Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 240, Decatur, Adams County, 8 October 1924 — Page 1

Olume XXII. Number 210.

GIANTS BAT JOHNSON HARD TO WIN

IcHARCES C. 0. P. I IS ATTEMPTING I TO lilt ELECTION | Sen. LaFollette Says Republicans Are Raising . Big “Slush Fund” IwAXTS INVESTIGATION I White House Silent On [ Charges; LaFollette Speaking In East (I niie.l Press Service) ' Newark. N J. Oct. B—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Senator Robert M LaFollette. independent candidate in vaded New Jersey in fighting form today to continue his biting criticism of the administration and his republican adversaries whom he charges wth raising a huge corruption fund in a 'desperate attempt to buy the election." LaFollette; fired the first of the big gufis of his campaign in Scranton Pa last night with his corruption charge, alleging the republicans are 1 attempting to raise from $4,000,000 to $5.0t0 000. The candidate announced he had sent a telegram to Senator Borah of Idaho, who made the first speech of his campaign in Idaho Falls last , night, suggesting the senate committee on campaign expenditures meet immediately to investigate “plans of the republican national committee to buy the election ” LaFollette sneaks here tonight and may eleborate his charges. The independent Candidate based his request for calling of a meeting of the campaign expenditures committee on a letter of J. R. Grundy, chairman of the ways and means committee of the republican national committee and on newspaper dispatches. declaring th? republicans have started a campaign to raise “an enormous slush fund" to be expend ed in doubtful stales. The <an<jdate also attacked C. Bascom Slemp, President Coolidge’s secretary, describing him as “one of the chief political fat fryers of the republican party" and one of its "chief agents in the sale of postoffices.” “In all the history of the United States." LaFollette said, “no man with such a record as that of Slemp has ever been selected by a president to act as his confidential adviser and official representative.” Slemp. he said, “is the man who is likely to be selected to handle this huge slush fund to buy the elecI tion for Calvin Coolidge.” Washington. Oct. B—(Special to Daily Democrat) —C. Bascom Slemp. secretary to President Coolidge, today branded the statement of Senator LaFollette, independent oUntfiI date, ascribing to him connection with the repuUlicqfn campaign and its finances as 'pure fabrications." 'n a formal statement issued at w (Continued on page two)

MILO APPROACH TO ADAMS STREET Cit ? Building Concrete Approach For State Highway No. 21 Work is progressing on the cons nution of a concrete approach at e west end of Adams street and the . ' .n, J’ igl ’ Wa r N( >- 21, better known Thirteenth street. Traffic is so “ J vy a t this point that it is practical , niI>0881 ' ) ' ,! f° r *he city to keep the <tnr> rOa<ll ' n repair wf Th gravel and . A anJ tlle couucl 'men decided to Pair the intersection with several •o k s f concrete Th(? f urn a u’ , Btreet t 0 Thirteenth street will Xd e wn°hT ete<l and ,he road lm ’ about ton , Cre,e tor a distance of ama street. b °' h S ‘ deS ° f Ad '

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Sues Newspaper For Calling Him Klansman (United Press Service) Jeffersonville, Ind., Oct. 8— A suit for $30,000 damages brought by Claude Mcßride, secretary of the Jeffersonville Chamber of Commerce against the Evening News, was on file today in the Clark county court. Mcßride alleges his good name was damaged to the » stent of $30,000 because the paper printed a story c harging he was a member of the K. K. K.

