Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 87, Decatur, Adams County, 12 April 1937 — Page 1

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OURT UPHOLDS LABOR ACT

Seat Britain To ■Oppose Blockade ■By Spanish Ships

Britain Will Not *Kh British Ships B) i:Knish Rebels. iß.ockade PORT ■ \ P . <u.pj JK S1 Ha l« "I t.xiay an ill'll gov.lllsea ** i iai | H fr.i>n li'"" Bil .■L ;1!i conditions’ prevail. around Bilbao. b told ihis carried out." s a .,l iirro-tit de- , ~nM not < oiirodo helligBritain novel lias n-eog-the Spanish rebels as a r . ■ legal right to consider pirates at sea. ■ prime minister arose at ... |Hl>. :..baid Sinclair. liberal blockade sliii ti has kept five Brit - docking no the loyalists »elc believed to Arilnbaid asked what mens-. BL' ' ._. ~ - MELL LEHMAN BADLY INJURED Kr.n Berne Man SevereB Crushed Early This I Afternoon Lehman, pi, Berne young seriously injured at 1:15 this afternoon when he was crushed between falling slabs, while engaged in a building. was working in the rear Economy Printing Co., in when the accident occurred. ■ bu.. i.ng i' constructed of large roof slabs tore loose, throw- ■ Unman to the ground and him between them. ■is known that he is suffering ■ a severely crushed right leg, ■ bone being shattered between ■knee and ankle. There is also a ■jbdity of internal injuries. ■? was brought to the Adame 1 ' memorial hospital in the ■<* ambulance. X-rays could not ■aken fin e t 0 t ] lH seriousness of ■ injuries He is the son of Mr. ■ Mr. Cryus Lehman, of Berne. ■nday Evening Club | | Holds First Program ■be first o j sunnav evening ■ * special programs at the Me■•st episcopal church here, was ■ented last evening at 7 o’clock, ■ Pr cf J. Raymond Schultz head social sciences department of ■Chester College as the speaker, ■alter J. Krick, chairman of the ■ r am committee for the club, an■nced at the meeting Sunday ■mg that a wide variety of tal- ■. deluding well known speakers ■ hhisiclans, had been obtained. I WEATHERf"°«Iy cloudy, probably showin •’‘ginning tonight or Tuesr’ y; warmer tonight. a yne Hirschy Is Injured In Fall ajn e Hlrschy, of Decatur route ■ grade school student In the ■ ow nshlp schools, was injured morning when he fell from a I r " oar( l The lad sustained a turn index tineer - After being f*. | to tbe local hospital where pmjured member was set, he was I ‘tied to his home.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRA

DISTRICT MEET ENDS TONIGHT Holy Name Society Meeting Will End Here This Evening A business session tonight at 8 o'clock in the Knights of Columbus hall will climax a two-day district convention of the Holy Name Society. which opened in the city Sunday morning. Martin Johnson, former president of the Fort Wayne United Holy Name societies, will be the chief speaker at the meeting tonight. Hundreds of members of the societies in a score or more of cities in northeastern Indiana are expected to attend the meeting tonight. Pastors of various churches in this district have been sent special invitations by the committee in charge. Charles Miller, president of the local society, will preside at the meeting. Hundreds of the members arrived in the city early Sunday morn tng to attend the opening service of the convention, by attending a high mass at the St. Mary s Cath olic church here. Forming into a parade two and one half blocks long, the members i marched down Second street from the K of C. hall to Monroe street laud then west on Monroe to ‘Fourth, and from Fourth street to I the church ty„ attend the mass. | The Rev. Father Joseph J. Seim . etz. pastor of the St. Mary s church, was celebrant; the Rev. Father Tracy, deacon and the Rev. Father Bede, sub-deacon. Father Seimetz delivered the sermon during the mass. "In this day when the world seems so busy with worldly matter, it is edifying to see ■ vou men turn your thoughts to God and to appear before the Holy banquet table", the pastor remarked in opening his address. Father Seimetz aumonished all to examine their own conscience and then answer the questions, "Are you a true Catholic gentleman”. The precepts of the Holy Name society include the qualities of good citizenship, loyalty to country_and (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO, O Receives Word Os Relatives’ Drowning Mrs- Clarence Baughman receiv•ed word last evening that her niece’s husband. Harold Donovan, and her uncle. Ben Addy drowned at Hammond, Sunday afternoon. The boat from which the two men ' were fishing capsized. At ten o'clock last evening the bodies had not been recovered. Both men have relatives in Decatur and are well known here. TO REORGANIZE 4-H CALF CLUB ‘ Calf Club Will Be Reorganized At Meeting Wednesday The reorganization meeting for the Adams County 4-H Calf Club will be held Wednesday evening above the Model Hatchery at Mon- ' roe. This club has been one of the outstanding 4-H club of Adams county and the interest seems keener this year than in the previous years. In this meeting final enrollment will be taken and instructions given on the first weighing of the calves, which will be I Thursday and special instructions 1 will be given in filling out the Tecord book. Sanford Frazee. Adams county ' cow tester, will show a moving picI ture film that he took at the last • I national dairy show in Texas. Roy Price of the Cloverleaf :' Creameries will present a discussi ion on quality cream improvement, i It is Important that every 1937 calf club member be present.

