Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 264, Decatur, Adams County, 7 November 1935 — Page 1

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I SM ' | han ||r's Lead Is Over 1 50,000 " i,h Third <)f S I Precincts Reported; I Wets [Also Lead. PENSIONS L Ky Nov. ' .U.R> | B. (Happy) ChandL ■ didate for goverL| by the new deal, toL wide lead over Judge L. Republican, indieat[siipport for the Roose- j ■strut ion. Jioin 1.576 of Kentucky’s 1 Hurts gave Chandler a i r 50.951 votes with a to- i W’S against 170,672 fori |th more than one-third I eciiuts heard from, the candidate had obtained it will be almost imposepnomo when final votes ted ans had counted upon a lemocratic ranks to offpport of Cnandler by the iministration. Gov. Ruby emocratJe national com- , and Thomas S. Rhea. ,y Chandler in a run-off ad asked Kentucky voteat the Democratic cantie headquarters here. Chandler’s final major- ) reach nearly 100,000, 20,000 more votes than ) tj over tb.e Repute- ■ ■wrifr f ><>te cast Tuesday K]j s jd . • o’i It was b* /Bert Os than in any pre.lames A. Ktiey.t :u.ui m the Democratic rnttec. offered his **y telephone, lie tine job and I ant Mfcktk 1 congratulate Happy id every!'., ly who helped him tkewh a great race." Mr :i strenuous fig Tit by the ■~ixt i:k ov PAGE FOUR) | PARTIES [(AIM GAINS jjjblicans, Democrats And Anti-Saloon LeaKiie Statements ■«>>>'. ind.. Nov. —(UP) -Repo Democrats and the Edtanh antipaloon league today I tia® individual victories in town i" i I throughout the state a- ramplete returns were hr re. ■ 0» ti of total number of nt one political party t i offices. Republicans tow». -■ .. ; int rea.se in strength, gained control of 76 "Si'- Democrats held the a.lortt of those elected in 45 ■’..•i"-. Tit ■ anti-saloon •Wjba ... us i-iaiin-t of strength of victory of '’dry” candiWolrafi. : ..i| through 1 >oth major «litit;ll parties. it ( hairman of the re- ■> . .’rimitte-, interprett«l(; i, |> , 1,-ength as a "defitoward a repudiation of 1 Deal in 1936." Stolon Jackson, chairman "IB 111 c.' i.itic state committee, "Sp<’d le[ feet of the Repubstating that 'the Wi "" Purely local, and that linos /veil’s New Deal ■ ni "as junt as .popular as Ho ton cast a decided victory Party in 1936 ‘ ' >rk. superintendent of the |B League. said h? war. "favorwith the results of Glonn and that dry victories Ja! Jl,st t!le beginning of a genon the liquor traffic ' nr *hout the state.” ; - o jjy n Committee Will Meet Sunday Till ——— maaS r Gehrig ’ general chairlßtii ' l | " le Alnerican Legion ArmJ® D »y program, has called a Sumt ' K ° f t * le entire committee morning at the Legion hall. uJg of fbe committee are Kern, Charles Massonnee, uX Y ° St ’ Charles Burke, Frank tpjTI,', 1 ,', Arthllr Meyers, Ralph (S’ Her, nan Ulman and Ed Ad

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Cleveland’s Mayor ’ L ftps n' Mw W IJL it RI i ! - L« Harold 11. Burton, Republican. I defeated both the Democratic and Republican "machines" in Cleve- ' land to win the mayoralty race. ) DOPEPEDDLIN6 - | RING SMASHED Five Fort Wayne Persons Held In Connection With Dope Ring — Fort Wayne, Ind.. Nov. 7- (UP)— [ A dope .peddling ring was believed i partially smashed here today with . the arr-nt of five Fort Wayne per sous.‘Who are charged with. c*»utii4 bitting to the delinquency of a 17-[ year-old girl. Those arrested were D.', Edison Bishop. 53, a chiropractor. Harold Boham, 22, and h:s wife Mrs. Margaret Boham, 24, Doris Martin, 20, and Cal dirtier, 22. The arrests followed a probe instigated Monday by lo‘ al police. Dorio Martin and the 17-year-old I girl whose name was not divulged were arrested Monday and admitted : attended a party where loco weed cigarets were smoked. Philip Litfey, who watt arrested ; Monday on a chargt of selling loco weed, or ndian hemp, was to have been arraigned today in muni, ipal' court, but bis cade was postponed i until November 12. He is alleged to ’ hav? sold the dope cigaret-t used at i the party. A startling story related by the : two girls resulted in the ether arrests. Dr. Bishop was the only one of those arrested who did not attend rti” party, it was said. The younger girl told officers that after attending the party site had a severe pain in her side and went to Dr. Bishop for treatment. Bishop ordered her to rest on a (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) — 0 HIGHWAY HEAD TO AID SAFETY Highways Os State To Be Marked For Bad Curves And Grades Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 7 (UP> The