Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 253, Decatur, Adams County, 23 October 1924 — Page 1

Volume XXII. Number 253.

DAVIS RESTS HIS CASE WITH VOTERS' JURY Democratic Nominee Virtually Has Closed Campaign In Midwest IS returning east Strong Sentiment Sweeping For Davis Is Belief Os Workers (I>y Paul R. Mallon) (T’nitPil Press Staff Correspondent) j KBrO ute with Davis to Cleveland. 01 .. 23,-John W. Davis, attorney. sp , <> back across Ohio from the West today, with his biggest case in the hands of the voters - jury. Tlie democratic nominee virtually closed his final argument in the midw(.st at Evansville, Ind., last' night and will tarry in Cleveland tonight only long enough for a brief address before he sets out for New York to remain there, until election day. Late minute democratic fireworks have been planned for exploding in the east; it is the confident belief of the Davis board of strategy that a strong sentiment is sweeping for its candidate. Davis struck a new note in his Evansville speech when he answered the attack of Secretary of War Weeks, centered on Charles W. Bryan, democratic vice-presidential nominee. Davis declared that Weeks had appealed for votes for President Coolidge to prevent Bryan being chosen president if the election goes into the house. Davis answered: “I should not tremble for the destinies of my country if they were committed to a gentleman who. after spending 20 years in contact with public questions, received the largest majority ever given in his senate for the office of chief executive among the people who knew him best; who administered that great office for two long years; reduced the taxes of his people 33 per cent; cut down one half their state employes and saved them by his independent initiative and exertion a sum of money in the price of the necessaries of life equal to the value of all the wheat raised within the borders of his state; who if the draft had not been made upon him by the democratic party in New York would have been re-elected by his fellow citizens. “If I were voting in the senate, without wishing to draw invidious comparisons I should take a successful governor of a great state with a great record of public service rather than a gentleman who entered vagaries expressed by the republican nominee for the same office.” Congressman Vestal To Speak Here This Evening Albert H. Vestal. United Slates f ongressman from the eighth district, "ill speak at the court house this even>ng. at 7:30 o'clock in the interests of his candidacy for re-election. John < armondy. local manager of the Hol-land-St. Louis Sugar company, will pre ide at the meeting and present Ihe speaker. o CITY TEACHERS HOLDJUEETINt Problems Relating To City Schools Discussed Last Night A meeting of the city school teach'ls was held in the Central school building last night. Discussions were i'.id by several of the teachers and Superintendent M. F. Worthman read letters he had received from the state superintendent of public inS(l action and the state school inspectors. Problems in general reati'es to the work of the city teachers were discussed during the meetn K- Discussions were lead as foln"s Miss Maude Anderson, “Composition’-; Mj gs Eva Acker ••ci asa . 'oom attention”; principal Walter 'ruk, Outside Activities”; Principa. Guy Drown, '‘Play ground Super'lsion , Miss Nell Winnes, “How To ‘ecure Best Results from Visiting Day.”

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Taggart To Be Back Home On October 28 (United Press Service) Indianapolis. Oct. 23.—Thomas Taggart. Democratic leader in Indiana will be back in Indianapolis Oct. 28. according to a long distance .xele-i phone call from him at Boston to Miss Gertrude McHugh, secretary ot the Democratic State Committee, she announced today. “Get my harness ready to jump into,” he ordered. The Detnocratis chieftain was operated on for appednicitis at Boston several weeks ago. He is out of the , hospital and will convalesce at his summer home In Hyannisport. Mass., until he returns. —0 'SIX GARY MEN APPEAL HIGHER Defendants In ‘Booze Ring’ Case Appeal To U. S. Supreme Court Gary. Oct. 23. —Six of the defendants in the Gary liquor conspiracy case whom were given sentences ot one year and one day in federal prison and whose appeals were denied last Friday by the United States circuit court of appeals will appeal to the United States supreme court, they announced today. The six men who will seek from the supreme court a writ of certorarl are Mayor Rosswell O. Johnson. D. E. Barnes, former sheriff; Clyde Hunter, former prosecutor; B. A. Lucas and B. S. Narcovich, attorneys. Most of the 3G other defendants whose sentences were affirmed by the court of appeals have decided not to appeal. Ten of the defendants who were found guilty, including former Cty Judge W. M. Dunn, have served their time. Police Declare War On Young Vandals Drastic steps will be taken, if necessary. to stop the many acts of vandalism that have been committed during the last few nights by young boys of the city, Chief of Police Joel Reynolds announced today. Case s have been reported to the officers where red paint has been smeared on automobiles. In many places throughout the city, property has been destroyed, windows have been marked with paint and soap. The officers have declared war on the boys and will punish al! who are caught in the act. — o Death Toll In Warship Explosion Reaches 14 Norfolk, Va„ Oct. 23.