Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 22 June 1926 — Page 1

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K. G. T. 0. HEAD TESTIFIES IN PRIMARY PROBE President Os Union Explains Affairs To Primary Investigating Board SPENDS NOTHING IN PENNA, PRIMARY — Washington, June 22. — (United} Press)— The W. C. T. U. was put } under senate inquiry today when the fpeeial primary investigating committee questioned Mrs. Kila M. fieorge. president of the organization, about her $130,000 prohibition enforcement fund. Mrs. George said her state organi zation had 50,000 members and raised about $50,000 a year for its purposes. In 1925, it raised $21,330. She said the W. C. T. U. hires speakers to campaign against men running for public office to whom it is opposed. It did that in the last jttiUO.OOO Pennsylvania primary, she said. "How much did you spend in the last primary?" asked Chairman Reed. "Not a cent. Governor Pinchot paid for about three of our speakers am! our expenses,” she replied. Sheriff Takes Four To State Penal Farm Sheriff John Raker today took fopr prisoners to the state penal farm, where they will serve sentences. The prisoners were Fred Knight, Nate Haley. Julius Roop and Mainard Wilson. Knight and Haley were sentenced for violation of the prohibition law. while the other two were sentenced for vehicle lijking. Knight, who prayed an appeal to the circuit court, after being found guilty in the city court, decided to drop the appeal and serve the sentence ini[H>sed by Mayor Krick. OOUMERACCEPTS FINANCE OFFICE Former Finance Minister ol France Agrees To Enter Briand Cabinet By A. L. Bradford. (U. P. Staff Correspondent I Paris, June 22.—(United Press.)— Paul Doumer, former finance minister in Aristide Briand's cabinet in 19201921 today accepted the portfolio of minister of finance in the new cabinet which Briand is attempting to'< form. Poincare’s refusal of the ministry of finance was reported to have been caused by his opposition to unconditional ratification of the BerengerMellon agreement for funding the , $4,200,000 French debt to the United States. Anouncement of his acceptance ol the portfolio followed a day and a night of efforts on the part of Briand to induce former Premiei Poincare to take the post, the kej Position in a government whose immediate and overwhelming problem Is that of the French franc. It came after a final conference at •he Qua! D’Orsy this morning, attended by Briand, Poincare. Doumer, former Premier Paul Painleve. Pierre Laval, former Minister of Public Works, Jean Durand, former Minister of Agriculture. George Leygues, former Minister of Marine, and other leaders. o ' ~ Highway Commission Open Bids For Paving Contracts Indianapolis. Ind.. June 22 (Unit cd Press)—Bids were opened by the state highway commission on more than a million dollars worth of paving and grading contracts for state roads throughout Indiana todayEight paving and two grading projects were included in the contracts bid on. Low bid on the eight paving contracts totalled $960,483.97 and the low bids on the two grading projects totalled $102,697.95, the whole amounting to $1,063,363.92.

