Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 93, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1925 — Page 1

Yol. XXIII. Number 93.

STEPHENSON INDICTED FOR MURDER

boysselect TICKETS FOR CITY ELECTION — Red, White And Blue Tickets Nominated For Jun- « ior City Election « ELECTION NEXT WEEK Straight Tickets Must Be Voted; Candidates Start ' Campaign Nominations for the Red. White and Blue tickets, which will bo voted on in the Junior citv election to be held next 'Huirsday in connection with the observance of International Hoys week, took place at the convention held Friday niternoon at the Central school building. More than 100 hoys of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades of the public and Catholic schools attended the convention and much enthusiasm was shown by the bnvs. Martin F. Worthman. superintendent of schools and chairman of the boy's work committee of the Decatur Rotary club, which is sponsoring the hoys week program, presided as chairman and. after calling the convention to order, called for nominations on the throe tickets. A mayor, cotmciltnen from the three wards and two councilmen-at-large, a city treasurer and a city clerk were nominated by the boys on each ticket. The Ticket* The Red ticket is as follows: For Mayor Frederick Schafer Councilman Ist Ward Robert Kiting Councilman 2nd Ward Thomas Haubold Councilman 3rd Ward James Burk Councilmen-at-large Raymond Case and Harry Baumgartner City Treasurer Den Schultz City Clerk James Kngeler. The White Ticket Candidates on the White ticket are: For Mayor Fred Mylott Councilman Ist Ward Forrest Sinitley Councilman 2nd Ward Aloysios Geimer Councilman 3rd Ward Harold Strickler Councilmen-at-large Arthur Krick and Vaughn Hilyard (Continued on page two) MASONS PLAN ANOTHER SOCIAL Open House Party Held Thursday Night Was Successful Event Immediately after the Masonic and Eastern Star entertainment Thursday night, plans were started for another similar event in about three or four weeks. About two hundred Masons, Eastern Stars and members of their families gathered at the Masonic hall last Thursday in the second get-to-gether party held recently. The party started at 7 o’clock. Dee Fryback's orchestra supplied the music for dancing. Cafeteria style refreshments were served in the dining room until 11 o’clock and about two hundred participated. Sandwiches, ice cream, cake, coffee and candy were served to the guests. Special entertainment was also provided for the younger people who did not dance and play cards. The program committee arranged their program in such a manner that all guests of all ages were well taken care of. Several tables of bridge were held for those who did not care to spend the evening dancing. The committee in charge was highly pleased with the attendance and has already begun I'lans for the third party of this type. All members of the Masonic and Eastern Star lodges and their families are cordially invited to attend.

