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat)— Republicans of the fourth congressional district gathered here today for a party conference with State Chairman Wall). Senator James E. Watson. Joseph B Keating, national committee-J man from Indiana; Mrs. Edna Herr | Bucklin, of Brazil, state vice chairman. and other party leaders. While no official mention was made of the situation brought about hy ( Governor McCray's financial crash, it was the topic most frequently mentioned in informal groups by the fourth district republicans who came to the ’meeting to get an inkling of the possible action which the state committee will take with regard to Governor McCray. Chairman Walb and Senator Watson botl) made pleas for restoration of harmony within the party ranks for the forthcoming campaign. "The republican party in Indiana needs confidence in itself, not sympathy," Walb declared. o Party In Dr. Thain Case Files Suit for Divorce Fort Wayne, Sept. 27. —Mrs. Clara Ormiston. 124 Swinney avenue, who indicted by the grand pury last February on a charge that she committed perjury in connection with her testimony regarding an alleged operation by Dr. George Thain, which resulted in the death of Miss Esther Werling, 1632 West Main street, yesterday filed suit for divorce from her husband. Phillip Ormiston. The Thain case is still pending in circuit court. The Ormlstons were married 18 i years gao. Mrs. Ormiston alleged , that her husband frequently told her that he did not love her and declared that he would not live with her and told her to go get a divorce. | Miss Werling died at the Ormiston home, according to testimony given to the grand jury. Mrs. Ormiston testified that Dr. Thain never came j to her home to attend Miss Werling. Other witnesses testified that he did. | Ed Miller Leaves Hospital Ed Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Miller, who has been a patient at the Adams County Memorial Hospital for the past several weeks, was removed to his home on Marshall street last Monday. Mr.. Miller has been suffering with an infection of the hip but is able to be up with the aid of crutches a few minutes each day.

FAREWELL FOR REV. MAUPIN All-Day Meeting To Be Held At Pleasant Mills M. E. Church Sunday. On next Sunday, September 30th. there will be an nil day meeting at the Pleasant Mills M. E. church. Sunday school at 9:30; preaching at 10:30 and dinner in the basement at noon. As this will he Rev. Maupin's last Sunday in Pleasant Mills, the members of the church have arranged I for a farewell dinner in honor of him and his family, to which all members ' are invited. The afternoon will be given over to soda] entertainment. There will he Epworth League ann preaching service in the evening. Rev. Maupin lias labored at Pleasant Mills for the past three and one half years and has performed a great and lasting good for that church and community. Every member of the , church are urged to show their apI predation of his untiring efforts bV their presence at the service next Sunday. Going To Lake Webster Rev. Maupin and family go to a new field of labor, which comes to I him in the way of a promotion and tor which his past experience, both as a pastor and builder, well qualifies him for his new duties. He will be superintendent of the grounds which the Epworth League of the Methodist chi;rch recently purchase at La3<e Webster. The committee in charge of arrange ments for the service Sunday not only invite, hut urge that all memi leers of the church and friends of the church, attend the services and enjoy the day, helping to make it a day long to be remembered for the sociability and good fellowship. Miss E’aye Stults has returned to Chicago to resume her studies. o. h.s.teamto PLAY PORTLAND i I Local Football Team Opens I Season Saturday; Hunt- ' ington Game Changed. 1 A squad of twenty-two players. Coach “Buck" Howard. Principal Paul W. Linton and a large number of fans will go to Portland Saturday afternoon where the local high school football team will meet the Portland team in the opening game of the presI ent football Season. This will be the first game of the season for both teams. The Decatur Rotary club has volunteered to furnish automobiles to, convey members of the team to ' Portland. The game will start at 2:30 o’clock and Coach Paul Williams, of Muncie Normal, will referee the contest. The members of the local team are in fairly good condition for the opening game. There are several bruises and minor injuries, but none of the players will be prevented from entering the game on account of injuries unless they are hurt in practice' yet this week. Coach Howard has been working hard with the team for the past three weeks. He was handicapped by the loss of a large number of players from last year's team through graduation last spring, but he has done much good with the veterans left and the new material. Local followers of the game are predicting a victory over the Portland 1 team Saturday, although all admit , the contest will be hard fought. Huntington Game On Wednesday. It was announced by Principal Linton today that the date of the game | with Huntington high school here has been changed from Friday, October ! 