Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1937 — Page 1

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WUAIJREATE ->®MCES HERE «unoay night O, Walton [TVHjeliv. r BaccalaurS| eate Sermon -x w M Juß T ■ 1 J |)eca Sl | l( ,„| rimluatiug class at the , hili'b Sunday night. With processional. ■ Ujuludd al the 3si§ty wlll s!,i<l ,iy l,H ' I ■' ..'l'. 0 IS 9 Christian church. S^^K t .y Genu** S Lozier. paafirst Evangelical church the 1 < ’ orill isr.:on ami the Rev. II w., BE. 'i'' , '" >l 1 1! 1 l,ul'll- - prayer. ’ W® school sirls' churns, tindiivi of Miss Helen will tor the musical Mr the services. will he pronounced .mdyberry. pas K ,p ot the Nazarene. ■X ihiubold will a< company $1,65 churches the city ;; aj ft, <1 " intentions of . lie- regular services 4 congrega-at;,-nd tic baccalaureate. Thursday in senior class awarded diplomas on night - the mu, o'clock. Phillips of the divi1 i nm.'iit at Purdue tinwill he the commence■Mtr'inc th- exercises, the senhe held the 'T*| |HkI ... with Maury Nbl id his hand tarnishing the dancing. fai Man Sustains ; Bltjun To Riuht Hand ■ Horne state 3 Mkn recovering at I from a painful hand in Ks w.cii, . 1 hur-day, when the 1 MUt: was caught between a a spr ader box. to which ■ MBMiitching the truck. are taken to deterfßpf ,A, 'ii' d the injury. Skin Were t.'i.i front his right He was 2 Hi SB ” — Man Is Fined IHOn Drunken Charge I ’ y local plasterer, was (■•f ami , osts, when arraign ■ I i re 1 Kelly, justice ■ ■*’W I ' :I ' ~ 1 Friday even- ■ . of public intoxica ■ charge was (hanged ?i y*r""'‘' i,y eourt - £ BFw Wil ' arrested Thursday ■ ■»' Policeman Ed Miller. Wa., allegedly found ■ il,l '*' " f Second street in stupor. r —■ -o HORIAL DAY HES SUNDAY al Memorial Ser's For War Dead ill Be Held Here Deeper Meaning of Mem'vi'l be the subject of to be delivered Sun E ! H riling at ’be First Evangel by the pastor, the Rev. K"’ r ® S. Lozier, in honor of the war veterans. ■ ■Dtniaires, of the auxiliary, Civil and Span'lean war veterans will atmemorial service in honose who died in war and nc e departed from the kho will attend from these ptions are asked to meet Region home at 9:30 a’clock from there to the church My. pervices will start at 10 o’lime of the regular mornjVice. The pubic has been >d a cordial invitation to ®uer, chairman of arrangeifor the services, has an--1 that all plans are coined has issued urgent invita*aU members of the organ--1 in the county.

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JUDGE TO BE NAMED LATER Roosevelt Will Not Make Judiciary Appointment Soon Washington, May 22 U.R, Two or three months delay in naming the supreme court successor of associate justice Willis Van lie. vanter appaared possible today as Persldent Roosevelt outlined his I legislative program for the re I malnder of this session of congress. Mr. Roosevelt told press confer- | ence questioners that reports of who would be named and when would be pure speculation. That : appears to be correct. But cer- ■ tain constitutional limitations ; must be observed by the president in naming his man -or woI man. Meanwhile, the anti-administra-tion majority of the senate judl- , clary committee prepared an tini favorable report on Mr. Roose- ; velt's court reorganization bill. The report will be submitted to I the senate in about a week. Ry that time, it is believed, the high tribunal may have ruled on constitutionality of old age pensions and unemployment insurance —two phases of the new deal social security program. The decisions may materially affect the controversy. The constitution provides that the president may fill supreme court vacancies occurring during a recess of the senate. The ap- ' pointees may take office and per- ; form their duties. But unless confirmed by the senate before the end of the next senate session, the appointee automatically is removed from office. A vacancy occurring during a senate session may not be filled except when the senate is in session to confirm or reject the nomination. The court will recess June 1 and meet again next October. Therefore, Justice Van Devanter's successor will be named before this session of congress ; ends. It appears possible now that the adjournment may be forced back to early autumn in view of Mr. Roosevelt's..UwisttUCs;., upon consideration of his execu- ' tive department reorganization i plan, wages and hours legislation, ' and national planning, including flood control. o HENDRICKS TO BE TRANSFERRED Boy-Whipping Principal Expected To Be Transferred Fort Wayne, May 22—Retention ! of Clyde W. Hendricks in the city school system and his probable , transfer to another position was ’ announced by Supt. Merle J. Ab--4 bett after investigation of charges : that Hendricks, principal of the 1 ' Harmar grade school, severely l whipped Dewey Foreman, Jr.. 9, a pupil in the special room at the school. Supt. Abbett has conducted the . investigation personally and the affair has not been presented to the school board. Charges that Hendricks punished the boy with a perforated paddle for the alleged removal of a ring from the top of a jumping standard were made by the child s father, Dewey Foreman of 1220 Harmar street. The elder Fore- ■ man said the boy was taken to the offices of Dr. N. L. Salon for medical treatment after the whippings The father also admitted that he went to Hendrick s office , and there beat the teacher, who offered no resistance. Charges have been brought by, a committee of the Harmar Par-1 ent-Teacher association which has asked Hendricks' removal. Hendricks left his duties at the school Wednesday afternoon and his place is temporarily filled by (lif ford H. Ott, general science instructor. — o Indiana Railroaders Settle Difficulties • Indianapolis, May 22 (U.P.) - The Indiana railroad restored normal fl ervlce on the I.tdianapolis-Anderson-Mtincle line at 9 a. today after settlement of a str ke of 200 Anderson workers w c halted operations for nine weeks. Thomas Hutson, state labor • •z.nor , who announced " i " .«u «• “limited strictly to a < 2 P and of the union contract • effective prior to the strike of March 19.

