Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1937 — Page 5

■jjJioiN Kne dispute '■ Dispute H . Ff b 24 <U.P> l “ i,m i,,a “ Itiulnan dH llw',;; mil ,,. t . of 15 1 »' ,e ‘ i ■* k X Joint '• ■-1 * " r ' , , reported ■fc »■•:, >ni> for eal ' 1 m n< r ’ W ll,Sl ■ uh .,t n. o'l.' , - 1 ' 1 " '' Hit,, state* "' ,iIS ■LL me. in I”.* •wdayaod Friday ami ■Lta.d until today i! " as - a;il ' c \ ■LI operators who contend■TL.cvin of profit was too ■rapport th. Hat s«'-cent Knc Increase asked. ■...!■ <>N. .I' |W\ k , sl!ul ;. t' ■ t.r.'is th* proposed wage in■r .mild cost opelafO S »1 1".■ttjeear raise tin- mine cost cents a ton and add 1 to die nations coal jlnrrav ' dent of ■L recalled that «h. n the ■7con-ra<' l '"" l!l.‘ operato: - . Olll.'llded E, sat.- scale would add I I ■ |M th.- .o-> of mining Hpwiffii’ siffv. v he said, that the additional cost IS cents a ton. recoiiinieiided that tin daily wage <‘t $5 50 in th--be retain, d and the present Hperl. of 35 honrs be length- ’ M|, (l 111 He said the miners' , f m - a guarantee of 20'1 ■ Kfe; days a par was imprac \e'-s 1., limed little

■4NCE CLINGS TO WHALING INDUSTRY I DESPITE MODERNIZATION OF THE FLEETS L a IM|:-■ i - I \ i w^alln 8 * un ln action i Wit ‘ & I' ,g '/ I \ w\ /it ,"**T ' I I W\ 1 Wl ■’£ Wr t Ma , I I W\ » V ' e" J™" I I Wl a Ts «. ML LJuV ■ J r di W*li 1 I /W -a ' --A- b I * t thawr returning wtth catch | I fl! - Norwegian whaling ship- y "

Walter W Seifert) is ~i(’ Picturesque ST 1! " ri1 w " l ‘ it.- towering well-worn prow but ‘ Thar gw"'""' >1 “ lines across the ot Antarctic seas. |H*' JJ ’’ ,r ''’ Ll till tn. >1 t.iiized "‘"I s °iig- it. now being K' inoi-iaiaed fleet*, but its and iinip |j V( . ()n despite SV. Wrt of tnoderniiation. ■j""*' ' " '"‘l‘ are whaling this ~°? of ,llen ’ 011 highbowed K ■' which kill the ait , m t | lcin ts) f] oat j n g V c »Hed the "mothership” ■. S«iwn Is Short ■ f began their fishing in DeK,,,//"' 1 tl ’ ey l,ave O1!ly a rl Am.* eel 0 " orl ' before the !illmn ter passes, day■L , |f '"" lles ' anil thc sh IW»S H; oni t.J l / lar llaek lorce tl,cui ■ 11 toward home. ■Med'i 6 Wl,ales ‘ s'itnc of them in m • C | t lullfe ' allti a hundred I C'?" ’ he ° bjCCtS °< ■flideu ui.^ l> ** ll , '® tuiu be*v- ■ “ lUI barrels ot oil taken

