Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 249, Decatur, Adams County, 20 October 1923 — Page 1

Volume XXL Number 249.

M’CRAY DENIES OWING STATE MONEY

HIGHWAY repaid SERIOULV HIT IT TAX CUTTING Five-cent Cut In Road Repair Fund Levy Forecasts Harm To Highways. BRIDGE FUND SUFFERS Levy Cut In Half; General Fund Levy Reduced 2 Cents By State Board. With the announcement from Indianapolis received by the Daily Democrat late Friday afternoon that the board of state, tax commissioners had ordered the tax levies in this county reduced, including a two-cent reduction in the county general fund, five cents in the bridge fund and five cents in the highway repair fund, a total of 12 cents on the hundred dollars/ county officials were beginning to figure if sufficient money i would be available in the different departments and anpropriations for the operation and maintenance of the county government and its institutions. The tvvelve-cent reduction affects all the townships and incorporated towns and cities in the countv. The rates in these taxing units will be twelve cents lower than first proposed. The levies are collectable next year. The Highway Repair Fund. The highway repair fund will be the most seriously affected by Abe reduction of five cents in the rate, the - state board reducing the levy front twenty-five cents to twenty cents on each SIOO.OO. Based on a tentative valuation of $41,013,130.00, which is within a few thousand dollars of the exact figures now being compiled, the 20-cent levy will raise only $82,000.00 for repair and up-keep of the 750 miles of macadam roads in this county. This is an average of approximately SIIO.OO per mile for the roads I in this county. This amount will give , the highway repair department $lO. 000 less next year than that collect ecl this year with a 21.3 levy based . on a higher valuation. The highway I department this year receives approxi-1 "lately $32,000.00. The proposed 25-1 cent levy would have raised about $114,000.00. Did Net Want Reduction. Although a remonstrance or an appeal against the levying of the proposed highway rate of 25 cents on the hundred dollars was filed by 13 taxpayers with the state tax commissioners and a hearing on the objections was held on Friday, October sth, in this city by James Showalter, a representative of the board, the remonstrators stated at the hearing that . they did not wish to have the high way levy reduced. It was stated by •hose who attended the hearing that the remonstrators informed Mr. Sho ; "alter that they did not think the Proposed levy was too high in view . of the fact that the county had 750 j "tiles of road to keep in repair and it was requested that the levy be left to stand. However, the remonstrance ' was not withdrawn and the state tax fommissioners evidently took the petition at its face value. ■t is hardly possible that the $82.-•M-’O.OO, or an average of SIIO.OO per mi 'e. will keep the 750 miles of roads in good repair next year. In 1922, "■wording to the annual report of the 'tote highway commission, the cost of maintaining the 25 miles of state road in this county, exclusive of the ° miles running through towns and , 'dies, which were not repaired at ’ tate expense, the cost was $715.00.1 1,1 this county under the local highway department’s jurisdiction the "Rhest cost was $125.00 per mile and "" ° nt ‘ "’ill refute the statement that ’ ’* roads in Adams county are kept ln as good repair as i 8 possible to do w th the amount of money available. Totals About $50,000. i The 12-cent reduction in the differcounty rates, applicable to every J’W'nship, town and city in the conn(Continued on page five)

