Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 210, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 1936 — Page 1

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

To Head Auxiliary Mrs. O. W. Hahn, above, of W'ayne, Neb., Is said to be the unopposed candidate for national president of the American Legion augiliary. Mm. Hahn taught mathematics tn Nebraksa schools for 10 years and at present is serving her sixth year as chairman of the auxiliary’s rehabilitation committee. The election will be held at the national conventio nos the organization in Cleveland the latter part of September. GIVE TEACHERS INSTRUCTIONS Receive Final Instructions; Schools To Open Tuesday Teachers and principals of the high school? in Adams county gathered at the Decatur high school auditorium this afternoon to receive final Instructions from County Superintendent C. E. Striker, preparatory to the opening of school on Tuesday. The teachers received supplies Hets of courses and final regulations fur the coming term. Thio morning at 9 o'clock, elementary grade teachers and principals opened the second day of the teachers institute with a meeting in the school auditorium. Nearly 175 teachers attended the afternoon station Wednesday to hear the second address of the day by Dr. Frederick Gaige. Mil'ensville Pa., and Dr. Jesse White, Pittaburgh Chief Young Thunder Cloud, fullblooded Cherokee Indian from an Oklahoma reservation, also spoke to the teachers, asking their cooperation in presenting a eerie* of lec* tures to schoo [students in Adams county. Life and habits of the Indian w’as the subject of Thunder (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) j—O FIRE DESTROYS NEW RESIDENCE Lenhart Residence At Wren, Ohio, Is Destroyed By Fire A seven room house in Wren, Ohio, belonging to the Orval Lenhart family, was completely destroyed by fire of an unknown origin Wednesday afternoon. The house was unoccupied at the time of the fire, which gained such head-way before it was observed by neighbors, that not an item of furniture or clothing could be saved. Mrs. Lenhart had left the home before the fire started. She operated an oil stove at the time but had remained in the home for halt an hour after it was turned off. There was no fire in the furnace. Mr, Lenhart, who operates a huckster truck, could not be located for some time after the house was completely destroyed. The Wren fire department was called but was unable to cope with the blaze, which had spread over the home at that time. The house was almost new and was one of the finest in Wren. It was only partially covered by insurance.

ODED CILLIOM IS BADLY HURT AT NOON TODAY Seriously Injured When Truck Strikes Horses, Wagon Obed Gllllom. 29. son of Oral Gilllom. of southwest of this city sustained a skull fracture, a fractured right clavicle ajid numerous cut# and bruises at noon today, when the team and wagon he was driving crashed head-on with a I truck. The accident occurred two and one-half miles north of Berne on federal road 27. Gilllom was returning to his home after a trip . to Berne with a wagon load of baled hay. While there were no eye-witness-ew. a passerby who arrived shortly after the crash, stated that the truck, enroute south and driven by Paul Harr, aged 20, of drove head-on into the team. One horse was thrown to the' left ditch, and other to the right. The wagon was completely demolished. The one horse had to be killed. The other got up from the ditch and ran away, being only slightly injured. The truck careened into the ditch, tore through a fence and into the field Gilllom was lying in the center 1 of the pav«ment in a pool of blood, when found by the truck driver and passerby. A Berne physician was summoned and the victim was rushed to the Adams county memorial hospital, where he remains ' In a serious condition, according ’ to the physician. Harr, driver of the truck, owned I by the Horton-Davis Seed company, of Lebanon, reported the accident to county authorities. He received only minor cuts and bruises. One witness, whose name was withheld, claimed that he was dir--1 eictly behind the truck at the time I of the crash. He stated that the truck crashed into the wagon. Deputy Leo Gillig and State Pol- . Iceman Burl Johnson are investigating the crash in the absence of Sheriff Dallas Brown, who went to ' Allen county today on official business. Evidence of the force of the col- , lision wa.s established when passersby reported that the horses were ’ thrown to the ditches at locations ■ 75 feet apart. >; —o DEATH CLAIMS C.EHLERDING Christian Ehlerding Dies This Morning At Home Os Son > i Christian Ehlerding. aged |79. prominent retired farmer, died at the ■ home of hie son. Herman, in Preble i township this morning, following an ■ illness of two years. Death was i caused by complications. ► The deceased was born in Preble ■ township on December 24, 1556. i where he epent hie entire life with i the exception of five years in Fort . Wayne. Hie wife. Wilhelmina, pre- • ceded him in death on June 18, 1935. Although he had been ill for two yeans he had only been bedfast , since last Friday. ' He was a member of the St. Paul Lutheran church in Preble township. Survivors, other than the eon, Herman, are the following children: Moton, Otto, and Mrs. Bertha ' Schueler. all of Preble township, and Albert and Oscar, both of ; Fort Wayne. One brother. Henry, of Preble township and nine grandchildren also survive. Funeral services will be held Sat--1 urday afternoon at 1:30 CST at the home and 2 o’clock at the St. Paul church, with the Rev. Moeller offii elating. The body wi'l be removed to the home of Herman Ehlerding, in | Preble township from the Zwlck I funeral parlors this evening. .— —-o No Presbyterian Services Sunday Regular services will be resumed at the Presbyterian church Sunday, September 13. There will be no services this coming Sunday. The pastor, Rev. G. O. Walton, will return from his vacation next week. o Accepts Position In Anderson School Mrs. Helen Huges left today for Anderson where she has accepted the position of teacher of English in Anderson High school.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 3, 1936.

