Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1926 — Page 1

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INSURGENT WINS IN DAKOTA PRIMARY

I democrats to I CONCENTRATE on I TWELVE STATES II leaders Make Known Their | Strategy As Campaign I Opens In Maine II \l\ E STATES WILL ! I SWING control! ■ Press Hervlve) | ■ Washington, Mar. 24. M ith i H opening of the democratic con- ■ gressional campaign in Maine ■ today, democratic leaders here H made known their strategy of B concentrating forces in 12 states | selected as doubtful—any nine B of which would give them conII trol of the next senate. I The states as selected are Illinois, | Oregon. Missouri, Oklahoma. KenI tacky. Ohio, Calito.nia, Arizona, I Massachusetts. Maryland. Colorado i and New York. They ar e now represented by republican senators. or 34 senators up for re-election in ' November. 27 are republicans and seven democrats. It Is believed at : this stage of th 0 proceedings that 12 i republicans and seven democrats are virtually sure to be retained. This leaves 15 republican states Joirotful. The present line up of the senate shows 56 republicans. 39 democrats and one fanner-laborite. If the minority should win all 12 seats, the lineup would show: Democrats, 51; republicans. 41; and farmer-labor, 1. In Illinois the republican party Is split while George Brennan. Chicago boss, is practically assured of the democratic nomination with a fair chance to win on a wet Harry B. Hawes, 3t. Loiils, iifemocrat, is said to be planning a stpirp campaign against Senator Williams, republican, in Missouri with a chance to win. Democrats in Ohio have been searching for a strong candidate to | oppose Senator Willis, republican, and their hopes rely entirely upon the success of their hunt. Withdraws From Primary Brayton Pyle, of Wabash township, today w itltdrew his oime a,.-i a candidate for the Republican nomination for assessor of Wabash township. o__ DISTRICT LATIN CONTEST MAR. 27 Adams County Sends Several Pupils to Contest For Trip To Bloomington Sixty-five students from schools over the state will be named in district contests March 27, for a free trip to i Bloomington, April 9, where, as honor, guests of Indiana University, they will compete for final championships in the annual state Latin contest. The winners from Adams county who, will try out in the district contest on March 27 at Muncie, are art follows: Ttorctis Byerly, Elizabeth Leyse, Gera'd Zimmerman, Margaret Geisel, Mae Stoneburner, Janette Kilson of Kirkland; Harry Daily. Robert Heller, Edna Haugk, Mildred Marchand, of Decatur. The contest is in five divisions, ranging from that for first year ptxpils on through Caesar, Cicero and Vergil. The Indiana Extension Division will) award gold, silver and bronze medals: to winners of first, second and third P aces in each pf the five divisions in the state contest. In the county and district Contests, awards are being made as the county chairman and district directors find it feasible to raise funds for such awards. The winners of first place in each division last year were: Tom Butz. Marion, IB; Ruth Baker, Valparaiso, 1A; Franklin C. Smith, South Side high school, Fort Wayne, II; Paul Leonard, Newcastle, HI; and Helen Wolf, 1 Nrbana, IV. The annual state conference of Latin teachers will be held in conjunction w ßh the state high school Latin contest at Bloomington. _.

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Kiss of Death ■ ! >TT?V noREKCE SEYFETtT When Mrs. Florence Seyfert, of Los Angeles, raised her lips to “kiss and make up” with her husband, police say he fired a shot into her body, causing her death, and then turned the pistol on himself. LOMLVETERANS HEAR MG OUIGG National Commander Os American Legion Speaks At Van Wert, Ohio Bert Colchin. Lhonis, Mclntosh. Frank Schumacher, Howard Weller. Russel Byers, Leo Ehinger and several other local war veterans motor-1 M to Wn Were. »trrrr- h*Ht~ nnsin. where they heard a spirited address delivered by General John P. Mc-| Quigg, national commander of the American Legion. More than 500 persons heard the inspiring talk.] which was given at the Van Wert Y.l M C. A. A great reception was accorded' the Legion commander. The Van Wert Legion members met General McQuigg at Fort Wayne and accompanied him to the Buckeye city. The general flayed the pacifist who wished to discourage military education, stating that it was a necessary organization of the nation. After the address, General McQuigg returned to Fort Wayne. He will go to the national headquarters of the Legion at Indianapolis today, and will leave later this week on a speaking tour through the west. Those] I from this city who heard the address! I say that it was one of the best ever I delivered in this of the country■ - o — Increase In Internal Revenue Receipts Shown Washington, ~toT 24. - (United Press)—lnternal revenue receipts for the first eight months of the current | fiscal year were $1,540,667,254.80, tin increase of $110,636,718 over the same I period last year, the treasury depart--1 ment announced today. Income tax ccJlectitMis so rthe eight months period, amounting to $915,894,961, showed an increase of $54,776,998. MISSION SCHOOL CLOSES TONIGHT Illustrated Lecture An- ’ nounced For Tonight At Baptist Church *i The last session of the School of Missions in the Baptist church will be this evening, beginning at 7:15 o’clock, with the three classes in their study rooms. At 8 o'clock, a stereoptical! address will be given, which will be of interest and a fitting close | to the school. There has been splen- ’ did interest and the average attendance has been beyond the expectation ■ of those who launched the work, de- ' spite the necessity of some dropping j out of the work because of sickness, i Already, many are talking of the next i] term of the school next fall when doubtless the Home Mission Fields I will be studied.

