Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1923 — Page 1

Volume XXI. Number 292.

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DELAY IS SEEN IN WALB’S FIGHT AGAINST M’CRAY Republican State Committee Delays Meeting To Take Its Stand M’CRAY IS HEARTENED Receives Telegrams And Letters From Friends Pledging Support H'nltpd P--oss Staff Corre«nondentl Indianapolis, Dec. 11—(Special Daily Democrat)—With further delay in prospect for the meeting of the republican state committee to choose between a repudiation of Governor McCray or a definite break with Clyde A. Walb, state chairman, over his stand against McCray, both prin- | cipals in the party fight remained uncompromising today. “Os course I'm not going to quit,” said McCray. "I’ve said that enough. Walb ought to realize it by now. He says that either he or I must resign.] Then let him do it. I'm not going to.” Employes at the state house say the governor is greatly heartened by a flood of letters, telephone calls and telegrams that have been coming in the last few days pledging support to the governor in his fight with Walb. “The governor should go, that's all I got to say," Walb reiterated. “There will be a meeting before January 1. you can bank on that Fred Sehortemeter, who is in Washington, notified me that somff nfthr Indiana delegation in congress want to be present at the meeting and have a chance to say something. "We’re going right ahead with plans for the meeting. Meanwhile, I'm spending my time gathering information to show that Governor McCray has besmirched the name of the state, and this information will be presented in writing to the state committee.” A call has been issued for a meet-; ing of county chairmen and party) workers in the first congressional district to meet at Evansville Friday and discuss the McCray situation. o — —■ — Santa Sends Shipment Os Christmas Trees Santa Claus sent his first consignment of Christmas terees to Decatur yesterday, they being shipped here from Northern Michigan. The trees range in price from fifty cents to two dollars each and are green and fresh. Some of the trees sent here by Santa come from Maryland, but as yet none of them have arrived. The Northern nr Michigan fir tree is used mostly in this part of the country, it. being cheap er to ship them from Michigan than from the east. Two weeks from today is Christinas and if you haven't completed your shopping, better do it early in the morning. GOOD FELLOWS CLUB Sponsored By Delta Theta Tan Sorority For Purpose Os Bringing Christmas Cheer to the Poor Kiddies. The Good Fellows fund was increased $7.35 today when C. S. Niblick, president of the Holj’ Name Society of the St. Mary’s Catholic church, turned that amount over to < the Delta Theta Tati girls. The| Holy Name Society held its regular monthly meeting . last evening and voluntary contributions were taken up among the men and turned into the fund. The total of the fund is now $58.69. Previously reported ssl. ->4 Holy Name Society 735 Total >58.69 Help make it a hundred dollars by Saturday night. Mrs. James Brown spent the afternoon visiting friends.

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Commissioners Will Get Bids Tomorrow Ihe board of county commissioners will be in session tomorrow, December 12th, for the purpose of receiving bids and letting the contract for the furnishing of books, printing, stationery and office supplies to the different county offices. Blds will be received on four different classes, i namely class one. two, three and four, the latter being such printing as letter heads, envelnpes and plain blanks. AUTO LICENSE REPORT MME Local Issuing Station Takes In Total Os $18,302.50 During Year Miss Nova Yost in charge of the local office of the Hoosier State Auto ] Association in the Schafer Hardware Company building made her annual report to the Secretary of State today. During the year, beginning December 12, 1922. Miss Yost received $18,302.50 for passenger car. truck, motorcycle, chauffers, and d- •ler's licenses, and for duplicate number plates, transfers, trailers licenses, title application and duplicates and the aluminum containers for the certi. ficates. A total of 2.62 S passenger licenses, 274 truck licenses and 18 motorcycle licenses were issued by Miss Yost, The receipts for the year were listed in Miss Yost's report as follows: Passenger cars. 2.628 plates, $1.1,541.50; trucks 274 plates, $3,232.00 motorcycles. 18 plates. $29.00; Chauffer's licenses. $109.00; Dealer’s licenses, 3. $75.00; Duplicate plates 51 total $54.00; Transfer, 288. total $298.50; Trailers, 82 total $231.00. Total of above. $17,570.00. To the ab >ve is added the following which division is made because the fees received from the title applica-) lions and duplicates and for the con j tainers goes into the “theft fund". Title applications. 1,031 and duplicates *515.50; containers, 434 total $217.00 'grand total of all fees collected for 'the year. $18,302.50. Miss Yost has a supply of the containers. They cost fifty cents each. With the exception of dealer's and trailers plates and duplicates titles of application all the other plates anti blanks are issued by Miss Yost. The new plates will be issued tomorrow. Miss Yost stated. The plates this year are black with orange color numbers and the numbers issued by the local office range from 202,501 to 205,500 for passengers cars and from 34.601 to 34,900 for the trucks. The increased licenses fees ranging from 66 to 300 per cent more will be charged for the 1924 licenses. KEPT A GAMING DEVICE IS CHARGE George Appleman Pleads Not Guilty To Grand Jury Indictment George Appleman. west end restaurant owner, was placed under arrest this morning and arraigned In circuit court before Judge Jesse C. Sutton on a grand jury Indictment, charging keeping of a gaming device. Appleman entered a plea of not guilty to the charge and Attorney James T. Merryman entered his appearance i in his behalf. I The indictment against Appleman I was one of the sixteen indictments returned by the Adams county grand jury several days ago. This is the .first arrest made on any ot the indictments. The indictment states that the gaming device, commonly 1 known as a pull board, was in use at Appleman's store on November 8, 1923. The case has not been set for trial. _ ' Weather Fair tonight and Wednesday; rising temperature Wednesday.

