Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 82, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1932 — Page 1

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WENT IS I 111 CLEARER I| PRESIDENT ]lllll ' H, Denies Charge ■ || r \Cini- » onimisH.jon \ppointed K;s DEMAND 9 ioi: i <>\i i no\ 9lu.l"”. \|>i- ■'. (UPJ Ksnlvnl IhH.vr, |,hLh ill'tlll’ll Hl.lt |K| r k, d lui ni.ilion <d |n ,l_l 'ss Visll'l |K'|| |,_ l> irtiMin JV,,! Hl « COllI ll'krll Ini' 111 lll\ ..... h, |. .'I.. ' . I■ • ■ Io I •■»! 11 .<* m > Mi v .i’i. tern ol' hiH h i ... : z- I ! ■■' ■ ill tor. si" 0... . . « h ,|.tnuii.l relief for tilldir -i - r «hi< h expenses <an be] 9 Tli>. .'ii■ ...In. i ion ol »p wi'liiri Hie anthori'y Liws (mating and i.ni.iK activities of |i.i-.jiii i>> iiiis end Ur'vo < ottgrCHS ftl I I*** budget proposals. in there war a reduction of 000 for tin- forthcoming I .o!< i nie and hope for In tie- . Oiigress pro- ■■' I <• lions do not <|.<- ■ e-smli.d :u>" I ions, and that ■ lit” genuine and do not I • -i poned apprountil deficiency bills There ill. a large number siilihi tlie bureau MHunment- « iii< Ii cannot Iv without a change in the ■ <r that ti" executive or the i oiiiinit lees can reexpenditures. this dire, lion tlie depart- ■ li-aiK 11. v.. appeared bes ir ■ .liffe'rnt i .niniittees in couin iIo- las' month, and hav» Mril out a multitude of direr- ■ which could he considered ■miiniutees for a redu.--Mos expenditures, but most of 1 reqnir-- i.peai or amendment t laws which compel expe'l- *' Sever, departments alone pointed out over 85 such WTINURn on PSGE SIX) eacher’s Sister hies ord was received Monday by ' Evelyn Goff, instructor in Berne High school, of the * of her sister. Arvilla Goff, 6 'old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. man Goff of Rockville. Death '•'ie to diptheria. The child •ally been ill since Saturday, thing are the parents, three Im and two brothers. ■ENTION DATE IS SET t'hini'ton Twp. Sunday ftnool Convention To w Held April 24 "'‘annual Washington town--unday School convention rtl ,. held .Sunday afternoon, Cher 4 ' St ' PaUl chur A h All rs and superintendents of in the township I- F pJ 0 a,,Pnti the meeting, orlaii,/ 7 8On ' prpßi dent ot the P staua nr " as *’i , lgton tQwnTritch f to<iay that Prof A na f I Ilrin „;° n ? ler resident Kilter CT'Le° f ‘ n,ernatio \ ll 8 Fort Waviun chief address bp fUrnishe< ’ by P'l\ Kr n ro r Sunduy sca °y. it Publ'--1' 1 ' lIP Ilira * cburchesJ

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Mayor Schmidt Dies i Martinsville. Ind., Apr. 5 (U.R) I Mayor George F. Schmidt, tls, presi 1 dent of the Municipal Itlghls Lea 1 [gue of Indiana, which he helped ’organize, died late yesterday of i heart disease. He recently had re | < overed from an illness with intlu-| 1 enza. Funeral services will he hehi I Wednesday at 2 p. m In the pre- ] byterian church. Birial will he in South Part cemetery. Mayor Schmidt last January cull led a meeting of mayors of nine Io her Indiana citit > to discusi ( [means of obtaining rate reduction.; • Ifrom utilities. Another meeting I I was eailt d in February, at which 1 the Municipal Rights League was' formed. A state-wide campaign for I utility rate reductions has been 1 I launched by the league. MESHBERGERS K ~ I GET 2 ROADS ■ ..... - - —■ — Linn Grove Concern Is Low Bidder on Two Macadam Road Projects Meshberger Bros ,of Lin.i Grove. were low bidders on the two , macadam roads which were solo ■ by the board of county commis-j stoners this morning. Five contractors submitted bidsi Oil the two projects. 'l’he bids', follow : Drake road. I'nion town-] ship; O. W. P. Macklin. »::621.5n: lieshberger Bros. *3157; Dean [ Ellison. |3.53::.65; Adolph Itanni. . |;t.«87.68; Charles Arnold. $3.73*. I Bryan road. Blue Creek township: I Meshherger Bros.. $2.M9; Adolph I Hanni. 82.9t17.16; Charles Arnold.[ 13.0X3. Infirmary Bids Bids for supplies at Hie county : tnflnpary follow Groceries, \Val-‘ ter -UrilaU*. $24."><»7; Fisher *' Harris. $231 M. Bread: Walteri ! Deitsch. pound and one-half loaf, six cents; Miller's Bakery, pound, and one-half loaf, six cents. Drv goods. Walter Deitsch, $26.75; j Niblick ik Co. $27.35 The bid of' Mr. Deitsih's did not include the ' item of thread, while the bid of Niblick * Co., did. and the board accepted it as the lowest. No Objections Filed No objections were filed against ; the Drake and Bryan roads. Ac i cording to law the 1.