Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1926 — Page 1

/01. XXIV. Number 107.

Close races in the county primary

I WATSON, ROBINSON AND ALBERT STOMP LEADING

[ ■Jemocratic Senatorial Long Term Nomination Is I Thrown Into Convention—Fredriek, Stump, ! ( ullop, And Slack Are Leading The FieldRobinson Is Gaining—Watson Has Big Republican Lead.

| I The Democratic vote in Indiana on : precincts: Stump. 31.005; Slack, I K).981: Culfop. 28,655; Frederick, ■e.2’B. ■ I linliainipolis. Ind , .May 5 —(Unite d I H,. . W.th Senators Watson and I Knliiir-'in apparently assured of reI Hiaraiuiion by Indiana republicans. I Kttoday tinned toward the deniHujtir battle in the long term senalirial race. Additional returns at noon pushed Ibert Stump, Indianapolis attorney, to the lead with William A. Cullop 1 Vincennes and John Frederick, of okorno. close behind. No candidate will receive the marity vote necessary for nomination! this race, but the man who holds ie lead in the primary count will go to the state convention in strong isition for the final choice. Indianapolis-. Ind., May s—(United essi—Senator James E. Watson id Arthur Robinson have won nomilions of the republican party for other term in congress, returns rm nearly half of the-precincts in sterday’s primary election indicatI today. | I Tie- democratic <hoice for senator. I ■ appeared on returns tabulated, will ' HBu to the state convention of the through failure of any candi- | MBblp to secure the majority vote for nomination. I | lienomination of Senator Watson a majority of 150.000 over Claris and of Senator Robinson by majority of 50,000 over four other was claimed by their managers. ■ Returns on 1666 precincts out of in the race for the republican term nomination gave: Watson M 14.994. Adams 45,145. I in 165 S precincts in the republican term senatorial race the vote Robinson 86,996; Arch Graham, Oswald Ryan, 16,864; Ward 8.9.12. I The vote on 1,257 precincts in the long term fight stood: Brederick, 17,105; Albert Stump, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ILEA N-UPWEEK STARTS MAY 10 ouncil Sets Date For The Annual Clean-Up In This City May 10 to 17 will he “clean-tip" tek in Decatur. The city’ council session la,st, evening, designated e week of May 10 as the time for a neral clean-up of the alleys, hack rds, vacant lots and instructed the iy street commissioner to arrange have the trucks ready for the round--1 by next Monday. For several years, it lias been cusmary to designate one week of the ar as clean up week, during which ne a special effort is made to clean 1 the alleys, vacant lots and back rds of all tin cans and other rubsh. City trucks, teams and wagons will nl the winter’s accumulation of tin ■ cans and other unsightly debris away. The cooperation of every citizen is ■ asked and from the response shown I in former years, the city officials are B confident that everyone will help to I make Decatur “a little cleaner and I brighter” during clean-up week. Street Commissioner Ainos Fisher I stated all tin -cans and such rubbish, B exc ept ashes and cinders, should be I placed in a pile or in boxes and barI rels and that the men would pick I them up. The trucks will start out I Monday and the circuit over the city I will continue until every alley and I street has been covered.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

I — — . Tri-Kappas To Hold “Hard • Times Dance Friday Night The Tri Kappa Sorority of this city I will hold a hard times dance at the I Masonic hall Friday night. The dance • is being held on the park plan and the public is cordially invited to at- ■ tend. Good music will lie secured. Tickets will sell for three for 25 cents. Dancing will start at 8 o'clock and last until midnight. o NO OBJECTIONS ON PARK PLAN Board Os Commissioners To Transfer Cemetery To City For Park j No objections were filed with the county commissioners today against tlie conveying of the old cemetery | grounds on Winchester street to the city of Decatur for park purposes. The petiiton was presented to the board and due to a rush of other business hm»44*ms. uf-tiwit had nut been taken on it up to press time. The board, however. Is willing to transfer the cemetery grounds to the city and the city will take steps towards turning the place into a memorial park. o Rosetta Nelson Funeral To Be Held Friday Morning — Funeral services for Mrs. Rosetta Nelson will be held Friday morning Leimetlltll hon(' near Curryville at 9:30 o'clock from the Charles and from the Christian Union church at Craigville at 10 o'clock. Reverend Porter will officiate.