NEW CHURCH IS BEING RUSHED TO COMPIETIO# Basement Is Almost Ready In Reformed Church For Occupancy OLD CHURCH SOLD Congregation May Vacate Old Building Soon; To Be Razed The beaitiful new Zion Reformed | Church at the corner of Jackson and I Third streets is fast nearing completion and it is thought that the basement will ready for occupancy by the first of the year. The second coat of plastering is now being put on and work on the installing of the furnace has started. Recently the old frame church build, ing ■ was sold to the Kukelhan Brothers. they to wreck it and move the lumber. May Abandon Old Chruch This evening a meeting of the members of the building committee will be held at which time the advisability of abandoning the old building at once will he discussed and some action , taken. In tearing down the annex to the church building and making room for the new edifice, the root' was damaged to some extent and with the fall rains certain parts of the ceiling has become water-ronked ami many of the members favor abandoning the church at once and then use the basement under the new edifice, if smh action is taken KuTelhan Brothers will begin imediately to remove the old frame church which was erect'd in 1861. The New Church Charles N. christen is the general (Continued On Page Four) POSTAL COUNCIL TO.MEET FRIDAY Adams Co. Postal Council To Elec 1 Officers Here Friday Night An important meeting of the Adams County Postal Council will be’held in this city on Friday evening of this week. The members of the council will meet at the Decatur postoffice and if the building is too small to accomodate the attendance, the meeting likely will be held in the Industrial Association rooms. i Among the important matters to be disposed of is the election of officers for 1924. The county council was organized at a county picnic of the postal employes held in Bellmont Park here last summer. At that time officers were elected to serve for the remainder of the present. E. B. Macy of Decatur, was chosen chairman; James Andrews, of Monroe, vice-chair-man; and Harvey Davis, of Pleasant Mills, secretary. There is an executive committee composed of one representative from every department of the postal service in the county. The purpose of Ihe county council is to improve the postal service and effect greater co-operation between patrons and postal employes. Good work has been accomplished already, during the short existence of the council. and great good is expected to result as the time progresses. The officers of the organization are anxious that there be a large attendance at the meeting Friday evening. — o G. E. Teams To Play Here Friday Evening The Decatur General Electric basketball team will play the fast Saratoga Independents in the new high school gymnasium here Thursday night. The G. E. team has been going good lately and they are expected t owin this game. The G. E. girls will play the gills' team from the Hoosier Paint company, of Fort Wayne, as a preliminary to the men's game Thursday night.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 11, 1923.

