Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1937 — Page 1

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STRIKERS DEFY COURT’S ORDER TO QUIT PLANTS Strikers Stay In Nine Chrysler Plants Despite Ruling Detroit. Mar. 17.—<U.R> Sit-down strikers, unimpressed by the fact that they were inviting a SIO,(MM),-i Otm tine, defied a circuit court injunction today and held nine Chrys-j ler Corporation plants past the n a. m. deadline set by Judge Allen Campbell for their evacuation. No immediate move was made to oust the 6,000 strikers who have paralyzed production in Chrystler’s l big Detroit plants. Shortly before the deadlim> was reached the United Automobile ■ Workers, on strike against Chrysler, Hudson Motor Car Co., ami Keo, rejected an invitation from Gov. Prank Murphy to participate in the deliberations of the “com mittee of 20"—an organization formed by the executive to consider means of bringing permanent industrial peace to strike-torn Michigan. The telegrams of rejection, sign ed by Homer Martin, U. A. W.. president and addressed to Murphy. charged that the Chrysler Corporation has “flouted the national labor relations act by refusing to agree that the I’. A. W. has the right to be the bargaining! (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) APPOINTMENTS ARE ANNOUNCED Three High State Officials Reappointed By Townsend Indianapolis, March 17 —(UP) — Gov. M. Clifford Townsend today retained three additional departheads from the McNutt administration for his official family. He reappointed Virgil M. Simmons, Bluffton, state conservation director; Kenneth Kunkel. Bluffton director of the fish and game division of the conservation department and Dr. Vern K. Harvey, director of the state board of health. The new state safety council to study iwssible regulations of house trailers was designated to include Perry McCart, Paoli, chairman of the public service commission; T. A Diecus. Marion, of the highway commission; Don Sliver, state safety director; Dr. Harvey and Frank Finney, auto license commissioner. Indianapolis, Mar. 17,-XU.Pd —Gov. M. Clifford Townsend today announced the reappointment of | three high state officials for anothI er four year term. Those renamed were Adjt. Gen. Elmer F. Straub. Frank Finney, commissioner of the bureau of mot-, er vehicles, and Edward P. Brennan. director of the budget. Gen. Straub, a native of Indian-1 apolis, was appointed to his post by former Gov. Paul V. McNutt in December, 1932. He served with battery A. 150th Field Artillery) during the World War and was a | special United States military student at Glasgow University, Gias-) gow, Scotland. Finney, also a McNutt appointee,) is a native of Martinsville. He assumed control of the motor vehicle (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Two Autos Slightly Damaged Here Today Two cars were slightly damaged at 8:30 o'clock this morning, when the autos driven by Mrs. (Harold Sautters, of thia city and Bill Lichtencap, former local man, now of Michigan, collided. The accident occurred ° n Liberty Way near the court house. No one waa injured o WEATHER Increasing cloudineea, showers probable west portion late tonight and Thursday and east portion Thursday; rising terntemperature tonight and southeast extreme east Thursday, . colder extreme northwest Thursday afternoon.

Distinguished Guests Os Decatur

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Earl Crawford

I ecatur will be host t<> Gov. M. Clifford Townsend and other stale officials on Governor’s Day Thursday. Among those to visit the city are the three men pictured above: Gov. Townsend; Dick D. Heller, former Decatur man. now secretary to the governor; and Karl Crawford, newlyappointexl chairman of the state highway commission.

