Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 15 March 1937 — Page 1

ItfXV. No. 63.

W) Sit-Down 3 Strikers Given '■ Orders To Move

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SPELLING MEET OPENS TONIGHT . . < Adams County School Winners Compete Over Air Tonight I Twenty students of the 10 high * i schools in Adams county will open the nineteen-cocunty spelling contest at Fort Wayne tonight when they broadcast eliminations over radio station WOWO from 8 until 9 o’clock. All schools with the exception of , JJefferson township have announced their two entrant* in the content I' Following •!» the li*t of winners, the first two previously unannounced: Pleasant .Mills Patricia Chronister and Thelma Ray with Faye Myers as alternate; Geneva; Naomi Pusey and Mildred H-!rschey, Monmouth. Amman Kreuckeberg and Alvina Auman; Decatur Catholic, Marjorie Kintz and Helen Kohne; Hartford. Marcella Sprunger and Hilma Studler; Berne, Carolyn Milselman and Marie Miller; Decatur public Evelyn Adame and Marquer-1 ;te Staley; Monroe Eetella Steury and Leßoy Schwartz; Kirkland,' Floyd Engle and Henry Marshall. Striker To Speak As an added feature to the spell-1 ing contest, C. E. Striker. Adams county superintendent of schools, will deliver a short address during the hour as a part of the broadcas' The speaker'* subject will be, “The Objective of Systematic Teaching The winner of the contest tonight will compete with the winners from 18 other counties at a later date for the regional spelling championshi'P. an dthe right to enter the national meet at Cleveland. .— —7- ■ -4. C. C. Directors To Meet Tonight Director* of the Decatur Chamber I of Commerce and heaeds of the vari ious committees for Governor's Day ! here Thursday, will meet at the | auto license bureau this evening at 8 o'clock. All memmbers are i urged to 4re presento — Family Os Five Die In Accident Shiocton, Wis.. March 15 —(UP) — Outagamie county authorities to- - day sought to determine why an au ' tomobile carrying a father, mother and their fivve small children piling- , ed 15 feet off a bridge approach in--Ito the Wolf river, killing all of them. ! The dead: Clarence Nichols, 35. I ishkosh automobile parts dealer; I his wife, Cora. 32; their children, Gilbert, 9. Elmer, 7. Selby. 4, Joan. , 3, and Melrvin, 10 month*. | A truck hauled the overturned car , from the river late yesterday a half hou rafter it plunged in, and all except the body of the youngest child were found within. COAL PARLEY IS CONTINUED Mine Negotiations Continue; Steel Conference Is Held New York. Mar. 15—(U.R) —The Appalachian coal parley continued today with the joint wage-hour committee reduced to two miners' representatives and two negotiators for the operators. John L. Lewis, president, and Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treas ttrer of the United Mine Workers of America, contended with Charles O'Neill, chief spokesman for the operators, and L. T. Putman, Beckley. W. Va., mine official, for inclusion of new union demands in a two-year contract to replace the one which expires April 1. Negotiations for a contract, which will affect wages, hours and working conditions of 300.000 min ers in the eight-state Appalachian soft coal regions and about 150,001' more in “outlying districts,'' started Feb. 17 with about 150 repre sentatlves to a side. A 25-member committee assumed I the task of threshing out differ !, ences between miners and operators shortly after the conference - ( opened. This committee first was . reduced to 10 men end subse ( (CONTINUED ON PAQH SIX) I