Ku Klux Klan To Hold Demonstration Tonight Mr. Showalter, local organizer of the blu Klux Klan, announced this morn- ' ing that a demonstration will be conducted on Second street this evening about eight o’clock, closing with a speech by a prominent Fort Wayne miiiistc r at the monument. He said. “Our entire membership of fifty will be out in regalia." o G.O.P. SELECTING MEETING PLACE Discontent Is Shown Over Designalion Os Cleveland By Coolidge (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Dec. 11 —(Special to Dtuly Democrat)— Rumblings of discontent over President Coolidge’s designation of Cleveland as the next republican convention city grew in volume today as the republican national committee met to ratify the selection. In response to the mutterings from western and mid-western republicans,! there were evidence that a sham battle was to be staged before Cleveland was named finally. Some “insiders" on the committee indicated the battle would last for two days. ’ With Chicago definitely out of the running. Des Moines and San Francisco are the chief contenders against Cleveland. The Des Moines delegation, headed by former Senator Rawson. is determined the selection shall not go by default. Armed with data showing the City to be well equipped in balls and hotels, Rawson intended to emphasize the political I strategy of selecting Des Moines, in tile heart of the corn belt. Western and mid-western republicans point to the presidential preference of Cleveland as a tactical error. Cleveland to the western farmer Is] "east." they say. The phychologica) effect of holding the convention west ' of the Mississippi river would do] much for republican success, they; believe. There were indications that New York might make a strong bid for the convention to prolong the battle, even if nothing was to be gained The fiat refusal of the sub-com-mittee in charge of the question to reconsider the cut in southern representation in the convention was another source of worry to the republican high command. FOUR-FOLD PROBE OF TRAIN WRECK Four Bodies Begin Investigation Os Wreck In Pennsylvania Erie, Pa.. Dec. 11 —A fourfold investigation to fix blame for the Twentieth Century Limited tradey early Sunday morning, when the third section of the crack New York Central Flyer crashed into the first section at Forsythe, N. Y. taking toll of nine lives, was launched here today. New York state and county officials representatives of the interstate commerce'commission ami officials of the New York Central railroad, are questioning members of the train crews to determine why Engineer Charles Patterson of the third section disregarded the block danger signal which should have warned him that the section ahead had stopped. The second section of (he Limited, running first had crashed into an automobile at Dead Man's crossing. The first section, running behind the (Continued on Pave six' pw 14 Days to Christmas

PROGRESSIVES IN THE SENATE TIGHTEN GRIP Hold Firm In Voting To Elect Chairman Os I. C. C. Today i BACKING LAFOLLETTE Five Votes Fail To Elect Chairman; Seat Is Important One (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Washington, Dec. 11—Senator progressives tightened their deadlock' grip on the senate today. When the fight over the selection of ; a chairman of the committee on interstate commerce was resumed not a vote was changed from the last ballot taken. The seven stalwarts who stand behind Senator La Follette, their leader. I for chairmanship of the committee l which is to dominate rail legislation clung to their position. The tabulation of the first ballot today, the fourth since the start of the fight was: Cummins 41; Smith 39; La Follette 7. A total of 44 was needed for election and as this majority was obtained by none of the candidates, the chair man problem. Senator Curtis, immediately ordered another roll call. The second ballot of the day anil the fifth of the fight showed; I Cummins 41; flmith 39; La Follette 7. After three deadlocked roll calls, Senator Lodge. Republican leader, moved tile chamber go into executive session to consider nomations. p ACCOUNTANTS FINISHING WORK State Accountants Expect To Finish Work Here By January 1 State accountants E. H. Pritchard and James Bales will complete the task of checking up and auditing the books of the township trustee and county officials by Saturday of tills week and will then commence ths work in Adams county. And they hope of Decatur. This will complete their work inAdams county. And they hope to complete it around the first of the year. Thursday the accountants will go to Berne where they will check the books for the civil town. They also have one or two sets of books of the Justice of Peace to audit this week, before they start on (he city of Decatur, audit, including the records of the municipal plant. It is thought that it will take a* least two weeks to go over and audit all the records pertaining to the city Decatur. Besides checking the books of the civil city, the records of the light and water plant will also he audited. The accountants are doing two yearH 1 work, they going over the records for the year of 1921 and 1922. As far as krtown all the records of the county, town township and other officials are in excellent shape, so to speak, and the exception of probably making a few adjustments or corrections very few errors or mistakes were found. The accountants came here |n October. _n 21 Killed In Ohio In Enforcement Os Dry Laws Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 11—Twenty one persons were Rilled, seven of them local dry agents and 14 bootleggers and rum runners, in a gun battle at a result of attempts to enforce the prohibition laws in Ohio thus far in 1923, a newspaper survey revealed today.

