Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 131, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1926 — Page 1

W EAT H K R Partly HdiKly north portion. probably L,l showers or ihnn<Wstorni< with Ltion tonight and }- f „t..i. Commo*.! cool.

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geneva visited BY RUBBERS; LOOT MORE TRANSITS I'arlow Brothers Hardware Store And Geneva Milling Co. Office Entered safes ARE LOOTED AT BOTH PLACES (Special to Daily Democrat) C.tn.va, June 3.—Robbers broke info two Geneva business houses Wednesday night and carried away loot valued at more than $175. The places visited by the robbers were I'arlow Brothers Hardware store and !l IP Geneva Milling company. At the Farlow Brothers’ store, about $l3O in cash was stolen from the safe, In addition to a double-barreled shotrun and several knives. The combination to the safe was broken and ihe door forced open. Em rance to the building was made through a rear window. Af*er I.Taking ii-o the lumber room in the rear of the building, the robbers broke out a panel in the door leading to the hardware room and forced the door open Safe Not Damaged The money stolen from the Geneva Milling company was taken from the| afe. The big door to the safe was not damaged, and was locked this morning, indicating that either the combination had been worked bv the robbers or the door had not been locked yesterday evening when the| store was closed. The small door leading to the cash drawer inside the safe had been pried open. Adam Egley, manager of the milling com pany, stated that he was positive that he had locked the afe ye= terdav evening Several dollars in paper money was over’ooked by the robbers at Farlow Brothers’ store, having been cast aside with several checks. Harl Hollingsworth, town marshal, is working on ‘tie case, but so far. has been unable to obtain any workable clues. d Grief Cause Os Suicide. Indianapolis, Ind., June 1! (United Press)—Grief over the death of an aunt was given today as the cause rd the suicide of Deane Byrad. 31. who shot herself through the heart in a park here. She left a note saying the aunt was “the only mother she had known for many years’’ Search Lake For Body. East Chicago. Ind.. .June 3.— 'l’nit-i ed Press.) — Police of East Chicago and a coast guard cutter from the Chicago station today searched the waters of Lake Michigan for the b»dv of Andrew Hocya. 16. Indiana Harbor school boy and first drowning victim of the season in Lake countv. Ilogya slipped fro ma pier while fishing and before companions could summon aid be had disappeared from view. UNO CONCERT THIS EVENING Junior And G. E. Bands Unite In Present Benefit Program Tonight Music lovers are promised a treat this evening when the Decatur Junior band and the General Electric company's band will give a joint concert at the high school auditorium. The concert will start at 8 o'clock The first part will be given by the Junior band and the second part by th e 0. E. band. Mr. J. C. Cafaro, instructor and leader, of both bands, W ‘H have charge of the program. The proceeds derived from the concert will be used in buying uniforms for the Junior band members. Mem- . hers of the Rotary club have been selling tickets for the concert. In addition to the band numbers, there *ill be solo mumber and quartets.

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Vol. XXIV. Number 131.

