Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 245, Decatur, Adams County, 16 October 1923 — Page 1

Volume XXI. Number 245.

I RESERVOIR lets I gOsSCORES ARE MADE HOMELESS Reservoir At Oklahoma I ( ity Breaks Sending Wall of Water Into the City. WATER RAISES QUICK Fifteen Thousand Persons Leave Home As Water Raises In Night. (United Pre«« Service) BULLETIN. Oklahoma City, Okla., Oct. 16. —A woman and a child were drowned in the flood which today swept the southern section of Oklahoma City following bursting of the city reservoir, police reported. Authorities had not obtained any names of the dead. A man and girl were rescued from a tree top in Wheeler Park, center of the flooded area. Hundreds of homes were flooded and many washed away. The entire national guard forces were held in readiness for flood relief service. Oklahoma City. Oct. 16—(Special to Daily Democrat)—A wall of water released by breaking of the banks of the city reservoir swept down the North Canadian river valley into Oklahoma City today, flooding scores of homes in lowland districts. Flood waters raised seven feet I within thirty minutes after the torrent was released by the reservoir breaking. Ambulances, fire department automobiles and heavy trucks roared through the streets at midnight w'.th sirens shrieking, warning the people of the on coming flood. Fifteen thousand persons poured from their homes in the lowlands of the southern sections of the city dur-j Ing the dark hours of the early morning and rushed through the streets toi the high ground on the north side.' Vayor O A. Cargill ordered a district of more than 100 city blocks vacated when the reservoir waters broke from control. Steady streams of pedestrians —, women carrying young children; husbands and older children packing hastily packed bundles of clothing and food, hurried through the con-| Rested streets. Many were in tears as they left their homes. On orders of Governor J. C. Walton. national guardsmen were ordered into the vacated districts to protect homes against looters. Ambulances took the sick and the age<i to city hospitals, which were crowded to capacity. AH extra street cars were put into service and operated to the edge of the flood waters to aid in transport- 1 ing the refugees to safe sections of the city. o Muncie Policemen Fired Muncie, Oct. 16. —Following a public hearing of charges that they had ' neglected their duty in failing to pur I sue the slayer of Patrolman Tony Hellis after he had shot down the officer here two weeks ago, the board °f safety last night dismissed Sergeant William Laflin and Patrolman | Michael Flaheryr from the force. Testimony showed the officers had stopped , to care for their wounded companion. Permitting Claude Michaels, his murderer. to escape. — o Coolidge Suggests Plan To Modify Railroad Rates BULLETIN. Washington. Oct. 16. (United Press.)—President Coolidge today made suggestions to Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsylvania railtoad, for modification in rates designp,i to aid the American wheat farmer and coal consumer. These suggestions were: 1- That reduction be made in railroad rates on wheat being shipped for export. 2. That the same rates be given °n coal used' tor domestic purposes as those maintained for coal bein* shipped for export. o Religion Must Be Spread. Religion Is a fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not eommuulcated.—Joubert. 4 "

