Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1936 — Page 1

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GOVERNOR McNUTT TO ATTEND

Jity To Be*Meccas\ •For BandslDuring I Centennial Week

L Bands To Feature H|hi> < Centennial ■ elebralion First Week S| n August: Big Day] ■Wednesday ■p\rAl>E FEATURE ■ it -> number of bands t.u a city the size of a , ur will I'lesent during the from Aug- ■ /■lone bin the better type of iered when invi--5 •'■’.nd to musical orlwli ..n S to attend the Centen--'elelirate its birthday. . ,nul drum and bugle ■ ps haw signified their intenof entering the competi- ■ Ain an Legion day, Frik Wainwright's band from ■ Wa nwri.ii: band camp at I-a-■nc- will be m the city Tuesday and evening. August 4. band is composed of talentmusicians from all over the ; States, who gather for inKfc on each summer at the Leramp. ii Danmr s band from Willand the Berne city band will ■ : p-.atur during the entire week. , W-ln-sday Parade ■n th- gigantic parade down , street Wednesday night, I will be 22 well known it fruiu Indiana. Ohio, and These will be: |Hnie Deratii' girls band, the Am-I.-giiui . ity band, the Porlhigh school band, the saxof Kort Wayne, a well e.m. • band; the Paulding school band: the Van Wert - liiiol band, the Marsh Font)band of Van Wert. Vnion City high school the ft Mary's high school the Celina high st hool band: S’! I. C. H. S. band of Celina; the high school band: the St. school band: the Coldhigh school band: the Deihigh school band; the ■Bcncerville high school band: the City band; tlie Rockford high band: the Berne aeeordian the Payim high school band the Elmhurst high school band Allen county. will also be a number of in the parade Monday night. parade will be short and will iinvTivrun nt; page six) ■ ■ o fa NUSSBAUM I IS BADLY HURT » —_____ ®nn Grove Man Seriousb’ Injured In Auto H Accident ■ Samuel Nussbaum, 57, well ! ' l *h Linn Grove resident, was - ■ ''l' l inllision in Keystone, Wells is Buffering from a' B''’ 1 ’ 1 ' head Injury, a cut in the I , ant * eu|s and bruises about head. lilm (irovp man. who is em--0,1 sta te road work, was '" s West 011 a roa d two miles ■' ll °f Keystone. Glen Speece I lt 11 Keystone was driving Hibii < ' arS Dlet at th e intersection Kr errlßc foree ' Nussbaums nt >nt <) a ditch and Speece’s Uln, ' , l completely around in ■laiiiv' 0 ? 1 ' 1,0,11 machines were mage d- Speece escaped '' lllln Was knocked unconl>n h* 1111 * was Bti " unconscious ■ . ho S pit a i S rPCefVed a ‘ the B ' Ufr | Basu'r'"' ' he Craah ' J - E - Lan ’ Bought °-r Cll eBl e r township. Boutitv , Nusbaura to the Wells S j c( 08 Pita). The attending reported that Nusbaum BtMnro o,l ’ i,lt,ly rec eived a skull

