Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1936 — Page 1

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For Pageant Launched In Earnest Today

Lival Os Director b [signal For Activity In| l»| ans For Mammoth | Historical Pageant. meet TONIGHT L.wrationa for Decatur'" MrL .how. the spectacular historL| ntfeaiit. to be presented the L t t hrw nights of this city s Ltennial celebration in August. [,,, launched in earnest today L the arrival of Gerald Novak. Llor for the John Fl. Rogers Luring company. Ln committees of the pageant , L m eet at the public library toL|„ at 7:3" o'clock. Mr. Novak , ||) Im present and outline the i Leant and methods of procure. [Wednesday night, all persons L have been named as memL o f the pageant cast will meet I the Catholic school auditorium 1 7:30 o’clock. More than 600 local persons will Le part in the pageant, which 111 depict the history' of Decatur Ll Adana county from 1836 to I * [Early parts of the irageant will b deeper into history than the unding of Decatur. Many colorful scenes will be rented during the pageant, on mday, Monday and Tuesday fchts. August 2. 3 and 4. [Glittering costumes, beautiful lenery will be presented in each [ the various historical episodes. All costumes for the elaborate induction will be furnished by le Rogers company, under conact to stage the pageant. [.Mr. Novak will be in Decatur hntinuously from now until the rnal performance of the pageant, [i a sistant director will also be Le the final two weeks before Le production is staged. [l>h«arsals will be held three r tour days of each week. In Open Field The pageant will be presented i Niblick field, east of the St. lary's river and south of highway !4 A mammoth stage will be Lilt, providing a pretentious backround for the colorful episodes p be depicted. The stage will fie erected, facing p the east, with the audience in natural amphitheatre. o SPECIAL FUND TO BE ASKED Lsk Appropriation For Welfare Board Administration A special appropriation of 30.540 will be requested from the ouaty council at a called session Wednesday, July 22, in the court »use at 9 o'clock, to pay the excuses of the administration of W age assistance and pensions a >d by the Adams county welfare oard. The appropriations would not enuire additional funds in the mdget for the purposes but are wessary in the transfer of funds rom the agencies which formerly dministered welfare work to the lew county welfare board. Although more money will be equir<>d in Adams county during e Periods covered in requested April 1 to DecemleoVTINIJBD ON PAGE SIX) WEATHER Fair tonight and Wednesay ' warmer north tonight ant| extreme east Wednesu«y. —O '°rt Wayne Man Pleads Guilty tullt?k of F ol ’* Wayne, plead ' > before Mayor A. R. Holthouse harru" r > 3 001111 laiit evenln g on a thii- u°j ° perat ’ ng an automobile de «a laer influence of liquor, ‘r Ed rested Saturday by officltree. !er 0,1 N °rth Second Mth ti‘™ ! Wife at *d daughter were kin the Car ' H1 » wa ® worked the y in Port Wayne and into an »n? Urt he would never get mg a L n ??° bl,e again after tabH ' a Wife al * , ° s P°he in Th u ?s n tenced him to 30 a »d fln»a L ’’’’"'Pending the term •"ountinp t $ 25 and COfl ts, as 0 *35, which was paid.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

To Be Notified Wl -,-r- W*- - > JI i wyi < ijiSaMLff 1 w ' 1 /■/T- ' 1 Ji f •* 71 I S 4 ft I V ■ - ■ —.—*-.4 M. Clifford Townsend, lieuten-ant-governor of Indiana, will be formally notified Thursday of his nomination as Democratic candidate for governor. Notification ceremonies will be held at Marion. DICK HEILER IS SECRETARY Former Decatur Newspaper Man Secretary Os State Committee Indianapolis. Ind., July 7 —(UP) — Jacob C. Kutz, member of the Anderson school board was slated to become the 11th district Democratic chairman at a meeting of the state committee today. He will succeed the late Cary Folkner, of Anderson. Dick Heller, De. atur, was named secretary of the state committee by Omer Stokes Jackson, State chairman, aucce ding Keith Johns, who resigned. Miss Aline H. Laws, MPan, was named Heller's secretary. She wan employed in the campaign headquarters of Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend prior to the alate convention. Heller, former city editor of th* Decatur Daily Democrat, was campaign manager for Townsend in his successful fight for the Democratic (i.kivrnht rial rumination at the state convention last month. Prior to that time. Heller was secretary to the lieutenant-gover-nor. Bumper Strips May Now Be Obtained Bumper strips advertising the Decatur Centennial are obtainable at the Centennial office. The strips are to be placed on the front bomber of the automobil . A number of strips