Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1924 — Page 1

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I SEN. RISTON I jo SPEAK HERE I NEXT TUESDAY L nit ed Slates Senator To Open Campaign In This City TO DISCUSS 'ISSUES . ohn A. M. Adair To Speak VI Berne And Geneva Next Week Tho A-moeratie campaign in this city will open next Tues- ) 4,, evening, when Senator Samuel M. Knlston, o( Inilianjpolis. will Ik- the speaker at a bid meeting to 1"' '“‘ld at the curt house, under the auspices 0 f the Adams County Jefferson Count v Chairman Dan H. Tyndall divert a inessagp last evening from Omer Jackson, ehairman of the speaking bureau of the Indiana Democratic Committee, notifying him that the date had been confirmed and that the junior senator from this state will speak in Decatur on the political issues of the hour. Local leaders art' pleased over the announcement and plans will he made to give the distinguished visitor a splendid reception here. The meeting will include a program of music and It is hoped that every voter will take advantage of this opportunity to hear one of the state's leading men Senator Ralston has been on the political battle line in Indiana lor forty years and has served in numerous places of trust including the hgh office of governor. During ills administration, the slate debt was paid and no man knows conditions in Indiana better than this leader. As a member of the United States senate he is also acquainted with the national problems. He was prominently mentioned as the candidate for president and would, withcut doubt, have been chosen had lie cot withdrawn his name when the tide turned towards him. Afdair in County John A. M. Adair, democratic candidate for congress in this district, wilt speak at Berne next Monday evening and at Geneva next Wednesday eietting and all. voters in those sect oils are urged to hear him. On account of the Hluffton street fair, the Linn Grove meeting, scheduled for Saturday evening of this week, has been postponed. Meetings at School House The school house speaking program of the democrats of Adams county will start October 10th and will continue until election day. H I!. Heller, a former county chairman, is in charge of the local speaking bureau. o Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lewton attended the Bluffton street fair today.

GENEVA TEACHER SERIOUSLY HURT Miss Alma Uoscoe Injured Internally In Automobile Accident Miss Alma Roscoe, a teacher in the Geneva Schools, lies In a serious condition in a hospital at Fort Wayne os l ' lp cesult of internal injuries suffi red in an automobile accident which oceum] about five miles west of Geneva last Saturday evening. Miss Roscoe was taken to Fort Wayne on Monday. Miss Roseoe was riding in a Ford fonpp with Harry Camman and Miss Millman. another Geneva school feather, at the time of the accident. :tlss Rosc °e was driving the car, "'lnch belonged to Mr. Camman. She a tempted to turn a corner while' < riving at a speed to great and the car nrned over onto its top. Miss Roswas struck by the steering wheel. ‘ r. Camman was rendered unconscious for a few minutes by a blow on his an but was not seriously injured. „ SS slllman was only bruised. Miss Haute*' 8 ParPntS reslde in Terre | Miss Nellie Knipe and Mrs. Herbert ola<j W are Miss Roscoe’s 8868 to the Geneva schools.

Cattle Club Man In Adams County Today F. B. Astrotb, a representative of the American Jersey rattle Club. Is spending today in Adams county and. accompanied by L. M. Btische, cqpnty agent, is interviewing several Adams county farmers in regard to purchasing purebred Jersey males which will tie brought in on the Better Bull Special to be in the county October 20. Mr. Astroth hus been pngaged to speak at the sugar beetdairy meeting at I.lnn Grove this evening

TO FORM IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE i ‘Meeting Os Local Sportsmen To Be Held In City Hall Tonight At a meeting to he held in the city hall at 7 o'clock this evening, steps I will lie taken to oragnize a chapter in the Izaak Walton League and secure a charter in the naticnal organization. C. Polk, of Chicago, an organizer for the League, has been in the citv for the past two days, inter- * esting local citizens in the organization. Men and women are eligible to membership in the League ami al! people interested in hunting and fishing and outdoor life are urged to attend the meeting at the city hall thjs evening. Mr. Polk lias been orjjpnizing chapters in several nearby cities recently. Those cities where chapters have been formed include: Bluffton. Portland. Hartford City. Marion, Port Wayne Kendallvitle and many others. There are more than forty chapters in this state and more than 900 chapters in the United States. The Izaak Walton League of America is a Motional Organization of fisherman and hunters and outdoor lovers dedicated to the restoration of sports afield and astream in thp United States and Canada, and to the restoration as far as can he of the outdoor America of our ancestors, it is a National Organization having no commercial or personal gain or aggrandizement under it; neither has it political nor religious interests. it is undoubtedly the most comprehensive conservation program ever undertaken in America. Though only alioiituvoyparsolti.it has local chapters from one end of the country to the other, and It lias awakened thousands and thousands of principled sportsmen and outdoor lovers to the realization of the perils that are threatening our precious woods .and streams and wild life. The movement represents a patriotic and unselfish endeavor to save for our children their great American outdoor heritage that they may have the priceless memories of days spent on windswept, clear and gleaming water antj nights in fragrant. healing forests, and that they may gain the health and happiness that only tile outdoors can give them. Many of the names back of this Save- . Outdoor-Ameriea crusade are nationally known and insure the integrity anti higli standing of tile League. None of the officers or directors receive salaries. | For the purpose of spreading far its message, the League publishes a monthly magazine. “Outdoor America” contibute without pay. out of , sheer love and appreciation of the righteousness of the cause.

