Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1927 — Page 1

WEATHER Snow north .nd centfJ| and r.ir ’’ south PO'»' on ‘"° h ‘ and Friday-Not'‘mu-h change in temperature.

CONSIDER PLAN TO RAISE GASOLINE TAX

sritish leaders CONFER REGARDING CHINESE TROUBLE Foreign Secretary Summons Lloyd George And MacDonald For Parley CHINESE HOLDING FIRM ON STAND fly Clifford L. Hay, (V. P. Staff Correspondent) Undon. Jan. 20.-(United Press.)— British difficulties in China today were forma'ly recognized as having developed major importance when Sir Austen Chamberlain, the foreign secretary. summoned Ramsay MacDonald and David Lloyd-George to the foreign office to confer with him. The two opposition leaders met the foreign secretary separately in accordance wiih British tradition that leaders of minority parties in the house of commons he informed fully regarding serious international situations. Chinese Nationalists had shown on disposition today to back down before the British in the Yangtze valley an<l it was understood that another squadron of British warships would soon depart for far eastern waters. Fleet Moves Eastward. The eighth destroyer flotilla merely awaited completion of refitting work aboard the flotilla leader, Bruce. Four vessels of the first cruiser squadron were enroute to China today to join the 57 British warships already at the China station. Far from being aw-e struck by western armed force already in China or hy reports that war craft were racing toward their country, th e Chinese leaders, according to reports received here, even had discussed the possibility of the north joining the south against foreigners if force were restored to in the Yangtze valley. Dispatches continued today to report attacks on missionaries in the province of Shansi, wher ethe “Christion” Gen. Feng Yu Hsiang’s troops were said to be inciting anti-Chris-tian feeling. 0 T Berne Conner Makes Several Appointments Berne. Jan. 20.—Dr. D. D. Jones was re-appointed health offiqhr Bor the town of Berne at a meeting of the town council, Monday evening. The council also re-appointed Paul Felber, as fire chief; Elmer Baumgartner, as assistant chief; and Leonard Baumgartner, as fire truck driver. The council voted to buy two car loads of road oil, the same to be spread on the unpaved streets of the town next summer. o • Rowe Is Captured Richmond. Ind., Jan. 20—(United Press)— William Rowe , 29, one of three men who broke jail at Franklin on New Year's eve, was arrested here today by local police. Rowe arrived here from Cincinnati a 3 ' l °rt time before his arrest and had a ticket for Indianapolis. The tip which brought about Rowe's arrest w-as furnished by a professional bonding house. BERNE REVIVAL WELLATTENDED Rader Evangelistic Party Is Holding Successful Revival Services Berne, JaJn. 20. —Large audiences ar< atending the union revival services being held in Berne by the Rader evanSolistic party, under the auspices of 'bo local churches. C. W. Jones is B |,r iing the singing and also furnishlng music with a trombone. p Bader, a brother of the famed a UI. Is delivering the sermons. The votiing services begin at 7:30 o’clock n services are held each night ex'•ePt. Saturday. I

