Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1923 — Page 1

Volume XXI. Number 274.

FOUR IMPORTANT WITNESSES ARE HEARD BY JURY, Men Weil Informed In Governor McCray’s Affairs ( Are Heard. A LIFELONG FRIEND State Bank Examiner and Bank Officer Tell What , They Know. Indianapolis. Nov. 19.—The Marion county grand jury today heard four witnesses who were in position to tell something very definite of governor McCray’s transactions in which the Discount and Deposit bank at Kentland figured. Immediately after the grand jury went into session William Darrock, life-long friend of McCray, and receiver for the Kentland bank, went into the grand jury room. He had previously said that not one cent of the $155,000 of the funds of the state board of agriculture which according to I. Newt Brown, secretary and tress-* urer of the state board, declared was intended for deposit had ever reached the bank. A short time later. Amos Morris, cashier of the bank: Thomas D. Barr, state bank examiner, who went ovr, the books of the bank after a receiver was appointed and Riley C. Adams.: Indianapolis banker, and secretary of j the committee in charge of McCray’s assets, entered the room. Members of the state board of agriculture, he’d a second meeting to consider the ‘ loan" of $155,000 to the governor. Indianapolis. Nov. 19. —Important evidence of a documentary nature was I submitted to the Marion county grand jury today in its investigation of Govi rnor MeCmy’s finances. .. Beyond admitting that he had new documentary evidence, however, Clarence W. Nichols, special prosecutor, refused to discuss the case. His statement coming after the visit of a special investigator for the criminal court to Kentland and the announcement from Kentland that William Darroch, receiver for the Discount and Deposit bank, led to the belief that the governor’s connections, with the bank were to he given a thorough investigation. Belief was generally held that the. grand jury investigation was nearing an end, and that a report would be forthcoming before long unless further delay is caused by witnesses be-, ing called before the bankruptcy hearing first. Governor McCray will go on the stand again when the bankruptcy hearing is resummed tomorrow morning. Hiram Johnson Said To Be For Soldier Bonus (By Lawrence Martin) (U. I’. Staff Correspondent) (Copyright 1923 by United Press) Washington. Nov. 19. —Hiram Johnson is for the soldier bonus. Johnson, who announced his candidacy for the republican nomination for president in Chicago last week, discussed his campaign plans and his platform in a sketchy way, in his office here today. Inasmuch as the program for tax reduction proposed by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is drawn on the theory that there will be no soldier bonus. Johnson’s announcement that he is for the bonus would appear to line | him up in opposition to the tax reduction plan. Ball Brothers’ Plant At Muncie, Damaged Sunday Muncie, Ind.. Nov. 19.—hire threatened destruction of the Pall Brothers glass plant Sunday night when the walls of a large furnace gave away, letting two hundred tons of molten glass escape. The factory basement was flooded and several workmen narrowly escaped death. The loss will reach $50,000. Hunter Kills Self Sullivan, Ind." Nov. 19.—Sullivan county’s first hunting fatality of the season was reported here today with the death last night at Shelburn of Floyd Risinger. He accidently shot I himself while lifting his shotgun out of an auto. I

