Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 83, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1937 — Page 1

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gVANNUYS •ting FROM •arty RANKS u senator Breaks Townsend Administration .- V s. HF .-.' iP.H.IV «>'!> 111- State .MIL--.: I ’ I ” M i>- '"■ * \ . . sphi "i» convenhe i..-1-is have -ii- 01- - 9H His . 11. . ..11.-ague, Sell Minii’ii has I’— l ' ill favor -f the \ v mil :ii-h> | m.-ssioiml . stood !>••■ 9Ki- Kuos-v-il TH- state court . 100 popif >:i .. breach rally of - .uni followers :.• toi y jollij'.d Townsend ... i... as Wel party leaders j .. w aili . -ted a I' S u\ PACE FIVE) |||B 0 ■arch party fcfiWRECKAGE ■Hope Js Held For Any ■ Survivors Os Plane ■ Crash ■- ' A’ ; . April mri’l \ pa-i moved up th- woodluced s'ope of Mount I' wii’d th- wreckage of Trasport plane that snowstorm Saturday persons aboard. ' :ils ‘‘ ! ! i -milled on a ridge eight miles from the of America’s ninth airline in three month*. The falcould have traveled the jB h “ srourut party several hours. was no broken trail ahead. lAy 25 feet deep in the CanAnd eight feet deep on the The wreckage was almost iB«»lhle. »>re 50 men on the expeSheriff's deputies and log- ® An Indian hali?breed was emB" 1 * guide. They kept an all■f watch at the camp, in the ■ ope of catching a light signal above to indicate some lead ■’’l'd the wreck- They had little B antt expected to bear eight ■*' j ack down the mountain on B'Pokesman for the Douglas airB (w Poratlon at Santa Monica, ■ . the crash probably was oy ice forming on the aile•r’s Condition Cl | Is Much Improved • C . onditlon of Bernard Myer, Ito , 10 the Indianapolis City B 1 with injuries received in B- r^ n collision, wae reported ■ j^ ch improved today. if ' ~ o ■stall Officers At Elks Tonight ld"ih^* Inbeilß are urged to attE Pn, regul4r meeting of the B. E „ >. toDlght at 8 o’clock. Bert I win i ruler ’ and other officE ' b ® Installed, with Fred |L Un l actln « as installing ofticE°! and r6fre «hments will I rved af t«r the meeting.

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Frauhiger Pleads Guilty To Theft Amos Frauhiger, charged with the theft of wine from the home of Harry Dubach, changed hie plea to guilty, when arraigned liefore Judge J F Decker In Welle circuit court Tuesday, He was returned to the jail without action, awaiting further investigation into the case. A second affidavit win files! against Frauhlger. charging him with petit larceny. Frauhiger's son. Everett was fined $1 and costa in city court here Monday on eimllar charges, when he allegedly took a gallon of wine from the home of Reuben Gerber, French township. CITY ACCEPTS STREET FLUSHER New Street Flusher Is Accepted By Decatur City Council The new 1.000 gallon street flusher was ordered accepted at the regular meeting of the city council Tuesday night. The flnsher is mounted on a two to 2H ton truck and cost $2,590. It is to provide a sanitary means of cleaning the streets, especially in dry weather. The flusher washes the dirt to the side of the street where it will be picked up in trucks by workmen. A draft of a sanitary plumbing and heating ordinance was referred to the ordinance and licensing committee in conjunction with the superintendent of the water department. Alley Sought A petition that an alley be dedicated to the city was submitted by Julius and Mildred Haugk. The strip of land which would be donated for the proposed alley runs east and west through the center of the southwest quarter of the block bounded by Jefferson, Seventh. Madison and Sixth streets. It was referred to the board of public works and safety with power to act. The board of public works and safety reported ita*» a street l«Ul has been erected at the intersection of Dayton and Walnut streets The report was approved and placed on record. David Macklin, business manag er of the Decatur high school “Kaveltngs.’’ and Frederick V ogle wede, business manager of the Decatur Catholic high school Tattler.’ 1 requested the city to purchase ads for these yearbooks published by the senior classes. The matter of adjustment of the wages of Will Parent submitted in a report of the electric light committee was approved. Crossings Asked City Attorney John L. DeVoss reported that he had contacted the Erie and Nickle Plate railroads in an effort to have the crossings at Line street and Mercer avenue improved. The city is requesting that a sidewalk be laid across the Line street crossing and a street pavement across the Mercer ave nue crossing. A suggestion was made by Herman Gillig. chairman of thfc water committee, that the city may need Ito drill a new well next summer. He stated that the present amount of water is probably ample, but another well would guard the city against all emergencies. Board of Works Meeting The board of public works and —— ■ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o GEHRIG HEADS MOOSE ORDER Tilman Gehrig Elected Dictator Os Local Moose Order Tilman Gehrig was elected dictator of Adams lodge 1311, Loyal I Order of Moose in their meeting at the Moose home last night. Gehrig succeeds Lloyd Kreisclier and will serve a one-year term. I John Alberdlng was named vicedictator of the order. Other officers named last night were: Charles Morgan, | Peter Miller, trustee; Lloyd | Kreiacher, delegate to the Cleve land national convention and Chari les Heare, alternate. All of the officers were named j for a one-year term with the exception of trustee. Mr. Miller will serve three years. Ed A. Ashbaucher is present secretary of the order, having been elected to a three-year term. A large crowd of members attended the business meeting last night, which was followed by a I luncheon in the lodge dining rooms.