12 to Wednesday, October 10, on account of the meeting of the Northwestern Indiana Teachers’ Association at Fort Wayne on Thursday and , Friday. The game will be played here I at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. October 10. The Anderson high ! school team will come to Decatur for a game next Saturday, October 6. Coach France Center, of the Catholic high school, will assist Coach Howard next week. The Catholic boys will rest next week as they have no game scheduled for some time. Leßoy P. Packard of Wabash, was the guest of friends in this city last evening. '

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Searched Wrong House But Found Liquor Anyway 'lndianapolis, Sept. 27.—Although two officers armed with a warrant to search for liquor went to the wrong address they did not discover their error until they had made a search and located a supply of illicit liquor. Judge Collins deferred action in the case, saying it was a serious offense to search a man's house without proper legal credentials. INSPECT COUNTY FARM AND JAIL Board of Charities Made Quarterly Inspection Yesterday. The quarterly visit of the tfiembers of the county board of charities and (hildren's guardians to the county, farm and jail was made Wednesday by Mrs. D. I). Heller. Mrs. Fred Linn, Col. S. B. Fordyce and L“wis Fruchte. The board made a few recommendations concerning the fixing of fences and planting of fruit trees In the orchard on the county farm. Thirty-four inmates are at the county infirmary at present, including ' 21 men and 13 women. The general conditions at the county infirmary . are excellent, the members of the board stated. The members were loud in their praises for Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lafountain, the superintendent 1 and matron of the institution. Both people work untiringly for the com- ' fort of the inmates and the success-1 ful operation of the farm, the president of the board stated. Mrs. Lafountain cares for the sick and those needing care and the members of the board are highly pleased with her services. Several insane and feebleminded persons are inmates at the institution and the work of the matron is most trying, the members of the board stated. They found the jail in excellent order and the place is kept clean and tidy by Sheriff John Baker and his wife. Mr.s. Heller and Mrs. Linn will probably attend the state meeting of charities at Anderson the latter part of this week and the first of next week. BIRTHS. A 7-pound boy born to Mr. and Mrs. William Strahm, West Monroe street, yesterday, has been named William Louis. Mother and baby are doing fine. The mother formerly was Miss Mae Poling. This is the first child in the family. A girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baker, of Eleventh street, a few clays >ago, has been named Edith Corine. MORE ENTER NIGHT SCHOOL Enrollment To Close Friday Night; Classes Three Nights a Week. More students were enrolled in the night school of commercial subjects at the high school building last night. There were ten enrolled in the typewriting class .nine in the short hand class, ten in one bookkeeping class and six in the other bookkeeftfng class. The enrollment will end at the third meeting of the classes tomorrow evening. Other individuals have signified their intention of entering the school. The school is being conducted by Miss Blanche McCrory and Miss Mary Wilhite, teacher in the commercial department of the high school. The classes are conducted in the commercial rooms at the high school building every Monday, Wednesday and Rriday evenings from 7 until 9 p.m. The cost to each student is very low, the instructors charging only one dollar per hour for each class, that to be pro rated among the students in the class. Weather Indiana: Increasing cloudiness, probably followed by showers afid thunderstorms late tonight and tomorrow. Not much change in tem- ' peraiure.

