Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 19 January 1927 — Page 1

WEATHER Unsettled tonight and Thurify *.th probably or snow. Colder

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Great Britain And China On Verge Os War Today

BRITISH SEND VESSELS AND MEN TO CHINA Chinese Nationalist Decide To Have Showdown With Great Britain I S. MARINES PREPARE FOR E A R L Y SERVICE ,By Ctil'ord L. Day. (U. P. Staff Correspondent) London, Jan. 19. — (United Press.) —Britain awoke today to find her war machine humming as the government prepared to support protests in China with man power and force. Developments of the past 24 hours in the Far East emphasized a factor which has been" apparent for months. It was, that ihe Cantonese Nationalists, who have Invaded the Yangtze valley and who now graze covetously at rich Shanghai after having routed the British from their concersion in Hankow, were determined upon a showdown with Great Britain. It was apparent that the Nationalists had gauged Britain as the greatest obstacle to the independence of China and that they had decided to tackle their strongest adversary first British Vessels Sait. Dispatches from Malta reported the | departure of four vessels of the first cruiser squadron, the Frobisher. Danae, Delhi and Dragon for the Far East. The cruiser Dahntless was to follow when refitted. The admiralty was reported to hate chartered two Union C’astle for transport of Marines and stores to China. The admiralty has made arrangements to obtain other liners in case of need, which was accepted as meaning that the British force destined fc possible action in China would number thousands rather than hundreds. Fifty-seven British warships aluady are in Chinese waters. Advices from Foochow received at London headquarters of China missionary societies indicated that reports of violence against the persons of foreigners during riots there had been exaggerated. One thousand Marines were under orders today to be ready for instant departure for China. It was presumed that they would journey east aboard the Castle boats. U. S. Marines Get Orders. Washington, Jan. 19. — (United (CONTINUED OX P.ttiE THREE) MONROE PLANS FORINSTITUTE F. RuDert In Charge Os Arrangements For Annual Session, Feb. 4 According to J. F. Rupert, chairman ot the Monroe Farmers Institute, ’heir anuar sessions will held Friday, February 4, in th e school buildlnS at Monroe. C. C. Fisher, of Winchester, and Mrs. Vesta Tfendler, of •Mton, will be the speakers from out °f the county who will make addresses at the daytime sessions. ,n conn ection with the institute, a rorn B how will be held in which men and hoys of Adams county are invited h> take part. The premium list will Provide for a show of 10-ear samples 0 yellow corn, for men entries, also a singie-ear class, of yellow oorn. ' h’dlur classes will be provided for !o >s. The women are invited to make entries in the classes provided for en ’_. Committees are at work arranging the details of the exhibit and “formation concerning it will be pubhalted soon. , f or Beveral Years the Monroe Instip has ranked among the most sucSS ul in tll e county. Every lndlca- ' ' s tor a successful institute this :J r ' An invitation is extended to ry °ne interested to attend.

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Farmer Near Kokomo Sang In Village Choir With Sir Harry Lauder ■ • Kokomo, Itrd., Jan. J9 —(United Press)—Two boys who sang in a village choir in Scotland many, many years ago wese recently united here. One was Harry Lauder, a singer' of parts, and the other (leorge Cameron, a hard fisted farmer living near Ihe Cass county line. DEATH SUMMONS WILLIAM TAYNE • Gangrene Causes Death Os Resident Os Monroe Community Tuesday William Marion Tayue, 72. a resident of Adams county since 1886, died Tuesday at the homo of his son-in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Raudenbush. southeast of the city. Mr. Tayne tfad Been ill since New Y’oars’ day. suffering from withering gan* grene. His home was west of Monroe. William Marion Tayne was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Tayne, and was horn near Columbus. Ohio. August 1, 1954. On November 25, 1886 he was married to Irene Baughman, of Adams county, and since then Mr. and Mrs. Tayne have resided in this county To this union were born three children. Two sans died in infancy. Surviving are the widow, one daughter, Mrs. Raudenbush, and eight grandchildren. Funeral services- will he U«M at the home west of Monroe at 10:30 o’clock Friday morning, with burial in the Decatur cemethery. Tht* Rev. K. M. Foster, pastor of the Methodist church at Monroe, will officiate at the funeral. / o *- Vaults In Chaolin’s Studio Are Searched Los Angeles. Cal., Jan. 19.—(United Press.')—The extent of'Charlie Ohtlpfortune, variously estimated n! frorn $3,000,000 to $1G,000,000, may be revealed this afternoon when a report on the contents of the vaults at the Chaplin Studios is made in court. Examination of the studio strong boxes was conducted with utmost secrecy, the receivers withholding their findings under penalty of contemixt of court. The studio vaults were opened on orderq of Sitgerior Judge Walter Guerin and the receivers will report their court at 2 p. m. Slight Earth Shock Is Recorded At Denver Denver, Colo., Jan. 19. —(United Tress) —A slight earth shock was recorded on the seismograph at the Regis College here at 5:25 a.m., today, according to tihe Rev. A. W. Forstall, dean. The distance was estimated at between 1,600 and 2,000 miles south of Denver. — o Interurhan Kills Man At Winchester; Girl Hurt Winchester, Ind. Jan. 19. —(United Press) —David Roosa, 67, is dead and Edith Graft, 12, his granddaughter is in a serious conditioi: as a hospital here today from injuries sustained when struck by rn interurhan on the Union traction line, Roosa and his granddaughter were walking at the side of the track and it is believed they failed to hear the oncoming car. f Four Men Killed In Grade Crossing Wreck Deshler, 0., Jan. 19—(United Press) < —Flour men were dead today as the result of a grade crossing accident near her. Their automobile was de-* molished by a Baltimore and Ohio railroad train. The men were believed to have been blinded by the, heavy snowfall while returning to thir homes from a virit to Hamler.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, January 19, 1927.

