Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1937 — Page 1

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■IBIE COURT JIIHELAVS <BBB RUUNG M nl e Court Again Hpones Ruling On H Wagner Act ■■ upi J r M- !:•■'in'l'li today K",l'ffar.-d text of K. . I^K,., :l ‘ a ' ** | t!( , I's ~„t«' - -'i ■'«•'>■ reasoning |K r forded f ll "' nglit of in ■< dissent r i: |K | 1 «’"• 11 |Mh tot “* pettr offenders . . . .. 1t..-.- j..tri.-<l M. |Kj, .1, the ■ ! S'- ' "Id' I' «as 'h> a lll '' day .. , >h*‘ Next Monday is now -...- li tli" Wag -. lionni-ed _ .on without trial of un jE. f '" »jfor . |K within Hut »■’ eaniot ’lf'-ns. said ■K tick-t selling What IS ' li eonie of the , • of the Jit . S \-h amendment i t ight of trial by; K 'l..s tt.eat. that she may - t ight to harges. to be ■ ■ ■ trial have counsel’" ' ‘.a. k . -libera! > •ment of the on page three) PER. SON I ARE ARRESTED Bill' Fined Here. Father ■’lead' Not Guilty At £ Bluffton theft (1 f wine from private ”■ r ■ ii> li township and >mty lesnlted today in the it a father and son. One .o" . .J l(1 Wells county and here. Frauhiger. 19, the son. St.ed fi and costs when arbefore .Mayor Arthur R - ■” n a charge of petit larceny ■’as charged w ith stealing a gal ■ wine, valued at $4. from the of Reuben Gerber in French 81-'B 1 -' his father, Amos ■uitlger, 46. was being arraigned Hells circuit court on a ■t> of second degree burglary. not guilty and was reto the jad under bond. is charged with stealing a ■ ' ° r blackberry wine from the B MICI ' of Harry Dubach in Wells near the Adams Wells B‘y line. B'! 1 . 11 th « admonition that he ■“id furnish plenty of milk to F instead of wine." a farmer poyer of young Frauhiger paid I ne imposed on the youth, ounting to sl6 80. nival Meetings At Chattanooga, 0. leritt of revival meetings will at 8 o’clock in the '*noog a , Ohio M. P. church e Rev. Eivln Thornburg, pasthe Winchester Friends cn ' »s evangelist. “TOer Hawbaker, of the Berne derwitn'Ju^ 11, wlll act aa eong with the Rev. y. r. Ratcliffe, dial t” c . harge ot th « revivals. A tn th' nV talion 1138 been extend'd the public, U *M Addition To Comet Diner J add!non VThe rear of the n. . er 18 being constructed to || e<i as a dining room. Tables Well a et UP antl the rooni will being a COra,e<l - Th€ c °" 8 suction y Ff S vh dOne wlth cemen ‘ blocks, is proprietor of the

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Leads Services E 1 ■Ln £ \ j| I- V -A Uw ■ ■ -ll Rev. Kenneth Timmons The Rev Kenneth Timmons, pas tor of the First Christian church, i will conduct evangelistic services I at the local church each evening this week, starting tonight at 7.36 o’clock WILL DEDICATE GENEVA SCHOOL New Geneva School Will Be Formally Dedicated Wednesday Formal dedication of the new Geneva school building will be held in the auditorium of the building Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock ; The new building was first occupied by students last fall It replaces the former building, termed hazardous by the state board of health and the state department of public Instruction Principal addresses on the dedi 1 ’atory program will be delivered by Forest M. laxgan. state director of the public works adtninistra lion; J. William Bosse, assistant state superintendent of public in- | strucliou. and Kenneth F Shoemaker. (A-neva banker. The building, constructed with • the aid of a PWA grant, has a basement and a first and second floor i The first floor contains eight ' grade rooms, principal's general and private office, and rest rooms Also on the first floor is a com . raunity auditorium, equipped with a stage, and also built for use as a gymnasium. The second floor has two grade rooms, a high school assembly room, library, six class rooms and , rest rooms The basfitnent contains boil§r. room, shower and dressing rooms for boys and girls, manual and domestic science departments The dedication program will open at 7:30. with music by the orchestra. The Rev. W. B. Fallis will lead in prayer. Following the addresses by Mr. Shoemaker, Mr Logan and Mr Bosse, the meeting will close with benediction by Rev. I. L. Curts. o WEATHER Cloudy, rain south portion, colder tonight; Tuesday becoming generally fair. SOCIETY PLANS DISTRICT MEET Holy Name Society District Convention Here Sunday, Monday Martin Johnson, former president of the United Holy Name societies of Fort Wayne, will be the chief speaker at the district convention of the society .which will be held in this city in the Decatur K. of C. ' hall, Sunday and Monday. April 11 and 12. The selection of the speaker was announced today by Charles Mili ler, president of the local society, i The complete program for the meeting will be announced later i in the week. Nearly a score of societies in j northeastern Indiana will be repre- ■ sented at the meeting by special j delegations. The convention will open Sunday mornnig with those In attendance meeting at the Knights of I Columbus hall to march to the St. ; I Mary’s church in a body to attend solemn high mass, with the Rev. Father Joseph J. Seimetz officiat- ! ing. A memorial service on Monday I night for the departed members of the society and the Knights of Columbus is also being planned by the committee In charge.