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Dr. S. E. Smith Quits Asylum At Richmond Dr. Samuel Edwin Smith general superlndentend of the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, Richmond. I since April 1891, has resigned and | J Saturday was appointed medical provost In charge of all activities | n Indianapolis of Indiana University. The office to which Dr. Smith lias been appointed is a new one created by the board of trustees of Indiana University. The institutions over which Dr. Smith will have Jurisdiction will in- , elude the Robert lx>ng hospital; Indiana University school of Medicine; . the City Dispensary; the Janies Whitcomb Riley hospital for Children; the social service department and the Indianapolis branch of the extension division. — n OPEN SCHOOL OF MISSIONS , Illustrated Lecture At Presbyterian Church Wednesday Night. 1 i One of the most interesting coun1 tries in the world is the giant nation, ' China. Did you realize that every fourth child who comes into this world is born into a Chinese family? * Her area is as much as North and South America, Australia and Africa. Her hundreds of millions of people ‘ make up the largest nation, numerically in the world. ' We once spoke of “Old China.” We ' thought of a country tied hy tradition, ‘ extremely conservative, a nation ’i bound by exclusiveness an dhemmed lin by her exclusiveness. Now we talk I of “New China”, a people who have passed through not one, but a series of revolutions. She has overthrown 1 her king and the historic ruling dynasty which he represented. She would not have dared to do this fifty years ago for fear of bringing down the wrath of the Gods. She is rapidly | becoming a manufacturing nation, ’ absorbing the evils as well as the ad'l vantages of an industrial system. Almost over night the educational sys- ' tern of ancient China has been over ' thrown and modern western methods have been introduced. The monstrous | giant is awake. She is copying Ameri- ' can ways and customs. The brewer- ' ies which we have ousted have plant- \ ed their machinery on the shores of ' China and are plying the nefarious I business which we have ousted from our shores. Will America send good. i influences as well as evil to these people eager to advance? I There are only a few of the interesting details of a stereopticon lecture to be given at 7:45 tomorrow , evening at the Presbyterian church on "Young China's Problems.” The I lecture consists of 73 beautifully colJ ored slides, illustrating various phases t of Chinese life. I This lecture opens the second an- , nual school of missions at the Presbyterian church. At 7 o'clock will occur the first meeting of the mission study classes. Groups for men. women and young people have been organized and will be held by competent teachers. These will c ontinue for six successive evenings. The country | study this year is Japan. At 7:45 each ' evening a special feature will be in- ! troduced. Next week a stereopticon lecture on Alaska will be given. On October 30. Mr. Frank W. Bible, one of the most prominent foreign mission secretaries of the Presbyterian church, will speak. It is hoped that Miss 1 Esther Sellemeyer who is visiting in Decatur at present, will be the speaker during one of the evenings in November. Everyone is cordially invited to attend either or both sessions each evening. — • High School Senior Girls To Give Picture Show The girls of the high school senior class have arranged for a benefit show at the Cort theatre Friday evening of this week when “Sowing the Winds,” starring Anita Stewart will be on the bill. The admission is 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children and you are not only invited but urged to come with the assurance that you will enjoy the film. Weather Unsettled tonight and Wednesday, rain probable; warmer tonight in northeast portion.

PETITION ASKS RECEIVER FOR KENTLAND BANK Deputy Attorney General Prepares Petition for McCray’s Home Bank. AWAIT BARR’S REPORT Petition Likely To Be Filed If Bank Is Insolvent; McCray Is Quiet. Indianapolis. Oct. 16.-- Petition for « a receiver for the Discount and Deposit State bank of Kentland, from which Governor McCray recently resigned as president, was turned over to the state banking department today by Edward M. White, deputy attorney general. Even H. Wolcott, state banking commissioner, was out of the city ami it could not be learned whether the suit will be filed. It is understood further action depends on the report of Thomas Barr, bank examiner, who is still in Kentland going over the books of the cent. If Barr's report shows the bank is insolvent, the suit will be filed, it was understood. The report is expected in a short time. Time for resumption of the grand jury probe of the governor's dealings is indefinite. Charles W. Moores, special prosecutor conducting the investigation. is still confined to his bed by illness, and it is said that he cannot resume the inquiry before next week at the earliest. Governor McCray has refused to comment on the suit filed in circuit court Monday by the Browntown. Ind.. Loan and Trust company, seeking to recover on a $2,500 note. Serious charges regarding the governor's transa< tions were made in the suit. ■ • Baltimore-Kansas City Game Postponed Today Kansas City. Oct. 16. —The Baltimore Kansas City post-season base ball game scheduled for today was postponed on account of wet grounds. CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE Wheat: Dec. $1.08%; May. $1.12%; July, $1.09%. Corn: Dec. 77%c; May 75%c; July 75%c. Oats: Dee. 43c; May 45%c; July 44%c. LINDSEY HEARING POSTPONED AGAIN Illness of Juryman’s Wife Causes Delay In Probe In Sturgis Shooting. Sturgis, Mich., Oct. 16.— (Special to Daily Democrat). The coroner's investigation into the death of Mrs. Hazel Lindsey, which was to have been resumed today, has been postponed until October 23, on account of the illness of the wife of one of the coroner's Jurymen. The hearing was started a week ago, but was not completed. In the meantime, Ralph Ljndsey, husband of the slain woman, is held in the county jail at Centerville, on a charge of carrying concealed weapon. Lindsey was arraigned in court on this charge last Saturday, but the hearing was postponed until next Saturday, October 20. His bond is fixed at $5,000. Lindsey's attorney requested that the bond be lowered, but the request was refused by the court. No other charges are on file against Lindsey. Mrs. Lindsey died instantly on September 26, from a bullet wound through the head. The husband claims that he was putting his car in the garage when he heard the shot fired in an upstairs room of their home, five miles from this city. A .32 calibre revolver was found on the floor near her body. Although there is evidence which points to the probable guilt of Lindsey, the general opinion is that he will be acquitted by the coroner's jury. The regular meeting of the citycouncil will be held this evening at the city hall. I

