Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1924 — Page 1

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grant wins step in fight for life

KITTLE FRONT I IS EIGHT MILES I MSHANGHAI ■ Chinese ( it? Today I CAPTURE expected ■ Citv Expected to Fall Into I Attackers’ Hands By I Tomorrow I Shanghai. Sept. 20.—(7 p.m.). ■-Victorious Kiangsu troops, ■ continuing the drive on Shang- ■ hai were within eight miles of ■ the city this evening. I Forces of General Lu > ung ■ Hsiang, attempting to hold ■ Shanghai against the (hekiang I armies, fell back slowly throughI out the dav, but contested every I inch of ground stubbornly. There I was a continuous roar of artillI ery fire throughout the afterI noon, as the Giangsu troops adI vanced under cover of a barrage. I The Kiangsu troops were on the outI skirts of the suburb of Nanziang at I the hour this telegram is filed and i continued to advance. Kiangsu airplanes flew over Shanghai and capture of the city was expected by the attacking armies by tomorrow. Hordes of refugees, including many deserting Chekiang soldiers, poured into the city an dthere was indications of a dangerous panic as night fall came on. The guard around the international -jtxui and the French eoncssalQJJ was reinforced again by additional Russian ex-soldiers, who were armed from stores of the Shanghai volunteers. Barbed wire entanglements which were thrown up about the refugees of the foreign colony during the afternoon' were electrified and searchlights kept playing on strategic points. Admiral Anderson, in command of the international forces protecting the big foreign colony, ordered all defense forces to be kept fully mobilized day and night. Foreign warships in the harbor has steam up and were stripped for action. There are 25 foreign war vessels in 'he port, including a number oi «a.erican ships. Pekin, china. Sept. 20—“ War to the finish." With this edict. General Wu Pei Fu started his campaign against Chang Tso Lin the Manchurian war lord tofay. announcing the fight will last unit Manchurian has been brought under control of the central government and Chang crushed. Mu received foreign correspon?t his headquarters and an(Continued on Page Five) o — HIYENJOY ■ G.EBANQUET Two Hundred And Forty People Attend Affair Here Last Night Two hundred forty people enjoyed je banquet was given last evening >’ ’he local General Electric Comn.n' at the Kn, Ehts of Columbus d ■ Walter Goll, manager of the °rt Wayne Works, gave the prinPal address on "Problems of the n.pany. Mr. g Ilarnes, who is ' ’'stant manager and superintend'v„' aDd JH ' Evans ' also of the Fort 1 >’ n * works, gave short talks. nn»iH War<l Fren,an explained the profor T ° f ,he plan of compensation « all employees, which the local CUSSin P anS *° take UP ' An ° Pen dis ' given n " aS he'd and employees oninio a " Opportllnit X to voice their chttr ' / fter the orfor* W 10Cal P ‘ ant furnißhed Freem. , 1 le dan dng. Howard Pam « ° War<l Mll,er and Pai ‘l dnrin ' Plegel Sallg Bever “l selections auri ng the evening.