LOYAL FORCES POUNDING AT REBEL LINES Spanish Loyalists Inflict Heavy Casualties From Planes By Louis F Keemle t United F’ress Cable Editor) The Spanish loyalists, dominant I lin the air and gaining on land, I I pounded at the insurgents over a wide area today Spectacular air raids were car-1 ried out from the Madrid area to I the south coast, causing heavy . ! damage and casualties to the rebel ! forces. The air raids were marked by i the technique which is one of the new modes of warfare developed in this strife airplanes against inj fantry Fleet planes, mounting six I machine guns and called "flying machine gun nests," swooped low ' over the rebel lines, spraying the troops with bullets. Bombers attacked truck convoys, troop trains, bridges, railroad stations and other strategic points. The loyalists were definitely on the offensive in all the southern t region, and making progress. In i the north, the rebels were puMlng I up a desperate fight and little ad vantage could be claimed by either I side The nationalist lines defending Burgos, the rebel capital in the I north, held firm against a powerful ' i loyalist drive, which they halted .by counter-attacks A parallel situation existed at Bilbao, the important seaport on the Bay of Biscay. where the loyalists counterattacked and slowed down the I I rebel drive. • Internationally, the situation was 1 unchanged The 27 nations taking j i I part in the non-intervention agree-' i ment began organizing their "con- , trol" and blockade of Spain by land ; and sea to prevent the landing of more foreign "volunteers.” Reports that the Italians recent ( I ly had landed 10.000 more men at I Cadiz, and that they had a iarge (CONTINUED ON PAGE BIX) DEATH CLAIMS MRS. REPPERT •’ . I Mrs. Fred Reppert Dies Suddenly At Lexington, Ky., Hospital Mrs. Adella Reppert. 56, wife of •j Col. Fred Reppert and one of De- | catur and Adams county's best ' known residents, died suddenly at the St Josepn hospital in Lexing ton, Kentucky, last night at 8:10 o’clock, according to word received here. The news of her de'hth came as a shock to friends and relatives who uid not realize the serious ness of her illness. In the company of her daughter, Eleanor, and Miss Helen Kirsch, | R.N., a niece, she had gone to the Lexington hospital about two months ago for medical treatment. She had been in ill health for some | time. The causue of her death was complications- t The deceased was born in Bell-j mont. Illinois, the daughter of Mathias and Amanda Langenbach'er Kirsch, both deceased. She I moved with her parents to this ' county when but a young girl, and | spent the rest of her life in this , city. Thfrty-flve years ago she was married to Fred Reppert, nationally known auctioneer, of this city. She was a devout member of the Zion Reformed church. Until illness forced her to retire, she was an active leader in the ladies' aid and missionary societies of the church. At the fime of her death she was an associate member of : the Woman’s club. She was thought to be improv-! ' Ing from an operation which had been performed at the hospital, when she suddenly suffered a relapse and died. Surviving, besides the husband, Fred, are two children: the daughter, Eleanor, at home and Rolland, a student at Heidelberg college, ‘ Tiffin, Ohio. Two brothers, O. L. Kirsch, local lumber dealer and Harold Kirsch, of the Mutschler Distributing company, also survive. z The body was expected to be re-| turned here late this afternoon in the Zwick & Son ambuThnce. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. The family requests that flowers be omittedFuneral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock ■ at the Zion Reformed church.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 5, 1937.

