Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 130, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1937 — Page 1

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I Sit SCHOOL BCH STAFF | ANNOUNCED |H. Os Public School K ei , Announced By ? jJ H, lull-'' 1,1 ,nude p M* Hi.- ■ >"• ■^■ bl Waller Krick, city IK|.., , tt-ach-ri'T< physh al . |, E^H b u. The posi »y formerly , ; . i »Im ih,. 1.1 primary th, Ward school, th.' position left t| ? utral school. Mr. berlain the the cify teachShe will probably asposition formerly held i icr at the South Ward, all other teachers’ i ::n have signed their Mr. Klick stated, howtlie teachers would not their respective posi the month of August, is the complete list of schools to which expo, ted to he assigned: . : Elizabeth Peterson, Florence Haney Parrish. Eva Acker. Effie Mathilda Selleineyer and K Building: Ruth Vizard, - ll' itlia Bunner and Moran. Building: Bryce ThomCoffee, Harry Dailey, Hl tiller. Edward Jaberg and Everhart. Hp School: W. Guy Brown. Anderson. Vaughn Millikan, ■be Itorwin. Elizabeth Frising Lewton, R. A. Adams. • Keil Wind. u. Amos Ketchum. Hh*ui" I't Kathryn Kauffman, Mildred WorthPumphrey and Al '(Kmeyer. lITE POLICE [OFFICER BURIED ]^g n ’,an Buried At I His Concluded - 2—(UP) - bins of "second DillinBf" jtfa i.i'lv was held responmurder of state polieeMinneman today by M. Cass county coroner, ut -■ eon* tsrnn of the inquest into death. was fatally wounded ' sheriff Elmer Craig who' ■f »’'•• when they were atngunmen believed to be k’ang fleeing after the 8^| Df t! °odland State bank ES' B*r Stewart’s report after bite yesterday said: ' "H the immediate cause . of Paul Minneman was ■'’■nt.'-mii hemmorhagee pro Perforated wounds of th.' r-B 1,1 " *'ind that evidence proa coroner's inquest shows wMvmnds were purposely pro- ■ firearms held by bank MH u 'ith intent to commit mur- ■ Al Brady, Alias John BarJanies Dalhover, whose ad- ■^■ ur> ' unknown, as directly for the death of Paul ■ witnesses submitted deto Stewart, among them 1 '-•’■Constable, president of the ■ bank and Mrs. Leona assistant cashier. They la" of Brady and as two of the thieves who from their institution. Bfd Brady hoodlum is ClargMle Schaffer. .□I l> '* e ’ state Police quietly - the search for the man who ta&TINUED ON PAGE SIX) '■ - o— - - Home Damaged By Fire at the Albert Aeschliman 11 Adams street at 2:40 "■this morning did about $75 damage before it was by the city fire deL Damage was done to i nisn ings and walls.

