Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 236, Decatur, Adams County, 6 October 1926 — Page 1

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I Kentucky Colonel Hired To Prepare Barbecue Here

expert engaged to take charge of barbecue at dairy day celebration HERE OCTOBER 19; PROGRAM COMMITTEE ARRANGES FOR INTERESTING ATTRACTIONS; ADVERTISING PROGRAM IS WELL UNDER WAY.

The Ixtrbecue committee for Dairy Day has contracted with C.ul. N. D. Lawrence, maker of ll>. famous “Kentucky Burgoo” of Kentucky, to take charge of the barbecue here on Tuesday, OclolxT 19. Lawreiice has had years of experience and has had charge of some of the biggest events of this kind in his section of the country. The Colonel will arrive here on the 16th, bringing two assistants and the i patapbcrnalia necessary to prepare the barbecue. Besides the beef sandwiches. the conwilttee will serve coffee, pickles and ice-cream. Burgoo a a delicious dish and a favorite one tn the south. The colonel will bring his 500-gallon kettle here and it Is probable he will also furnish burgoo with the barbecue. Program Committee Busy The program committee has concluded arrangements for an additional feature for the day. the Harmony Four Quartette of Fort ’ Wayne. George W. Wilson is the leader of this well-known colored company, which entertains and brings laughter to thousands. They will be here for the day and evening, singing at night with the Dunbar band concert. The principal speaker for the afternoon meeting has also been selected. He is Mr. George L. McKay, national secretary of the Butter Manufacturer’s Association of the United i States, now located in Chicago. He was formerly with the University of Ch cago and is one s»f the greatest men in the dairy business in the .. country There will be a nunjber of people of note on the program and the plans for the big day are now CWkWi' « w IMMM* ' ui.cr * ■“ New Committees Named The officers of 'the organization for Dairy Day today announced two new ecmmittees. John S. Peterson, Chalmer Porter and H. F. Ehinger will have charge of the registration and information booth. A 20x30 foot ’-•nt will be located at the entrance ICOVTIXI Kn nW I’ll.R Twill DEMOCRATS OPEN TAX COT DRIVE Tax .Reduction Resolution , , Being Drawn Up For In- i troduction In Congress Washington. Oct. C.—(United Press Democratic talk about a $300,000,000 ,;,x cut this year over ttje heads of President Coolidge and* Secretary Mellon is developing -into a systema ' '■zed drive of unexpected proper ' tlons. Democrats are now unanimous upon an issue, namely, that the treasury surplus should be used immediately ’o lower all taxes instead of being Permitted to accumulate until 1328, Presidential year. r he United Press was informed loilay that Senator Simmons, ranking 1 emocratic member of the senate f nance committee Is now drawing a) Tax cut resolution to be introduced 'he day congress reconvenes. Minority leaders have agreed to T" 1 <e the resolution to a vote, and now appearp the biggest fight of ’ lp coming session will center around The proposal. *’ has not yet been determined just w iat features the resolution will con’ain but those back ofithe movement "ant it to provide a general and viV--11,1 ly equal reduction upon large and man incomes along the entire line.

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; DEVELOPMENTS : COME QUICKLY IN PROBE TODAY Adams Gives Out Another 1 Letter From Stephenson To Support Charges STEPHENSON READY TO TELL FULL STORY ► ■ Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 6.— i (United Press) —New develop--1 inents followed in quick suc--1 cession today in the inVestigaI lion of state polities being pushed by Thos. Adams, A incennes editor who alleges gross corruption existed under the influence of D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan. Adams, returning from Chicago Vhere he jphases of his investigation, gave out in support of his chagges another letter which he | , for as being from Stephenson I Members of the state prison board were reported coming to Indianapolis to take action on the demand of I Allants for authority to confer w th Stephenson, who is serving a life ’ sentence in the state prison for the murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, an Indianapolis girl. Gow .1., < Juon refused to approve Adams' request, saying action’ oii it was up to the prison board. .. J . Fwinv ttnnp.msnd president of ”’‘l n<- inu..in.i 1 sociation, announced that he stood (CONTINI'Kn I’MiK TWOI MOR SCOUTS TO BE ORGANIZED Organization Meeting To Be Held In Industrial Rooms This Afternoon The Junior Scouts of Decatur will be organized this' afternoon at 4 o’clock in the Industrial rooms, above I the Graham & Walters office. The I purpose of the Junior Scouts Is Io . prepare the boys for membership In I the regular Boy Scout organ.zation and teach character and citizenship and the other high ideals of scont- , Ing. Any boy between the ages of 10 and 12 may join the Junior Scouts. ' Meetings will be held every Wednesday evening from 4 to 5 o'clock, in the Industrial Rooms, and will be in charge of Scoutmaster Bryce Thomas and his assistant, Cornelius Durkin. During the winter the Junior Scouts should pass 3,11 tests required tor membership in the Boy Scout Troop, learning how to tie knots, the composition and history of the American Flag and the forms of respect jdue to k and, through the Scout oath 'and law. become familiar with the high ideals of Scouting. The Junior Scouts will act as a separate organization from the Boy' Scouts, but the boys who do the best' work in the Junior organiza- | tlon will be selected for membership in Rotary Troop No 1 as soon as they reach the age of 12 years. Each Junior Scout should equip himself with a Boy Scout Handbook, but it: not required to have the uni- ’ form.

