Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1937 — Page 1

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D>- Charles M. Houser, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational < nnrch in foil Wayne, will speak at commencement exercises of the rural high schools of Adams county beginning Monday night

MADRID AGAIN SUBJECTED TO HEAVY SHELLING Loyalists Officials Assert Attack By Rebels Is Repulsed Madrid. Apr. 22 tU.R) The embattled loyalists struck back at • besieging rebels on the outskirts of Madrid today and recaptured the suburb of Usera. The government forces made their surprise sortie as the rebels rained approximately 100 shells into the center of the capital on th<- 11th day of a bombardment which so far has killed 150 people and wounded more than 300 others. At Usera, an official loyalist eouxniunique reputiad, lh*> rebels were repulsed after they had rushed the government lines in a larld attack shortly after dawn. Geu. Jose Miaja, defender of Madrid, said: “The rebels delivered a surprise attack at the Barrio De Usera this morning and captured a loyalist trench. The loyalist forces, counter-attacked. Hand-to-hand fighting followed. “At bayonet point, and throwing hand grenades, our troops not only retook the trench but captured the position from which the rebels started their movement." Today’s second shelling of Madrid began at 4 p. m. Within two minutes 20 shells fell around the central Gran Via Boulevard. Eight-inch shells crashed continually around the buidling where this dispatch was being written. -——o - — Former Local Man To Broadcast May 1 Harry R. Daniel of the departbent of commerce, Washington, former Decatur newspaper publisher, "will broadcast a talk on the “American Lumber Industry" from Washington on May 1. The broadcast will be on the air from 2:30 to 2:45 (Decatur time) over the Columbia system. Mr. Daniel lived in Decatur a number of years ago and published a daily paper here. He has been connected with the department of commerce for several years. WRECK VICTIM HAS OPERATION Amputate Left Leg Os Daniel O’Shaughnessey; Serious An operation was performed at 11:30 o’clock Wednesday night at the Adams county memorial hospital upon Daniel O’Shaughnessey. of Monroeville, to amputate his left leg midway (between the knee and the hip. Hie condition was reported as serious this afternoon. Mr. O’Shaughnessey was one of four injured in the accident here Saturday night which reunited in the death of Floyd Rison, ot Fort Wayne. Mrs. Raymond Papenbrock of Monroeville another of the victims, will be discharged from the hospital this evening. The other two persons injured in the wreck are Mrs. Floyd Rteon of Fort Wayne and Raymond Papenbrock of Monroeville. ißoth are improving.

