Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1936 — Page 1

No. 275.

IiiADAMS I Mnty bank lIIPING SOLD > McMillen Bids ■ jlgjpo For Building I Mrublic Auction -—*■ ' < ttv ■ ,f^K u: r tll'‘ *'lil AdHank building, southJKL.: and Moiinw -oid tiHu afternoon t-> C.mial Sugar comcity. fESR,. i,..!) hid I.■. riv.nl by W %E' ■ " bo , " 1 " 11 " ' ,,i W p.jMMfe auction s»>' •’. J Luiz, 9 ’^K r ~»pntalive for the In-■gSinn.-ni of Financial InEk.flLliasi' included the sub building, equip- ' and all office fixtures. brisk tor more I h»ltB» T, "‘ lirst offer wati : and bids in denomin- - Eg 3h|2.-, ( i, sliio, SSO and $25 ' during the course or ; ■ xnstff ,he biddlnK was be ’ 1 K*W Mi Millen and Theodore , of the First Ete B»> • of this .city. Mr. EjiUfE- > ■' that $18,250 was , r and Mr. McMillen Kreil (1 Auctioneer John- , the property was ( McMillen. ■Speew'oti as to the use of the ( EkHajgfras rife among street Mr. McMillen stated , H bop<-v happens to it will > good I no plans to HUacaK" 11 18 a good build ' | K aaflfcill la- used for soTHeEbe Hiding. occupying 25 feet , K Seeasd street and extending , street 132 feet. ConKuet’3of the building started formal opening of the place October 12. ■ I. Kfbe Old Adams County Bank ' HEhHioJ'J and since that time in the Deputy !l g Local Lodge inspection of the local ■ r.wHlks j-dg a was made Wedby Dr. R. M. Barnard. BUretAstnet deputy. Dr. Barnard |B a br*t talk during the meeting ■raised the activities of the local KAclaS of candidates was initiatK "’ltßthe loca l degree team ex■aplifyfiw the ritualistic work 1 ■tuebae. -vas served following ’he 1 ■d fells Chances, | jpiayor Takes Action I Warm Ind.. Nov. 19.—(U.R>—A ■ ■tt ft* been placed on punch 1 game tickets and 1 by Mayor C. C. Dußois » llow W tlle dis covery of u seven- ■ going from house to 1 a punch board. have notified stores games and boards 1 in operation to discon- ' f llß *®’" 1 at once. J i'o^Bevi -ml months slot maF l!S ®*nd pin galnps have bpen ' here. B o — IWLMEN AT Iliß MEETING |-scjd Scout Officials AtjgW Round Table > Discussion |. R Langston, chairman of r*^B® , 'ir ny Scout cub com f'’j|B an 'i Brvcp Thomas, county a, "’ lan . a,,p|,ded tb,? iu,> U^^fr b,p " n ’ PptinK in ,bp b ' nr ' ESK’'' school in Fort Wayne | '^E av evp ning. Idiscussions were given by Ben Schweit|*j^B b Willis, Herbert Ridgley F 2^B tPr Maver. li ' < ' nr,nr lnnl of the L-J®**''’ 00 ’ and chairman of the CUh cnmrn ' tte °. was in the meeting. of the meeting was r^E an!rp idp a« on cubbing, to E^Br so ' mpd on new develop E3^1 and to encourage further L3B a " d study on the part of officers. USE | ra * !on ~ be ioca ' cub being comnleled this wook. fcgflh'C bG ’” F made for a rneet1n the next week, in EBg, the Rav. Homer J. Aspy, ! tar '

