Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 257, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1923 — Page 1

Volume XXI. Number 257.

MOTHER GRAND JURY IS PROBING M'CRAY AFFAIR Hamilton County Grand jury Begins Investigation At Noblesville Today. “LOAN” STILL MYSTERY Slate Board of Agriculture Meeting To Clear Up the Situation. Noblesville, Ind., Oct. 30. (United Press.) —The second grand jury investigation of Governor Warren T. McCray’s affairs was opened today by the Hamilton county grand jury. Judge F. E. Hines, of the Hamilton circuit court, ordered the investigation upon request of the Farmers National bank of Sheridan, which holds $4,000 of McCray paper. Officers of the bank are expected to appear before the grand jury as the probe got under way this morning. In ordering the probe Judge Hines instructed the jury to “investigate reports which have been circulated for some time regarding the exortion of private or public money front local hankers." The grand jury has a number es other cases to investigate and may not hear all the witnesses in the MrCray probe until the latter part <f the week. The investigation is being directed by Ralph H. Waltz prosecuting attorney. In addition to the note for $4,000 held by the Sheridan bank the American National Bank of Nobles rille holds a SI,OOO McCray note. Officials of the banks refused to comment on the grand jury investigation. ’ r Indianapolis, Oct. 30. —Details of the "loan" of $155 000 of the funds of the state board of agriculture to Gov ernor Warren T. McCray remained in mystery today in spite of the board's meeting yesterday to "dear tip the situation." The board, with fifteen of the eighteen members present, went Into ex ecutive session and heard I. New* Brown, secretary-treasurer of the hoard, tell what he knew about Hi” $155,000 which he claims was maintained for deposit in the governor s bank at Kentland and which McCray maintained was an out-and-out loan to him. After hearing Brown's story, they passed a vote confidence in Brown's integrity and voiced the belief that the records of the board would show every dollar properly accounted for. The board by its vote of confidence apparently chose to accept the interpretation of the transaction given by Brown rather than that given by rhe governor. Book Open For Inspection The board further announced that its books were open to the inspection and approval of the state board of accounts. Investigation of the board’s books was ordered five days ago by Lawrence Orr. chief examim r tor the state board of accounts. But the expected statement which was to tell the world in detail just what happened in the transactions involving the $155,000 failed to materialize. With the state board of agriculture apparently through with its little investigation, interest of the McCray creditors centered on the grand juty probe of the governor’s affairs. The sessions will not be resumed until Thursday on account of the illness of Charles W. Moores, special prosecutor. Further delay in hearing of the civil suits against the governor, scheduled for Wednesday before Judge Williams in the Newton circuit court at Kent land, has been occasioned by application tor a change of venue to the Jasper circuit court. Ask Foreclosure of Mortgage Franklin, Ind., Oct. 30—Foreclosure of a mortgage on 740 acres of farm land owned by Governor McCray in Johnson and Morgan counties was asked in a suit tiled in the Johnson county circuit court today by the In ter-Southern Life Insurance company, °f Indianapolis. (Continued on page two)

