Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 269, Decatur, Adams County, 11 November 1924 — Page 1

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ijW'STIK BAY | IS CELEBRATED I NHmOMY |||),«t»r Join’ ,n II (elehratinß End 01 I World War ■ 1U (,S are displayed I ll’ie.ideni Make:-; I’ilgrima«e I To Tomb Os Unknown I Soldier Me h lo <l:iy the following EB |, car." o.'-r the United Press ■f Vl< th.. Im:!'- Democrat office and 9 l . th.. ab fill news was po: ■ ■; n ii.iiittin windows, the ccfe|Kr..,:il„ ,>t ilw ending 01 the World i. H .i.|.!!i Wilson was t.s follows: |K , r ....;. a x t’.H t’l war work now is to t in '!■'■ establishment of just der:uv .lio.ugiewt ’he world.'’ said Hj r ..:t,|..:ii Wils.'ti in a proclamation Mem, earning '•«' signing of the armis 1..1.0 "My countrymen: Tin K ••rtfcti’e signed this morning K- ~lev. :i o'clock. Everything for |, A'l'W ica fought Jias been ar- ;: li. 'i. It will now he our - just democracy ■Bthroitghmit the world. Signed, Wilson, r, evident of il.e Ml’ni:«-.l Suit 's." H It has been six -years since the W.i: .eased and tiie Kaiser's ailmitte I defeat. ■H Today a gtcuti'til < Itizenry, alnot making anv loud detno:.- .■ compnretl io six years ago ■of tlie war were paying a solemn triio lin.se v.ho gaVe their service bringing about mace. B?l Flags wore displayed along Second and throughout the business (■clistriii an,] on every hand persons |Bwere recalling the old war days and happy day of November 11. 1918. IMat eleven o'clock when the General American and Allied represent;! [■■lves signed the document with the and Austrian represontaI Washington, Nov. 11—The nation ■today turned its thoughts bad; six to another Armistice day and reverent homage to those who ■gave their lives on the alter of liberty. J Throughout tho country memorial •>' * exercises, parades and cere[■monies appropriately observed the 1 J Two shrines here received thous- ■ ands of visitors— the tomb of the tin- ■ known shpldier at Arlington and the ■chapel beneath in which lies WoodWilson, war-time president. LI ’ rf ‘ s ldent Coolidge made a pilgrim- ■ A r '' llKton to P a y simple tribute lCnntinn°d On Patrn Pour) ;jIMES PAID IN I TOTAL $450,431 ■ Total Os $110,394 Paid On Last Day Os Fall TaxPaying Period I. The fall installment of taxes paid ■P 1 Adams county totaleff $450,431, ■ books in the office of County TreasI llr( T Louies Kleine show. Os this ■ amount $110,394, was paid on the ■ ast day O s fhg j a |] tax paying p er j o( i 9 h p roecipts on the last day this year ■ "ere the largest ever collected in a I single day, it was stated at the treas-Mur.-r's office. 9 is not known how much the deI n< ” ,en t taxes amounted to. but it ■ stated that the total was not I an :' more ban usual. Heretofore the | bffiuent taxes have amounted to ■ C ' nly $7,000 or SB,OOO. 9 1 1. ( December disbursement of ■ .‘Xes win | )e ma(le nex f niont h by ■ .°'inty Auditor Martin Jaberg and I 'no money wl n then be dlvidtnl I th' 01 ' 6 the rtitferent taxing units in IJ’ county, including township. l a , .° 0 ' 8 ’ roa( l s - road repair, bonds. I ia , lnterest fund and the many oth- ■ er dems. I ta DUnng ,he laSt week 0{ the fall I Xpaying period more than $200J)00 I of 3 * ° llec,e(l ,n taxes, equal to half In, 16 en,ire amount for the six I month’s period.

