Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 143, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1937 — Page 1

XXXV. No. 143.

MEDIATION BOARD IS NAMED i .

■[CONGRESS >1 MEASURE ■|lM EVASION Officials Ask To ('lose p Haw Loopholes K-Lclim. June 17 (U.R) — officials today asked; to enact, at this sesda'ion to dose ..upholes. Tin y fronds, d pul names of have - aval federal taxes. Treasury Henry Jr. explained to .. . Ill'- problem created Ip rim'd "unethical ami nn ’ avoidance of taxes." I lor "practical lecisla ily the situation. of Treasury Magill outlined to the specific examples ol K L |t avoidance, and said liCj Hi Killin' the names of th. whom the treasury said the treasury will tomoi yHtMfirsi of the names lo li. connection with U KnLtigation. He indicated «M| Lae. ir. the alleged ns-' of l*Mpi| p.-rsonal holding com l| Ms I reduce tax liability. 'Bt i -my oftßials emph.i'i? for remedial lecisla this session of < <m-.ii-.-s-. bl^Br— x-d hope that p'llehdz- - of the all -g.-l lav will "create an -itnms jMii|"hich men will liositaie & ri io ;ai devices io avoid taxes just as they li Mtn hs. such devices to i-s ape "* M WI I of I ,rivale debts.” tl mentioned specifically of tile man who his yacht.” which also -■lie-L-ili. d by President Ifoos, Min Bis special message M retittesting tlie tax iuv -sti S| read upon the pnblii device achieves sm h aspect that it is exdoubtful whether it will a ßain,” Magill said. "I jr! ioubt very much whether yachts will be incorpmftigl|tm: chairman of the joint 'lF*' ■ ,p ad a prepared stateBylining the goal of the in _>■ p l '' said the commit!.•<■ L |,r " ,r<t zealously" th. of honest taxpayers. B’Jhhose who have used flag B y llll * 3 °f tax evasion need ■•Wasy." Doughton said. B ftL' d that every opportunyW'l l,f ' Riven to those named to j|H« ttidf °f tlie story to th. said the “immediat - in the present emergen tax legislation" lint imped that “continued M w>l 'ch hearings of this with respect to the game may help to ■ atmosphere in which iivii ■ *Ute to use artificial d■M avoid payment of taxer" EH of the individuals using methods believe the |W are ‘socially legitimate,' I'Bcss Association ■B Sunday Afternoon on,hl y meeting of the AdHoliness association 13 in Berne at the intersec- ■ °f highways 27 and 118 under MB •Sunday afternoon at 2 o'Rev. H. M. Couchenour ■ tF ,| p speaker and the Washsingers will furnish MMmisic. The public Is cordial»<l to attend. I I meet tonight ■ in the city are BJB to attend a meeting spon■S. fc y the Decatur Junior Bwb er °f Commerce this, eveBB’ l the city hall at 8 o'clock B Ulis time the day of the week I •vee band concerts and the Bw on °f whether or not I J?? will remain open will be I* Majority votes will be ■MB 3s conclusive. The concontinue at least unBW ec t Fair in August.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Junior C. Os C. To Meet Tonight Decatur Junior Chamber of Com(merce members were requested toIday by President Bud Townsend to bring proposals so rthe summer activities of the club at the meeting to be held in the city hall at 7 o'dock this evening. A 'project for the [Decatur Free Street Fair, August I 2 to 7 •inclusive, will be discussed as well as social plans. DREDGING CASE TO HIGH COURT Wabash Ditch Case Is Reported Carried To Supreme Court The Wabash ditch case has been carried to the state supreme court, attorneys for the remonstrators learned today through a friend in Indianapolis. The case has been filed under a new name, state of Indiana on the relation of Ottis A. Tucker vs. Henry Kister, and is an action to reverse Special Judge Henry F. Kister’s decision that the act of the 1937 state assembly banning the dredging of the river is" unconstitutional. By bringing the suit under a different name, it was not necessary to inform attorneys, who have fought the dredging of the river for four years. No legal notice was or will be sent to these attorneys. County Attorney Henry B. Heller, who represented the county when the case was twice carried up to the state supreme court, was notified by letter today by a friend who happened to be in the state supreme court clerk's office Wednesday, when the action was tiled by M V. Skinner. Portland attorney who represented the plaintiff. He was accompanied by Todd Whipple, head of the legal counsel for the petitioners for the ditch. The two attorneys notified the clerk that it would not be necessary to serve notice on Judge Kister who would appear in court voluntarily. County Attorney Heller contacted W. H. Eichorn in Bluffton this morning and found that Mr. Eichorn knew nothing of the action. He Eichorn has represented the remonstrators during legal actions in the case since the first of the year. Clark J. Lutz, othet attorney for the remonstrators, is out of the city and could not be reached. It was understood today that Mr. Eichorn will visit Indianapolis (CONTINUED ON WAGE FIVE) Indiana’s Healthiest Boy And Girl Named Dafayette, Ind., June 17—-(UP) — Carolyn Buechele, 17, Pike county, and Lawrence Wood, 16, St. Joseph county were named Indiana s healthiest girl and boy today at the 19t.i annual 4-H club roundup at Purdue University. o SURVEY ADAMS COUNTY HISTORY Two Men Conduct Survey Os History Os Adams County Here Two representatives of the Indiana Guide are working in the Democrat office, securing historical .n---formation to be used in the conipilation of a chronology of Adams 'The men are Leroy Swartz and o H Woebbeking, from the For . Wayne office of the ‘*P art " ie " t ' The work is directed through the federal survey office. All highlights of early Adams county history and those of contemporary times are being listed by the men from “>e files of the Decatur «’»r «> ’■>« '7 ““ to Ute Decatur public library <o. --d in 1935 and -is expected to be com , pieted within approximately an-, other year. Five men work out of the Fort Wayne office.

