Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1936 — Page 1

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loSEVELT TO lITEND RITES ■for SECRETARY ■nsiders Spanish Situ- » ation Enroute To ■ funeral ’!>•’ I” ’ PPl ,' :al .., ■! l I’i Developinc ‘’> i ‘ bon ’ binK ...npied Pres■;Rl) today while hit ■f p-d T.-n. to Sa.t c■< wlier- tomorrow he at- ■. of war - IM* o- who from the ■X't i "' ivan ‘ train ■ ...,. ’ "O' !'V ee<Pull to both ■ £ w.-’i' ~n.| r-volllUon-|K .'. . ■ ;l!,s h, ' ar ' ■K lln ; he ft'uatioii .it operating City, on th" fringe ot jKou.-k HU-' Kooeevell reKe<l fir-’ « ll,la, k on ■ Kane. K,-.. , u - v ■ M, Intyre. White jKT.. .. .. ' lie tollowing iw.lettt received dis- .... : -hit r ' ' the dropping of ■■ •>. i .i -y of the ('. S. S. |K.. . • Sp.init-h eoast ■ : td.'iittfi-d plane. He has : • of state Hull , '--mentation-. >„ :rnni-<!iut.-’y made to the t^L..... th. Spun|H A ■ -mat.on will be rotary of state. ■K, p.... , oiistant touch Washington." -wing today toK- ; w it h the overj <i- velopments. ■*-! a minimum hid advatage <f a stop or two to -:.d:-1 ms ami to Hr .:• -.ovation of the lay in the projection of a ■x-Sdn-- \b.lie detrained for hour and a half motor ride r . .ending countrylooking over parched farm ■Ms and cattle ranges, ■ft- !' -e • e, a; will r- a 11 Kt Lake City at S A. M. til A. M. . lie sei.md ee< t ion ■ the Deti! funeral train.. Mr. at It M. tomorrow will the s. rvices and at 6 P. M. for Dee Moines, la. H-V -I:.—‘efs. Colo., Wednesday. wil 1 detra ■; for an hour or eo drought "look-eee.” ■At D s Moines on Thursday Mr. ■twit w;’l confer with Gov. Alf ot Kansas and the exe-■tiv-of Me.-ouri. Nebraska. lowa Oklahoma on the drought sit■r ■ Hr,:-, f1.,-,;... ~cache® announced ■t invitations had been extended ■ fll »e Philip La Follette of Wi®- ■“• in and lljalmar Peterson or ■ttnesota to meet with 'him at Des ■lines the same day. It is -under •wd they wil! have a separate conKICOXTINt’ED ON PAGE FIVE) ■ f o ■ale W. Ross To S Teach At Milford Bjlr. and Mrs. Dale W. Ross will ■« Friday for Milford, Ohio. Mr. Ross win teaeh in the fford high school, Milford I® a P»r« of Cincinnati. Mr. Ross will R»« Instructor in the English and ■itory departments, EITH CLAIMS JACOB BURLEY Vabash Township Resident Dies Sunday Os Infirmities J-vul) Burley, 85, for more than 70 ai-H a resident of Wabash townn?. (lip d at his home five miles east of Berne, Sunday astern - Death wap caused .by infirm■of old age. Th? deceased wae born in Frank°ounty, Ohio, September 22. 18- ’ “Wing to this county In 1865. jf., llvpd on the same farm Tn u *n township since coming to county. Mar y Shewalter, prehim in death. inn,* 0 au Bhtere and three sons Mrs rl! 8 are: Elliabeth, at -home; . rhelma Carr, Rockford, Ohio; u.' 0 Cal| fornia; Carl, of Berne; P r ' of Wabash township, tbs C! ral Bervlce “ will be held at Morn- me at 9 o’clock Wednesday B »tikpr B um Urlal Will be made ln " , r HIU cemetery.

