Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1924 — Page 1

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i)AY OF SENSATIONS IN INVESTIGATIONS

Kssgrowing |OF MORE S USAR I BEETS INU.S. lotary Club Speaker Says ■ Practice W ould Break I i p “Sugar Trust” I r lalk IS interesting lotarians Welcome New ■ Members Into Club At | Meeting Last Night ■]., ,:.,rirw that home grown sugar, fctirtilarly bc< t sugar. afforded the K|V competition to the so-called lis-jr trust" and that American farIre might to raise more sugar .and Kk wheat. Charles H. Allen, prealLt of the Farmers Sugar Co., DoE,. e . Ohio, in an address Thursday Eting before the Decatur Rotary Eh. urged the growing of more Ear beets as one of the solutions ■ the present agricultural problem. k subject of hU talk was “Who L. Vsur Susir Bowl?" I - . < 'iignr is grown, not made " said ■r Alb'n. "and it takes no fertility Em the soil. Chemically it is carls and water The beet gets the sci-- from the rain and the carbon E"i the carlton dioxide in the air Emtch the action of sunshine on the Eer leaf nf the plant. I “Sunshine and rain ore inexhaustible and Americans should follow the Eknltmal practice of Denmark E’«-e Cermanv and Belgium and E«» mo-<> of sneh farm products aw L sot exhaust the soil, instead of Ebeat which is low in price and hard It mil fertility. I "The United States in 1920 bought ■mmsiooo worth of sugnr from Ms--just sunshine and rain -which ■» jsst as easily could have raised Iwr at home at a greater profit and drainage nn the soil." I *tthongh Mr. Allen emphasised the rl of conservation of America's W for future generations, he pointN cwt another reason for American P*’ sugar production. I "A week after Ohio and Michigan bn-' vrrnr own beet sugar factories bf-in to grind beets thev offered Rgjr as far east as Buffalo at 90 b»t« » hundred pounds less than the ■ncr quoted on the New York sugar P hange." said dMr. Allen. 'But the r"' and cane sugar grown in Amerr' 5 la 1122 was practically all sold Pd rtmsunied by the middle of FebP»rv and the entire supply during p" Mimtner was tn the hands of the prar trust—seven refineries in New p»rtt City and vicinity'—and the price pwt qp lit went so high that housewives |*naiged a boycott but it had no pbet The price did not drop until »>t|ln a week after the home grown luip went on the market. During the '**ths of November. December, and iMuary the home crop will save the ‘wrican people 130.000.000 on their •WAf bin Rut the relief will not be By April or May the grown supply will bo gone and * » Turk capital will again dictate • fttban sugar The |at P p rpgWpn , Harding told tmertcan people last spring that ’«* to reduce the high price of was to grow more at home. In •'ban six months his policy hnd *** vindicated.” Allen explained that only cane *’ r Ww ‘* s'tgor does not i r "ugh a refinery process. He said ■•tostoT " U,,1,r Mr< * w ** r * Produced iM Pvvwodw of sugar last year ’ Would raise 50.000.00tl pounds I **' W ' •* President of 10 “»* h "“ r ' " f v * . ' *' o "ntry at Defiance. O. ttwt ’"‘'’’■•'•l beet growers are hl " c ® m * u, ’ r - i,« bnew hie subject and the to. Imparted to the Rotor ° " r ” ■**•»* Interested In H, »tmh U *7 lOn *' *° moM valuable •M m * J?” l,, P* r l*nre and facto tits, was void of negaM,*’* Wsleom.d •4 into is* J n * mh * r * wera welcomfim tolas r,Mh ,a "' J»m< n [. Kocher, retail ,f '»tiimied „ n pago lWo)

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CHARGES FIXING” 0 1 v. 1 l!lk H • - ' WILLIAM A. ORR Washington. D. C. —This photo shows William A. Orr. who testified on the stand in the famous Teapot' Dome oil scandal investigation that he was a "collector" for Attorney! General Daugherty and also aided in the boose plot. I