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William Allen White Enters Governor’s Race (United Press Service) Topeka. Kan., Sejit. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —With the avowed purpose of freeing Kansas ‘‘from the disgrace of the Ku Klux Klan." William Allen White, noted Kansas editor, today formally filed him candidacy for governor on an Independent ticket. Hurling his denunciation straight at the hooded order, the Emporia editor charged the klan with being a "nation-wide menace; a hooded band of fanatics.” r White's petition bore more than 5.000 names. In his statement. White charged Ben Paulen. republican gubernatorl iai candidate and Governor Jonathan M. Davis, democratic nominee, with evading the klan issue which he declares is the outstanding one in Kansas. THAINING SCHOOL TO OPEN MONDAY Many Sunday School Teachers To Enroll In Community School The Decatur Community Standard Training school will open for its first semester next Monday evening, September 22. The course will continue until December 8. The sessions will be held from 7:15 until 9:30 p.m. "Every Teacher Trained,” is the motto of the school, which has for its purpose the training of Sunday School teachers and other religious workers. Each Sunday school in the city has someone appointed to lake enrollments for the training school. The school will be held in the Central school building corner of Third and Jefferson streets. There will be one session a week, meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday’s of the month and on Monday evenings of the other weeks. This arrangement has been made so as to make it possible for members of the Woman's Club to attend. The churches and pastors and superintendents are enthusiastically backing up the school A number of rural churches are planning to send in students. Some of the churches are paying one-half of the yearly enrollment which is $2. It is expected the enrollment will run close to 100. Those with limited education will be able to do successful work. A splendid faculty has been selected comprising the following: Rev. U. S. A. Bridge, of M. E. church; Rev. B. N. Covert, of the Presbyterian; Mrs. Frank Downs; Henry B. Heller; Rev. W. W. Thompson, of the Christian church, and Rev. F. D. Whitesell. of the Baptist church. The following is the schedule for the fall semester. Time. Subject 7; 15—8:05 I. Intro, to the Old estament. 7:15—8:05 11. A Study of the Pupil. 7:15—8:05 111. The Life of Christ. 8:10—8:35 Chapel (for all students) 8:40—9:30 I. A Study of the Beginner, Primary and Junior Child. 8 40—9:30 11. A study of Adolesence. (For teachers of pupils, 12—24). 8:40—9:30 111. Organization and Management. — —o Base Ball Scores National League St. Louis, 0; Boston. 1. (first game) Chicago, 3; New York. 1. (seven innings) Cincinnati, 8; Philadelphia. 3 (six innings). Pittsburgh, 3; Brooklyn. 4. (five innings.) St .Louis, 1: Boston, 2 (five innings of second game) American League Philadelphia, 7; Chicago, 4. American Association Indianapolis, 1; Milwaukee, 0 (three innings).

MOTHER DIES IN FT, WAYNE Mother Os Albert Gage, Os This City, Died Os Cancer, Friday Mrs. Frances Isabelle Miller, age 67 years, mother of Albert Gage, of this city died at her home, 715 Broadway. Fort Wayne, at 1:30 o'clock Friday morning, following an illness of eleven months of cancer. She was born in Mendon. Michigan, and hail lived in Fort Wftne for 36 years. She was a member of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Rosary society. Sacred Heart League Ladles’ auxiliary of Typographical union, and the American Insurance union. Surviving are the husband. Edward: two sons, Albert Gage, of this city, and Louis B Gage, of Fort Wayne; one daughter. Mrs. H L. Archbold, of Ogdon. Utah: ten grandchildren: four brothers. Andrew, Gilbert. Fred and Alfred Nedeau. and two sisters, Mrs. Elmer Schot tand Mrs. Alice Bardshow. Funeral services with be held Monday morning at 9 o’clock at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Burial in the Catholic cemetery. Local Men Take Tour Into Ohio And Michigan Fred Isch and Alfred Isch. two well known Adams county farmers, together with William H. Simpson and E. J. Fricke, of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar company, returned yesterday afternoon from a motor trip through northern Ohio and Michigan. The party left here early last Weduescisy murnUig. -They visited the cities of Toledo Ohio. Detroit. Saginaw, St. Louis and Jackson, Mich., and many large sugar beet farms. The Adams county men declare that the soil in this county is superior to the soil in Michigan and that this many and fine beets as that country, community can easily produce as 0 Railway Company And Train Crew Blamed (United Press Service) Indianapolis. Sept. 20. —The Wabash railroad company, the conductor and brakeman of the freight train into which a crack passenger train from St. Louis crashed near Williamsport. Ind., on June 1. were held jointly responsible for the accident in a report macle public today by the Indiana public service commission. Fourteen persons were killed and fifty-four were injured in the wreck. o World Flyers On Hop To El Paso, Texas, Today Sweetwater, Texas, Sept. 20. — (Special to Daily Democrat) — The American world flyers landed here today to replenish their oil supply in readiness for the 600 mile dash across the Sparsely populated country to Elpaso. Love Field, Dallas. Tex. Sept. 20— The army around the world flyers hopped off here at 9:30 this morning on their 625 mile flight to El Paso. Lieut Lowell Smith, flight counmander, said he expected to reach El Paso by 5 o’clock this afternoon. Weather conditions were reported favorable along the route of the flight. o Thurman Gottschalk Won Touring Car Here Today The Chevrolet touring car. valued at $570. which was awarded by the Decatur* merchants today was won by Thurman Gottschalk, prominent citizen of Berne and state represent ative from Adams and Wells counties. The ticket was number B--491363 and was given out by the Decatur Lumber company. A Large crowd attended the drawing The next gift distribution wlil be held on October 25. at which time coupon books and cash totalling S4OO will be given away. _ o. Mrs. Ed Spangler, of Preble township. spent the day here shopping.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 20, 1924.

