Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 240, Decatur, Adams County, 10 October 1923 — Page 1

Volume XXI. Namber 240.

GIANTS TAKE FIRST GAME OF SERIES

belay action ON CIVIL SOITS ASAINSTM'CRAY Governor’s Creditors Say Their Names Were Used Without Consent. continue JURY PROVE Deen Secrecy Maintained About Marion County Grand Jury Actions. Kentland, Ind.. Oct. 10 (Siieiial l<> Daily Democrat) Action on fwentv-one civil suits pending in circuit court here against Warren T. McCrav. governor of Indiana, was postponed until Oct. 29 when called up by Judge George D. Williams Tuesdav. Several nf McCray’s chief creditors, whose names appear on notes negotiated bv the governor. gave depositions, charging lliev had no knowledge of the notes and that they had not given their consent Io the use () f their names. The first names. A. E. Herriman and company and E. A. Reinhart and conmanv. appear on several of McCray’s notes. The governor, a partner in both firms, said he had the authority to sign the firm names and the names of the managers. Such in many naris of the slate, are notes, sold bv McCray to banks now held against him. Additional witnesses are expected to he called when the cases arc 1 'brought to open hearing. Jury Probe Continues Indianapolis, Oct. 10 J -(Special toi Daly Democrat) —The Marion coun ty grand jury investigation of Governor Warren T. McCray's financial situation was resumed here today following adjournment over Tuesday; then civil suits against the governor, were called up in Newton county cir- 1 cult court. Several witnesses who gave depo sitions in Kentand Tuesday are al-, most certain to appear before the} Brand jury now, it is believed. A heavy guard of deputies was ] stationed about the grand jury chamber as that body went into session. ! Names of witnesses were kept se-. ctet. Detectives watched newspaper i men. preventing the press from ques-| Honing those who came from within Ft. Wayne, Cases Up Oct. 20. Indianapolis, Oct. 19. (United Press.)—lnvoluntary bankruptcy proceedings, brought against Governor Warren T. McCray in United States district court at Fort Wayne by three Fort Wayne banks will be heard on October 20, it was learned here today , at the office of the United States mar sbal. The three banks stated in their petition that McCray committed acts of bankruptcy in giving preference to some of his creditors. The hearings "ill be held in Fort Wayne. — • Ideal Weather for Opening of “Little World Series” Kansas City, Oct. 10. —Ideal autumn "father prevailed today for the first game of the “little world's series” between the Baltimore Orioles and ’be Kansas City Blues. 'File batteries for Kansas City will be either Schupp of Caldwell and Skiff; for Baltimore, Parnham and Cobb. ■ o State’s Cash Balance Shows Big Increase Indianapolis, Oct. 10. (United Pr ess.) Increase of approximately 1600,000 in the state’s cash balance at ’he end of the fiscal year, September 1923, over the previous year, is shown in the books of (Robert bracken, state auditor. The total cash on hand in all funds ' s $4,804,802, as compared with $4,09 0,777 a year ago. The principal in,rease is shown in the general fund. w hich has $842,000 against $264,000 last year.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Local Masons To Attend Laying of Corner Stone An official invitation was received this morning by E. 11. Adams, secretary of the Decatur Masonic lodge, ask i ing the officers and members of No. 571 to attend the big event at Fort | Wayne, Friday October 19th, ut which time will occur the corner stone lay- > Ing of the new .Masonic Temple. The | invitation will be accepted and many from here withh attend. The Grand i Ixtdge Officers will officiate and addresses by Postmaster General Harry !S. New; Gov. Warren T. McCray i and others are a pjnrt of the program I as outlined. o HOME BUILDERS REJECTED BIDS Stockholders Appoint Committee To Make Sale of Properties. The Home Builders Association stockholders met last evening to conI sider the bids offered for various ■ pieces of property two weeks ago. looking towards a liquidation of the I company's assets. After considerable discussion it was decided that all bids be declined as none of them equalled the appraisement placed thereon by the directors, and a motion carried to authorize a committee of three to lie named by the stockholders to proceed with the disposal of I the properties, a unanimous vote supporting any action taken by these men I being the result. The directors selected J. L. Kocher. H. S. Michaud and J. H. Heller to i serve on the committee.- This com-i ' mittee will meet Thursday evening I and plan for the sale of the property which includes five splendid residences and thirty-four lots. Those in j terested in the purchase of ashy of the , property should see one of the com | mittee members at once for it is the i desire that the matter be closed as soon as possible and those who buy I now will secure real bargains. After the sale of {he properties the legal | steps for the liquidation of the cor ' poration will proceed. VARIED PROGRAM • TO BE OFFERED Cheney Concert Company To Give Concert at H. S. Auditorium Tonight. The Cheney Concert Company, which will appear here this evening at the high school auditorium, gives a program of strong popular appeal. Their numbers include the standard overtures, selections from opera classics. folk songs and popular numbers lof the day. Their instruments are I likewise varied as they use viola, 'cello, piano guitar, ukelele, cornet in ensemble and solo arrangements. The famous “White House Golden Organ Chimes” are carried by this company, and from a feature of the evening s , entertainment. Marx Cheney, the manager of the company, is a 'Cellist of ability. He has piloted his company through al most every state in the Union, in all of them appearing before delighted audiences. The other members of the company are Ixwnora Cheney, reader. whistler, pianist; Maude Cheney, violinist; and lam Johnson, pianist. Their programs have stood the test of many years' trial, and they have gained for themselves an enviable reputation as i concert company of the highest calibre. It has been the privilege of this company to play many return date engagements —the acid test in the concert and entertainment field and they are always received with greater enthusiasm on the second visit than on the first, as is shown by the follow ing newspaper comment from V aynesboro, Ohio: “It was their second appearance here and they enhanced the favorable impression made before. They are more than ordinarily satisfactory. A warm welcome awaits them should they come this way again.”