12 FROM HERE ARE IN PURDUE Adams County Students Are Numbered Among The 3.072 Students —_ ( — iß*r~ Mar* ?i -Tw'-iw students from Adams county are, registered at Purdue University for this school year, according to the final enures announced recently by R. II Stone Registrar of the University. | The figure* include luith the first and, second semester. The total enrollment at Purdue is shown to be 3072 regularly enrolled students. Thi< does not include short course, extension course, or summer students, but only those enrolled in the regular c< urses of science, engineering, agriculture and pharmacy offered by the university. Those from Adams county are: Decatur E. J. Archhold. W. E. Bdavera. H. F Beery. H. W Chsfsty. F K. Christen. Naomi R. Christen. D. T). Macy. H. W. Sutton. P R Thomas, Pleasant Milla-R F. Paris. Geneva •■—Munro and Agnes J. Kenney. - McAdoo Won Two-To-One Victory Over Underwood (United Press Service I Atlanta. Oa.. March 21 —William G McAdoo, •native son" won a two to , one victory over Senator Oscar Un derwood of Alabama In Wednesday s . presidential nomination primary In I Georgia, practically complete returns j today showed . With returns almost complete. Me- | Adoo had 93.646 popular votes to 49.947 for Underwood McAdoo won 322 county units to fifty four for Underwood The county units control the alate convention which nominates delegates to the national party convention. o Basketball Tonight The Central School eighth grade baskatball team will play the Huntington eighth anole tea tnln the new high school gymnasium here tonight. An admission of ten cents will be charged. A gms! game l» promised as. - . . . Hcndenlang Child Died Os Whooping Cough Today Herman Leroy Hcndenlang. threemonthwld son of Delbert and Agnes Hendcnlang. died at the family home. 104 Grant street, at l#:50 o'lock this morning, following an illness of whooping cough. This was the only child In the family. Ha ’*•* h° rn December 14. 1933 Funeral services will be held from the Church of God at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, the Rev D. M. Lyons, pastor, officiating Hu ria I will be made* In the Maplewood I c emotury.

TO REPORT ON DRIVE MONDAY Solicitors To Report On Success In Community Fund Campaign C. D. Tropic, ('. S. Niblick. James 1., Kot her. and Mat Kirsch, team cap- 1 tains of the finance committees, and' Theodore Graliker, chairman of the! committee, urge the workers who are' soliciting the manufacturers, business! ami profession men for money for the “Community Fund." to make a report I by Monday of next week. The directors of the Decatur Industrial Association will meet Monday evening and the finance team captains are desirous of making a tentative report to the directors. The different solocitors have been out the last ten days raising funds with which to do things for Decatur this year. As far as known the men have been working successfully and the response has been good, very few men refusing to give their assessment or at least in doing all they can. When the drive for funds was made it was hoped that at least SI,OOO could be raised. Os this amount about sl.201) would go towards the securing of right-of-ways on the north and south state roads. The Industrial Association also hopes to be able to erect a tourists' camp near Decatur, to beautify the river banks and the north approach to the city, and to do other things for the advancement and beautification of the best little city in Hoosierdom. If anyone has been missed in the canvass, he is asked to get in touch with one of the finance members or see any member of the Industrial As- -*<>, twtton and hand hi.« ewntrihution to him. Avon Burk, president of the Industrial Association, asks the directors to meet with him at 7:30 Monday evening. Ask New Trial For Convicted Murderer Rushville, Ind.. Mar. 21—(Special to Daily Democrat i—Attorney* for Cecil Cloud, convicted of the murder of Luther Sharp, city councilman, today tibil a motion for a new trial. Sentence was withheld pending a titling on the motion. The jury in finding Cloud guilty of first degree murder yesterday recommended life Imprisonment. NO WORD ABOUT RECISTRATffIN Question Os Registration Os Voters In Berne Still Undecided County Auditor Martin Jaberg has ' not yet received word from the state | < lection commissioners relative to the registration of the voters in the new precinct in Berne. "Precinct C.“ This new precinct was established by the county commissioners and the registration law provides that In cases where a voter change* his or her voting precinct, that a new registration must be made to correspond with the change. Some think that all the voter* In Herne must register agnln. s hile others express the opinion that only those Who had their voting precinct changed by the establishment of precinct "C" need register. In such case the committeemen wouljl get together. scratch off the names of those persons who had their precinc t c hanged, and only those who moved into another precinct or were changed into the new precinct would need to regiatex Unless a petition signed by at least 300 voters asking that a registration of all voters In the county he held on September «th. 59 days previous to the November election, only one registration. on October Bth. will be held. Duties of the county auditor relative to the registration of the voter* are contained in a letter received by Mr. Jaberg from the state board of elec tlon commlaaioners The duties of the auditor are: To the county auditors of fndtana : (Continued on Page Kight

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, March 21, 1924.