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Mrs, Jacob Wickey Buried Sunday Afternoon Funeral .Services were held Sunday afteinoon for Mis. j aco b d. wick.-y, at her home near fh-rne. Mrs. Wickcy died Friday, after a ten days’ illness of pneumonia. She Wtts I(bou| years old, and was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Richer, of Wabash township. Surviving are her busband; three daughters, Mary, Elizabeth and Frances; her parents and sevetal brothers and sisters. LIQUOR TAKEN; OWNER ESCAPES Federal Officers Make Raid | On Farm In Adams County Saturday Federal prohibition officers confiscated fourteen gallons of moonshine whiskey in a raid on the home of George Yake, located on the John Roth farm, about four miles west of Monroe, last Saturday afternoon, it was learned today. Yake could not be found by the officers. The federal agents who conducted the raid were Deputy Marshal John Voegtlin and Prohibition Officer Harry Bendel, of the Indianapolis office. The liquor confiscated was in fivegallon earthen jugs. The officers learned that when they arrived Yake was working out on the premises, engaged in hoeing potatoes. The house was locked, a custom always followed by Yake, it is said. The officers addressed the, man with the hoe as Mr. Yake. He promptly informed them that he was not Mr. Yake and that Mr. Yake was absent. The officers accepted his statement and informed Him that they were federal officers and wanted to search the place. He told them io go ahead, but that he had no keys to the hoti.se and they would have to force an entrance. “Use the ax for all 1 care.” ho told the officers. The man with the hoe" was given no further heed by the officers, who proceeded with the search. While they were thus engaged. Yake went Ito his automobile and drove away. Hie officers then learned of their mistake. There is a warrant out for Yoke’s arrest now. The federal officers raided two other places in Adams county Saturday, but found no liquor. It w reported that Wei’s vounty officers have traced to an Adams county source, much of the moonshine liquor that has found its way into that county. The raiding officers found no stills and it. is believed that Yake obtained his liquor from some distant point and acted as a distributor. —— ——-o- —— ——-— WORTH LEAGUE MEETING OPENS S' c rt n Local Persons Present Several Decatur young people went t 0 Leo today to attend the annua I con vention of the Epworth League of the Fort Wayne district of the M. E. T he convention opened this 1 ' i will be in session until WnTe'Xtra will provide .tomorrow "X .v.Hplay an. I f lhe invention programs. A leatnr t wilt be the annual Epwoitu , . i 6 o'clock Wednesday evenXtic Star Who has been teaching athletic stat, Locknow lndla . n,. w. w evening Stole”, ,At o i t 0 June n 22-(Unit-Htolpn fro ,n W _ abandoned here today.

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COUNTY BANKERS ELECT OFFICERS E. B. Gauker, Os Geneva, Is Elected President Os County Association E. B. Gauker, cashier of the Farmera & Merchants State hank, of Geneva, was elected president of the Adams County Bankers Asociation at a meeting held at Geneva. Elmer Baumgartner, assistant cashier of the Hank of Berne, wa ■ elected -tecretary and treasurer Every bank in the county was represented at the meeting, there being about twenty bankers present. The association, under the retiring offi I •ers. Clarence Smith, cashier of the I Farmers Stale Bank, of Preble, as I president, and Muri L. Lybarger, cashier of the Bank of Linn Grove, as secretary and treasurer, has closed a very .successful and interesting year J Several important meetings have been 1 held and many urgent matters brought ' up and worked out to a satisfactory ‘ conclusion Among the things done 1 during the year was the organization of the County Vigilantes Committee. * which operated in connection with the ' state-wide movement and has reduced bank banditry in the state 79 per cent during the past year. ’ The Adams County Bankers Association is one of the pioneer organ izations of its kind in Indiana amt future meetings are looked forward to with much interest by the bankers, as many interesting talks will be ar- ! ranged and special matters of interest brought to attention. Automobile Tears Up Shrubbery And Lawn ~T. v An automobile, evidently driven by someone under the influence of intoxicating liquor, caused considerable damage to shrubbery and grass on the lawn at the I). M. Niblick home, t 221 North Fifth street, sometime during the night last night. The i Niblick property adjoins an alley < which connects Fifth and Sixth street i but the ear did not turn into the alley. Instead, it crossed the lawn, ; ran over beautiful shrubbery and tore ; up the grass where the tires slid. ; The driver backed up h’s car and . drove out through the alley onio Sixth street. Persons residing near ( the alley state that they heard a , noise on the lawn about 3 o’clock this ( morning SEES NO HOPE FOR LOWER TAX Coolidge Believes No Further Cut In Federal Taxes Can Be Made Soon Washington, June 22 — (United Press)— Despite a surplus for the present fiscal year estimated at $390.000,0.00 President Coolidge sees no immediate hope of further tax reductions because of the uncertainty of future governmental income. His position in the face of the largest surplus on record is the reverse of the stand taken less than five months .ago when Budget Director Lord estimated this year's yurillus at less than $100,000,000. At that time President Coolidge said that continued prosperity should furnish a surplus which will permit a further tax cut within the next few years. Reductions of the public debt was the alternative represented by the President in his review of governmental finances last night at the semiannual government business meeting The outstanding debt toZ was figured at $19,680,000,000 with $837,000,000 obligations retired '"nrSference of nearly $300,000,000 between actual surplus now and the suriilus estimated by Lord in January was due chiefly to heavy income tax returns. Income taxes will approach ,'52,000,000,000 by the end of the fist/al year, as June receipts have been Estimated at $440,000,000 compared I with $377,000,000 last June Total’receipts from the income and| profit l tax will exceed the 1925figur approximately $250,000,000 it| is estimated.

