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J. I. FARLEY LEADS TICKET Congressman Polls Heaviest Vote At Democratic Primary James I. Farley, unopposed Democratic candidate for renomination as congressman, led the Democratic ticket in total votes in the county, a checkup of Tuesday’s primary disclosed today. Farley polled a total of 3>41. votes. Arthur E. Voglewede, unopposed candidate for the prose cuting attorney's nomination, polled the next highest vote with 3.654. Following is the Democrat county ticket, as it will appear in the fall election and the vote that each successful candidate received: For Congress James I. Farley I unopposed) 3,844 For Judge J. Fred Fru< ht.- 2,704 For Prosecutor Arthur E. Voglewede (unopposed) 3.654 For Joint Senator Von A. Eichhorn 2,588 Joint Representative Robert 11. Heller 2,491 For Clerk Clyde O. Troutner 2,974 For Auditor Victor Eicher 2.460 I For Treasurer John w. Blakey 3 MS For Sheriff Ed P. Miller 2,490 For Coroner Otho Lobenstein (unopposed) 3.169 For Assessor Ernest J. Worthman 3,002 • For Surveyor Walter H. Gifhorn (unopposed 3,362 Commissioner, First District Philip Strahm (unopposed) 3.341 , Commissioner. Second District Frank biniger (unopposed) 3,081 Councilman. First District Henry Dehner (unopposed) 724 Councilman. Second District Julius Schultz 987 Councilman, Third District Ed J. Kenney (unopposed) 598 • Councilman. Fourth District Evert O. Banter (unopposed) 494 1938 TATTLER IS PUBLISHED Decatur Catholic High School Yearbook Is Released Today I The 1938 edition of “The Tatt- ! ler,” annual Decatur Catholic high j school yearbook publication, was released today. The book is dedicated to the l I Centennial of the saying of the I mass, and the 100 years of the St. Mary's church here. On the flyleaf is a salute to 100 years. The salute follows: “With this issue of the Tattler l we salute the pioneers of a hundred years ago, who. whilst they I labored to clear a wilderness, were j I ever mindful of their higher desI tiny; who joined work with prayer ’and saw their labors blessed; who .by zealous effort and generous sacrifice erected a temple to God and gave to posterity the lesson of living, active Faith. We deem > it a privilege to express our apprei elation by dedicating this book to I their achievements. and the achievements of those who followl ed them through the century. Monica Schmitt was editor of ' the publication. Rosemary Fullenkamp, assistant editor; William (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Chas. Miller Rites Saturday Afternoon Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon for Charles Miller, retired Decatur baker, who died Wednesday at his home here. The services will be held at 2 o clock at l the home and at 2:30 o'clock at the i Zion Reformed church. The Rev. C. M. Prugh, pastor of 'the church, will officiate, assisted ■ by the Rev. Matthew Worthman, of Bluffton. Five grandchildren also survive, in addition to those listed in the death notice yesterday. Eichhorn’s Official Plurality 44 Votes A correction in the unofficial Adams county returns Wednesday brought down Von A. Eichhorns lead over Dwight Gallivan in the contest for state joint senator from 70 to 44. This was one of the closest races evpr run for this office. i The official vote by counties was Wells. Gallivan, 2.741. Eichhorn. 2 305; Blackford, Gallivan, 1,158, Eichhorn, 1.206; Adams. Gallivan. 2 156 Eichhorn. 2.588; totals, j Gallivan, 6,055; Eichhorn, 6,099.

