Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 278, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1936 — Page 1

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kjierican Embassy 111 Madrid Closed II By U.S. Officials

I I ’CLAy Ordered Closed; I Eden Gives Assurance ITo Parliament Ships I Will Be Protected. LAck RENEWED IwaahW'”" 23—(U.R) - -The in Madrid was ordtoday by the state deremoving the last haven than 150 Amer nu !< battle I SpKli capital. rThe®l’ iIS: ' v ' " ow bousing more Ln IjjlAnu-rieaiis who failed to the war zone. L; ba < ■>l soon as means Lbe ipiiiHt to transport the E„piJto the coast. Wendelin. third secreLy'in Large of the embassy, state department in a bn9-^® nn ' telephone conversaL, thalf he had received the LruaUtn instructions and hoped to leave Madrid WedLday. [Acting secretary of state I Moore annonced the declose the embassy. |He uaiß Wendelin and members I hi* Off will go to Valencia by or motor bus and eeKHpnpoiari embassy quart- | HProtect Shipping ■M. Nov. 23 — (U.R) — The ■use W commons, perturbed by fcorts tpat a German or Italian far »Mp might have been response'fo. an explosion which tippled the Madrid government Ittiser Miguel De Cervantes off knagßa yesterday, was assured b forwt, secretary Anthony EdB toda that British shipping protected against intert |SM&aiil neither side in the' war would be recogBritain as a belligerent |i flftigh seas and would proiMajtlsh merchant vessels outlimit with wa,rof the explosion on Cervantes was unsolvk JBnis reported a German was in the vicinity |ltt|Knie. However. Pablo De kMv- Spanish ambassador, ignorance of the report. rqßatest advices I have re|eived®rom Madrid indicate the Wdhßiiy that Italiaji submarines torpedoed the Cervantes. l !® rnment informs me that a investigation is now proHWWTNTTED OM PAGE FTVEI EhMIMts SB3 Cash Lost Os Stolen Beberich, living a mile with,® Magley, an employe of Sugar company, reportM&ight that SB3 in cash, had ‘ !l,le, W en stolen or lost from his while he was at work. PolMliian Adrian Coffee was plant where an investiconducted to determine ■'■M®ney had been stolen. A likethe money had fallen ,r '' otl llhi- sugar sacks in the wareeon' B s a 'eo expressed The inis being continued. Igr - s. iCIOOL BAZAAR Os ENS TONIGHT Annual Bazaar Mftght, Tuesday At I St. Joseph’s annual children’s ba•SlWhhe St. Joseph school will mis evening, with a dinner by the ladies of the St. [ariish from 5 to 7 o’clock, fczaar will be held Monday Ssday nights with dinner tach evening. The price of ken dinner will be 35 cents Bal the public has been income for the dinner and re- ‘ the evening. t and booths will be offered entertainment of the public, it proceeds will be used for Joseph’s school. In the past is were employed to provide r the class rooms and corcrowds have attended the t ' le >ast three years and Mg’nents have been completed BMgg* ain an even greater number at this bazaar.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

SUSPENSION OF LEWIS FACTION RECOMMENDED Resolutions Committee Urges Suspension Os Rebel Union Tampa, Fla, Nov. 23.—(U.R)—The resolutions committee of the American Federation of Labor conventions today recommended the suspension of the rebel CIO union headbd by John L. Lewis. The resolutions committee a»ked the convention to approve the suspension placed upon the union by Jhe federation executive coun- . cil. It also recommended the couni cil be empowered to call a special convention of the federation to take action on the crisis later if , peace efforts failed. The convention shouted approval today of a resolution designed to strengthen proposed legislation for licensing corporations along. the lines of the defunct NRA. Passing a series of resolutions as! the way was cleared for action on the Lewis committee for industrial organiztion, the convention called . for passage of the O'Mahoney bill or a similar measure with additional “essential features.” The bill provides for federal licensing of interstate corporations * to enforce high labor standards and was considered in some ways stronger than the invalidated NRA. Dozens of resolutions, ranging from placing of various companies on the “unfair" list to a demand * f contt Nt FTVE> AUTO DAMAGED HERE SATURDAY Drives Wrong Car By Mistake, Collides With Lamp Post When Frank Rayl, eon of Corodon Rayl, of near this city, drove “his” ' car into a lamp post at the corner of ' Ninth and Adams streets Saturday ' right, it was discovered that he was ’ not driving his own car, but one be- ' longing to Lester Sheets, also of. near this city. Both cars were of a popular make of the same year and color, and Rayl had driven the wrong car away from a parked position. Rayl agreed to take care of the damage, which . was estimated at about SIOO for the ( _ auto. The lamp g.obe was also I broken and the base of the post shattered. Sheets had reported the car as ’ being stolen to Policemen Hunter ’ and Coffee a short time before it , was recovered. Two Minor Accidents No one was injured in two minor . accidents that occurred over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lake of this ; city reported to police that the car in which they were riding collided with another auto driven by C. D. Lewton, also of Decatur, at 10:30 . o’clock Sunday morning. The accident occurred when Mr. Lewton pulled from the curb on North Fifth street. Policeman Ed Miller investigated. P An auto, belonging to Bill Smith, of this city was slightly damaged Saturday night, when the car, occupied by his young sone, collided with a car driven by Cornelius Gel- * mer, also of Decatur, at the inter--1 section of Adams and Second i* streets. ■ The young lads admitted to Policemen Hunter and Coffee that r .they were unable to stop for the *' red light at the corner, f —o— — ’ Bovs Are Held For * Shooting Kaiiroauer Four Ohio City boys between the 1 ages of 12 and 16 are being held by ■ Erie railroad authorities after Harry r Morgan, Huntington railroad firet men was shot in the neck last FriB - dd Morgan was not seriously wounded. He at first did not notice the B wound, but discovered blood on hi 1 neck and jaw. First aid was give 4 the injured man by a local P 1^ 8 r when the train arrived h®™ T he I toys are said to have been hunting. |