HUNDREDS DIE IN BATTLE ON MADRID FRONT Government Forces Claim Victory Over Italian Troops Madrid. Mar. 15- (U.R) Italian troops guaidlng Brihuega, headquarters of their unified command on (he Guadalajara-Madrid front, fell back before a renewed assault by Gen. Jose Miaja's loyalist mill-: tary today, government dispatches reported. Pushing a new counter attack from hastily consolidated positions at Trijueque. a convent town on the Madrid-Soria highway which they recaptured yesterday, the loyalist militia, reinforced by tanks and aviation, swept northward across the Monte De Encinas, took two more strategic positions, and turned on Brihuega from the rear. The maneuver, designed Io give the retreating Italian allies of Gen. Francisco Franco no time to reform their broken ranks, surged back and forth across the famous Vlllaviciosa battlefield. Fighting continuously throughout the week-end. the loyalists occupied the wooded, mountainous area covering the six miles l»e---tween Trijueque and Brihuega. Al-j though the nationalists won back the territory for a few hoars with a fierce attack, the loyalists took 'it again in the face of several scores of nationalist tanks, hacked I by the heavy nationalist artillery. Hundreds of dead and wounded of lioth sides were reported litter-1 ing the battlefield. loyalists reported capturing one piece of heavy artillery, four anti tank guns. 14 machine guns, and i several supply trucks. The loyalist high command ord ered 20 truckloads of the captured tCONTINLTED ON PAGE FIVE) FAMILY AIDED BY AUXILIARY Legion Auxiliary Reports Aid Given Flood-Strick-en Persons An itemized report of the benefit movie recently staged by the Adams Post No. 43. American Legion Auxiliary, for the relief of a floodstricken family of New Albany, was released today by the chapter president. Mrs. Walter Gladfelter. The report shows that a gross income of $143.30 was received from the sale of tickets and that $60.59 was used for purchasing needs for the family which, with other expenses, brought the total to $141.44, the balance of $1.86 being turned over to the secretary. Among the articles sent to the family were; blankets- towels, linens, bedspreads, sheets, pillow' cases, window curtains, and a host of other household necessities. ■ Letters Received Letters have been received by Mrs. Gladfelter thanking the local auxiliary for their timely contribution to the individual aid of the two families who were helped by the benefit movie, as part of the supplies were used to aid a second family other than the one "adopted" by the auxiliary. The letter from Almyra R. McCormick. vice-president of the souther district of the auxiliary state*, "in my estimation yours is the most valuable flood relief contrlbbution rendered by any individual unit of the Indiana department—- [ pleaee extend to all members of your unit my -peronal thank* and appreciationsA letter of thanks was also re-. ! ceived from the Bonnie Sloan auxiliary at New Albany. Mrs. B. W. Owens, president of the auxiliary there, who, with Mrs. McCormick, personally distributed the articles to the needy families, was the writer of the letter. Mrs. Owens interestingly relates the thankfulness of the stricken families and the expression of gratitude tendered by them, when they received the supplies. o Students To Honor Pastor This Evening Students of the St. Joseph grade school here will honor the Rev. Father Joseph J. Seimetz. pastor of the St. Mary's church, this evening, at 8 o'clock in the Catholic high school auditoriumMember* of each of the eight ' grades in the school will participate in the entertainment, which incudes songs and playlets. A cordial invl- [ tatlon has been extended the public.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 15, 1937.

Air Dietitian f ’■ » B * s * I Mme. Pearl V. Metzelthin. noted , specialist in dietetics and nutri- I tlon. has been appointed consultant and director of food research for the American Airlines. Born in Baltimore. Mme. Metzelthin was educated in Europe and was the wife of a German diplomat. She holds degrees from the I'niversities of Paris, Berlin and Geneva. NOTED BERNE MAN IS DEAD Andrew Gottschalk Dies Sunday; Funeral Services Tuesday Andrew Gottschalk. 86. prominent Berne druggist, father of state senator Thurman A. Gottschalk, died at his home in Berne Sunday, after a etroke of apoplexy suffered Friday evening at his store. Mr. Gott*chalk was born in Nottiagharn township. Wells county, in 1850. anj WM recognized as one of the oldest active druggists in the nation. He established the Berne store in 1872. Mr Gottechalk served two terms as treasurer of Adams county and wa* extremely active -In Democratic politic*. Always prominent in ci- . vic affairs, he organized the Trinity Evangelical church of Berne in 1880 and was trustee of the church for 52 years. Mr. Gottschalk was a member of the Knight* of Pythias lodge of this city. Die had been vicepresident of the First Bank of Berne for many years. Surviving are three children. Sen. Gottschalk of Berne, Mrs. B. F Welty of Lima, wife of the former Ohio congressman and Mrs. Charles L. Hartman. Indianapolie; aleo a sister, Mies Amantha Gottschalk, who lives with her brother. Funeral services will be held at the Trin-'ty Evanelical church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, with Rev. M. O. Herman officiating. Burial will be made in the M. R. Ecemetery. The body will lie in state at the ' church from 12:30 p. m. Tuesday until time for the funeral- — o Women Os Moose To Sponsor Card Party To raise money for the raduation accessories of a boy or girl at Mooseheart, the Women of the Moose will sjonsor a public card party. Thursday evening at 8 o’clock at the Moose home here. Tickets my be optained from the member* or at the door.

