Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 25 November 1936 — Page 1

101. XXXIV. No. 280.

AMERICA NS TO leave embassy hRLY THURSDAY Bl Leave Madrid Tomorrow; | British Fleet To Span- | Bish Waters I Rome, Nov. 25—<U.R>—It war. ■ reported semiofficially today Sthst the Italian embassy in ■ Madrid |ad been sacked and deI WMhiW ’• Nov. 25—(U.R)-The lamertCWi ■?nrte.,sy at Madiid « I! fcornlnß. ferii- *' W.-nib-Un. ihn-'l th.. Kute department today. ■ Wendelin said h<' had promised Bhe use Os two motor buses ami Sge motor truck to take himself, to E7 ve MBrid to Valencia, on the Bfaditerrni n coast He said Im EgM ail Amerjca.ns who ■risk to the besieged capital. mp Lye Mdfci'l t-s early in tl.e mornthe hope the •si- Inghwas now op, u Between Madrid and the coast. I Ready ■Copyrlfit 1936 by United Press) ■ mIH ■ miv <li.ri ■' 111 ir ■Mi depot ship, vanguard of a Eet. sOtm-d across the M' die r■uieanKrard Spain today ami ' ■nor? wSehips were ready to folEjff it from Malta. All shore ■acres at dalta were cancelled. lln MBn it was annonnroi! that ■ermanyland Japaji had signed SsagrOaeii! expressing their mil ii to communism Bnriting other nations to join tlmm ■a opposing it. ■ Officially . the British fleet is Mg to Spain to replace ships a:Mdy the ami the shore leav ■rts cjhfelled because of a big Btorin. ■rtually. the move a., ferded ftr<> as a notification to ■Mtainlde not to intend to tolHfiM -ference with its ships Bn aay [nationalist attempt to ■tbekade Barcelona. I Officially also, the Germanagreement of their opposition of ■ 'jCGMp 'RD ON PAGE I'Ot'lt) IBTOCK SHOW HNS SATURDAY HHH International Livestock Exposition At i Chicago Indiana s, Ind., Nov. 25—(UP) -Sleek atel fattened after months fearefu.l grooming. Indiana's finst livesti k today rolled via truck tl the ■Veh-'lay ill 10-110 1 be a! livet#ek MBosition. opening Saturday Tile feus ir ion will be hold iu the ; l>e Chicago stock yards. fifty Hoosi-r livestock breeders, to r-peat their 1935 victory. ■Bent a prize array of cattl“, horses. E ml" p and 18 other breeds of |fwni ajlimnls to compete with enI’fies from throughout the United Canada. | Fcttire on Saturday's opening is the .junior lives! o. k teeiliim ■ontest with entries totaling s.'m listed by boys and gills 12 Btates. Farm youths from [ls India: counties wil exhibit a |tot*l of 4(J baby beeves, three pens j™ lambs, and nine barrows. -’•so Scheduled on the first day's NWIW are two livestock judging contests, one fur junior contestants a d the other for college students. A champion team of three Delaware — Raymond Fuson, titincicv. and Ivan Lawson and EuISS ftßlr of Gaston — will repreIndiana. Swim ai,.i shorthorn l! WBT8 have listed entries. Head- ’« the : roup is Earl R. Robbins, , er of Robinwood farms at i f*n»bii' who will exhibit a show herd of 18 aniBHBi the 1935 exposition RobI ICONTr (TR|-> ON PAGE FOItlt) n HHWtol Society | Will Meet Friday fcaMgdams county medical socthe regular meeting at at the Lllh X y hal? ‘ Officers for 1937 I s” 6 ® 1 ' !fid "nd dues will be paid V!d I- Schwartz of Fort | f read a P a P er an <i preon “Practical | *.W Joint disease.”

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MANY DIE IN CHICAGO ‘L’ CRASH F ’ r ■' iiihmi i .— -- : "■ .4 7 ; ■■ 1 K- ■ ‘ .- Ij ip $■ . - \ Sfa 4 - jSfeabJK'* -.-r J >za jafflx. -.••• if. jar- .. ’A Several persons were killed a.nd more than fifty injured early last evening when a speeding steel North Shore electric tram plowed halfway through a loaded Evanston. 111., shoppers' special of the elevated lines on Chicago’s North Side. Picture shows closeup view of the splintered wreckage of the last ‘I? car which wa»s telescoped for abput three-quarters of its length.

