Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 136, Decatur, Adams County, 8 June 1935 — Page 1

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MINI IS termined to MIN STAND | Is Determined To, lontinue Course In Abyssinia Ln. Sardinia, June 8. —(U.R) L Mussolini plainly told I Britain today that Italy's I m Abyssinia is for Italy i L decide, and that he would I stopped. Using troops of the Sabauda L to review wtwm he pilot|tbreemotore<l seaplane 280 I across the Tyrrhenian sea Lme, he said of England; | will imitate to the letter Lho presume to be our school k They have shown that jt was necessary to create or | j \n empire, they did not bro consideration at all the J tes of the world." Fbe said, had firmly decfdLccept no coercion in its deallitli Abyssinia. » yesterday, in the British of commons, speakers of all I main parties denounced course in its dispute with nia. men whom Mussolini adu today are about to sail for ■Africa, to wait during the rial rainy season for his ord-, to war. o ——— brt Local Man Admits Robberies lift Tandy Ferguson of Jay I has reported that Lase lot Decatur has confenn d to I

Ser of robberies in eastern i and western Ohio, county autnontiee could find irges against him in that . He nr ved that he wus in scanty at the time he was 'to bve received stolen If tried, the charge will have freferr.-d by local officials Year-Old Boy Reported Missing York, June B—(UP)—De- ! it of justice agents joined t-day in a search tor J own Jr. five, who disappeared l»y night from a playground is home in the wealthy S«tce section. hoy's parents were convinc-1 * as kidnapped. federal gents entered the huietly, bent on determinHher the tad was kidnaped j *otn, drowned in the neanby I tver or lured away by dere-I Meients of adjoining slum ertoods. mt g, e. PICNIC PLANS r al Electric Club "ic Will Be Held At , Sun Set June 22 Annual General Electric club *'ll be held at Sun Set park >y. June 22. Frank Gillig, chairman, has selected the n S committee heads to asCeparations for the annual committee: Sol Bowsher, ashy Mrs. Effie McGill, f'ainment: Chester Klein- • assisted by Miss Lenora 1 , rt. i | cc. Oren Schultz. s P°rtation: George Meyers, nciaa and grounds: Cal . t Mtr ® and band: Bob Miller. 1 nade: Herman Keller. r 'coani: Waldo Eckrote. r “hments: Fred Busse. ; ,8; Bob Gage. 1,ls: Milt Brown. ' H >. William Kohls. "*sher states there will be “f sandwiches, including i, , ’ chicken, hot beef and •uck. t employes a,re asked to note t .J s Play, which has been 1 !e „, a ' Waite. Special re- t P “I s will be served, includ- I 111 k* 6 Oyal ’’ an d a ' emon • own as “Icy cold, 1 see I c

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Barred From Game? » IB MF ■ I * 'll /I K. 4 kw I Action of W. G. Bramhatn. presi-1 ' dent of National Association of I Professional Leagues, barring, “Alabama" Pitts, above, Sing Sing ! prison star athlete, from joining Albany, N. Y„ club on release from prison, has resulted in storm of protest. Pitts, a first offender, won all-around athletic fame durj ing five years in the “Big Home.” I MANY REUNIONS i WILL BE HELD Number of Reunions Are Set For Sun Set Park This Summer

