Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 248, Decatur, Adams County, 19 October 1923 — Page 1

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hl E. MISSIONARY SOCIETY TO HOLD (INVENTION HERE Foreign Missionary Workers To Meet Here Tuesday and Wednesday. ANNUAL "cON ENTION ■ Fine Program Arranged; Many Visitors Expected To Attend Meeting. | Members of the First Methodist ■ church are malting preparations for ■ entertaining a large number of visition, to Decatur next Tuesday and Wed- ■ nesday when the annual convention L s the Woman’s Foreign Missionary society of the Fort Wayne district ui the North Indiana Conference, Methodist Episcopal church, will be held in this city. Visitors will be present from Auburn, Fort Wayne, Montpelier. Bluffton. Hoagland and other towns in this district. The two-day convention will open at 1:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon and close with the afternoon session on Wednesday. Mrs. Leigh Bowen has charge of placing the visiting delegates for entertainment while in the city. All sessions of the convention will he held in the First Methodist Episcopal church. Fine Program Arranged A fine program of music, playlets and addresses has been arranged for the convention in addition to the various business sessions. The local society is preparing a playlet entitled "The Honorable Mrs. Ling’s Conversation.' which they will present on Wednesday afternoon. The Stand ard Bearers will give a playlet on Tuesday afternoon. The public is cordially invited to attend all sessions of the convention and enjoy the addresses, music and other numbers of the program. The two-day i|m gram is as follows: Tuesday. 1:30 P. IM. Hymn—" Savior Like a Sheperd Icead I Us." Missionary Creed. Devotions Mrs. A. C. Poulson Communion Service Hr. W. W. Martin and Visiting Pastors. Solo Mrs. Dan Tyndall Our Guests Mrs. R. D. ’dyers Our Appreciation . Mrs. P. Panlhemus Called Home Mrs. F. E. Fry Roll Call. Address Mrs. Roxy Lefforge Appointment of Committees. Children s Hour. Adjournment. Tuesday, 7:30 P. M. Music Decatur Devotional service . Standard Bearers Special Music .... Standard Bearers Playlet Standard Bearers Address Miss Minnie Clift Offering. Benediction. Wednesday, 8:30 A. M. Meditation .... Mrs. D. V. Williams Hymn. Roll Call Young People’s Organization. Response .... Rev. U. S. A. Bridge Missionary Talk . . Miss Minnie Cliff Forward Movement Conference Secretary News from Branch Meeting Mrs. G. A. Snider Prayer. Adjournment. Departmental Conference. Wednesday, 1:30 P. M. Devotions .'. Mrs. W. T. Daley Reports of Districts. Playlet Decatur Auxiliary Music Mrs. Clyde Butler Business—Reports of Committees. Installation and Consecration Service Rev. U. S. A .Bridge Adjournment. —oDonald Klepper Operated On for Ruptured Appendix Donald Klepper, son of Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Klepper, of Mercer Avenue, underwent a serious at the Adams County Memorial Hospital at 10 o’clock last night, for rup-' lured appendix. Considering the seriousness of the operation, the lad's condition is as well as could be expected today. Donald was the first Patient to undergo an operation in the new hospital, having undergone an operation for hernia on the first morning the hospital was operated, He now holds the distinction of being the first person to undergo a second operation in the hospital. |

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County Sunday School Convention Nov. 1 and 2 The annual Adams County Sunday School convention will be held at Ge , neva on Friday and Saturday, Nov. i 1 and 2. Elaborate plans for the two--1 day meeting are being made by C. O. Lehtnnn, of Berne, county president, and his assistants. One of the features of the convention will be the Fellowship Banquet to be held at G o’clock Friday evening, and all teach urged to attend this event. Splendid ers and Sunday school officers are speakers are being secured to deliver , addresses before the convention and ' special music will be provided. o LIQUOR BRIBERY IS DISCOVERED Eleven Arrested In Gigantic Liquor Conspiracy In New York State. New York, Oct. 19. —Drastic action today was promised by United States District Attorney Hayward, following arrest of eleven men in a gigantic bribery conspiracy to secure protection from prohibition agents. A daring attempt to flood New York with New Jersey beer started with a J 1,000.000 bribe fund put up by New Jersey brewers, declared Hayward. The brewers, Hayward said, had protection not only from the law but rival brewers in Pennsylvania who were attempting to cut in on the New York business. Arrest of the eleven men in a hotel where they had met to meet federal agents to pay the protection money, followed close on the heels of pad lock injunctions