-oml ptoposils, must be submitted to the stile, Itoard of tax commissioners be-j fore the bonds can be issued The I proposed issues do not increase] the budget for next year and it is] thought that the state board will permit the sale of hem. Parents Get Warning Indianapolis, Apr. 5 (U.R) A , warning to parents cautioning i them not to permit thTir children ■ to use wire for kite-lines win issued today by C. L. Herrod president of the Indiana Electric Light association. Within the past week. Herrod pointed out. James Jaap. 15. Fort Wayne, and Elmer Husucker. 11. Medora, were killed when their] wire kite-lines came in contact ' with high power circuits. Jesse] Dau. 15, was burned severe ] ly a similar accident. Herrod also cautioned merchants' against selling wire Io children] for us-- in I-io flying Boston Store Plans Sale The Lankenau Store (Boston | Store) was clused tday in preparn i tion for the stock disposal sale | which opens at the store, Thursday , morning. Oscar Lankenau. proprie' or of the store makes announcentent ment in tonight's Daily Democrat Many seasonable items are offered the public and the attention of the readers of this paper is called to the advertisement. Oil Executive Shot San Francisco, April s—tl’P5 —tl’P) — . Thomas A. Hays. 65. assistant executive vice president of the I'nion ’ Oil Company, was found wounded , in his offi> ■■ here today. He had been shot in the head. Harbor emer- • gency hospital officials said he probably would die. Hoover In Statement i , Washington. April 5 — (U.R) — President Hoover said today that he had revested secretary of state i Stimson to go to Geneva to profl mote more definite steps to relief jithe World's 'Arms burden. He em Sphasixcd that Stimson would not ndlscuss war debts.

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SELECTIVE TAX DRAWS CLAMOR ON ALL SIDES I Industrial And Business Leaders Seek To Air Views COMMITTEES KEPT BUSY Washington, April 5.—<U.R) —The wrath of taxed business and industry was gathering today around the selective sales tax bill. Anxious representatives of the selected sources of revenue were clamoring for opportunities to appear in protest before the senate finance committee. Chairman Smoot said letters ’and tidegrams had been received from Richard Whitney, president of the New York stock exchange, who wants to complain of the one quarter of one per cent tax con[templated for stock sales. Senator Minority Leader Robinson told the Fnited Press that he i would summon a party conference Thursday to eonsidef tax problems. The committee hearings begin to-1 I morrow. Abram .Meyer will represent the, 'motion picture industry before the I [committee in opposition to the adI missions tax. The American Automobile Association, the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, i representatives of match, jewelry, lumber and real estate dealers have 'appealed for a' chance to present [objections to various levies. Senator Tydings, Dem.. Md., informed the committee that he would present witnesses to de-> 'nonnee the heavy duties laid upon. ■ wort and malt which are tlie ingretdieiifs of li'oihO brew ~ •**-' I Senator Rets!. Kepn.is ing to lead a campaign for the sales I tax. "The manufactures sales tax is, worth fighting for," Reed told the; United Press today. "If the Demo-' Jcrats will accept in the senate the Crisp (sales tax) hill that was offered in the house, we Republicans ought to be able to give them [enough votes to pass it. They. [ (CONTINUF.U (>X PAttl'. THHEK) [ BARKLEYWILL BE KEYNOTER Kentucky Senator Will Preside At Democratic Convention Chicago. Apr. 5. —(U.R) Recommendation of Senator A. W. Barkley of Kentucky as temporary chairman and keynoter of the • Democratic tiatioeal convention and Jouett Shouse, chairman of ti e nationa’ executive committee. | is permanent i hairman wan seen - today as a compromise in Hie in- | terest of party harmony. I Tlie recommendations, subject Ito ratification by the nation'll] cc.mmittee and convention, we-o [ made by ti.e subcommittee on I nrrangemeutn i.lter a day of| ' wiTiigling in «»h orangp ('ongrt'ss; i hotel suite, the famed "smoke fill-] ied" room where Republican' bosses picked President