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 16, 1923.

White Sox Now Hold Edge In Chicago Series (IT. P. Staff Correspondent > Chicago, Oct. 16 —(Special to Daily Democrat) Sixth game in the Chi-, cago champ'.onship teries was to be , played today with -the White Sox having a three to two edge over the Cubs as a result of yesterday's win. I Willie Kumm. the SIOO,OOO wonder, knocked in the three deciding runs with two circuit clouts and the Sox won, 7 to 4. Friberg, Vogel and Cpl- ' I ns also made four base hits. | The weather today was cloudy and I warm. If the Sox win today, they win the championship. If ths Cubs win. the deciding game will be played tomorrow. • ■ o- ; LLOYD GEORGE PUSHES CASE r Will Carry Plea for Ameri-1 i can Aid In Europe To American People. (By Lawrence Martini (U. P. Staff Correspondent) With Lloyd George, St. Charles, 111., Oct. 16. —Lloyd George is out to carry , his case for American aid in settling . world problems directly to the peo I He is not distrubed by the fact that I * the administration at Washington. , speaking through the cautious white house spokesman, has stated it is not expected that anything will come of I the Lloyd George plan for preserving wot hl peace through an Americant British understanding. Lloyd George does not expect the j American government to do anything I now about this idea of his. He does not expect anything to come of it , ever unless the American people imI pel their government to action. He .'cannot speak governments; he has jno official status. But he always has been an expert at talking to the common people. He believes that if the American people understand that until they throw the weight of their influence into the scales of peace, there will be no peace in Europe; they will demand that Washington take whatever steps ican be taken, in consonance with American traditions, to do that. Having sounded his message yesterday before a big enthusiastic audience of north westerners Lloyd George intends to keep on sounding it in every section of the country where he speaks. ' I came here to see and hear, to learn of you.” he said. “I did not intend to make speeches, nor wish to. I But I have to make them. And I must tell you therefore what is in my I heart.” In his speech yesterday, Lloyd George called on America “to help Europe make peace.” Until the » United States does, he said, "1 despair of the future.” BUSINESS MAN ASKS DIVORCE fl Emerson Bennett Files *j Complaint In Circuit Court This Morning. I Emerson Bennett, local coal dealer, today filed a complaint in the circuit court asking for a divorce from his wife, Maude Bennett. The couple were married thirty years ago and separated only yesterday. They have ! been residing at 604 West Madison street for the past four years. The complaint was tiled through Attorneys ( C. L. Walters and L. C. DeVoss. According to the complaint. Mrs. Bennett is guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment in that she called the I plaintiff vile, vulgar and obscene I namesand applied opprobious epithets to him. The plaintiff says that she often told him she hated him worse than a snake and that she wished he would go away and never come back. The plaintiff states in his complaint that about a year ago they decided to separate and by an agreement he I i was to give the home on Madison , street and SSOO-to the defendant and i he was to keep the remainder of their property. He says that he executed the deed to the property and wrote the check, but that the defendant rei (Continued on Page six)

