Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 28 January 1924 — Page 1

Volume XXII. Number 24.

HARDING IS DRAWN INTO OIL SCANDAL

ANNUAL FARMERS' INSTITUTES WILL OPENTHISWEEK First Os Series Os Seven To Be Held In Hartford Twp., Tuesday PROGRAMS ARE GOOD State Sneakers On Program At Each Place; Two New Institutes Farmers of a large part of Adams c, unty will bo privileged to attend a farmer's Institute during the next few days since tha schedule shows seven different communities are each planning sessions. On Tuesday the first institute wil be held at the Central Sc hool in Hartford township Ralph Myers being chairman. In addition to two address each by . I. Keiu. of Grant county, and Mrs. Wm. Goldsmith, of Dekalb county, corn and culinary contests with liberal premiums for the winners will be conducted. Other entertainers are Hing arranged for the day programs In the eveninng the main address will be by Jos. Gayle, of Inianapolla. on "Soil Fertility". At the Monroe 1 institute, which will b.» Ibdd Wednesday, corn, culinary and sewing contests have been provid id. about 1100 in cash and merchan disc to be awarded the winners. An interesting evening program has lie<n arranged. Jess Rupert is chairman. Monmonuth Institute Thursday* The nionnuMith «-bc, held Thursday ami an interesting literary program has been arranged In addition to the addresses by the state speakers. Instrumental and male quartette music will feature th evening program. Cal Kunkel, c hair man. has been in general charge of arrangements. The Wabash township Institute, of which Alonzo lying is chairman, will he held at Geneva on Friday. A corn show for school boys has been arranged In addition to the regular features of the day and evening. The Hobo organisation has plane under way for their institute next Saturday, the sessions to be held in the school building at that pla* 'nteresting and instructive day and evening sessions are promised those who attend. Mrs. Goldsmith and Mr. Kein will be the state speakers at all the in •tltutes of the week. Institutes Next Week On Thursday of next week the an final sessions of the Kirkland in stitut<> will be held at the Kirkland school, r, y|. Zimmerman and the officers of the institute, assisted by a num leer of committees, have been engaged several weeks in planning I°r it. corn show for the boys °f the township has been arranged and every eligible boy is urged to k*t busy and select 10-ear samples «f yellow or white corn for exhild”«n. Mr II R. Muller, of Franklin "•unty and Mrs. Etta M. Guillains of Montgomery county, will be the •late speakers, a basket dlntjer will I*' enpoyetl at the noon hour. The I'nlnn township farmers Instuute will be held at the Kohr echoed 0,1 Friday of next week. Mrs. Eliza,M,’h Standley, of Union county and ■Addison Drake, of Sullivan county •re the state speakers. An even Ins program la being planned. The Cnion township and Bobo or asniiation are both new. this years •esslons being their first. - -O'Gerald Rusk Killed In San Antonio, Texas Lieutenant George Gerald Rusk. 23. twimr teacher In 'he lAeeatur high m.kuil and coach of athletics here, instantly Rilled Saturday when «>• airplane, a Ccrtla “Jenny” train plane, fell several hundred feet n a tall spin and crashed near "•oks Field Han Anton | o Texas. * h ’‘ r " he wan stationed. Rusk had ‘ ll hit commission less than six nmaths. |[| k father 1a James F. (Continued ou page two)