RED MEN WILL HOLD MEETING HERE IN JULY Semi - Annual Tri - State Meeting To Be Held Here July 10 Elaborate plans for the semi-an-nual tri-state convention of Ute Im- ! proved Order of Red Men, to be held here on Saturday, July 10, were furthered lust night at the I ! weekly session of the local Red Men lodge. Alvin A. Kerst, state officer of the Ohio organization, was present at the meeting and led the discussion. Committees were also temporarily named at the session last night. These committees, composed of the local men who will be in charge of the event, will be announced in a few days. Will Invite Governor Plans are also being made by the men in charge to issue an invitation to Governor M. Clifford Townsend, of Indiana, to attend the meeting. Harry Clevenger, great junior sagamore of the state of Ohio, will attend the meeting here next Wednesday to aid in the completion of the plans. Hugh Patterson, of Indianapolis, past great prophet of Indiana, will be general chairman for the convention. J. M. Breiner, of this city, will act as local chairman. Tonight a delegation from the I local lodge will go to Hartford City to attend a district meeting. This is the final district session before the tri state meet. Invitations to all lodges in that section with be extended by the local e»m mittee to attend the affair. Local members enthusiastically proclaim that they expect this (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o — —— MRS. VORHEES DIES SUDDENLY Ceylon Resident Dies Suddenly Os Heart Attack This Morning Mrs. Albert Vorhees, 68, life-long resident of Adams county, died suddenly this morning at 6 o’clock at her home in Ceylon. Death was caused by an heart attack. The deceased was born in the county August 27, 1868, the daughter of the late Frank Cottrel, former prominent attorney. Surviving are th ehusband and three sons, Alva, Geneva, Floyd, Ceylon and < ! >en, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A sister, Mrs- Bert Parr, of (Berne, also survives. She was a member of the Geneva U. B. church. Funeral arrangements have not teen made pending word from the con in Philadelphia. o — Reiterates Hope Os Balancing Budget Washington, June 17 (UP) President Roosevelt, seeking to block ' .legislation to continue low interest rates on federal land bank loans to farmers, today reiterated his hope of balancing the budget in the fiscal year 1938. Mr. Roosevelt made known his v'ews in a letter to chairman Mar- ' vin Jones, D., Tex., of the house agriculture committee. The letter, I dated June 8, was made public coI incident with an overnight rise in the national debt of 81,352,033,000 due to new financing and a treasury bookkeeping transfer of funds resulting from payment of the soluter bonus a year ago. Rolland Reppcrt Is Heidelberg Graduate The Rev. Charles M. Prugh and Rev George O. Walton, of this city (attended graduation exercises at ' Heidelberg university, at Tiffin, [ Ohio yesterday. Roland Relppert, son of Fred 'Reppert, of this city, was among 'the graduates. Richard Brodbeck, 'son of Mr. an d Mrs. Charles Brod- | beck, sang in the glee club,

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 17, 1937.