Radiophoto of Hitler’s Arrival on Rome Visit 1 AHI LI'I I ill H >'***4tlUg ... W MKt t.3 ■ * 1 BRn '• "<«■ Adolf Hitler, King Victor Emmanuel, Premier Benito Mussolini and Count Galeazzo Ciano

In a dramatic display of friendship between the two Fascist dictators. Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy welcomes Fuehrer Adolph Hitler of Germany to Rome for a six-day visit Hitler is shown In this

STATE LEADER HERE TONIGHT Rotarians To Hear Quentin K. Hartke, State Recreation Head Quentin K. Hartke. director of Hie Indiana WPA recreation de- > partnient. will lie the principal speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club this evening at rhe Rice hotel Tonight's program will be devoted to National Boys’ and Girls' week, sponsored each year in Decatur by the Rotary and Woman's I clubs. , Coupled with the week's oliservlance and the fact that a rccrea-' , tional program lias only recently been launched in Decatur, the apI pearance of the state director thia .evening is exceptionally timely The committee in charge of today's observance of the week, known as recreation day. is comI posed of Pete Reynolds, Miss Elea--1 nor Pumphrey. Hugh Andrews and George Laurent. Captains of the basketball, baseball and track teams of both the I Central and St Joseph grade schools will be guests of the Rotary club tonight. In addition, successful candidates in Wednesday's I mock city election will also attend. Constitution and band day will j lie observed Friday. A program will be held at the Catholic school auditorium at 10:45 o'clock Friday morning, when the shrine of the constitution, purchased recently by the Psi lota Xi sorority of this j city, will be formally presented to i the youth of Decatur. The shrine (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) LIECHTY HEADS C.O.P. TICKET Edward Liechty Os Berne Polls Largest Republican Vote Edward E. Liechty, Berne newspaperman. led the Republican ticket in the Adams county primary Tuesday, a checkup revealed today. Liechty was an unopopsed 1 candidate for the Republican nomination as joint representative. Liechty received 546 votes in the county. Forrest Elzey, candidate for the Republican nomination as mayor of Decatur, led the Republican city ticket. Elzey received 167 votes. The Republican nominees and the vote that each received: COUNTY TICKET For Congress George W. Gillie Fred Greene • 10,1 For Judge A. D. Unversaw (unopopsed) . 513 Joint Representative Edward E. Liechty (unopposed 546 Coroner J. Jerome Yager (unopposed) 530 CITY TICKET For Mayor Forrest Elzey (unopposed) 167 Clerk-Treasurer H. Vernon Aurand (unopposed) 144 Councilman, Second District Morris Ptngry (unopposed) .. . 134 Councilman, Third District George T. Harding (unopposed) 135 Councilman, Fourth District Charles Langston (unopposed) 139

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 5, 1938.

Chinese, Japanese In Bloody Battle Today Yunho Shantung Province, May I s—(UP)—Chinese and Japanese troops were locked today in a battle 1 of greater proportions than that at Talerhehwang where the Chinese scored an important victory. The see-saw battle lias been ragpng for five days. Both sides had casualties of approximately 3.000 Japanese and Chinese dead The dead were strewn on the battle field logether. AUTO CARAVAN HERE FRIDAY Caravan Trail - Blazing New Highway To Be Here Friday A caravan of 30 to 40 automobiles which is trail blazing the new’ Federal Blue and Gray trial, known as U. S. Road 33. which passes through Decatur, will be here Friday morning. The caravan started from Richmond. Virginia, and ends in the twin cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. Michigan. The Blossom Queen of thy Apple Festival in the Shenandoah Valley. Richmond .Virginia, and the Queen of the Blossom Festival from Michigan, will be here with the caravan, accompanied by a number of young women and girls, state officials and officers of the Blue and Gray trail association. Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse has been asked to welcome the Blossom Queens and members of the caravan. Arrangements weer made today with Chief of 'police Melchi to yank the caravan on the east side of Third street, between Jefferson and Madison streets. The caravan will lie here about 15 minutes and proceed to Fort Wayne for lun”h. The Chamber of Commerce will join in welcoming the caravan. The trip over the route officially opens .it and dedicates the trail from Richmond. Virginia to Benton Har□or, Michigan.