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Parrish Appointed Deputy Prosecutor of Allen Co. 11. Parrish, former Decatur attorney and well known here has been appointed as deputy prosecuting attorI ney of Allen county by Samuel Jacki son. who takes the office of Prosecuting Attorney the first of January. Mr. Parrish was a former prosecutor in . Adams county. He Is g graduate of I the Decatur high school and those who know o( his ability feel confident that he will make good in his new position in Allen county. Mr. Parrish was ulso ■ a former representative in the state legislature from this county. LEADERS PLAY . AT BERNE SAT. I Local Independent Basketball Team Opens Season Saturday Night. The Decatur Leaders, Decatur's new Independent basketball team, will make it debut next Saturday nighl in a game with the Berne Independents in the Berne community gym nasium. Although the local team has not been tested in a game with outside opponents yet, it appears to be strong. The players hflve been practicing twice each week for some time and are in good condition for their first game. New suits have been ordered and should be here this evening or to morrow. The new uniforms will be navy blue, trimmed in gold with the letters “D. L.” inscribed on the front of the jerseys. The sweat shirts will be gold trimmed in navy blue. The Leaders should make a fine appearance when they trot out onto th< floor at Berne Saturday night. The lineup likely to start the game I against Berne is as follows: "Tabby" Andrews and Pete Byerly, forwards; "Peck" Andrews, center: Bill Crist and Bill Bryant, guards. Substitutes will be Ralph Yager, "Shorty" Arnold and Ehr man. Andrews and bill Crist were members of the Monroe high school five last year. The Ya ger boys, Byerly and Bryan have had considerably experience in high school and indejwndent basketball. All members of the squad are rated high in basketball. A game has been scheduled with the fast Bluffton Phi Delts, to In played in this city on the night of November 20. The Phi Delts have a reputation throughout the state for fast basketball and reports from Bluffton this year are that the team now practicing is going to be as strong as ever. The Leaders will play at Rockford, Ohio, on Thursday night of next week. A return game will be played here by Berne. Games are being scheduled with several olltei fast teams and followers of indepen dent basketball are promised plenty of entertainment during the winter The leaders will play their home games in the old high school gymnasium at the corner of First and Jackson streets. Fred Kolter is manager of the Leaders. •— Good Crowd At Bobo Box Social Friday Evening Approximately 150 people ate supper at the box social held in the Bobo school bouse last Friday night. There was a large crowd at the social and everybody reports having an excellent time. The prize for the winner in the most popular girl contest went to Miss Irene Kelly, of Decatur, route G. The proceeds from the social went to the Bobo school, of which Jerome Morrison is principal. •— Farmers To Meet In Indianapolis, Dec. 6-7 (United Press Service) Indianapolis. Oct. 30—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The fifth annual convention of the Indiana Farm Bureau federation will be held in Indianapolis December 6 and 7, it was announced today. Among the speakers will be William Petest, director of the American Farm Bureau federation, and President F. C. Elliott, of Purdue university. Snow In Chicago Today — Chicago, Oct. 30—The first snow of the winter tell in Chicago early today. Higher temperaM fes before noon, however, melted most of the white blanket.

lIILL COUNTRIES HAVE ACCEPTED HUGHES' PLAN I _ , Statement Issued From the White House Today Car- | ries An Optimistic Tone. I, FRENCH CHOOSE PLAN I ’ Decide To Designate Expert Committee To Report On Methods of Payment. By A. L. BRADFORD. I (United Press Staff Correspondent.) I Washington. Oct. 30,- —The plan of ‘ Secretary of State Hughes for an economic conference of experts to study Germany's capacity to pay, has been accepted by all the powers concerned, it was declared on behalf of the president at the White House today. | The president, it was said, does not consider that the conditions of France's participation in the conference. attached by Premier Poincare, in his replies to Lord Curzon, foreign secretary of Great Britain, and to Secretary Hughes, constitute a rejection of the plans. Mr. Coolidge believes that the plan for the expert I conference offers a “hopeful avenue ' before the world" for a final settlement of the reparations question. French Make Decision. Paris. Oct. 30. —The reparations commission, in a meeting here today. I decided it would designate an expert 1 to report on methods of paying the German reparations it' the various governments agree on the principals of the inquiry. They decided it would not designate an American member but would leave that to Washington. | The commission disagreed regarding the inclusion of German and neutral experts. — e_. New Superintendent At East Haven Hospital Richmond, Ind.. Oct. 30. —Dr. Lt F. Ross, of Richmond will be the new superintendent of the Eastern Indiana jhospital for the Insane, it was annonuced today, following a meeting of the board of directors. He succeeds Dr. S. E. Smith, who becomes provost of Indiana universi- - ty. Dr. and Mrs. Niblick and children of Gary are visiting in the city with Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Niblick. ..—o PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS RUSH Extra Carrier To Be Added At Postoffice; Notice Regarding Small Cards. It is less than two months ttn'il , Christmas and the Postoffice department is already getting ready for tli-* • annual rush. Harry Fritzinger, post v master at the Decatur office, stated this morning that the services of an extra carrier had been requisitioned for and that he would be placed o: duty as soon as the department mad” the allowance. W. Irving Glover, third assistant postmaster general, has sent out a notice relative to the sending ol Christmas cards, the department requesting that no card smaller than two and three quarters by four iuehis be mailed during the holiday seasr.t. The small cards and envelopes cults ’ much inconvenience to the postal men ' the department says. The notice - received by Postmaster Frftzlngir reads: “Postmasters are reminded of the campaign inaugurated during the past ■ holiday seasons to discourage the use of small or odd sized greeting cards, and envelopes ami they are requested again to make every proper effort ' to secure the co-operation of manufacturers, dealers and the public gen- j I erally in the elimination of small-sized curds and envelopes to the end that jthe Postal Service may be relieved ol the burden of handling them. In no case should cards and envelopes be smaller than two and three quarters by four inches, and that a- - size somewhat larger is preferable. I

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 30, 1924.