SCHOOL LEADER TO BE SPEAKER AT GRADUATION Floyd I. McMurray To Speak At Catholic School Exercises Floyd I. McMurray, state superintendent of public instruction. I will deliver the address at the fifteenth annual commencement exercises of the Decatur Catholic I high school in this city on Friday. I June 4. The Rev. Father Joseph J. Seimetz. pastor of St. Mary's church aud superintendent of the local 1 school, today received an acceptance from Mr. McMurray to deliver the commencement address. When Mr. McMurray was in Decatur with Governor M. Clifford Townsend. last March 18. he visited the Catholic and public schools. Father Seimelz invited the state ! superintendent to return to Deca-1 tur and askisi him if he would deliver the commencement address in June. Class of 15 A class of 15 boys and girls will be graduated from the Catholic; high school The seniors are: I George Bierly, Virginia Borns. Marjorie Brown. Charles Cook, Martha Jane Foos. Mary Catherine t Holthouse, Loreto Rose Lose, Frances Loshe. Genevieve Rip berger. Esther Rumschlag. Mary | Martha Terveer, Joseph Tricker. Fred Voglewede, Josephine Wol pert. Margaret Wolpert. Eighth Grade Graduation Forty boy and girl pupils will . be graduated from the eighth i grade at the commencement exercises. They are: John Anderson, Rosemary Bak , er. Patricia Belling. Dolores Bentz , Frederick Bierly. Theodore 80l inger. Robert Briede. Mariann Brite, Leo Braun, Marcycle Braun. . Germaine Faurote. Mary Gelmer, i Naomi Geimer, Ruth Gillig, Leo Hackman. Barbara Jane Holthouse, Max Johnson. Mary Alice i, Kintz. Jane Kleinhenz. Rosemary i . | Laugerman I Gerald J. Lengerich, Gerald T. ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) TWO SUITS ARE COMPROMISED Two Workmen’s Compensation Suits Are Compromised Here Compromises were attained in I two workmen’s compensations suits against the Central Sugar Co., inc., before Sam Vogt, a mem- ' ber of the Indiana industrial board, conducted hearings in the library of the Adams circuit court today. Mr. Vogt approved the stipulations agreed upon by the parties J interested. One case was for the collection of compensation for the death of I their son, Eldred W. Schifferly. brought by Otis and lona Schlffer--1 ly. The other was brought by John Magley for medical and hos-, pital bills as well as compensation ! during the time he was unable to work following an accident at the 1 plant. Schifferly Suit \ The plaintiffs in the Schifferly case were represented by C. L 1 Walters ot Decatur, and David Hogg, and the defendant by Leigh ; A. Hunt. In the stipulation it was brought out that Eldred Schifferly • was killed by an injury sustained while emp’oyed at the Central I Sugar Company, Inc., on October 17, 1935. It was stated that all : hospital and medical bills had ’ been paid as well as the statutory allowance of SIOO for burial. The question involved was the amount of the damage to Mr. and i Mrs. Schifferly by reason of his death and consequent inability to • provide partial support for them. ’ It was stated he contributed an ■ average of $3.10 per week to his ; parents from his $18.48 weekly I salary. The stipulation allowed (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ’I — o Local Girl Scouts To Sponsor Cookie Sale II The Decatur girl scouts, including Troops 1, 2 and 3 will sponsor ’ a cokie sale Saturday, May 1. The • girls are making an eftrt to raise money to enable as many as possible of them to enjoy the privileges i of the Ella J. Logan camp this ' i summer. The 45 girls are now taking ord- ■ ers. The patronage ot the public is solicited.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, April 22, 1937.

Graduation Speaker bi Floyd I. McMurray, state superintendent of public instruction, will deliver the commencement address to graduates of the Decatur Catholic high school Friday. June 4. GIVE VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT Jury Finds For Defendant In SIO,OOO Damage Suit After deliberating two hours and 15 minutes, a jury in the Adams eir< uit court refurned a verdict for the defendant in the $lll,OOO dam age suit brought by Howard C. McKinley against ArchibaTii Hutson, both ot Portland. The jury found that the plaintiff should recover nothing from his action to collect damages for personal injuries alleged sustained in an accident, three miles east of Montpelier in 1934. The evidence was completed at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. An hour and 10 minutes was granted attorneys for each side to make their arguments to the jury. The case was rested with the jury at i5;15 o’clock. Less than two hours I and a half was required to render the verdict at 8:30 o’clock, as one hour was taken for dinner. The plaintiff alleged that as a result of the injuries sustained while a passenger in a car driven by Hutsu. he sustained an injury Ito his spinal column and nervous ' system, which resulted in a twitching and rotation of his headDefense attorneys attempted to show that the injuries might have . been sustained in one of three other accidents, in which they alleged the plaintiff participated. The case was venued here from the Jay circuit court. o Track Catches Fire, Little Damage Done The attention of several persons in the south part of the city, was attracted last evening about 6 o’clock, when a trailer, loaded with household goods, caught tire. The driver of the car, whose ' name was not learned, tossed a i cigarette from the window, which flew back into the trailer. He was able to extinguish the flames, after unloading most of the goods. CHURCH NAMES NEW OFFICERS Evangelical Church Elects Officers At Meeting Wednesday The First Evangelical church of this city held its annual business meeting Wednesday evening. The minister haj charge of the devotions and presided at the bueineßS session. A brief review of the work of the paet year revealed that there were , 58 accessions to the church with a steady growth maintained in each department of the church. The total contributions for the year, for the charge, exceeded S6IOO. Two new Christian Endeavor societies were organized, and there was an in-; crease In the attendance at all of the services of the church. C. E. Hocker and Earl Butler ■were elected trustees of the church for a period of three years; Eugene Runyon and Henry Adler for two years and Earl Fuhnman for one year. Robert Garard was elected class leader and J. O. Tricker as assistant class leader. The session voted unanimously for the return of the minister for the next conference year. The minister. Rev. George S. Lozier, and the lay delegate, C. E. Hocker, will attend the annual conference session in Elkhart next week.

