Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 8 January 1937 — Page 1

Si XXXV. No. Seven.

f|d.R. GIVES ■iNUAL BUDGET MESSAGETODAY Expects To BalHce Budget In Fiscal Year 1939 H. * 'U.R; Prestcongress bu.lc.' today (hat •. ,| to ll "' htf.get th- national tie v .. al t '»■ * uld |K. ~v tn.nt til.' w,, " ld bP < 4 ,,J with : "I the fiscal a! „> .1 the 1936 y-ar ended last June M. Pl-. Sid. lit foresaw little if to finance governexpens* the next fiscal |p s would virtually die debt at $35,026,on June 30. 1937 and begin f SSluce it one year later. y : J;nosev.dt warned the that conditional budget balin tli. next fiscal year and balance in the following p. nd’d ..ii industry's coopm persons rolls. .... . «. pendent up . - to be new deal increase the debt from July 1. 1933 aggregate $12.4*7.327.440 — 1 jjte I . x . :•\: ■ I'.ditui'eS over for that period. ‘fto p . - -■ mat. s federal in the n»xt fiscal year increase $1,475,446,378 of b iter business and taxes. f id H orn . on Bajßß estimates of recovery and mH needs in the 1938 fiscal year. ’ported tli'ie would be a surplus of $1,135,607.94*. ■UCKS BOUGHT pfOR HIGHWAYS New Trucks Are I purchased For Highway Department fl’ A ti : k- We-e purchased la‘-» 'ldle tic-w maclil||9 v -' '' m k fleet up to |B' the new there will only two old |M" • a Heo two and :ue purchas 1. Las' y. ar the county oual three ton truck. S^B B ''" 1 ti an those in use |H il " i.c’d county for "iniw plows and grading de livered 'he next few weeks, up the tnanufacrepresentatives told ■K ■ ■:>.i">..i...... and Walter Gil"'W'' highway sti'pervisor. a! "est truck purchased was HH ' M; ls flll| ,. an(] o , le ha]f t() ■B ’ ■ k " mplete with truck I hoist, sold by Sam Ferril, represents - ive cf White |B 1 ■■■ tru, k was bid at $3,677 totaling $43.54. making qua! $3,721.26. ■S' ! W-six c ylinder three ton ■B 1 "' 11 ' glv " n a trad -invalue cd' HE ,lis mad “ the net price to be - t! ‘e county, $3,121.26 half ton trucks were purSIH" 1 / p et „ j.; lrsch , |nd S()n MV" '"“I dump bodies and hoists. ■HT I'* 1 '* p ril?( . Wau mentloned jn On one O s the truck a 1928 lani tWo tl) n four wheat truck 4ded The net price on the tri "" k "as $1,491.19. On the BK rUCk a i!, -S Graham Page to the other, with the wheels and ..'l'. I:i ’ Ox PAGE SEVEN’) Mtarians Hold I Weekly Meeting *® p i<ly meeting of the Deca- »' *!• club was held at the Rice v ay evenin *- Th e Rev. > Pn,gh ’ President, con■lh * buslriecs meeting, during xvco- IX>r,l< ° f various commitS ‘ !nted ‘’ y U ' e conuult -

