Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1924 — Page 8

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Pennville Plays I). H. S. Teams Here This Evening Hunvilb- high school hoys' unit girls’ basketball teams will play the Decatur high school boys and girls In the high school gym this evening. The girls’ game will start at 7:30 and the boys' game at 8:30, A preliminary game will be played at 6:30 by the Central eighth grade team and the Monroe eighth graders. ■ 1 ■ ■ O'" —— Caseys Win First Game From Huntington, 25-18 Fort Wayne. Dec. 19. —In a game that held all the thrills that even a Huntington-K. C. contest could he expected to bring forth, the Caseys drew first blood last night in the opening gime of the series between the two star quintets. The score was 25 to 18. A capacity crowd saw the game between the two old rivals, t o

/ , Field Goals By Mark M. Upp Tonight’s another big night. Paddle Pennville Purple, YellowJackets. The Caseys beat Huntington, 35-18. No causalities hive been reported so far. “I hate to say it just because It sounds so mean and shocking. Pit nature beat you, Santa Claus, .. .... _ i

At filling Fjnnie’s stocking." » After reading the above ditty, which was written by Basket Bawls in the Washington Herald, Fanny Fanette became indignant and said she didn’t even know Mr. Bawls and she wants to know what he knows about the contents of her stocking. Just Courting, at Wabash, says that if his Fightin Five doesn’t show up strong this week-end when it meets Hartford City and Montpelier he will have some cross words to add to Fanny Fanette's collection. Catholic High starts in on a busy schedule tonight when the Green and t.out plays St. Marys higu at Huntglon. On Monday night Hartford township conies here for a game with Coach Comer's men and on next Friday night the locals go to Pennville i return game. On Monday night. December 29, C. C. H. S. of Fort Wayne comes here for a game. A / good chance for four more victories. Score two more Hoosier v.ctories over out-state opponents. Butler beat lowa, 26-22, ano Indiana uowned Kentucky, 20-18. What Northern Indiana basketball needs as much as anything is a corps or ..rst class reierees who wouid compare favorably with the officials who Handle the games in the central and southern part of the state. We have yet to see one real good one in this neck of the woods. o CONVICTED OF MURDERING 24 Fritz Haarmann Sentenced To Be Beheaded; Accomplice Sentenced Hanover, Germany, Dec. 19. —Fritz H larmann, murderer of twenty-four youths, and Hans Grans, his accomplice, who procured many of the victims. were sentenced to death by beheading today. The sentence will be carried out almost immediately. A jury today found Haarmann guilty of 24 cases of murder whereupon it ‘‘sentenced him to death 24 times” as well as to "life-long deprivation of his civil rights.” In three cases out of the 27 murders of which he was accused, Haarmann v is found not guilty. Grans, who was alternately br-”> ’ ed by the murderer as an accomplice n '• > Tea,a. de ,a,ea *.» nocent, was found guilty in one instance to instigation to murder. He was sentenced to be beheaded and to “twelve years imprisonment for complicity.” End of the Haarmann trial, most of the details of which have been unfit to print, came as a relief to this city as well as all Germany, where people whose curiosity at first was stimulated by the unusual murders.

wjuick wore overcome with revulsion ' uind horror by the disclosures. The verdict was a forgone conclusion, Huurmunn having confessed and Implicated Grans. The murderer killed the boys In his hovel by the liver Seine by tearing open their throats with his sharp teeth. He and Grans sold the victims’ clothing. When the jury's verdict was announced Hanrtnann stood up and said: "I accept the verdict fully and freely." Yesterday he han asked that he be beheaded in a public square with all Hanover present and moving picture machines to record the execution. Cordons of stalwart policemen surrounded the prisoner when the jury came in. because the state's attorney had been informed that relatives of the victims had planned to assissinate Harrmann "to prevent the possibilities of a pardon.”

o Berne Business Men Re-Elect Old Officers Derne, Dec. 19. —At the Business Men's meeting held at the Auditorium Monday evening the rules for electing officers were suspended and by motion and vote all old officers were declared re-elected for another year. These are: President —C. T. Habegger. I Vice-President —E. M. Ray. Executive Committee — Rudolph 1 Schug. Fred Kainholtz. E. J. Schug,’ and the officers. Dr. Ernest Franz was voted in as a new member of the association. i A resolution was adopted instructing the secretary to ask the town board to kindly see to it that the

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street commissioner keeps the cros* 1 ings In the business district free i from snow und mini this wini 'i In ' other words, that he clean the cros ■ ings whenever needed, ns is done in , other towns l' Signs .showing the directions to Herne, which have been given to the town by the Hoosier Auto Association ! will soon be put up on various roads under the <tir«cton of T A. Gottschalk and E. M. Rnry. A general discusson of various business interests in town was en gaged In and it was decided that the business men meet more frequently next year than was done in the past I 0 Bodv Os American Is Found In Paris, France H'V.TED PRESS I'ttVli’l.'t Paris, Dec. 19—(Special to Daily . Democrat.)—The apache quarter of I Palis today gave up the gruesome, dismembered trunk and limbs of a man believed to have been an American. Wrapped in a copy of a French language newspaper, published in 1 San Francisco, the trunk of a blonde t (foreigner was found this morning by < a night watchman who was pacing

<1 nielli waiiiuuau w i.w ...... the Avenue Villette near the San . Martin canal. Seme distance off. similarly wrapped, were found other parts of Hie body. The cutting had been done by , an expert. The head, whereby the body might be identified, was missing. J —O ’Coolidges Serve Turkey Dinner To Their Guests J iI'X’TEC PRESS SRJtVICEI ’ Washingion, Dec. 19. —The Cool- 1 j idges served turkey and trimmings to , ' their guests at the cabinet dinner (last, night without a professional . caterer. Mrs. Martha Mulvy, chief white house cook, handled all the prep.tr-

. atlons mid tho Coolidge doctrine of ■ economy was exemplified once more, i What was served on fie gold plate along with the turkey could not be i learned because all details of the affair were carefully suppressed. Mrs. , Coolidge does not follow Mrs. Hard- , Ing's practice of letting the world have a peek nt her social events. Mi-is Mary, Ditumau. student at the International Rusiness College at Fort Wayne, Is spending the Christmas vacation with her parents here. _—o— DAUGHTERS GIVE A FINE PROGRAM (Continued from Page One) Misses Charlotte Niblick and Naomi Durkin acted as pianists during (he evening. Tho program was fine and the daughters, fathers and Rotarians < njoyed it immensely. During the evening the hat was passed and $23.28 was donated by the Rotarians towards the Good Fellows Club fund. The Rotary club will not meet again until the second Thursday in January,

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