progress toward an agreement would I* reached before the March SI deadline. The deadlock may exi tend beyond that time, it was be , lieved One factor considered favorable ' to an earlier aettlement, however. whb aeen in reporta from Washing j ton that advocates of the Guffey Vinton coal bill would attempt to hurry it through congress. The bill would virtually guaratt- | tee profitable price schedules to i the bituminous coal industry with I correspondingly high wage stand ! aids for labor. The bill, which would levy a ■ penalty tax against operators re fusing to conform to "code" prices, also provides safeguards for the collective bargaining rights of labor. It is expected to be act ed on hy the house this week. Murray informed the operators that the union was backing the bill and made it clear that he believed its passage would eliminate any objections to union wage demands by assuring profitable I prices to operators. OPPOSITION TO (CONTINUED FHowr r»n»r nKir> enough to block an attempt to shut off debate which requires a twothirds vote. With 35 senators publicly announced as opposed to the reorganization and at least six others privately against it, foes of the plan could, if they chose, delay senate, action indefinitely. The administration claims up to 50 votes in the senate. A poll of the judiciary eonimitI tee showed that opponents of the bill had almost enough votes to I split the judiciary program into two sections in a maneuver designed to strengthen their attack. Seven of the 18 committeemen said they would vote in favor of I the proposal of Sen. Frederick Van 1 Nuys. D.. Ind., to make sections affecting the supreme court a separ- : ate measure from sections providing general judiciary reform. Such a move would be vigorously opposed by the administration. Six members of the committee ■ expressed their opposition to : splitting the bill and a seventh ■ said privately he expected to op- ■ pos such action. The other four : members said they had not deterI mined their position. Administration leaders contend ! ed that they would have sufficient j votes to prevent splitting the bill.

from a hundred or ipore of the uious tens. Before tlie advent of the factory ships, hardy sailors of New Bedford and Nantucket had to content theniwft'ves with the sperm, humpback and bottlenose species. Today, however, with wide-bored swivel guns spewing grapnel and grappling irons, the lordly blue whale can be met and conquered. Guns Are Vicious Mounted on a cleated platform in the bow of the chaser, the gun throws a vicious weapon. Flukes of heavy iron are folded into the harpoon. When it is imbeded deeply in the flesh, a tug on the line springs open the hooks, and the victim is hold fast. As the “hit” is made, the whale* broad tall whacks the surface of the sea- Then it plunges deep below, and the line liecomes as taut as steel. His strength is incred-ible, and although the chaser's engines are reversed, it lunges forward as the winch hauls in the line. When the weakened animal is fin-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1937.

NORTH ILLINOIS HIT Bl FLOODS Waters From Two Rivers Inundate Northern Illinois Towns Rockford, 111., Feb. 24. — (U.P.) — Steadily rising flood water of the Pevatonica and Rock rivers threatened new flood damage to northern Illinois towns today. The Pecatonica waa rising throequarters of an inch an hour at Freeport and was within inches ot the all-time high. Ono third of the city already was reported under water. City officials said they expected a serious situation by tonight if the floods continued their rise. Two factories already had been forced to close, two others were menaced and a fifth, the Stover Manufacturing company, had erected a dike around its plant. The water had reached the Milwaukee railroad tracks. Ice jams, holding back the water at Martintown, Wis., and Winslow, 111., up stream,, were reported crumbling. Water ran 10 and a half to 11 feet deep over highway No. 2 near Oregon, 111., on the Rock river but had not yet reached the city itself. An ice jam extending 10 miles to the south blocked the waters and caused them to spread over surrounding lowlands. Officials said a number of summer cottages along the river had been crushed by grinding ice. Nearly a score were reported homeless in the area. The ice jam extended beyond the dam at Oregon and almost to the bridge on route 77. It may be necessary to close the road. Officials believed the jam too big to blast. Water stood five feet deep in the boiler room of the Northern utilities plant in Oregon, and lapped at the eaves ot homes in the lowlands. The water was falling at Rockford, above Oregon, and at Dixon, a few miles below. A second large icq jam at Nelson, 111., below Dixon, however, threatened to back the waters over lowlands again. The river fell three feet at Dixon

-; ally brought to the aide of the ship, I the gunner sinks another harpoon, . and the sea is churned to a crimson i foam. One final tremor as the vie- ‘ tory fas won. and the body is inflated ! to be set adrift while other whales are soughtCrew Strips Blubber . | After the ''catch” is towed to the , mother ship, the whales are hoisted i out of the sea and stretched lengthwise on the deck. 'A crew of workers weilding raz-or-sharp knives, etrip 1 huge slices of blubber off, and pit ‘ them into boiling tanks. Paid on a share crop basis, the workers toil as long as there are whales to boil, for it h> always light 1 in »n Antarcticaumtuer- | Although the days ot uncertain hand luinpoons and frail tail, dodgi i ing dorievs are gone, there are still 1 the blinding blizzards and hidden , iceburgs to face, And as long as the r shout, “Thar she blows! rallies the . battle blood as in ancient Viking i days the hardy men who go down i! to thc sea in ships will thrill to the | lusty joy of the dangerous whaling ■trip.