Gen. Denhardt in Court i Brig. Gen. Henry H Denhardt wan arraigned and held to the grand jury without bail at the court in New Castle. Ky today, charged with the murder of his "alleged fiancee, Mrs. Verna Carr Taylor of La Grange. Kv. Pictured at court hearing are, left to right, Miss Bertha Denhardt, Gen. Denbardt’s sister, Gen. Denhardt ami his attorney. G. I). Milliken. Sr.

BERNE MAN IS HELD IN JAIL Sam Steiner Under Arrest Following Collision Sunday Sam Steiner, of Berne, is being held in the Adams county jail awaiting the filing of a charge, as result of a head-on collision one mile south of Monroe at about 6:30 o’clock Sunday morning. Steiner, enroute south on federal road 27, is alleged to have been driving on the wrong side of the i , road*, wlwu lw drove hjs auto ! directly in front of the oncoming car. driven by Rollie Richards, of this city. Sheriff Dallas Brown was called and the men were both taken to the office of a Berne 'physician. Richards, who suffered, in addition to other bruises and cuts, a ■ severe laceration on the neck, returned to his home here. Steiner was i eturned by Sheriff Brown to the county jail to await the charges. Sheriff Brown stated today that a charge of drunken driving would be placed against him sometime this afternoon. Both cars were heavily damaged from the head-on cranh. Police-1 ; man Floyd Hunter of Decatur al-1 so answered the emergency call ■ to the accident scene. Irvin Lehman, who accompanied j Steiner, sustained numerous in-1 juries, including two broken ribs, a punctured jaw, and a badly bruised chest. Stolen Car Recovered A ca.r belonging to A. W. Gu-1 lick, of Pleasant Mills, was recov-1 ered at 10 o’clock Sunday morning I by Policeman Adrian Coffee on South First street, 20 minutes after it had been reported stolen. COUPLE SOUGHT IN MAN’S DEATHj Unemployed South Bend' Man Is Found Beaten To Death ' South Bend. Ind., Nov. 23 —(UP) —A man and woman were sought | by police today in connection with ; the death of Reuben Feferman, 32, | j former South Bend automobile | dealer whose body was found in a, [field near the Indiana-Michigan line. I Walter Romak, 19, farmer, told authorities he helped a couple pull their car out of the loose dirt beside a .lonely highway near the state line Saturday night. Coroner A. L. Knapp said Fefer- j man died early yesterday from, blows apparently inflicted with a I knobbed club dr brass knuckles, bloodstains on the highway led a farmer to Feferman's body. Less than $5 was found in Feferman’s pockets. His heavy overcoat ! was covered with mud and showed I signs of the body having been drag-I ed for some distance. Sixty feet north of the road, in a ■ corn field, deputies found blood- ] stains and signs of a struggle. A far-' mer driving past the spot saw [ streaks of blood on the road and | under two barbed wire fences. They attracted his attention to the body. I Wolf said the ‘‘state line club,” i Michigan gamb’ing house less than i (.CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) j

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 23, 1936.