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RETURN BLANKS HERE RAPiDLY Social Security Blanks Are Being Returned To Post Office Poetmaster Phil L. Macklin announced today that the social security blanks, which were distributed to the employers within the local post office territory are returning at a rapid rate. Contrary to conditions in some cities, where the b’auiks ae returning slowly, a large percentage of the completed forme have been returned here. All forms are to be returned to the post office by Saturday of this week. Postmaster Macklin called attention to the fact that in the event the form is not returned by that date. November 21, he or the carrier is required to fill out the first three lines of the form, stating the name and address of the business. This will be mailed in by tile local officeThe form will be marked, "Inforr/ation not furnished." These forme, with the completed blanks, will be mailed to indiatfapolls by the office. It was estimated that more than 300 of the forms were distributed from the Decatur poet office. The employes' form will arrive in this city on November 24, and distribution will be made as soon there after as possible, in the regular mail channele. These forms are to be returned to the office not later than December 5 in any of the following ways: returned by the employer; by any labor organization, of which the employe is a member; may be handed to the letter carrier; delivered to the postmaster, either in person or by messenger or raailed in a sealed envelope to the post master, without postage. The law also states that some employes may prefer to return the b’ank in person, and that in no case may they be refused permission to do so. BUY EQUIPMENT TO FIGHT SNOW Additional Equipment Bought By State To Remove Ice And Snow Indianapolis, Nov. 19. — (U.R) Purchase of additional equipment for removal of snow and ice from Indiana's 9,000-mile highway system this winter, was announced today by the state highway commission. Present equipment has been supplemented by 194 snow plows and 61 graders, according to Janies D. Adams, chairman of the commission. The state now has a total of 520 snow plows and 366 graders available to keep the highway system open for traffic during winter weather. The new equipment is being distributed among 36 highway subdistricts, most of them in the northern half of the state, Adams said. The commission is taking bids for purchase of 40.000 feet of snow fence for use along state highways in the Laporte and Crawfordsville districts. With the added equipment at its disposal, the highway commission is planning a more effective service this winter, according to Adams. i "Using light plows and graders which operate at higher speeds than heavy equipment, the commission’s maintenance forces will go into action as soon as snow and lice begins to form," he said. “We will not wait until highways have been covered or blocked." Last year snow and ice removal cost approximately a third of a million dollars. o — Red Cross Enrolls Postoffice Personnel The entire personnel of the Decatur postoffice, from ostmaster Phil . L. Macklin down to Custodian Joe ' Rash is enrolled in the Red Cross. This is the second institution in the ci‘y where the employes enrolled 1100 per cent in the Red Cross. Mrs. Hubert Zerkel. was the solicitor who enrolled the postoffice force. The members are: Mr. Mack.’fn. Charles Hocker. Joo Laurent, Earl Chase. Carroll Cole. Frances 'Costello, M. F. Frisinger, Merrell Peterson. Jess Swartz. Leland Franks. Earl Butler. Ray Smith, Earl Butler. Ray Smith. Harry Frkzinger, Charles Maloney. Wilaon Beery, Hubert Zerkel, Robert Fris- , Inger, John Boch, Joe Rash.

‘SIT’ IN IDLE BENDIX PLANT ‘ 11l ■■■■■ 111 ■■■■ ■■■!■■ ■ ‘ ■I I ' I "S ’* liß BL Wives, sweethearts and friends are shown passing food to workers who have chosen to remain I inside the Bendlx Products Corporation plant in South Bend. Ind., pending outcome of labor disputes . which halted the operations of the great plant.

RUDY VALLEE'S I EX-WIFE DEAD Fay Webb Vallee,“Dream Girl,” Dies In California 1 i Santa Monica, Calif.. Nov. 18 — (UP) — Messages of condolence | came from the film and radio world ! today to the grieving father of Fay Webb Vallee, former actress wife of I radio crooner Rudy Vallee, who died last night. She succumbed at S p. m. without i recovering from a coma in which . I she had slept for 41 hours. The 30- ‘ rear-old former screen extra amazed physicians with the tenacity with which she clung to ’lfe fighting peritonitis which set in after an operation last Friday. A few minutes before 9 o’clock i nurses summoned Dr. Leo J. Mad- • sen. I Former police chief Clarence E. ■ Webb of Santa Monica stood at the foot of his daughter’s bed as Dr. ■ Madsen nodded that death had I' come. . j ’’She’s with her mother now,” • Webb said quietly. "We were pals, I not father and daughter. I’m glad - death came so quietly.” He turned and walked from the ■I room into the hallway where his | brother, Perry H. Webb, was wait- ’ ’ng- ■ ‘ Earlier Webb had told newspaper- ’ men he “forgave Vallee everything" • 3ven the ' hard things that were J j n n«r*«r ptvud — O — “ REPORT SEAL ESTATE DEALS ' Several Real Estate Deals Are Reported At i Monroe i ' Monroe, Indiana, Nov. 19 —(Spe--1 cial to Daily Democrat)— Several real estate deals in this town and I several more In the process of com--1 pletion, have brought back to many | memories of the old days when this was the center of scores of real estate sales and exchanges. | Mrs. Phillip Heffner has sold her splendid farm of 63 acres, with modern bul'dings, located a half mile I west of here, to Clinton Hart ot . Jefferson township, for slll peracre. Mr. Hart has also sold hta ! "arm. Another deal reported is the I saleo f the I). E. Bollinger farm in St. Mary's township, 7% miles east of here, to Harry Johnson, 110 acres , for $6,000. A deal has also been concluded, according to current reports, for the ’ j ~ale of the building of the Monroe , | State bank to Adolph Hannl and it [' is rumored that the postoffice will lie moved there. This town is the ' live’lest it has been in years and it i is expected that business for the next year will be the largest in a long time.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 19, 1936.