Shriners Pick Atlantic City ForJ927 Meeting Philadelphia. June 3. - -1 United Press. 1 — Atlantic City today was chosen as the 1927 convention city for the 53rd session of the imperial council. Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at the final - session of the council here today. I The date of t| u . session was set sot June 11, 15, ifi. o— PUPILS STAGE ENTERTAINMENT Large Crowd Attends Program Given Bv Pupils Os St. Joseph School The grade pupils of the St. Joseph Catholic schools gave an entertain ment in the auditorium of the Cath olic school building last evening. A large crowd was present and the program of songs, recitations, music and playets was well given. The children knew their parts well and the program was entertaining throughout. The stage and auditorium was attractively decorated for lite oceas-| sion and the pupils from every one I ,of the eight grades participated. The pogram as given follows: Greeting Chorus..6th, 7th, Bth Grades! Playet. The Minims' Gift.. First Grade Song. Goin' to Meetin' Second Grade Girls Recitation. Come, Follow Me Sixth Grade Girl] Farce, The Pickaninnies Sixth Grade Boys: Acrostic Second Grade Boys; Playete, Tom's First Piece Fourth Grade Boys Duet, The Quarrel Fourth Grade Lad and I-a.vie, Recitation. Air Castles Third Grade Boys I Comedy. A Quiet Afternoon in a Flat Eighth Grade Pantomine. The Star Spangled Banner Seventh Grade Boys Recitation, Sambo’s Prayer. A Darkey Playet. The Golden Thimble Sixth Grade Girls Drill. The Rooster Parade Fifth Grade Boys The commencement exercises of the Decatur Catholic schools will be held on June S. in the school auditorium. Rev. Marr, of Monroeville, will deliver the commencement address and the seniors will give a playet. —o CONVENTION TO BE HELD JUNE 13 Union And Root Township Sunday Schools To Meet At Union Chapel The Union and Root townships | Sunday School convention will be held Sunday, June 13. at ,l "‘ Vnio " Chapel church. 3 miles northeast of Decatur. The program will start at 2 o'clock and the public is invited to attend. Two Decatur ministers, the Rev. It. N Covert of the Presbyterian church, and the Rev. C R. Smith of the United Brethren church, are on the program. Mr. £■ <*. B,ereie ’ of Bel ? e ' president of the county Sunday School organization, is also on w program. The program arranged is as follows: Congregation S ‘ nK . , n,. v BN. Blauvelt Devol tonal Coner egation Song .. B m covert Address congregation Sone v R smith Address Congregation Song Offering p yjprie Talk Rev II J. Kieser tSl’p S-day School convention will be held Sunday. June 6. The afternoon session win be held at 2 o’clock at the Apple GroV e church and the evening session at Geneva at the M E. church.

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EARL CARROLL GETS YEAR AND A DAY SENTENCE Theatrical Producer Also' Fined $2,000 For Contempt Os Court IMMEDIATE APPEAL IS PLAN OE DEFENSE New York, June 3. (United Press)! Earl Carroll, theatrical producer, today was sentenced to serve one year and one day in Atlanta federal penitentiary and lined s2.omi, for telling a federal grand jury here that nobody had bathed in a bathtub of champagne at the party he gave on the stage of his theater the night of February 22-23. The fine of $2,b00 was assessed in two parts, SI,OOO on each of the two I counts of perjury.' Ileibert Smythe, attorney for Carlroll announced that an immediate ap t peal would be taken. The papers, he said, were already prepared, tiling forty alleged errors ami other points as a basis. The appeal will probably | be heard at the October term of the | appellate court. Carroll's bail was set at $5,000 pending appeal. He went immediately to arrange the bail. While Carroll’s actual penitentiary sentence is a y’ear and a day in prison, technically he is sentenced to that term on each coupt, bitt the jail F sentences will run caneirrrently. Sentence was passed by Federal Judge Henry Goddard, in accordance with Carroll's conviction returned by a jury a week ago today on two I counts of perjury. Carroll's conviction and sentence was the climax of an incident which | kept federal officers busy and much ■ of the country interested for weeks. | Five hundred persons, it was estimated. attended the party Carroll gave. It started around midnight, after the evening's performance, at his theater. Harry K. Thaw. Irvin S. Cobb, writer: Clinton T. Brainerd, magazine editor; Countess Cathcart, and many others whose names are well known were among the guests. The next day the story was told that about four a. m-. a bathtub which had stood on (lie stage and from which refreshments- alleged to have been champagne but never so proved —had been served, was in the center of the stage. Carroll held up an opera capo and Miss Joyce Hawley, a model, walked from the wings, clad in "her prettiest" and disappeared behind the cape. Then, the story was told, th,, cape > seemed to slip just a little and some] said they saw an orange, colored bitt (covrivi wn mt pagr fivk» CONSTRUCTIONOF DRAIN ORDERED Court Orders Proposed • Drain In Union Township Constructed Judge Jesse C. Sutton, in circuit court, today ordered constructed a drain in Union township, petitioned for recently by Henry L. Dehner ami twenty-two other property owners in that township. There was po remonstrance filed to the proposed drain during the ten days following the filing of the commissioners’ report. The assessments proposed in the commissioners’ report were approved by the court Dick Bocji, county surveyor and one of the commissioners appointed to investigafe the drain, was appointed to have charge of the construction work. The proposed drain follows the course of the Wagoner ditch southwest across the township, terminating at lhe Hines ditch on the Richard Bi.'choff farm. ‘ r