Club Leaders And Chairmen Invited The officers of al) the home econ omieg clubs of Adams county, all j chairmen and all club leaders are| Invited to be the guests of Mrs. | Ethel Peters of the Holsum buk ing company, Fort Wayne, at 2 o’clock, standard time, Friday afternoon. The invitations were mailed but due to a mistake somewhere did not reach their destination. All those mentioned are requested to consider this announcement an Invitation and to plan to attend. TRANS-OCEAN PLANE LANDS THIS MORNING I First Trans-Atlantic Flight Os Season Completed Today Llandilo, Wales. Sept. 3. — (U.P.) —Successfully crossing the Atlantic, the two American fliers, Richard Merrill and Harry Richman of New York, landed safely at a country estate near here today after hours of blind groping for Croydon airport, London. Unable to locate their objective and with their radio dead, they finally ran low on gas and were ■ forced to land in a field full of i cattle and sheep. Richmand told newspapermen the one-day flight across the Atlantic was "pretty tough." He was “terribly sorry" he and his companion failed to reach London. They landed within 175 miles of London. Richman, famous on Broadway for years as an actor and night club entertainer, said he and Mer- | rill, a veteran transport pilot, exI pected to take off for Croydon as soon as a refueling plane brought them more gasoline. They needed, he said, about 75 or 100 gal-1 lons . | The Lady Peace, their ship, was unharmed in the emergency landing. “Im terribly sorry we lauded here," Richman said. "The field is full of cows and sheep. It's a little awkward, but we are unhurt and did not hurt anything hi Iffnd ing. "Our voyage over was pretty tough. The radio would not work A severe electric storm put it out! of commission, so we were unable j to use it. "We did not know our bearings, so we started to wander about. We went to Ireland, then to Scotland, then down the Irish Sea and finally landed in Wales. "This field where we landed is about a mile from the road. Our i (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Q Safety Signs Are Erected At Schools The city street department today began the erection of safety * ignis around the nix schools in the city. The signs will warn motorists of their approach to the (public and parochial schools. The sign* were requested from the city council iby Dean Dorwin. president of the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce. o WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Friday; somewhat warmer south Friday.