state highway department today announced a new program to decrease traffic accidents on curves and grades through a eyetem of yellow lines warning motorists on an approaching danger zone. (Brightly-colored lines will be painted parallel to present center lines on all curves of more than three degrees and grades where vision is obscured for 1,000 feet. The marking, to be standard throughout the state, will warn a motorist to stay in the right side of the highway until he has pass 'd the danger zone indicated by the yellow lines. The ’plan was instituted by James D. (Adams, chairman of the highway commlesion, after a survey of syst a ms used in other states and aocidents occurring in such zones in Indiana. Seventy-one accidents, several of them fatal, have occurred on curves and grades tins, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

EXTENSION OF ARMS EMBARGO HERE UNLIKELY U. S. Administration To Use Only Moral Force On Commodities Washington, Nov. 7 —(UP)—Lea- 1 g(( of Nations’ hopes that ithe United States will join immediate- , ly in an embargo on shipments of iron, steel, oil and coal to Italy appeared cruehed today. Indications were that the Roosev.dt administration plans to coast along with its present embargo on exports of "arms, ammunition and implements of war," both to Italy and Ethiopia, and to use only moral force to discourage trade in all oth- j er commodities and articles with , the belligerents. President Roosevelt and his advisere on foreign affairs, it was believed, have abandoned any intent!.ms they may have had toward I broadening the scope of the present arms embargo, or attempting to lay down a general embargo against Italy and Ethiopia under the exising neutrality law which expires automatically next Feb. 29. In the meantime. It was indicated, administration officials will encour-j i age the fullest discussion, in print i and otherwise, of the present law , and its deficiencies in the nope that | ' the next congress wil lenact morel ! permanent neutrality legislation giving the president much more disI cretion and much broader powers ■ than are conferred by this act. This was the concensus in official circles following a message on .“our ' foreign i.olicy with respect to neuj trallty," prepared by secretary of I date Cordell Hull and read into the ! radio microphone for him by acting secretary William Phillips last night. Hull was al >sent from Wash- j j ington. Hull pleaded for broader nett-1 I trallty legislation designed to keep ■ the United States out of foreign I i wars, and to permit this nation to 1 use its prestige and Influence to I j (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) LEGION PLANS I ARMISTICE DAY Dr. Harry .Jones Principal Speaker At Banquet Next Monday I Dr. Harry O. Jones, Berne, will ■ deliver the .principal address at the Armistice Day program of Adams .post number 43 of the A r.eri.an Legion next Monday evening, Nov-; I ember 11. The meeting will be held at the. Moose home on north Second street, | with a banquet at 6:30 o’clock opening the evening's program. The I meeting is for Legion members and | their wives and members of the j auxiliary and their husbands and I m mheis of the drum corp and their j wives. Tillman Gehrig, past commander, ’ is general chairman for the pro-1 gram. Other metr.Oers of the committee are Herb Kern. Charles Mas-! sonee, (Attas Yost, Charles Burke, Frank Liniger, Arthur Meyers, Ralph R op, Herman Ulman and Ed Adler. A chicken supper will be served j in the dining room of tho Moose home. Following the speaking pro-1 gram, a dance will be held in the I lodge ballroom. On the morning of Armistice Day I three bombs will be fired shortly | before 11 o’clock. A bugler will sound “Cease Firing," followed by one minute of silence. Taps will then be sounded. < o New Service Manager At Chevrolet Garage — Kent Myers, Lima, Ohio, has been employed by Emerson Thompson as manager of the service department of the Thompson Chevrolet company. MTUMyers has had seven years experience in a factory dealer store and is well trained for all types of repair work.J Mr. and Mrs. Myers will move to Decatur within a short time. o J. M alter Bockman Undergoes Operation J. Walter Bockman, who has been a patient at the Hines hospital, Hines, 111., for the past several weeks, was operated on Wednesday. According to word received by Mrs. Bockman he is getting ‘ along very weTT. His leg will re'main in a cast for twelve weeks.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 7, 1935.

