Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 250, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1923 — Page 1

Volume XXI. Number 250.

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PRESBYTERIANS HOLD INSPIRING SERVICES HERE Home-Coming and Re-Dedi-cation Services Well Attended Yesterday. MANY VISITORS HERE Former Members and Pastors of Church Gave Talks; Look Into the Future. Inspiring talks in regard to the past, present and future of the First Presbyterian church in this city, marked the re-dedication and home-coming services held at that church yesterday, forenoon, afternoon and evening. The affair far exceeded the fond expectations of the various committees in charge, and everyone of the many visitors as wall as the Decatur people, greatly enjoyed the services. The* churc h was beautifully decorated in autumn leaves, bitter sweet and other foliage. A delicious dinner and supper were served at the church by the kitties Aid society. Former pastors of the church, former members, members of other churches in this city and other cities attended the services. The program opened with a formal re-dedication of the church building following the Sunday School in the forenoon. In inspiring sermon was delivered by the Rev. E. A. Allen, D. fl . of Macomb. Illinois who was pastor of the Presbyterian congregation in this city when the present church edifice was erected, twenty years ago. It was mainly through the diligent efforts' of ftev. Allen that -the new church building was secured. Dr. Fred I. Patterson sang a selection and one anthem was rendered by the choir during the forenoon service, also. Following the dinner, the afternoon session was called to order at 2:30 o'clock. Attorney C. J. Lutz, presided over this session in his usual fine manner. The afternoon service was called a Historical service. Greetings were given by pastors of other churches in this city and by the Rev. Allston, pastor of the Presbyterian church in Bluffton. A number of letters and telegrams frotn former members and pastors were read. These brought to mind many memories or the past. The reminiscent part of tiie program was handled by E. S. Moses. Short talks were given by Mrs. Helen Blossom, Mrs. W. J. Myers, Homer Moses, Judge Jesse C. Sutton, C. J. Lutz and Dr. E. A. Allen, and others. A fitting song, “Coming Home,” was sung by Mrs. Florence Sprunger Starr, of Bluffton, a former resident of this city. The evening session, which was a carry-on service, opened at 7; 30 o'clock. The talks given during this service were looking into the future' of the church. Inspiring talks were given by various laymen of the church. Attorney Dore B. Erwin spoke regarding the future of the various church activities in general. A. H. Sellemeyer spoke regarding the future of the Sunday school, and Richard Frisinger spoke in regard to the future of the Christian Endeavor. Dr. Pattersoq sang againg during this service and the choir rendered another anthem. John H. Stewart, former Decatur resident, now of Dayton. 0.. gave an interesting talk on the goal of the church. The Rev. B. N. Covert. Pastor of the clfurch, rounded up the day's program with a general talk concerning the church's activities and future. The day's program was exheedingly interesting and inspiring from start to finish. Following is a list of visitors who signed the register book yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stewart and son Max, of Dayton, Ohio. E. H. Hubbard, Ottawa, Ohio. R. Walters, Marton, Indiana. Harriet Wertzberger, Indianapolis. Mrs. H. S. Walters, Indianapolis. W. A. Sutton, Indianapolis. Margaret Jane Hoffman, Ft. Wayne. J. S. Moses, 7226 Eberhart Ave, Chicago. M. Anderson', Madison, Ind. Dr. and Mrs. O. T. Scamahorn and (Continued on page two)