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Boy Sawed In Two When He Fell Into Sawmill Clinton, la., Oct. 20—(Special to I Daily Democrat)—Charles Craig, 15, ; was sawed in two, from left shoulder, through, and straight down when he fell into the saw mill near Mount Carroll, 111., late yesterday. The lad as helping his father saw railroad ties. The father lost one arm and the I other hand in a vain effort to rescue his son. SPEAKER LAUDS MASONIC LODGE Judge A. R. Robinson Spoke At Laying of Masonic Temple Cornerstone. Ft. Wayne. Oct. 29.—The ideals and i principles of Masonry were extolled and lauded and their application to the every day life of the individual member was urged by Judge Arthur R. Robinson, of Indianapolis, in his address at the ceremony of laying . the c ornerstone of the- new Masonic ' temple on East Washington street | yesterday afternoon. Over four I thousand Masons and their friends' j attended the- ceremony, it was estimated. * The speaker pointed out the deep significance of the occasion and predicted that 'joy and great good will radiate from this edifice to Masonry ' and Masons everywhere," for the betterment of Fort Wayne, the community. the state and the nation. A parade through the downtown streets preceded the ritualistic laying, which was conducted by Dr. Charles A. Lippincott, of South Bend, most worshipful grand master of the grand lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Indiana. Music was furnished by the Knights Templar band of Fort Wayne conimandery No. 4. and the Bluffton Hoys’ band, which accompanied a delegation of Bluffton Masons | here. The cornerstone was laid in accordance with the ancient ritual and tenets of the lodge of Master Ma-, sons. Charles R. Weatherhogg. archi- ] tect, presented the building and Most Worshipful Grand Master Lippincott ' performed the rites. Corn, emblem of ! plenty, was scattered on the stone, and this was followed by an annointI ment of wine, symbolical of health, and oil, representing peace. Prayer ' was offered by Rev. Elmer Ward Cole, of South Bend, grand chaplain, and this was followed by the singing of ’’America” under the direction of Frank E. Studor. "This is a great civic event, for Masonry stands for good government, patriotism and the flag of the republic. Every Mason in America loves and reveres Old Glory. Judge Robinson declared. REBEKAHS MEET AT MONTPELIER Local Lodge Women To Attend Convention Next Fridav, October 26. The Rebekah district meeting will convene in Montpelier on Friday, October 26th. This district is comprised of three counties, Adams, Blackford and Wells, and the following lodges will be represented at the convention: Poneto, Bluffton. Decatur. Hartford City. Ossian. Geneva, Zanesville. Petroleum. Liberty Center. ! Jackson Center, at McNatts, and Montpelier. I The convention will convene for the afternoon and evening session, and I the Montpelier order is planning on having a large number of out-of-town j visitors for the occasion, including State President Evans, District Deputy Wedgewood and Past President Burke, as well as all other district I officers. Supper will be served in the | Church of Christ dining room by the ladies of the church at 5:30. At the evening meeting a class or candidates will be given the degree work, the Poneto degree staff going prepared to confer the work. The order holds a spring and fall meeting, officers being elected at the former.

I FRANCE IS HELD J RESPONSIBLE FOR j GERMAN HUNGER Germany Sends Note To 23 Na 4 ions Placing Responsibility Onto France. FUTURE VERY DARK Note Says Germany Has Done Utmost To Restore Ruhr Without Results. |*r*<aa Berlin. Oct. 20 (Special to Daily Democrat) Germany to-! day sent a note to 23 nations placing on France responsibility for the hunger and starva-j tion it claimed is impending ini the country. France is accused of having I made it impossible for Ger-' many to regulate the situation in the Ruhr. The note said Germany had done its utmost to restore the Ruhr, but without result. It painted Germany's immediate future in darkest colors. It was sent to German diplomatic representatives at Washington and other capitals. 0 ■ Killed Two Men and Then Burned To Death n’nlter’ p » , pmh gwvicei Alexandria, Minn., Oct. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —After killing two mon early today. Eddie Dirson. 28. was burn*-,! to death by national guardsmen who set fire to the shack in which he took refuge. Larson shot and killed Jacob Ley 60, neighbor, as a culmination of a long standing feud. William Ramsden, guardsman, was i fatally wounded by a bullet fired by ; Larson from his shack. After a siege on the shack for sev- | eral hours, Sheriff Emil Lundeen ord- | ered the guardsmen to burn the place. The badly charred body was removed shortly after daylight. Chicago and Northwestern Fight for City Champions Chicago, Oct. 20.—The annual football championship of Chicago was to be decided today when elevens of Chicago and Northwestern clash on Stagg field here. With a hard packed gridiron encouraging field running. Northwestern is expected to depend upon an aerial game. Line-bjueking, wall smashing, straight football will be used by Chicago, it is believed, in an effort to do to Northwestern what was done i against the Colorado and Michigan i Aggies.

