Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 244, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1924 — Page 1

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Biserhnceof [SABSSTHDSYIS I STRESSED HERE Kiurches Pass Resolutions T Condemning Sunday I Movie Shows ■ AS S MEETING HELD ■ommittee Appointed To 1 T Draft Sunday Picture Show Ordinance ■pumUy was Sabbath Observance ■ ill Decatur. Representatives of He Lord's Day Alliance of Indiana present and spoke in all the Krches of the city. They were Hard with mm h in’erest by good Kiences. At each church many Hied the following statement: H'TKit there may be known the atHude of the citizens of Decatur, rethe operation of a motion Hture show on Sunday, we, the unKrsigned members of the i.. v Hun h. and friends do hereby declare Hr unqualified disapproval of the opof such amusement house on Lord's Day and for these reasons: -

M"’ l:< influence upon the people p:ir . -!i.- young people and ■■":!. Ali.-.i.lv, too many things are on Lord's Day which are Tills would be another one. reduction instead of im r We would do better, not Bm"4. A defiance of the moral sense the bettri citizens would produce a hostile sentimenj that parona: any time would be greatly re■■At tic Methodist Sunday school. speech, presented the followresolution: ■■" Be it resolved: That no member this Sunday school will attend any HKctiire show in this city on the SabDay, and wo will not patronize the week days any place of operating a picture show on ■■On a rising vote nearly every man. and child in the large audience the resolution. !■ lhp 111 ass meeting held at the .Methodist church, at 2 o’clock. T. .1 Johnson, secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance, spoke on Effect of the Worries on Our Life." Five wealthy Jews 1 11 '■ *he motion picture business the United States, he said, and it jKr' 1 that three of them are not citi'hp ' nited States. Addresses Pre also made hy laymen and minThis meeting unanimously de»lared the need for a Sunday 1 ordin■nee and urgently requested the city ■ouncil to give such an ordinance, y ll la - vnien were requested to remain ■ter adjournment to effect an organ!-

At that meeting, M. A. Kirsch was chairman, and C. L. Wallers. R B Prrp iai'y. F.a<4i pastor was requestKg 1 ,0 or more members of, ■ Bis church. These with the officers BIT 111 thp rommittee appointed at the l ■ Btass meeting to draft a Sunday mo- 1 ■ ■ion picture show ordinance, compose ■ ■?-. PXfe " f ' VP ( ’ nmn, ’ttee. That com- * ’ a ca il p d to meet Thursday evggnmg, October 16, a t 7 o’clock at ■ I' oan & Tsust Company g (Continued on page two) K USSER FINED H $l2O AND COSTS ' [Kned For Issuing Fraudulent Check At A Local Store I ILuiitv 01 | Musser, who pleaded Kt tn ? issuln S a fraudulent check Bwh<-n . ° hn T ’ Mye * 8 c, othing store Bnift n- arraigned in court Saturday ■bv T’ WaS fined * l2O and costs ■ina JeMe C ’ Sutton thla morn■niittht » 6 court °rdered Musser com- ■ the fi ° the Stat ® Penal farm ““til KilevitoJ an<l C ° Bts are pald or re ’ Kble t MUSBer - 5t 18 Ba ’ d - » a «“’ |«nder° w P h a L h j 8 fln6 - The statute ■ 'ides f . was Beate “ced pro- ■ nor m " a fme Os not 1688 than S IOO ■ added s°° tO Wh,ch raay be ■ from n a pen,tentia! ry Sentence of K one fourteen years. ‘ |

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Widow Os Civil War Veteran Gets Pension The local pension agents, Lenhart and Heller, attorneys, were advised this morning that the pension of .Mrs. Sarah Reynolds, widow of the late Elisha Reynolds, for $30,000 per month, had been granted. Application for the pension was made through the local office. Mr. Reynolds was a veteran of the Civil War.

FINE SPEAKERS WITH TRAIN Talented Lecturers Coming With Better Bull Special On October 20 I When the ‘Better Bull Special” visits Decatur next Saturday Adams county people will have the opportunity of hearing Prof. Hugh Van Pelt, known throughout the United States as a dairy authority and as one of the foremost lectures on the subject. The services of Prof. Van Pelt are greatly in demand at all times and Luther B. Fuller, agricultural agent of the Erie states great effort was needed to obtain his presence here. Prof Van Pelt will deliver his great lecture. “Purebred* Against Scrubs," Monday aftef. noon.