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Esther Sellemeyer To Go To Philadelphia Tuesday Esther Sellemeyer will leave Tuesday for Philadelphia, where she will spend a week at the home office of the Reformed Missionaries. Miss Sellemeyer just recently returned to the United States front China, where she spent six years doing missionary work She and her father, A. 11. Sellemeyer. came here from I.os Angeles two weeks ago and have been visiting in the city with friends and relatives. They have a suite of rooms at the P. G. Hooper home on North Second street. Following her return from Philadelphia Miss Sellemeyer will give a talk at the Reformer church in this city. o FRANK SEEGAR IS RECAPTURED Convicted Bootlegger, Who Broke Jail At Bluffton, Found In Michigan. Frank Seegar. convicted bootlegger, who escaped jail at Bluffton last January a few days after he was sentenced to the state penal farm, is under arrest at Muskegon Heights, Mich., according to word received by Sheriff Frauhiger of Wells county. Marshal Henry Gehrett and Herman Frauhiger left for Michigan Sunday morning to claim the prisoner. Seegar broke the Bluffton jail in company with Joe Mercer, who was recaptured at Jackson, Michigan, and brought back to be tried on thelft charges. He was acquitted. Sheriff Frauhiger has been follow ing Seegar's trail through the Michigan officials for several months and finally located him at Muskegon Heights, where he moved with his family from Hart. Officers there had some trouble in locating him. it is said, but word came that Seegar had been identified as the man wanted, and was behind the bars. Seegar was arrested on the Fred Kohler farm in Adams county last December, where he was found operating a still in a deserted shed. Kohler was later arrested and convicted in the Bluffton city court, but appealed.. The case was afterwards sent to Decatur, when Special Judge Sumner Kenner found the Well circuit court did not have jurisdiction. The recapture of Seegar greatly strengthens the state’s case against Kohler, he being practically the only witness against the Adams county farmer. Seegar will probably be taken to the penal farm immediately upon being returned. He also has a tine which must be paid before he obtains his freedom. According to reports, Seegar has visited the Kohler farm since making his escape, and is said to have attempted to blackmail Kohler on one occasion. . —•— Community Supper At Bobo School Friday Evening A community supper will be held at Bobo school building east of Decatur on Friday, October 26th and tin excel lent menu and program has been arranged. The teachers and patrons of the school have prepared the follow ing menu: Fried chicken, veal loaf, salmon loaf, sweet potatoes, noodles, mashed potatoes, gravy, salad, fruit, salad, pie cake, cookies, doughnuts, coffee. Following the dinner a program will be given in the evening, games contests and fishin ponds bein arranged for the entertainment ot the nests. The public is invited to attend and a good time is assured all. Dutch Baumann Wins Auto Race At Indianapolis Indianapolis. Oct. 22.—Dutch Baumann won the 75-mlle race at the Hoosier motor speedway dirt track here Sunday, covering the distance in 1:• 27:30. Claude Fix finished second, Wallace Haulier third and Joe Huff fourth. Fifteen cars started.

CHARGES MADE AGAINST GOV. WALTON TODAY Oklahoma Governor Charged With Incompetency and Corruption. INDICTMENT IS READ Twenty-Two Charges Enumerated In Report Demanding Impeachment. (United Press Service) Oklahoma City. Okla.. Oct. 22 (Special to Daily Democrat)—Gov. .1. C. Walton is accused of wilful neglect of duty, incompetency, coruption in office and offenses involving ‘moral turpitude" in an impeachment indictment read in the lower house of the Oklahoma legislature today. 'lhe indictment presented by \V. E. Disseny, chairman of a committee, which has investigated the state administration climaxes a long hattie between the governor and his opponents with Ihe Ku Klux Klan as one of the main issues put to the front by the executive. Twenty-two charges are enumerated in the report. They demand removal of the governor on the following charges: 1 —Appointment of Charles E. Baskin as judge of the second Oklahoma judicial district as he was serving as a member of Ihe house of representatives. 2—Appropriation of funds from the state. — • SIOO,OOO Offered for Race Between Zev and My Own Los Angeles, Oct. 22 —23.—An offer of a purse of SIOO,OOO for a match race between Zev and My Own to be run Christmas Day has been made by Jack Ferris, general manager of the New Culver City. Cal., race track. Ferris today said he had laid the offer before Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, owner of My Own and was expecting an answer any moment. Ferris wants to match the two leading three/year-olds as the opening event of the Culver City racing season. MRS. SWATHWOOD LEAVES BLUFFTON Former Local Woman Who Figured In “Love Nest" Affair, Goes To Marion. BLUFFTON. Indiana, Oct. 22.—Com plaints from Oklahoma residents that Mrs. Morris Swathwood and Freeman Millington were living as man and wife in a house in that section, was investigated by local officers, with the result that Mrs. Swathwood left Saturday morning for her former home in Marion. The intimate relations between Mrs. Swathwood and Mill'.ngton are said to have existed for several months, during most of which time they resided in another city. Police were asked some t me ago by Mfs. Swathwood's mother to take a hand in the case but they were then unable to locate the couple. Mrs. Swathwood has been separated from her husband since shortly after he was shot by his father-in-law during a family argument at Decatur. Swathwood, it is sa d. )ias been living with George Godfrey at Marion, where his wife was to have joined him today. Millington‘and Mrs. Swathwood denied to police that their relat'ons had been more intimate than the law approves of. They did, however, admit that they slept in the same room, although in separate beds. Sheriff Frauhiger and .Officers Gehrett and Sheldon made the trip to the Millington “love nest.”

