Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 21 January 1937 — Page 1

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HER 14* WE HOMELESS |'f HIGH WATER L I Waters Cause Hght Deaths, Make ■ I | ijillll Homeless ifia ,Bv I'nifHl ITessl .L.j'n 11 |,n homedamages estimated rl . .han i-.50U.000 today as iaatersfrom I'.nnsyl BB Arkansas sw.pt aside ■ I.v.s Hid burst across |< ft crews worked desperateKos and 'ashed food, and lie supplies to K' j. wotk.'is had tio reports ■fh,.r than the eight who died K,. floods first neared their ■. but hundreds were feared among ■' .ttgees and volalike r e than 14 thousand men, and children lived in box school houses. Red Cross and private homes today In- tio. : waters of four Ohio ELdk rivers and a score of tribu.,l met the farms and from Which they fled for ■p. | lives. . mount’he peak of a flood K d the worst since 1913 swirlvalley BLj n g l"V.es -a. tl.uu through ... homeless: 4.5(10. 1.000. and Tennespersons ar.- known dead. may be missing in isolatA half million dol■rm::- seven) 111 FATAL TO [O.GIT BISHOP ■shop Gallagher Dies Hast Night After Short ■ Illness il’Pi Fiim-ral ■ made to- : tile most if. v. Michael Galhe Detroit Ro- >' • w iio died last i lose fri -nd of ■ - t'.mghlin. famed i'ast ami for.nder of the naa < ::.a yesterday after a i. i.. a. He was 1 *" 1 prevalence hospital, died «hnimt regaining ■‘" ■ "S d.-fend.-d ~f father Catighlin ■ week;., broad-ai'ai'k.-d "money chang'“iton: h.- sought to "drive out ■ when the R<»y- - &w ... a "liar” and "be- ■ .11'11. 1? tlai: igh.-i eiupported Priest, averting that "Father did not mean the words they sounded." "" i-r'oai apoiigized to l'r ‘- K"iisei..|t for his statements, C.air.e excused them ''aring that "every public becomes over-inspired at year. Bisho., Gallagher vfe--IP’us XI at the Vatican, return h denied that the of curbing Father Cough“ti'itiw had been discussed. ■. '■ lllsh "P. a gray haired, kindly ■ I,u nia ". ffl'-brated his 40th atiHnk dr ' V aS a Priest with a niass on March 19. 1933. ei Coughlhi preached a sermon ■‘be ceremonies. ' —o— H° Receive Bids ■ For Depositories will be taken for financial de- ' n Adams county for ipub ■ " dson February 15, it was anHg , tOda '' f !|!| uty commissionn Cllarge of selecting the Kn,.,..° r, ' S ( ' lr county; the city Htur o 6n a ' ld ,tie ma >’ or for DeKi> tu bOard ot tr, >stees for the ■vi ßn .„ ’® ,ow nship trustees and ■d tho ar<la tor ,!ie townships ■iuitii r C 1001 boar<ls all d the eupB ent for the school cities.