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L. R. Schuj* Made Cashier Os State Bank At Berne \ Berne, April 18.—1„ R. Schug, of I this city, bus been named cashier of I tin* Peoples State Bank of Berne to I nke the place of Noah l.ugenhill. \,ho resigned recently to inter the fu.'iiiture manufacturing business :ieri . Vilas Schindler, formerly of ibis city who 1 now employed at ! Ilk'ksville, 0., has been selected by tihe directors to become assistant|cashier, which is the post made vacant by the advancement of Mr. (Schug. WOLFINGER IN COURT TODAY Man Removed From Train Yesterday Pleads Not C.uilty To Assault Jack Wolfinger, who was taken into custody early yesterday morning after an attempted escape from Seplius M oleh i, night policeman, j was arraigned this afternoon in the mayor's court on a charge of assault. I Wolfinger entered a plea of not guilty and his case was set for hear ! ing next Wednesday morning. Hisj bond was fixed at *l5O, which he was unable to furnish. He was returned to the county jail for safekeeping. Wolfinger said that he would fight his can case and asked for an earlier trial, but the remiest was refused. In the meantime Wolfinger said he would arrange to obtadn the bond from his alleged relatives in Fort j Wayne. As yet inquiries by detectives to his home address and the one given in Fort Wayne have not been answered. WoUingTr Him was - wan Ruled, through the shoulder when he attempted to run away, spent a good night and did not appear to be suffer ing from the bullet wound. His head is also bandaged as the result of bding struck by a mace in an effort to get him off the west hound Erie passenger train, on which he was attempting to ride free of charge. oNational Democratic Club Meets At New York Tonight New York. April 18.— (United Press)—New York will see its first democratic gathering since the national convention last June when a big conclave of democrats is held here tonight. The National Democratic c’.ub is holding its annual Jefferson Day dinner and 2,000 guests are expected to attend. John W. Davis, recent candidate for tlie presidency; Frany S. Hague of New Jersey; Homer Cummings oi Connecticut; George White of Ohio; Norman E. Mach of Buffalo will he in attendance. o j Goshen Has Epidemic Os Scarlet Fever (Joshen, April 18.—Thirty-four eases of scarlet fever have been reported here. In order to stay off what appears to he the beginning of a serious epidemic. Mayor George H. Rintpler has ordered all schools, churches and moving picture houses closed until further orders. Physicians assert that the epidemic started about February 20 and at the same time several cases of German measles were re ported, thus making the scarlet fever cases harder to determine and stamp out. Felix Holthouse Has Position In Kentucky Felix Holthouse is home for an over Sunday visit with his family and will leave tomorrow foY Louisville Ky., where, on Monday morning, he will assume charge of the eastern Kentucky territory for the United States Gypsum Corporation. For two weeks past Felix has been attending the company's special school in Chicago, preparing to begin his duties as a salesman. The company is the largest of its kind in the world and the territory managers have responsible positions.

FORESEE LEGAL STRUGGLE OVER WAR CONTRACTS Bethlehem Steel Corporation Files Cross Suits Against Government DEMANDS $9,744,899 Company Says Sum Is Due As Balance On Construction Os Ships New York, April is. — (United Press.) —A smouldering legal struggle over war contracts lias come into the open with the filing of cross suits involving the government and tlie Bethlehem Steel corporations, j The government, in a suit filed at | i Philadelphia, demands the return of $15,000,000 from the Bethlehem Steel c orporation and four subsidiaries on ! the grounds it was overcharged for ■ tlie construction of ships in war llm . The Bethlehem corporation, suing in a district court of the United States j here, seeks $0,744,899.94 and interest. ! which it alleges is due as the balance 1 i on construction of the ships. Tiie government’s suit is focused i on the activities of Charles M. Schwab. | chairman of the Bethlehem Steel, who was appointed with approval of President Wilson to the office of director general of the United States shipping hoard emergency fleet corporation. Schwab, in accepting his appointment 1 indicated ho would not participate in any transactions involving the gov- ! eminent and his corporation and in a statement issued yesterday indicated lie would follow that line of argu- ' metit fft hi-Tdefense. Rallying to tiie support of Schwab, Edward N. Burley, war-time chairman of the shipping hoard, and Bainbridge Colby, former secretary of state, both issued statements praising Schwab for his war-time services, j ‘T am sorry that our government j should question the sincerity of pur- 1 pose of the methods of a man who rendered a great service and whose integrity and honesty is believed in by the American people,” Hurley, who is now in Chicago, said. '•[ appointed Mr. Schwab directorj general, with the hearty approval of j President Wilson,” he said, adding "it had it remarkably depressing effect on the Germans.” J. A. M. Adair And Family Located In Washington Portland, April 18. — John A. M.l Adair, former congressman from the j Eighth district, and family have returned to Washington, I). C. where they will make their future home. Mr. Adair and his son, Herbert, are identified with Sacks Chapin IceCream Company In Washington. The Adairs left, for Washington last Tuesday. No Hearing Today In Trial Os Typhoid Suit The trial of tiie typhoid fever damage suit front Fort Wayne, which has been in progress in the Adams' circuit court for more thau three weeks, was continued yesterday evening until Monday morning. Six witnesses were heard in the trial yesterday. Miss Gladys Hadley, an employe of the Fort Wayne city board of health, was au important witness for the defense yesterday. Miss Hadley testified that she tested fifteen samples of water taken from the city mains in the district of Fort Wayne where the typhoid fever epidemic was prevalent in the fall of 1923, and that she did not find any typhoid fever germs, although she admitted that she wrote on her report that the water was “suspicious." Man And Son Die In Electric Chair Today Raliegli, N. C- April IS— (United Press) —Charles W. Stewart, 51, and his sou, Elmer, 23, were put to death in the electric chair for the murder of two prohibition agents a year ago. The men were calm to the ’.ast expressing a desire to expiate for their crime.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 18, 1925.