Seven Babies Reported Born To Cuban Woman; AU Dead

By Gustave Crombet (Copyright 1938 by United Press) Canto Embarcadero, Cuba. May 5 (U.R) — Seven dead babies were born to Mrs. Rafaela Casanova Cordas on a lonely farm 10 miles from htfie Sunday and are buried in a simple grave which Juan Corrias, the father, dug in the front yard before the thatched farm house. A midwife, Candelaria Arattz, attended the 34-year-old mother in her 10 hour ordeal as eight living children of the family, the youngest a boy of eight months, played or slept about the house. News of the birth became known when the father went to Bayamo, 16 miles away, yesterday to get a doctor because his wife was ill. With the speed that attends rumor, the story spread from end to end of Cuba and it was reported persistently that the babies were alive. Dr. Ramos Chamdeau, director of Baytimo hospital, equipped an ambulance with an incubator and all

radiophoto from Rome walking to the royal coach followed by King Victor Emmanhel. Premier Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. left to right.

MANY BALLOTS ARE MUTILATED — Some Estimate Approximately 8(10 Ballots Mutilated Tuesday It was estimated today that nearly 800 ballots were mutilated In the primary election Tuesday by tile voters, of Adams county in naming I their party choices for the various I offices. Tlie number this election was reported to be unusually high. The cause was attributed to several reasons. More rigid rulings of election , Jiards aud, inspectors, the fact that each voter was given two ballots, one for .the city and one for the ( ounty, were ventured as causes for the wholesale mutilation. fn some precincts the number of mutilated ballots ran almost to 50 with several reporting 25 and 30 spoiled. A checkup revealed that approximately 25 or 30 were ruined in each of the six Decatur precincts. In Union township where a recount is to ,be made to decide a tie for the trustee nomination, it was revealed that eight ballots were mutilated in one precinct and three in the other. A. Kirkland township precinct was reported to have tossed away the votes of 33 who had mutilated (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Young People M ill Present Play Sunday The young people's missionary society of the First Evangelical church will present a play, “If They Only Knew," at the evening service next Sunday. The play will be presented in two acts, with a cast of 18 members of the organization. The purpose of the play is to create a sense of responsibility for the evangelization of other lands. Mrs. J. (). Tricker is the sponsor of the group and Miss Ruth Lozier the president. The members and I friends are cordially invited.

essentials and awaited daylight to start over the narrow, almost impassable road into the country to attend the mother. Col. Fulcencio Batista, chief of army staff and strong man of Cuba, telephoned orders personally to army commanders throughout the area to get to the scene by any means possible and take the bab les, if they lived, to the baby hospital at Santiago, the provincial capital here at the eastern end of the island. Batista was informed hy authorities of the provincial military hospital that according to their reports the babies lived, and this increased the national excitement. Judicial authorities, municipal authorities and telegraph authorities, Impressed by the persistent reports, gave assurance that the bahies were alive and thriving. It proved impossible for organized ambulance parties to get over the rogds before daylight today. However, 1 managed with consider~(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

