Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 11 March 1937 — Page 1

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■n io BE fcMED IN •MS COUNTY ■ hi> 01 ( Ksenia Jl (onlirniand" in Lutheran and Re- ■ ....■ * to be held >"• 1 ... ,i Tlll . I-' ;•■■! 1 '■ 1 K Wyr.- " ‘-uf’e.an » '^■‘v Zi °n .. K ! ■ ■ " ' Zion Refromed |H; |k. j- - b^e, z - in i; ' ii Ik. |K^ ] v \ K Hi-" |K C.rgr ca ■ :rmed ;1 , ■ •:•■.-. i ... • ■ ■•■ M ■- ' |Kr.u • I’u .-i |K, > . Gia •■ HH St. John's Lutheran toys and w ill ••• two, P MAY AID ■INCOY PROBE ■rion County Grand ■ury May Complete ■investigation Today ■irtiinapohs. Mar. ".— ,J P — ■ Hirer. county grand jury ■fey indicted Joel A. Baker. Marion county welfare ■actor, and Peter A. Can■k his political associate, in ■wection with an assault last ■ikon Wayne Coy. state wel■t director. ■faapnlis. Mar (o.j>) — ■jlHiiin of the Marion county Bk jury's investigation of an on Wayne Coy. state wel- ■ iireitor. in a statehouse corn- ■ Hsri'li 1, was anticipated to■&J Prosecutor Herbert Spency Prosecutor said it will be B to the grand jury whether an Bl® place G-men in the search 'rest Camilla, Coy's attacker, ' « accepted. F bolatt. f. s. SZstrict attoriWornted Spencer that the fedwau of investiation agents latter the ease under the •••tatute if the local author--1 fought a charge of mayhem *> Cancilia. torge of assault and battery 'Blent to kill based on a statebom Coy already is on file * Camilla, v, Cer , M *d ,bat ’ n addition to ual attack, the grand jury ««tigating any possible conE? 0 Joel A. Baker, ousted County welfare director, “ 1116 assault. l/. ,a4 . Canc,,la w ere arguing I „ department merit ( j , h Baker °PP° se d at the J "’be attack. V 83 v tlle le ßislature hurlia 1 another measure hi hi r umatica “y ousted Baker “ is Manty welfare post. " C ' Directors To Meet Tonight ors of th°Deset at .. wr of Commerce will •nae h>„.? A<Jarns county auto 1 dlrectn aU at 8 °’ clock toni « ht «* tn > are Urged t 0 be P re " 'the Go p 4 ' P ! ans wUI b * ma <ie hth is 8 day bant iuet here

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Seek Legislative Pardon For Mooney Sacramento, Cal., March 11 — iri'i A resolution seeking u legislative pardon for Tom .Mooney, convicted San Franctaco preparedness day bomber, moved to the state senate today where leaders indicated it had little chance of passage The resolution whose constitutionality was challenged, was approved late yesterday in the house of representatives 45 to 28. CHURCH SURVEY WORKERS NAMED Committees Are Named To Conduct Religious Survey Here — ~~~ i Committee workers who will , make the religious survey for seven of the Protestant churches in this city, beginning -Monday. March 1 15, were announced today by Rev. (1. S. Lozier, pastor of the Evangelical church and chairman of the I survey committee. The members of the committees. i including the Evangelical, Zion Reformed. First M. E.. First Presby ' terian. First U. B„ Church of the Nazarene au <1 First Christian ' chunh. who are participating in ' the religious survey and home visi- i tat ion program follow: Evangelical Church Mrs. C. E. Hocker, district cap- > tain. Mrs. Verna Nichols, squad leader, ' Mrs. Edra Dellinger, squad lead ' er. Mrs. Roma Breiner, Mrs. C. F. Brunnegraph. Mrs. Harry Coffelt, ' Mrs. Francis Eady. Mrs. Carl Ham- 1 mond. Mrs. Lee Hilyard. Mrs. Mei ' 1 ril Schnitz. Mrs. George Kern. Mrs. Edward Warren. Zion Reformed Church Mrs. L. J. Fogle, district captain. Mrs. Cletus Miller, squad leader. Mrs. Jack Little, squad leader. ‘ Mrs. David Adams, Mrs. Frances Borders. Mrs. Tillman Gehrig. Mrs. Mary Keller, Mrs. O. L. Kirsch. Mrs. Harold Murphy. Mrs. Donald Stump. Mrs. George Thomas. First M. E. Church F. f. Mills, district captain. W. i). tattle, squad leader. E. N. Wicks, squad leader. Rachael Burdg. Mrs. Clyde Butler. Mrs. Sam Butler. Mrs. Frank J Crist, Mrs. O. Baughman, Mrs. W. F. Fonner. Mrs. D. Fryback, Mrs. I V. M. Krick. Mrs. C. D. Lewton, Katheryn Mangold. Mrs. Jessie