Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1937 — Page 1

!\V. No. 126.

■esse C. Sutton, Iformer Judge Os ||Loca/ Court, Dies

lection Following Fall Kls Death Os Form|r |( publican Judge B()f Circuit Court. WgBVKD 7 YEARS ' k | th , ■ uro u ii ■ if . u I ■ , , .1 IKuB " ;H ' H I ' l> ' 3 Witili.-IH Stilton. Tli.’ ii!? •> 11 '" i;, H’O:i. Xd.immty, I: " was i: "*''' >■'■■"> U i ' ’ll- I'"" 1 '"’>'• • , ' 1 "- wn X- :i member of sev.lal I kntßii law firms in this city .a mn iber of years he was iidated with the late Jndgt lie) I) Heller anil later form i pStm-rsliip Willi Henry It Iler, fe began the study o' ’< n lit ■ of Peterson ami i and i i.’ieil his work witl ace Id 1 Merryman. 'oilowjb g the death of Judgt in CL llor.in, Mr Sutton w:i heli of the Adams cir |Km. rtf'in- from May 192. #IM I it. no. ill elect ioe. Il Judge Sutton tied B .i six year term, sei v untff. imuary 1, 1931. He wn only I ■ ililietin judge ever n electee in Adams county, hiring vis term several of the st imp* mt criminal cases ii of came >m ehitn, ncluding the sentencing the ■mi Grove bank robli ’t d tlielbaiidits who kidnaped eriff ■olm Baker and D ’PU' • lias M Hower. SurviAig besides the widow art 8 sond, Winfield A., Murray R fry W Jesse C., and Richard tton. Funeral arrangements a notliei ii made late this afteron. 1 fflfflSSAN CHURCH PAPERS ore Than 200 Catholic Church ’apers Banled By Nazis ■H ’ (UP) A printC M at Essen at which more M Wtlil’fermit Roman Catholic sre bdiapers are published was and lite papers were toned iidefinintely. k'~w« of the action by Nazi authreceived coincident with that Dr. Paul Joseph MK Nazi Germany’s leading g®'' h’. would speak before ■nassihei-tmg tomorrow night in * 1 criticism of Fuehrer by Cardinal Mundelein ncaga, of Nazis will mass at palace to hear Goebbels ■ 8 nl - (1 P- hi- Central andapfl Time. Them i been many indications at the Cardinal's to Hitler as "an paper hanger and a poor e *W> at ,” anil il was believed speech .might be a k jn g one even for him. sbbdle is minister of propaganUKubii cenlightment. The videnunciations of Nazis’ has brought him would ew iUi’ug Is Found ■To Control Disease ,m'Jy n Dees and Dr. J. A. C. Baltimore reported "drain 47 cases of infection which they sulfanilamide-. AH of the germ disappeared es > they reported, and only , li„ „ oases was there a marked ' ' iur <o respond.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

— — Former .Judge Dies t ? mb* S' [7 1 ~ ■■ ißk HlOl K&Sl' HE Jesse C. Sutton, judge of the \dams circuit court. 1923-30. died today at a Richmand hospital. GO V. TOWNSEND BLASTS CRITICS Governor of Indiana Hits At Critics Os Welfare System Indianapolis. May 27 (U.R) —! Tov. M Clifford Townsend in an address last night blasted at critics of the state welfare department. His speech was believed to be a reply to Charles L. Chute, presi-, dent of the National Probation issociatlon, who in an address last week charged that politics j dominated the administration of probation work in Indiana. “We have an Indiana program io meet the needs of Indiana people," Townsend began “If some loeiety for the uplift of something >r other, or perhaps some amalga-. naled association of perennial ■ jobholders presumes to attack us I in the press or otherwise with i •riticisms that we have failed to I adopt their code of ethics, just j tell them that Indiana will get the i job completed if any state in the ' union does. "I sometimes lose patience with those of super-intellect who would ! rather sit on a mountain top and shout than cotne down among the •ommon people and help us work mt our problems by real physical md mental exertion.” Townsend discussed the merit ystem. adding that the term night "mean a lot of things." "The idea of a merit system as ( understand it," asserted the governor. “is to get highly qualified | nersoiis. train them if they are tot already trained, pay them well and protect them in their j msitions against changing administrations. "I am an advocate of the party responsibility principle for runling public office. I believe our 'orefathers debated to no end the imposition of whether it was liefer to have government run by an ■ digarchy of trained, perpetual j (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) BOARD MEMBER WILL BE NAMED Citv Council To Elect School Board Member Next Tuesday >A member of the Decatur school board wi'l be elected by the city council in session next Tuesday. The law provides that in cities of the fifth class that the school board members shall be elected by the council at the first meeting In June. The term of Mrs. Carrie Haubold empires this year. It was not definitely known If Mrs. Haubold was i candidate for re-e'ection. Names of several men and women have been mentioned as prospective candidates for the p’ace. Mrs. Haubold was the first woman elected to serve on the local board. She is secretary of the board and ha*> served three terms. The other two members of the board are Ira Fuhrman, president and Joseph Hunter, treasurer. The ' member elected to the board will 'take office next August when the I body meets to elect officers.