against fifty-four New York saloons by Hayward, who estimates there are two thousand saloons in New York openly selling booze across the counter. o CORN JUDGING SCHEDULE OUT Farmers Invited To Aid In Estimating Yields of 5Acre Contest Plots. The schedule which will be observed in the judging of the 5-acre corn contest plots next week has been arranged and the time indicated will be as accurately followed as is possible by Peter Lux, of Shelbyville, assisted by L. M. Busche. county agent. Everyone interested is invited to be at any of the places where yields will be checked at the time shown in the schedule. Mr. Lux has twice been r’orn King” at the International Grain and Hay show, having exhibited the best 10-ear samples of corn. In addition, he has been in the 5acre corn contest for some time and has made a fine showing. Mr. Lux is willing at any time to discuss any phase of corn growing with those who may be present. The schedule follows: Tuesday forenoon, October 23, Albert Ewell, Preble township, 9 o'clock Clyde Harden, Union township, 10 o’clock. Afternoon, Henry Coyne, Washington. 1:30; Paul Coyne, Washington, 2; Fred Busche, Washington, 2:45; Grover Sells, Washington, 3:30. Wednesday forenoon, Fred Blum Monroe, 8:30; B. F. Haines, Monroe, 9:15; Harrison Miller, Monroe, 10:30. Afternoon, C. J. Jones, Blue Creek, 1:30; Levi Stuckey, Blue Creek, 2:15; Carl Amstutz, Jefferson, 3:30. Thursday forenoon, Chas. Schenck, St. Marys, 8::00; W. W. Hawkins, Washington, 8:45; Cecil Bess, Washington 9:30; R. M. Gilbert, Monroe, 10:15. Afternoon, C. W. R. Schwartz, Monroe, 1:30; John Mazelin, Monroe, 2:15; Eli Graber, Monroe, 3:00. Friday forenoon. E. VV. Busche, Washington. 8:30; J. F. Rupert., Monroe, 9:15; W. T. Rupert, Washington, 10.- ; 00. Afternoon, John Eicher, Monroe, 1:30; Jacob C. Mazelin. Monroe, 2:15; L. L. Diehl, Kirkland, 3:00. ' The rules in judging provide that 300 hills be selected in three representative places within the 5 acres, which must be in one plot. One hundred hills, contained in two rows | each fifty hills in length, taken in | three places, are husked and weigh- I ed. After allowance is made for | moisture the estimate can be made for the plot. Where | (Continued on page eight)

STATE OF SLICE EXTENDED OVER ALL OF GERMANY Socialists Draw Another Concession from Stresemann Cabinet Today. RIOTS UNDER CONTROL Emergency .Food Supplies Given To Demonstrators To Quiet the Trouble. (By Carl D. Groat) Berlin, Oct. 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Socialists, whose threat of a general strike helped to force the 1 government to back down before defiant Saxony, dragged another concession from the Stresemann cabinet today. Promise that the state es siege was to be extended over all Germany so as not to favor Bavaria in .her quarrel with Saxony was made when the socialists demanded the state of siege be lifted. The government also offered to withdraw General Von Lossow, dictator of Bavaria. This was not agreeable to Bavaria, since it was generally accepted there that Von Lossow did not menace authority of Dr. Von Kahr, Bavaria’s own dictator, dispatches from Munich said. Co-operation of the two dictators was said to be complete. Under socialist pressure the government was also planning further changes in the state of siege. Rioting of war cripples and excombatants in the suburbs of Berlin was brought under control when emergency food supplies were given the demonstrators. o — “Little World’s Series” Shifts To Baltimore. Md. Kansas City. Yet, 19. —The Baltimore and Kansas City baseball teams were enroute to Baltimore today to complete their minor league world's series. Py winning Thursday’s game 5 to 2 .Kansas City now has a lead n games of three to one. TO BUILD PARK AT MONTPELIER Distribution of Lots At New Park To Be Held Sunday; Many Attractions. A corporation known as the Blue Water Park Realty company, is arranging to build a wonderful park one nr’Je east of Montpelier. Indiana, where one of the best golf courses in the state will be built, tennis courts put in and many other attractions provided. A small lake will form the center piece of the ground and around this a number of cottages will be erected. The company planned for a distribution of these lots for last Sunday but owing to the rainy weather, the event was postponed until next Sunday when it will positively take place, rain or shine. There will be good speaking, music by the Montpelier Boys band and two lots, both fronting on the lake, will be given away to visitors. Several Decatur people are interested in the new country club which promises to become a very popular one under the direction of the able men who are organizing it. ■ II -■ ■ ■■■■■ I ».■ ■■- II ■ ■ I ■ ■ I I, I ■. —— G. H. Bright, of route two. was a business visitors in the city today. EXTRA! County Tax Rate Cut; City Rate Unchanged Indianapolis, Oct. 19.—The state board of tax commissioners today announced the following action in regard to the investigation made into the proposed tax levy in Adams county: I county fund reduced from 22 j cents to 20 cents; bridge fund i reduced from 10 cents to 5 cents; 1 gravel road fund reduced from 25 cents to 20 cents. There were no changes made in the proposed levy for the civil city of Decatur.

