Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 19 February 1937 — Page 1

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(Jrain Thief Sought In Mercer County State Patrolman Burl Johnson amt Sheriff liullas Brown are aiding Mercer county, Ohio authoriiiea in tiacting down a criminal, who early this week stole a truck and several huge of clover and alfalfa hay from the Colby elevator at Coldwater, | Ohio. RALLT SUPPORT TO ROOSEVELT COORT REFORM Several Compromise Plans Advanced To Judiciary Reform Washington, Feb. 19.—j(U.R>—Tne administration pressed its efforts to rally support for President Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the supreme court today while the search for acompromise pleasing to all sides continued. Among the half dozen contprodiscussed was a resolution by mises advanced, the most widely Sens. Burton K. Wheeler. D., Mont, and Homer T. Bone, D., Wash., calling for a constitutional amendment which, under certain conditions, would permit congress to override supreme court invalidation of acts of congress. Even that proposal, however, appeared unlikely to win wide support unless administration leaders withdraw opposition to any compromise, Many of the so-called conservative opponents of she president's plan also opposed the Wheeler Bone proposal. Both Wheeler and Bone indicated they would not object to suggestions for placing a comparatively short limit on the time in which states would be required to act on the amendment instead of the present seven year limit in the measure. Sen. Edward R. Burke. D„ Neb., had discussed the possibility of a one-year limit to meet administration objections to delay en- ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) I O STUDENTS WILL CONDUCT SALE Second Annual Student Day Sale Will Be Held March 27 Plans for the eeconl annus’ Student Day sale were launched in DeIcatur today, with the official endorsement of the project coming from the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. The eale this year is to be held on Saturday, March 27, the day before Easter, as an aded incentive to shoppers In the city and community to take advantage of the bargains offered. In his endorsement of the day, speaking in behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, Dee Fryback. president, stated that the day not only affords employment to the student, funds for school activities but also stimulates to a great extent the business of thfe city. In accordance with the 'plane last year, all merchants who cooperate are asked to employ a member of, the Decatur high school at a set salI ary of $2 per day- Thas money is paid directly to the senior class and the high school, co-eponsore of the event, with the Chamber of Com- , merce. Efforts to make the sale a city and community-wide event are being put forth by those in charge. Lewis Smith, president of the senior class of the school, is in charge of the school's participation in the eale. Those in charge hope to create an even bigger shopping event than that of last year, which was slightly effected by the ccld weather, occasion by the early date. It has been pointed out that in ad(ICONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O — Two Re-Appointed To Public Library Board Judge Huber M- DeVose Thursday afternoon re-appointed Mrs. John Niblick and John R. Parrish as members of the Decatur public library board Their two-year terms will begin March 1. Mrs. Niblick is president of the board and Mr. Parrish, secretary. Ather members are reappointed by the city council and the city schol board and are: Mrs. C. DLewton, vice-president; Herman Ehinger, treasurer; Mrs. R. D Myers, Sylvester Everhart and Dr. | N. A. Bixler-

As Lewis Presented Demands of Union Miners J 8 IwOMII IBM - Ji sfe Mm MOHMI ifi - liHiilß HBL* JOI Ir si Uli 111 tMWBv InSm jfl 4 Sissy || Charles O'Neill and John L. Lewis

! First step in negotiations to provide a new contract governing the wages and hours of 400,000 bituminous coal miners was taken in New York when Charles O'Neill, chief spokesman for the operators, and John L. Lewis, right, president of

