Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 15 June 1926 — Page 1

HVEATHS* Mostly fair tonight Ljtepl northwest (portion. Wodnwdaj cloudy probably fol lowed by showers in W ttthwe i portion. Hllghlb warmer.

VARE’S CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES AIRED

FRENCHCABINET RESICNSiBRIAND LIKELY TO QUIT Premier’s Ninth Cabinet Resigns Following Failure Os Finance Plan MAY delay debt SETTLEMENT PLAN Paris, June Press) — Premier Briand's ninth cabinet re- • signed today. The resignation followed that of Minister of Finance Peret, who left the cabinet this mornlnft complaining that he had been unable to obtain essential support for his effort to save the treasury from bankrupt(V. President Doumergue, accepted the cabinet's resignation. The impression was that Brland would retuse to form another government. I; had been expected that Briand would resign if he were unable to reorganize his cabinet satisfactorily. President Doumergue must now decide whether to ask Briand to form 3 new cabinet or to seek some other. There was discussion today of the possibility that former Premier Edouard Herriot would be selected to succeed to the premiership. Washington, June 15. — (United Press) Resignation of the French cabinet may delay ratification of the Franco-American debt settlement, Senator Smoot, Utahi Chairman of the American debt settlement commission said today. “The senate will continue in session a reasonable length of tjni“ however. to give France a chance to ratify the agreement.” Smoot) said ■ —o Man Falls From Buildnitf. Hitting Woman; Both Die | Chicago. June 15.—(United Press)) —Joseph Vande. window washer, fell from the 15th floor of a loop building today, struck a woman shopper on the pavement below, and both were killed. o Pleads Not Guilty Fred Knight entered a plea of not guilty 'on a charge of violation if the prohibition law last ntght when arainged before Mayor George Krick His trial will be held Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. Knight wa s the third man to be arrested in Decatur in the last week on similar charges. — o FARM BILL IN FINAL STAGES Final Vote On Dawes-Mc-Nary-Haugen Relief Measure Expected Friday Washington, June 15. — (United Press)— The Dawes-McNary-Haugen farm relief bill condemned by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon as “unsound” and advocated by VioePresident. Dawes as practicable legis- > lation reached its final stages in the Renato today. Under an agreement to limit debate , to a half hour for each senator, a , final vote was expected by Friday. A condemnation of the farm aid I’l an bv Secretary Mellon, contained in a letter to congressional farmer leaders increased the general feeling that the administration groun "ill succeed in defeating the measure Defeat of the Haugen bill will onen the way for three substitute bill.-.-the Fess or Tincher-gnrdine plan: the Unroot bill and the Robinson bill. None is approved by the faint leaders. The Haugen bill has been approvpd hy th a farm leaders. The Haugen bill has been approved as economically sound by ' icP President Dawes, Sir Josiah Stamp famous British economist, and Bernard M. Baruch. New York financier. The Me'lon statement was regard-, cti as another effort in the admini’ration's plan to wean the west away from the Haugen bill.