Jack Leigh Injured Wednesday Evening I Jack Leigh, local insurance agent, I sustained a severe head laceration last night, wren he ran Into an iron fence near the Methodist Episcopal I church. He was entertaining the members of his Sunday School : classs with a game of tag, when he suffered the injury. j First aid was adminetered at the -office of a local physician, where ■ six stitches were reouired to close I the wound. o STUDY COURSES TO BE OFFERED Four Courses To Be Offered At Church Training School A group of four study courses in the field of home and church prob- . lems will be offered at the Decatur i community standard leadership . training school, which will meet in I the high school building on Monday evenings. From January 4 to Feb- ' ruary 8, inclusive. Two class ses- . sions will be held each evening and , and a "Certificate 01 Progress" will be given to al! who complete any ; one of the courses. The Rev. H. R. : Carson, -pastor if the Decatur Methodist Episcopal church, is chairman of the administrative committee and will serve as the dean of the school. ‘ The study courses and the leaders of each are as follows; j ’ The New Testament; Its Content And Values," led by the Rev. George S. Lozier, pastor of the De- ! catur Evangelical church. “Christian Worship", led by the' Rev. E. S. Morford, -pastof of the I Monroe Methodist Episcopal church. I "Education For Missions And I 1 World Friendship," led by Mrs. Ar- > thur D. Unversaw, a member of the Decatur Baptist church. "Guidance In Christian Home I Making”, led by the Rev. H. W.j Frank'in, pastor of the Decatur [ United Brethren chrch. 1 In addition to the Decatur! 1 churches which are represented in \ the local Ministerial association, several churches tn the vicinity have expressed their desire to cooperate in the school, which is open to all interested church workers. Liquor Hearing Set For December 7 The Adams county alcoholic bev- , erage board will conduct a hearing on December 7 at 'J o’clock in thecounty commissioners' office on the application of D. F. Human for a beer, wine and liquor retaTfer’s license. ' Senator Gottschalk To Head Committee Indianapolis, Nov. 19 — (UP) — . Sen. Thurman A. Gottschalk, D„ Berne, was re-elected chairman of . the state budget committee at its organization meeting today.

BENDIX STRIKE IS CONTINUED Negotiations Opened To End Strike At South Bend Plant South Bend, Ind., Nov. 19— (UPI —Negotiations to end the “sit down siege" of the Bendix aviation corporation and reopen its big automobile and airplane parts plant got tinder way belated today when 'Homer Martin, President of the United automobile workers of America, arrived by airplane. Matin flew his private plane to Janesville, Wis., where, he conferred with Union leaders at the Fisher body works last night. At 10 a. m.. the hour set for a peace-conference with Bendix officials, government I conciliators and workers’ represen- ■ tatives, Martin’s whereabouts was unknown. Shortly after II a. m. landed at the airport and was brought to the La Salle hotel, where the other conferees waited reUlessiy. More than 1000 workers meanwhile continued to occupy the plant, which hasn’t turned a wheel since 10 a. m. Tuesday when the loudspeaker system blared a closing order. Edward C. McDonald, federal conciliator, arrived from New York this morning to join Robert C. Fox. also of the U. S. department of labor in attempts to settle the dispute. The trouble allegedly originated from attempts of the automobile union, O. C. I. 0., ur.il, to enforce a closed shop against the determination of Vincent Bendix, head of the concern. DEATH CLAIMS ANNA LIECHTY Mrs. Daniel Liechty Dies At Home In Berne This Morning Mrs- Anna Liechty, agod 73, wife of Daniel Liechty, died at her home in Berne this morning at 9:35 o’- ' clock. Death was caused by carcinoma. She had been ill since last August. I The deceased was born west of ' Berne on July 5, 1863. the daughter ! of John and Barbara Stauffer Hirschy. She was married on December 23, 1887. She was a member of the Missionary church there. Surviving besides the husband are three children, Barbara and John of Berne and Franklin, of Elkhart. The following brothers and staters also survive: Christ Hlrschy, Rosina Hlrschy, John Hinschy, Mrs. Salome Wanner and Mrs. Noah Schind'er, all ot Berne. One brother and six staters preceded her in deathFuneral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:45 at the home and at 2 o’clock at the church. Burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery.

