Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 75, Decatur, Adams County, 29 March 1937 — Page 5

“*l*oo DUTIES ! w COMMITTEE ■ I)cbt Adjustment ; Wnmittee l’ u,,es Arc Expanded l ' B _ . <u.R) |B v.’M.T.lay of M 1 ■ T^W. ■■ ■ 8... ." . it? . . '" " l " K ■ ' ..lab man | , L , Ib-nry F " ' 1 succssor. suggt'«ii"i‘ 11 Hili' ' l ’ h “" i ' 1 ” s,i ‘"‘ H,A adjusted 1!i; ... "i' .. r. ■ Il Thompson, Indianapolis, farm • L editor: A S. Thomas. Indi-j farm bureau; Sen. Floyd J. mer. Huntingburg; Randolph , Franklin, federal land bank ■ jor; Miller C. Kent, Brook-j hanker, and E. H Shideler ' i rural rehabilitation director ; settlement administration. ———o COMPANIES TO STINTED FROM TAGg ONE) ’ ids at their source. e farmers' committee is made i [the following men: I-eo Me- !'• I.'hiiiai:. Bt nj 1) . ■ - till, same 3 JOHN L. LEWIS — IJtOMJ’AGF ONE_)_ an immediate public opin ' < B j - I I " A- to Hi under ust lau s.

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i challenged the statement that the | federal government cannot Intervene. pies asserted that federal stat--1 ntes provide that whenever any domestic violence within a state obstructs execution of law so us to deprive Its citizens of protection and If state authorities refuse such protection. It la mandatory upon the president to "ttflfe such steps as he may deem necessary for the suppression of such domestic violence." Attack Sit-Down Washington, Mar 29 (U.R). The ' sit-down strike labor's newest weapon in industrial controversies |—today was attacked from two | sources—one representing labor, ; the other capital Statements commenting on siti downs rami' from President WilI Ham Green of the American Fedlocation of Labor and from the | National Association of Manufacturers. i Green condemned the new tech- | nique as “illegal," warned that it i would bring "permanent injury" to i trade unionism, and called upon I workers to disavow it as an I economic weapon It was the first time the federa- | tion's position had been disclosed ; Green said that such strikes would not be supported by public opinion and ultimately would force enactment of legislation providing for compulsory arbitration, incorporation of labor unions, and other "repressive" laws "I therefore publicly warn against this illegal procedure,” he said. “Both personally and off!- ' dally I disavow the sit-down ; strike as a part of the economic I and organization policy of the ! American Federation of Labor." The manufacturers’ association through Its legal department mad? an analysis of the sit down strike. *it said, after secretary of labor i Frances Perkins publicly had stat- : ed that "the sit down strike has not I yet been proved to be illegal." The association listed four possiI bilities for recourse by employers 1 from sit-downs: | 1. Self help by ejectment, using , no more force than is necessary. 2. Criminal actions for trespass. | conspiracy, extortion, forcible dis- ' seisin, and malicious injury to propel ty. 3. Civil actions for damages 4. Injunctions to restrain illegal conduct. The two statements were issued less than 24 hours after President Roosevelt had conferred with con gressioual leaders on industrial j problems arising from sit-downs. After the meeting, senate majority leader Joseph T Robinson. eon-sidit'-d an administration spokespffiti? said there was‘no way th" ! federal government could intervene ’in the situation unless federal I laws were violated !. _ Adams County Memorial Hospital Dismissed Sunday: Mrs. James Cline. Warsaw; Mrs. Charles Van Gundy, Wren, Ohio. Admitted this morning: Miss Marie Zeser, 904 High street, John William Mankey, route 2. Decatur.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1937.

Pastor Quizzed in Cabin Death —•- Jb f IBr’*' *** WBr 1 * r Ww a ? Wk ■ Lillian Householder

Discovery of the semi-nude body of Mrs. Lillian Householder, formerly of Medina. O-. in a lonely cabin near Greensburg. Ta., led to the questioning of the Rev Charles E Haley of Canton. O shown abov« with Mrs. Householder in a recent photo taken of the two together. •