Niblick. Mrs. D. Passwater. Mrs. Perl Riker, Mrs. Ray Sickafoose, Ivan Stuckey. Mrs. P. B. Thomas, Mrs. Dan Tyndall, Mrs. Amos Yoder. First Presbyterian Church Mrs. L. A. Cowens, district captain. Mrs. Lois Black, squad leader. Mrs. A. M. Anker, squad leader. Mrs. E. B. Adams, Mrs. Jesse Cole, Jr., Mrs. M. A. Lieninger, Miss N. Medaugh. First U. B. Church Mrs. John Hill, district captain. Mrs. H. W. Franklin, squad leader. Mrs. Blanche Elzey, Zella Baker, Mrs. Orlan Brown. Mrs. Edward Deitsch, Mrs. Gladys Drake, Mrs. Marie Deßolt. Mrs. Frank Fisher, Goldie Fisher, Mrs. Bertha Fuhrman, Beatrice Mrs. George (CONTINI’ED ON PAGE EIGHT) SOCIETY NAMES NEW OFFICERS Baptist Missionary Society Holds District Conference Mrs. J. W. Crowder, of Montpelier, was slated for election as president of the women's missionary conference of the Salamonie association during the election of officers held late this afternoon at the First Baptist church here. j The new president succeeds Mrs. Frank S. Kerner of Muncie. Other officers scheduled for election this afternoon were: Mrs. S. O. Whitesell of Warren, vice-presi-dent, and Mrs. Esther Moore, of Liberty Center, secretary-treasur-er. Mrs. Guy Keesling of Muncie . and Mrs. Stanton Janney of Mun- . cie are the retiring respective officers. Miss Mary L. Parrish, of Burma. India, was the final speaker of the ' . session, which lasted throughout ’ the day. Miss Parrish delivered a missionary address on India. A pageant, “Personal Service, Parade,” was also presented at a late hour by the Decatur mission- 1 ary society. Devotionals opened ■ by Mrs. Homer J. Aspy. of this city and special music by the Decatur < church completed the afternoon program. j i

NEGOTIATIONS AGAIN FAIL IN STIRKE CRISIS Disagreement Again Reported; Murphy Back From Vacation Detroit, Mar. 11. (U.Rz Disagreemeat between General Motors and United Auto Workers representatives today broke up their negotltaion conferences as both parties were drafting "f>ermanent peace, terms.” Gov. Frank Murphy returned from his Florida vacation today, hopeful it would not l>e necessary for him to intervene in current strikes that have tied up two of the nation's major automobile builders. "It will be my policy not to interfere." said Murphy, who was successful in settling the recent 44-day General Motors strike. "1 prefer not to be and ought not be brought into the picture if there is any other way to do it. “The parties ought to work this' thing out themselves. "If the strikes continue for any 1 length of time and the public in-’ terest is involved, appropriate measures will have to be taken and that 1 am prepared to do.” The governor said negotiations already are under way to settle both the Hudson and Chrysler strikes which started Monday and threw 75.000 men out of work in metropolitan Detroit. "That's the difference between these strikes and the General Motors strike," the governor said. "1 expect they will get along all right. I hurried home because 1 wanted to be present in order to protect properly the public interest in any situation that might arise.” Referring to the Chrysler's request yesterday for a court order to oust sit-down strikers from its nine plants here. Murphy said: "Securing of legal rights in the court is one of the peaceful methods of approaching settlement, and the determination of fundamental legal rights is inherent. 1 say this despite the problems that compli- ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) DAMAGE SUIT IS FILED HERE Local Persons Named Defendants As Result Os Auto Accident Damages totaling $1,675 have been asked by William Schaefer from Sam and Mary Brooks, in a suit tiled in the Adams circuit court, as the result of an automobile accident, which occurred on ' U. S. highway 27 in Allen county on November IS, 1935. The complaint alleges the "plain- ’ tiff was in the act of making a left turn to the east, and was at a standstill, and oft the side of the highway awaiting the passage of an approaching truck; the defendant (Sam Brooks) was