Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1924 — Page 1

Volume XXII. Number l»9r/

CONVENTION GOES OVER TO MONDAY

Corner Stone of School Will Be Laid Sunday S' I 2 IT —

PROGRAM WILL BE HELD AT I THREE O'CLOCK Ceremonies Will Mark Construction Os St. Joseph Catholic School EXPECT MANY VISITOR Rev. Ernest Ott, Lafayette. WilllDeliever Address At The Exercises A pfctiir- of th- new school, to gather w th :i history ol th-- ion gregath anil other items of int. i mt Will be found on pages ;■ ami in this issue of the Dti'lv Demo cmt. A copy "f the Daily Demo : ent Will be placed in a mctn! box end *l«< ' in the corner stom- at the cev-u iony tomorrow. Several hundred people are -xp-.-ed to attend the corner -tom lay t y ceremotiv of the new St Joseph Cath olie high gchool to be held in th s city. Sumi a afternoon. July 6th. b. rfuuing at three o'clock. Tie .-r---moay will be held at the school site, corner of Fourth ami Monroe streets weather oormitions permitting Msgr J. H. ■bch' ring. vicar gene-..1 . ”tCe Fort Wavne dkicesex. w II t-pr-gent the Rt R«v. B shop Herman J Alderlng Os Fort Wayne at the .. t ■oni-s An will bless the corn-r by Rev. Ott ■ Rev. Ott. O M F n Ft mc!*can -*l isionary fathe r of I.af.i' Mte wlllld-liv -r the addr< in I niua’cai ■rogram w'll be given ccuinei tion with the ceremon es Rev J. A. Srtoirtr. rc I tor ..Illi It' ' Peter*. *4)*' >tant pastor of the S Marr's O' ic churc h v ill at - par iklcatfftr the services. ere Expected A ano. of priests from Fort Wayne am other neurby cities will atteno-|b' servcea, including. R-v ■I, Conroy, rector of the of the Immaculate Cor. ev. John E. DJIon. dioceillor: Rev. Charles H lor and Rev. Arnold J. Wib at F JoeepA Kroll, pa-tor of St Paul ; Bee. HaArj A Hoeratman p.< tot S' ■ tor St Huntington Delphos and other place, j Hhil probability attend thpg the program a lawn so b- given «n the school »t -rner of Fourth and, ktrec-ts and beginning ut k he women of the St, I Mary's Rpdalltv of the Catholic < hut. n a style Th*- public Is cordmlly m'tt-i KCo-nrr Stone Plscrd ♦he jhptt r stone, hoar ng the in script 100 st Joseph Cathcllc S< hoo' Kr»--Usl h<> God and Country has bora p|Rr- nt the northwest corm > Os U»« lAII- U K Several ihou-.in I bricks Its already been laid an-', some of he steel work has b.-n C, tftl'’ st-n cml -cmp. il' "t ,L city hURU the general contract f-" the < ; tlon of the bu Idlng ami <.. , ,> ~, bit Idlng l» ■NitaMpm of achcad ends Hi Junoeetipa|B> by July 1. I<!6 However, the new building will not be u»rd tin HI Sc ptekb- r 1»25 „ The whl't-g Is constructed of • 1 <ht bypwnl-h face btbk luinl-li-" by the Western Brick company of Danvitlcf 111 noln. and tr mmed with Bedford ■lone Including the ln»id<* brtgfc thr pat tit Ion« and the ln».l---walk. Kpn tlmateiy 45 cars of brickand bet*- to and 3G cars of steel. Slone Mb! other material will h- rnn named In the construct’on of th--on par- two) i

