Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 13 May 1937 — Page 1

(XXV. No. 114.

nRULER IS I ■REETED WITH I long ovation Lg George VI Given SwArecedented LoyI laity Ovation United Press) ■R. May lU ' R ' K1 " 8 ' ,,h ‘ |... ■Lj, Im.ilty unpieeed.mt |K’.I. history. embarked ihe service to hl.il.’-d byiiself K>W" u i . two In! Su 1 ' ** K£ t ■!'! Itite tit Buckingham the king Io 11l nigh' "E# 1 l "' 1 ,h ' k '" ' i ' sta, '‘ i' a i |t ’ rs *° ab Kto, i st.in- dinner nt 8:30 to coronntion costume ■■ the streets Londoinis this morning as tin revelers iIEhT d "' l ' s shir,s aild disar‘Edpwns were going home. again In the Ends '.nd munitions factories | yards where British Eejare turning out materials Ewar or the country's $7,500,■(WO t ■armament program. En ht idlands and hills from' Ed'sßttd down at the tip of the —E, Aea fields of Cornwall, up highlands of Scotland EheSr o .d Islands, the flames bonfires that had blazed night in the king's Ear di- I down. day had taken its . Ee ■ history, with its cheers. ■ nennicnt and its record of' ■k ■< pie injured in London ' ■he ■nsensational court circurecords royal activities, up in four paragraphs night's date line: ■fte t ironation of the king and Bern |ook place in the abbey! ■rrb i f Westminster this day. | Eriwii majesties left the palace the morning ■ prei . .led in state to the I by a sovereign’s ! Kortbi the life guard underi of Maj. R. A. F. Thorp, t ■The :ing and queen returned ■As palace at 4:20 o'clock and MBI' i cd by the great officers i S ?4b th<> master of the house-j ■a.s■ the deputy master of the ; ■A Ailmted guard of honor of B t»e services, found (provid- ■ ’’fr l " ' !, yal navy, the third grenadier guards, and B rcy. air force, was mounted ■-side he forecourt of the pal- ■- at# of royal marines, the ■st Mttalion coldstream guards R S royal air force outside Abbey.” ■Londe was limp today. Sixty people, wet and beRgnL had gone home from in t' t W Buckingham palace after fccingjii" king and queen to go i ■ on|a balcony three times last ' acknowledge their cheerfc- ’ll" king stood bareheaded for four minutes, on ■"9 a PPearance. Then he and a police car sue■rtWhy announcing through its that the royal couple t 0 Bed, in getting the leave. ■wp ing a mi q llf » en went to E V l:2o ' E !i| r Intermittent heavy rain in ■MbINUED ON PAGE FIVE) MOL PLANS I JESS REVUES |*o press Revues To Be I Presented At High » School Tonight of the home economics the Decatur high school. | Wep J he direction of Miss Milj r thman, will present two f ■ VUP « tonight in the school ■Bevtie is to be held in cons'**th the exhibits arrangEschool by the art, indusphysical training and classes. I.'jßßibits are open today and BV' the afternoons and eve- I include works of the ! K° 91 ? ne va! ' OUB classes and to display to the pubL* accom PBshments of the ■rw*' in t * le ex ßibit will be' '■Mv d Were made by the stu- ! I W the ttrst year clothing.

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. CORONATION OF ENGLAND’S KING / HF C'Sr JnbS '£«*■' 1 Ei’ e --IK t I’ 1 Map z ', Jlx * f ><• i B ? -.Ur I f Jr /Jr . u ' w z ' — * - -— I England's new king, George VI and his Scottish queen. Elizabeth, are shown after crowning exercises with their daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Others shown in picture are members of the court.

