Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1937 — Page 1

XXXV. No. 145.

11l FURTHER IK MONDAY M BIG FAIR ( , ut j u . Committee To Monday Night Discuss Plans the ‘ St r.-.-t l-’.lil ■■ tii..w Will be mapped el the ev, nine , ~rn liH, I,ight ’ will he held at 7 • #1 \,lams county lie. |H‘ A “ of 'l l '' ev< u ■ 1,1 general < hairmaii fair, also head of the HV. . , mmiuttee. announced to |K,". r ,.quests for space on tie of Hie city during fair \ugust inclusive, have r ■'coming in at a rapid rate 1H ally all of tile most de . s 1 IP free acts have been ■l [,,, th,, entire week and nius ,, committee is rapidly .... |,,mds to furnish music the fair. 1: n ir. whose rides am! h.iie provided entertain ,1,.. thousands of visit mr fair in previous . .mam furnish rides ami ■ d.ows are planning to have exhibits titan in prevyears. "hen the exhibitions p.., fair were term. ■, th,, best in northeast. k of 4 H and home also VKi. day of the fair will BBK, Implanned. V Committees qs . I are: Roscoe Gletidening. a, ts Will Linn. John 1. and Janies Elberson. Robert Helm Krueckeberg. J W. Calland ami E. I Will Bowers, Roy Kai on page t 111: !•: 1:1 - ■E. Plants To B Close On July 5 IS ■i departments of the Fort and Decatur works of the Electric company will reML closed all day Monday, July '> of independence day, to an announcement iseaby Neil Currie. Jr. manager of the two plant-. B| o B J. Miller Is .■ Awarded Scholarship a graduate of Decatur Cath | Bglrm si hool has been awarded county scholarship to university for the mining The winners were chosen ‘ group, which took special recently given to the high t graduates from each The scholarships, which 'he holder from paying s3u - per semester providing a scholastic average is mumare good for one year. |B| o Bis To Keynote ■ Moose Convention Wayne, June 19. Comm:' ■to serve during the annual convention of Loyal Order to be held in Fort August 12, 13 and 14. have ■ announced by James E. Ford. chairman. convention will be held at Moose temple here. United Sen. James J. Davis of ■■sylvania will give the keynote t o — Jpes M. Barrie | Dies Os Pneumonia ■>ndon. j une 19 __ (U R) _ sir Matthew Barrie, 77. creator Pan and other characters ■ *on the hearts of the world, ■ of bronchial pneumonia in a home today. e fatuous author and dramaBB who "saw life through the ■ °f a child" lived almost as a ■ l9e in his declining years. Al■>Bh he retired from the public his memory was still green le minds of the generation laughed and cried over Pet- ■^ p iin, "The Little Minister," Every Woman Knows." r Brutus," and other tender, r standing portrayals.