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Largo Audience Hears Miss Sellemeyer Speak A large audience heard Miss Esther Sellemeyer speak at the First Methodist church last night. Miss Selle-1 ineyer. who is a missionary to China, is spending a furlough with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Sellemeyer, in this city. She spoke on the conditions in China last night, telling ofi the poverty and various conditions in that country and told how the ' Christian people of this country can best aitl in bettering this condition Her address was very Interesting! and was greatly appreciated by all who heard it. LINCOLN FOUND TO BE INSANE Man Who Murdered Wife And Brother-in-law May Enter .Asylum (United Pre«K Staff Correnpondent) Aurora, 111., Jan. 28 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Warren J. Lincoln, -•centric lawyer floriculturist, who confessed killing his wife and her brother, dismembering and burning their bodies and encasing their head l in a block of concrete, may be sent to the Insane asylum before he reached trial. Dr. Joseph Springer, coroner’s physiiian, told Chief of Detectives Wirz today that in his opinion Lincoln is insane and has been in that state for many months. Yetsterday Lincoln re-enacted part of his story of the crime for Chief of Police Nichols and other police officials. Nichols still believes Lincoln did not burn the torsos. Taking Lin- " colt to the latter*s home NbHort asked him to point how the bodies were burned. Lincoln went info the house alone After a few minutes he walked out with arms curved upward as though carrying a weighty bundle. Slowly he walked to the greenhouse, down into the cellar where he opened the furnace door and cast his imaginary burden inside. “I've just put Linda's legs into the fire," Lincoln remark**! to Nichols. Lincoln explained the reason he was in the house so long was that he had re-enacted the dismemberment of the bodies of his wife and Byron Shoup, her brother. Police of Mount Pulaski now are investigating rumors that Lincoln poisoned his first wife here some 10 years ago Shortly after the woman died from taking "too much headache powder"- as Lincoln explained, he married Linda Shoup. ASSESSORS TO MEET FEB.S County Assessor Zimmerman Calls Meeting Os Township Assessors County Assessor William Zimmer , man will hold a meeting of the town I ship assessors in this city on February sth. A representative of the state board of tux commissioner* will ' be in attendance at the meeting and i will explain to the assessors the dur ties connected with the annual assessing of personal property. If court is not In session the meeting will be held In the court i mnm In the court house and If that room cannot be secured the meeting will be held in the Industrial rooms. The assessing of personal property will begin on March Ist. Mr. Zhuhas already received hid I supply of blanks. They are the same a* those In former years, with the j exception that a line Is provided for the listing of a dos as personal prot perty. It is not thought that all r dogs will be listed as personal pro perty. there also being s separata I dog tax for the state and city. , A meeting of the county assessors In this district will b» held at Fort I Wayne on February 9th nnd Mr. Zlm merman I* planning to attend the mooting.

ANDERSON WINS AN IMPORTANT POINT IN TRIAL . . — Anti-Saloon League Chief Scores Heavily; Mystery Man Identified TRIAL NEARING END Case May Go To Jury Late Today; Anderson Not To Be Called Again New York. Jan. 28.—Henry Mann, [one of the William H. Anderson's "mystery men” in his accounting for receiving and expending some 125.000 was Indentified today, scoring heavily for the Anti-Saloon league official. M. J. Bloomer, Washington and New ' York publicity man. and one of the American newspaper representatives in Paris during the peace conference, created a sensation in court this morn-1 Ing when he testified to having known and dealt with Henry Mann during IMS and 1911. New York, Jan. 28. —The Anderson trial may go to the jury late today.: The prosecution does not intend to recall the Anti-Saloon League I superintendent to the stand, but It the defense does so, Assistant District Attorney Pecoru will cross-examine, in an effort to get more light on the four “mysterious men”Klng. Mann. Johnson and Green involved in Anderson's 925.000 public ity deal. Anderson is charged with third degree forging arising from the transfer of $4.400 in the hooks of the league , from rh*» sobcry -CH-eonnt of O. Bert- ( sail Phillips, collet tor for the organ!; .i tlon. and now prosecuting witness, to the money getter's hotel and expense account. o Henry Rz-inking. of I'nion town- 1 ship, leaked after business affairs i , here today. LOCAL DENTISTS MERCE OFFICES Dr. Mangold And Dr. Patterson Become Associated In Practice Beginning next Friday. February !.' Dr. Burt Mangold and Dr. Fred 1.1 Patterson, two well known dentists of this city, will become associated in I the dental practice and occupy a suite of room* «»n the second floor of the| Knights of Columbus building They I will occupy the southeast corner -oom anti the two rooms Immediately west I of It. Dr. Mangold and Dr Patterson wete born und raised In Decatur, were grad-| tinted from the Indiana Dental School,j | of Indianapolis, in the sume das*, that of 1095. belonged to the same dental fraternity In college, and have been close friends 'from childhood. They started prastlclng immediately ufn-r graduating from college. Dr. Mangold in Decatur, and Dr. Patterson tn Ge-, neva. latter Dr. Patterson went to Terre Haute und came to Decatur 12 year* ago and has been here simthat time, During the last few years Dr. .Mangold has hud his office In the Erwin building on South Second. street ami Dr. Patterson hit* occupied a suit* of room* In the Schafer building on North Second street. The‘room* it) the K. of C. building, which the two dentist* will occupy, have been remodeled and arc among the beat office rooms In Ihe city. Dr Mangold and Dr Patterson will have two operating room*, an extracting i room, an X-ray room, a laboratory.bu* ness office and reception room. Much new furniture and dental equipment I* being purchased for the new office*. By combining the equipment and occupying the same office* the two d. n list* will be able to furnish more efficient service than In the pa*t Mint Gladys Butler, a dental nurse, who lute been in Dr Mangold's office for the pert few years, will be the office glri and nurse In the pew office*. Very little time will he required for moving. It wan said today.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, January 28, 1921.