HEAVY RAINFALL AND HIGH WIND CAUSE DAMAGE Downpour Wednesday Afternoon Is Heaviest Here In Two Years The heaviest rainfall in two j years, coupled with a stong wind, did damage in Decatur and vicinity which may run into thousands of dollars Wednesday afternoon. ' A little hail tell. Walter Gladfelter, federal meteorologist here, reported that the total precipitation Wednesday afternoon ami evening amounted to 1.N2 inches, the greatest since July 4. 1934, when Hie total fall amounted to 1.96 indies. Most of this ruin fell in a per- ; iod between 2:30 and 4:30 o clock in Hie city, cellars were flooded, some to tile deptli of two or more I feet. This was especially true in the west part of Decatur. The sewers were unable to carry off the water and backed up tile basement drains where there were no back ! traps. Tile wind blew off twigs and leaves from the trees, which were sucked into the nianholeu covers. ' closing tile drains and in places causing the water to go over the curbs and cover lawns. Water on some streets was more than a foot ' high. The city street department came to the assistance of citizens who were opening the drains to per-1 mit the water to flow down the I sewers after the storm. Sweep Streets The street department worked again this morning sweeping the! mud, cinders and stones washed from lawns and drives into the streets. The department finished tliis work this morning. Dozens of breaks were made in the city's light and power lines 1 , both in and out of Decatur. M. F. Mylott called upon the entire city repair crew and the men worked without eating until 9 o'clock in ' the evening, at which time they | had repaired all lines reported . down. One pole was blown down ■ on Tenth street. This morning complaints filed at j the Citizens Telephone company showed that between 150 and 17a > phones were out of commission. 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) i REGULAR PANEL TO HEAR TRIAL Dickerson vs. Roe Damage Suit Is Opened Here Today The regular panel of the April I term of the Adams circuit court i jury was approved shortly before noon today in the SIO,OOO damage I suit brought by Roe C. Dickerson j against John A. Didot, both of [ Geneva. Damages are asked for the loss of an eye, which the plaintiff al- ' leges has caused him to lose his I job as an oil driller. The complaint stated that the j : accident happened in Geneva on j June 10. 1935 when Mr. Dickerson i was seated on a bench on the side \ walk in front of the jewelry store i maintained by Didot. It alleges I that Mr. Didot became angry and j pushed open a screen door. The complaint further states [ that a spring on the door came loose and swung around, striking Dickerson in the eye. Cuts to his eye ball and pupil resulted in the . formation of cataracts, which have ! cost him the sight of one eye I and may result in the loss of the other, it is claimed. Because of the defect in his (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Decatur Woman is Elected Secretary Mrs. Charles Bailey of Decatur wan installed thank offering secretary of the St. Joseph branch of the women’s missionary society of the United Brethren in Christ church, at the closing session of the 59th annual convention at Indianapolis ’ Wednesday. Other officers are: Mrs. C. C. jYund: Mrs. M. R. Garber. Huntington, first vice president; Mrs. B. F. Dotson, Elkhart, eecond vice (president; Mrs. B. F. Smith, Kokomo, secretary; Mrs. J. W. Lake, Fulton, treasurer; Mrs. L. L. Huffman, Hammond, literature secretary; Mrs. F. W. Risley, Roanoa’ke, Stew ardship secretary; Mrs. Burl Heck, Fort Wayne, living link secretary; Miss Margaret Edgington, Warsaw Otterbein guild secretary.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 27, 1937.