STUDENTS HEAR NOTED SPEAKER Dusty Miller Speaks To High School Students Os City Wednesday Dusty Miller, nationally famous liumorlut and speaker, addressed i the students of the two Decatur (high schools Wednesday afternoon. Mr Miller spoke first at the Catholic school and la,er at ,he P»*>lic ’ school. The speaker, in his own Inimitable way, de'ivered one of the most enjoyable talks of the year to the local students. Leaving an impressive lesson i with the utudents. the speaker sprinkled the address with bits of humor, such as have built for him his present reputation as one of ths most ■intertaining tpeakers of today. “Sportsmanship” wae the theme of the address. Mr. Miller classified the people of the world into three distinctive groups, namely, the “1 know." the "Izatao,” and the “Let’s ' go,” types. i With a brief description of each, the speaker urged the students to join the third type in working with their fellow men toward organized’ endeavors. Mr. Miller, who is a newspaper man from Wilmington. Ohio, has spoken in this city on previous occasions, visiting the local service clubs. His address here Wednesday was ' sponsored by the commercial club ot the Decatur high school. Miss Jeanette Christen, president of the . c’ub, introduced the speaker. Several visitors were present to hear ■ the address. 1 : O Holiness Association Will Meet Sunday The monthly meeting of the Adams county holiness association will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at . the Church of the Nazarene in . this city. Rev. C. W. Henderson, pastor of the First Nazarene i church in Fort Wayne, will speak . and J. W. Felmlee will sing. The . public is invited to attend. DEATH CLAIMS l EMILY GRABER Mrs. Emily Graber Dies Today At Home Os Daughter — 1 Mrs. Emily Graber. 84, widow ot the late Joseph Graber, of Berne, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph J. Schwartz, one mile , north of Berne, at 12:30 o’clock this morning. Death was caused by compltcaI tions and infirmities The deceased ’ was born in Switzerland November 5. 1552, the daughter of Oliver and Resina Baumgartner Girod. ’ She came to the community near Eerne when a young girl and had resided there since. Her husband pre- . ceded her in death seven yeans ago. Surviving are three daughters. Mrs. Joseph J. Schwartz, Mrs. Ja- ! cob P. Schwartz and Mrs. Jacob J. Eicher, all of near Berne- She was a member of the Amish enureh. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 9 o’clock at the home and burial will be made in II the church cemetery, three miles I north of Berne. J o Baccaalaureate Service Sunday The complete program for the baccalaureate services of the senior class of the Monmouth high school, which will be held Sunday night at the Decatur Zion Lutheran church, was announced today. The services will be open to the public and will begin at 7:30 o’clock. In addition to the sermon to be delivered by the pastor, the Rev. Paul W. Schultz, the service will include a solo, “The Holy Hour,” sung by Miss Elvira Ward. The church choir will sing, "Savior, I Follow On.” o Bryant Man Injured In Accident Wednesday William Rupert, 42, Bryant, was seriously injured late Wednesday afternoon when he was caught in the shaft of machinery operated by a gasoline engine. He is confined to the Jay county hospital with an injured left shoulder, lacerated left eyelid and an injured eye and possible internal injuries. Rupert was installing equipment in a new machine shop • when his clothing was caught in the shaft.

