Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 101, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1937 — Page 1

XXV. No. 101.

«ED STATES |3c, DEMANDS ® ANGE IN LAW , r Os Commerce Protection ■ I for Capital By Umtfd Press Si.l"* 1 htimbiT of <’om- ~. IIH‘ Wagner labor 1 , ■ y El csi: ll,r 1 ' y By by i x>r. ■TU 11 ' i"‘ while labor most ML w 1 fmls Detroit. PacTard Motor Car uork-TH balloted to deter- ' • th'' United Antonio- . ..’.lective baragency. il.o- Manser ruled in M<- -.ven committee jyi /a’iiin lead. ■ - ' on (#»[(>III?I nt court growing out ’. of an injunction picketing during a Hit Administration iti. A?ri>2B — (UP) ii|Kt Ui 1 vigorous attack oa M»||o. . .'.lett ■ '■> today ■ftarL ' iwo /narply worded :- >_■ business men in esjl "g" "Ut and fight for their MghW' more tlian 2.000 delegates ' <. annual inSk j*:L. -I a ill lie for change in . ’ 1 strtl. ■sere a the nation. railing for amendWagner lalkir relations ■Httsfe ■ iiinia-tribiited corpora'e tax were passed on to the 1 ftaJof directors today. Leading raid they believed both JBttSge ■| .e i . overw helmnicthey are brought |HhS t-.it t. >wopen meetlie ' d criticism of the nevf' from Virgil Jordan of of the conferem ' ..-iinnent "has be iiu-tniiiieiit of forces alien Eto til enterprise princiip'e of Amlife and work who desire to ■ testn. it and replace it by the of absolute subjection to I ■ the |t.ite. which m nearly every of the world holds the and fear-ridden peo- ■ Pi»Wita paralyzing power " B said the Roosevr It adminhad "deliberately and sysattempted the “destructioCTof government “by playing and capitalizing the weakI “**4 of business management it-1 exploit mg the ignnranee, iuenvy of the masses. consequence," be said, “the people, weakened by indecay of character, have l^t 11 “'ey pH-y to persistent atB undermine and destroy B !■'l • piiiicipl.. and replace and astatic concen!|^B rriN l'Fni ON PAGE FOUR)

!;I FLOOD PICTURES UIW TO CLUB I wod And Drought Pic- | •res Are Exhibited | Here Tuesday I ° f nature ’ a extreme temper- | WPrp vividly portrayed beyesterday, when a "W 1 Kemp. of the state works I ® WB admini etrat!on brought Picture here for exhibit. I |);, tln 'es, of approximately an I ,■* duration, were divided into One section showed the I and suffering caused recent drought in the wesI j *^B etate8 ’ and the methode used I tll6 ktuation. E3k' > other series of pictures was in the flooded areas of the and Miseippi river valleys, thoiisanda were driven front homes by the ravages of lite ■^R e Pictures were first presented |3r stl *dcnt« of the local high J -g’ then were shown to the flub in the weekly meeting | Rlcp and later in the exhibited to the meinbere I ~ ) - i ’ Adanis Post, American LeI "■ ,n the local home. p h Roop, city engineer, had of the program and was inI ««k! ntal in seci >ring the pictures I ’»this city.