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Jesse Edged Hurt At Local Factory Jeese Edgell, employe of the I I Central Soya company here, lost I the third toe on his right foot this morning when it was caught in a' scroll at the factory. Mr. Edgell was engaged in repairing the machinery when the accident occurred. His right foot' , was mashed and the toe nearly severed. A physician amputated the toe in a local office. He is reported as ’ recovering nicely from the effects of the operation. JUDGE GRANTS ' i PETITION IN DREDGE CASE — I DeV oss Grants Petition Enjoining Letting Os Contracts Judge Huber M. De Voss in the | Adame circuit court this afternoon | granted a restraining order enjoin- | ingiHomer Teeters, appointe ddrain-I age commissioner tor the Wabash , 1 ditch, from considering ami lett- . ing contracts for the project. I Judge DeVoss also set June 12 as the day for hearing a petition for an injunction suit seeking to prohibit Teeters from letting the contracts. k , The action wps taken today by Judge DeVoss after an amended complaint was filed by James Armstrong. Jacob Daugherty, Otis'. McCollum and Edward J. Kenney. An open bond secured by 20 property owners to cover possible ' damages to the defendants during 1 the pendancy of the injunction suit was approved by 'udge De- , Voss before the restraining order i I was made. Friday, Judge DeVoss sustained ■ a demurrer to the original com- , plaint which alleged he had no jurisdiction in the case. Under I this ruling he had no right to serve as judge on the hearing on the original complaint. After sustaining the demurrer. ’ he granted permission to file an j amended complaint, which was, ’ done today and upon which he I will rule. The amended complaint sets out; the fact that Teeters has received ■ bids but has not opened them. It f attacks Teeters’ right to act as' drainage commissioner by right of a law requiring such commissioners to be either one of the original viewers or a resident freehold I er in the community. It alleges | i that Teeters, a resident of Port- [ i land, can not qualify and so is not I drainage commissioner. Teeters was appointed by Spe [ ' cial Judge Henry Kister and ord-1 ered to proceed with the construction of the ditch. Attorneys for the defendants in the injunction suit have intimated that Judge Kister will return to 'Adams county late this week or 'during the first part of next week i to make further instructions in the j case. Rod Men To Elect Officers Tonight Members of the Red Men lodge ' meet tonight at 8 o’clock in ts’e local lodge hall to elect officers I for the ensuing term. A luncheon , j will be served. All members are I urged to attend. _ [ MASONS HONOR YOUTHS FRIDAY Two School Graduates To Be Honored At Party Friday The program was completed today for the banquet and party. Friday evening in the Masonic home here in honor of Max and l ick McCrory, who have just been graduated from the Masonic home school in Franklin. none In addition to D. Burns Doug las, of Fort Wayne, grand master of the Blue Lodge in , In< * lan “’ will make the principal addre ( ®®’ will be the following newly elected SUs of the Scottish Rite Temple in Fort Wayne: Robeit Ko i ber. thrice potent master Ho " ,' Hartman, commander, and Sam (leake, secretary. These men will be introduced. Mrs Ralph McCrory, mother of the two boys, will also be a guest, of honor. .. I o i Mrs. Dan Tyndall will sins p J.r."a f “X d .‘ The party is for members o th lodge, their wives or children and Eastern Stais lick ets are selling for 50 cente each.

ENGLISH VICAR ! TO MARRY DUKE AND HIS BRIDE Religious Ceremony To Follow Civil Wedding To Wallis By Webb Miller | (Copyright 1937 by United Press, ' Monts. France. June 2— (U.R)— ’ The Duke of Windsor will receive ; il,e blessing of a church of EngHand clergyman when he and Mrs. * Wallis Warfield are married ut I the Chateau De Cande tomorrow, but it will be without the approval lof the church Itself. ■ The Rev. R. Anderson Jardine, I | vicar of St. Paul s church at Dar- , ’ llngtou, Yorkshire. England, who ] has volunteered to perform a religious ceremony, admitted today that he has not obtained the ap- 1 proval of his ecclesiastical sui»er- , iors. There was speculation here on i whether the Rev. Mr. Jardine I might not be disciplined by the I church, which generally dlsapI proves of tlie marriage, and per- • haps even be deprived of his parish. Asked if he had received the approval of the ecclesiastical authorities, the vicar said: "I volunteered to conduct the 1 ceremony. No permission was , asked or given. I didn’t consult any church authorities, only my I own conscience. ! “I knew that Mrs. Warfield and : the Duke of Windsor strongly de- j sired a religious ceremony. When I offered, the duke accepted. It. was purely a voluntary offer on my part." The wedding will be held in the I salon of the chateau at 11:30 a. I ! m. (4:30 a. m. CST). The Rev. j Jardine will perform a religious ceremony after the civil rites by j Mayor Charles Mercier of Monts. 1 Announcement of the religious | ceremony was made by Herman L. I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ADAMS COUNTY i PERSONS HURT I — Frank Schuler, Velma Reif er Injured In Accident Tuesday — The condition of two Adams. county residents, injured Tuesday ; in an auto truck collision in Allen ' county, was described today as be-; I ing improved. I Frank Schuler, of route two, > this city, driver of the milk truck, I which figured in the crash, Is a' patient at the Methodist hospital in Fort Wayne suffering from head lacerations and a sprained back. His condition is said to be improved. Miss Velma Reiter, of route one, this city, received lacerations about the head and right arm, but has been dismissed from the hospital, after treatment. Henry Mclntosh, of Fort W’ayne, driver of the other car, is in the Methodist hospital in a critical j condition. He suffered a possible j skull fracture, broken left elbow 1 and lacerations about the head and : hand. Both the truck and the car were ' completely demolished in the 1 crash, which occurred at the intersection of the .Monroeville and 1 Marion Center roads near Fort Wayne. Allen county authorities described the crash as one of the worst of the year. The force of the imI pact was so great that a 10-irich I concrete abutment nearbv was I broken off and moved /Several | inches out of line. '. -o World War Veteran Is Fatally Injured Indianapolis, Ind. June 2 —(UP) Roy J. Beeler, 42, a world war veteran, died at the Veterans’ Administration hospital here laet night from injuries sustained in an automobile accident at Rushville Sunday. He was born at Rushville where he had been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Beeler. — report robbery The county sheriff's department and city police were called this afternoon via police radio to set up a Blockade for three men who were reported to have staged a highway robbery near Wapakoneta, Ohio. The men, according to the report, escaped with more than $2,000- The robbery occurred at noon today. No details were given. It was thought the gang was headed for this terrl- . tory.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 2, 1937.

