Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 5 March 1937 — Page 1

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. ;ll[ fflON ■OSIITHE ItSSHfIBH Rushes Bill -., M, ui h T<>Spe‘‘<l ( 0 > ■ flLk Investigation March t ■L-i-qt joint legislative to compel attendance ML, 0, * ,nfsseS ’" SS WL-m' assault on Wayne " o' rules ’ 34 t 0 °’ 1 to the governor. '"'i ■ -J " • - ■ W iu- 1 ■ '• an 4 - . , »x- rurOd ' ’ speedy k Clifford T"* • •' 1 1 .... "‘l' ' il '' l ' 1 .-j 3 ib r «*-’■ in'.'' *F . ■ o ..H-j-d' » > perjury a s*>U'-' be '•■<• - 'M4B ■ ■ . T :i >• waste. ,.n r- .';..: • j.linc I' il •- .. tax :. OBBemas Neal rained B| To Succeed Baker M.r. . i i’> |Mt> ■ i:.-l .ciapM's. .■ |Mk' -ttiant-ir . : public H- Virgil M '■■■ b-.:Mature Jir. Hakei . l :t,-rma’li of : “<«- by pH-., Camilla on '.'.lie d rwtol ®Wo Taxi Drivers ■ Demand Higher Wages B-vpp-.txi--i" Yellow cab drivers of hall district went on today tor higher wages. |B*F s»iM i-i cents of every dob by their cabs and de that the gasoline fee be They said they now pay ■Hr CMts 0,1 every gallon of The strikers made no $B« ' '° int'-Tb :■• wuh operation cabs. Issi PRICES Ikimeased B arp Increase In Steel ■"ices Follows Wage S Boost March ", — (UP) — A increase in steel prices to > ' * ag( ’ booths was made toK.” Cai We-iniot>:s cteel cor--118 company union sought to KXs ank " of " outside ” Vn - States steel corporation ■Toßanm PriCe3 froni 53 t 0 * s a Hkent v e s h ar Peet advance® in Btre »» earS 3ri<3e I )en< int producers Kilar i PCt<t ,0 ,0110 w 800,1 With « .nerasea, The priee increage • »«a/°'| d!lOn explained was duo BcX u Twces that win bec ° me BL. . arch 16 - and the increasfr“‘le th? niatWials- ■ l>r.r M ' announced increases ■ steel are effective •immediatly. R :i onT. PanleS have cotll, nOBarter D ? r books 8t the flret Ktijl M rt P 068 w hcih cannot ba • ’ilTi 1 the ,aat °f March,”! ■il ~m hj fro ® the corporation are S ,hat • whil . e the I t wle« o, tfective immediately , companies wi’l, ■ ON PAGE SEVEN) I

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Held as Killer Dr. R. G Miller (’onfession announced by authorities as having been elicited from Dr. R. G. Miller, alatve, dentist of i Charlottesville, Va.. was believed 'to have solved the mysterious death of Cleo Sprouse, IS-year-old high school girl whose body was found near a Charlottesville cemetery. Police said ht| had admitted responsibility for the girl's death and quoted him as saying that it occurred as he prepared to perform an illegal operation in a car six miles from Charlottesville. He is married and the father of two children. FRANCE MAKES MONEY POLICY Embarks On Bold Program To Restore Nation's Confidence Paris. Mar. 5- U.R) The cabinet. | pressed by need for money and under attack by opponents for its fiscal policy, embarked today on e bold program intended to restore confidence in the government and . in France’s finances. At the end of a two hour cabinet meeting at the Klysee palace , with President Albert Lebrun pre- . siding -a formal council of minis- ' ters —it was announced: 1— —France will not devalue the franc further or exert control of foreign exchange but on the contrary will liberalize finances. 2 — In keeping with this policy the bank of France will begin to buy and sell gold at the current rate Monday morning without requiring establishment of ident'ty 3— A national defense loan of unspecified amount will be offered Monday morning to cover Fae re- ■ armament program. It is to be the . only loan offered this year. 4 — A committee of experts led by Emile Labeyrie, governor of the Bank of France, and Charles Rist, noted economist and honorary sub1 governor, will direct the exchange equalization fund and will have survaillance powers over the govi eminent security market. 5— There are to be no new exi nendttures except to raise the pay :of the lower levels of civil servants. B—“ The tripartite accord (by the ' United States. France, and Great Britain at the time of the recent , stabilization agreement to cover i the mutual rates of the dollar, franc, and pound sterling) remains the base of French monetary policy." as Premier Leon Blum expressed it after the meeting. 7—Premier Blum will address the nation tomorrow night to exI plain the government's financial decisions. President Lebrun, breaking precedent, will make a dniilar speech Sunday, appealing for defense of the national defense loan. J-- Qn, Decatur Resident Reported Missing Local po’ice and friends today ' intensified their efforts to locate Morris Steele, aged 60, well known Decatur man, who hae been missing since 11:30 o’clock Tuesday morning. When Sfeele failed to frequent his favorite haunts on Tuesday afternoon, friends begin to wonder of his whereabouts. When he failed to keep an appointment to ride to Fort Wayne, made the night before, friends asked local police to aid in locating him. His home, located at the extreme end of South Third street was thoroughly searched by local police but failed to disclose any clues. Some apprehension has been expressed ■ over his disappearance. Fort Wayne I police were atsked to aid in the I search.