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ROOSEVELT ON VACATION TRIP President Enroute To (Julf Os Mexico For Fishing Vacation Aboard President Rooesvelt's ! special train en route to New Orleans, Apr. 88. — ,(U.R> — President Roosevelt relaxed today from two days of overtime work as he headed south toward the Gulf of Mexico for a spring fishing vacation. The president was five hours behind schedule leaving Washington. Railroad offic ials* said the delay was because “we didn't want to j i get down the line Um early." Mr. Roosevelt lounged at ease in his private car as it passed through the Carolinas, reading from a list of fiction and semi-fic-tion books selected for his trip from the congressional library. The president's special train will arrive at New Orleans shortly after noon tomorrow. He will 1 board the U. S. S. Potomac later that afternoon for tarpon fishing i off the coast of Texas. Mr. Roosevelt will return to Washington Thursday. May 13, after short stopovers in Galveston, Texas, where he will leave his U. S. 8. Potomac; Collie Station. ■ Texas, and Tort Worth. Texas, the home of his son, Elliott. Before reaching New Orleans, i the president will leave his train at Biloxi, Miss., to motor the 12 miles to Gulfport. He wanted to see JJ-fferson Davis' ancestral home, now a veterans' hospital i located between the two gulf towns. Mr. Roosevelt's desk was clear of all important executive business when lie hoarded his train shortly before midnight last night on a special siding in Washington’s union sta'ion. In The past two days, he has signed the Guffey coal bill and ap (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o MORNINGSTAR IS FOUND GUILTY Jury Convicts Geneva Man Os Passing Forged Check

After deliberating for four hours, a jury of eight men and four women returned at 7:50 o’clock laet night in the Adame circuit court, finding Dick Harry Benjamin Morningstar guilty of forgery, as charged. The. panel, ifllwever, returned a unanimous plea for clemency. Prosecutor Arthur E. Vogleweda | and Edmound A. Bosee, counsel for the defense, made their closing pleats late yesterday afternoon ana the jury after receiving instructions retired at 3:30 o’clock, to return exactly four hours later with the verdict. Sentencing of the 46-year old Geneva WPA worker will likely be ipaseed late today. The charge, upon conviction, carries a 2-14 year sentence in the Michigan City state pri- J son, which can be passed by Judge Huber M. DeVoss. Evidence (brought oue in the trial which took but one day in the local circuit court, charged Morningstar with issuing a check for $lO at the ! local Goodyear Service. Inc., and forging the name of his brother-in-. law, Dan (Baker. His young son testified that, when he asked his dad how he ■ bought the tire. Morningstar replied by "signing a name to a check Mrs. Dan Baker, sister of the de- j fendant. testified for the defense in behalf of her brother. The regular panel for the April term of court, with but one exception, heard the trial. James Garboden was excused by the defense counsel. Mrs. Glen Barkley, of this city, replaced him. Work Os Students Put On Exhibition Exhibitions of the crafstsmanshi'P of domestic science students 1 of the Decatur public high school are on display in various downtown stores of the city. The dresses and other exhibits of needlework made by the students in first-year clothing were placed In the stores today. Much of the material used was purchased in the stores in which the completed articles are displayed. The dresses are drawing considerable attention, especially from parents and persons interested in the work done by the class. Miss Mildred Worthman domestic science teacher, supervised the work. WEATHER Probably showers, beginning tonight or Thursday, slightly warmer.

Floods Again Sweep Over Pennsylvania Towns MM fen I I nL I*l ' Bw - HER t 9 . at ' Street M-ene in Free|><>rtJ.v > ?•’ 2' fflji)* s . Scenes such as this one, taken in Freeport, Pa.. rania as rescue crews carried stranded residents were common in numerous sections of Pennsyl- to safety and distributed emergency food rations

ANNUAL M. E. MEETING OPENS l Annual Conference Is Opened Today At An- @ derson Church Anderson, Ind., Apr. 28 —(U.R) — i Delegates to the North Indiana ' Conference of the Methodist Episi copal church gathered here today i for the opening session of a ifc-l day convention i Sessions were under the supervision of Bishop Ralph S. Cushman of Denver, Colo., presiding in place of Bishop Edgar Blake of Detroit, who was unable to attend wiecause of illness. I The conference opened officialIly wi & devotions led by Bishop ' Cushman and was to be followed by memorial services for deceased and their wives. A sermon by the Rev. W. W. Robinson, and joint anniversary services were scheduled later in the day. Outstanding speakers on today's I program include the Rev. Fred Fisher, pastor of the Central M. E. I church. Detroit, and widely-known religious leader; and the Rev. Clovis G. Chappell of Oklahoma ; City. Tomorrow delegates will hold the annual meeting of the preach- ' I ers' aid society, business sessions, 1 and an educational rally. A sea1 ture program will be an address by Dr. Clyde Wildman, president of DePauw University. '■ i The annual laymen's association I meeting will be held In the Christian church with Dr. Otto U. ' Klug of Huntington presiding. An address by Bishop Cushman I will highlight Friday's session. ' Reports of district superintendents, presentation of the "million i fellowship unit," and lectures by ■ I Dr. Chappell and Dr. Lyon Harold'