CATHOLIC TEAM OPENS SEASON Local Catholic High School Football Team Plays At Ft. Wayne Friday. Decatur Catholic high school will open its football season, and incidently make it debut In football competition, in a game with the Central Catho- | lie high school elevens at Fort Waym tomorrow afternoon. The local players'will make the trip in automobiles, [leaving here about 2 o'clock. The I game will be started at 3:30 o'clock. Coach France Conter stated today that, in all probability, two of the 'players would be unable to enter the game at Fort Wayne Friday on account of injuries. "Mickey" Mylott. ' guard, and Don Gage, half-hack, are ■ laid up with torn ligaments in their legs. The remainder of the squad is in fair condition for the game. The entire squad of twenty-one players will be taken to E’ort Wayne. Christen Elected Captain Earl Christen, end. was electc *1 captain of the team yesterday evening. The lineup which will probably start the game, is Laurent, quarterback; Myers and Schulte, halfbacks; Holthouse, fullback; B. Vogle- ! wede, guards; B. Gage and Gass, j wede, center; Durkin and A. VogleI tackles; Captain Christen and Teeple or Wemhoff, ends. The local team ! will be outweighed nearly 15 pounds t per man and will be playing a team composed of veterans, but the locals are determined to make a good show . ing in the game. Next week the* D. C. H. S. players i will take a rest, as no games are o, the schedule for the near future. I Coach Conter will, in the meantime, aid Coach Howard with the Decatur high school squad, getting the YelJow Jackets into condition for the • I I game with Anderson here a week , I from Saturday. PLEASANT DALE PLANS SERVICE All-Day Service To Be Held Sunday; Basket Dinner During Noon Hour. There will be an all-day service at the Pleasant Dale church next Sunday. September 30. The service will begin with the Sunday school at 9:30 'a. m.. followed by a Dec ision Day service conducted by Elder R. C. Winger at 10:30 a. m. A basket dinner will be served at the noon hour. At 2 p. m. a program will be given by the young people of the church. The subject of the program will he "Life of Christ in Song." The program will be as follows: "All Hail the Power of Jesus Name,” by congregation Prayer. Reading. "Holy Night”—Occette. "No Room in the Inn"—Solo. "Joy to the World” —Chorus. "Jesus Was a Child Like Me” — Children. “Shepherd of Israel"—Chorus. , "Ninety and Nine” —Male chorus. "Master, the Tempest is Raging"— Chorus. "Jesus Savior, Pilot Me”—Trio. "Garden Song”—Solo. "The Prayer of Githsemore” —Mixed quartette. “Nailed to the Cross"—Solo. " 'Tis Midnight"—Duet. “The Old Rugged Cross” —Chorus. “Christ Arose” —Chorus. "Ivory Palaces” —Quartette. Closing services conducted by Elder R. C. Wenger. —- —— o Damage Suit Against Clover Leaf Dismissed Bluffton, Sept. 27.—A SIO,OOO damage suit growing out of the death of Mrs. Helen Carrier, when she was j struck by a Cloverleaf train at the Wabash Avenue crossing, September I 16, 1914, was dismissed in circuit court today. | The dismissal was made by attor-1 neys for the plaintiff, after they had , given up efforts to locate Louis M. Thompson of Winnipeg, Canada, principal witness, who is believed to have lost his life serving with the Canadian army in France. o Ralston Sowers, of Portland, visited friends here last evening.

Corn Reaches Highest Price of Year Today Chic ngo, Sept. 27. —Corn sold nt the ' I I highest price of the year In trading on the Chicago board of trade today. Supplies on the September delivery sold at 90 3-Bc. On August 4. corn in the same delivery lilt a low of 75 Vi cents. Shortage of supplies and frost damage to the growing crop caused the advance, traders said. KERTZ YOUTH BURIED TODAY Funeral Held This Afternoon for Victim of Accidental Shooting. Funeral services for Roland Kertz. 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kertz. of Berne, who was accidently shot to death near Berne ' Tuesday evening, were held from the Reformed church in Berne' at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. Short services were held from the home at 2 o'clock. The hid is survived by his parents and the following brothers and sisters: Henry, Jacob, Lena. of Chicago; Ernest, Katy, George, Eugene, Ruth and Freida, at home. An older brother preceded him in death. Roland was the first child born to Mr. and Mr.s. Kertz after they came to America from Germany in 1910. o YOCUM GIRL IS LITTLE BETTER Young Girl Struck By Automobile Yesterday Is Still In Serious Condition. The condition of Evelyn Yocum, fl-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Yocum, or North Fifth street, who was seriously injured when | struc k by an automobile driven by H. Jackson, of Chicago, yesterday, was slightly improved today, according to a report macle by the attending physician this afternoon. The girl was unconscious all through last night, but began to regain consciousness this forenoon. Those attending the girl are encouraged over the return of consciousness this morning and hopes are held for her recovery. So far. no broken bones have been discovered and it is believed that her skull was not fractured. although she suffered a scalp wound at the base of the skull in the rear. As the fender of the car struck her in the side, it is feared that she suffered internal injuries, but these may not prove serious. The girl jumped off the rear of Ed Whitright’s ice wagon into the path of Mr. Jackson's car. Two other children. a son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ehinger and a son of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Both were on the wagon at the time of the accident, also. The children were picking up pieces of ice while Mr. Whitright carried a cake of ice into the Wai Wemhoff home. o New York Newspapers Drop Combined Editions v (United Press Service) New York, Sept. 27. New York i newspapers abandoned their combined heads today, eac h paper appearing under its individual heading for the first time since the "outlaw strike" of pressmen. 0 —— Demand Verdict of First Degree Murder < I'nlted Press Service) Whiteplains, N. Y., Sept. 27. —A verdict of “guilty of murder in the first degree” was demanded by Attorney General Sherman when he began summing up the state’s case in the trial lof Walter 8. Ward, here today. I Sherman declared the state has p’oved that Ward killed Clarence Peters, "the murdered sailor boy," in cold blood and should receive the maxim[urn punishment. The attorney general characterized the summing up of the defense as "propaganda and camouflage, a smoke screen of irrevelant things." Ward, sitting in the crowded courtroom beside his wife, heard the bititer attack upon himself, without expression. He appeared entirely | calm.