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FOSTER SON OF HAROLD L. ICKES I TAKES OWN LIFE Wihnarth Ickes F o u n <1 Shot To Death This Morning Winnetka. 111., Aug. 31 —(U.R>— - Wilmarth Ickes, 37, foster son of : secretary at interior Harold L. Ickes. was found shot to death, an “apparent suicide,” today on the first anniversary of his mother's . death in an automobile accident. Ickes had been treated for a nervous ailment for a year. On Aug. J 31, Mrs. Anna Wilmarth Ickes died in an accident at Santa Fe. N. M Eric Magnnson, caretaker on the secretary'® estate for 20 years, found Ickes dead when he went to awaken him. The body was cold and the bed had not been slept in. Indicating to police that he died last night. Ickee was sole occupant ot his father’s house at the time. Hit wife. Elizabeth, and three children. Donald. 12, Anne, 10. and Barbara, 6, were vacationing at Mackinac Island. Mich. Secretary Ickes was notified in Washi.igtan and toid police he would fake an airplane for Chicago immediately. Mrs. Ickes arrived from Mackinac this morning and was notified. It was reported at the coroner’s office that Ickes left, a sealed note to his wife but police said they knew nothing about it. A coroner's inquest will be held ht 9 a. nt. tomorrow. Ickes was treasurer of the General Printing company. Chicago. Ickes wa.s a son of Mru. Ickes by ' her previous marriage to a Prof. James Westfall Thompson at the (COXTINUBD ON PAGE FIVE) INSTRUCTIONS ON PAYMENTS Give Instructions On Endorsements Os Payment Checks Recipients of old age assistance payments were instructed today by 1 Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp, county welfare director, as to endorse ments of assistance payment • checks. ' According to word received by Mrs. Knapp from the state welfare department, federal authorities ’ have indicated their intentions of ■ making an audit ot all endorsements on checks. Any endorsements that do not bear the signature of the recipient, I or the person legally authorized as I a guardian, will be disallowed in • the federal audit and charged back ’ to the county. All banks and busi iness houses are advised of this • ruling. Children or other relatives of the i recipient are not authorized to sign the checks with the recipient's name, as a check of the handwriting will be made, which must cor- | respond with the handwriting on the application. If the receiver ot I the assistance payment can only I make his mark, it will be necessary that the mark be properly ’ witnessed. Cases Investigated Mrs. Knapp also stated today that a total of 173 cases had been investigated and acted upon by the board, decisions to become effective September 1. A total of 92 applications remain, she stated, and these are expected ' to be acted on by October 1. A total of 27 dependent children applications, affecting 66 children, have been acted on, becoming effective September 1. There are 19 applications remaining to be ready October 1. Six investigations of blind applications have been completed by I the board, and recommendations . made to the state department. The i state board makes final decisions in blind applications. Four applications remain. All of these applications have been made with the board since it was first certified on May 14, of this year. o — ! Greencastle Woman Injured In Crash Crawfordsville, Ind., Aug. 31. — 1 (U.P>—Mrs. Anna McAnnally, 49, Greencastle, suffering back injuries sustained in an auto crash while returning from Petoskey, Mich., where her son, Jess. Northw-est- : ern university basketball star, died ' unexpectedly, was reported in i “fair” condition today in Culver hospital.

Roosevelt On Drought Tour |r 'MI r ***►,-'- , T. - 'a ■' I President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown aboard his train at Pierre. S. D„ in conference with the ' governors of South Dakota and Wyoming while on a tour of inspection of the drought-stricken aj'eas of the Northwest. In the group on train platform, left to right, are: Senator O’Mahon°y of Wyoming. Governor l-s-slie A. Miller of Wyoming, Governor Tom Berry of South Dakota. Senator William J. Bulow of South Dakota. President Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt, Jr. and Senator Robert D. Cary of Wyoming.