MISTAKES MADE

IN REGISTRATION

| County Auditor Finds Several Mistakes In Checking Over Books The last of the registration books were turned over ty County Auditor Martin Jaberg this morning, precinct “A" of the First ward making the last repot t. The book from this precinct was as near perfect as it could be made and all names were listed as they should be. H. S. Michaud and Wth Trout were e'erks in charge of this precinct. In checking over the books many mis.akes and wrong entries were found in several of the precincts by Mr. Jaberg He worked until eleven o’clock at his office last evening compiling and going through the blanks. In one or two precincts it was found that the names of the registrant had not been listed on the registration l>ook. although the proper registration blank had been filed with the board. Mr. Jaberg stated that he did not know how the names could be placed on the hook, unless the, clerks in that particular precinct were called in to correct their work. According to law. the auditor has no power to place the names on the hook, but unless they are placed on the Itooks the registrant. although registering in good faith, will not be able to vote in November. In several of the precincts the clerks did not list tire names of the voters in the proper way. Instead of numbering the blanks from one up in consecutive order, the clerks listed them as the blanks were filed, and inserted the old registration where the old numbers corresponded. For ‘nstance. in several of the books, the first blank starts with number one and then several numbers are skipped. The names had to be transferred then in alphabetical order and again the numbers were not listed consecutively. Much delay is therefor occasioned in trying to compare the blanks with the names on the books. The names of the former voters who registered two years ago had to be copied on the new books by the clerks.

In Third ward *‘B” the total registered vote in the precinct was given at 701. In First ward •‘A" the vote was given at 705. There will be some duplications as a voter might have registered twice and in many places where a. voter moved from one precinct to another he is registered in two precincts, unless the clerks removed ins name from the books. Mr. Jaberg thought that possibly he would have the total figures of the registration by Thursday or Friday. --' o — — Dr. McCulloch Emphasizes Honesty In Government (United Press Service) Marion, Ind., Oct. B—Emphasizing the issue of honesty in government Dr. Carleton McCulloch, democratic nominee for governor, in a speech here last night call on republicans ■'who disapprove of dishonesty and extravagance to enter the democratic fold this fall.” McCulloch repeated his stand for lower taxes and a "weeding out of the state payroll.” In an address at Fairmount yesterday afternoon McCulloch pledged himself to passage of a farmers’ cooperative marketing law and to an immediate reappraisement of real estate if elected.

TEACHERS GO TO FT. WAYNE FOR MEETING 1 All Public Schools In County Dismissed Thursday And Friday PROMINENT SPEAKERS — Noted Educators On Program Os Northeastern ' Indiana Teachers’ Meet All public schools in Decatur and throuhout the county will be closed tomorrow and Friday and the teachers will attend the annual meeting of the Northeastern Indiana Teachers’ Association which will he held in Ft. Wayne on those two days. M. F. Worthman. superintendent of the Decatur schools, stated today that the city school teachers would be represented at the meeting by a one hundred per cent attendance. On Saturday the teachers of the county will hold a county institute at the high school building in Monroe. Special reduced rates have been offered by the Decatur-Fort Wayne Traction company during the meeting at Fort Wayne, and it is expected that many people besides the taechers and school officials will attend the meeting. A majority of the township trustees are planning to attend one or more sessions of the meeting. The executive committee of the association is expecting the largest attendance in the history of the association High school principals and athletic coaches are anticipating an interesting meeting in the assembly room of the court house Thursday afternoon from 4 io A o'clock. Arthur L. Trester. secretary of the Indiana H git School Athletic Association, will address the principals and coaches on the subject of clean sports. Round table discussions of athletics will be held also. A group of prominent individuals have been secured to deliver addres(Continued On Page Five) L O FORT WAYNE MEN WILL VISIT CITY

Wholesalers And Jobbers, On Three-Day Tour, To Be Here Thurs. Late Thursday afternoon. Decatur will entertain for a little while, the caravan of wholesalers, jobbers, bankers and manufacturers who are making a tour this week of thirty cities and towns in Indiana and Ohio. According to the schedule as announced, the caravan will pour into Decatur at 4:14 in the afternoon, and after a parade, the General Electric band, which is . accompanying the party, will give a concert while the visitors call on the retail merchants. The Fort Wayne distributors have found a distinct advantage in these get-acquainted tours, through a closer friendship and firmer confidence. They passed through here early Tuesday morning, stopping, and continued on to Monroe, Berne, Linn Grove, Geneva. Bryant and Pennville, at which latter place luncheon was served. Resuming the tour, they will stop at Dunkirk. Albany, Parker. Farmland, Redkey and Portland, where they will have a banquet and spent the nigbt. Tomorrow, the party will visit Ridgeville, Deerfield, Winchester and Union City (where dinner will be served), and then pass-, ing into Ohio, stops will be made at Fort Recovery, St. Henry, Coldwater and Celina. Dinner will be served at Celina in the evening, and the party will remain there for the night. The Thursday stops are St. Marys, Spencerville, Monticello, Mendon, Mercer, and Rockford, where dinner will be served; Ohio City. Willshire, Wren and Decatur. I

