Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 109, Decatur, Adams County, 7 May 1937 — Page 1

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HUGE DIRIGIBLE CRASHES

<MS COUNTY ilio IS KILLED ■itfortwayne Kwa-d Helmrich Is EaInjured W hen truck By Auto clen Helinrich, two- -■ Mui-» of Mr. and Mrs. Otto yeunu Magh-y couple. "■L itH'” Sl Jl ’" hospital in niKlit at 8:42 about I*o liours after he tn, unto employe I Wayn- Electric taken his wife and > to theater in Fort While decided I relatives on Mechanic I near the intersection of mto directly ■ aPEft path of an auto driven by Clark. West King (larrett. John Davio, of was a passenger in the by th- auto, the speed ■t wfttb was estimated by the . J~ miles an hour. Unthe lad was rushed to, ■>3L Joseph hospital, where he I a fractured skull and in‘l^Ht.. jm H- also sustained left lie was kept nearby physician Mh| t e ambulance arrived. was returned later Io ■b S, E. Black funeral home in 9Bs Is) ■Bit il thought that the driver of will be absolved of blame eht.'. He reported to i was unable to avoid . tin- Witnesses are verified this story. ■ in Fort Wayne 9. 1934. His parents making their home in west of this city. He was child in the family. lb Imri. h was Miss Arellia betnre per marriage. Surbesides the parents, air Mr. and Mrs. ■BRlb'lmm h. living one-half of Marley and the mato gi.iiidpar.-nts. Mr. and fcouh Hetrick, of Bluffton. services will be held WWay afternoon at 1:30 o'clock |RW home of Peter Helmrich, mile west of Magley. and at the Decatur Zion church, with the Rev. M. Prugh officiating. Burb* made in the Decatur ■toet HRW body will be taken to the SB®* 1 " 11 the Black funeral parg£"^S - clock this evening, ami 'iewed unt'l time tor the

Imimen pun for show here Of County I "an For Show Here ■ ur ’ n S Street Fair ■■tynien representing the JerI Ali«^ (~Steil1 ’ Guern sey and Ayrof Adams county Ingf ted flnal Plans last night in tZI° u “ ty “Kent's office for the ISjL.?' I^3 t 0 be held in connecIf£| "n the r)et atur Free Street I th* wn iOy Price ’ fieldman from IMr oVer l ea f Creameries, was 1 I J° Usly chosen as the dairy and presided at the 5 dSK**' E ' T - Wallace, extension I S&ift/' 1 at Pur dfie, was present. i°O'T er ° f Adama county and I WaZ ° f day cou nty reprei e Jersey breed; the GuernjJsE prese ntatives were Peter B. I Wesley Stults, James ' Cr - '“yers, John Walters; I breed represented by jSBJU Kolter, Jen D. Mazelin, igajuwbaum, Eddie McFarland l iM" erni -an Kukelhan. Henry and Otto B. Lehman W “ted the Ayrshire breed. tlMnma I *!’ d 6t ~ a '’ that all cat_4 be ln their stall* by 8 JK/“esday, 3. They yeleas «d at 3p. rn. Friday, cattle will be judged ■•TINUED on PAGE THREE)