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County Council To Hold Special Meet Appropriations totaling *1.150.33 will be asked at a special meeting of the county council set for 9 o'clock on the morning of January 30 I in the county commissioners' room *ll the court house The requests are; plat book project for Adams county, $225; welfare room, court house, $443.45; court house, $443.45; court house janitor, annual salary, Increase $300; court house matron annual salary increase, S2O; court house matron, supplies. SIOO and commitment of patients to state institutions. $61.98. OCCUPATION OF PLANTS BAR TO NEGOTIATIONS Miss Perkins Says Strike Situation Is Unchanged Washington, Jan. 21 — (U.R) - j Secretary of latbor Frances Perkins said today the principal barrier to resumption of direct pea/'e negotiations in the General Motors strike was continued occupation of General Motors plants by sitdown strikers. Miss Perkins, describing the results of two days of almost continuous conferences of government spokesmen with General Motors and John L. latwis representatives said thai "the situation Is just about the same." Miss Perkins appeared tired and worn after her long discussion with G. M. officials yesterday. She said hoarsely she believed "there are a. few favorable elements in the situation favorable in the sense of making it possible to resume negotiations." She declared that the company had assured her through its president, Alfred P. Sloan. Jr.. tha,t it would not consider a statement by John L. Lewi«s that the United Automobile workers would insist on representing all G M. C. employes in collective Itargaining 'negotiations as "an episode of bad faith." ‘ She declared that this point was not a pre-requiriite to the resumption of peace talks but that it was listed among points to be discussed if negotiations can be started again. She said the company had promfeed not to deal with the Flint ' alliance —organization of non-union workers and business men —while peace conferences were on. However, she indicated wearily I that actual beginning of new negotiations apparently still was far removed. “There is a haze of uncertainty surrounding the whole rtiing." she said, shrugging her shoulders. , She refused to state whether she would ask G. M. C. officials and strike representatives to "get together" here today but indicated it would lie futile to make such a ' request now despite the fact that all the principals to the dispute are now in Washington. Slotiji. John Thomas Smith. General Motors general counsel, William S. Knudsen, executive vice ■ president, and Donaldson Brown. ' | finance committee chairman. ar“ here as well as Governor Frank Murphy of Michiga.n who has ' sought desperately to mediate the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) DEATH CLAIMS MRS. PHILPOT Mrs. Richard Philpot Dies This Morning At Local Hospital ! Mrs. M«.ry Ellen Philpot. 63, wife ; of Richard Philpot, road construction foreman, died this morning at ’ 6;45 o'clock at the Adams county 1 memorial hospital. Death was • caused by complications. 1 The couple ha.d been making their home In Preble since Mr. Philpot had come here to work in the construction of federal road . 224. ’■ The deceased was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on December 25, 1873. A sister. Mrs. Harriet Stacker, ’ of Ladylake, Florida, is the only survivor, other tha,n the husband. 5 Funeral services will be held at r the Zwick funeral home Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. ! The Ibody will be taken to Lynn 1 from Fort Wayne on the 8:27 5 o'clock Pennsylvania train Friday ■ night. Burial will be made in the ■ | Massachusetts city.

PRESIDENT RENEWS OATH OF OFFICE He r * * - While thousands stcsxl in a downpour of cold rain to witness the ceremony and hear life inaugural address. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was administered the oajb of office for his second term by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, at left. Between the president and the chief justice elands C. E. Cropley, chief clerk of supreme court, and to right of the president is his son James and Vice President Garner

Terre Haute Strike Is Still In Effect Terre Haute. Ind., Jan. 21 — (UP) —A strike which has halted all street car and bus transportation entered its Fifth day today with no indication when a settlement could be reached Union wonkena who called the strike in demand for a 20 per cent wage increase appealed to the federal 'abor relations board district office at Indianapolis. Meanwhile residents of this industrial city of 63,000 population de-' pended on taxicahs and private automobiles for local tranepor’ation. CITY'S ANNUAL REPORT FILED Civil City’s Balance Larger Than In Previous Year The civil city's general fund hud a balance of $17,035.52 on January 1, 1937. compared to $15,291.51 at the beginning of the previous year, the annual report of city clerk treasurer Ada Martin reveals. During the year the general fund had receipts of $37,403.03 and expenditures amounted to $35,659.02. Although the expenditures exceeded the budget, the amount spent was $1,744.01 less than the amount received. In the past two years the cash balance of the general fund nas increased from approximately $12,500 to $17,000, the city keeping up with all improvements and street repair programs without decreasing the balance. The cash balance in the electric light fund on January 1, 1937, was $32,123.28. 5?.e water department had a cash balance of $14,701.99 at the beginning of the year. Other balances in the utility funds at the beginning of the year were: Electric light depreciation cash fund, $6,630.33; U. S. government bonds, $25,650; PWA account $11,741.68. Practically 851 per cent of the improvement at ■ the city light and power plant has been paid and the city still has about $22,000 coming from the government. The electric light department I has $15,283.45 in a balance in closj ed banks. In addition to the current cash fund the water department had $1,371.34 in a depreciation cash account and $1,454.33 in closed banks. During the year the receipts in the electric department were $179,480.49, which included $27,666.65 from the PWA. Total disbursements were $183,838.66. The water department had receipts of $28,933.13 and disbursements of $24,851.05. n Three Townships Select Officers Three educational meetings on the 1937 soil conservation program were held Wednesday evening. The following officers were elected in French township: Henry | Meyer, chairman; August Schlickman. vice chairman; Alonzo Smith and J. J. Kauffman, additional members. Preble township officers are as follows: August Gallmeyer, chairman; A. C. Stopenhagen, vice-chair-man; R. H Buuck and Theodore Ostermeyer, additional members. Jefferson township: Henry I. Rumple, chairman; Jesse O. Teeter, vice-chairman; Forest Harshbarger and Willis F. Johnson, additional members.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 21, 1937.