“Ghost” Hitch Hiker Story Intrigues Franklin People

Franklin, Ind., Mar. 15—(U.R) —A pretty young feminine “ghost" is thumbing rides along state road 31. At every gathering of two or more people in Franklin today the conservation swung around to the exploits Os the 'girl in white satin' or ‘the ghost of state road 31.’ Two versions were told. The ghost, whom we shall call "Miss X,” could not be reached for confirmation of either. The “ghost", two WPA officials, an automobile and an elderly couple near Seymour are the characters of the version most widespread here. The WPA officials, names unknown, were en route to their office in Seymour last week when they accosted a young girl walking along the road. She accepted their offer of a ride and was helped into the rear seat. “Miss X” conversed freely with the men and described landmarks

OPEN TRIAL TO OUST GUARDIAN Case Seeking Removal Os Guardian Opened Here Today The examination of the jury (began this afternoon In the Adams olrcnit court to try a case seeking the removal of a guardian. J. Gordon Meeker, of Mae Rice, brought by Louis A. Jetters. The case was venued hero from Jay county. Eight attorney* are representing the two parties. j The guardianship was established early In 1934 In the same year Miss i FEce was admitted to the state hospital at East Haven. Later she was : diecharged a* Improved. Having been adjudged incompetent to manage her own estate, it was impossible for her to bring the action, eo it was filed by Ixtuis A. Jetters, a friend, who is the plaini tiff. The state of Indiana is represented in the caee bby Prosecuting Attorney Arthur Voglewede. A reply in general denial wa* filed thi* morning for Miss Rice by G- Remy Bierly. clerk of the circuit court, also representaing the state of Indiana. Shortly before noon. Judge Huber M De Voss ordered a physical I examination of Miss Rice to be used as evidence in the case. ■ It wa* reported that Mis* Rice’s I estate amounts to approximately I |14,000. o /Junior C. Os C. Directors Meet The directors of the Decatur Jun-. ior Chamber of Commerce are re- ' quested to meet this evening at 6:31) ' o'clock at the Rice Hotel for the ' purpose of nominating director* for ' 1937. All director* are urged to a*1 tend o ■NEWCIERKFOD WELFAREBOARD ?' 1 Mildred Rumschlag Is Appointed Clerk Os Welfare Board i 1 Announcement was made today 5 of the appointment of Miss Mil-1 dred Rumschlag, clerk in the ? offices of County Clerk G. Remy Bierly, to the position of clerk in • the Adams county public welfare " department. 1 Announcement of the appoints ment was made by W. Guy Brown, ( ’ president of the welfare board. The state welfare department ordered the increase in the pert sonnel of the local office due to ! the re-investigation of old age i cases. The recent legislature pass- .. ed the law giving the state board . - power to set up standards for personnel of all county welfare 5 offices In the state. One half of the administration costs will be borne by the state and one-half by the county. Resignation Announced The resignation of Miss Rumschlag from the offices of the | county clerk was announced this morning by Clerk Bierly. In com-, 1 menting on the resignation Mr. t Bierly stated that he "regretted ? very much the resignation, but 1 wished to extend congratulations < to Miss Rumschlag on her proinoV tion and advancement." The new ’ t • appointee served for seven months in the county clerk's office.

near her home, familiar to both men, at the outskirts of Seymour. Upon arrival at the home the men turned to help her out of the back seat. She was gone. Alarmed, the men went to the house and told an elderly woman who answered their knock of their strange passenger. The elderly woman wept and a man joined her. The man said their daughter, fitting description of "Miss X" died five years ago and that the WPA workmen were the third parties to bring them reports of similar experiences. Columbus, 20 miles south of here on the same road, has another version which Is credited to Fred Miles in a story to members of the First Baptist Sunday school class. Two young men were driving south on road 31 near Greenwood (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