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CHURCH SCHOOL PLANNED HERE Annual Vacation Church School To Be Held May 31-June 25 The vacation church school, sponsored annually by the Decatur ministerial association. will be held May 31 until June 25 in the Central school building here, it was announced today by the association. | The Rev. H. W. Franklin, will be I dean of the school thin year, re- j placing the Rev. H. R. Carson. who has been transferred from the city. J Rev. Franklin is pastor of the First U. B. church. The committee in charge of the 1 school will be: Rev. Franklin, Rev. C. M. Prugh, of the Zion Reformed church and Rev. G. O. Walton, of the First Presbyterian church. A corps of teachers now being engaged will be announced at a later date. In the school there will be one kindergarten class, three (primary grades, three junior classes and two intermediate classes. A third intermediate class for .pupils graduating from the elementary schools this year will be added if there is a sufficient number of pupits to justify the plan. Additional textbooks have been j published in each of the depart-, ments, making more material avail- ■ able for the teachers than ever before. The committee in charge is ' contemplating hiring a full-time recreational director as well as a music director, who will be responsible for these activities in all of the departments. DECATUR 4-H CLUB PLANNED Enrollment Will Be Started Monday In New 4-H Club In City Enrollment in a Decatur 4-H club will open in the city or. Monday, Miss Mildred Worthman, Decatur, high school teacher and instructor' of 4-H work, announced this morn-1 ing. All boys and girls of Decatur between the ages of 10 and 20. who are intereste din the work of the club, are asked to contact Miss Worthman at an early date. Students of both local high schools have been informed regarding the activities of the Mon. Classes available to the girls include baking, food preparation, canning, clothing, and room improvement. Those open to the boys Include gardening and soil conservation, as well as additional courses. The classes, which will be formed later,will be held at regular intervals during the summer under the direction of Miss Worthman. Winners in various local exhibits, which will be an mportant part of the Decatur Free Street Fair, will be awarded free trips to the state contest at the state fair. For furher particulars intereste ! young men and women are asked to see Miss Wortlunan. O Notify Members Os Meeting Tonight ... Dee Fry back, president of the Chamber of Commerce, employed a couple of girls today to notify members of the meeting to be held ac the city hall at 7:30 this evening, relative to routing the state roads through Decaur. The state highway commission is asking that an expression on existing routes be given. Other matteis will be discussed and the public is Invited. New Organ Is Given Manchester College The graduating class of Manchester college has presented a new Hammond electri organ to the college. The organ will be dedicated at 8 o’clock tonight, with Porter Heaps one of the nation’s leading orgaiFsts. presenting a concert. Admission to the concert will be o') cents for adults and 25 cents for children.

As Hindenburg Hit Ground in Flames

BMjgjEERIIWr * 'j - 1 it . . ; ■< .a.i ■ w.. i I . ' ■ -- ■ M . I ■A Mio - •• *, .'.3 . , .- -Ji This photo was taken just as the dirigible Hindenburg struck the ground in flames and broke in two at Lakehurst, N. J.

FINAL MEETING HELD THURSO Al Riley PTA Holds Final Meeting Os Year Thursday Evening Thirty members and a number | of guests were present at the final, meeting of the Riley P. T. A., held in the school building Thursday ( .evening. The meeting opened ( with the singing of America and the P. T. A. anthem. During the routine business meeting Mrs. Ed Warren, the new president for the 1937-38 term, appointed the following committees: Pianist, Mrs. Carl Fisher; membership, Miss Bertha Bunner, Mrs. G A Light and Mrs. Bryce Roop; finance, Mrs. Clifford Hakey, Mrs. Jack Freidt and Mrs. Ira Bodie; 'hospitality, Mrs. George Rentz, 1 Mrs. O. G. Baughman, Mrs. Dallas iGoldner; publication, Miss MarI garet Moran; publicity, Mrs. Glenn 'Hill; flowers, Mrs. Albert Fruchte, i Miss Nell Wiunes; program, Miss Ruth Vizard, Mrs. Asa Pollock, Mrs. Hubert Gilpin. The remainder of the evening was given to Mrs. Ed Warren, delegate. Miss Mary Gordon and Mrs. Myers, both of Fort Wayne, who attended the state convention, of P. T. A. held at Indianapolis recently. Delightful accounts of the convention were given and the association expressed the hope that more members would be able to attend next year. Miss Mary Gordon's talk on "Training the Emotional Child has been postponed until next Thursday, at which time she will bring to Decatur, members of some !of her Fort Wayne clubs to visit I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 7, 1937.

Take Transient To State Penal Farm IHerman McUllum, middle-aged hobo, was taken to Putnamville this morning by Sheriff Dallas Brown to etart serving a 60 day penal farm sentence imipoeed earlier in the | week by Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse when McUllum plead guilty to a charge of petit larceny. Regular Legion Meeting Monday The regular meeting of Adams I poet number 43 of the American Lei gion will be held at the home at First and Madteon streets, Monday evening at 8 o’clock. All members are urged to attend.

It’s Town Hall Tonight (Apologies to Fred Allen) ***** Do you think • Present state highway routes through Decatui are entirely satisfactory ? • They are the most satisfactory that can be arranged now ? • Present state highway routes are unsatisfactory and should be changed? ***** How would you regulate traffic, control the parking problem and help bring about a constructive solution of these problems, which in the long run will aid in community building? Should parking be prohibited or limited on Sec- ’ ond and other streets in the up-town district? i Are you a Double-Parker ? These and other traffic matters will be discussed i tonight at a meeting at the city hall at 7:30 o’clock. It ■ you are interested, attend. Like Fred Allen would say, : ' Let nothing keep you away—it’s town hall tonight.