LAUNCH PROBE INTO ASSAUIT ON WAYNE COT First Meeting Os Investigating Committee Held Last Night Indianapolis, End , March S—(UP) Rep. Martin oDwney, D., Hammond. tonight is to he called before a legislative investigating committee to explain why he carried a gun and why he was afraid he would be "kidnapped” after etate welfare director Wayne Coy was slugged by attorney Pete Cancilla in the state house last Monday noon. Downey, chairman of the importtant judiciary A committee in the I house aleo may be q"est!oned about his appearance with Cancilla and Joel Baker, former Marion county welfare director, in a downtown i hotel a few days before senate bill 173 "disappeared " That bill, placing county welfare departments under the merit system, was the measure Coy and Cancfl’a were discussing when Coy was struck The attack on Coy resulted in creation of the joint investigating committee which held its first eeesion last night. Six witnesses were heard by the committee. Rep. Michael Schaefer, D., Evansville. member of the judiciary A committee, testified that he talked to Downey when the house session ended Monday, about an hour after Coy was assaulted. "Downey eaid he was afraid he 1 was going to be kidnapped.” Schaeffer asserted. "He told me that if he 1 was missing I should see Denton J < Rep. Winfield K. Denton. D., Evansville, and a member of the investigating committee a« well as the judiciary' A committee )and take a'l of the bills from his (Downey's) desk and see that they were . acted on by the judiciary A comI mittee 1 "This was after the assault on Wayne Coy, Later in the day 1 saw Downey and he said: this looks ser- ' iotte —J believe they are going ‘o kidnap me.' Downey had a gun on him at the time. I asked him who knew about it and he said Ed Stein (Speaker Edward Stein, D., BloomI Held, presiding officer of the house). Governor Townsend, and (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) i O AGED DECATUR LADY IS DEAD Mrs. Mary Ann Smith Dies Thursday Evening Os Complications Mrs. Mary Ank Smith, 85, well known Decatur lady, died at the ' home of her daughter, Mrs. Ross Mallonee, 346 N. Eleventh street last night at 6:45 o’clock. Death was due to complications and infirmities. The deceased was born in Washington township September 27. 1851, the daughter of Daniel and Mary Andrews Barnhart. She was married to James Smith, who preceded her in death several years agoShe returned to Decatur six weeks ago after living in Fort Wayne for a short time- The balance of her life was spent in Decatur and Adams county. She was a member of the Decatur M. E. church. Surviving besides Mrs Mallonee. are the following children: Melvin, Fort Wayne; Richard. Bluffton; Frank, Huntington;) John, whose present residence is: unknown, and Flossie of Fort Wayne. A step-son. Davie, of Churubusco, also survives. One daughter, Laura is deceased. No brothers or i . sisters are living. Funeral services will be held at . the S. E. Black funeral home Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock and at the First Methodist Episcopal church at 2:30 o’clock. The Rev. H. I R. Carson will officiate. Burial will, be made in the Decatur cemetery. The body may be viewed at the! Black funeral homeo McKeeman Funeral Services Saturday I Private funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at the residence for Dr. R. B. McKeeman. 63, prominent Fort Wayne physician, vice-president of the medical society of that city, and formerly a Monroe physician, who died Thursday of pneumonia. The Rev. William Nesbit Vincent will officiate. Burial will be made; iin the Lindenwood cemetery in j | Fort Wayne. 1

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, March 5, 1937.

