Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 109, Decatur, Adams County, 6 May 1924 — Page 7

Extra DECAT UR DAILY DEMOCRAT Extra

Volume XXII. Number 109.

M’CULLOCH AND JACKSON HOLD LEAD

Erwin, Kelly, Jaberg And Green Nominated In County

DOSE B, ER WIN IS NOMINATED IN JUDGE'S RACE Jaberg Is Nominated For Auditor; Recorder’s Race Is Close HAWKINS WINS RACE Has Big Majority In Race For G. O. P. Nomina tion For Sheriff All contests for nomination in Adams county appeared to be definitely settled at 1:30 o’clock this morning, when thirty-two of the thirty-four precincts had reported. These returns showed that Dore B. Erwin had won the nomination for judge of the Adams circuit court from .1. Fil’d Fruchte, on the democratic ticket, by a majority of from five to six hundred. Mr. Erwin took the lead in the early returns and held a comfortable i margin throughout the night. Recorder’s Race Close The closest twice In the county was the contest for the democratic noitt Illation for recorder, the nomination j - being in douhi until the last few pre i clncts reported. Mrs. Clara Anderson. <f Genera, took the lehd in the early. ; ami piled up an apparently coinfoitablv margin, hut later in the evening Ed Green, of Decatur, began i to overtake her and finally took the lead by a few votes. George M. T. i Houck, the other candidate for the nomination was far in the rear. On the face of unofl..ial returns Green appeared the victor by a few votes. The race for the democratic nomi ] nation for ptoseouting attorney of ( th- Adams circuit court was also close and interesting. However. John T. Kelly, of Decatur, ex-county clerk, maintained a small lead over his opla nent, Adam C. Butcher, also of Decattir, throughout the balloting, and Indications were that be would win the nomination by a margin of ap-, nroilmately 400 votes. The four-cornered fight for the

I d<moctatic nomination for auditor al I so proved interesting. The incumb I mt. .Martin Jaberg. of Decatur, won ■ the nomination with Walter Wilkin I son. of Decatur second. Frank Neus ■ battm and W. L. Thornhill, the other I two candidates polled a good vote. Hawkina Wine Nomination I In the only* contest for nomination I for a county office on the republican I (Continued on Page Th reel COMMUNION TO BE HELD MATH I Class Os Twenty -eight To Make Communion At Catholic Church K Eleven boys and seventeen girls ■ will make their solemn communion nt 9 the St. Mary's Catholic church on 9 Sunday. May 18th. The services will ■l* held during the 9:46 high mass and ■ lt*v j a. gefmets. rector, will offlt! I ***' ■ The class this year la smaller than 9 uaual. Solemn communion services 9 111 the Catholic <h|trch are marked 9 with the greatest of solemnity and In 9 the services held are full of beautiful 9 religious meaning. I The members of the class are, Leo ■ Dowling, Clarence lengrlch. William ■ Osss. Adrian Llchtle. Robert Raker. ■ Oeorge Foos. Anthony Murphy. Arthur ■ Loseha, lx-o Schult*. Ed. Vian, (b raid ■ Osge, Margaret Miller, Kstella Bens, H Mathilda Kruse. Mary Nell Deßolt. ■ Helen Trlcker. Henrietta Spangler, ■ Virginia Gelmor. Amelia Oslchovlk. ■ Rosemary Ornlor. Genevieve l,engrl< h. latestta Winch. Hlldegnrdc l,en«rl< h ■ Virginia Keller. Mary Fisher. Mary M Neptnne. Rosemary Holt house and ■ Helen Voglewede.

Chicago lla4 Few Hours Os Summer Yesterday Chicago, May 6.—For a few hours yesterday it wns summer in Chicago. The temperature reached SI, the warmest May sth since 1909 when the temperature hit 86. Monday's maximum was reached at ■1 o’clock in the afternoon, anti then began a rapid drop which brought the thermometer down to 50 degrees by 2 o’clock this morning. o - - SENATE DESERTS MELLON PLAN — Republican Senators Decide To Seek Best Possible Compromise Washincton. May 8. —Senate republicans voted today to desert the Mellon tax plan and seek the best compromise. Smarting under the emphatic defeat ot the Mellon plan in the senate a caucus of republicans Ett<mpte ( | to, >eek adoption of a 32 per cent surtax* maximum and If that is defeated to go' as hlth as 37 1-2 percent. The ac tion of the caucus was a com-i plete abandonment of the Mellon rate I schedule and definitely killed the pro-1 I posals of the Secretary as far as this I session of congress la concerned. Nitro Glycerine Plant In Pennsylvania Explodes il’nltpcl HiafT Correspondent > Franklin. Penna.. .May (Special to Daily Democrat)—With a roar that rocned the country side for a distance' of forty miles a nitro glycerine plane I at Brandon's Ferry. 18 miles south of I here blew up today. George Davis, 55. lessee of magazine is missing Davis is the only man known to have been in the vicinity of the plant at the time of the explosion. The magazine was In an Isolated 'district. The nearest building, a Pennsylvania railroad freight station across the Allegheny river from the I magazine collapsed from the reperI cession of the glass.