JOHN L. LEWIS AID DENOUNCES UNION LEADERS Calls On Convention To Seek Peaceful Settlements Tampa. Fla., Nov. 19 — (U.R) — I Max Za,ritsky, ally of rebel leader John L. Lewis, today denounced j craft union leaders, seeking reprisals against the insurgents and | called upon the American Fedora-1 I tion of Labor convention to seek | a formula for peaceful settlement, i of labor's internal fond. Shortly after the convention had j passed a resolution condemning ' the "communistically abetted". I strike movement in Atlantic and I Gulf ports. Zaritsky issued a stale- ( ment in which he said the effect , of threats of boycott and reprisal had been to "stiffen the resistance | of the contestants and provoke hostility which has nullified every effort at conciliation." "Such metliods have failed.": the president of the CAP and Millinery Workers International j Union said. He has personally joined with Lewis although his; union is not a member of the reb-1 el committee lor industrial organ- 1 ization “We hope that saner counsels ‘will prevail.” he declared. "PerI sonally, I feel that much can be j gained and nothing lest by continuing to seek a formula by which ! the object we all seek to attain — a powerful organization of wage earners—can be achieved without a split disastrous to the American labor movement." Zaritsky's statement was made . (after W. R. Trotter of the International Typographical Union unsuccessfully sought to question convention officials on whether a representative of the Spanish I workers had been refused permission to address the convention. Following a speech by Silencer Miller, Jr., director of the workers education bureau, denouncing the L fascist movement in Spain, Trotter said tnat he intended to press nvivTTVT'nr. nv pick pnrip.i SUICIDE CAUSES FRENCH TO RIOT Pol’<’*’al Rioting Over Mini«t« i r’s Suicide Brings Fears Paris. Nov. 19 — (U.R) —Political rioting in the Cha.mns Elvsees ] over the suicide of Roger Sa'en- • | gro left the canital anoreheneive i todnv of further clashes particularly when parliament meets next ■ . Thursday. i Police decided to use only the mildest methods of preserving ‘ peace so as not to inflame the i , supporters of hie late minister of, | the interior. Mere discussion of Salengro's; death, which the leftists claim was ' • caused by false charges that ho j had been a deserter during the | world war, already has caused face slappings in the corridor of the chamber of deputies. Feeling ran so high last night that several hundred communists' and socialists swept through the : Champs Elysees and attacked the building of the newspaper Figaro' which supported the rightist campaign against iSalengro before his suicide. The leftists paraded, selling special editions of the newspaper “popular humanity" featuring Salengro’s death, and shouting “to | II the firing squad with the assassi ins.” As they came to the newspaper i building they began throwing stones. Several windows were smashed, watchmen hastily pulled down iron shutters and turned in a riot call. Hundreds of polic< responded and prevented the mob from breaking into the locked ! building. —— o — Minor Explosion At School Wednesday A minor explosion at the WinI Chester school in Monroe township, i Wednesday shortly before noon, threw the students into a momentary panic, when they were suddenly startled from their classes by the muffled boom. After quiet was restored, investigation disclosed that shotgun shells had exploded in the furnace. The new furnace was greatly damaged. No one was Injured. It is not known whether the shells were scooped up accident’y with a hod of coal, or deliberately placed in the firebox. Mrs. Jeanette I Rich is the teacher at the school. 1