* LAST LAUGH I I | Bluffton, Ind., Nov. 7.—<U.R> | When pranksters soaped win- | ; dows and removed porch furn- | j iture front the Baptist parson- | ; age Halloween, Rev. Morris H. | | Coers, the young pastor, laugh- | [ cd with them. Participating in initiation of i | candidates into Tri Tau fra- | ; ternity, Coers recognized the | | culprits, assigned them to wash | | the parsonage windows and re- | | turn the furniture from nearby | | trees —laughed at them. > « DEVOSS SPECIAL JUDGE • Local Judge To Hear Contempt Case Against Huntington Mayor Huntington. Ind., Nov. 7. —(Spec- ] ial)—Judge Huber M. DeVoss of the Adams circuit court will assume jurisdiction today as special judge in Northern Indiana Power company contempt proceedings against Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs and others who are charged with violations of the utility’s permanent injunction against extension of municipal electric service. He is expected to set a date today for hearing arguments on a defense plea to abate the contempt 1 proceedings and seperate them from the original injunction case ; brought by the power company. Judge DeVoss Wednesday accepted his appointment as special judge. Judge Sumner Kenner, relieved of jurisdiction of the case, submitted the names of three special judges when attorneys for the city and Northern Indiana company failed to agree during a morning conference. Counsel for the utility struck off Ithe name of Judge John F. Decker lot the Wells circuit court and City Attorney Claude Cline crossed out the name of Judge Clarence McNabb of the Allen circuit court. All of the special judges submitted are Democrats and live in 1 coinmunities which have municipal , light plants. Judge Kenner’s qualification to . preside in the renewed contempt ; proceedings was questioned by the I power company because he is a taxpayer in the defendant city and because a near relative owns stock in the plaintiff company. The city of Huntington took the first change of venue from Judge Kenner soon after the original injunction complaint was filed. The power company filed a moI tion for special judge to avoid if ; possible any questions which might 'arise over judgments of the court in future litigation. O Large Crowd Hears Noted Book Reviewer A large crowd enjoyed the book reviews given by Kathryn Turney Garten of Indianapolis in Library hall last evening. The 'program was sponsored by [ the Psi Cota Xi sorority of this city. ; Miss Eloise Lewton was chairman | of the program and Mrs. Arthur Holthouse presented the speaker. Mrs. Garten reviewed two books, i "Leopold Hie Unloved and "Four ! Gardens." DECATUR LIONS TO FORT WAYNE Zone Four Os Lions Club Will Meet Tuesday, November 26 Decatur will be represented at tho meeting of zone four of the Lions clubs in northern Indiana so be held at the Catholic Community Center in Fort Wayne on Tuesday, November 26. The local club will vote Tuesday on whether the regular meeting of the chib in this city will be dispensed with to enable the mem-| bers to attend the Fort Wayne meeting in a. body or whether the I club will be represented with delegates only. The meeting will honor Maj. P. E. Greenwalt, district governor of northern Indiana. Major Greeni wait, chaplain of the U. S. Veterans hospital at Marion will give I an address on “Lionlsm.” Following the address a dance will be held for members and their wives. Clubs invited to attend the affair are Fort Wayne, Auburn, Decatur, Garrett, Ligonier. Churubusco, Pierceton and South Whitley. Members of other clubs have 1 also been invited.