TELL STORY OF | HOTEL STRIKE Decatur Man Relates Experience In Detroit Hotel Strike Carrying your own luggage, running your own elevator and driving miles for a bite of breakfast, is what a tourist to a Detroit hotel experienced, according to the story related Tuesday by A. J. Smith, local hardwood lumber dealer, who the same day had that experience. In an interesting and humorous description of the latest type of ' "sit-down" strike to paralyze the automobile city. Mr. Smith related the unusual experience of finding himself in a practically deserted hotel at an early morning hour. Going to bed as usual amid the I < ustomary hushed pattering of a crew of chambermaids, bell-hops ! and porters, to wake up in the i morning and find yourself amid the stillness of a village cemetery, . with the entire person!7Tel of Hie notel gon?- was'HW ex- ! perlence in a visit to the Hotel I Leland After awakening in the morning. I Mr. Smith and his companion, Ralph Kenworthy, found that they weren't able to get even a cup of coffee, as the coffee shop was also closed by the striking hotel employes. A lone desk clerk, evidently ( more loyal to his employers in stay-' ing at his post, was busily taking the keys and hotel rent of the hundreds of tourists, whose main desire was to get to a more ser-| viceable hotel, according to Mr. Smith. To climax the experiences, the Decatur men were stopped enroute home by state police searching for Michigan bank bandits. In approximatly 50 years on the road as a lumber dealer. Mr. Smith states that Tuesday's experience was the most unusual in his life. GLEE CLUB TO GIVE CANTATA I High School Glee Club To Present Cantata Sunday Night — i The program was announced toI day for the Easter cantata "Hosanna," to be given by the Decatur I high school glee club at the Zion Reformed church. Sunday night, March 21, at 8 o'clock. The program is sponsored by the | Decatur ministerial association. I The cantata will be directed by Miss Helen Haubold, instructor of music in the public schools. It ' was written by Roy E. Nolte. There will be no admission )charge nor offering for the program. The complete program is: Organ prelude—The Paints. Faure Invocation Rev. George Walton | Blessed is He Choir ) And They Took Jesus Lewis Smith and Choir ' Alleluia Siffg Ye Janet Schrock and Choir I Upon the First Day Girls' Chorus The Lord is Risen Indeed Choir The Dawn Divine Catherine Jackson and Choir A New Song Ctoir ' We Hail a Risen Lord Girls' Chorus |Serve Him Forever James Harkless, Lois Sovine and Choir Bells of Easter, Ring Jeanette Winnes and Choir Oh, Send the Word . Boys' Chorus Christ Arose! Choir Benediction - Rev. Charles Prugh (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) I

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, March 17, 1937,

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M. Clifford Townsend

Former Convict Is Sentenced To Life Noblesville, Ind., Mar. 17 <U.R) —James Loucks. 36, Cicero, a ■ former convict, was sentenced to; life imprisonment late yesterday I for an assault upon Robert Bell. I Arcadia lunchroom proprietor. Loucks pleaded not guilty to the I attack, in which the victim was i beaten with an iron bar. before I Judge C. M. Gentry of Hamilton j county circuit court. Edward Bowman. 21. an alleged I accomplice of Loucks, pleaded not ; guilty and will be tried later. DEVOSS DELAYS BANGS RELEASE Local Jurist Delays Ruling In Huntington Utility Case Huntington. Mar. 17.—Mayor C. W- IL Bangs- will uptnd at least another week in the Huntington , county jail where he has been a 1 prisoner since July 6 for refusal to disconnect private consumers of city current. Judge Huber M. De Voss of Decatur, special jurist in the second; , contempt action of the Northern Indiana Power company against the| mayor and others, delayed until 1 i Tuesday, March 23, his ruling on - the motion of Mayor Bangs for re-' lease from jail, and on the Infor-, mation of the N. I. P. against City Attorney Arthur D. Sayler, City ; Engineer James B. Vernon and Waterworks Superintendent S. 'Perry Hull, seeking their commitment for failure to disconnect in compliance with the order of Special Judge David E. Smith of Fort Wayne when he issued a permanent injunction August 16, 1935. against the city establishing itself as an electric utility. i Yesterday, Sayler, Vernon and i Hull were ordered to show cause j before Judge DeVoss why they I should not be committed to jail 1 for failure to comply with the court’s order. Sayler and Vernon, constituting the functioning board of public - works during the incarceration of ' Mayor Bangs, met in special session this morning and adopted an I order for city electricians to pull ) fuses of transformers of the out- ' lawed city utility. The order of ' the board and the contention that they had not Tfrected operation of the city utility formed the showing of Sayler and Vernon, and Hull filed a separate answer alleging he had no part in operation of the outlawed utility-jdnce July 6 when he resigned as utilities superintendent and was later named as waterworks superintendent without des(GGNTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) _O— Young Ohio Girl Is Sentenced To Jail Miriam Stanly, young Warren, Ohio girl, charged with stealing a puree from Mrs. Carl Mcßride at Berne Tuesday, was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to 10 days :n the Adams county jail when arraigned before Judge Huber M. DeVoss in circuit court late yesterday.