KILLS CHILDREN, I 9 TAKES OWN LIFE Young Mother Strangles Daughters, Commits Suicide 5 Aurora. 11l . Mar. 29. <U.R> -Fourteen words which told all of a ; young mother's heart-broken loneliness gave police their only clue today to an Easter Sunday tragedy which cost four lives. Mrs. Jeannette Martin, 28, strangled her three young daughters, then hanged herself. Beside their ' bodies was a note: "Pretty good! Johnny has kids 1 and can't even send them a card 1 at Easter." "Johnny" was her husband, for 1 liter cigar stole clerk and WPA employe. He has worked infrequently for two years. Five days ago, from Centralia. 111., he sent her a postcard reading. ' “I’m going to Texas to look for a job." 1 Mrs. Martin concealed Iter loneliness Easter morn as she dressed Betty Jean. 3, Olga Jeanette, 2. , and Joan, three months, tn their I newest and best dresses. She took them to the United ! Presbyterian church, where the Rev. WilliainNeebe baptized them. ’ She smiled happily, seemed proud 1 of her daughters’ clothes. But when she took her daughters ' back to their small apartment 1 home, she was overcome by memolies. Police believed she became temporarily insane. Mrs. Martin strangled her daughters. apparently with a rope. She laid them on the family bed, side by side, still in their Easter dresses. She strung a clothesline from a door casing to a window casing, looped it about her neck, took her own life. The tragedy was discovered Easter afternoon by the children s grandmother. Mrs. Elsie Rober. and her sister, Mrs. E. J. Smith, when they went to the Martin home to visit. Mt NUTT LEAVES ICOM INI KD FROM FAGE ONW>_ Keene will bold secretarial positions. The McNutts visited Blooming ton. their former home, over the week end and spent yesterday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John McNutt, of Martinsville. McNutt is expected to remain in the Philippines one year and re turn here to campaign for the 1910 Democratic presidential nomination. EASTER BRINGS ICON TIN IT KI > FROMPAGKJJNBI ! allsts reported. Army officers said the fliers had apparently mistaken the town for nearby Andujar, headquarters of the loyalist forces ill that area. Deserters, crossing over to the : government lines, told loyalist officers that the nationalists lost 200 i casualties in the Easier day fighting at Pozoblanco and that Italian reinforcements were being brought up from t’ordobu and Penarroya. There was no cessation of lightI ing in the rich mining area. Nationalist aviation violently bombed Pozoblanco r -puledly on orders of Gen Francisco Franco, insurgent leader, that the town must be destroyed but there were no civilian cusualti-ts as all mmcombatanls had be, t evacuated. The loyalist high command gave the nationalist forces no chance to complete plans for a counter-offen-4ve. M ith the return of more favorable weather, nearly 100 planes

soared back und forth over insur-1 gent territory dropping bombs on hundrdes of square miles during ■ the holidays, farmy reports said. ■ Troop concentrations especially ■ were bombed and machine-gunned I where ever located on the Huesca, Saragosa, Alcaracejoe, Altnudever, 5 Belchite. Vival and Del Rio fronts. o Jennings Is Appointed State WPA Administrator u Washington, Mar. 29. fU.RJ — :■ Works Progress Administrator! e Harry L. Hopkins today appointed y John K. Jennings, of Evansville, Ind., to succeed Wayne Coy as In-] ;■ diana state WPA administrator. >. Jennings has been deputy ad r ministrator, and his elevation is ’ subject to confirmation by the sen- 1 s ate. Coy resigned to become add ministrativc assistant to Paul V.' McNutt, high commissioner to the Philippine Islands. It was untjer- \ stood Coy was leaving today for ' San Francisco preparatory to sail-, s ing. t —o Bill Tilden Again Defeated By Perry il Chit ago. Mar. 29.—KU.R> Bill Til- !. den won a set from Fred Perry, but r couldn't keep up the pace, and lost his second professional tennis; il match to tile English ace last e night. i. The scores were: 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 11-i il 9. I Tilden tired noticeably after s carrying the third set to 44. fie t forced the final set to deuce six i-; times before double faulting for the e deciding points. I in doubles, Perry and Ellsworth I Vines defeated Tilden and Vincent J; Richards. 10-8, 6-3. • j Trainmen Escape Injury In Wreck Dunkirk. Ind., Mar. 29.— (U.R) — I Trainmen escaped serious injury s late last night when a westbound Pennsylvania freight train of the Columbus-Logansport division was 1 wrecked two miles west of here. Cars were piled higher than telegraph poles along the right-of-way and 31 were completely demolished. Officials said a broken rail caused the accident. , o Jay County Attacker Dies At Penal Farm Portland, hid.. Mar. 29.— (U.R) — Walter Crampton, 80, died at the state penal farm in Putnainville, Sheriff Charles Intel learned yesterday. Crampton was convicted ! here March 12 of assaulting David Fudge, superintendent of the Jay county poor farm, while Fudge was trying to discipline him. Ho was fined $250 and sentenced to six months in jail but faced a year's term because he could pay his fine.; o — Seven Are Injured In Three-Car Crash I Anderson. Ind . Mar. 29 (U.R> Seven persons were injured, one' seriously, in a three-car automobile collision live miles southwest of here on state road 67 last night. | Milton Romine, 32, Anderson, suffered a broken neck in the crash. His wife and Mr. and Mrs. Clay Frost, living near Anderson, and three unidentified persona were brought to a hospital here,; suffering minor injuries. 1 —o Boy Growing Up, Here’s, Proof Warsaw, Ind.,—(UP)— Jack Hamlin, of Etna Green, is growing tupHe advertised -!n a Warsaw paper to trade two toy locomotives, two switches, three passenger ears, six freight care, aud 40 sections of track for a clarinet or saxophone.