Final Approval Is Given Improvement W. C. Bevington, consulting engineer. A. K. Hofer. PWA inspector I and a representative of the PWA office. Indianapolis, completed the final approval of the city light and power plant improvement yesterday 1 afternoon. Only two change orders werrv made and these were approved by the engineers and to the satisfaction of city offlcia's. Application for ; the city’s final grant from the PWA 's being made and will be forwarder! to the Indianapolis office at once. The city has about due on the $43,800 grant. NORMAN KRUSE TALKS TO CLUB Central Sugar Company Official Speaks To Rotarians Norman Kruse, technical adviser for the Central Sugar company of this city, gave an inetructive discourse on the processing of soy beans and refining of soy bean oil ’ at the luncheon meeting of the Ro-; tary club last evening. Mr. Kruse explained the various stages of refining soy bean oil. Two grades of oil, edible and inedible,; are made from the eoy bean. The local processing plant does not refine oil- The product is shipped to other parts of the country, while the meal is need-in the manufacture of poultry and live stock 1 food. Mr Kruse stated that the capacity of the Central Soya bean mill was about 7.500 bushels of beams a day Samples of the meal and oil, front the crude to the refined stages were! passed among the men and each process explained by Mr. Kruse. The club took up the matter of expressing ite opinion on the redistricting of the Indiana Rotary clubs and voted, after earnest and serious discussion, that the vote be taken at the next meeting. Tom Smith, chemist at the Central Sugar factory, was chairman of •he program. Rev. Charlen M. Prugh president, presided. Brother Os Local Resident Is Dead Funeral services will be held Saturday for John H. Sours. 85. brother of Mrs. John Cowens of Decatur, who died at the home of a son, Owen Dale Sours, two miles west of Linn Grove, after a two years’ illness of complications. Surviving are four children: Clark and Owen Dale Sours, and Mrs. Thomas Keturah, all of Adams county, and Mrs. Elsie O’Donnell of Frankfort; and the sister in this city. Funeral services will: be held at the Owen Sours home at 2 p. m. Saturday, with burial in the Greenwood cemetery. o Lawrenceburg Man Is Fatally Burned Lawrenceburg. Ind., Mar. 5. —<U.R) i— William Vetter, 35, was burned fatally and his wife suffered serious burns late yesterday when a kerosene can Vetter was using to kindle a fire exploded. o LICENSE ACT IS REPEALED Used Motor Vehicle Dealers Licensing Act Is Repealed Indianapolis, March 5 —Following the approval by Governor M. Clifford Townsend of an act repealing the used motor vehicle dealers licensing law of 1935, it was announced today by Clarence A. Jackson, director of the state grosa income tax division, which, haa been col- ; lecting license fees under the law, j I that the division had ceased accepting license applications and would refund approximately $15,000 in 1937 fees. The refund action wae requested by Governor Townsend, who enjphasixed the fact that dealers who paid the fees when due in January should not be penalized by having their ! money held while those who are de-' linquent could gain by their delinquency. Simultaneously Donald F. Stiver, 1 director of the state division of ipublic safety, asked that dealers in used motor vehicles and parte discontinue the filing of daily reports required under the repealed act. Repeal of the act wae requested 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) i

TO SEEK FIRST DEGREE CHARGE Autopsy Shows Murdered Girl Was An Expectant Mother Charlottesville, Va., Mar. 5—<U.R) An autopsy report showing that Cleo Sprouse would have become a mother in five months was ad dvd today to the state's case against Dr. R. G. .Miller, middlein connection with the chloroform aged dentist charged with murder death of the 18-year-old high ! school girl. Commonwealth Attorney W O. Fife said the report strengthened the ease against Miller, now held in Richmond jail after signing a written confession Xtating that 1 tniss Sprouse died from an overdose of anesthetic while he was preparing to perform an illegal operation. Fife summoned prospective state witnesses to his office for corferlencesIences today and announced he indictment against Miller. He said would seek a first degree murder he was not satisfied with the dentist's contention that the death was accidental, and believed the "whole story has not been told." Fife said he placed "little confidence" in the story of Ethel Sealock, Miss Sprouse’s school chum. : who had told police she saw her' 1 friend alive an hour after the time at which Miller's purported statement said that she died. Miss Sealock Insisted that Miss Sprouse, accompanied by an uniI dentified man. drove to the front 1 of the Sealock home at 7 p. nt. Monday and asked her to go for i a drive. She refused because of a previous engagement. Q Alexandria Sit-Down Strikers Discharged Alexandria, March s—Officials5 —Officials of the Aladdin Industries plant today discharged approximately 200 union sit-down strikers. Notice of dismissal was made through letters inserted in the pay envelopes of the striking employes, most of them women, j The management said the work-. ers on strike should consider themselves as no longer in the employment of the Aladdin industries and would have to make new applications. Officials of the United Auto union, local 171, refused to comment on this development in the strike which began Tuesday. NO THIRD TERM FOR ROOSEVELT President On Record As Opposed To Third Term For Self Washington. Mar. 5 — (U.R) — President Roosevelt was on record before the country today as eliminating himself from a third term candidacy. He made the flat statement to the nation by radio and to party leaders in person at the Democratic victory dinner last night celebrating his re-election. His declaration setting "Jan. 20, 1941" as the date for his retirement from the White House brought new speculation as to the Democrats’ j I possible candidate in the 1940 I campaign. Prominently mentioned were Sec- ’ retary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan, Sen. A. Harry Moore of New Jersey, Gov. George H. Earle of Pennsylvania; Paul V. McNutt, new high commissioner of the Philippines and former governor of Indii ana. Mr. Roosevelt’s statement — the second direct announcement of his “no-third-term" policy since Nov. 3—came as he told of a conversation with "a distinguished member of the congress" he identified only as “John." "A few days ago," Mr. Roosevelt said, "a distinguished member of the congress came to see me to talk about national problems in ! general and about the problem of the judiciary in particular. "I said to him: “John. I want to tell you something that is very personal to me i —something that you have a right (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Q Berne Man Pleads Not Guilty To Charge Tilman Bowman, of Berne, plead not guilty to a charge of bastardy when arraigned before John T. Kelly in the local justice of peace ; court today a.nd was released on SI,OOO <bond. The charge was filed by a young girl living In the southj ern part of the county.