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 22, 1923.

DECLINES HONOR 1 ■' "! '7ll - <*>■-'■ & ’ .* w z a 1 FRANK O. LOWDEN Washington. D. C.—Former Governor Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, it was reported here, has declined an offer of the ambassadorship to Great Britain, tendered to him by President Coolidge. At the tme of the official admission that Col. George Harvey would ! retire from the ambassadorship to the court of St. Janies it was understood that President Coolidge wished to offer the mission to Mr. Ixtwden. , There was a pretty general opinion that if the offer were made Mr. Lowden would decline. In some quarters the vew was expressed that President Coolidge would hesitate to make a formal tender to Mr. Lowden on account of the belief that the latter would be one of Mr. Coolidge s rivals for the nomination for President next year. Will GIVE PLAT AT CONVENTION Decatur Women To Present Play At Missionary Convention Tuesday Night. One of the interesting features of ’lie Woman's Foreign Missionary conference to be held at the Methodist church here Tuesday and Wednesday, will be the play 'The Honorable Mrs. Ling's Conversion,” to be presented by the Decatur women. This play was given in the high school auditorium here last winter by the local women and proved a big success. Admission was charged at that tint', but the play will be given tree as a part of the convention program Tuesday evening. The Tuesday evening program will be given in tli ■ Ing school auditorium, in order that the play may be betted staged. There will be other interest'"'" numbers on Tuesday evening's program, including special music and address by Miss Minnie Clift. The program will begin at 7 o'clock. Tiie convention is the annual district convention of the Fort Wayne district, North Indiana Conference, of tiie Methodist Episcopal church. I' gates and visitors will be present from a large number of cities in this part of the state. The opening session will be held on Tuesday afternoon and the convention will come to a close on Wednesday afternoon. The play to be given by the local women, deals with the work of American missionaries iji Japan. The cast of characters is as follows: Golden Lily- Helen Kocher. The Honorable Mrs. Ling—Mrs. J. 11. Blair. The Honorable Mr. Ling—Mrs. Leigh Bowen. Miss Woody, missionary—Mrs. L. A. Thomas. Dr. Woodby, medical missionary— Mrs. Ollie Chronister. A soothsayer—Juanita Thomas. A coolie Mrs. Ben DeVor. Heavenly Wisdom —Mis. Paul Edwards. "'nnhn’ied on nare live! Weather Fair tonight and Tuesday; rising temperature Tuesday; heavy frost tonight.