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FIRE CAUSES $4,000 LOSS Three Box Cars On Erie Railroad Destroyed By Flames The city tire department was compelled to use both trucks Friday evening at 5 o'clock as two fires were reported at the same time and did a total damage of more than $4,000. Sparks from a chimney ignited a roof fire at the Dorwin Drake home on Johns street. This blaze was quickly extinguished at a loss of less than $5. The second tire was a string of box ears on the Eric railroad three miles west of the city. They were parked on a switch which runs through the Andrew Appeltnan farm. There were nine cars in the string. The one next from the end was first ignited, possibly by a spark from a passing engine. Tlie city fire truck was able to carry 90 gallons of water but was severely handicapped by the distance of the cars from a water supply. As crowd of farmers and motorists assisted city firemen in uncoupling six of the cars and moving them by hand a distance of 40 , b.'g*.jAowu tlu» traUu The city fire department then made several runs to town and one to a near-by creek to bring in water to throw on the ties of the double main track. This action prevented the main rails from expanding and holding up traffic. The three abandoned box cars were completely destroyed. The switch rails expanded because of the intense heat and dragged the lies a toot and a half north. Complete damage to the track, rails and cars was estimated at betweeh $4.000 and $5,000. The moving of the six box cars away Trom the fire saved the railroad company an estimated $lO.000. I Erie officials today extended a vote of thanks to Fire Chief Charles Robenold. the city fire department. and others who prevented a more serious loss to the company. 0 Boy Scouts Wlil Rehearse Monday All boy Scouts of Decatur at* requested to report at the Catholic school auditorium Monday at 7 p. m for pageant rehearsal. Following the rehearsal, the scouts have been invited to attend the meeting of the Adams county fish and game conservation league, to be held at the public high school building. o Two Autos Badly Damaged In Crash No one was injured in an automobile crash this morning at 10:30 o'clock in front of the Homer Lower residence on North Second street. Mr. Lower was parking his car in front of his home when an automobile driven by Floyd Monday of i Cincinnati, Ohio, crashed into him. Mr. Lower’s car was hurled over : the drive by the impact. It etruck a tree. Both cars were badly damaged. Townsend Delegates Hold Demonstration Public Haji, Cleveland. 0., July 18 — <U.R> — Townsend delegates held the first major demonstration of their national convention today and then settled down to a business session while they awaited the arrival of Norman Thomas, ! socialist candidate for president. Thomae will address them this lafternoon. i For 20 minutes the old and the ! young paraded the aisles to cheer Dr. Francis E. Townsend, who, in the early hours today, averted an open break in the convention by postponing disciplinary action against Gomer Smith, vice-presi-dent of the Townsend Recovery Plan. Inc.

VESTMENTS OF GREAT VALUE TO BE USED Vestments Valued At $5,000 To Be Used For Catholic Field Mass Vestments, valued at $5,000, will be worn by the officers of the Catholic field mass, at Niblick field. ( Sunday morning. August 2, the opening day of the Decatur Centennial celebration. Thousands of Catholics and visitors are expected to attend these services. Invitations have been . sent to all the Catholic churches , in this area. The vestments will be displayed several days before the Centennial in the Peterson Clothing com- [ pany window at the corner of Sec- . and and Madison streets. . An interesting description of , the vestments has been written for the Decatur Democrat by the Rev. C. A. Suelzer, assistant pastor of , the Fort Wayne Cathedral, now . located in this institution. It foil- , ows: i “The visitors to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at ■ Fort Wayne can see there an arI ray of ecclesiastical vestments , whose equal in variety aud beauty ■ will be found in but few church- - es of the United States. “The studios of France, Germt any. Belg iu m. and Switzerland have yielded their exquisite pro- . ducts to make up the Cathedral - collection, and even China has made its contribution. But easily > the most artistic and by far the nui&t yulgame i ral vestments are the gold bro~ ■ cade vestments used at pontifical i ceremonies by the Bishop of Fort • Wayne and his assistant clergy. i “This group of vestments, approaching five thousand dollars in value, was the gift of the Diocese i of Fort Wayne to the Most Rev- . erend John Francis Noll when he f was elevated to the episcopacy in . 1925. "They are a masterpiece trom the silk mills of Lyons in France, . a city whose looms have a world wide reputation for the excellence i of their work. Gaspard Poncet de- . signed the vestments in 1889. The . producer of the vestmehts, J. A. Henry, exhibited them at the Par- , is Exposition of 1900. where' they . were awarded the Grand Prix. “So much thought, so much t beauty, have been concentrated In tfte vestments that they beggar description; and though a person study the vestments again and again, some new point of interest , and charm will aw'ait discovery when the study is taken up anew. “In the manufacture of ordinary vestments cloth of a certain design. 18 or 27 inches in width, is I ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) UNION SERVICE SUNDAY NIGHT Third Union Service To Be Held At Baptist Church The third in the series of union . services held by the Protestant ’ churches of the city, and sponsored by the Decatur ministerial ■ association, will be held in the First Baptist church Sunday night at 7:80 o’clock, with the Rev. Homer J. Aspy, pastor, in charge. The Rev. George O. Walton, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will deliver the sermon. Mrs. Hornet; J. Aspy will present a series of vocal numbers, accompanied by Mrs. C. E. Bell on the church organ. A cordial invitation to attend the service has been extended by Rev. Aspy to all church members and to visitors in the city. The first two of the union services were held in the Presbyterian and United Brethren churches. All services have been well attended. The services will continue throughout the rest. of July and part of August, with special services being conducted by the Protestant churches Sunday afternoon, August 2, at the pageant grounds In Niblick field, east of the city.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 18, 1936.