ADAMS CIRCUIT COURT REPORT Clerk Files Report Os Actions Taken In September Term A total of 141 cases were disposed of and 133 filed during the September term of the Adams circuit court, according to a report filed Thursday by David D. Depp, clerk of the circuit court. A total of 105 cases were disposed of on the civil docket according to the report. These were: dismissed, 57; personal judgments, 119; foreclosures, three; adoption, i three; sent to the Riley hospital, two; venued from the county, two; idivorces granted, five (one to a ■ man and four to women); miscellaneous, 10, and partitions granted, four. There were 95 civil cases filed as actions in the local court. Os these 83 originated in the county and 12 were venued here. There were 407 civil cases pend ing in the Adams circuit court. There were eight criminal cases filed during the term and four dis posed. The cases disposed were: | dismissed, one; sent to jail, two, j and sent to prison, one. There are 50 cases pending. There were 25 estate cases filed and 23 disposed of during the 1 term. There were five guardianship cases filed and nine disposed of in the same time. The September term of the circuit court ended Saturday. For two weeks the circuit court will be in vacation. The November I term will convene on Monday. November 18. 0 Treasurer’s Office Is Closed For Tabulation County Treasurer John Wechter closed his office today to make his semi-annual tabulation of the taxes collected. The last day for payment of taxes was Monday. Checks . for the payment of taxes by non- | resident property owners were re- ’ ' ceived in the mails Tuesday and !; Wednesday. WILL OBSERVE ; CHEESE WEEK National Cheese Week To Be Observed Here Nov. 10-16 Plans for the third annual observance of national cheese week. November 10 to 16, were launched here today 'iy the Cloverleaf Creameries, 'lnc., in cooperation with local grocers and citizens. , Friday aft rnoon at the city hall Mayor A. R. Holthoee wdl cut a ‘ large 190 pound American cheese loaf, the cerenony being part of the local publicity campaign to direct attention to the cheeee industry. Local grocers have stocked the j 100 pound loaf from which slices will be out for the trade. Grocers) , also have a varied line of package and crown cheese for the week. The Cloverleaf Creamery now ) manufactures a cream < heese and is also distributor for Kraft-Phenix cheese products. The observance of national | cheese week is of special interest to the people of Adams county due to its close relationship to the dairy i industry. This county is one of the j leading dairy centers in the state i 1 and the dairy farmers are among , the most progressive and prosperous in the community. 1 Grocers will feature che se specials in their advertisements in j Friday’s Daily Democrat and the cooperation of the public in the I observance of the week through the : purchase of the product, will be ‘ appreciated. o —• Improve Ditch In Kirkland Township ———— Engineers of the Fort Wayne CCC j camp will be in Kirkland township I Friday to make a preliminary exa- | mination of a project. This is the I improvement of an 1,800 foot ditch which empties into the Gerber joint ditch. ' * It is probable that a crew of men will f>e working on the ditch either | Saturday or Monday. This is the ■ first project approved by the drain- , age camp in Adams county. -Q. ■ ■ Five Bandits Rob Railway Mail Car Garretsville, 0., NoV. 7 —(UP) — Five bandits, one armed with a machine gun. today held up the mail car of an Erie railroad train here and fled with five bags of mail.