27 GRADUATES ARE LISTED BY CATHOLIC HIGH Portland Priest To Speak At Graduation Exercises June 3 Commencement exercises for the senior class of the Decatur CathoHe high school will be held June 3 at the school auditorium, with the Rev. Raymond G. Derrick, pastor iof the Immaculate Conception, j church at Portland, as speaker. The Rev. Joseph J. Seimetz. pas- : tor of the St. Mary's Catholic church here will present the diplomas Twenty-seven members of the | senior class will receive diplomas at the exercises. They are: Rosemary Fttllenkamp, Richard Gillig. Maxine Girard. Celeste Heimann, Alice Baker. Lucile Braun. Joan Colchin. Richard Eiling, Edward Heimann. Luke Heimann. Virginia Holthouse. Ethel Kleinhenz. Helen Kohne, William Kuhnle. Margaret Lose, Francis Meyer. William A. Miller, William J Mill er. Agnes Reed. Richard Reed, Jeanette Rumschlag. Monica Schmitt, Paul Schmitz, Naomi Schultz. Virgene Ulman, William ■ Voglewede and Louis Wolpert. Exercises for the graduating members of the St Joseph eighth grade class also will be held during the commencement. o Petition Friday On Appropriation Paul Weber, representative of I the state board of tax commissioners, will be in Decatur Friday morning for a hearing with city officials on the petition for additional appropriations. The cty has petitioned the state board for an appropriation to pay the $425 judgment awarded Chalmer Walters in a trial last fall, and for an allowance to pay assistant counsel in the suit against the city and the Erie railroad. City Attorney John L. DeVoss represents the city. Q TO NAME PARTY CHAIRMEN HERE Both Parties To Elect County Chairmen Here Saturday The election of county chairmen by the Democratic and Republican parties is scheduled for 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon in this city. The Democratic committemen will meet in the old Democratic headquarters above the Daily Democrat office. The Republican committeemen , will meet in the assembly room of the Decatur high school building on Adams street. Both the presen.t county chairmen, Nathan C. Nelson, Democrat and Ralph W. Yager. Republican, are candidates for re-election. The committeemen and vice-committee-men vote in the selection of the chairmen. Vacancies are filled by appointment and proxies can be voted by the committeemen. The total vote is 68 in each party. Political gossip had it today that there was a possibility of other candidates seeking the chairmanship in both parties. Although there was not any official announcement of these candidates, it. was rumored that others were seeking ' support of the committeemen in | their contemplated entry into the chairmanship election. $215,000 Paid To Estates In City The annual report of the National Underwriters, published in the interest of life insurance compan- ! ies, shows that $215,000 was paid to estates and beneficiaries to > Decatur people in 1937. The names listed in the report are: Leona Bauer, Lawrence Conrad. William Hilperh Doy Lhamon, Phillip Macklin. Frank Martin. Bernard Terveer, | August Walter. In Indiana, the total life insur-j ance payments amounted to $54,- i 700.000, an increase of $1,500,000 j l over 1936. In the United States, life insurance payments amounted to nearly , three billion dollars to policyhold-j era and beneficiaries. Bobo U. B. Church To Honor Mothers The United Brethren church at ' Bobo will have a program honoring Mother's Day Sunday evening at seven-thirty o'clock. A prize will be given to the oldest and the youngest mothers. t

Mussolini Shows Naval Strength To Adolf Hitler *

SHRIKE GIVEN YOUTH OF CITY Psi lota Xi Sorority Presents Constitution Shrine To Youth Final plans were made today for the presentation of the Shrine of the constitution by the Psi lota Xi sorority, Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Decatur Catholic high school auditorium as one of the features of Boys’ and Girls' | week in Decatur. French Quinn will be the principal speaker. The shrine was purchased by' the sorority for the youth of the j city and is to be permanently maintained in the Decatur library. | It consists of a standard carry- ■ ing six pages, four of which are the constitution, one the declar-1 ation of the constitution and one a picture of the signers of the con-1 stitution. It is six feet three inches ' high and is made of east iron and , automobile steel. The pages are encased in cellulose acetate, insuring preservation of these documents, and the frames I are removable for close study and 1 examination. On the standard just below the frames is a name plate on which 1 is engraved "Presented by Psi lota Xi Sorority to the Youth of De- i eatur.” The shrine was made for the government by the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Com 1 mission and the check for the payment of the standard was made directly to the government. It is 1 one of many presented to the youth of different communities in com- ! memoration of the 150th anniver-j saiV of the signing of the consti- ■ tut ion. 4 Th* frames contain reproductions of photographs of the constitution and even show ink spots and I other details of the actual docu- i ments. The program for the presenta- • tion ceremony is: Pretziosa Overture — D. H. S. : Band. March “Our Director"—D. H. S. I Band. The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers—St. Josephs high school 1 trio; Edward Heiman. Leo Alberding. Louis Wolpert. Stars and Stripes Forever, by | Sousa—D. H. S. Glee Club. Recessional - DeKoven —D. H. S. Glee Club. Invocation—Rev. Chas. Prugh. Presentation of Mr. French Quinn —Rev. Father Seimetz. Address - “Our Constitutional j Heritage”—Mr. Quinn. Presentation of the Shrine of the Constitution by Mrs. Arthur Holthouse in behalf of the Psi lota Xi sorority. Acceptance in the Name of the Youth of the Community by Jack Tricker. America —Audience. HEAVIEST VOTE FOR APPELMAN Andrew Appelman Leads Democrats In Tuesday Primary Vote Andrew- Appelman, unopposed candidate for renomination for 1 city councilman from the third district, led the Democratic city ticket Tuesday. Appelman polled 1,301 votes. Mrs. Christen, winner of the Democratic nomination for clerk-treas-urer in a three-cornered race, was the only one of the successful candidates not to poll over 1,000 votes, j Following is the Democratic city I ticket, as it will be presented next ■ November in the fall election and ■ the vote that each successful candidate received: For Mayor ' Arthur R. Holthouse 1,084 Clerk-T reasurer i Alice Christen ............... ............. 954 Council, First District ! George W.Myers (unopposed) 1,272 Council, Second District George W. Stults (unopposed 1,290 Council, Third District Andrews Appelman (unopposed) 1,301 Council, Fourth District Ed J. Keller (unopposd) 1,164 Council-At-Large Herman Gillig 1,245