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STATESMAN’S PAL Las?: ■ I i Miss Megan Lloyd George, her father s closest associate. PLAN HALLOWE’EN PARTY OCT. 26TH I 1 South Ward School To Have Public Entertainment Next Friday Evening. Pupils and teachers of the South Ward school are making extensive i plans /or a Halloween party to be i given on the school grounds on the i evening of Friday. October 26. The affair will resemble a county fair in many respects. There will be fish ponds for the children, pop corn, peanuts. apples, hamburgers, ice cream ’ cones and other things to eat. The domestic science girls at the high i school will make the candy which > will be sold. The children of the third and fourth . grades will give a little play entitled "Elves of Hallowe’en.” The proceeds from the affair will be used in purchasing improvements for the South Ward building, such as a stereopticon machine and pictures. A good time is assured and the public is cordially invited to attend. Editor Dale In Bad Again Muncie, lnd„ Oct. 19. —George Dale, local publisher, who was found guilty on a charge of criminal libel here earlier in the week and fined SSOO and sentenced to five months in jail, was to face court again today, this time on a charge of violating the liquor law. The court, however, postponed the case indefinitely because of other uni , I finished business. I Dale is preparing to appeal to a I; higher court from the libel decision. D, C. H. S.TU PLAY , I GAME HERE NOV. 2 ■— Catholic Football Team To Meet Central Catholic High of Ft. Wayne. — ( Decatur Catholic high school’s football team will play the Central Catho- , lie high school of Fort Wayne in this city on Friday, November 2, according to an announcement made by Coach France Confer today. This is t|ie only game on the schedule of the 1). C. H .8. team at present. The Catholic boys were defeated by C. C. H. S. at. Fort Wayne in their first game early in the season, by the one-sided score of 56 to 0. Since that time, however, the local boys have been practicing hard and have ‘niproved greatly until they are con-| fident that they can hold C. C. H. 8. | to a close score on November 2. This , is the first year that the local Catho- 1 lie high school has had a football team. Difficulty was encountered , in arranging a schedule because practically all other teams had their sched. ule completed before the locals de' cided to organize a team. Weather Fair tonight and Saturday; colder tonight; probably frost. i

DOCTOR ADMITS ISSUING MANY FAKE LICENSES Former State School Examiner of Missouri Confesses To Big Fraud. MANY ARE INVOLVED 15,000 Persons Said To Be Practicing Under Fraudulent Credentials. St. Louis. Oct. 19.—A confession involving himself and three other physicians In the practice of issuing fraud- , ulent qualifications for the practice lot' medicine covering a period of ten years was made last night by William E. Sachs, former Missouri state 'examiner of public schools, the St. Louis Star declared in a copyrighted article today. Sachs estimated that 15.000 persons are practicing medicine under fradulent credentials, the star said. Sachs, who has been a fugitive | since the Star first announced exisjtanee of a "diploma ring" Monday surI rendered to authorities last night giving a full confession directly implicating three other doctors already under arrest: , R. A. Voigt, Kansas City, alleged "master mind;” Dr. Robert Adcox, St. Louis and Dr. D. R. Alexander, secretary of the Kansas City College of Medicine and Surgery. "The confession also involves the ' owner of a preparatory school a coun- ■ ty superintendent of schools, the seci retary of a medical college, and at 1 least 100 practicing physicians scati tered throughout the United States, t whose names Sachs has agreed to give to the prosecuting authorities, i the star says. ‘ Sachs admitted selling between 1,t 000 and 1,500 high school certificates i and diplomas to allow uneducated young men qualify for medical prac1 tice. Hi- also admitted dealing in 1 fraudulent college credits, derees of 1 bachelor of arts and medical diplomas. it was said. CONVENTION AT I CLARK’S CHAPEL Annual Root and Union Township Sunday School Convention Oct. 28. The annual Root and Union township Sunday School convention