‘ A rtnmher of reunions have already been scheduled at Sunset park for the summer and fall season. Sunset park, loca’ed east of, [Decatur on road 527, is a popular plax'e for family reunions. It has a[ large picnic ground with a number I of stoves and tables. In case of j j rain, picnics may be held in the Jarge pavilion. On the grounds arej i swings and other amusements for. : the children. Following nre the reunions which ! ihave been scheduled: Saturday, June 22 Annual General Electric plant; picnic, Sunset park, rain or shine.; Sunday June 30 I Annual Longsworth Reunion, Sun-| I set park, east of Decatur. Sunday, July 21 Swagard and Nefferd reunion.] Sunset park, rain or shine. Moose Family picnic, Sunset; park. rain or shine. 1 Pleasant Mills Alumni picnic, i, ! Sunset park, east of Decatur. Sunday, July 28 Annual Borne reunion, Sunset. park, r in or shine. Myers family reunion, Sunset ' park, rain or shine. Sunday, August 4 Annual Bunner family reunion. ’ Sunset park, east of Decatur. Annual Kuntz family reunion, < Sunset park, rain of shine. Sunday, August 11 Rellfg and Reohtn family reun ion. Sunset park, east of Decatur Annual Beinz reunion, Sunset t park, rain or shine. Annual Steelj’amnyjmmion, Sun- t (CON' rTN,TEn FIVE) | — i POWER OFF ( On account of cleaning the switchboard, electric light and , power will be cut off in De- • catur Tom sto6a. m. Sunday, - June 9. __ S Local Scouts Will J Attend Camp June lb c All Bov Scouts eligible to attend , the fP9P day at the scout camp at c Rome City Stindl iy. June 15. are asked to' report nt the Centra t school building Monday evening at 7 o’clock. t Jamboree Contest To Close June 22 Bov Scouts wlho are contesting E ..XS, Wil clcee Saturday. June

RURAL TAVERN BAN IS LEGAL, COURT RULING Judge Cox Rules Indiana Liquor Law Is Constitutional Indianapolis, June 8— (U.R> — Constitutionality of Indiana’s 19:15 [ liquor law, outlawing roadhouses, waa upheld late Friday by Judge Earl R. Cox in Marion county ciri cuit court. He dissolved a temporary restraining order preventing Paul P. Fry. state excise administrator; members of the state alcoholic i beverages commission; Al G. Feeney, state police director, and Marion county officials from en- ' forcing the anti-roadhouse proj vision. Fry said he will instruct excise i department policemen to begin enforcement of the law as soon as he receives a certified copy of the | decision. John A. Royse, attorney for the Tavern Protective association, which had obtained the temporary order, posted a S2OO appeal bond, While the original order applied only to Marlon county, arrests in other areas had been held up pending a test of the case. Two decisions of the Indiana supreme court describing the license to sell liquor as a grant of power rather than a delegation of i| authority were quoted by Judge ' Cox in his decision. He ruled that a license to sell liquor is not a vested property !, right, as contended in the suit. “The legislature was authorized ' to establish such regulations withlin the state's police power,” Judge Cox said.

The Tavern Protective associa'tion. "composed of the owrtWi of approximately 2,000 roadhouses in the state, had attacked the law on the contention that the alcoholic beverages commission was 1 given unconstitutional power in ! its authority to refuse licenses for establishments outside corporate limits of cities and towns. SORORITY WILL PRESENT GIFT Therapeutic Lamps Presented To Riley Hospital By Delta Theta Taus Indianapolis, June 8. — (Special) Formal presentation of five therapeutic lamps by the Indiana chapters of Delta Theta Tau sorority to the James Whitcomb Riley hospital for Children will be held Sunday, June 16. The gift which meets a long-felt need at the hospitaj makes possible the establishment of a light therapy department, the dedication of which will be combined with the presentation exercises. The program will begin at 2 o'clock. Members of the forty-eight chapiters of Delta Theta Tau in Indiana, their relatives and friends are invited to attend. Large delegations from cities and towns throughout Indiana are anticipated in view of the State membership of approximately one thousand young women. Invitations have been extended by the generaj arrangements comTH 111 C P Members of that committee are Miss Mabel Pumphrey, Greensburg, secretary; Miss Mary K. Bowen, Lafayette, and MTs. Opal Starr South Bend, co-chairman, Miss Maxine Biebesheimer, Port ' Vayn ® : Miss Elizabetli King. Wabash; Miss Louise Klingler, Brazil; Mrs. Clara Roehm. Indianapolis; Mrs. Mildred Stubbs, Indianapolis, and Miss Mary VanDerford, Columbia Citv The president of the chapter in Decatur is Miss Jeannette Clark. o Strawberry Festival At Pleasant Mills The Pleasant Mills Methodist Epworth League will sponsor a strawberry festival In the church basement Tuesday evening, June 11. An interesting (program is being arranged for the festival and music will be furnished iby the Pleasant Mills Hot Shots. Refreshments of strawberries and cream, cake ice cream and candy will be served.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 8, 1935,