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Peaches Remains With - Friends; Lets Prince Charming Do Worrying New York. Oct. 6.—(United Press) ■ — Frances (Peaches) Heenan Brown ing remained at the home of friends today apparently determined to let | Edward W. Browning, her wealthy 59 year-old husband do the worrying. Peaches moved out of the Brown I ing apartment at a fashionable subur , ban hotel Saturday and'thereupon an- 1 nounced she and her husband would I take a “marriage vacation.’’ Peaches went to New Jersey Satur | day but yesterday she and her mother , slipped back to New York and. among l other things, went shopping. The bills, it was said, will be presented to Browning. “I still love my wife more than any i thing else in the world," said Brown ing in a statement which he sent out | from his offices here. He protested I that their separation was but temper | ary. / I REVIVAL WILL ; END THIS WEEK Baptists To Hold Prayer Searvice Each Morning During Rest Os Week Plans are being mad* for a grand. j climax to the Revival Services being I held at the Baptist church this week | I Prayer services will be held at the j I church each morning at 10 o’clock for ; an hour The evangelist will speak I | each evening. Attention is especially , I called to th< service Thursday even | . ing, lhe subject bein ; "Sixteen million , lieasons why I belfeve in the second j coming of Christ." Sunday afternoon, a great mass nieeting of men and w mien will b»j held then the tiaa! service Sunday? evening. The weather conditions are ' . K I .rsx/jr ihe i-.t.uicr-n.M pl u< u . ■ ■■ <**i • ion the subject, ‘Sir.: Its curse ami I cure.”. He said in part: x ' "Sin is one of the greatest facts | j and factors in all human experience. | Sin is a short word, with a long-drawn j out result. It is a small word with a big meaning. Sin has a small beginn ing. and a big ending. When one thinks of sin, he is reminded of the serpent. The smily trail of the serpent of sin, is seen leading out of the garden ot Cdei . clear across the centuries, until this present day The shores of time are strewn with the human wreck age of sin. "Sin destroys the btfdy, and ultimately damns the soul. God’s Word declares: ‘There is away that seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof, are the ways of death," “The souls that sinneth, it shall die’, also, 'The wages ot sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus H'OXTIXI ED ON PAGE TWO) O (Efforts Made To Get Clothes Worn By Aimee Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 6.—Charges that efforts had been made to obtain from the district attorney’s office the clothing wo.n by Mrs. Aimee Semple McPnerson when she re-appeared near Douglass, Ariz., last June after a self-asserted escape from kidnappers were made today by District Attorney Asa Keyes. T ; ie prosecutor charged that R. F. M: lellan, chairman of the county board of supervisors sought to secure the evangelist's "desert garb" several ’ weeks ago. McClellan will be called * as «< witness in the hearing of the evangelist on charges of criminal conspiracy, Keyes said. The clothing is regarded as import ant evidence by the state to support itSx accusations that Mrs. McPherson did not make a twenty mile tramp across the Sonora desert as she claims.