Coal Miners Win Demands I Peace came to the bituminous coal industry in twelve states when Charles O'Neill, representing the operators, signed a two-year agreement with John L. Lewis, chief of the United Mine Workers and the CI O. Four houndred thousand miners liegan a "silent strike" before the negotiations were concluded The miners won many of their demands. including time and a half for overtime, a first-time concession by i the operators The picture shows the negotiators signing, Lewis at left and O’Neill at right

DOG OWNERS TO BE REFUNDED I To Be Refunded Tax Money; Name Mauller To Tax Board i Dog owners of Adams county will , be refunded more than S2OO in taxes as a nwult of a special act of the legislature, reducing the taxes on ma'e dogs from $1.50 to sl, it was announced to township assessors and trustees at a joint meeting held Saturday in the court house. The announcement of the reduction in price has been received by County Assessor Ernes* Worthman It Is estimated that more than 400 persons have already paid taxes on male dogs for 1937. Those desiring the 50 cent refunds may obtain them by seeing the persons who aseeeeed them. Other rates will remain the same. These are: spayed females. $1; unspayed females, $3; each additional dog. $5; kennels with more than 15 doge. $25; and kennels with lees than 15 dogs. sio. A change in the law this year, will turn the money i collected from kennel fees into the township dog tax fund«s instead of the state conservation department. Mauller Appointed At the same meeting the trustees | eelected Howard Manlier Union' townehip trustee as its representa- ■ tive on the county tax adjustment, board. Mr. Mauller hae served tn l this capacity for the last two years. This is the first year that this appointment has been made by the — • j ((CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 0 GENEVA WOMAN HURT IN WRECK , Mrs. William Bruhn Hurt In Accident Sunday Evening Mrs. William Bruhn, of Geneva, is confined to her home from injurI iee received in an auto accident 1 Sunday evening, when the car. driven by her hueband, collided with an auto, driven by William Childs, of Pennville. The accident occurred at the intersection of federal roads 22 and 27, north of Portland. Miss Eleanor Gruhn and Mrs. Mary Wheat, daughters of the injured lady and Don Aspy, also of Geneva, riding iin the Bruhn car, were uninjured, j Although the extent of Mrs. Bruhn’s injuries has not been definitely determined, it is known that she is suffering from a severe back Injury. I The occupants of the other car were also uninjured. An ambui lance took the injured lady to her home. Elks Will Install Officers Wednesday New officers of the Decatur B. i P. O Elks lodge will be Installed at the regular meeting Wednesday I night at 8 o'clock. The new officers are headed by Bert Gage, exalted ruler. Fred Schurger. a past exalted i ruler, will preside as installing officer. A luncheon will be served following the installation cerei monies.

Myer’s Condition Is Reported Unchanged — The condition of Bernard "Mongo” Myers, former Decatur man injured in Indianapolis early Thursday morning, was reported to be unchanged today. He is still in a critical condition at the city hospital in Indianapolis, where the crash occurred. He has never regained consciouness since the time of the accident, when he drove hie truck into a moving freight trainSCOUT WORKERS MEET TONIGHT Annual Boy Scout Financial Drive To Be Held Tuesday Final plans for Boy Scout day will be made at a meeting to be held in the Rice Hotel this evening at 6:15 o'clock. Walter Gladfelter, chairman of the finance committee, announced today. Saturday. Boy Scouts in uniform, distributed letters to all persons who contributed to the campaign last year. These will be contacted first by 40 workers, who have , volunteered to help. A goal of S6OO. an increase of ! SIOO, has been set for this year's I campaign. The money collected in Adams j county each year is added to that donated by the area council, to finance the Scout program. Growing Interest in the Scout program has been manifest in recent years i and the enrollment of 102 now exceeds the all-tiAie record for boys taking part in the program. A large part of the interest has been due to the establishment of a Scout city here. This is located lat the Hanna-Nuttman city park, i and is considered one of the finest -in the state. The boys are to be ! housed in cabins and tents, and will have the use of the facilities at the park for over-night, and week-end hikes as well as regular troop meetings. This is one of the j (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ADAMS COUNTY i MEN ARE FINED — Two Men Are Fined And Sentenced In Bluffton City Court Two men, one from Adams county, were fined and sentenced in the Bluffton city court this morning on charges of drunken driving. I Ed Neuenschwander, Bluffton, route one and Ora "Buck” Neuenschwander. of near Monroe, were fined $lO and costs each and sentenced to 30 days in the Wells county jai. The sentences were not suspended and the court ordered that if the I fines were not paid, the sentences and fines must be served out in the penal farm. Both of the men were arrested Sunday afternoon near ißluffton by Patrolman Truman Blerie, of the state police, and Bluffton city authoritties. A case of beer and five ducks | were confiscated by the arresting ' officers from the car of the two men.