TRADE POLICY IS DEFENDED Roosevelt Urges Reciprocal Trade Authority Continued Washington. Jan. 21 — (U.R) — President Roosevelt today urged that his reciprocal trade authority ibe continued by congress as a means of aiding in bringing about "durable peace" throughout the world. In a letter to Chajrman Robert L. Doughton of the house ways, and means committee made public as hearings started on a resolution to extend the presidential reciprocal trade anthoritj' the president defended the trade policy. He eaid that by reducing trade barriers world peace could be aided by bringing about economic prosperity. The president's letter was made public a.s secretary of state Cordell Hull appeared Ta-fore the committee to urge extension of the trade authority which will lapse in June unless extended. Hull warned that economic collapse in Europe is "almost a certainty" unless the nations of that continent shift from their present policies. “Within another year or two." said Hull, "with most of their substance going into cannon, shot and shell instead of the stomachs of their people another economic collapse in Europe would be almost a certainty." Hull said most economists believed reciprocal trade policies were the best means of promoting peace and prosperity. During the last two years, he asserted, with the policy in effect for the United Stales "we have made more pro(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) _O SELECT EIGHT C. 0. NOMINEES Three Chamber Os Commerce Directors To Be Named January 29 The annual election of directors of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce will be held Friday evening. January 29. The meeting will be held at the Knights of Pythias home at 8 o'clock. A smoker will be held in connection with the election. The election is usually held at the time of the annual banquet but the latter has been iposponed until March. Three directors will be chosen at the annual meeting next weeik. The i directors whose terms expire this ! year are J. Ward Calland, Jess W. ' Rice and Clifford Saylors. Decatur men nominated by the 1 board of directors to be balloted on for the three positions on the board are Mr. Calland, Mr. Rice, Mr. Saylors, John L. DeVoss, Roy Kalver, Felix Maier, Harold McMillen and Pete Reynolds. Following the election next week, the board of directors will meet to elect officers tor the ensuing year and plans for a season of activity. o WEATHER Snow north and rain or snow south portion tonight and Friday; slightly colder extreme northeast and extreme southwest tonight; somewhat colder south portion Friday.

St. Mary’s River Under Flood Stage A heavy rainfall last night failed to return the St. Mary's river to a flood stage, from which I' had receded earlier In the week. The reading this morning, according to Walter Gladfelter, official river observer wae 15.25 feet, less than a foot from flood stageMore unsettled weather with probab'y rain or snow, as forecas' by the weather bureau, is considered likely, however to again bring some high water®. The total precipitation last night was .81 of an inch. The temperature this morning hovered around the 32 degree mark. SEND TELEGRAM TO PRESIDENT Committee Named For Birthday Ball Telegram Committee Dr. E. P. Fields has been named chairman of the telegram committee for the Birthday Bali for the President, to be held in the Decatur Catholic high school auditorium. Saturday, January 30. Ruth Elzey and Roger Meshberger are the other members of this committee. With the announcement of the committee, the co-chairmen stated today that they had been officially notified that the Western Union Telegraph company will again cooperate with the Birthday Ball committee. A birthday greeting will be wired to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the evening of January 30 and will be signed by millions of his friends in this country. The Western Union Telegraph company will charge 25 cents for each of the signatures wired to Washington. The entire 25 cents will then be donated to the national committee for the Birthday Ball for the President. The national committee will retain 30 percent and send 70 percent back to the community from which it originalI ed. A similar offer made by the Post(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Q Walter Hilgeman On Marooned Bus Walter Hilgeman, who returned here today after a month’s visit in the weet, has an interesting and hazardous experience to relate. He was one of the score of persons who were marooned on a bus for four days in the deep Colorado snowdrifts. He suffered no ill effects. It will be recalled that metropolitan newspapers all over the country recently carried stories of the marooned persons. The Guqs oC Business « CL Better than an Army of , Salesmen/ I