State Police Patrol Monroe jMMFM MMM iMMßrifi - ' 1 ■p? M K ORk Mb Troopers leave city I

Michigan state police under command of Capt. Don Leonard, front center, shown leaving the city hall to take up their posts at strategic points around Monroe. Mich., replaced national guardsmen on duty at the strike-torn city to prevent further outbreaks of violence.

PRISONERFOOD 1 PRICES FIXED 1 Food Allowances Fo r < County Jail Prisoners I Fixed By State '. , i Indianapolis, June 17. —Food allowances for prisoners in county jails were fixed today by William P. Cosgrove, chief examiner of the state board of acounts. The allowance schedule, which < becomes effective July 1, was fixed after a comparative investigation of food costs for four years. ( Mr. Cosgrove was authorized to! fix the allowance by a law passed i i by the 1935 legislature. The allowance is for not morel than three meals a day and is ex- < elusive of federal prisoners. The new allowance represents a 2.5 to 1 3 percent increase over last year.! In counties with less than 200,000 population, the sheriff is al- ■ 1 lowed 20 cents a meal for 1,240 or fewer meals, 19 cents for 1,240 1 to 1.860 meals, 17.5 cents for 1,860 j ' to 2,480 meals, 16 cents for 2,480 ' to 3,100 meals and 3,100 or more: meals, 15 celits. 1 Sheriffs in counties with more! ’ than 200,000 and not more than • 300,000 population are allowed 13.5 ‘ cents a meal, and in counties ot more than 300,000 population, 12.51 1 cents a meal. Mr. Cosgrove met with repreJ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) BARNES LOW ON 1 BERNE BUILDING c . J Logansport Constructor 3 Low On Berne Post Office Bid ’ According to word received here, ■ James 1. Barnes, of Logansport, is 3 exlpected to receive the contract for • the construction of the new (Berne ’ post office, by virtue of his low bid 1 of $38,911. ) His bid also specified an alter- ' nate of SSO to be added it unglazed ■ quarry tile is used for the wainsr cot in the public lobby instead of wood. Announcement of the expected awarding came from the officials of the United States treasury's proJ curement divisionThe other bidders were: A. C. At--1 berton and Co., $46,462 and the r Blanner Construction Co., ot Chit cugo, who bid $43,440. About $50.- , 600 is available for construction alone, it is said. 1 WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; somewhat warmer Friday.

Berne Girl Suffers Severe Eye Injury Alice Girod, five-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Girod, ot Bertie, is recovering from a punctured left eye ball, sustained Tuesday with a pair of soissors. The young girl underwent an operation in Fort Wayne Tuesday, in an effort to save tlie eyesight in the left eye. Barring infection the operation is expected to be successfulLIST PROGRAM FOR CONCERT First Band Concert Os Summer Season Here Friday Night The program was announced today for the first of a summer series of free hand concerts, which will begin Friday evening at 8:00 1 o'clock on the court house band ! stand on Liberty Way. These are 1 sponsored by the Decatur Junior i Chamber of Commerce. The Decatur girls' band will I furnish the music Friday night for an hour's program. The program is: I March. “Matinee” Huff i Grand March, “Democracy" M.Lake | "Themes From Mignon" Thomas < "Indian Boy" Bonnett March. “Iron Clad”.. Huff “Mexicana. Themes From Mexico”. Yoder “The Troubadour Waltz" Huff “Elves Dance” Tschalkowsky “Country Gardens” DeLamater “Gipsiana. Themes From Hungary” Yoder “Our Favorite Ray,” March and Two Step. “The Star Spangled Banner” Smith In addition there will he novelty numbers as specialties. Next week, the Decatur boys’ band will play. A feature of next week's performance will be a short program by the German band, which has become popular in recent months and is composed of several members of the Decatur girls’ band. oi— Township Trustees In Annual Picnic Approximately 100 persons attended the annual township trustees’ association picnic, held at Lehman park in Berne today. Numbered among those in attendance were present trustees and former trustees with their wives and families. A basket dinner was served at noon. Walter J. Krick, Decatur school superintendent, was the speaker for the program arranged. Walter Zttercher and Vivian Lehman, accordionists from Berne, entertained with a musical program.