Major George Berry Appointed Senator Nashville, Tenn., May 7 —(UP) — Gov. Gordon Browning mailed to the United Statee Senate today, no- , tice of the appointment of Major George L. Berry, federal industrial coordinator, as junior senator from from Tennessee to succeed the late Nathan L. Rachman. Bachman died in Washington two weeks ago. Berry, president o fthe international printing pressmen’s union, was endorsed by the state federai tion of labor and other groups. I n Major Berry,political observers said, the New Deal will gain another recruit in the battle over the President's judiciary plan and the $1,500,000,000 relief bill.

German Zeppelin Hindenburg Crashes At Lakehurst; Known Death Toll Is Placed At 32

Dr. Hugo Eckener, German Dirigible Chief, Says Helium Gas Will Be Used Hereafter. NO HYDROGEN Vienna May 7—(UP) -The Zeppelin company will use non-inflam-mable helium gas instead of hydrogen hereafter, Dr. Hugo Eckener, German dirigible chief, said today. In an interview before leaving for Berlin, Dr. Eckener expressed the opinion that the Hindenburg would be the last airship to be operated with hydrogen. Henceforth, naturally no passenger would set foot in a hydrogenfilled airship," he said. "Therefore, regardless of cost, we will use helium." He recalled that the Hindenburg oi'iginal'y was constructed for Helium, but the Zeppelin company did not own a storehouse for Helium in the United States and to transport a sufficient amount to Germany would be almost impossible, one filling requiring almost 15,0,000 high pressure steel containers. “Therefore it was decided to fill the ship with Hydrogen," he said. Eckener said United States authorities, especially the department of commerce, had shown willing- | ness to meet the desires of the Zeppelin people in the matter of helium. He said Washington experts told him the United States held enough helium to supply the needs of air: navigation for a century. In Eckener's opinion, there is no I parallel between the Hindenberg and Shenandoah disasters, the latter being ascribed to faulty construction, while the Hindenburg proved her fitness in all kinds of weather. Eckener said he would remain in Berlin to consult authorities and then expects to go to Friedrichshafen. He does not intend to join the German commission on inquiry which is going to the United States as he does not think his presence at Lakehurst would serve any useful purpose. • Regarding the possibility of sabotage In the destruction of the Hindenburg, he expressed the opinion that there is a 47 per cent change that it was so, and 53 percent that it was accidental. He mentioned the possibility that lightning might have struck the airship while it was discharging hydrogen. "I am not discouraged,” he said. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) x> ERIE OFFICIAL TALKS TO CLUB W. M. Sporleder Speaks To Decatur Rotarians Thursday W. M. Sporleder, Huntington, superintendent of the Marion division of the Erie railroad system, delivered an interesting discussion on the relations of labor and industry at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening. Mr. Sporleder pointed to the railroads of the nation as America’s experimental laboratory for labor relations and tor governmental regulation. Railroad unions, the superintendent said, were formed approximately 60 years ago, the first organized effort by labor to improve wage and working conditions. Demands by the railway workers for increased wages and shorter hours forced the industry to mechanical improvement to combat rising costs. In this way this industry has pointed the way to economic development. A study of railroad history is the best guide to the future of history, the Erie official asserted. We are in changing times, the speaker (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