Harding I its the 1920 nominee. ! Senator Barkley was the choice I of supporters of Gov. Franklin D. • Roosevelt of New York. Many eastern, leaders, including Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City. Chairman John J. Raskob andj others of the faction of former, Gov. Alfred E. Smith wished Shouse as keynoter. Both sides, however, expressed pleasure at the result. Shouse, weary after the long argument, his red necktie awry, said: "Our conference today was one of the most harmonious ever held. I want to point out particularly that the vote was unanimous." The compromise was made after a poll showed a deadlock likely. The Roosevelt group then withdrew under leadership of James A. Farley, manager of the New York governor's campaign, and] conferred with P.oosevelt by long, distance telephone. It was after this conference that the agreement was reached Political observers who wntched (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, April 5, 1932.

Enters Republican Race •v . < W I 11 Br. < ; w 'WI B’ ■# J • ’ W I . -a»Dr. Harry O. Jones With Dr. Jones' entry in the race for the Republican nomination I for congress from the Fourth district. Berne has two candidates and Adams county three candidates for congress. The other two are State Senator Thurman A. Gottschalk of Berne and A. R. Farrar of Geneva. Democrats. Dr. Jones opposes Representative David Hogg of Fort ; Wayne. He plans a vigorous campaign and announced in favor of the: repeal of the Volstead law. ’

HONOR KILLING TRIAL STARTS Darrow Questions Jury] Prospects; Unwritten 1 Law Predominant j Courtroom. Honolulu. T. H., April 5. - (U.R) Half a dozen prospective jurors drawn from Hawaii's strange "melting pot" occupied the liox today as Clarence Darrow dropped 'his studied wariness and like a , I roaring lion prepared for tlie sec-1 lond (lav's battle in the defense of | four accused American "honor slayI era.” Calm and unruffled until a wordy conflict over the "unwritten law" [appeared to go against him, Darrow [ threw aside his pose as if it were] [his loose fitting coat. Shouting and qestulaling to ; ’judge and venire in the crowded] little court, he was again tlie mill-, l ant warrior who pleaded for John Scopes, the Chicago thrill slayers, tlie Los Angeles Times bombers and George Pettibone of Idaho. Mrs. Grace Bell Fortescue. New York and Washington Socialite, and her three men co-defendants shared none of Darrow's emotion. Seated beside him at a counsel table, they watched as he parried for a chance to link their asserted victim. Joe Kahahawai. with an attack on Mrs. Fortescue's daughter.! Tlutlia Fortescue Massie. Tlie patrician society woman's ; I . , - -- — I I (CONTINUED ON PAGE PIVE> O VIEWS DIFFER ON BEER TAX Shepherd Against Tax On Beer; Bingham Is For 4 Per Cent. Beer Washington, Apr. S—(U.R) —Sena-, tor Morris Sheppard. Dem., Tex..' author of tlie 18th amendment and’ its staunchest supporter in the uppre chanfUer. believes a tax on beer would "create waste and crime.” And he is confident that efforts of senate anti-prohibitionists to ’ legalize beer through the tax bill will he "more decisively defeated than they were in the house." “The wets could not get more ’ than 24 votes for their petition and I doubt very seriously whether they can muster that many for a : beer tax." Sheppard said. He was referring to the senate petition j for a vote on the four per cent beer bill which Senator Bingham. Repn., Conn., introduced before pie tax measure came up. “Not all of those are in favor of legalizing beer by means of a (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Anna Cook Expires Mrs. Anna Cook, 62. died at Hie ’ home o; her daughter. Mrs. Roy ! Harper in Chicago, Monday, follow- [ ing an extended illnesus from pneu-1 monia. Mrs. Cook was well kuowiuiAHHs ( [city, ami wa- a niece of J. 11. Bre- , merkam-p, Mr-- i iiristiua v'ogiv>»<-de and Mis. Hen Knapke. She had vis-; ited with relatives in this city re- j cently and left for her home in Chicago la-t January 6. She became ’ ill three days after she left this [ city and her condition, preceding her death, was thought to have been improving. She i< survived by her daughter, Mrs. Harper of Chicago, ami a brother, John Lampe ot' Davtoh. 