Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1926 — Page 1

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COMPLETE REGISTRATION NECESSARY

Assessments In Adams County Approved By Tax Board

CHANGES ARE ORDERED MADE IN FIVE COUNTIES Assessments In All Other Counties Are Approved Bv State Board three-day SURVEY ended BY board Indianapolis, July 30. — The <tate tax board todav ordered the board of review in five counties to reconvene and make increases in assessments. Warren, Posey, Dearborn, Daviess and Clay counties were affected by the order which was issued following a three-day survey of assessment rolls of all counties of the state. No change is to be made in the assessments of other counties it was said at the office of the state board. According to the above dispatch, ilic total assessment of personal property in Adams county for 1926. exclusive of the state's assessment of public ntilties. will remain at $34.M 9,89«. the figure announced hy the county boaid of review, following its session which closed a few weeks ago.' This is a gain of $248,090 over the 1925 assessment of personal property. The total assessment in the county was increased $150,640 through changes made hy the board of review q— — Wide Search Is Started i For Canton Bootlegger Canton, 0.. July "30. —(United Press | Police throughout the United States were asked today to assist in the •earch for P. E. McDermott, a (’anion bootlegger, wanted in connection with the murder of Don R. Mellett, Editor ot the Canton Daily News. McDermott is the previously unnamed man who is said to cave disappeared from Canton the night Mellett was assassinated after a party where he boasted with a flourish of his gun that he. wag. ah«nt "to »nak“ a few hundred dollars". i- kmrwrt ... .ter MiDermott's arrest as a uecesary step in solving the murder. His informer is a man who attended the party where McDermott's boast was made.

FARMERS BUSY WITH HARVEST Wheat And Oats Are Good This Year; Corn Crop Is In Need Os Rain •rtnal farm weather in this com muniiy the last several days has cast a spell of optimism over the entire county and farmers have managed to keep busy in their fields for the last len days. The long tedious job of thrashing and harvesting is being done throughout the locality a mJ, some good records are being made among the farmers. Reports from all over the county “ay that the grains this year are good and the yields are exceptionally large. Most of the wheat in Adams county "id be number 1 this year. In a few Places, some rust has marred the • Quality, but the county, in general, is free from rust. Rust also has spoiled some of the oats, but in general the oats crop i 8 good. Corn is almost as high as it was a year ago, but the crop is badly in need of rain. Some sweet corn raised in Adams county already is on the market. ’ All farmers, with unusually good crops, are asked to write a tew lines ,0 the Decatur Democrat the next few Wp «“ks so that the rest of the state and the farm belt in general may know of the crops that Adams county farmers are raising.

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Vol. XXIV. Number 179.

High Hopes I I wy \ |||r Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., returned to America with the announcement that he had definitely split with his family. Refreshed by a trip abroad, he said he hoped to rebuild his papers.

CHURCH TO HOLD PICNIC SUNDAY Christian Church And Bible ' School To Hold Services Out Doors The Christtan church and Bible school will hold their annual picnic next Hut dry, August 1.. The member* will gather at the church building at 9:30 ant., and thosr not having auto mobiles will be amply provided for. Each family in the chinch is tc brine a well-filled basket. The place of the picnic is bt ing kept secret until Sunday morning. It Is proposed to leave the church promptly it 9:30 o'clock. After arrival at the pu n.i- ground' the nii.de -.ehovi’i wi'l assemble f>r a >ri< t <-.sion anil At noon the ladies will serve the picnic dinner. Every member of the church and Bible school and any friend of the church not having a program of worship for that day are invited to attend. o New Member Os Willshire School Board Is Elected Willshire, Ohio July 30. —At a meeting of the town school board Monday night, the vacancy on the board, occasioned by the resignation of Dr. W. ('. Roller, was filled by the election of (). J. Passwater, v ho will serve the unexpired term. ANTI-SPEEDING WAR CONTINUES Three Motorists Ordered To Appear In City Court 1 This Evening Three speeders were apprehended last night on Mercer avenue, in this city in the war on speeders which has been going on for the last two weeks. Eliza Pease and four other Bluffton girls were stopped last night by Night Policeman Wommack and were ordered to appear in oplice court at 7:30 o’clock tonight to answer to a charge of speeding. Ed. Bosse, of this city, was ordered to report tonight, also, to answer a charge of exceeding the speed limit. Roman Miller, of Berne, was the third person arrested on the same charge and ordered to appear tonight. A young man by the name of Klinck, was arrainged last night on similar charge and lie was ordered to stop driving his ear temporarily. His case was continued on the dockets.