MESS HALL OF KENTUCKY PRISON HELD AS FORTRESS BY PRISONERS < =~—' . elbJ *» JI i? v '» *"* A . OR "J* , A**-« A* m JU I - Wil The room in which the bodies of the convicts were found Saturday. October 6, after they had stood off guards an.l soldiers since Wednesday. EDDYVILLE, Ky.—Three graves in the cemetery of the Westesn Kentucky state penitentiary over which the earth was freshly heaped, and the bullet scarred mess hall n the center of the prison area, are the mute reminders of the desperate last stand of a trio of convict murder rs who kill. d three guards, were besieged for eighty one hours in the mess hall, and found dead from bullet wounds when a storming party entered the barricaded building late Saturday afternoon. Members of the storming party entered the mess hall after it had been filled with amniona fumes, prepared to meet three desperate gunmen, and found the bodies of Monte Walters, Lawrence Griffith and Harry Ferland. All of the gunmen had been dead for at least thirty-s’x hours, and, in the cases of Griffith and Ferland. whose wounds indicated death from suicide, opinion was expressed that the end m ght have come forty-eight hours before the siege was raised. Walters, believed to have Ixen the last to die, was shot through the head and had been struck by a rifle grenade.

SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION TO BE HELD SUNDAY Washington Township Sunday Schools To Have Interesting Programs. TO HAVE TWO SESSIONS Afternoon Session At St. Peters: Evening Session At Decatur M. E. The Washington township Sunschool convention will be held next Sunday, October 14. The first program will be given in St. Paul's church, beginning at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The Second program of the day will be given in the Decatur Methodist church, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. Splendid programs have been arranged lor the convention. Community singing and other music will be featured in both programs. Many subjects relating to the successful conduction of Sunday schools will be discussed by competent speakers. Roy Muinma, president of the township organization, will preside at the meetings. Attorney David Hogg, of Fort Wayne, will give an address on. "The Business of a Sunday School” during the evening program. The Berne male quartet will sing two selections in the evening, also. Following is the program for both sessions of the convention to which the general public is cordially invited: First Program —St. Paul's Church. Sunday Afternoon 2:00 O'clock. Mr. Roy Mamma. President, presiding. Community Singing, led by W. F. Beery. Invocation. A Word of Welcome Ray Smith, Supt. St. Paul's S. S. Vocal Duet Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Engeler Two-minute discussions: (a) How to organize a Sunday School for Primary Children Delle Sellemeyer (b) Shall a Sunday School be Graded? Charles H. Colter’ (c) How may lessons be made interesting? Mrs. Freeman Wallers (d) How shall the opening exer- ■ rises be conducted? Clyde Noble (e) Who may be a Sunday school teacher? . Mrs. Roma Breiner (f) What is the missing link between the Sunday School and (Continued on Page six)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 10, 1923.