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I Stork, Unexpected, I urns Feasel Home Into A Hospital The Heber Feasel home in Mon-! mouth watt the scene of an unexpected call by the stork this week when Mr. and Mrs. Michael Johnson, enroute from Garrett to their home at Coldwater, Ohio, had their trip interrupted by a visit from the etork, who presented them with a four and one-halt pound baby girl. The Feasel home was turned into an emergency hospital, with neighbor women acting as nurses. Mr. Johnson later drove to Coldwater .returning with an ambulance and a baby basket. This is the second girl in the family. — o—— HOUSE FEDERAL PRISONERS HERE Adams County Jail May Be Designated As Federal Jail Prospects of the Adams countyjail being selected as a federal institution seemed imminent today, according to word received here. An investigator has already been here to inspect the jail ano’: passed favorable comment on housing accommodations, administration and general management of the institution Selection of the institution as a ! i federal jail would mean that all federal criminals would be lodged here to await disposition of their I cases in court. To date Adams county has never I I had a federal jail. Federal instii tutions of the kind are now being maintained in Fort Wayne. Huntington. and Portland. These are ’ the closest of the federal jails. It is understood that the record of the sheriff in office also plays an important part in the recoin I mendations for selecting a federal jail. Sheriff Dallas Brown, under whose management the jail has , been transformed into one of the i most modern and practical of any i in a city of like size, stated today that the selection had already I been unofficially announced. Offi- , cial word of the appointment is being awaited. In the past three years much ’ I work has been done on the jail : building. Included in the work ! was the redecorating and refinish- ' ing of the walls and floors, instal- > lation of a new heating system, [ installation of new plumbing, new .' fixtures and a general overhaulII ing. . The equipment for use in the , 1 line of duty has also been greatly Increased. A new sub-machine .) gun, gas gun and several other ’ modern implements have been adj ded to the arsenal of the sheriff s i office. Other improvements of minor importance have been made ! at the jail from time to time. The appointment is made by the 1 penal department of the federal I government. It is understood. Highway Commission , Will Receive Bids i I The state highway commtasion I will open bids at 10 a. m. Tuesday - i July 13 on a structure on highway i 27, 1.1 mPes south of Decatur ovei i ’Borain Run creek. i o ARRESTED MEN PLEAD GUILTY Two Redkey Men Enter ' Guilty Pleas; To Be Sentenced Monday ’' Joe Jaurigue, Mexican, and Ever- ’ j elt Williams, 'both residents of Red- • key, plead guilty this morning before Judge Huber M. De Voss in Ads ams circuit court on chargee ’ Sr " C d en S unday for the theft of Jll4 worth of corn from the home of Joel Shaffter, in Blue Creek township, the men have admitted th Jaur!gue confessed shortly after • being apprehended. Williams, howr ever, maintained his innocence for ’three days, until he broke dowmun- ’ Her intensive grilling • Jallas Brown and state P atr ‘"' The men will be sentenced Mon 1 ''uiloi, 1 ” r nrtrttan a eharße °! . on June 6. 32 aD( j . jaurigue gave h « age - 2( . Williams stated tha years of age.

REBEL TROOPS I INVADE BILBAO i Insurgents Finally Invade Bilbao Alter Bloody Battle — Biarritz, France, June 19.—(U.R) - ! The Spanish Insurgents, after 1 months of ferocious siege in one ' of history's most cruel civil wars, i finally entered the Basque capital of Bilbao today. The troops Invaded from two directions. The first column descended the mountains from Be- ' gona, northeast of Bilbao and the second along the Nervion river at Galdacano, to the southeast. Both columns converged on the old quarter of the city along the right bank of the Nervion. The entry was proclaimed throughout the land by nationalist radio stations. Rurango announced that all Basque forts from Begona and other heights around the old quarter, had been silenced. Five bridges were reported to have been mined, including the mian Isabelle bridge between the old and new quarters.; The broadcast said the new quarf- i er was filled with stret barricades and thus far no nationalists had, tried to enter the new quarter. A dispatch by courier from Reynolds Packard, United Press correspondent, in a first line trench overlooking Bilbao said the advance started after careful prepar-1 ations by Gen. Jose Fidel Davila, nationalist commander. From where Packard stood, only a mile from the city the place appeared deserted, he said, but hundreds of tanks and armored cars were. drawn up at all strategic points in' anticipatio not' bloody street fighting. Packard observed that the nationalists had completed the occu- i pation of San Bernarde hill, giving' the mpossession of all tiie heights on the right side of the Nervion' river. The commandant of the | j nationalist trobps at Benobia an-' nounced that preparations were unu’erway for joyous celebrations I in Benobia and Leun, including military reviews and the ringing . of church hells. BIBLE SCHOOL ENOS JUNE 25 Commencement Thursday, Picnic Friday To End Annual School ’ I The Decatur daily vacation Bible j . school will close Friday, June 25, | with a picnic at the Hanna-Nutt-1 man city park. i Rev. M. O. Herman, pastor of j ' the Berne Evangelical church, will , deliver the address at commence- j ' ment exercises, which will be held I at 7 o’clock Thursday night, June ! 24. I The exercises will be held in the public high school gymnasium and a varied program of songs, memlory verses and other features of, ! the Bible school will be presented. Average daily attendance at the 1 school has been approximately 135. The total enlWlinent for all chil- • dren who attended more than ■ three days is 347. Daily chapel exercises have been conducted by the junior and intermediate departments, with the : children quoting from memory en- ! tire chapters of the Bible, offering ’ prayer, singing special songs and I ' taking the offering. The dean and teachers of the I school have issued a special invij tation to parents and Sunday • school and church workers to visit the school and inspect the work ' done by the children. Enrollment for the third week of the school is as follows: Zion Re- • formed 42. Evangelical 43, Baptist • L7, Methodiet Episcopal 40, United • Brethren 40, Nazareue 12, Church • of God 14, Christian 10, Presoyterf ian 10, Calvary Evangelical 10, Eighth Street U. B. 3, Zion LuthI eran 3, Mennonite 3, no affiliation . 4 participating churches pay $1 ; for each enrollment from the reI spective church. At the picnic Friday which will • close the school for the year, a . special treat will be provided for . the cfiildren. The children are to . 1 bring their own lunches for the f dinner hour. Vorhees Funeral Services Sunday Funeral services for Mrs. A. M. . I Vorheee. who died suddenly Thursday morning at her home in Ceylon will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 ' o’clock at. the Geneva U. B. church I with the Rev. D. L- Lusk officiating. I Burial will be made in the Riverside , cemetery.