'Sparks Threaten House; City Firemen Called The city fire department was called to the Kenneth Eady residence, 133 North Eighth street, about 4:30 o’clock Tuesday evening where sparks falling from the chimney, which was burning out, threatened to set fire to the roof. The roof did not catch fire, howtever, and no damage was done. o Pershing: Entitled To ' $21,500 Annual Allowance Washington, Sept. 24 —(Special to Ilai'y Democrat —General Pershing is entitled to the full pay and allow, ances he received as an active officer, amounting to $21,500 a year, Comptroller General McCarl ruled today. Previous opinions have held ■ that Pershing would retain his full salary of $13,500 on ihe retired list, bir would have to lose his SB,OOO alj lowunces for oflice.

WILBUR'S SPEECH CAUSESCOMMENT ' Administration Stirred Over ( “Betrayal”; Wilbur Remains Quiet (Special to Bally Democrat 1 Washington, Sept. 24.—Administration circles today hummed with discussion of the alleged "betrayal" of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur by Senator Caraway, democrat of Ar kansas, who read to a local DavisBryan club a speech hp said Wilbur was to have made at Denver last Saturday nig lit. Portraying Wilbur through the speech as having been an advocate of the league of nations, a H apologizing for the republican foreign administration and with having said that the negro question is the sole issue between the two old parties. Caraway charged that President Coolidge had recalled Wilbur from the coast to prevent delivery of the address. Wilbur today refused to discuss the incident in any way. “I will not discuss it. I will not be drawn into any controversy about it. If you want to speculate on the ethics of the act, you may, but I will not," Wilbur said.

Among important passages quoted by Caraway from the speech were: “I was and am a believer in the league. I believe th.it if we went into the league immediately upon cessation of hostilities, we might save Europe from hankrutpey. I therefore sympathize with Woodrow Wilson and his campaign for the league and I would rather now praise him than blame him for his attitude. “I may say in passing that 1 am now in favor of America entering the league of nations. We have already suffered all the disadvantages which would have arisen from keeping out of the league. “The fact is that there is only one issue in American politics—and that is tlie negro. The negro problem is what gives the democratic party its backbone in the solid south and it gives it some hope of success." Caraway today quoted Wilbur as further sjying that President Coolidge, "likp all lawyers." believed the investigations of corruption and graft before the senate last winter should have been conducted before grand juries. “This, in effect. i* an admission that the president opposed the investigations,” said Caraway. Prisoners Say Leopold And Loeb Work Too Hard Joliet, 111. Sefit. 24 'Those Millionaire kids work too hard." That is the way fellow prisoners describe Nathan Leopold and Richard Loel). the two Chicago youths who are completing the second week of their life sentence for tlie murder of Bobby Franks. "They have been ideal prisoners,” Warden Whiteman told Clarence Harrow, attorney for the two youths, when Darrow paid his first visit to the state penitentiary to see the boys today.

FARMERS HOLD . TWO MEETINGS — Meeting; At Linn Grove Tonight And At Hoagland Thursday Night The first of two agriculture meetings will be held this evening at the high school at linn Grove and the second on Thursday evening at the Flaugh Garage, Hoagland, to which farmers and beet sugar growers are invited. The Allen and Adams Conn ty Agricultural agents are cooperating with the committee in charge of the meetings and an interesting program is in store. Interesting talks on dairying, sugar beets and drain tile will be made by competent speakers and the talks will be educational ami instructive. Four reels of moving pictures will be showm, they being: “The Tale of Two Bulls,’’ “Seeing Washington, D. C.,” “From Seed to Sugar Beet” and “Farm For Sale," Lunch and ice cream will be served to theose who attend the meeting and plans are being made to entertain a large number of farmers and those interested in dairying and better farming. Several people from this city are planning to attend the meeting at Linn Grove tonight and at Hoagland Thursday evening.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 24, 1924.