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Expensive More than $(500,000 was spent in an unsuccessful effort to win the Pennsylvania Republican nomination for re-elec-tion by friends of Senator George Wharton Pepper, testimony before the Senate investigating committee revealed. COMMENCEMENT THURSDAY NIGHT Daily V acation Bible School Ends Most Successful Tenn In History The annual Daily Vacation Bible School commencement will be held at the high school gymnasium. Thursday night, nt 7:30 o’clock, it was announced al Tile school this morning. All the classes will give demonstrations of their class room work ami the Rev. 11. W. Thompson, of the Christian church of this city, will deliver tlie commencement address. The public is cordially invited to attend the exercises, in which all tile 3ho pupils will participate. About 3011 certificates of completion will be awarded to the pupils this year. Class "A" certificates will be given to those who have not been absent, and Class "B” certificates will be award ed tho’se who have not been absent more than three times. The school this year has been the most successful since the beginning of Bible schools in this city several years ago, according to those in charge. Absences have been few and full programs have been carried out each school day. The exercises Thursday will start promptly at 7:20 o’clock. One of the features of the evening will be the choir, consisting of ail the pupils. Sacred songs will be rendered by the choir, which will occupy the south side of the gymnasium. There will lie plenty of seals for all those attending ami the public is cordially invited. VINCENNES MEN PLACED ON TRIAL Knox County Liquor Conspiracy Case Being Tried At Terre Haute Terre Haute, June 22. — (United Press)- The government today opened its conspiracy case against. Floyd Young, prosecuting attorney of Knox county. Roy Chambers, sheriff. Harvey Smith, deputy shetlff and 51 other Vincennes and Knox county men by placing one of its star witnesses on the stand in federal court here. Roy Robinson, barber-attorney of Vincennes, also a defendant, but who is said to have promised to aid the government* was the first witnessRobinson got away to a bad start, however, when he was rebuked by Judge Baltzell for smiling all around the room as he took the stand j According to Robinson, the need | for election funds reallyjtiarted the (CONTINVED ON PACT FIVB>