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

I Vote By Ballot Seventy-seventh Ballot Sm >th. 367; McAdoo. 513: J. W. Davis. 76; Underwood. 47; Glass. 27; Robinson, 24; Owen, 4; Ritchie. 16; Saulsbury. C; Baker. 1; Walsh, 2: Cox. 1; Ralston, 6; Bryan. 4; RooseI Veit, 1. Seventy-sixth Ballot Smith. 368; McAdoo. 513: Davie. 75; Underwood. 47; Glass, 28; RobinIson, 25; Owen, 4; Ritchie. 16; Sauls 'bury, C; Baker, 1; Walsh. 2; Cox. 1; I I Bryan. 4; Ralston. 4. (Continued on Page six) D.V.B.S. CLOSED WEDNESDAYP.M. I — 1 Evangelical' Bible School Closed Its Four-Week Training Course The Daily Vacation Bible School I held at the Evangelical church during the past four week* came to a I stb-ccssful close rhursdt y evenins. v. tn a spb-nd d program w. s rend -:cd to an appro- dative audience I The general daily ptogram w-.-s carI r>-d out. and ea -t of th.i font- depart- ! t.- "ta also ga examples of tlw-T U hie end Meeicev work. T*-v c—fl jwork was also exhibited. Many exptosiona of appreciation of th? work cf the D. V. B S were given ny the ( 1.-r-nts. and it .< exported that anolhI c-r school w'B be held n -M yetr. I The average daily attendance thi-: la< t v eek was 103. vnd 9‘J pupils were on ths honor .<•!*. US boy* and girls were enrolled in the school; and the average da ly attendant e for thr four weeks was 103. | Fifty-tiro w- rc- on the f nal honor roll. I not having mii»‘-d a single session of the tchool: They are as follows: j Kindergarten Department I_iwrence Anspaugh. Ixiwell Noble. Pr.lpJl Carrol Peterson. Arthur PolInc. Agnes Foreman, Ruth Porter. Zola Porter. Primary Department Charles Baumgartner. Russell But1 b-r. Eugene Knodle. Roger Rtom-btirn-(Continued on Page six) FORMER LOCAL | RESIDENTS DIE Mrs. Isaac Brown Died Wednesday :C. W. Hocker Died Friday Mrs. Isaac Brown, formerly of this city, died at the home of her son *n ■ , l.os Angeles. California, last W»d-| n- «day of heart trouble, accord tig to a telegram received In thia city yeaterday. -Mrs. Brown was 74 years of 'age, nml until about eight moniha ago when shs with her husband went to Ixia Ange les In <he hopes of better tig her falling health, had been a life long resident of th s county except ng for abmrt twelve years spent on a farm in Kansas. Th-- hualaind and tun nona. Frank, of la>* Angeles. Y'all for nA, at whose home -he was living at the Hm« of death, and Cart, of Kooper. Okla . ’ perv ve Two ch Idren are dncrax-sl, Mr. S K Brown, of thia city, la a stepson. Th- fun-ral party will leave lets I AtiKvl-a tomorrow noon and It la > thoicght that they will pi oba bit arrive here »ome time Wednesday Fun« ral services will be held here. 1 I and liitrol *•>! take place In lh* 1 De-aior cometary. w 1 Word wa» received here last night ■ by K B Macy, that C W’. Hocker, for a long titue a resident of thia county, i 1 died at h’s home ;n Elkhart last j cc ontiaued Oa Fagg Mar)

LA FOLLETTE!S ACCEPTABLE TO PROGRESSIVES Committee Reports Take Up Most Os The Early Session I SLIGHT DISCORD NOW I . I Klan Ouestion Is Mentioned By Western Delegate; No .Action Taken Municipal Auditorium, Cleveland. 0.. July 5. —The Progressive convention which is launching Robert M. I-a Follette’s presidential campaign today ousted the lone communist representative and went on record In opposition to radical froces opposed by their leaders. William D. Mahoney, •ive of the St .Paul third party con--1 vention which was dominated bycommunists, was refused a seat in the convention when a report of the I commute on credentials was adopted ‘’without obiection.” The report stated that Mahoney's purposes could not coincide- with the purpose of this convention and there- , fore he had no place here. • After the report was accepted ' several delegates tried to get the ( floor io protest arainst th- decision hut they failed when the convention voted with a storm of "ayes” against jn few scattering “noes” to refuse them the privilege of the floor. Meantime reports came from the ro-olu’lnn committee that the plan of submitting a platform to the convention might lie abandoned. Some leaders sav the platform upon which I-a Follette has run for years lx well -known and needs no r-xtstfng. Prejßen’ntion of the platform might only I fold to attmenta to get over irrelev- | nnt planks which might hinder li F-itlette's r--ndid»cv. Senator f.vnn J Fru-for of North Dnknta. In s urged the convention to forget pettv differegcea and rallv behind I.« Follette Frasier declared there were only a few farmers here Itecana- “the” are nil broke." The nomination committee was i presented with a proposition whereby no nomination would be rnude of a vice presidential mate for l.u Folllette at this time Under this plun I favored bi- some leaders a committee | would Im- appointed to confer with lai ; Fnllette after the democratic convention Is conclndad and have him say | who h<* running mate will be AGED MAN DIES AT SON'S HOME Randall Snraguc. Early Decatur Citizen, Died Today zM Monroeville Randall B Hprague. of Monroe vllle, formerly of thia city died th s ! morning nt 4:St o'clock at the home of h's son. Charles Hnrsgue. at Mon tnov'lle He wan M years of age. Death was due tto Infirmities and ownpl cations. Funeral services will he h- 'd Monday afternoon at Monroe ilife and hural will be held at the I M<e«r»eville M-th««ll»t cemetery. , Ri.ndall Beacation Hprague was beta In Ohio n IB2M and at the age of 11. he raw* with his parents to Itoiluna. At the age of 2G he was toavettod and baptlied In the Methrniist i butch of this city. In D 5« he was tinted In marrare !tn Maty Frauds Flaher. and to this un‘on were born twelve sons, four of whom preceded the father in death. ' Eight sons. John. Isaac. Itewia, Elmer, Harvey. Willis. Jesse and Charles (Continued Un Page Four) • •