HUNDREDS MUST TESTIFY IN KU KLUX KLAN SUIT List of Witnesses For Injunction Suit Filed By Plaintiff’s Counsel. i HIGH STATE OFFICIALS IList Includes High State and County Officials; Ed Jackson Is Witness. Press Service! Indianapolis. Oct. 16—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Five hundred wl'lncsscs. many of | 'them high state and county officials will he called to testily ill the injunction suit brought by six residents of South Bend against the Indiana realm ofi the Ku Klux Klan in federal court. • I The list of witnesses was filed bv Joseph Roach, attorney! for the plaintiffs with the clerk Df the I’nited States district court today. Included in the! list were Ora Dtivies, state trea-' surer; Ed Jackson, secretary of. state; Newton Miller, state fire' marshal; James A. Collins, judge of the criminal court, and George Snyder, sheriff of Marion county. — o Authorize Loan From Highway Commission Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 16.- —The state hoard of finance today authoriz-* ed the loan of $1,300,01(0 from the state highway commission funds to the geneial fund of the state treasury to take care of the state’s running expenses until an advance call can be made from county t,-easurers for threw fwnrths of the fall tax installment. Today’s loan placed the general fund $3,800,000 iu debt. The money loaned hy the highway commission represented the revenue due front the gasoline tax collection which Robert Bracken state auditor, has just turn ed over to the highway department in compliance with a mandamus older. The finance committee is composed of Governor McCray, State Treasurer Davies and Bracken. —o Rose Christen and Mrs. F. E. France spent the afternoon in Fort Wayne. — o FIND RELICS IN CLERK'S UFFICE Tally Sheets of Election of 1844 Found; New Filing System Is Completed. Many interesting old ret ords were discovered in the filed of the clerk of the circuit court yesterday when they were being transfeed to the new tiling system, which has just been installed. Records and election tally sheets, dating back to 1844 were found. One of the interesting relics discovered was the tally sheet of the electing iu 1860 when Abraham Lin coin was elected president of the U. S. Douglas was the candidate on the Democratic ticket. The tally sheets were very different from those of today. The votes were tabulated on a small piece of paper. The tally sheets of the presidential election ol 1844 were found also. This was the election in which James Knox Polk, a Democrat, was elected president. The task of filling the records and various papers in the new files is nearing completion. The work of installing the new filing system and counters was -completed last week, and this week, John E. Nelson, conn ty clerk-elect, and Mat Breiner, custodian, have been busy filing the records. The new filing system is a . great improvement in the clerk's offiI ce. The files aud counters are all I metal. The files for the large re- | cord books have roller bottoms, which make the books slide in and out easy. I The new system will make the records much more available for reference aud will protect them much better than the old system.

Local Masons To Attend Laying of Cornerstone j A large delegation from the Decatur Masonic lodge, No. 571. will go to | Fort Wayne Friday of this week to ntI tend the corner stone laying of the new Masonic Temple there. They will take part In a monster street parade in which many Hands, delegations from sixty blue lodges and other Masonic bodies will take part. The parade will form at two o'clock at the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Decatur Masons will meet there, many going in ears while others will travel hy way of the traction line. The new temple will cost about one million dollars and will be one of the linest in the country. . -9 o G. E. OFFICIALS VISIT IN CITY I Inspect Local Plant This Afternoon; Attend Banquet At Ft. Wayne. The manufacturing committee of 1 the General Electric company, comI posed of the president and viee-presi- : dent in charge of manufacturing and ‘engineering, together with the manlagers of the principal plants of the company, visited the Decatur plant of the complany this afternoon. The officials came to Fort Wayne last night and made an inspection of the plant in that city this forenoon. They will return to Fort Wayne this evening to attend a banquet to be given by the members of the Foremen's . club of the Fort Wayne plant. Gerald Swope of New York City, president of the General Electric company, will be the guest of honor. The dinner is being held in honor of Mr. Swope on the occasion of his visit to the Fort Wayne plant, aud every effort is being made for an elaborate affair. All members of the manufacturing and advisory committees of the company, composed of the president, vice-presidents of the board of directors, the treasurer, secretary and managers of the principal plants of the company, who will meet today and tomorrow at the the final plant, will also be guests at the dinner, together with about forty executives of the local plant. Almost wo hundred persons are expected to attend the affair. John Pulver president of the club, will preside an dtalks wiil be given • by Walter Goll, manager of the Fort Wayne works of the General Electric company, and E. A. Barnes, general superintendent. Musical entertain.tnent will be furnished during the dinner by an orchestra under the direction of John L. Verweire, director of the General Electric band. Tile advisory committee, consisting of the chairman of the board of directors, the president, vice-president. • -.ecretary treasurer and several others offiials, will meet on Wednesday morning and afternoon at the plant for the discussion of the policies of the company and the problems exeprienced by the local plant. ■o Ask Removal of Bert Mcßride As Receiver Indianapolis, Oct. 16. — Removal of Bert Mcßride as receiver for the International Note and Mortgage Company of Indiana, was asked in an amended intervening petition filed in Superior court here Saturday by attorneys for Grant Sanders, formerly of Muncie, holder of 110 shares of preferred stock in the company. As an alternative the petition asks that a coreceiver be appointed to act jointly with Mcßride. Mcßride is receiver for the R. L. Dollings company of Indiana, with which the International Note and Mortgage company was affiliated and also for four subsidiaries of the Dollings concern. The petition Saturday called attention to the “prior and present business and personal relations" of McBride and John R. Browne, an Indianapolis attorney, who was one of four men constituting a majority of the board of directors of the Dollings company and the International company. At the conclusion of the hearing Saturday, Judge Linn D. Hay directed ' Harold Taylor, attorney for Mcßride, to file an answer within ten days. Otto Buuck will hold a public sale ■ at his farm north of Decatur on Thursday, October 18th.