ECONOMY MOVE GAINS POWER IN CONGRESS Roosevelt’s Economy Drive Gains Power From Leaders Washington, Apr. 22. — (U.R) President Roosevelts economy drive gained power in congress today with sixmsors of the huge spending measures lighting to sal - vage parts of their prograpi. Signs appeared from several sources that legislators would join with Mr. Roosevelt in his campaign to pare $ 1,000,000,00|) from proposed expenditures for the 1938 fiscal year beginning this July 1. They included: 1. Sponsors of the $1,000,000,000 Wagner housing bill, the $50,000,000 (Jones farm tenancy proposal and the Harrison $100,000,000 education measure were understood to be agreeable to compromises reducing those expenditures to onefourth or less. 2. House advocates of a $2,500,000,000 work relief appropriation—sl,ooo,ooo,ooo more than the presij dent’s recommendation — admitted that a check showed only slight chance of getting more than 120 votes for the increase. 3. Strong sentiment developed I among members of the house appropriations committee to reduce I further (tending supply bills those covering the war and interior de- 1 partments. Chairman Edward T. Taylor predicted each would be, below budget estimates. 4. House leaders sought to ! pigeonhole numerous authoriza : tion bills in the rules committee which has major power in decid- •! ing which measures qome before the house. 5. The house labor committee, ; approved a bill to make the civilI ian conservation corps permanent | with 300,000 enrollees —as recommended by the president -— rejectb’ ing demands of a group desiring . to maintain the rolls at the present ‘ 350,000 level. The first test of congressional ‘ sentiment toward the big admin- | istration drive to balance the bud--1 get came in the house yesterday during consideration of the Vinson I anti-stream pollution bill. It car- | I t ied an authorization of $1,000,000 - which opponents said was not pro- ‘ vided in the budget and was counter to the administration economy ,; program. 'I The bill passed. 188 to 157. Last I year only six members opposed a I similar measure. Rivers and harbors and flood ■ i control measures were caught in the economy drive. A proposed $600,000,000 omnibus flood control bill was being studied by the national resources board before makI ing recommendations to the president. A rivers and harbors program ’ calling for 80 projects costing an I aggregate of $25,000,000 was held in a house committee pending decisio non the $200,000,000 Florida ship canal. Sen. Alben W. Barkley, I).. Ky.. was optimistic that some flood control work would be done in the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DENY PETITION FOR RECEIVER I Court Denies Petition For Receiver For Local Company ..... Judge Huber M. DeljQse today ■ ■ overruled a petition seeking appointment ot a receiver for the G6i»eral Ice Machines, Inc., of this city,: ’ brought by George L. Kern, who is I suing to collect $1,273.92 in wages alleged due him. I Dick Burdge, and Mr. Kern w’ere the two witnesses. On the stand, Mr. Burdge stated that the General Ice Machines, Inc., was incorporated and received a ; charter from the state in 1929 or ' 1930 to manufacture and distribute ’ | ice machines and to sell ice. Four days later the concern leased all of its assets to the General Ice Machine company, ot which he said he is the only owner. The recI ord of the organization of this com- ’ pany is filed in the county clerk’s office, he stated. I I Mr. Burdge admitted owing; 1 1 claims filed in the court. Mr. Kern testified that some times he had been paid and at oth- ’ er times he was told the General ■lce Machines company was unable to pay him. The court found that the plain- ( tiff had not proved that the GenI (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) 1

Labor Controversy Developing Again On Many Fronts

Loses First Round wawl ’ ? w i Attorneys for Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt. seeking to get change of venue of ids murder trial at Newcastle. Ky.. received a I setback when the judge ruled against it. Denhardt. former lieutenant governor of Kentucky, is seen on way to court where he i t i being tried on charges of slaying Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor, LaGrange, Ky . widow. LA CROSSE IS FOUND GUILTY Convicted Os Post Office Robberies By Federal Jury Mahlon LaCrosse. 32. Duluth. Minn., was convicted by a federal jury in Fort Wayne late Wednes-> day afternoon on two indictments ! charging armed robbery of the i Pleasant Mills and Petersaa post offices in Adams county. I The jury deliberated only 25 minutes after being given the case lat 4:12 o'clock yesterday afternoon. LaCrosse and Earl Putman, who entered a plea of nolo contendere to the same charges, were scheduled to be sentenced by Judge ' Thomas W. Slick this morning, but their sentencing was delayed by press of other court business. Putman, who is serving a term in Ohio State penitentiary on a state charge, was brought here to face trial. He entered a plea of nolo contendere shortly before La- * Crosse's trial opened yesterday 1 morning. Maximum penalty on each in- ■ dictment carries a sentence of 10 i years in prison. Attorney Fred Carpenter of To ledo. 0.. counsel for LaCrosse, an- ( nounced yesterday that he did not l plan to appeal the case to a higher I court. Indictments against LaCrosse, ’ who also went under the aliases iof Mahlon LaCroffee and Frank : Spano, charged him with the robI bery of $17.03 from Mrs. Bertha Everett, postmaster of Pleasant (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O Red Men To Sponsor Party Tuesday Night Members of the Red Men lodge will hold a public party at the lodge hall next Tuesday night at 8 o’clock. Tickets to the affair are selling for 25 cents per person. The public is invited to attend. o Part Os Denhardt Jury Is Obtained New Castle. Ky. April 22—(UP) ’ ■—(The jury box in which will Bit ■ the twelve men to try brigadiergeneral Henry H. Denhardt for the murder of Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor was one-third fi’led today, leaving eight jurors to be chosen. Within an hour of court opening 12 prospective jurors had been accepted by the commonwealth but (defense lawyers challenged eight