START WORK ON NEW ADDITION TO FEED MILL Capacity Os McMillen Feed Mills Here Will Be Doubled Steam shovels today started breaking ground for the third large addition to the McMillen Feed Mills plant in the north part of the city, manufacturers of' Master Mix feeds. The new build-1 Ings are to be completed by Oc-1 tober Ist and will double the capacity of the mill. In commenting on the work neing done. D. W. McMillen, president of the company said: "Thes>' additions have been made necessary by the increasing popularity of our feeds and when finished will enable us to supply the demands of our dealers more promptly. The present feed plant will be enlarged to twice its present size and will house two new lines of feed making machinery. Included in these will be reels, magnetic separators, mixers, automatic scales, etc. The construction will be of concrete and steel two stories high and 300 feet in length. Although six spur tracks total- | ing more than a milu and a half j in length already serve the plant ;an additional railroad spur 700 : feet long will be built to facilitate the shipninte of feed. Road improvements will be made to ac(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 PRESENTS BOOKS TO HIGH SCHOOL C. .1. Lutz Presents Volumes On War Hor- ■ rors To School "Forward March,” a stirring account of the horrors of war. especially during the World War, writ--1 ten in two beautifully bound volumes, was presented to the Decatur high school this morning by Clark J. Lutz, prominent Decatur attorney. Mr. Lutz appeared before the student body, making the presenta-1 tion personally and delivering a short address. The speaker recounted several of the disastrous effects left in the wake of the battles and I urged the students to cooperate in the peace movements of today. The books, vividly illustrated ■ with photos of some of the horrors left and created by the war, is bound in blue and white. The in scripF.on of the fly-leaf reads:” The Disabled Veterans of the World , War Certifies That This Copy of! - Forward March, a photographic rec- i • ord of the World War and its After-1 1 math Is Registered In The Name of ’ the Decatur IHigh School, Presented ' by Clark J. Lutz.” The volumes will become the permanent possession of the school ’ and kept in the school library for ’ the use of the students. ! Similar volumes have been pre--1 sented by various individuals to several organizations in the city, previously. Former Judge C. L. Walters presented a copy to the public library; Rev. Joseph J. Seimetz to 5 the Decatur Catholic school and John H. Heller to Adams Post No. 43, American Legion. ’ Those who have read the volumes vouch for their worth and genuine- } ness, and urge that all persons uti--3 Hze the first opportunity to read them. 3 O • WEATHER Fair and cool tonight; Saturday fair and somewhat warmer.

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Latest Air Tragedy Takes Toll Os At Least 32 Lives; Probes Started To Find Cause. READY TO L AND Naval Air Station, Lakehurat, N. J.. May 7—<U.R>—The skeleton of the dirigible Hindenburg late today yielded the bodies of two more victims, one a woman. Both were burned in the explosion and fire that wrecked the German airliner at dusk yesterdnv. and brought the toll to 32 deau or unaccounted for. Twenty nine bodies have been identified. Three ' were still missing, probably creI mated in the intense heat of hy I drogen and fuel oil which flamed through the 800-foot airship. One of the victims was a member of the ground crew. Other developments today: In Washington the senate mtllView Tragedy Misses Dolores and Mary Margaret Klepper, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Klepper of this city, were among those who viewed the scene of the Hindenburg tragedy, shortly after the huge Zeppelin crashed. The young ladies, attending school at Lakewood, N. J., live only a short distance from the scene of the tragedy and arrived on the site a few minutes after the crash. | They related their experiences to their parents over the telephone last night. tary affairs committee decided t<t report favorably a bill designed to tighten federal control over helium, non-inflammable gas for dirigibles. The United States now has a monopoly on the gas and none may be sent out of the country without the consent of the president. Sen. Royal Copeland, I)., N. Y., chairman of the senate commerce committee, announced that he had instructed Lt. Col. Harold E. Hartney. committee investigator. to try to determine whether sabotage caused the destruction of the Hindenburg as hinted in Austria by Dr. Hugo Eckener, designer of the zeppelin. The commerce department will carry on the main investigation, the navy department in Washington announced, inasmuch as the Hindenburg was engaged as a commercial carrier. The navy will cooperate. Col. J. Monroe Johnson, assistant secretary in charge of the federal ah’ commerce bureau, will head the in(OONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) POOR RELIEF COSTS MOUNT Relief Claims In County Show Increase During April Poor relief claims so April, allowed in May, increased $420.80 lover the same month in 1936, acI cording to a tabulation of township trustees reports by County Auditor John W. Tyndall. Increases were shown in Union, Root, Preble, Kirkland. Washington, St. Mary's and Blue Creek townships. Decreases were reported in Hartford, Wabash and Jefferson townships. French township had no claims allowed for April in 1937 or 1936. Itemized tabulation is: 1936 1937 Union $ 28.87 $ 35.67 Root 58.87 233.11 Preble 53.03 Kirkland 16.64 35.45 Washington . .. 1.431.68 1,482.62 . St. Mary's 110.28 * 338.00 . Blue Creek 115.79 50.75 Monroe 120.00 48.00 French I Hartford 9.18 3.25 \Vabash 124.00 67.00 Jefferson 68.47 27.50 The 1936 total for all 12 townships was $2,018.62 and in 1937 it was $2,439.42.