| Session Os League Os ’ Nations May Be Continued ' BULLETIN (By Henry Wood) Geneva. Sept. 20.—The present session of the assembly of the league of * nations may continue in session until after September 27. the proposed date of adjournment, in order to complete its work of framing a world treaty of arbitration security and disarmament. President Motta announced today. With success apparently about to crown their efforts to obtain a basis for prevention of future wars, league ' leaders bent their energy toward push--1 ing through final details of the program proposed by Premier Mac Don ' aid of England and Herriot of France before the end of the 1924 assembly. There was an atmosphere of decid--1 e<l optimism as the league's commissions resumed their work today. RE-ELECT BELL AS MODERATOR Decatur Man Chosen Mod- ' erator Os Baptist Church Association This Week C. E. Bell, of this city who is now in England looking after business interests for the La Fountain Handle company, was re-elected moderator of the Salamonie Baptist church as- ■ sociatj'on at the convention held at Dunkirk this week More than 200 delegates from the twelve churches in the district, including the Decatur delegates, attended the meeting and Muncie was selected as the 1925 meeting place. An address by Miss Mary Phillips, a returned missionary from Burma, featured the closing program. Other officers besides Mr. Bell are. Roy Henderson, Montpelier, vicemoderator; W. E. Wagner, Newcastle. treasurer. Mr. Bell was elected moderator of the Salatnonie district a year ago and his services dur.ng the past year are greatly appreciated by members of the association. o Dorwin And Steele Pledge To Fraternity Deane Dorwin and Ervin Steele, two well known Decatur high school athletes who enrolled as freshmen in Franklin College this fall, have been pledged to the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Both youths are basketball and thrack athletes of no mean ability. o IMPROVE BERNE 'PHONE SERVICE •Citizens’ Telephone Co. Is Quick To Grant Wish Os Berne Patrons Herne, Sept. 20—The petition that has been passed and signed among local business firms for better long distance telephone service from the Decatur Citizen’s Telephone Co., was met with almost sudden response. Thanks to the company for their quick action. It is appreciated by the local patrons. Long-distance calls are how being handled at the local exchange and will continue to he handled by the local operators in the future. Previously all long-distance calls were handled by the Decatur operators, which often caused delay and impatience by phone users here. Improvement in the service has already been noticed. Yesterday a local party sent a call for a Chicago firm and was able to speak with his party two minutes after the operator had been called. This, however, was unusually quick service as the lines happened to be open. Better service, however is anticipated. Weather Unsettled tonight and Sunday, probably local showers; somewhat cooler Sunday in northwestern portion.