Rival Managers Make Statements I John McGraw, manager of the Giants: • ‘‘Our team this year is as good as it was last year. The pitchers are a little bit bettor, I believe. We have a strong attack and a good defense. The breaks mean everything in a short series and while I am confident. I want the Giants to realize that they have a fight and they do.” Miller Huggins, manager of the Yankees: “We are much stronger than we were last year. The Giants caught us in a slump last fall and we never came out of it. With our pitching staff and with a most formidable batting team I feel sure that we have more than an even chance to win. We will have no alibis if we lose.” SertybonF” INTEREST DUE Monday Is Big Pay-Day for Uni’le Sam; To Pay Out $150,000,000. Over $150,000,000 in interest on Liberty and Treasury bonds will be paid out by the government on Octo-1 ber 15th. Holders of Fourth Liberty Loan bonds are urged to clip their interest coupons due on this date and present them for payment at any bank or post office. The IT. S. Treasury now issues “Baby Bonds." which sell for $20.50 each. Thousands of Americans have acquired the hab’t of buying one or more every month and have thus established a “reserve fund." the, safety and growth of which is guaranteed by. Uncle Sam. All postmast- 1 , ers have been authorized to accept Liberty Bond interest coupons, which are due, as part, payment toward the purchase price of a new “Baby Bond.' Holders of government securities in th s way can make their interest earn more interest. •—, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moltz and Harrv Dailey have returned from Chicago i where Mr. Moltz attended to business | matters. Weather Fair tonight and Thursday; slightly warmer in south portion.

IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS COME FIRST Oklahoma Legislators To Resign If Legislature Will Pass Anti-Klan Bill. fT’nlfp’ Pres e Oklahoma City. Oct. 10—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The Oklahoma 1-gislature. meeting at 9 a. tn. tomorrow, will refuse to accept the offer of Governor J. C Walton to res »n provided anti-Ku Klux Klan laws are iinmed'ately enacted, leading legislators declared today. "We will firs- take up an investigation of the governor's conduct in] office with a view of bringing im-! pcachment proceedings," said W. D. ' Mcßee, head of the anti-Walton sac-1 t'on which controls a majority of votes in the lower house. “The governor has made his bed — 1 let him lie in it.” declared Mcßee. I Governor Walton said that in case the legislature would immediately: I take up and pass anti-klan legisla- ( , tion. he would resign the minute a bill which he proposed became a law. However, in case the legislators launched the investigation of his ad- j ministration, without first taking up the proposed laws aimed at the Ku . Klux Klan, the governor declared “I, will fight to the last ditch.” The proposed bill which the governor will submit to the legislature provides that all secret organizations must file a list of their membership each year and prohibits wearing of, masks. German Mark Drop To Three Billion Per Dollar BULLETIN. London, Oct. 10.—At 4:30 this afternoon the German mark was quoted at sixteen billion to the pound sterling (considerably more than three bil-, lion to the dollar.) Poincare Rejects German’s Latest Ruhr Proposal — Paris, Oct. 10.—Premier Poincare, today rejected Germany's latest pro-1 posal to negotiate concerning resumpI tion of work in the Ruhr and payment of reparations. Knowledge That Marks Genius. The true characteristic of genius—without despising rules it knows when and how to break them. —Channing.

Epidemic of Small I’ox In Pleasant Mills School The Pleasant Mills schools have been closed since last Friday on ii< count of an epidemic of small pox. The epidemic Is light so far. only three cases having been reported. However, it was deemed advisable to ( lose the schools for a short time, as the three persons who have the dis- [ ease, are children who broke out ■ while in the class room. A number lot' the children have been vaccinated. It is not known when the schools will i re-open. FORMER DECATUR YOUTH IN RACES Orin Robbins To Drive Frontenac In Auto Races Here Next Saturday. Among those who are entered for , the big speed classic here Saturday when the auto races occur at Bellmont Park, is Orin Robbins, of Mexico Indiana. Orin was born and reared in Decatur and has many friends and rel i atives here who will lie boosters so“ j him. He drives a Frontenac car and is considered one of the classiest dri j , vers in the middle west having won a number of races against the very [ best drivers. The field of starters! will be big and if the present wonderi ful weather continues the meet will * be one of the best in this section this i year. Hugh Mover, of Geneva, balloonist I who specializesc in single, double and : triple parachute drops, will make a double drop from a airplane piloted by Otto Smith, Monroe young man. during the races Saturday. Moyer bad planned to make a balloon ascen | sion from the speedway, but later de- I eided to make the parachute drop [from Smith's airplane. This added attraction should be a thriller for the [big crowd gathered for the races. o . Mrs. Jesse Helm, of Fort Wayne, j Is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. 11. Bell, of this city. UNUSUAL THEFT IS DISCOVERED ► — Thieves Take Furnace and Fixtures From Garage At Sisters’ Home. We have heard of about everything on earth being stolen, but the loss re- [ cently suffered by the St. Marys Cath- ' olic church probably takes precedence ' as one of the nerviest, strangest ami strongest. When the Tyndall home ’ on Monroe street was converted into ■ a home for the Sisters and an addi- | tion added to the building, it was de- ‘ elded the hot water heating plant i was too small and. being in excellent I condition, was taken out and stored I in the cellar and a new one installed. About three weeks ago the janitor, Mr. Yerkevitch, moved the furnace up to the garage at of the i property. I A day or two ago the boiler for the heating plant at St. Joseph school bursted and it was decided to install i the plant taken from the Sisters' I house. Smith & Christen, plumbers, employed for the work, went to the garage, to secure the boiler and found that, with the exception of four sections the furnace, all the trimmings, doors, thermometer, casing and the whole works had been | stolen. The main sections will be used but ! the loss for parts stolen will be about $125. No trace of the missing parts has been secured and none of them i have been sold at the junk yards j It is evident that whoever took the | parts bad some use for them, for as old metal they would not have brought more than a dollar or two. To say the least, it’s an exasperating incident and somewhat unusual. -o Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Wertzberger I spent the day in Fort Wayne with • friends.