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i 1 Tague Funeral To Be II Held Friday Morning | I Funeral services for William MarI ion Tague, of near Monroe, who died Tuesday at the home of his daughter, 1 Mrs. Homer Daudenbush, southeast of 1 this city, will be held at the residence 1 west of Monroe at 10:30 o'clock Friday morning, with the Rev. E. M. Foster, pastor of the Monroe Methodist church, officiating Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. o , COUNTRY CLUB MEMBERS MEET Plans Made For Early Opening Os Club; Action Os Directors Approved , A good attendane was reported at the general meeting of the Decatur • Country Club members at the Indus- ■ trial rooms last night. Plans were • adopted at the meeting for an early ’ opening of the club and golf course ■ this spring, and the secretary made a report. i No change was made in t.he pres- • ent regime of officers and directors. ■ and the club voted to approve the ac- ■ tion of incorporating, which the i board undertook, and also voted to i instruct the directors to sign the contract with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schulte. Members were reminded that their ; installment on their membership . payment was due, and should be sent o Douglas Haney, secretary, at once, i Another meeting regarding further i plans for the opening of the club will be heild in a few weeks. CONVINSFrHAT PRISONER IS LEE 1 Authorities Are Positive That Man Held In Florida Is Ralph Lee i Indianapolis. Ind. Jan. 20 —(United Press) — Information received from Jacksonville' Fla., today convinced Claude Worley, Indianapolis chief of detectives that a man lying seriously wounded in a Jacksonville hospital Is 1 Ralph Lee, Indiana Jail braker. Worley said a wire from Jackson- , ville authorities announced that , "Ralph Lee Is held." The message gave the wounded , man's finger print classifications and the number and description of the auto he drove. I It also described Lee’s gun which worley said tallies w-fth the description of the one taken from Carl Losey, deputy sheriff of Johnson countv. when Lee escaped from the jail at Franklin on New Year’s Eve. I Worley said he had Bert Perrott, f Bertillion expert, check the telegraph , finger print classifications and Per- , rot was practically sure they were those of Lee. When the actual fingerI prints are received from Jacksonville I thy will be checked again. , The man held as Lee as Jacksonville was wounded in an attempt to , rob a filling station and was reported in a dying conditkn. Worley said that in spite of th<fact that death seemed imminent he would make efforts to extradite Lee at once and place him in the Indiana state reformatory for safe keeping on special orders from Gov Ed. Jackson. | ? Rain* Softening Roads In Southern Indiana • Indianapolis, Ind. Jan. 20. —(United Press) —Southern Indiana roads have been seriously affected by heavy rains which have continued throughout the 9 week, reports to the state highway 3 commission showed today. The heavy precipitation has softened gravel, dirt, and stone roads mater- • ially, according to the roports and the s surfaces are cutting badly. It has been necesasry to impose limitations on certain of the southern 1 Indiana roads, highway officials stated s while others are inundated by water < from wollen streams. :• Roads north of Indianapolis are in fairly god condition, officials say.

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IMPORTANCE OF CHURCH GOING IS BEING STRESSED Ministers In Revivals Emphasize Necessity Os Church In Life END OF CAMPAIGN IS DRAWING NEAR Ministers of the six cooperating Protestant churches in this city holding the closing week of meetings in the annual Simultaneous Revival campaign. are urging that all Christians of Decatur attend church, not only during the two weeks, but every Sunday of the year. All pastors are stressing the necessity of the church and its activities in the life of every individual. Large crowds continue to"hear the sermons at the six churches each night, and those in charge are urging that everyone attend the meetings tonight, Friday night and Sunday night. The services will draw to a clos e Sunday night, with special programs at each church. The attendance this year has been considerably larger than a year ago, and those in charge are anxious to make a record the last three days of the meetings. Special stress on attendance will be made the rest of this week. United Brethren Church Tho usual atendance or possibly a little larger than usual was present at the service held at the United Brethren church last night. The pastor, the Rev. Cecile R. Smith, preached oh tko.gijhjpeL "A Family Record." Special music was furnished by the Calvary Evangelical church of east of this city. God interest is being shown in the services, which will continue the remainder of this week. Methodist Church "It is to be feared that many of us have lost the sense of sin—that’s one of the dangers of our day." said Rev. Myron E. Taylor in his sermon on "A Greater Detective Than Burns,” last night at the Methodist church. “Tbo word sin-is a very small word, but carries with it more woe, want, weeping, wailing, mental, moral spiritual and physical anguish than any other word in the English language.” ho continued. "Gypsy Smith says, that you cannot pronounce the word sin without hearing the hiss of the serpent. People generally of our day have a mighty poor sense of sin and one of the reasons why people are dabbling in sin as they are is because they have so deadened their sensibilities, they do not realize the awfulness of it. We hear a lot of people shy. ‘I am living up to my conscience.' (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ANOTHER CLASH IN CHAPLIN CASE Developments So Far Favor Girl Wife Os Famous Film Comedian Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 20. —(United Press)—With every development so far favoring Lita Grey-Chaplin in her fight to divorce Charlie Chaplin and. gain a handsome income in the doing, opposing counsel met in court again today for the fourth legal clash since Inception of the case. Efforts to lift the receivership on the Chaplin corporations were apparently halted, following fixing of a record surety bond of $1,000,000 which the film actor must post before the receiver can relinquish possession of Chaplin’s properties. The total of the fun-maker’s located assets as revealed by court records taken from the studio vaults amounts to only $L 446,437.85 although his fortune has been variously estimated at from $3,000,000 to $16,000000. In setting the bond which Chaplin’s attorneys fought to lower, Judge Walter Querln deflated information had been withheld from the court and that tho minute books of the Chaplin corporation were missing.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 20, 1927.