Women Heavy Smokers New York, Jan. 28.—Women smoked seven billion cigarettes in 1923, according to the National Tobacco exposition in session here, so it was dectfled there should be something new and special in cigarettes henceforth for milday. That’s why varicolored cigarettes -—anything to match any gown — came into vogue today. Cerise, | Lemon, peach, blossom, black and crimson are among the popular 1 shades. [ I FIFTHSTRAIGHT’ WON BY LOCALS Local High School Basketball Teams Defeated Union Center, 30-23 Decatur high school’s basketball team won its fifth straight game Saturday night, defeating the Union 1 (’enter quintet from Wells county, ,at the new high school gymnasium here, in a Nstless and uninteresting , contest, by a score of 30 to 23. Although the locals managed to keep a few points in the lead throughout the game, they were decidely off J form and is was lucky for them that \ their opponents were no stronger than they were. Two preliminary games were played Saturday night. In the first contest, the Catholic high team defeated a team composed mainly of inp ligibies by a score of 14 toll. The opponents of D. C. H. S. were: .Tucker. Miller, Swearinger and •Rex from the public, high school and Meyers from the Catholic high. In the second contest of the evening, the D H. 8. girls’ first team, “dolled up” in new uniforms, defeat- | <-d the second team by a score of 6 ;to 2. The first halt ended 4 to 2. i Eleanor Pumphrey scored two field goals and He! -n l-arr one for lhe first team, while Mildred Worthman 'scored the two points for the second team on free throws. The girls' new uniforms are very attractive. - They are purple, one-piece suits, trimed in gold. They are sleeveless,, 1 also. Orchestra Makes Appearance The newly organized high school ! orchestra made its first public appearance Saturday night, playing several selections between the games. The orchestra is composed of eleven pieces arid I* directed by Miss -— (Continued On Page Four) TWO WILLS ARE PROBATED TODAY Wills Os Edward X. Ehinger And Joseph D. Miller Filed For Probate The last wills und testaments of Edward X Ehinger und Jo*eph D. Miller were offered for probate In court today. The Ehinger will provid |ed ihnt after all just debts are paid, the entire estate, including ull personal property, real estate, money and stocks be left to the widow. Catharine E. Ehinger. The will was written April 12. 19mi und was witnessed by Thoma* F. Ehinger and Dyonls Schmitt. No « xecutor ha* lu-en named. The will of Joseph D. Miller be queaths all personal property and real estate to the widow, Catharine Miller, she *0 have «n-l to hold Nurne with full benefits thereof during her widowhood and then to the legal heirs, share and share alike. The widow was appointed egiyutrix of the will un<l she filed bond In the sum of IC.ooo The will was written June 4. 1902 und wus witnessed by Dorr B Erwin and J. B. Holt house. The retain Im valued ut IIS.W. . 'LL -J_ iJI-J— ■ Weather Mostly cloudy tonight und Tuesday: probably rain; somewhat warmer tonight In eu»t und south portion.