! Second Number of Pleasant Mills Lyceunv Course Fri. The Priscilla Entertainers, two charming young ladies in an unusual program of modern and Pilgrim days, will give an entertainment ut the Pleasant Mills high school on Friday night, November 2. as the second number of the school lycemn course. Miss Margaret Davis is a talented reader, soprano and pianist, and Mts-t Katherine Marlowe plays the harp very beautifully and sings equally as well. The two together present a delightful program of both music and entertainment. o HAVE MODERN CAMPING OUTFIT Party To Leave Here Thursday for Motor Trip Over Rockies To California. A motor trip across the roekies in a sedan with a modern compne’ (camping outfit to make the trip more enjoyable, is the plan of M. M. Fris bie, until recently a merchant In Blnf fton and well known here; his aunt, Mrs. Anna Patton, of Topeka. Indi ana; and Miss Alma Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Brown, of this city. The party will leave Deculi.r sometime Thursday and will not return until spring. The party will go directly to Kan sas City where they will strike lite National Old Roads trail, which they will follow westward. They expect to pass through Arizona and New Mexico, just missing the state of Ok lahoma. On reaching the Pacific coast they will visit in Los Angeles and other coast cities. Mr. Fris bie expects to go to the Hawaiian Islands to visit a very good friend, also. The camping outfit which Mr. Fri.-.-bie has obtained take with them is the latest thing in auto camping outfits. There is a small tent so arranged that three cots can be set up in it. It closes up very tight iml - keeps out the cold and insects. A partition divides the tent into two ■ separate sleeping Tooms. A twoburner gasoline stove fold-3 up in suitease style, and is smaller than th” average suit case when folded. The outfit also includes a fireless oooker; complete aluminum eating utensils outfit: a folding table with a top which rolls up into a small roll; a gasoline lantern; three cots; and a roof protection for the automobile in case of rain. The entire outfit folds up into a very small compai t bundle, which will be carried on" too of the sedan. Mr. Frisbie had his camping outfit set up in the yard at the Brown home on North First street today and many local citizens inspected it. It is neat appearing outfit and is highly practical. The tent is supported by a metal pole in the center and four metal cross-arms. Mr. Frisbie recently sold his inter est in the Peoples’ dry goods sio>v in Bluffton to his partner. He <l- - to make this trip, which had long been his ambition, before be again located in business. Mrs. Charles Hower returned to her home at Huntington after spending the week end with Mrs. Lydia Elzey and Mrs. Kate Bttrdge. DR. BIBLE WILL SPEAK TDNIDHT Prominent Member of Presbyterian Church At Local Church This Evening. Dr. S. W. Bible, one of the secretaries of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian church, will giv” a lecture at the Presbyterian church |tonight, as the third number of th” (School Missions, being held at Hint church. Dr. Bible is a prominent titan In the Presbyterian church and lis known as a dynamic speaker. H • j is a returned missionary and his message tonight will be on some for ign country. The regular mission study classes will begin at 7 o'clock and Dr. Bible's lecture will begin at 7; 45. The public is invited to attend and take part tin the mission study and hear Dr I Bible’s lecture.