CIRCUIT COURT JURORS DRAWN I Grand And Petit Juries Are Selected This Morning The namen of the grand jury for i the next year and the petit jury tor the next term of court were selected today by jury comzniseloner Henry G. Gallmeyer. Democrat, Preble township, and Forest Elzey, Republican. Decatur. The juries will serve in the Adams circuit court. It is not known whether the grand jury will convene during the September term of court. It is poeeible that it will not meet meet until the November term at which time it would inspect the county institutions and investigate any possible causes of criminal action. ! The petit jury will form the regu- . lar panel of the September term of • the Adams circuit court. Members of the (petit jury are: Victor Hoffman. Preble township; Charles Jone.s. Blue Creek township Mary E. Glendenning, Decatur; Martha Diehrman. Preble township; Adolph Kolter. Monroe township ■ (now resides in Decatur); Charles • Hite. Decatur; Vance Mattox. Mon- ' roe township; Joe Robin, Jefferson ■ township; Leo F. Strahm, Monroe i township; Clement H. Gottecha'k, Berne; Edwin Neuenschwander. ' Monroe township. Berne and Men- ' no Augsburger. French. ' Members of the grand jury are: r Otis Bunk, Wabash township; Milo ' Fuchs, Blue Creek township; Joel M. Baumgartner, French; Abe Sch--1 nepp. Washington: Henry F. King, ■ Wabash ami Orlen S. Fortney. St. 1 Mary's township. 1 Although the names of women ■ were included in both the grand jury and petit jury boxes none was ' drawn for the grand jury. 0 , Forms Are Erected For New Coal Bin The forms were erected today 1 for the coal bin being constructed i on the west side of the county court ’ house. It is probable that the pour- ' Ing of the cement will begin Tuesday. LOCAL PEOPLE AT CONFERENCE l Decatur Residents Attend First Annual CYO Meeting i - Several Decatur and Adame county people attended tire first annual Catholic youth organiza- ■ tion conference in Fort Wayne i Sunday afternoon. . The meeting was 'attended by i 800 people from the Fort Wayne deanery. Principal speakers at the afternoon session were Rt. Rev. . John F. Noll, bishop of Fort Wayne and Rev. Vincent Mooney, C. S. C., [ diocesan CYO director of Notre Dame. Among those from here who attended the meeting were. Rev. Joseph Seimetz. pastor and Rev. JooI eph Hennes, assistant pastor, St. Mary's Catholic church; Mr. and Mrs. G. Remy Bierly, Florence . Bierly, Fern Bierly, Bud Bierly, ■ Mary Wertzberger, James Murphy, i Mary K. Leonard, Jerry Gage, Joe . Murphy, Ed Waite, Geraldine • Waite, Dick Gillig, Dan Holthouse, I Don Waite. Rosemary Fullenkamp i and Severin Schurger. CYO activities were inaugurated lin St MAryls parish last year.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 31, 1936.

Coolidge Cabinet Member Is Dead Holyoke. Mass., Aug. 31 —(VP) — William Fairfield Whiting. 72. secretary of commerce in the cabinet of Presidet Calvi Coolidge, died at I his home here early today. He had 1 been ill for some time. Whiting was the millionaire owner of the Whiting paper company. He was born in Holyoke in 1864. His father. William, once served as congressman from the first Massachusetts district and was aipersona! friend of two presidents—McKinley and Garfield. Whiting was appointed to the cabinet in August 1928. succeeding Herbert Hoover, who had resigned 1 to run for President. Whiting held the cabinet post for the rest of the ' Coolidge administration. BASE PAYMENT FROM YIELDS Sugar Beet Farmers To , Be Paid On Representative Yields • Sugar beet f' of Adams i ' county who are p ating in the ■ 1936 agriculturs ogram will I i have their agric .al conserva- ■ > tion payments ba( on the “rep-. , resentative yield”\ their former adjustment contraili. and average - state sugar extraction figures. L. jM. Vogler, in charge of the con- 1 servation program in Indiana, an- , nounces. 1, For sugar beet farms not covered ■ which is the average number of . pounds of sugar, raw vakfe, com-1 . mercially recoverable per ton of j sugar beets, is 300 pounds per ton ! for Indiana. I For sugr beet frms not covered i by a sugar beet adjustment contract. the yield figure used will be the representative yield that would have been used if there had been a contract. For farms growing 1 sugar beets this year for the first time, the yield used will he the av- ’ erage yield for the period 1930 to 1 1933 inclusive, for the sugar beet factory district to which the beets ■ are contracted to be sold. Mr. Vogler suggests that each ■ farmer can figure out his sugar l beet payment under the 1936 con-, servation program by multiplying; his normal yield of beets by the sugar extraction figure. This will I give him the number of pounds of! sugar, raw value, commercially re-1 i coverable per acre. With this amount the pyment, at the rate of 1214 cents per 100 pounds of sugar, I raw value, commercially recoverable. can be computed. Co-operating farmers will be eligible for the full sugar beet payment provided they have at least one-fourth as many acres in soil conservating crops as in beets. This is a modification from the or--1 iginal requirements which called for two-fifths as many acres in soil conserving crops as in beets. Bryan’s Daughter Resigns Office i Washington, Aug. 31—(U.R) —The United States lost Its Irst and only woman diplomat today through resignation of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde as minister to Denmark. Mrs. Rohde, daughter of William ; Jennings Bryan, telepraphed President Roosevelt alxxard his special j | trajn in South Dakota that she' i wished to be freed of office so that i 1 she might campaign for him wlth-| out official restrictions. i Mr. Roosevelt accepted with an expression of regret, but with appreciation for her ardor in his behalf.