Rotariang Urged To V ote In November | Indianapolis, Sept. 24, —A plea for | Rotariang to fulfill their obligations I as citizens of Die United Stall's by | voting at the November election, was .made by Robert K. Heun, or Rich-, mond, district governor, at Die closing session of tlie Twentieth district Rotary executives' meeting here yesterday. I Ollier speakers at the meeting were Dale W. McMillan, Ft. Wayne; Clurence V. Haworth. Kokomo; Judge H. I. Royse, Warsaw; David Edwards, Richmond, and Chad Bums, Valparaiso. . Everett Hill, Oklahoma City, International Rotary president, will lie one of the leading speakers at Die annual ' twentieth district Rotary cbnference , at South Bend, February 22. and 24, 192.7. it was announced, EXPECTING MANY j FRUIT DONATIONS ■' • i Appeal Made For Donations For Adams County Memorial Hospital ) The response last year to thp appeal of the League of Women Voters I for donations of canned fruits, jelly, jam. fruit juiceg and vegetables for the patients at the Adams County Memorial hospital exceeded the soundest expectations and for that reason those in charge of the campaign this year are confident that the generous people of this community will answer | the appeal again this year. i The donations of fruit, jellies, juices and vegetables are to lie taken to the Niblick building, corner of Monroe and North Second streets. Friday afternoon and Saturday of this week. Lasi year several hundred cans of fruit were donated. Those who have been canning this year are asked to donate a can of fruit or some vegetables, such as po tatoes, apples, etc. Enough fruit t jellies, jams and f.rqi; juices were donated last year to serve the patients at the hospital for several months and i: you happen to lie a patient there during the past year you know how good tile home made canned goods tasted. t | Women will be at the Niblick building. formerly occupied by the Old Ad- | ams County Bank, to receive the do- | nations and next Monday the cans of fruit, juices and vegetables wi'.l be 1 taken to the hospital. Congressman Hill Indicted As Result Os Cider Party Baltimore, Mil.. Sept. 24 —CotigressJolin P. Hil! was indicted today by the federal grand jury on six counts as a result of his activity in making I wine and cider to test the Volstead act. | o 'Training School Text Books Have Arrived The next books for the courses of the Community Standard Training School have arrived and pupils may | secure their copies aj the law office of Lenhart & Heller, on South second street. COFFEE DIVORCE CASE DISMISSED Fort Wayne Judge Throws Case Out Os Court; Had No Jurisdiction The divorce case of Mrs. Julia C Col fee. 63. of this city, against David D. Coffee, which was tried in the Al- | len circuit com at Fort Wayne Monday, was thrown out of court ■ yesterday when Judge Ryan susta'n- • etl a motion made by Mr. Coffe" ic I dismiss the action. | Mrs. Coffee had adnrtted in he I testimony that she had left Deca ur Die day before filing suit for divorce ; and 'bat she had no intention of i maintaining her residence here. Judge Ryan heal that lie had no jur- . isdiction in Die case. Several local ; residents were called to Fort Wayne . to testify in the trial. I"” ' ‘ i Weather t I Fair tonight and probably Thursday. Slowly rising temperature.