operating his car in a dangerous and reck--1 less manner upon the highway and did not have his automobile under | control. i “That, by reason of his negligence, his automobile struck the plaintiff's automobile with such force and violence as to force it ; across the highway and into the side of an approaching truck, ' which truck was proceeding in the : opposite direction.” The first paragraph of the compliint asks damages of $175 for the plaintiff's automobile. The second paragraph seeks sl.500 for personal injuries alleged to | have been received by the plaintiff. The damages are claimed to include injuries to his back, legb, side and other parts of his body. It is also claimed that the plaintiff was forced to pay out certain sums of money for medical and nursing expenses and was prevented from attending to his business. o Underground Sit-Down Strike Is Settled Chicago March 11—(UP)— Flow ' of freight, merchandise and foodstuffs to Chicago's skyscrapers an,i downtown business houses was resumed today with settlement of the nation's first underground sit-down strike. Fifty strikers emerged from the chilly electric railway tunnels and 400 more moved out to connecting freight depots when their employers agreed last night to rehire 10 men who had been discharged. All future complaints will be handled 'in accordance with the railway labor acts, it was announced.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 11, 1937.

Cummings Urges Court Revision eWwi- W*! ■ Cummings at hearing When Attorney General Cummings appeared before the senate judiciary committee hearing on the president's plan to revise the supreme court, above, he urged its passage as a means of injecting “new blood" into the judiciary and as a method of avoiding "a tortured construction of the constitution."

APPOINTMENTS ARE AWAITED Changes In Statehouse Personnel Awaited By Job-Holders Indianapolis, Mar. 11— (U.R) — I With the end of the legislative session the political jitters, first apparent in the statehouse when 'Gov. M. Clifford Townsend took 1 office, are increasingly evident today as payrollers await “resignations" and new appointments. By now the statewide personnel survey undertaken by the state committee should be complete i The administration's legislative program has been enacted and the governor is free to move without complicating his relations with the general assembly. Consequently the statehouse is alive with gossip and queries concerning charges in I key jobs. There is certain to be a change ; iti the state tax board, probably more than one. L. L. Needier, Grant county farm bureaus executive. is reported to have been offered a position on the tax board and rejected it. Observers believe he will replace either Gaylord Morton or A! Walstnan. incumbent board members. Principal subject for discussion (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) o MORE SPELLING WINNERS NAMED Six Additional Winners Are Selected From Three Schools Six more spelling contest winners were announced today in Adams county, making a total of eight of the 20 to be named by next Monday evening at eight o’clock when they broadcast over station WOWO, Fort Wayne, in the 19county contest. Evelyn Adams, a senior, and Marguerite Staley, a junior, were the two who won the right to represent the Decatur high school after an elimination contest held the past week. Marie Miller and Carolyn Muselman, both members of the freshman class, won the contest at Berne high school and the right to represent their school. The two winners at Hartford township high school were also announced today. They are Hilma Steudler and Majeska Baumgartner. Miss Steudler is a member of the senior class and Miss Baumgartner a freshman. The county contest is to be held in Fort Wayne from 8 until 9 o'clock in the event, sponsored jointly by the radio station and the Journal-Gazette, of that city. Marjorie Kintz and Helena Kohne were named by the Decatur Catholic high school yesterday. To date all winners have been girls.