FARMERS FACE NEW DEPRESSION Farmer’s Dollar Worth 13 * Cents Less Than It Was Before The War By Joseph S Wasney (United Press stuff correspondent I Wathington, D C. Jtt.y 30. —(United Press) —Farmers are faced with a new I price depression of agriculture proi ducts that threatens to send many ' tillers of the soil into Bankruptcy this i year. The avticullure department made public today statistis showing that farm prices dropped four points to 135 per cent of the pre-war level bei tween June 15 and July 15—A time ] of year when farmers depend on the sale of their commxlities to carry i them over the lean winter months. This rapid price decline did not ' strike business in genera,!. While the farm prices decreased 14 points in the last year. iton-agricultuPe npmmoditles declined only 4 points in twelve months to 160 per cent of the pre war evel. .Meantime, the purchasing power of farm products has also steadily declined. The department plated th< index of purchasing power for July at 87 and predicted that it would drop to .‘>s for July, the It t est point sinct December 1914. Thus the farmer's dollar is worth 13 cents less than it was before ths war. ’Mrs. Flynn Speaks To Women At Bluffton Bluffton. July 30. — Mrs. A. P. Flynn . vke-chairman of the democratic state committee, addressed a gathering ol ■ democratic women at the circuit court Wednesday evening, tela'ive to tb, preparations for the genera! election next November The talk had to do particularly with organization plans and with registration voters. CATHOLICS HOLD FINAL SERVICES Millions Gather For Final m a w imurwiaiam. -. m Mexico Are Abandoned By A. W. Folger, Mexico City. July 30. —Millions of catholics today gathered at shrines and churches throughout Mexico to participate in the final rites of the church before the clergy abandons the sacred places in protest against the religious laws decreed by the Calles government. Today is the last on which the faithful will find the priests in their temples. Meantime the government ordered CathoiWs and all other persons without licenses for possessing arms to be deprived of their weapons. The situation today is that the gov-< ernnient's laws viogorusly limiting the activities of priests or ministers of any sect become effective August 1, as planned. In protest the Mexican episcopate has determined to abandon the churches and the Catholic league for the defense of religious liberty activity Is organizing the boycott with which it ltop« s to coerce the government from its position. Secretary of the Interior Tejada said today that all necessary precautions to suppress disorder had been taken by the government. Troops have been ordered to be on call in their barracks. Countering the clergy’s move to abandon the churches, the government ordered municipal authorities throughout the country to appoint committees to take over the buildings and property. The value of the property involved is inestimable, but mounts high into the hundreds of millions. Trouble during the week-end was anticipated by many observers who saw in the situation today the elements of violent civil discord.

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Indiana Police Ordered To Arrest All Kentucky Motorists In This State Indianapolis. Ind.. July 30 Indiana state police today wexe ordered to ar rest all motorists coming into Indiana from Kentucky for faiure to s have Indiana license plates. The order was issued by Frederick 1 Schortemeir secretary of estate on a reprisal against Kentucky for the ar rest of Indiana drivers who failed to, procure Kentucky licenses. Schortemeir said the order would remain in effect until an understanding is reached with Kentucky authorities on the license question. o EVANGELIST MUST FACE JURY AGAIN Aimee Semple McPherson Ordered To Appear For Reopening Os Iler Case — Los Angeles. July 30. — (United j Press.! — Aimee Semple McPherson I tas been ordered again to appear be-j .ore the grand jury next Tuesday I when Prosecutor Asa Keyes has an-( nottneed he will present evidence asking her indictment for perjury. The decision to re-open the evange list's case has been reached as a result of new evidence placed before District Attorney Keyes hy Assistant District Attorney Joe Ryan ami de-| tective Chief Hetman Cline. The evidence, which includes numerous affidavits and reports collect j ed by investigators working for Ry-1 .in, includes testimony of residents of Carmel and Monterey who declare I they have identified .Mrs. McPherson] and Kenneth Ormiston. radio oper ; ator. as compaion occupants of a bungalow during part of the period I of Mrs. McPherson's alleged kidnap Ping A rebellious reaction has developed in tlte attitude of the grand jury,I whose foreman, William H. Carter.| declared that the jurors are weary of* beating around the bush and demand that Prosecutor Keys' evidence must' be conclusive before the jury will con sent to receive it. 0 ’To Maintain Restrictions London. July 30. — (United Press)] —The government derided today that| the restrictions on rubber exportation I from the Britisli East Indies would I be maintained but that there would be no increase in the restrictions during the forthcoming quarter. MANY BOATS ON MISSING LIST Every Boat In Nassau Har- ‘ bor Reported Sunk Or Wrecked By Hurricane Miami, Fla.. July 30. —(United Press) —Every boat in the Nassau harbor either sunk, was blown to sea. or went ashore in the. hurricane, officers of the Munson liner said when it docket! hero today, three days behind schedule. Among the boats still missing when the Munamar left Nassau last night, as listed by Captain C. M. McDonald, were: Between 50 and 75 two-man boats of the Sponge fleet and their lot) to 150 men. A houseboat belonging to Dr. Miner. Curator of the marine department of the American Museum of Naturial History, with Dr. Miner and members of his staff aboard. Scores of small boats, most of them unmanned. San Jaun, Porto Rico, July 30. — (United Press)- More than 100 per- . sons were killed and fully 400 were injured during the storm which swept ovr Ulis island this week, Secretary of Agriculture Chardon said today at the conclusion of a tour of the island.