(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO, O DEATH CLAIMS BERTHAKAEHR I Mrs, Bertha Kaehr Dies At Home Os Daughter Monday Night — Mrs. Bertha Shurerk Kaehr, widow of Samuel Kaehr, died Monday night at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Olen Geisel, two miles east of Bluffton. She had been ill the past year. Mrs. Kaehr was born in Dekalb county on May 2, 1877, a daughter of Carl and Lena Smith Shurerk. Her marriage to Samuel Kaehr took place in April, 1900. He preceded her in death on September 22, 1929. The following sons and daughters survive: Mrs. William Steffen, of Bluffton; John Kaehr, of Bluffton, Mrs. Henry Williams, of Fort Wayne; William Kaehr, Emma Kaehr, Ervin Kaehr, and Mrs. Olen Geisel, of Bluffton; Mrs. Harold Barger, of Adams county, and Mrs. Amos Moser, of Berne. Two sons, Raymond and Lewis Kaehr, are deceased. Mrs. Carrie Marquart, of Fort Wayne, is a sister. A sister, Mrs. Enoch Steffen, and a brother, Lewis Shurerk, are deceased. Mrs. Kaehr was a member of the Christian Apostolic church, east of Bluffton. Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. Thursday at the home and at 2 p. m. at the Christian Apostolic church. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, April 28, 1937.

* TRAFFIC LAWS Indianapolis, Apr. 28. —<U.PJ — j Punishment for traffic viola | tlons in Zagreb, Yugoslavia is j short, swift and irritating, ac- | cording to exchange information of auto clubs received here by the Hoosier Motor club | state officials. f They don't go through the > | formality-of a "ticket" or court | summons. The policeman observing a violation simply stops the of- | fender and lets all the air out of his tires. The information adds that minor traffic violations have taken a sharp drop T in Zagreb.

CABARET DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT Decatur High School To Sponsor Annual Party Friday Plans for the cabaret dance of the Howling Hosts of the Decatur high school to be staged at the Sunset Park pavilion on Friday night, are rapidly taking form, those in charge stated today. Bud Anspaugh, student in charge of the floor show, stated today that he expected to be able to announce the complete program by Thursday A host of local and foreign tai ent is being assembled to afford patrons at the cabaret one of the most entertaining programs gver presented Uy the school. Reservations for the affair are rapidly being made, it was stated today. A few choice tables may t still be had by calling the high school and contacting either Bud Hurst or Dan 'Holthouse. The reservations sell for 75 cents per couple. Members of the various committees have been working industriously for the past few days to insure the success of the cabaret, given in honor of the Yellow Jacket athletic teams. — -o Capacity Houses At Decatur Movie Between 1,500 and 1,600 persons witnessed the movie “See Yourself and Your Town,” during the two days it was presented by the Decatur high school at the Madison theater here. Miss Mildred Smith, in charge, stated todayOs this number 992 adults attend'ed the show. Another large crowd, rivalling that of Monday night, packed the theater for the three shows last night, Miss Smith stated. The pictures, which were purchased by the school, will be kept for future showings, when their value is expected to fee greatly enhance.fi h-'storically. Welfare Exams To Be Held Saturday Indianapolis, Apr. 28 — (U.R) Written examinations for more than 500 applicants seeking posi tlons as county welfare directors under the new merit plan will be held Saturday in four centers. Examinations will be conducted at Shortridge high school, Indian spoils; Emerson high school, Gary; Central high school, Fort Wayne, and Bosse high school. Evansville. Oral examinations will be given the applicants later.