Morrows Visit New Lindbergh Son 1 'J! Sißii’JS ■ I . Ik M ■ Ml; ■ I This radiophoto from London shows Mrs Dwight W Morrow (right) widow of the former New Jersey senator, arriving at London Clinic i to visit her daughter. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Col. Charles A | l.indbergh, who had given birth to a son. With Mrs. Morrow is her I ! other daughter, Constance. The child, born of American parents on British soil, will lie a citizen of both countries.

SEEKS STUDY OF PROBLEMS Social Worker Leader Seeks Study Os Relief, Unemployment Indianapolis, May 27. — <U.R> — ! William Hodson of New York, oti flcial of the American Association of Social Workers, today called upon President Roosevelt for a study of the relief and unemploy- | ment problems to find an effective ■ remedy. Speaking before the national I conference of social work, Hodson I asserted: “The time has come when the president should call upon the I best brains of the country to study I the baffling national problems of ' relief and unemployment. We need; I such a study not only by governmental officials but by the ablest private citizens and recognized experts that can be brought together in a presidential commission along the general lines outlined in the Murray-Hatch (congressional) resolution. “Such a study is no job for politicians and headline hunters. It is an assignment which requires the highest kind of statesmanship and its work can be made of inestimable value to the country . . . It will be worth its weight in gold if it gives the country a true appraisal of the situation and some 1 sound leads for future action. "The whole country is perplexed I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) | WPA WORKERS i OFF HIGHWAYS No Relief Workers Now Available For County Department Friday, for the first time in more than four years, there will be no relief workers available for the Ad- j ams county highway department. The last of the WPA men were transferred from the department today to the city of Decatur and the state highway department. County Surveyor Walter Gilliom stated today that only one major | job has been left uncompleted by I the WPA workers. This is located , in the south part of the county and will be hired completed. The highway department has made an effort to have a small number of jobs completed rather than a larger number ■ started. At the peak, the county had 100 relief workers under its supervi-1 sion. This number has decreased gradually until a month ago there were only 30. In the .last month transfers and men entering (private ( employment had feurther decreased f the number. I Hundreds of jobs were done by , (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 1

Decatur Man Hurt In Motorcycle Accident Roy Mainline, of this city, is in the Celina hospital recovering from injuries sustained Sunday when ■ the motorcycle he was riding collided with another driven by Dan Lutz of Mercer, Ohio. Hainline and Charles Behm were reported riding on the same ve-: hide when they crashed into Lutz' vehicle as he was leaving the driveway at his home in Mercer. | Hainline sustained a fracture and laceration of the right leg, a broken third finger on his right hand and other cuts and bruises. The end of the little finger of his i right hand was severed at the first joint. REBELS STAGE FIERCE ATTACK Rebel Troops Attack Fiercely In Effort To Take Bilbao Hendaye, French-Spanish Fron-1 tier. May 27- (U.R) -Gen. Emilio Mola struck with all his force at the loyalist lines south of Bilbao today in an effort to break through to the Bas<|ite capital and end tile war on the Biscay Bay front. Early reports to the frontier i were that advance Basque loyalist i units were forced to retire under j an aerial attack. Nationalists i asserted that they took San Pedro i I hill, killing 50 loyalists, wounding i , 100 and taking 100 prisoners. Mola's attack was prepared by 'a terrific airplane and artilletv | I bombardment on roads and loyal-j list defenses through the entire I area south of Bilbao yesterday. John De Gandt. United Press staff correspondent with the j nationalist army, was stationed, within sight of Orduna, 25 miles! south of Bilbao. He reported that Orduna, in a valley surrounded by peaks 3,000 feet high, was the first nationalist objective. Nationalists occupied nearly all dominating positions south, southi east, and southwest of Orduna. De Gant reported, and were shelling the loyalists from them. The nationalists. De Gant wired, intended to take Orduna first and then move on to Amurrio, 20 miles south of Bilbao. Charge Intervention Geneva, May 27 —(U.R)’ —Alleged message from Premier Benito Mussolini ordering Italian troops to impose fascism on Spain sea- I tured the Spanish government ■ "white book” published at league (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) . Lions Club Will Meet This Evening All members of the Decatur Lions club are urged to attend the meeting tonight in the Knights of Pythias home to hear Prof. Robert Phillips, of Purdue university. The meeting will open at (6 o'clock.

