Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 57, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1925 — Page 1

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LANCASTER AND DECATUR GO TO FINALS

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DECATUR DATE) DEMOCRAT

H'ans Going To Chicago Tourney To Meet Sunday A mooting of all basketball fans in I the city who are'lnterested in attendImg the national Catholic interi < ho!ustic basketball tmunami nt tit Chicago, March 19, 20, 21 and 22, In which the Decatur Catholic high j -.cluad team Is entered, will be held ' I in the Knights of Columbus hall at 4 ' o'clock Sunday afternoon. It is de6m-i ed advi: aide to ascertain the num-' i her of local fans who are going in I n-iiei that |i 'op r hol'd atid trans-; liorlnlioti aecoiimd ithms may be re-I oTmnw CO. MAKES PUNS Stockholders Os New Industry At Berne Hold Important Meeting Herne, March 7. After milch de- ; liberation on the part of the new furniture company. «b.e,i wa ■ originally oigunized two months ago, a ' step in a ileltnite direction was made ■ at a meeting of the stockholders. I 'the public Ims been informed that a i new company of men were conteinnlating the opening of a new factory which in its outset would build upholstered furniture. Many happenings were under process during this time. In its final outcome there were changes made in the personnel of its I stockholders and the ever-hanging question of who tho men should be ; to beait, the new concern. The stockholders met in the direct-| Ors' room of Ihij jtauJlj. JaLx Foftiplele The'organization and start the new enterprise into full operation ! as soon as possible. The company is I fortunate in securing the services of Alvin Neuenschwander to head them as its manager. Mr. Neuenschwander has in the past 15 years successfully directed tho destiny of the Berne Hardware Company and because of his business experience ho is bound to make good .His helpmate for the responsible position of secretary and treasurer, is equally as efficient in the person of Noah I.uginbill. Mr. Luginbill in the past 6 years has been tho cashier Os - Utte feepl' !’:ini Not alone is the new company fortified with men to operate front the office. 1 but the services of Clovis Oberli of West Unity, Ohio, cannot be underestimated. Mr. Obcrli will take charge of the mill room, and no better man could bo found to whom this trust could be bestowed. Wilson Dunbar, who has had a great deal of experience as an upholster is a sctockholder and will head tho company in production. Plans are now being made to build on the grounds purchased from the Borno Lumber Company. Mr. Oberli will move to Borne in the near future, and take full charge of tho building program. Th*o directors are instructed to huihl a two-story building on the ground next to the railroad with a floor space of *7,000 to 9.000 sq. ft. As a nucleus to begin operation the Supreme Furniture Company was taken Aver by the new company. Tho old name of the business, however, does not follow', since the new' company will be known as the Berne Furniture Company. Ever since January 1 the business transacted by Mr. Dunbar and its employes has been turned over to the new concern. o New Pipe Organ At Adams Theater Here A Reproduce Pipe organ is being installed in the Adams theater in this city and a test of the new musical instrument was being made today. The organ has several attachments for different music, but as present the soft music of the organ and the mandolin is played exclusively. The large pipes have not yet been erected. The organ can be played by hand or electricity. Recently, Van R. Grant and Frank G. Kresler. of Rensselaer, purchased the Adams theater and they are offering music lovers the best in music by installing the new theater pipe organ.

DECATI R’S ENTRY IN NATIONAL BASKETBALL TOURNEY

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Above ’ < pictured the Decatur Catholic high school basketball team which will take part in the national Catholi inters'holastic basketball tournament to be held in Chicago March 19. 20. 21 and 22 under the auspices of l.uyola University. The I>, eaitir eagers have a record of seventeen victories and no defeats litis season. Those in the- picture, read tig let! to right, ar. : lop row Fattier Ouo Peters, athletic manager; Schulte, Meyers, A. Vogle w< de. Laurent and Coach I'i uiic.- ('outer Bottom row—Holl house. Christen, Captain R. Voglewede, Wemhoff and Gass, i