Will Award Prize For Best Costume A prize will be given for the best costume at the bowery dance to be given at the Decatur Country club Thursday, sponsored by the Decatm Junior Chamber of Commence. (Costumes will not be necessary, ihowever. Men will be properly dressed if they come In sweaters or shirt sleeves. Print dresses will be acceptable for women, the committee on urrangements hus decided. Tickets for t>.ie dance are selling at 26 cents a (person. They may be obtained from the members or may be purchased at the door. START SALE OF PARTY TICKETS Young Democrats to Hold Picnic And Dance At Sun Set June 27 Tickets went on sale today for the Young Democrat club picnic and dance to be held at Sun Set Park Thursday, June 27. The picnic will be held at 6:30 o'clock followed by a business meeting of the club. The dance will begin at 9 o’clock. Ruth Debolt and Ed Kauffman have been appointed co-chairmen for the picnic and dance. The committees will consist of the following: picnic, Mary Cowan, chairman, Herman Omlor and Marjorie DeVoss; arrangements: Ed. i P. Miller, chairman. Mqrjorie CarI roll and William Lose: orchestra; I Robert Heller, chairman. Margaret Green and Clark Smith; decorations: Kathryn Hyland, chairman, Herman Habegger and Jeanette Clark; dance, Ed Kauffman, chairman. Patsy Fullenkamp and Pauline Affolder; program, Marion | Heare, chairman, Arthur Krick and Mrs. W. W. Widdows; concessions, , Severin Schuiger, chairman, LuHile Miller and Kenneth Runyon; ticket committee; Severin Schurger, general chairman for the county. Tickets for the dance will sell at twenty-five cents each and may be obtained from the following: in Decatur—Cecilia Applenian, Ber- \ nice DeVoss, Rosemary Holthouse, ■ James Lose, Richard Macklin. Arthur Schamerloh. James Harkless, Robert Kleinhenz, Bill Coffee, Robert Heller, James Cowan, Harold Daniels, Florence Hokhouse, Rose- ! mary Miller, Hermaji Omlor, GerI aldine Smith, Edna Hoile, Vance Ftnimore, Jeanette Clark, Barbara | Krick, Lucille Miller, Kenneth RunI yon, Gerald Vizard, Mel Collier, 1 Robert Gay, Flothilda Harris and Martha Colchin.

In Monroe: Paul Bahner and Osie Johnson, co-chairmen. In Berne: Herman Habegger and Violet Reppert, co-chairmen; Virgil Amstutz. G. O. Stauffer, Mrs. Arthur Zehr, Carmen Schwartz, Frances Aschelman, Walter Gilliom, Roger Meshberger, Harriet Baumgartner, Glen Neuenschwander and Ervin Schindler. In Geneva: Lester Pontius and Gretchen Stucky, co-chairmen; Fern Bierly, Helen Striker, Mrs. James Briggs, Kathryn Pyle, Mrs. W. W. Widdows, Walter Fenstermaker, Kenneth Shoemaker, Burley Drew and James Fravel. o JOHNSON TO BE MAIN SPEAKER Gen. Johnson to Speak At Retail Grocers Annua) Meeting Indianapolis, June B.—(U.R>—Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, former NRA administrator, will be principal speaker at the 38th annual convention of the National Association of Retail Grocers here June 17-20. More than 5,000 persons are expected to attend sessions of the convention. Gen. Johnson will speajt at the opening session June 17, and will head an extensive program of jtrpmlnent speakers. D. A. Affleck, Salt Lake City, Utah, is president of the association. Other officers Include Charles E. Smith, Dayton, 0., vice president; G. A. Bartel, Council Bluffs, la., treasurer, a,nd H. C. Peterson, secretary-manager. Gov. Paul V. McNutt will be principal speaker at (lie annual banquet June 19. The American Wholesale Grocers Association, the National Food (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