I Rev. And Mrs. White Broadcast At Kokomo The Rev. and Mrs. E. P. White, of Bobo, will broadcast from radio station WJAK in Kokomo, at 11:45 o’clock Friday morning. They also bradeast several songs from the Kokomo station at the same hour this morning. Rev, White who is pastor of the Methodist church circuit at Bobo, is conducting a revival campaign at the Main Street M. E. Church in Kokomo. Ife and Mrs. White are talented musicians. LITERARY MEET BEING PLANNED I School Officials Arranging For Annual Contests To Be Held In March Plans are being worked out for the annual Adalns County high school Lii terary-Music contests, which will be ; held sometime during the month of . March. The contests will be held at . Berne this year. It is planned to al- • ternate the contests between Decatur ; and Berne and. since the contests were he’d in Decatur last year, this year’s i contests will be held at Berne. , —o Butler Officials Seek To Prevent Government From Deporting Student Indianapolis, Ind. Jan. 20. —(United Press) —Butler University officials were elated today over word from J Washinton indicating that steps were being taken to prevent the deportation of Bernard Shulgasser. 25, Butler ’ student. Senators Watson and Robinson, of Indiana, acting upon telegrams receivf ed from Butler officials and prominent Indlanians, presented the matter to W. W. Hubbard, assistant secretary of labor. Hubbard wired the immigration commission at Ellis Island to stay tho ' warrant of deportation which would have sent Shulgasser back to Kebarija. Lithuania. Shulgrasser incurred the risk of deportation when he violated his sta- ' tus as a student by teaching Hebrew ' in Hebrew schools here. The intention of the law which threatened his deportation is that immigrants shall not take a position which would displace an american in such employment. —o Bluffton To Have New Electric Fire Siren Bluffton, Jan. 20. —The Bluffton city council, Tuesday night, voted to buy a high-powered electric siren to be used as a fire alarm. The siren will be operated by the telephone operator when she first receives a fire alarm call. Two Killed At Crossing. Columbus Ohio, Jan. 20.—(United Press) —Two persons were killed when a Big Four railroad train crashed into an interurban but at a grade crossing near here today. , The bus was almost completely demolished. FAMILY EATS RAT POISON Mother And Two Children Die; Two Other Children Not Expected To Live Tracy, Calif.. Jan. 20. — (United Press.) —A mother and two children were dead here today and two other children were in a serious condition from rat poison fed to the family by th e mother. Mrs. Mary Hannon, Rose. 5, and Willie, 13 months, died within a short time after eating the poisoned food. Two children, Mary, 4. and Josephine. 3, were taken to a hospital and arc not expected to live. Manuel Hannon, the father, returned home late last night and found his wife and the two dead children in the kitchen. The other two children were in a dangerous condition.

