Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1935 — Page 1

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Vol. XXXIII. No. 106.

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Auto Peacemaker J I :rII t .-w < i|||l JH , I Edward F. McGrady, above, as-1 sistant secretary of labor, was {delegated to halt unrest in the | . automobile industry which has resulted in strikes at two plants at ' . Toledo. O„ and the shutdown of: a Cleveland plant, throwing 13,500 men out of work. HIGH WATERS ”l ARE MENACE St. Mary’s River At 15Foot Level; Flood Warning Issued The St. Mary's river will reach flood stage if rainfall does not I cease soon, predicted W. E. Glad- ! felter. who takes river and weather i observations for the government | | here. The water Is now at the 15 foot. •leVFt. an increase of 13.8 feet since Wednesday. Normally the river is just below two feet in depth and during dry seasons goes as low as | one foot. The rains began Wednesday afternoon. Since Wednesday evening at 6 o’clock 3:16 inches of rain have fallen. The average for the last three years tor May is .87 inch. The average over a longer period of years is about three inches. Rainfall Wednesday night raised the river to the 10 foot stage by Thursday noon. The precipitation has been heavier south of here. Mr. Gladfelter learned from weather information received by him this morning. This is adding to the water flowing through the local river. The river is out of the banks on i the east side and is causing considerable damage to crops. There is little danger of the water rising high enough to reach the west hank of the river except if there be unprecedented rains. This is the highest stage reached by the St. Mary's river in almost two years. Mayor Franklin Ruckner, Bluffton weather observer, wired J. IlArmington. head of the weather bureau at Indianapolis stating that rainfall there at 7 a. m. Thursday had amounted to 2.02 inches and that the river had risen from the 1.8 foot stage to 3,5 feet in 24 hours. J. IT. Armington wired back, “heavy rainfall one to two inches upstream will cause considerable river riee with flood ctage at 11 feet or higher probable as further rainfall is indicated.” Following this word that flood (rONTTNTTED nV PAGE FOUR) CHARTER MEMBERS ASKED TO ATTEND Decatur Moose Lodge to Observe 21st Anniversary Next Tuesday Night Tine Decatur lodge of the Lol al ■ Order of Moise will celebrate ite 21ot anniversary at the regular meeting next Tueeday evening. Mat 7, at 8 o’clock. All ("htartcr nembers of the local lodge are eeiiecially invited to at tend this meeting. A claar of 25 candidates will he taken into the lodge at this meet- . Ing. The initiatory cer.monies will . be performed by the Fort Wayne de- . gree and drill teams, under the - direction cf William Anderson, supreme prelate> Luncheon wll be served following , the '.r eeling and all members and ' candidates are requested to be pre- ' sent.

SETTLEMENT OF STRIKE SOUGHT I BY GOVERNMENT II Govern inentOflicial Holds Conferences With Labor, Capital Detroit, May 3—(TTP) —Assistant secretary of Igibor Edward F. Me' l Gmdy, “trouble shooter" of the IT. S. labor department, today contin- | u d his secret conferences with la- 1 bor officials and General Motors corporation executives in an effort to return 25,000 automobile workers I to their Jobe. McGrady’s object was a settlement of the Toledo Chevrolet workers strike which resulted in shutdowns >ind strike! in a dozen CMC plants. ,ls that controversy is not settled by Monday morning, Ameri- ! can Federation of Labor workers at the Buick Plant in Flint. Mhllwgan have voted to walk out in a symI pathy strike. Results of discussions between McGnidy and A. F. of L. organizer Francis Dillon, and between McGrady and W. S. Kundsen, GMC i executive vice-president, were kept secret today. , Time, place and subject matter ' of me tings also were kept secret,’ a p licy followed by McGrady in 1 settlement of other strikes. Meantime. M. E. Coyle, president of Ch vrolet motor company, denied rumors that the Bay City. Mich., { i carburetor plant or the Saginaw, Michigan Iron foundry, would shut I | down because of trouble in other plants. lie said the Flint Chevrolet , plant also would remnin open. Sup-; 11;lies at these plants will be manu-, faitur d and stored until fulltime assembly is renewed, -he said. A minor strike of 57 members of 1 t e Dingmen’s welfare club of the 1 Chrysler motor corporation, who walked out yeetenjiy ••seeking a (.CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) REV. ROEOERER IS RE-ELECTED Huntington Pastor Again Chosen As Conference Statistician Rev. I. G. Roederer of Huntington was re-elected conference statistician at the regular business {meeting this morning of the Indi-1 ’ ana Annual Evangelical conference. He reported that $21,306 had been spent on missions: .J 15.395 was paid on church indebtedness; cost to churches in the conference, $42.800; expended by Indiana confer-, ence