BOWMAN TALKS TO LIONS GLOB Crampton Cannery Official Speaks To Lions Tuesday Harold Bowman, secretary of the Crampton Canneries, Inc., Celina, Ohio, who had a receiving station here during the seasonal months, was the chief speaker at the Lions club meeting last nightin tne Rice hotel. The speaker discussed the meri its of the present day system of 11 canning in comparison to the old ' hand systsem employed years ago. The speaker attributed the in11 creased consumption of canned foods to the modern sanitary methods and proper pneumatic sealing. ’ which prevent the foodstuffs from I spoiling. i The- modern canning equipment | is able to seal cans at the rate of 200 per minute, without being \ touched by human Hands, he stat-1 ed. While some hand canned foods. 1 are clean and unspoiled the cost I of canning is too great to find a ’ ready market, he mentioned. ' The speaker stated that research ' departments of the various canneries are equipped to find methods of canning any product desir-' 1 ed. An automatic peeler of to-1 ■ matoes is the only successful machine yet to he discovered in the ‘ . business, according to Mr. Bow-1 , man. , In relating a series of statistical ’ figures on the business he stated ■ that 300,000 acres of peas, 400,000 (OONTTNTTED GV PAGE FIVE) BERNE CHURCH | PLANS CONCERT i “The Messiah” To Be Presented At B erne Mennonite Church : — “The Messiah,” a choral presen-1 ’ tation, will be given by the Men-' nonite choral society and the i Bluffton. Ohio, college orchestra at | I the First Mennonite church in : 1 , Berne on Sunday evening. Decern-' | her 6 at 7:30 o’clock. Prof. Russell A. Lantz of Bluff-1 i ton, Ohio, is the conductor of the j presentation. | The sojoists for the program in- , j elude Prof. John G. Baumgartner, lof Princeton. New Jersey. Prof. | Baumgartner is acclaimed by crit-l I ics to be second only to Lawrence | jTibbet in his work over the nat-; ional broadcasting programs. He , . i sings basso. The Bluffton college orchestra . will be conducted by Prof. Sidney. Hauenstein, also of Bluffton. Other soloists are: Miss Mildred Habegger. of Berne, soprano; Missj Helen Ruth Baumgartner, of Raw-'' son, Ohio, alto; Freeman Burkhalt-j • er. of Berne, with Miss Ruth i Liechty, of Berne as pianist.

Through Busses Ta , Stop In Decatur A new cross-country bus route,' running from Portland. Maine to i Chicago, with connections to the west coast, started operating today. with Decatur as one of the stops on the route. The bus line is known as the Lin-' 1 coin Trails System. The west bound bus leaves the Rice hotel for Peoria. ill., at 6:00 a. tn., arriving in the latter city at 12.45 p. m. The route from Decatur to Huntington follows state road 224 and then travels over road 24 to Peoria. F. H. Mclntosh, traffic manager for the bus line was in the city today completing arrangements for terminal facilties at the Rice hotel, CIGARETTE TAX IS CONSIDERED i ■— ; Tax Study Commission Studies State Tax On Tobacco Indianapolis, Nov. 25 — (U.R) —A I cigarette and tobacco tax which ' would produce approximately $3.750,000 annually was considered today by the special legislative | tax study commission. The commission is attempting i to finance the social security pro- j gram without an additional real' i estate tax. The cigarette and tobacco tax I would be levied on a ba,sis of $1 for each 1.000 cigarets and graduated on other forms of tobacco. A sub committee reported that j counties, billed for 20 per cent of ; I the program cost, will pay ap-| I proximately $3,000,000, and the I I state will pay approximately $4.-| | 000,000 in meeting its 30 per cent. , The federal government will pay i I the remaining 50 per cent. In 1938 when the age require-1 ' ment for old age pensions is dropped from 70 to 65 the cost of ' that portion of the program is ex-1 j pected to increase 50 per cent over j I the $9,000,000 estimated cost dur-1 I ing 1937. Approximately 40,000| I persons are eligible for the pen-! ' sion now but this number will be ; increased to 60,000 when the age I requirement is lowered. Senator Floyd J. Hemtner and j 1 other members of the commission l are considering various methods ] of financing the program and will j ' make their report to the 80th gen- j eral assembly. \ 1 1 j _o | 'Glee Club Gives Program Tuesday I An enthusiastic crowd attended the program given by the. Decatur | high school glee club in the high school auditorium last evening. i The program was directed by Miss Helen Haubold music instruc-i tor in the school. The g.'ee club and a mixed chorus sang several numbers. The program was warmly re-' ceived and well attended. Marjorie Miller gave an accordian j eolo during the program. Miss Evelyn Adams was the pianist.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, November 25, 1936.