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, Neighbors Save Farm Home From Burning Today I Monroe, Nov. 19—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Timely discovery of a' blaze at the home of Noah Johnson,l one and one-half miles northwest of ■ here, and quick work by neighbors, I prevented destruction of the bouse at 1 an early hour this morning. As soon as the firs was discovered a call for help was sent to neighbors and a I bucket brigade was quickly formed. The lire was extinguished after it j had burned a small hole in the roof, t The fire is believed to have started ! from a defective flue. D. H, S. DEFEATED IN TITLE GAME Peru Team Won Conference Championship by Defeating Locals 40-0. Final Conference Standing. Team W. L. Pct. Peru I o 1.000 Decatur 2 1 .066 South Side 2 1 .6G6 Huntington ........ 1 3 .250 Logansport 0 4 .000 Peru high school's football team, playing its best game of the season, won the championship of the Wabash , Valley football conference at Peru ! Saturday afternoon, by defeating the I Decatur high school eleven, which was decidedly off-form, by a score of 40-0. All former games plaved bv the two teams showed them to be evenly matched, but Peru was “keyed up" perfectly for this game, while the ' locals showed a great reversal of 1 form. This was Decatur’s first defeat by a conference opponent. Ixmg forward passes, executed in almost perfect style by the Peru players, spelled defeat for Decatur. The Yellow Jacket liackfteW was unable, to break ”P the aerial offense of the champions. The Peru line was strong also, and Bud White, Yellow Jacket fullback, was the only one who could gain consistently through it. The Yellow Jackets completed several passes also, but they were short ones and failed to gain much ground. Both teams were forced to take time out often o n account of injuries, and Peru i was penalized twice for taking time out too often. A large crowd of rooters witnessed the game, many of them being from this city. The Pent high i school band paraded the field before the game and between halves. As a result of this defeat and South Side’s victory over Logansport. Decatur ' stands in a tie with South Side for second position in the conference. Neither team was able to score in the first quarter and the play was in the center of the field most of the time. Peru scored two touchdowns in the second quarter. At the opening of the second half, the Yellow' Jackets 'appeared to have taken a new lease on life and started a march down the field after the kick off. Jack Teeple returned the kickoff forty yards placing the ball on Peru's 41-yard line. Bud White tpre through the line for 11 yards and then made 5 yards more. A pass from Teeple to Frisinger netted another first down. Here the Yellow Jacket rally was stopped when a Peru player intercepted a forward pass. This appeared to dishearten the Yellow Jackets and Peru begun another scoring seance. First Quarter. Decatur kicked off. having the wind to their backs. Pern’s ball on own 30-yard line. Erlenbaugh made 2 I yards. Decatur off sides. Penalized 5 yards. Peru made first down. Balters fumbled and Church recovered. Failing to gain. Peru punted. Decatur’s ball on 40-yard line. Bud White made 7 yadrs. Farr 2 1-2. and White | 7 more, for first down. Bretner lost 1 yard and Farr lost 6 yards on end run. White failed to gain and then dropped back to punt. His kick was blocked and Peru recovered the ball on Decatur’s 40-yard line. Erlenbaugh made 5 yards. Breiner hurt. Time out. Frisinger threw Balters for a 7-yard loss. Peru punted. Decatur’s ball on own 12-yard line. Farr made 3 yards and Breiner failed to gain, j Farr made 4 yards ami White punted. 1 Peru’s ball on 30-yard line. Peru punted out of bounds on Decatur’s 39-yard line. Teeple substituted for Breiner. White made 3 yards and Teeple made 5 more. Church was hurt 1 and left the game. Crawfor<1 _ BUh .. | (Continued on page five) I

WJLTG'N WILL KNOW HIS FITE IN FEW HOURS Oklahoma Senate Expected To Vote On Impeachment Late Today. APPEAL IS EXPECTED Opponents of Governor Think Supreme Court Will Not Interfere. BULLETIN. Oklahoma City, Okla., Nov. 19.—Governor Walton was ousted from office today by a vote of the Senate. The impeachment trial which started on November 8, came to an end when the Senate found Walton guilty of the twenty-two charges presented by the House. By Frank Getty United Press Staff Correspondent. Oklahoma City, Nov. 19.—Before nightfall “.Jack” Walton may be ousted as governor of Oklahoma. The picturesque career that reached its height when Walton called out the armed forces of the state to war on the K. K. K. was due to end by vote of the senate late today or early Tuesday. Oklahoma will proceed "to clean out" other state departments, while Walton's next appearance in public probably will be on the l.uture platform. Appeal against the ouster probably reach the supreme < ourt of the United States in De<ember. Opponents of the governor express confidence that body will decline to interfere. ' With thw-rtefendffnt absent anil the result of the senate vote a foregone conclusion, the finish of the trial today was anti-climax. The appearance of E. W. Marland. Oklahoma oil magnate, on the stand at 2 p. m. v. is awaited with some interest, for the Ponca City millionaire contributed to Walton’s campaign fund and now holds notes for $30,909 given by the governor in the purchase of his home. But most of those who crowded the galleries to be in at the finish looked for sensation rather from some further unexpected dramatic gesture on the part of the governor than from 1 the now hurried impeachment proceedings. Mag Johnson Says Hiram Is Losing Progressivism Chicago, Nove. 19. —Senator Mag- . nus Johnson, of Minnesota is convinej ed that Senator Hiram Johnson. Califrnia. who just announced his candidacy for tile republican nomination for president, has lost some of his . progressivism. For that reason Magnus Johnson . fears he tuny be unable to support his namesake. The Minnesota senator made two addresses here yesterday and left for Washington today. A third party ticket appears inevitable, Johnson said. The republicans undoubtedly will nominate President Coolidge, and the democratic convention will select “another stand patter," he said. Johnson refused to talk further on a third party. California Alien Land Law Held Constitutional Washington, Nov. 19. —The supreme court today held that that portion of the California alien land law which prohibits an ineligible alien from acquiring stock in a corporation owning land was constitutional. This suit, brought by Raymond L. ’ Frick and N. Satow, an American citizen and a Japanese subject residing Jin California .was one of a series to (test the constitutionality of the California land act which was designed to prevent Orientals from owning or I (using land or from acquiring stock in a Hand owning corporation. 1924 Hog Suiipiv Menaced J Chicago, Nov. 19.—Next year’s hog ''supply is menaced by adnormal flooding of the market, a warning issued :to shippers today by John (’. Brown, j president of the National Livestock Producers’ association, asserts.