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Seeks Strike Truce .> • X •t' ./ Mb* A Chief hope of bringing altout a ipeareful settlement of the ladior crisis threp.'etting the automobile industry rests with James F. Dewey, crack mediator of the IL S. labor department, who is in Detroit in an attempt to bring tlie heads of General Motors and Automobile Workers of America into an agreement. DISTRICT K.P. MEET JAN. 28 District Knights Os Pythias To Hold Meeting The di-jtrict meeting of the Knighth of Pythias lodge will be held at the Decatur home on the night of January 28, starting at 8 o'clock, it was r ported iast night. Plans for the meeting were made by the local order in the regular Thursday night meeting, with State Deputy Roberson and District Deputy Bright, of Fort Wayne, in attendant*'. Hight hsiges tn thH ttisTrtet are to be presented by a delegation at the meeting. These lodges are, in addition to Kekionga Lodge No. 65 of Decatur, Bluffton. Markle, Huntington. Portland. Montpelier, and the two from Fort Wayne. Several district and state officers wil’ be in attendance at the meeting with a possibility of a national officer being sent by the supreme order. The meeting will start at 8 o'clock 1 following a business session of the local organizaztion at 7:30. Local lodge officers will be in charge of the arrangements. Plan Instalation The Knights of Pythias in the meeting 'ast night also extended an invitation to the Pythian Sisters to hold a joint public ins'allation befICONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) — o Aged Farmer Found Beaten To Death Logansport, Ind.. Jan. B—(VP) — Morris Seigel, 75, farmer, wqs found beaten to death last night in his liotne near Winamac. C. S. Logh, Stark county sheriff, said he could find no motive for a murder. o_ LOBBY REMAINS OPEN ONE HOUR Post Office Lobby To Be Kept Open Hour Longer In Future Postmaster Phil L. Macklin has announced that beginning immediately the lobby of the Decatur post office will remain open Un the evenings until 8 o'clock, instead of the usual closing hour of 7. This schedule will be effective each week day with the exception of Saturday, when the lobby will close at the regular time of 7 o'clock. The windows in the office will close at the regular time of 6 o’clock, with the exception of Saturday when closing time will remain at 12 o'clock noon. I The extra hour was given, Mr. Macklin stated, to afford late workers an opportunity to do their mailing the same night. The mails will leave and arrive at the same hours, but the dispatching of mail by the office force will continue during the extra hour, according to the masterThe office, of course, will remain closed on Sundays and holidays as usual, with only ‘‘“Specials” being 1 delivered.

G-MEN ACTIVE j IN HUNT FOR KIDNAPED LAD Posse Os G-Men Leave Tacoma Hotel In Search For Kidnaper Tacoma, Wash., Jan 8 (VP) —A posse of G-men hurriedly left their hotel headquarters at 4:30 A- M. today and sped away to an unknown destination in four automobiles. It was believed this sudden move, their first concerted action eince; federal and state force* "withdrew" from the case, may have a bearing on a possible new “break" in the Charles Mattson kidnaping. quickly ending several days of comparative incaitvity in the daring abduction, the G-men assembled outside the hotel in near-zero weather, apparently after receiving news of some development in the case and 'eft quickly in the cars. It could not be determined in what direction the G-men were head ’d —whether they were destined for some iplace within the city, | or out of town. The federal agents have taken virtually no part in the investigation since Dr. William Mattoon, tath r of the 10-year-old boy. anked them to refrain in order to permit safe return of the youth. Last night the father said he had . no proof that his eon is alive. Q President Confers With Steel Leader » Washington Jan. B—(UP8 —(UP) —Presiident Roosevelt conferred with Myton C. Taylor, chairman of the board of United Statee Steel Corp., today, l presumably on the subject of the automotive strike and its effect on steel. “Just say we talked things over genera'ly”, Taylor said. “We have more people employed and on a , higher basis of wages than ever before- The average working hour per week are 40 and they are code hours. SENIOBCLASS PLAYHIESOAYi Decatur High School Seniors To Present Annual Class Play After two postponements caused by illness in the cast, the play “For Pete's Sake,” will be presented by the members of the senior class of the Decatur high school next Tuesday night, January 12 at 8 o’clock in the school auditorium. Admission to the presentation will be 15 cents for children and 25 cents for adults. Tickets may be secured from any member of the cast or of the senior class. The story of the play is that of a college boy and his ability to get into “hot water” situations. Peter Pepperdine is the hero of the story. The cast of characters includes: Alice K. Baker, as Mrs- Pepperdine; Mary K. Garner as Jasmine Jackson : Donald Bixler as Cicero Murglethorpe; David Macklin as the hero Uete; Lawrence Anspaugh as Biss Bradshaw; Robert Franz as Muggsy ( Murg'ethorpe, Catherine Murphy as Mrs. Clarke; Kathryn Kohls as Nadine Clarkston; Catherine Jackson as Peggy Clarkston, Virginia Brelner as Malvina Potts; Monroe Fuhrman as John Boliver and Harold Zimmerman as the ipoet. Dupont Darby. Miss Mildred Worthman. class guardian, is directress of the pre-! mentation. Lewis Fennig is business manager, with Bob Beavers as assistant. Lewis Smith as stage manager, with Bud Hurst as assist-j ant. 0 Youth, Baby Are Burned To Death Columbia City, Ind., Jan. 8 — (UP) —A two-year-old baby and a 21-year-old farm hand were fatally burned on a farm east of here yesterday when the youth attemipted to kindle a kitchen fire with kerosene. Sharon, the baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Maggert, was left in the care of Virgil Lahr Chile the 1 parents attended a funeral. Following the explosion, Lahr carried the baby to the yard and beat out the flames Burning from head to foot, he then ran to a neighboring farm for help. Both died in a Fort Wayne hospital. The fire in the home was exting-. i uished by a bucket brigade. I