CHOIRCONCERT HERE SUNDAY St. Benedict’s Choir To Present Concert Here Sunday i The program for the choral pre- , mentation to be given by the St. Benedict choir of Toledo, Ohio at .'the Decatur Catholic high school auditorium lias been changed, it . was announced today. The choir will appear at the auditorium Sunday afternoon at 3 o'- . clock under the auspices of the De- . catur CYO James Murphy, president of the organization, is in charge of the arrangements. Tickets for the performance are • sel'ing 50 cants and may be securd from any member of the CYO or at the door. Following is the new program ar--anged tor the local presentation, as received by Mr. Murphy: Haec Dies — Ham ma. 0 Vos Omnes — Vittoria. , (Palestrina) Gaudent in Coelis (Palestrina) — Vittoria. Ave Maria —Vittoria Op-lla. Oremus Pro — Singenberger. Curtain Spirituals and Traditional Hymns I shall not be moved. When the Saints go marching in Down by the river side. Bye and bye. Intermission The Lord is my bertAlpine Shepherd—Folk song. At Dawning —Cadman. Evening Bel's. Wenns die Soldaten—Dontello Op 32. Curtain Long day closes —Sullivan Old Woman and the Peddlar — (■CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) FOUR KILLERS ARE REPRIEVED Gov. Horner Os Illinois Grants Week’s Reprieve To Four Springfield, 111.. Feb. 19. —|(U.R> — Four condemned killers, snatched ■ from the e'ectric chair by a governor's replieve, today weer given another week to live. Gov. Henry Horner ordered the reprieve less than three hours before Joseph Rappaport, Rufo] Swain, and Minnie and Allen Mitchell were to go to the chair. Each was granted a week's stay. Horner said he stayed execution on recommendation of W. C. Jones, ] chairman of the state board of pardons and paroles. It was the fourth time Horner ' had saved Rappaport from death. Rappaport, convicted slayer of Max Dent, federal narcotics informer, lost three appeals to the Illinois supreme court and the U. S. supreme | court refused to review'his case. , Rappaport has maintained his innocence steadfastly. Horner said the board felt It needed more time to study clemency appeals of Swain and the Mitchells, all negroes, and still had not decided on the validity of new evidence reported in the Rappaport cas. Rappaport and Swain were to have died at 12:01 a. m. today at 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) '

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, February 19, 1937.

the United Mine Workers of America, conferred, above. Demands outlined by Lewis, including a 30-hour week and 15 per cent wage increase, were termed "utterly impossible" by O'Neill. March 31 is the i-xpiration date of the present contract.

Damage Suit Sent To U. S. District Court A damage suit for $10,250, originally filed in the Jay circuit court at Portland by Estella Newcomer, administratrix of the estate of Hosea L. Newcomer, against the Kiefaber Martin company of Dayton. Ohio, has been venued to the U. S- district court at Fort Wayne at the petition of the defendant. The suit al’egeo that the decedent, who was driving a buggy on U- S. road 27 in Jay county near the Adams county line, October 6, 1936. was killed when a motor car owned by the defendant, and driven by Mack Matosky, crashed into the horse-drawn vehicle. •it is alleged the driver of the car was reckless anj negligent. The plaintiff asked $10,900 for the loss of her husband and $250 for the loss of the horse and buggy. DEATH CLAIMS LOCAL WOMAN Mrs. Sarah Hendricks Dies This Morning After Long llliness Mrs. Sarah M. Hendricks, 80, of 242 North Seventh street, a pioneer resident of Decatur, died at her home this morning at 8:15 o'clock, after an extended illness. Death was caused by complications and infirmities. She had been serious-'y ill for the past month, following a fall at her home. The deceased was born in Wabash county February 8, 1857 the daughter of Alexander and Mary Jones Goodpasture. Following het marriage to Byron D Hendricks 64 years ago, she moved to this city, where she spent nearly the balance of her life. The husband precedes! her in death in 1913. She spent a few years in Fort Wayne returning to the city several years ago. She was a member of the Nazarene church in Fort WayneSurviving are the following child-1 ren: William, San Diego. California' Charles, at home and Mrs. 1. W. Aricher. of Fort Wayne; eight grand- 1 chi'dren and five great grandchildren. Three sisters. Mrs. Mattie Free!, of Hot Springs, Aik.; Mrs. Belle ( Goodpasture, and Mrs. Daisy Del or both of Greenville. Ohio; three brothers, Charles, Patrick and Solomon, all of near Jonesbogp, Arkansas, also survive. Funeral services will be held at the S. E. B(ack funeral home MonI ((CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) I O Frank Martin Still In Serious Condition Frank Martin, former county commissioner, who was operated on at the Adams county memorial hospital two days ago, remains in a serious condition. lHe was reported as being no better this afternoon. | — i I* CLOSE FOR FUNERAL | Merchants of Decatur have | | been asked, where possible, to | | close their stores Saturday | i morning during funeral ser- | | vices for Dr. Burt Mangold, | | prominent local dentist, and |. | former president of the Deca- | ■ | tur school board, who died |l | Thursday night. Stores are j i asked to remain closed from | to 11:30 a. m. J