FOLLOWING THE BEET THROUGH INDIANA’S ONLY SUGAR MILL Modest, dusty, mud incrusted vegetable, filled with saccharine sweetness is first unloaded in bins, laundered, rinsed, sliced, made into cold slaw, boiled, given turkish bath, dried, beaten and whipped and then emerge in form of granulated sugar, says writer. Big mill here running full blast, employing many, men and putting much money into circulation

(By F. Q.) The 1923 sugar beet campaign is on I in full force. "The frost is on the pumpkin ami the fodder’s in the shock," ard synchronizing beautifully with that golden period conies the lowly sugar beet and everlastingly ' gets in its best licks. At first blush perhaps, one would : not associate the modest beet, with the sacharine sweetness of granulated i sugar, yet without a doubt, such is Ihe predestined destiny of that veg etable. A sugar beet is not so very much to look at, as most of us have observed, but beneath a modest ex terior are qualities of mind and heart that command profound respect. At any rate, now is the season when the sugar beet is ready to graduate and great are the labors and preparations for that event. In our own town of Decatur, the ONLY sugar beet mill in the great and glorious state of Indiana, makes

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 20, 1923.

CHEER THE SICK Miss Christ, superintendent of the Adams County Memorial hospital, requests us to announce that donations of winter apples, potatoes and vegetables will bo gladly received and much apprec'atfd at the hospital. The fruit, jellies and juicett donated about a month ago are more than serving their purpose and Miss Christ and the patients, we are sure, would greatly appreciate donations of I apples, potatoes and vegetables. NEWTAXRATESARE DETERMINED Rates For Taxes To Be Collected in 1924 Finally Fix- ' ed In Taxing Units. I The 1923 tax rates, collectable next 1 year in the different townships, towns I and cities in the county were all reduced 12 cents on the hundred dol- ( lars, when the board of state tax commissioners cut 2 cents from the general fund. 5 cents from the highway | repair fund and 5 cents from the bridge fund yesterday. The rates as finally fixed and which will apply in 1 the different taxing units next year . are printed below. The first, column of figures being the rate collected this , I year, under the head of 1923 rates. 1 while the last column under the head j of 1924 are the now rates, assessed on each $190.09 worth of property. Taxing unit. 1923 1924 Union $1.86 $2.08 Root 1.80 1.62 Preble 1.64 1.70 Kirkland 1.74 1.77 ! Washington 1.41 1.45 , 1 St. Marys 1.85 1.97 j Blue Creek 2.38 2.36 I Monroe , 1.83 1.90 French 1.9 S 1.87 ' Hartford 258 2.46 : Wabash I'4 1.97 Jefferson 2.53 2.66 | Decatur-Washington . 3.07 3.19 I Decatur-Root 3 35 3.135 Monroe Corp. 2.16 2.20 i Berne Corp. 2.85 3.40 Geneva 3.55 3.77 ! Auditor Martin Jaberg is now preparing the tax duplicate for next year. o BOY SCOUT MEETING. Troop number one Boy Scouts will, meet Monday evening at seven o’clock at the old Gym. Be prepared. Scout! Master. Weather Generally fair tonight and Sunday; somewhat colder tonight in extreme southwest portion; heavy frost tonight.

I her annual bow to all and sundry and ! girds up her loins and takes upon herself the happy task of unlocking a mystery of nature and making life ; t’cr all a better and sweeter thing. In this astonishing undertaking she '■alls to her aid a multitude of opera tives and operations that the (initiated have not the least conception of. li is to be remembered that sugar beets ' go to carefully prepared school from the time they enter the primary grade at planting time until they pass al! the grades and are ready for their graduation, and the faculty employed in the training have a painstaking as well as a very interesting job. Th' marvel of it is that these humble members of the family Chenopodium, when called upon to go Into the world and render an account of themselves, develop latent possibilities that fulfill a promise that the skeptical would have never fathomed. From every direction these marvel-