Public Is Urged To Attend Legion Party | Tlie public i« urged to remember | the benefit party to be given at th" ; Masonic Hall Friday evening at i8:15 o'clock s.poneored by tl\e Ani- > e-can Legion. The proceeds from I the party will .be giien to former [ Decatur residents who are now re- | tugees of the flooded districts. Admission to the hall is 25 cents. Attractive prizes will be awarded- ‘ A cordial invitation is extended to ! all. Tickets may be secured from 1 j any member of the legion or the auI jxiliary. STEINER WILL BE CANDIDATE ■I — ——- Hartford Princinal Candidate For County Superintendent , I 'i Russell Steiner, principal of the . i Hartford township high school for -1 the last five years, today became II the second person publicly to anI i nounce his candidacy for superin- • ten<lent of the Adams county pub--1 lie schools. Mr. Steiner received four votes for the office when the present in(j cumbent. Clifton E. Striker, was ' j re-elected. This placed him in secj ond place in the election. Mr. Steiner is a native of Adams county and received his elemenI tary and high school education in I the Hartford township schools. IHe was graduated from Ball j State teachers college in 1929. with the bachelor of science degree. His major subjects were education, industrial arts and social studies. 5 He received his master's degree from the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. Michigan, in 193-T. At the University of Michigan he specialized in the administration and supervision of schools. Mr. Steiner holds grade, regular f high school, a principal’s and sup--1 erintendent’s licences. c Mr. Steiner has had experience 1 in both elementary and high school teaching and administration, having taught seven years in the rural ' schools and eight years in the high ’ schools of Adams county. For six ’ of the eight years in high school r work in Adams county he has serv- - ed as high school principal, one year at the Jefferson high school 1 and five years at the Hartford high school. He is an active member of the 1 Linn Grove Christian-Congregation-al church. Mr. Steiner is a past 1 master of Geneva Lodge No. 621 ’ F. & A. M. and a member of Epsi--1 lon Pi Tau, national honorary fra- ' ternity for industrial arts. Mr. Steiner is married and has ' one child. At the present time he resides in Linn Grove. o J K. P. Initiation Here This Evening i All members are urged to attend • the rank initiation meeting of the . Knights of Pythias lodge tonight, i The meeting will open at 7:30 o'clock.