TO LIST WOMEN ON JURY PANELS Names of Women Will Be Drawn Here On Petit, Grand Juries The names of women will be placed in the regular Jury box for the first time and may be drawn as members of the regular panel in the September term of the Adams circuit court. Judge Huber M. DeVoss ordered , the jury commissioners in today! to add the names of women to the cards now on file in the jury box. From this box 12 names will be drawn next fall to serve on the petit jury and six najnes to serve on the grand jury. This procedure is being followed throughout Indiana this year because of a recent decision of the supreme court. The decision was in relation to the case of Indiana vs Walters which was tried in the Lagrange circuit court. The supreme court held in this case that the jury commissioners ■ had discriminated against a class : of people, namely women. Women, ! the supreme court held, since the ; ; 19th amendment, have rights equiv-| j alent to men in all respects as to I citizenship. Although women have been ellg- ! ible to serve on a jury there have been very few of them actually accepted. although the procedure/is common in other states. Only three women in Adams I county have ever been called to I ! jury service. They were from a J special panel called to try Joe Ev-| j erett for murder several years ago. I : None of these women was accepted. One was dismissed for cause j as she admitted upon examination that she did not believe in capital punishment. One of the other lad- • ies was dismissed premptor by the defense and one by the state. In the same manner women might be excluded by counsel next fall even though they were drawn from the jury box by the commissioners to serve on the regular panel. This would not effect the legality of any cases tried because the parties would have had the opportunity of having women on the I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) 0 HOLD PICNIC, RAIN OR SHINE St. Mary’s Church Picnic Will Be Held Sunday At Sun Set Rain or shine, the second annual congregatioal picnic of the St. Mary's Catholic church promises to be a success. The picnic will be held all day Sunday at the SunSet park, southeast of Decatur on state road 527. Chicken dinners will be served in the park pavilion, which is well protected from inclement weather.! Arrangements have been completed to serve more than 1.500 persons at dinner, which will be served a,t 11 a. m., continuing until all are accomodated. Prices will be 35 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. Supper, cafeteria style, will be served starting at 4:15 o'clock. Refreshment and amusement and entertainment stands have been constructed in the park. Various athletic contests have been arranged and there will be sufficient entertainment all day, starring at 10:30 a. m. Prize dra,wings will be held at 4:30 and 8 o'clock. The general public is cordially invited to attend the picnic. Transporation will be provided those not having a means of getting to the park. Cars will be at the Catholic school all day, starting at 10::30. Persons wishing to attend and unable to go to the school are asked to call George Andrews. o Part Os Municipal Parking Lot Open The Municipal (parking lot, corner of Madison 'J nd Second etreeta, will be opened to limited parking tonight. Part of the lot has been covered with cinders and most of the sipace has ibeen evened off. Ralph Roop, jcivil wx|ks commissioner, said about 50 cars could be parked now. Lights were being strung across the lot this afternoon by city plant employes.