M'CRAY INSISTS LOAN WAS MADE BY STATE BOARD Governor Says State Board of Agriculture Loaned Him the $155,000. DENIED BY TREASURER Thought He Would Have No Trouble In Repaying Its Loans Amply Secured. Indianapolis. Oct. 22. —Goernor McCray today still insisted that he borrowed $155,000 from the state board lot agriculture in the face of denial of 11. Newt Brown, secretary-treasurer iof the board, that McCray had been I made no such loan. It is Brown's contention that, until j 'recently, the money was listed as a deposit in the Discount and Deposit bank of Kentland. The first statement concerning such | a loan from the board of agriculture was contained in the governor's aniswer to a bankruptcy petition filed in I I-ort Wayne, Ind.. Saturday, j The governor said the $155,000 re 1 presented a number of small loans made by the board. "1 did not know I would have any trouble repaying the I loans. or I would not have borrowed the money,” the governor said. He affirmed that the loans were amply secured. When asked what parties connected witli the board made him the loan, the 'governor said: “The executive committee of the I board of agriculture attends to such l things.'' It was understood that Attorney General Lesh in a private opinion given the governor some time ago, said the board had the right to make loans to individuals or officials Because it i.not a state department by bqt a quasipublic institution. District Net Champs Win After holding the Union Center high school basketball team to a 9 to 2 count in the first. half of the game last Friday evening at Liberty Center, the district champs of last year, almost lost the game in the second half when the Union Center lads came back and staged a rally that had the Liberty center team entirely on the defensive. The final score was 17 i to 15 in favor of Liberty Center. WARNING SIGNS NEAR SCHOOLS Hoosier State Auto Association Furnishes Signs For This City. Road signs, warning auto drivers that a school house is just ahead and that they should drive SLOW, have been received by Janies Elberson. from the Hoosier State Auto Association and are being erected in the city by Clarence Bell and his committee of Rotarians who agreed to look after the placing of the signs Through the efforts of Mr. Elberson and other Rotarians, the signs were obtained from the State auto association. Fifteen of the large oval metal signs have been received. In large whit letters are printed the words "School Slow." Beneath the words appear, "Courtesy Hoosier State Auto Association. City Property.” The signs are about 16 by 20 inches in size and are fastened to a metal post which is placed in the ground and securely fastened. The background of the signs are painted red and the letters are in white and the warning can be read many feet away. The signs will be erected near all the school houses in this city, including the South Ward, the Riley or West ward, the Central, the High school, the St. Joseph Catholic school and the North ward. ' When you see one of the signs, take your foot off the gas.

Bluffton Girl Thrown From Pony; May Die of Injuries Bluffton. Ind., Oct. 22—Martha Jam' Guldin. 7. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Guldin. of this city, was probably fatally injured late Suunday afternoon when she was thrown from a pony and alighted on her head. She was taken to the county hospital, here doctors hold little hope for her recovery, as a vertebra in her neck 1 had been fractured. The child was riding the pony, which belongs to Joseph Eichhorn. 10. of Bluffton, son of Judge W. H. Eichhorn, and not having had riding experience, she was thrown off when the animal made a sudden start. She fell on a cement pavement. The eh’Jd’s father is principal of a local school. FORTY HOURS' ' DEVOTION ENDS I ] Beautiful and Solemn Service Held At St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Beautiful and solemn services and an inspiring sermon by the Franciscan missionary, Rev. Father Florian Larbes, of Cincinnati, marked the close of the Forty-Hour Devotion services at the St. Mary's Catholic church last evening. The services began at 7:30 with Father Keating, of St. Patrick’s church. Ft. Wayne, reciting the Litany of the Sacred Heart. Rev. Father Larbes, the Franciscan missionary, who conducted the three days’ service, then delivered his closing sermon, his subject being “The Love of God.” "The love of God means doing His w-ill and thus fulfilling His commandments," said the missionary. Following the eloquent and inspiring sermon by the missionary, the chanting of the Litany of All Saints took place. Rev. John Bennett of St. Patrick's church, Ft. Wayne, reciting the Litany and the response being made by the priests in the sanctuary. The procession with the Blessed Sacrament through the aisles of the ehurch then took place. 46 little boys and 54 little girls, all dressed in white and carry flowers, preceding the procession, followed by the altar boys, the boys’ choir of about twentyfive voices and the servers, all dressed in beautiful cassocks of white, black and white, and red and white, followed by Father Seimetz and Father Peters and Father Charles Thiele of St. Peter's church. Ft. Wayne, carrying the Blessed Sacrament. Benediction of the most Blessed Sacrament then took place following by the congregation signing the hymn. “Holy God We Praise Thy Name.” Rev. Otto Peters, assistant pastor, acted as master of cerembnies, Rev. Father Keating acted as deacon and Rev. Father Wurpert of St. Peter’s ehurch, Ft. Wayne, subdeacon. Tiie services were attended by practically all the members of the church. During the three days 2 200 Holy Communions were distributed and the services were largely attended during the three days, the devotions opening on Friday morning with a high mass. Three masses were celebrated each morning and services were held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. Sisler Manager of Browns — I''nlt' , 'l Press '- , talT < - i>r'-"'spoii'b'nt) St. Louis, Oct. 22—(Special to Daily Democrat)— George Sisler today began serving a one year contract as manager of the St. Iz>uis Browns, the team on which he starred as leading hatter ot the American league in 1922. Sister's eye trouble, which knocked him out of the game th's season, will decide his salary. As a playing manager, his pay will be much higher than as bench manager. He received about $22,000 in 1922. It is understood the Brown slugger will make a trip to warmer states, probably California, this winter, in search of baseball material and of specialists who will fix his vision to enable him to pluy. |