Helen Becker Named Class Valedictorian Miss Helen Becker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Becker, of Ad-' jftms street, has been named valedictorian of her class, which will be graduated from the St. John's ■ hospital in Anderson on Friday, it was learned here today. Miss Becker was graduated from I the Decatur high school in 1934 i and has been enrolled as a student nurse at the hospital since. Twelve students will receive : their diplomas during the exerI rises. Mr. and Mrs. Becker will Igo to the commencement. Mrs. Sara Teagarden, Dayton, Ohio, will arrive in this city Friday after--noon to accompany them to An- | derson. DEATH CLAIMS ANNASCHERBf Mrs. Henry T. Scherry Dies At Home North Os Preble Mrs. Anna L. Scherry, 61, wife of Henry T. Scherry, and prominent, life-long resident of Preble 1 township, died lass night at 10:30 , o'clock at her home two miles north of Preble. Death was caused by complications after an illness of three years. Death came unexpectedly, however, as she was not confined to bed until last Sunday. The deceased was born in Preble township, October 2, 1875, the daughter of Henry and Mary Kruetzman. She wan a devout member of the Salem Reformed i church at Magley and an active ' member of the ladies’ aid society ! of that church. Surviving besides the husband, are one daughter, Irene, at home, i three sons, Rufus, Preble township; Rev. Walter, Stoutsville, ()., and Chester, Battle Creek, Michi!gan; Tour sisters, Mrs. Lessetta I Leiinonstoll, of this city; Mrs. Caroline Arnold, Kirkland township; Mrs. Lydia Scherry, near I Linn Grove, and Mrs. Lucy Elzey, l Van Wert, Ohio; four brothers, 'John, Louisville, Kentucky; Ernest, Kirkland township; August, Preble and Fred, of Chicago. Five grand- | children also survive. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home and at 2 o'clock at the church. Burial will be made jln the church cemetery. The Rev. David Grether, church pastor, will Lofficiate. The body will be returned home this evening from the S. E. Black funeral parlors, and may be view ed until time for the funeral Sunday. — Pleads Not Guilty To Desertion Charge Ralph H. Fugate plead not guilty to a charge of child desertion when arraigned before Judge Huber M. DeVoss in Adams circuit court late . yesterday and was released on his [own recognizance.

ALL CITY PARKS TO OPEN MAY 20 Improvements Are Being Made In All Parks Os Decatur All city parks will be opened May 20, according to Forrest Elzey.l chairman of the city council park committee. City workmen are now painting the benches and tables used for picnic purposes. The gold fish, which are kept in a tank in the basement of the city hall building, have already been placed in the pond at the Amerlean Legion memorial park. I The grass on the field owned by ’ the city east of the Hanna-Nutt-man park, this year will be cut by i a new mower purchased. This. | will also be used on the large tract I .of park space in the Homesteads addition, which was recently dedi-1 cated to the city. WPA workers are now completing the landscaping of the east; part of the Water Work park un-| der the direction of the Auburn! ! Nursery, which has the contract ! for furnishing the shrubbery and , trees. Mr. Elzey said that the parks I will be the most beautiful in history this year because of the new Improvements made in them. The ground south of the drive in the south part of the Hanna-j Nuttman park will be rolled soon, in order that it may be used as : a parade grounds for the Boy Scout camporee to be held here June 12 and 13. During the sum(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) S. Ai HABEGGER DIES AT BERNE Samuel Habegger Dies This Morning After Extended Illness Samuel A. Habegger, 67, died this morning at 2:15 o’clock at his home in Berne after an illness of two years. Carcinoma was i given as the cause of death. The deceased was born It) Switzerland, May 18, 1869, a son of Abraham and Lena Moser Habegger. He came to this country at the age of eight. He married Anna Stauffer, January 20, 1895. Surviving besides the widow are the following children: Mrs. Joseph Faulkner, and Mrs. Clarence Sprunger, both of Berne, Vei man David, at home. Brothers and sisters are Jacob, Peter, Abraham and Menno, all of Berne; Eli, Geneva; Robert, ' Decatur; Mrs. Ben Lehman, Berne. One son and three sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock (CST) at the Mennonlte church. Burial will be made in the M.R.E. ’ cemetery.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 13, 1937.