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Dirigible Norge On Trip To King’s Bay, Spitzenbergen Leningrad, May 5. (United Press) --The dirigible Norge, which will carry the Amundsen-Ellsworth expedition on its projected flight to the north pole, left here at 9:38 a. m , today for King's Hay, Spitzenbergen. King's Bay is to be the "jumping off place" for the flight into the polar wastes. The Norge had been delayed here for several days by a heavy fog which made air navigation impossible. ALL PLANS FOR BETTER HOMES WEEK COMPLETE E. B.Williamson Makes Outline Os Big Event Which Will Be Held May 17-23 PLANS BIG EVENT ( Several New Features Will Make Entire Week One Os Great Interest Decatur's first Better Homes Exposition which gives every promise of being one of the greatest shows in | its kind ever held in this section of the state will open on Liberty Way Monday evening. May 17, at 7 p. ni. and continuing every evening during the week and Saturday afternoon. | Everything that you may wish to learn about the construction, equipment, furnishing, and niaintcainan.ee of a home, will be presented in the rows of gaily and attractively arranged Issohs-Uw mauy displays of material, designs, lighting, heating and sanitation equipment presented. It will be a veritable course of instruction for the home owner, home seeker and home lover, who wish to ' keep their buildings and grounds at 'their best, with an economical expenditure of money. It. will be an i educational achievement, not only ' filled with interest but delightfully entertaining. Instructions and demonstrations in all lines will suppleinet the visual presentation in the booths which will be beautifully and effectively set up and equiped by the I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 5, 1926.

BREAK SEEN IN ; ENGLISH STRIKE, : LEADERS THINK Conference Between Labor J And Government Will Be Held Soon CONDITION SERIOUS Thirty-six Hours, And The Strike Is Still In Full Swing Over Country — London. May s—(United Press)— Witli the general strike at the end 1 of 36 hours gradually showing signs of yielding to the pitiless opposition of the government, the United Press was authoritatively informed that J. H. Thomas, and Premier Baldwin will meet today in private in a renewed effort to find a basis of industrial peace. | It was understood that Baldwin and Thomas’ meeting will be unostentatious and of the most private character in order not to attract attention or raise false hopes. The laborite overtures for a conference between Baldwin and Thomas represent the first tangible sign of cracking of the 'strikers’ refusal to negotiate. It is understood that the trades union council sanction Thomas', action but reserved the right to disown or reject and of his proposals or any results which might come from the proposed meeting. The threat of disorder, however, ■ continued to menace the nation. i Crowds were thickening hourly aiound the gates of the East India . docks and troops in Cauningtown, I nearby, were held In readiness. There have already been disorders in Canningtown but no details of the hap- - penings were known us the police , closed the affected area to vehicles and pedestrians. Disturbances flared tip in Poplar , last night with the result that twen- , ty strikers are In Poplar hospitals, , their heads broken by the swinging (CONTINUED ON PAGB. FIVE) Weather Fair tonight and Thursday. Rising temperature.

Roe Denies His Guilt In Winslow Murder Case Petersburg, Ind., May 5. (United Press) —Facing trial on a charge of murdering 9-year old Leander Roe a week ago, Thomas Roe, 60, and Mrs. Beatrice Bolin. 55. today continued their denials of guilt, , Mrs. Bolin, in a statement to authorities, had implicated Roe. father of the slain boy, and he branded her story a lie. A hearing will be granted May 28. I o - RETURNS SLOW IN CONTESTS FOR CONGRESS I . — Most Os Candidates Up For i Renomination Run Far Ahead Os Others SEVERAL UNOPPOSED Few Close Contests Apparent In Any Os Thirteen Indiana Districts Indianapolis, Ind, May 5. (United Press) —Members of the Indiana delegation in the lower house of congress seeking re-nomination ruled favorites I in Tuesday's primary election, returns indicated today. Ralph Updike, war veteran and present incumbent, was out ahead of James | Ogden by nearly 1.000 votes in returns on the seventh district republican race. Richard N. Elliott, of Connersville. 1 took the sixth district by a storm in his uue for MwcsiMiou. Elliott was 1 opposed by Esther Griffin White, of • Ric hmond, on a wet platform. Representative Fred Purnell, of At- ’ tica, one of the leaders in the con--1 gresslonal fight for farm relief, was leading Earl Stroup two to one in the ninth dislriet. Albert Hall, of Marion, another in- ■ cumbent, was ahead in tlie ninth dis- ; tried by a tremendous lead. | Representative Noble Johnson, of Terre Haute, showed under his op-' ■ ponent, William Horsley, of Terre ■ Haute, a wet, in tlie fifth dislriet. Andrew Hickey. I,aporte. was over(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

SMALL MAJORITIES ARE PRINCIPAL FEATORES Hollingsworth, Ashbaucher, Nelson. Cline, Hoffman And Boch Win In Democratic Primary Election—Sam Butler Is Republican Nominee For Sheriff—Other Election News From Over The County.