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 5, 1924,

Slight Accident Damages Van Wert Car Thursday A slight accident occurred on th<- I corner of Second and Mndi-on , streets Thursday night about six I o’clot k. A car driven and owned I by Frank Royce, of Van Wert. 0.. | was hurled Into a car parked in front ; of Teeple and Peterson's Clothing i Store. Royce In an effort to miss two I young ladies that were crossing the | street swung his car close to the ( enrh. and in so doing hit the parked 1 car. The wheel of his car was torn 1 'off, but no on was injured. ANNUAL OLYMPIC GAMES TO START AT PARIS TODAY Fortv-five Nations Will Pit Their Strength For Athletic Honors AMERICANS ARRIVE — This Year’s Meet Predicted To Out-Shade AM Previous Olympic Meets (United Press Service) Paris. . July s—With impressive | ceremonies and a single ximplsentence hr Paul Doumergne. the ! new president, of France, the eighth Olympaid of modern times was In- ‘ migrated here this afternoon. It was the greatest gathering of athletes in the history of ihe famous international games and a huge gathering of the might of youth com- | pared to the classic started in ancient ' Greece. 2700 years ago. Nearly 4.000 athlete*. n!cked from | the strongest and fleetest of the thousands who participated In the . national elimination contests , throughoout the world were on hand to firtii for supremacy. Forty-five nations, representing practically all of the civilised world (ConCnued On Page Four) NEW FIRE TRUCK ARRIVES IN CITY Will Be Unloaded As Soon As Agents From Factory Arrive Decatur'* new tr'ple comb nat on pump>-r. chemical and fire track has arrived In the city und will tie un loaded ns soon a* a factory representative arrive* In th- city to supervise I the work of placing It together. The pumper, commonly called a truck. Is an Am-r'can I.a Franc--tr pl*, comh nation fire fighting up. paratu* and wax shipped here from 1 the factory at Elmira. N. V. Thtrack has a capacity of 70 hor*-- pow ■ gallons of water p-r minute and fore ing It out of the nosxle at a pre* xure of more th in 140 i>oiindr> The truck has a caplcly of 70 horse |w>w nr. It la pu.nted red and comes fully (-quipped , including Urea, *'.ren>, ladder*, etc. The truck will probably not be un loaded uni I the first of next week and then It will be leatml out before It in accepted by the city It wax I purchased by the council aevernll month* ago The old Decatur truck wh'ch haa bqgti In use for more than ton years wII be kept for emergency cine*. Weather Fair tonight and Friday; *nmewhnt warmer Friday, Generally fair tonight «nd Sunday, xomewhat warmer Sunday.