DECATUR PUPILS WIN HONORS IN MUSIC CONTEST Two Decatur Teams Place Third In District Music Memory Contest SHOWING CONSIDERED EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD Decatur Central and high schools] were awarded t/iird places In the] Music Memory Contests at Muncie yesterday. Selma high school won the high school honor of representing this district at the state meet at Indianapolis next Saturday, and Saragoga won the eighth grade competition. Decatur teams ■were awarded third in both contests after close competi-| tion. The various selections were played on the piano for five seconds' and the contestants were perm’tted 55 seconds in which to write the name of the selection, the author ami' his nationality. Both Decatur entries made a good showing. The teams were accompanied by W. Guy Brown, principle] of the Central school, and Miss Ruth Cook, supervisor of music in the Decatur public schools. The Central team was composed of Wilhelmina Schnitz. Bernadine Shral] uka and Maynard Butcher. Helen 1 DeVor and Olive Teeter went with the team, as alternates. The high school team was composed of Betty Erwin. Charlotte Kudard and Anna Elizabeth YVinnes. Mr. Brown stated today that he felt Decatur made a good showing I inthe contests. He stated that the Decatur teams had not spent near I the time on the affair that the eight other entrants had and assured the many interested that next year the local teams would be more dangerous ] contenders than they were this year. BIBLE SCHOOL BEING PLANNED Possibilities And Plans For Daily Vacation Bible School Are Discussed At a meeting of the central committee of the Daily Vacation Bible | School, held last night, the possibilities and plans for another union school l in Decatur this summer were discussed. The committee is composed of the pastor and one representative from each of the .seven churches represented in the Decatur Ministerial Association. The Rev. B. N. Covert, pastor of the Presbyterian church, was elected chairman cf the committee for this year. John E. Nelson, of the First Methodist church, was elected treasurer, and C. |E. Bell, <f the Baptist church, was elected secretary. x A finance committee, composed of a lay representative from each of the churches, was appointed to work out the proportion which each church will be a ked to give to underwrite the school. The committee is composed of John E. Nelsonr, chairman; James L Kocher, Martin Jaberg, Roy Mumma, C. E. Hocker, Homer Ruhl, and C. E. Bell. The committee will meet soon and make a report of its findings. A teacher's committee was appointed also, to .select .the personnel of the teaching force. That committee is composed of the Rev. H. W. Thompson, the Rev. Somerville Light and the Rev. O. E. Miller. All representatives at the meeting last night were endhuisia.sitic tor a (COSTIMEP osr PAGE FIVE! To Hold Night Sessions To Speed Up Work On Farm Relief Measure Washington, Mar. 24. —-(United Press)—After a heated exchange between democrats and republicans, the house agriculture committee voted this afternoon to hold night sessions, beginning tonight, to expediate considers‘tfon of farm relief legislation.