I WATSON COMES TO SUPPORT OF FRANK L SMITH Indiana Senator Pleads That Senator-Designate Should Be Seated PREVIOUSLY URGED ’ SMITH TO STAY AWAY Washington, Jan. 20. — (United i Press) —Senator James E. Watson, I Indiana, Republican, who attempted to persuade Frank L. Smith, Republican senator-designate of Illinois not ’ to come to the senate, today took up the cudgel in Smith’s behalf. Opening the second day of senate debate on the proposal to bar Smith because of excessive campaign expen- , ditures, Watson pleaded that Smith r should be admitted. "I was opposed to his coming here, for many reasons," said Watson, “but . he is here and is knocking at the , door. . “This is an issue which transcends party and personal desires and I believe that when considered in an iminart/al light Smith’s claim to his seat is valid. There Is no question as to his constitutional qualificaI tions. So far as the right to seat is concerned the chain of precedents is 1 unbroken that he Is entitled to be 3 sworn. i “Inasmuch as he has been regular--3 ly appointed and has all the consti- . tutional quaVfications of age and c residence, I believe he must be admitted in accordance with the conf MMuUon.” —• Smith again sat in the rear of the Republican side of the chamber in a r visitor's chair. No effort was made . to bar him at the door. Fewer senators and spectators were present today than yesterday at the opening of ; debate. Streams In Southern Indiana Are Rising •■ - . Indianapolis. Ind., Jan. .20—.(Unif- . ed Press) —Streams in Southern Indi . ana were reported rising rapidly to- , day as a result of heavy rainfall and I melting of snow in the central and north sections. Highways in several parts of southern Indiana were under water. Snow was predicted by the local weather bureau for the northern part of the state tonight and Friday with . rain or snow in the central and south portion. DELINQUENT TAX SALE ON FEB. 14 Onlv 31 Pieces Os Property Listed For Sale In County This Year The annual delinquent tax sale will be he'd in this county on Monday, February 14, at the court house, County Treasurer Louies Kleine being in charge. The list of proeprties offered for sale are published in tonight’s Daily Democrat. The notice contains 31 descriptions. Several farms are listed in the notice. The amount of delinquent taxes re- . maining unpaid at the beginning of the year was larger this year than a year ago. Since the first of the year, several of the delinquents have been I paid and the number has been redttci ed over a year ago. Last year, there . were 45 descriptions listed in the i notice. , The sale ‘will be held in the morning on February 14. The law is that the [ property owner or the person who bids i in the property must pay the delinquent taxes and the courrent taxes . for this year. A tax receipt to the proI perty is issued to the person who bids in the property and the original own- . er has a year to redeem the property. I As a general rule Adams county has l few delinquent tax payments and tho i number this year is probably smaller than the average in nearby counties.

Wilhelm Marx Designated To Form German Cabinet Berlin, Jan. 20.—(United Press.)— President von Hindenburg today again designated Wilhelm Marx to form a German cabinet. Marx had failed earlier ia the day in his effort to form a cabinet of the middle parties of the reichstag but was commissioned to try again. o WOMAN, 76, AND MAN, 87, MARRIED Unusual Wedding Occurs At County Clerk’s Office Here Today The office of John E. Nelson, Adams county clerk, in the county court house was the scene of an unusual wedding today when Lorenzo D. Brown, 87, one of the best known residents of Pleasant Mills, was united in marriage to Mrs. Minnie Eckert, 76. The ceremony was performed at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon in the presence of Mr. Nelson and Al Boner, of Pleasant Mills by the Rev. Somerville Light, pastor of the First Methodist church of tills city. Mr. Brown owns and operates a grocery store in Pleasant Mills. He is very active for a man of his age and ire insists that he has several years of life ahead of him. His bride, until recently, was a resident of Bellefountaine, Ohio. This was Mr. Brown’s second marriage Mrs. Brown herMw second marriage, his first wife having died in 1923. It was the third marriage for Mrs. Brown, her seccnd husband having died in 1916. They will reside in Pleasant Mills. 0 BOOM SEN,REED FOR PRESIDENCY Friends Os Missouri Senator Back Him As Logical Candidate By Paul R. Mallon, (U. P. Staff Correspondent i Washington, Jan. 20. — (United Press.) —The boom launched in NewYork for Senator James A. Reed Missouri, as democratic presidential candidate in 1928 will be pushed by Missouri friends who are now here to nurture it. His “Americanism” platform, with planks for tolerance in religion and in prohibition were approved in some quarters of the democratic party today, while Reed backers said that his anti-World Court and anti-league of Nations proposals would not impede the movement of the anti-Al Smith group to find a candidate other than the New York governor. Despite reports that Wm. G. McAdoo, the Wilsonian leader is to attempt a rejuvenation of his old conflict with Smith for the party leadership. most democrats hero believe he cannot do it. Many southern democrats who formerly backed McAdoo have indicated that they would be pleased to play Reed against Smith, believeing the Missouri senator has more chance of success. If Reed shou’d obtain the nomination. they point out the religious issue would be eliminated and the interparty fight for the presidency of 1928 would probably be a prohibition battle with Red representing the wets and the republican nominee the drys. o Extension Class To Hold Snecial Meeting The extension class in short story, held every month in connection with the county teachers’ institute, will hold a special meeting at Monroe, next Saturday afternoon. Miss Klippie, of the Muncie Normal College, is the instructor in charge of the class. — - o Moon Baker Names Manager Chicago. Jan. 20. — (United Press) — Ralph “Moon” Raker. all-American half-back who played at Northwestern university has announced that he has selected Harry Ryan of Rockford, an old high school chum, to be his manager in his professional endeavors.