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CELINA YOUTHS ARE INDICTED RY GRAND JURY — Four Men Charged With Murder Os Ed. Moyer, In Aug., 1922 HELI) WITHOUT BONI) Arraignment Set For Wednesday; Also Indicted For Burglary Celina, Ohio, May (5 (Special to Daily Democrat) —First <le!gree murder in the commit!-1 ■ menl of burglary is charged in a joint indictment returned | against George, Jim and Dick Fetters and Jesse Smelser. four: Celina youths, by the Mercer county grand jury at I o’clock Monday afternoon. The youths are charged with murdering Ed Moyer, farmer, of near Rockford. Ohio, on the night of August 22. 1922. Each of the youths were indicted separately for burglary I and larceny of the premises of one Jacob Eichler, on the night of March 27. 1923. about six months after the murder was -ommilted. The four youths are held in the Mercer county Jail In this city, with out bond. They will be arraigned in common pleas court Itefore Judge H. A. Miller, on Wednesday. If they enter a plea of guilty they will be i sentenced immed4ately. If they I plead not guilty their case will come j up for trial within the next two or' three weeks, it is saidGeorge Fe'.ters, the one who has; confessed to firing the fatal shot, is 21 years old. Dick is 23. Jim is 22 and Jesse Smelser is 29 years old. The grand Jury convened yesterday morning. It required the Jury only: ten minutes to return the Indictments as er the evidence had been | 'daeed before them. The four young men made a con- j (Continued on page three> I

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 6, 1921.

— Several Candidates In Adams County Had No Opposition The following candidates were nominated in Tuesday's primary in i this county without opiiositinn' DEMOCRATIC TICKET Representative ig Congress John A- M. Adair, Portland. State Representative, Adams and Wells Counties Thurman Gottschalk, Berne. County Treasurer Louies Kleine •* County Sheriff John Baker County Coroner Dr. L. L. Mattox County Surveyor Dick Roch Commissioner, 2nd Dist. B. F. Brelner Commissioner, 3rd Dist. George Shoemaker REPUBLICAN TICKET Judge Adams Circuit Court Jessse C. Sntton Prosecuting Attorney Ford L. Litterer State Representative R. O. Elston County Auditor Don Teeple County Treasurer H. V. Aurand County Recorder Fred M. El sey County Coroner S. E Black County Surveyor Thomas T. Rawley Commissioner, 2nd Dist. Sim Burk Commissioner, 3rd Oist. William Farlow. California Voters Cast Ballots In Primary Today <l'nlt»-l Pr«-aa Stuff Corrmneniient* San Francisco. .May t> —(Special to Daily Democrat)— California voters i cast ballots today which may go far l towards determining the political I future of Senator Hiram W. Johnson. Opposed by President Coolidge for :control of the California delegation I to the republican national convention ' Johnson is making what is regarded |as a "last stand" tor firmly pledged

'JUNE24TO3O ARE DATES FOR ' CHAUTAUQUA Community Chautauqua Program Received By Local Guarantors FINE LIST OF TALENT Program Includes Mixture Os Drama. Music, Lectures And Features The big Community Chautauqua I will be held in this city, beginning June 24th and continuing each afternoon and evening until Monday evening. June 30th. The chautauqua program will open !on Tuesday evening- There will not he a program in the afternoon on the : opening day. The talent on the program is the best obtainable. It is a 'm'xture of drama, music, lectures 'and features, and all tastes will, no doubt, be satisfied. Local guarantees who signed an agreement guaranteeing the sale of $1,500 worth of tickets, or 500 adult tickets at $3.00 each, received this morning a letter and list of the talent on the premier circu't. advising the local people of the definite date of the Chautauqua and requesting that a local Chautauqua organization be organized to co-operate and function with the state headquarters office at Indianapolis. Mr. George C. Aydelott. manager of the circu't. stated that he hoped to visit this city soon and to confer with the local organization. A meeting I will more than likely be called in the near future and un organization form-, ed. The state office has requested I that the organization be composed of the following officers, president, one or two vice-presidents, secretary anti tieusurer, and the following commit-! tees: Ticket, advertising, grounds und Junior committee Mrs. Daniel Tyndall hus accepted the chairman ship of the Junior committee and will be assisted by Mrs. C. E. Bell and (Continued on Puge Three)