will he held at Clark’s Chapel, ten miles northeast of Decatur on Sunday, OcI tober 28. Only one session will he held, it starting at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. i A very interesting program has I been arranged by J. M. Gibson, township president. C. L. Walters of this city and C. O. Lehman, superintendent of the Berne public schools and president of the county Sunday School association, will be the principal I speakers at the convention. The ' Berne male quartet will give a number of selections. Following is the program for the convention; M usie—Congrega t ion. Devotionals —Led by the Rev. Brown, pastor. Music —Berne male quartet. i Address —"The Teacher,” C. L. Walters. Music —Congregation. Selection —Berne male quartet. Address —"Don’ts and Bes,” C. O. Lehman, county president. Music —Congregation. Selection —Berne male quartet. Offering. Report by nominating committee. Adjournment. o — Remains of Mrs. Dora Rudy Pass Through City The remains of Mrs. Dora May Rudy, 47. who died at her home in Lima, Ohio, this week, passed through Deca- , tur today enroute to her former home at Zanesville. Indiana .where burial will take place. The body was being returned to Zanesville overland. It was accompanied by the husband, James R. Rudy, and other relatives. Mrs. Rudy was the daughter of Taylor and Elizabeth Bell of Zanesville. • She is survived by the husband, one j daughter, parents and one sister.

Sold Tickets For Show When There W asn’t Any Bluffton, Oct. 19. —Attention of police officials were called today to a petty swindle worked by a number of I Bluffton high school boys at the l.an | caster Center box social, Tuesday i evening and action is being considered. It is said that the Bluffton boys sold paper strips to visitors at the social at 10c each, on the claim that they I were tickets to a boxing exhibition to be given at the gymnasium as part ) of the evening’s program. The boys. I however, made no effort to make wide 'sales, as the affair was done as a ' | prank and with no Intention of making money. LEGION CLOSES MEETING TODAY 1 Next Convention of Amerii can Legion To Be Held in Seattle. Wash. San Francisco, Oct. 19. —The fifth annual convention of the American I.egion convened for its last session today. The election of officers of the -| national executive committee and the grand delegation are scheduled for its < losing activities. ■ 1 The convention passed the antiIKu Klux Klan resolution after deI ' bate late yesterday. While the con.'vention did not mention the klan parJticularily, it mentioned secret organi--1 zation or groups wearing masks. Seattle gets the 1924 convention. • The legion voted to meet in Paris in ■ | 1928. • I The election of national comman- ; der was the principal job to be ac- • | complished today. ZEV ILL ON EYE j OF GREAT RACE American Entry In International Race Saturday Unable To Run. | Bellmont Park. N. Y.. Oct. 19. —Zev Harry Sinclair's three-year-old which was to have carried the hopes of the American against Papyrus in the international stake race tomorrow has ' been found in an unsatisfactory condition on the eve of the match. The Sinclair colt broke out with 1 blotches yesterday. ( A committee from the Jockey club inspected Zev after a brisk workout this morning and decided to wait arrival of Admir- ■ al Cary T. Grayson’s My Own, when I it may be decided to substitute the i latter in the big race. My Own is being shipped here from Ijiurel, Md. i The news of Zev's ailment, which ■ did not interfere with his reeling off I a brisk half mile this morning in 47 i seconds, came as the most sensar tional of the deevlopments leading up to the big match. Papyrus, English champion, appeared fit for the stiffest kind of a race and his British handlers indicated he would certainly go to the harrier 1 against My Own if the substitution is made. ' Jarvis, the derby winner’s trainer, i said he wanted a look at the contract ! but that he believed it provided for Papyrus meeting whatver three-year-i old the Jockey club committee should I select. o Operation for Hairlip. The young child of Mr. and Mrs. Claude M iler, of near this city, und- ' erwent an operation at the Adams County Memorial hospital yesterday for hair-lip. A Fort Wayne physician performed the operation. I - Funeral for Vernon L. McGonagle Held Today ' Funeral services for Vernon L. McGonagle, well known resident of this city, who d'cd at his home on Oak ’ street Tuesday night, were held from the First Methodist church at 2 o'clock this afternoon, the Rev. U. S. A. Bridge, pastor of the church, offi- . elating. Among the out-of town peo- ■ pie who attended the funeral, was - Herman L. Conter, of Gary. For . twenty-eight years, Mr. McGonagle 3 was manager of the Conter lee Cream (company here.