churches for all purposes. | $253,827.13; average per member | for all purposes, $15.89; average i per member for all missions. $1.33. | Rev. Roederer advocated as a future policy the thousand dollar a month club, namely that the conference go on a cash operating. basis and vigorously promote a financial campaign seeking to liquidate the conference debt. It is desired that this club become one of the main objectives of the Albright Brotherhood, whose duty it will be to find one thousand men and women who will pay one dollar a month to this fond for a year. Every dollar will be applied on the conference debt. A report of the superannuation fund was given by the representative, Rev. Arthur H. Doescher of Dayton. The fund, which provides for retired ministers and their families is now in its 24th year and next year will celebrate its silver anniversary. Practically $20,000 has been subscribed up to this time. Ti e Evang> licai press was represented by William Schmitt, Cleve(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) Bids Received For Postoffice Repair Bids were opened in the office of the treasury department, procurem nt division, public works branch in Washington, D. C. at 10 o'clock this morning for reflnicfxing the interior of the Decatur post officeThe announcement of the results of the bids will n:t be received here for eothe time. It is understood that aeveral local men bid. Specifications wore obtained by contractors in Chicago, Detroit, Michigan and Miami, Florida.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 3, 1935.

Local People To See Passion Play •Several Decatur people went to Bloomington, Illinois, today to witness the production of the American Passion Play at the Scottish Rite temple This is the 12t'hi annual season the play has been produced. A i cast of 250 players takes port in I the production. Those attending from Decatur are |the Rev. H. W. Franklin, Mrs. , Franklin and their daughters, Ber- { nie, Estella and Frances, Miss Clara i Ellen Mumma, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Crider, Mrs. Bessie Ward, Mrs. Dick i Shaffer. Mrs. Harry Poling and , Miss Glennys Arnold. o COMMITTEES OF CHURCH NAMED Joint Committees Are Named At North Indiana M. E. Conference Ministers and laymen of the North Indiana Methodist church conference in their united session Thursday afternoon appointed joint committees to serve during the en-1 suing year. The ministers and laymen also. I voted to retain the present number I of six districts, comprising the conference. The report of the 1934 committee for the study of the ' status of the districts, was adoptied by the conference which calls for the boundari'es of the six districts to be changed. A commit tee to comprise of one layman from each district will serve with I the district superintendent to do this. Following are the joint committees from the Fort Wayne district which were appointed: commission on finance, Rev. E. E. Trippeer, H. R. GeWle and A. B. ClTne; coin-1 mission on temperance and public { morals, Rev. M. C. Wright and I Mrs. E. W. Busche; church and present economic crisis. Rev. D. K. Finch and Loring Scott; education and evangelism. Rev. H. R. Carson (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) Decatur Women At Ben Hur Meeting Mrs. A. D. Artman, Mrs. Goldie Class and Mr. ami Mrs. Russel Acker from thie city attended the booster meeting cf the Ben Hur lodge whiobi was .held in Kr ndallvill*-, Thursday. The national secretary, E. M. Mason of Crawfordsville, and the Indi:r.a state 'manager, Mr. Bowers, also of Crawfordsville, were pre- j sent at the meeting and delivered addresses. Mr. Mason ipaid tribute to mothers.. A large class of candidates was initiated and the work w>is given by the Kendallville degree team Representatives were present from | Elkhart. South Bend, Fort Wayne J Garrett and Decatur. o 4 — VOTE APPROVAL OF AMENDMENTS Evangelical Church Conference Approves Proposed Amendments One of the important decisions taken in the Thursday afternoon session of the 83rd annual Indiana conference of the Evangelical church was the approval of the proposed amendments to the disipline. The one amendment of most interest to the public is that which would remove the seven-year limit to the number of years a pastor can serve one charge. Only one dissenting voted out of 123 was cast against it. The other proposed amendments were approved unanimously by the conference. They dealt mainly with minor changes. The seven-year limit effects the Rev. M. W. Sundermann, pastor of the local church. TTe is completing his sevenlH year this spring and under the present disipline will be required to move. The proposed amendments to the disipline are subject to the approval of the other annual conferences. It is not certain under the present situation whether Rev. Sundermann will be required to move. The new charges will be announced late Sunday afternoon in the final business session of the conference.