DAVIS AT FORT WAYNE TONIGHT Thousands Expected To Hear Candidate Discuss Issues Tonight i (United Press Service) Fort Wayne. S pt. 20 (Special to Daily Democrat)—Thousands of >)eo , pie from Indiana. Ohio and Michigan, are expected here tonight to hear. John W. Davis, democratic candidatej for president speak from a platform erected on the courthouse square. Delegations Atom all nearby cities and rural communities are expected i Dr. Carleton B. McCu’loch. demo-, cratic candidate for governor of Indiana, will also be present and make a short talk preceding Mr. Davis' | speech. The meeting start at 8 o'clock. South Bend. Ind., Sept. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —John W. Dav's d| moicratic candidate for president, arrived here at 11 o'clock and prepared to deliver two speeches, before he pulls out late in the day. I Local democratic leaders and a large' crowd met Davis at the station. The News-Times band provided the music for the parade to the Oliver Hotel. Davis will give a brief impromptu speech at a luncheon and will deliv-. era more lengthy address later in the day. On Board John W. Davis Special. Sept. 20 —(Special to Dally Democrat)—Satisfied that the winning of the west is well begun, John W. Da-, vis, democratic standard bearer, set out from Chicago today to capture the east. On his way today Davis hopes to put a few more Indiana votes in his game bag. He will stop long enough in South Bend this morning and inFort Wayne tonight to make speeches calculated to arouse Hoosier deraoc racy to the fighting pitch engendered by his Gary speech of last night. Davis not only leaves the west confident of carrying Missouri, Kansas. Colorado and Nebraska and with a fighting chance in Indiana and Illinois, but he turns eastward with a real hope of carrying New York with, its 45 electoral votes. Private devices reaching the dem-1 o. ratio candidate have assured him that Governor Al Smith will h" a candidate for re-election in New York. His advisers say this is the most encouraging taws he has yet received regarding the east. Wi'h the popular New York executive running fir if-elect ton. even republican leaders admit that, the empire state is doubtful. Due largely to the cordial raceptiun given him in the west. Davis has deti'i-mimd to carry his fight ::i‘o every doubtful ittite. “I do net concede a single rta'e to the adversaries of the democ'tcl’c party." said Davis. "I want the word to go out that there are no lost democratic battalions cut off from headuarters.” In his Gary address last night, Davis made another bid for labor votes when he challenged the right of courts to interfere with strikes. “Labor's complaint in this matter is we:,: founded.” he said, “and was cheered, by representatives of more than twenty nationalities. It was his most cosmopolitan audience. After leaving Fort Wayne. Davis’ itinerary includes Frederick, Md., and Baltimore on Oct. 1. followed by Boston. Providence, and then various cities, in Delaware Maryland, Ohio. Indiana, Kentucky, southern I'linois, Kansas, Misouri. Oklahoma, and perhaps Michigan. Speaks at Laporte Laporte Ind.. Sept. 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —John W. Davis, democratic candidate for president, spoke from the rear platform of his train here this morning enroute from Gary to South Bend, where he is scheduled to deliver two speeches, one at a Rotary luncheon and another in the afternoon at a park. Davis urged support of the party and expressed confidence in the voters of Indiana. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, democratic candidate for governor, accompanied him.

1 Ft. Wayne Marrying Cop Wins First Step Today (United Press Service) Fort Wayne. Ind., Sept. 20. —Cllf- 1 ford Sterling. Fort Wayne patrolman | who was arrested upon request of i Miss Melinda Bender of Fort Wayne, | who claims he wedded her without obtaining a divorce from his first wife, ' today won the first step in his legal battle to prove himself not a ’’: hejk” , when Miss Dorothy Miller of Omaha. I ’Neb, in city court declared he was not the man who wedded her underthe name of Gene Larue. Miss Miller's testimony resulted in charges of being a fugitive from ' ’Justice against Sterling being dis-I missed. He was immediately re ar- 1 t rested on charges of neglecting his i ‘child by Miss Bender. He wedded Miss Pender in Illinois and bigamy charges cannot be field in Indiana. I Official were not certain today whether Bender wil seek to press the Idgamy charge in Ilinois courts. o WILBUR EXPLAINS WASHINGTON TRIP Savs President Wanted Hiai To Take Charge Os Survey Os Navy (United Press Service) Washington. Sept. 20. —President Coolidge recalled Secretary of the Navy Wilbur to instruct him to take immediate charge of a survey of the relative values to the navy of air- | planes, battleships and subarlnes." Wilbur stated today after a long conference at the White House. The secretary denied emphatically i that his speches on the Pacific < qaat.. had been in any way responsible far the president's summons. Mr. Coolidge instructed him. Ife said, to apoint a special naval board

of experts to, make an immediate survey of the airplanes vs battleship t !problem and submit a preliminary re- I ’port to giude the president in the '• making of the naval budget liefore I congress meets in December. 0 i Pastor Denies Guilt Os Murder Charge Mount Vernon. 111., Sept. 20.—“1 do not know why they say these awful things.” Rev. Lawrence Hight, middle aged Methodist Episcopal pastor 6f the village of Ina. near here, plaintively said today through the bars of the jail cell in which he is held for the poisoning of his wife. , “I had some arsonic in the house, but we used it only for poisoning rats. Anna was taken sick, but 1 didn't know what was the matter. 1 don’t see why they want to connect me with ' her death, or with the death of Wil- 1 bur Sweetin. a member of niy con- . gregation. There’s no reason why I . shoqld want to get rid of them." I Hight thinks enemies he made in