Hour For John Engle Funeral Is Changed Owing to the bad condition of the' roads, occasioned by the heavy snowfall, the time for the funeral, servic t-s of John D. Engle, well known farmer residing near Moroe, has been changed to one hour earlier tomorrow. The services will be held from the home at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon and from the Winchester I'. It church at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Kindle officiating. Burial will be macle in the Maplewood cemetery, Decatur. FIVE JURYMEN ARE ACCEPTED IN M'CRAY TRIAL t Have Permanent Places In Jury Box For Trial Os Governor McCray CONTINUE QUESTIONS State Attempting To Complete Jury; Judge Aids In Questioning Indianapolis, Tnd. March 21.— (Special To Daily Democrat). — Five jurors were given permanent places in the jury box for the trial of Governor Warren T. McCray on charges of embezzlement and larceny today. They have been passed twice by both defense and state's attorneys. This constitutes final acceptance. The men are: Harn- L. Rapp, C. F. Farms; Percy H. Dickerson; Horace E. Rvan and John E. Milnor. The defense passed the- whole jury as it then stood to the state shortly before noon Eph Inman and Clarence' Nichols, special prosecutor, pass, ed the jury ba< k to the defense after a brief conference. Michael Ryan one of McCray's attorneys. then resumed questioning of jurymen other than the five who had been finally accepted Judge Chamberlin today attempted to save time by questioning some of the prospective jurors himself. He went into "the matter of how firmly fixed the opinion of prospective jurymen as to the guilt or innocence of McCray might be. He indicated he was not desposed to excuse jurors unless they felt It (Continued on page two) SPEEDER HITS TRACTION CAR Section Crew Narrowly Escapes Serious Injuries In Collision Five members of the section crewon the Decatur-Fort Wayne Interurban line narrowly escaped serious injpries about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon when the gasffline speeder on which they were riding crashed head on into a freight traction car In the blinding snow storm near Stop No. 10, north of this city. The men escaped Injury by jumping from the speed er Just before the crash. The section crew was coming south toward this city and the freight car was switching cars of crushed atone near Stop No. 10. Neither the speeder nor the freight car were traveling raphlly. but the motorman and men on the gpceder were unable to see each other until only a few feet separated them The men all jumped to safety, escaping with only minor hrulaea and sprains received In alightIng on the frozen ground. The speeder was rendered useless anil it will be two days before It is fully repair rd. —.. . .. Weather Cloudy tonight, preceded by snowin northeast portion; Saturday fair.! Not much chnnge In temperature. j