—(United Press). —With another death during the night, the death toll of the powder blast aboard the U.S.S. Trenton today stood at 14, with one more seaman reported in a “dangerous condition.” Richard Ellingsworth Benker, of Port Chester, Staten Island, died at the naval hospital late last night from multiple burns and physicians held little hope for the recovery of Thomas Bally of Erie, Pa. Four other seamen seriously burned in the explosion were reported to be “doing nicely.” o Henry Gast, Relative Os Decatur Lady, Is Dead Mrs. William Harting received a message this morning announcing the I death of her uncle. Henry Gast, of I Lima, Ohio. Mr. Gast had been ill for some time, suffering from old age and a complication of diseases. He ’ has visited here on numerous occasions and was known by a number of Decatur people. Tlie funeral services will be held at Lima, Saturday morn’ing at nine o'clock. I ' 0 Three Killed In Auto Accident In Indianapolis i i Indianapolis, Oct. 23.—John Stret- ■ henk. 47. a structural iron workers - was charged today with manslaughter -for the death of three members of the • family of Chester Haynes. Haynes stopped his auto near May- ■ wood last night to repair the car. A - second machine stopped behind his - car while the occupants helped him. r Strethenk's auto crashed into the - second machine, turning it over on - Mrs. Edith Haynes, her 13 months old , son. Paul, and her daughter, Doris, 7. ; who were standing at the side of the road.

TRY PASTOR FOR ' SANITY OCT. 21 'Former Friends Os “Poisoning Pastor” To Be Chief Witnesses (United Press Service) Mount Vernon. 111.. Oct. 23 Local physicians and former friends of Lawrence M. Hight poisoning pastor” of Ina village will be the principal witnesses in the sanity trial of the tleposed minister who has confessed to killing his wife with arsenic and inciting bis lover Elsie Sweetin. to kill her hn.*band in a like manner, it was learned today. The sanity trial will begin in Jes- . ferson county court next Wednesday. Oct. 2!’. before Judge John B. I Piercy. Circuit Judge J. C. Kern, granted the sanity examination late yesterday upon the request of A. It. Layman, attorney for Hight, anil deferred the pleading to the first degree murder indictment against Hight until after the hearing. o Fireman Killed In Fire At Earlham College RICHMOND. Ind.. Oct. 23.—William Kinney, a fireman, was killed and James Marshall, mother fireman, was seroualy injured early today while fighting a fire which destroyed Lindsey hail, the administration building at Earlham College. The two men were buried by debris when the west wall of the building caved in. The blaze started shortly before midnight on the third floor of the building. President Edwards said ths morning he feared incendiarism caused the fire. He estimated the loss at $250,000. —O Funeral Services For John Shifferly Friday Funeral services for John Shifferly, Adams county farmer who died yesterday morning at the Eastern Hospital for the Insane, at Richmond, will be held from the home of his son. Otis Shifferly, in St. Marys township, at 1:30 o’clock Friday afternoon, and from the Calvary Evangelical church at 2 o'clock. The Rev. R. W. Loose, pastor of the Calvary church, will have charge of the services. Burial will be made in Maplewood cemetery. Decatur, in the obituary of Mr. Shifferly. published yesterday, the name of one sister, Mrs. Henry Fuhrman, of Adams county, was omitted FORMER BERNE LADY MURDERED Mrs. Joe Mazelin Reported To Have Been Slain In Riot In China Berne, Oct. 23 —Word has been received that Mrs. Louise Mazelin who lived in Berne several years and who is well known here, was murdered in a riot in China recently. Nothing is known as to how she met her deatli except that it occurred in one of the Chinese riots which have been common in China and which are stiii going on. Her death is thought to have occurred in cold idood murder. Following the death of her husband here last year and receiving a considerable amount of insurance money, she left Berne. It was thought at the time that site had returned to her former home at Lake Charles. La. It was later reported, however, that her mother was making inquiry here as to her whereabouts. as she had not come home. It is thought that she has been using some of her money in a tri)> around the world and unfortunately happended to go to China during a period of war. The Peoples State Bank has received a letter from her mother. Mrs. W. W. Massingill, inquiring of her estate here, if there is any. She states that Mrs. Mazelin. was her only daughter. A brief extract of her letter states, “I understand that she was murdered in China recently in a i riot over there for she has been there for some time.” She leaves no children and has no relatives hero except through her ! busband. She was well known bere, however.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 2.3, 1924.