have been distributed to local manufacturers and wholesale houses where the drivers cover a wide territory. The Centennial office is .located in the law office of Arthur E. Voglev.ede, secretary of the Centennial association. o CONTRACTS ARE LET BY BOARD Commissioners Award Four Contracts In Session Today Four contracts were let today by the county commissioners at their regular session. Three of the bids were for supplies for the county infirmary for three months. They were awarded to the following firms: tobacco to Walter Deitsch of Decatur at $128.28; groceries to Sprunger Lehman Company of Berne at $137.19; bread to Calvin ißausernian of Berne at 7 1-4 cents a loaf. The A. R. Ashbaucher tin shop of Decatur was the only bidder for the repair of the court house roof. The bid was $179.50 was accepted. No bids were received for the repair of the roofs on buildings at the county infirmary. The letting was continued until Tuesday evening July 21 at 7:30 o’clock. At this time blds will also be received for filing cabinets for the county welfare board.

MAYOR BANGS BACK IN JAIL AT HUNTINGTON Goes To Jail On Orders From Judge De Voss Os This City Huntington, Ind., July 7. —(U.PJi —While Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs languished in Jail today, members of his city council planned passage of an ordinance giving the council authority to remove any , city official from office. The militant editor-lawyer-may-or entered Huntington county jail for the second time after being | convicted in Huntington circuit [cort of a contempt charge growing out of alleged violation of a court I injunction prohibiting sale of electricity from the city's municipal power plant. He spent 101 days in jail on a similar charge last summer and i won release on an appeal to the i state supreme court which still is i pending. Two employes of the city light department, Max Penny, cashier, and J. Clayton Brown, meter reader, were sentenced to jail with the executive. Three ofther employee, Arthur D. Sayler, city attorney; James B. Vernon, city engineer, and 8. Perry Hull, superintendent of the municipal light plant, escaped imprisonmnet by resigning their positions. at the mayor's request, a few minutes before the court session yesterday. Bangs incarceration gave his opponents on the city council another opportunity to again secure passage of the ouster ordinance which twice before has been passed and each time vetoed by the | mayor. In each previous instance supporters of the measure, because of ingenious legal maneuvers, were unable to override the executive's veto. At the last attempt, one of , the proponents of the measure was arrested and detained by police (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) PROPOSE PLANS TO AID PARKING Commissioners Propose Additional Parking On Madison Street A move to increase the parking facilities of the city was proposed by the county commissioners today. The board pointed out the fact that since the reduction of the width of the walk on the north side of the court house on MadiI son street, the number of cars which can be accomodated has been doubled. This is due to the I diagonal parking system. For very little money the commissioners, in conjunction with 1 County Engineer Walter Gilliom. ■ said the narrowing of the side walk could be continued on both sides of Madison street from First to Third streets. in most of the eases the only cost to the property owners would be the labor, which might 'be furnished by the WPA. It would be . only necessary to pull out the outi side row of cement blocks and move the curb back. Even in cases where the inside row of cement blocks are bad it might be possible to move a good block from the front row to replace the broken cement. The commissioners then proposed that the city pay for the widening of the street to include the part now occupied by the side walk. Here, they believed, WPA labor could be used. When completed, the walk would be about five feet wide. Should there be some cost, the commissioners pointed out that the increase in the value of the property would more than cover the expense. ip Installation Os Lights Is Delayed Due to the delay in getting the cable, work on installing the ornamental street lights on Monroe street, between First and Third streets and on First street between Monroe and Rugg streets, has been delayed. Every effort has been made to get the cable. Manufacturers are behind in their orders and the two projects cannot be completed until the material arrives. M. J. Mylott, superintendent of the city plant, stated today he hoped the cable would arrive thia week. It was ordered about eight weeks ago.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 7, 1936.