Steel Industry Is Crippled By Strike With More Than 50,000 Employes Out; Trouble A t Ford

Union Officials Charge Two Members Attacked Near Ford Motor Plant At Detroit. FILE COMPLAINT Detroit. May 27 <U.PJ —The , United Automobile Workers Union charged today that two members were attacked this morning in the vicinity of the Ford Motor corn ' pany plant while federal ami county authorities were pursuing separate investigations Into yesterday’s ’ battle which resulted in injuries to two high union officials Tlie auto union said that Albert i Noordian and James Kelley, mem hers of tile Chrysler local of UAW I were halted as they drove along ' Dix highway bordering on the vast : Ford River Rouge plant. Unidentified men emerged from two automobiles and "beat up" the union members who were wearing their ineniliersliiii badges, the union reported. Harry Bennett, chief of the Ford ' service department who d 'ltied his employes were Involved in yesterday’s battle, said lie had not : been informed of (he new charges made by the union Federal and state authorities studied charges bw the union toi day that Ford Motor company employes were responsible for an : attack on union organizers at Henry Ford’s Dearborn plant yes : terday. The union placed before Frank Bowen, regional director of the i national labor relations board, a : complaint charging the company I with intimidation and coercion in violation of the Wagner act. Ben Allen, investigator for the senate civil liberties committee headed by Sen. Robert M. LaFol- | lette. Prog., Wis.. who witnessed I the attack, indicated that the com- ; mittee would review the incident He said lie would issue subpoenas i for Harry Bennett, chief of the Ford service department. and other Ford workers, and send a personal account to LaFollette. “The U. A. W. A. intends to , prosecute this case in every pos- ' sible way and witli all vigor and ; energy,” union officials said in a | formal statement. "Today Hi ■ | world has seen the true character l of the Ford Motor company. We ! don't intend that it shall forget | it.” Bennett denied that nfs nu n had i participated in the attack. lie said the attackers were members ' of Hie American Federation of LaI bor. That was denied by Robert Passage, acting president of the i Detroit and Wayne county Federa lion of Labor. Bennett charged that the trouble "was deliberately provoked liy union officials." Richard T. Frankensteen and Walter Reuther headed the group lof union organizers who went to I Fords River Rouge plant yesterj day to distribute union literature j to thousands of ! homeward-bound ! workmen. The union is attempt(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) SAYS COMPANY VIOLATES ACT (’lO Files Charges Against Republic Steel Company Washington, May 27 —(U.R) —The national labor relations board revealed today that the committee for industrial organization has filed charges with the board accusing the Republic Steel Corporation of violating the Wagner labor relations act. Officials said the charges had been filed with the Cleveland, 0., office of the board on May 21. Officials here refused to divulge the nature of the charges, saying that this should be done by the Cleveland office or the Steel : workers’ organizing committee — ' C. 1. O. subsidiary — which filed | the accusations. It was understood that the char--1 ges have been forwarded here. Meantime Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins received a telephone report from James F. Dewey, federal conciliator, who was sent to Youngstown just prior to issuance of the strike call. Dewey is the department's expert on steel labor matters. He has recently played an important (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

BANDIT SEARCH CENTERS TODAY AT INDIANAPOLIS — Seen In Capital Last Night; State Policeman Near Death Indianapolis, May 27 (U.R) Search for the Al Brady gang was | concentrated here today after two men tentatively identified as Brady and James Dolhover. one of ills henchmen, overpowered a watchman at the state fairgrounds and used a telephone in the woman's building late last night. The watchman. Lemuel Trotter, 45, remembered the telephone number which turned out to be that of u prominent Indianapolis lawyer whose name police declined to reveal. The attorney admitted receiving the call but denied knowing that I it was from Brady, police said. Police squads cruised near th" attorney's home all night in the belief that Brady still might try to make a contact with him. He said the man who called him attempted to arrange a meeting. Trotter identified pictures of Brady and Dolhover, the latter of whom covered him with a gun while Brady used the phone, the watchman said Another man, believed to lie Clarence Lee Schaffer. and a woman remained in an automobile outside the building. Trotter said. Prior to their appearance here last night the Brady gangsters were believed to have gone into hiding after the robbery of Hie Goodland State bank Tuesday afternoon and the shooting of alate Policeman Paul Minneinan and Elmer Craig, Cass county deputy sheriff. Federal agents assigned by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the U. S. bureau of investigation, joined (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) CHARGE WAGNER ACT VIOLATED Ivan Morgan’s Company Charged With Violating Labor Act Austin, Ind., May 27 —(UP) —Merrill J’ackson, Indianapolis representative of the committee for industrial organization, today said that charges of violation of the Wagner labor act against the Morgan Packing company had been sent to the national arbitration Foard at Washington. He eaid the charges were forwarded after Morgan company officials refused to meet with representatives of striking employee in an attempt to reach a settlement. Approximately 1,000 of the 1,200 company employes have eigned applications for union membership, Merrill said. Peaceful picketing ha.t continued since about 700 workers, representing all departments, walked out on strike last week in demand f° r an increase in wages, seniority rights, shorter work week, and recognition of the union. Thomas Hutson, Indianaipolis, commissioner of the state department of labor, and a federal negotiator are expected to arrive here today to study the situation. Ivan G. Morgan, preside!! of the packing company, reportedly has agreed to all demands presented except the increase in wages. Anti Lynching Bill Author Will Speak Kokomo, Ind.. May 27.—(U.R) — Rep. Joseph A. Gavagan, New York, author of the anti-lynching bill passed recently in the house of representatives, will be the speaker Sunday for the annual three-day state conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which opens here tomorrow: o WEATHER Mostly cloudy and somewhat cooler, local Thundershowers east and south portions this afternoon or tonight; Friday generally fair.