Governor To Visit Decatur .Kt ? f- jf ) : "ii ihi H iiwi iiiihii ii—— Paul V. McNutt, governor o? Indiana, ajid past national commander of the American Legion, will attend Decatur’s Centennial celebration Friday, August 7. The governor will deliver a dedicatory address at 3:30 p. m on Friday, which will be “Pioneers and Veterans Da.y, sponsored by Adams post of the American I.egion,

REPORT FACTORY TO LOCATE HERE Furniture And Novelty Manufacturing Firm To Locate Here A new factory, employing ap- , proximately 100 men, will begin operations in Decatur in less than a. month, it was anthoratfvely re - ported today. The concern is now located at Grabill and is managed by R. Brandtmiller of Fort Wayne. It now manufactures lawn furniture and similar articles. In Decatur I it is understood that the company i will add juvenile furniture and i novelty boxes to its line. Roscoe Glendening, president of the Chamber of Commerce, said today that this organization has been negotiating with the furniture company for several months. The first meeting with Noah Steury, farmer manager of Nussbaum Novelty Concern of Berne, wan reported in the Democrat al that time. Mr. Glendening said that the Chamber of ’Commerce has been insrumental in bringing the company to Decatur. It is understood that the Chamber of Commerce assisted the company in moving here. Noah Steury will be salesmanager of the new Decatur plant. It is understood that the company is "swamped" with orders; which it is unable to fill at Grabill because of cramped quarters. Use Macy Building Floyd Acker, who recently purchased the Macy Conveyor building west of the city, said today that he had completed negotiations for the sale of the building and an acre and half of ground to the new company. He has kept three and a half acres purchased at the same time land adjacent to the ground on which the building is located for his own use He expects to construct a new building on the ground to house the Acker cement works. Mr. Acker has been engaged by the company to remodel the building. This will include repairing the floors. He expects to begin the first of the week on this project, which will require about two weeks. Machinery will be installed after the floor is repaired and a tentative date of August 15 has been set for the beginning of operations. When Mr. Steury first appeared before a director’s meeting of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

Bishop Disapproves Os Coughlin Attack New York, July 18 — (UP) — Bishop Michael Gallagher of Detroit. sailing today for a visit to the Vatican, said he had chided the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin for using "language that was a little too strong” in his attacks on President Roosevelt. Sailing on the Rex, the 70-yearold bishop said he did not plan to make any report to the Vatican concerning Father Coughlin. "It is not true that I have discipj lined Father Coughlin for remarks about President Roosevelt at the Townsend convention ”, he said. "I did tell him that I thought he used language that was a little too strong or that he could have been a little more diplomatic. I knew he received his invitation at a late hour and was i speaking under the stress of excitment.” LOCAL PERSONS IN BAG STOBM Decatur People Experience Severe Storm In North Dakota Mr. and Mrs. Amos Ketchum and son Jerry, Mrs. Mae Ketchum, Mrs. Harve Baker and son. Marlon have j returned from a motor trip to the; Dakotas where they experienced a wind storm of tornadio proportions. The storm occurred while the party was enjoying an outing at D-’vi's Lake, North Dakota. As the storm started it whipped clouds of heavy dirt into the air, making visibility less than 10 feet at times, then slapping the dust back to earth again with a splashing sheet of ipreI cipltation which totaled 1.48 inch at this place. Crops were damaged by hail, an<i barns, trees, livestock and, telephone poles were destroyed by the wind. The temperature near Devils Lake reached as high as 114. preceding the storm. The local residents, together with friends in the Dakotas were enjoying an outing at Devils Lake when the wind cf cyclonic intensity struck, sw.eeplng across the main body of Devils Lake. The huge cone first struck the west end of the camp debolishlng the mach-ine-gun range house and carrying sheets of water. It swept across the I camp, wreaking destruction on a 300 foot area. The friends with the Decatur party expressed no unusual concern over the storm and the Ketchuf group did not realize until the following day what a severe storm had taken place.