SCHOOL HICKS NOT EXEMPTED Secretary Os State Says Township-Owned Trucks Must Have License Peru. Ind.. March 21 R-uently Chief of p0'.1.-e Doss called upon Homer Jenkins, trustee for Peru township i and notified him that he would have !to purchase license platen for the 1 township school hacks. Jenkins ! laughed at the order and presented j the police chief with a letter he had received from the state examiner to ; the effect that It was not necessary j for township owned school*lu cks to I have state licenses. Doss then got into communication with Secretary of State Jackson and Wednesday afternoon received word from Jackson to the effect that township-owned school I hacks were not exempt from state I licenses as a law relative to exemptI ing school hacks had been declared | invalid. Chief of Police Doss Informled Trustee Jenkins Wednesday afternoon that he would either have to purchase licenses for the trucks or ' submet to arrest. In the opinion of local officials. - school hacks operated by the different townships were exempt under the i new motor vehicle law passed in 1923 but since Its repeal, the township trucks may have to have a license for all cars used in transporting the children to and from school. If the | rilling of Secretary of State Ed. Jackson is upheld it will cost th • differ ent townships in the state several hundred dollars in fees. Manv Magazines Banned Throughout State Today Indianapolis. Mar. 21 —(Special to Daily Deoiocrat) A state wide ban <on sale cf certain types of fiction . tnagaaines. appioxiinately 2.1 in number, was ordered today by Attorney General Lesh. Prosecuting attorneys of all counties in the state will b<- notified at - once to bring action against any persons selling the magazines. I -Included in the list are "Whiz Bang." "True Romances." “1 confess" - and "Hot Dog." ,I “Self respecting news dealers will refuse to handle these or other like ? publications." Lesh said. 1 The otder was issued on request of jthe state Parent-Teachers association ADULT SPELLING MATCH PLANNED Champion Adult Speller In County To Be Selected April 25th i After much persuasion. County ''Superintendent. K C Christen finally i agreed to head a committee to organise a county adult "Spelling Bee”. I Any adult twenty-five years of age or Jabove may enter. The township and , corporation spellivi; match will be 'held Friday evening, April IH. Th • . I county match will Ox- held one week , later. April 25, The township chair- ., man will be held responsible for his > township organization He will select . his own meeting place end will do - everything to make the proposed J match succeasftil Teacher*, minisJ ter*, farmers, trustees, doctor*, ati torney* at law. merchants, clltors. ■ etc., are urged to take part. • ' The township uhd corporation ■ chairman ary ns follow*: I; Preble, K'l Frtiechte; Root. Cal I Kunkel; I’nlon. ('. S Numrn*; ' Kirkland, Milt Zimmerman; Wash- '! Ington. Glenn Cowan; St. Marys. ' Iton Colter; P’rrmh. D A. Baum ' gartner. Monroe. Thurman Gnttschalk. Blue creek. Charles F*a«e|; Hartford. W. t) Shoemaker; Wa--1 hash. A Harlow; Jefforoon. Will Kerr; Geneva, Krnueth Shoemaker: 1 Berne. Menno Burkhalter; De<-:ititr. C L Walters Superintendent christen baa asked i the three city anil town Superln'en I dent* tn assist him In conducting the I county contest Rulo* »«t»«l regulal tinn» will be published ami mailed llaten

REPLACES LENROOT L JF I *J I f" / t ’i J* i £- SENATOR S. P. SPENCER Washington. I). C. This photo shows Senator Selden P. Spencer of Missoni I. who replaces Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin *bn the public lands committee in Washington This is the body that is investigating the Teapot Dome oil scandal. Senator Lenroot was forced to I resign because of ill health.

SPRING GETS t SNOWY GREETING Calendar Says Today Is Second Day Os Spring; Many Douhters To know that today is the second offi< ial day of Spring, just look at the : Calender. If in doubt, as you glance*, out .doors, just call it winter, for the j eight or nine inches of snow which j ■overs the ground and is still falling 1 fast I- good evidence for an argument that it's a real winter day. According to the United States | weather bureau. Spring officially ar- : rived at 3:28 Thursday afternoon It ' itarted to snow yesterday at about I the time spring oglcially arrived and’ I the flury continued during neatly the I entire night. Between eight and nine o'clock this morning the snowfall was ’ heavier. At eleven o'clock this morn ing the thermonter stood around the 35 degree above mark. The snow melted to some exteut. but the blanket on the ground today In without doubt one of the heaviest in re ent years. Trains were delayed a little. Not many automobiles were seen. The I mail carriers started dut front the local ponlofflce ut the regular time vnd each one hoped to complete his •rip la-fore late this afternoon. The harbingers of spring were lacking today, the boys could not shoot marbles, galoshe*. boots and even skis. If thev were to be bad. hav,- taken the place of roller skates ; and the birds were thankful for the crumb* thrown out of the window. I 5.7 Inches At Indisnapoli* Indianapolis. March 21- Spting was I urtiered Into Indiana in c< mpany with one of the heaviest ano* storms of thtyea’ • '10" liM-al weather h-trac’i Deported [ * MOW toll of 5.7 Inch** hetwwn noon y t -”d:.v and 7 o'clock this mor-ting.| a record tor the winter for that l--ngth of time. Public utilities and transportation | companies were seriously handicap-1 |H-rf by the Storm. Clear weather was predicted late totlay and Saturday. Heavy Snow At Chicago Chicago. March 21. Several Imhes; of snow blanketed Chicago on the secon day of spring Snow continues lo ! full and th” weather forecaster today [ said he expc't-ted it to continue throughout the d»y. A heavy precipitation was reported from outlying districts. Paris, til. reported the worst blizzard of (he sea *nn. with transportation facilities tied tip Chinese figure* are used on all types of sport clothes this -«•»« .on. They arc also used to decorate < tolldr> n‘* smocks und play suits.