Deputy Killed As Five Convicts Break Prison Joliet. 111.. May 5. —(United Press) —Deputy Warden Peter N. Klein was killed in u jail break at the Illinois state prison here today, when seven convicts —five of them serving sentences for murder—trapped him in the cell house and stubbed him through tlie heart. o CLOSE CONTESTS IN TOWNSHIPS Trustee And Assessor Races Are Hard Fought In Every Township Close races marked the contests | for the nominations for trustee in nine of the townships on the democrat ticket and in St. Marys and Wabash townships on the’ republican ticket. There were also contests on the republican ticket for the nomina- , tion for assessor in St. Marys township, the successful candidate wini ning by one vote. In five of the town- ' ships there were contests for the nomination for assessor on (lie democratic ticket. The winners in the township trustee races were. Arthur Blakey, Union township; Ainas J. Lewton. Root township; Ernest J. Worthman, Preble; Charles Arnold, Kirkland; Thomas R. Noll, Washington; Vance Matlax. Monroe; Ed Stalely, Wabash: Daniel Studler, Hartford; MuiJtJn Moeschberger, French, all democrats. The democrats who were unopposed for the nominations for trustee were, Orlen S. Fortney, St. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

Price Two Cents.

THE WINNERS I Democratic ) Congress—Virgil Simmons. s Prosecutor John T. Kelly, s Joint Senator—Thurman A. Gott11 J sctialk. '• Representative—George* I* ISaunII tiers. 11 Clerk—John E. Nelson. Treaseerer —Edward A. Ashbaucher. Sheriff —1 lari Hollingsworth Coroner —Dr. J. (’. Grandstaff. Surveyor—Dick I loch. Assessor—Jonah A. Cline. I Coenmissioner, Its district - John i G. Hoffman. Commissioner, 2nd district — B. F. Breiner. Republican Congress—Albert IT. Vestal. Joint Senator—Charles L. Shadle. Representative—Romeo O. Elston. ■t ' Clerk —Edward E Liechty. n Treasurer -William E. Faiirote. ,J Sheriff - Samuel U. Butler. , Assessor—Alva Vorheee. ti Commissioner Ist district — John n Rabbit t. i. Commissioner 2nd district —Charles i- W. Merriman. 1 Adams conniv democrats voted e !_ strong for Fredericks for United I S'.ates senator in yesterday's primary, approved Evans Woolens. Virgil Sim1 mons for congress and nominated a ’ strong local ticket to carry the party '' (o victory next November. (Killing a ' | better than average vote. j The republicans in a light vote, ' I scattered over the thirty-four dis--1 i ticts. put the O. K. seal on Watson and Robinson for senator. Vestal for congress, named a county ticket ' with the exception of surveyor and coroner. Their only contest was for •herLff in which Butler won over ‘ Hawkins by four votes. On the democratic side there were several interesting contests, the largest interest being in the race for sheriff in which there were seven entries. The results see-sawed some in the early returns but Harl Hollingsworth of Geneva, took the I lead after a few precincts and was never headed though his final plurality was not large. In a number of the townships the trustee battles also attracted much attention, espec- , ially in Washington township where ' six well known democrats had made a thorough canvas. Tom Noll, wellknown farmer, was the final winner. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) TRUANT OFFICER ! TO BE ELECTED Board Os Education Will ! Meet Monday Morning For Selection The county hoard of education will meet at the county superintendent’s office next Monday for the purpose of electing a county attendance officer for the ensuing year, it was learned this morning. So far, there are two candidates for the position, and it is j probable that there will be one 1 or two more. | Nathan Nelson, present attendance officer, will be a candidate, for reelection, it is understood. It was also learned that Mrs. EJ'.la Peoples of this city, would be a candidate. One or two other persons, eligible for the position are said to be considering entrelng the race. The election will be held Monday morning at the county superintendent's office. Ail township trustees J are eligible Io vote in ti e election. I