FLOOD CONTROL MEETING OPENS Paul V. McNutt Presides At Meeting Os Nine States Indianapolis. Feb. 19 — (U.R) Representatives of nine states ravaged by the recent Ohio river flood met here today to marshall collective state forces against future flood disasters and to formulate a sound water policy for the , area. They were assembled under the - name of the inter-state commis- , sion of the Ohio river basin, created at a recent meeting in Co- , lumbus, O. Former governor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, who this week was - appointed high commissioner to the Philippines by President Roosevelt, will preside at the conference. He is president of the I council of state governments, an organization comprising interstate commissions on co-operation. New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana. Illinois. Kentucky. West » Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee will be represented at today's conI ference by one member from each house of their legislatures and one . 1 administrative official selected by ] I their governors. The conference hopes to set up an agency which will study plans for inter state and federal-state cooperation. forestalling hasty action ■hinder the new-hysteria of flood emergency which might endanger other important phases of the general basin program. These phases include water sup- ■' ply, drainage, navigation, recreai tion, soil and wild life conserva- j ’ tion. pollution and reforestation. Officials pointed out that flood control must be integrated with , these other problems in anv es(JCONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) ' _O — TRUCK DRIVERS ARE ARRESTED Two Truck Drivers Are Fined For Traffic Violations i Two truck drivers were fined yesterday after they had been arrested by State Policeman Burl Johnson • on chargee of traffic violations. Patrolman Johnson arrested Franklin Deeds, of Swanton. Ohio at 3:15 o’clock last evening on j South Second street in this city, on j a charge of driving a vehicle that I exceeded the state regulations in width and height. Deeds was driving a load of hay l that exceeded the 12x8 feet maximum dimensions permitted. He was fined $1 and costs when arraigned before C. H. M"h -’man in the Berne justice of peace court. Gerald Shadd, of Bryant, was givI en a fine of $25 and costs when he ' was arrested last evening by Patrol- ] man Johnson at the same location The charge against Shadd was one of operating his truck without a P. S. C. I. license- He was also fined by Mr- Muselman in his court at Berne. ... o WEATHER Rain south and central, rain or snow extreme north portion probable tonight and Saturday; some warmer extreme south portion tonight.