ONLY FOUR DAYS OF SIMULTANEOUS REVIVALS REMAIN Pastors Os Churches Urge 1 Cooperation Os Entire City In Campaign L A R G E AUDIENCES PRESENT LAST NIGHT With four days remaining for the Simultaneous Revival meetings being held at six co-operating Protestant churches in this city, all pastors are urging that the entire eity join with them in making the closing days of tlie revival the greatest in the history of Decatur. All services have been greatly hindered by the inclement weather, but large crowds have praved all sorts of weather to attend the meetings. Large crowds were present at all the churches last night and indications are that the crowds wit. increase the rest of this week. Special music will continue to be one of the chief features in each church and the cooperation ministers announce that there will be plenty of good things in store for those who attend. Baptist Church % Last evening was an unusually good ■ service at the Baptist church. Rev. M. L. Robinson pastor of the South Wayne Baptist church was present and brought the message. This evening Rev. O. E. Miller will again conduct the service. The subject of the message will be, "A Select Crowd,” A cordial invitation is extended to those who are not attending elsewhere to hear the mesage and to entr into the fine spirit of worship. Zion Reformed Church The Rev. W. A. Alspach who spoke at the Zion Reformed church last night used as his subpect, "The Worth of a Man,” based upon a word of the Mastud “Fo r whosoever will save his life shall lose it. and whosoever wIY! lose iiis life for my sake shall find it’’, The speaker said in substance, “We seem<CONTINUED ON PACE FIVE) FORMER EMPRESS OF MEXICO DIES Carlotta Dies This Morning At Brussels; Demented For Many Years Brussels, Jan. 19—(United Press) ■Cartoi.ta, former empress of Mexico, died today after 60 years of peering into the misfs of the past in an effort to Ritualize the romantic young figure of Emperor Maximilian returning to her side. , Death fame at 7 o’clock this morning ire the Chateau Eau De Boughont where she had fought her futile struggle for life. With her death climaxing a long vigil by the continent/s greatest physicians to prolong her life, there passed away “the last vestige of the shortlived and only empir® eter founded on the North American continent — the fading out of a mad dream of conquest that brought death and dispair to the dreamers. The lonely and demented woman became seriously ill January 7. Her physicians announced then that her heart action was weakening. Albert, Carlotta knew, but most of the faces she saw each day and the persons with whom her disordered mind conversed were those who had preceded her to the grave but who still lived lin the mind of the old emipress. Carlotta, or Charlotta, was 86 years old. Since her emporor husband was executed by Mexican rebels under the leadership of the liberator, Benito Juarez, Carlotta has been insane. For years she has been made a tradition than a living person. To the world, this feeble, eccentric old lady was merely the mad empress of Mexico.