OFFICIAL ASKS ENACTMENT OF COURT REFORM Assistant Attorney General Defends Judiciary Reform Washington, Mar. 11 (U.R) Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson today appealed for congressional enactment of President Roosevelt's judicial plan to I heal controversy within kite supreme court which he charged threatened the harmonious workIng of government. Appearing before the senate ju diclary committee, Jackson denied 'a suggestion by Sen. Pat McCarIran. D. Nev., that appointment of six new supreme court justices would destroy national confidence I in the tribunal. He charged that supreme court I invalidation of new deal laws have revealed in the supreme court maI jority “an implacable, although unquestionably sincere, opposition to the use of national power to accomplish the policies so over- ' whelmingly indorsed by the vot- . ; era." "This frank hostility of these justices." Jackson charged, "has been openly counted on by inter 1 ested groups to defeat much important legislation." “A majority of the justices," said Jackson, "have made it apparent that the great objectives of I i this administration and this con- ! gress offend their deep convictions and that the methods of this day 1 violate their conceptions of good government." The split within the court. Jackson asserted, has made it difficult for the court to function and has delayed its action on decisions. Rejecting suggestions of constitutional amendments to meet the i situation. Jackson said that "amendments however worthy and well drawn are of uncertain value while the judicial house is so stubbornly divided against itself." “Don’t you think." demanded McCarran, “that addition of six new justices would cause loss of confidence in the high court on the part of the people, who give the court its power?" "No, I do not." Jackson replied. "1 don't feel that way about it and I would hate to see the prestige of the supreme court injured. It is a difficult task to appoint the six men and confirm them but if we can't find six men worthy of the jobs—ls it's as bad as that—then we are over the dam anyway.” Jackson presented a six-point brief in support of his contention, following closely the outlines of President Roosevelt's fireside chat on the judiciary and the committee testimony of Attorney General Homer S. Cummings yesterday. Cummings, it was revealed today, will be recalled for further questioning before the 18-man senate committee. Jackson's contentions: 1. It is the responsibility of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) THREE PERSONS HURT IN WRECK Injured In Collision Os Two Autos East Os Decatur The condition of John Mauller, 1 60, farmer living one-half mile west of Middlebury. Ohio, who was : injured in an auto accident last evening, was reported to be tm . proving today. The Ohio farmer sustained a badly fractured and mangle 1 right knee and a fracture of the : left hand, when the car he was driving collided with one occupied [by Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Rash, of i Frankfort. Mauller was brought to the Adams county memorial hospital and the Frankfort couple taken to the Van Wert, Ohio hospital. According to reports, both may have suffered fractures of the pelvis. They are both about 40 years of age. The accident occurred on fedcr- | al road 224 near Middlebury, when i the cars enroute in opposite directions. collided. Both cars were damaged. The Rash auto, a new car recently purchased, was badly damaged. Mauller was admitted to the local hospital about 5:30 o’clock, shortly after the crash. No report on the condition of the Frankfort couple had been received at a late hour this afternoon. The preliminary examination disclosed the possible pelvic fractures.

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THREE HOUSES WILL BE BUILT * Three New, Modern Homes To Be Constructed In This City Workmen today began the staking of three houses on North Sec-: ond street the first of a number | to be built by Jesee Rice, local i hotel proprietor in a building program to alleviate the housing shortage in Decatur. Mr- Rice announced today that all contracts have been let locally and that all materials will be purchased in this city. It is expected that it | will be possible to offer these I houeee for sale at $3,500 to $3,600. The plane and specifications for the housing have been approved (by the federal housing administration Theodore Graliker, president of the First State Bank, announced today, I that this bank will put through the I 80 per cent loans when the houses are sold The credit and character of the purchasers must be approved I by the FHA. however. The houses will be located on the 1 east side of North Second street at the bend across from the Harry Staley residence. These are known as the Stults lota and were recently purchased by Mr. Rice. W. E. Moon has the general contract for two of the houses and Adler and Smith, the contract for one. Other contracts let are: Marcellus Miller, wiring: August Waiters. plumbing; Eli Girod, heat-; ind, and Yost Brothers, basements and cisterns. Local Labor The contractors have announced that only local labor will be used. The plans of the houses have been drawn up and approved by the na--1 tional lumbermen and manufacturOCONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) ; O 0. E. PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED RallyTo Be Held In Berne Reformed Church Friday Night The complete progam for the Adams county Christian Endeavor rally to be held at the Reformed | church in Berne on Friday evening, at 7:30 o’clock was announced to-1 day by Catherine Mettler, chairman of the publicity teeAt 6 o’clock in the church (basei ment there will be a carry-in supper to which everyone is cordially invited. The Rev. David Gillespie, ’ chief speaker of the rally, will give a short talk and music will be prei sented by the various societies represented. Following is the (program for the evening: Song Service— Clyde Sprttnger, Missionary Church, Berne. Pianoist —Louise Herman, Evangelical Church, Berne, Representation of societies. Scripture — Earl Chase, Union Chapel, Decatur. Prayer — Rev. 1. L. Curts, United Brethren, Geneva. jy lle t —Gordon Bracker and Clyde Sprunger. ’ Offering Awarding of shield and announcements —Pres. Johan Gerber. Music — Young Mens Chorus — Mennonite church, Berne, Address—" The Passion of Christ” Rev. David E. Gillispie, Elkhart, Closing prayer — Rev- H. W. ] Franklin, United Brethren, Decatur. Well-Known Bluffton Politician Is Dead Funeral ervices were held this afternoon for Adalgo Wandel, 68, Bluffton man well-known in Decatur, who died Tuesday night in j that city after a long illness of an- ; gina pectoris. Active in Democratic [ circles for many years, Wandel was [ county clerk from 1910-1914, and was employed in the license bureau at the statehouse at the time of his illness. WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday, possibly light snow extreme north tonight; not so cold tonight east and south portions.