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DEFEAT YANKS BY SCORE OF FIVE TO FOOR Annual World Baseball Series Gets Under Way In New York Today. MUCH HEAVY HITTING Both Teams Hit Ball Hard and Both Teams Change Pitchers Early. LINE-UP Giants Yankees Bancroft, ss. Witt. cf. Groli, 3b Dugan. 3b Frisch, 2b Ruth, II Young, rs Pipt». lb E. Meusel. If R. Meusel. rs Stengel, cf Ward. 2b Kelly, lb Schang. c Goxvtl|', c Scott, ss XV itson. p Hoyt, p I'moires: Evans, nlate, ()’- dav. first base; Nallin. second btise; Hart, third base. Yankee Stadium. New York. <)ct. 10 (Special to Daily 1 Democrat) — Before a mon- | strous crowd of 60,000 lans (be New York Giants took the first game of the world series from tin 1 Yankees here this afterno°n bv a score of 5 to 1. In the ninth inning when dusk anti a haze bad fallen on (lie b'g plaving field Gusev < sten«el. the old war horse of the Giants, slapned a drive far loot to the left field wall lor the home-run that broke up the ! game and gave the Giants a j victory. One" hi‘ f inning, the third. ; gave the Giants font’ runs and I a lead of one run that seemed to cinch the victory. Hienie Groh’s (ripple knocked voting Wait Hovt out ot the box and scored the two rims that comnletely upset the Yankee morale. First Inning Giants—Bancroft died to Ruth for an easy chance. Groh singled past Scott on the first ball pitched. Frisch forced Groh at second. Scott to Ward and narrowly missed being doubled at first Young up. Frisch out stealing. Schang to Ward on a beautiful throw. No runs, 1 hit. no errors. Yankes—Witt lined to Bancroft. Dugan walked on a vide outside ball. Ruth forced Dugan at second. Bancroft to Frisch. R. Meusel up. Ruth scored when Meusel hit a double. ’ Pipp died to Meusel. 1 run. 1 hit. no errors. Second Inning Giants —Young out. Dugan to Pipp on an easy chance. E. Meusel fouled io Pipp. Stengel filed to Ruth, who made a nice running catch to the wall. No runs, no hits, no errors. Yankes—Ward up. Ward singled past Groh on the first ball pitched. Ward held first when Mouse! fumbled. Schang singled to'center. Ward stopping at second. Scott bunted and was tagged out on the base line bv Kelly. Ward and Schang advancing. Hoyt fanned. Witt up. Ward and Schang scored when Witt singled to center. Dugan up. Dugan out. Watson to Kelly, on an easy roller. 2 runs. 3 hits, no errors. Third Inning Giants—Kelly singled to center on the first ball. It was a liner in front of Witt. Gowdy walked. Bentley batted for Watson. McGuire ran for Gowdy. Bentley singled to center. [ Kelly hold ng third and McGuire ' reaching second. The bases were full. Gearin ran for Henley. Kelly scored when Bancroft forced Gearin at second, Scott to Ward. McGuire stopped at third and Bancroft held first. Bancroft stole second. Groh singled over first, scoring McGuire and Bancroft.. Groh reached third when the ball went by Ruth. It was scored as a three base hit. Hoyt was ! taken out of the box and Joe Bush (Continued on Page six)