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, January 8, 1937.

Receives Telephone Call From Germany According to word from Fort Wayne. Harry Offtit, Sr., president of the Indiana Engineering and Construction company, who is on a trip through Germany in the internets of the company, "visited" with D. W. McMillen, president of the , local Central Sugar company, for a few minutes on Wednesday of this week. The visit was made by telephone. According to the word. Mr. Offut talked about a hundred dol'ars worth. The cal) reached here at 3:151 p. m. but it wan about 9:15 p. tn. in Germany Mr. Offut reported on ills research work in the interests of the local company to Mr. McMilj len. LLOYD COWENS SCOUT CHAIRMAN Decatur Man Is Named Adams County Boy Scout Chairman Lloyd B. Cowens, manager of the Decatur Loan and Discount company, was elected chairman of i the Adams county Boy Scout committee for 1937 at the annual organization meeting, held Thursday I evening in the Rice hotel. Mr. Cowens succeeds Bryce Thomas in the county post. He will soon announce chairmen of the various committees to promote Scouting in the county. Sylvester Everhart, teacher in the Central school, was re-elected county Scout commissioner. The new officers and newly appointed committees will hold their first meeting, January 26, at the city council chambers. - At the meeting Thursday, reports were made by the district ' committees and representatives of the Boy Scout troops of the county and the Cub pack of Deoatur. The reports disclosed a large number of older boys enrolled at present. To meet this problem, the committee decided to adopt and promote the new Senior Scout program for older boys, in hope of maintaining this group. The chairman of the finance com-: • mittee, Harold McMillen, reported ' that Adams county went over its goal for 1936 and raised $523.85 for the support of Scouting in the ' county. The 1937 quota will be SSOO. Rural Program Recently a county-wide boy stir- ' vey was conducted. This revealed a great interest in the Scout ' program in the rural areas of the county. The committee determined to follow up this information by making Scouting available to all boys in the county. The Anthony Wayne Area council aunual dinner and business meeting was announced for January 28 in the Catholic Community Center in Fort Wayne. Glenn Hill was appointed attendance chairman. He expects a large delej gation from Decatur and Adams (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) 0 NEW INTANGIBLE STAMPS ARRIVE Saturday Final Day To Purchase 1936 Intangibles Stamps ( County Treasurer Jeff Liechty reI ported today that intangible stamps for 1937 had arrived at hie office ■ and would be placed on sale immediately. A total of nearly $5,000 worth of the stamps was received on the initial assignment. Others will be ordered from time to time. All persons who have documents : that require intangibles are Urged to call at the earliest possible convenience for their stamps Treasurer Liechtj’ also called at-1 , tention to the fact that tomorrw, Saturday, is the final day for pur- ; chasing 1936 intangibles stamps. At the close of business Saturday, the old stamps will be returned to the state department. The penalty will be added after tomorrow. Treasurer Liechty also called attention to the fact that the stamps are good for one year from the date of purchase. Sortie misunderstanding has been prevalent about this fact, he stated. o Aged Decatur Lady Suffers From Cold Mrs. Mary Fullenkamp is ill at her home, 421 West Adams street. She is suffering from a cold, bordering on influenza- Mrs. Fullenkamp who is 86 years of age, has lived longer in the city than any other living resident. She was reported as i resting well this morning.