Victory Party At Indianapolis Dec. 1 — The Young Democratic club of I Marion county, in conjunction with j the state house women's club, will hold a victory party in the India-1 r.apolis Athletic chib in Indianapo-1 lis, December 1. An invitation to Young Democrats and others of Adams county to attend the affair was extended today by Al Johnson, state president of the Young Democrats of Indiana. Tickets will sell for $1.50 each. Funds raised by the party will be ; used to pay part of the expenses of the Young Democratic national convention, to be held in Indianapolis in August. AGREEMENT IN STRIKE BALKED South Bend Company Demands Strikers Leave t Factory South Bend, Ind., Nov. 23. —KU.R) —The siege of 1,200 workers at! the Bendix Products Corporation IfactSty today appeared to have blocked further efforts at negoti-. ation. Another peace conference beI tween union representatives and I the management was scheduled this afternoon, but it was expect-| ed that company officials would refuse to attend unless the besieg-’ ing workers left the factory where I they have lived for six days to proi test their layoff Relatives and union workers outI side continued to supply the 900 ' men and 300 women in the factory with food. Priests and ministers entered the factory Sunday to conduct services. The workers have, lived in the plant since the management shut off their machines I Nov. 17 following intense union ac- ! tivity and a brief “sit-down” strike. ] Futile attempts to concilite the i | workers’ demand for 100 per cent I unionization and the management's ■ 1 determined stand against a "clos!ed shop" were followed Saturday by a demand that the besiegers! leave the fabtory. Company officials indicated they ' would not discuss the matter, further until the workers left. The i workers, members of the United ■ Automobile Workers union, a CIO I unit, said they would not leave uuI til their demands are met. Union leaders, announcing the i i workers decision, said the next I move was up to the Bendix man-) agement. The besiegers have plenty of j food and have kept warm through the nights in the unheated plant. Apparently in high spirits and oc- i cupied with card games, dances, | j music, and “amateur hours,” they : friONTINnfiD nN PAGE FIVE* NO PAPER THURSDAY Iln observance of Thanksgiving, there will be no publication of the Decatur Daily Democrat, Thursday. The Groceries and Meat Markets will announce their Thanksgiving Dinner specials in Tomorrow’s Democrat. Watch Wednesday’s! and Friday's issues for advertisements of other Decatur stores.

GRAND JUDY IN ANNUAL SESSION Adams County Grand Jury Opens Annual Session Today City a.nd county law enforcement authorities were interviewed i this morning by the Adams county I grand jury, which opened its an-1 nual session this morning. The grand jury is composed of the following persons Floyd As- j py, Geneva: Robert Gerber. Wabash; John Bollenbacher. Jefferson: Victor A liichenberger. Berne: John Van Buskirk. Union township and Lester Pontius. Geneva. Fra.nk Parrish of this city is bailiff. The law requires that the grand jury meet at least once a year. It may meet oftener, if necessary. Among its annual duties is the inspection of county institutions.. It is not known when this will be I done. Usually, this is done on Tuesday or Wednesday. Prosecuting Attorney Edmund A. Bosse and Prosecutor-elect Ar- , thur Voglewede sat with the jury this morning. | It is not known whether any ' criminal matter is being investigated by the jury, whose reports are not made public until warrants are issued and arrests made. ——o Rob Salesman Os 127 Ladies’ Hats Fort Wayne. Ind., Nov. 23. —KU.R) '—A hitch-hiker and confederate who joined him near Roanoke took 127 ladies’ hats, valued at $250 from salesman Peter Alberts, DaiJas, Texas, last night. ONE KILLED IN ALASKAN SLIDE " —" ~ I Mud And Rock Avalanche Sweeps Into Juneau, Alaska Juneau, Alaska. Nov. 23.—<U.P>— 'An avalanche of mud and rock which swept down the side of Mt. ' Roberts and into Juneau last night I caused at least one death, injur- ; ed nine, and caused heavy proper- i ty damage. Firemen dug through the muck today searching for othi er- possible victims. The avalanche was caused by torrential rains which have fallen for 24 hours. High up on the side |of Mt. Roberts the slide started I and as it crashed down, gaining ! momentum, trees were uprooted and swept along. The roar of the approaching slide could be hoard and natives who had experienced lesser slides in former years ran for safety, j Two apartment houses virtually were buried under the mud. At a I street intersection where four peri sons had been standing at 7: 30 o’clock—a minute before the slide (CONTTNTIPn ON PAGE TWO) o WEATHER Cloudy becoming fair, snow flurries extreme northeast, colder except extreme northeast tonight; Tuesday fair, colder extreme southeast.

