Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1937 — Page 1

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Latin Winners Take Part In District Winners in the Atlanta county Latin contest took part in the (Eetrlct contest held today in tile South | Side high school in Fort Wayne. I The Adams county entrants arc ' First year Latin student*: Mar jorie Miller, Decatur, first, and Dororthy Adler, Kirkland, necond Second year laitin students: Marjorie Maesonee. Decatur, first, anti Robert Franz, Decatur, second. State winners will be selected at a contest to be held at Indiana UniI versity, Friday, A.prll 23. OFFER TOWNSHIP BONDS FOR SALE , St. Mary’s Township Offers Bonds To Build Proposed School ' Preliminary preparations for the St. Mary's township school addition at Pleasant Mills are being 1 rushed in order that immediate advantage of good construction weather may be taken, providing the government approves the application for a $26,000 PWA grant. D. Burdette Custer, attorney for the ' township, stated today. An invitation to bid on $33,000 . worth of bonds, which would be the township's share has been isL sued. This will give the township a total of $59,000 available for the construction if the PWA grant of . 45 per cent is approved. Officials do not believe the addition will , cost this much but asked for this amount to take care of emergencies. It was explained that it is difficult to have an original government grant increased, but there is no regulation requiring the use of ' the entire grant. i The proposed addition would be . adjacent to the present building and would consist of five class rooms on the second floor. On the ground floor would be a gymnas- . ium and community auditorium , with permanent bleachers on one . side and a stage on the other. , During basketball games, the stage . could I>e filled with 500 chairs. The bleachers also seat 500. Community Auditorium i Through the use of about 1,000 1 chairs on the floor and with the • bleachers, it would be possible to ’ seat 1,500 at a community meeting. Under the permanent bleachers I would be a cafeteria for school or ( community use. 1 In the basement will be three : dressing rooms and two showers. A new heating plant will be install- ■ ed in the basement of the new addition and will also heat the old 1 portion of the building. Every effort is being made to have the proposed addition in read- ! iness for the opening of school : September 1, 1937. The enrollment I in recent years has grown to the , extent that present class room fai cilities are inadequate, necessitating the teaching of pupils on the stage of the present building, in the domestic science room and in the basement. The new arrangement. with the addition of five rooms, would be ample. Officials also stated today that the present heating plant is worn out and must be replaced this year, whether or not a government loan is obtained. It is believed that it would have been impossible to have held school this winter had the > weather been as cold as it was last I year, with existing heating equipment. o State Champion Male Quartet To Sing Here The Indiana etate champion male * quartet, who will defend their laurels in a few weeks in the next audition, will be the headliners at- ! the “church-wide monthly social” I at the Method-ist Episcopal church next Wednesday night at 7:30 P. M. according to the announcement of W. F. Beery, teacher of the Mary- . Martha class in the church school. ’(This nergo male quartet from the Harvester plant in Fort Wayne was scheduled to appear in Decatur two months ago but due to illness of one i of the members they were unable to appear. They are widely known ■ as "The Golden Star Quartet.’’ The ladies of the Mary-Martha . class will be hostesses to the members and friends of the church ' and the church school and will furnish other entertainment besides ’ the qua-tet and serve refreshments A large crowd ie expected. II o Only Slight Damage Results From Fire , Firemen were called to the George Simerman residence on ■ North Second street at 7 o'clock ■ this morning, when sparks from a i chimney caused a small roof fire., . Only alight damage resulted from I the fire.