RACES ATTRACT LARGE CROWD AT BELLMONT PARK! More Than 1,500 See Good Horse Races Here Yesterday THREE BIG EVENTS Two Trotting Events And One Pace Hold The Crowd’s Interest More than 1,500 race fans from all parts of the country gathered herej I yesterday to witness the f rst half mile horse races of the season, held jin connection with the Moose festival.! I The races were all close and interest- | | ing Because of the earlinesx of the! j season. Colonel Jack Wein ngs. start-1 er. h.-d some difficulty In gett ng the, trotters off in the f rst heat of thfirst race, but after that they got oft in good shapo. I In the first event, the 2:25 trot, ; Adelene M.. a Douglas horse from the Van Wert stables wor three heats and the race. Halyrood Hamlin, drlv-l en and owned by Joy Buckner. Poneto. got second in all three events.' A near fight occurred after the final heat of this rac«. between Buckner and Douglas. Buckner started to pass the Douglas entry on the stretch.; land it is claimed that Douglas hit I the Buckner horse with h * stick. Several other drives gathered quickly nnd the fight wax warded off. j Buckner, who finished second wax given fourth place in the heat for running under the wire. In the second ev-nt the 2;25 pace., ■ Country Dillon, driven by Wolverton. | after finixh ng second in the first heat ; offered a strong .‘omebuck. and won 1 the last two heats and the race. LaTroba Direct, another Dougins entry., finished tecond. Billy K. driven byj Grant got third money The headline race of the dav, th--2:14 trot, was one of the best races ever see# on the local track. Binniar, a Douglas mount, won the tlr-t and th rd heat* and the race. B- t-y Tregantle, a former Decatur horse, now. owned by the Douglas agency won the second heat, got second after a bid break in the first heat and fourth in the third heat, and was awarded second In the race, George E. Axoff driven by McCord got third uurney. The track was In fn« coodition. and many of the drivers stated yesterday thnt they had made arrangeIntent* to stay h-re this month with their horse* and use ihe lo<ul track for a training quarter* unt I thraces start th- last of this month. (Continued on pne- two) ABRAHAM RAVER DIED THURSDAY Adamx County Man Expired In His New Home At Sturgis, Mich. Ahrahsm Raver, aged 52. dl.«l st hl* home In Mturgl*. Mlchigra. Thursday afternoon, according to word re calved by relative* here Drath *»* dur to tulw-rculoslN. Mr. Raver lived in Ihl* county on" 1 about two year* ago. when he tn<*vc-l jto Ktunti* III* wife and *U chtl I drm survive. Funrial service* wd* be held *1 ihe Clark Ch-I-I • hurch | ra«t of thl* city. Hunday aftrreooa »' 3 o'cltxk, and burial will **' rr Mt the Clark Chapel .emetrev «** Thotnu* Wire, of Van Wart will be in chars*. Mr Raver* body will arrive in thl* city tonight. a<cordln« tn ihe word r»| reived. *nd will be taken to Ihe home! of hl* »on. Charle*. east of here. Mr. Raver wax n member of the Decatur tinned Brethren church.

VOTE TO ADJOURN AFTER THE 77TH BALLOT TODAY

Ft. Wayne Chiefs Win From Chicago Normals The Fort Wayne Chiefs had little ; trouble in winning from the Chicago j Normal hasebnli team yesterday on the Fort Wayne diamond. The score of the game wax 9-2. Henning and! Rrennegan formed the winning bat- | tery, and Overlock and Koehler were I the losing battery. YOUNG MAN HAS A GOOD RECORD C. H. Colter Returns From Visit With Francis Stephenson Charles JI. Colter, of thl-- <:ty, re--1 turned recently from Washihcton.l ; where he was the guest for a dav of Francis M. Stephenson. White House' I correspondent for the Associated I Pr--ss. and former Decatur young man. Mr. Colter had the priviledge of 1 meeting President Coolidge and visiting the white house through the rour < texy of Mr. Stenhen«on. He met Wai-1 te- Krick, nf this city. Inst before entfrine the White Hon»e ami bo’h were I I escorted through together Stenhenson. who grsduxted from . r>A-nt--r high school hl* been s< WtuMuwlnn fnv* th® <<**»••• h*»w I •••»•*• I ">v»vra»evU <?♦’/• wn**>- j TT a rnuUrllue *»*■»«*. t-sswdnwk ..win n •>**«•« awvl t»*4ks* nwulAfeJ »” «**A A *.«**«!»»• gid Ws»« *«f eqnw nf 4 *" vq-e-cy I ' I*t»*v«s* Vvol > ft !»***»♦ te* tVeveX j , V r **y»rt 4hn *>A«4 Vni|Rß : . In rhr I <?♦ ftnbeu*nn <*• ft ronm’tflP nf thn i ; nf IV*nib|•*<♦<»•» nr»l bp | | tnnk Mr thrr** for tUnnpr Mr • I Crift♦<•»••»<*! An Fn»»r> MOOSE FESTIVAL WELL ATTENDED Large Crowd F.njoys Big Race Meet And Festival Here Yesterday — i About 2.sts> pimple iitt<*nd<-d th- op ! jenlng day of the b-g two day M<*»*c i festival st Bellmont Path y<--t« r-fs> I afternoon. The weath-r was fln-J >'and the crowd begun to g»th-r about ■ jiu o'clock in the morning Th- <bief.i I address nf the dav that was schsdul <-d to b< given n the morn ns. 1 j postponed until <NM o'clock, and th--|« .'lt-I «>...< I.’ Alden. «< Aun-ra Hl' ' ' I n«>.s. delivered 'll* inlereslins talk to * about l.<tot» people Just before th- » I V ; Hit*## ■•gl’h’d. I luring the afternoon. K «lph W I ; n llama plea—d the crowd with h'a ( li ~|,.vrr hntrel art. o* lh- platform u 'a«ruM the track fn-m the main f irandßiaml In •s-m.-diilns h's enter d 'talnni-nt. William*, who I* a widely] i known physical rultutiat. Jumped In . r land out of a oimtuou sugar barret it that (otitan-d two other m-n. w th-J ■>uf tnui hinK thq r ilothing Th- Australian inuip was another'' ■4 the fire arts. Thl* wns an ehh'»|! i idtioti <>r whip-crachin* and rope whirling The <«lel>riied Indlun troup that ha* been rowing here for several years. ent»rtiln«-d the crowd with son** and mu* e. Ail of flu- (react* w»re enjnved h» the J.otwi pr-opl-in attendance sum* people w'll npv-ar thl* afternoon and tonight. (Continued On Pag* Four)