Detective Association To Meet Friday Evening The regular meeting of the Adams County Horse Thief Detective Association -will he held Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the Old Adams County hank. Ellis Squires, delegate to the state convention at Franklin, will make a report and members are urged to attend. COUNTRY CLUB MEETING TONIGHT N All Members Os Club Urged To Attend Important Meeting Tonight All members of the decatur Country club are requested to meet at the Industrial rooms at 7:30 o’clock tonight it was announced today, by Douglas Ilaifcy, secretary. The meeting will he an important one. and several matters will be disposed of. Ttie directors and members will (Psotiss the contract signed by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schulte, and dispose of oth eri Ymsiness pertaining to the opening of the tourtry club early next spring. The meeting will he short, but Mr. Haney pointed out that it was very important tnat all members attend. Work has been practically completed on the addition to the club house, and a crew of men will start work on the IS hole golf course as soon as weather permits, so that the course w j|l be open early in the spring. Other remodeling of the club house will eon tinue. and the members will obtain their full benefits of the club ths coming season. WILLSHIRE, OHIO, WOMAN ISO FAD Mrs. John Hamrick Dies Os Pneumonia Tuesday Evening Mrs. John Hamrick, 59, of Willshire, Ohio, a sister of Lee Reefey of this cify, died after one day’s illness of pneumonia, at her home, Tuesday afternoon, at r s:3o o'clock. Mrs. Hamrick had lived in Willshire about five years. She is survived by one sister, Villa Duer, of near Monroe, and four brothers, Lee Reefey of Decatur; J. W. Reefey of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan; O. M. Reefey, Sulpher Springs; Ohio; Henry Reefey, Jacksonville, 111. One daughter, Della, also survives. Funeral services will be held at the Willshire Methodftt church, Thursday afternoon at 1:30 and burial will take place in the Willshire cemetery. FARM INSTITUTES TO START FEB. 3 Institute At Monmouth Opens Series Os Seven Meetings In Adams Co. . The series of annual farmers instilu tes of Adams county will get underway with the institute at Monmouth Thursday , February 3. There will be seven farmers institutes in the county this year. Following the Monmouth institute, the Monroe institute will be held on February 4 and Berne institute on February 6. The speakers for these three institutes will be C. G. Fisher, of Winchester, and Mrs. Vesta S. Pfendler, of Action, Indiana. A second group of institutes will stnrt on February 15, at Bobo. The Hartford township institute will he held oh February 16, the Union town“hip institute on February 17 and the Kirkland township meeting of February 18. Two different sppakers will deliveer the lectures at these four in stltutes.

FIOHT AGAINST SEATING OF SMITH OPENS IN SENATE Son. Rood Urges Senate To “Guard Its Portal Against Corruption*’ SMITH PRESENTS IIIS CREDENTIALS Washington, D. ('. Jan. 19. — (United Press) —Urging the U. S. Senate to “Guard its portals against the corruption of wealth.” Senator Janies A. Reed Dent. Mo., today opened the fight against seating of Frank I* Smith. Re-1 publican Senator-designate of Illinois who spent $287,000 in a primary election. • Reed introduced a resolution to refer Smith’s credentials to the Senate privileges and elections committee and to prevent the oath from being administered to him. Reed charged th® Illinois election was “founded in fraud.” This aetion'eame alter senator Deneen. Rep, 111., had presented Smith’s credentials and ciied precedents for the resolution he introduced authorizing administration of the oath and subsequent investigation of Smith’s qualifications. “One tiling certain is that if the Senate does not guard its own portals and protect its own integrity no one else outsiue the Senate will do it.” Reed dccTnrei! i'n hi's speech. “We have the power to act in this ease and we must exercise it fairly net only to Mr. Smith but a'so to the country. “We must so exercise it that all men will know that he who enters hert must come, like a litytant in a court of chancery, with clean hands. “We must certify it to the Country so that seenatorial elections -n the future will to some extent be kept “We must do this so ( that wealth will no longer attempt to purchase seats of powe" in this body.” CONSIDERS PLAN FOR ARBITRATION Coolidge Interested In Proposal For Settling Oil Land Law Dispute Washington, Jan. 19. — (United Press) —Popular support of proposals for arbitration of this government’s alien Oil land law dispute with Mexico, has stimulated President Coolidge’s personal interest, and he Is following closely the letters of protest to tihe state department and press comment. The administration, however, is handling the arbitration idea, originated by Senator orah iyul formally proposed by President Calles of Mexico and the Robinson senate resolution, with gloves. Secretary of State Kellogg after studying the situation has found so far no practicable method of applying the arbitration clauses of United States-Mexican treaties of 1848 and 1908. He issued a statement praising the arbitration principle, but did not commit himself on its application. o Chicago University Student, Jilted In Love Affair, Commits Suicide t Chiqago Jan. 19.-—(United Press) —The futility of his love for Miss Alyce Davey, a eo-ed at Syracuse University, Leo Garvey Jones, freshman medical student at Chicago university to kill himself, fellow fraternity members agreed today. It was Jones second attempt to end his life because of his love for the girl. Last Friday he attempted to take gas but was saved and late yesterday he shot himself.

