Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1924 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

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(Ilf SCHOOLS MAKE INCREASE IN enrollment U * Enrollment more AREEXPECTED High School Classes Elect Officers; Charles Bremer Heads Seniors Enrollment in the public schools ' 0 , neeatur this year increased about rtirty pupils over the 1923-24 enroll-, ' ent according to figures announced , . i.v M F Worthman, superintendent of the city schools. The high tools, each of the ward buildings ,nd the Central building all reported Xt m-ease. The total enrollment today was 995 and according to the attendance officer, more will enroll next Monday. ' A gain of one is reported at the high school, there being 241 pupils enrolled this fall, to date, Last year the high school enrollment at the beginning of the year was 240. The enrollment at the other buildings is as follows: North Ward. 123; South Ward 118: Riley building. 117; and Central Building. 396. There is ‘one post-graduate student in the high school. Miss .Testeen Hocker, who was graduated last pring. being enrolled in the commercial department. The organization of the different classes in the Decatur high school has been completed, and already plans are being made for various class activities during the fall and winter. Senior Officers Charles Breiner. captain of the football team and a popular student, was elected president of the senior class. The other senior officers are Don Hunsaker. vice-president; Mary Macklin, sasetary; Glenn Beavers, treasurer; and James Leonard, custodian. Miss Agnes Sellemeyer, guardian of last year’s senior class, was chosen guardian of the seniors this year. Junior Officers Robert Macklin was elected preident of the junior class. The other officers are: Lloyd Beal, vice-presi-dent; P. Krugh, treasurer; J. Anderson. secretary; and Doyle Johnson, custodian. Miss Josephine Myers was chosen class guardian. Sophomore Officers Miss Gretchen Schafer was elected president of the ophomores. The other officers are: Mary K. Scht’g, vice-president: Harold Zwick. . ”-e---tary; Joe Bebout, treasurer, and Edward Anderson, custodian. Miss June Ossenberg was chosen class guardian. Freshman Officers Billy Bell was elected president of the freshmen. The other officers are: | Chester Brandyberry, vice-president; Helen Haubold, secretary; Betty Erwin. treasurer; and Ruth Hammond, custodian. Ralph Tyndall was chosen class guardian. -— o BASEBALL SCORES American eague Boston, 0; Cleveland. 0. (one inning.) National League Pittsburgh, 3; Brooklyn, 1 (three innings.) St. Louis, 3; Boston. 0. (five innings.) f incinnati. 1; Philadelphia, 1. (two innings.) ( I’lcago. 0; New York, 5. (two innings.) o Bank Bandits Get $30,000 In Cash St. Louis Sept. 19—(Special to Da!y Democrat)—Six bandits held U P the Wellston Trust company in I p suburb of Wellston here today a minutes after it opened for busi-■‘-s. <leaned the vault and cages of ctween $25,000 and $30,000 in cash, and escaped. , Mrs. Ray Smith Undergoes An Abdominal Operation Mrs. uay Smith, of east of the city, ■distant rural route carrier at the c<atur postoffice, who was operatipon at the Adams County Mem>a hospital yesterday, i s resting > today and it is thought that she continue to improve. Mrs. Smith 1180^7'' nl 3 ma^or operation. She . ' n suffering from abdominal troui ' e for several years.