TWO HIGHWAY BILLS PASSED IN THE HOUSE Concessions To Farm Bloc Permit Advancement Os Measures Indianapolis. Feb. 19 (U.R) — bloc permitted advancement of adI Concessions to a belligerent farm ministration bills today in the state legislature. Two highway department bills. I held up earlier this week, were passed by (he house after one was amended on demand of the farm bloc. House Democrats also called a caucus for this afternoon to attempt a compromise on the farm bloc demands for state payment of SBOO a year toward teachers salaries and exempting counties from social security costs. The highway department hills : approved would revise distribution of vehicle license fees among 1 counties, cities and towns, and extend the vehicle tax. Exemption was granted two wheel trailers farmers use to haul produce to market, and the heavy double tired trucks, in the amendment adopted by the house. The bill then goes to the senate. Another administration bill — | creating a state labor department —was advanced to engrossment in the house after adoption of an ; amendment wiping out so called “snooper" clauses. The amendi ment prohibits any publicity on findings of investigations permitted the state labor commissioner provided under the bill. The measure has passed the senate. Sixteen new bills were offered today in the senate. They included: Creation of a state board for county agricultural agents to appoint an agent in each county with salary of $3,000 a year, paid by $2,000 from the state and SI,OOO , from the county. The senate killed. 34 to 13, a bill to require presentation of pro- ’ perty tax receipts in license appll- [ I- — " ■' - r (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) ; — o COLLEGE HEAD WELL RECEIVED I I ' Dr. W. P. Dearing Delivers Three Fine Addresses Here , Residents of Decatur were •privili eged to hear three of the finest addresses ever delivered in the city . Thursday, when Dr. W. P. Dearing. I president of Oakland City college, spoke at three different meetings i during the day. The college president, one of the ablest oratore in the middle west spoke on “Cheated" to students of i i public high school at the school I auditorium Thursday afternoon "The Other Fe'low" was his theme at the joint meeting of the Rotary - and Lions clubs at 6:30 p. m. at the Rice hotel Dr. Dearing's final address, “A Book of Wisdom for an Age of Con- | fusion," was heard by a large and I Appreciative audience at the First II M. E. church at 8 o’clock. L "Success is time, energy and char- ■ acter invested in character. Any-: thing else is fool's gold." Dr. Dear-1 , ing told the pupils of the Decatur ! high school in a special chapel program Thursday afternoon. After telling of Biblical characters such as Absa-lem, Adam. Eve, the serpent, and Sampson, and modern characters such as those involved in the Tea Pot Dome scandal, athletes who trade strength for lust, and boys and girls who go to the same kind of "Whoopie" parties as Salome gave for Herod, he repeated tlie story of Saul. This man, he said "lived the good life and fought the good fight," with the result he had something to take out of this world at which the black angels in Hell could not laugh“The Other Fellow" was the theme of Dr. Dearing’s address to the Rotary and Lions club, meeting lin joint session at the Rice hotel Thursday evening. “Nothing could be finer than if a>i men of the | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) O Automobile Damaged By Fire Thursday The city fire department asnwered a call to the Leland May home on North Walnut street Thursday ' afternoon at 4:45 o’clock where Mr. May’s automobile had caught fire. Damage was done to the wiring. The fire department was able to extniguish the blaze with chemi-1 I cals.

Sit-Down Strikers And Police Battle At Illinois Plant I _____

I DEE FRYBACK IS CHAIRMAN OF CITY FAIR Chamber Os Commerce I Head Is General Chairman Os Annual Fair *» Dee Fryback, manager of the ■ Adams county auto license bureau, and president of Decatur Chamber 1 of Commerce, has been named general chairman for the annual De- ' catur free street fair and agricultural show. Mr. Fryback was appointed to ' the position by the board of direc--1 tors of the Chamber of Commerce, sponsoring organization, at a i meeting Thursday night. Mr. Fryback has been active in i the promotion of the fairs for many years, serving as acting gen- ! eral chairman two years ago, and as chairman of the concessions ! committee last year during this city’s Centennial celebration. Various committees to work with Mr. Fryback in promotion of the fair will be appointed' within the, next few days. The fair was first sponsored by 1 the Chamber of Commerce two years ago, after the city had been without a fair for several years, and has proven a financial success in both years. Conducted primarily as an agricultural and livestock show, the i fair has attracted thousands of persons from neighboring counties ox Indiana and Ohio, and has been labeled as one of the best small- . city fairs in this section of the ■ country. Preliminary plans were discussed for the 1937 show, particularly the agricultural and livestock ex- 1 I Mbits, with L. E. Archbold, Ad-i | ams county agricultural agent, in I attendance. | Names Committees Permanent committee, to serve during the ensuing year, were nam- , ed last night by Mr. Fryback. These committees, who will serve the entire year, are named from the board of directors of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) —- - O Decatur Student Is Awarded Honor Mary Grace Zimmerman, senior at Earlham Co'lege, Richmond, won ■ honor recognition during the first I semester of the college year, ac-1 i cording to the registrar’s honor roll! which has been released here. Miss Zimmerman, who is the ! daughter of Mr. and Mrs- M. F. Zimmerman of 617 Jefferson Street was graduated from Decatur high school in 1933. GRADUATE LIST IS ANNOUNCED Four High Schools Announce List Os Graduates Today 11 Several schools in the southern , half of the county have named their prospective lists of graduates in preparation for the commence- , ment exercises, which are to be held at the individual schools during the month of April. Geneva graduates head the list with a total of 25 prospective candidates for diplomas. Monroe and Hartford each has 20 candidates and Jefferson 12. The names of the students: Monroe i Otho Andrews, George Engle, ; Harold Fricke, Ermal Gilbert, Ker- , mit Hocker, Jean Huser, Glen , Jones, Thora Kauffman, Ruth , Landrum, Harvey Laughrey, Corrine Liechty, Elfrieda Liechty, Ru fine Liechty, Kenneth Longenberger, Richard Moser, Louise Niles. , Leroy Rich, Edward Sprunger, Earl , ; Stucky, Weldon Stuckey. Hartford Elois Amstutz. Chester Augsburger, Floyd Beitler, Anttlon Brewster, James Garboden, Joseph i Grogg, Ruth Gottschalk, Franklin i Lybarger, Lillian Merrilat, Jean- ' ette Meshberger, Catherine Morice, Kathryn Pearson, John Henry ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) '