0.l GUERNSEY CLUB IS ORGANIZED Adams Co u n t y Cattle Breeders Are Awarded State Medals Several Guernsey cattle breeders, including Dale Moses, Floyd B. Myers. Wesley Stults, Janies and Richard Moses, Gladys and Mabel Harvey, Peter B. Lehman, Orlen Stults, Pollyanna and Juanita Lehman, Reinhold Koldewey, C. W. .Moser, Louis Koldewey and Ned Moser met in the county agent's office last evening with R. L. Holden, Guernsey fieldman and E. T. [Wallace of the dairy extension department of Purdue. The recognition pins offered Guernsey Calf Club members by the American ! Guernsey Cattle Club were presentled to The following people: Gladys Harvey, bronze medal: Mabel Har- [ vey and Reinhold Koldewey. silver medals; Helen Hirschy, Juanita Lehman, Kenneth Hirschy. James [and Richard Moses, and Pollyanna (Lehman, gold medals. These mediate signified one, two and three [years satisfactory completion of [calf club work. After the presentation of the [pins, those present decided to organize the Adams County Guernsey Breeders Association and they elected the following officers: Peter B. Lehman, president; Gilbert Hirschy, vice-president; Reinhold Koldewey, secretary - treasurer; Wesley Stults and Dale Moses, directors. Dues were set at $1 per year per member and a resolution was adopted to appoint a commit(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o *- Robbery Is Reported Fort Wayne. April S—(U.R) —Betty Carpino, 23, reported to police that a masked bandit forced hte way into her home last night, beat her, tied her to a bed, and escaped with a ring valued at SSO and three dollars in cash. No trace of Hie bandit was found.

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WOMAN'S CLUB ELECTS HEAD Mrs. IL B. Heller Elected President of Local Women’s Organization Mrs. Henry B. Heller was vhos- ] eti president of the Decatur WoI man's Club at the meeting of the organization held at Hie Public. Library. Monday night. Mrs. Ih-l-i ler will -luceed Mrs. E. I). Enge , I ler. who has completed her third | i year as president of Hie women's' organization. ' The business meeting of Hie club was held preceding a pro-, gram in which the Literature* department of Hie organization’ , presented Miss Doris Chew ofi 1 England, exchange teacher in th-', | North Side high school. Fort Wayne. At 6 o'clock, the Literature department entertained with a pot ' lin k supper at the diome of Mrs. I John Tyndall, honoring Miss Chev.-, i the speaker of the evening's pro- ' gram. Guests other than the d*’I partment meml ers were Miss I Florine Michaud of Fort Wayne;' [ Mrs. Ralph Tyndall of Bluffton; [ Mrs. E D. Ender. Mrs. D. D. I Heller, anil Mrs. Dan Tyndall. ' During the business meeting, ' which preceded the program for. I the evening, the choosing of tln‘| ’new pesident took place, and Mrs. ’ Ernest I'hrick was selected as [ treasurer, to fill the vacancy] | caused by the resignation of Miss' (CONTINURn nN Ptci: I’lVHi ] PRESIDENTIAL i SCRAP STARTS i — ■ Two States to Select Delegates Today For National Conclaves Washington. Apr. 5. (U.R) -Two [unique primaries today ttsner in ( the active stage of the great Amer iican game of selecting a President. | In the largest state. New York, ’and in the most independent state.. 'Wisconsin, both parties are selecting convention delegates. These I 'are the first of tlie big April pri-. inaries which will pretty well de-1 Icide how the presidential nomin- ] [a'.ion are to go Illinois, Pennsyl-1 vania and Massachusetts coming] later in tlie month. New York — the great prize in both parties, will select its district . delegates today. 90 in eadi case.] Luter at state conventions, tlie republicans will select seven addi-' tional delegates at large and the | democrats four. New York does not provide for | pledging its delegates but the republicans will be all for renomination of President Hoover. The democrats are doubtful. Managers of Governor Franklin 1). Roosevelt claim more than half of the delegates will be personally friendly. The chief of Tammany Hall, John F. Curry, declared here last week that he and his allies would control the delegations and would prevent it from pledging itself until the (CONTINI'IfH OX PAGE TWO) NEW KIDNAP CLUES FOUND Lindbergh Makes Several Mysterious Visits In Airplane ' Hopewell. N. J.. April 5 —(U.R) — New information has reached police investigators in tlie Lindbergh kidnaping case, adding to the re- ' cently increased activities which have included mysterious trips by 1 Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. Lindbergh returned to his estate ’ early today after a mysterious airplane trip yesterday —the second in ' two days. His private plane was ’ seen last evening over the Martha's vineyard section off the Massachusetts coast. Today. Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkopf, sitperintendent of , New Jersey state police said in his ;re ; « conference: “Investitafors are out this morning on Information received ] through tlie mail and lurther reports on their findings will be giv- ! on in a further bulletin.'' \CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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[ Woman Known In City Expires In Florida Word has been received by Mr. I [atUl Mrs. I). J. Barklev of Monroe | ! ville of the death of A. H. Clark of j illiiileah, Florida, brother-in-law of j Mrs. Burk ley. Mr. Clark dJed Friday morning | i oilowing an operation al the Mia Imi ho-.dial. I lie body will be] ] brought to Leipsic, Ohio his former ' ’home, sometime Wednesday. Fun-j ' oral services will he held at 2* io] 1 '! wk Thursday afternoon at Leip , RELATESTRIP I TO MINE AREA United Press Correspondent Tells of Visit To Kentucky Strike Land By Harry Ferguson. t'P Staff Correspondent (Copyright 1932 by the UP) Middlesboro, Ky„ Apr. 5.— (U.R)—in all the turmoil, misery and bloodshed that has be.' set southeastern Kentucky in the last year there are three facts that impress the outsid-] ier most vividly—near starva-] tion, espionage, and curtailment of constitutional rights. Approximately 10.00(1 miners, lioth employed and unemployed, are! living on the verge of starvation. One of the most perfect espionlage systems ever developed is] ’watching the striking members of I the national miners union and is !conducting a bitterly effective cam-’ ipaign of intimidation against them., The constitutional rights of free' [speech and free assembly, insofar] as the strikers are concerned, have' been scrapped by officials of Bell I county. , ] On my arrival in Middlesboro II ’ sought to establish the lru*te-o«' un-, truth of rumors that the National ’ Miners Union were meeting secret-] I ly, changing officers once a week] [and, in general, operating in a constant state of fear of deputy sheriffs ’ and armed citizens. Inquiries re-1 'vealed that a group of strikers' were living in Stony Fork Junction.! outside Middlesboro. and there li found five of them sitting on the] 'porch of a strikers' commissary | ■which had just been closed because j | — | ICONTINURD ON PAGE SIX) DEATH CLAIMS I MONROE WOMAN —. — Martha Pogue, 84, Dies Tuesday at Monroe at Home of Daughter i Mrs. Martha Pogue. 84, died at the home of her granddaughter.] Mrs. Rolla Longenberger of near I Monroe. Tuesday morning at 10:30 o’clock. Death was due to complications. Mrs. Pogue had been bedlast for the last three weeks. The deceased was born in Pennsylvania, the daughter of John and Gettia Reeder. She was united in marriage to Joseph Pogue who preceded her in death 29 years ago. Surviving are three children: Mrs. Laura leisure of near Monroe; Alice L. Johnson of Monroe; and Eliza J. Brubaker of Portland. I One son died m infancy. j One brother and a sister also I survive: George Roeder of Fletcher. 0.. and Jennie Clevernger of I Polo. Mo. Three brothers and ! four sisters preceded Mrs. Pogue “in death. Funeral services will he held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Ixmgenberger home in Monroe, and at 2:30 o’clock at the Monroe M. E. church, witli tlie Rev. E. M. Dunbar officiating. Burial will be in the Springhill cemetery. Snyder Funeral Tuesday Funeral services were held at. i 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the First Baptist Church in Bluffton for George I). Snyder. 69. prominent Bluffton insurance man. •who died at 12:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon at his home in Bluffton. Mr. Snyder had been ill for the last ten weeks, following a stroke of paralysis. He was district ’ agent of the Peoples Life Insurance company ol' Frankfort, with which he had been identified for the last 24 years. He is survived by his wife, a son Ray. and a daughter. Mrs. Thomas E Miller, all of Bluffton.