PLAN RECEPTIONS ) ! FOR MR. WOOLLEN , —, — Adams County Democrats Plan To (Jet Acquainted With Candidate, Aug 11 Word was received today from i Evans Woollen, demorcatlc short- , term senatorial candidate, that he I would be in Adams county early Wed- ' nesday morning. August 11. Mr. Woollen' will spend two hours in De | eatur and will then go to Monroe, ; Berne and Geneva where short recep ’ tions will be held. Mr. Woollen will not speak at any lof the Adatns county stops on this I trip, but indicated he would return ■ later in the campaign on a speaking ; tour. The trip as planned for August | 11. will he a "get-acquainted" trip and I Dick Heller, democratic county chairI man, is planning for as many as i possible to be at each stop to meet' I the democratic candidate. in Mr. Woollen's party will be his | wife; Virgil Simmons, of Bluffton, district democratic chairman, Claudel i Ball, democratic candidate tor con-1 . gress from the Eighth district; and i R. Earl Peters, state chairman of the I Democratic patty. Several newspap- ■ er men also will accompany the party. Mr. Woollen already has visited sevI era! Indiana districts and has recelvied cordial welcomes at each place. , The temporary plans are to have a I short reception in Decatur from 8:3O| o'olock to 9:30 o'clock on the morn Hug of August 11. Several cars will] ] accompany the patty to Monroe where I .la half hour's stop will b e made. | From Monroe, the party will pro-1 | ceed to Berne where another stop will I 'be made. From Berne the caravan | i will go to Geneva, where Mr. Woollen (CONTIM Eli o\ PAGE SEVEN) SMITH’S MANAGER GIVES TESTIMONY Tells Senate Committee About Fund Spent By Successful Candidate wamatOwww.i. | —(United Press.) —Allen p. Moore, a campaign manager for Frank L. Smith. ; republican senatorial nominee, today | opened his campaign finances to the senatorial primary investigating committee. Moore relented from his previous refusal to answer questions as to where he raised the $253,000 for SqUtli, and told the committee all the contributors. Moore said his new list probably would swell Smith's total expenditures beyoYTil the amount he gave the committee at the opening of the hearing. Moore’s list is given to the committee accounted for only a fraction of the total campaign fund. He explained that the balance was made up in county financial drives of which he had no" direct knowledge. The two largest amounts listed by Moore were $25,000 given by R. C. Copley, Aurora, publisher of three Illinois newspapers and $10,00(1 contributed by Clement Studebaker, ntil-1 lloßaire automobile manufacturer and associate of Samuel Insull in the utility business. "Some of these men for social and political reasons asked me not H> make public contributions to the Smith fund," Moore said. Moore denied any knowledge of the story told by Timothy McCarthy. East St. Louis newspaperman, that $6,000 was paid to Charles Scendry, secretary of the Foreign Voters League, for his support. o Islard Sheken by London, July 30, —(United p’?3s)— The most violent earthquake in the history of Jersey was reported to have shaken the channel Island at 2:30 P. M. today. The largest buildings in St. Heller's rocked and several chimney stacks collapsed no casualties were reported.