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I T. A. Jacobs Signs For Old Home Paper T. A. Jacobs, Haviland, Ohio, is n new subscriber to the Daily Democrat. He wants to know how his I)' 1 , catur friends are getting along. Tom lived here several years and wns employed bv A. R. Ashbnucher. II" i went to Haviland three years ago and has made good; owns several prop-r-. ties and at the recent election wns i selected as marshall. Henry Thomas and Charles Sullivan, traveling through that town a day or two ago, met him and had a visit with him, and that’s hnw ho happened to send in his subscription. FRANKFORT MEN DEFY BLUE LAWS Twentv-three Business Men In Court for Breaking Sunday Laws. , I j Frankfort. Ind., Nov. 19. —Twentvthree Frankfort business mon were ar ' i raigned in city court today following their r-bellion against rigid en forcomont of Sunday bhio laws. All kept their places of business open Sunday in defiance of Mayor Keene's orders tint the bine laws were to bo obeyed to the letter. The citv wa« wide op-n Sunday. Motion picture shows ran in the afternoon and evening. and proprietors of garages, drug stores, restaurants and soft drink and shoe shining establishments violated the orders. Mayor Keene’s decision to enforce the blue laws followed a sq tabhle between a church faction and a movie owner when th- latter attempted Io operate his show on Sunday. Keene put the lid down with a bang. The first Sunday business mon obeyed his orders, but yesterday they revolted. All were released on ( bond after preliminary hearing. Charlev Went Along With Little Persuasion Charley Bttrdg. of Everett. Hite & ; . Company, went to prayer meeting the I other morning. He didn’t mean ta. • hut he did. Ho dropped in to one • of the business houses and began ’ ioking the proprietor about going to 1 prayer meeting on busy days. He I 5 made it strong and the proprietor de- I I elded it was time to answer him and ’ he did by saying, “Yes sir, 1 go tn j 1 tin- morning prayer meetings. I’m go- ’ ing now and you are going too." , ! Charles told how busy he was an.l 1 how he just had to get hack to work and several other excuses but th' proprietor and a friend just us huskv, who happened to be near, one on each side, grabbed him and took him to I prayer meeting, wiggling all the wav. After it was over Charles said he . really enjoyed it and expected to go . with less persuasion frequently. Any . way. he has quit kidding his friend) . about morning prayer meetings. i " Buhler Is Denied Permission To Bar Fort Wayne. Ind.. Nov. 19. —Petition for re-admission to the bar has been . . denied Robert Buhler .former mem ■ her of the Allen county bar. He was dismissed for conduct “unbecoming a lawyer" in connection s with a divorce suit. "I have been t punished sufficiently," he said in ask- . ing to be re admitted. Clarke Trial Postponed Houston, Tex., Nov. 19. —Trial of Edward Young Clarke, former acting I imperial wizard of the. K. K. K. charged with violation of the Manti act. • was postponed until December 17 f when called in federal court here tr>i day. o Opponents ot Volstead >' Law Branded As Traitors Indianapolis, Nov. 19.— Branding us traitors to their country all men who , oppose the Volstead law, Dr. L. W. Munhall. Evangelist, said they ought ( »o be banished from the country. ‘‘Benedict Arnold's treason was no t greater than that of (he men who undermine all respect for our laws and constitution." he said. | = Weather 1 , Generally fair tonight and Tues- \ day; warmer Tuesday and ill northeast portion tonight.