Pastor Held On Charge Or Murdering His Wife • - Mount Vernon, 111., Sept. 19. Rev. Lawrence \l Hight, 46, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Ina, village ten miles south of here, today waived preliminary hearing on a < harge of murdering his wife with arsenic. He will be held in the Jefferson county jail here without bail on the first degree murder charge preferred by a coronet's jury until October 13. when the grand jury will take up the case. Meantime. Coroner Jess Reese, who ordered the analysis of the viscera of his wife, which showed the presence ot poison, started a post mortem into the mysterious death seven weeks ago of Wilbur Sweetin, a n dghbor of Rev. High*. o G. E. BANQUET HERE TONIGHT Employes And Officers Os Local Plant To Hold Get-Together Meet A banquet and general get-to gether meeting of the officers and employes of the Decatur Works of the General Electric company will be held this evening, beginning at 6:30 o’clock at the K. of C. hall It is expected that between 235 and 240 employes of the local plant will attend. Waiter Goll, manager of the Fort Wayne Works will deliver the principal address following the banquet. E A. Barnes, assistant manager and superintendent, and J. H. Evans also of the Fort Wayne works will deliver talks during the evening Eno Lankenau superintendent of the Decatur plant will preside as chairman during the evening. Music will be furnished by the G. E. orchestra ami Howard Freeman. Howard Miller and Paul Speigel. of Fort Wayne, will favor the crowd, .with siugiim. Joe Lose, of this city, will be in charge of serving and preparing the banquet. Chicken and other good things to eat will be served. It is an annual custom of the General Electric company to give a banquet or event of some kind for t’he employes of the local plant. Last year the members of the Decatur works went to Fort Wayne where a dance and other picnic was given for them. o ADAIR TO RETURN TO THIS COUNTY T<r Make Addresses Here, At Berne, Geneva And Linn, Grove John A. M. Adair of Portland, will return to Adams county for three more political meetings the latter part of next week and the first of the week following. He has accepted dates in this county as follows: At Linn Grove, Saturday evening. September 27th. At Berne. Monday evening. September 29th. At Geneva. Wednesday evening October Ist. Plans to make each of these meetings as large as possible are now being made. Mr. Adair i,s seeking elec tion to congress and has a promise and a message that every voter in the district should hear. Later he will spend several days in the north part of the county, speaking in this city and in ono or two places in the north tier of townships. His meet 1 ings over the district have been well I attended and the old time enthusiasm is shown towards him. Plans to start the general speaking campaign in this county are also ' being made. It is thought the first • message in’ this city will be held the datter part of next week at headquarters, and the week following I there will be a number of meetings scheduled over the county. Hon. D. 1 B. Erwin, democratic candidate for judge will speak at lea'st once in each township. A large crowd gathered at democratic headquarters last evening to hear the John W. Davis speech in . Chicago by radio. The speech was clear cut and forceful and the en- . thusiasm of the audience many times drowned out the speaker.

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» CHICAGO—The above photo shows Bernard Grant and his attorney, Lewis Hauschild. as they appeared in court. Friends of Grant and the American Legion an making a new plea to save him. He has engaged Clarence S Darrow to lead his defense.

CONSTITUTION IS DISCUSSED — Judge J. J. Moran, Os Port-' land. Speaks To Rotarians Last Night Judge James J. Moran, of Portland, former president of the Indiana Bar Association, delivered an excellent talk to the Rotarians on the Ameri- i can Constitution, at their regular , meeting last evening. This week is known as Constitution Week in Indiana. It was 137 years ago on the seventeetj) day of September - that the Constitution of the United States was signed by a majority of the representatives from the different states. Judge Moran told how the state legislatures of the thirteen orginal states ratified the constitution. His- i tory recalls that it took tour years ! for the state to ratify the action of the first congress. “The anniversary of the adoption of this wonderful document, the‘bulwark of American government, liberty, freedom and happiness is therefore being observ•ed throughout the country.” said Jr . e toran, “and it is gratifying to me to see so much interest taken in the subject here in Decatur.” Judge Moran recalled that the first document adopted, around which the principles of the organic law is form*ed, was the Magna Charter, which the English Barons, forced King John of, England to sign in 1215. This was a constitution of rights and privileges, said the judge. Judge Moran in his : eloquent and instructive manner dwelt on the Constitution and expressed the desire to see a more gen-1 eral practice of the reading and studying of the patriotic speeches of Patrick Henry. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and others of the American forefathers who had so much to do in bringing about the establishing of our government. In many places throughout the state the entire week is being given to the subject of the American Constitution and programs are being held in connection with it. o Boy Blamed For Robbery At Knapp Hardware Store Po’ice officers are investigating a robbery at the H. Knapp & Son hardware store which occtired Wednesday n'ght. he robbery is believed to have been the work of boys. En-, trance was gained through a rear| window. The loot taken included ai few pennies, a Winchester rifle, a few pocket knives and one or two ’ flash lights. Auto Bandits Sentenced Brazil, Ind., Sept. 19.—Three Terre ] Haute men were sentenced today in the Clay county circuit court to 10 to 25 years in the state prison for auto > banditry. i The three men, Bruce Ireland, 26: i Leland Swift. 27: and Piapero Gatal- ■ 10, 35, were captured at Clinton Wed- ; nesday night and entered pleas of guilty today.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 19, 1924.