MOOSE INSTALL NEW OFFICERS Tillman Gehrig Installed As Dictator Os Moose Lodge Tillman Gehrig, local factory em1 ploye, was installed as dictator of Adams lodge 1311, Loyal Order of Moose, in their meeting at the lodge home last night. M. Gehrig, who succeeded Lloyd Kreischer in the executive office. I will head the lodge for a one-year , term. Other elective officers installed were: John Alberding, vice-dic-tator; Charles Morgan, prelate; Jess Rupert, treasurer and Elmo Miller, trustee. Appointive officers installed were ' Dan IB'. FJ.aun, sergeant at-arms; Grover C. Cottrell, inner guard and i Alvin Egley, outer-guard Trustees whose terms held over I are Wm. H. Foughty and Ed Keller. Adam Schafer acted in the official capacity as installing officer in the absence of Solomon Lord. A large crowd was tn attendancj ' at the meeting last night to witness > the ceremonies. Luncheon and re-1 freshments were served in the home following the (business ses- | eion. ■ o “Stolen” Auto Found In Owner’s’ Garage When Noah Sheets, of West Monroe street, reported to local police , last night that his car had been stolen, a search was Immediately I started. After an intensive search I and the description of the car had been broadcast over the sort wave system, Officers Floyd Hunter and Adrian Coffee located the auto in the Sheets garage, where it had; originally (been kept. o DECATUR WOMEN ORGANIZE CLUB Business And Professional Women’s Club Is Organized Officers of the newly organized business and professional women's club will (be installed at the next meeting, tentatively scheduled for May 12. The officers were elected at a i meeting of the club, held Monday evening in the home of Mrs. R. A. Stuckey- They are: Miss Matilda’ Sellemeyer, president; Miss Vivian Burk, first vice-president; Mrs. L. L. Fogle, second vice-president; J Miss Grace Lichtensteiger. record-ing-secretary, and Miss Mary McKean, treasurer. There are 24 chapter members. The Decatur club is a chapter of the National federation o! business and professional women’s clubs. Inc., whose purposes are: “to ele-1 vate the standards of women in business and professions and to .promote the interests and bring about a spirit of cooperation among business and professional women in the United States, and to extend opportunities to these women through education along industrial scientific and vocational lines.’’ It is a non-partisan, non-sectarian self-governing anj self-supporting organization. The federation has given or loaned a half million dollars through more than 500 local educational funds.

REBEL TROOPS DRIVE LOYALS BACK ON CITY

Bilbao, City Os 200,000, Is Threatened By Nationalists — 1 Heudaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier. Apr. 28 \U.Rr Gen. Emilio Mola's victorious nationalist army began a swift, mechanized drive down the Nervion valley toward I Bilbao today. Before it fled a defeated, de--1 moralized loyalist army which hoped to make a last stand on the outskirts of the Basque capital where were more than 200.000 terror-stricken refugees. Behind* Mola's army, the flames of a dozen burning towns lighted the skies. Thousands of wounded I men from both sides filled emergI ency hospitals and an insurgent salvage corps began collecting tons of war supplies abandoned by the retreating basques. The tvd and gold flag of the old monarchy was hoisted over 27 towns and villages which four days ago—when Mola began his inarch to the sea —was under the red. white and green flag of the basque republic. Burango was encircled—virtually captured; Eibar and Guernica, the ancient basque capital, both still burning despite 24 hours of fire fighting Uy insurgent troops, were reported ruined i Three nationalist columns pursued the retreating basque forces. In front of each column went fleets of airplanes bombing the country-side and wreaking destruction over a battle front that had narrowed to 25 miles in width and 12 miles in depth. Nationalist deserters reported I to loyalist officers that complete

CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) LIST PROGRAM OF CONVENTION Union - Root Township Sunday School Convention Sunday — The complete program for the Union and Root township Sunday I school convention to be held Sun- ■ day, May 2, was announced today.. The afternoon session opening at i 2 o’clock will be held at the Clark’s i Chapel church. The program is as follows: Song Service. Devotions —M:se Berniece Brodbeck. Special music — Mt. Pleasant (church. I Address, “Sunday School In Work”—the Rev. Homer J. Aspy. Offering. Election of officers. Announcements by county offic- . ers. Special music — Mt. Victory ; church. Benediction. The evening session .opening at. 7:30 o’clock, will be held at the' Union Chapel church. The program , is as follows: Song. Devotions —the Rev. G. E. Eddy. Special nytsic — Pleasant Grove ' church. Special music — Clank’s Chapel church. Offering. Worship and candle lighting service—Union Chapel Young People. Song. Benediction. o Former xXdams County Woman Dies Tuesday — Word was received Tuesday by i Mrs. O. S. Fortney of Pleasant ■ Mills of the death of a sister, Mrs. I Frank Goodyear, 51, of Dunkirk, Indiana. She had been ill for a numI ber of yearsMrs. Goodyear was a former resident of St. Mary's township. Funeral services will he held at Duni kirk Friday afternoon. o Nazarene Revival To Open Tonight The “old Fashion” revival service ' will 'begin this evening at the i church of the Nazarene located on > j the corner of Seventh and Marshall | Sts. The Rev. M. T. Brandyberry . j of Woodward, Okla., will speak on : the subject “One Man and God a Majority.” One feature of the revival will be the special singing by ; the Rev. M. T. Brandyberry and his eon, the Rev. Paul Brandyberry. Services will begin at 7:30 p. m.

More Than Score Os Persons Dead In Flooded Area

J. A. FARLEY STUMPS STATE ON COURT BILL Postmaster-General Dedicates Post Office, Visits Governor — Indianapolis. Apr. 28 — (U.R) — Postmaster-General James Aloysios Farley’s stumping tour for President Roosevelt’s court reform plan brought him to Indiana today to spend ten hours with Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, who already is being boomed by Indiana Democrats for the 1940 vicepresidential nomination. Ostensibly dedicating new or semi-new postoffices about the country-side, the astute Faxley actually is trying to stimulate public sentiment for the court reform proposal and on the side is carefully appraising the political situation with an eye on the 1938 and 1940 elections. Today Farley will speak at Crawfordsville, Danville and ( Franklin, accompanied by Town- ! send. Yesterday he spoke at ■ Gary, Ind , and Galesburg. 111. Toi morrow he will appear at Greenfield. Knightstown. Hagerstown and Richmond. He is expected to urge support for the president’s court plan at each of these places. Tonight, however, Farley will review a dress parade of Indiana the ’party bigwigs, with the exdemocracy at a private dinner for ception of U. S. Senator Frederick Van Nuys, who will not attend ' and who is not popular with the ; party leadership anyway because jof hsi bitter opposition to the I court plan. Regardless of what , Farley says in his forma! speech, j political discussion on the side will be rampant. Certain to be discussed are I Townsend as vice-presidential timber; and what man select|ed to oppose Senator Van Nuys for renomination next year since i he definitely is slated to be opposi ed by the administration because of his court attitude. The Townsend vice-presidential ' l)oom is the aftermath of the I existing presidential quest of forI mer Gov. Paul V. McNutt, but is j believed to have far greater pos- . sibilities. In Townsend's »favor are the following points: 1. He has been a Sanner, ac- . live in supporting federal administration agricultural proposals. Thus he is presumed to be suitable to the aural midwestern and western states. 2. tfe has a fine record with organized labor, particularly in I the last legislative session when he supported and had passed more labor-sponsored measures than : ever in the state's history. 3. He has Been a staunch (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