Good Friday Service

The Decatur Ministerial association, sponsoring the annual Three Hours service on Good Friday, March 26, has adopted the following resolution: "Whereas, It is the established custom of the Christian world to observe the day which commemorates the passion and death of Christ, with appropriate religious exercises, and "Whereas, there will be divine services in the churches of Decatur between the hours of twelve o’clock noon and three p. m.. "Therefore, be it resolved that we request the various places of business to close their doors during these hours, from twelve to three o'clock, and that we urge people of all communions to attend their I respective churches as the proper observance of this sacred day.”

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Dick D. Heller

ORDINANCE TO ) RESUBMITTED iCity To Regulate Tearing Up Streets, Also To Fix Fees — An ordinance regulating the tear- ; ing up of streets and fixing a fee for j making sewer, water and gas conI nections will lie Crafted by the; Board of Public works and safety j and submitted to the council for j paeeage. At last night's meeting of the; | council the boat'd was authorized to ) prepare an ordinance providing reg ) ulatory measures on digging up the i streets- Ralph Roop civil works I commissioner, spoke in behalf of i such a measure. The petition of Amos Ketchum j and Albert Beery for an extension of a sewer on Winchester street along their properties was filed and referred to the street and sewer committee The petitioners requested .permission to tap into the existing sewer and to construct nhorrr JW' feet ot six inch sewer. ( A petition from IH. P. Schmitt and . othera for the improvement of the! street from Elm and Niblick streets to Studabaker street, and to keep ) Nfiilick street open permanently. was filed and referred to the street ,) and sewer committee. A resolution was passed extend- ,, ing the time on the Freyn Brothers .(contract at the oity plant to Feb. . )ruary 25. conforming with the oth- ; er PWA changes orders. ■ No objections were filed against I'the North Tenth street ornamental . | light assessments- The final resolu-, ■ition was adopted and the assessi ment roll turned over to the city ■; treasurer for collection. : A certificate of approval of plans j and specifications for improvements ■ at the county jail was filed by ■ | Leighton Bowers, state architec'. - [ (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) , o MOOSETOHOLD UISTRICT MEET , Decatur Lodge VV ill Be II Host At District Meeting Saturday ' A district meeting, with represen- ) tatives from 17 lodges In northern [ Indiana in attendance, will be held i at the local Moose home Saturday s night with Adams lodge 1311, Loyal i Order of Moose as hosts. Delegations from lodges are ex- - pected to arrive early Saturday but • the official meeting w-ill not open until in the evening. The program for the meeting includes a prominent speaker, yet to ) be named, and other entertainment. ( I A luncheon will also be served In , the dining rooms of the lodge. Officers of the lodge under the direction of Lloyd Kreischer, dictator, will be in charge of the meet. All members are urged to attend. Committees are now completing arrangements for the meet, which is - expected to be one ot the largest of I the year at the local lodge.