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Grand Jury Probing Murder At Noblesville tUnited Tress Service) Noblesville, Ind., Oct. B—The Hamilton county grant jury convened today to investigated the case of Claude Itlezer. 18. charged with the j murder of Robert Tompkins. Immemdiately after his arrest I Belzer confessed that he killed Tompkins with a blow over the bead to get money to go to a movie. Belzer repnd|intes his confessions and says he is not guilty. Fear that he would get the death penalty if he stuck by his confession is believed to have caused him Ito repudiate it. RESIGNATION OF BRANCH RUMORED James J. Nedjl, Next In Line For Governorship, Visits Capital (United Press Service) Indianapolis. Oct. B—Rumors of the possibility of Governor Branch resigning because of poor health were I stirred up again today with the appearance of James J. Nedjl. president pro tem of the state senate, at the executive offices. Nedjl. who would be in line for governorship if Branch resigned, admitted he had received several telegrams calls relating to the matter, but said that further than that he knew nothing of the situation. , “I don't know anything about it. he said. “It’s a matter that rests en finely in the hands of the governor.” Nedjl was accompatned bv his attorney, C. B. Tinkham. of Hammond. Nedjl declared his visit to Indianapolis was purely a business one and that his visit on Branch was quite incidental. j Frederick Shortemeiex, secretary to the governor, reiterated his statement that "Branch is not going to resign. at least not now.” The governor wa •• at his office all [day yesterday and disposed of con siderable state business. He was a* his again earlv today.

Eight Students Are Expelled From Earlham Richmond. Ind., Oct. B—Eight stuents at Earlham college were under suspicion today for hazing activities Five of the hazers will be permitted to return at the end of the antester and the others must remain away a year. Q ' Standard Oil Company Denies Any Violation Jefferson City, Mo.. Oct. 8 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Denying any violation of the state anti-trust laws the Standard Oil company of Indiana today filed in the Missouri su- | preine court its answer to the suit of | Attorney General J.W.Barrett which | sought to oust the oil company from the state. I Barrett asked that an ouster order I made by the supreme court in 1909 anil lifted in 1913 on condition that the company obey the anti-trust laws . be again put in force. Barrett’s ouster suit attacked the | company, alleging the Standard's agreements allowing other companies to use its patented oil cracking process constituted restraint of trade. Sugar Factory Will Open At 6 a. m. Saturday The Holland-St. Louis Sugar factory will open at six o'clock Saturday morning for the annual sugar campaign. All empoyes and those who ar.' going to work in the mill are requested to be at the factory in time for work. Weather Unsettled tonight and Thursday; probably showers; somewhat warmer.