PLAN SALE FOR TAX DELINQUENT County Officials Plan Delinquent Tax Sale February 8 Regardless of the action which may be taken by the state assembly. County Treasurer Jeff Liechty and County Auditor John W. Tyndall are carrying through plans for a delinquent tax sale to be held in the court house, beginning at 10 o'clock in the morning of February 8. However, officials pointed out, should the state legislature pass the proposed motatorium law, the Adams county delinquent tax sale wouTT hot prevent those persons who are desirous and qualified to take part in the moratorium relief to do so. Under the present law it is necessary to advertise for sale all property on which taxes for 1934, payable in 1935 are delinquent. County officials believe that most of the persons holding property on which taxes are delinquent would be ineligible under the act which is now proposed in the state legislature. Officials will assist those that might be qualiied under the proposed moratorium act, should it be passed, they stated It was pointed out that only a very small percent of the owners of property on which taxes were delinquent took advantage of the 1933 and 1935 moratoriums. The 19,75 moratorium provided that delinquent taxes could be paid in 20 semi annual installments providing interest of 4 per cent was paid and the current taxes were paid. Twenty-nine persons began this moratorium and 15 are left. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) POPE SUFFERS INTENSE PAIN Pope’s Audiences Suspended Because Os Severe Pain Vatican City. Jan. 21 — (UP) — 'ntense neuritic pains in both legs caused temporary suspension of the Pope’s audiences today. It was said authoritatively that the Pope suffered severe recurring j pain in both legs throughout last night and this morning. Monsignor Enrico Pucci's semiofficial news service reported that the Pope told Cardinal Pacelli, his secretary of state:, “The pain is more than atrociousThere is no adjective in the dictionary that can possibly describe it.” It was reported that the Poipe’s suffering was so great that it spread gloom over the entire Vatican today. Vatican officials said that because of the pain the Pope went almost sleepless last night. His spirits were low this morning. It was said, because of the pain and loss of sleep. But he asked that he might assist at mass and partake of communion as usual, explaining after he took communion, that he felt he could endure his ordeal, spiritually and physically fitter. Monsignor Paolo Castiglione, Archbishop Coadjutor of Milan, disclosed that the Pope said to him yesterday: “Certainly we suffer considerably. But we offer our ipain to the almighty willingly in expiration of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

Alleged Slayer Os Michigan Cop Denies His Guilt

STATE SOLONS SPEED ACTION TO HALT SALES Legislature Rushes To Halt Delinquent Tax Sales Indianapolis, Jan. 21 —(U.R> —The j Indiana legislature employed emergency measures today to halt ’ sheriff's sale-s scheduled Feb. 8 to ! collect approximately $25,000,000 in delinquent taxes. A bill presented by Rep. Paul B. Sturm. D., Dana, to postpone the sale and to permit installment payments of delinquent taxes over a, six year period was passed unanimously by the house under suspenson of rules. The senate recessed for 45 minutes to dfecuss the measure in caucus and arranged to take it up again this afteri noon. During the recess, however, the senate committee on county and : township business amended the bill to make the sale fall on April 12 and require only a declaration of intention to pay 1937 installment due May 3, in order to qualify for the six year installment moratorium. As passed by the house the bill would: 1. Postpone sales until March 15. 2. Require payment of first installment on 19'37 taxes by Marsh 15 as evidence of good faith in order to qualify. 3. Remove all regular penalties | and charge only 4 percent interest annually on delinquent taxes paid under the installment plan. The Installment would extend until 1943, with payments due semi-annually beginning the first Monday in May, 1938. Speedy adoption in both houses i and immediate signature by Gov. M. Clifford Townsend was urged because legal advertisements of the sale already has begun in most counties. Adoption in the house was accomplished with little deibate. Rep. R. A. Hoover, R.. Elkhart, I sought to postpone action until tomorrow while it was determined : whether new legal notices regarding change of sale dates must be published but his motion was tabled at suggestion of Rep. Frajik G. Thompson. Bluffton, Democratic I floor leader. Ten new bills were offered in ’ the house and seven in the senate, j Provisions included: House Award the state general fund, estate which are not left to heirs (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Father Ehinger Is Given Commission Father Vincent Ehinger, missionary priest of the Passionist order, stopped here today to visit with friends and relatives before going to Fort Sam Huston, Texas. Father Ehinger has been commissioned a chaplain in the regular U. S- army with the rank of first lieutenant. He has been given a six months leave of absence from his missionary work and will serve in the army during that period. He j will visit CCC camps and regular' army posts in the west and south-1 west. Reverend Ehinger is a son of the .’ate E. X. Ehinger of this city. He is a brother of Leo Ehingero Portion Os Stolen Goods Is Recovered Thirty dollars worth of linemen's tools and equipment, stolen from the municipal garage in Bluffton on May 29, were recovered today on the Charles Patterson farm two: i miles east of Zanesville, by State I Policemn Burl Johnson and Fleming French, sheriff, and Jerry Lan-1 tis, deputy sheriff of Wells county.! The equipment was stolen by Arthur Mock of Bluffton, who was ar-! rested on New Year’s day after a j tip was followed up by s'ate police. | The majority of the stolen goods was recovered. A check of the stol- ; en property revealed that part had not been returned and an investigation of the Patterson farm revealed j it hidden under the grain in the barn. Mock admitted to police officials that he had stolen the property and hidden it on the Patterson farm-