THANKSGIVING DAY SERVICES PLANNED HERE Business To Be Suspended; Church Services Are Planned Here “Due expression of our Thanksgiving,” as requested by President Franklin D. Roosevelt In his annual proclamation, will be made in various ways by the citizens and organizations of Adams county. Most business will be suspend-> ed in Decatur on Thanksgiving day to permit employes to attend annual family reunions. Restaurants,! drug stores, cigar stores, theaters, and a few other concerns will re-, main open all or part of the day. The post office and bank will be closed Thanksgiving day. City public schools and the county rural schools will be dismissed Thursday and Friday. The St. Joseph’s Catholic school will dismiss Tuesday afternoon for the balance of the week. Union Protestant services will be held Wednesday evening in the I United Brethren church at 7:30 | o'clock. The St. Mary's Catholic church I will hold a Thanksgiving mass (Thursday morning at 7:30 o'clock. The B. P. O. Elks club will give I a dance Wednesday night in the. I Elks home for members and guests. [The affair will begin at 9:30 o’clock. The annual Turkey Trot will be sponsored by the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity at the Decatur Country club Thursday night. The public is invited to attend. School Program The program for the public i schools will begin at 1:30 o’clock. Following this, school will be dis- ! missed for the week. “Thanksgiv-; \ ing” will be the theme of the talks i to be made by rhe ministers of the i city. Few changes have been announced in the schedule. Mrs. H. W. ( CONTTNTTED ON PAGE FIVE) RANK BUILDING SALE APPROVED McMillen Purchase Os Old Adams County Bank Is Approved The sale of the Old Adams I County Bank building, witli its | furniture and fixtures, for $18,300 to Dale W. McMillen was approved Saturday by Judge Huber M. DeVoss in the Adams circuit court. Mr. McMillen was highest bidder for the property at the public auction held in the bank building Thursday. The sale at that time was conditioned upon the approval I of the court. A deed was ordered to the property, but has Wot yet been filed in the court. Mr. McMillen has not announced what he expects to do with the building other than the statement Thursday: “I hope what happens ( to it will be for the greatest good iof Decatur. I have no plans to I announce now. It is a good building and will be used for something.” Other Properties i The bank building and fixtures wore the most valuable of tlhe remaining real estate included in the assets of the trust. On January 13 a, public auction, subject to the approval of the Adams circuit court, has been announced at which time tour properties, including two houses, will be offered for sale. 'These will be: A vacant lot on North First street, south of the new home erected by Elmo Smith. I A 66 by 132 feet vacant lot on [ Monroe street, iwest of the Nib- ■ lick store. The bank recently la,id ■ a new sidewalk and set up a new fence in front of the property. The city ot' Decatur is filling up ccnKYTNuwn puaw ftvr) o George Stalter Dies At Greenville, Ohio Georze Stalter. 70, of Greenville, I Ohio, died Sunday morning at 8:45. o’clock of complications. The deceased was born March 9, ' 1866, a son of Noah and Ella Lehman Stalter of Allen county, Ohio. Surviving beeides the widow are one son Glenn, three sisters and one brother. Funeral services will be held at the Antioch (Beery) church, Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. The service will be conducted by Rev. William Hygema. Burial will be in the Elkhart cemetery.