. BAKER DENIES ’ MAKING THREAT ON WAYNE COY . Legislative Probe In Assault Adjourned Friday Afternoon Indianapolis. Mur. 13 <U.R) The’ legislative investigating committee | had adjourned today after Joel Baker, former Marion county welfare director, spent two hours • evading and denying knowledge of 1 the slugging of state welfar- • Director Wayne Coy mid the dis ap|iearance of ihe now famed sen-1 me hill 173. Baker, indicted with an asso 1 ;date. Pete Cancilia, for the attack on Coy. changed his mind about making startling revelations and /after raging at the committee —: making speeches instead of an- , swering questions, and calling ’ other witnesses “cheap liars", — he settled down to a stubborn re- , fusal to assist the inquiry. Cancilla. who also had promised to “tell all" after his arrest yes- . terday morning, refused tp tetify. standing on his constitutional rights that he might incriminate himself for the Coy assault. The committee hearing yesterday ( afternoon was held in the senate , chamber, crowded to the galleries I with statehouse employes, all I ( awaiting Baker's promised 'inside' I revelations. Baker made the most ( of the audience and staged a good , show, yelling at the committee 1 ( members. Leaping to his feet to roar his answers, waving his ( arms and turning to the crowd to j make frequent sarcastic remarks, I but when it was over the committee had learned little. ’ The high pointe in Baker's test- ‘ imony may be summarized a* folt , lows: ' 1. Senate bill 173 would have tak- ( en the country welfare l»oard from (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) MORE SPELLING WINNERS NAMED ) ! Six More Spelling Contest Winners To Compete Monday Six more spelling contest winr iters were announced today in tae I county, making a total of 14 that have already won the right to i compete in the Adams county divs- . sion of the nineteen county tourney , I at Fort Wayne. Those named today were: | .' Estella Steury and Leßoy ; . Schwartz, both juniors at the Mon-. . roe high school; Floyd Engie, a , senior and Henry Marshall, a junior at the Kirkland township high ! i school; Al vena Aumann. a senioi and Truman Kruer keberg. a aopho- . more at the Monmouth high school. Os the 14 winners announced thus tar, the three listed today are , the first boys to be represented in i ’ the contest. The balance of the contestants from the county are . girls. , The contest will be broadcast 1 Monday night from 8 until 9 o'clock over radio station WOWO, (with R. Nelson Snider acting as word pronouncer. Adams county i contestants are asked to be at the station at 7:30 o'clock, a half hour 1 before the contest. Other schools, who have already announced their winners in the county are: Decatur public and parochial, Berne and Hartford, i Jefferson. Pleasant Mills and Geneva have yet to announce their winners. making 20 that will compete from this county. The winner of the county conI test in Fort Wayne Monday night . will compete against 18 other county contest winners for the 1 right to represent this district in a national contest and win a threeday trip to Cleveland. Bolivian Plane Is Wrecked, Six Dead La Paz. Bolivia. March 13—(UP) '—The tri-motored airplane Sajama was found wrecked 30 miles from LaPaz today, with eix passengers dead and two eeriously injured- It was caught in a mountain storm. Red Men To Attend Meeting At Convoy — Members of the Red Men lodge will go to Convoy, Ohio Monday j night to attend a zone meeting in that town. Invitations will be extended to the Convoy members to I attend the tri-state meeting here on I July 10. I

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 13, 1937.

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Earl Crawford Eail Crawford. Milton. last night was named by Gov. M. Clifford Townsend as chairman of the Indiana highway commission, succeeding James A. Adams, Columbia City, who resigned.

COUNTY BANKS STILL GUARDED Banks Os County Are Still Guarded Against Any Holdups Special deputies remained on I guard yet today at all of Adams county's banks, despite the fact that authorities believe the imme-d-late danger of an attempted bank robbery ha* passed. Authorities have not relaxed their vigilance in guarding the bank, since last Wednesday when it war, reporter that two Fort Wayne and two Muncie men were overheard plotting a bank hold-up, in a conversation at Muncie. Sheriff Dallas Brown and State Patrolman Burl Johnson were still < maintaining their cordon of deI tense organized when they fire’. (beard of the "lUk" U=puuc».aje still stationed at al! banka in the county. Grover Cottrell, special deputy, ie on guard at the local First State :bank. Had the reported attempt mater--1 ialized it would have been the first ; bank hold up in the county since 1929'when the late Harl "Spot" Hol- ■ lingsworth and his deputies appre'hended and secured convictions for four men who robbed the Linn Grove bank. All four of the men. Jack Gaithers Elmer Woods, Robert Siniff and Phil Chamberlain, were sent to i prison for the crime Gaithers has j since died and two have served out their sentence. Siniff is still lodged , oldest druggists In the United ! States. o Andrew Gottschalk At Point Os Death Andrew Gottschalk, 86, prominj ent Berne druggist, is reported at the point of death at his home in that town. Mr. Gottschalk suffered i a stroke of paralysis at his store Friday evening at 6 o’clock and has been unconscious since that , time. Mr. Gottschalk, father of state senator Thurman A. Gottschalk, has bee nrecognizefi as one of the druggists in the United States. C. C. Directors Will Meet Monday — — The board of directors of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce will meet at the auto license bureau Monday night at 8 o'clock. Chairmen of the various committees for Governor’s Day here next Thursday will also attend the meeting.

