Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 181, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1925 — Page 1

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[U assessment I increase totals 11100151.000.(100 st I Those of Last Year ITO MAKE^ ore WORK I Auditor Will Have To I Change Assessment Un I Every Farm In Co. I tv five per cent. horizontal InI cr ease. placet! on the assessments of I lands anti improvements lin Adams I county by the slate board of tax I commissioners, will total approxiI mately $1,000,000 based on a valuaI don of about 120.00Q.000. I With this increase added to the I valuations in this county, it is estiI mated that the total assessable valI nation n the county will be nearly I $40,000,000. or within a few hundred! I thousand dollars of the old assessI went. A decrease of about two milI lion dollars in farm lands and im-| I provemint:- was shown Phis year in I (|,e new appraisements and the state's horizontal increase will bring the total near the old assessment-! la the cities and towns in the county the real estate and improvement assessments were increased over a vrars ago. Much work will be occasioned by the state's action, as it will be necessary for the county auditor to change the assessments on /every farm in the county and figure' the amount of the five per cent increase in each individual increase. O'' Bancroft’s Funeral To Be Held Next Wednesday Tok io. Aug., I—The American embassy innounced today that the funeral of Ambassador Edgar A. Bancroft wiH be held Wednesday and thai.the remains will probably be sent to San Francisco August 6 iboard the Japanese cruiser Tama.

BUS PETITION IS APPROVED Frank Bowers Get Permission To Operate DecaturFort Wayne Linje Indianapolis, Aug. I—Twelve petitions to operate motor busses in Indiana stood approved today follow-, ing a meeting of the state public service commission late yesterday. Two oqher applications were denied by the commission. The bus routes approved were: Robert Abrams, Utica to Jeffersonville. Frank. Bowers, Decatur to Fort Wayne, property. Christ Scheiwe, Fort Wayne to Ligonier, property. Earl Layman and Constantine and Charles McKenzie, Fort Wayne to South Bend. Walter Kuhlman, Richmond to Cincinnati, property. Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction company, bus lines in the city of Terre Haute. John Donzell. Fort Wayne to Muncie and Fort Wayne to Marion. Blue and Gray Bus lipe, Harmony to Terre Haute. Newcastle Transit company, Indianapolis and Newcastle via Maxwell and Indianapolis and Newcastle via Lewisville, passenger and property. Ruling that existllng service was adequate, the commission denied the Petition of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction company, to operate a bus line between Terre Haute and Harmony. The petition of the D. F. Davis Motor line to operate between Indianapolis and Terre Haute was denied. The commission found that drive:s for the bus line violated the speed law prior to the time the company sought an operating certificate. Frank Bowers, to whom permission was granted to operate a bus line between this city and Fort Wayne, 'as been doing trucking business between the two cities, it is said. He ■ntends to add a passenger bus to the line. ■

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

• GO TO BLUFFTON Five Decatur Rotarian* Attend Ore- | well Given By Bluffton Club | For Ferd Rogers. I Avon Burk, (). U Vance. Will O’Brien and F. J. Schmitt attended the Rotary meeting at Bluffton last evening. A farewell party was given in honor of Ferd Rogers, retiring presidnot es the club, who left today for Columbus. Ohio, to accept a position with the Pure Oil company. Mr. Rogers was cashier of the Studabaker bank for ' several years. W. A. Kunkel, Jr., was installed as president last evening. ( The Rluflton ladles were also guests It the meeting and Father Conroy of Fort Wayne, delivered the address of the evening. FLOWERS MARK BRYAN'S GRAVE - -y Magnificent Floral Tributes Heaped Around Commoner’s Resting Place Washington, Aug., I—A mountain of , flowers today marked the spot where William Jennings Bryan lies buried in the heights of Arlington. Scores of magnifleient floral tributes , from giant set pieces to simple bunches of sweet peas and roses, were heapI ed high around his grave. Hundreds of I visitors went to the new shrine among ■ many shrines in the National cemetery. The last rites were said over the commoner late yesterday in the brilliant rays of the afternoon sun. which broke through the clouds and rain that i had shrouded the city all day. I The services were extremely simple Rev. J. R. Sizee of the "Church of the Presidents,” read the prayers and committed the body to earth. Rev. George Stewart, Birmingham, Alapronounced I brief eulogy at the grave side. Mrs. Bryan, who had not looked on the face of her husband in death did not witness the interment. With her so*. William Jwwdngs Bryan. Jr., she sat in a limousien a score of yards away weeping, while the clergymen intoned "dust to dust” and a sexton filled the grave.