GRAVE CHARGES MADE AGAINST KLAN IN GEORGIA Prevented Indictments In Mer Rouge Murder Investigation Is Now Charge. RECEIVERSHIP SUIT Witness Says Great Turmoil Exists Within Ranks of Ku Klux Klan. (Un’ted Atlanta. Ga„ Oct. 30 —(Special to Daily Democrat)-—The Ku Klux Klan, maintained a force of investigators 1 - to "prevent indictments" at Bastrop. La., after the Mer Rouge murder, according to depositions introduced today in the receivership suit of David Rittenhouse against Dr. W. H. Evans and other imperial officials of the organization. The affidavit, sworn to by F. M. Littlejohn, alleged that he and other investigators worked under F. L. Savage, chief of the imperial staff of ( the klan, and received good salaries, and expenses at Bastrop. The investigators were paid through Judge Barnett, of Shreveport. Littlejohn charged. When the Bastrop grand jury refused to return true bills fixing responsibility for the brutal murders of Watt Daniels and Thomas F. Rich-1 aids, the investigators were told an insurgent faction of the Kian had started a private probe. Littlejohn | charged he was instructed “to get" these investigators and "beat them up.” 1 Great “unrest and turmoil” exists ' within the ranks of the K. K. K. under | the administration of Evans, according to the affidavitss. After Evans took office, the davit claimed, many chapters drew from the organization, including three in Chicago. four in Kansas 1 City and 71 in North Carolina. About Half of Fall Taxes Have Been Paid About half of the fall taxes have been paid to-date, Hugh Hite, county treasurer, stated this morning. Last Saturday and Monday were busy nay ■ and it is estimated that nearly $200,00 of the $450,000.00 have been paid so far. Monday. November sth. is the last day to pay the fall install ment of taxes without the ten per , cent penalty being added. o SNOW FALLS IN NORTHWEST Temperature Drops Rapid ly; Heavy Snowfall In Nebraska and lowa. (U. P. Staff Corespondent) ' Chicago, Oct. 30—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Snow fell over the northwest during the night and today. ' sharp drop in temperature accomp : led the snow. Nebraska was blanketed with the heaviest snowfall in the history of the state for an October day. At O'-, Neill, in northern Nebraska, nine inches were recorded. In Lincoln the fall was two inches. The temperature dropped 20 degrees. lowa experienced a heavy fail of snow. In the northern part of the state it reached almost storm proportions. , Madison and other parts of Wis-j, consin were covered with snow today to a depth of two inches. Minnesota also was swept by snow, the temperature dropping to 18 above zero. This is the lowest temperature of the I I year. ' A light snow fell over Chicago and other parts of Illinois. Cold at St. Louis i St. Louis, Oct. 30 —(Special to Daily Democrat)-Winter came to St. | 1 | Louis today with a cold north wind j ' at heel. Thermometers dropped to • j 35 degrees at 9 a. m. and continued t downward. Weather prophets said it would go down to 28 degrees early t Wednesday, possibly with snow this i afternoon. t The regular meeting of the city council will be held next Tuesday. evening at the city hall.

Japanese Relief Fund Now $1,268.33 In Adams County Additional contributions to the Japanese Relief Fund, being raised by the American Red Cross, makes the total donation of Adams county people, $1,268.33, which Is far in excess I of the quota for thin county. The- latest contributions reported by Miss Anna Whines, secretary of the coiin- * ty Red Cross, are: Mrs. M. Moyer. $1; Friends of Japan. $5; and St. Johns Lutheran church, $21.76. A total of $1,240.57 had been reported previousTREE WIZARD HAS RETURNED I I Wm. .Jones Separates Farmer From Cash At Rate of $24.00 Per Hour. Wm. Jones, expert salesmap. tree wizard, jumper of board bills, late of Elwood but now from Huntington, has reappeared. It will be remembered Mr. Jones visited in the county a few weeks ago. sprayed two or chards, collected for the spraying of 1 one, jumped his board bill and departed. Another orchard in the county, as well as the owner’s pocketbook. bears witness to the fact that Mr. Jones still exercises his horticultural ability to graft. Calling at the home of a Monroe township resident last Saturday morning, Mr. Jones made haste to ' persuade the farmer his trees needed a thin coat of his mysterious bugleradicator on the trunks which would enter the circulation of the tree, kill all insects, tree borers, codling moth, I scale and the like. Being of a generous nature. Mr. Jones further agreed to return later and prune the trees, pile the brash, apply fruit sprays next summer and pick the fruit next fall for a third, providing, he should recieve 15 cents per tree immediately after the application of the spray that morning. The farmer, being overloaded with work and failing to give the matter sufficient consideration, finally consented to have Mr. Jones spray the orchard. Upon being permitted to spray the’ orchard, the wizard and his three helpers, who carry the entire 1 outfit in a short-coupled motor vehicle, finished spraying 161 trees in a little over an hour and asked for his check, immediately after Mr. Jones' departure the farmer had collected his thoughts and hastened to his bank to prevent cashing of the check. However, Mr. Jones had collected his hard-earned cash and had departed for a more favorable clime. The victim's chief consolation is in the fact that he is not the only one who has been thus buncoed. It is a well-known fact that poultry remedies of a like effectiveness are much more popular. Mrs. John Kipfer Died At Home Near Vera Cruz Mrs. John Kipfer. 65 years old, died at 7:3(1 o’clock Sunday morning at Iter home one mile east of Vera Cruz :n (French township. Death was due t 0) blood poison. She had been criti ■ally ill for several days. Mrs. Kipfer was born in Wells -oun 'ty on January 8. 1858. a daughter ol Peter Steffen and Barbara Stralim 1 Steffen, both natives of Switzerland Her husband died in October 1915. Three sons and three daughters sitr vive. They are Joel Kipfer, Adams | county; Mrs. Joel Meyers, Kansas; Mrs. Amos Pulnier. Adams county; Mrs. Edwin Moser, Craigville, Sarah Martha, Emma, John and Solomon | Kipfer all living at home. j. Four brothers and one sister who survive are Peter Steffen.' Tobias -le!fen. Enoch Steffen and Elizabeth S'ct fen, nil of Adams county and Nathaniel Steffen of Illinois. Funeral services were held nt 12 'o'clock today at the Christian Aposi.tlic church. Lon Klopfenstein Seeks Divorce At Fort Wayne lam Klonfenstein. 1221 Home tv.'< nne, Fort Wayne, filed suit for a divorce from Lucille T. Klopfenstein, alleging that his wife confessed him that she had dates with other .men and that she loved another man. I The couple married on September 5. ( The plaintiff is a son of Jeff Klop- . fenstein formerly of Preble, and is I will known here.