MARTIN TRIAL IS CONTINUED Two Jury Trials, Scheduled This Week, Are Delayed The trial of Glen Martin, local man, charged with reckless and i drunken driving, scheduled to be i heard today in the Adams circuit 1 court by the April term jury panel, was continued this morning upon motion of the state. Martin is charged with both counts, reckless driving and drunken driving. The April panel was dismissed by Judge Huber M. DeVoss to return upon call. It is not considered likely that they will be called until at least the latter part of next week. A jury trial, scheduled to be hehrd Thursday of this week, was continued upon motion of the dei sense counsel. The jury was to have heard the case of the state against Ray Anj spaugh, charged with reckless driving, drunken driving and public intoxication. The charges grew out of an accident east of the city, in which two persons were injured several months ago The charges against Martin were filed after he had allegedly driven his car into another on the road near the Decatur Country club.

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Property Damage In Four Flooded States Is Estimated To Be At Least • 10 Million. WATERS RECEDE By United Press At Igast 21 persons were dead and 12,000 homeless today as flood waters spilled over parts of four eastern states and sections of western Ontario. Property damage was estimated at $10,000,000 Eight pers <s tvere dead in Virginia, where the swollen waters of the Rappahanock. James, Rivana. and Potomac rivers overflowed, causing damage of approximately $1,000,000. Five were killed in western Pennsylvania and two in northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio. Property damage, while heavy, was not as great as in the St. Patrick's day flood last year which caught residents unprepared. In western Ontario six persons were dead and damage was placed at $8,000,000. Although rain fell late Tuesday, the Thames rivetreceded and danger was considered past. Virginia streams also receded and rehabilitation work started. Fredericksburg was hardest hit. Five were killed, hundreds of families left homeless, and damage was estimated at $500,000. The Potomac flooded low-lying parks around Washington's tidal basin, inundating the famous Japanese cherry trees. While flood waters receded slowly at Pittsburgh, the upper Ohio valley received the full force of the swollen Monongahela, AUcngheny and Ohio rivers. Residents had been prepared for the emergency and loss of life and property damage was relatively small in comparison with last year's spring flood. Pittsburgh appealed to the gov (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

DEATH CLAIMS ED LAFONT AINE Well Known Jay County Resident Dies This Morning Edgar M. (Casey) LaFontaine, brother of H. superintendent of the Adams county infirmary, died at 4:30 o’clock this morning at his home in New Corydon, one mile south of the AdamsJay county Death was due to a stroke of paralysis suffered April 15. The deceased was vice-president and director of the Eastern Indiana Oil and Supply Company of Geneva. He was born in Jay county August 21. 1899. He is survived by the widow, his mother-in-law. Mrs- Charles Schwahm. and two brother-in-laws of Fort Wayne. His mother, Mrs. Theresa La Fontaine of Fort Wayne, also survives, together with seven (brothers. They are H. P. Lafontaine, superintendent of the county farm, Decatur; R. N„ Fort Wayne trucker; L. P., superintendent of the lowa Electric Company at Sparrow Lake, Iowa; Clarence, foreman of the Erie Electric Light Company at Erie, Pennsylvania; Sylvester, foreman of the General Electric at Fort Wayne; Frederick, assistant superintendent of the lowa Electric company at Milford, lowa and Walter, assistant foreman "of the Erie Electric company at Erie. Pennsylvania. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 9 o’clock at the St. Mary’s Catholic church seven miles east of Geneva. ♦ TO TEST WHISTLE “Tell the people not to be | alarmed or think there is a fire | if they hear the fire whistle | Thursday afternoon between 1 | and 1:30 o'clock,” Frank Burns, j chief engineer at the city plant j stated today. The reason: The fire whistle [ will be sounded is to test the j ; repairs made on it. A new ring ' | was placed in the whistle and i it will be necessary to wild-cat | it a few times to see it it | works, Mr. Burns stated.