HEBEI PLANES ATTACK GREAT BRITAIN SHIP International Tension Grows; Great Britain Protests (By Louis F. Keemhle) International Tension over the Spanish Civil war was heightened I today by an attack on a British destroyer by Spanish insurgent airplanes. The destroyer Garland was sent at full speed to the Bale.itic Islands, insurgent airbase, to protest to the nationalist authorities. There have been repeated reports tliat a strong force of Italian planes manned by Italian fliers, is in the British quarters in London had an uneasy suspicion that the attack on the destroyer Gallant might have been by Italian planes but government sources refused to comment on the ground that they knew only that they were twomotored planes and did not know what make. The Gallant was marked conspicuously with the British colors- It was bombed by three >planes in two different attacks. The destroyer re-| plied with her antiaircraft guns and drove the bombers off. The case of the Gallant is not th" first such incident. The British foreign office only two days ago sent a note to the French Foreign office reminded Britain's colleague in the non intervention agreement that the insurgent government has not yet replied to its protest against the' bombing of the destroyers Havock and Gipsy some time ago. Britain has expressed open determination to protect her merchant shipping in Spanish waters, and British warships are understanding orders to fire on any attacker. In Spain itself, the military situation was little changed. The loyal-1 ista continued their victorious drive in the Cordoba region in the south and forced the retreating insurgeants .including Germane and' .-Italiau*. steadily into the hills. j In the north, the insurgents apparently had the upper hand in their drive on Bilbao. They reached the outskirts of Durango, capture of which would put Bilbao in a precarious spot. ELMER BROTHERS BIES SUDDENLY Former Adams County Man Dies Suddenly Tuesday In Chicago According to a telegram receiv- : ed by relatives in this county. Elmer D. 'oFothers, 76, a native of Union township and a member of a pioneer Adams county family, died suddenly of a heart attack at the Hamilton club in Chicago Tues- ' day at 12:30 p. th. Mr. Brothers was a prominent Chicago attorney. During his career he had lectured on jurisprudence at the University of Illinois and had taught in the John; Marshall law school at Chicago. ( He was also a 33rd degree Mason. While a young man, Mr. Broth- * ers taught school. He later studied law in the office of former Judge James T. MerrTman. He was admitted to the Adams county ; bar, April 24, 1888, upon the rec-! ommendatlon of Richard K. Erwin, Daniel D. Heller, and John T. Franz. He left the city soon as ! ter and had made his home in Chi- j cago since. I Surviving are the widow. Mrs. 1 Cora A. Brothers, thre£ sisters, Dr. ? Elizabeth Burns, Mrs. Laura B. Stewart and Mrs. Rosa A. Siebold, all of Fort Wayne, and a brother, Harve M. Brothers, of Minneapolis, i Minnesota. There were no chil- , dren. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock in Chicago. —o Magazine Drive To , Close On April 30 i The subscription drive for “The j ■ National Young Democrat’’ will be ' concluded April 30, according to I Edwin Kauffman and Fern Bierly, ■ co-chairmen of the campaign. I I The subscription cost will be 25 • cents for the year under the terms i of the drive. The price will be i advanced May 1. Dick Macklin and Marcia Martin • are in charge of the drive in De-1 catur. G. O. Stauffer and Violet . Reppert are chairmen of the drive . in Berne.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, April 7, 1937.