A clear note of a bugle sounding “Taps" muffled commands to the military escort and Bryan was left to rest. Liter perhaps a big monument will be erected at the spot to proclaim the burial place of the commoner. Flying Squadron Sets Out To Make Broadway Dry Ne w York, Aug., I—Armed with crowbars, sledge hammers and orders to “make Broadway dry", i flying aqua--1 dron of 12 prohibition agents have started a new offensive against cabarets and night clubs in the white light district here. The latest drive wis organized by U. S. District Attorney Emory C. Buckner, who last winter created a sensation with his “prohibition bby pad lock" campaign. Led by William R. Stafford, known as “the plague of the north", beciuse of his border ac tivities, the dry squad battered its way through iron shutters and oaken doors, arrested five men and seized liquor valued at SI,OOO. 0 - — — Asked Girl To Take Auto Ride With Him; Fined For Delinquency Bluffton, Aug., I—William Crozier, local blacksmith, was found guilty of contributing to delinquency Friday afternoon, in juvenile court, by special Judge M. W. Walbert. Crozier was fined SSO and costs. It was alleged that Crozier wrote a letter to a 17 year old Bluffton girl, asking her to go auto-riding with him. The girl turned the letter over to her parents and an affidavit was filed against Crozier. Prosecutor Elmore Sturgis held i that under the state statute whoever encourages delinquency is guilty of contributing to delinquency and the court upheld him. ______—o — Young Mother And Her Baby Are Burned To Death t Greencastle. Ind.. Aug., I—A1 —A double ■ funeral was planned today for Mrs. Leonard Greenlee. 23. an dher three < year old daughter, Alberta. I The mother and daughter were fa- i tally burned yesterday in attempting |to start a fire with kerosene. <

HARDING HIGHWAY OFFICERS NAMEO Old Officers Re-elected At Annual Meeting; Plans Made For Future Officers were elected and plans were made for the future at the annual slate meeting of the Harding Highway Association held at the Jungle Hotel in Culver Thursday evening It was decided to mark the road better through this state. The Rochester N*ew»Sentinel gave the following account of the meeting: All officers and directors of the Harding Highway Association of Indiana were re-elected for another year at the annual state meeting Thursday evening at the Jungle Hotel at Culver. The majority of the directors and a number of stockholders were all present at the gathering, winch was honored by the presence of Carl J. Gugler. National President, of Galion. Ohio, and close personal friend of the late President Harding. J. P. Walters, President of the Indiana Association, C. C. Longfellow, secretary, both of Culver, who have devoted much time and energy to mak ng the Harding Highway one of the leading trails through Indiana, will be at the helm for another year, while Perry McCormick, vicepresident. North Judson, and Walter Ball. Huntington. treasdrer. will comtinue to serve with them. The meeting, which was a very enthns'astic one, was featured by an address by Mr. Gugler, who told the accomplishments made in the various states and how the Highway now was definitely laid out and partially marked from coast to coast. He brought the word that the Federal Government now recognized the Harding Way as one of the links to be considered when Federal Roads across the country will be designated w*ithin the next year or so. Strip iu*T»s are already out for the roid and these will be given common distribution soon. He also told the era ployment of a field secretary in the near future, who woirtd devote all his time to the welfare of the Highway. Better Markings During the meeting it was decided that the Harding Highway through Indiana should be better marked and definite steps were taken to do this