i yesterday. An ice jam on the Illinois Cantral track between Freeport and Dodgeville stalled a train and halted traffic for more than 24 hours. 1 No additional loss of life was reported after the five deaths occurring over the week-end. CLUB TO HEAR (CONTINUED FROM FAOK ONE) by the league to all boys and girls 1 of the county between the ages of 10-16. Game Distributed Mr. Fonner announced today that 144 rabbits have just been distributed in Adams county, which werqX received from the state department for replenishing game in this section. FISH FRY HELD AT MOOSE HOME Members Os Moose Lodge Entertain Guests With Fish Fry Nearly 100 members of Adams lodge 1311, Loyal Order of Monee, • and their invited guests attended ' the fieh fry held at the local Moose t home last night. 1 Members of the lodge prepared 1 ! and served the fish in the lodge dining rooms. A. short business see-1 1 sion was also held prior to the fry. Final plans were made for the special meeting on Thursda ynightJ A.clase of about 35 candidates 1 will be initiated into the Moose organization at the Thursday night meet, with the degree team from ’ Fort Wayne conferring the work- ' Original plans for the Bluffton team ■ to confer were cancelled, when a •jconflict arose in the date. Several Moose notablee are ex--1 pected to attend the meet. Officers 1 of the local lodge will be in charge ' of the session. o — STRIKES HARASS . ernor said. “1 expect to hear from them later today." Horner, obviously weary after more than eight hours in conference with the two groups, retired immediately on cessation of the meetings and said he was going , to “get some sleep before trying , to do anything more.” The governor had tried since 11 'o'clock yesterday morning to bring the two groups together. Both,however, refused to retreat from earlier stands and Horner was forced to play his role as mediator in separate meetings with the 5 two groups. Approximately 100 strikers have held the Fansteel plant since Feb. 17 and Friday successfully resisted attempts of more than 100 special deputies to evict them. They demand the right to collective bargaining and recognition of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers union, affiliate oi l John L. Lewis' committee for industrial organization. The company delegtaion, headed I by Robert Aitchison, president, boarded a train tor Waukegan immediately after the conference in j the governor's mansion. “The governor has givne us some (suggestions to which we will give 1 said. "We stood pat 100 per cent careful consideration." Aitchison on every stand we've taken in the past because we think it is right, i 1 still think so. “He played 100 per cent fair, 1 with us and never tried once to : get us together with the CIO representatives.” Roper Statement Washington, Feb. 24. — AU.RJ —j I Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper declared today that any sitdown strike "that undertakes to take over private property is a very serious and fundamental thing and in my opinion will not be long endured by the courts." Roper made the statement in reply to a press conference question as to his attitude toward sit-down strikers.

"This,” he added, “is my person- ’ al answer. I atn not speaking as ’ an officer of the administrtaiou.” 1 Roper was reluctant to discuss the sit-down technique, currently 1 being employed in widely scatter--1 ed strikes throughout the country, lie refused specifically to elaborate on his views, except that they represented his own personal opin--1 ion an dwere not to be interpreted as necessarily reflecting an official 1 opinion of the administration. 1 rhe Roper statement, however, • represented virtually the only public comment that has been forth-. i coming from a cabinet officer on ■ the subject. Secretary ot Labor Frances Perking, asked for her views on slti down strikes during the General ■ Motors strike, declined to express 1 an opinion on their legality. Asked again yesterday to comment on 1 current sit-downs. Miss Perkins i said she had no statement to make. President Roosevelt has also been silent on the topic. J o Paul A. Kuhn was air ludiauapjolis visitor today. j A