GRAND JURY IS PROBING ALLEGED LAW VIOLATIONS Michael J. Wortzberger Appointed Bailiff for This Term of Court. WITNESSES EXAMINED Number of Young Men and Boys Inr’uded In List of Witnesses. The Adams county grand jury veiled this morning and begun invesi I tisations in several alleged violations of the law. The jury was ernpanalled and sworn in bv the court this morning. Michael J. Wertzberger was appointed bailiff for the grand jury during the November term. One witness was examined by the. grand jury this morning, before the noon adjournment was taken. Sever- 1 al more witnesses wore summoned to appear after noon. The nature of the cases being investigated is being kept secret as usual and little intimation is given as to what action is to be taken by the grand jury. E. Burt Lenhart, prosecuting attorney, said this morning that the jury would be in. session for several days, in all probability. It is generally believed that leged violation of the prohibition law was being probed today. Included in the list of witnesses subpoenaed were several young men and boys. Members of the grand jury are Levi R. Schindley. French township: Edward Reppert. Preble township; Julius Heideman, Washington township: Elbr'dge Butcher. Jefferson township; Charles Fetters. Jefferson township; and Charles H. Zwick. of Root township. The November term of the circuit court opened this morning. A few cases were submitted to the court | and judgments granted in three or four. The petit jury has not been 'summoned yet. and likely will not ’>■ icalled for several days, at least. Not a jury trial was held during th? lust term o," court, but it is predicted ibo' the-e will be a few cases tried bv ■ jury during the November term. Auto Hit Dog; One Killed ■ (United Press Staff Correspondent) I Rushville, Ind.. Nov. 19—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Robert Glazer, , 19. ot Cincinnati, was killed when his automobile struck a dog near here ,late yesterday and went over an embankment. Four other occupants of the car escaped injury. o Broken Guitar String Causes Fatal Argument — St. Louis, Nov. 19. —Thomds Montgomery, 19. negro, broke a string on a guitar belonging to Ja< k Williams last night. Then, according to two other negroes present, there followed a light in which Williams fatally stabbed Montgomery. Montgomery died at the liospita'. Police are searching for Williams. o Allen Co. Has More Money for Less Roads According to an article in a highway magazine received by Charles E. Magley. county superintendent of roads. Allen county has only 174.45 miles of improved in the county. The article also shows that this year the | county raised $250,000 for the gravel road repair fund. Adams eountv has nearly 790 miles of macadam roads ;and this year received about $92,000 I for their upkeep and repair. Next (year the County’s repair fund will be only SBO,OOO and Allen County’s will be about $300,000. The state board of tax commissioners reduced the levy in this county for next year. I oWomen Husking Corn I ■— I .- Kendallville. Ind.. Nov. 19. — Women and girls are working in the fields husking corn in every part of Noble county to help out during th- short ' age of farm labor. | Huskers are demanding $4 and three square meals a day for their work. Seme farmers are paying the price. Others haven't the ready money to • pay the wages and are falling back on their families for aid. ,

Elmer Bryan Hurt In An Auto Accident Elmer H. Brvant of Magley, was taken to the Methodist hospital in Fort Wayne Saturday night following an automobile accident In which he figured on the Decatur road. Mr. Bryan suffered cuts about his head I and body, but it is thought that his Injuries will nol prove serious. The I accident occured just outside Fort Wayne. Mr. Bryan's car was struck and demolished by a car driven by a Mr. Droege, of Hoagland. Bryan was taken to the hospital in the police emergency ambulance. PRETTY WEDDING IS SOLEMNIZED I _ , Mis« Amelia Ulman Became Bride of Herman Lengerich Today. A pretty wedding was solemnized I at the St. Mary's Catholic church this morning nt 8:30 o’clock, when Miss Amelia Ulman became the bride of ' Herman I ,-ngerieh. Sister Esther played the wedding march by Lohengrin while the bridal party marched to the altar which was beautifully decorated with flowers and candles. The Misses Marcella and ' Mary Lengerich attended as bridesmaid and maid of honor, respectfully, and Fred Ulman attended the groom as best man. Leo Ulman and Ed Miller acted as ushers. Rev. J. A. Seimetz received the vows of the double ring ceremony. The bride was charming in her gown of light navy satin crepe fashioned with two aceordlan pleated flounces on the skirt and a pleated cape of the same fell from the shoulders to the waistline. She wore a large black ' hat with footwear and gloves to . match, and carried a shower boquet of bride’s roses and swansonia The bridesmaid wore a blue taffeta frock with a large bow, picoted in burnt orange, adorning the side nt the waistline, with black footwear, bat and gloves. She carried an arm 1 boquet of carnations. Spanish lace draped over blue satin was worn with a black hat and accessories by the maid of honor who carried an arm boquet of carnations. Following the ceremony the wedding dinner was served at the home of the bride’s patents to sixtv-flve guests. The borne was decorated with bittersweet aad crysanthemums. The large wedding cake and flowers was the central decoration of the bride’s table. A recep- ’ tion will be held this evening at the K. ot C. hall to which two hundred and sixty guests have been invited. f Mrs. Lengerich is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ulman and Mr. Lengerich is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Lengenrich. The young couple will be at borne at 11l North Fifth street, after December Ist. i New Immigration Bill Would Reduce Quotas Washington. Nov. 19. —The administration bill will provide for a two p-r I cent quota, instead of a three tier cent and base quotas on the census of 1890 instead of 1910, representative lohnson, chairman of the house of im migration committee, announced •? day. The new bill will let in about 340,000 immigrants yearly as com- ’ pared to 350.000 uniter the present law Johnson said.