Monmouth School To Hold A Hallowe’en Festival A Hallowe'en festival will be held Friday evening nt 7:30 o’clock at the Monmouth School by the pupils. The public is cordially Invited to attend. A good entertainment will be given and there will be gypsy fortune tellers, King Tut and his crew; A trip around the world; Bunco; Cincinnati Zoo; Box Social, Cake Walk. Fish Pond. Contests and prizes will be elven for the two best masked persons. The teachers In charge of the affair: are Mary G. Kenney. Dora Marie Magley, Paul Graham and Leonti L. Leach. SEEK TO BREAK i HARVESTER TRUST Government Brings Action Against Internationa) Harvester Co. (United Press Service) St. Paul. Minn.. Oct. 23— Declaring that the 'Harvester” trust can only be broken up by the dissolution of the McCormick and Deering lins. A. F. Myers, special assistant to Attorney General Stone, pleaded in United States district court here today for enforcement of the consent decree of 1918 and for further relief. International Harvester company attorneys offered a brief contending that the hearing re-opens the entire case and that the courts must deal with new conditions in the harvester business. The hearing wii consume at least two days, attorneys said. Clerk At Boston Store Breaks Arm In A Fall Mrs. Carrie Sutherland, for many years a clerk at the Boston store, is suffering from a severe fracture of her arm. tlie result of a fall at the store. The arm was broken near the , shoulder and was a very serious fracture. She is a patient at Memorial Hospital, where she is reported to be improving. ,— o Arizona Copper Town Is In Flames Today i ... . (United Press Service) I Miami. Ariz., Oct. 23 —The business I section of Miami, Arizona's largest . copper camp, was in flames today and • of the entire town was ' feared. : The fire started at 9:15 o'clock and spread rapidly throughout the business section. Every available man was fighting to save the residence district. i Remarrying Os Divorced Couples Is Opposed (United Press Service) | Chicago. Oct. 23.—A resolution having for its ullimatic aim the placing of restriction on Lutheran ministers from remarrying divorced conflies was presented today at the convention of the church here. 0 _______—- Coal Mines Close And Throw 1,000 Out Os Work (United Press Service) Nelsonville. 0.. Oct. 23 -More than ' 1.000 men will be thrown out of work by the closing of four large coal mines in the Hocking Valley within the next week. Pittsburgh coal operators announced today. 1 The companies claim they cannot operate at a profit under tlie present ' three vear wage scale. o— — j Campaign In England Is Marked By Violence < t (United Press Service) London. Oct. 23. Razors, bottles, i wrenches and stones figured in the , Britich election campaign today. Violence, reminiscent of tlie days of the suffrage and the Irish disturbers, marred meetings in many constituenc ies. A 22 vear old man was sent to the r hospital in a critical condition with a razor gash from mouth to ear. at- , f I taiued in a melee designed to break r up a conservative meeting. —— 'I . .. . i.'TWeather 0 r INDIANA: Fajr tonight and Frii, day; rising temperature Friday: frost tonight.