Boy, Age Five, Tries to Cure Baby Brother Os The Whooping Cough Flora, Ind., Jan. 19 —(United Press) —Little Paul Fife, five years, worried about his brother's very slow recovery from whooping cought. Believing the infant wasn't getting enough medicine, Paul chose a moment when his mother wasn't watching to administer I wo doses of cough medicine. They babe became seriously ill. A physician had to administer an antidote. COUNCIL HOLDS SHORT SESSION Bids For Condenser For Light And Dower Plant Are Received A short session of the city council was held last evening, the most important item of business coming up for ac.ion being the receiving of bids for a condenser at the city light and power plant. Two bids were received by tlie council, they being submitted by the Weatinghouse Electric company and the Wheeler Condenser company. The council later met in executive session, but did not award the contract. Mayor Krick will call a special meeting of the council either Thursday or Friday afternoon for the purpose of awarding the lids. The prices ranged from $7,1Q0 to $7,700. Street Commissioner Amos Fisher filed iiis annual inventory of equipment and supplies on hands January 1, 1927. The inventory totaled $5,111.20. It included all property and supplies used or purchased by the street department. The finance committee allowed a number of hills and the executive session followed the regular meeting. I’uDils Os St. Joseph ' School To Give Program The seventh grade pupils of the St. Joseph school will present a miscellaneous program. Thursday afternoon. starting ait 2:30 o'clock, in the Catholic school auditorium. A small admission fee will be charged and the patronage of the public will be greatly appreciated. o United Brethren To Dedicate New Church Invitations have been received by many of the folks of Decatur to attend Dedication Services of the new United Brethren church at Plymouth, Indiana on next Sunday. The pastor is 'the Rev. B. F. Dotson, former pastor of the local congregation. The new church idea was developed when f Rev. Cecil R. Smith was pastor at Plymouth in 1923 and plans began with cash subscriptions at that time. The local pastor. Rev. Cecil It. Smith will attend the dedication next Sunday and have part in the services by invitation of the pastor and membership of. the church. Others will also attend from this city. Fire Causes SIOO,OOO Loss In Peru Factory Peru Ind, Jan. 19.—(Unted Press) —Falling walls endangered the lives of firemen today in fighting a blaze in the factory of the Alirent and Schafer Co., Manufacturers of refrigerators.. One three-story building was destroyed by fire. Property loss was estimated by company officials at nearly SIOO,OOO. Elks Meeting Tonight The regular meeting of the Elks lodge will be held this evening at eight o'clock at the home. Members ar® urged to attend, Auto Furies Kill Motorist Anderson. Ind., Jan. 19. — (United Press) —James Sweetman, 18, was killed in his garage here early today by carbon monoxide fumes from the exhaust of his auto. Relatives found the body in the garage.

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REVISION OF CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS ASKED Changes Sought In Eight Districts; Eighth Dis. trict Not In Group LEGISLATIVE PROBE ASKED IN MEASURE Indianapolis, Jan. 19.— (l ailed Press) Legislative investigation of alleged corruption in state political and administrative circles, and revision of Indiana congressional districts arc sought by measures introduced in a busy session in the house today. Twenty-six hills were introduced in the house and 11 in the senate. I lie Democratic demand for a thorough probe into affairs of the s|.ute highway commission, board of accounts and grand jury deliberations as voiced in a resolution introduced by Representative George Saunders, Bluftton, was promptly referred to the house committee on judiciary. Referred To Committee Not more than a dozen words cf the resolution had been heard when the speaker’s gavel ended the reading and the request went to the committee. Eigtt. of Indiana's 13 congressional Mr, ricts would ibe altered by provisions of the bid introduced by Representative Harold R. Donnell, Repute tican, representing Decatur and Jennings countries. Districts unchanged would be the first, fiflh, sixth, eighth and twelfth. Districts affected by the proposed measure and extent of the changes would be: Second district, would embrace Lawrence county, now ill third district. Third district would lose Lawrence county to second and acquire Jackson and Brown counties from fourth district. Fourth district would lose Jackson and Brown to third and a square the following townships of Marion county: Franklin, Perry. Decatur and Wayne. ■ Seventh district, (Marion county) loss of the four townships named above to fourth district. Ninth district would acquire Warren county from tenth district. Tenth district would lose Warren county to Ninth district. Eleventh district would acquire (CONTIXImI. OX PAOB TWO) WAS NOMINATED IN CONVENTION Nomination Os John F. Lachot In 1904 For County Office Is Recalled The dea,th of John F. Lachot, former county treasurer, this week, has caused several people to inquire why he was nominated at a convention instead of a primary, as he was the onf.y county candidate thus selected by the Democrats of Adams county. The convention was called by the Democratic county central committee on March 17, 1904, due to tlie fact that no candidate had been nominated. The legislature of 1903 had passed a Hill extending the terms of county treasurers and it was thought when the primary was held in January, 1904, that, a treasurer would not tie elected until 1906, but the supreme court held the law unconstitutional. The convention was held at t.he court house in this city April 8. 1904. L. G. Ellirjgham, county chairman, called the meeting to order and was made ohairmani of the convention L. C. Miller, secretary. There were 165 delegates, 83 necessary to a choice, and the result of the first ballot was J. F. Lachot 94, Mathias Kirsch 37 and C. W. Yager 33. Two years later, Mr. Lachot was nominated in lihe iprimary without opposition.

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