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Decatur, Indiana. Saturday, June 19, 1937.

C. I. 0. Leader at Postal Quiz Ji | JI WW ;

i c Urging that the government take definite steps to disarm steel ( plants and enforce colleijive bargaining agreements, Philip Murray, ( chairman of tlie Steel Workers’ Organizing committee, warned of a “general civil war" when he testified before the senate postoffice . committee in Washington, D. above.

TAX HEARINGS START MONDAY Board Os Review To Hear Objections Starting Monday The county board of review Monday will open hearings on objections to tax assessment valuations in the county. Residents of Union. Root. Preble, Kirkland, Washington and St. Mary’s townships will bo the first ■to be heard. All persons in those I townships who have complaints 1 against assessment valuations are I to appear before the board on that ! day. Hearings will be held Tuesday for complainants from Blue Creek,; ■ Monroe, French, Hartford, Wabash I and Jefferson townships. Wednesday, the board will hear, : the objections from the towns of Berne, Geneva and Monroe. Decatur residents wi.‘l be heard Tliurs- ' day. The board of review today completed the checking of mortgage exemptions in the offices of the I county recorder. All assessment records have been checked and all I other work completed necessary to conduct the hearings on objections. All persons who have assessj ment complaints to make are asked to report only on the day set I for their respective assessing . units. No objections will be heard on other days. WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Sunday, probably local thundershowers central and north portions: somewhat warmer.

Around The World In A Night With Decatur s Radio Station

A tiny flick of the wrist—and : you travel from the sub-zero tent- ' peratures of the ice-caked Arctic I to the sweltering, torrid climate | of the equator; another twist and 1 you are visiting under the hot sun of the almost uncivilized wilds of ’; southernmost Africa —that is the nightly experience of Gerald Cole, local radio pioneer, as he sits bei hind the controls of the city's onj ly amateur radio broadcasting staI tion. History is not only made at 1 night, however, as in the early ; hourse of the morning (which he acclaims the best), Mr. Cole, with his hand-mado turns his dial to the wave-lengths of hundreds of stations in five of the six ceiitinents on the face of the I earth. ’I Seated In the basement of his residence at the Homesteads, Mr. Cole, who in 1922 first operated a ■ small transmitter, now grown to 500 watts—has talked to radio en thusiastisls in Europe, Africa, Australia and both North and South America. Asiatic radio restrictions I ,! coupled with the inclement condij tions, have thus far prohibited him j