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GOVERNMENT IS BEING STARTED BY SEPARATISTS Citizens of Rhineland Arise In Anns and Strike Blow At Their Fatherland. SEIZE MANY CITIES Comparative Calm Marks Progress of Revolt; Negotions Are Opened. BULLETIN. Amsterdam. Oct. 22.—Allied occupation authorities opened negotiations with the Rhineland separatists today regarding their proclamation of a republic, dispatches from Aix-La-Cha-pelle said. BULLETIN. Brussels, Oct. 22.—Aix-La-Lapclle dispatches today said it was expected Herr Talbot would accent an offer of the regency of the Rhineland. The sparatist movement has extended to Erkelia, it was reported. BULLETIN. Brussels. Oct. 22. (United Press.)—The Rheinish separatists have occupied Grosseran, Russe>sheim and Starlenburg. according to a message received at noon from Aix-La-Chapelle. BULLETIN. Dusseldorf, Oct. 22. (United Press.)—Separatists have proclaimed the Rhenish republic in Trier (Trves) Balens, Munchen and Gladbak, disarming local police, according to advices here today. I No resistance was met anywhere. Dusseldorf, Oct. 22.—The Rhineland separatist leader. Herr Matthies reported from Duren to have formed a provisional government shortly to be installed here, has gone to Aix-La-ChapeTle to co-operate with the separatists Becker and Metzen. By CARL D. GROAT. (United Press Staff Correspondent. I Berlin, Oct. 22.—A blow against which the German republic has been steeling itself, fell Sunday. Citizens of the Rhineland arose, put on green, red and white arm bands, armed themselves and declared a seperate republic. Aix-La-Chapelle. Mayence, Duren ami other important cities of the buffer country between France and Germany were seized by the separatists. The French and Belgians occupying the strip of territory in which the uprising occurred, did not interfere. The one hope of the Stresemann government, ill-equipped to meet the revolt ami harassed by trouble in Bavaria ami economic difficulties, was that the separatist revolt was prematu re. It was understood at first that Herr Smeet am! Dr. Dorten who all along have been the recognized leaders of the Rhineland republic movement, had not authorized yesterday's proclamations. At Aix-La-Chapelle. most important of the Rhineland cities seized.' the proclamations which were posted about the city, were signed by Leo Detkers ami Dr. Matthies. more or less independent separatist agitators. Dr. Matthies Is Leader. Dr. Matthies, who has been approved as provisional president of the first Rhineland republic, is reported by French sources to have formed a provisionary government at Duren. This would seem to indicate that the recognized leaders of the separatist movement were with those who started yesterday’s coup. So far. comparative calm apparently has marked the progress of the sapartist revolt. French sources reported an unimportant clash ot' troops and separatists at Mayence at dawn today, after which the revolters were reported to have withdrawn temporar- , ily to the outskirts. The seizure of Air La Chappells by | (Continued on Page six)