MAYOR BANGS LOSES AGAIN State Supreme Court Upholds Sentence Os Huntington Man Huntington, Ind., Fob. 24 —(UP) —Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs pledged In his jail cell today to exmtinue his fight to establish a municipal electric utility despite the second adverse ruling this month by the state supreme court. “1 won't know our next step until I've seen yesterday’s supreme court decision affirming my attempted conviction,'' declared the 48-year-old mayor who has been in jail for ten rnotnhs of his first two yeans in office. “Whatever that ruling. It cannot change my sincere belief that the people of Huntington have a right to operate their own electric utikty. "There were several questions raised i“ appeal to the supreme court. “The language of the high court's ru'ing will cover our next action. We have GO days in which to file motion for a rehearing by the high court if we feel that advisable. "That’s about as far ahead as I can plan ahead right now. I’ll prob 1 ably get a copy of the ruling tonight.” The state supreme court late yesterday upheld a contempt citaI tion which had kept the fiery edi-■tor-lawyer-mayor in Huntington county jail since July 4. Bangs went to jail on that date rather than comply with a Huntington circuit court order to dis- | continue selling to private consumI ers electric current generated at ' the city's “toy” municipal electric plant. The Northern Indiana Power ' company, which Bangs fought for more than a year as editor and lawyer liefore becoming mayor on a platform pledging a municipal electric utility, had obtained a court ruling that such a city service was illegal. Within an hour after Bangs took office, Jan. 1, 1935. he set a corps workman to the task of connecting homes and business houses to the city plant lines — previously used only to light streets and public buildings. Attorneys for the power company marched into court and ob-

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tained a temporary order restricting Bangs’ activity. The mayor continued expansion of the city plant service and contempt charges followed. Bangs was assessed J 2.000 damages and spent 101 days in jail before filing bond and appealing to the state supreme court. He lost the appeal. Then the power company obtained a permanent injunction and the court ruled Bangs must go to jail July 6 and remain until he finally had quit the utility business. He went to jail and still was there when tne supreme court ruled against him again. -o ENROLLMENT OF (CONTTNUKD FROX PAQE ONE) scout organization. Ralph Roop, city civil works commissioner, announced that in cooperation with Forest Elzey, chairman of the city park board, the Rotary and Lions troops cabins have been moved to the HannaNuttman city park, where ’a new Scout city is being erected. These will be ready for occupancy soon.

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• I Some repairs are necessary. A ball park and other recreational i' facilities are planned. ■ | Walter Gladfelter announced that i plans are being made for the an--11 nual financial drive. He introduc- ; ed Walter Remke, Anthony Wayne : Boy Scout area financial chairman, - who spoke briefly, explaining the way finances are handled in the ■ area. He complimented Adams ■ county as being the only communI ity outside of Forf Wayne which ’ has never failed to raise its quota for the movement. Executive Speaks Richard Van Horn, area Scout executive, spoke on the area activities and uifged that arrangements be made to have all boys in the island camp at Sylvan Lake near Rome City for one of the periods ■ next summer. Reports were given by Cub Scout i officials on the increased memberi ship and interest in the latest , movement for the younger boys of . the city. Charles Langston is chair- ■ man of the committee. The Cub - master, the Rev. Homer J. Aspy, tjis assisted by the Rev. George O. ■ I Walton and the Rev. C. M. Prugh. ‘ This evening at 6:30 o'clock, Ad-

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, ams county Scout officials will atI tend a meeting to be held in the Y. M. C. A. building in Fort Wayne. t Area officials will be present. The regular Scout meeting for - Decatur will lie held Thursday « night in the troop rooms. , o BILLION DOLLAR i • .i CONTINUEp. FROM PAGE ONE) 1 the 150.000.000 appropriation for 1 outright grants would be spread over the four year period as follows: no grants in the 1938 fiscal t year; $6,250,000 in the 193) fiscal . year: $15,625,000,000 in 1910 and i $28,125,000 in 1941. Grants to projects would cover r a t'ixea pertoa ot years, to be em- . bodied in a contract made at Hie time the project is started. t 0 . Church Deacons Meet Thursday >! The board of deacons of the First . Baptist church will meet at the . church parsonage Thursday even-ing . at 7:30 o'clock. All deacons are ask■l ed to be present-