COMMENCEMENT IS HELD HERE FRIDAY NIGHT Catholic High School, Eighth Grade Exercises Are Held Friday Commencement exercises were held Friday night for the 16 sen- | iors of the Decatur Catholic high school and the 29 members of the j eighth grade class of the St. I Joseph's school. The exercises were held at the Catholic school auditorium. The Rev. Father Alfred Reinig, assistant pastor of the St. Mary’s Catholic church of Fort Wayne, delivered the commencement address to the graduates. The Rev. Father J. J. Seimetz pastor of the local church, presented diplomas to the high school and eighth grade graduates. Father Seimetz congratulated the graduates, urging them to always remember the lessons taught them in the schools and to continue ! their educational pursuits throughout life. Scholarship awards were also presented by Father Seimetz. William Borns, member of the high school graduating class, was presented the Holy Name society award, a trip with expenses paid to the annual laymen’s retreat at Notre Dame university. Marjorie J Kintz, eighth grade graduate, | won the scholarship award preI sented annually by the Delta I Theta Tan sorority. This award !is a year’s tuition and book exI pense for the freshman year in I high school. Graduation Address “We have come here to honor I the graduates of the Decatur 1 Catholic schools," Father Reinig 1 said in opening his address. “In J Christian civilization, the home is j the l>asic unit of society. i “The home shapes the early ' character of the child. The home ' also 'shapes the early education of the child and is the first school.” The speaker continued by saying that the influence of the home is highly important in the child’s education. Father Reinig said that the purpose of Catholic education is to form Christian character in the child as well as to teach the wisdom of the world. Speaking directly to the graduates, Father Reinig admonished them ever to remember their ob- : ligations to their mothers and fahers and to remember that the love and practice of religion is ever necessary in the home. Opening the exercises, the sentore first marched onto the stage and presented a chorus selection. This was followed by the eighth grade graduates marching onto ' the stage and also singing. Music during the exercises was furnished by the orchestra, under the direction of Robert White. Graduates

The 16 members of the senior class are: Harold Baker, William Horns. Cedric Colchin. Robert (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) LOCAL MEMBERS AT CONVENTION Pythian Sisters Attend Convention At Montpelier Friday Twenty-five members of the Eureka Temple of Decatur Pythian Sisters attended the twenty-fifth annual convenion of the lodges in district four held in Montpelier Friday. The sessions were held in the I. O. O. F. hall and the district includes Miami, Wabash, Huntington, Grant, Blackford, Wells, Adams and Jay counties. Delegates from 12 temples and six visiting temples were present. The next annual convention will be held in Huntington. Grand officers present at the meeting were Clara Gilmore, grand chief; Fern Beber, grand senior; Rachel Jones, grand junior; Stella Bartie, grand protector; and Nina Mills, grand outer guard. Amcing the past grand chiefs was Mrs. James Bain of Decatur, and Mrs. Jessie Burdge of Decatur is a past grand trus(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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Would Curb Arms • >« « H 'l® m- 'J HFwwsC’ /■T / I Z r ■ft / I i >t ! / s th ' / f/ /■ A bill to put control of trade in arms, munitions and implements of war under a National Munitions Central Board, has been introduced by Senator James Pope of Idaho. CHURCH OF GOD PLANS PROGRAM Children’s Day Program Will Be Held Sunday Evening A special Children's Day program will be held at the Church of God in this city Sunday evening at 7:30 p. m. The complete program follows: Prelude —Violin solo —Mrs. O. L. Simerly, Jonesboro, accompanied by Mrs. Glen Marshall. Congregational song. Scripture lesson —Rev. Glen Marshall. Dramatization of "The Beautiful Garden of Prayer." Recitation — The Announcer — Mary Ellen Wagner. Recitation — Decorate the DayPhyllis Jane Bowman. Recitation —The Golden PageBobby Haley. Recita ion—A Box for Your Worries—Roy Cook. Recitation — Win the World — Anna Lou Chilcote. Song— The Dearest Word — Lavonn Strickler.