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RIVALS UNABLE TO REACH AN AGREEMENT Vote Down Motions To Move Convention And Drop Lowest Men MUST SELECT SOMEONE Demand Made That M’Adoo And Smith Droii Out: Ralston Gets 4 Votes H’nlte 4 ’ Prc»* J4*rv|r<»l M idistin Sqtrtrc Garden. New York. June 5 (S|»e< i;d Io Dailv iDentocral) Nomination of a ct-niDfoiniM- candidate on Monthly is now the program of the democratic national convention. Aller hours of fruitless balloting todav followetl bv conferences among leaders ,lhe convention at 3:10 |». in. adoot<d a resolution calling tmon the various candidates and their irnresentalives to confer with i'hnirmnn Walsh anil Cordell Ihdl. chairman of Ihe naltoiud i committee, uoon a program of 'Procedure and Ihe Rejection of a man wlm can le- nominaterl. It was significant that the man orewnting this resolution was Toni Taggart, of huliaiui. j '-amna'ifn manager of Senator Samuel ltdsloii. wh:>s-- num-' , was withdrawn from the convention veslerdav in the interest of leirmonx aUßnlston’s remiesi. Balston was the first of .•tie favoritte sons to step out of Ihe wav and there was strong 'Miss>hiliticK of Balston emerging from the confcrcnei-s which Im ill lie held tonight and tomorrow ug the cAimpromise candidate. ’Hie convention had complel--it 77 ludlols without a re*ull i when it ndjoiirned this aflcr- ; noon. Mud iso* Square G.ir-l»-n —July 5— iTli’* is th- critic*! day lor th- democratic national <onvnt»’n Governor Al Sn: th ix rca»!y to *’•* . out of the running, If U fllimn <• McAdoo will w'lh.lraw Blmulun'*’"" I'’ 1 '’ McAdoo I* n«i rrady »« , th.> race, l-n .-i.-nt* of the day may i chance hi- mind. The flr-t three Ml lot* today sere likely to !«' «'< j "’ IHirtunt. Talk of 'draft US ’ «•»»'<* Mmn*t R.l.toa drxpß* wt” l4 ’™*"’ t** 'isrday or «f nonima'ine <•»■« !>■ Yow*, th- m«n *•» ,hl ! r -nar»tlon* report po**lb!e, F lined overnight. John W. Duv » »l*« «P---p-sr* * likely ehoi.e again. Thl* »*" lh*' »huaiiun a* the »ev«ftt—ntli »• *»n got under way today with the .wiling of the 71»t roll of th- .tai.* for a tiomln-e Holding « ihln 22 volea of « majority und • Ulin 204 voles of the nece-wary iwo third* to n.nniate al laet u-IJbnm-nunt. McAdoo personally appeel--• to hi* n'«i friend* SoMtauni Carter Glut* .(ltd J—.-ph Roh n»on dutnig the night tor ass i.iancc on at least five baßota during a desperate drive today. But the »econd and mor- xtelhlns evlilcace of the collapse of Hutiib't ambt on* cam.- early today wh n the New York Morning World, under •h* raptton “Shall tit.’ Democratic I‘arty IM. . ditorl illy Called upon Hm th and McAdoo to withdraw from the rar* a niultsticoiixly The World h*« l>-ii the nm»t out '.poyen of the Mew York pr. » In the i support of Htnltli. All th* oth'-r d* mm ratio newspaper* her*, with om» exception, concede today that Smith la wh pped. one motion ha* been made to mis | (Coutlaued on p**e twoi