SUPREME COURT JUSTICE HITS REFORM PLANS Justice Mcßeynolds Publicly Opposes Court Reform Plans Washington, Mar. 17 (U.R) - A tradition-shuttering denunciation of “wilful opportunism" by Justice James ('. Mcßeynolds spurred foes of judiciary reorganization today in their fight against President Roosevelt’s plan to enlarge the | supreme court. The 75-year-old associate justice delivered what appeared to be the 1 first pcditieally-significant address I by a member of the court since | Civil War days. He said that los- ' ers in a judiciary dispute should be "good losers" and assailed oneman governmental tendencies in an informal talk ala fraternity banquet. "There is." Mcßeynolds said, "a I strange restlessness, a strange desire to break away from that which is proved to rule or ruin." ) And again, the justice declared that the nation's government is too complicated to manage “intel- ; ligently" from a central point in Washington. “The man who can do it," he de- , dared, “has not been born." He defended, too, the independence of the judiciary, comparing it ito a delicate “balance wheel" In the complicated government machinery. "There is a strange disposition Ito forget that great injunction to , prove all things," Mcßeynolds added. "Whoever loses in a judiciary dispute should be a good loser." Foes of the Roosevelt judiciary i program hailed his remarks as I aiding their attack. Supporters of the president privately were inI dined to reply by referring to (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO, DREDGE MOTION IS FILED HERE Henry Heller Files Motion For Re-Hearing Os Dredge Case Another step in the long battle fought by the county and many property owners along the Wabash river to prevent the dredging of the stream at their expense, was made Tuesday when County Attori ney Henry B. Heller filed a motion with the state supreme court for a re-hearing of the case. I Attorneys for the remonstrators explained that this move was ' taken as a means of protection in case the act passed by the last session of the state assembly prohibiting the dredging, should be I found unconstitutional, or should be repealed at a later session of the assembly. The action of the state assembly did not take the case out of the 1 courts automatically. Today is the last day granted by the court to I file such a motion, and had it not ' been filed. the remonstrators would have lost future rights to ‘.continue the fight. | The motion was contained in a 40 page printed brief setting out | evidence against which it was ' claimed Special Judge Henry Kister erred in overruling motions filed by the remonstrators. The questions contained in the brief are numerous and chiefly of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) q Secretary Ickes Is 11l With Influenza Washington, March 17 —(UP) — Secretary of interior Harold LIckes was ill with influenza today and will not be abble to address the friendly charitable Irish societies in Boston tonight in support of the President’s court reorganization plan as he had planned. , o Instruction Meeting Held Last Evening The second instruction meeting of the workers in the religious visitation evangelism campaign being conducted here was held last night in the First Evangelical church. Reports from the pastors of the 11 churches cooperating in the survey disclosed that approximately 320 persons were enrolled as visitation workersDr. A. Earl Kernahan, of Washington. D. C„ will arrive in the city Sunday morning to take personal charge of the campaign, members of the local committee announced.

Governor s Day To Be Observed Here All Day Thursday

LOCAL PEOPLE IN MOVIES ON GOVERNOR DAY High School Contracts Picture Company To Be Here Thursday Moving pictures ot one of Decatur and Adams county's greatest events —Governor's Day—were assured toiday, when it was announced by W. Guy Brown, principal o fhte Decatur high school, that the school had contracted with a nationally known movie company to photograph the I ; entire event. Pictures of the reception com-1 mittee, including some of the city ) and county’s most distinuished per-; sonages. with Governor M. Clifford i Townsend and his official party, will be taken by the cameraman. Moving pictures ot city and county officials and visiting personalities will also be filmed before the arrival of the governor's party. All county officials have been asked to meet on the courthouse lawn; at 10 o’clock for the pictures and oity officials are asked to be ready; for the filming by 10:30 o'clock.! Interested persons ipredict that the pictures will become of considerable value in later years, since the scenes will include probably the greatest number of celebraties ever gathered in the city. The cameraman will return to the city later to film Decatur school ac- 1 tivities and functions. These scenes ) 1 combined with those filmed on Gov-1 ernor's Day, will al! .be formed .into i one pictureShown In April , The pictures will then be exhibiti ed on the screen of the Madison , theater on April 26 and 27. Capacity houses for the performances are) predicted, with local persons inter-1 ■ ested in seeing themselves filmed | among som of the state, city and ; county leading dignitaries. The film will be purchased by the 1 school and kept for showings in . . later years, when it will have be-) ( come of historic value. , Mr. Brown, as principal of the! ) school, arranged for the filming I ) and was today completing arrange-; ments for the event. .' o Legion, Drum Corps Sponsor Card Party I ; Adams post number 43 of the American Legion and the Legion drum •; I corps will sponsor a stag card party ~ at the Legion home Friday night at 8 o’clock. Admission will be 25 cents . per 'person. Tickets may be obtain- , ed ffom any member of the drum ,; corps. C ANCILLA SUES AFTER SEIZURE Attacker Os Wayne Coy Sues Prosecutor And Others Indianapolis. Ind., March 1(7 —Pete Cancilia. Indianapolis attorney indicted for assaulting state welfare director Wayne Coy in the state1 house March 1, today had filed suit for $25,000 damages against Herbert M. Spencer, Marion county prosecutor, and several others. 3 The suit was the outgrowth of a raid made on Canoilla's apartment ’! and law office in which the attorney’s -papers were seizezd for examination by the grand jury investigating the attack on Coy. Cancilia charged that the raid was made to "blackmail and emr harass” him. Spencer said, however, that the ; seizure was made on a search war- ■ rant issued by municipal judge » Charles Karabell and was legal in t every wayOthers named by Cancilia in the » suit were Al Lynch and Ray Seidel, - Spencer's Investigators who made r the raid, and an Indianapolis news- • paper. Date for the trial of Cancilla and - Joel Baker, former Marion county welfare director also indicted in 1 the Coy attack, may be set definites ly today. The trial date tentatively has been fixed for next Monday.