Committee Members To Attend Luncheon Members of uny of the various Centennial committees, who wish to attend the royal luncheon for Miss Decatur and her court in the | Holeum bakery 8u Fort Wayne. July 14, are asked to call 16d and give their names to Miss Corolene ; Townsend. Persons able to furnish transportation for one or more members of the royal party are asked to state how many they will be able ; to take. There will be no charge for ) the luncheon and a special invitai tion has been extended to all comi mittee men and women. MAKE PLANS TO FURNISH MEALS Lodges, Churches Plan i To Aid In Feeding Centennial Crowds 11 I Arrangements are now being made to furnish meals for the huge crowds expected in Decatur on ! Sunday, August 2, opening day of : the Centennial, it was made known ’ at the Centennial meeting last ' night. With between 10,000 and 15.000 persons expected to attend the . church services here on that day. . it was necessary to find eating ac- . comodations. The Catholic field ■ mass held in the morning, will be - concluded at about noon, thus leav- • ing a huge number of visitors in i the city during the dinner hour. Since no stands are permitted to set up on the midway before t midnight Sunday, several lodges - and churches have announced their ! intentions of serving meals. With > such a crowd in attendance, local • restaurants, despite modern faciJ- • ities and competent service would be unable to serve all visitors. Since the Lutheran service will f be held early in the afternoon and > the Protestant union service early j in the evening many are expected f to remain the entire day, assuring i ample business for all eating ‘ places. An incident was recalled in a nearby town when many people were forced to do without the noon j Inncheon, when a vast throng cleaned up all food from restaurants and eating houses. The Cen- | tennial committee has made extra I precautions to guard against an occurance of that kind here. o ' To Install K. C. Officers Tonight Robert Gage, grand knight, and : staff of officers of the Knights of 1 Columbus will be installed at ceremonies to be held this evening at the K. of C. hall. Henry Halsey of Fort Wayne, district deputy, will be the installing I officer, assisted by mem hern of the 'local lodge. Mr. Gage was elected t to the office last month, Joe Murphy has been appointed financial secretary, succeeding Pat ■ Miller. i ' 0 TO BROADCAST ON CENTENNIAL ■ First Os Four Broadcasts , Will Be Staged Thursday Night II —— : A series of four 30 minute radio : broadcasts, advertising the Decatur ': Centennial celebration will begin Thursday night over radio station • [ WOWO in Fort Wayne at 8 p. m. ' CST. ' The programs will be held each Thursday night at 8 p. m. C.S.T. during the month of July. These have been worked out 'by Roy Kal- . ver, chairman of the publicity committee, and Dr. Fred Patterson, chairman of the pageant committee. On the first program Thursday, , there will be an address by French Quinn, In addition there will be special vocal music by Mrs. Dan Tyndall and Mrs. Walter Krick, ac- . companied by Mrs. Carrie T. HauI bold. Thursday, July 16, Mayor A. R. i Holthouse will deliver the address. ■ The Decatur girls l>and is scheduled to appear on this broadcast. Thursday, July 23, Dr. Fred Patterson will speak. A ladies trio composed of Mrs. Dan Tyndall, Sara Jane Kauffman and Miss Helen HauhO'ld will furnish vocal music, ■ accompanied by Louise Haubold. ■ Louise Haubold will play a few of i her original musical compositions on the piano. Thursday, July 30, Col. Fred Repipert of Decatur will speak. Music will be furnished by the American Legion City Band.