NO BIDDERS ON SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENT No Bids Received For Meibers And Dirkes Street Improvement OTHER COUNCIL NEWS Short Session Held Last Night By City Councilmen Contractors failed to submit bids ! for the construction of the Meibers and Dirkes street sidewalk improve- | ments to the city council last evening wind upon motion the clerk was authorized to again advertise for bids, they to be received on Tuesday. October 21st. A short session of the city council was held last evening and several routine matters disposed of. The; maintainence bond of Colchin Brothers. contractors of the Tenth street improvement, was filed and accepted by the council. The bond covers a , period of two years, during which i time the contractors will be held liu- 1 hie for any defects which might occur in the construction of the street ■ and sidewalks. The petition of Mrs. Christ for a light on Eleventh street, north of Adams, was tiled and referred to the electric light committee. The formal acceptance of the fran-' chise granted tq the Nickel Platej railroad by the city for tile extension of the railroad tracks on Patterson street and the build ng of a switch south of the tracks to the LaFountain Handle company's plant, was filed ' with the council. The franchise was granted about a month ago and the council was notified a week ago by i I I C. J. Lutz attorney for the railroad; accept it. Work on the construction I company, that tlte company would of the tracks will begin at once, it was said. Property owners on Tenth street signed waivers to the amount of ( 1 53.905.14 and upon motion the cierkp was authorized to issue improvement ! bonds to the contractor for this ;1 amount. : A number of minor matters were: l discussed by the count-iinien and the H finance comnvttee allowed the regu-il lar bills, including SSOO for the band, which was appropriated last year. 1 i ; 0 - i

SPEAKING DATES ARE ANNOUNCED Democrats Plan Meetings In County Every Night Until Election Beginning next Tuesday night, democratic speeches will be made in various parts of the county each evening until election The next big meeting here will be on Thursday night of next week when .John A. M. Adair will speak at the court house. Date s for other meetings including a national speaker or two and state speakers for this county will be an -j nouncod soon. Next Tuesday evening C. J. Lutz. I E. B. Lenhart and .1. F. Snow willspeak at Kirkland High, 1). B. Er win and Kennith Shoemaker, at Jefferson High; J. W. Tyndall and T. A Gottschalk at Kohr's school. Union township. On Wednesday evening. , October 15th, D. B. Erwin. J. T. Kelly , and D. J. Schwartz at the Tinkham ( school in Blue Creek; J. F. Snow. D. ( D. Coffee and H. H. Heller, at Cotton j wood, French township. On Thurs1 day, October 15. Hon .1. A. M. Adair, ( at court house. On Friday. October, 17, D. B. Erwin, John Nelson and E. B. Lenhart at Pleasant Mills; John I W. Tyndall and J. T. Kelly at Hart- • ford High; T. A. Gottschalk. D. D. Coffee and D. B. Erwin at Freidheim; J. F. Fruchte, H. B. Heller and Milton Weriing at Election school in. Monroe township. |

Double Funeral Held For Aged Couple Near Geneva Double funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock ar ’he White Oak church, near Geneva, for Emmett LeFovour, age "5, who died al his home Friday night after a long illness from asthma and complications, and for hi„ wife, Mrs. Savilla LaFavour, who died Friday afternoon about 1 o’clock of cmnpjica- ; Hons a the family home. Interment , was made in White Oak cemetery. ERWIN ADVANCED TO HIGH OFFICE Local Man Heads Knights Os Pythias Os State; Other Officers (I'nited Press Service) Indianapolis. Oct. 8. —The Knights of Pythias lodge of Indiana today was assured of a state home for aged mer.i tiers of the order and for children of deceased knights. The grand lodge yesterday approv- | ed the proposal for construction of a $51)0.000 home. Each members of th° order will con tribute his salary to the home fund on Feb. 19. 1925 the anniversary of ■the founding of the K. of P. The site for the home will lie select ed later. Attorney Dore B. Erwin, of this city. | ■ was advanced to the office of G and I Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias i i edge of Indiana. at the fifty-fifth an-1 innal seeskur of the Grand Ijslee nt I Indianapolis yesterday afternoon, | This is the highest office in the i [Grand Lodge. Charles S. la>v, of Snwyzee. was elected to the offi e of grand outer guard, the only office to , be filled by election. All o’ber of f!<-ers were advanced one office above the one held by them during the past year. Other officers advanced ye-terday were: Nathan J. Lane, of Liberty, to grand vice-chancellor; Louis B. Elmore, of Monticello, to grand prelate: Dolph E. Farr, of Edinburg, to grand master-at-arms, and Samuel Trabue. of Rushville, to grand inner guard. Henry Kammerer, of Logansport. retained the office of grand master of exchequer. A resolution introduced by Henry Wade, past grand chancellor and president of the insurance division, authorizing a "campaign to raise more than $50,000 for a home for aged Pythians was