CATHOLIC WOMEN I JOIN IN TRIBUTE Crowd Os 250,000 Women Assembles At Eucharistic Congress Today i Tuesday’s Program Cardinal O’Connell, Boston, presiding. 10 a m.—Solemn pontifical mass I at Soldiers’ Field; Paul Giobbe. Papal Mundo to the U, S., celebrant; addresses. Edward J. Han na, archbfsbop of San Francisco; Cardinal Charest, Cardinal Piffl and Justice Pierce Butler of the I’ S. supreme court, 3:30 p m.—Sectional meetings. 8:30 p.m.- Holy Name men gathering at Soldiers’ Field. Soldiers’ Field. Chicago, June 22 — , (United Press) —"The Holy Father’s i heart overflows with gladness" at the success of the Eucharistic congress in Chicago, a telegram from 1 the papal secretary declared today. | ! The telegram was read during the 1 mass here. It was recevied by Cardinal Ronano. A bestowing it he paqtal ' blessing upon the throng and again expressing the "happiness of the pope." witli the congress received by Cardinal Mundelein was read. Soldiers' Field. Chicago. Juno 22. (United Press.) — Two hundred am! fifty thousand reverent and devout women tlie largest number ever gathered in on<> assemblage met in tills outdoor cathedral today to join In tlie tribute of the Catholic church to the Blesesd Eucharist. In addition to tlie 2'>o.rtbti massed inside the giant outdoor Cathedral, an additional 100,OOP persons waited outside, behind police lines and listened to broadcasts of the day's < ere tCOVTIMI KIJ OX PAUB. FIVE) o MAGNUS JOHNSON WINS NOMINATION Former U. S. Senator From Minnesota Is Nominee For Governor St. Paul. Minn.. June 22—(United Press) — Magnus Johnson, former United States senator from Minnesota. apparently has won the farmer labor nomination to be governor and will be opposed at the fall election by Theodore Christianson, republican. incumbent. Returns from 671 precincts through the state gave Johnson a vote of 16.560 as compared with 15.412 for Tom Davis, a Minneapolis attorney who also sought the fanner-labor nomination. The fact that most of the rural districts where Johnson’s strength is considered greatest, have not yet reported their vote led politicians to believe Johnson's nomination was assured despite the apparently close vote. Christianson who was opposed by Mayor George E. Leach of Minneapolis for the republican, nomination wa - an einy winner. The vote from i precincts gave Christianson 89,000 and Leach 32.933. Representative Oscar Kellar was defeated by Melvin J. Mass, who ran on a platform of modification of the 1 prohibition law. Kellar has served several terms in the lower body and 1 was the man who asked for Impeach- '■ ment of former Attorney General ’ Daugherty. Kellar Joined the Lafollotte insurr gent group in the house in the 68th ’ congress but came back into the re--1 publican fold when the present congress convened. i Returns From Maine ’ Portland, Maine, June 22—(United 3 Press) — Returns from yesterday’s ' state primaries gave Governor Ralph ’ O Brewster a comfortable lead over v Major Arthur T,. Thayer of Bangor 1 in their contest for the republican gubernatorial nomination 1 Returns from 224 election pre ” cincta. 663 in the state gave Brew ster 13,669 and Thayer 8.804.

Piece Os Steel Is Removed From Eye Mrs. Ira Rodl>- received word ihi.*’ morning that an operation bad been performed Monday ou her busband and the piece of stet-j extracted from his left eye. While doing some carp enter’s work Seveial weeks ago. Mr. Bodie suffered an injury to his eye. lie has lost the sight in Hie left eye and the operation was held in order to extract l fie steel and prevent Injury to the other one. WRITING AWARDS GIVEN 71 PUPILS Fine Showing Made By Pupils Os Central School During Past Year A total of 71 awards were received by the Central school and high school tiitpils from the A. N. Painter Company for improvement In writing during the school year, it was learned today from Mist Grace Coffee, who has charge of the Palmer Method Writing department in tlie Central school. The awards were all made by the A. N. Palmer company, and the school and those In charge should feel proud of the fine showing made by Decatur pupils. Nine high school certificates were issued during tlie year; tweaty-two pupils received final certificates, entitling them to enter high school, 16 received improvement certificates, and 24 received progress pins. Th“ year’s list is as follows: High school certificates: Mary McIntosh. Magdellne Miller. Kathryn Archbold. Gladys Teeple, Foe Stogdill. Cleora Baker, Wilhelmina Sebnitz, Dora Mnmma. and Anna E Winnes. Improvement certificates: Chaltner Werst, Ed Musser, Enid Walter. Chaltner Fisher, James Smith, Marie Koller, Ivan Reynolds. Paul Fugate. Gladys Whitright, Harry Hebble, Isabelle Baumgartner. Marcella Gerber. Dowena Myers, David Heller, Carl Gerber and Forrest Zimmerman. Final certificates: Dora Shoseu berg. Berniece DeVoss. Ruby Reinliaiil. Margaret Struub, Alice Clara Ellen Mumma. Irene McClure, Rudolph Kiess, Marcia Martin. Eliza beth Wisner, I.uetta Reffey. Gladys Teems. Gretchen Winans. Helen F. Chtisman. Mildred Br'ght, William Drummond. Dorothy Young, Helen Chronister. Pearl Ogg, Lillian Ault. Mary Engle. Onelta Reynlods. There also were 24 progress pins awarded and many minor awards, including 24 awards for completing the first 25 drills and showing marked improvement. MRS. LYDIA JUDD EXPIRES MONDAY Former Resident Ol Adams Countv Dies At Her Home Near Bluffton Mrs. Lydia Ellen Judd. 69. died Monday at her home south of Bluff ton. in Wells county, after an illness due to a complication of diseases Mrs. Judd was born in Ohio, July 61856. the daughter of Samuel and Sarah Jane Winkler. Most of her life was spent In Adams and Wells i counties. Her marriage to William I Judd, now deceased, ocenred in Ad- . inns county. 37 years ago. Surviving I are a son, Walter Judd, of Wells I county: two sisters. Mrs. Katherine . Giandlienard, of Adams county, Mrs. I Barbara |Aibersou. of Hrynnt; and. one brother. John Winkler, of Fletch er, Ohio. Mrs. Judd was a member