at once*. A representative of the Hoosier Motor CJjib was present and agreed to mark the route all through the state without charge if the association furnished the markers. It. was also decided to place signs at each lake, stream, railroad, town and historical spot along the way giving its name so that the tourists would be fully informed at all times. It was the general opinion expressed by the directors at the meeting that the Harding Highway foundation was well laid and already the amount of travel over it justified its (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o— ERWIN TO SPEAK AT PYTHIAN MEET Annual Encampment Os Uniform Rank To Be Held At Martinsville Martinsville. Ind.. Aug. I.—(United Press. I —Preparations were completed today for the opening of the annual encampment of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, of Indiana and Illinois. Two thousand uniformed members of the order and hundreds of other Knights were expected to attend Brigadier General William Gray, of Covington. Ind., will be in command. Dore Erwin, of Decatur, Indiana, ' grand chancellor of the Indiana lodge, and Senator Watson are among the speakers for Monday. —_ 0 Burglar Is Captured Ind'anapolis. Aug. 1 — William Sloan. 50, an ex-sailor, was charged J with burglary today after being cap-,1 tured last night in the room of i August Naab, an employe at St t Vincent’s hospital. Naab, awakened by a noise, switch-' t ed on the light and found Sloan stand- 1 ing over him with a heavy iron bar i ready to strike him. | < Naab jumped from his bed and ( overpowered the intruder. ■ i

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 1, 1925,

CAPTIVE 1 * vReFb v. sSi :Pf V_ A T * ‘ ' J i VGr S Ah * Ww / — * * I DR.--HARVEY HOWARD Peking—Morgan Palmer, an Am- ' erican. has been killed by bandits >! at his ranch o nthe Sungari river . near Harbin. Dr. Harvey Howard, an I eye specialist attached to the Rocke- ’ feller hospital, was captured at the same time. Consider advices from Kalgan state ■ that Palmer was killed on July 20 . while defending his properly against bandits. Mr. Palmer anil his mother. Dr. Howard and his son. James, and an i American trader named Baldwin of ■ Kalgan Chichili province, together . with his wife ami children, were visiting Palmer’s ranch, which is in teh Manchurian province of Kirin, when ' the attack was made. The consoler advices say that Dr. Howard was still in captivity; v tho others are "safe for the present", but ’ their whereabouts is not known. The i American consul at Mukden. Samuel i Sokobin. has gone to see the military governor of Kirbin in an effort to effect the release of Dr. Howard. i — DATES FOR TRIAL ARE CONSIDERED Early September Suggested As Date For Trial Os D. C. Stephenson

Noblesville, Ind.. Aug. 1. — (United Press.) —Trial of D. C. Stephenson, former klan chieftain, and Earl Klenck and Earl Gentry early in September on charges of murdering Miss Madge Oberholtzer. was under discussion today. Local attorneys for the defense conferred privately with Judge Hines, who will hear the case, it was learned. Judge Hines told the attorneys he would be out of the state between August 15 and September 1 and suggested the early part of December? Eph Inman, the chief defense attorney, was expected here today for a conference With his three clients in the jail here to determine whether they would avail themselves of the opportunity of an immediate trial offered by Judge Hines earlier in the week. o Indiana Starts Month Os With Low Temperature Indianapolis, Aug. I.— (United Press) — Indian! today started the month of August with the low temperature which had marked the last half of July. The temperature in Indianapolis’at 7 a. m. was 59, ten degrees below normal. Indications are for fair weather Sunday with rising temperatures. Although the weather during most of the last half of July was considerably below normal, no records were broken. The rainfall for the month was 4.67 inches, more than half an inch above normal. o Kiwanis Convention To Be Held In Montreal In 1926 Chicigo, Aug., I—The1 —The 1926 international Kiwanis convention will meet in Montreal June 7-10, the international board decided at its meeting today. Delegates from 1400 clubs favored the Canadian city over Memphis ind Indianapolis. The selection was made at this year’s meeting at St. Paul and confirmed by the board here. The district council of Kiwinis will meet here Dec., 3-4-5 this pear.

D.U GRADUATES TO ENTER COLLEGE Fewer Number Than Usual To Enroll This Fall, Reports Show Fewer graduates of Decatur high school will enter colleges and institutions of higher learning than usual this fall, It was revealed this morning when reports from the 1925 graduates were examined by Superintendent M. ff-’. Worthman. So far. only twelve of the fifty-one graduates have signified their intentions of continuing their education. Mr. Worthman stated, however, that he believed several others would attend colleges, but as yet they are undecided. Western college at Oxford, Ohio, will receive two of the 1925 class. Eloise Lewton and Leah (loiter have signified their intentions of going to that college this fall. For the last several years Western has been one of the popular middlewestern colleges for Decatur high school girl graduates. Katherine Hyland will go to St. Marys college for women at South Bend. Mary Macklin and Marguerite