NINE MINERS DIE IN BLAST Nine Are Killed in Mine Blast In Pennsylvania Saturday Dubois, Pa., March 29 —(UP)— After recovering bodies of nine miners killed in an explosion in the shaft of the Northwest Mining and Exchange company at Kramer, company officials and deput leu of the state bureau of minoe today sought to learn the cause of the blast. The victims were brought to the surface late last night after 200 rescue workers, fighting gas and fires, had spent their Easter Sun- j day in rescue work. The blast rocked the shaft, eight miles south of Dubois, late Saturday i night. The victims Were identified as: I Wiliam Laird, 43. of Big Run, assistant n>:ne foreman. Wiliam McCracken, 42, Stump Creek, General inside mine foreman. | Steve Yasencrack, 29. Stump, Creek, section foreman. John McHenry. 49, Deßoie, R. R. 2,1 section foreman. , Francis Dixon, 43, Dußois, section ; formeman. Thomas Heberling. 46, Dubois, section foreman ; George H‘ll, 30, Dußois, section foreman. i Andrew' O'Connor. 54, Puuxsutaw- 1 ney, section foreman. William Lewis, 59, Punxsutawney, section foreman. The mine normally employed 1200 men but only the foreman and sec-1 tion foremen were at work Satur-’ day, because of the mine holiday, preparing the workings for the r,eg-; , ular shift Monday morning. 0 SUPREME COURT rpoM -QWjj < tional. Both were unanimous de I i visions. It held the national fire | (arms act constitutional and upheld I the conviction of grocer George Miller on perjury charges, growing : out of his 1930 primary venture against the veteran Nebraska senator. George W. Norris. The court's reversal on the minimum wage question was made possible by the shift of ustice Owen J Roberts from the so-called conservI ative court group to vote with the I chief justice and Justices Louis D ; Brandeis, Harlan F. Stone and I Benj. N. Cardozo in upholding the regulatory rights of the state. The i decision was received with an odd | silence in the sumptuous court chamber where the historic significance of tile reversal was quick- ; ly noted. I "We are of the opinion," said Hughes, "that this ruling of the l state court demands on our part a re-examination of the Adkins case." He quickly swept ahead to point 1

WHY NOT FOLLOW THEJ Signs of Spring? SIGNS OF SPRING cannot be overlooked, even by the most self-centered individual. They are too many, too varied and insistent. Birds that return, hedges that pop into leaf, and a restless stirring in human hearts. But there are other Signs of Spring that point the way to increased happiness along all the trails of Sum mer—the advertisements in this newspaper. Think of them as guideposts to value. If you overlook these signs, you will spend without adequate information about new things, better products, more beautiful and satisfying merchandise. These advertisements, truly, are the official reports to you by the best manufacturers of the nation, who season by season combine science and art with vast resources to place better things at your disposal. And every time, the advertisements speak with authority. They are signed by firms of standing and reputs. You can trust them .. and profit well by them.

to the "don dlvlalmi by which ! the decision In the Adkins case! was reached" and to the "economic condition which has supervened” I The factors, he dtdared. "make it not only appropriate, but we think imperative, that in deciding the. present case the inject should re- ’ [ceive fresh couaideratlon." Chang-; ed social conditions, said Hughes,' require that the court note the; right of the state to invoke “the 1 protection of law against the evils ; i which menace the health, safety,: ' morals and welfare of people.” The implication of the court's ac-' tion. it was felt, could not fail to be sweeping It was thought likely the minimum wage decision together with the decisions holding j valid other new deal statutes, might easily have sharp effect on President Roosevelt's proposed alteration in the court. The rail labor decision upheld the law. en- ] acted in 1934, on a broad basis, I contending that collective bargaingovernmental power in the Utting was a legitimate exercise of ; questioned field of Inter-state comi merce. It gave little hint of what i the court’s action might be in the five pending tests of the Wagner relations act. The court held that the railway I labor act, passed under the com- | merce clause of the constitution, was a proper measure to protect interstate commerce from interruptions due to labor disputes. The decision Indicated that 1 “back-shop” employes — those working on railroad equipment not then directly operating in Interstate commerce—were properly included within the legislation, a question raised by the Virginian ’ Railway Co. The decision also served to uphold the collective bargaining pro-! ; visions of the law which the car-1 rier had challenged as an invasion I of its right of contract. The court's decision was unanimous It was written by liberal i Justice Harlan F. Stone and was 20 pages long. The Frazier-Lemke law was passed to replace a similar statute which the court held unconstitu-; I tional in the spring of 1935. | Like the earlier law, the act was designed to permit insolvent farmers to adjust their debts and to retain possession of their property ; for a three year period during which they might redeem it. The supreme court reversed a decision of the fourth circuit , court of appeals that the law was unconstitutional. The court's ruling against the ; original Frazier-Lemke act was based on the finding that it did not afford mortgage holders adequate compensation while awaiting redemption of the property by the farmer. The earlier law was passed at a time when farm mortgage foreclosures were subject of much economic thought. While not sponsored by the Roosevelt administration, it was signed by the president after considerable delay. Following the condemnation of; I the earlier law Rep. William