Great Britain To | Guard Shipping In Case Os Blockade

$12,000 TO BE PAID BY BANK Christmas Club Checks To Be Sent Out Next Week Santa Claus will be aided financiajly this year by approximately $12,000 in Christmas club checks, officials of the First State Bank I announced today. Then* were more accounts and a larger number of clubs finished this year than for several years, it wa.s stated. The bank will begin mailing * checks about December 5. The 1 majority of these will go to persons in Decatur or the surrounding communities. The average amount to be given ' each member this year will be $35.00. New clubs may be opened DeI ©ember 5. They range in amount of weekly payments from 25 cents to SIO.OO. The national Christmas club has announced that approximately ‘ $350,000,000 will be distributed in I the United States this year to approximately 7.500.000 members. This is an increase of about 14 per cent over last year. The average amount for each member, including the larger cities is $46.50. In Indiana it is estimated that about $10,200,000 will be distributes! through the , clubs this year. | A questionnaire has indicated approximately how the money will , be used this year: Christmas purI chases. 42 per cent: permanent savings, 25 per cent; year end commitments, eight per cent: taxes, 12 per cent; mortgage interest. six per cent; insurance premiums, five per cent; education, travel and charity, two per cent. — , ■ —o — Wrong Person Named , In Accident Story David Tumbleson. son of Doy Tumbleson. was riding with Walter Garwood when the latter's auto • and the one driven by Robert Boch collided at the intersection of Maple and Fifth streets Tuesday night. Mr. Boch was filling ‘ alone. Mr. Garwood was slightly injured in the accident. o Weekly Community Sale Here Friday The weekly Decatur Riverside sale will be held Friday afternoon. j beginning at 12 o’clock at the barn ! on East Monroe street. A good «elI ection of livestock will be ottered ! and farmers haveing cattle or mer- | chandise to sell are invited to bring J it to the sale. Roy Johnson is the ! auctioneer and W. A. Lower is clerk of the sale. A large crowd attends the sale every week. o j WEATHER I Generally fair south, unsettled north portion tonight and Friday; rising temperature. o SHIP MAKING RECORD TIME Cruiser Carrying Roosevelt Plans Voyage Record Aboard U. S. S. Chester, at Sea. l Nov. 19 —(UP)— President Roosevelt proved himself a “good sailor" j today as he sped southward aboard the cruiser Indianapolis toward South America, for the opening of the pan-Amerlcan conference at Buenos Aires on Dec. 1. The weather was warm and ‘ cloudy and no seasickness among the presidential party had developed. despite choppy seas. The Indianapolis set a course at 25 knots toward the passage between Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico, and planned a record run to Argentina from Charleston, S. C„ where the President boarded the ship yesterday. The first scheduled stop is at Trinidad at 8 a. m. Saturday. Two other halts are scheduled—qne briefly at Rio De Janeiro on Nov. 27. and the other at the voyage's end at Buenos Aires before turning back ‘ (CONTINUED ON PACE FIVB>

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Eden Says England Will Protect Shipping In Event Os Blockade Os Spanish Ports. AERIAL WARFARE (Copyright 1936 by United Press) London, Nov. 19 — (U.R) —Great Britain will protect her shipping in event a blockade of Spanish ports is attempted, foreign secretary Antony Eden told the houso of commons today. Responding to a query from thw Hon. JosiaJi Clement Wedgwood whether British ships still would be protected on the high seas it carrying American goods to Barcelona. which the Spanish rebel government has threatened to blockade. Edon asserted: “The rules which normally govern international action on those ma.’tres will lie pursued by his majesty’s government in defense of legitimate British interests." The assertion was made'after Eden engaged In a sharp verbal clash with communist 'William Gallagher recording the HaloGerman policy toward the Spanish insurgents. t “As far as breachtv in the nonintervention agreement are concerned. I wish to state categoric- ; ally that there axe other govern- ■ ments more to blame than either : Germany or Italy.” Eden said. • In response to laborite Clement • Richard Attlee's question whether the British government would I continue a policy of neutrality, I Eden explained: “It is quite possible to pursue a policy of non-intervention while I recognizing as the government one side or the other." The foreign secreta.rj’ promised s tliat he would seek specific assur- ■ ances from Italy and Germany ' that their recognition of Gen. Francisco Franco’s government ((Yixwrxn on page rtvii!) URGE FARMERS ’ TO ORGANIZE 1 Farm Bureau President Says Organization Is Necessary Indianapolis. Nov. 19.- (U.R) —The American farmer must organize to overcome a “tremendous chai- , lenge" if he is to advance to economic democracy. Edward A. O’Neal, ' national president, told delegates today at a session of the Indiana ! farm bureau. “You want production control: a better credit system; you ’ want honeet money; you want rurl elecrification; you want farm- ’ to-market roads; you want a more ' equitable tax system; you want better schools." O'Neal said. “There is only one way to obtain these objectives and that is go after them. "Nobody will fight your battlca for you.” O'Neal said. "You are facing a tremendous challenge. Are you equal to the task before you? Keep control of these movements in the hands of the people, i and you will save rural life in America. That is the road to i economic democracy for fanners.” O'Neal pointed oiit that industry has been able to attain power ' through organization. “The foraces of agriculture have been ineffective because the power of agriculture is represented in millions of relatively small individual units,” O’Neal said. “It is only by gathering thoso individual units together and welding them into a united powerful fighting force that you can meet the other Interests in this country on an even basis and fight for a fair deal for your industry." Last night delegates heard an address by L. A. Williams, man- ■ ager of the Country Life Insurance Company of the Illinois Agricultural Association, who stressed the importance of cooperative movei ments. II o— Former Resident Os Adams County Dies '| Mrs. Anna Wood Myere. aged 60, ' resident of B'ue Creek township un- ■ til 20 years ago, died at the homo 1 of her daughter Ln Dayton. Ohio last . evening. Burial will be made thero 1 on Friday.