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BILLY” SUNDAY DIES SUDDENLY LAST EVENING — World-Famous Evangelist Dies At Home Os Sister In Chicago Chicago, Nov. 7. —(U.Rl—The Rev. William A. (Billy) oimday, worldfamous evangelist, died peacefully . last night. He would have been I 73 years old November 19. The picturesque preacher who brought thousands down "(he sawdust trail to salvation" succumbed to an attack of angina pectoris at the home of his brother-in-law, William J. Thompson, a Chicago flor|ist. Beside him was his wife, Mrs. . Helen (“Ma”) Sunday, who married him when he was a professional baseball star nearly 50 years ago. Around him were the looseleaf notebooks which contained sermons he had been studying in the expectation of continuing his revival meetings this winter. “He 'was sensible about death," Mrs. Sunday said. “He told me only yesterday, ‘if I go 1 know you'll ibe alright.’ He often talked about dying when he was ill but yesterday he seemed more sure of it as ter he had an attack early in the morning. “About 8 o’clock last night he had a sharp pain and said, ‘l'm getting so dizzy, ma’. Then he died." Mrs. Sunday saw in her husband's quick death an example of the efficacy of prayer. “Billy," she ) said, "always used to pray, ‘Oh, ) Lord, when I have to go, please make it quick'." The evangelist’s (wo sons. William A.. Jr., and Paul T. Sunday, i where to arrive by plane today i from Los Angeles. Funeral ser- ■ vices probably will be held in Chi- ; cago. Born in Ames. la., “Billy" never ) saw his father, who died in service i with the Union army. After graduation from Nevada, la., high school, Ihe studied at Northwestern Uni- ! versify but left college when Ad(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Select Homes For Prayer Meetings The M. E. cottage prayer meet- ' ings for this week will close with i Friday meetings from 9:30 to 10 la. m. The subject will be “How Far Am I Responsible For a Revival,” and the Scripture suggested is Ezekiel 33:7-9. The prayer groups will meet at the following homes: W. F. Beery. 810 Morirteef Wilfred Plasterer, 1115 Madison: Mrs. Lizzie Elzey, 602 Indiana; Dr. J. M. Miller, 232 South Second: Dan Sprang, 507 North Second: Mrs. R. I). Myers, 337 Winchester; Lloyd Ahr, Homestead addition. STORM DAMAGE FOUR BILLION Hurricane Expected To Hit Southern Coast Again Today Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 7 —(UP) An off-season hurricane that has taken eight lives an dcaueed damage estimated at $4,000,000 in southeast Florida, today was centered 150 miles south of Pensacola, according to an advisory issued by the Federal hurricane warning system. Continuing its erratic course, the storm apparently has curved northward, the weather Ibureau said, and warned that its center probably will reach the coast between appalachicola, Fla., and Mobile, Ala., this afternoon or early tonight. Storm warnings were flying from Cedar Keys. Fla., to the mouth of the Mississippi river. The disturbance is attended by winds of hurricane intensity at a small area of the center. Winds along the coast are exipected to begin increasing in intensity in a few hours, until they reach gale force as the storm passes over, the weather forecaster at Jacksonville said.