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Yeomen And Ben Hurs I <> Hold Joint Memorial I I A jnlni memorial service will be hr.ld next Sunday afternoon by the Y»emt.n lodge and Ben Hur lodges. The service will be held In the Yoe man lodge hall, beginning at 2:30 o'c lock. The Rev. Harry W. Thompson, of the First Christian church, will deliver the memorial address. The pule >!•' I" cordially invited to attend the service. WATER BATTLE CHALLENGE MADE I Decatur Firemen Challenge Van Wert For Battle Here On July 5 The Deoatttr city firemen today for warded a challenge to the firemen of j Van Wert, Ohio, Lr a water battle to | be staged in Bellmont lark, in this ’city, in connection with the big interstate Fourth of July celebration, to be held on Monday, July 5. E. B. Williamson, promoter of the celebration, stated today that he would present a silver loving cup to the winner of the battle. Plans for the celebration are taking definite form. One of Hie big features of the celebration will be the Flying X Ranch Rodeo, from Montana. This company will stage a historical revue, also. The celebration is being adver- ( Used widely in Indiana and Ohio, within a radius of 100 miles and indications are that there will be a record attendance for this kind of an event here. TOLL OF GARY BLASTREACHES 11 Forty-seven Other Workmen Dangerously Injured; Property Loss Great Gary, Ind.. June 15.—(United Press) —The death toll from the blast which wrecked the large coke ovens of the Illinois Steel company here yesterday stood at eleven today with 47 dangerously injured. The large coke ovens—a two story brick building which occupied two ' complete blocks —was a wreck and company officials estimated the property damage at many thousand dollars. it was one of the most modern buildings in the Gary industrial district. The exact cause of the explosion which rocked all of the neighboring territory, has not been determined although officials of the company are inclined to believe that acids, stored on the second floor became ignited and exploded. q— — Four Children Left Fatherless By Wreck Indianapolis. Ind.. June 15,-(Unit-ed Press.)— Four children, three of them under eight years of age, were left fatherless today by an auto accident which cost the life of Joseph Parker, 40. Failing to see an approaching freight train, Parker drove his car onto a crossing on the Belt railroad and was killed. His wife was badly injured and hts , o “ cMMre o hurl. «... «' "'™ seriously. Fort Wavne Man Shoots Wife AndJKills Himself Fort Wayne, Ind.. June (-Children of J«hn Winick , . WPre unable today to give a motive for the act of their father in wounding H X and then committing suicide. ” W Z.t warning. Winicki drew revolver at their home and shot his wlfe through the head. She is not exnected to recover. P A moment later he turned the gun ou himself, dying Instantly. The two children said their parents had not Quarreled and knew of no reason for the act.

DANIEL SHANK DIES OF SENIUTY Retired Farmer Expires Suddenly Sunday At Age Os 86 Years Daniel Shank. 86, retired farmer seven miles east of Berne, died at the home of Otto Baker, Sunday morning. Death was due to senility. Mr. Shank had not been seriously ill and was up and around three minutes before his death. Mr. Shank was born in Pennsylvania, December 2, 1839, luter residing in Virginia and Ohio. About thirty-three years ago, he moved to Adams county, Indiana. He was married to Elizabeth Hess, who died in 1912 Two brothers also preceded him in death. Two half-brothers and one half-sister survive. One half-brother re Udes in Virginia, and the other In Kansas, while the half-sister resides In Lima, Ohio. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from the Bethel church, the Rev. John Cline, of Creigville, officiating. Burial will be made In the Mount Hope cemetery. o Youth Cut By Glass When Wind Breaks Pane Andrew Bertsch, 18. residing about ten miles southwest of this city, wai painfully cut about his forearms and chest when a glass from a large bay window, in the house, which ho was lowering, was blown out and against him hy a strong gust jf wind. Sunday. He did not receive any cuts about his face, however. A physician was (ailed to the Bertsch huine following the aoeideauiid it .was -necessary to take several -stitches to close the wounds in the young man's arms. ■o—- — .Mellon Holds Huge Campaign Expenditures Are Entirely Legitimate Washington, June 15. — (United Press)—Secretary of the Treasury Mellon holds that the huge campaign expenditures revealed in the Pennsylvania primary investigation were "as legitimate as contributions to a Church." He told Washington correspondents the primary system required heavy expendin'. 1 . . for mailing, advetjtising and the like, while $lO a day was a reasonable day’s pay for watchers STOPS SALE OF SECURITIES HERE State Securities Commission Halts Ooerations Os Georgia Firm Indianapolis, Ind., June 15. —(United Press.)—The Indiana State Securities commission today halted sale of securities by the Adair Realty and Trust company, of Atlanta, (la., within the state.