NAZIS CHARGE : LAME HANDLING IN HITLER CASE German Newspaper Decries State Department’s Latest Action Washigton. March 5 — (UP) — Secretary of state Cordell Hull today tendered an official apology to the German Government, through the embassy here, for the criticism of Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York. Berlin, Mar. 5. (U.R>—The newspaper Der Angrlff, owned by refch | propaganda minister Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, charged today that the U. S. state department’s "lame handling" of an anti Hitler speech by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York was Inciting the mayor to new insults. Secretary of State Cordell Hull in Washington yesterday had expressed informally his regret over the incident. The American embassy meanwhile forwarded to the state department a complete report of German newspaper comments on Mayor LaGuardia's suggestion that ' Chancellor Adolf Hitler be made the chfef exhibit of a "chamber of horrors" at the New York world's fair in 1939. It was understood that the embassy had made no official contact with the German government on the incident. Der Angriff's attack was inspired by LaGuardia's reply to the first outburst of Nazi indignation to the "chamber of horrors” sug--1 gestion. The New York mayor said the German government ‘ought to protest” because no exhibit that could be installed at the world fair would "adequately depict either the personalities of the nazi government. Hitler himself, or the type of government he is giving.” "This latest declaration by New York’s chief gangster tops everything.” Der Angriff said. "Lame handling of the case by the Wash- ' ington foreign department, which I is inciting LaGuardia to even new insults, is characterizing in verily American dimensions this state where 12,000,000 people have as their only freedom the freedom to ; perish by the roadside without a word.” These passages were printed in i bold face type on page one of Der Angriff, which warned yesterday: “We could take an interest in the United States and United States affairs which would not be pleasant.” o England Seeks Huge Air Force Increase London, March S—(UP5 —(UP) —Building up the air force at urgent sipeed in a race against the growing menace of war, the government submitted to parliament today air force estimates ot' $412,500,000 for the 1937 fiscal year. The estimates brought the country’s "normal” defense program for 1937 to the gigantic total of sl,348,685,000 t B) S3O apiece for every living being in the united Kingdom with any supplementary estimates still to come. LEWIS'UNION AIDS STRIKERS Strikers In Lebanon Steel Plant To Be Given Support Washington, Mar. 5. —(U.R) —Support for the strike of 2,500 workers at the Lebanon, Pa., plant ot the Bethlehem Steel corporation was promised today by the steel workers organizing committee, while across the continent in Santa Monica, Cal., another unit of John L. Lewis’ committee for industrial organization was bargaining for adjustment of working conditions in aircraft plants. The Bethlehem employes announced they would not return to work until the corporation signed} a contract recognizing the organizing committee, which recently won recognition from the CarnegieIllinois Steel corporation, largest sibusidiary of the U. S. Steel. In Pittsburgh, Clinton S. Golden, regional director of the committee, emphasized that Lewis’ organization had not called the strike, but said that “we’ll give the strikers moral and financial support." Strike leaders said several hundred men were "sitting down" in the Lebanon plant, although they I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