.MURDERER IS : SENTENCED TO r PAY WITH LIFE Tri-Lakes Resident Given Death Sentence For ) Murder r Columbia City, Ind., July 7. —(U.R) • —Almost exactly 30 hours from the moments he smashed and slashed the life from Harry H. Zumbrun, 21, Friday morning, Clarence E. Thomas, 31, was sentenced here yesterday to die In the electric chair October 19. I Circuit Judge Bob R. McNngny | pronounced sentence. Thomas, hoping to receive a life sentence, rejected an offer to post- . pone his arraignment and pleaded guilty to the first of a six-count indictment returned by the Whitley [county grand jury yesterday morning. ; Thomas showed little diatrese a« , Judge McNagny pronounced sentence. He told state police lie J would accept the sentence as final and would make no appeal. "I got what 1 deserved and what L I expected," he said slowly. Immediately after he was doomed to the chair, Thomas was whisked back to the Huntington county ' jail, where he had been bidden since he was arrested to forestall 1 any lynching attempts. He ordered his first heavy meal since his capture and seemed relieved to 1 know his fate was certain. Tnomas killed Zumbrun Friday 1 morning to rob him of about S3O. ’| He struck the young filling sta- * tion owner several times over the head with a hammer in the “Dug- ’ Out,” Zumbrun's station four miles northeast of Churubusco. rearing his victim still lived, Thomas returned after he had left once, secured a butcher knife and slashed Zumbrun's throat. He was captured by state police ' at his home in Tri-Lakes. Splotches of blood on his shirt and pic- ’ tures of the dead man’s bloody ’ head broke Thomas' defense and he confessed. PARTS OF STATE : ENJO YRAINFALL Scattered Rains Reported: High Temperatures [ Elsewhere I Indianapolis, July 7. — (U.R) — A f variety of climatic conditions — . searing heat, heavy winds, rain I and hailstorms—caused thermometers to rise and fall in various . portions of the state yesterday. , Bloomfield reported temperature , of 111.5 degrees, the highest in I the state. The Bloomington and Washington thermometer reached I 106 degrees. Lafayette's reading was 104 and at Rushville it was 95. In Crawfordsville farm leaders expressed fears of a badly depleted corn corp unless rain falls soon. The temperature in that city yesterday was 106 degrees. Logansport faced a depleted water supply with the Eel river gett- , ing lower with each day of drought. Farmers around Anderson were jubilant as their fields soaked up 1 .28 inches of rain. Yesterday's rainfall brought the total for the last 10 days to .48 inches. Rain accompanied by hail caused minor damage to corn in north--1 ern Madison county and also pounded down on Henry county. Thumpi ing hailstones at Greensboro broke i out 30 window panes in the Ma- . sonic lodge building and caused (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Red Cross To Have Emergency Tent At a meeting of the Adams county Red Cross association Monday evening an invitation to maintain a first ( aid tent during Decatur's 100th , birthday party was accepted. , Plans are now being made for the tent. The tent will be located on the northeast corner of the court house square and is furnished by the Centennial association. Com- : plete emergency and first aid equipment will be kept available in the , tent during the week. - Gladys Kern To Speak At Church Miss Gladys Kern of Red Bird, i Kentucky, who is spending a short vacation in this city, will give a talk ■ on her work at the Red Bird Mis- : sion, at the regular mid week seri vice at the Evangelical church Wednesday night at 7 o’clock.