MRS. CHARLES TRUE IS DEAD Former Resident Os Decatur Dies At Home Near Poe This Morning Mrs. Charles F. True, age, 66, dietl this morning at her country home| near Hoe, after j lingering illness of many months. She was born In Allen County, Indiana, on January 20, Ix7B. Mary E. Lutz was the only daugh-1 ter of Samuel and Lucinda Lutz. She was united in marriage with Charles F. True, Nov. 10. 1579 and to the were born three children, two of .whom died in infancy. Her husband I Charles F. Tine and one son, Bryce! ! True, now located in New York City,l I survive her. Two brothers. Will Ltilz, of Poe. and Attorney Clark J.j Lutz, of Decatur, also survive. Mr. and Mrs. True were residents of this city for many years, living on | Winchester street. Mr. True was en \ gaged in business here with Daniel Sprang, under the firm name of | Sprang & True, which firm was later ! changed to True A- Runyon. Os later years the Trues have resided at the Lutz homestead near Poe, where Mrs. True was born. Almost two years ago Mrs. True's health began to fail and about one year ago she underwent a serious operation at the Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, but to no avail. She has been confined to her home most of the time since and for some months has been confined to her lied. Mrs. True was a lovable woman, a consistent Christian and an active member of the Methodist church at Poe. She met the Grim Reaper with faith anti fortitude, not complaining but waiting. A strange coincidence is connected with her death. Just seventeen years ago today her father. Samuel Lutz, (lied and her death oc curred on the birthday of her son, Bryce True. The funeral services will be held at the home on Friday morning at JO: tlrt BtrrhD at -Maplewood cemetery this citj’. The funeral cortege arriving at Decatur cemetery about noon. Base Ball Scores National League Cincinnati, 3; Boston. 4. I three innings). New York, 0; Pittsburgh. (>: (three innings). Chicago, 0; Brooklyn. 0 (two innings). St. Ixmis, 2; Philadelphia, 3 (three innings). American League New York. 0; Cleveland. 0 (one inning). American Association Indianapolis, 1; St. Paul, T (three innings). Columbus, 0; Kansas City. 2 (three innings). Louisville, 1: Minneapolis, 0 (three innings).

!REPUBLICANS GO TUFURT WAYNE Several From Here Help I Welcome Coolidge-Dawes Caravan Today L. A. Graham, republican county, i chairman and several other repuli’i-j jeans from Adams county, went to Fort Wayne today to see the Cool idge-Dawes caravan which is motor- 1 * ing acrcjjs the country from Ply- ’ mouth, Vt. the boyhood, home of ’ President Coolidge. Automobiles 1 along Ihe route have joined the cara- ' ran and will be met at the Ohio state line by a delegation from Ft. Wayne 1 and northern Indiana. A parade wll ’’ be held in Fort Wayne this evening. | r It is expected that the caravan s will roach Fort Wayne at about 4:3d , f and the parade will he he’d at 7.->d. ■ Speec hes are to be made by U nited - States Senator George Wharton Pep--1 per, of Pennsylvania; Senator Simon : s 0. Fess, of Ohio; Congressman Will i K. Wood, of Igtfayette. and several others. Senator Fess will open the repub- j ] Ucan campaign, in Adams county with | a speech at the court house on | - Thursday evening, the meeting open-, jing at seven o’clock. |

To Use Carload Os Firecrackers In War London, Sept. 24. —The wildest dreams of tt small hoy on (be night before the Fourth never equalled the J latest master stroke in China’s Civil war. A trainload of firecrackers lias been supplied to the Klangsu troops for use In assault along the Shanghai battle front, according to a Central News dispatch from Shanghai. | Tile firecrackers will lie set off by way of camouflage, concealing the real point of attack in a coming offensive. SEN. WHEELER LAUDS DAVIS j : Praises “Courageous Stand He Has Taken Against Corrupt Forces” ■—-— (United Press Service) Minneapolis, Sept. 21. —John W. Davis, democratic presidential candidate. was lauded by bis independent, opponent. Senator Burton K. Wheeler today for "the courageous, stand he lias taken against the corrupt forces, including former Attorney General I Uiugherty." Wheeler called upon all progresi sives to read the letter Davis sent to Daugherty, in which the democrat stated that corrupt officials were the wor t foes of honest government. "For myself. I appreciate it not merely as an ait of courtesy toward mvself, but as an act o| intelligence." Wheeler told u hotel luncheon audience here. "And lam even more pleased to have this note of intelligence struck in one of the opposing tamps, than I am to have Mr. Davis single me nut for an expres ion of confidence in the work I undertook to carry through in' Washington. "If any part of the United States has been laboring under the “red" delusion concerning- this single movemint of farmers, laiwirers. professional men and merchants to obtain a "little 1 one tv in our government, 1 think the democratic candidate lias helped materially to remove that delusion.’’ Wheeler continued. "But 1 want to warn you that you are in danger of getting another Daugherty if an ill fate should give ycu this man Dawes. Tile men. in their possibilities at least, are too much alike.” • ———o , Overwork Responsible , For Sawyer’s Death (Special to Daily Democrat) Marion. 0., Sept. 24.—Overwork in behalf of a suitable memorial to bis former chief, the late President Hard inr. was largely responsible for the sudden death of Brigadier General Charles E. Sawyer, his son. Dr. Carl Sawyer, said today. "Father died of celebraP hemorrhages.” undoubtedly induced by overwork as chairman of the Harding Memorial Association” the young doctor said.