I YES, WE NEED NO MORE RAGS AT THE PRESENT Yes, we have all the rags needed for tiie present. Within the la.-1 couple of weeks several hundred pounds of rugs, used in wlpin type and cleaning presses in the Daily Democrat office have been received. In fact, we believe we have more rags than a | junkyard and are uot in the market for any al present. Please do not bring any to tiie office until we advertise for them again. • Decatur Daily Democrat. JUNIORS TO GIVE PLAY NEXT WEEK i~ “ j To Stage “A Full House,” A Farcical Comedy, Wednesday And Thursday PI nty of fun and entertainment is promised in the farcicial comedy, “A Full House,” to lie presented in the high school auditorium next Wednesday and Thursday evenings by the junior c uss of the Decatur high school. Rehearsals have boon in progress for the last three or four weeks,! : under the direction of Miss Josephine I Myers, class guardian, and Mrs. J. j It. Blair. The play was written by Fred Jaskson. The scene represents the drawing room in a fashionable duplex ! apartment on Riverside Drive. New York City, and the time is the pre- ! sent. The east of characters for the play is as follows: Parks an English servant, IJoyd Uea!. Susie a maid from Souix City. Eleanor Humphrey. Ottily Howell a bride, Gretchen Kocher. Miss Winnecker, the aunt from Yonker Doris peters. Daphene Charters, . . Ottily’s sister. Mary llurell. I Nicholas King it., stranger, Harold Owens. i N’ed Pembroke, Jr an only son. liol) Maeklin. George Howel! a bride-groom, Doyle Johnson Jim Mooney a policeman Don Leßrun. . , Dougherty a police sargeant, Harry Metier. | Kearney another policeman, Joe Bebout. I Mrs. Flemming, who Is tlit landlady, Henrietta El/.ey. ; Vent Vernon a show girl, Faye Krugh. (Continued on page twoi D.C,H,S,WILL" GRADUATE SIX Commencement Exercises Likely Will Be Held In New Building — 1 The laying of the terrazzo flooring in the New Catholic school has started and an effort is being made to complete tiie auditorium by the latter part of May, so that the annual Catholic high school commencement can be held there. With six weeks of | school remaining, workmen at the , building believe that the auditorium will he completed by then. Six students compose the graduating class at the Catholic high school , this year. Those to he graduated are: . Hugh Holthouse, Earl Christen, Gerald Mylott, George Laurent, Robert . Voglewede and Frederick Schulte. , Three of the members of this class are . on the first team of the local high I school basketball quintet, and two I others are substitutes. I Graduation exercises for the comi menial students will lie held at the same time, in connection with the other progarm. Plans are nearly completed for the exorcises. Plans also are underway for a junior reception for the seniors to he held just before commencement. Weather Unsettled tonight and Sunday. Probably showers and local thunder storms. Warmer tortight and in east and north portions Sunday. Fresh and possibly strong shifting winds.