Prof. R. D. Canan, of the dairy department at Purdue University known throughout Indiana as a dairy improvement worker will also deliver a lecture thhe day. No farmer interested in making more profit front his cows can afford to miss this lecture. According to information gathered from Messrs. Rogers and Palmer, assistant agricultural agents of the Erie, who were in Decatur recently assisting in making arrangements for the ‘‘Special", between fifty and seventy-five young dairy bulls of serviceable age will be on the train. It is intended to place several bulls in Adams county, among them being the two to he given away by the Cloverleaf Creameries and the Decatur Industrial Association. Every farmer in Adams county who has at least two cows and who has no purebred bull will receive a chance on these bulls if he will register at the train during the forenoon. The breed of the bulls given will be decided by the winners. The hulls will be only of the best breeding obtainable, they having been gathered from various parts of Indiana. Ohio. Illinois and Wisconsin. Only those with ancestry of proven high production have been accepted by the breed representatives. Since transportation and registration fees will not be paid by the prospective purchasers, an opportunity is presented to get real animals at rock-bot-tom prices. Further information concerning the train may be obtained at the offices of the Cloverleaf Creameries, from Avon Burk, president of the Decatur Industrial Association, at the Erie Depot, o, at the county agent’s office.

o Labor Union Comes To Aid Os John McNamara (United Press Service) Indianapolis. Oct. 13 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The total resources of th.? Central Labor union were placed at the disposal of attorneys for John J. McNamara, labor leader, under indictment for blackmail, today. Declaring that McNamara's conviction would menace the principles of unionism, the executive board of the union voted to come to his deI sense with its united moral and fin- ' uncial support. McNamara is held in jail in default of $20,000 bond. His indictment was I the culmination of what police say ' was a labor war, during which acts of vandalism are said to have been [committed against contractors operating on an open shop basis. — _ 0 Decendant Os Daniel Boone Killed Sunday (I’nitrd Press Service) Norfolk, Neb., Oct. 3—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Thomas Boone, descendant of Daniel Boone and superintendent of the Norfolk division of the Chicago & North Western railroad, was instantly killed here late Sunday when his automobile went off a grade and overturned. Mrs. Boone, Trainmaster Prescott and Division Engineer Womeldorf were also injured. Mrs. Boone probjably fatally.

MANY MEETINGS ARE SCHEDULED RY DEMOCRATS School House Campaign Meetings Open In Counts Tuesday Night ADAIR HERE THURSDAY Speakers Are Assigned For Meetings In County This Week X Miss Anna Smith, of this city, 1 has been employed as the secretary in charge of Democratic headI quarters above the Daily Denio- | crat office ami will Took after the i duties of the office until the elec- ■ tion. Voters are invited to call at headquarters and acquaint themselves with activities of the campaign and take a part in them. • School house campaign meetings in the different townships will open Tuesday evening. October 14th at Kirkland. Jefferson and the Brodbeck school houses. From now until the election the Democrats of Adams county will make a vigorous campaign and speeches will be held in every township. The present week will be one of the busiest on the political calander. C. J. Lutz. E. Burt Lenhart and John F. Snow will speak at the Kirkland high school Tuesday evening Attorney Dore B. Erwin, democratic candidate for Judge of the Adams Circuit court, and Kenneth Shoemaker. well known young man of Geneva. will speak at Jefferson township high school also on Tuesday evening. John W. Tyndall of Decatur, former state senator, and Thurman Gottschalk. of Berne, democratic floor leader in the last legislature, will speak at the Brodbeck school house in Union township tomorrow.evening. On Wednesday evening Dore B. Erwin. who is planning to speak in every township before the election, house in South Blue Creek. Other will speak at the Tinkham school speakers will be John T. Kelly, democratic candidate for prosecuting attorney. and David J. Schwartz, of Berne. Two other meetings are planned for, Wednesday evening. At the Monmouth school house. Root' township. Judge J. T. Merryman. I Daniel N. Erwin and J. Fred Fruchte will speak. At the Cottonwood, school house in French township. j John F. Snow, David D. Coffee and Henry B. Heller will speak. Thursday will be known as “Adair (Continued on page two)