’ Lemke, R„ N. D, sponsored a new I law seeking to meet the objections set forth by the court in its earlier opinion. Like the earlier act it provided a new section to the bank ruptcy law known as section 755. The act provided that an InsoL 1 vent farmer might seek the aid of ; a cotisiliation commission to seek I an extension of time in meeting his ; debts and to compromise them in ; amount. A provision was made ’ whereby the farmer also might pay a rental on the fair value of the property, remaining, on it and tilling the land. He would be entitled to redeem the property any Hine within three years, the property remaining, in the meantime, within the control of the federal district court. — ■■ ■ o FORMER BERNE (CONTINUEp FROIS:.PAGE southeast of Berne. Otic half-sis-ter, Mrs. J. L. Westrich, of Long Island, New York survives. Two brothers, David and Amos preceded, also the husband and the parents. Franklin Franz of this city, is a nephew of the deceased. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Middlebury. Ohio, H. E. church. Burial was made there at M-iddlebury. o , Roosevelt’s Son To Be Married June 30 Willmlngton. Del., March 29 — Ethel Du Pont and Frank lin D. j Roosevelt, Jr., son of the President, i will be married at Wilmington June' ! 30, the prospective bride's mother announced today. Mrs. Eugene Du Pont said the : ceremony would be tn the afternoon at Christ Protestant Episcopal church near Wilmington. After the ceremony, a reception will be held at the Owl’s nest, the Eugene Du Pont estate. Mrs. Du ; Pont said further details of the I wedd'ng woud be announced later. It was understood that the President and other members of the Roosevelt family would attend. o -■ Hearing On Bangs’ Appeal Set April 2 — Huntington. Ind., March 29 —(UP) Judge Otto H. Krcig of Huntington circuit court today set April 2 for hearing Mayor Care W. H. Bangs’ appeal from impeachment by the I city council. The council voted impeachment of the Mayor after finding him guilty of “misconduct" in connection with his long fight with the Northern Indiana Power company centered around the tiny municipal electric plant. Bangs had spent 263 days in jail ' on contempt charges since he became mayor Jan. 1, 1935 because he launched the city plant in competition with the power company in defiance of a court injunction. o trade In a Good Town — Decatur

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DIXIE SOLONS FAVOR REFORM Southern Governors, Solons Favor Court Reform Measure Washington, March 29 —(UP) — The administration called <> n a southern Senator today to carry forward the drive for enactment of President Roosvelt’a judiciary reorganization (program. Encouraged by the week-end radio addresses of four southern governors. supporters of the plan looked forward to a speech on the senate floor today by Sen. Kenneth MeKellar, D„ Tenn., in defense of the measure. They will call on the south again tomorrow when Senate majority leader Joseph T. Robinson, as Arkansas, is cheduled to make a radio address in supiport of the program. In between speeches by McKellar and Robinson, however, will come a vigorous attack on the proposed supreme court enlargement by one of the administration's bitterest critics, the veteran Sen. Carter Gass, of Virginia. Glass’s hour address tonight over 1 a national network (Columbia 9:10 p. m. (CSTI will be In direct contrast to the only other political ! speech he has ever made over the Radio. His initial appearance was 1 Nov. 1. 1932, when he denounced the Hoover administration and urged reeection of Mr. Roosevelt. ’ Since then Glass has criticized many Roosevelt policies. Friends said that he planned to vigorous attack on any change in the supreme court. —o W. C. T. U. Institute At Geneva Thursday The W. C. T. U. county institute, including Berne, Geneva and Decatur will be held April 1 in Geneva. There will be afternoon and eveni ing sessions. ' The state president, .Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley, will be the evening speaker and interesting programs ‘ have been planned for both sessions •18. 1 nJ VaxL - The Morning After Taking Carters Little Liver Pills ...j"— l . ">