Bangs’ Latest Plea Overruled By Court Huntington, Ind., May 13 —(UP) I j —Plea of Mayor Clare W. H. Bange ; to strike out all charges and specifications in the city council's im- ' peachment action against him was | overruled by Judge Otto II- Kreig .today in (Huntington circuit court. | Judge Kreig agreed that the 19 ( I changes of which the council voted I impeachment of Bangs March 22 1 contained some sunplusage but : ruled that each of them stated a cause for impeachment :e proven. Bangs also hae a formal appeal from the impeachment vote pending in the court. I -o J. B. PATTERSON DIES SUDDENLY; — Former Local Resident Dies Suddenly Today At St Louis i J. Bruce Patterson, 47, a mem I her of a prominent Decatur family i and brother of Dr. Fred I. Patteri son of this city, died suddenly at noon today at his home in St. i Louis, according to a message re--1 ceived from Mrs. Patterson. Dr. Patterson stated his brother had been suffering from a heart ailment, but that he did not know i his condition was serious. Dr. ] I Patterson planned on going to St. | Louis next week for a visit with tiis brother and family. His death came as a shock to his relatives and friends here. Born in Decatur, September 19. 1889, a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Patterson, the deceased spent his boyhood days in Decatur. He was graduated from Decatur liigh school in 1910. Before going to the southwest. Mr. Patterson was employed several years as city editor of the Decatur Daily Democrat. He moved from here to Marmaduke, Ark., and was manager of a saw mill for the Donaldson company. A few years ago he and his family moved to St. Louis, where he was employed as manager of the BolzDonaldson company, cooperage and lumber products. He married Miss Adda Donald(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Former Decatur Resident Dies Miss Margaret Poling, 77, died ! Thursday morning at 2:45 o’clock at the home of her niece, Mrs. Fred Cleland of Hicksville. She haj been ill three years. Senility was given as the cause of death. She was a former resident of Decatur. The deceased was born Januuary 10, 1860. a daughter of Abraham land Sara Maffit Poling of Logan,' Ohio. She came to Decatur at the age of four. One brother, Charles Poling of this city, and one sister, Mrs. Arminda Russell of Hicksville, survive. Funeral services will be held Sat-. urday afternoon at 2 o'clock (CST) at the Methodist church in Decatur. I

HOUR AND WAGE BILL PLANNED FOR CONGRESS I Report Says Roosevelt To Sponsor Wage And Hour Bill (Copyright J 937 by United Press) Washington. May 13 - (U.R) - President Roosevelt will send a new wage and hour bill governing working conditions In interstate industries to congress this month, it was reported in administration [ I legal circles today. Informed quarters predicted this] j would be the only major piece ul : I new legislation sponsored by the president at this session of congress. The president's closest personal advisers are urging him to sponsor a measure setting maximum ( hours and minimum wages and | forbidding the transportation of goods not made in conformity with its provisions across state boundaries. They will inform him that the supreme court now is likely to sustain the principles of congressional control over such products I embodied in the child labor law j invalidated by the court in the | Hammer versus Dagenhart case I in 1918. Basing their assumptions upon ‘ intense study of the court's new | position in the Washington mini- | mum wage case these “braiu | trusters” are advising Mr. Roose(OONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) RICE PURCHASES TRACT OF LAND Jesse Rice Plans Subdivision Os Large Tract Os Land A deal was closed today by Jesse 1 Rice for the purchase of the large tract of ground located between Mercer avenue and Locust street, owned for many years by the St. Mary’s Catholic church. The tract is 498 feet long, and 205 feet deep I at one side and 274 at the other. Mr. Rice plans to develop the new addition by building a drive off Locust street and extending along the north side across to Mercer and then circling back. It will be laid off into at least ten large lots and Mr. Rice plans to sell them outright or to build for those who desire him to do so. 1 It is splendidly located on the way to the Country Club, Homesteads, and the Adams County Memorial hospital, only four or five blocks from the center of the business district and will be one of the finest subdivisions in the city. Several other projects of this j (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

New Labor T roubles Beset Auto And Steel Industries; Police Fire Tear Gas At Steel Men