Landslide Takes Heavy Toll

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One of the'worst disasters of its kind in Mexican history occurred at Tlalpujahua. Michoacan, near Mexico City, when a mountain of mud j which had been excavated from a gold mine slid down the hillside and over the town in the valley, burying scores. Rescue work was practically impossible because of the difficulty of clearing away the slimy avalanche.

ORVALROOPIS BADLY INJURED ; Local Man Seriously In- ■ jured In Accident This Morning ’ 1 One person was seriously injur- , ed and three others less seriously ' hurt in the worst of recent traffic ' ' accidents in the county, when a ; ear rammed into the steel bridge, I south of Monmouth about 6 o'clock ' this morning. Orval Roop, 31, of this city, is ' in the Adams county memorial hosI pital in a serious condition. While ' both hospital attaches and the at physician stated today that they had been unable definitely to | determine the extent of his Injur--1 ies, they are thought to be ser- | ious. i The attending physician stated that a brain injury probably exists and that there is a possibility of a skull fracture. The victim also sustained numerous bruises and I cuts. The other victims were: Bill; ' Huffman, Martha Baumgartner and ' Omar Peterson, all of this city, who were enroute to work at Fort. J Wayne when the accident occurr-1 I ed. Three Thown Out 1 Three of the occupants were l thrown from the car by the ter-; | rifle impact. Peterson was the I I only one to remain in the auto. I He sustained a severely wrAiched 1 shoulder. Huffman and Roop were : | both found unconscious, lying j 'yards distant from the wreck: 1

(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) I 0 TWO MEN FINED IN CITY COURT Two Decatur Men Are Fined Tuesday For Public Intoxication Two men were fined In city court late Tuesday afternoon by Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse on charges of public intoxication. Al Laurent, arrested Decoration Day by Policeman Ed Miller and Chief Sephus Melchi was givefn a fine of $1 and costs. He was re- ; leased when his employer “stayed the docket.” George Myers, local WPA work er, was also given a fine of $1 and costs. He was arrested by Policeman Adrian Coffee Saturday night on a similar charge. Myers was given Until June 20 to pay his fine. Trial Postponed The trial of Leslie Pepe, of New Haven, charged with assault and battery and reckless driving, was postponed until later in the week, Pepe’s attorney called from NewHaven to ask for the continuance, i He is out on bond at present. Lorn Roth, who filed the charge and his brother, Harry, of the south part of the county, appear- | ed, but were told they would be ' notified of the trial date. ,! Pepe's two companions, also alJleged to have participated in "beating up" Roth, have not been I located. They are wanted on a I similar charge.