REVISED PLAN IS SUBMITTED FOR BUILDING File Application To Reduce Size Os SchoolCommunity Building A revised application reducing the size of the proposed high school and community building in Decatur has been filed with the PWA in Indianapolis, by the Decatur school board, through A. M Strauss, architect of Fort Wayne. The tentative plans are based on an estimated cost of approximately $245,006 The school board seeks a 45 percent grant from the PWA, which if granted will bring the local contribution down to I $135,200 The school city would bond it- ■ self for $85,200 and the civil city would be asked to contribute $50,000, the maximum amount permitted under the law for contributing to a school project. The plans for the building are so designed that additions to the com-1 munity center and school building can be made later, according to a letter written by Mr Strauss to F M Logan, state director of the PWA. Increased building costs and | President Roosevelt's statement relative to rising costs for heavy building material, such as steel and other basic commodities, might mean the rejection of Decatur’s application. Construction of school and other public buildings through support of PWA grants may be curtailed within the next year, government officials vouch The letter to Mr. Logan, from | Mr. Strauss, explaining the revised I application reads: Re: State File No. Ind. 1423 School City of Decatur New School Building Legal Dear Sir: I am enclosing herewith the fol-1 | lowing in connection with the re-1 vised application reducing the I scope of the project on the above . thicket: Five copies of application for I grant. Five copies of data supporting i grant application Two copies of financial information form No. 218. Three copies of cubage data sheet. Three sets of revised plans. Three eete of revised specifics-! tions. Five copies of letter from the superintendent of schools setting forth the need of the gymnasium. As previously advised, the attorneys have decided that the bond issue from the civil city above the $50,000.00 can not be legally justified therefore we have reduced the project by eliminating certain class rooms and reducing the size of the gymnasium slightly so as to bring the cost down to the avail-! able funds upon which there is no (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) LOCAL MAN'S BROTHER DIES Dr. Valentine K. Grim Dies Sunday At Home Os Daughter Dr. Valentine K. Grim, 79, retired i veterinarian of New Haven, and a brother of Jacob Grim of Decatur, | died Sunday afternoon at the home of a daughter. Mrs. Chester Ruhl, New Haven. Dr. Grim resided in Hoagland before moving to New Haven and also lived many years in Wells county. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. ' Mary Grim; one son. Lacy Grim of Columbus; one daughter, Mrs. Ruhl; nine grandchildren, seven great grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Malinda Burns, Fort Wayne; and four brothers, Jacob of Decatur, Charles of Ossian, Oliver and Dallas of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at the Ruhl home in New Haven Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Burial will be made in the Elhanan cemetery near Ossian. o Commissioners In Monthly Meeting The county commissioners today met in their regular monthly meeting in the court. Most of today’s session was occupied by the following of the claims against the county. Tuesday the board will receive bide for a heating plant, repairs and | equipment for 4he county jail.

Report Airliner Is Missing With Eight On Board

SELECT JURORS OF APRIL TERM Grand And Petit Juries Are Drawn For April Court Term Grand and petit jurors for the April term of the Adame Circuit court were selected this morning by Henry F. Gallmeyer, Democrat. Forrest Elzey, Republican, and G. Remy Bierly, county clerk who act as the board of jury commissionersThe April term will open next Monday. The court is in vacation thin week, the February term having been concluded Saturday afternoon. Members of the grand jury are; Catherine Clausen Berne; Ray E. Butcher. Wabash township; David F. Miller, Root township; Fred CHancher, Decatur; Louise F. Fuhrman. Preble, and Edison Sprunger, Berne. Hembers of the petit jury are: Sherman Archer, St. Mary’s township. Cora Kiser, Hartford township; Florence C. Lawson, Washington township; Kenneth Arnold. Kirkland township; John Roth, Kirkland township; Amos Steiner, French township; William Adang. Jefferson township; Martin Schroeder, Preble township; Henry Selk- ■ ing. Root township; Elizabeth IHabegger, Berne: Louise Clevinger, Union township, and Fannie Kipfer, i French township. It is not known whether the grand jury will meet during this term of court. It is probably that the ani nual inspecion of county institui tions will be made in the fall as usual. No criminal matter, requiring investigation has been made public j by officials. TAKES THIRD IN LATIN CONTEST Marjorie Massonee Places Third In District Contest Marjorie Massonee, of this city, won third place in the sophomore division of the district Latin contest held at the Central of Fort Wayne high school Saturday Miss Massonee was led by Margaret Null, of Fort Wayne and Harriet Kreigbaum. of Salamonie. township, Huntington county, who won first and second places, respectively. First place in the senior class | division was won by Rosemary I Lehman, of Fort Wayne; second, Wade Letts, Angola and third, John Houghton, of Huntington. First place in the freshman division was won by Floyd Thomas, Union Center; second. Laura Lee Montgomery. Fremont and third, Joe Kyler, Whitley county. The other two entrants from | Adams county were: Marjorie Miller, freshman and Robert Franz, sophomore at the Decatur high and Dorothy Adler, of the Kirkland township high school. Students from Allen, Adams, DeKalb, Steuben, Lagrange, Noble, Whitley, Huntington and Wells (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) —o — Moose Will Elect Officers Tuesday Officers for the coming year will be elected by the Loyal Order of Moose in their regular meeting at the Moose home Tuesday night. The meeting will open at 8 o’clock and will be followed by a luncheon in the lodge dining room. Lloyd Kreischer, the present dictator, will be in charge of the business session. All members are urged to attend. o Eicher Condition Reported Better Chris Eicher, prominent farmer ‘ of Preble township and employe of the state highway department, who ■fractured his left leg 10 days ago while inspecting a highway, has ■ been seriously ill the past 48 hours at the Adams county memorial hos- . pital, where he has been confined i. since the accident. He was reported I j as being some improved this morn|ing.