PLAN FARMERS' MEET AT PREBLE Tentative Plans Made Last Night For Dairy And Sugar Beet Meeting Tentative plans for tlie holding of a farmer's meeting in the furtherance [of Hie sugar beet and dairying industries and drainage were made last evening in a meeting at Preble, by ■ several Decatur men. business men. bankers and farmers of Preble. Thosefrom tills city who attended tile meet ing were L. M. Kusche. Adams county Agricultural Agent: John Carmody. imanager of the Holland-St. Ixuiis I .Sugar company; A. I). Suttles; E. I IJ. Fricke, fieldmun for tlie Sugar ■Company, and George Krick of the i Krick-Tyndall Tib' Company. ' Clarence Smith, cashier of the bank of Preble presided as chairman at I the meeting and plans were discussed for the holding of two meeting in I Preble township, one in the north and one in the south part, sometime during the first week of November. Several similar meetings have been held in the county this year and much good has resulted from them. Subjects of interest to the farmers have been discussed and the meetings are held with the purpose of being of some good to those who attend. William Freitag, of Preble, served a delicious lunch to the crowd last night and another meeting will be held within a few days at which definite arrangements will be made. Similar meetings ar also being pro posed in Berne and Hoagland in tlie near future. — — o Dr. McCulloch To Sneak At Fort Wayne Tonight A large number of Decatur anil Adams county citizens are planing to go to Fort Wayne this evening to hear Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, democratic nominee for governor, speak. ;Dr. McCulloch will speak in the Majestic Theatre at 8:30 o'clock, coming to Fort Wayne from Garrett. Harvey Harmon, of Princeton, democratic candidate for attorney-general will address the meeting preceding the arrival of Dr. McCulloch. ' —o Southern Indiana Has Serious Forest Fire SEYMOUR. Ind . Oct. 23— A fire which started in timber on the hills near Kurtz in the northwest part of Jackson county a week ago. reached serious proportions today. A group of farmers under tlie direc lion of Bruce Fleetwood, township trustee, is fghting the fire and has begun to check its progress. GIRL INJURED IN HORSESHOE CAME Berne Schoolgirl Struck On Head By Horseshoe; Skull Fractured Berne, Oct. 23. Lenora, tlie ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto N’euenscliwander narrowly < ) caped deatli on Monday afternoon while playing during tlie last recess of school on the school ground, when she was struck on the forehead by a horseshoe that was thrown by a small boy who was engaged in a game of pitching horseshoe. An ugly gash fully two inches in length was cut high on her forehead paralied with the eyebrows, with the blunt edge of the iron shoe. An injury that “ she received that is more serious than the laceration is the fracture of her skull. The outer part of tlie skull is ■ fractured and tlie inner part is dented in toward tlie brain, physicians who were in charge of the little girl just ' after the accident, believe that had ■ she been struck a trifle harder she would have been instantly killed When the shoe struck her she fell to the ground and was picked up '■with her forehead bleeding profusely. ' She was never unconscious and peremitted the physicians tn close the wound without taking an anesthetic. At least five stitches were needed tn ,sew up the gusli. Although still suffering severe pain from the wound, it is not thought that - she is in any danger unless complit cations should develop®. She is very weak, however, due to' loss of hlood.

I New Band Has Been Organized At Berne Berne, Oct. 23.—A new band has been organized In Berne. It will be] known as tlie Dunbar Bind, and it promises to be one of tile best musical organizations of its kind in this part of tlie state. The organization of the band was imide possible by thi-j management of Hie Dunbar Furniture sac tory. All of tlie veteran musicians wlio have been a nucleus of the old Berne Band in years past, will be members of the new organization. The band is composed of twenty-three’ pieces at present. The management | of tlie furniture factory promised to furnish a leader, the practice room' and heat and lights, if tlie musicians’ would organize. CONCERT PARTY HERE TOMORROW — 3 Mooseheart Entertainers To Give Concert At H. S. Auditorium The Mooseheart Concert Party,' I which will give a cencert in the high , school auditorium Friday evening , under the auspices of the Decatur • Moose lodge, will arrive in the city I either at 6:55 am. or at 12:55 p.m. ' tomorrow, over the Pennsylvania j railroad from Fort Wayne. The boys will be in this city until 11:09 a.mJ Saturday, at which time they will i leave over the Nickel Plate railroad ■ for Bluffton. ' The Mooselieart Concert Party is composed of five Mooselieart graduates and the road manager, who is also the accompanist. The party is considered one of the best musical on the road and the program. which was arranged by experts lias received great praise from the musical critics of the country. It is in no way a home talent production or a dry recital It is a real professional entertainment, full* of pep and punch, and is equal to any attraction' that has visited the city, it is said. Tlie party visited this city last winter] and played to a crowded house in the high school auditorium. Those who heard the concert say that it' was one of the best musical entertain rnents ever given here. The proceeds from the concert will lie divided equally between tlie concert party and the local Moose lodge. Prominent Berne C ouple Celebrate Golden Wedding Berne, Oct. 23.