500 MINERS ON ‘STAYDOWN’ STRIKE II I Ew & * ’ x Ajr 'si,'' Imßf- •- c L 1 y jS i *•* .< ' * 'sm . 4 ■ W'V* i- ; W 'MBb S - UK c ' .1 Rr* v \'/' sSBBmB Five hundred or more miners on a “staydown” strike 360 feet below the surface in a scoal mine near Wilsonville 11l . ch, ' e 'f'!" y preparations to continue a “staydown” demonstration until company officials yielded to their demands for a ate he w k 1 * I,y " would give jobs to 300 other employes made idle by the closing of another pit. Here a cheerful group of the sinking minets are shown as they appeared below the surface while waiting for a satisfactory settlement to their demands.

I ll< y U j'pV KI ' xa »»» *■■ • .... NEW CAMP IS I ESTABLISHED Russians Set Up Meteorological Station At North Pole Moscow, May 22—(UP)—A group of Russian scientists began building a meteorological station 12)4 miles from the North Pole today after an historic flight to the top of the world Four of the men_whomade the will Temain at tfie poT3"foF~ a year, studying weather conditions and establishing a base that it is hoped will be an adjunct of an eventual Moscow — San Francisco air* plane service. | They have with them a little Arc- : tic dog, whose barking will warn i them of the approach of predatory polar bears —with which they intend to augment their diet of concentrated foods. The men intend to make a trip over the ice to the North Pole, spend 24 hours there and plant three flags where Admiral Robert E. Peary planted the American flag in 1909—one of red silk bearing Joet I Stalin’s portrait, one with the crest jot the Soviet Union, and the blue I flag of the Russian Arctic adnimis(CONTINUF.D ON PAGR SIX) —o— Crowd Is Expected At Social Workers’ Meet Indianapolis, May 22. — ,<U.R> — The annual convention of the national conference of social work expected to attract between 8.000 ' and 10,000 welfare leaders and ex- : ecutives, will open here tomorrow night. . ... . The week-long meeting will include a survey of the national welfare situation, including such subi jects as federal unemployment and i relief; social security; child and family welfare; crime prevention; , labor problems; civil service and activities of new state welfare departments fostered by the social security act. o— Jealousy Is Cause Os Razor-Slaying Newcastle, Ind.. May 22—-.U.R) 1 — Alva Hamilton, 44, Connersville, held in jail here for the razorslaying of Clarence Sample, 48, Knightstown, was quoted by authorities today while awaiting grand jury action as saying ‘jealousy prompted the killing. Sample, who had married Hamilton's former sweetheart, was slashed to death Thursday night when he answered a knock at the door of his Knightstown home. -I went with Mrs Sample for two years before she married Clarence and I just couldn’t forget her," Coroner Elmer H. Bent ley quoted Hamilton as saying. ••I was jealous and I guess two years of thinking about it caused me to kill him.” - WEATHER Cloudy, thundershowers east and south portions this afternoon or tonight, cooler tornght; Sunday generally fair, cooler northeast portion.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 22, 1937.