New Assistant Pastor At St. Mary’s Church Father Maurice Smith, O. M. 1., an oblate missionary engaged iu I missionary work in the middle ' west, has been named temporary assistant pastor of the St. Mary's Catholic church here, succeeding Father Leo Wholey, who served several weeks as temporary : assistant pastor at the Decatur | church. Father Wholey was transferred from this area with headquarters at Green Bay, Wisconsin, to McCook, Nebraska. Father Smith j will remain here until about June 19. ROY MUMMA ON J SCHOOL BOARD — Lumber Dealer Is Elected To City School Board Tuesday Night Roy Mumtna, Decatur lumber dealer, prominent in fraternal and civic organizations, was elected a member of the city school board to succeed Mrs. Currie T. Haubold, at the regular meeting of the city | council Tuesday night. i Mrs. John Doan, only other an- ! nounced candidate, received one 1 vote. ; Mrs. Haubold was the oldest I member of the school board in | years of seTvice. She is now comI pleting her fifth three-year term, i Before the meeting she informed I memuers of the council that she l was not a candidate for re-election. Mr. Mumma filled the RepubliI can position on the board, the law j prohibiting more than two memI bers of one political party on the board. The Democratic members are Ira Fuhrman and Joe Hunter. The board will be re-organized in August, before the opening of | the next school year. Petition Filed | A petition, signed by John Kelly, ' was filed at the council meeting asking that a street light be removed from his property on Sixth street. He stated that the light attracted children who played on his lawn, doing damage, at night. It was referred to the board of public works and safety with power to act. M. J. Mylott, superintendent of the light plant, reported that a street light had been installed at the intersection of Indiana and Seventh street, as requested by Andrew Shirak. The wa’er committee was ordered to meet with a member of the state health board to Investigate the well in the south part of the city. Citizens in the west part of town have complained that iron has collected in the water. The possibility of closing this well and drilling a new one or improving the water of the old well will be investigated and reported back to the council. o Meshberger Brothers Given Stone Contract The Meshberger brothers stone company of Adams county has been awarded a contract to supply stone in Allen county, by the board of county commissioners. The local company will furnish 5,000 tons of stone for various projects in Allen county.