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LOWER LICENSE FEE, HIGHER GAS TAX IS PROPOSED Proponents Os Plan Claim It Will Distribute Taxes More Fairly FIFTEEN BILLS ARE SUBMITTED IN HOUSE Indianapolis, Jan. 20 —(I’nil<■(l Press) — A move at the present session of the state legislature to boost the state gasoline lax to five cents and make a drastic reduction in the cost of auto licenses was under consideration today. Rep. C. Elmer Garrard. Republican. of Montezuma, let it lie known that he was conferring with state automobile association officials and members of both houses of the legislature regarding the advisabjlity of introducing such a measure. The proposed plan has as its objective a more equitable distribution of the tiaxes and license fees .paid by automobile users. Garrard said. Would Increase Revenue Although reducting the sum obtained from licenses, the plan would result in an increase of approximately $1,500,000 in revenues to the state from these sources, according to Garrard. Merits of the proposal were to be discussed this afternoon w-hen the representative was to confer again with officials of the Hoosier State Automobile Association and their attorneys. Among fifteen bills introduced in an hour’s session of the house today was one sponsored by Mrs. Ella V. Gardner, Rep., Marion county, which would provide equal rights for women in party organization and greater participation of women in party politics. Sponsored by women of all factions of both parties. Mrs. Gardner’s “Fifty-Fifty” bill contains provisions ions: sought by women voters. Under its terms the person of opposite sex receiving the second highest vote for precinct commit’eeman becomes vice-precinct committeeman. At present the vice-precinct chairman is appointed by the precinct The bill further provides for the election of ward chairmen by the committeemen instead of by apportionment as now. The Wright bone dry bill was the obiect of another proposed amendment today when Rep. Charles M. LaFollette, Republican, Evansville, introduced a ill regulating the introduction of evidence in liquor cases and the paying of fees for conviction. Favorab'e report on passage of the Cann bill for abolition of the public service commission was entered in the senate by the committee on public rights and franchises. The bill as originally introduced w-onld have re-established the old railroad commission. An amendment was provided, however, el'minatfing this provision of the measure. o GENEVA BUYS ~ NEW FIRE TRUCK Town Purchases A Chevrolet Pumncr And Chemical Truck The town council at Geneva has voted to purchase a new Chevrolet fire truck. The truck will he delivered sometime next Month, it is said. Recently. a petition w-as circulated among the property owners and business men of the town, asking that the council buy a new fire truck and pumper, and practically all signed It. The new truck will pump about 500 gallons of water per minute. It also has a chemical tank mounted on it and the truck will make a speed of 45 miles per hour. The old truck, which the town has owned for several years is practically unfit for further service.

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