Young Berne Man Is Fined In City Court With the admonition to “drive with the interest of the public safe-. ty at heart at all times,” Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse imposed a fine of $1 and costs upon Lawrence Baumgartner, of Berne, who ( plead guilty to charges of reckless driving in city court Friday evening. | Baumgartner was charged with recklessly running a red stop light at the extreme north end of the city Friday morning. He was arrested by Policeman Floyd Hunter This was Bamigartner's first appearance in court, he stated. DEATHVERDICT i IS WITHHELD Allen County Coroner Delays Ruling In Helmrich Death The coroner’s verdict in the death of Glen Helmrich, three-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Helmrich, of Magley, who was killed May 6 in Fort Wayne when struck by an auto has been withheld, it was learned here today. The announcement of deferring the verdict came fiom the offices of Allen County Coroner Walter E. Kruse, who Thursday night conducted an inquest into the death. Confliclng versions of he accident and the absence of one witness caused the delay. Mr. Kruse stated. It was determined at the inquest that the brakes of the car, which struck the boy and owned by Donald Clark, of Garrett, was not working properly and that the horn was disconnected at the time of the accident. William Wistzinguenter, who witnessed the accident through a filling station window, stated that the boy’s body was thrown between 40 and 47 feet across the intersection of the streets. Coroner Kruse stated that the testimonies of Clark, of Wistziguenter and of John Davis, also of Garret and a companion in the car. were all conflicting. The young lad died In a Fort Wayne hospital approximately three hours after the crash on that day. The young couple had gone to Fort Wayne to attend a theater when the accident occurred. <l-— — Duke Os Windsor Resumes Knitting Monts, France, May 22— (U.R)— The Duke of Windsor, seriously worried over a virtual British government boycott of his wedding, has resorted to knitting to soothe his jangling nerves, it was understood today. As the result, it was said. Mrs. Wallis Warfield has a new sweater which he knitted for her in wool of the new “Wally blue” shade. It was finished last night and presented to her this morning. Since the governments ostracism campaign, it was said, the duke has become more and more nervous, and slept so badly that he knitted and purled on the sweater assiduously until late at night.

FORMER LOCAL CITIZEN DIES Noah Lock Dies Today; Was In Hardware Business Here Noah Locke, age 76, a pioneer hhardware merchant of Decatur, died at his home in Fort Wayne this morning. Mr. Locke and family moved from this city about 25 years ago. following his retirement from business. ’He was prominent in business and ' Knights of Pythias lodge circles for a number of years. 1 As a merchant. Mr. Locke at one time was a partner of the .’ate Fre.l Schafer and also was a member of hardware firm of Locke and Brittson. Surviving are the widow, son j Charles of Chicago and Mrs. Grover Hoffman of Fort Wayne. Mr. i Locke’s first wife died several yearn ago and he remarried. The body will be brought to the Black Funeral home on Adams street this afternoon, from which p'ace funeral services will be held. Burial will be made in the Decatur, cemetery. ■ -r— O School Head At Montpelier Resigns Montpelier, May 22-Declining a contract for another year tendered him by the board of education, H. S. Moffit. superintendent of Mont-i pelier schools, has informed the board that he has other plans for the future and will not return to the position next term. Supt. Moffit , has been with the local schools for 14 years. o Portland Lions Are Given New Charter Portland, Ind., May 22. — (Spec-i ial)—Hubert Stout has been named president of the newly organ ized Lions club here. The club re-! ceived its charter from Lions In-, ternational at ceremonies held ini the M. E. church Thursday. Members of the club are: Charter Members Rev. H. T. Neve, Keith Wehrly, C. M. Caylor, Homer Evans, Hu-1 bert Stout, Paul Spencer, Dr. C. L. | Leonhard, Tandy Ferguson, King-j I don Castle. Sam Lay, E. O. Burdg, | | Raymond Roush, R. H. Ashton, i Fred Miller, R. E. Daniels, Milo Haffner, Fred Jones, J. R. Green, Pete Rhodes, Darius Harntna. New Members John Schisler, Dr. H. R. Mark-1 ley, Fred Medler, Merrill Beard, i Thurman Ashcraft, Harold Hoff- ■ man, J. Green. o Men Leave Mines To Take Saturday Baths I Wilsonville, 111., May 22.—t(U.R)“ - More than 400 striking miners came up from the dingy depths of Superior coal mine No. 1 today in relays of 40, bathed, greeted their families and descended again. | Both sides continued to express ; willingness to negotiate for a set- j tlement but they were deadlocked over who should make the first. move.