Kosht will enter nurses training at the Robert Long hospital. Indianapolis, and when completing their training will be graduated from Indiana University. Lee Anna Vance will leave this fall for Ferry Hall, at Lake Forest. Illinois. Ferry Hall is a preparatory college for students who are planning on entering eastern colleges later. Margaret Lankanau will enter train ing this fall at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where a nurses training course is given. Don Lammiman, who came back to Decatur last spring to get a diploma with his class, will return this fall to the Moody Bible Institute where he is studying for the ministry. Violet Lett will take a teacher’s training course at Muncie State Normal college this fall. Merle Mahenke also will attend the Muncie College. I Lila Mamma is planning to enter Huntington college, at Huntington. Indiana. Merrilynne Wherry will go I to Muncie Normal where she will take the teachers’ course. Paul Spuhler will take a course in electrical engineering at the General Electric factory at Fort Wayne, where a school is held in connection with the factory. Several other 1925 graduates are also planning to attend some school this fall, but as yet have made no definite plans as to which school they will attend. Janet Steele will enter Muncie .formal scfidbi’ tiiis fall. Two members of the 1924 graduating class also will enter college for the first time thfs fall. Jestine Hocker will go to Indianapolis university, at Bloomington, and Robert Mills will go to Purdue. Harriet Myers, who attended DePauw uni versity last year, will go to Indiana university this fall. o COUNTY GETS ANOTHER RAIN Little Damage Reported Here; Other Counties Have Hail Storm Storm clouds threatened this city and vicinity yesterday afternoon for several hours and climaxed about four o’clock with an hour’s rainfall Some hiil fell during the rain, but not sufficient to cause any damage. Neighboring counties especially those South west of here, suffered considerably from hail damage. The clouds first appeared about two o’clock and for about an hour threatened to terminate in a serious storm. Most of the clouds however, were high and the rain that followed was not accompanied by any »-eat amount ol thunder and lightning. Parts of Wells and Blackford counties were severely hit by the hail, but only a small amount fell in this city. After the rain the atmosphere was , much cooler, but weather predictions are to the effect that warmer weather will follow. No crop dmaage has been reported from the storm in this ioWeather Generally fair tonight and Sunday; slightly warmer Sunday.

C. L. OF C. CONVENTION Mrs. Roman Parent And Mrs. L. A. Houlthouse To Attend National Meeting In Cleveland, O. Mrs. Roman Parent and Mrs. L. A Holthouse will leave Monday morning for Cleveland. Ohio, where they will repiesent the Decatur Catholic Ladies of Columbia at the national convention of that organization to be held in Cleveland. The convention will begin Monday. August ,*1 and last until August 7. Representatives from all the Catholic Ladles of Columbia chapters In lhe country will be present at the meeting Business sessions will b“ held nt the Statler hotel. LARGE INCREASE IN STATE TAXES — Equalization Orders Boost Total Valuation About $64,000,000 Indianapolis, Aug. 1. — (United Press. I — Equalization orders issued to the county boards of review of fifty-two counties of the state for revision of assessments on real estate and personal property will swell the total taxation valuation far more than was at first estimated by the board. Owen C. Beling, secretary of the board, said the net result of the board’s orders will be an increase of about $64.000.000 over the figures prepared by the county assessors. Os this amount. $38,000,000 is represented in increases in farm land and the remaining $26,000,000 is on property of corporate cities and towns. The figures presented by the assessors showed a decrease of $137,000,000 over last year's assessment total. Even after the increases ordered by the board are put into effect, there will be a net decrease of between $70,000,000 and $75,000,000 from last year's valuations. The board’s orders specified an increase of certain percentages in the property of counties affected. Belling has not yet completed his estimate of the actual amount of assessment increases on all the conn-' ties. Figures available place the increases ordered as follows: Adams, $1,000,000; Blackford, $1,387,000; j Boone, $2,804,700: Clay. $1,058,210; Decatur, $1,350,000; DeKalb, $1,408,000; Delaware. $801,000: Fountain. $3,020,000; Henry. $35,700; Laporte, $1,249,000; Lake. $2,011,000; Marshall. $1,917,000; Monroe. $1,951,000; Montgomery. $5,991,000. The tax board in reviewing assessments this year found its task particularly difficult because of the reappraisal of all real estate ordered last winter. Final adjustment of all assessments will leave the total valuation of taxable property in Indiana above the $5,000,000,000 mark, according to state officials. Valuations on railroads and utilities are set directly by the state tax board.