The action was taken by David Jennings, securities commisfoner, acting on the complaint of the Indiana state chamber of commerce, which charged that the concern had employed deception and fraud in the exploitation of its mortgages on big Florida hotel projects. Jennings gave officials of the Adair concern thirty days in which to show cause why the suspension order should not be made permanent. In the meantime he began an investigation of the company's activities In Indiana. It Is believed the mortgage sales in Indiana have been small. Numerous charges of misrepresentation and fraud were made in the complaint of the state chamber of commerce. The complaint was filed by William H. Arnett, secretary and managing director. Advertisements of the Adair company for bonds on the Saratosa Terace hotel, Saratose represented the value of tho lot on which the structure stands at $108,600. The complaint said when "it was worth sacrcerly SIOO the year before.”

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, June 15, 1926.

Kills Bandit th Wfe' WOi Samuel Laria, thirty, of New York, permitted a bandit to hold him up and rob him, but when' the tjiug kicked him, he bit his assailant, grabbed his gun and killed him. BIBLE SCHOOL OPENS AT BERNE Enrollment On Opening Day Is 292; Bluffton School Has 177 Pupils — i Berne. June 15. —The annual Summer Bible School opened Monday morning in the public school building, with an enrollment of 292 pupils, eight less tthan last, year’s enrollment. Additional enrollments are expected within the next few days. Classes will he conducted in the forenoons. only, and will begin at 8:30 o'clock. The children are divided into ten grades as they were last year. The classes are Kindergarten A and B and grades from one to eight. The teachers are Lucille Kattman, Lydia Llechty. Gladys Neuenschwander, Mary Ann Habegger, Magdaleno Hirschy, Sybllla Sprungor. Wilnm Splchlger, Mrs. Cora Arndt, Agnes Franz and Martha Sclutg. Bluffton. June 15.—The annual Bluffton Daily Vacation Bible school opened Monday morning with an enrollment of 177 pupils. The school will be in session for three weeks. Miss Lorain Foster is in charge of the school. Tacna-Arica Plebiscite Declared Impracticable Arica, June 15—< United Press)The Tacna-Arica plebiscite lias been declared impracticable and will be abandoned. A full meeting of the Pleviscitary Commission here today approved the motion of general William Lassiter, chairman who succeeded general John J. Pershing to declare that the plebiseitewas Impractical due to the impossibility of establishing sufficient guarantees to insure a lair vote.

Season On Bass And Blue - Gills Opens Tomorrow Fisherman in Decatur and throughout thej state today are oiling their reels, cleaning their rods and preparing for the long awaited opening of the season ou bass and blue-gills, tomorrow. Little activity has been noted among state fisherman since the closing of the season. May 1, hut it is expected that the lakes and streams of Indiana will he crowded in the next few wesks by fishermen who devote their time to these varieties of the finny tripe. Sporting goods dealers of the state report an unusually heavy demand for fishing tackle this year. _o — KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA has 5.367 miles of electrio transmission lines which call for a total coal consumption of 2.100,000 tons of coal.

PYTHIANS GOTO AUBURN TODAY Dramatic Team Os Local Lodge Presents “Damon And Pythias” Tonight About 35 members of the Decatur lodge of the Knights of Pythias went to Auburn today, where the Decatur dramatic team will present the play “Damon and Pythias,” at the Auburn Armory, tonight. The local people have presented the play at several towns In the northern part of the state and it has always attracted aj large crowd. The play is based on the famous friendship of the two men, Damon and Pythias, and it is a popular play among members of the K. of P. lodge. The local dramatic team recently broadcast the play from radio station WOWO at Fort Wayne, at which time many compliments were received by the members of ihe cast. Several other members of the Decatur lodge also accompanied the dramatic team to Auburn. Two cars left at 1 o'clock this afternoon and four other ears left at intervals this afternoon, taking more than 30 -persons from this city. — o — Children’s Day Program At Bobo Church Sunday A Children's Day program will be given at the United Brethren church at Bobo. Sunday 20. at the evening services, it waas announced today. The subject of the sermon will be “The Sunbeam Band and Joy of the Youth.., . Other topics of interest also will be on the program for Sunday night The public is eorditiHy invited ro nttend. — ® T Headquarters Os Air Mail Service To Be Moved Soon Washington. June 15. — (United Press)—The headquarters of the Air Mail service will be moved from Omaha. Neb., to Washington on July 1, Postmaster General New announc ed today. The service has been located at Omaha since October. 1924 The department feels, it was stated, that better administration can lie effected here. AMOS HOUSER IS CALLED BY DEATH Former Druggist And Postmaster At New Corydon Dies In Michigan Amos Houser, 83. poineer of Jay county, died Monday morning of injuries sustained several weeks ago. when lie fell and broke one of his hips at his home in Oden, Michigan. His death occured at Oden. Mr. Houser was well-known in the southern part