WORKERS BACK INTO CANADIAN AUTO FACTORY 83 Non-Union Employes Back At Work In Oshawa, Ont. Oshawa, Ont., Apr. 12.--(U.R> —| To the accompaniment of bpos and curses from pickets. 83 non-union employes entered the strike-bound General Motors plant today. Their appearance refuted Saturday night's assertion of Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of America, that the plant's parts department would be closed "tight as a drum" today. Most of the 83 men were office workers, it was said, but at least 20 were employed in the parts de partment. The office employes, it was understood, will assist the others in preparing parts for ambulances. fire trucks, and other "emergency" equipment. i Pickets shouted "traitors," "yellow dogs,” and "bums” after the I workers but made no attempt to prevent their entering the plant. The non-union me n marched through the lines without replying. Reopening of the parts depart-j rnent occurred as reports were heard that settlement of the strike, affecting nearly 3.700 employes of the General Motors Corporation of Canada, was imminent. A high company official was quoted as saying the union's demauds, recognition being the chief one, would I be granted. Union leaders said, however, that they had "heard nothing" from Toronto, where Premier [ Mitchell Hepburn on Saturday sud(GONTINUKD ON PAGE FIVE) o BAPTIST MEN MEET TONIGHT Salamonie Association Brotherhoods To Meet Here Tonight Dr. A. A. Cohn, Seymour, one of the leading speakers of Indiana Baptist churches, will deliver the principal address at the meeting of the men of the Salamonie association brotherhoods, to be held at ibe First Baptist church in this city tonight at 7 o’clock. Dr. Cohn is chairman of the department of evangelism for the Baptist churches of Indiana. The meeting will open with a banquet, served by the ladies of the church. More than 100 men are expected to attend tonight s meeting, which will be the second of the organization, formed several months ago at Montpelier. Rev. W. J. Crowder, pastor of the Montpelier Baptist church, will preside this evening. During the meeting, the nominating commitfee will report and officers of the association will be elected. All men of the local church are urged to attend the meeting tonight. The Decatur church won the attendance banner at the Montpelier meeting several months ago and officers of the local brotherhood are anxious to retain the banner. Rev. Homer J. Aspy, pastor of the Decatur church, is In charge of arrangements for tonight s meeting. o Kirchner Funeral Services Tuesday Funeral services for Mrs. Herbert Kirchner, who died Saturday morning at the local hospital will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home near Frledheim and at 2 o’clock at the Frledheim church with the Rev. W. H. Werning officiating. Burial will be made in the church cemetery. —o — C. Os C. Directors Meet Tuesday Night The board of directors of the Dectur Chamber of Commerce will meet Tuesday night at 7:30 o clock at the auto license bureau on Madison street. All members are urged to attend, as business of importance in to be transacted. |

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 12, 1937.

President’s Proclamation M Ml J ’ lip I f •; National Child Health Day becomes official as President Franklin D Roosevelt puts his signature to a proclamation, as pictured above. The witnesses of the ceremony of signing in the White House study are Miss Katherine Lenroot, Director of the Children's Bureau, and Dr. Earle G Brown, president of the State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America.