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Slurring Articles From German Newspapers Are Resented In Official Washington. NOT FORMAL — Washington. Mar. 11.—<U.P> -Am- | bassador William E. Dodd in Ber--1 lin today was instructed to make emphatic diplomatic representa--1 tions to the German government ' over allegedly slurring anti-Amer-ican articles appearing recently in the German press. The action came less than a week after the German government ; lodged an official protest against remarks made by Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia of New York, who sug--1 gested that a statue of Chancellor Adolf Hitler be placed in a “chamber of horrors" at the forthcoming world's fair in New York. This government apologized to Germany i at that time, but pointed out it had j no control over the speech of American citizens. Ambassador Dodd was instructed today to call the attention of I the German foreign office to vltuI perative articles which appeared in government controlled newspapers in connection with the LaGuardiaHitler incident. Today’s diplomatic representations to the German foreign office were instigated by a letter from Mrs. Stephen Wise, wife of Rabbi Stephen Wise of New York and chairman of the woman's section of the American Jewish confer- | ence, to Secretary Hull. Her letter called attention to allegedly slurring and offensive remarks conI tained in articles which had ap- | peared in the German press. American womanhood in particular was allegedly insulted. Mrs. Wise, on behalf of the women's division of the American Jewish congress, protested especially that the nazi press “published a statement to the effect that 1,200 women attending the luncheon of the women's division last Wednesday were ‘women of the Streets' who were gathecNi together in order to be entertained by ‘a pimp and procurer,' the mayor of New York.” Hull, answering Mrs. Wise's letter informed her that Ambassador Dodd had been instructed to make emphatic comment to the German foreign office regarding these newspaper articles and to express Unis government's amazement that they had been permitted to appear. Dodd's representations do not constitute a formal protest but are i in the same category. Der Angriff. one of the papers referred to, is the official organ of the labor front organization in Germany and frequently is considered the mouthpiece for Josef Goebbels, German minister for propaganda. A transcript of a number of the objectionable articles published in Berlin was cabled to the state department but the text was so obscene in many particulars that it is unprintable in American newspapers and the text was not released by the state department. (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) O INSTALL NEW ORY CLEANER Sheets Bros. Install New Rapid Dry Cleaning System Sheets Bros., local dry cleaning and pressing establishment has announced the installation of a new Sec cleaning system, recently purchased. The new machine, which is said to be the first one In Indiana and the only one in the city or county, is a newly patented system for cleaning without fading, shrinking and guaranteed to ibe odorless. The new equipment also enables the cleaners to offer a two-hour service on wool materials, such as toipcoats, suits and others. The Sheets Bros, store is now in process of remodeling and redecorating which is expected to be completed -in the near future. The firm will continue to operate the shining parlor and hat blocking shop in conjunction with the new service. Everett and Harry Sheets are co-proprietors of the store. The public has been invited to inspect the store and new equipment.