—Mr. and Mrs. Peter Burkhalter celebrated their golden wedding anniversary it their home on Sprunger street yesterday. Betweent'ifty and sixtey guests were present to help in the observance. Included among the guests were all of the children except Mrs. Caroline Zook, of Arizona, all tlie grandchildren and near relatives. Two of the daughters, who are missionaries, were home yesterday, adding much enjoyment to the occasion. The chll--1 dren who were present were: Amos and family, Menno an dfamily Mr. and Mrs. Ben Sprunger and son. Edison; Mr. and Mrs. George Baumgartner and family, of Fort Wayne; Rachel of American Falls, Idaho, Lavina of Los Angeles. California: Martha, i of India; Mary it home. Rev. W. 11. ; Zook, husband of Caroline of Arizi ona. and Mrs. Adah Burkhalter, will i ow of the late Noah Burkhalter, who i died in India and son Laurance of Bluffton, Ohio, were also present. Others who were present are Rev. , and Mrs. I’. R. Schroder. Rev. and I Mrs. C. H. van der Smissen. Peter I*. Steiner. Barbara Luginbill. of Pandora. Ohio. Mrs. Adam Luginbill, of t Bluffton. Ohio. Mr. and Mis. C. Neuensi hwander. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Neuenschwantler. Mr. and Mrs. John Lehman and Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Sprunger of Berne, and Joel Fry of Bluffton. Indiana. — Ossian Marshal Fires Several Shots At Prowler Ossian received another burglar scare Tuesday night, which, however, resulted in no loss. At three o'clock yesterday morning Marshal Floyd Hayes, assisted by his deputy for the night, Dale Derr, saw a min lurking in the store room of the Ford garage and flashed a light into the window. As the light flashed on, the man ran out the hack door and escaped. Sev oral shots were fired. Tlie identitj of the prowler is not known.

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ALLEGES LAXITY IN PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT — Official Washington Stirred Over ‘‘Nation-Wide Scandal’’ PRESIDENT ACCUSED Coolidge Accused Os Using Power To Keep Facts From People (United Press Service) Washington, Oct. 23—A woman’s letter served as tlie blast that stirred official Washington today from the White House to tlie capitol in one of tlie most sensational prohibition incidents since the enactment of the Volstead ait. On the basis of that letter President Coolidge stands accused by Samuel Untermyer, New York lawyer, of having 'used his power to prevent the people from learning the facts” concerning the alleged laxity in prohibition enforcement, which he said amounts to a “nation-wide scandal.” Attorney General Stone also is charged by Untermyer with having suppressed until after election the letter "showing how this nation-wide scandal” was going on. The letter credited by Untermyer to Mrs. Maliel Walker Willebrandt, assistant attorney veneray in charge of prohibition enforcements, charges that she is unable to enforce the law because senators and politicians use their influence to keep unfit prohibition officials in office. According to tlie text made public by Untermyer. Mrs. Willebrandt, said in tlie letter that if she had the power she would suminarily remove nine or ten of the United States attorneys, “because of their inactivity or political evasiveness in enforcing prohibition statutes." I Tlie letter represents Mrs. Willebrandt as stating that she had "in no ' uncertaain terms r called these incidents to the attention of “tlie person delegated to act." o G. O. P. Campaign Fund Totaled $2,187,027.97 Washington, Oct. 23. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Republican cam- | paign funds collections on Oct. 15 ■totaled $218,727.97 according to a re- ] port submitted to the senate campaign funds committee today by William V. Hodges treasurer of the re- * publican national committee. Collections of $487,072.87 was made . Oct. II an Oct. 15 the report said. ■ j Disbursements in th■■ same period - totaled $254,286.98. f| Fred M. Sheperd, of X'"iv York re- ‘ presentative of the American Bankers association was the first witness ' called to the stand. He made, a .| blanket denial that his association i; has been engaged in collecting republican funds or that he has made * any contribution to tlio (1 O. I', fund. MAILING BALLOTS TOABSENTVOTERS County Clerk Obtains 500 Ballots; 100 Applications Received County Clerk John E. Nelson returned last night from Indianapolis with five hundred Absent Voters' ballots and today Mrs. Vincent Borman, deputy county clerk, and Miss Bernice Nelson, assistant in the office, wore mailing the first quota of ballots to absent voters. About 100 voters have petitioned lor alisent voters' ballots, so far It Is thought that between four and five hundred will request ballots mailed to them before election day. Saturday is the first day a voter who will ■ lie absent from the county on election day inn vote at the County ; j clerk's office. Those voters must apI pear in person at the clerk s office. > make out an application and vote > their ticket there. e Six tickets are listed on the nationr al and state ballot. The national baln lots are printed in pink paper and a sample copy of the ballot is posted y in the window of the Daily Democrat office.