if Local People Attend ' Nazarene Convention i t The Northern Indiana district s Nazarene Young People’s convention, held at Mishawaka this week was attended by Mrs. Lon Wood- : rum. president; Mrs. Paul Brandy- | berry and Miss Elvira Ward, dele- ( gates, and Lloyd Roe and Roger ; Ward, alternates, also Miss Della t : Clark went along as a visitor. The young people received much in- , spiration and spiritual help from , the convention. t , __o_ | ( GETS YEAR FOR KILLING WIFE: i Tennessee Farmer Convicted By Jury Os Manslaughter Woodbury. Tenn . June 19 U.R) j ’I John W. Davis, Scripture-quot-1 ’, ing hill farmer, last night was; ! convicted of involuntary man- : slaughter in the death of his wife. . I who served him as a “plow-horse." | ! | Ten farmers, a retired school | teacher and a carpenter, who had , ' watched “Uncle John" “chaw to-: bacco” and swear he “loved , | Jodie," rejected the state’s dei mand for a conviction on second-1 .degree murder charges. ' i But after an hour, 45 minutes of deliberation, the jury convicted j ’ the 76-year-old farmer of involum' 1 tary manslaughter and sent him to I the state penitentiary for one ! year. The verdict was returned at 6:10 p. m. before a court room crowded with denim-clad farmers and their "women” who came (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

from contacting the Orient. Talks To South America As ample proof of the power of the outfit, the writer, himself, waß permitted, through the courtesy of Mr. Cole, to listen to the voice of a South American Spaniard, who in his guttural, broken English talked to him. By means of the transmitter, he was able to answer the questions of the Spaniard and into the microphone in Caracas, Venezuela, South America 3,000 miles from Decatur. This, despite the inclement weather, was easily accomplished. Numbering among his most distant conversations, Mr. Cole listed a chat with an English-born citizen in Perth, Australia, lacking but a few miles of being half way around the world from here. Other long distance (DX to the radio operator) discussions include one in i Johannesburg in the southern tip of the African continent, renowned for years as the spot where no white man dared explore. All Equipment Home-Made With his equipment, including, ■ the traiisniitter, receiver tmd an | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) I

Martial Law Is Declared In I Johnstoton, Pa. Today After Company Refuses To Close

THREE BUSSIAN I FLIERS LAUNCH RECORD FLIGHT. Attempt 6.250 Mile NonStop Flight Over North Pole t San Francisco, June 19 —(UP) — Three Russian fliers raced through strong headwinds acroae the North I ( Pole and down the western henii-j’ sphere today, on a non-stop, 6,259 mile flight from Moscow to San! Franciaco In a single-motored plant-. ' At 2:20 A. M. CST the fliers re-1 IHtrted by radio that they were 550 .' miles this side of the North Pole, heading for Northern Canada. It waa the greatest aerial advert-j lure since Charles A. Lindbergh set • out alone across the Atlantic ocean ten years ago. The Soviet consulate In San Francisco announced that the plane had ’ crossed the Pole at 9:10 P. M. PSI (11:1, P- M. ('STt. The flight began in official Sovjet secrecy and progressed in the isolated silence of the Arctic wastes. Radio messages from the Red and Gray, ultra-streamlined monoplane indicated that it was making lest titan its regular 100 miles an hour speed because of the wind. These messages were directed lO Moscow and relayed in the United States through the Russian embassy. The war department picked up infrequent signals at its anchorage, Alaska, station and relayed the into Washington. The flight had been 18 hours under way before it was announced by general William E. Gilmore of ■the national aeronautical associaI tion and confirmed by the Soviet ambassadors to the United States. Alexander Troyanovsky, who came ■ by plane to San Francisco to await' I the plane's arrival. Early today the Hirers were past | | the half-way marl:. They were ex- | pected here early Sunday morn- ■ ing. Their route lay across a winder- ; ness of ancient ice from the Pole | to Point Barrow, Alaska, a distance of 1,200 miles, thence over the pen- : insula to Seattle. Today they were in uncharted region where unchart(d region where fierce Arctic ' storms swirl continually and no meteorological infoimatcn is available to them. Aviatrix Continues Flight Round World Ragoon, Burma. June 19. —(U.R) I Amelia Earhart. Hying round the world, reached Ragoon at 7:40 in. Greenwich mean time (1:40 a. in. j CST) today from Akyab, up the Burmese coast. Miss Earhart started three times from Akyab, 13 be turned back twice by bad weather. From Ragoon her course lay southeastward to Bankok. Siam. GENEVA MAN'S BROTHER DIES William Landers Dies At Portland; Funeral Rites Sunday William Landers, 71, died Friday at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. George Speare, at Portland. He had been ill for the past year, his condition becoming serious one week ago. Infirmities I of age was given as the cause of death. The deceased was born in Jay county December 31, 1865, the son of Henry and Mary (Armantrout) Landers. He was united in marriage to Lucy Ann Stephenson, who died April 29, 1930. Surviving are three sons, Ed Landers of Portland, Frank Landj ers of Madison township and John imders of Bearcreek township, JaT county; twenty-two grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren; two brothers, Isaac Landers, Anderson, James Landers, Geneva, and one sister, Mrs. Christian Steen. Portland. Funeral services will be held i Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Portland Wesleyan Methodist church. Rev. Lee Tyndall, , pastor, will officiate. Burial in I Grove Hill cemetery.