LEGION ELECTS JAMES A. WAIN District Os Columbia Man Elected National Commander Today (United Press Service) St. Pual, Minn.. Sept. 19.—James A. Drain. District of Columbia was elected national commander of the I American Legion today. He succeeds John R. Quinn of California. After the first ballot which showed an overwhelming majority for Drain, the vote was made unanimous. Drain won over John Rea McQuigg of Cleveland and Edwin E. Spafford, of New York, the only three nominated. The vote was: Drain 715: McQuigg 139; Spafford 96. Absent 21. The vote had not been tallied when Spafford of New York rose and moved that the election of Drain be made unanimous. A Nebraska band played (Continued On Page Four) PLAN MEETING AT LINN GROVE Larire Crowd Expected At Dairy And Sugar Beet Booster Meeting Linn Grove, Sept. 19. — (Special to Daily Democrat)—A large crowd of farmers, dairymen and business men are expected to attend the meeting to be held here next Wednesday night, September 24. for the purpose of boosting the dairy and sugar beet industry in this community. The meeting will be held in the school building. Several speakers will be present to i discuss the different phases of sugar ' beet growing and dairying. Mr. roth. of the Jersey Record Association. is expected to speak relative to the importance of the use of dairy breeding stock of high producing ability. Four reels of moving pictures will be shown, three of which are entitled. “Tale of Two Bulls.” “Seeing Washington, D. C.,“ ami “From Seed to Sugar Beet.” Another reel relative to sugar beets will be shown. Refreshments will be served by a Im ai committee. The public is cordi- | ally invited to attend the meeting. 1 World Flyers Hon Off For Dallas, Texas, Today Muskogee. Okla.. Sept. 19— (Special to Daily Democrat) —The American round the world flyers hopped ofl from Hatbox field Muskogee at 12:34 1 p. m. today for their 225 mile hop tc / Dallas' Texas. I Weather Thunder showers tonight and Sat ’ urday; warmer tonight and in north east portion.

DAVIS MAKES HIT IN SPEECH TO iIHICADDANS ! Leaders Sav He Will Carry Illinois. Following Speech ‘ Last Night ’ A ROUSING SPEECH • Candidate Reaches Peak Os Camnaign Form; At Ft. Wayne Saturday (By Fraser Edwards) (U. P. Staff Correspondent) • Chicago. Sept. 19.—A1l doubt in the minds of Democratic leaders as to the appeal John W. Davis would make to Chicago voters was swept away today and they assured the Democratic standard bearer that he would carry Illinois With the direction of bedlam set up last night by the stockyards crowd when Davis declared himself for the preservation of personal liberty still ringing in their ears, George Brennan democratic boss of Illinois, and his cohorts set to work to make good their promise. Since coming weSt, Davis has had many large and enthusiastic audiences including the monster demonstration at Bum eton. Mo., but none can compare in volume of noise and wholehearted approval of utterances to that in the south side stock yards district. Davis himself reached the peak of his campaign forms. Unhampered byeven notes, and with responsive cheers urging him on. he delivered the most rousing speech of his campaign. He struck the keynote when he mentioned personal liberty in summing up what ’’loo per cent. Americanism" meant to him. It was instantly interpreted by the crowd as a declaration for modification of the Volstead act. Shouts of “We want beer; give us ’ beer. Johany,” went up all over the great hall that held 12.ft00 people. It was five minutes before Davis could proceed. “I am glad to see that there is life in the old words yet.” said Davis, as he proceeded to expound his view on freedom of religious worship and freedom from unlawful search and seizure. His declarations on these guarantee under the ‘bill of rights” of the constitution caught the imagination of the crowd. The former was accepted as a denunciation of the Ku Klux i Klan and the latter as bearing on the 1 enforcement of the dry law and an- • other demonstration followed. Throughout his speech. Davis blistered all things republican. One by t one he took up the actions of President Coolidge—the bonus, postal salaries and old pension bills, the passage of the Fordney-McCumber tariff , act and the attempt to enact the Mel- ’ lon tax plan —and asked if these were i “achievements,” and the crowd shout- , ed back “no.” The crowd with delight at the [ mere mention of Teapot Dome and . rocked with laughter as Davis pictured ex-Secretary Fall as the leader of a band of buccaneers with Sinclair and Doheny as his lieutenants. , The