Governor Os lndiana\To[\Speak In Decatur On Day Dedicated To Pioneer And Veteran Alike

DR. ZWICK TO OPEN OFFICE Dr. Harold Zwick To Open Office On Second Street Monday Dr. Harold F. Zwick. well known Decatur young man, announced today that he w!l ’open an office for the practice of medicine here, Monday that he will open an office for rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Palmer Eicher on South Second street. Dr. Zwick was graduated from the Decatur high school in 1927. He attended Indiana University and was awarded am M. D. degree from that institution. Hie interneship was spent in the Riley, Long and Coleman hospitals in Indianapolis. For the last yeear he has been a resident physician at the State 'Hospital at Easthaven at Richmond. i Dr. and Mrs. Zwick will reside at 104 East Rugg street. Mrs. Zwick was formerly Helen Shroll, also i of this city. o SPANISH RIOTS CAUSE CONCERN Rebel Army Units Hold Army Centers In Spanish Morocco (Copyright 1936 by UP.) Madrid, July 18. — <U.R) — Rebel army units, rising against the left wing government, held important army centers of Spanish Morocco today. The rebellion started last night in Melilla, chief garrison town, and spread to other bases. (The United Press correspondent at Perpignan. French-Spanish frontier, reported that the revolt i broke prematurely, and was to have been a national one throughout Spain proper. He reported a brief, minor revolt at Barcelona, capital of Catalonia, quickly surpressed.) (The United Press correspondent at Biarritz, on the frontier, asserted that there had been a heax-y movement of contraband arms to Spain f>r three or four days). A strict censorship, one of the most severe ever imposed, blank-, eted the entire country. The government was confident that it dominates the situation. It 1 was prepared to attack the rebels by land, sea, and air if necessary. After the revolt broke at Melilla, it was indicated for a time i that Spanish foreign legion troops' retook the town. But later it appeared that the foreign legion men I joined the rebels. They are a ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Use Building To Construct Floats Floyd Acker announced today that the decorations committee of the Decatur CentenniaJ assoeia-1 tion has completed arrangements with him to use half of the old i Macy Conveyor building for the construction of floats for the celebration. The rest of the building is being remodeled by Mr. Acker to house the new furniture factory which will locate in the city. o Man Known Here Dies Os Sunstroke Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Gause and daughter Patty Jo, Mrs. Pearl Cook of this city, Mrs. Lulu Preesler, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gause and Nathan Gause of Columbia City attended funeral services held Wednesday morning for their son and brother.. Earl Gause of Warren, Ohio. Mr. Gause died of a sunstroke Sunday afternoon. He collapsed in front of his home, and waa taken to the hospital where he died two hours later. He | was born in Van Wert county, 0., i and was well known here. J