REPUBLICANS ORGANIZE TODAY Organization Formed For City Campaign; Erast us Fritzinger ( 'hairman Erast us Fritzinger, former repub ; liean county chairman, a member of; the old stand-pat wing of the repitlt I liean party in this county and getter al manager of the Decatur Foundry.! Furnace and Machine company of' this city, was elected city reimblican I chairman at a meeting of the pre | einct committeemen held at the of-I fiee of Graham Bid Wallers last evening. ■ Worsen were tgmsed l,y tiie cr-tn ■ mitteemen in selecting the other i members of the city organization, no. woman >eing named to one of the of-j ficial positions. A majority of the places in the city organization were ' kept for the committeemen them-! selves. Frank Peterson, former town ' marshal and committeeman from the | First ward, being elected vice-chair I man. Oscar' Teeple, committeeman : from the Third ward, was elected Sec-. retary-Treasurer of the committee. Two of the six committeemen stated that they did not attend the meet ing. L. A. Graham, republican county chairman, called the meeting and pr>‘sided as temporary chairman ot tt.c meeting held last evening. So far. no republicans have announced their candidacy for any ot the city offices, which will be named at the primary to be held on Tuesday, May 5. Ferd L. Litterer, well known attorney, James L. Kocher, lumber and coal dealer and member of tiie city council, Charles H. Colter, who was a. candidate at the last city election and Mrs. Al Brudg. whose names were associated with the mayoralty nomination, have declined to be candidates. it was stated. I — Wctnhoff Infant Dies Paul, tho three-day-old son of Mr. ami Mrs. Robert Wemhoff, died at 9 o'clock this morning. This was the first child in the family. Funeral services were hold from the St. Marys Catholic church at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Mrs. Wemhoff is getf'ng along fairly well. o Stolen Car Found Tiie Hupp automobile belonging to Carl Luce, of this city, which was stolen from tiie street here Sunday night, was found in Blufftoh. Mr. Lnco lias recovered his car.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 7, 1925.

Coolidge Names New Ambassador To Germany Washington, March 7. — (United i Press) —Charles () llill'-s, Repitbli ' i an n..'tional < iti-enuin fr<uu N'-w 1)oi k, has been selected by Pres., j Coolidge as the new American amI bassadi'ir to Germany, it was report led here today. The white house made no commeqt ion the report. j ASSESSORS MAKE 'REPORTS TODA! Report To County Assessor ()n Work Os I irst Week Os Assessing' j The township assessors met today at tiie court house and made their ’ first reports to County Assessor Wil- . Ham Zimmerman, following their first (Continued On Page Five) GASOLINE TAX RILL IS PASSED Bill To Increase Tax To Three Cents Now Goes To Governor Indianapolis, March 7.—After airing the troubles of the state highway commission tiie senate today passed the Sherwood house bill to increase i gasoline tax from two to three cents' a gallon. The bill is now ready tor the gov-1 ernors signature. One fourth of (lie revenue from tiie increase would go! to tiie cities and towns and the re , maining three-quarters would go to' the counties for road building ami' maintenance. The state highway j commission would receive the r revenue' from the two cents. “This is three million dollars more to the state highway commission." declared Senator Daily, of Indianapolis. "Under this bill we are going Io turn over $15,000,000 and what we get 1 from the federal government to a state highway commission of which two members have been indicted.” Weather Rain or snow probable in north. Partly overcast in south tonight and Sunday. Colder in southwest portion.

