Cox Says We're In The Fight To Win
Democratic presidential nominee launches a long campaign swing with Gov. Cox declaring the fight to victory. He emphasizes mobilizing support as he travels to key states and rallies supporters.
03 Sep 1920
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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1920
Page
1
Democratic presidential nominee launches a long campaign swing with Gov. Cox declaring the fight to victory. He emphasizes mobilizing support as he travels to key states and rallies supporters.
Governor Cox opened a western swing with a before breakfast rear platform speech at a Toledo railroad station as he began a campaign through Michigan en route to Lansing. He promoted the League of Nations and declared the fight to win. He planned rear platform talks in Jackson and a half hour speech in Lansing.
In urging the League of Nations at Toledo Governor Cox asserted the United States must fix the dispute over German indemnities. He attacked replacing the League with the old Hague tribunal, calling it a failed, defunct institution with bats in its belfry and spider webs.
OL Stewart, superintendent, released a statement of financial condition for the water and light department. The light department balance is 7223.50 and water is 6779.56, totaling 14002.06. After depreciation of 5000, the remaining balance is 11003.06.
Morton Stults of Fort Wayne, president of the Northern Indiana Editorial association, presided at the Golden Jubilee meeting opening in Angola and continuing tomorrow. Boys, publisher of the Plymouth Republican, spoke on The Mechanical Cost of Producing a Newspaper. A banquet is at Crooked Lake tonight with trips to Lake James and Clear Lake planned for tomorrow.
Goshen contractor J. W. Seaman will soon start paving the Union 81 road from Mishawaka to the foothills. The project covers the route as far as the foothills.
Louis Bergman aged 30 died instantly when he steered the automobile onto a Pennsylvania track at a Kokomo crossing as a train bore down. The car’s two companions escaped unharmed while the other occupant remained in the machine. The accident occurred early this morning while they were returning from Elwood.
A disabled submarine is being towed in dive operations en route to the Delaware coast. Rescue teams monitor the vessel as authorities coordinate a safe transit and assess salvage options.
Hershenow of South Berne resigns as advertising manager of the South Bend Tribune and, with his sister Miss Freda Plershenow a Chicago Art Institute graduate, will enter general advertising and art service work in South Bend.
The preliminary institute in Concord Cleveland Binge Osolo and Washington townships was held in the Qddo Fellows tearade at Elkhart with County Superintendent ASEL Weaver presiding. Officers for the year were chosen.
Sept. 3 Louis Deerwester aged about 20, held as a suspect in the death of Welper whose charred body was found in his burning home near Mongo Indiana, hanged himself in the county jail before midnight. Officials said there was no warrant for prosecution and he and his son were detained briefly earlier. Coroner yet to rule on Welper case. Deerwester may have acted from worry rather than guilt. The family recently moved from Kentucky. reports of trouble with Welper denied. Tracks were found from the Welper home to the Deerwester home a short distance away. Mrs. Welper helped in the housework.
Chicago packers and farm federations push for higher output of butcher stock to meet rising meat demand. Leaders from the packing industry and agricultural groups coordinate strategy and lobby for favorable policies.
A wireless report from Philadelphia states the submarine S-5 can be salvaged after being flooded during a dive off Henlopen. The vessel, in a near vertical position, is being towed toward the Delaware breakwater by the steamer Alanthus with 26 crew and 4 officers aboard.
Senator Harding worked on his Labor Day remarks at Aparton headquarters while meeting callers on campaign topics. A planned fundraising preview was canceled. He urged cooperative farmer associations to distribute farm products as a path to lower food prices.
Chicago representatives from packers railroads farm federations and live stock groups issued letters to stock raisers railroad officials and bankers across the midwest and far west inviting them to a September 10 conference to discuss financing plans to boost livestock production. The note notes 1920 hay corn and feed crops were exceptionally large but farmers struggle to obtain funds to buy livestock.
Indiana state board of pardons set to hear fourteen new cases and five reopened ones at its September meeting from the 20th to the 24th. Only one inmate seeks reconsideration of a murder conviction Pellegrino Turch of Clinton County sentenced to life in 1919.
In Vincennes on September 3 a mass meeting of 200 county coal miners at the courthouse charged mine operators with using propaganda to poison public opinion against coal miners and with conspiring with railroads to create a real shortage. In Hazelton Pennsylvania only five anthracite mines began operations as workers took vacations to protest the wage award by the anthracite commission.
Kendallville raises its tax levy by 15 cents per 100 value to 66 cents while Ligonner fixes a levy at 52 cents per 100, an increase of nine cents as part of statewide levy adjustments.
The W L Stones Building at the corner of Main and Clinton has been improved by removing the unsightly covering over its basement stairway. Forsythe, who once ran a restaurant there, erected the covering over ten years ago. He arrived in town in relation to the Roller Bearing addition project.
Miss Ruth Gronpenberg 15 of Anderson and her mother Lulu Bronnenberg visited Mrs. Roy Stewart in Kalamazoo. A sentry shot at Camp Custer when Stewart failed to halt his car. the bullet hit Ruth near the shoulder blade. The sentry was arrested and held pending investigation.
Subpoenas for a dozen or more witnesses were issued by the senate committee probing campaign expenditures. The panel recessed until next Tuesday. Many expected to be cited were named by Bri. H. Moore of Youngstown Ohio, Cox pre convention manager.