Moose Members To Hear Band At Marion May 28 Several members of the Decatur Moose lodge will go to Marion, Iml.. May 28 to hear a concert to be presented by the 60-plece band of Mooseheart. The special program has been ' planned by the Marion lodge to honor’ the boys following a year of intensive and successful study in the schools of Mooseheart. Gov. M. Cliff Townsend has promised a state police escort for the youths after they cross the Illinois state line enroute to Marion. A parade in which three bands will play and many organizations -will march has been planned as a feature of the day's program. The concert will be held at night I in Memorial coliseum and the 9 o’clock services will conclude the program. o STATE MEETING AT HUNTINGTON Local K. Os C. Council To Attend State Meeting; Opens Sunday — ; Approximately 25 or 30 members of the Decatur council are expected , to attend the opening session of the state convenion of the Knights of Columbus order a Huntington Sunday. Lea by Robert Gage, grand knight and other local officers, the local lodge expects to send one of its largest delegations to a state convention to the meeting tomorrow, i Delegates from 65 K. of C. counicils in the state will be representled at the convention, which will ! hold its headqquarters at the Lai Fountaine hotel. The principal social function of the meeting will be held Sunday I night wluen speakers, Martin H. 1 Carmody, supreme knight and Bishop John F. Noll, of Fort Wayne ' will address the members in a 1 banquet. The convention will open Sunday I morning with a solemn mass at the I SS- Pbter and Paul church. The- business sessions will open ■ Monday morning and will be in | charge of Harry K. Kitch’.n, state j deputy. The election of state officers is scheduled for Monday after- | noon. i Among the entertainment features of the convention are a civic 1 tour and a golf tournament. Bombs Injure French Girl In Plane Fight Cerbere, Franco-Spain (TTP) —A I little French girl was Wounded on | French territory here today by Spanish insurgent war planes , FFrench bombed two towns of the Spanish side of the border. The rebel bombers flew .low over the Spanish town with their machine guns wide open and hundreds of bullets rained across the frontier into Cerpbere, separated only by the borderline from war torn Spain. The mayor protested to French I authorities when told the child had 1 been wounded, demanding protec- | tion.

FINAL SESSION IS HELD FRIDAY Prominent Speakers At Final Session Os District Library Meet The final session of the district library meeting here Friday afternoon ended with a heated defense of his opposition to the proposed librarian's certification bill given liy Hex M. Potters, of the Fort Wayne library. This bill was defeated at the last session of the state assembly. Mr. Potters took exceptions to a statement made earlier in the program in which opponents to the bill were called Ignorant. Mr. Potters told the librarians that the bill would have the result of "freezing" most of the librarians in their present positions | in us much as they would be unable to qualify under the state regulations. He said the bill provides for the maintaining of librarians in their present positions but would prevent them from moving to a better position. The bill would require each 11I brarian have an A.B. degree and I a year in a certified librarian s school. Most librarians have a , high school diploma and a special ! 12-week training course degree. I He asked the librarians to remember the 1908 teachers' qualification , law, which he said forced many I teachers out of their schools. Earlier on the program he discussed the Allen county library, , which he said was fortunate in having one township with a valuI ation of $16,000,000. He told of a j new book bus, which will soon dis- [ tribute books to the stations, branch libraries and schools. Specially made, it will carry 2,000 I volumes. The principal address Friday afternoon was delivered by William J. Gross, editorial writer ou the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, on the subject “Whither Democracy." He said in part: "Many of us are agreed that we want to save democracy. It is likely that most of us are agreed that this is probably just about our last chance to save it. But 1 wonder if enough of our fellow-citizehs j realize that if we are going to ' keep democracy, there are simply .certain things which we will have to do about it. "For one thing, we are going to have to find some way to make our people understand it. You j can't expect a very efficient stewardship from the body of the people in a democracy it they haven't I even a feeble notion of what disj tinguishes democracy from other 1 governmental fuims. | “Democracy was born in the' hearts of men. And it it is to go 1 on living at all, it must abide in : the hearts of men. Unless men s I ' hearts be strong and healthy, I ; democracy must surely die. "The problem is, in the last an- ‘ alysis, the problem of dealing with individuals, of multiplying by millions a firm right-heartednees, a right-thinking faith, a pride in the heritage of evolutionary progress, an awareness and a conviction of the eternal, supreme entity which' I thus far has proved itself to be i ‘the God that has made and preserved us a nation’.’’ Mr. Shaw of the Gary library, and a member of the legislative committee, told of some of the bills pending before the legisla--1 ture. He also discussed a new i trailer built in Gary for the serv- . ing of the rural people in the county. o Marion County Man Will Be Arraigned Indianapolis, May 22— (U.R) Arraignment of Joel A. Baker, ousted Marion county welfare director, and Peter A. Cancilia, attorney, on charges of assault I \ and battery with intent to kill I I Wayne Coy, former state welfare ' director, was set today for next ' Monday. | Special Judge James A. Em- ■ mert, Shelbyville, has set June 14 : for the trial. Coy now is administrative assistant to former Gov. Paul V. McNutt, U. S. high commissioner to the Philippines. . o Teachers Named For Annual Bible School . i The preliminary teachers’ meet- > ing for the 12th annual session of • the Kirkland daily vacation bible - school will be held Sunday afteri noon at 2 o'clock at the Pleasant i Dale church. - [ Teachers will receive textbooks - and other supplies at that time. Mrs. E. S. Lochner has again been nami ed director of the school with a 1 staff of teachers engaged for the - term. Miss Dorothy Adler will act las pianist and secretary-treasurer.