Secretary Os [Names To HI Mediate Huge Steel Strike

LOYAL TROOPS CONTINUING TO DEFEND BILBAO Nationalists Subject Bilbao To Terriffic Bombardment (Copyright 1937 by United Press) Nationalist Field Headquarters Outside Bilbao, June 17 — (U.R) Nationalist artillery and airplanes rained shells, bombs and machine gun bullets on Bilbao today in a bombardment which brought the attack to a crescendo of terror. The bombardment marked the end of the 11th month of one of the most frightful civil wars in history, a war whose end and whose effect on Europe and the world no one can foresee. So intense was the fire of three, four and six-inch guns that the ridges of hills from which the artillery fired smoked like great chimneys. As I watched the bombardment from a post in the suburb of Galdacona. s’/i miles from the center i of Bilbao, the din of firing reechoed back and forth between the hills like thunderclaps. Forest birds and pigeons, distracted by the noise, flew crazily about. I could hear, between bursts of thunder from the big guns, the ' staccato chatter of machine gun fire from the airplanes over Bilbao, hidden by a hill on our front. Throughout the din the nationalist soldiers slept soundly In their bivouacs on the ground. 1 1 Then thousands of them began to advance slowly in the suburbs here at the southeast side of the city. ' Moving out from Galdacano in two long single files, one at each side of the road, they sang their folk and war songs at they advanced. Some of them carried • umbrellas which they had found • in towns they had occupied, to i shelter them from the burning ) sun. 1 Through binoculars I saw the s first of the men reach Dos Ca- - minos, an important road junction just on the edge of the city. 1 his 1 was an important movement. At r Dos Caminos the main highways from the east and south into Bilbao cross. [ By occupying this injunction the • nationalists have cut off many 5 thousands of loyalists in tlie area t south of Bilbao. They can no 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O — r ; take steps to ORGANIZE UNION a Castings Employes Take v Steps To Join Lewis’ Union I Steps have been taken towards ' organizing a local union of the ’ Steel Workers Organization Committee, (SWOC), an affiliate of f the C. I. 0., as the collective barr gaining agency for the employes of the Decatur Castings company of this city. Temporary officers have been elected, following a meeting held C at the Decatur Country club. The officers are, Howard Weller, 110 > South Fifth street, a moulder at t- the factory, president; Jobby i- Werst, vice-president; Al Andrews, recording secretary; Wil- |. lard Mcßride, financial secretary; •- Merlin Ross, treasurer; Norman d Jacobs, inner guard; Gottlieb Stauffer, outer guard. Bert McNamara of Fort Wayne ,] acted as organizer of the local r unit. H Moulders, core makers, grind- [ I ers and common laborers are etn- , I ployed at the casting plant. More it j — — | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