HOPE FOR EARLY I END OF STRIKE I Union, Company Officials Resume South Bend Conference South Bend, Ind., Nov. 25—(UP) —Negotiators attempting to settle the differences which led to the shutdown of the huge Bendix products company plant eight days ago, hoped today to reach an agreement "before Thanksgiving.” Union officials and company heads resumed their conference this morning without Homer Martin, President of the United Automobile I workers of America, who was call-, |ed to Detroit. Martin has headed labor efforts ! to return approximately 4,000 sac-l tory employes to their machines! and to obtain a closed shop in the I Bendix plant. Conferees broke up an eight hour I conference at midnight last night l j after reporting earlier they were] ; near agreement. I John P. Mahoney and Edwin H. i Cassels, company representatives,! 1 telephoned a proposal to Vincent i Bendix, company owner, at his home but came back to the confer-; ’ ence room with the answer “no.” Chief stumbling block to agree-1 I ment still was believed the Bendix I employes association, so called company union objected to by the i U. A. W. A. Union members spent the even- 4 ing at the Union hall waiting word ( I from the conference but broke up I I after learning that Bendix had turn- ' ed down the latest proposal. COL LINDBERGH ■ REPORTED SAFE Flurry Over Reported Dis-i appearance Is Dispelled — London, Nov. 25—(U.R) —An all- | day flurry over the whereaboutsl iof Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, un- j ! reported since he left Baldonnel; ’ air port near Dublin yesterday 1 morning, was ended late today when officials at the Sealands I royal air force airdrome at Chest- ’ |er, near Liverpool, informed the United Press that he had landed there at 4 p. m. yesterday. The duty officer a.t the air- ' drome confirmed statements prev- 1 iously made by Lindbergh's household that he is safe and well. ■ The duty officer at the Sealands airdrome refused details of Lindbergh’s landing, saying merely: “I can only confirm that he arrived here yesterday afternoon. As far as we know, he is still in Chester. We are unable to say where or give any details. "We also are unable to say whether he made a forced land(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

| Annual Fireman’s Dinner Is Held The annual fireman's dinner was ■ served last night at the engine ■ house on North Seventh street, members of the regular and volunI teer departments, city officiate and their families attending. Tables were arranged in the garage part of tlie building. Fire Chief ; Bob Robenold presided as chairman of the meeting. The bleseing was asked by Mrs. Jack Friedt. The meal was prepared by the women and regular firemen in the . engine house’s kitchen, the menu ; consisting of roast chicken and rab--1 bit. Following the dinner a social hour was enjoyed and entertainment was provided for the children. TWO NATIONS IN AGREEMENT Germany And Japan Conclude Anti-Commun-ism Agreement — Berlin, Nov. 25 —(UP) —Germany and Japan have concluded an anti- : communism agreement, it was offiI cially announced today, "The Japanese ambassador KinI tomo, (Viscount Mushakoje,) acting on orders of his imperial majesty (Emperor Hirohito I and Joachim I Von Ribbentrop, acting on orders of j the fuehrer” (Adolf Hitler) signed 1 the agreement at noon, it was an--1 nounced. The agreement, it was said, was 'directed against the communist International which fa the supreme world communist organization with headquarters at Moscow. It was no official connection with the Russian government. •> An official communique said that an introduction to the agreement I istates: “In view of the fact that the aim 1 I of the communist international te to | I disintegrate and subject to force all existing states by all means available, and in the conviction that tol- i eration of the meddling bv the communist international in their interI nal affairs endangers not only the internal peace and social welfare of ■ nations but also constitutes a menI ace to world peace on the whole, and in a desire t cooperate against the work of the communist international, the German and Japanese governments have concluded the following agreement.” Article 1 of the agreement, the communique said, provided for exchange of information between Germany and Japanese governments regarding the work of the communist international. Article 2 invites other states (CONTINtTED ON PAGE THREE) , CLOSE THURSDAY The Decatur post office, public library, and First State Bank will be closed all day Thanksgiving Day. The Daily Democrat, following annual custom, will notf publish an edition Thursday.