RECOVER BODIES OF 36 MINERS IN LATEST TRAGEDY Thirty-Eight Miners Killed When Trapped By Gas Explosion FIFTY MEN IN MINE One Man Rescues Nine From Death In Pennsylvania Mine Skankton. Pa.. Jan. 28. —Bodies of 'all but two of the 38 men trapped by j gas explosion in the Ijtncushire mine lof tlie Barnes Tucker company here, late Saturday, have been recovered. I Fifty men were in the mine when the blast occurred. Nine were rescued by John Rico, a miner of Star i Ford, three fled or dag their way to safety, leaving 38 entomled Rico was on his way to work on the I night shift shorHy before 4 p m. Sat- . urday when he saw a great volume of smoke burst from the pit. Without; hesitation he ran into the mine. Run-1 uing for about a mile he shouted at j the mouth of every gallery but got no res|M>nse, until near tin- sixth heading. Here a faint cry answered him and he found nine miners n< ariy unconscious. Rico Induced them to soak their | handerchiefs in water and tie them about their faces. Then he found a air passage. Leading the* weak aad staggering along its entire length he tinally came to a point where he know tfie i-wiuh had -fallen In from above. ' He the mhelped them one hv one to' climb to the surface and safety. The blast occurred just as the men were gathering preparatory to leaving the shait, officials said. John Stone-, mine foreman, whose body bgs been recovered, had refused a transfer to a neighboring mine a weak ago. NEW YORK IN GRIP OF COLD; Seven Lose Lives In (’oldest Weather Os Tears. Relief Promised New York. Jan. 28. —New York shivered with the coldest weather it ha known in years today as the weather ! bureau promised milder temperature' and an opportunity to thaw nut frozen I pipes. Death of seven persons was attrlb-it ' ed directly to the near zero weather In Perth Amboy, N J.. Stephen Senior, aged reeluse, was found frozen to death in his shack He was In rags although reputed to have a fortune of more than half a million dol-. lars. Frozen railway gates caused the ■ death of George Kroder. 44. Brooklyn brass manufacturer and his wife. Mary aged 42. when their automobile was struck by a |>aas>-nger train of the Long Island railway. Five other per- ( sons in lhe machine were injured. . A *<»-ml|e gale turned another automobile over, killing two men nt Nyack. , Near Paterson. N J., a skater broke through ice on the I’nsslnc- river and was drowned. A youth wearing the uniform of a United Slates sailor also broke through the Ice at anotln-r point on the elver und wan drowned. Twenty three Below Montreal. Que. Jan. 28.—After al 58-degree drop, the mercury reached the lowest In five years yesterday when it registered 23 below zero, the coldest since February 5. 1918. Surrounding communities reported record «»!d. At Mount Laurier, the Luureotlu* mountains, It »n 51 degrees below and st Lnbelle, 49 below. CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE Wheat: May II Wi: July 11.u7%; Sept. II Com: Mar 80c; July ROkic; Hept. B!i 4 c. Outs: May 48%r; July 46%c; Sept. 43Hc.

Eric Leads In Passenger Train Service In Novmber A summary of passenger train movements for November. 1923. ha* been issued by the Public Service Commission of the State of New York shows the performance of trains on the various railroads. The Erie ran 6081 trains in New Yoi k State, of which 5.819 or 95.7 per cent, were on time; 262. or 4 3 per 'cent late; 9 was the average minutes late per train run. This gives the Erie the best report of train performances for class 1 1 railroads in the state of N w York ; eluting the period mentioned. WARNS AUTOISTS TO GET LICENSES Chief Os Police Says Arrest- Will Be Made After Feb. 15 Chief of Police Joel Reynolds today I issued a warning to automobile and i truck owners to procure their 1924 license plates as soon as possible. Persons operating th-lr cars without i the new license plates after February I 15 will be arrested. Chief Reynolds I said today. About LOW) less plates have been Issued at the local office- of the | Hoosier State Auto Association in I the Schafer Hardware store than were Issued at this time last year | Unless the motorists start bt once, it will be Impossible for license to l>e issued to al! who have not yet ' ptoc-ured them before .it is said. Many automobile ow nerjappear to be waiting for a decision in the junction suit to test th t vulidf lty of the new license fee law- before ' purchasing their licenses, but it is 'minted out that this is folly as th< decision likely will not be issued be- | fore several weeks yet and even it ! the law is held unconstitutional, the difference in the [nice of the licenses will be refunded to the auto owners. ■ O—--150 Frozen To Death In Northern Greece Athens. Jan 28—More than 150 per sons have been frozen to death as a , result of 20 degrees below zefo weath--1 er which prevails throughout northern Greece, according to messages here today. The dead include an encampment of 100 Mussulmans, which was burned in snow in a mountain pass, when caught in a terrttflc blizzard. Many railways are snowed under and hundreds of cattle frozen to death FARM SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION Art Baumgartner Farm In Monroe Township Sold At A Good Price Auctioneers and Art Baumgartner uro convinced that one of (he bast ways to sell a farm now s-daya I* I" •sell It at public auction Ust ErlI clay the 79V» gcre farm of Art Itaiim Igartner, In Munroe townahlp. one and one-half mlh-s east of Monro.. wus sold at public uuc tlon. J N. Burk head being high hider Tin farm i was gold for 6I".:I5O'»<» an average I of a little hettrt- than »IHi"" an acre, red Fred llusche was in charge of the sab-. Although th., value of farm (bends seem to be lower now than for (year*, the price paid for the llauniIgnrtner farm Is n<»* considered more (than It I* worth. Those, concerned with the sale of It are coavlneed that farm* cun be sold ut public auction the satne as cattle nr household goods and the price paid for the ltuiimgnrtn<*r farm prove* that they can be sold ,Jor near wh;it they are worth Tbl* I* the first sale of a (arm ac puhtie auction io-’d in this c minty for sometime O— ■ - L—L— Lolleys for the following person I uro advertised nt the local post office by postmaster. Hurry Frltalnger Mis* jEmmu Fox und Charles lltyutt.