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Four Bandits Gets 95 Cents In Holdups; May Get Long Prison Terms Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 24. (United Preen.) ■ Holdups which netted only 95 cents loot to three negro and one white bandits today loomed as tile means of sending the mon to prison tor long terms. f The men who range In ago from 17 to 26 are held in jail here under ! bonds of SIO,OOO each. ■ —o 8. C.H.S. SENIORS WILL STAGE PLAY Class To Present Comedy, “The Crazy Idea,” Tuesday, April 6 The senior class play of the Doca- ( tur Catholic high school will be giv-. l en Tuesday, April 6, in the auditor- ‘ ium of the Catholic school building, lon Fourth street. The title of the play is "The Crazy Idea,” a comedy in four acts, and a large cast will participate in the presentation. ; I During the evening, the D C. H. S. orchestra will furnish music. The G'ee club will sing the opening chorus and John Dowling, student in i the high school, will give a reading, I "Hiram Blows In,” preceding the I play. The cast of characters follows: Mr. Stone, a jealous husband Cedric Voglewede 'Mrs. Stone, his wife Ida Baker Eva. their daughter Helen Holthouse i William, their man-servant .... Raymond Miller I Dora, their maid Mary Harris Torn Blane, their nephew Arthur Voglewede Daniel White, Darkey factotum Thomas Dowlingf Neil Browning, a friend Donald Gage Johann Von Bummelstein. prosspeettve roomer Carl Gass Mrs. Von Bummelstein, his wife ..... ... Anna Colchin : Their Children Margaret Voglewede.] Isabel Neptune. Julius Baker.' Frederic Voglewede, Martha J. Foos. Cletus Junk. Robert Holthouse. Mary M. Keller, Lucile] Yurkovic, Paul Brunton. Joan Brunton. Montgomery Blimber, prospective roomer Richard Miller Mr. Puders, a nervous gentleman Theodore Kuapke Mrs. Puders, his wife Alice Clark Julius Button, a happy-go-lucky William Holthouse Lillian Tussel. an actress Anna, her maid Mary Colchin John Davis, a henpecked husband Fred Connel Mrs. Davis, his wife Bernardine Christen Augusta, their daughter Margaret Bremerkamp Mrs. Miller, a landlady. Anna Nesswald Billy Gruff, a policeman ................................ Eugene Durkin Mr. Hicks, Mr. Stone’s friend Francis Wertzberger Mrs. Hili, a creditor..... . Rosemary Smith COLB WEATHER DUE TOMORROW „ ... Weather Bureau Dashes Hopes Os Indiana People That Spring Had Arrived Indianapolis, Ind., Mar 24.—(United Press) —Just as the people of Indiana had made up their minds that spring had arrived the weather bureau today dashes such hopes witlh announcement that colder wtlither would arrive tomorrow. The forecast is train and colder tonight and colder Thursday. Temperature in Indianapolis today at 7 a. m.. was 47 degrees or eight degrees above normal. Elks To Hold Regular Meeting This Evening The regular meeting of the Elks; lodge wil be held this evening at 8 o'clock. It will be the last meeting at which the old officers will preside. Important business is to be transacted and the members are urged tri attend. Weather Rain and colder tonight. Thursday partly cloudy and colder. Strong ' shifting winds.

MARSHALL FOUND GUILTY OF SECOND DECREE MURDER f Chiropractor Convicted Os Killing His Sweetheart And Dismembering Body SENTENCE IS 10 TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON Philadelphia. Mar. 24 — (United Press) —David L. Marshall, chiropractor, today was found guity of second degree murder for the killing of his milliner-sweetheart. Anna Mae Dietrich. whose body he beheaded and dismembered after choking her to death in his office last January. I The verdict carries a sentence of from 10 to 20 years imprisonment. 1 Miss Dietrich was killed in Marshall's office January 19. Two days later her dismembered torso and legs were found in a woods in Delaware county, 12 miles from Philadelphia. | o “Big Tim” Murphy Finishes Term In Prison Tomorrow Leavenworth. Kans., Mar. 24 — (United Press)—“Big Tim" Murphy, Chicago labor leader serving a four ] year term in the federal penitentiary for complicity in the Dearborn Station mail robbery at Chicago, will finish his sentence Friday. | __ o Veteran City Officer Os Columbus Is Dead I Columbus, Ind.. Mar. 24. — (United Press) —Plans were being made today for tile city to pay tribute to Martin ■ Mueller, who died while serving his ■ fourth term as city treasurer. The city official, who was 52 years of age, was found dead in his bed with a complication of diseases. PHANTON SNIPER TO DIE JULY S Omaha Man Loses Fight For New Trial: Must Pay For Murders In Chair . Omaha. Neb., Mar. 24. — (United Press) —The phantom sniper will pay fw his two killings in the electric chair at the Nebraska state prison at Lincoln, July 9, Judge Charles Goss ruled here today. After over ruling a motion for a new trial, Goss formally sentenced Frank Carter, the sniper, to die in the chair and set the July date . Carter was convicted Saturday of slaying William McDeavitt and R. E. A. Seairles during hrs reign of terror here. Judge Goss allowed Carter to appeal to the supreme court and ordered Douglas county to pay the expense of ■the appeal. —to — • —■ Baby Dies At Hospital Shortly After Its Birth Dora Emma Carpenter, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Carpenter, of Goshen, died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital !at 8 o’clock last night, four hours after her birth. The child’s mother formerly was Miss Martha Charles, daughter of Dr. and Mir,s Thomas Charles, of this city. This was the first child in the family. The ! body will be taken to Elwood for burial Thursday afternoon. Short services will be held at the cemetery. o Chinese Officials Flee To Foreign Quarters Today Peking, Mar 24—(United Press)— Chinese officials today fled to the foreign quarter seeking protection from students Who may at any time engage in another anti-government demonstration such as that in which 33 students lost their lives last week. President Tuan 'Chi Jul’s residence i is enclosed within piles of sandbags behind which the presidential guard would stand off the students if they gathered.