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FORMER PRIME MINISTER BON AR LAW DIED TODAY — Pneumonia Proves Fatal To English Statesman; 111 Many Months. WAS VERY POPULAR Served As Prime Minister From April, 1922, To May, 1923: Quits. (United Press Service) London, Oct. 30—(Special to Daily Democrat) —“The country will not forget he sacrificed his life in her service," Prime Minister Baldwin said today when told of the death of Andrew Bonar Law. “For him I am thankful he was spared further suffering. For his friends the loss is irreparable.” BULLETIN London, Oct. 30. —The Right Honorable Andrew Bonar Law, prime min Ister of Great Britian from October, 1922. to May, 1923, died at his residence in London early today. Death came while Law was asleep. The immediate cause was believed to be a cancerous growth in his throat which an operation immediately after his resignation as prime minister failed to eradicate. Funeral arrangements will be as quiet as possible in accordance with his wishes, it was announced. His family received condolences from all over the British empire today and from prominent persons in many foreign countries. Expressions of profound regret came early from the King of England and from the Prince of Wales. He has been ill for many mon'lts The MBrs.C of was given as septic pneumonia. Death followed a long but fruitlots fight in England and on the confine it in an effort to regain health shatter ed by his duties as chief of the Brit isli state during one of the most try ing periods in its history. The passing of Bonar Law, although not unexpected, caused profound ,riei as have few leading statesmen in recent Gave Life For Country Bonar loiw really sacrificed 1 's life for his country. He knew he was signing his own death warrant when he took over the strenuous <lu ties of the premiership after the t'” signation of David Lloyd George last year. The situation at that time, however, was such that Bonar Law felt his own .lite of little importance and it” came out of temporary retirement to take up public life again. He had l>een in poor health since he was forced to retire from his cabinet post as chancellor of the exchequer limb ■■■ David Lloyd George due to (lie hi->.i!<-down he had suffered from overwork during the world war. The first intimation that deai-t might he near was contained tn a physician's bulletin Friday which .-•aid the former prime minister had sufficed a relapse and that his condition was serious. On Saturday newspapers said that pneumonia bad developed ami that doctors feared Bonar Law could net live two weeks.: Bonar Law was born in New Brunswick September 16. 1858. Rarely has a man in the polil•<. I life of any country commanded so completely the respect of all parties. He was affectionately known in tier house of commons as "Bonar" and however bitterly his strongly const rvative ideas may have been opposed, personalities never entered into '.lt' dispute. When, after doggedly sticking to I his desk through the latter part of the war and first years of peace, re was forced by growing ill h »alth t.' resign in 1921. as chancellor of the exchequer, bis going was felt keenly David Lloyd George, then prime min (Continued on page four) I Weather Generally fair tonight and Wednest day; colder tonight; much colder in southern portion with cold wave.