Unsurpassed Crop Failure Foreseen In Northwest As ■ Severe DroughtlContinues

LABOR HEADS SEEK TO HALT I INWARD FIGHT 1 i — Labor Leaders Seek Compromise In Fight To Organize 1 Washington, July 7. — (U.R) -Or- , ganized labor sought a compromise for conflict in its own ranks today on the heels of John L. Lew- ’ is' declaration of a “relentless but peaceful" campaign to unionize I America’s vast steel, textile, rubber. lumber, and automobile industries. Lewis, president of the powerful United Mine Workers and leader of a rebellion against organization methods of the American Federation of Labor, struck at two obI jectives in a radio speech to workers throughout the nation: ( 1. He warned that "we shall ( bring to justice" those who “really formulate the policies" of the steel industry in event of "unlawful, ruthless tactics of former years" in the threatened industrial warfare over labor's unionization plans. He named J. P. Morgan & . Co., as among those who “really fornßTiate" steel policies. 2. He laid before the executive ' council of the A. F. of L. meeting ! here Wednesday, a complete statement of intentions and policy of the committee for industrial organization, composed of 12 unions with 1,000,000 membership. The council will consider whether to suspend the Lewis group because it seeks to organize one big union in each industry as opposed to the A. F. of L. craft union policy. William Green, president of the A. F. of L., prepared a statement in regard to the union conflict which may lay the groundwork for the vital decisions to be weighed 1 by the executive council. The A. F. of L., president, a member of the United Mine Workers, faced the gravest labor crisis in recent years with a determination to conciliate the opposing factions if there is the slightest possibility. But whether he will succeed or whether union labor will t be torn by internal strife at the zero hour of its battle against Ute i open shop in the $5,000,000,000 steel industry remained uncertain. , “I have sought for a dozen years t to find a common ground for every I federation dispute,” Green told the I United Press, “in emphasizing the , hopelessness of labor's cause un- [ less the federation is closely united. I intend to pursue that course . despite the uncompromising, un- • (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) FARLEY STATUS TO BE REVEALED [ ; Postmaster General Expected To Take Leave Os Absence Washington, July 7 —(UP) —President Roosevelt is expected to reveal today the future cabinet status of Postmaster-General James A. I Far,ley, whose dual role of "Politician and statesman" has 'been attacked by Republicans. It was expected that Mr. Roosevelt would announce at his prees [ conference the permission for Farley to take a leave of abeence without pay in order to devote full attention to the campaign as Democratic National chairman. Both men went over the situation ■ in a two and a half hour White House session yesterday. Farley hurried from the executive offices explaining that the President would do the talking and adding that “I have no furter comment to make.” Political observers were almoet unanimous in believing Farley will be given a leave of absence instead of resigning. They pointed out that if Farley intended to resign he would have done so before the convention. Moreover, it was said that Mr. Roosevelt was not likely to yield to hTs political opposition to the extent of accepting a resignation from his cabinet. As a cabinet officer serving without pay, friends asserted Farley (CONTINUED. ON PAGE FIVE).

Backs Steel Union ear if } .Jm. t pr ? I — — 1 c Speaking at Homestead. Pa., on j the anniversary of the historic steel strike of 1892, Lieutenant » Governor Thomas Kennedy of ; Pennsylvania, above, opened the - campaign to unionize steel works ers by pledging relief for any who . might lose their job«. 1 BAR GAMBLING FROM MIDWAY t . I t Centennial Committee To: Keep Wheel Games Off’ Midway i In accordance with the sentij ment of Decatur citizens against • gambling, the Centennial commit- • tee last night instructed Dee Fry-[ • back, concession chairman to bar I ■ all wheel games from the midway, j 1 In keeping with the pledge to ■ hold the celebration clean of such . ’ gambling as is prevalent in fairs 1 and carnivals, the concessions com-1 • mittee has instituted a strict ex- ’ amination of all so-called “joints" ' where "fixed" games might be pract ticed. and elimination of the wheel, ’ most common of these, altogeth- - er. Plenty of entertainment has ‘ been promised the people by the - committee in the way of amusements, stands and shows. The midway, opening at Jefferson street on Second with a big lighted arch, will extend to Jackson, with ■ amusements lined on all adjoining streets. . Seven shows and six rides, including the new double sky-ride, ' which proved so popular last year and has another car added this year, will be on the midway. • Sanitation has been thoroughly handled by the committee. Refuse from all stands will be carried away late each night by Ed Newport. Fire Chief Charles Robenold has made arrangements to flush the streets to aid in prevent- ’ ing the midway from becoming lit- • tered wtih trash and garbage dis- ' posal . —' ' ' o City Officials Are Invited To Meeting Decatur city officials have 'been invited to attend a regional meet- , ing of the Indiana Municipal league Wednesday noon in Fort Wayne. ( A luncheon meeting will be held s at noon in the Hoosier room of , the Indiana hotel. Mayor Harry ( Baals of Fort Wayne will be host to I the Indiana officials and Mayor WilI liam Dentlinger of Connersville, ,pre- , sident, and Mayor W. Vineent Yout key, Crown Point, executive seere- ! tary of the organization will have I charge of the program. t Several of the Decatur officials ( are planning to attend. TO 96 ( The heat wave in Decatur 1 ( continued unabated today as the thermometer again approached the 100 mark. At 2:30 o'clock this afternoon the temperature reached 96 degrees in the shade and was still rising.