JOHN SCHURGER IS BURIED TODAY Members Os Adams County Bar Pay Respects To Beceased Member At the call of the president. ExJudge James T. Merryman, the members of the Adams County Bar met this morning in the Circuit Court room and a resolutions committee, composed of C. L. Walters, John F. Snow' and John T. Kelly, was appointed to draft resolutions of respect for John Schurger, esteemed member of the bar whose death occurred early Saturday morning. The members of the bar also attended Mr. Schurger’s funeral which was held this morning at nine o'clock from the St. Mary’s Catholic church. Rev. J. A. Seimetz, officiating. Tho resolutions committee will report at nine o'clock Tuesday morning at the call of Judge J. C. Sutton, at which time the resolutions will be read and adopted and a page in the court docket dedicated to the memory of John Schurger, who has been a member of the bar since 1881!. Mr. Schurger was a former county recorder of Adams county and following the expiration of his office he became a member of the bar. Members of the Knights of Columbus, the Holy Name and St. Joseph societies of the St. Mary’s church, of which Mr. Schurger was a member, also attended the funeral services in a body this morning. Burial was made in the St. Joseph cemetery.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 13, 1924.

Former Decatur Man Commited Suicide John Maxton. formerly resident of Decatur, committed suicide at his home in Huntington about 7 o’clock last night, by shooting himself through the head with a .38 calibre revolver. Maxton is said to have I been intoxicated at the time he shot himself. He lived here five or six years ago and worked in a local factory. He was about 24 or 25 years old. was married and was the father of one child. ’ o — PLAN ANOTHER RAILWAY MERGER ! I Would Include Roads East Os Chicago North Os Ohio River finite,! Press Service) Washington. Oct. 13- (Special to Daily Democrat!—All railroads east of Chicago and north of the Ohio river would be grouped around the New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio, and the Nickle ; Plate under the terms of a merger plan reported to have been laid before the interstate commerce commission by the executives of the roads named. The plan is said to have been submitted Saturday by Patrick Crowley of the New York Central. Samuel Rea of the Pennsylvania. Daniel Willard of the B. & 0., and the Van Sweringen brothers of the Nickle Plate as an alternative to the commission's tentative consolidation plan which calls for nine systems in the eastern region. —, —o ; Discovery Day Is 1 Observed In This City The American flag was displayed throughout Decatur today in observance of Discovery Day. the 432nd anniversary of Christopher Columbus discovering Amterich. The hanks in the city were closed, but the business houses remained opened. ■ o ■ 'Walters To Preside At Jackson Meeting Here C. L. (Valters, local attorney, will preside as chairman at the Ed Jackson meeting Tuesday afternoon, at two-thirty, in the court room of the court house. Mr. Jackson, who is 'secretary of state and republican I candidate for governor, will arrive in • the city about noon, driving here from Winchester. He. and several republi[cans from this city will be the guests of L. A. Graham, republican county chairnun. at dinnet to be served at the Hotel Murray and following his speech at the court house, he will motor to Fori Wayne where he will hold a meeting at the South Side high school in the evening.

Mrs. Findley McCollum Died At Geneva Sunday Geneva, Oct. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Mrs. Findley McCollum, died at her home here at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Death was due to a complication of diseases, with which Mrs. McCollum had been ailing for several months. Improvement had been shown recently by Mrs. McCollum and the attending physician stated yesterday morning that indications were that she would recover but she took a turn for the worse during the afternoon. Mrs. McCollum was a middle-aged lady and is survived by her busband and two sons. Mai Daugherty To Have Hearing On December 1 Washington. Oct. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The supreme court today advanced to December 1 the hearing of the contempt suit brought against Mai Daugherty, brother of the former attorn *y general, for his refusal to yield certain evidence to the senate investigating committee. When Daugherty l refused the request Yiy the committee he was arrested by the senate sergeant -at-arms for contempt of the senate. He was freed from this arrest on a writ of habeas corpus granted by the federal district court in southern Ohio. Weather Generally fair tonight and Tuesday. (Somewhat cooler in northwest portion.