As long as the taxation valaution does not fall below the $5,000,000,000 mark, the administration can go ahead with its program of paying off the state debt and bringing a reduction of the state tax levy from 28 to 25 cents, Lewis Bowman, auditor of state, said. 0 Negro Boxer Killed Linton, Ind., Aug. 1. —(United Press) ' —Eddie Malone, 22, negro boxer of Detroit, Mich., was killed early today when the automobile in which he was returning to Indianapolis from a fight at Evansville overturned at Marco, south of here. Malone's neck was broken. Two other companions escaped injury. o President’s Son Leaves For Military Training Camp Swampscott, Mass., Aug., 1 — John Coolidge, 19 years old, is off today for the citizens’ military training cimp at Camp Devens, Mass., with a pointed direction from his father to keep out of the newspapers. The president's son has a pretty hard time—much more so than ordinary boys, chiefly beciuse the publicity attending his activities ciuses his doings to be limited. Mr. Coolidge has told callers that his son John is just as easy to spoil as the usual run of boys and easier than some.

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SHIPS IN POLAR EXPEDITION BREAK THROUGH ICE JAM MacMillan Ships Resume Navigation And Travel About 25 Miles MESSAGE IS RECEIVED Lincoln Ellsworth, Member Os Amundsen Exposition, Arrives In U. S. SHIPS N POLAR Washington, Aug. I—The1 —The MacMi.lan expedition ships Peary and Bowdoin have ibroken through the ice jam which has held thme for several days and have navigated from Cape York to Cape Atholl, a distance of about 25 miles, according to a message received at the National Geographic society today. The message was picked up by an amateur at Pittsfield. Mass., and was dated July 31. It indicated that the progress was made late yesterday.

New York. Aug. I—The1 —The fame that was Lincoln Ellsworth’s when he was missing near the north pole with the Amundsen expedition and immediately afterwards when he was declared a hero of that exploit has proved strangely transitory. M hen Ellsworth stepped from the Frederick Wi helm VIII today, the only greetng he received, asid ethat of newspaper men. was extended by the acting Norwegian consul-general. The Amer can explorer, who finan(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Man, Age 83, Goes Hunting With Other Boys Evansville, Ind.. Aug.. 1 — Joseph Kempf. 83. went hunting with the other boys today. He took out a license yesterday in reidiness for the opening of the squirrel season. “My aim's just as good as the rest of ’em”, he said. —o SEEKS REHEARING IN ELECTION CASE Walter Hughes, Hartford City, Continues Fight For x > Auditor’s Office Indianapolis, Aug. 1. Walter Hughes of Hartford City, today tiled a petition for a rehearing with the state supreme court in the contest case over the office of auditor of Blackford ’county. In a decision two months ago, the i supreme court ruled that Miss Ruth • Werber, republican, was the duly elected auditor. Hughes, a democrat, had been holding the office under a decision of the Blackford circuit court which had thrown out absent voters ballots which were not properly marked with the pole clerk initial. The intent of the voter should not be made negative by the negligence of election officials the supreme court said in ordering the disputed ballots counted and giving the election to Miss Werber. Hughes’ appeal for a rhearing attacked this part of the decision. o Kentucky Holds County Primary Elections Today Frankfort. Ky.. Aug.. I—With interest centered largely on local tights and state senatorial races, Kentucky voters went to the polls today in the county primai*y elections. Tthe warmest contest was in Kenton, county, where A. B. Stricklett, former state senator, was battling Samuel W. Adams, speaker of the last house of represetnatives. The coal tax and race tracks were issues in other localities. o Governor Jackson Wins Horse Shoe Tournament Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. I—New1 —New honors rested on the shoulders of Governor Jackson today. He won the horse shoe tournament yesterday at an outing of the Wheeler City mission.