(jeneral Sawyer died yesterday afternoon at White Oak Farm where he conducted a large sanitarium. Death came unexpectedly as the general lay on a lounge taking with his wife and son after a hard day at the office of the memorial association. Mrs. Florence Kling Harding, widow of the late president, was in the house at the time. The late president’s personal physician, probably will be burled*in t hei Marion cemetery near where Herding, | lies. Funeral arrangements were in-1 complete today, but Dr. Carl Sawyer| j said burial would he made sometime ' Friday in Marlon cemetery. The SawIyer burial plot is near Harding’s tomb where soldiers are still on guard. 1 Dog, Unclaimed, Must Live In Fostotfice Chicago, Sept. 24.— “ Chic" a bull pup, faces incarceration in the Chicago postoffice for a year because some-| one sent him through the parcel post ! C. O. D. from Belleview. j The person to whom the dog was consigned refused to pay charges of $25. Under the postal regulations he . must he kept in the post office six months unless someone claims him. | At the end- of that period he must be I held still another six months, unless I the person who sent him agrees to ! pay charges for shipping him back to I Belleview. When the year is up he | can be sold at auction.

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MAY CONNECT MINISTER WITH FURTHER CRIME Story Os Death Os Centerville. 111., (iirl Being Investigated PASTOR IS SORRY Says He Will Throw Himself On The Mercy Os The Court (United Press Service) XuHhville. 111., Sept. 21 j (Speeiiil to Daily Democrat) j 1.. M. Might, ihc “Poisoning Pastor," hanging on the bars of his cell in the Washington county jail here today, told the l ailed Press that lie would throw himself on the mercy of the court. "I am repcnlent,” lie said. ‘'Whatever they do with me will he alright. I want to attain for my sins," he said. Mount Vernon. 111.. Sept. 24—(Special to Daily yDemocrat)—The story of Grace Elliot, 21 year old Centerville, 111., girl, and friend of Rev. L. M. Might, who dietl a few days before she was to have been married in 1922, was brought here today by audio! ities seeking for possible further crimes of the “poisoning" pastor Grace died Oct. 13, 1922. at her home near Centerville. Death was ascribed to typhoid fever. She had been i 1 seven weeks. Rev. Hight. who had been holding a “protracted meeting" at Centerville all that summer, at which Grace was converted and bapt'zed. sat at her bedside dur'ng the last days of her life. TiiJiuas M“ans. a gassed world war veteran, engaged to the girl, was in a soldiers' hospita at Washingten. D ; C., when he learned she was ill. He returned to his home here, lilti the gird had just died llev. Hight asked following the baptism of tlie girl, that she pose with him for a picture. The parents. who considered him one of the ablest preachers the little community lmd ever had. consented, and the picture was taken. This picture was found in Rev. Hight's possession when he was arrested for the murder ot his wife. He was unable to explain its presence and said he could not remember the girl’s name. Sorrow, Pity and Anger Ina. ill.. Sept. 24 —(Special to ( Daily Democrat) —There is sorrow end pity and anger in Ina today Sorrow for a woman, respected i and popular for many years as a < dutiful wife and mot iter, who pois- . oiled her husband for love of her ; pastor 1 Ang r for the man. Rev. Lawrence 1 Hight, Methodist Episcopal circuit rider pastor, who p' isoned his w.fe -for love of the woman, Mrs. Elsie - Sweet in. ; Pity tor tht children, three of 'be - pastor’s itnd four oi Elsie Sweatin’s. all branded with the indelible stigma '- of the murders in their families. (Continued on Pace Five) D j MISSIONARY TO DESCRIBE AFRICA (Interesting Speaker To Ap- ; pear At Presbyterian Church Friday Night Residents of this city will have an opportunity to hear an interesting subject discussed by an able speaker, Friday night, when l)r. L, E. Smith, M ().. of Spanish Guinea, West. Africa, delivers and illustrated lecjttire at the First Presbyterian’church. Dr. Smith is reputed to b‘> one of the most interesting speakers on the American platform. He is a medical missionary to Africa and he will have many curious and interesting articles with him Stereoptioan slides illustrating the life and customs of the people of Africa with whom he has spent many years, will lie shown. . | Dr. Smith will speak in the city ? schools on Friday morning. His lectjture at the Presbyterian church will 3 j begin at 7:30 o'clock. There will be j no admission charge, but a silver ofe faring Likely will be taken. The pub- | lie is invited to hear Dr. Smith.