ENROLLING NOW FOR CORN CLUB Five-Acre Corn Club Enrollments To Close June 15 Enrollments in the Five-Acre | Corn Club in Adams county are now being received by County p Agent Archbold, who is cooperating in this work with the extension department, Purdue University and the Indiana Corn Growers’ association. Enrollment closes June 15. Last year twenty corn growers I Cf this county finished the contest eat of a total of 675 completing' the work in the state. So far nine farmers of this county have enroll- J ed In (he Five-Acre Corn Club for 1937, as followes: Homer W. Arnold Kirkland townehip; Winfred Gerke, Root; William Patterson. Blue I Creek; Ben Mazelin, James A. Hen-■ dricks. C.W.R. Schwartz, Monroe; E W Bnsche. Washington; David | D. Habegger. Blue Creek; and Otto] Hoile. Union. It is expected that quite a few new members will enter the dull in addition to the above list. The highest official yield of 104 bushels per acre in Adams county in 1936 was grown by Robert Myers of Hartford township. , To each corn grower who produces 100 bushels of corn per acre I the Indiana Corn Growers’ asso- j elation awards a gold medal and , enrolls the contestant in the Indiana hundred bushel club. Silver , medals are awarded for yields of] 85 to 100 bushels and bronze I medals for 75 to 85 bushel yields, j In Adams county one gold medal three silver medals and two bronze (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) FINAL FILING GATE THURSO AV Increased Exemption For Merchants Not Effective Now Despite repeated instructions, the state gross income tax division | is receiving many returns from retail merchants, who have taken an exemption of $75 on gross income tax returns covering receipts for the first quarter, Dee Fryback, loleal auto license branch manager, stated today. The retail merchants' gross income tax exemption of $3,000 a year or $750 a quarter, as provided by recent amendments to the law, is effective for the first time on returns due in July, covering April. May and June, income, he stated. Mr. Fryback stated that word has been received from the division that in cases where the larger exemption has been takeiT for the first quarter it is necessary to send I the return and check back to the merchant for complete revision. He also called attention to the fact that Thursday. April 15, is the last day for filing returns for the first quarter. The return forms ■ are available at the local license < [branch on Madison street.

Increased Business Activity Is Shown Indianapolis. Apr. 12. —(Special) I —lncreasing business activity in ; Indiana was indicated today in a' report from the secretary of state that 1.311 new domestic corporations were authorized in 1936. During the same time there were only 384 dissolutions and nine: mergers. A total of 9.997,494 shares of I stock were authorized by the state. Os these. 2.441.035 were new shares, 4.201,945 reorganized shares and 3.354.514 shares granted under amendments for increases. There were 114 firms’ reorganized during • 1936. Os the new domestic corporations organized. 302 were for nonprofit organizations. COMMITTEES TO LEAD CAMPAIGN Name Committees For Citv Imorovement Campaign Here Committees for the city improvement campaign from April 21 to May 19, to be sponsored by the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce, were announced today. Bud Townsend, president, stated [today that a general meeting of the (entire club, scheduled to have been I Held this evening, will be postponi ed until later in the week. Members lof the committees are requested [ to meet tonight at the city hall at | 7 o’clock. Th * committees are: Schoo l survey, Dean Dorwin. chairman: William Lose. Harry Dailey and Ronald Parrish. Boy Scout: Harry Dailey chairman: Dick Macklin and Robert Treer. Civic organizations contact committee: Dorothy Young, chairman; Henman Knapke. Don Wait. Eileen Burk and Glen Dickerson. Poster committee: Louise Haubold chairman: Kathryn Hower. I Mary Cowan, and Mrs. Harold GrantIndustrial committee: Tom Allwein, chairman: Vivian Lynch. Dick Sheets, Rober Meshberger and Rona'd Parrish. Merchants cooperation commit-* tee: Edwin Kauffman chairman: Florence Marie Bieriy and Charlotte Elzey. Publicity: Robert Heller, chairman; Betty Macklin and Fern Bieriy. Fourth Decree Knichts To Meet Tuesday Night The Fourh degree of the Knights of Columbus will meet at 7:30 o'clock. instead of 8 o’clock, Tuesday night at the K. of C hall. A report of the progress of the membership campaign will ibe made and members are urged to be present. o Zion Junior League Meets Tuesday Night The Zion Junior Walther league will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Zion Lutheran church. All members are urged to attend-