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i Burning Sun Shriveling Crops; Over 100,000 Farm Families Are Left Destitute. WORSE THAN ’34 (By United Press) The drought at a glance: Northwest, agricultural regions appear doomed to unsurpassed crop failure. Burning sun shrivels arops; insect plagues complete the havoc; winter wheat <Top almost entirely destroyed in northwest; part of corn crop may be saved. More than 100,000 farm families left destitute. Cattle and other livestock dying by thousands of hunger and thirst; pastures axe shriveled, water holee dried up. Temperatures soar to record highs of 118 and 119 degrees. Weather forecasters see no immediate relief. Grain prices soar on commodity markets; wheart, corn and oata become almost priceless. Administration leaders in Washington prepare to pump millions of dollars into stricken regions to relieve distress and save crops and livestock. Department of agriculture officials report drought “worse than 1934.” Prices Soar Chicago, July 7—(U.R) —Searing heat spread disaster over am ever-widening aiea of the droughtravaged midwest today. With no rain in sight and thousands of acres of once-fertile farm land already blackened in the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and parts of Minnesota, grain prices soared on American exchanges. “No relief” was the discouragI ing weather foreea.st in most sections. I For the fourth consecutive day | temperatures soared above 100 !in the great plains area. It was “ideal" grasshopper weather and destructive insects added 'to ths havoc. In Chicago swarms of sand flies impeded traffic. Gaunt, thirsty cattle ate dry stubble. Farm wells went dry and even some towns were threatened : with water shortages. In the worst area of the Dakotas, where farineiw two weeks a,go [saw their wheat and small grains burned out, corn turned white and i wa.s beyond salvation. In other i sections the corn crop may be saved. Crop failure also threatened the. iiich whea,t fields of the Canadian prairie provinces. Wide tracts have been destroyed in many portions of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Aid Is Planned Washington, July 7 — (U.R) — Weather conditions over the great plains were such today that forecasters saw' no possbiility of | rain—only “abnormally high tem(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 — APPROVE PLANS FOR COAL BIN Commissioners Approve Plans For Bin At Court House The county commissioners today approved specifications prepared by County Engineer Walter Gilliom for the new coal bin to be excavated on the south side of the court house square. The surface of the new' bin will be level with the ground and constructed of cement. It will be supported sufficiently to permit the weight of trucks to toe driven over it to dump the coal directly into the bin. This feature will eliminate the 25 cents a ton charge for shovelling the coal to the bin. It will hold two car loads of coal. The commissioners also ordered. Charles Houck, Muncie architect, to draw specifications for the refinishing of the room in the basement for the county welfare board. An outside stairs ,a new floor and refinishing of the room is planned. The room is located on the north, side of the court house and is now used to store coal. The commissioners left this afternoon for the southern ipart of the county where they will examine roads and bridges. They expect to adjourn their monthly session late today.