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6. H. WEHMEYER DIES FRIDAY AT HOSPITAL Local Wholesale Hardware Manager Is Called By Death Gustave H. Wehmeyer. 63, prom--1 inent resident, vlce-presidi nt and . general manager of the Schafer company, and widely known hardware man died a the Adams couni ty Memorial hospital, Friday night at 9:22 o’clock. The cause of death was cirrhosis of the liver. He had be> n ill for tive weeks and was a pa'tent at the hospital here for the last three weeks. Mr. Wehmeyer was born in Kendallville, February 14, 1874. He came here from Fort Wayne at the inception of the Schafer wholesale I hardware company in 1920. Under his guidance as vice-president and general manager of the concern, it has enjoyed a steady growth. Surviving are the widow. Mrs. Wehmeyer, daughter, Helena Wehmeyer, three brothers, Albert and Ed of Fort Wayne, and Walter of Kendallville, and one sister, Mrs. Clara Rlttermey , of Keni dallville. An infant daughter pre- | ceded him in death. Mr. Wehmeyer was a member of the Zion Lutheran church of this ! city. He was a member of the Decatur Lions club and the B. U. V. In Business Here Mr. Wehmeyer engaged in the hardware business all his life. As a boy he started to work in the Seavey hardware store in Fort Wayne and was connected with several leading firms in Indianapolis, Chicago and Cleveland. Prior to coming to Decatur he was affiliated with the Luetkemeyer hardware company of Cleveland. In 1920, following the fire which destroyed the Schafer Saddlery factory north of the city. Mr. Wehmeyer became associated with t . C. Schafer in the founding and I establishing of the Schafer Company, w bich also included tbe sad- ! dlery business. The company conI structed its new offices and wholesale headquarters on First street, j A directing head of the business. ' Mr. Wehmeyer saw it grow steadily, taking its pli ce among the leading wholes • < oncerns in the middle west. • employs more than 65 persons Express Grief Business and friends i of Mr. Wehmeyer expressed their ' grief over the loss of a friend and i companion. Ills fine character, splendid qualities of citizenship and loyalty endeared him to all who were (privileged to enjoy his ! friendship. Funeral services will be held j Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at , the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 o'clock at the Zion Lutheran ; church. The Rev. Paul W. Schultz, pastor of the church, will officiate. Burial will be made in the Con- ; cordia cemetery in Fort Wayne. -Legion Auxiliary To Sell Poppies Plans for the annual observance of Poppy Day here next Saturday, . May 28, are complete, Mrs. Zehna Roop, local cou > chairman in ; charge, announced today. Members of the Legion auxiliary. > i sponsors of the event, will act as I salesladies. The popplles have already been received and are being distributed througnout the couuty to the Various comm nities, where I they will be sold on Saturday. The flowers are made by disabled war veterans in the soldiers’ hospital. I. A.KALVER BUYS PROPERTY t Local Theater Owner Purchases M. E. Hower Home On Fourth St. j I. A. Kalver this morning purchased the M. E. Hower residence on North Fourth stieet for $3,000. The property was sold by County . Auditor J. W. Tyndall and a half ' dozen bidders brought the price : from the appraisal of $2,200 up to ‘ | the amount paid. f Mr. Kalver announced that he 3 would immediately convert the ’• property into a modem duplex to ’ be occupied by himself and his son, Roy. Fred Baker was the s runner up in the bidding. i- At the same time Auditor Tyn-i-1 dall offered an outlot sitatlon on a South Winchester street, just north e of the Hammel property, wliifli t was purchased by Don Lutz for r. j the appraisal of S2OO.