CHURCH PLANS FOR PROGRAM Children’s Day Program At M. E. Church Sunday Evening Achildren'e day program will bo | presented at the First Mothodiet j Episcopal church here Sunday even- ( ing at 7:30 o'clock. The complete program follows: Processional. "Children’s Day" — reclation — Sally Smith"Staying Awake" Greta Gehrig. “Tile Land of Spain” —duet Robert and Vernon Smitiey. “Os Such i« the Kingdom"—recitation —He’en Baughman. "Jesus Loves Me"—song Primary class. "It Pays"-recitation — Francos Jean Morris "What I Can Do" —drill— Miss Patton's class. “On Duty" —(recitation— Billy Graham. "Lullaby Time" — duet — Donna Lee and Kay Farr. “Legend of the Daisies’’ — story Lois 'Baughman. "God Is Love"—acrostic — Mrs. I Stults’ class. “A Princess" — recitation Betty I Hollingsworth. "Waft, Waft Ye Soft Breezes”— i song Mrs. Gaughman's c'ass. “ A Juno Bouquet”—dialogue— Sarah and Nancy Krick. "The Train to Sleepy Land”—recitation- -Victor Porter. bold’s class. “Bobolink" — song-Louise Haubold's class. "Roses"—acrostic—Mrs. Friedt’s class. “A Little Bird”—recitation—Janet Bailey"The Pearl Seeker" playlet - pearl seeker—Jack Porter, First Merchant Jim Colter, Second Merchant Kenneth Beery, Third Merchant Tom Roop "Song of Love” — song — Mrs. I Baughman’s c'ass. The Methodist School Loan Fund talk -Rev. Graham. "The Noiseless Kind" recitation Lois Baughman Collection. Benediction. — o Former Colorado Governor To Trial Indianapolis. Ind.. June 19 Clarence J Morley, former governor of Colorado, will go on trial in federal court here Monday charged with violating the postal laws in connection with alleged operations of “bucket shop" brokerage offices in Indianapolis and Evansville. Morley, one of five defendants in the case, indicted on 21 counts, (pleaded not guilty when arraigned before federal judge Robert C. Baltze.'l yesterday. He was released on $5,000 bond after saying he was ready for trial Monday. Make Further Cut In Indiana WPA Indianapolis, Ind., June 19 —(UP) John K. Jennings, state WPA ad 1 ministrator, today announced the designation of two additional memliters of the administrative staff of ■ ti.e Indiana works progress administration, effective June 30. Those who will leave the organization are Ralph C. Werner, Indianapolis, traveling compen'sation . claims adjuster, and William G. Stockdom, supervisory clerk of the division of safety. The vacancies wi'l not be filled, Jennings said. Final approval of two WPA conjetruction projects at New Albany by the United States controller general, providing tor a total expenditure of $130,000, also was announced by Jennings. o Celina Congressman Nominated As Judge Van Wert, O„ June 19—Frank L Kloeb of Celina, congressman of the I fourth district of Ohio, has been nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the bench of the U. S. district court at Toledo, to sue- ' ceed Judge George P. Hahn, whose ueath occurred several months ago. I Rep. Kloeb, who served several . terms as prosecuting attorney for Mercer county, has been a staunch , supporter of the administration and i was (prominent in drafting the neutrality bill.