name of Woodrow Wilson, r whom Davis credited with aiding the cause of Irish freedom by his self-de-termination pronouncement, was , loudly applauded. K Davis rested today and nursed his , right arm, which he said was “wounded in the battle of Bunceton.” ! Tonight he speaks at Gary. Ind,, immediately returning to Chicago. ? Saturday he begins his trip eastward [ with speeches at South Bend and Ft. Wayne. Ind., arriving in New York Sunday night. He will rest for few , v days before beginning his eastern j campaign. The only date yet fixed is a speech at Baltimore on October Ist. o v New Craigville Pastor To Preach Next Sunday ii n Rev. IL D. Meaks. newly appointed ff pastor of the Uraigville IT. B. circuit, ;0 will preach Sunday morning at Lano caster; at Craigville in the afternoon at 2:30, and at Tocsin in the evening. “ Rev. Meaks comes well recommended as a successful pastor In tlje various fields he has occupied. Rev. L. B. Sharpe, who has been t- pastor of the circuit for the past year i- will go to Laketon, Indiana where he has been assigned.

Water Being Lowered In Reservoir At Celina —— Celina, Ohla, Sept. 19.—Despite vigorous prote-ts from citizens of St. Marys the work of lowering the water line in the Grand reservior is proceeding slowly, the greatest care being taken to protect the legion of fish In the great hotly of water. Already over a foot of water has been drawn off and before the work is completed the waterstage will be lowered about two feet below “normal." The purpose for lowering the water a< stated before, is to make possible the building of a ecm rete pier into the reservoir at Edgewater park with a view to protecting the beach and banks at that point from further erosion from the dashing waves. VISITS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS HERE Representative Os Catholic University Os America Makes Inspection Rev. L. L. McVey. Ph. I), front the Catholic University of America. Washington, D. C. visited St. Joseph's grade-school and I). (’. H. S. on September 17 and 18. D. C. H. S. is among the number of schools afliiliated to the Catholic Unievrsity and Fr. McVey visited it in the capacity of inspector of such schools. He pronounced himself highly pleased with the standard of the affiliated high schools in this sectian of the United States, in general and that of D. C. H. S. in particular. He said that for enthusiasm and school spirit our school ranks first among the more than two hundred schools inspected by him during the past year. He commented very favorably upon the high grade of sportsmanship exhibited by the boys during a football practice which he was pleased to attend. In his address to the students of the high school, he said in part. "The reputation of your school lies in your hands. With you rests the responsibility to make or mar it. From what I have observed. I am confident that it will be the .former, anil that the school is safe in your hands. Keep it so. Ai mto make it rank ever high er in the list of affiliated schools in every regard. “I had the pleasure of witnessing your football practice, and noted in particular your splendid team work, (Continued On Page Four I HALLY DAY AT MONROE SUNDAY Methodist Church Plans To Observe Annual Event Next Sunday Monroe, Sept. 19.—(Special to - Daily Demomcrat)— Rally Day will be I observed in the services of the local ' Methodist church Sunday. Rally f Day in an annual event in the church r and special efforts are made to have a large attendance at all services on • that day. B The services will open with the '' Sunday School, starting al 9:3d a. in. s Members of the church will bring wellfilled baskets and a basket din9 ner will be enjoyed aat noon. 7 li“ public is invited to enjoy the dinner. At 2 o’clock a meeting of the Junior " League will be held and at 2:40 p. m.. >• the members! of the Junior League (1 will take part in a parade to be given L by the band. All children are invited k to take part in this stwice. The Epv worth League service will be held a! II (J p. m. and preaching service at 7 p. 1 m. r The program to be given during forenoon is as follows: Song, by the congregation. Instrumental duet, by Mrs. Mabel r ’ Meyers and Miss Electa Oliver. A word of welcome to new scholars and visitors, by Manas Lehman. Song, mail 1 quartet. Address, “What the Sunday School has meant to Me,” L. W. Busche. Song. Mrs. Dr Miller. Address. “What the Church Means ; to me." Mrs. Sadie Scherer. , Violin solo, by Miss Eileen Bliss. i Address. “The Three fofil Missior • of the Sunday School, the pastor. • Closing song. Benediction.