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’ Rural ( liurchcs And Evangelicals Guests The Rural Churches and the Rvanreli.l ('hutch of Decatur are the invited guests of tile Decatur ComFinonity Training School, which time's lat the centra) schnl building this ev'toning at 7:ir. n has (llf , I policy of the ~-hool to take this , means of letting the public become acquainted with the school. La.st week there was a fine number of gue’ts from tlie Methodist Church. The [School is being appreciated very ) greatly and is doh - splembul work. [The students ;>,e veiy regular in atThere . r . on ] v f ollr ~l orp sessions after Ttm-day in the first semester. WOMAN'S CLUB PRESENTS PLAY “The Storm” Pleases Audience At High School Auditorium Mss Gladys Schindler, of Berne, who is study ng under the direction of Mrs. Carrie Haubold. of this city, del'ghted the large audience present • last night at the high school auditorium when the Dramatic section of the Woman’s Club presented their first program of the year, with two beautiful numbers on the piano. Miss Cordelia Reisen. dressed in soldier's attire, sang a group of ! war songs, "Old Pal. Why Don't You I Answer Me.” "Tmnd of Mine.’’ and “Dear Old Pal of Mine.” She was accompanied by Miss Monai Butler. The play. "The Storm," hv Mary MacMillan, is a wak story and twelve wealthy lad es, who b long to a flow er garden club, decide to do their bit and < hange it into a war garden club. At their meeting they have an instructor from the city institute to* talk to them on "Food Values of thet Common Vegetables.” During the meeting a storm comes on very rapidly and Mrs. Addison, who is the only one who has a son in the service, sees her son in a vision and he tells her of the life in the trenches. Soon after the storm is over a message is received by Mrs. Addison reporting the death of box' son. The (Continued on page two) o FETTERS TRIAL DELAYED Attorneys For Defense Say Jurors Were Not Properly Impaneled Celina, 0., Nov. 11—The trial of James Fetters, charged with being an accomplice in connection with the murder of Ed. Moyer. Blackcreek township farmer, in August 1922, was postponed Monday morning Judge J. D. Barnes, of Sidney, who is sitting in the case, when attorneys for the defense objected to the jurors. who had been summoned, hear-! ing the case on the grounds that they were not impaneled in 'accordance with law. The case has been reassigned for hearing on December 15, 1924. 1 In their petition the attorneys for the defense pointed out that the special venire of jurors summoned to sit in this case had been drawn dur-1 I ing the April term of court and were) to have heard the case on September' - 15 last. However, the trial was post-' ' poned until November 15. Meanwhile > the October term of court has been opened and the law states specifical- • Ijr that a new venire of jurors shall i be drawn and the old one automat- - ically discharged. This point of law was overlooked • i and the persons drawn during the I I April term of court were notified last t week to report for duty on Monday J morning. November 10. > The court further notified witnesses. who had been subpoened in the' T ease, to report on December It', to' ( ! testify. The defense had about 25 I witnesses subpoened, including a I young man by the name of Muther.of i Seattle, Washington, who has'been' . granted a furlough from the navy to .. come here to testify. At the instance -of the state’s attorney the court gave instructions that if this material wit1 neS s were ordered to return to the 9 navy before the case is heard the atf torneys in the case should arrange Tor x a commission to take his deposition here before returning to his duty.