GIANT ZEPPELIN IS FLYING FROM GERMANY TO U.S. Expected To Arrive At Lakehurst. New Jersey, On Wednesday CROSSING ATLANTIC Zeppelin Built By Germany For United States; Making Speed < United Press Service) Berlin. Oct. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat) — Speeding safely 1,600 miles from her starting point at Friedrichshafen, the giant Zeppelin ZR-3 reached the Azores this afternoon and passed high overhead above the little group of islands, steadily pursuing her westward course towards America. Wireless reports reached Friedrichshafen that the dirigib'e. making good time, had arrived at the Azores at approximately 2 p. m ami continued on her way. The Zeppelin's course takes her on another 1,600 mile leg to Bermuda where site turns northward to Lakehurst. N. J. The flight from Friedrichschafen to the Azores requires 31 > 2 hours, not particularly fast time, although the Zeppelin at one time was driven along at a speed cf 130 miles an hour. On its flight to surrender to the United States naty. the Zeppelin is carrying 30 officers and men. Dr. Eckener. in charge, hopes to demonstrate by the voyage the practicability of airships for passenger flight—and thus obtain some revision of the Versailles treaty which forbids Germany to build these giants of the skies. • Thaje 'are so ir Americans on board. U:i'Til'“STr-?te 1 and Commanders Krause and Klein of the navy and Major Kennedy of the army. None of the crew or observers is permitted smoking tobacco in any form, nor alcohol. Word was receiv ed. however, that the ZR-3 will be searched for liquor, like any other vessel wb fther of sea or air. upon her arrival at Lakehurst. The other stimulants aboard are locked in the Zeppelin's medicine chest. While shorter than the Shenandoah by 24 feet, the ZR-3 is nearly 12 feet lai ger in diameter anil her height ovej- all is 8% feet greater than that of the American dirigible.

TWO NATIONAL SPEAKERS HERE Democratic State Committee Promises Noted Speakers For Decatur The democratic state committee has assured the local committee that Decatur will have a national speaker > for the week of October 20th and tbe week of October 27th and will assign them within a day or two. Senator Harvey Harmon, of Princeton. Indiana, democratic candidate for attorney general and one of the ablest men of the state, will speak at Geneva Monday evening, October 20th, and Hon. George Emerson Francis, famous lecturer, will speak at. Berne, Monday night, October 27th. Plans are being made to schedule Judge John H. Aiken, of Fort Wayne, for one or two speeches in this county and the voters will be privileged to hear the issues discussed by various democrats. Otlic- announcerhents will be made this week. Davis At Indianapolis Several from here attended the Davis meeting at Indianapolis Saturday evening and report it the largest political meeting hejd in Indiana since. 1912. The Cadle Tabernacle was jam med to the doors and the crowd es- 1 timated at 12,000 was enthusiastic. Mr. Davis was cheered continuously and his speech was an able and convincing one. Today he speaks at Lafayette. Terre Taute on the 22nd and at Evansville and Vincennes on his return trip from the west. State denwratic leaders are confident of victory in Indiana both for the state] and national ticket und the closing days of the campaign will be interesting. 1

Helen (J ar ard Died At Hammond Last Saturday Helen Garard, age if), only daughter of Mr. and Mr* James Garard, former residents of Decatur, died at her home In Hammond Saturday evening. Funeral service* will he held In Hammond Tuesday morning. Miss Garard was a cousin to Robert Garaid and Mrs.' Mont Fee, of this city, *ind a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Roop, of Pleasant Mills. MACHINE USED TO DIG BEETS One In Operation Near Elwood; Another Is Received Here Elwood. Ind.. Oct 13. —The first machine for harvesting beets ever operated in this part of the state is now working on the farm of Charles W. Foster, three miles east of the city and is demonstrating that sugar beet s can be topped lifted cleaned and gath-j ered in a single operation. The machine is drawn by a Fordson tractor. Many farmers have gathered to see it work. An auger-shaped plow, turning as the machine advances, digs the beets, which are picked up by a caterpillar device, cleaned to a hopper, which "is dumped at regular intervals as the work progresses A rapidly revolving disc knife cuts the tops of the next row as the plow digs the one over which it passed. The machine does the work of hands, topping beets after other men, with plows have turned them out, and it is claimed that an acre can! be gathered ready for hauling to the cars at a cost of $2 per acre. The machine in use was purchased by Arthur! Williams, farmer west of the city, and will he used in harvesting the crops on the farm of the owner. Foster? Glass. Field and other growers. C. W- Foster, has forty acres in beets and Williams 30 acres, being the[ largest growers in this section. The yield is only fair this year and the! crop wil be about ten ton s per acre.j for which $7 and a bonus is paid by the factory at Decatur. Beets ore I being shipped from the Pennsylvania station here. One of these machines has been received at the local lactory and will be placed in the territory near Decatur. The machine is the first of its kind on the market and from all reports, it. does splendid work. The first sugar of the thirteenth anual campaign was manufactured ut the Holland-St. Louis Sugar company yesterday. Everything is / running along nicely at the mill and the beet-f are coming in on all train,*.