New York States Unemployment Law i Upheld By Court

FIRE DESTROYS LEONARD HOME AT HOMESTEAD Florenz Leonard Home Is Gutted By Fire Sunday Night Devastating fire visited the , Homsteads for the first time at 7:30 o'clock last night, when home No. 14, occupied by Florenz T. "Tommy” Leonard was nearly gutted by flames. The tire started in the clothes (closet near the entrance. While the exact cause of the fire is unknown, a short in the wiring is [ thought to have started the blaze. The two front rooms of the ■ downstairs were completely destroyed and the kitchen was heavily damaged by smoke and water. The upstairs also suffered heavily from the smoke. New front room furniture, including an overstuffed suite recently purchased by the Leonards, was completely destroyed. Almost the entire wardrobe of the family, which was in the clothes closet, burned away. Both Mr. and Mrs. Leonard were in Dejeatur at the time. The alarm was 1 turned in by a passerby. Since the Homesteads are not listed on the Decatur tax duplicate, the homes are not protected by (the local fire department. The department made the run, however, i which will be charged to the owner. This is the second time the de- 1 partment has been called to the Homesteads, the first time occurr-l ing about a year ago. when a small blaze started at the Paul Saurer home. While the damage was not estimated, it is expected to run more than $2,000. Mrs. Leonard stated when she arrived on the scene, that they were carrying insurance on the furniture. The government carries insurance on the home. iln the absence of Fire Chief Charles Robenold, who was out of town, Harry Stults directed the fighting of the flames. Mr. Stults stated today that an accurate estimate of the damage would probably be made late this afternoon. o Betty Hunter Has Operation Sunday Betty Hunter, 15 year-old daughter of Policeman and Mrs. Floyd Hunter, of North First street, underwent an emergency appendectomy at the Adams county memorial hospital Sunday afternoon. Her condition is reported to be satisfactory today, following the operation. o PRESIDENT IS SPEEDING SOUTH Roosevelt Also To Visit Uruguay On Southern Trip Aboard U. S. S. Chester, Nov. 23 —(UP) —President Roosevelt neared the equator today on his journey to the Buenos Aires peace confer- ! ence. The crusier Indianapolis, which is carrying him, and its escort, the ( Cruiser Chester, late this evening will enter the equatorial regions, ruled by the mythical King Neptune.: Secret agents warned the Presid- ' ent that the underwater Monarch was preparing to summon him to appear before the royal court, always held as a ship crosses the equator, to explain "his gross negligence in failing to carry Main and i Vermont.” The President, as “senior pollywog"—one who has never been initiated when crosßsing the equator ’ —posted a watch for Davy Jones who was on the way with subpoen-' j as. He will be sighted tonight. The , Indianapolis will stop and Davy Jones will came up over the prow I with the official orders. The orders will direct the presid- , ent and his party to appear before King Neptune and his court, who . will be enthroned on the IndianaI— — — —| I iCONTINUKD ON PAGE THREBD

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Supreme Court Upholds Unemployment Law With Even Split Ruling; Is Surprise Action STONE ABSENT Washington, Nov. 23 —(U.R) —Th» supreme tourt in a surprise split decision today upheld New York’s state unemployment law. an action which administration officials immediately characterized as partending a favorable constitutional i tiling on the vast new federal social security program. The court's action came in an unusual ruling and while binding in the New York case sets no precedent for future action. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes announced as the court met today that the opinion of the New York state supreme court, HUsta.ining the statute, had been upheld by a four-to-four vote on the U. S. supreme court. The equal division of the court was the result of the absence because of illness of Justice Harlan F. Stone. Had Stone, a strong liberal, been able to participate in the decision it was thought virtually certain the court would have voted 5 to 4 to uphold tho New York statute with a formal opinion. Under the procedure of the supreme court, the decision of ths lower court is held to be the controlling opinion in the case when the high U. S. tribunal is evenly divided. In the New York case, ( the state court had already up- . held constitutionality of the lay. The high court's decision in the I New York case came with start- | ling swiftness. Only 10 days ago jit had. listened to formal argument. Normally at least several I weeks are required for a decision. Because of the even decision of the court no formal opinion was written and no announcement was made as to how the justices voted. It was regarded as virtually certain, however, that the four votes against the state law were cast by Justices Willis Van Devajiter. Pierce Butler, George Sutherland and James C. McReynolds. Those assumed to have voted for the law were Chief Justice tCONTTNTTEn ON PAGE FIVE) o Schwartz Funeral Rites Held Today Funeral services were held at 9 o’clock this morning for Mrs. Jacob A. Schwartz, aged 59, who died at her home last Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Death was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage. The deceased was born in French township January 1, 1877, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Graber. Survivors are the husband, three children, Sam K., Mrs. David Wickey and Mrs. Joseph Schwartz, all of near Berne, the mother and three sisters. The funeral was held at the home. Burial was made in the Amish cemetery, three miles north of Berne. She was a member of the Amish church. o - Victor Baker Is Accidentally Shot Victor Baker, aged 29, of east ot Berne, was accidentally shot about r.oon Saturday, after he had returned from a hunting trip. The accident occurred when he was leaning cn the barrel of a 22-gauge rifle, and a nephew, four-year old Gene Baker, walked up and pulled the trigger. Baker, who had his right hand over the gun, and was leaning on his left arm, suffered greatly from Hoss of blood. The thumb of the right hand was pierced by the bullet, which passed clear through the left arm. His condition is reported to be satisfactory. o— Report 18 Deaths During September The monthly bulletin of the stale division of public health shows that I there was a total of 18 deaths in Adams county during the month of September. Eight deaths occurred to persons 65 years or over. Two of the deaths were accidental. The annual death rate per 1,009 persons is 10.8. The report also shows a total of , 35 births in the county during the I same months, for a rate of 21.0 per 1,1)00 persuim.