WOMAN SPEAKS TO CONFERENCE Mrs. Grace Overton Talks To Delegates On The “Youth Os Today” “The great challenge of the youth today is communism and Christianity,” said Mrs. Grace Sloan Overton of Marion. Indiana, speaking on the “Youth of Today, and the Home of Tomorrow" at the Thursday evening session of the 83rd annual state conference of the Evangelical church. Special music was rendered durIg this service by the Evagelical choir of Berne. Ed Liechty is director of the choir and Mrs. A. C. Smith organist. Other members of the choir are: Jean Egly, Sarabell Lehmann. Betty Craig. Margaret Craig, Mary Ellen Reisen, Ruth Baumgartner. Roberta Braun. Bertiline Braun. Betty Lehmann. Marjorie Blum. Margaret Smith, Mary Cline. Helen Braun, William 1 Denny. Gerald Elzey, Lawrence Blum, Philip Schug. Harold Allspaw, Maurice Smith, Johnson Blery. Orval Smith and Gordon j Bracket'. Mrs. Overton said: ’lt it ever could he said that any generation of children had been born of a chaotic world it can be said of this generation. “Our genration thought that it knew. Our grandparents thought that they knew. Today the generation of youth is asking about the fundamental things of life. They ask about a confused economic world. They think that they are born an unwanted or at least an useless generation. No one wants either their brawn or their brains. We have enough teachers, missionaries, lawyers and laborers. “Out of the generation of youth, one million are in college, one million have jobs and million | have neither jobs nor are attend(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) YOUTH PICNIC IS CANCELED Heavy Rains Cause Cancellation; Citizenship Day Observed Today 'Because of the continu d heavy rainc. of the rust several days, the picnic planned Saturday for the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of Decatur has been canceled The affair wa-s planned for Youth Day out-of-doors as the fintil event in the city’s annual obeervance of Youth Week. The picnic was to have been .held at the Hanna-Niittman park. Youth Day in Citizenship was observed with a nnss meeting at the Catholic school auditorium at 2:30 this afternoon. Students of the public and Catholic schools attended the meeting, as did many older ipersons vitally interested in the youth of Decatur. Awards were presented to the winners of athletic events from grades five to eight, inclusive. Tue Court of Honor presented merit badges to the Boy Scouts of the four Decatur troops. The observance was directed and arranged by Miss Eleanor Pumphrey and the Rev. Father J. J. Hennes, chairmen for the day. Thursday afternoon the Woman's club, joint sponsors with the Rotary club for the week's observance, entertained more than 400 girls from the public and Cati'iolic schools with a movie at the Adams theater. Thursday evening the Rotarians entertained captains of the basketball, baseball and traok teams of the Central and St. Jaseph’s schools. o— Mrs. Peterson To Broadcast Monday Mrs. John Peterson of this city will broadcast a report of the D. A. R. convention which she attended recently in Washington, at 3:15 Monday afternoon in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Peterson is now the guest of her daughter, Mis. Charles Keller, Fort Wayne. She will also attend a D. A. R. lunclhieon to be held in the Shrine Valencia Gardens at 12:30 Monday at which time she will make a short talk concerning the convention. Mrs. Harry Moltz, who recently obtained membership credentials, will also be a gueot at the luncheon.