.'SEEK TO HAVE DEED SET ASIDE < —- . Brothers Claim Sister Induced Fatner To Make Bad Transaction . A< complaint to set aside a deed , w.'.s filed in the circuit court today . by Ulysses S. Drummond and Robert Drummond against Ada and Henry Yocum. The deed in question was' b executed hjr th" late William Drum-' unond for inlots No. <33 and 731 in Adams County's first addition to the I city of Decatur. It i s alleged in th«» complaint that the defendans induced the said William Drummond to trade the said lots for property in Montpelier. ln-[ , diana. ■ owned by the defendant, Henry Yocum, and the deeds were | executed accordingly. The plaintiffs J claim that at the time of the trans,l action, July It. 1924. the said William Drummond, who was their father. 81 years old and due to his infirmities and old ago. his mind was weakened and he was not capable of 1 transacting business. Furthermore, it is alleged, the said William Drummond had great confidence and trust in the defendant, Ada Yocum, who was his daughter, and for that reason was easily induced to make . the trade. The plaintiffs allege that , th(- defendants misrepresented the property in Montpelier, telling the said William Drummond tint it wa.s ■ worth much more than it really is. Mr. Drummond died September 29. 1924. leaving as his only heirs at law. the two plaintiffs in the case, and the defendant. Adi Yocum. The plaintiffs a>k that the deed to the real estate in this city be set aside and; the property returned to the estate. Attorney C. 1,. Walters represents the plaintiffs. o ‘Three Held For Brutal Murder Os Young Girl Chicago. Nov kt.—Three persons' are under arrest today in connection •with the brufal murder of Florence Gwazda. at East Chicago. Ind The child had been assaulted and decapitated with a razor. The suspects are Nicholas Evans, ’36, John Corkis, 48. roomer at the | home of the victim's parents, and the third is a negro, trailed to his home by a dog from the place where the' body was found at the railroad tracks. Chief of Police Strnss. of East Chicago. is directing search for others, among them ? negro who attempted I to ass..all . WO! .11 -’V.-ra! days •s*-*'. *•'*”*• Mrs. Harding Is Weak And Exhausted Today Marion. 0., Nov. 11. —Mrs. Warren G. Harding today is weak and exhausted after a sleepless night/ Dr. Carl W. Sawyer's official statement | on his condition said today. “Mrs. Harding had a poor night," the_ bulletin said. "She feels weak and exhausted this morning. Her general condition is not so good.”

Old Battlefields In France Still Bear Evidence OT Great World War Which Was Ended Six Years Ago Today

(By Webb Miller) (United Press Staff Correspondent) [t On the Old American Battlefield, [c Nov. 11—(11 a. m.)—This story is for ! ithe half million or more Yankees who 1 were in the Argonne and front lines 1 i along the Meuse at 11 o'clock six ■years ago—many with a tug at the more who were just behind the front or on the lines of communication. 1 Probably some time your thoughts ; will turn backward to that day six,) years ago many witha tug at the , heartstrings for the buddies left be- • hind under the little white, crosses , and undoubtedly all with a strange i Incomprehensible twinge of homesick- ' ness or whatever that feeling is. i I And probably you'll wonder how 1 the old place's look today. Weather Is The Same Well, at least the weather is the, same —there is that cold clammy fog in the Meuse valley. As usual it lias I drizzled all morning—thrnt persistent] .chilling rain you’ll nqver forget and , , the roads ahead are just about as mud , dy as ever. You’d recognize all this. But it's a safe bet you’d never re- . cognize today most/of the smashed, , deserted villages you marched . through those last few days chasing • the boche back out of the Argonne, i The peasants have come back — about 80 per cent, of them —and have

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 11, 1924

Former Adams County Lad Undergoes An Operation Robert, the eight-yeariobV son of Mr. ami Mrs. Noah Hoffman, of Bluffton rural route number six. is a patient in the Wells county hospital. , following an operation for strangulated hernia. The operation was performed last Saturday evening, ft is thought that the lad will make a satisfactory recovery. The Hoffman family formerly resided in Adams county, near Monroe, and are welt known 'in that' vicinity. EIGHT INMATES I OF ELKS’ HOME DIE OF POISON Seventeen Others Seriously Bl From Effects Os Poison Cider OTHERS MAY DIE All Available Doctors Rushed To National Home At Bedford, Ya. (United Press Service) Bedford. Va.. Nov. 11. Eight inmates of the Ellen national home here are dead and 17 are seriously ill and not expeited to live as a result of drinking cider which contained ar senie here yesterday. The dead are: Chester Tucker. Lima, O. Alvin Spalding. Loveland. O. Joseph A. Kenny. Marion. Tnd. F. E. O'Conner. Dallas. Tex. Thomas F. Madigan. Long Island City, N. Y • - I George W. Slade, Saginaw. Mich. ; i C. F. Whitney. Omaha. Neb. B. F. Allen. Portland. Ore. i Al! available doctors in the surrounding country have been rushed Ito the.borne to aid those who are stricken, three going from Bedford, two from Roanoke and two from Lynchbuig to the over worked' hospital staff | Robert A. Scott. Linton. Ind., home [ member of the board of trustees of, | the Elks, has ordered that no expense be spared in aiding the sufferers. I The cider was bought from a store-1 keeper in the country about five miles from Bedford in two lots for a party ' of about fifty inmates. | 0 Fixe D(.-sir(»ys .School,. Bu tld* Ag c < gd (United Press Service) Chesterton. Ind.. Nov. 11—Fire ol undetermined origin early today gutted a two story brick s<hool building | and damaged an adjoinging furiture. store here. The loss was estimated ; at more than $200,000. The blaze started, in an old barn across the alley from the school building and, fanned by a high wind, 'spread to the school house.