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HUNGRY THRONG STORMS BERLIN CITY BUILDING Five Thousand Unemployed Stage Big Demonstration, Cry for Bread. SEVERAL ARE INJURED Police Called To Hold Back Mob With Drawn Bayonet; Crowd Grows. BULLETIN Berlin, Oct. 16—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Four persons were wounded in renewed rioting between police and unemployed this afternoon. Thousands of demonstrators gathered in front of the city hall. Police reserves were immediately rushed to the scene. One detachment of police was cut off by the mob which threatened to attack. Police fired several volleys of blank cartridges as the crowd pressed forward and finally turned their rifles directly on the mob as those in the rear began throwing stones. Berlin, Oct. 16—Five thousand hungry unemployed stormed the main city hall near Alexanderplatz today in one of the most meanai ing demonstrations since the flood shortage became so acute. At least ten are known to have been wounded in the rush when polite cordons advanced on the mob and drove the most daring of the demonstrators back five blocks from the building. Still determined, the crowds rushed to the Bourse where brokers were seen hurriedly leaving the building and seeking refuge in less cwnspicu ous places. Wilhelmstrasse was closed today as a precautionary measure. Disturbances are reported in several surburbs of the capital particularly Nue Koelln. where three were wounded in food fiots. Cries of "Give us bread, not hutlets." mingled with curses at the police and snatches of the Red enthem “Internationale" were heard as the mobs at first pressed police back against the city hall. Mad demonstrators in hugh and rapidly growing crowds suddenly broke and charged •* e police only to be met with drawn bayonet-like daggers, wounding ten leaders. Reserves of police were rushed up from headquarters and formed great phalanxes that plowed in old army massed formation into the tattered throngs. The crowds hesitated, some of the calmer spirits demanded to see the burgomaster. "Don't spill blood," they shouted, while from many came cries for potatoes. The demonstration was growing rapidly. Workless delegations from all parts of the capital singing and shouting their demands for food, pushed their way into the masses around the building. Time and again fiery leaders in front balked before pressure. Then the police threatened to fire. As they prepared, the crowds scattered. Gradually the crowd left from the. side streets of the vicinity. "Onto the Bourse " tried the leaders. It was only a stone's throw from Untder den Linden. The crowd followed the cry. Puffed-faced Galicians, very pale, scurried from the buildings as the mobs approached. Some two thottand more demonstrators joined in the new attack. Mobs attacked the automobiles parked nearby to await the speculators on the market. Panic reigned on the floor of the Bourse. The rioters gradually were pressed back toward Untder den Linden. Police appeared getting control of the situation at 12:50 pm. The crowd was still gesticulating and cursing but appeared getting under restraint. Mob leaders swore a general-strike would be called tomorrow as a result of the blood shed. Government officials, fearing a general outbreak, ordered the closing of all the big federal buildings along the Wilhelmstrasse. Guards quickly closed the doors and barred the winI (lows. (