of Adams county having conducted a- - at New Corydon for many years. He was postmaster of New Corydon, also, having been appo nted I by President Hayes in 1877. Mr. Houser was born in Licking county, Ohio. Octolier 15. 1843. He came to Jay county when fourteen years old. In March, 1803. he enlisted in Company . A. 63rd. Indiana Infantry, and served in the Union army until Mays, 1965. Mr. Houser’s military record was an exceptional 'one. He fought in the second battle of Bull Run. He was | , with Sherman in the march from Ats lantnto the Sea. He was in the bat- ! tie of Franklin and Nashville. Mr. t Houser was never absent from the camp or regiment while in the service. ’ never is the hospital and never was absent at roll call. When he fought a at the battleof Resaca, half his ctom- * panv was killed or wounded and when hts company reached Atlanta, there were only five privates, to sergeants and no commissioned officers. Returning from the army, Mr. Houser purchased some land near New Coryon. cleared it and built a cabin and married Mary R. Adams in i July, 1866. Mr. Houser ’eft here quite I a number of years ago for Oden. Mich., where he has since resided.

[ Dr. Jones New Member Os Berne School Board 1 Berne, June 16. Dr. H. O. Jones wus appointed by the town council, last Friday night, to fill the vac alley on the Berne school hoard caused by I the expiration of the term of E. A. Luginblll. Mr. received one vote and Dr. Jones received the other two votes. Dr. Jones will serve for three years. The other members ' of the school board are Dr. Amos Reusser and Chris Stuckey. CORRUPTION IN G.O.P.REVIEWED Sen. Robinson Os Arkansas Pleads For Return Os Democrats To Power Bristol, Va., June 15. — (United Press) Charging the republican putty with responsibility for a "moral bihtke down in the administration of public affairs, ’’ Senator Robinson of Arkansas, democratic leader of the senate, today urged the electors return the democrats to power in congress. In a keynote speech Wore the democratic congressional district convention here, Robinson reviewed incidents of alleged departmental corruption in the Harding and Coolidge administrations, struck at monopoly, high tariff and uge campaign expenditures. Pennsylvania Primaries Cited The speech indicated that the Pennsylvania primaries would be tCONTIXI Kl> OY PAGE TWU) EDITOR’S TRIAL STARTEDTODAY Carl Magee, New Mexico Editor, Goes On Trial For Manslaughter By William .1. McEvoy. (U. P. Staff Correspondent. Court House, Las Vegas. N. Mex.. June 15. —(United Press.)—Trial of Carl Magee, editor of the New Mex ico State Tribune for manslaughter, was set for 2:30 o’clock this aftei- 1 noon by Judge Lillis Armijo in San Miguel county court. Judge Armijo ordered the case called this afternoon after a panel of 124 talesmen had been drawn. From ' tills panel 12 men will he selected as jurors to sit on the Magee case. The charge against the editor fol- ' lowed the accidental killing of John Lassiter hy Magee in a hotel lobby here last August. Magee wus attack ed by former judge D. J. ideally, and ’ in defending himself. Magee shot • Lasiter. a by-stander, fatally. Leahy ■ was wounded in the arm. 1 Long before Judge Armijo rapped < for order this morning, the little r court room was filled with spectators, t most of them Spanish Americans.