STEEL COMPANY DETERMINED TO BATTLE UNIONS Republic Official Refuses Flatly To Negotiate With Union By United Press While hundreds of police patrolled steel manufacturing areas |ln Chicago to prevent repetition of violence, the Republic Steel j I Corp., held fast today against ; signing a working agreement with I steel unions affiliated with the ' 'committee for industrial organlza- ; tlon. * In Cleveland Tom Glrdler, Re- : | public chairman, said he had never j I met John L. Lewis, C. 1.0. head. | "and I hope to God I never see ! him." Meantime the strike of thou- i sands of steel workers had reduc.ed Republic production by halt.! and had completely shut down I plants of two other large hidependent producers — Inland Steel, I corporation and Youngstown Sheet ' j & Tube. Republic continued to use airplanes to drop tons of food to non striking workers inside picketbesieged plants at Warren, O. Meanwhile, in Detroit, a one-1 man grand jury prepared to hear ! high officials of the Ford Motor I company explain circumstances of a fight last week in which two : I United Automobile Workers union i organizers were injured. U. A. W. A. officials predicted that a "rent strike” in Pontiac. Mich., soon would spread to De-1 l troit and affect 50,000 families. There were two bright spots on ! the labor horizon. In Hollywood, a month-old strike iof motion picture technicians was believed nearing an end. In Gillespie, 111., it was announced that 550 miners, who staged an S-day sit down strike at the bottom iof the Superior Coal company’s mine at Wilsonville, will return to work pending negotiations of their ■ demands. Challenge Company 4- Chicago; June 2— <U.P) — The steel workers organizing commitI tee today challenged the Republic I Steel Corp, to allow President I Roosevelt to settle the widespread i steel strike which already has 1 taken six lives and caused injury ; to more than 100 others. ' Van A. Bittner, regional direc- ! tor of the S. W. O. C.. charged that the corporation "flatly re- ’ fused to allow the president of the I! United States to use his high t office to settle this strike.” I "The steel workers organizing , committee made the proposition to ' i the management of Republic Steel (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Boy Scouts Meet ‘ ’ Here This Evening Ail Boy Scoute are requested to 1 be at the Central school building j ] this evening at 7:30 o’clock A meet- ' Ing wi’l be held in regard to the - camiporee, to be held here next i j week. o— VANDEVANTER 1 QUITS COURT Supreme Court Justice Retires To Private ’ Life Today Washington, June 2 — (U.R) — f Justice Willis Van Devanter, after 26 years service on the supreme court, retires to private life tof day amid speculation of new rej tirements during the summer ret cess. j Van Devanter, relieved of tine J task of studying supreme court ' briefs and records, puttered about .. his apartment preparatory to going to his farm in nearby Mary- ' land. He received from Chief Justice , Charles Evans Hughes a letter 1 signed by all his colleagues ex--1 pressing appreciation of his long b , years of service on the tribunal. , The retiring jurist was told 5 1 that his decision to retire gave 6 i his associates a “poignant sense °iof regret.” The justices added: “Your temperament and your industry, your exact knowledge of precedents and practice, and your f! precision of statement, have enI abled you to render an invaluable e service in our conferences and 8 your labors have entered into the , very warp and woof of tlie jurise I prudence of the court.” Van Devanter’s response to his “dear brethren,” said: j "I am grateful for your gener (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

Roosevelt Talks Foreign Affairs With His Aides

HOUSE PASSES WORK MEASURE TUESDAY NIGHT Work Relief Bill Faces Bitter Battle In Senate Chambers Washington, June 2 (U.R) The $1,500,000,000 work relief bill, passed by the house last night in a stormy session, was sent to th? senate today where a bitter economy and earmarking fight i awaited it. A weary, temper-frayed house membership, beaten Into line by [ administration pressure and pledges, wound up a iwo-weeks battle by approving 323 to 44 rresiden* Roosevelt's program for aiding 1,700,000 jobless in the 1938 fiscal ! year. j Final passage came just before midnight after the house had been in session almost 12 hours. Majority leader Sam Rayburn had in--1 sisted that members “keep on the I job” until final action. Senate oppotion to the measure ias it is now written centers I around Sen. James F. Byrnes, D., IS. C„ usually an administration stalwart. Byrnes Is enlisting support for his drive to reduce the - 1 fund by $500,000,000. i ' Other southern Democrats and J Republicans may band together to ■ : attempt to return administration i . of relief to states with the federal : — (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) COUNCIL ADOPTS NEW ORDINANCE L l Passes Ordinance Governing Tearing Up Os Pavements i — z_ A new ordinance regulating the > | cutting into and repairing of i streets, alleys and side walks in Decatur, and establishing licens- : ing fees for the privilege was > adopted at the regular meeting of 1 the city council. Tuesday night. * Before the ordinance was adopted, one passed in 1894 was repealed. The chief difference between the two ordinances Is that the old one did not provide for a fee f In explaining the ordinance, civil works Commissioner Ralph Roop. 1 stated the old ordinance compell--5 ! ed persons or firms damaging the ■ streets to repair them In as good B j a shape as they were in the past, t However, the ground settles after the repair and it is sometimes necessary to elevate the pavement several times and always at least once. The new ordinance compels r those damaging the streets to repair them immediately. The city will be paid in advance for later repairs. Application Necessary g It will now be necessary to make application in writing witli the city clerk-treasurer, who will notify the head of the street department before authorizing the - cutting into of the pavements, r The head of the street department b will have authority to require the' >- repair made in such a manner as !- he thinks necessary. >- The fee will be a $5 minimum, and fifty cents for each additional e square foot for the first five t square feet or less to be excavatt ed at a depth of more than one o foot, and a minimum fee of $2.50 and 25 cents for each additional square foot for the first five e 1 square feet to be excavated at a r : depth of less than one foot. ■ The ordinance covers the "dlgg(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) I o Only Slight Damage e Is Caused By Fire '' ■ Small damage was done last 'f night about 8:50 o’clock when a >' defective wire set fire to the home >’ jof Rupe Gilpen, corner Adams e I and Fourteenth streets. The city d ' fire department was called to exe tinguish the blaze. 3- ’ o WEATHER 8 Unsettled tonight and Thursday, probably occasional showers or thunderstorms; slightly warmer extreme north tonight.