BIRTHDAY BALL TRUSTEES MEET Trustees Os Fund To Receive First Application For Aid A meeting of the trustees of the Birthday Ball for the President fund to consider an application for assis- ' tance has been culled for this evening at 7:15 o’clock in the Decatur Democrat office. This will be the first request for funds submitted by the parents of a victim of infantile paralysis since la percentage of the funds was retained in the county. In announcing this meeting the I co-chairmen of the 1937 affair, Edwin Kauffman and Dorothy Young stated that Robert Shraluka and Tom ‘Alwein had been named coI chairmen of the publicity committee. Tonight a meeting of the ballroom committee will be held in the Democrat office at 7 o’clock. At 7:30 o'i clock the orchestra commiUee will meet in the Democrat office. Seventy per cent of the (proceeds front the 1927 ball will again be retained in the county for the assistance of victims of infantile paralysis. Thirty -per cent of the funds will be sent to the national committee for research in an effort to find cures and preventatives for the disease. During the last two years a total of $83.32 has been reaised for use in Adams county. Theodore Graliker, president of I the First State Bank of Decatur, is ' treasurer of the board of trustees who consider applications. Other members of this committee are the general chairmen of the 1935, 1936 and 19317 affairs, who are Jesse Sutton. Robert Heller. Dorothy Young. David Heller and Edwin Kauffman. o Catholic Seniors To Sponsor Dance The seniors of the Decatur Catholic high school will sponsor a dance at the schoo' auditorium immediately after the Commodore-Central Catholic basketball game tonight The public is invited to attend. o GIVES REPORT ON PLATE SALE Excellent Record Made In Sale Os Alito License Plates In comparison with several of the neighboring counties. Adains stands ; out in the number of autoists. who have cofpiled with the law in ipur- ; chasing their 1937 auto license ; plates, according to the report of Manager Dee Fryback, of the local license bureauMany of the other counties, espe- : dally Allen, report that motorists are slow Ln purchasing their new plates. After a few busy days at the bureau, the drivers refused to secure their new plates until arrest orders are given. At the local bureau, slr. Fryback I reports that approximately 90 per . cent of the total (plates expected to be used, are now on the autos. He cites the fact that very few old plates can be discerned on ears. The toal number of plates to be issued in the county number about 6,000. Mr. Fryback also stated that the [ number of plates sold has maintainI ed a figure of 200 over the number sold last year- This figure was set Monday of this week and has been held since, he stated. o WEATHER Cloudy, rain turning to snow tonight and possibly Saturday .morning; decidedly colder totonight and Saturday; moderate cold wave northwest and westcentral portions. Your Business is like the lad. who swallowed the tacks — it has some good points which 41 ' ought to be 4ft i brought out 'A. by newspaper —advertising/ You 11 feel beiier too/ r r IProfH*]