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Police Fail In Efforts To Dislodge Strikers; Anderson Men Given To Civil Authorities. USE TEAR GAS Waukegan. 111., Feb. 19.— - Strenuous peace efforts were made today after 140 police and sheriff's deputies had battled unsuccessfully for two hours in an effort to dislodge 100 sit-down strikers from the Fansteel Metallurgical torpor ation plant near here. Two sheriff's deputies were injured sriously, one by explosion of a tear gas gun in his pocket, and the other by acid hurled from the besieged buildings. One sit-downer, ill, ran from the plant but the others smashed windows to let out the dense clouds of white gas and remained in the $1,500,000 factory which they have held since Wednesday. T. S. department of labor conciliator Robert Pilkington arrived to seek a peaceful settlement and conciliator John E. O'Connor was enroute from Chicago. Mayor John Dromey of North Chicago, where the plant is located, said, "I I hope the sheriff will delay attacking again until we can reach an , agreement.” While tear gas fumes still curled from hundreds of shattered window panes in the embattled factory buildings, company officials conferred with Mayor Dromey, state labor conciliator PatiTck Cullen, Sheriff L. A. Doolittle and other authorities. Max Swiren, attorney for the company, announced FiJ.isteel officials would meet with representatives of their own workers but would not bargain with "outside organizers.” The strike was called Wednesday by the AThalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, a committee for industrial organizaI tion affiliate, in demand for union ■ recognition and collective bargaining rights. The steel workers’ organizing committee teleraphed plant officials today that they had been chosen to represent Fansteel workers and that "injunction, force or violence will not settle this matter.” Swiren said the company would talk terms while the men still remained in the factory but “we will not retard our efforts to regain our own property.” “We insist that the plant be evacuated,” Swiren continued. “The sheriff got an order from the court ! to exict the men forthwith and jt is his duty to enforce it.” Sheriff Doolittle's “army" nursied its injuries and rested shortly ' before noon awaiting arrival of a 1 new supply of gas, reportedly en route* from CKicago. The attacking force threw approximately 50 tear gas bombs valued at SSOO in the two-'hour assault which began at 6:30 a. m. when the strikers refused Doolittle's order to “come out peacefully " The sit downers replied with a barrage of missiles including bottles of tungsten and other rate metals valued at SSOO each, bolts, weights, jars of acid, and other objects. Release 20 Men Anderson, Ind., Feb. 19. —(U.K) — Twenty automobile workers arrested in fighting between union and non-union forces were turned over to civil authorities today by the national guard. The transfer involved a technical exchange of detention records (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) O Local County Agent At District Meet Fort Wayne, 'lnd., Feb. 19—(UP) Monthly meeting of the county agents of Northeastern Indiana was addressed yesterday by three Purdue University men on extension department topics. Roscoe Fraser of the horticulture department was the principal speaker. Hugh S. Heckard, assistant county agent leader of Purdue, outline extension department policies and Glen Lehker, extension department entomologist projects for the control of inspectsCounty agents in attendance were T. E. Myers, DeKalb, who presided at the meeting; M. A- Noble county; J. Howard Brown, Elkhart county; William Delaplane, Wabash county; L. E. Archbold, Adams county; iC. V- Kimmel, and Russel Lehe, i assistant local county agent.