Berne Man Returns From Trip To Former Home In Germany C. H. “Cristy" Muselman, pub- does the youth of the old country lisTier of the Berne Review, stopp- look up to the ruler. x "Os course," he vividly stated, ed at the Daily Democrat office to- .. lhyre may be gome red heal . fß day, enroute home from New York, beatiHK under the brown shirts, after spending a month’s visit but as a rule most of the Inhabiacross the seas in his native land, tants have accepted the dictatorGermany. ship of Hitler in good graces. They Cristy delayed his return home at least have plenty to eat now." for a few minutes to relate an in- Mr. Muselman has two brothers, teresting sketch of his visit. Con- Henry and Gustave in Bavaria, ditions in Germany are much more One is a merchant and the other satisfactory to the Inhabitants is a salaried employe. Both of the than people here think, he stated, brothers reported that conditions the natives accepting the Taws and are much better. regulations of Chancellor Hitler Os special interest (o the Berne as matter-of-fact. newspaperman was the town of Taxes are immense, however Wurtzburg, Bavaria, the place of he stated. "We American* have his birth. Other places of internothing to complain about in est In his travels were the Bavarcomparison to those imposed on ian Alps, Baden and urttenherg, the Germans,” Mr. Muselman re- and the country of Switzerland, lated. "Their gross income tax is He left here last July 16, sailing much heavier than ours, and from for Germany, and left the old coun--20 to 25 per cent of each wage- try on August 26. arriving in New earner’s salary goes into the gov- York on Wednesday. ernment coffers. Despite his attachment to Ger"The natives have a feeling of many, the land of his birth, Mr. security, resulting from the type Muselman was more than pleased of government set up by Hitler, to be back in “ah but this is God s and all respect him Especially country.” as he termed it.

BODIES OF SIX BLAST VICTIMS ARE RECOVERED Rescue Squads Risk Lives To Remove Remaining Bodies Logan, W. Va.. Sept. 3—(UP)— Rescue aquade. risking their lives to remove the bodlea of 10 men trapped by a terrific explosion in the Mcßeth coal minat brought the seared bodies of two more miners to the surface at 10:45 a. m. (CST) today, leaving only four to be taken from the dirt filled tunnel*. The bodies of Juliue McShane, ! 40, and Ed Sander* 40, both negroes were the latest brought from the mine. Their face* were burned beyond recognition. It wax apn>arent they died quickly after the explosion. The four dead taken out .previously by the sweating rescue worker*, who toiled in eeven-hour shifts, were Elisha Watte, 32; Andy Gazdik, 40, Grover Sanders. 28 and Bill Refett, 40. Those remaining in the mine tunnels believed to have met the name fate a* the others were Jack (Adk's. 50; Gus Mounts. 33; Tom Tili 'er. 25. and Victro Corillo. 25. Workers said they were certain | Corillo. who had planned to go to 1 Marshall college this fall, and Adi kins would be found not more than 150 feet from the place where Me Shane and Sanders were found. A new shift was to relieve the digger* at 2:30 p. m. The location of Mounts and Tiller motorman and breakman, respectively on the mine tram, was uncertain. Workers reported finding no trace of the motor yet. Many women among the 2000 who (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) RDOSEVELT TD TOUR PROJECTS President To Be Taken On Tour Os Indianapolis Projects Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 3 —(UP) — A tour of half a dozen federal relief projects was arranged today for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's visit here Saturday. The President also will make a brief address before the grandstand at tlie state fairgrounds during his six hour visit for a tour-state drought conference. I Upon arrival at 9a. m. Mr. Roose- , velt will be taken by automobile for a tour of downtown streeeta. The procession then will take him to view a PWA armory project, work along White river, the James Whitcomb Riley memorial hospital ■ for children, the Lookefield gardens housing project and the site of the new wing for the federal building. At the conclusion of the tour tha party will proceed to the fairgrounds. From the fairgrounds the Preoident will ’be taen to the Indianapolis Athletic Club for luncheon and his [conference with Governors and U. S. Senators of Indiana. Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky. More than 1.000 national guardsmen will augument city and state : police to guard the line of march.