Chicago Elevated Train Crash Brings Death To Nine; Cause Os Tragedy Is Still Uncertain

WILL OBSERVE THANKSGIVING DAY THURSDAY Business To Be Suspended; Churches Hold Service Tonight With industry booming, agricul--1 tural prices on the upgrade and J employment at a new peak, Decatur and Adams county today prepared for the most joyous Thanksgiving since the days of "29". Programs held in the five city public schools this afternoon under the auspices of the Decatur ministerial association marked the first official commemoration of the day. This evening at 7:30 o’clock Protestants will join in union services at the United Brethren church to offer thanks for the bounties of the last year. A Thanksgiving mass will be said at the St. Mary’s Catholic church at 7:30 o’clock Thursday morning. Most retail and industrial business will be suspended Thursday to give employes an opportunity to enjoy the national holiday. There will be no mail service. Restauri ants and drug stores have announci ed they will be open at least part iof the day. The library will also | close. Parochial school children were dismissed Tuesday afternoon for the balance of the week, while city and county public school children began their Thanksgiving vacation ! following the programs this afterI noon. Both school systems will resume classes Monday morning. Tonight the B. P. O. Elks club will give its annual Thanksgiving dance at 9:30 o’clock in the club house for members and invited guests. Lowell Myers’ Fort Wayne band will play at the Decatur Country club for the Turkey Trot sponsored this year by the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity for the public. "Christian Thankfulness” “Christian Thankfulness” will be the subject of the sermon to be delivered by the Rev. C. M. Prugh. ] pastor of the Zion Reformed church at the union Protestant service to be held this evening at 7:30 o’clock in the United Brethren church. The complete program is: Choir processional, "Come Ye , Thankful People Come.” Hymn—" America.” Invocation Rev. C. J. Miner Doxology. Anthem, "Be Joyful” Choir Scripture reading .Rev. G. S. Lozier Prayer Rev. 11. .1. Aspy Anthem, "Praise the Father" Choir Offering. TTfanksgiving Proclamation Rev. O. Walton Sermon, "Christian Thankfulness” Rev. C. M. Prugh Hymn. Benediction. The offering received |t this service will be given to the local board of the Associated Charities. School Services Using Thanksgiving as a subject, ministers spoke to the public fCONTINTTED ON PAGE FIVE) ONE SIAMESE I TWIN IS DEAD Operation Is Performed This Morning To Save Other’s Life New York, Nov. 25 — (U.R) —I Simplicio Godino, severed from the dead body of his Siamese twin ,by a successful operation, was taken back to the operating room today and again placed under the knife to reconstruct a part of his body ho had organically shared with Lucio. Two hours after the second operation, Simplicio was described jas in “good” condition. Doctors said he probably would live because the twins had entirely separate circulatory systems. Lucio died last night of rheumatic fever | induced by pneumonia. The first operation consisted of amputating a fibrous muscular mass 24 inches in clrcutmferenco which joined the twins at the base of the spine. The second operation was plastic in nature and designed to afford an outlet for the I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

CENTRAL SUGAR COMPANY PAYS BONUS TO 350 • Ten Per Cent Bonus To Be Paid To Campaign Workers The Central Sugar Company, 1 Inc., of this city, is distributing to • its 350 employes bonus cheeks - equal to 10 per cent of the total ■ wages paid to them during the 1936 sugar-making campaign which r concluded today. Letters from Dale W. McMillen, chairman of the hoard of directors ! ot the company, were sent to each ! employe with check enclosed. [ Every mill and yard employe • was remembered in the bonus dis--1 tribution, which totaled several ! thousand dollars. The total amount 1 was not made public. 1 The bonus is in addition to the 1 voluntary hourly wage increase given by the company at the open- • ing of the sugar-making campaign r last September. The minimum • wage scale was increased to 35 > cents an hour. The company employs more than ■ 350 persons during the operation 1 of the mill, in addition to the regu- • lar salaried men and plant foremen. Those men also received a > bonus this v year. r The letter from Mr. McMillen r to the employes follow: i “We are very happy to present i you and all the other men who - have worked through the 1936 1 sugar campaign, a bonus check equal to 10% of the total wages i you have received during this catn- ; paign. , “Your loyalty and hearty cooperI' ation. together with the efficiences > we have made in the plant, have ■ made this bonus possible. t “We have never had a better j crew than this year. May 1 per- > sonally express to you my sincere appreciation of your local efforts, tcoNTiNrrgn nv page five, o STATE,FEDERAL SHARE IS PAID — County Receives Checks For Old Age, Dependents Assistance ■ Checks were received today by r County Auditor John W. Tyndall • from the state auditor for the i>ta,te and federal shtare of the October old age assistance and de- , pendent children funds. The check for the dependent , children fund amounted to $644.60, of which $117.20 was paid by the federal government and $527.40 - paid by the state. I The total amount approved for dependent children amounted to $879. This leaves a balance of - $234.40, or 26.23 per cent to be • paid by the county. (Fifty mothers or grandmothers receive monthly payments- for 94 dependent children. The largest (payment goes to a mother with leight children, who gets $55 a month. The smallest goes to a i mother with one child who re- | ceives $7 a month. The check for old a.ge assistI ance amounted to $2,334.01. Os l this, $576.30 is paid by the federal government for assistance and $28.81 for administration costs. The state paid $1,728.90 for assistance. I The total approved for the county for Occober was $2,881.50. The county pays 30 per cent or $576.30. The county is reimbursed for administration costs the one per (CONTTNTTRn nN PAGF FMTR) 0 Federation Os Clubs To Present Book Review The Adams county federation of clubs will sponsor a book -review at the Decatur public library Friday afternoon, December 4. at 2:30 o’clock, Mrs. F. G. Stanford, Anderson. will review the book, "Enchant-1 ed Voyage,” by Nathan. This book is a delightful fantasy, showing the comedy of human nature. All members of the Decatur woman’s c’ub and the federation of elute will be admitted without > charge. Tickets will be sold to the I public for 25 cents.