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WITNESS TELLS OF PURCHASE OF LIQUOR PERMITS Paid $200,000 For Permits To Withdraw Liquor From Warehouses SINCLAIR WINS POINT Questioning Os Oil Magnate Is Halted Temporarily This Afternoon (Unite*! Presß Stuff Corroepondent) It was a tlay of sensations in the <iil scandal and the investigation of Attorney General Daugherty. John Goroni. New York provided the big thrill of the day with his storv of handling $200,000 which he said was paid over by New York bootleggers tn »»<•! Derniils lor withdrawals of liquor from warehouses. 'lbe Overholt distillery nt Pittsburg remited to lu- owned or controlled bv the MeOon interests figured in this testimony |->s did the name of "Bill ’ Flynn former head of the department 1 of hist ice secret service. Goroni's story was a recital of ".splitting money" among many fixers i and he said that one of these told him Jesse Smith got a share and I that a special assistant attorney gt-n---i oral named L'Esperance also benefit- * i'd Dismissal of L'Esperawce from , the department of justice was at once 1 tb-mautb'd by couuniUaa member*. Martin W. Littleton appearing as counsel for Harry F Sinclair before the oil committee put a temporary i stop to the committees plans for I quizzing Sinclair for the sixth time j by challenging its rights to ask him j any more questions. Though a msiority of the committee scoffed at Littleton’s opposition action was i postponed until tomorrow. Littleton’s action brought a broad- ! side In the senate from Senator Dill | who charged Littleton was trying to stifle the investigation. Will H. Hay*, former postmaster ' general and chairman of the republican national committee in the 1920 cam|>aign arrived in Washington today to tell the nil committee whether he got 75.000 shares of Sinclair oil stock to help pay off the 1920 cam puign deficite. Washington. Mar. 21 - (Special tn i Daily Democrat)— Harry F. Sinclair, [long Hll“nt lessee of Teapot Dome, was calhsl before the senate oil committee today to see if he will vohin I toer any Information concerning: 1--His 225.000 "loan" to former ' Secretary of the Interior Fall from i whom he obtained the lease. 2 - Rumors that he gave Will Hays j and Attorney General Daugherty a [ large block of oil stock to help make I up the 21.000.000 deficit of the repubI th an party after the Inst presidential II timpalgn. 3-If he had any understanding with Fall and the standard Oil company of Indiana about obtaining the lease Jtrnt as s<w»n as Fall took office. 4 Why he paid off several million dollar* -for alleged claims to Teapot Dome after the cairns had been inI validated and why the Imoks of hl* Corporation invsterionsly disappear** The general impression of the- Invostlgators is that Sinclair will re- ' ruse to testify at nil on the ground Dial any of hla answers might proIndio- hla defense of the government I suit which has been instituted pi-ninst him. If Sinclair refuses 40 give the ox planation deaired, the committee ha" no resort except to go on with other wltnoaaes. When Sinclair was culled to the i s'-’nd Martin W Littleton, hl* counsel. uuki-d permission nf the committee tn present an argument showing ' why fiinelalr believed he should be oxctiaed from further testimony. Th” I committee told him tn go ahead "In all his five prevtoua appear{ancea before this commltteo Mr. Sin clair has produced any drAuments [ desired,” Lllttoton a*id. "On hl* laat | (Continued on Pogo ttffht)