Second Annual Egg Hunt At Elks Home On Easter Sunday

The second annual Easter egg hunt for children of Decatur and Adams county will be held on the lawn of the B. P. O. Elks home Easter Sunday afternoon. March 28, officials of the Elks lodge announced today. The first egg hunt, held last year, attracted hundreds of youngsters and adults and proved one of the most popular community parties ever held in this city. The hunt will be held at 2:30 j o'clock again this year, the same as last Easter, and will be limited ito children seven years of age ! and under. Hundreds upon hundreds of brightly colored Easter eggs will ! be hidden on the spacious lawn at | the home, and a number of Easter

SHIP ON FIRE, AID IS RUSHED Motorship On Fire In Pacific Ocean With 50 Aboard S)in Francisco, Mar. 13 HJ.R) The crack United States cruiser Louisville raced today to the res cue of the British motorship, Silverlarch, on fire 700 miles from Honolulu with eight passengers and a crew of more than 40 men aboard The I.ouisville expected to reach the Silverlarch. which early today j sent its second SOS within three days, by noon <2 p in. (IST.) The ! master of the Silverlarch had reported to his London office that he hoped to transfer his passengers, all Americans, to the first rescue ; vessel that arrived In other messages. picked up by radio stations , along the Pacific coast, he intimated that he might be forced to put off all hands in life Istats. Two other vessels were answering the Silverlarch's SOS. The Panamanian motorship Fijian expected to reach her late today. The new 350 foot coast guard cutter Roger B. Taney also was speeding to the Silverlarch whose No. 2 hold I was ablaze. I The last distress call from the English vessel came early today when she reported her fire out of control and asked all ships within ■ the vicinity to aid in removing her crew and passengers. The Silverlarch, bound from Los Angeles to Calcutta with a cargo of crude oil. flashed distress sig- ' nals early Thursday when fire I '. broke out in her hold. Later in ’ j the day she reported the blaze | under control. Still later she re-1 ported the fire again was raging. Early Friday the Silverlarch reported the blaze undr control and •; said she expected to reach HonoI I lulu safely. The distress call early I, today described the fire as out of Hcontiol and asked all ships to ' j stand by for assistance. I Coastguardsmen said that the ’ Louisville probably would remove I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) SPEED HEARING ) ON COURT BILL Two Senators Advance Proposals To Com promise Plan Washington, Mar. 13 — (U.R) —: ’ Leaders of the congressional bat- , tie over supreme court reorganiza- [ tion renewed efforts today to ; speed hearings of the senate ju-1 I diciary committee, and to enlist . I support for proposals supplement ing President Roosevelt's program. Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D.. Mont., prepared to open oppose 1 tion attack as a witness before the committee Monday. Sen. Key Pittman. D., Nev., and Sen. Chas. O. Andrews. D., Fla., advanced, I ' plans to supplement or compromise Mr. Roosevelt's plan. Pittman said he would seek to amend the plan to make a 15 member supreme court mandatory and i permanent and then, if the bill is ! ! enacted, would offer a eoustitu- ’ tional amendment to limit the ‘ membership to 15. Andrews, still uncommitted on the court plan, advanced an omnibus proposal for a constitutional ’ amendment either supplementary | to the Roosevelt proposal or as a ' compromise. He proposed to en--1 large the court to 11 members, to 1 require a two-thirds vote to invalidate acts of congress, to permit voluntary retirement of justices at 70 and compulsory retirement at 75.

1 rabbits will also be loosed on the r lawn. 1 Plans are being made to entere tain more children this year than B last. g The lawn will be in the best f possible condition and will be carefully groomed in order to prevent t the children from ruining their ;- new Easter finery. f R. C. Ehinger haj again been ■ named general chairman of the hunt. He will be assisted by the 9 entire membership of the Elks s lodge. 1 Included among the more than 5 thousand eggs, will be several with the word 'Rabbit' f imprinted. Each of zL. 1 these eggs will entitle g t the finder to possession r of an Eaeter rabbit.