The South Bend soda fountain owner reports sugar prices hardly affect pricing decisions for beverages. He notes the public sees sugar costs as a major driver of higher charges, while there is little impact on lowering prices.
On August 10 the Royal Horticultural Society of London awarded first class certificates of merit to Al Fr Kimderd of Goshen for the SK. J. Shivier and Mary Pickford gladioli. Bulbs were sent by Mr Rumberd from Gugland, with carefully cultivated spikes submitted to judges. The Kk. J. Shaylor was named after a peony brewer and Mary Pickford in honor of the movie star. Mrs Kimderd was officially notified yesterday.
Terence Mac Swiney, Cork lord mayor, on a finger hunger strike in Brixton prison since August 7, was rapidly nearing unconsciousness by noon today. He was too weak to converse in the morning. George Cavan Duffy, envoy of the Irish Republic to France, was given 24 hours to leave France by the French government.
In Clogago a freight train seized by what police believe were striking switchmen was found near Bensonville with throttle wide open and 21 cars untouched. Earlier battles between freight crews and bands of strikers preceded the theft in the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul yards at Cicero.
Police report ongoing burglaries at Goshen residences including the Dow home where about $25 and a leather pocketbook were stolen. No trace or leads have been found in other reported incidents.
The Elkhart Kiwanis club will resume its meetings at the Hotel Bucklen beginning next Tuesday. No meetings were held during the summer months.
W F Stiver trustee of Clinton township filed with the state board of tax commissioners for permission to issue bonds not exceeding 3400 for repairing Clinton township school buildings. Hearing will be held at the state house on September 20. Previously the board refused a 90000 bond for a new building in the community.
The South Bend Motor Bus company will begin operations in the city, signaling a new public transit option. Details on routes and schedules are forthcoming as the company prepares to launch service.
In Mexico City provisional president De la Huerta rejects demands from the national republican party leaders that he stay in office and disregard the forthcoming election set for September 5.
The Daily Democrat will not publish on Monday for Labor Day. No issue will be released that day.
Fair weather continues with moderate temperatures for tonight and Saturday. No precipitation expected as winds remain light and skies stay mostly clear across the area. Highs reach comfortable levels while overnight lows dip to mild ranges.
Lena and Mary Usnawanaiwich, described as gypsies, are jailed in Whitley County at Columbia City on a charge of robbing Martin Decker, a local farmer west of Columbia City, of $12. They could not post a 2060 bond. Mary has a six week old baby. Three auto loads of nomads were rounded up to arrest the alleged thieves.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic candidate for vice president, told a Waterville audience that travelers across the country meet many people from other parties who grasp the real issues of the campaign. He urged keeping the big issues up front as he and Governor Cox present their views. His automobile tour included Fairfield, Madison and Showhegan with Augusta as the night objective.
Joseph Scott of Los Angeles, longtime California manager for Hiram Johnson in the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, will address audiences in South Bend on September 17 and in Fort Wayne on September 18.
Rev. Adam Bucheit 59 served 33 years as a Catholic priest with missions at Millersburg and Ligonier while leading St. John’s Church in Goshen. He died in Wanatah after a long pastorate in Goshen.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels will spend the coming week in Indiana visiting Indianapolis Connersville and Vincennes announced at Democratic headquarters.
Garrett, a growing town, plans to attract 800 new families from the Baltimore and Ohio railroad expansion. Efforts are underway to erect 50 new houses before winter to accommodate newcomers.
Henry Walton Grinnell aged 84 veteran of the civil and Spanish wars died at St. Augustine Florida. He rose to admiral in the Imperial Japanese navy and was born in Boston. He served in both American wars and later held high rank in Japan.
Lithuanian foreign minister issues note accusing Poland of deception and military occupation plans. Lithuania vows to defend itself with all means and demands Polish withdrawal to avoid bloodshed. Berlin dispatch cites alleged instructions from the Polish government and pending boundary talks.
London reports that fighting occurred between Polish and Lithuanian troops near Augusta, but a telegram from London says the Times denies the clash. It also notes Lithuanian forces in the area are withdrawing without engagement.
Warsaw dispatch reports Polish troops entered Suwalki 19 miles north of Augustow and received an enthusiastic welcome, according to an official statement released today.
London dispatch reports Russian Bolshevik forces have occupied several villages 14 to 27 miles north of Brest-Litovsk. Soviet troops advanced to the town of Brest-Litovsk further south, according to an official Moscow statement received by wireless.
Moscow advices report M. Danishevsky resigned as head of the Russian Bolsheviki delegation to negotiate an armistice with Poland and a peace treaty. Adolph Abramowicz, former Soviet ambassador to Germany and chairman of the Brest-Litovsk peace delegation, succeeds him.
Paris reports the German foreign office confirmed at 2 PM the acceptance of France's terms for reparation over the Breslau incidents including the attack on the French consulate. Berlin had been expected to approve the demands.
Lightweight boxer Johnny Griffiths from Akron travels to Benton Harbor to witness the Dempsey Miske Labor Day fight. He is en route from his home on a noted boxing visit.
Mrs P B Kellog living near Jedk hart killed a large rattlesnake in her Iron yard yesterday. The strike rang alarm as neighbors noted the danger and she acted quickly to remove the threat.
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