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• 'RTJTH George Herman "Babe” Ruth, king |of swat, came into his own today (n , the fourth game of the world's base-1 ball series between New York and l the St. Louis Cardinals and slammed out three home runs. This is a new record for uome runs in a single I world's series game. The bases were I j empty when the Babe got his first two honors, but he scored one runner ahead of him with the third one. parkinTproblem AGAIN TAKEN UP BY CITY COUNCIL No Definite Plan Worked Out So Far; Street And Sidewalk Matters Up NEW WALKS BUILT: OTHERS ORDERED A short session of the city council was held last evening, ,eet and s dewaik matters taking most of the attention of the counciltßen \ ‘_**#£* ; y ««IISMUWI ex< cutl’■ e meeting was h< id, during | which time the count- 1 discussed the . proposed plan of securing the two Methodist church lots at the cornersi of Monroe and Fourth, and Monroe and Third streets for a public parking space. No definite action was taken, as several legal matters will have to be looked into by the city attorney. The church trustees have J offered the use of the lots for a park- i ing space at a rental of SIO.OO per i month, and members of the council I are of the opinion that additional (CO%Tl)l i:i> OX PAGE TWO! BUCGY STRUCK ' BY AUTOMOBILE! PalnferLehman, 1- arm Hand, Injured In Accident Near Berne Tuesday Night Palmer Lehman, 24, a farm laborer i employed by Abe Egley, of Hartford 1 township, was painfully but not ser-1 iousty injured at 10 o’clo k Tuesday I night when he buggy in which he was I riding was struck by an automobile | driven by Jacob B. Steiner, French l township fanner, on the concrete road, just west of the Herne corporation limits. His injuries consisted of bruises on his left side and his right leg. Lehman was driving west on tlge state road, returning to the Egley home after a visit to Berne. Mr. Steiner and his wife were going west, also, but the lights on Steiner’s car were not burning, it is said, and the driver failed to see the buggy. The buggy was badly wrecked and the horse torse loose an dran away. This morning, the horse appeared at the Egley home. The automobile was not damaged.

REGISTRATION BREAKS RECORD IN ADAMS COUNTY Total Os 11,006 Voters Registered; Largest Number In County’s History VOTERS URGED TO RO TO POLLS The largest registration in the history of Adams county has just been completed by the Adams county registration board, it was learned i this morning when the total registration for the November 3 elpction was tabulated. A total of 11,006 peri sons are registered in the county. I Os this number, it is est: mated that I more than 7,000 are democrats. Decatur third ward B leads all other precincts in nuinbre of voters registered with a total of 664. Decal tur first ward A is second with 654. I South Hartford is the smallest pre-| ! cinot, with a total of ICI registered ■ voters. ' The registered voters in each pre- | cinct are as follows: Decatur, first i ward A. 654; first ward B, 483; secj ond ward A. 615; second ward B. 353, i third ward A. 593; third ward B, 6G4; Berne A. 422; Berne B. 259; Berne C. :W2; Geneva A, 389; Geneva B. 454; , | North Preble. 228; South Preble, 2*l: East Root, 288; West Root. 370; East Union. 214: West Union. 194: ■ North ington, 562; North St. Marys, 263; (South St. Marys. 269: North Blue i Creek. 237; South Blue Creek. 198; ( Middle Monroe, 177; North Monroe, 1351; North Hartford. 312; South i Hartford, 161; North Wabash, 196; I Ceylon 201; East Jefferson, 224; j West Jefferson. 237; North Kirkland, | 241; South Kirklamj- 168; French, I 210. The members of the registration i board were Mat tin Jaberg, Mrs. , Chatles Yager. Mrs. Charles Peterson . Mrs. Oscar Teeple. Auditor Preparing Lists County Auditor Martin Jaberg this ■ ' I: ' '. | both cc..uty chairmen with a certified V I r II ,.z .$ wz.fzvvr. thn I ■ ■ : :* anT *■*rr, ~ vided by ’aw. The lists will be compiled by me middle of next week. ~ The democrats in the county have I started their campaign in earnest, and the candidates have been touring various parts of the county. All candidates are of the opinion that the county will register a good democratic. majority next November 3. Several open meetings are being | planned by the democrats in Adams I county, it was announced at Democratic headquarters today. Some speakers from out of the coynty will . be here for several of ths meetings. [ and county talent will provide the i i est of, the programs. I The task of urging ail registered i voters to go to the polls November > was started today by the Democratic organization, and a record vote jis predicted for this year. Several I important questions will be answered by the people when they go to the, | polls November 3, and the county I democratic organization is urging i that all democrats go to the polls and cast a vote. o Elks Hill Oil Lease Suit Is Taken Under Advisement By Herbert Little (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Washington, Oct. 6.—The U. S. supreme court today had under advisement the Doheny Elk Hills oil lease annulment suit, in which arguments had been completed by Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts for the government, and by Frank J Hogan and Frederic Kellogg, for Doheny’s Pan-1 American Petroleu mcompanies. Roberts sketched yesterday Events leading up to delivery of valuable oil leases to the Doheny companies by Secretary ot Navy Denby and Secre I tary of Interior Fall, in seeking to ’ show that fraud and lack of proper authority were involved.