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Labor Troubles Develop On Many Fronts After A Week Os Comparative Quiet. END VIOLENCE By United Press Labor controversy developed on widely scattered fronts again today after a week of comparative quiet. Steel-helmeted national guardsI men patrolled the shoe factory district of Auburn, Me., ending violence in a 28-duy old strike of shoe workers affiliated with the committee for industrial organization. Factories prepared to reI open under a court injunction | prohibiting picketing. I Rioting was threatened at Stockton, Cal . where canning factories I were closed by strike at the height of the vegetable canning season. Fifteen hundred deputized citizens under Sheriff Harvey Odell offered to assist canners to operate in defiance of 1.000 srtik ers. Both groups were armed with I pick handles and baseball bats, in Oshawa. Ont., announcement ot’ a new basis of settling the ! strike of workers in the General Motors plant was expected momentarily. It reportedly would call for repudiation of the C. I. O. by the workers. Three New York justices convicted 16 strikers and the president of their union on charges of conducting a sit-down strike in the Brooklyn Jewish hospital in defiance of an old law making it a crime to endanger life or pro petty by refusing to work. Tlte newly formed American Labor qague, incorporated under Michigan law and pledged to oppose sit-down strikes, began working to gain membership throughout the country as a competitor to the C. I. O. In Washington, the American I Federation of Labor executive council met secretly to consider expulsion of unions affiliated with the C. I. O. There was a possi- , bllity the council would summon an emergency A. F. of L. convention to consider the drastic action. College students all over the country prepared to leave their strike called by the united student classes at 11 a. m. in an anti war peace committee. Patrol Streets Auburn, Me., Apr. 22— <U.R) — ■Militiamen armed with bayonettipped rifles patrolled Auburn streets in an April snowstorm today as local police arrested Powers Hapgood and five other C. I. O. shoe strike leaders and charged them with inciting a riot yesterda ythat was quelled only after use of tear-gas. Col. Spaulding Bisbee of the Maine national guard said the 450 troops sent here by Governor Lewis (). Barrows would merely aid local police on patrol duty unless further violence occurs. In (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TAX VALUATION TO BE HIGHER Valuation In Both City And County Likely To Be Higher Tax valuations in the city and county are expected to be considerably higher this year. County Assessor Ernest Worthman stated ' today. While the early date prohibited an approximate estimate of the rise in valuations, Mr. Worthman ; stated that the amount of improvements and the rise in grain and ■ livestock values was expected to ► boost the valuations iu both city . and country. ' Improvements alone are expect- • ed to push the assessment values up 25 per cent on properties, the assessor stated. Most of the assessing !b being | done at a rapid rate, he stated. The I only exception occurs in WashingI ton township, Mr. Worthman stated, where so many persons are unable to be found at home. , 1 On numerous occasions, the Washington township assessor, ,! John Baker, has been forced to ’ | make as many as j(> calls in order ~ to make one assessment, he stated. I The assessing mut be completed , ' by May 15 and all reiports must be ’' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)