27,000 Workers In Steel Plants At Pittsburgh On Strike; Police Use Tear Gas. FIRST IN YEAR Pittsburgh, May 13.-—(U.R> — Pollice fired tear gas at striking Jones tc Laughlin steelworkers today as the committee for industrial organization commenced mobilization of its "entire forces" to make Independent Steel producers sign union contracts. First serious violence In the strike, called last night after disagreement over a proposal for a signed agreement, occurred at the Aliquippa, Pa., plant, where half of Jones & Laughlin’s 27,000 workers are employed. Police said they discharged "five or six” tear gas bombs into a group of 250 pickets. Union leaders charged the attack was unprovoked but police Chief Wilbur L. Ambrose claimed that the pickets surrounded him and other officers when they began a “peaceful survey” at the louth gate of the plant. A woman picket, Mrs. May Sample, 25, wife of a striker, was arrested on a charge of assault and battery. She was taken into custody by sheriff s deputies after allegedly striking Chief Ambrose. All available police were sent ; into the strike zone, both at the I Aliquippa and south side, Pitts- ■ burgh, works of the corporation. Governor George H. Earle was on his way here for an "inspection.” The Jones & Laughlin strike was the first major steel walkout since . John L. Lewis began to organize ! the industry's 500,000 workers a I year afo. A conference to discuss . e“tt'ement proposals was called for ' i this afternoon but tne threat that : the strike would spread to other I independent companies led Philip Murray, pteel workers organizing committee chairman, to issue his "mobilization order." Charging that the independents have formed an "unholy alliance" (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O WOMEN INSTALL i CLUB OFFICERS Business, Professional Women’s Club Installs Officers Officers of the Decatur chapter of the business and professional women’s club were installed last night at the Masonic hall in an impressive service, conducted by the officers of the Fort Wayne chapter. At 6:30 o’clock a three-ceurse dinner was served by the members of the Eastern Star to the 50 guests | present. The members and guests were seated at long tables, decorated with bouquets of sweet peas ! and yellow and blue candles. The ! places of the Decatur and Fort Wayne officers were marked with corsages of sweet peas. Following the banquet, Mrs. Eva Shook of Fort Wayne, district president, presided. Miss Helen Haubold, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Carrie T. Haubold, sang a group of songs. After the installation Mrs. Shook presented the gavel to the local president, Miss Mathilda Sellemeyer. Miss Marian Ingham, former state president, addressed the members on the subject, "Choosing Business Women.” Miss Jennie Rae Hersch of Portland, also a former state president, spoke to the members regarding the, state convention, which is to be held at the Severin hotel in Indianapolis Saturday, May 15, and also the national convention at Atlantic City. Members of the Portland chapter were also present at the meeting. The following local officers (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) O Aged Man Dies After Engaging In Fight Muncie, Ind., May 13. —<U.R> —Injuries sustained in a fight at the Eddie Ohomas Miselon here April 25 were believed today to have caused the death last night of Clarence Grive, 80. Timothy MeIsaac, 69. house man at the mission, told officers when arrested last night that Grove struck him with a cane, starting the fight.