Supreme Court Backs General Legality Os Wagner Labor Act In Five Opinions Given Today

NINE SHOT IN ALL-DAY RIOTS IN MINE AREA Galena, Kansas Is Scene Os Severe Rioting Sunday Galena. Kan., April 12. — (U.R) — Ten deputized citizens under command of Mayor Ed Brown today ruled this town where eight men and a boy were shot in the street Sunday as a climax to day-long rioting in the TriState Idad and | zine mining area. Gov. Waiter A. Huxman of KanI sas said Cherokee county authorI ities had not requested martial law ' and until they did. he would send no troops. The strife between two factions of miners, one allegedly a company union and the other an affiliate of John L. Lewis' committee for industrial organization, was still explosive. Authorities believed that the chance of another outbreak was lessened, however, by the fact that one of the warring groups had to return to work today and would not have another chance to mobilize its full force before the next week-end holiday. Ted Schasteen Treece, Kan., president of the local CIO. union, said “this is just a beginning. We'll have another meeting next Sunday and it will be a meeting." More than 100 men were mauled land clubbed during yesterday's 1 fighting which extended from town to town in this hilly mining country where the state of Kansas. I Olkahoma and Missouri adjoin. A crowd of 4.000 miners armed I with pick handles assembled at Picher, Okla., in the morning, and made open war on CIO meeting halls and men wearing CIO buttons. Law enforcement collapsed and the miners’ army continued its reign until one of its detachments, comprising about 500 men. ran into the ambush at the CIO headquarters in Galena. Here, armed men barricaded in the CIO headquarters met the invaders with a volley of shotgun and pistol fire that felled the eight men and a boy. Shots crashed into a motion picture theater across the street and sent scores of children running for their lives through a rear exit. The outbreak was occasioned by (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o LIST PROGRAM FOR FESTIVAL Rural Schools Os County To Give Music Festival Friday A tentative program for the first annual music festival to be presented by the seven rural high schools of the county at the Geneva high school auditorium Friday night, was announced today by C. E. Striker, county school superintendent. Each of the schools will form individual presentations for the festival, which is sponsored to further Interest in music among the students of the schools. Following is the complete program, as tentatively arranged to date: Pleasant Mills Oh! Sweet Mystery of Life (Boy’s Solo) .. Robert McMillen Drum Sticks (Piano Solo).. Donald Everett Love Came Calling (Girl’s Solo) Pauline Carver Twilight Visions (Plano Solo) Richard Everett Somewhere a Voice is Calling (Vocal Duet)..Ruby Braggs Robert McMillen Ashes or Roses (Girls Quartet) (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) i