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Gov. Townsend And Other State Officials To Be Guests Os Decatur And Adams County. BANQUET FEATURE M. Clifford Townsend, chief ex- ; ecutive of the state of Indiana, will be Decaturs guest of honor Thursday The governor’s appearance in this city will be his first at a public meeting of this type since his induction into the highest office voters of Indiana can offer one of its citizens. The governor, accompanied by his secretary. Dick Heller; Earl Crawford, chairman of the state highway commission; Floyd I. McMurray, state superintendent of i public instruction; and Max TownI send, son of the governor; will ar- ) rive in Decatur at 11 o’clock. They will be welcomed by a re- , ception committee, headed by ' Huber M. DeVoss, judge ot the Adams circuit court: and Arthur R. Holthouse, mayor of Decatur. The governor will be the guest of farm leaders of the county at a noon luncheon, and at 1 o'clock will be the principal speaker at a mass farmers’ meeting in the cirI cuit court room. Mr. Crawford will be the guest at luncheon of John H. Heller and a committee; and the school committee. composed of C. E. Striker, Walter J. Krick, W. Guy Brown and Rev. Father J. J. Seimetz, will entertain Mr. McMurray. Following the circuit court room i meeting, the governor and his party will visit the Catholic and public - high schools The governor will then be con- ' ducted on an inspection tour of the city’s leading industries, the Homestead addition and other points ot interest fn Decatur. Banquet Feature The feature of the day's program will be the Governor’s banquet, to | be held at the Catholic school auditorium at 6:30 o’clock. A heavy advance ticket sale has j 'CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) PLAN DISTRICT MEETING HERE Holy Name Society To Hold District Meeting In Decatur Charles Miller, president of the lo- ; cal Holy Name society, announced at the conclusion of the regular meeting last night that the district convention of the society will be held in the Decatur K. of C. hall Sunday and Monday, April 11 and 12. Nearly a ecore of societies in northeaster nlndiana are expected to send delegations to the local convention. The convention will open Sunday morning with the delegates meeting at the K- of C. hall 'o march in parade form to the St. St. Mary's Catholic church where they will attend solemn high mass, | the Rev. Father Joseph J. Seimetz celebrating. On Monday night the convention meeting will be held in the K- ot C. hall with a memorial service for departed members of both the Holy Name society and the Knights o£ Columbus. The complete program, including a prominent speakers, for the balance of the two-day program, will bbe announced at a later date. Members of the local committee and officers of the order launched convention last year was held in Fort Wayne with one of the largest attendances recorded in history ot the organization. Witnesses Give Testimony Today Witnesses for the plaintiff took the larger part of today’s court action In the suit brought by Louis [A. Jetters, seeking to oust the guardian of Mae Rice, of Portland. ■ Testifying as to the actions and general conversation of Mae Rice, ; two neighbors and a community storekeeper were called to the stand i this afternoon to testify before a . jury of seven men end five women hearing the case. The guardianship i was established in 1934 when Miss ■ Rice was admitted to the Easthaven ■, hospital. Later she was discharged I as Improved-