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Seven Probes Are Started Into Tragic Elevated Wreck Last Night; 58 Reported Injured, IN RUSH PERIOD , Springfield, 111., Nov. 25—(U.R) —Gov. Henry Horner today ordered the Illinois commerce commission to make a complete investigation of use of wooden coaches on Chicago elevated lines. He instructed commission ’ chairman J. M. Slattehy to attend the inquest into the death of nine persons in the "L” train collision last night. Chicago Nov. 25—(UP)— Seven agencies sought in the tangled ’ wreckage of two elevii'ed trains ' and testimony of horror-shocked 1 witnesses today th • explanation of an unusual elevated train accident ’ in which nine persons were dead ’ and at least 58 injured. The dead: « Mary Mullen, 26. Quinn Morrison, 30. 1 R. F. Larson, 36. 1 Vera Le Febure. 35. Joseph G. Diffendal, 55. 1 Samuel Schwartz, 52. 1 Raymond Winberg. 45. 1 J. J. Borchardt, 55. Nell Wilson. 45. i After a night of horror, heroism 1 and tense human drama, investi- ■ gation was undertaken by the 111- • inois commerce commission, the i Cook county coroner, Chicago police, the Chicago rapid transit i lines and the Chicago. North Shore and Milwaukee railroad, the Inter- - state commerce commission and the ' transportation committee of the ’ Chl-cago city council. t Investigation centered on: 1 1. Engineer Van Renselaer • Grooms’ reportedly "unsatisfactory” account of how he drove his ’ ponderous, all-steel North Shore ex--1 press down a mile-and-one-half ’ straightaway and piled at 40 miles-an-hour into the halted local "el” ' train jammed with home-bound ’ commuters. ' 2. Why the eight-car “el" train • stood at full-stop on an express track used by the speedy interurban trains. 3. The composition of the local train, with a wooden coach as last car. Between the steel seventh car and the bludgeoning express I train, the wooden car was smashed I to matchwood and its human cargo catapulted in squirming heaps in the street 20 feet below. J An inquest was scheduled for 1 p. m. It was an accident which probably couldn't have happened anywhere but Chicago, where an amaz-ingly-efficient transit system routes heavy Milwaukee-Chicago electric trains onto the regular elevated tracks and brings them down around the famous “loop" to pick up or deliver passengers amid the skyscrapers. The electrics rocket around the (CONTINUED OX’ PAGE SIX) WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Thursday; colder tonight, rising temperature Thursday afternoon. 14 ENROLLED AT INDIANA U. Record-Breaking Enrollment Reported At Indiana Bloomington, Ind.. Nov. 25—Fourteen Adams county students are included in the recordbreaking enrollment of 5.557 at Idniana university this fall, according to the announcement here today of Registrar Thomas A. Cookson. The present enrollment represents an increase of 333 over that of last year at this time, a gain of 6.4 percent. The enro’lment is distributed as follows: Bloomington campus 4,809; Indianapolis campus 748. Between four and five hundred applicants for admission this fall had to be turned away due to over-crowded condi- | tions in the medical school and to the fact that the law school and the social service departments raised | their entrance requirements. Men 'outnumber women nearly two to one with 3.696 men enrol’ment and 1,951 women. A new dormitory for women helpj - (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)