COOLING RAIN BRINGS RELIEF FOR MIDWEST Cooling Rain And Breezes Bring Relief To Middlewest Chicago, July 18.—(U.R>—Cooling rain and breezes from northwestern. Canada broke the heat wave today in Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, northeastern lowa, and Illinois. Only the plains states of Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri will miss relief over the week-end, forecaster J. R. Lloyd of the Chicago weather bureau reported. “It will be awfully hot again in the plains states,” Lloyd said, "but most of the drought belt will have at least temporary relief." Lloyd forecast local thunder- , storms tonight or tomorrow in III- | inois. Indiana, northeastern MisI suri, and southeastern lowa. Sections which will receive life- ■ giving rain this afternoon or to--1 night include southern Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, northeastern and southwestern lowa and northwestern Missouri. i Two hours of rain pelted down on parched fields at Harvard, 111., . near the Wisconsin line, early today. Cloudy skies indicated more would fall during the day. Madison, Wis., had .34 of an inch of rain and Charles City, la., .24. Rain fell for 30 minutes at Emmetsburg. la., dropping the temperature from 107 to 75 degrees. “The rains were more or less local,” Lloyd said, “but some places got enough to help a great deal. Os course more rain is needed over the entire region before the drought will be broken. Sustained Relief Indianapolis, July 18. — (U.R) — Overcast skies protected sweltering Hoosiers from a scorching sun today and a forecast of continued unsettled conditions offered the state its first sustained relief in. a fortnight. Temperatures will rise rapidly, however, it the clouds break and allow the sun to shine through, J. I H. Armington, U. S. meteorologist here, predicted. Light rains, insufficient to be of (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) CLAIM OFFICER RECEIVED CUT Karpis Gangster Charges Cop Received Share Os Ransom St. Paul, Minn., July 18—(UP)— Police officials opened an investigation today of the charge by Byron Bolton, former Barker-Karpis machine gunner, that policeman Tom Brown was “Out in” for a $25,000 share of the Wil! Hamm ransom, money. Bolton, waiting sentence in the Hamm kldnatping, made his charge while testifying in the trial of John Pfeifer, another defendant in the case. Brown, former police chief, had been suspended a few hours earlier pending investigation. Bolton was asked by district attorney George F. Sullivan how the SIOO,OOO paid for Hamm’s release was divided. Bolton said Fred Barker and Alvin Karpis, Erstwhile public enemies No. 1, and William Fitzgerald, another Barker-Karpte gangster, were present when the loot was split at their Long Lake I 111., hideout. “Forty thousand dollars was piled on the floor,” he said “SIO,OOO for Pfeifer, $25,W0 for Tom Brown, $2,500 for Jack Davenport (a Minneapolis underworld character) and $2,I xCONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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Paul V. McNutt To Deliver Dedicatory Address Here On Pioneers • And Veterans Day Os Centennial . LEGION SPONSORS Paul V. McNutt, governor of Indiana, and a past national commander of the American Legion. Friday afternoon signified his in- , tention of attending Decajur's ’ Centennial celebration next month. , i The governor tentatively accepted an invitation extended by four local men to 4>e the principal i speaker in this city on Friday af- | ternoon, August 7. Gov. McNutt 11 stated that unless unforeseen dei velopments occurred, he would be ’i in Decatur on this date aaid set : August 7 aside as his day to be ( : in Decatur. The governor’s address will be , | the highlight of "Pioneers and I Veterans Day,” sponsored by Ad- .! ams post number 43 of the Ameri- . I can Legion. . i The governor of the nation’s ; greatest state will deliver a dedi- ' catory address, devoted to the pioneers who so firmly established j the foundation, on which has been ' reared the finest city and county I in the nation. A program, appropriate to the , solemn occasion, will be arra.nge<l by the local American Legion ’ post, in cooperation with the De- , catur CentenniaJ Past Commander J Gov. McNutt was national commander of the American Legion in 1929, one of the years in which , the Legion made its greatest progress. It was during his tenure as i national commander tliai the govI ernor first became nationally prominent. Previously. Mr. McNutt served as Indiana department commander . of the Legion in the year 1926. The program which will feature the governor will be held at 3:30 p. m. Mr. McNutt likely will arrive in Deca,tur by airplane, flying from his summer home at the Dunes. The invitation to the governor i was extended by four local men, . These men were Carl C. Pumphrey. , president of the Centennial association; A. R. Holthouse, mayor of I Decatur; Huber M. DeVoss, judge of the Adams circuit court; and Dick D. Heller, secretary of the ■ state Democratic central committee. Other Notables Invitations are being sent to present state Legion officials an.l also former state Legion officials, including Raymond Springer, first i commander of the Indiana department. Officials of the Legion auxiliary will also be invited. Plan Big Day The local American Legion post ' has made plans to make Friday of Centennial week the greatest Legion meeting ever held in northeastern Indiana. Lloyd Baker, general chairman for the day. stated today that prizes equal to any ever offered (at a state convention will be given to the beet, band and drum corps participating in a parade to be held i during the day. Outstanding American Legion I tends and drum corps in Indiana and Ohio have already signified their intentions of competing for the prizes, and the largest, most elaborate Legion parade ever shown in Decatur will be held on Friday of Centennial week. o Decatur Man Is Lodged In Jail Orville Roop is lodged in the Adams county jail since his arrest Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock by City Policeman Ed Miller and Sheriff Dallas Brown at the Community , Sale barns on East Monroe street, j No charges had been filed against Mr. Roop at 11 o'clock thia morning. D WEATHER Unsettled, local thundershowers tonight or Sunday: not much change in temperature.