Safe And Sensible Swimming Urged By Medical Association Swimmer To Follow In Avoiding These Hazards Ate five

Editor’s note: Since the new municipal swimming pool here has been opened to the public and hundreds of . persons, both young and old, are taK- ■ ing advantage of the opportunity to , take a plunge daily, the following . bulletin imted by the Bureau of Publicity of the Indiana State MedicaAssociation is considered timely.

“Drownlngs do not account for till the deaths that occur each summer from swimming", says the bulletin. , "Although swimming Is one of the , finest of all recreations, the safe and ' sensible hazards are associated with i swimming which should be known and i avoided. “Neglect in guarding against these hazards may result in serious injury r to the swimmer's health and may t even result is endangering his life. i “Few persons atempt to acquaint » themselves with tlie sanitary envl:-, onment or quality of the water in which they swim. There is a blind]

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SPENDS LARGE SUM IN WINNING THE NOMINATION Successful Candidate Admits Spending $171,000 Os His Own Money TRIED TO KEEP MELLON IN DARK Washington, June 15. — The Vare organization handled in cash most of the million dollars it spent in the republican primary to keep the Mellon interest from knowing how much it was spending. Harry A. MacKey, state campaign manager, told the committee investigating the campaign expenditures this afternoon. “The minute we put that money in the bank the Mellon Interests would have known it, Mac Key said. "We knew what we were up against," he added, "I personally told William S. Vare. succeMful republican candidate, to spend his $175,000 himself so it couldn't be said he contributed it to a political campaign committee in violation of a statute. "We sent cash to Pittsburgh to keep the Mellon crowd from knowing what we were doing." Washington. June 15. — (United Pretß.)—William S. Vare, republican nominee in Pennsylvania, today admitted he signed a SIOO,OOO check for a friend to contribute to his campaign. This Was the reluctance of Thomas F. Watson, Vare campaign manager, to reveal where he obtained s?fr.<Hio he admitted was in his safe three months before the campaign opened, featured the morning session of the sixth day of the senate primary inquiry. At first Vare told the committee he endotsed two notes one for Albert M. Greenfield, of Philadelphia, for SIOO,OOO and another tor his brother-in-law. George D. Groves, for $50,000. Later, Vare switched his testimony to admit that Groves' note was his own and that Gioves was only a "messenger" in the transact I'in. 1 his admision came after chai,man Reed 1 had pointed out to him that the ‘ Groves transaction was not listed in I his books. His testimony, however, brought tlie total amount he spent personally or stood good tor to $171,000. Watson told several stories as to where and why he Put $25,000 in his safe long before the campaign, but finally said he knew neither where ' he got it nor why he put it in the sate. The committee will decide later whether to summon all Watson s books and papers. - - ■ - 0 ” New Auditorium Dedicated Washington. Ind., June 15—(I nited Press I — Dedicatory services were '| held last night for the new $100.01)0 •I auditorium at the Washington < atholic high school.

I trust in supervDory authority ’>f an I official supposedly on constant watch. I Frequently, however, such sanitary ' supervision is either not exercised or ' the supervision Is so nominal or unskilled as t:o afford no adequate protection. Do not go into a public pool unless It has been registered by tho

Water and Sewage Department of the Indiana State Board of Health. "Swimming places in streams should not. of course, be exposed to the dbcharge of raw sewage. The presence of garbage, refuse or wa-te is evidence of contamination suffeeiently grave to warrant the exclusion of bathers. In order to be reaonably certain as to the anitary quality of water in sw turning places the advice of the local or Indiana State H -'l.li Deuaitm nt should be sought and followed. "Every operator of a bathing place of limited proportions should provide <CO.XTIM>eU OX PAUB. FIVE)

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