SCHAFER STORE IS REMODELED Extensive Improvements To Be Completed October 1 The remodeling of the Schafer Store will be completed about October 1, C. C. Schafer, proprietor, announced today. When the extensive improvements are completed. Decatur will have one of the most modern hardware and general stores of any city of its size in the middle-west. Mr. Schafer stated. Workmen a,re now engaged in removing 30 feet of the wall between the two rooms. With an archway east of the new opening. I the three rooms will be prarticalI ly one. a small stretch of wall separating the north and south rooms. All new fixture and equipment will be installed on the first floor. The entire hardware department will be modernized and new cases and counters installed. A heavy linoleum floor covering will be placed on the floors and new type windows and display counters ! -will be installed. The dry goods ' and china departments will be enlarged and modernized. The store now occupies a.ll three floors of the Schafer building. Sev--1 eral months ago an elevator to the third floor was installed. The third floor takes in part of the furniture, bed room and kitchen department. Mr. Schafer In commenting on | the store modernization program ' Stated, “we feel that Decatur will I lie pleaded with our modern store. I It will serve the public, better. Our I faith in Decatur and its future ! growth prompts us in making these extensive improvemejtte and we feel sure we will not be disappointed in the reception given our efforts to provide this city with a large, modern department store.” The opening of the new' store is scheduled for about October 1. I o WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Tuesday, rising temperature.. FORMER COUNTY RESIDENT DIES Mrs. Belle Shoemaker Dies Sunday At Home Os Niece Mrs. Belle Shoema/ker, resident of Adams county for over 50 years, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Ella Anderson, at Domestic, Sunday morning at 4 o’clock. Death was caused by a heart ailment which had kept her bedfast for three months. Mrs. Shoemaker was the widow I of the late Daniel P. Shoemaker, i prominent Geneva resident. She was born in Wells, county on September 4, 1856. Moving to Adams county she lived west of Geneva until the death of her husband, nine years ago. She was a member of the Church of Christ in Domestic. No children were born to the union. Surviving ■ are: one brother, Theodore Taylor, ' Wells county; a niece, Mrs. Harl ; Hollingsworth of Decatur and the i niece at Domestic. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at the Church of Christ in Domestic and burial will be made in the Westlawn cemetery at Geneva

Americans Warned To Leave Madrid At Once; Resentment Bitte

Rebels Make Determined Drive From Southwest On Madrid; Within 65 Miles Os Capital. RESIDENTS FLEE By Louis F. Keemie, (UP. Cable Editor) The Spanish rebels, checkmated in the north and east, made a determined drive on Madrid from the southwest today. The chief rebel strength lies to the south and the gravest threat to the government comes from the rebels who are moving In the Estremadura region, between Madrid and the Portuguese frontier. The insurgents were within 65 miles of the capital, the government affinitting a sharp engagement at Talavera de la Reina, on the main highway leading to the I capital, in which it claimed the vici tory. The government also revealed that the rebels were active nofth- • east of the capital, toward the Zaragoza region. Elsewhere things were quiet except at Irun. on the Bay of Biscay adjoining France, where serious trouble was in prospect after six . days of fighting. The rebels threatened to bombard Irun by air, Ind and sea. So I grave was the danger that thous- , ands of women and children were ' j evacuated across the French border. The defenders who remained were prepared to die rather than surrender, and apparently also to (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) PASTOR LAYMAN TO CONFERENCE , I Rev. Franklin, Nelson Abbott To U. B. Conference The Rev. H. W. Franklin, pastor, ; and Nelson Abbott, layman, will ; leave Tuesday morning as official ■ delegates of the Decatur U. B. I church to the St. Joseph United , Brethren in Christ conference to be held at Winona Lake. , Mrs. Delma Elzey and Mrs. ! Gradeson Light also expect to attend the sessions. Other members ot the local church will be present at one or more of the events of 1 the week. The conference will last until the closing session Sunday at the . Billy Sunday tabernacle.