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j THE TICKET Indianapc'is, June 3. — After naming Albert Stump as the long term senatorial candidate, the democratic state convention this afternoon balloted on candidates for state officers. Arthur Hamrick, of Greencastle, was/ nominated for secretary of t state over Orville Simpson, of Morristown, and by motion of Sampson the selection was made unaminous. David Ferguson, of Covington, was nominaed by acclamation for auditor of state. Jap Jones, of Martinsville, defeated John Cody, of New Albany by a vote of 743 to 573 for the nomination for treasurer of state. Zach Dungan, of Huntington, was re-nominated for clerk of the state supreme court over Christan Emhardt, of Indianapolis. Emhardt withdrew before the ballot was complete and Dungan's nomination was made unanimous. John Linebarger, of Rockville, was nominated for superintendent of public instruction. COMMISSIONERS TO MEET MONDAY Bids For Construction Os Macadam Roads To Be Received At Session The Jun»> session of the county commission! rs will be be'.d next week, the board convening on Monday. Among other matters to he taken up by the board will be the receiving of bids for the construction of two macadam roads in Monroe and Root townships. The roads which wi I be im proted .are the Robert Schwartz road. Monroe township, which improvement covers everal streets ill > the town of Berne. The length of the 1 proposed improvement is about two miles and the estimated cost of construction Is a little more than SII,OOO. | Streets in Berne which will be improved include Wabash, Harrison. Compromise. High. Sprunger streets| to the north corporation line. The Charles Bohnke road in Root i township is also about two miles in ; length and the setimated cost of con struction is more than $14,000. in-1 eluding sewers, bulkheads etc. Steps have already been taken for 1 «■» X < CONTINUED ON PAGfc FIVE) O- — DAN W, SIMMS SOUNDS KEYNOTE Calls On Democrats To Stand Foursquare On Jefferson’s Principles Indianapolis, Ind.. June 3.— (United Press)—A warning that the shifting of powers from states to the federal government will lead ultimately to destruction of the republic was sounded today before the Democrats state convention by Dan W. Simms, of Lafayette. As keynote speaker of the convention. Simms called on the party in Indiana to go into the coming campaign standing foursquare on the principles of Thomas Jefferson. He called for a return to "a maintenance of scientific and essential balance between the national and state governmental powers and the recognition and preservation of local self government." Flays Republican Tariff Simms flayed the Replubcian tariff, deplored the increase in number of government employes and in the burden of taxation and criticized the influence of blocs on national legislation. Indiana's two Republican senators, he told the convention, have been riding both horses on the world court issue. "The first great Issue is the cen (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