RIDING MASTER CONVICTED ON MURDER CHARGE Found Guilty Os First Degree Murder For Killing Common Law Wife PENALTY IS 22 YEARS Jury Fixes Penalty; Deliberated 17 Hours Before Reaching Verdict _ Wheaton, 111., April 18. — (United I Press.) —A verdict of murder in the j first degree with a penalty of 22 years i in prson was returned here today liy j tiie jury in tiie ease of George Mtind-I ing, riding master, who shot and killed his common law wife, Julia Abb I Douglass. Under the law of Illinois the jury has the right to fix the degree of punishment in a first degree murder verdict. The sentence imposed upon Mnnding is parolable after 12 years and three months. Munding braced his shoulders when the jurors came out after their 17 hours deliberation. When tiie fort - 1 man said the jury had agreed on a verdict of guilty of murder in tiie first degree, Munding gasped, a spasm 1 of pain shooting across his face. When the foreman said the jury , hud agreed on a penalty of 22 years in prison, Mumling’s face lighted. in the absence of Clarence Harrow, chief attorney for the defense. Attorney Charles W. Madley filed the j customary motion for a new trial. Lang Os Alleged Store Bandits Caught At Cary Gary, Ind.. April 18.—Six members [ of an alleged gang of store bandits j believed by detectives to be responsible for looting stores in several in- . diana cities of merchandise worth many thousands of dollars were under arrest here today. The arrests followed an attempt to i rob the Miller Wahl women's cloth ; ing store. Silk garments and furs j valued ut SIO,OOO had been removed 1 from the store through a hole chopped iu the roof and was being loaded { on a truck when detectives arrived, i The suspects held are Frank Pacelli, 26: Samuel Gordon, 31; Alex Prattes, 27; of Chicago, and two negroes each giving the name of John Williams, and Leon Gorlis, 22, negro, of I Gary. Police believe l’rattes was the lead- j er of the gang and that it had oper- j ated successfully in several cities in j the state, including Mttncie. Two of the men hive confessed, I according to detectives. Van Wert Plans For Public Baud Concerts Van Weft, Ohio, April 18. —The 10-j cal Chamber of Commerce decided at j a recent meeting, to contract with the Van Wert American Legion hand for a series of eight band concerts to he held in this city, beginning the latter part of May and extending i through the rest of the summer. Band [ concerts have been held in the city j each summer for the last several years. Decatur Is Not Place For “Weary Willies” Decatur is no place for wandering “Weary Willies", who always visit citids and t iwna in the spring time apd make a cafateria out of hack doors. Chief of Police Joel Reynolds has issued a warning thut any tramps or hoboes found in this city will be sent to the state peua! farm and will get plenty of food and work there and they won’t have to beg for it either. For the last several mornings tramps, wandering about the. uptown district of the city, have been warned of the award that awaits them if they linger here and, they vanish as quick as they arrive.

Socialists Fall In Behind Premier Painleve Paris, April IS. The Painleve government will not ha.ve to face the i socialist opposition that was expertled to develop in tile chamber of dep- | uties, Some, .socialist, deputies, after a meeting today, made the Important announcement that they are in accord with the government on all ! questions, including the financial proj ject, wheat, the budget and military I service. AGITATION FOR CITY HEAT HERE — Several Local Citizens Statt Movement For City IleatiPlant Several well known local citizens are agitating the establishment of a municipal heating plant. The problem has been discussed several times here, but lias never culminated in j action. One leading business man i here informed us today that in about ■ two weeks he would circulate a petition asking tiie city council to take | some action in the matter. He says j he has arranged his business to take j care of that part of the work and understamls that representatives of heating apparatus manufacturers will A l> - glad to furnish estimates as -to costs and prices to consumer. t ; The business man referred to above j will arrange for committees of citizens j | from here to visit other cities where 1 | .'Jiinilur plants are in op •rntkHr-Ao I confirm -figures and. if found satis-j 1 factory, will urge tiie installation or 1 | a puh.ic heating plant here. If the j cost is not prohibitory it is likely • that the plan will gain in popularity.) Any way the informant says, lie is go-j ing to find out all about it daring the next few weeks. ! Revolution In Bulgaria Caining Ground, Is Report j I Trieste, April IS —(United Press.i ; -The anti-Zankoff revolution in Bui- ( garia is gaining ground, according to, dispatches from Sofia. ) Sharp clashes between Bulgarian troops and the insurgents have occur- ( red in several sections, particularly in ( the district of Earno, where at the, | port of Belico, a revolt was feigned to I facilitate the unloading of arms and J | ammunition from Odessa. , Ternov is reported In have been ( I seized by insurgents. Encounters lie-1 i tween the regulars and Macedonian ) | forces have occurred in districts | hoardering Jugo-Slavia and Greece. * I Twice the regular checked insurgents ; attempted to seize Stara Zugora. London, April 18.—(United Press.) —The bomb that wrecked the Sveita j Karl cathedral at Sofia Thursday, kill- [ ing 160 persons, according to official figures contained in a Central News dispatch from the Bulgarian capita! | today. Troop continue to guard the I streets of Sofia, the dispatch says. ! Portland To Take Action Against Spring Peddlers Portland, April IS. —Efforts are being extended here to ward off the usual run of spring peddlers who invade this city and county with their "cheap” wares. At the next meeting of the city council several citizens will appear and ask that an ordinance be passetl to mike it impossible for peddlers to get into this city to operate. Neighboring towns already have taken prohibition steps. —o CROSS-WORD PUZZLE HAS REACHED SOUTH AMERICA Lima, Peru. April 18. — (United Press) —Under tiie sebriquet of Roiftpe Cabeza —head breaker —tiie cross word puzzle bus just reachad Peru. La Prensa. iu publishing the Cist box of equates, announces it .vill be a daily feature.