Authors of Labor Act Confer ■l’’' *1 " IWBB ./Mm ■ ' ' % m 1 I ® " ■ Allhough the topic of their conversation wasn’t revealed, it might well have been that Representative William I’. Connery. Jr., of , Massachusetts, left, and Senator Robert Wagner of New York, right, co-authors of the Wagner labor act, were trying to guess whether their bill would be found constitutional by the supreme court which now has it under consideration.

THOMAS SPEAKS TO LIONS CLUB Bryce Thomas Speaks On Activities Os Boy Scouts P. Bryce Thomas, county Boy Scout chairman, epoke to the members of the Lions club in the weekly meeting at the Rice hotel last Mr. Thomas' address was relative to the fourth annual Boy Scout camporee. which will be held in this city tor the fitst time next June 12 and 13 at the* Hanna-Nutt man park. The speaker urged the cooperaiion of the club in staging the i event, and was assured of all the aid the organization was able to afford. The club is at present sponsoring I one of the troops in Decatur, which bears its name. Approximately 4W> Scouts are expected to attend the Camporee. Former Judge Makes First Trip Uptown Former Judge James T. Merry-’ man made his first visit uptown today since his recent illness. Ho stopped in at the court house and also talked to many other old friends he met along th,? way. Mid-Week Service At Baptist Church : j The regular mid-week prayer service will-be held at the First Baptist chutch this evening at 7:30, 'o’clock. Rev. Homer J. Aspy. church I,pastor, will conduct the services. MAY END COURT HEADINGS SOON Committee Hearings On Court Bill May End In 10 Days Washington. Apr. 7—(U.R) —Sen : Edward R. Burke. D.. Neb., leading | foe of President Roosevelt's court program, said today he believed | senate judiciary committee heari ings on the bill could be concluded in a week or ten days. Previously foes of the court plan had indicated doubt that hear- ' ings could be concluded much be- | tore the end of April. The Burke statement was made . in the face of rising sentiment in : the committee that the time had 1 come to end public testimony for and against the court program., Sen. James Hughes. D., Del., anj nounced yesterday that he would offer a formal motion to Bet a date tor ending testimony. Burke said that the opposition had at least half a dozen Important i witnesses to be heard but that he I was not in favor of stretching out I | the hearings unnecessarily. "I believe,” he said, “that the I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Former Decatur Resident Is Dead Funeral services were held in Chicago for Mrs. Bertha Rugman, 57. i formerly of near this city, who died at her home in Chicago last week, I according to word received here. Mrs. Ruggman had been ill about a month after a-mastoid operation. She was born near Decatur, on March 23, 1880. the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs- Abe Stoneburner. Surviving are the husband. Charlee A. Ruggman. one eon. Roy Baler. two brothers. I. B. Stoneburner of this city, and Tom Stonebumer of Fort Wayne, and one grandchild. A eister, Mrs. Adam Scafer of Decatur. is deceased. She left Decatur more than 15 years ago. RELIEF BILLS SHOW INCREASE I Poor Relief Claims In County Show Increase In March The poor relief bill in Adams county for the month of March was $673.19 higher than it was for March. 1936. according to the poor relief checks written by County ■ Auditor John W. Tyndall at the | order of the 12 township trustees this week. Increases In the relief bill were shown in Root. Preble, Washingi ton. St. Mary's. Blue Creek. Monroe and French. Other townships spent less. French township, which had no poor relief claims in March of 1936. spent $2 In March of 1937. The total spent in March 1937 was $3,251.38 as compared to $2.- | 578.19 in March 1936. I A comparison of the two months . is: Uniofl. 1937. $24.70: 1936. 1 $43.15; Root," 1937, $236.63; 1936. $80; Preble, 1937, $32.33; 1936. $9; Kirkland. 1937, $40.50; 1936. $55.06, ' Washington, 1937, $1,916.48; 1936. j $1,720.14; St Marys. 1937, $678.79: ! 1936, $310.96; Blue Creek. 1937, I $101.50; 1936. $82.40; Monroe, 1937 $107.15; 1936, $73: French. 1937, $2; 1936, none; Hartford. 1937, $17.05; 1936, $54.46; Wabash, 1937 $65, 1936 $95.52. and Jefferson. 1937 $29.25. 1936 $55 50; and totals. 1937 $3,251.38. 1936 $2,578.19. o Two Adams County Youths Are Fined Two Adams county young men | were fined, given suspended sentences and placed under the supervision of the County probation officer by Judge Huber M- DeVoss In Adams circuit court late today. Joseph Johnston, charged with grand larceny, was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to 1-10 years in the penal farm. Arthur NeadI stlne. charged with forgery, was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to 2-14 years in the Institution. The court suspended both sentences, providing certain requirements of the court were met by the lads, and the value of the Illegal gains returned.