OVER f 2.000 AUTO WORKERS ABE NOW IBLE Shutdown Os All Chevrot let Plants Forecast In Near Future Detroit, Jan. — XU.R> — Automobile workers of America called a “sit-down" strike in General Motors’ big Cadillac plant in an attempt to break a deadlock between the union and the $1,500,000,000 corporation. Their action came at a time when Gov. Frank Murphy, aided by federal conciliators, prepared to resume conferences with both sides. First, Murphy conferred with William S. Knudsen, executive vice president of General Motors, and planned to see union leaders later. Fifty-one hundred men are employed in the Cadillac plant and when they struck they brought the total number of General Motors employes out of work because of strikes and shutdowns to 62.401). By midnight the number will have grown to 77,529 if General Motors goes through with its announcement that the Chevrolet engine factory at Flint and the Bay City carburetor plant will be closed for lack of materials. General Motors officials, confirming the closing of the Cadillac plant, said it would be only a short time until the Fleetwood body factory also would be forced to close. That plant manufactures bodies for Cadillac, and employs 1,700. Murphy, entering his second full day as mediator, still was optimistic that he would get Knudsen and Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers, together at the same conference table. No comment on the possibility of direct negotiations came from General Motors' officials, but strike leaders were pessimistic. “I do, not consider we are any nearer a solution than ever,” Martin said. "We have issued no ultimatums, but we are determined not to sell the workers' birthright for a mess of pottage.” Martin contended there were 1,200 "sit-down" strikers in the Cadillac plant. General Motors estimated the number at 300. The “sit-down strikers, particularly those occupying two Fisher body plants at Flint, continued to be the issue on which negotitaiqns depended. General Motors refused to enter into negotiations so long as its plans were occupied by strikers; the union, believing it had a powerful weapon in the "sitdown” strike, refused to send the men iiome unless it received some cital concession in return. When the Flint engine plant and the Bay City carburetor factory close tonight, it will be only a short time, according to General Motors officials, when shut-downs will occur in every Chevrolet plant. Murphy, dominant figure in the negotiations, refused to concede that an agreement was impossible. o FORMER LOCAL TEACHER DIES Arthur L. Brentlinger Dies Thursday At Columbia City Arthur L. Brentlinger, 61, former resident and teacher in Decatur and Adams county died at his home in Columbia City at 7 o'clock Thursday morning. He had been in ill I health for two years. Mr. Brentlinger was born, Decemi ber 13, 1876, in Allen county, Ohio, and moved to Kirkland township with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C- L. Brentlinger, while a child. He attended the Kirkland township schools. He was married to Miss Ethel Smith, who survives. After teaching in the Kirkland township schools for a time he came to Decatur and taught at the West Ward school about 20 years ago. Later he taught in the Preble township schools. About four yeears ago he moved to Columbia CitySurviving besides the widow are, a son, Lee, of near Chicago, three daughters, Mrs. June Hoopengartner and Mrs. Ruby Spear of Whitley county and Marion at home; one brother, Orville of Pleasant Mills, and three sisters, Mrs. Flora Drum of Root township, Mrs. Silvia Miller of Berne and Mrs. Pearl Goober of Centerville. One sister is deceas-ed. He was a member of the Christian church in Columbia City. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. tn. Saturday afternoon in Columbia City at the Luckenbill funeral home.

McNutt Delivers Message \To State Assembly

Farewell Message f V Paul V. McNutt, who will retire as governor of Indiana Monday. January 11, delivered his flnaj message to the Indiana general (assembly at a joint session today.: COLLEGE HEAD” IS DISCHARGED Glenn Frank Is Fired As President Os Wisconsin University Madison, Wis., Jan. B—U.R)— Rebellious students protested directly to Gov. Philip F. LaFollette today against the dismissal of Dr. Glenn Frank from presidency of the University of Wisconsin. More than 2000 of the university’s 10,000 students struck from their classes, held a protest meeting in the quadrangle on campus hill, and started a shouting protest column toward I the state capitol. By Willard R. Smith. UP Staff Correspondent Madison, Wis., Jan. 8. —<U.R) — The LaFollette-dominated board of regents today studied a list of four men whom it may name to succeed Glenn Frank, famed liberal educator, as president of the University of Wisconsin. The list, guarded carefully by members' of the board which dismissed Frank on mismanagement charges, was known to include three members of the university staff, Dean Lloyd K. Garrison of i the law school. Dean Edwin B. ’ Fred of the graduate school, and John M. Gaus, of the political science department. The fourth name was reported ; variously as Robert Maynard Huti chins, president of the University i of Chicago, and Robert Morss Lovett, retired professor of the same iiistitution. George C. Sellery. white-haired hean of the university's largest college, letters and science, meantime stepped in as acting president in an atmosphere embittered by charges and denials of political meddling and threats of a student strike. I A student protest against Frank’s dismissal appeared to lack only a leader to grow into a strike. Fraternity and dormitory leaders reported unanimously they would not sanction such a strike, but would make no move to interfere with one. As Frank prepared to remove his books from his office and isrue final statement decrying this “anti-American and anti-educatiou-al procedure,” Gov. Philip F. LaFollette called a press conference to explain the “situation.*’ LaFollette was drawn into the matter despite persistent denials that he prompted the dismissal. He appointed the eight regents whose majority vote last night after a two-day hearing on mismanagement charges passed a resolution providing against removal of Frank's contract when it expires July 1, and giving his a leave of, ' ((CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) I