LABOR LEADER TO DACK COURT REFORM PLANS William Green To Support Change; Norris Submits Proposals Washington. March 15. (U.R) -| William Green, president of the! I American Federation of Labor, will | testify in support of President Roosevelt’s Supreme Court reor ganization program tomorrow when i the senate Judiciary committee resumes hearing Chairman Ashurst. D., Ariz., announced that Green and Justin Miller, president of the federal bar association, would be ! chief witnesses under a revised! schedule which postpones until j next week the opening of opposition testimony. On Wednesday Edwin M. Corwin, professor of con ; stitutional law at Princeton, and Dean Leon Green of the North western University law school will! testify. Meanwhile Sen. George W. Norris, 1.. Neb., acted to carry out his proposals for curbing the S*upreme ■ Court. The Norris plan, submitted dur-! ing a momentary lull in the dispute . over President Roosevelt's court reorganization program, comprised i two parts intended to be acted up- ' on as a unit. The plan: 1. A congressional act requiring more than a two-thirds vote by Hie Supreme Court to invalidate acts of congress. 2. A constitutional amendment establishing nine-year terms tor all federal justices including Justices of the Supreme Court. The Norris program was intended as a substitute for President Roosevelt's plan which calls for appointment of six new justices to the Supreme Court if justices over 70 years of age do not retire. ’ Norris has criticized Mr. RooseI velt's program hut has indicated I he will support in providing agreement is not reached on some sub- , stitute. Submission of the Norris substitute came after he addressed the senate last week proposing that a new drive for a constitutional amendment go hand in hand with legislative court action. The Norris constitutional amendments provides: 1. The judges both of the Supreme and inferior courts shall hold their offices during the term of nine years and the compensation of such Judges shall be subject to taxation under any law passed by congress. 2. The term of office of all Judges both of the Supreme and (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O Repairs Are Made To Ornamental Light Here Repairs were made today to a pothead in an ornamental street light post on North Second street, which I burned out Saturday night caus-! ing about a fourth of the circuit to go out. Temporary repairs were made Saturday so that a majority of the lights were turned on. M J. Myott, superintendent, stated the I lights would be repaired so that all would burn tonight. NEW CLUB WILL j BEORGAINIZED French Township Home Economics Clubs To Be Organized A home economics club will be [ organized in French township Friday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock a* the home of Mns. Henry Ashleman. Mrs. E- W. Bueche, county home economics club chairnjpn. Mrs. Helen E. Mann, and County 'Agent Archbold will be present at the meeting to assist with the organization. Anyone -In French township interested in home economics club work Is invited to attend this meteing. The ladies who have expressed their interest are as follows: Mrs. Amos Hirschy, Mrs. Everett Rich, Mrs. William Soward. Mrs. Leo Engle, Mrs. Ed Beer, Mrs. Ed Neuhauser, Mrs. David Wulllman, Mrs. Menas Wulllman, Mrs. Lewellyn Lehman, Mrs- Palmer Moses, Mrs. Loren Heller, Mm. Homer Neuejischwander, and Mrs- Henry Aschleman. The club in French township will be the fourteenth home economics club in Adams county. With the ; completion of this organization, the county will be 100 percent organized, with the exception of Preble township.