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WALTON KEEPS 1 STATE UNDER MARTIAL LAW ✓ Declares It Will Remain Until “Domination of Ku Klux Is Aemoved.” LEGISLATORS BUSY Pushing Plans To Force Court Ruling On Their Right To Assemble. — By S. A. BARKER United Press Staff Correspondent Oklahoma City, Okla.. Sept. 27. ' (United Press.) —Martial law will remain effective in Oklahoma until "all trace of domination of the Ku Klux Klan” is removed,” Governor J. C. Walton declared emphatically today. The governor announced the proposed extension of absolute martial law to Murray county. He said a delegation of “good citizens” of that county had called upon him and asked protection from the klan. Governor Walton considered the effort by some members of the legislature to impeach him but who were prevented from taking any action through the military officials breaking up their attempt to meet, a closed incident. The executive said it had been proven conclusively that the legislature could not meet except in regular session or on special call from the governor. Legislators Push Plans. The insurgent legislators, however, were going ahead with their plans to force a court ruling on their right to assemble. W. D. Mcßee, leader in the impeachment movement, contended that by the gathering of the members of the assembly in the corridors of the capitol yesterday, the session got under way and now the situation was the same as being in adjourned session with authority to meet at any time on call of the speaker. President of Indianapolis Speedway Seriously 11l Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.. Sept. 27. — Friends were denied admittance today to the room in a local hospital where James M. Allison, president of the Indianapolis Speedway lies seriously ill. "Mr. Allison is a very sick man,” his physicians declared. “But his recovery is very probably although it will be long protracted.” Allison suffered a recurrence of an 1 attack of bronchial trouble from which he has suffered for three years and was taken from a train here last week en route to Miami. 11-Year-Old Boy Helps Rescue 38 From Fire (United Press StalY Correspondent) Minneapolis, Sept. 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat)- Hilding Anderson. 13. was haled as a hero today for the prominent part he played in rescuing 38 children from a fire in the Angustana children's home here last night. While Miss Marion Thompson, a nurse, tried to fight the fire in a laundry chute, Hilding ran through the building awakening the children, ranging from two to thirteen years of age. Some of the younger children he carried to safety. Firemen extinguished the fire. —o Ohio Youths Sentenced I Brazil, Ind., Sept. 27. —Harold Singhouse, 17, of Canton, Ohio, and Vernon B. Jones, 16, of Cleveland, were sentenced today to 10 to 25 years in the state reformatory for auto banditry. They we re the first prise, ers sentenced in the Clay county court under the new state law dealing with auto thefts. The two youths were convicted of stealing an auto belonging to the superintendent of city schools. Samuel Demaris, 16, and George Granger, 16, of Cleveland, companions c.f Singhouse and Jones, were held in jail pending further investigation. The four boys escaped from the ohI serration school for boys at Colum- > bus, Ohio, on August 21. > — o CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE -' ..Wheat: Sept. $1.03%; Dec. $1.05%, - May, $1.10%. Corn: Sept. 91 %c; • Dec. 72%c; May 72%c. Oats: Sept. [4l%c; Dec. 42%c; May 44%c.