COOLIDGE BACKS ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION LAW President Tells Governors That Law Must Be Enforced Strictly. STATES MUST HELP Says Prohibition Is Not and Cannot Be a Political Question. 'United Pre«« Nervine) Washington. Oct. 20 —(Spei cial Io Dailv Democrat) — The oroblems of prohibition “must be taken directly to the Ameri- | can people," President Coolidge lin his first direct and complete i pronouncement on the prohibition question, declared in an address to the governors’ conference at the White House lodttv. I At the same time. President Coolidge pledged his own support and the support of his administration “to the limit” to the “great law abiding element of the nation," as provided bv the constitution and the law of the land, against every lawless el'inent. Referring directly to the question of prohibition enforcement, the president told his listeners that the machinery provided by congress and the state legislatures "must be used (Continued on naee seven) ZEV WINS Belmont Park, N. Y., Oct. 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat) — America wins. The international stake race for which Papyrus. Encli’/h d«rbv winner, was brought to ♦ his country to meet the best I American 3 vear old, was won in easy fashion this afternoon bv Zev. Harry F. Sinclair’s crack colt. Zev took the lead away from Papyrus at the very start of the race and the crowd of 70.000 saw the American horse win. The race was not even close and all reports of Zev’s poor condition on the eve of the icontest proved unfounded. The time of the race was 2:35:25 no near the record set bv Man O’ War but good for the heavy track. Purse was SBO,OOO to the winner and $20,000 to the loser. o FOOTBALL SCORES Notre Dame, 12; Princeton. 2, (first half.)

i ous October days, comes long trains I with their heavy Joads of beets head:ed pufflngly fcor the factory. From every direction by traction and by moi tor and by wagon come they also, i Great bins at the mill receive the dusty, mud incrusted vegetables and most interesting exercises are begun.. We cannot, being mechanically tinInstructed, comprehensively detail all that happens to those beets from the bin to the barrel, but we do know that what is done to those beets is I a caution. From the bins they are conveyed to the laundry where they ! are washed, scrubbed and rewashed and properly rinsed. From there they go to the masseurs who also give them osteopathic and chiropractic treatments, then they are put through slicers which for the moment make cold slaw out of them, then (Continued on page eight)

Mrs. Charles True Is Seriously 111 Mrs. Charles F. True, of Poe, who was operated upon Friday at the ■ Lutheran hospital. Fort Wayne, lies I in a serious condition. Mrs. True is a former resident of this city and is a sister of Attorney C. J. Lutz. Her > many friends are grieved to learn of h«-r serious illness. HORSES READY 1 FOR BIG RACE Zev Declared Fit for Match Race With Papyrus, the English Champion. BULLETIN. , (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Belmont Park Race Track. N. Y.. I Oct. 20. —Canters at daybreak found ’ I Papyrus. English three-year-old ’ | champion and Zev, crack Sinclair [ colt, which will carry the colors of America, fit and ready for the international stake race this afternoon. ( My Own. Admiral Cary T. Grayson's i thoroughbred, which was nearly sub- J . stituted for Zev when the Rancoeas • colt developed lumps, also was out . at dawn, in the capacity of first sub- » stitute if anything went wrong with i Sinclair's horse. My Own looked fit . in a canter and a long walk. But the Grayson colt, which was I hurried here from Laurel Park, will i I not have a chance to show Its vaunt- 1 ,ed speed against the pride of Old England. ’ After an unfortunate clay of rumors ancl alarms, the selection committee of the Jockey dub which at first considered substituting My Own for Zev I decided late yesterday that sporting considerations demanded that the lat- ; ter lie kept in despite a slightly 1 , troublesome skin disease. A special runway leading from the i race stall to the paddock had been : built and carefully padded to prevent i any of the horses from injuring himi self. I, There will be six races this afterI noon, the horses in the first race going to the post at 2:30, which would ! make the match race due at 3:45 p. I m. According to present plans this ; is when Papyrus and Zev will go to ‘ i the barrier. There are usually delays ' in such affairs. —o Boy Born At Monroe ‘ Monroe. Oct. 20.—(Special to Daily 1 Democrat). —A ten-pound boy was ' born to Mr. ancl Mrs. Jacob Haggard here last night. Tile child has not been named. MUSIC SECTION GIVES OPERETTA Music Departmen' of Woman’s Club To Give Public Program Monday. Title Music Department of the? Wolman’s chib will be assisted bv the j Junior club in presenting the two-acts Indian Operetta. “The Feast of the Red Corn." by Paul Bliss, whic h will be staged at the old Gym at eight o’c lock, Monday evening. An admission ofl twenty-five cents lor adults and fifteen cents for children will bo c harged to the public. Mrs. Dan Tyndall, chairman of the | department, directed the practices and assures the public of a real treat. The characters in Hie east are as follows: The Queen. Mrs. Mae Holthouse. tmpee-Dight. sister of the Queen. Mrs. Dan Tyndall. Squaw, Mrs. E. D. Engeler. Three children of the Queen: Fuelgee, Patsy Holthouse; Pudgee, Eileen , Burk: Wudgee. Mary Neptune. Other members of the department assist in the choruses and dancing. A business meeting of the entire , club will be held at seven-thirty . o’clock, in the gym. All members are requested to ice there promptly.