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jEX-KLAN LEADER IS BLAMED FOR DEATH OF GIRL Klcncl; And Gentry, Alleged Conspirators In Crime Also Indicted I FIRST DEGREE MURDER Men Alleged To Have Refused Medical Attention To Girl (United Press Service) Indianapolis. April 18. — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Prosecutor Remy. of Marion county, this afternoon demanded an explanation from the sheriff’s office i of the delay in serving capiases on the endictmert charging D. C. Stephenson and two others with murder for the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer. Although the capiases were turned over to the sheriff's office at 11 o'clock this morning, no arrest had been made at 2:15. Sheriff Hawkins was out of the city and one of his deputies said he had been too busy to send the ' capiases. Informed of the delay Remy said he would investigate the cause at once. Indianapolis, Apr. IS.—(Unit- ' ed Press.) —David C. Stephenson, ousted grand dragon of the ’ Indiana K. K. K.. today was in- ’ dieted by the Marion county grand jury on a first degree ’ murder charge lor the death of ( Miss Madge Oberholtzer, an In- ' dianapolis girl. Earl Klenck and Earl Gentry, alleged conspirators in the i kidnapping of Miss Oberholtzer j from her father’s home here, were also charged with first degree murder. • Miss Oberholtzer died Tuesday from ! poison taken after a midnight train I | ride from Indianapolis to Hammond. | Ind., during which site said she was ) attacked by Stephenson. 1 The murder indictment is based Aon the charge that Stephenson and ] the other two men refused medical A attention to Miss Oberholtzer after < site had taken poison in a hotel at < Hammond. I Throughout the return trip to In--1 dianapolis by auto the three defend- | ants refused .Miss Oberholtzer’s re ‘ peated pleas to get a doctor to ret lieve her agony, it is charged iu the I indictment. Upon reaching Indianapolis, she (Continued on page three i LITERARY-MUSIC CONTESTS HELD Berne, Geneva And Hartford Schools Win In Contests At Geneva Geneva, April 18. —(Special to Daily Democrat)— Geneva won three first Berne three and Hartford one in the sectional literary-music contest held , here lust night to select contestants to represent the southern half of the . county in tiie annual Adams county , literary music contest to Do he'd at . Berne next Saturday night. Jefferson . failed to win a firstp lace in the con- , I tests. The contests were held in the , Methodist church here last night and • the church was filled to capacity. The judges were: J. C. D Whiteman, of Bryant; Lucille Reynard, of Winchester; and a man from Union City. The winners of first place in tiie events last night, who will take part jin the county contest, are us follows: j l’iauo solo: Marcus Staley, Harti ford. Violin solo: Eileen Bliss, Geneva. Reading: Marie Burdge. Geneva. Oration: George Severance, Genva. Vocal solo: Eliza Id h Habeggor, Berne, Quartet: Berne. _ Orchestra: Berne. I