Exercise —Sunbeams —Alice Jean Hawkins, Barbara. Jean Marshall. Mary Ellen Wagner, Virgil Hawkins, Joseph Skiles, Gene Mitchell, Bobby Strickler, William Kocher, Connie Cook. Recitation — True Giving — Dorothy Smith. Recitation — A Flower of Good Wishes —Maxine Haley. Recitation— Nothing But GoodBetty Wolfe. Dialogue —Jesus' Penny—Mabie and Gladys Death. Recitation — Our Gifts — Mabie Jean Chilcote. Piano solo —A Bunch of Daisies —Paul Hawkins. Recitation — A Children's Day Resolution—Katherine Ann Fisher. Recitation — Remembering With Flowers —Catherine Baxter. Exercise — Cheerful “Doins Billy Hawkins, Dwight Marshall, Billy Bollinger, Brisbin Skiles, Paul Hawkins, Glen Donnel. Recitation— Say So—Betty Haley Recitation — Mother's Helper — Connie Cook. Recitation — Winning a i — (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) STATE POLICE TO CONDUCT CHECK-UP State Police Will Be Here Next Week To Make Annual Automobile Check-Up State police officers will be in the city next week to conduct a check-up on automobiles, identification cards and driver’s licenses. Light and brakes will be tested and examined, the officers stated. Drivers will be expected to show their identification cards and liCCIIB6B. Local police and Sheriff Dallas Brown will cooperate with the state officers. Arrests will not be made, but orders will be given by the officers to drivers to make immediate repairs to faulty brakes and head lights. The check-up is made in the interest of public safety.

DON RICHBERG QUITS JOB AS HEAD OF DOARD Extension Resolution Is Passed By House Late Friday Washington. June 8 — <U.R> — NRA activity moved today at a pace reminiscent of the early duya of th? Gen. Hugh Johnson regime as the Blue Eagle flopped about in its death throe. The house voted late yesterday to extend for nine and a half months a codeless NRA; Donald R, Richberg resigned as chief of the NRA board, and organized labor set to work to revive the once proud bird. At NRA headquarters of 5,400 workers in the commerce building. approximately 2,000 employes prepared to leave government service as a result of the Blue Eagle’s lose of the supreme court decision in the Schechter “sick chicken” case. The house made short work of President Roosevelt’s request for continuation of a skeletonized NRA hntil April 1. 1936. The house passed the 91-word extension resolution, 264 to 121. The senate will act next week. Although opposition in the senate promises to be stronger, the approval before the recovery act administration was confident of expires June 16. The resignation of Richberg, [ who only a tew months ago was called "assistant president," was not unexpected. He previously had expressed a desire to return to private law practice. Richberg's resignation to take effect June 16 was tendered in a letter dated June 5. He expressed "faith in the extraordinary value of your public service" and referred to the "affectionate regard which you inspire in those who have the privilege of working with you." President Roosevelt replied June 7 in a letter addressed to “My Dear Donald.” He expressed “my great regret, both person!al and official" and said it was (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O Auto Dealers Comply With Police Request

Chief of police Melt hl and Officer Ed Miller today made the rounds of auto dealers and asked their cooperation in clearing the streets of cars parked along the curb. Everybody knows .parking epace ie at a premium in Decatur. At several points in the city dealers set out new ars for display purpoeee and used cars for sale. The dealers were nek d to move the care from along the street on busy days. They readily complied with the request. —o — SUB-DISTRICT MEETING HERE M. E. Epworth League Will Elect Officers Here Monday Night The Decatur Methodist Epworth League will be the host to the annual Decatur sub-district meeting for the election of officers on Monday evening, Juno 10, at the 7:30 o’clock at the church here. The Rev. Howard Brown, pastor of the Forest Park Methodist Episcopal church of Fort Wayne, will deliver the address and preside over the installation of officers. He is the sub-district president. The Decatur sub-district includes Epworth Leagues from all the Methodist Episcopal churches in Adams county and the church at Poe. Decatur will have charge of the music during the program. Sara Jane Kauffman will sing a vocal solo. Louise Haubold will give an organ solo. Martha E. Calland will whistle. Zulu Porter will give a reading. James Harkless will sing. After the meeting there will be a social hour with Marion Baker, fourth vice-president, in charge. The local league extended in invitation to all leagues in Adams county and the Poe league to attend the annual meeting.