cobbled up the ruins or rebuilt them ( i and are today busy spreading fertiliz- s er in the fields for the spring crop. I < Many viiages were wiped out and 1 never will be rebuilt. They are only 1 memories, or names on the old time ■ t war maps. Champagne Is Wilderness There is a great strip of many de- 1 sob'te miles through the Champagne 1 and across the Argonne, like an immerse scar that rec-ills vividly enough today the scent s of six years ’ ago. it is now a grey w ldern°ss overgrown by dmid w'"l-' among twisted stands of barbed wire. The grass-grown trenches have fallen In. but here and there a rn tv broken rifle?, a bnl!"t-pier<ed tench ihelmet, or a rotted slice conjure -a [sharp grim picture of what happened here. The shell smashed fragments of tho Hindenburg line in th" Argon ine are pretty much as you saw ’hem [last- -.a scene of man-made I tion. Hundreds of stumps stand out ou trees from which shells blasted the [ brauch’es. Around the places where ' the fighting wgs the fiercest the earth is still pocketed with shell holes rim to rim. water filled just as six years ago. Six Years Ago In Verdun Those of you who wore in or near Verdun six years ago this morning

WILSON MYERS EXPIRES TOOAY \ v l ( • Retired Farmer Dies At Home In Root Township ( After Long Illness Wib on M'dvin Myers, age 7G years [ retired farmer, died at his home . th.,. :■ end oik ba'f miles north of thh city in Root township, at 1 , o'clock this morning. Mr. Myers had . been in poor health for the last ten . years, suffering from a complication t of disease:'. Mr. Myers was born is Wayne , cennty, Ohio. April 7. 1848. He came to Adams county thirty-eight years ago and had made his home in this colTnty since that time. Mrs. Myers died January 7. 1922. Since that r'nie Mr. Myers has been making his home w’th h:s son. Sloan Myers. i Surviving are the one son. Sloan Myers. ;«even grandchildren, three great grandchildren, anil one brother George McClure, of Los Angeles. California. Funeral services will be held from the residenhe at 19 o’clock Thursday - morning. Burial in the Maplewood ? cemetery, Decatur. [ r I ~ — t. Ft. Wayne Man Arrested ; 1 For Mail Fraud Scheme 1 i h (United Press Service) , For’ Wayne, Ind . Nov. 11. Glenn B. Fiver. 24. proprietor of the Nile Art Company of Fort Wayne was arrested here this morning by federal authorities on charges of using the mails to defraud. | ( ■ It is alleged Fryer swindled custom- ( Lrs of the lompany throughout th" United States of more than $200,000 in the last two years. During the ! hast year he lias been making slo.no month, it is claimed, in operations' [of hi company. [ Fryer two years ago started the company on SIOO of borrowed capitol. Advertising throughout the conn- , try he i s alleged to have sold mai teriols for making art lamp shades and pil'ow tops on promises to , i. . ( accept their work. The affidavit f | upon which his arrest is based names' I Mrs. M. I. Romaine. 26 Eent i Poughkeepsie. N. Y.. as having bepn' defrauded by his operations. —o — London Pound Sterling ! Makes An Advancement I I (United Press Service) I London. Nov 11. The pound sterling opened at $4.63 on the i.ondon ex ..<.:l!;>nr.e.,t.!>d:i.y ail .Ipprer i lid' • - ......... . ,"d bet ween $1.61 and $4.62., ( Coolidge To Attend Stock Show ; Army-Navy Game (United Press Service) Washington. Nov. It —President , Coolidge today decided to leave here Doe. 3 to attend the Chicago livestock show. He plans to attend the Army-Navy game at Baltimore on Nov. 29.