adopted. The committee in charge of the campaign includes Henry Kammerer and Thomas Roach, of Fort Wayne; George F. Gelts of Muncie, and William G. Huckleberry, of Ijogansport. Pythian Sisters to Meet The Grand Temple of Pythian Sisters of Indiana will convene in the Pythian Building Thursday for a ♦ hreetday session More than one thousand delegates and visitors will attend. The sessions will be presided over by Mamie L. Easterly, grand chief, of Mishawaka, [nd. A banquet will be served Wednesday night j preceding the convention. Other officers in charge of the an | nual meeting ire: Emma Hefner, of , Monticello. Ind., grand senior, who Swill be advanced to the bead of the I I organziation at the election I hursiday, and Grace Clifford, grand junior, lof Kokomo. Iml.. who will be adj vanned Io take the place of Mrs. i I Hefner. The grand temple has made big gains in membership this year, and according to reports to be submitted at the session, lias distributed more than $50,000 in altruistic work in the communities whore local temples are located. - o— —. Terre Haute To Have A New Zoning Law Terre Haute, Ind., Oct. 8. —Terre Halite is to have a new zoning law L. V. Sheridan, of Indianapolis, has been working on plans for several months for city traffic distribution ard housing.

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TAKE LEAD IN WORLD'S SERIES BY WINNING 6-2 Senator’s Star Pitcher Fails In Attempt * At Comeback TWO HOME RUNS HIT Losers Drive Bentley From The Box In The Eighth Inning RHE Wash. (Hit) 100 010—2 9 1 N. Y. 001 020 03*—6 13 0 Batteries: Washington— Johnson and Ruel; New York—‘Bentlev. McQuillan and Gowdy. < United Press Service) Polo Grounds. Oct. X (Special to Dailv Democrat) .Jack Bentley's home run with a runner on <lo - '. in ti W liter Johnson ! ’or (he second ’’.tte here *h s ttfli rnoon and helped the \tw York Giants detent the Washington Senators G to 2 in the tilth game of the world series. The victory of the Giants gives them a ,‘i to 2 lead in the series and makes th'-ni strong saveI rites to win the championship. Johnson lacked his usual effectiveness and he was pounded hard tiller Bentley's punch i in the fourth inning started the 'Giants in a hitting mood. The Giants got 13 hits off the old master and caused a sympa- , thetic crowd of 50.000 to mourn his second failure in the series. I'he Giants scored their first run in the third inning. Jackson singled and. went to third oil Bentley's single. Lindstrunt bunted down the third base line and Jackson slid over the plate. In the fifth inning Gowdy opened with a single and Bentley knocked a long home run into the upper right field stands. Washington New York McNeely cf. Lindstrom 3b. Harris 2b. Frisch 2b. Rice rs. Young rs. Goslin ‘if. . Kelly cf. Judge lb. Terry lb. Bluege ss. Wilson If. Ruel c. Jackson ss.

Miller 3b. Gowdy c. Johnson p. Bentley p. f f First Inning Washington—McNeely lined to Lindstrom who leaped into the air for (Continued on Page slx» SHENANDOAH NEARS TEXAS I Giant Dirigible Increases Sneed To 56 Miles Per Hour < United Press Service) Aboard U. S. N. Dirigible Shenandoah. Oct. 8--l Special to Daily DemI ocrat)- (By radio to United Press) — increasing her speed to 56 miles an ! hour with gradually deminishing head . winds, the Shenandoah approached the Mississippi river towards noon today. The huge airship sailed into the upper strata of Mississippi over Columbus at 9 o’clock, headed due west for Greenville, expecting to cross the river at that point arpund noon. She was flying at an altitude of 3.500 I feet. Head winds, which the ship had i been bucking all night, died down i and quickened her pace through the i clouds. Under present weather conditions, i Dallas, Texas, should be crossed in 1 the early evening and the mooring i mast at Fort Worth reached by midnight.