ANNUAL STATE FAIR TO OPEN NEXT SATURDAY Indiana's 84th Annual State Fair All Ready For Opening Indianapolis, Sept. 3. — (U.R) — Evenly geared and smoothly coordinated after weeks of intensive preparation. Indiana’s colorful 84th annual state fair today was ready ! to whirl into seven days of activ-! ity. President Franklin D. Roosevelt wil lopen the exposition formally Saturday, Sept. 5. with a brief address at 10:30 a. m. in front of the grandstand. The president plans to tour the exhibits and inspect three of the major WPA projects oti the fair grounds—the new educational building, the model farm home, and the concrete tunnel under the race track. Elated by the sale of 150,000 halfprice tickets in advance of the opening, state fair officials predict a record attendance. Hundreds of "out-of-staters” will join the ranks of Hoosiers fairgoers. to push through the gates and stroll along the midway, enticing in it’s appetizing fragrance of fresh popcorn, foot-tingling carillion music, and gay concession stands. The out-state ticket sale is by far the largest in the history of the fair, according to C. H. Taylor. Boonville, president of the In-; diana state board of agriculture 1 and head of the exposition. 4 program featuring agriculture, educaiton. industry, and entertain-, ment promises to suit the varying tastes of thousands of visitors. Several acts of vaudeville are i scheduled each afternoon in front of the grandstand and in the evening a stage show, water ballet and fireworks. Headlining the list of entertainers is Phil Baker, stage, screen, and radio comedian who will act as master of ceremonies at an amateur show in the coliseum Saturday evening. Finals of the state- ) wide amateur contest and award of S4OO in cash prizes to talented Hoosiers will feature the comedI ian's program. Crowds of Indiana baseball enthusiasts are expected to withes the state finals of the softball tournament to be played in the center of the race track on open- . ing uay. The champion horse shoe . pitcher of Indiana will be named . on The last day. Friday. Sept. 11. For those who tingle to the roar of speeding motors and daring of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 1 i o Craigville Youth Accidentally Shot Earl Call, eon of Mr. and Mre. Joe , Call, of Craigville was admitted to the Adams county memorial hospital last night to have two toes on his right foot amuptaed. following an accidental gun wound. Mr. Call was shooting pigeons, when the hammer of the gun caught ' in a fence, causing the gun to discharge. drilling into his right foot. 1 His condition is reported to be good. 0 — HOT CAR GAND WILL RE TRIED Four Arrested In Fort Wayne Will Be Taken To Chicago Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. 3 —(UP) —Fort Wayne’s four members of a six-state “hot car” gang .believed broken last weeik by a series of arrests here and In Chicago, will be taken to Chicago to await action of the federal grand jury there, it was indicated here last night. Other arrests were reported from Cincinnati and Detroit, and theee men also will be taken to Chicago, U. S. District attorney James R. Fleming said last night. He announced the transfer* after receiving a request from Michael Igoe, U. ' S. District attorney for the NorthI ern Illinois district. Fleming announced he would confer with federal judge Thornes W. . | Slidk in South Bend before the re- . I movals. , I Those arrested here were Louis A. Bohn, 37, euppoeed leader of the i local unit, Sam EssaK, 25, Omar A. Smith. 29. and Dari L. Workman, ~ 34. Bonds of SIO,OOO were set for Bohn and Essak and $5,000 for Smith and Workman by U. S. Com- ■ missioner William D. Remmel when . they were arraigned, charged with II violation of the Dyer act in tran*i, porting a stolen car acroee a state j line and concealing it here.

Roosevelt Meets With Landon And ' OtherlGovernors

Guilty — fl ■ OBE I / Mrs. Jessie Hankey Greensburg. Pa.. Sept. 3—4U.R) — Mrs. Jesse Hankey, 25-year-old maid who fed lye to the 14-day old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wagner of New Kensington, was found guilty of first degree murder today. The jury recommended life imprisonment. TRI-STATE MEET I PLANS PUSHED Tri-State Meeting Os Red Men To Be Held Here September 26 Further plans have been completed for oe of the biggest events since the Centennial, the tri-etate meeting of the Improved Order of Red Men, which will be held here on Satur- \ day. September 26. with local lodge I Pocataligo Tribe No. 203 as hoet. J. M. Breiner. tribal deputy announced today. ■i Plans call for an opening ceremony on the court house ’awn as a i?art of the morning eewsion. with an open meeting in the afternoon as I well. The night session will be a closed meeting with an honorary mayor’s [initiatory class. Local lodge officials expect mayors from several cities in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan to at- ; tend. This is to be one of the most important meetings of the order bei fore 1937, the meetings having been inauguarated last year by the Grand j Council of Indiana to further spirit I of the organization. Among the prominent Red Men ' officials expected here for the day are: Huston J. Patterson, great prophet of Indiana; Fred Neuhaus, great chief of records of Ohio; C. G. Townsend, great sachem, and W. J. Candey. great chief of records, both of Michigan; Harry Eteten, H. W. Van Buskirk, Edwin Southern and Edward Harding, all Indiana state lodge officers. A parade with members in full tribal uniform, is one of the features of the day as planned. At least 1,- , 000 members of the order from the three state* are expected to attend the cooperation of all surrounding . lodges having been offered to the . local men in charge. o Rev. Cain Re-Elected District Superintendent Rev. Benjamin H. Cain of Rochester .was re-elected Wednesday as district superintendent of the St. t Joseph conference of the United Brethren in Christ church at the , annual meeting at Winona Lake. The meeting will close Sunday ■ when pastoral assignments are an- • nounced. The local United Brethren ; church has asiked for the return i of the Rev. H. W. Franklin to the ■ Decatur charge. Rev. Franklin and i Nelson Abbott, as layman delegate, are attending the conterewee.