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. Gov. Earle Issues Order After Company Heads Refuse To Heed Demand To Close Plant. QUIET IN INDIANA Harrisburg. Pa . Juno 19 (U.R)— I Gov. George H Earle today deI . laced martial law at Johnstown, I Pa., location of the strike-bound i Cambria plant of the Bethlehem Steel company. The governor ordered Col. Augustine S. Janeway to take 500 additional state police and highway patrolmen to the steel strike city to reinforce 140 state police already on duty there. Earle directed that the force take over policing of the Bethlehem Steel corporation's strikebound plant near the city and ( lose ope alions there. The gov mor ordered that all | vigilantes be disarmed. He directed that the state pol Hue contingent "preserve law and I order and act instantly against anyone who attempts violence." Earle said that "if the Johnstown mayor (Daniel H. Shields) refused to cooperate with the state po -e, the Johnstown city police will cease to function.” Although national guardsmen !w/re not dispatched to the scene | of the labor disturbance, the huge | Bethlehem mill, th governor said he was placing the city of Johnstown under martial law. The executive's statement, explaining the order issued following that of Eugene G. Grace, president of the steel corporation, refusing to comply with Earle’s request that the plant be closed, follows: , “Mr. Grace refuses to accede to my request to close the Johnstown . plant of the Bethlehem steel company. Sheriff Boyles has confirmed reports 40.000 miners will assemble Sunday in Johnstown. "With the plant open, sympathizing miners and strikers would constitute a powder magazine to be exploded at any moment. "I regret President Grace has failed to accede to r?y request to . relieve the dangerous situation by I closing down t(ie plant. "Therefore. 1 am declaring martial law in Johnstown.” Board Meets Cleveland. June 19 - (U.R) —The federal steel mediation board liecan a determined effort to end lite steel strike today after martial I law was declared in one Pennsylvania strike center and similar ■ stern action was hinted in Ohio. The declaration of martial law ; at Johnstown. Pa., came almost j simultaneously with the start of . preliminary confe es hero r among members of the mediation i board, headed by Charles P. Taft. and seeking to settle the conflict over whether four big independent companies shall sign union coni’ tracts. At the same time Ohio national guard headquarters observers 1 closely watched developments in ’ (lie tense steel cities of Youngs(CON'TINI’ED ON PAGE THREE) .—— o ‘ YOUNG PEOPLE PLAN TO CAMP t — Young People 01 Zion Reformed Church To Camp Sunday J A. Group of 15 young people rep-Itese-nting Zion Reformed church s will leave Sunday to attend the Youth Camp of the Evangelical and ' Reformed Church at Camp Mack, '■(Lake Wa’aee, near Milford. The ! camp is sponsored by the Fort ’ Wayne Classis of the Evangelical ’ raid Reformed Church, and will continue for one week. Rev. C. M. Prugh, minister of the Zion Reformed Church, who is also pl the president of the Fort Wayne Classis, is one of the instructors , of the enmp, and will acconupany u the group, which consists of the folii lowing: Lawrence Rash, Frederick n Kirsch. John Gerber, Earl Bremer, ■. Richard Buckley, Robert Lord, •. Richard Goldner. Howard Gehrig, e 'Betty Hunter, Esther Fisher, Mar1. garet Hoffman, Kathryn Schroyer, 1 Alice Yost, Marjorie Miller and r Mary Frank. Mrs. M. F. Werthman h and Mrs. Chas. Beineke will also atd tend the camp, as representatives !- of the Women’s Missionary Society of the local church.