Aids Democrat J Senator George W. Norris, republican to stump Pennsylvania on behalf of William B. Wilson, democratic nominee I for United States senator. ' TOPAVE ROAD2I NEAR PORTLAND Improvement To Be Made South To Bluff Point, According To Survey Portland, July 30. (United Press) James Giissell. former city engineer, but now employed by the state highway commission, has begun the work of surveying the state highway No. 21. from the end of the brick pavement on South Meridian street to Bluffton Point. The survey is being made for the purpose of improving the state /oad from this city south to Blilffton Point anti possibly to the Jay-Ran-dolph county line. Tlte improvement, it is understood, will be with u re-surfacing composimond and Fountain City on the south end of the highway. This gives the roadbed a smooth surface, dustless and longwearing. The bridge just south of the city over the Little’Salamonia, will be torn out and a wider and better bridge built. Workmen employed by the state highway association have been working on this part of the state highway for some time, widening the roadbed and putting in new culverts and con crete abuttments at various places for new bridges. Th? re-surfacing of the road will be begun and finished yet this year, it is understood. It has been reported that the state highway commission, in conjunction with the highway department of Michigan. will build an improved road, over state highway 21 and 13 in this state and state road No. 11 to Michigan, be(CONTINUKD ON PAGE SEVEN) BUSCHESPEAKS TO ROTARIANS County Agent Gives Interesting Talk At Meeting Os Club Last Night L. M. llusche, Adams county agricultural agent gave an irteresting talk to the Rotarians of Decatur, at the Industrial rooms last Hight. Mr. Busch© told why h e was hired by the county and what he did. He also read several questions that are asked him every week. His talk was greatly enjoyed by tlte member-. • s ev?ra! visitors from '>)uf(ton and Hammond attended the meeting last night, which was cut short due to the hot weather.

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' STATE ELECTION COMMISSIONER GIVES OPINION Flaw In New Law Would Make Election Illegal Without Registration PROCESS WILL BE COSTLY TO STATE BY UNITED PRESS Indianapolis July 30 A complete re-registration of voters, which the last session of the state legislature tried to dispense with, will have to be held before the fall election because of a flaw iit the law. W. \V. Spencer, state election commissioner, said today. “It is out of the question that Governor Jackson would call a special session of the legislature to fi> the title of the 1925 law because of the possibility of the legislature turning its attention to other matters and dragging into a long session,” Spencer said. “About the only thing to do to make the election legal is to have a complete re-registration under the election law as it stood before the last legislature tampered with it.” Spencer said the proposal to have a text case instituted in the supreme court is not feasable because the court is now on vacation and will not reconvene in time to try the case before election. The process of re-registration will entail enormous expense. Spencer said, and the money the contltfes have already spent, in certifying the 1924 poll books is a complete lows. o— Local Young Ladies ' Enjoying European Tour Word lias been received here by friends of Naomi Durkin and Josephine Maliy, who are touring Europe this summer, that they are having a fine time and a splendid trip. They have visited in England. Ireland. Scotland, Germany and France and will visit Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy before returning home in September. They write that weather conditions are ideal in the foreign lands md that they havt been accorded fine hosCROWD ENJOYS BAND CONCERT Decatur G. E. And Ossian Bands Unite In Giving Program Here Last Night A large crowd attended the band concert held at the Waters Work park last night. The o.n ert was given by the Decatur Gene a! Electric band and the Ossian band combined. Hundreds (?T persons took advantage of the cool weather and attended the concert. A large crowd ah' used the municipal swimming pool at the park last night. Many' new selections were played by the 50-plece combination band and those who attended last night are desirous of having a concert similar to that one held every week during the summer. It is probable the General Electric band will give several concerts this summer at the park. The concert lasted about an hour and, before the program was started, cars were parked in all available spaces within a radius ot two blocks of the park. The stand was erected just east of the swimming pool. One of the largest crowd ■ ct the y ai made use of the pool and attendants wc forced to work overtime to take (are of all the patrons. The General Electric band, width bus been organized for about six months, is one of the best bands In this part of the state and is deserving >f the patronagt of the communit,.. The concert a.<t night was free, and plans tire already underway for another similar pro rum.

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