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I New Ambassador fJ* r Dr. Hans Dieckhoff New German ambassador to ! United States is Dr. Haus Dieck-, hoff, former Nazi undersecretary ■ of state for foreign affairs, who 1 succeeds Hans Luther who is retiring. REBEL SOLDIERS’ COUNTER ATTACK Intense Fighting Is Reported In Talavera Sector Madrid, Mar. 5 (U.R) —Nationalist troops counter-attacked today on a wide front in the Tajo river region between Talavera de la j Reina and Toledo, trying to turn back a government column headed toward the important TalaveraMadrid road junction at Maqued:.. Intense fighting was reported in the Talavera sector. The new loyalist drive there is designed, officers said, to isolate Talavera and ■ cut off its communication with I Avila, the insurgent field general headquarters. The drive on Toledo. 35 miles west of Talavera, is to prevent reinforcements being sent from that city, rather than an attempt at its immediate capture, officers said. Details of the widespread fighting on the Tajo river plains were lacking but one source said the government "had maintained the initiative and was reaching the high command’s objectives with precision." The main battle lines on the >ight flank of the loyalist advance were reported within one and a I half miles of Toledo, with the capucines section of the city under constant artillery fire. Nationalist army headquarters near the fain- . ous Alcaar, were reported by loyalists to have been destroyed by direct artillery hits. o Predicts War Between Germany, Soviet Russia Berlin, Germany, March S—(UP)5 —(UP) —Field marshall August von Mackensen, of World War fame, in a speech to a group of Hitler youths today predicted war between German and Soviet Russia—o WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday; Somewhat warmer Saturday and central and north portions tonight. —-o Beers’ Funeral Rites Saturday Afternoon Funeral eerv-Iceß will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Peltier’s funeral chapel in Fort Wayne for George W. Beers, 77, retired business man of that city, who died Thursday following a short il’ness. Mrs. Beers wae well known here, his widow being the former Miss Catherine! Numbers of this cityOther survivors are a son, Daniel and a daughter Mrs- William T- McKay, both ot Fort Wayne, a sister] Mrs. W. S. Allyn of Cleveland, O„ i and six grandchildren. I ■ ' »-

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f Roosevelt Carries His Fight For Reform Os Courts To Nation In Radio Address. VICTORY DINNER Washington, March 5. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt thrust his judiciary reorganization program toward a bitter congressional bat tie today. Confronted by a senate almost evenly divided on his plan to enlarge the Supreme Court, the president uncompromisingly carried his campaign to the nation in a radio address to 515,000 guests at Democratic victory dinners throughout the country. He attacked the supreme court and the judiciary directly—and he promised to do so again in his fireside chat to the nation scheduled for March 9 and as many times thereafter as he felt necessary to achieve his purpose of making democracy work. “You know who assumed the power to veto and did veto,” the first new deal farm and labor legislative programs, he said to his audience last night. "If we do not have the courage to lead the American people where r they want to go, someone else will : —if we would keep faith ... If we would make democracy succeed, 1 ! say we must act —now." Mr. Roosevelt flatly rejected compromise or long delay in the ! judiciary reorganization program which he said was essential to en--1 sure enactment of social and economic legislation. He made it plain that he was in the fight to the end and that he would tight hard. He also made plain that he would | not ibe a candidate for a third term ’ in 1940. But almost while he spoke, foes of his program conferred on plans to answer him immediately. They will say that he failed to meet the charge that he seeks to “pack” the supreme court. They also made plans to hold firm the opposition lines in the senate which claim will block the administration program. At an informal conference of five leading opposition senators, both Democratic and Republican, plans to counter-attack were discussed. The tentative preparations include: 1. A probable reply to the president's speech in the senate on Monday by one of the more prominent leaders of the opposition. 2. A decision to summon opposition witnesses of national reputation and liberal tendencies — including former supporters of the president—to the senate judiciary hearing on the court bill starting next week. Democrats probably will" Go most oft he opposition questioning in order to keep the fight "non-partisan.” Among possible witnesses mentioned was Norman Thomas, socialist leader. Several noted women also will be asked to testify. 3. A proposal to strike at the administration campaign for sup(CONTINUHD ON PAGE FOUR) DELIVERY BOYS WARN STRIKES Chicago Telegraph Boys Threaten To Strike Monday Chicago, Mar. 5.--|(U.R> —Chicago's telegraph company messenger boys pedaled their own bicycles and wore their usual puttees today but promised to go on another "sitdown” strike Monday if their conferences with Postal and Western Union officials come to naught. The office girls who ran the boys’ errands during their one-day strike meanwhile rested weary muscles and hoped for the best. The messengers returned to work under a temporary Truce pending arbitration. They demanded an eight-hour day and seniority rights. Western Union boys want 40 cents an hour instead of the present combination of commissions and 18 to 25 cents an hour. Postal employes said they could do with sl4 a week. Both groups insisted moreover, they should have regular long pants, instead of uncomfortable leather puttees, and that their ; employers should be made to supply the bicycles rather than the I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)