Cathqlic High School Play This Evening The Catholic f.igh school play. "The Merchant of Vencle I’p-To- I t Date,’’ will he staged in the public high sthool auditorium this evening The curtain Is scheduled to rl*<- at 8 o'clock. The play Is said to be an enI tertaining. humaaou* parody of the famous Shakespearean play. , BERNE SEEKING A CONVENTION Missionary Church Invites Indiana State Missionary Convention Berne, Ma. 6.—The Indiana State Missionary Convention will very like I ly be he!,] In Berne this year, it has been announced by members of the ■ local Missionary church. A business meeting was held by the members of the Berne congregation recently at which time it was decided to extend a formal invitation to the state executive committee, and offer to hold the annual state convention at Berne ; The convention will convene during an entire week In August. A number of vears ago the atsate convent on together with the church conference held here and proved to be a big event. This year the church confer | en-.e will be held in Ohio in connection with their state convention, very likely at Pundora. Ohio, soon after the state convention closes here, und many people front other states who will be on their way to Pandora are, expected to stop here and attend the , state convention. Five Missionary churches belonging to the conference are located in In- . diana. who will be represented in the convention at Berne. It is said that several hundred people from the sis ter churches are expected to be here during the conference week 1 Now It is the origin of the World I j War that is to be Investigated What does congress mean by diverting its I talents from the origin of species? * Cleveland Tinies.

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APPEAR TO BE i VOTERS’CHOICE ! FOR GOVERNOR I 1 —_ Crittenberger Second In The Democratic Race For Nomination COOLIDGE IN LEAD I President Swamps Johnson In Race For Nomination For President Htaff Correspondent) ■ IntlitinniMilis. May fi (Special Io Daily Democrat) Complete returns may lie necessary ,Io determine whether Fat Jackson. candidate for the republican nomination for goverI nor. lias a clear majority of all votes cast for governor. tni less he has such a majority the ' republican nomination will lie thrown into convention. i It apnears to be a foregone conclusion that there will be no nomination of a candidate for the democratic nomination for governor. Indiana delegates Io the rvni'l'liean national convention I will Im- instructed for President 1 (’.onlitlge. His Iqid over Hiram Johnson will grow as returns 'come in. With 559 precinct* heard from , Coolidge wan credited with 34.570 .votes and Johnson with 4.719. The same precincts gave Jackson 27.121. Shank 11.160. Toner 8.712 and Bush 1.735. In the democratic race 337 pre< I net a gave McCulloch 7,522. Cravens 3.884. Crittenberger 4JM4. Durgan 3.789. I Bluffton. May B—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Final— McCulloch. 939: Cravens. 599; Crittenberger. 1.534: Batt. 79: Durgan. 115: Risk. 99: Priest. 104; Holt. 120 ,1 Indianapolis. May 8—(11 p. nt.) — • The question of whether Ed Jackson. | candidate for the republican nomlna ( tion for governor, has the necessary clear majority to give him the noml* ' nation without going to convention became the feature of the returns of the Indiana primary late tonig’u. Jackson with 292 precincts in appeared to have very close to the necessary majority if the present ratio between hint and other candidates continues. In the democratic race while Dr 1 Carleton B Mi Cull's h was leading it I appeared improbable that he could muster a majority. President tjnolidge continued to leave Hiram Johnson far behind in I tilled ll»r**e> NOME STORE AT MONROE IS SOLD E A. Orr, Os Fort Wayne, Buys Well Known Business House E A Orr for twenty years proprle tor of a grocery store in Fort Wayne, has putt heard th<- liontr Store, at Monroe Mr. Orr took |>osseaalo4t of the place of bnwlnesa last Saturday. The store was pttr< hased from A. ' Strnhm who about a w**k ago purchased it from J. II Painter, of lllttffion. I Jim llendrlt-ka purchased the store two yeara or more ago when it was aoM at receiver's sale, and several months agt* sold it tn Mr. Painter jThe attire la one of the well known places of btiainrsa itt the county and tho new propr'rtnr la planning to h<«ld a big sale Hr wilt reside In Monroe and manage the store. ■N.i— i i • KIN 1,1 I , Weather Increasing cloudiness probably followed by shewrra «"d 'header storms Isle tonight or Wednesday; much / cooler. «