Dies Suddenly William A. (Billy) Sunday, noted evangelist, died suddenly Wednesday night of angina pectoris at the home of a brother-in-law at Chicago. SAY NEW DEAL POWER WANING Political Observers, However, Say Roosevelt Victory Likely Washington, Nov. 7 — (U.R) — Political observers judged today tha.t off year polling in scattered stales indicated President Roosevelt would be returned to the White House if the 1936 election were held tomorrow but that new deal prestige is skidding. The presidential election to which all political energy now is directed will take place on Nov. 3, just under a year from today. As they prepare for the cam-' paign. national Republican a.nd Democratic leaders assay Tuesday's state-wide elections in Kentucky and New York and the mayoralty poll in Philadelphia. Other voting was less significant. Democratic leaders are confronted with the problem of stopping the skid in (he east. Republicans proclaim the new deal already is tailspinning out of control and that there will be no stopping. Democrats reply that the returns are encouraging and | cite figures to prove it. Claims and counter claims will not win the 1936 elections. But the Republican showing last Tuesday warms the motors for what should be a good race. With some evidence of friendliness in the east —where big campaign contributions usually grow—the Repub(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Boy Scout Leaders Will Meet Friday A meeting of Boy Scout executives will be held in the mayor's court room at the city hall Friday evening for the purpose of outlining ; plans for the annual campaign for funds. Troop committeemen and others) active in Boy Scout work have been invited to attend the meeting. Harold W. McMillen is district chairman and will preside at the meeting. O — World Traveller To Speak At Portland Richard Halliburton, author and world traveller, will be presented in a program at the Methodist Episcopal church in Portland. Monday evening. November 25, sponsored by the American Association of University Women in that city. An incurable romantic, a fearless explorer, one of the most popular of non-fiction writers, Hal’.ilburton comes to the lecture platform after a year’s absence with his new lecture, “Seven League Boots.” Tickets for the program are priced at 50 cents for adults and 35 cents for school children. The address will start at 8 o'clock and several local persons are planning to attend. WEATHER Rain; slightly warmer central and extreme east portions tonight; Friday cloudy to partly cloudy and somewhat colder.

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League Welcomes German Support In Its Fight To Force Italians To Abandon War. RESUME ADVANCE London, Nov. 7—(U.R) —Great Britain's demand for cessation of anti-British propaganda in Italy is impeding conclusion of an Anglo-Italian agreement to ease tension in the Mediterranean, it was understood today in well informed diplomatic quarters. By Louis F. Keemle (United Press Cable Editor) The league of nations found the badly-needed support of Germany today in its fight to cripple Italy’s trade and force an end to the war in Ethiopia. It was officially disclosed in Berlin that Germany already has banned the export of arms and war materials to Italy, and may embargo raw materials (coal, iron, etc.) and foodstuffs. Thus the economic ring around Italy tightened. The United States remained the principal country from which Italy could still hope to get the raw materials vital to the prosecution of a, war. Although Secretary Hull suggested in his statement last night that the next congress should broaden the neutrality law, perhaps making it possible to apply a more effective embargo against a belligerent, it was made plain in Washington that this country cannot and does not intend to do anything of the sort under the present law. The league will have to be content with the moral support of the United States, plus any effort the administration may make to persuade private interests to curtail exports to Italy voluntarMj. ) On Nov 18. the full weight of ) penalties will be imposed by some 50 nations. It remains to be seen whether they will be enough to stop Mussolini, or if the British fleet will strip for action. The latter contingency is never far from the minds of the powera, although they throw up their hands in horror when it is mentioned. In any event, no really important diplomatic development seems likely to come within the next week, or until after the British general election next Thursday. It is not likely that the British government would take any decisive step likely to influence the result of the election, which at present is a certainty tor the government. In tho waj- zone, the Italians resumed their advance on all (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Immanuel Walther League Plans Play Members of the Immanuel Wai- | ther league will present a threeact comedy drama. “No-Account David." at the Bleeke school building Saturday and Sunday nights, November 9 and 10. B. Schultz is j directing the production. YALE GRADUATE HELD FOR FRAUD Honor Graduate, 51 Others Indicted For Huge Stock Swindle New York, Nov. 7 —(UP) —Wallace G. Garland, Yale honor graduate and financial promoter, and 51 other persons were indicted by a federal grand jury today, charged with defrauding the public of $4.500,000 in sale of stock. Garland and hie associates were alleged to have used an automatic traffic signal patent, originally valued at $7,500, ae the basis for forming a series of corporations in which they ultimately gave the patent a book value of $35,000,000 and stock widely to the public. Aseociated with Garland In tho venture was another Yale graduate Arnold C. Mason who finished Sheffield scientific school with honors in 1927. The indictment was the largest of its kind ever returned here. Spread over 77 pages, it contained 43 counts charging use of the mails to defraud and conspiracy.