NEGOTIATIONS COMPLETED IN STRIKE CRISIS General Motors Heads, Labor Leaders Reach Agreement Detroit. Mar. 13 (U.R)- Governor | Frank Murphy delivered to the ! United Automobile Workers union a “definite program" today which ;he believed might offer means of settling labor disputes that have : made almost 80.000 employes job less in the automotive industry. “My plans contemplate getting I i everything under control and on | an orderly basis, recognizing the j t ights of both sides." he said after : a conference with union officials. ' Tension tn this strike-ridden area was relieved by announcement that conferees representing the j General Motors corporation and the U. A. W. had completed poststrike negotiations on the union's demands for adjustment of wages, hours, and other working condition*. The agreement will become ' effective upon ratification by union units in General Motors' 69 plants throughout the country. “The General Motors settlement." said Murphy, "will have a! helpful influence on the other j disputes." The governor announced that he would appoint a committee repre seating labor, capital, and the public to study means of settling strikes which have forced a shutdown of Chrysler, Hudson, and | Reo plants in this industrial area j Sit-down strikers are in possession of nine Chrysler plants here, and about 65,000 of the company's j workers are idle. More than i 11,000 have been made jobless by I a shutdown of three Hudson plants, | and about 2.400 by a sit-down in i the Reo plant at Iginsing. In adi dition. thousands have been laid off in “feeder" plants forced to close. Circuit Judge Allen Campbell is | | expected to rule today on Chrysler's petition for an injunction to force eviction of sit-downers from . its plants. The company charged I ! that the strikers had violated | plant rules and had become "former employes" and trespassers. Murphy, credited with a major part ■ in settlement of the 44-day I I General Motors strike, planned to : continue conferences with all pat ties Involved in the current disputes. He would not reveal details of his "peace" program, but appeared confident that it would be “reassuring to the public." "There is no question of the federal labor department entering the picture at this time,” he said. | He said union officials were I "very friendly to the suggestions I made.” “The situation is not as bad as the General Motors strike. It hasn't the potential consequences that the General Motors strike had with steel and other mas production industries in the offing Most of them have been settled now. “The General Motors final settlement Is my great satisfaction of the day. The G. M. executives (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) TO INVESTIGATE WABASH DREDGE Bluffton Mayor ed M ar Department To Make Probe Bluffton, March 13 — Mayor Franklin Buckner has received a special communication from United States Senator Frederick Van Nuys, who reports that the war department is going ahead with plans for a complete investigation of the Wabash river dredging project. Senator Van Nuys enclosed the following message he received from the war department: “My dear Senator —I am in receipt of your reference of March 1, 1937, enclosing a letter from the Mayor of Bluffton, Indiana, protesting against the dredging of the Wabash river to drain the Limber- s lost swamp. “A report in the premises is being obtained from the division, on receipt of which I shall be pleased to advise you in further detail." ! Very truly yours, G. B. Pinsbury. brigadier general, acting chief of engineers. Since the protest was launched with the federal government, a bill has been enacted by the Indiana legislature which is intended to halt the proposed dredging of the Wabash river from a point in Ohio to the Jimtown bridge, near Linn Grove, Indiana.

Spain Government Protests Nations Aiding Civil War

LEGION LEADER ASSERTS STAND Colmery Says Legion Has No Definite Policy Court Reform IndianapoEs, Ind., March 13 — I (UP)—The American Legion has no I policy either supporting or opposing 1 President Roosevelt's judicial reI form proposal. Harry W. Golmery, National commander, revealed today. • In an article published in the current issue of the National Legionnaire, Colmery wrote: "1 am confident that in our membership there are sincere legionnaires who both oppose and support the recommendations which have been made to congress with refetence to the supreme court and the I federal judiciary." “There is suggestion made that it involves a partisan political queet-lon, and therelore the legion must remain silent." . Colmery advieej legionnaires that he. as national commander, reflected only the legion policy as determinded by the national convention and the national executive committee. He cited <wo occasions, at the 11922 convention in New Orleans and 1927 meeting in Parie, France, and New York City, when the legion i had adopted resolutions with regard to the supreme courtBoth resolutions places the legion on record as condemning any "es- > fort to grant congress judicial powi ers and authority now vested in the , supreme court" or any “movement that has for its object an attack upon the supreme court or any interference with Its -Independence." "In this instance the general pol- ■ icy of the Legion as above stated covers the subject matter of the controversy,” Colmery wrote. "The American Legion therefore opposed to any attempt—1. To grant to congress any judicial powers and authority now vested -In the supreme court2. To interfere with its independi ence. 3. Any attempt which seeks to weaken, change or subvery the constitution of the United States or any part thereof, by other than constitutional means. "Whether the specific proposal to increase the number of the court and infuse “new blood” into it, is contrary to Legion policy, is the qquestion,” he explained. “If it is. it is my duty to condemn it, if not, to say so.” “Congress has the power to determine the number which shall constitute the court. The answer depends on the motive of the President in making the proposal." First FHA Loan Made Here Fully Repaid The first loan made under title one of the EHA by the First State j Bank of this city, was paid off yesterday, the borrower making a one! hpndred percent record during the! i two years period over which the loan was liquidated. Roscoe Glendening, cashier of the bank, stated that the last payment was made yesterday. The loan was' for more than S3OO and payments were divided into 24 equal installments. The funds were used by the borrower in remodeling his home, j Loans under title one of the federal housing act are for the purpose of remodeling homes The act exI pires April 1, of this year, unless renewed by congress. 0 Governor’s Banquet Tickets Are On Sale Tickets for the Governor's ban J quet to be given next Thursday at the Catholic high school auditorium, are only 50 cents each. Tickets may be purchased from members of the Chamber of Commerce. They are on sale also at the First State Bank, Adams County Auto license bureau. Daily Democrat, Holthouse-Schulte store, Elberson service station, Knapp service station. Maier Hide and fur company and the Niblick store. Reservations are being made for about 500 persons. The meeting is sponsored by the Chamber of Com j tnerce and Governor M. Clifford Townsend will be the principal | speaker at the banquet.