ROCHESTER IS AWARDED 1936 CHURCH MEET ' Indiana Evangelical Church Conference At » I Rochester Next Year > . ■: The 84th annual session of the '{lndiana conference of the Evan- ! gelical church will be held at ’ Rochester, Indiana, and will begin 1 at 2 p. rn. Central standard time on April 29, 1936. The Invitation to meet in Roches- ' • ter next year was offered by the' ‘{Rev. F. E. Smith, pastor of the 1 Evangelical church in that city. ' The Thursday afternoon session ' ’ { was called to order at 2 o'clock by I Bishop George Epp. The bishop ’ { stated that business to be discussed first was tile consideration of ■ j the issues of the church union. ' ! The Evangelical church and the I United Brethren CDurch in God are considering uniting. ‘I Dr. A. F. Knepp, superintendent I I of the St. Joseph United Brethren conference which includes Indiana, and who is located at Warsaw gave j an address. He complimented the 1 Evangelical churches. He said. 1 “Our churches are built on the] rock and will not fall." He spoke, favorably of the union of the i chufches. The Rev. E. Garfield Johnson, of , Elkhart, district Evangelical super- , intendent responded. He stated . that he recognized the excellent , qualities of the United Brethren ! church and hoped to see the day . on which they would merge. The Ignited Brethren ministers - were introduced. They were: the Rev. F. L. Engle, pastor of the , Union Chapel church; the Rev. II - W. Franklin, pastor of the Decatur i church, and the Rev. J. H. Wall. -1 pastor of the Portland church. The Rev. R. H. Mueller, pastor of the First Church in Indianapolis, was re-elected conference director of Christian education. He I has held the office for eight years.] The new term is so rfour years. I Rev. Mueller read the 1935 anI nual report of the hoard of Chris- 1 tian Education of the Indiana conference. This report was accepted. • Dr. J. A. Heck was admitted as advisory member of this conference session. He is the general secretary of Christian Education of the Evangelical church. A proposal to liTaTk the 50th an- ■ niversary of the ordination of F. > C. Berger of Urban, Indiana, was ■ referred to the committee on reso(CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) 0 No Communicable Disease Reported i No caoes of communicable dis- ] eases were reported in Adanirf! - County in the morbidity report fori the week ending Saturday, April 27. REPAIR DAMAGE FROM TORNADO FERA Workers Clean Up i W reckage From Southern Indiana Storm Jasonville, Ind., May 3.— (U.R) ' FERA workers under Miss Wilma Ehlers, county relief supervisor, today were cleaning up the wreck- ' age left by a fTSrnado which caused $50,000 damage to the coal mining community of Jasonville. 1 Seventeen homes were destroy- ; ed. other small buildings were razed. utility poles and trees were ' broken off and 10 persons were injured. Considerable damage also was caused in northwestern Sullivan county. ’ Rain added to the discomfort of the homeless. • All persons on relief whose homes were destroyed were housed I in vacant homes or store buildings. , Most of those not. on relief found temporary shelter with relatives or f neighbors. Mrs. John Sex>ton, 42, who suffert ed a brak.n ship, internal injuries i and cuts when her homo collapsed. . was to be operated on at Robert I Long hospital in Indianapolis to- • day. j The storm did many freakish things. Frona Gentry, 7, daughter , of Olaf Gentry, was asleep in a (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Superintendent 111 ; aX W aT The Rev. D. A. Kaley, Indianapolis. superintendent of the Indianapolis district of Evangelical churches, is unable to attend the annual conference now in session here because of illness. Rev. Kaley is also treasurer of the Indiana 'conference board of trustees. JIM ELBERSON ROTARY LEADER Elected President Os Club; Youths Honored At Weekly Meeting James Elberson, prominent Decatur service station proprietor, was elected president of the Decatur Rotary club at a meeting of { the new hoard of directors Thurs-I day evening. Other officers selected from the board members are Leo Kirsch, vice-president; Rev. Charles M. • Prugh, secretary; Roscoe Glenden- ■ ing. treasurer, and Pet? HeymoMs, i sergeant-at-arms. Brype Thomas, ' retiring president, by virtue of "his office, will serve as the sixth mem-i ] ber of the board of directors. These officers will be installed' at the first regular meeting of the I organization in July, on Thursday, July 7. The five men listed above as officers were chosen as directors at the annual election held several weeks ago. Honor Youths The Rotary club, in regular meet- ] ing last niglit at the Rice hotel, paid honor to the youth of Decatur with a special program on Youth Day in entertainment and athletics in conformance with the city’s observance of Youth Week. Captains of the basketball, baseball and track teams from both the Central and St. Joseph’s schools were guests of the club. The Central captains, John Me-] ] Connell, basketball; James High- ] land, baseball and Ervin Anderson, track; were introduced by their j coach. Sylvester Everhart, also a i guest. In the abseilve of Rev. Father J. ] J. Hennes, St. Joseph athletic di- [ rector, the three captains from the Catholic school were introduced by | Martin J. Mylott. These captains] are Arthur Baker, track; Robert i Hess, baseball and Robert Bolling-] er, basketball. Herb Curtis, athletic director of] I tlie Decatur public schools, delivered a splendid discourse on the value of athletics and physical edu-1 cation to the youth of Decatur. The speaker told of the methods used in the schools to foster interest in the value of athletics and . physical education in developing. not only the body of the student (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) Confer On Plans For New School A number of Wabash township officiate wene in the city today conferring wi'i' l ; Miles Roop, wonk sup- . ervisor for the FERA, and other] officials In relation to the ipossibl-; ' ity of getting through a government loan to build a new school building ' in the township. The men who were in the city were: J. C. Mann, trustee, and the three 'members of the township advisory board, Fred Mathye, Eli Augi'jiburger and Georg 1 Shoemaker. ' Charles H. Houck, an architect from Muncie, also waa along. 1 lit has been estimated that it would he necessary to spend $21,000 ' to repair the old building recently condemned by the state school In1 upectors and the fire marshall. It Is believed that this would not be 1 worth while in an old building. A new one may be built this summer.