LINDBERGH AND WIFE AGAIN ON MISSING LIST Mystery Veils Whereabouts Os Col. And Mrs. Lindbergh London. Apr. 7 (U.P) Mystery vei.ed the whereabouts today of j Col and Mrs. Charles A. Lind liergh, who were unreported for neatly 3(1 hours on a flight from Zagreb. Jugoslavia, presumably toward their home in England They left Zagreb, near the Adri atic const, at 11:««» a n yesterday (4:30 a. tn. CST) and at 9 a. tn CST had been gone for 28>2 hours , with no word. Lindbergh, as usual, did not disclose his destination or route when he left Zagreb. The route from Zagreb to England Is 900 miles across Ute Alps and the English I channel. Aviation officials all through cen-; i tral and eastern Europe kept a ; keen watch. Concern was tempered somewhat because of Lindbergh’s habit of secrecy and flair for landing in unexpected, remote places. He has been "missing" several times before, only to show up in due course of time, unharmed and I uncommunicative. The greatest scare was last November, when he was flying from Dublin to England ‘ He was not reported for 24 hours, ■ L but was found later to have landed !at the royal air force airdrome near ('heater .England. i The normal flying time from Zagreb to England is about eight I or nine hours. Lindbergh did not ' say. however, whether he planned to land somewhere en route. Authorities of Jugoslavia, Italy. Austria. Switzerland. Germany. France and Great Britain were on i the lookout tor him today as they were when he and Mrs. Lindbergh ( took off for the outward part of their vacation flight to India. From Zagreb Lindbergh’s route lay over mountainous country j along the Jugoslavian-Italian, Aus-trian-Italian. Swiss-German frontier; areas. France and the channel. .Junior C. Os C. To Meet Tonight An important meeting of the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce will be held in the city hall this evening at 7 o’clock. Results of the membership drive will be reported. All members are especially urged to attend — —o ————— Widen Search For New York Slayer New York, Apr. 7—(UP)—Fingerprints found in a room Robert Irwin occupied in Canton, N- Y- are identical with ones found in the apartment where Veronica Gedeon, 20-year-old artist’e model, her mother and a lodger were killed Easter Sunday, police said today. Officers described the fingerprints as "almost conclusive evidence against the young sculptor as they continued their search for him. Irwin left Canton two days before the triple slayings on Beekman hill and officers, hoping lie had not eluded the net spread for him througnout the east, searched a six mile radius around Canton. —o STUDENTS PLAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Rural Schools Os County To Present Music Festival April 16 Students of the rural schools, both high schools and elementary grades in the county, will present their first music festival at the Geneva high school auditorium Friday evening, April 16. C. E. Striker, county school superintendent announced today. The festival is sponsored, Mr. Striker stated, to foster a better appreciation of music among the students of the schools. All proceeds from the festival are to be used in paying for Easter captata song books. An admission charge of 10 cents for all school students and 15 cents for other persons, will be made. All schools, including one-room schools, have been extended an invitation to take part in the festival. ‘ The program will include vocal, instrumental numbers. ’ Several of the schools have already arranged their parts in the festival and others are expected to have theirs completed this week.