- Between , 5,(100 and 8.000 persons are expect- , ed at that time, when assignments , will be announced. H. H. Font, of Indianapolis, bishop of this area, will preside over the business sessions. Tuesday night the Bonebrake . Seminry banquet will be held. Wednesday night the rural church banquet will be held at the Hotel Inn. Three hundred plates will be reserved. The rural church program will be held Wednesday evening at the Winona auditorium. Rev. Franklin will preside over' | this service. Dean Ashcraft of -Dayton will deliver the address. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Chase of Decatur will present special accordian music. I The rest of the week will be occupied with conference business sessions. • — o Commissioners To Meet This Evening The county commissioners will meet this evening in the court house to consider possible bids for the ! remodeling of the basement court , house room, now used for storing ( i coal, 'but which will be occupied by , the new county welfare board. At noon today no bids had been . filed. Should none be filed before the meeting tonight, the matter will j; be carried over until the regular ses- ’ sion, next week. Dewey Shaffer Is Fined, Sentenced i) Dewey Schaffer was fined $25 and i'costs and given a 30 day jail sentence Saturday afternoon by Mayor J A. R. Holthouse in city court, after I the young man plead guilty to a > charge of drunken driving. He 1i,4l | been held in jail since his arteet [ Tuesday night. On the recommendsi tion of Sheriff Dallas Brown, the I arresting officer, and Prosecuting ■ Attoniej Eslntund A. Bosse, the sentence was suspend,

MAINE ELECTION HOLDS INTEREST OF POLITICIANS Opposing Political Forces Hurl Many Charges At Opponents (By United Press) Washington— Political interest turns to Maine election Sept. 15 and 10 September primaries headed by crucial Michigan test; Republicans and Democrats concentrate on Maine in hope of November portent. Aboard Roosevelt Special—President Roosevelt journeys toward | Salt City for funeral of Secretary of War George N. Dern: receives frequent reports on delicate Spanish situation. Topeka—Gov. Alf M. Landon works at state business while preparing for Roosevelt drought conference at Des Moines Thursday; aides say governor will concentrate in midwest. New York, and Pennsylvania during remainder of campaign. Washington—Political volleys on wide front; Rep. Robert L. Bacon charges Sen. Bennett C. Clark with setting nn committee to coerce employes; Clark attacks Landon Buffalo speech as “muddle,” “hodgepodge.” Repulican national committee charges resettlement administration with improperly storing records; resettlement contends its filing system is okay. New- York —National Democratic Chairman James A. Farley claims Roosevelt certain to carry every i state except New England and Delaware; thinks sweep may include ' New Hampshire and Delaware too. Lowell, Maes. —Frank Knox, Re- | publican vice-presidential nominee, calls campaign a fight to preserve democratic principles in first speech of a 22,000 mile swing trrough 32 states in the next eight •weeks. Ten Primaries Washington. Aug. 31—<U.R>—Political interest today centers in I Michigan’s primary and Maine’s general election which will illuminate mid-September political conditions in New England and the I lake state areas. Maine will elect a United Sta.tes senator, a governor and three mem- . bets of the house of representatives in its traditional jump-the-sun polling on Sept. 14. Its vote for (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Parachute Jumping Contest Postponed The amateur parachute jumping contest scheduled for Sunday afternoon at Fleming field was postponed because of the high wind. A regulation of the department of commerce will not permit jumping when the wind velocity exceeds 15 miles per hour, the men stated. HILL TO HEAD CHURCH GROUP Glenn Hill Named Superintendent Os U. B. Sunday School Glenn Hill was named superintendent of the United Brethren Sunday School at an election held Sunday. Jesse Hurst was chosen assistant superintendent. Other officers named were: Mrs. Carl Hurst secretary; Sephus Jackson, assistant secretary; Mrs. George Hill, treasurer; Mrs. Frank Fisher, assistant treasurer; Miss Bernie Franklin, chorister, David i Wynn, assistant chorister; Miss Clara EL Mumma, pianist; Miss Irene Light, assistant pianist. Mrs. Ru'.h Williams, superintendent of the junior department; Mrs. Carl Fisher, assistant superintend- | ent of the junior department. Mrs. Nina Light, superintendent of the primary department; Mrs. Anna Myers, assistant superintendent of the primary department. Mrs. Grace Hurst, superintendent cf the beginners department; ■ Mrs. Francis Bohnke. superintend- * ent of the cradle roll; Mrs. Jennie - Kleinknight, assistant superintendent of the cradle roll; U. S. Drum- ' mond, superintendent of the home ; department; Hubert Cochitan. li- ■ brarian. and Alvin Andrews, assistant. librarian.