never will forget how the Germans, as soon as they received the armistice orders about 10 o'clock, opened with hundreds of guns all along the line bow they turned scores-wf guns upon the town to vent their last spit" how the ruins became an inferno of burst-/ ing shell how the boys were needlessly killed a few minute s before the fateful hotir of armistice end how the Yanks retorted in kind, especially tl’.e o'd plnnkett’s great 14 inch n ival i gun mounted on flat cars behind the i town which every few min'iios blast- ■ cd a great hole in th' fog. It takes a bit of imagination to i" . call that scene today. i ( Most of tlie houses ill Verdun are . i'ob'.rlt and the nniot life of a provinc- : al town ges placidlv on as it did for hundreds nf years before. ’I’ll" old ; town wi'l how th" marks of the yours of bombardment though for mnnv yearn yet, but the transformation Since November 11. 1918. is mirpris- ( 1 ing. | , Outside Verdun is a great waste of i land—where nearly a million [were slaughtered. The rolling hills ( are furrowed still by the old trenches ; and everywhere you find horried souvenirs representing a human life lost here. The famous forts of Dauomont and Vattx are chalky (Continued on page three)

'Amateur Radio Operators [ Hold Meeting At Preble | Tim Knights of the Midnight Key, tin organization of amateur radio | inperators, held un interesting meeting i nt Preble Siindny night. Mary topics! of tmnsunl Interest wre discussed ' I .during tlie meeting. TIs 1 club rei i presents forty amateurs and was or-j igimited In Fort Wayne. The club has for its purpose to do nil h cun for tl>e ( betterment of radio. Decatur was represented at meeting by E. W. Ifesher. who ojw-r- I ates a broadcast Ing station as 9BQT. and Gerald Col", who op<-rates s.a-'l tion iiDHS. • THIEVES ENTER ! MONROE OFFICE ( t Obtain $lO In Cash From Office Os Monroe Block t & Tile Company • Thieves broke into the office of the 1 Monroe Block and Tile company at I Monroe sometime Sunday night and rifled the safe of approximately $lO in cash, although the exact amount of , money taken is not known. The , thieves left several checks, in the j safe, some being for large amounts, , which lead-, to the belief that the , work was that of local talent. | Tlie thieves gained entrance to the x factory through a rear door and then 1 worked their wav iufo office. The > safe was forced Open, but »a< not ( damaged greatly. Nothing but the cash been missed from the office. t -4 o — s Omaha Sends Out Good 1 News; Turkeys Cheaper [ (United Press Service) Omaha. Neh. Nov. it. -Omaha com- ' mission houses today took issue with 1 the prediction of higher turkey prices 1 made by a (.'hicago lunrkj s hub, Because of the large chick'n crop this year turkeys will be diaper, 1 Omaha poultry men said. ‘ | Nebraska sand hill turkeys will ' take the place of the southern gobblers to a large extent in ibis vicin,ity for the first time this year and a luge crop of Nebraska turkeys will be marketed. | iYOUNG PEOPLE ! TO HOLD RAI IY I . I oung People’s Societies Os Evangelical Ch u rches To Meet Here A group convention of the young people's societies of the surrounding Evangelical churches is to bo held at the Evangelical church of this city tomorrow * The convention is under the supervision of the state president of the Evangelical League of Christian Endeavor, who wi'l bo present and supervise the different sessions The churches cooperating are Fort Wayne First Church and Crescent Avenue church. First < hurch and Calvary church of Decatur. Hi" church at Berne and two churches' on the Lint) Grove circuit. The morn ( ing session will be given over to discussion of the Sunday School work. The afternoon and evening sessions will be given up to the discussion of the work of the young people. In the evening there will he 1 an address by the state president, 1 Rev. L. E. Smith. At the supper ' [hour there will be a pot luck supper 1 tor all the guests of the convention 11 I which will he provided by the mem ' i bership of the First church of Deca- ■ tur, young people and all. The whole ' | membership is invited to contribute “ Ito the supper and to be present and I t njoy the social hour with the guests ' Following is the program of tho 1 day: 9:30 Devotion. Rev. F. W. Latin- I’ er. Linn Grove 1 Special Music —Linn Grove 9:45 -Address. "The Teacher Train- 1 ed Why? How?", Rev. F. C. B-iger, ’ ]’. E.. Fort Wayne. 10:15—Conference ' 11:00 —Address. "The need of the child, the law of the church”. Rev. M. W- bunderman. Fort Wayne. 11:30 —Conference 12:00 —Adjournment. Afternoon Session 1:30- Devotion. Rev. F 8. Erne, (Continued On Page Four)