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Loyalists Complain To !A‘ague Os Nations On Italian And German Troops Use REPULSE REBELS — By United Press Republican Spain complained to the league of nations today that Fascist Italy and Germany have combined to destroy her liberal democracy by force of arms'and make her a subservient Fascist state. The international danger of the Civil War, admittedly no longer a local issue, thus has been brought more sharply to the fore tlran at any tint since it started. The stories of Italians and Germans captured by the Madrid government telling of Italian troops, airplanes, tanks and warships employed in Spain, have focussed world attention sharply on the major issue of who is actually fighting the revolution. Counter-Attack Madrid. March 13 — (U.R)— Sen. Jose Miaja, defender of Madrid, has stopped the whirlwind advance of Italian and German troops on the Trijueone-Brinuega line, 14 miles northeast of Guadalajara, and has rushed the entire Albacete garrison into a counter-attack, Loyalist headquarters asserted today. Striking with all force at his command. Miaja turned the attacking army back from the outskirts of Guadalajara, last Madrid outpost on the northeast, and forced it to retire through knee-deep snow beyond Trijueque, it was said. The Nationalists lost 23 tanks <in the 14-mile retrA.it. Loyalist army headquarters reported. They were presumed to be Italian machines. Bitterest fighting the last 24 hours centered at Trijueque which is built around a number of ancient convents on the Madrid-Soria highway. Loyalists evacuated the town before the onslaught of-the fast moving. mechairized "right" column, reputedly commanded by Gen. Ottavio Zoppi, retired, of the Italian army, but reformed in Guadalajara and launched a surprise counterattack which sent the Italians and Germans back to secondary positions. Despite the freezing snowy weather which caused much suffering among troops of both armies, the Loyalists sent their aviation up to strafe the retreating nationalists. Encouraged by the appearance of the government tri-motored bombers over the fog-shrouded hills around Guadalajara, the Loyalist troops, who, until that time, had fallen back, surged forward. At the same time, the government heavy artillery, rushed forward during the night, began laying a curtain of deadly fire on the insurgent's secondary lines. The front lines faltered, then fell back under the fierceness of the assault. As they retreated the National- • ists left behind them Italian field pieces and four supply trucks. A (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) MAIL SERVICE TO HOMESTEAD Homesteads Addition To Be Given Rural Delivery Next Week Mail eerv-'.ce will be given reeldents of the Homestead addition beginning Tuesday, according to word received by Postmaster Phil Macklin. The homesteads will be placed on rural route 6 out of Decatur and will be delivered by W. F. Beery. Mr. Beery this week is listing the residents and house numbers. Residents at the addition have obtained their mail from general delivery or from friends. A few had installed boxes on the mud pike road. A petition signed by the president of the Decatur Homesteads. Inc., Ernest Scott, was given postal officials by Ferd Litterer, project manager, three weeks ago. It has been impossible to obtain citv mail service for the addition because there are no sidewalks and because the route to the project is not 50 per cent occupied. A committee under the direction I of Mr. Scott is supervising the purchase and installation of the mail I boxes.