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No Trace Os Airliner Missing Since Takeoff Saturday ;May Be Down In Isolated Field. HAD NO RADIO Burbank, Cal., Apr. 5 — <U.R> Douglas Aircraft officials today had no trace of a giant airliner with eight aboard which has been missing 44 hours, but they clung to the hope that Pilot Glen Moser and Co-pllot Joe Wolfolk had brought the plane down safely in some isolated field. The 21-place transport, destined foT the Dutch KLM Airlines, left at 10 a. m. Saturday from Union air terminal here on a routine delivery flight for New York. Two Douglas pilots and six others, mostly Aircraft company officials or relatives, went along The plane headed east 45 minutes behind the regular transcontinental Western Air transport which reported being forced to fly "blind” through snowstorms and rain in Arizona It was believed the plane may have been forced down in the rugged and sparsely settled Arizona or New Mexico area. George W. Stratton, assistant to the president of Douglas Aircraft company, said that a day and a night of close watching by two pilots on the regular flights over the route had failed to reveal a trace of the ship. The huge two-motored transport has not been reported since it left Burbank at 11 a. m. Saturday (1 p. m. CSTI and headed into an Arizona wind and snow storm. It carried no radio transmitter and was not on a scheduled trip, so tor more than 30 hours Douglas Aircraft corporation withheld the news, hoping it had landed safely and was unable to communicate | with headquarters. Today the bureau of air commerce directed a search covering I the western half of the country I from Burbank to Kansas City. If the plane had crashed it would be the nation's ninth major Airways disaster in three months [ and it might increase the death toll in that time to 66. Built for a Holland air line, the plane was on its "shakedown” flight. It had just been completed. pronounced "perfect" in tests, and was headed for New York, to be shipped to Europe. Glen Moser, chief Douglas pilot, and Joe Wolfolk, co pilot and navigator, were at the controls. Six passengers were aboard. Throughout the many hours of anxious silence, the Douglas company, Transcontinental and Western airlines, and the bureau of air commerce made quiet inquiries at airports of the west and southwest. The plane was using the TWA and air commerce bureau route. None had seen or heard from the plane. A TWA plane that flew the same route from Burbank 45 minutes ahead of the missing transport re(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DAVID SOLDNER DIES SATURDAY Monroe Township Farmer Dies Saturday; Funeral Tuesday David Soldner, 83, prominent Monroe township retired farmer, died at 7 p. m. Saturday at his home, four miles northwest of , Berne. Death was caused by infirmities of old age. Mr. Soldner suffered a fractured leg several months ago and this hastened his death. The deceased was born in Wa- ' bash township May 24, 1853, a son 1 of John and Mary Stauffer-Soldner. ' He had lived on the same farm in ■ Monroe township for 56 years. His wife, Anna Wulliman, died five years ago. Seven children surviving are: . Mrs. Edna Stauffer, Mrs. Noah Luginbill. Mrs. Edwin Lehman and Mrs Marion Neuenschwander, all of Berne: Clinton, at home; Dora Soldner, Wheaton, 111. and Mrs. ' Zilla Amstutz, Bluffton, Ohio. A ’ sister, Mrs. Barbara Lehman, re- ’ sides at Berne and a brother, Jonas, 1 lives at Fresno, Cal. Funeral services will be held at • the home at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday I and at 2 o’clock at the Berne Men- - nonite church. Burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery at Berne.