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Presidential Candidates Meet In Des Moines A( Drought Conference; No Politics Involved. • J CLASP HANDS Des Moines, lowa, Sept. 3- (U.R) ■—President Roosevelt and Governor Alf M. clasper hand* in the state capital here today as they filed into the private dining loom to be guests of Gov. Clyde L. Herring for luncheon. “I understand, governor, that you had a hard motor ride in order to get here,” Mr. Roosevelt observed. Landon said he did, smiling broadly. Mr. Roosevelt then presented his son. John, to Landon. The nation's chief executive was presented to the Kansas governor along with those of Oklahoma. Missouri and Nebraska. W'ho will join later in a discussion of drought problems. Landon was first to speak to Mr. Roosevelt as the governors and congressional repreeentatives started for the luncheon room. Thera ■was no seating arrangement. They merely pulled chairs and sat down. Landon taking a seat two removed from the president. It will be a strictly "non-politi-cal” conference, but it will set the Democratic and Republican nominess for the presidency against a backdrop laced with all the political implications of a, hard-fought presidential campaign; a setting more potent with political dynamite than the only other comparable meeting of Taft and Bryan in the campaign of 1908. The precautions against political reaction taken by both the Democratic and Republican boards of *trategy were so stringent that they kept the schedule of the day in doubt until the last minute. Ostensibly the president and the governors of Minnesota. Nebraska. | lowa. Missouri. Wisconsin, Kansas I and Oklahoma will meet to consider an emergency and long-range program to combat a national cris- | is—a drought that has dwarfed the tall corn of lowa, sifted the wheat fields of the northwest to a powdery dust, and baked the pasture lands of Kansas and Missouri to a yellow’ed waste. But actually, in the public mind, . the stage set with extreme care in the 53 year old capitol building will be a dramatic scene upon which ■ two men competing for the nation's highest office must stand for a moment —and which must until the very end contain the potentialities of an incident, an explosion which would be of a paramount importance in the balloting next November. Nor is that all. There will ba probably 200.000 persons along the route which the president and Republican nominee will follow when they motor to the capitol for the conference; 200.000 persons drawn from the farming lands which many veterans political observers (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O FEED SALESMEN TD MEET FRIDAY Executives, Salesmen Os McMillen Feed Mills To Meet Executives and salesmen of McMillen Feed Mills will gather at Decatur Friday afternoon for an inspection of the plant and an evening banquet. The group will total over 50 persons and will be under the guidance of Robert P. O'Brien, sales manager and vice-president of the ■ company. The meeting at the plant will include inspection ofl the new soy bean storage tanks, which are now nearing completion. When finished these new tanks will increase the storage capacity of the plant to one million bushels. Previous to the gathering here the salesmen will attend a meeting in Fort Wayne at which D. W. 1 McMillen and other officials of the ■ company wilj speak. Following 1 their inspection of the plant the ’ men will assemble at the Masonie Hall for a banquet and entertainment. The day following the group will i hold another meeting at the Fort i Wayne office of McMillen Feed ‘ Mills and after luncheon will adI journ to Clear Lake, where they , w ll be the guests of the company for the week-end.