MANYENROLL IN FARM CLUBS County Agent Has Several Cards Filled Out By Boys And Girls j Enrollment in tiie boy t ami girl.' chibs now being organized in Adams I 1 county is starting in at a good rate| ( as indicated by the number of cii rollment cards which have been re ceived at the county agent's office.. On Sa'urday morning an account showed that nine had enrolled in the calf chib, six in the corn < Inb. and . five in tiie sugarbeet club. This is considered a very good start in view of the fact th. it no cards were sent out until about Hie middle of tiie week. , The cofinty agent states that receipt of each enrollment card is acknowledged by a personal letter to the member,. so those who send in cards will know they are properly enrolled. All prospective members are urged to send in their cards as soon as possible in order that the proper supplies can be obtained and other I necessary arrangements made. The enrollment period cuds March 31. On next Wednesday members of I Hie local committee in Union town- ‘ ship, along with a representative of the business men of Decatur and the county agent will visit the schools of the township to explain the club work to tiie pupils. The committee in Union township consists of Rudolph WeilamL Clyde Harden. Henry Dehner and Ed Miller. Similar arrangements have been made i to visit the schools of Root township ,on Thursday. The committe in that township consists-of A. J. lewton AV. jH. Stults. Christie Bohnke, Jess Singleton and Andrew Fuelling. , Supt. E. S. Christen has placed cards in the hands of teachers of the , county and pupils may obtain information concerning the club work from i them. All township committeemen have also been furnished cards and rules. The same may be obtained by writing or calling at the county agent's office. a o 'Thieves Steal Battery And Tires From Autos Thieves stole a storage (tattery from an automobile and two spare tires from other cars parked at the high school gymansium during the tournament basketball games last night. Arrangements were made to have two extra policemen on duty at the gymnasium tonight to watch the cars.

Decatur People Returning Alter Wintering In I'lorida A card was received here today from Mr. and Mr . Dallas llnnsicker Mr. ami Mrs. Buri Hnnsickrr and Mr. and Mrs. I ten Miller, who have been spending Hie wlul'-r in Florida. The party has signed on their trip horn-, I ihi-y having driven to Florida Tincaril st.il'd that they expected Io be i in Atlanta, Georgia. Monday evening I and asked their freinds here to lune in on the radio station at Atlanta I about 7:iid Monday evening an they were going to visit the station and ask the announcer Io tat.- that they were there, CROWDS GATHER TO SEE WO Frenzied Crowds .lam Gymnasiums hi Sixtv-Four Towns Os State (I'nited Pies. Seivirr) Frenzied crowds of spectators jammed the gymnasiums in sixtyfoil. - towns e.f Indiana today ad Hoosier high s r hooi basketball teams battled on in th" struggle for sectoril honors. Play start-1 at 9 ry l-.;k this| morning in lie t five of the sec>t< ails to gc* und'T way. Other sect.r.tin's beg.-rr Friday. Two hundred and seventy-three | teams of the starling list of 671 I piintets were eliminated from the I race for the- state net title in the first I'lcy's play. Others will drop by the way in rapid succession today, and tonight, U 4 . ectional champions will beerown- ■ ■d. The sectional wirncis will go into rhe regionals next Saturday and the 'Xteen teams surviving the region-' als will meet in the state finals at ' iml ar. ipolis March 20 and 21. Attendance at practically all of the' | sectionals broke all records. In Ind ; ianapolis alone flfton thousand per -ons crowded into the exhibition at the state fair grounds last night and hundreds more were clamoring for I tickets today. Tn some of the tourney towns business was almost at a standstill as slot ekeepers and clerks deserted heir work to go Io the games. Many of Hie newspapers published at noon. Crowds gathered at cigar stores and pool rooms in towns where tour neys were not being held to get/ the scores. The first day’s play brought few surprises. Martinsville, last year's champions, won an easy victory over Mooresville. 47 to 15, in the first game. Tough sledding was ahead for the champs today. To win the sectional. Martinsville will have to down Bloomington or Monrovia, winner of the recent tri-state meet at Cincinnati. Connersville annihilated Fairview township. 63 to 5. Crawfordsville, Shelbyville, Vincennes, Muncie, Frankfort, Bedford, and Fort Wayne teams found easy victories in the’ir first rounds. o Anti-Catholic Leaders Face Charge Os Rioting Evansville, Ind., March 7 —Six men who have been leading anti-catholic meetings here for several weeks face charges of riot today in the city court. They were arrested late yesterday when thirty policemen led by the Chief of-Tolice answered a riot call at the Catholic high school whither Louis J. King, formerly of Hartford City, self styled Kvangelist. had led a party of 200 men and women. They wanted to recover a chair “lost" yesterday when students chased them from the Campus while they were attempting to hold a meeting King told police. Judge Ireland continued the case to St. Patrick's day. Several hundred of King's supporters crowded the court room. The other prisoners are: George B. Garner and Rena Garner both of Muncie. Eugene Farris, Oakley Jenkins and Perry Storm of Evansville .