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Italian Naval Display Staged By Mussolini To Impress Germany’s Nazi Leader. LOYALISTS RALLY By Joe Alex Morris (United Preas Staff Correspondent) Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini today showed Adolf Hitler more than 200 reasons all of them ships of war —why Italy is a valuable neighbor and friend. The Italian naval display, describj ed as the greatest since the world war, was staged for Hitler in the . Bay of Naples as one of Mussolini's important moves during a week of festivities for the visiting I nazi leader. Seeking to maintain his powerful I position as a balance between Germany in eastern Europe and the ■ British-French combination in the i west, Mussolini was reported to have backed away from concrete action to strengthen his partneri ship with Hitler. But if the fascist leader was cool to Hitler's desire for a stronger dictatorial front, his attitude did not appear to have jeopardized continuation of the Rome-Berlin axis or the nazi program of expansion in central Europe, where Czechoslovakia is facing a show-down with ; Germany. The chief contribution which many observers expect Mussolini to make in the current j realignment of European strength 1 will he to join the efforts of Britj ain and France to prevent the nazi j expansion from causing war. Significant as were the talks and lavish celebrations in Italy, they were carried on against a i world background of vastly import--1 ant developments, including: Spain—The loyalist government troops, split and shattered by the ; insurgents for weeks, suddenly ; came to life. Presenting new re(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ASK RECOUNT IN TOWNSHIP RACE Recount To Be Sought For Union Township Trustee Race Howard Mauller and Gerhard C. Reinking, who each received 125 l votes in the race for the Democratic ' nomination for trustee of Union township, have decided to ask for a I recount of the vote. Both men are tn agreement that i the recount should be held. Under the law the Judge of the Adams circuit court appoints two persons, one a Republican and the other a Democrat, while the clerk of the court is a member of the board by virtue of his office. The two candidates also attended the recount of 1 ballots. The recount of the ballots will ' take place next week. The tw-o men met with Democratic county chairman Nathan Nelson this morning and agreed that it was best to have the matter decided by disinterested parties. However, if the reI count of ballots does not break the tie, the men will toss a coin and > decide it. Mr. Mauller, who is the present i trustee, received 70 votes in East ■ Union and 55 votes in West Union ! precincts. Mr. Reinking received . 57 votes in East and 68 votes la I West Union precincts. As was the case throughout the county, there were a number of mutilated ballots in Union township i and these may help to decide the breaking of the tie. o Regular Legion Meeting Monday l The regular meeting of Adams - Post 43 will be held at the Legion Home Monday evening at 8 o'clock. All members are urged to attend. 1 o TEMPERATURE readings 1 DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER > —- 8:00a.m 67 2:00 p.m 76 ) 10:00 a.m 71 3:00 p.m 78 Noon 74 [ WEATHER Generally fair tonight and ( Friday except unsettled tonight in north portion; consid--5 erabfy cooler.