Supreme Court Refuses To Act In Seven Cases

CHURCH SURVEY STARTED HERE Religious Survey And Visitation Campaign Are Opened The religious survey workers for ' this community met this morning ' in their headquarters in the Zion Reformed church, to receive instructions before beginning the ' religious census. The workers reported a fine and ' courteous reception, and stated ' I that they believed with the coop- ' eration they are receiving, they will be able to complete the cen- ' i sus by Tuesday evening. Sunday. Dr. J. Edward Snider, a member of the staff of Dr. A. Earl ' i Kernahan. spoke to the cooper- 1 ating churches in brief 10 minute talks, explaining the religious survey and visitation evangelism 'Campaign, now being carried out. The churches visited Sunday were: Mount Tabor M. E.; Union Chapel U. B.; Monroe M. E.: First ,M. E.. Decatur; Evangelical, Decatur; Decatur Zion Reformed. Decatur Presbyterian. Decatur Christian and Decatur United Brethren. Tuesday night at 7 p. tn., a survey workers' prayer meeting will be held in the Evangelical church ' here. This will be followed by a business meeting at 8 p. m. in ' the same place. Mies Anna B. Smalley, also a member of the staff, is in charge 1 of the office work in the headquarters of the Zion Reformed church. Dr. Snyder will continue [ ON PAGE FIVE) BANGS BOWS TO DE VOSS RULING 1 Huntington Mayor Orders Light Service Discontinued i 1 ' Huntington. Ind., Mar. 15. —(U.R) ■ —Customers of the tiny Hunting ‘ ton municipal electric plant were' notified today that their servicewhich sent Mayor Clare W. H.| I Bangs to jail - is going to be disI continued. Withdrawal of lhe city from its unofficial utility business was vot-j |ed late Saturday by the board of j public works and safety on recom- ! mendation of the martyred mayor. Bangs, serving his 211th day in jail, said it wasn't the end of his fight with the Northern Indiana Power company, however. "This is not abandonment of the fight to establish a municipal utility for the city of Huntington,” said the militant editor-lawyer-inay-or from the jail cell in which he has conducted city business for ■ nearly half of his 26 months in office. “We are going to press for rehearing of my injunction appeal to the state supreme court. Defeat of his appeal to the supreme court and the prospect that some more of his official family, would have to join him in jail this ! week was given by Bangs as the reason for the disconnection ordI er. James B. Vernon, city engineer, and Arthur D. Sayler, city attorney, members of the board of workers, are scheduled to appear in Huntington circuit court tomorrow and explain to special Judge: | Huber M. DeVoss of Decatur why they should not go to jail on contempt charges. They were excused from accompanying Bangs to jail last July 6 by resigning from their city posts. Both accepted re appointment lat'er - .! “I would rather disconnect the consumers from the city plant lines than break up my city organ- , ization at this time,” Bangs explained. Bangs had no idea when he would |be released. The order committing him to jail on contempt charg-1 es —for continuing to sell power from the “toy” plant despite an injunction obtained by the power company, read “until city plant (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) —0 WEATHBR Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; continued cold tonight, slowly rising temperature south portion Tuesday.

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Refusal To Act On Seven Attacks On Labor Act Gives Rise To Much Speculation. ONE OPINION Washington, Mar. 15 (U.R) The supreme court today refused to consider seven new attacks on constitutionality of the Wagnei labor relations act which already Is under determination by the high court in other cases. The action was of possible significance l>y virtue of the fact the court has under consideration five cases testing the act. The group of cases refused consideration by the court today, how ever, presented a slightly different legal aspect than those on which argument has already been con ducted. Each of the seven appeals rejected today was an effort to obtain an injunction to halt national labor relations board hearings as provided for under the Wagner act. The actions were commenced in the District of Columbia supreme court. This court granted a motion by the labor board to dismiss the requests for injunctions. The District of Columbia court of appeals affirmed this action. Court observers were puzzled by the possible meaning of the action today. Some suggested that purely technical legal considerations were involved. They pointed out that the action was subject to so many conflicting interpretations that too much significance could not be attached to it. On the one hand, they said, it might mean that the court had determined to uphold the Wagner act, at least tn part, and hence did tot wish to role again on a qtiesi tion already decided. ! There was equal grounds, however. for supposing that the court may have decided the Wagner act is unconstitutional and hence that there was no need for further consideration of Wagner test cases. The decision not to consider the new Wagner act tests was one of I several announced by the court before starting a two weeks recess. Since the court today for the third successive decision day failed ! to present written opinions in any jof the several important pending | cases, it was thought possible that I some of these decisions may be completed during the recess. In line with previous decisions the court again today rejected an effort to test constitutionality of the old age pensions feature of the federal social security act. It refused a test case in which Norman C. Norman, one of those who brought the original new deal gold cases to the high court, sought an immediate constitutional determination without waiting for a ruling of the circuit court of appeals. However, the court accepted another test of the constltutlonalitv of the Alabama state unemployment act, passed as a corollary to the federal statute. The case involved the Gulf States Paper Corp, and was a companion suit to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o WILL OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY Local Legion Post, Auxiliary To Observe 18th Anniversary Member* of Adams Post No. 43, American Legion, and the auxiliary will join with Legion posts all over the United State* Tuesday night when they meet at the local home in observance of the IStli anniversary of the founding of the Legion. Members of the auxiliary will cook and eerve dinner at 6:15 o'clock to the Legionnaires and auxiliary members, with their wives, husbands, sweetheart* and families. A prominent speaker, yet to beannounced, will deliver the address lat the banquet The national American Legion was founded in a caucus at Paris. France on March 16, 1919. The Adams county 'poet was founded later in the summer of the same year. Members of bothe organizations are urged to attend.