Committee Soliciting For K. Os C. Bazaar A committee composed of Lawrence] ! Kleiiihenz. and J G. Niblick have been] solicting the business men and stores! I for donations towards the Knights ol Columbus bazaar, which will la- held at the K. of C. hall three days next month January Bth. 9th ami 10th. An' indoor fair will be given in connection with the bazaar am! many surprises will be In store for all. Booths with special attractions will be arranged ami the public is invited to attend. MRS. C.D. KUNKLE HAS EYE REMOVED Well Known Resident Os Monmouth Undergoes Serious Operation Mis. Calvin D. Kunkle, of Monmouth i was operated on at the Lutheran I hospital at Fort Wayne yesterday for ! the removal of her right eye. Mrs. Kunkle has been ill for a year, taking sick last Christmas with shingles which settled in her head and tor months she has sufered terribly, losing the sight of the right eye. Recently the left eye has also becottu effected ami the operation removing the right eye was net essary to save the other. She has been a patient at lie- hospital or several months during the year, but had been home some time being taken to Fort Wayne again two weeks ago Sunday. It is hoped by the many friends of the family that she will recover speedily. The operation was performed by Drs. Mcßride and Beal. During the past summer all her teeth were drawn it being thought this was a cause of her intense suffering and since then she lias improved slowly with the exception of the eye trouble. She is one of the best known women of this community. • - Prisoner Is Grinding Horse Radish For Freedom Portland, Dec. 11.—Ed Nelson, local restaurant man. is having a tearful time in the Jay county jail. He is scraping and grinding horse radish and Landis Richardson expects to sell it to the country stores in the county, Ed to use the money derived from the sale to pay, his tine of sls It was found that Nelson had some fifteen sacks of horse radish in stot k at his eating place on West Main street, and he asked permission of Sheriff Badders to grind it up ami sell it. The sheriff readily consented and Nelson was permitted to go to the restaurant with a drayman anil bring the stock to the jail together with several tubs. Ed expects to be out of jail by Christmas, if his horse radish sells well. WOMEN MAY HAVE CHRISTMAS TREE Woman’s Club To Decide Monday Night On Action To Be Taken At the meeting of the Woman's club next Monday evening it will he decided if the club will sponsor a municipal or community Christmas celebration In this city a day or two before Christmas. The county commissioner have granted permission to the women to plant a Hr or evergreen tree in the northwest corner-of the court house yard and tile women are yet undecided if a permanent tree will he planted this year or. in case the community Chrismas celebration is held this year, that a temporary tree be planted for the purpose. A community Christmas pro gram was given hv the Woman's club las' year at the old gymnasium and was attended by hundreds of people. Mrs. L. A. HolthAufie. Mrs. John Tyndall and Mrs. John Schug tire the committee in charge in looking after the arrangements for the celebration and they will make their report and recommendations next Monday evening. I

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ACCEPT ALLIED INVITATION TO ENTER INQUIRY U. S. Financial Experts To Assist In Probing Germany’s Finances EXPECT MUCH GOOD American Government Not To Participate As A Government H’nltrl P'es- Staff Correspondent) Washington, Dee. 11 (Spet'ittl to Daily Democrat) The 1 1 nited Slates Ijitts accepted Ihe invitations of Ihe repartitions | commission for private Amerii can financial experts to take liiurt in an inquiry into (iermanv's financial condition. I President Coolidge announced today. 'I he president read a formal statement Io this effect to Washington newspaper nun assembled til the White House. In view of the fact that the United States is an important creditor of In th Germany and the allies and the ‘mportance of the “onomic recuperation of Europe e American government "would Jew with favor" acceptance by American private financial experts of the invitation from the reparations commission, the statement said. Great Britain and Germany both hava approached this government, it was stated, expressing their desire to have Americans participate, the white house stated. The white house statement began with the declaration that the United States government has been informed that the reparations commission has decided on appointment of two committees of experts to investigate 'he fiscal situation of Germany as follows: 1. An inquiry into the balancing of Germany's bin.get and the stabilization of her currency. 2. An inquiry into the capital that has been removed from Germany. The president's statement then declared that the first inquiry would seem to assure ail the results required. This government will not participate as a government. Mr. Coolidge’s statement said. The American experts would be invited to take part by direct Invitation from the reparations commission, Mr. Coolidge said. This government believes that the inquiry will have great value, the statement said. It was also pointed, informally, on behalf of the president, that the United States has claims against Germany amounting to approximately $750,000,000 and also because of | the great allied war debt to this counI try that the United States government had the interest of a great I creditor in Germany's financial situation and the recuperation of Europe, o Elk’s Lodge Will Be Inspected Wednesday The district deputy grand exalted ruler of the Elks lodge, will be in Decatur Wednesd... night to make an inspection of the local order. The ritualistic woi k of the lodge will be exemplified and all members of the lodge are requested to be present for the meeting. o Dos Angeles. Dec. 11. - William A. Pinkerton, head of the Pinkerton Detective agency of New York, died at ! tlie Baltimore hotel hero today five . days after he arrived here on a vaca- . tlon. — « +++++ + + + + + , CONGRESS TODAY i ++++++++++ , i (By United Press) n House t> In recess until Thursday. r Committee on committees conid tinues formation ot committees. (| Senate i- Resumes fight over chairmanship of interstate commerce committee.