i For Governor s /A I t- 5 Mrs. Evelyn Frances Snow, of ] Mount Vernon, former moving . picture censor foi’ Ohio, has announced herself a candidate for the Republican nomination. She finds time, during her campaigning, to care for three children. SIN OF SLOTH IS EMPHASIZED , Father Chapman Discusses Laziness of Modern People In Sermon Last Night Delivering the fifth of the special ■ series of Lenten sermon’ at St. Mary’s, Catholic church last night. Father M. ' A. Chapman spoke on “The Carrying •of the Cross, :md the Sin of Sloth.", 1 "We think." said the speaker, "that * we live in a very active and en: rgetic i age, but it can easily be shown that s ] modern people are very lazy. Even] 1 our activity is largely motived by slothfulness, and so we have labor-saving devices of all kinds to do cur work fori us, machines to carry us to our work. I machines to do our work for us. Hardly] a class of our modern social life does anything like the amount of actual work tiiat its forebearers did. We even hire people to think for us. for intellectual slothfulness is one of the greatest vices of our time. But sloth is one] of the deadly sins and of its very nature it is perhaps the easiest of all to fall into." “1 suppose," continued Father Chap-| man. “that the least popular piece of: furniture in any home is the alarm ' clock! But there are far more serious i and dangerous forms of sloth than mere physical laziness. Mental torpidity paves the way for .spiritual inertia, which we signify by the name of In(COXTIMEO OJt PAGE FIVE! oHeart Attack Fatal To Indianapolis Broker V Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 24. —(United Press.) — Funeral arrangements ’ were being made today for Alex W. Thomson, 67, veteran Indianapolis broker who died late yesterday. Although he had been ill since January, Thomson, who was senior partner in the brockerage firm of Thomson and McKinnon succumbed suddenly to a heart attack. TRUANT OFFICER EXAM SATURDAY 5 V Annual Examination For Applicants To Be Held Saturday Morning The annual examination for applications for the office of county attendance officer will be held at the office -of ‘Clifton Striker, county superlnten- • dent of schools, at 8:30 o’clock next i Saturday morning. Mr. Striker stated s this morning that he did not know how • 1 many applicants there would be for the s position. N. C. Nelson, ‘of Geneva, is attene dance officer at present. He was aps pointed to the position a year ago. Mir. d Nelson has not announced whether or y not he will seek the office again this [year.

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AOMINISTRATION FORCES LOSE IN TEST AT POLLS Senator Norheck Piles Up Commanding Lead Over Regular Republican PRESENT GOVERNOR NOMINATED AGAIN Pierre, S. 1)., March 21 (United Press) - The first primary election of the year South Dakota's — today found the national administration forces in rout through the commanding lead piled up by Senator Peter .1. Norlieck, insurgent. Norbeck's lead today with all l>ut the suburban districts reported, was 25,000 over George J. Danforth, regular republican, in the fight for the republican nomination. The rural vote was expected to swell Norbeck’a lead. The insurgent senator has been on the defensive throughout his campaign, but it was a defensive of purely local nature —none of the really big national issues being involved. Danforth had attacked Norbeck’s stand on the rural credits board in liis drive towards the re- , publican nomination. | In the gubernatorial primares Gov--1 ernor Carl Gunderson defeated C. E. Coyne for the republican nomination by 12,000 votes. Many rural returns, not yet counted, are expected to swell Gunderson's lead. Tn the democratic gubernatorial race, W. J. Bukw defeated R. C. Richards in a contest of little statewide interest and a small vote. - Bandits Frightened Away By Screams Os Woman . Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 24. —(l.'nit- ] ed Press.)—Police today are looking for the youthful bandits who fled from a filling station here when a woman residing adjoining the station witnessed their attempt at holdup and screamed. Both men were armed it was said. JACKSCNSTUDIES SCHOOL SURVEY Governor Goes Over Report Made By His Rural Education Committee Indianapolis. Ind., Mar. 24 —(United Press)—Governor Jackson today began a study of the report of iris special rural education committee which submitted its findings to him late yesterday. Tile report urges that adoption of a state income tax, the revenue to be used for school purposes and also urges diversion of the inheritance tax funds into the common school fund. Practically every phase of rural education in the state is covered in the report which has been compiled after more than a year of work by committee members. Support of the present school attendance law and the reduction of the number or elimination of the school duties of the township trustee was' recommended by the committee, whic halso urged that steps be taken to attract a better class of teachers to the rural schools of the state. It was urged that county superintendents be given more adequate travelin gexpenses and that they al- ■| so have more clercal a'id so as to • ■ be able to devote more of their time ' | to the supervision of school work. ' j The consolidation of the congresLsional, township and common school j funds of the state was urged by the ■ committee which also went on record as favoring the present attendance law and its administration. r The committee which was named s by the governor was headed by Representative Freeman of Kokomo.