1 of the Evangelical church. Funeral ;- services will be held front the Evan- - gelical church in Linn Grove at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. Mr. Stedcke officiating. Burial i will be made in the Greenwood coms etery, ut Lino drove. b —o— — r 1 11 r KNOW YOUR STATE n _ — INDIANA contributed one-seventh s- of the nation’s $112,000,000 an r- nual production of coke.

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MEASURE GAINS FOLLOWERS AS VOTE IS NEARED Fear Os “Farmer Revolution” Causes Several To Change Stand — AEW AMENDMENT ADOPTED TODAY Washington. June 22. —The equalization fee of the Haugen farm price satabullMllon bill would exclude cattle under an amendment adopted today by the senate. Without a record vote the* proposal of Senator Kendrick, democrat, Wyoming, was accepted Io elmfnate cattle fro.n tlie list of products to which tlie revolving fund would be applicable. He protested that cattle in sections is too perishable a product to work under a revolving fund. By Julian Snyder, t U. P. Staff Correspondent) Washington, June 22. Tin DawesM< Nary-llaugen farm relief measure neared a vote in the senate today with indications of a slightly stronger trend in Its favor and with farm bloc leaders predicting that at least forty out of 96 senators would support it eventually. Farm senators holleved the Increased strength of the measur.. was attributable to the fear of a "farmer revolution" In the west, anil threats of a farm bloc coalition with the democrats. Neither party In tin* senate is It”pervious to the political significance of th** legislation now. especially as more than a score of republican senators are coming up for reelection ltd ween now ami December. Somehosiim f.d oat PMMt MB) VANDALS CUT TENNIS NETS New Nets On Playgrounds At Central School Ruined Monday Night Some time during last night vandals, thought to be young Itoy.s of this city, took knives ami cut the tennis nets into pieces at the Central school playground. The two nets were part based only a few days ago ami had been put up for the use of the public. They had been left up at night s<> persons wishing to play early In tlie mornings could have Uwe of thP nets. Principal W. Guy Brown, who has charge of th< Central school playground. stated today that tlie nets would be kept inside the building hereafler and hours for use of the courts would be maintained in the future. Mr. Brown also stated that he had several elites as to who cut the n:>ls ami. if they were caught, prosecutions would follow. The Central tennis courts hav,. always provided wholesome recreation for httmlreds of children and grown ups during the summer months and nets always were ' provided by the school. 1 It was announced this morning that, for the rest of the summer, the : nets would be kept inside the build- ' Ing, except when a supervisor was on 3 the grounds. This drastic step was made necessary because of. the de--1 struct ion of nets and other property. A close watch is being kept for the r culprits.

—O Several Decatur Persons Attend Eucharistic Congress Several 'Jeentnr p-tson- are atieml Ing the Eucharintle coitgrt < in < »l-ago -ago this week Thirty thtee tickets have been sold over tin Ent' t r 1 !,i---engo -Ince Sunday, the public taM.nnr advantage of. the exeui-l-n rate of Cored l.v this ro.td. Several are pkuinhtr. '« *" Chicago. It i* estimated teat H>» ' on this county will attend the services.

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