Chrysler Strike Ends; Union Says Ford Plants Next

CITY PURCHASES TREASURY BONDS — U. S. Treasury Bonds Are Purchased From City Funds The city of Decatur purchased $25,000 of U. S. treasury bonds toI day for the electric light and water departments, officials an nounced. The series ordered through the First State Bank was two and onehalf percent bonds, which at the present market price, will yield the city approximately three percent. The transfer of cash funds in the electric light and water departments was made this morning and the board of works and finance committee was authorized to purchase the bonds. The electric department purchased $20,000 and I lie water department. $5,000. The electric department owns $25,000 of federal farm mortgage bonds, which bear three percent. The liond fund was established in 1935. Linder the law. the interest from ; the bonds is kept by the city and i credited to the account of the municipal utility. Interest paid by the I bank on public deposits is sent to the state sinking fund, which is a guarantee on the payment of all public monies. With the $50,000 bond fund, the two utilities will receive approxi- , mately $1,375 a year in interest. o Mrs. Irene Price Dies At Toledo Mrs. Mary McClure received word this morning that her cousin. Mrs Irene McMurtry Price, died at her home in Toledo, Ohio Tues day. The cause of death was not - stated. Funeral services will be held in Toledo Friday. Mrs Price was a ■ former resident of Decatur and had a number of relatives and friends here. —« CONVENTION TO BE HELD SUNDAY Preble - Kirkland Township Sunday School Convention Sunday The Preble and Kirkland township Sunday School convention will be held on Sunday. April 11 - at the Beulah Chapel church, oneI half mile north of Preble. The following program has been . arranged by the committee in charge: Song by congregation. Prayer. Music, Beulah Chapel Sunday School. Speaker, Rev. E. S. Morford of Monroe. Music. St. Lucas Sunday School. Offering. Music, Pleasant Dale Sunday School. Speaker. Rev. George S. Lozier, Decatur. Music. Magley Reformed Sunday School. i Announcements. Song by congregation. Benediction. The public has been extended an invitation to attend the convention. ,—o French Quinn To Speak At Conservation Meet French Quinn, local historian and speaker, will address the members of the junior Adams county fish and game conservation league at their regular monthly meeting in the Decatur high school auditorium Monday night. The meeting will open at 7:30 o’clock. A volunteer program has been asked for by the members in charge. Songs, music or readings are asked for. The junior league, recently organized, has been progressing rapidly and members of the senior order predict that much valuable conservation work will be furthered by the young club. o WEATHER Rain tonight and Thursday; rising temperature tonight.

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. ' -— Walter P. Chrysler And John L. Lewis Sign Agreement; Henry Ford New Objective. “SATISFACTORY” Lansing. Mich., Apr. 7.—4U.R. — Gov. Frank Murphy today announced that the strike of 2,400 workers at the plant of the Reo Motor Car Co., had been settled, with union and company confeeres accepting "practically the same settlement” as was reached last night in the Chrysler strike. The agreement was signed at 1:38 p. m. CST. The two plants of Reo in the state capital will be evacuated immediately. Strike - bound since March 10, the plant will be reopened for resumption of production as soon as possible, Detroit. Apr. 7 (U.R) Chrysler corporation officials and the United Automobile Workers of America today completed plans for the return to work of 60.000 automotive employes as settlement of the Chrysler strike resulted in agreement by two of the "big three manufacturers to deal with the union. The U. A. W. A.'s next announced objectives will be the vast plants of Henry Ford. But today, a few hours after they had signed an agreement with Walter P. Chrysler in the Lansing office of Gov. Frank Murphy, they were saved with "selling” the agreement to thousands of Chrysler workmen. Corporation officials planned a 1 2 p. m. meeting in their Highland Park plant executive o'.fices to plan reopening of plants closed by the strike. I The company’s job was one of placing huge orders for steel, iron, glass, bodies, and other parts It was believed that with reordering effected immediately, the plants might reopen within 10 days. The union's task was to explain to a mass meeting of workers tonight in the coliseum of the state fair grounds what had been gained in the agreement with the corporation. Collective bargaining rights were achieved by the union only for those Chrysler workers who arc 1 j on its membership rolls Last night's agreement, signed by Chrysler and John L. Lewis, chairman of the committee for industrial organization, gave the ’ union less than the exclusive bargaining rights it sought, but it brought the assurance from Chrysler that no new union would be encouraged by the company in opposition to U. A. W. A. That gave the union signed agreements with vast General Motors corporation and with Chrysler. "Ford will event -lly be union- ' ized and will be with the union," ' said Homer Martin, international president of the union. From high sources it was learned that any attempt to deal with Ford would probably not be immediate. Encouraged by the success of his 1 mediation efforts with General Motors and Chrysler, Gov. Murphy ’ called in representatives of Hudson and Reo Motor Car companies ' to attempt settlement of their strikes involving 13,400 employes—- ' the last major industrial dispute current on the automotive front, r — 1 'CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) , BIBLE CLASS TO GIVE PROGRAM [ Muncie Men’s Bible Class To Give Sunday Pro- > gram At Monroe ? - ’ The McClellan Bible class of the 1 High street M E. church in Muns cie will present a program of 1 chorus numbers, instrumental and vocal duets at the Monroe M. E. ’ church next Sunday afternoon at 3 2:30 o'clock. i F. F. McClellan, leader of the 3 group will also deliver an address during the program. The Bible class, which is said to • be one of the outstanding organizr ed classes of the church, was orgn--3 nized more than 30 years ago. It ■ is composed of 187 men, with Mr. McClellan as teacher. The group has been touring northeastern Indiana, presenting programs and leading in church worship. The public is cordially invited to attend the presentation.