FLOODWATERS ARETHREATIN PARTS OF STATE Storms Over Nation Take Death Toll Os 11; Great Damage Done i By United Press) Tornadoes, electrical .storms and wind-driven snow brought death to 11 persons, injury to scores of others and caua. d untold property damage in th? middlewest todayFloods brought additional hazard to the stricken area. Five ipersons were killed by tornadoes in northeastern Arkansas, four others in Kentucky, and two in southern Arkansas. Property damage estimates ran into the millions of dollars. Tbe twisters were accompanied by a deluge of rain and at historic Churchill Downs, freshly groomed for the Kentucky Derby Saturday, slight damage was reported and it appear.d likely the race would be in the unud. A late spring snowstorm whipped across Wisconsin. Five inches of snow covered the ground at I-a Crosse today and it still was snowing. The storm amounted almost to ]a blizzard as it swept toward Uuke Michigan borne on a 40 mile wind ] and with tihe temperature below {freezingMeanwhile torrential rains sent rivers to near the flood stage in I Indiana and Illinois. Both the Wabash and White Rivers in Indiana were rising rapidly and railroad service on two lines was disrupted by j washout* near Peoria. 111. . Communications disrupted by a half-million dollar sleet storm in Minnesota were being rapidly restored. Flood Threatens Indianapolis, Ind.. May 3—(UP) —An average rainfall of 2.75 inches in the Wabash and White river basins brought a serious flood threat to Indiana today. J. H. Armington. Meteorologist at til’U IT. S. weather bureau here said both streams were rapidly approaching flood stage and that lowlands in some places already are inundated. The west branch of the White li'ONTINI'EI > ON I'Ai'.E EIGHT) O Virgil Urick Is Hit By Lightning Virgil Urick of south of Decatur, well known boxer, was struck oy lightning about 6:30 o’clock TYaursday evening, while feeding stock at hie home. Urick was on the west side of the { house when the lightning struck a tree and a post close by. He was leaning over the f nee feeding some calves, and the lightning aprurently struck his right side. He was unconscious for about 15 'minutes and ' was taken to a physician immediately. Tile young man had not regained use cf his right firm today, ] it was stated. 0 i FRANK PARISH IS ACQUITTED Former Utility Heads Win Jury Verdict On Mail Fraud Charges Chicago, MAy 3.—(U.R)—Tift government retired in defeat today from another long battle to send the rulers of depression-wrecked j utility systems to prison for investors’ losses. A jury in federal court took only three ballots last night to acquit Frank P. Parish and Samuel J. Maddin on charges of using the mails to defraud stockholders in the short-lived Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line company. Parish, debonair and confident through four weeks of testimony dealing with eight-figure financing, jubilantly announced that he would return to the utility leld and attempt to recoup his fortune. His "shoestring" development of the $35,000,000 pipe line system, stretching from Texas to the Canadian border, won him the sobriquet of "the blond boy wizard” six years ago. “Now I know how Samuel Insull felt,” the 38-year-old Parish said after the jury foreman read the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)