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LATE PRESIDENT AND HIS ENTIRE CABINET NAMED Sen. Walsh Reads Letters Showing Harding Knew Os Lease Plans WAS OFTEN DISCUSSED Montana Senator Reads Letters Written By Fall To Harding Washington. Jan. 28 —(Spc-cial to Daily Democrat) —Teapot Dome naval oil reserve*, about which c.-nters the greatest scandal In years. Is a tract of 9.451 acres In Natronah county. Wyoming, about 50 miles north of Casper. Wyo. The reserve takes its narue from a rock formation towering ' | above the surrounding country and combining a dome-shap.-d bulk of eroded sandstone with a spoutI that looks just like the spout of a ■ teapot. The oil, estimated at 22,000.000 barrels, is in a huge rock "cup” into which it drained through the ■ ages and which now holds it as I though It were in a tank. BULLETIN Washington. Jan. 28. Unless Secretary of ths Navy Denty resigns before nigfft. hi* resignation will be demanded and the senate will be asked to back up this demand Senator Walsh served notice late thia afternoon during his speech to the senate on the Teapot Dome investigation. Washington. Jan 28 (Special to I Daily Democrat t —Airing of the Teapot Dome and California oil leasing scandals was entering a ne w phase I today with prospects of the s'cojh* of investigation broadening to the enI I tent of bringing in several new |»-r- --' sonalltle* as factors In the alleged looting of the government s natural 1 resources. Secretary of the Navy Denby and 1 Attorney General Daugherty have ! taken steps calculated to remove them from the cases under invest!1 gallon by the senate committee Senator Walsh. Montana, directing 1 the probe, doe* not Intend to permit them to slip out of th<- limelight, hi.w r ever He is seeking evidence that ■ will connect Denby directly with the Teapot Dome and California lease**. |> üby sign.-d the leases, which In volvrd hundred* Os million* nt dollars. I When he appeared before the InVe* litigating committee, however, he pro i fessed to know' nothing concerning tb<-m He could not say who obtainled the leases, did not recall the 1 ,1, •>! y to I"' I' "d "l* I | ernm**nt or any other details. Washington, Jan. 28 The lutI cabinet were drawn Into the Teupot Dome scandal today when Senator Walsh. Monntanu, read to the senate two letter* which disclosed: «< Th.- ITc-sldent HOtdlng had com(plete knowledge of the plans of i Secretary of the Interior Fall to i lease naval oil reserve* to- private oil j Interests and that this pnMcy had hl* (ull endoisement und approval. That the whole matter «»» repeatedly discussed ut meetings of th** I herding cabinet Walsh's dramatic disclosure wa* mad* soon after the senate met unoon today. Walsh boson by •' burg Ing Fall was not alone responsible for Ic-hsliik of the oil reserves. whi» h has since developed Into the greut.’st I scandal since the Falllngor-I’lnc hot ,' controversy. Walsh th -n read In support of hl* i burg.-- a Irit *r Full wrote President Harding In which Fall su’d ths whole ' isdlcy was disregard by the Harding < sbltcel Hurtling Writr* To Fall A Irtter from Mr Harding, transmitting to lhe senate Full'* letter and other d*t H regarding the Teapot | (Continued on Page six)