COMMITTEE IN HOUSE FAVORS WORK MEASURE Vote To Report Favorably Billion And Half Relief Bill Washington, May 13— <U.R> — The house appropriations committee voted today to repor tfavorably a $1,500,000,000 work relief bill, standing by the president's request for “adequate” funds for the needy and overriding an economy attempt to cut the program by one third. The bill will be brought up in the house for action next week. It was announced the committee voted 24 to 14 for the $1,500,000. 000 appropriation. At the same time the committee voted 20 to 16 to direct the WPA to utilize the fund over the twelve months period so that there would be no necessity of asking for a deficiency measure next session The committee disapproved a motion by Rep. William B. Unistead, D., N. C., to make the fund $1,250,000,000. The vote was 20 to 15. The amendment to the bill defunds next session was drafted signed to keep the administration from coming back for additional by Rep. Clifford A. Woodrum, D., Va., leader in the fight for a $500,000,000 cut. The amendment provided that "the funds allocated to the works progress administration shall be so appropriated over the twelve months of the fiscal year x x x and shall be so administered during su hefiseal year, as to constitute the total amount that will be furnished during such fiscal year through such agency for relief purposes." The relief measure was submitted to the house accompanied by forecasts of Wl'A Administrator Harry L. Hopkins and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace that federal relief for the distressed of city and farm has become a permanent problem. Even return of full prosperity, they said, would not fully cleatrelief rolls of the idle needy. Leaders predicted its passage intact, despite various Republican and insurgent Democratic bloc efforts to reduce the funds, increase them or amend the measure to turn relief administration back to the states. Teh house began consideration today of the $115,000,000 interior department supply bill, which carstruction projects of work giving ries $57,000,000 for public contype. Testimony before the house appropriations committee, made public today revealed that Hopkins urged that the full $1,500,000,000 relief appropriation be provided. He indicated, however, that even so unless private industry takes more titan 500,000 persons off of relief rolls in the next few (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) PRESIDENT IS ENROUTE HOME Scheduled To Stop Briefly At Indianapolis Today Indianapolis, May 13. — <U.R> — Postmaster-General James A. Farley was expected to arrive in Indianapolis today to join President Roosevelt and accompany him on his return trip to Washington. The president was expected to a few minutes at the union station here on his return to the capitol from a two weeks fishing trip in the south. It was believed Farley had political reports on progress of Mr. Roosevelt’s judiciary reorganization proposal in congress. Farley reportedly held a telephone conversation with Gov. M. Clifford Townsend late yesterday but state officials refused to comment on the president’s visit. Dick Heller, patronage secretary |of the governor, said that details i of Mr. Roosevelt’s arrival were being kept secret at the president’s (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Strikes In Three Cities Throw 16,500 Employes Os Auto Plants , Out Os Work Today. Ii DISCRIMINATION Detroit. May 13 <U.R) — Strikes • in three cities brought idleness today to approximately 16.500 General Motors employes as the corporation and the United Automobile Workers ui.ion sought to end the labor conflicts that threatened the security of their recent ■ "permanent peace" pact. At Cleveland 6,000 workers in t the vast Fisher body plant struck i in protest against alleged dis- ' crimination by plant foremen and ' because of the company's reported ■ failure to settle grievances. In Saginaw, il plants three ' G. M. subsidi.H . were down as the result of Sir ,Vo s. The corpor- ' at ion said that 8,000 workers in the plants of the Chevrolet grey iron, malleabel iron and parts ■ plant were out because of strikes. Strikers were in an ugly mood, ' a corporation spokesman reported, and had refused to deal either 1 with representatives of the company or the union. The Chevrolet and Fisher body plants at Janesville, Wsi., remain I ed closed and 2,500 persons were ' idle. Strike of welders at the No. 2 Fisher body plant at Flint was I settled today and 2.000 men re--1 turned to work there in that plant and in the Chevrolet assembly . plant which was forced to close i down Wednesday because of lack of bodies. Conferences Wednesday night i resulted In the ironing mu of mis ■ understandings o>< r wage differ- ■ entials. it was announced. t Complicating the tense Saginaw situation was the threat of a ■ strike among employes of the I Consumers Power company. U. A. I W. leaders met with officials of the utility again today to consider the union’s demand for an lection • to determine wh ther Consumer’s I

OCONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) 0 CITY COMPLETES PART OF DRIVE City Trucks Hauled Away 144 Loads Os Trash During Week City trucks this week hauled away 144 loads of trash, the city’s accumulation of the rubbish for the winter, as the last part of the civic improvement campaign sponsored by the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce. The trucks completed the annual free service to the public this afternoon. The trash was of In the dump on the Mart Smith farm south of Decatur, which was donated for the 'purpose this week. Ralph Roop, civil works commissioner, today extended hie thanks on behalf of the street department, to the citizens for their co-opera-tion. Mr. Roops aeked today that citizens maintain the properties in the same condition as they are this week. For the convenience of the public the dump at the east entrance of the Hanna-Nutt man park will be available for trash. The street department Is also requesting that citizens co-aperate this spring by not piling leaves, sticks and trash in the streets.! Ira Shaffer ven Penal Farm Term Ira Shaffer, local police character, was fined $5 and costs and given a sentence of 60 days at the state penal farm, when he plead guilty to a charge of public intoxication before Mayor Arthur R Holthouse in city court shortly before noon today. Shaffer was arrested late Wednesday afternoon by Chief Sephus Melch-i and Policeman Ed Miller on Monroe street, where he was allegedly wandering around in a drunken stupor. Shaffer was previously convicted on a similar offense. o WEATHER Cloudy to partly cloudy and considerably cooler, showers extreme southeast early tonight; Friday fair, somewhat cooler east portion.