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DEFENSE LINE NEAR SHANGHAI IS CRUMBLING Advance Guard Os Attackers Breaks Through Line Late Today BATTLE IS FURIOUS Battle For City Believed To Have Reached A Critical Stage (Cnlted Press Service) Shanghai. Sept. 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Yuan’s victorious troops cracked the crumbling defenses of General Lu Yung Hsiang before Shanghai at night fall today and an advance guard of some 500 soldiers broke through the line at Kading. Reinforcements momentarily repulsed the attack at this point, but the battle raged into the night with increased fury and was believed to have reached a critical stage. Ail day long the heavy artillery of the attacking army kept hammering at Lu’s defenses. The Che Kiant commander took up headquarters four miles outside the city. Washington. Sept. 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) — Americans and other foreigners in the foreign settlement of Shanghai are believed here to be in no danger, despite the expected capture of the city by Kiang Su troops today. The only anxiety felt is for a possible outbreak of an oriental epidemic in the crowded native city, which might spread to the foreign quarter with serious results. More than 3.000 Americans, 8 000 Europeans and 15.000 Japanese make their homes in the foreign settlement. Osaka. Sept. 19—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The battle of the north has begun at Shan Hai Kwan, gateway city in the great wall of China, where Chng Tso Lin’s Manchurian forces are encountering the Chi Li troops of Wu Pei Fu, according to the Osaka Mainichi’s correspondent. Chang’s airplanes which bombed Shan Hai Kwan are reported to be , taking an active part in the battle. o I Brother And Sister Held Under Mann Act I United Press Service) Cincinnati. 0.. Sept. 19—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Henry Elmer Scott. 20, and his sister. Marguerite, ’ 17. of St Louis, with their two rosy cheeked illegitimate children appeared today before Thomas M. Gregory. federal commissioner and were ) held to the grand jury on a charge of violating the Mann act. “Do you love your sister-wife?” Gregcry askr'd Scott. “She's not my wife, she’s my sis- ° ter.” Scott replied, “We were never ! married and don’t want to be." . Marguerite is a pretty little bobbed blonde. She sat in the hearing with her six weeks’ old baby on her lap e and the other child. 14 months, at her n side. Both of the babies are fair like their mother. “Our folks never taught us right ' when we were little ” Marguerite explained. The Scotts said their parents, left ’ them in a St. Louis orphanage where they were reared. q'he girl-mother and. the babies were 'turned over to the Cinicinnnti home for the friendless. Scot) was placed in jail in default, of $2,500 bond. — o Bluffton Man Honored (Pniteil Pless Service) Indianapolis, Sept. 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —L. HaTnter Knapp, of Bluffton, today was mimed eighth district, chairman of the Indiana republican first voters club. o — 1 Moves Radiator Repair Shop To Bluffton 8 — Hugh M. Souders, who has conducted a radiator repair shop on n North First street for the last two I years, has moved his shop to Bluffton and is now located on Main street.