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Governor McNutt, Making Farewell Address, Says No New Taxes Needed To Carry On State. JOINT SESSION Indianapolis. Jan. 8. —<U.R> —Gov. Paul V. McNutt, reporting $17,800,000 balance in the state treasury as of June 30, 1937, told the legislature today in his farewell address that Indiana needs no new taxes to carry on its vast social welfare program and that he is “unalterably opposed” to them. His subsequent assertion That the tax problem of the present legislature is to reduce assessments and not increase them came in the face of budget estimates submitted by department heads of $98,000,000, Che highest in the state's history. And the governor also warned the asesmbly against “false economy.” McNutt spoke before a joint session of the house and senate. His address was the only business scheduled today pending the in auguration of M. Clifford Townsend as governor on Monday, since the legislature disposed of its routine organization business in yester- ' day’s tw’o-hour session. The governor, speaking deliberately and with emphasis, reviewed the dark days of 1933 when his administration took office and recalled with pride how the "citizens of Indiana" rose to the emergency to combat the forces of a "major catastrophe.” In addition to a review of his own administration, McNutt recommended to the legislature action on eleven different fronts, all of them designed to carry out the policies adopted by his administration and emphasizing the co-oper-ation between state and nation governments fostered by the Roosevelt regime. McNutt's recommendations may be summarized as follows: 1. Public welfare. An amendment to the social security act to insure “competent local staffs” in counties and inclusion of special groups, some of which have penI sions (such as government ernI ployes) in the act’s provisions. 2. The state budget. Economy I without "false economy" with an adequate construction program financed from the existing surplus to enlarge institutions for the care of mental defectives; reduce the load on present sources of revenue; and appropriations in two classifications. those for state purposes only and those shared jointly by the state and federal governments. 3. Taxes. Claimed $108,000,000 redu<*ion in cost of government during the last four years with $99,000,000 in grants to local political subdivisions. Urged curtailment of expenditure by local governments of funds raised from other sources and reorganisation of lo(,tl units to effect economies. 4. Depository act. Recommended passage of a bill to be introduced providing for creation of a public deposits insurance funds. 5. Financial institutions. “Remove unnecessary competition between state and federal financial (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) RISE OF SEVEN FEET IN RIVER More Than Inch Os Rainfall In City In Past 24 Hours IA rise of more than seven feet has been experienced in the St. Mary’s river since Thursday morning, Walter S. Gladfelter, official river observer, stated this morning. The reading Thursday morning was 2:20 feet and this morning, 9.33 feet. This, however, the observer states, is considerably lower than flood stage, which is about 16 or 17 feetThe river is still confined within its banks with the exception of a few lowlands on the east side. In all other places the wa*er is well below the overflowing stage. Mr. Gladfelter also reported that the total precipitation since yesterday’s reading is 1.15 inches. The river is still rising, but without heavy rainfa'l is not expected ’ to do any damage. The weather man (predicts cloudy weather and more I rain for Saturday.