FILE SOON FOR NATURAL GAS Company Serving Decatur To Petition Within 10 Days Fort Wayne, June 17. — Officials lof the Northern Indiana Public Service company will file a petition before the Indiana Public Service commission within the next 10 days for authority to sell natural gas on its Fort Wayne system, it has been learned. The petition will also carry a schedule of rates for household and commercial users. Manufactured gas is now used in the Fort Wayne territory. The . N. I. P. S. signed contracts sever- [ al weeks ago with the Michigan Gas Transmission corporation. which will bring the natural gas into this territory from the Texas | panhandle fields. The main natural gas line runs from Texas to St. Louis, Mo., and enters Indiana near Terre Haute. A branch line connects with the main line at Zionsville, and then runs northeast through Wells county, Adams county and Allen county and on to Detroit, Mich. Natural gas for Fort Wayne, Bluffton, Decatur, Columbia City, Roanoke, Ossian, Tocsin, Preble, South Whitley and New Haven is expected to result in downward revision of gas rates. o GENEVA HOLDS DISTRICT MEET Epworth League District Meeting Will Close This Evening Officers were to be elected this afternoon at the Fort Wayne district convention of the Epworth League of the Methodist church being held in the Geneva M. E. church. Eight persons from Decatur are attending the convention today. They are Jean Zimmerman, Billy Buck, Anna Jane Tyndall. Gladys Miller, Patsy Moser. Tom Roop, 1 John Krick, and the Rev. Ralph Waldo Graham, pastor of the M. 1 E. church. Five more persons from this city will attend the banquet and ' program tills evening. They are: Bernice Nelson. Mrs. Ralph Waldo Graham, Bill Graham, Jack Gra- ' ham and Jerry Carpert. ’ The convention opened at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon with between 80 and 100 delegates present. A 15-minute song service preceded the address by Dr. W. T. Arnold on “Evangelism ” “The I principal duly of the laymen is evangelism,” Dr. Arnold said “There is definite work beyond what the pasto rcan do,” he continued. He described charges - where he had been located at wheih laymen did extensive work in evangelism. Committee meetings were held at 3 o'clock Tuesday aftefnoon and ’ were followed by a recreational 5 hour at a park east of Geneva. ’ Tuesday evening the program ' was opened with a half hour pro- ' gram by the Geneva men's chorus. ’ About 150 persons attended. ' Schutz Speaks J. Raymond Schutz, head of the 1 social science department of Man--1 Chester college, spoke on the “De--3 votional Life of Young People.” “The main ingredient of worship 1 is sincerity. Too often worship is ) —— (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) 0 ; Free Fish Fry At Moose Friday Night 3 All members of the Moose lodge 1 and their wives or sweethearts are urged to attend the free fish fry, ' to be held at the homo on North ' Second street Friday evening. Fol- ® lowing the fish fry. a card party and dance will be held.

Price Two Cents.

Charles I*. Taft Appointed Chairman Os Board After Intervention Os Roosevelt Is Sought. NEW VIOLENCE Washington, June 17— (U.R) — Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins today named a three-man board to seek to mediate the seven-state steel strike. Miss P rkins named Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, 0., as chairman of the board. Other members are Lloyd K. Garrison, former (hairman of the national labor relations board, and assistant secretary of labor Ed- ' ward F McGrady. Miss Perkins said she acted with i the “consent, approval and reconi- [ mendation" of President Roosevelt. She sold the board would begin [ its work immediately. it will make its headquarters at Cleveland. O. Miss Perkins’ action, taken after more than an hour’s conference with President Roosevelt, followed a telegraphic appeal by Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio that the president intervene in an effort to avert widespread violence. Taft and Garrison, now at Madison, Wis.. where he is dean ot tin' University of Wisconsin law school, are expected to confer promptly upon the increasingly serious situation. McGrady will return to this country from Geneva, Switzerland, tomorrow afternoon. but Miss Perkins said the other two memiters would hold a preliminary meeting. Miss Perkins acted in the face hit threatening developments on a broad strike front. They included: Davey's "urgent request” that Mr. Roosevelt intervene to avert “enormous economic tsses and the potential dangers lo thousands of people." New violence along steel picket lines. One picket was shot and his companions cut loose the engine of a freight train and sent it driverless down a track at Canton, O. Joint general strike action by the committee for industrial organization and the American Federation of Labor was threatened at Canton. John L. Lewis, C. I O. head, cancelled a scheduled appearance before a steel workers mass meeting tn Chicago in order to remain in Washington. The senate postoffice committee, considering a resolution by Sen. H. Styles Bridges, R.. N. H , for an inquiry into striker interference with the mails hoard Philip < (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O MEN CONFESS OTHER THEFTS i . Two Redkey Men, Held , In Local Jail, Admit i Other Robberies i At a late hour today. Everett i Williams and Joe Jaurigue, Mexi- - can, both of Redkey, had not been arraigned before Judge Huber M. DeVoss in Adams circuit court to answer to charges of grand lars ceny. The two men have confessed to - the theft of sll4 worth of corn ’ from the home of Joel Shaffter. t in Blue Creek township on June s 6. Williams confessed Wednesday ■ and the Mexican last Sunday, the day of their arrest. Meanwhile in the local jail, under constant gruelling by Sheriff Dallas Brown and state policet men, the pair today confessed to other thefts. 0 The men admitted the theft of 0 sheep and grain in Jay county and . in Mercer county, Ohio. Details It of the robberies are now being I- gathered by local authorities. y The men are to be arraigned here on the local charge, however.