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All Americans Are Urged To Leave Madrid Without Fail; Plane Bombs| U. S. Warship. PROTEST BOMBING Washington, Aug. 31. — (U.R) — i The American embassy in Madrid, aroused by Qie bombing of an American destroyer, today called upon all Americans in Madrid to leave immediately. The action was announced by the state department here. ' Eric C. Wendelin. third seer* tary in charge of the embassy, who was called upon to make a vigorous protest to the Spanish foreign office over the bombing incident, cabled the state department that, he had sent individual notices to all of the 164 Americans remaining in Madrid, advising them to leave on the train departing from Madrid on Wednesday. i He said the U. S. cruiser Quincy would be at Alicante to take the . Americans off from there, and further warned them that this . might be the last American war vessel available for that purpose. U. S. Warns Spain Washington, Aug. 31. — (U.R) —• i The United States brushed peril--1 ously close to involvement in Europe's armed crisis today because a Spanish military plane bombed the American destroyer Kane ou • the high seas off the coast ot' Spain. The state department, at the direction of President Roosevelt, formally warned the Spanish gov--1 eminent and General Francisco Franco, leader of the rebels. ' News of the bombing sent a chill 1 through officials who have been ’ striving for weeks to maintain a • strict and objective American neu- ’ tarlity in Spain's civil war and tha • growing war like atmosphere in all • Europe. ■ Had one of the six bombs dropp- ’ ed dt the Kane found their mark—■ : and the destroyer been sunk or I members of her crew of 120 killed or wounded —the happening would have been laden with the gravest potentialities. The sinking of the ’ U. S. battleship Maine in Havana ( (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) RURAL SCHOOLS OPEN SEPT. 4 l Organize Friday, Regular Classes Open September 8 I The county rural schools will , open Friday. September 4. for pre- . liminary announcements and thd . formation of classes, it was announced today by county superintendent of schools Clifton Strik« ! er - The first regular class sessions ■will begin Tuesday, September 8. Friday the book lists will be given out. They were published in Tuesday's edition of the DeeaXur Democrat. School books are now on sale at I the following places: Holthouse Drug company, B J.. Smith Ding cempany and the Kohne Drug company of Decatur the Mennonita ■ book concern of Berne and the J. A. Long Drug company of Geneva. The Rousch grocery at Linn Grove will have a. line of elementary grade books only, but will have • supplies for all puplie. Superintendent Striker stressed ! the importance of a good attendi ance Friday. Important matters pertaining to the entire schootf year will be brought up for coni sideration. Wednesday the annual teachers’ : institute will be held at the Decai tur high school building. I The speakers will be: Dr. Fredi erick H. Gaige, department of soi cial studies, state teachers college, Millersville, Pa., and Dr. Jesse H. ■ White, former head oi the psychol- . ogy department of the institute of ■ Pittsburhg. He is past president of . James Millikaji university. . o List Colors For Election Ballots G. Remy Bierly, county clerk, was . notified today of the colors of tha i official election ballots for next . November. These will be: preeiden- . tial. cherry red; state ballot, pink;’ , constitutional amendment, whits . and county, white. All but the coun- ■ ty ballots will ibe furnished by the) state.