— o Former Decatur Lady Died In Montana Sunday Gail Tucker received a telegram last night from Fort Benton, Mont., tolling him of the death of his mother, which occurred there at G o’clock Sunday morning. The telegram was sent by another son. Nolan. Mrs. Tucker formerly lived in this city, redding on Third street. She loft about two years ago. going to Montana. Carl Tucker, another son. play j ed on the high school basketball i team here last year ami the year be-| 'fore, but he is in Montana at present.! Gail Tucker is employed at the Mut-j scler Packing Plant. * r McAdoo Is Recovering Baltimore. Md.. Oct. 13. —William Gibbs McAdoo will leave Johns Hopkins hospital tomorrow or Wednes ] day to go to New York and later speak in the west for John W. Davis democratic presidential candidate. lie Ins almost entirely recovered from a slight operalion performed last week. o Motorists Badly Burned Fort Wayne, Ind.. Oct. 13.—Floyd 1 Ford. 4(1, and C. E. Spumard. 48. both ] of Detroit, are confined to a hospital, here today with severe burn K suffer-1 ed when their wrecked automobile' caught fire while, they were pinned. beneath it. Their auto crashed over an embankment and overturned near here while they were enroute from their home to Ixifayottc. Ind The gasoline tank exploded. Both will recover, physicians said

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DAVIS SPEAKS TO CROWDS IN INDIANA TODAY Makes Plea For Honsty In Government In Lafayette Address GETS NEGRO SUPPORT Delegation Os Negroes At Indianapolis Pledge Support Today United Press Service) Lafayettf, Oct. 33 (Special to Daily Democrat) —John W. Davis, democratic candidate for President made a new demand for honesty in | government in an address here today in which he mentioned the case of Warren T. McCray, former governor of Indiana. Speaking before one of the largest political audiences ever assembled here the candidate said: » “The two needs which I put first at this time are honesty and econcmy in government. We need to scrutinize closely the character of our public officials and our candidates for office from the highest to the lowest. We must demand honesty in every one of them.” In a two minute platform speech at Lebanon Davis- made an appeal for complete equality regardless of race or creed. lndiana|K>lis. Oct. 13. —A delegation of negroes, all former republicans, to'day pledged their support to John W. I Davis, democratic presidential candijdate, at a conference with him just before the candidate resumed his speaking tour in Indiana. > The delegation included negro editors, preachers, and officers of the In.dependent Negro Voters’ league of Indiana. which is interested in defeating the republican state ticket be.cause of jhe klan issue. | Negroes are organizing a big demonstration for the democratic state ! ticket here next Sunday when they I expect to have 10,000 marchers in line. W. E. Henderson, president of the Negro Voters' league, was spokesman for the delegation. The candidate left here at noon for speches at Lafayette. Craw .fordsville. Greencastle and Terre | Haute. Davis will invade Illinois tomorrow.

Rev. Bridge Attends Mid-Year Institute The Mid-year Institute of the • North Indiana Conference of the ' Methodist Episcopal church, meets at Newcastle this week. Young men entering the ministry are required to pursue a five-year course of study. This week, under the supervision of ■ the examiners, they will review their studies and take examinations. i The Rev. IL S. A. Bridge, pastor of the First Methodist church of this . Board of Examiners for nineteen city, who has been a member of the years andl the conference registrar for sixteen years, left today to attend the Institute. There are more than fifty young men in the course of (study. Some of these are in attendance at some school. About thirtyfive of the students will be present at the Institute. HOLDANNUAL CONVENTION Large Audiences At Blue ('reek Township Sunday School Convention Largo audiences attended the annual Blue (’reek Township Sunday School convention held at the Salem M. E. church Sunday. Two sessions were he'd, one beginning at 2:30 p. m. and the other starting at 7 p in. The principal addresses at the afternoon session were given by O. L. Vance, Decatur merchant, and Rev. Shipley, of Pleasant Mills. The principal speakers in the evening were I E. C Beirie and Rev. P. W. Lutz. I Excellent music was given at both sessions. The following programs were given: Afternoon Session Song—Audience (Continued on page two)