Price 2 Cents.

DECATUR BEATS BERNE IN HARD FOUGHT GAME ■ Lancaster Defeats Hartford Township In Semi-Final, Score 39-21 FINAL GAME AT S P. M. Large Crowd Attends Afternoon Session: Decatur Team Tiring Morning Caines Berne. 31; Pleasant Mills, 4. Decatur. 2.“; Ossian, 15 Afternoon Games Ltimasier, 39; Hartford twp., 21. Decatur. 27: Herne. 17. Di t'tiltir hitfli school's Yellow Jackcls iinil lh" Ltincaslcr ('.filler Bob Cuis. Iroirt Wells county. will btitllc tonight for the spc,tion:il basketball championship. Lancaster was the first of the two teams to qualify for the final game by tlefeating' Hartford Township ii» the first semi final qaine by a score of 3!) Io 121. The Scrappy Hartford team, which diniintded Kirkland last night, put up a game fight but could not cope with the sharp shooting of Durr. The f irst half was 21 Io S. Decatur qualified for the final round by defeating Berne in the second game this afternoon, score 27 to 17. The Yellow Jackets were ahead 12-5 the first half. This was the game today for Decatur and the players were beginning to show signs of fatigue The final game tonight will start at 8 o'clock. Griffith i will referee. Lineups ami summary: j Decatur Berna Strickler F D. F.llenberger Heal F Smith Andrews C Bagley « Miller G . Baumgartner Moser G Lehman Substitutions: Decatur Reynolds . for Bea). Sweat inger for Strickler, Dierkes for Moser. Berne Erne for Smith, M Ellenlieiger for Baumgart tier. Fox for Lehman Field goal-: Strickler, 3; I'.eal, 2; Miller. -I: D. Ellenberger, 2; Smith. 2; Bagley, 1: Erne. 2. Free throws: Strickler, 2; Beal, 2: Andrews. 3; Miller, 2: D. ■ Fili ■ Serger. 1, Smith. 1: M Elieubergvi, L Referee: Murray. Lineups and summary: Lancaster (39) Hartford (21) Durr .. F — • Monee Speheger F Holloway Bowman C Huffman Johnson G Slagenhauf Lindeman G Eicher Subs'c tutions: Motz for Speheger, Bright for Bowman. Price for Johnson. Field goals: Durr 9; Speheger (Uolitinued on Pago Six) MORE GWEN TO RED CROSS FUND Total Donated For Relief Os Sullivan Mine Sufferers Is $28.27 A friend from Magley. Indiana, seven miles west of Decatur, gave $5.00 towards the fund being raised in this county for the Sullivan Mine sufferers. Another $5.00 donation was made liy L. D. Adams of this city. The fund for the mine sufferers is being raised throughout the Adams County Chapter of the American Red Cross and Mjss Anna Winnes, secretary of the local chapter stated that she wished to remit the money next week. It totals only $28.27. today’s contributions being included. Those who wish to give are requested to do so at once. The fund i to date follows: I Previously reported $16.77 > Mrs. Ben Schroyer 50 L. D. Adams. >5.00 • Mrs. Fred Heuer 100 • A Friend. Magley, Ind. 5.00 r Total $28.27