BILLS PROPOSED BY WET BLOC IN SENATE KILLED Judiciary Committee Holds Legislation Against 1 Sth Amendment Impossible ACTION INDEFINITELY POSTPONES MEASURES Washington, June 3 t United Pr< s The half dozen wet bills proposed by the Senate Beer Bloc to modify the Eighteenth Ammemlment were killed today by the Senate Judiciary committee on prohibition. The committee submitted a report definitely positioning action niton the wet bills and setting forth its view that as long as the 18th Amendment was in < 'oust it til lon, no legislation could be entertained contrary ; to its spirit. i Indefinite postponement remains I that the bills will remain buried in ' the committee without being reported I ' to the Senate for decision. I The Measures include the Bruce I posal for national referendum; tile I of liquor distribution, the edge proi po-aal for a national referendum; the edge bill to permit manufaclur. sale ' and transportation of four per cent i and the Edge amendment to permit ! beer: the Bruce bill for local option manufacture of liquor non intoxicat in? In fact in lhe home-. Peru Circus Manager Faces Murder Charge Buffalo. N V A charge of fir t degree murder was today placed against : Charles D. Odom, of Pern. Indiana. I travelling manager of the Magenhe.-k Wallace circus, after an investigation by district attorney Moore. The case will go to the grand jury. i Odom is alleged Io have shot ami | killed James Warren, a negro circus worker. Thuesday night Injunction Blocks Strike. Indiana'olis Ind. June 3 (United Press.)A federal court Ininiution | ro«( >v blocked the proposed strik,, of j i 1,000 Indianapolis street car workes. ! Judge Baltzell issued an iniunction ! temporarily restraining union or--1 eanizers from carrying out their plans for a walkout. j The st-ike was threatened when lhe - Street Railway eompan v rejected de I miiml ■ of tile workers for a wage increase. SIX KILLED IN OKLAHOMA STORM Family Drowns As Car Is 1 Swent From Bridge Bv High Wall Os Water 1 Oklahoma City. Okla.. June 3— ' (United Press) Toll of lhe storm that swept Oklahoma during the night ■ increased to six dead today. Five members of the A. IC. Blocher ' family were drowned when their car 1 was swept from a bridge by a head • water wall four feet high. t Albert Adams, 35, was killed near! Dnimwhight by lightning. The dead: A R Blot her, 60, re-, I tired farmer. Hominey. I Mrs Blocher, Mary Blocher, aj ■ daughter. Robert Hailey. Mrs (corI rect) Ruth Hailey, a.daughter of the Blochers. ' o— KNOW YOUR STATE • si INDIANA is the geographic cen•l ter of the eastern half of the Unitj ed States, the dividing line being , -central Kansas. Here are to be II found 85 percent of the national t population, 65 percent of her mineral resources. 80 percent of the ■ wealth and 85 percent of the anj nual income.

iCeorge Fennig Injured In Automobile Accident George Fennig, 71. senior member of the contracting firm of Fennig ASon. of New Corydon, suffered painful Injuries Wednesday afternoon. | when the I-'ord coupe In which lie was tiding collided witlt another carl lat a street Intersection in Portland. Mr. Fennig sustained a broken collar! bone, a dislocated shoulder, bruises : and cuts. Ves Hiutt. who was riding witlt Mr. Fennig, was not injured ser- ‘ ionsly. OIL WELL TO BE SHOT TOMORROW Well No. I To Be Brought In On Schulte Farm In Blue ('reek Township Oil well No. 4. drilled on th“ Paul Schulte farm, formerly the John Moser farm, in Blue Creek township, will be shot about 2 o’clock Friday afternoon, Il was announced today. Mr. Schulte will arrive from Chicago tomorrow morning to witness the shooting of lhe well. Three wells have been brought in on the Schulte farm within recent months and all give promise of being paying wells. Pumping of the first three wells will begin tomorrow, it was said today. Mr. Schulte, who is building the j golf course and country dub grounds at the south edge of the city, will remain In Decatur a day or two. it was ‘■aid. n Senate Apnronriates Sum For Probe Os Expenditures Washington, June 3 —(United I Press The United States Senate today appropriated SIO,OOO for its i special committee to conduct a i thorough investigation of primary j i «ampaign expenditures through the, 1 count :y. o TRAINMANCAUSES BANDITS’ARREST Conductor, Not Knowing Os Rohberv, Causes Capture Os Robbers Milwaukee. Wis„ June 3—(United Press) Two bandits are in jail today and $1,300 in loot is recovered, all I through the efforts of a trainman I who didn't even know there had been a robbery. Late yesterday three bandits entered the State B ink of Shorewood, held up the tellers, and esi aped with $1,300. About an hour later Gilbert Coop er, Sioux City. lowa, and Frank Bourke. Bentley. 111., boarded a Chicago. North Shore and Milwaukee; electric train, armed with a basket full of vegetables and two tickets Io Racine. Wis. After the train bad left Racine. Ray Lumby, conductor, noticed the two men. He informed (hem their tickets read to Racine ahd Racine was several miles back. "We're going on give us a ticket ( ; to Kenosha." one of the men said Telephones Police The ticket to Kenosha was given j them but at Kenosha the two men i decided they would go to the next I stop—Waukegan. 111. They failed to ■ get off the train at Waukegan so Lumby telephoned police an North Chicago—after the two men hud purchased tickets to Noi(tli Chicago—and there Cooper and Bourke were seized by detectives. The basket they carried contained, besides spinach and carrots, some $1,300 in I cash. The men were questioned at length ! and finally confessed tn tho robbery, naming a third man. The two wore brought back here and were iu jail three hours after the bank holdtif occurred.