: his anti-bootlegging ,sermons may be j responsible for the rumors that caused the coroner's examination which revealed arsenic in the body of his r wife who died Sept. 12 and caused a t coroner’s jury to hold him for action of the October grand jury. r o s Sen. Wheeler In Heart Os Midwest For Camapign 5 (By Paul R. Mallon> " Chicago, Sept. 20.—Senator Burton . K. Wheeler moved into the heart of f the midwest today to launch a fight- '■ ing campaign against its native re- . publican vice presidential candidate. 1 Charles G. Dawes. . Tons of oratorical powder have' been stored away for weeks in preparation for the attack. > Wheeler has primed his guns with . Dawes’ record as leader of the "minute men ’ —an organizaton considered by labor workers a s highly anti-un-ion, and court documents showing the part Dawes is reputed to have played in the Lorimer bank failure case. “Outside of Daugherty, the republican party could hardly have picked a vice-presidential candidate whose record is so viciously opposed to honest government under the constitution.” Wheeler declared in his first rally against Dawes in a statement today.

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GOV. LEN SMALL GIVES YOUTH A 90-DAY REPRIEVE Poor Youth Os Chicago, Sentenced To Hang. Wins A Point In Fight RECEIVES PETITION Petition Asking Pardon For Youth Reaches Hands Os Governor Bulletin Cliictigo. Sepl. 20 (Special l<> Daily Deinoeral) “(ice, tlial's good news.” Bernard Grant cried when word was brought Io him that Gov. Small had granted him a 90 day reprieve. “I didn't have anything to do with the killing and I feel it in my bones that the governor will give me a pardon.” Springfield, 111., Sept. 20.— Governor Len Small today granted a 90-day reprieve to Bernard Grant, penniless “back o’ the yards” Chicago boy. who was sentenced to hang October 17 for the murdwr (i a policeman in Cook county The governor in granting the reprieve made no mention of the Leopold-Loeb case or of “equal justice for poor as well as rich.” but declared that the case of Walter Krauser, Grant’s alleged accomplice in the murder, is I on the advisement docket of the supreme court at its October term.

This statment draws the inference that the court's decision* will affect the petition of Grant, filed today, for a full pardon or commutation of sentence. The reprieve stays the hanging of Grant until January 17, 1925. Springfield, 111., Sept. 20.—Formal petition for pardon or commutation of the death sentence of Bernard Grant, “back o’ the yards’’ boy, sentenced to hang in Cook county. Oct. 17. was received at Governor Len Small’s <>lli<e today. The petition was signed by Grant and his two attorneys. Thomas Swanson and Timothy J. Fell. ' Under the law the petition was referred to the division of pardons and paroles and will not come to the governor's immediate attention until that body makes its recommendations. Hundreds of letters and other communications continued to ar4he at governor’s office today asking the state executive to commute Grant s sentence to life imprisonment.

BANKER TO MOVE : HfS CIGAR STORE Leases Ellis Building On South Second Street; To Move Next Month Albert Anker has leased the Ellis building, on South Second street, opposite the Court House, which was i occupied by the Philadelphia Confectionery until recently, and will move his cigar store and magazine stand from its present location in the John Smith building, one door south of the First National Bank building, to the new location about October 15th. Mr. Anker has conducted a cigar , store in the Smith building for the . past eight years. The Frank Young barber shop, operated by Cecil and - Russell Melchi which is now located 1 in the cigar store, will also bo moved a to the few location. Mr. Anker hopes i- to be able to have his new Place of i- business opened by October 15th. Mr. it Anker has been a resident of Decatur it since 1910 and conducts a first class | cigar store.