JERSEY PARISH ! ' SHOW IN AUGUST Parish Show To Be Hehl Here During Annual , Street Fair The 1937 Jerey Parish show will; he held in connection with the De-1 catur Free Street Fair the first full week in August, state the Jersey Parish officials. These men, j representing Adame, Welle. Jay, '• Randolph. Allen, DeKalb, HuntingI ton. Whitley. Noble and Steuben 1 ' counties met in the county agent's ’! office Saturday evening. ' I The following officers were elect1 1 ed for the show: Sol Mosser, Adjams, president: Telfer Paxson, i Wells, vice-president; Merwin Mil- ' Her, secretary-treasurer, and the following men were named dirPFtIjors: George Hart. DeKalb; Her- , bert Hinshaw. Randolph; S. S. But- ' i ler, Steuben; B. F. Bricker. Hunt- . ington; Ruben Steury. Adams; j Chas. Grandlinard. Wells; Roy ' j Hiatt, Jay. Directors for Allen, ' j Wells, and Noble counties will be 1 named later. '' The officers of the parish show 1 agreed that show rules and classes 1 should be substantially the same 1 as for the last show. The decided to name the judge after consulting 1 with E. T. Wallace, dairy extension man of Purdue. The officers ' further recommended that Roy ' Price of the Cloverleaf Creameries. be named general superintendent, • of the cattle show. DELINQUENT TAX SALE IS OPENED ! Sale Os Properties For Delinquent Taxes 1 Opened Today i > County officials announced today that the sale of property for delinquent taxes would be continued each day this week. 1 The sale was opened this morning at 10 o'clock. Fred Schurger. acting 1 for County Treasurer Jeff Liechty, offered the property for sale. Coun ( ty Auditor John W. Tyndall clerked the sale. ( Thia year there were fewer properties offered for sale than last , year, which was the first sale since • the moratorium. However, several of the properties had been offered for eale for three years or more ■ at the face value of the taxes and : were sold today to the highest bid-1 der, whether or not the full amount | of delinquent taxes was paid. The majority of the farm iproper- , ties were bought for the taxes today. A large number of properties in Decatur and Geneva were unsold. ’ r Most of the properties in Decatur not sold are located in various subdivisions and have not been de-. veloped. It is improbable, county officials j believe that many of the properties I will be carried over until next year ' in Decatur for failure of any one 1 ’ to bid on them. o Mrs. Wildin? Dies At Ft. Wayne Today Friends received word late this afternoon of the death of Mrs. Herbert Wilding former Decatur resident. The word stated that death occurred at 1:05 o'clock at her home ' in Fort Wayne. Funeral arrangements were not completed. 0 April Court Term Opens This Morning The April term of the Adams circuit court opened today. For the most part only routine business was transacted this morning. It is expected that Judge Huber M- DeVoss will call the docket this week in order that cases may be set for trial, dismissed or have some other actioa taken.

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One Decision Unanimous; Court Divided, 5 To 4 In Other Opinions On Labor Law. VITAL DECISIONS Washington, Apr. 12 —(UP)—The supreme court, in a series of vital I decisions upheld the general constiItutionality of the Wagner labor relations act in opinions which appeared to broaden traditional interpretation of the constitution’s interstate commerce clause. The court was bitterly divided in its decision. In four of the five test, cases dissents were presented by justices Willis Van DeVanter George, George Sutherland, James C. Macßeynolds and Pierce Butler. However, the court majority, led by chief justice Charles Evans Hughes declared that the Wagner act was constitutionally applied in the great steel, automobile, and clothing industries. In two other decisions the court held that the jurisdicion of the national labor relations board was constitutionally ininvoked with regard to a newspaper press association and an interstate bus concern. The decision constituted a ma jor victory for the new deal statutes, although leading its validity in some phases of more local types of industry undecided. It appeared, however, that the court majority considered the law , w holly legal in great manufacturing industries where operations are 1 conducted in different states and where raw and processed materials I are drawn into the manurctory and I distributed widely through various states. The court presented separate opinions covering its findings in each of the five test cases of the Wagner act before it. Only one of these opinions was i unanimous. It was the case involving application of the act to an interstate bus concern- in a teat concerning the Associated Press, the majority found that the act was legally applied. The dissenters, led by Justice George Sutherland, bitter’y decried the decision contend--1 ing that the freedom of the press clause of the constitution protecti ed the press associations from application of the act. Af’er presentation of the Associated Press dissent Chief Justice Hughes, in rapid succession, three opinions which court students held broadened traditional interstate commerce constitutional clause interpretation. These covered applications of the act to automobile steel ! and clothing industries. Hughes was joined in his majority opinion by Justices Benjamin Cordozo, Louis 1). Brandies, IHarlan (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Q ADAMS COUNTY NATIVE DIES Mrs. Morris Studebaker Dies Sunday Morning At Vera Cruz Mrs. Morris Studebaker, aged 49. a native of Adams county, died j at her home in Vera Cruz at 2:25 o'clock Sunday morning. Death was caused by complications. The deceased was born in French township February 21. 1888, the daughter of Paul and Eliza Wolf Hoffman. She was married to Morris Studebaker July 31, 1909. Surviving children are Donald Studebaker, Fort Wayne; Rose and Alice Studebaker, of Bluffton. Two brothers, Noah and Jake Hoffman; I three sisters, Mrs. Otto Gilgen, Mrs. Richard Hughes and Mrs. Ed Heche, of Fortville, also survive. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Jahn funeral home in Bluffton with the Rev. Matthew Worthman officiating. Burial will be . made in the Six Mlle cemetery j near there.