Price Two Cents.

Steel Companies, Union Officials Charge Each Other With Violation Os Labor Act. LITTLE VIOLENCE Pittsburgh. May 27 —(UP) — The / steel workers organizing committee today invited Republic steel chairI man Tom M. Girdler to meet with ! union representatives and “negotiate a signed contract”. But in the same statement the SWOC charged that Girdler or his subordinate had i issued orders to “shoot to kill” in the Republic steel strike zone. Chicago. May 27.- (U.RX With increasing bitterness, marked by union prot sts and threatened protests to the federal government, a strike sponsored by the committee for industrial organization crippled the operations of three of the country’s biggest indpendeut steel producers today. Tlie strike was called by the ClO’s steel workers organizing committee in an attempt to force union contracts upon the Republic Steel corporation, the third UTrgest producer in the United States, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., and the Inland Steel corporation, largest independent in the Chicago area. In a score of their major units in the Ohio and Chicago steel centers, furnaces were cooled and machinery stopped. More than 50,000 of the companies’ 90,000 employes were on strike, manning picket lines, or were kept away by pickets. Van A. Bittner, regional director the S. W. O C. in Chicago, charged in a telegram to President Roosevelt that the Republic ' corporation in a “conspiracy to violate and render ineffective the national labor relations act" and ‘ “has enlisted the support of a captain and other high officers of tlie Chicago police department.” Bittner asked that the justice department be directed to investigate what he called this "nefarious scheme.” At Buffalo, N. Y„ where a Re- | public mill continued operation, | Charles Payne, chairman of Hie I local S. W. O. C., asserted he would | file a complaint with the national I labor relations board, charging 11 that the company imported strikeI breakers across the state line in violation of the federal Byrnes act. Payne said that the company 1 lead brought strikebreakers from I Pittsburgh and Canton, 0., and was permitting “known criminals and gunmen" on the mill property. A company spokesman at Buffalo, Martin 11. Stears. replied with the counter charge that the union had imported 400 pickets from Pittsburgh. He said “all employes . who wanted to were able to enter . the plant. Only a few stayed away from their jobs.” Despite such evidences of the intensity of the controversy, only scattered and minor instances of violence were reported. In the Chicago area the strike began with ( unusual quiet. Union statements centered their ! attacks on Republic, which under president Tom Girdler took the lead in fighting the CIO contract ! demands after U. S. Steel, Jones (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO END CLASSES School Term Ends Today; Seniors To Graduate Tonight The 1936-37 term of the Decatur j public school system virtually closes today, when classes will be discontinued at all of the schools. Classes were discontinued at the public high school Wednesday afterr noon, following a special session for ; the presentations of special awards. > Students will not be required to • return again until Friday afternoon I at 1 o’clock when they will receive • their report cards. At the Central school classes to- , day will complete the term. Reports will, be given tbo students there Friday. as at the ward schools. Graduation exercises for the senior class of the high school will bo held in the school gymnasium tonight at 8 o’clock, with Prof. Robert Phillips, of Purdue university, delivering the address.