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YOUNG ATTORNEY NOMINATED FOR SENATORIAL RACE Selection Is Made On Third Ballot At State Convention Today FREDERICK LEADS ON FIRST BALLOTS — Indianapolis. June 3. (I itil|ed Press) Alh er I Slitnt p . (voting Indianapolis attorney, i was nominated this al tt rnoow j by the democratic stale eonveni lion as the partv's long term ) senatorial candidate. I Slnnm will oppose Sen. James E. Watson, rentihliean nominee in the coining campaign. The selection came at the end of the third ballot on lhe six candidates wh<> made 'he mimarv rice f<*r the nomination. As the ballot ended. Knox county, homo of William A Cullop, who had a lend of n bar,, margin of 1.000 votes in tho primary count, shifted from Cullop to Slump SsvemJ other lonntie swung with Knox countv and there was a ru b to change votes for Stump. Nomination Mad- By Acclamation On motion of CuTop. the nomination was made bv acclamation Tho names of the six men who made tho primary race without any one receiving a maloritv of th? votes oast wcr? placed before the convention. The candidates were: James F Frederick nf Kokomo; William Collup. of Vincennes: Albert Stump. I. William Curry and L Ert Slack all of Indianapolis; and George Rauch, of Marion. Frederick held a slight lead over Cul'op on the first Irdlot The vote: Frederick. 380; Cullop. ■'•ss: Stump, IMS; Ramli. 143; Slack. 140; Curry. 147. Frederick Increases Lead Six hundred and -ixfy votes are necessary for a choice. On the second ballot Frederick increased his vote and retained the j lend while Stump went into second place over Cullop There was a distinct trend of votes to Stump from tit > camp of Cullop, who was lender tn the primary ballot:ng bv n margin of less than 1000 over Stump. The vote on the second ballot; Frederick. 455: Slump. 101: Cullop, | 296: Rauch. 142: Slacl . 96; Curry. PR. Uielimniaries of th’ convention went off smoothly and the platform drafted bv the resolutions committee was ndonted willunit oMiinge. The liberal elemen? withheld Its threatened attack on the floor of tho convention (■> have plhnks included for repeal of the Wright bone dry law and for a referendum on the prohibi- (( <<V!'IX I Cl> OX IMGI4 FIS K) 18 TEACHERS TO ATTEND COLLEGE Many Decatur School Teachers To Resume Studies During Summer Eighteen out of the 42 teachers in the Decatur city schools during the , pas’ v'ear will attend college (,his , summer, M. F. Worthman. superini tendent of the city schools, an- . nounced today. Most of them will enroll for the summer term within . the next threw weeks. Four teachers I will spend the summer travel'ing s through the west. t Although the list of tench, r; for the city’ schools next yeu” Is not enI, tirely completed. Mr Worfhm in t )t- --. ed that all of the school principals e will return next year They are il Walter J. Krick, principal of tiie high P school; W Guy Biown principal of (I'OVI IM Ht> O-X I‘AGE TWO)

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