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SEN. WADSWORTH SLATED TO BE SENATE LEADER Friends Claim Sufficient Strength To Put Him In Lodge’s Place FROM NEW YORK STATE Little Opposition Expected; Has Excellent Debating Ability ll’nltc.l Press Service) Washington, Nov. 11 — (Special to Daily Demociati Senator James W. Wadsworth of New York is now slated to be new republican leader of the senate. A group of his friends in the upper chamber let it be known today that they had begun work in his behalf and claimed sufficient strength to elei i him to the post made vacant by the death of Henry Cabot Lodge. Little opposition is expected within the ranks although the white house has not been yet fully consulted If is also presumed Wadsworth will accept. The senior senator from New York, it now develops, was a leading contender for Lodge's position when the present congress was organized last December. A spirited contest then was in prospect but it was avoided by a compromise which named Wadsworth and Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin assistant leaders to Friends of the New York senator thought at that time his debating ability and his knowledge of republican practice in tiie senate might make him a more successful leader than a man of Lodge's years. Wadsworth has been secretary of the republican caucus, chairman of the senate military affairs committee and one of the mainsprings of the republican machine in the senate for year’ lie is 47 years of age, a Yale graduate, a leader of the official social set of Washington and a veteran of tlie Porto Rican campaign of 1908 He v.’as one time speaker of the New York state assembly and has been United States senator from that suite since 1914. In 1920 he received a majority of half a million votes over his democratic opponent. Harry W. Walker. Ills term expires March ”, 1927. Admits Part In Million Dollar Mail Robbery MW.*.,.' .. r alleged "brains" of the Ronndout. 111 . mail train robbery in which an armed hand looted a mail train of sl,'mo.i)oo today jneaded guilty to participation in the robber.v iinini diat' ly prior to calling the casi for trial before Judge Adam Cliff. Willi G!ass< o k. ,).• »T ami Joe Newton. also pleaded guilty. Willia and Willis Newton previously had entered pleas of guilty. FORMS FEED IND FLOUS COMMNY Gilbert Strickler Heads New Firm Organized In This City Gilbert Strickler, former president of the Fornax Milling company, whose plant was destroyed by lire a few <1 cys ago, lias organized a company, to he known as the Decatur Flour and Feed Company, i They will open a buslnesx house on South First street within the next couple of weeks, exact place to be announced soon. The new store will handle all kinds of flour, feed, pastry ai d spring wheat flour md other articles, will do a general jobbing ii.tsiness and will appreciate the support of the public. Mr. Strickler has been in the mill business for tweuty-three years and i H a high class, courteous gentleman. The new coiutiany is i strong ore financially and the store will do a thriving liueisiess it is predicted. Full announcements will be made in a few days. Weather Showers and thunder storms and colder tonight; Wednesday fair and colder. <