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.DRY GOVERNORS ARE VICTORIOUS IN THEIR STAND Win Sweeping Victory In Stand for Rigid EnforceI ment of Prohibition. MEMORIAL IS PASSED Executives Send Memorial To Coolidge Asking For Federal Assistance. West Baden, Ind., Oct. 19.— The extreme dry wing of the governors’ conference won a sweeping victory in lheir stand for rigid enforcement of the prohibition laws just before the an- ■ nual conference adjourned here at noon today. A memorial addressed to President Coolidge calling for federal aid in bone drv enforcement of the Volstead act and pledging every power at the command of the state executives in wiping out liquor law violations was passed with but two dissenting votes, one governor refusing to vote. Governors Silzer, of New Jersey and Park of Louisiana, voted against the memorial, while Governor Blaine of Wisconsin bolted the session and refused to cast a ballot. The memorial said: "An overwhelming majority of the citizens of the United States are law ah’ding and desirous of the enforcement of law. "The national government alone has control of the manufacture of intoxicants and has a very special obligation to perform in prohibiting the importation into this country of wine and spiritous liquor contrary to the laws of the United States. The individual states are powerless to act in these respects. Therefore the national government should exercise its power and authority in dealing with these questions. “We believe that the state and fed erul officers should co operate fully in preventing the violat'on of our prohibition law. "We pledge you as governors, our fullest co-operation in this effort." West Baden. Ind., Oct. 19—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Voters in thirty states of the Union have not as yet seriously considered the proposed candidacy of Henry Ford for president, their governors told the United Press today. Ford, they said, has many staunch friends throughout the country, but there has thus far been no tendency on their part to launch a Ford for President boom. This due. in the opinion of the governors, to the fact that Ford is regarded first and foremost as a businessman ami not as a politician or a "logical” man for the presidency. Popular in Northwest “Ford is a popular figure in North Dakota and throughout the northwest generally." said Governor Nestos of North Dakota. "However, a presidential boom for him has not yet blossomed. Ford might show up as a strong candidate in the northwest if the other candidates at the primaries are old guard politicians. "Ford has gained popularity among the coal miners of West Virginia by the manner in which he has operated the mines he owns.” said Governor Morgan, "but that does not imply that the miners would be solid for him in a presidential race.” Little Headway in South Throughout the south, apparently, the Ford for president proposal has gained little headway, Governor Brandon of Alabama said that so far as he knew, there was no Ford sentiment in his state. Governor Peay of Tennessee expressed the same opinion. "I have not heard Ford's name mentioned in my state in connection with the presidency," said Governor ■ Walker of Georgia. s Think Coolidge Will Run ; Republican governors at the coni ference generally believe President I Coolidge will make good during the coming winter and have the unanim- . ous support of the party for the nomi- ination. It was significant that the s republicain govternors mentioned no r other name in connection with the o 1924 presidential race. i In New England, particularly, the Coolidge sentiment Is strong.