Lincoln’s Address At G ettysburg Delivered Sixty Years Ago Today »

j . Sixty years ago today, Abraham I Lincoln delivered his memorable ad- . dress at the dedication of the rente- , tery at Gettysburg. It is deemed fit- ( ting and appropriate that this ad- , dress, which lias stood as a master- , piece, should be reprinted today. It I is as follows: ‘‘Pour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent. a new nation, conceived in Liberty, ami dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great Civil war. testing whether that nation, or I any nation so conceived and so dedi ■'jcated. can long endure. We are met I I on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion lof that field, as a final resting place e for those who here gave their lives ■ that that nation might live. It is al- '-| together fitting and proper that we o | should do this. But. in a larger sense, k we can not dedicate —we can not con--1 secrate —we cun not hullow —this

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ENGLAND AND FRANCE AGREE TO COMPROMISE Anglo-French Entente Appears To Have Weathered Another Crisis. NOTE IS FRAMED Sharp Note To Be Sent To Germanv Demanding Expulsion of Prince. it'rlteil Press Staff Correspondent) Paris. Nov. 19.—A new obstacle arose in Franco-British relations today when the French cabinet refused to accept the terms of the note dealing with the demand for expulsion of the Crown Prince. Paris. Nov. 19.—After the Anglo-French entente appeared to have weathered a serious crisis by agreement in the ambassadors’ conference early todav on a pronosed joint note to recent the terms of the note dealing with the demand for expulsion of the Crown Prince. Paris. Nov. 19 (Snort al to hailv Democrat) The AngloFrench entente appeared to ha'T woatlienul another crisis Pxb'v when it was learned the PPibnssnr’ors’ conference leached vp-iupl agreement on a conipr"mise formula. The •omoroniisc dealt with , o - , onosi’d allied ‘>etioii toward (’.ei-manv regarding exnillsion , < f the former crown nriiwe and rc-imnosition ot allied military control. The ambassadors were to meet ' aenin at 1 p. m.. It was learned. 1 Premier Poincare was to submit ' the n-ono»ed comnromise between ’ the British and French viewpoints to 1 the cabinet today. The ambassadors studied all sorts 1 of plans with Marshal Foch and the | allied military attaches in an at--1 temnt to arrive at a compromise accentable to both France and Britain. 1 It was unde-stood the compromise agreement, to be submitted to the French cabinet included a very 1 sharp note to Germany threatening ' penalties but not specifying what thev would be. ! it was understood the compromise ’ was finally reached with instructions 1 to the British ambassador from LonI don authorizing him to agree to a 1 very stiff not- without specific men--1 tion of what penalties would be takl en in the hope that Germany would • yield before a firm allied front. Britain will not participate in any ■ penalties taken if Germany refuses in face of the joint demand, it was I understood. Jules Gambon. French representa- ; five at the conference, finally agreed to the British compromise and help- ’ ed to draw up the proposed note, it was understood. It was hoped the French cabinet would agree to it as a means of avert- ’ ing the open break in the Anglo French entente for a while longer. Ollier ambassadors submitted tlie terms of the proposed notes to their governments with notes for replies in time for tlie resumption >f the conference at 1 p. m.

ground. The brave men living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget What they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great ! task remaining before ns—that from those honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which ! they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died ’ in vain—that this nation, under God. * shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall rot perish from the earth." ABRAHAM LINCOLN s| November 19, 1863.