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Pleads Not Guilty To Slaying Os Michigan State Patrolman When Arraigned In Court. MOB THREATENS Monroe, Mich., Jan. 21.— (U.R) — Alcida (Frenchy) Benoit, 24, accused of shooting to death state trooper Richard Hammond, plead- ■ ed not guilty today when arraigni ed in municipal court on a charge I of first degree murder. The 24-year-old paroled convict, I captured last night 15 hours after | the body of the trooper was found handcuffed to a rural mailbox, waived preliminary examination before Judge John Faucher, who ! ordered him held for circuit court ' trial next month. Benoit was re- \ turned to the Monroe county jail where he will be held without bond. State police, armed with machine guns, guarded the county jail today to protect Benoit from public anger aroused by his brutal slaying of trooper Richard Hammond. More than 2,000 men and women surrounded the jail after Benoit's capture last night, muttering threats against the surly gunman who fired one shot into Hammond’s brain, then handcuffed his body to a rural mailbox. The crowd had thinned out early today, but police were taking precautions to prevent any demonstration when Benoit is arraigned in municipal court later in the day on a first degree murder charge. More than 100 officers guarded the jail last night. The 25-year-old trooper's body I was found early yesterday after I Benoit, arrested as a suspect in a ■ gasoline station robbery, had escaped in his radio patrol car. His arms had been forced behind his back against the mailbox post and his wrists had been manacled with handcuffs. His .38 calibre service I revolver was missing. Benoit told police he was able to overpower the trooper because he had hidden his own gun between his legs when Hammond searched him after the gas station ' holdup. “I got it out while he was driving me to jail and shot him,” he j told Sheriff Joseph J. Bairley. After disposing of the body, Benoit drove away in the police : ear. An alarm already had been broadcast by trooper Sam Senini, who had arrested Mike Delberto, believed to have been Benoit's aci complice in the robbery. Senini : was fired upon when he gave chase to the youthful slayer, j Benoit told the sheriff that he j was aware that all highways were I being watched because he heard the instructions on the radio in Hammond's car. He said he tried , to travel on side roads, with which i he was unfamiliar, but was trappled when he drove into a narrow, j dead-end path. He jumped from the car and fled into the thick i woods nearby. He found a deserted barn about three miles from the scene of the slaying and hid there all day yes(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O — NEW OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED Jacob Mi]<scor TnsfoDofl As Leader Os Red Men Lodere Officers for the coming year were installed at the reemlar meeting of the local Imnroved Order of Red Men in the lodge hall last night. Jacob Musser will head the order in the roll of sachem. Other officers are: Walter Lister, senior saeamore: Homer Hahn, iunior j sagamore: Tom Johnson, pronhet; i A. N. Hilton, keener of records: J. M Breiner. collector of wktnnum; I Charles Burdg. keener of wamnum. Chris Snaneler anti B. F. Breinjer were installed as "first and second sannaps. resnectivelv. with Carl Hower and O. L. Brown, as : guards of wigwam and forest, respectively. Fred Engle was installed as warrior. The lodge also made plans for a meeting Thursday. January 28. This meeting will be in the form of . a banquet for the members, it is ; thought. Complete plans for the bannuet will be announced sometime next week.