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GOV. LESLIE THREATENS TO i CALL TROOPS Sullivan County Authorities Urged to Ask For Aid If Necessary (TROOPS MAY BE SUMMONED : — • Indianapolis, April 5.— (U.R) — Governor Harry G. Leslie warned authorities of Sulli[van county by telephone lo|day that ‘‘State troops will be sent into the mine area unless local officials succeed in quieting the rebellious miners." Later he conferred with Adjutant General Paul Tombaugh of the Indiana National [Guard. Reports of disturbances nt the 'Somerville cooperative mine near Sullivan and at Starburn mine near Shelburn were made to Hie governor's office last night by Sheriff' .! Wesley William of Sullivan county. Complaints of threats by the miners, who are striking over wage contracts, were made by Henry ’Smith, president of the Starburn i mine. l,eslie learned that striking miners shut off fans in the mines yesterday and threatened to burn the [structure. Smith, also charged that William Mitch. Terre Haute, an official of the United Mine Workers, j was making speeches calculated to ; arouse the miners. The Governor told Sheriff Williams that if local authorities were [unable to handle the situation state [troops would be rushed into the 'area to protect property. Williams stated that he was hav- ; ing difficulty because the county ’ commissioners refused to appropriate money for deputies. To Show New Ford The new models of tlie Fold. Hie VS and 4 will he shown at tlie De- | catur Sales and Service garage all | day April in. it was announced to- | day. Two models, the coach amt I truck will be brought here. o Pound Baby Born ] Kansas City. M 0... April 5 it I’l Sound and symmetrical, a one- > pound baby boy. lielieved to he the I smallest child ever born alive, carried fin ward a stout fight for life ] here today. j And doctors gave the tiny boy. ' less than fourteen inches long, his ’doublet! fists about as large as his i 6-foot lather's thumbnail, an exceli lent chance to win. The baby, the physicians said, is only premature and undernourished. | He is fullv developed. —o— Couple Found Dead Corydon, Ind., April S—(U.R)5 —(U.R) A theory ot murder and suicide was tentatively accepted by authorities investigating the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. John Greene at their farm home near here. Mrs. Greene. 30. was found dead in bed. She had been beaten to death. The body of Greene. 67. was found hanging in a barn. WISCONSIN IN PRIMARY SCRAP Both Parties Have Contest For Delegates; Cicero Is Guarded 1 Madison. Wis., Apr. s—(U.R) —■ Wisconsin voters ballotted toilsv in the state's primary election which took national significance t with fights in both Republican ( and Democratic parties for deleI gations to the national presidential conventions. In the Republican primary regu- ' lar Republicans have entered a ticket of 27 delegates unpledged ‘ but favorable to President Hoover. , The progressives have named a , list pledged to Senator George W Norris ot Nebraska. 1 The state's Democratic delegar] tion of 26 votes is being fought I for by an unpledged list favorable j to former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of Now York and a pledged deleg.i(CONTINUED <>N PAGE FIVE)