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President, Aides Discuss Critical Situation In European Affairs To Chart Action. HULL ATTENDS Pergignan, France. June 2—(UP) —The Spanish sailboat Granda, 214 tons, out of Barcelona with a load of cement, was torpedoed today by a submarine off the northeastern coast of Spain, The ship filled and sank rapidly. The crew of eight escaped in a roawboat which the submarine shelled, killing one, Salvador Barberonl, and wounding two. Washington, June 2.-{U.P> Over luncheon trays in President Roosevelt’s White House office, the chief executive today charted with his chief foreign affairs advisors a course for maintenance of American peace and neutrality. So critically was the European situation viewed at the capital that the senate foreign relations committee agreed to avoid studiously any action or committment which might embarrass peace efforts at home or abroad. Vailed in for the White House luncheon discussion were Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Undersecretary Sumner F. Wells, and Norman Davis, America’s roving ambassador. Hull declined to discuss the nature of the White House conference, characterizing it as expected to be confined to “routine department affairs.” There was no doubt, however, in Washington official circles that the grave event in Europe and America’s position In relation to them would be examined by Mr. Roosevelt an<f "iis aides. There was no indication that any immediate actum by the administration was impending. In state department circles it was not be- ' lieved that the president would invoke his neutrality act powers to apply to Germany or Italy. Mussolini Confers Rome, June 2.— (U.RJ — Premier Benito Mussolini intends to discuss with Field Marshal Werner Von Blomberg, German war minister, the possibility of a direct Italian-German intervention in the Spanish civil war, diplomatic quarters reported today. If intervention were decided upon, it was said, it would be started in reprisal for any further loyalist “aggressions" such as the bombing of the German battleship Deutschland and the Italian auxiliary warship Barletta in the Balearic Islands. There were reports that Mussolini already was massing men and material for big scale intervention, in event that he felt It advisable. It was impossible, however, to confirm this. Baron Voh Blomberg, Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's key man in the defense ministries, a hardheaded (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o OVER 400 BOY SCOUTSENROLL Fifth Annual Scout Camporee To Be Heid Here June 12-13 i More than 400 boys have already . enrolled for the Fifth Annual ®oy I Scout Camporee to be he’d held in ' the Hanna-Nuttman city park here, Saturday and Sunday. June 12 and 13, It was announced today. Indica- ' tions are that the enrollment may ' reach an all-time high mark of more ' than 500. Forty troops have registered and will send one or two patrols, each. Arrangements are now being made for the boys to attend church Sunday, June 13. The Scouts will be divided Into two groups, one to at- » tend Catholic services and the other to attend Protestant services. t Arrangemens for the court of , honor, which will recognize intenx sive Scout work to be done by tho s boys, are being made by W. Guy f Brown, chairman of the lAdama ;. county court of honor. Forty or 50 men will be required to take care of the judging and other supervision of the boys in addition to the regular Scout leaders. Final Instructions will be given the judges at a meeting to *be held Frb day night preceding the Camporee,