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ADMITS LOAN OF $155,000 FROM A STATE BOARD Governor Files Answer To Bankrupt Petition At Ft. Wayne Today. ‘WILL PAY CREDITORS’ Says He Is Not Insolvent and W ill Meet All of His Obligations. Ft. Wayne. Oct. 20.—Admission that he borrowed $155,000 from the state board of agricul- | tore is contained in an answer filed bv Governor McCray today ; with United States Commissioner Lotran to a petition of three Fort Wavne banks, that he be declared bankrupt . The governor denied ever having owed the slate—the board of agriculture is a quasi-state body—and declared he gave the board ample security for the funds he borrowed. Nature of the security was not revealed. The principal contention of the governor in the answer filed today is that he is a farmer and as such is not subject to action of bankruptcy. McCrav said he is a farmer and has been for twenty years. The fact that he was elected governor does not alter the sitI nation, he said. Denies He Is Insolvent. McCray denied that he was insolvent and again made the declaration that he would meet his obligations to the last penny if his creditors did not push him too hard during the present depression in agriculture. He denied that he had made the Discount and Deposit bank of Kentland. of which he was president at the time of a crash, a preferred creditor by payment of $150,000 to the bank. The petitioners, the Farmers Trust company, the First National bank and the Citizens Trust company, directly charged in the suit that the governor had borrowed money from the state funds and that the state had never been repaid. The governor flatly denied this charge. The money paid the Kentland bank and that paid the state board of agriculture to settle loans made the governor come from a $350,000 pool raised by James I’. Goodrich, former governor. and other financial friends of the governor in a last effort to save McCray from the crash, the answer said. A Preliminary Step. Filing of the answer was a preliminary step in the bankruptcy case, upon which the future of the Kentland bank depends. Actual hearing of the case will probably take place in Indianapolis. Attorneys for McCray will ask that the court decide whether McCray is a farmer separate from the other issues. If the bankruptcy suit is successful, the trust, 1 agreement under which McCray proposed to turn over all his assets to a creditors’ commitee may be dissolved. The answer was the first direct statement from McCray since his financial crash two months ago when he called in his creditors and proposed the trust agreement. Receiver Named for Bank. Kentland. Ind., Oct. 20. —Affairs of tile Discount and Deposit bank of Kentland, which closed its doors following the financial crash of Governor Warren T. McCray were placed I in the hands of William Parroch, as temporary receiver, today on order of Judge Williams of the Newton circuit court. Hearing for the appointment of a I permanent receiver will lie held next Wednesday. Application for a tentj perory receiver* was made by the state banking department after examiners had gone over the books of the institution. Two additional suits, involving $119,090, have been filed against the ! governor in the circuit court here. The suits were filed by John Totten ; of Fairland and ask for the foreclosure of mortgages.