BABE HITS THBEE HOME BUNS IN WILD CBNTEST NEW YORK EVENS WORLD’S SERIES COUNT BY DOWNING ST. LOUIS CARDINALS IN SLUG FEST; EACH TEAM MAKES FOURTEEN HITS; HORNSBY USES FIVE PITCHERS; HOYT HURLS ENTIRE GAME FOR WINNERS. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R. H. E N.Y. . 10 11 42 1 0 0-10 14 1 ST.L . 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1- 5 14 0 Batteries: for New York, Hoyt and Severeid; for St. Louis, Rhem, Rheinhart, Bell, Hallihan, Keen and O’Farrell. St. Louis, Oct. 6.—(United Press) —With a curious outburst of frenzied hitting the New York Yanks squared the world series here this afternoon when they beat St. Lotiis Cardinals in the fourth game by a score of 10-5 | inspired by the terrific clouting of Babe Ruth who made a

BANDITS LOOT BANK IN OHIO • Robbers Head Toward Indiana After Taking $4,000 At Chickesaw, Ohio Police here were notified at 1 o’clock to be on the lookout for four bandits in a gray touring car. carrying the Indiana license number 941-227, who , robbed a bank at Chickesaw, Ohio, about 20 miles southeast of Ce'.ina, Ohio. The men were thought to be headed this way. The bandits entered the hank at ChickesatY and escaped with $4,000 in cash. The men then jumped into their car and headed west toward the Indiana state due. Police thraughout this part of tn<- s'aic have 1 ■i. TAKES ISSUE ' WITH GILLIUM Dr. Shumaker Says League Is Not Affected By Cor- I rupt Practice Act Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 6 —(United Piess) —Dr. E. S. Shumaker, superin- ( tendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, today took issue with attor-1 ney general Gilliom on Gilllom’s warning to league trustee* that they must comply with the state corrupt practices'act. ' Gil'.iom wrote the League officials notifying them for a second time that under his interpertation of the law “the practice of the Vnti-Saloon Lear-' tie unquestionably makes compliance with this act necessa.y.” Shumaker said legal advisors of the League had informed him that neither the League nor the W. C. T. U„ came under the. corrupt practices act. "The political activ’y of the League is only an incidental part of its program,” Shumaker sqid. “A very small part of the contributions of the ten ot fifteen thousand persons who sup l port the League goes into political w-ork anil we have never felt it necessary to file a report on campaign ex-! penditures.” Shumaker said that serious consid ' eration was being given to the filing of such a report >his year, even' I through League attorneys might not I deem such a course ecessary. I He denied that be had taken an at titude of defying the la win a letter answering- a previous warning from ■ Gillian on the subject, | The provisions of .be corrupt praci tices act, according to Gilliora's letter (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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world series record of hitting three home runs, the entire Yankee team went on a hitting spree that just about used up the St. I.ouis pitching staff. The game was witnessed by a crowd of 38,825, another new [ mark for St. Louis. LINEUPS New York St. Louis Combs cf Douthit of Keonig si Southworth rs Ruth If " Hornsby 2b Meusel rs Bottomley lb Gehrig lb Bell 3b Lazeri 2b Hafey If ’ Dugan 3b O'Farre! c Severied c Thevenow ss Hoyt p Rhem p First Inning New York—Combs struck out, Koenig struck out. Ruth hit a home run into right field stands. Meusel walked. Gehrig singled and Musel was thrown . ; !□'■• c ,ni>,,, r >i, t,, Hornby to O’Farrell. One run two hits nJ St. Liiii- limithit -it b-d tn Koe ing on the first ball Sonthworth singled to center, I|fjuthit stopping at third. Hornsby scored Douthit with a single. Southworth stopped at second. Bottomley filed out. Bell lined to Combs. It was a sacrifice fly. Hornsby stole second. Haley fanned. One (CONTINUED ON PAGE SI X I LYCEUM COURSE AT WILLSHIRE, 0. High School Presents First Number Os Series Next Friday Evening The first tinnier of the Lyceum course of the Willshire high school will be the home talent number, in which the Foote Trio will be presented Friday night, Oct. 8. The musical progiam ranges for the classical to the lighter numbers of the day and includes solos, duets and trios. An interesting playlet, cleverly woven about the painting talents of Mr. Gareld Fell, introducing his rapid water color sketches, and very tffeclively acted i by him and his associates, Mr. Clifford Foote and Miss Mat rella Franks, | will be given. I A phinese musical comedy, is also | included in the program This is given i in the rich costumes of the Orient , with catchy tunes and lyrics and a delightful theme. Groups of American and Spanish songs will be sung by the trio in"’lndian and Spanish costumes. The public is Invited to attend Other numbers of the Lyceum wi I be presented December 10, The Shaw Concert Company, and January 21, S. P.att Jones. Season tickets are being sold for SI.OO and .-ingle admission 50 cents.

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