Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 146, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1937 — Page 1

I XXXV. No. 146.

.mere storm ■ITS DECATUR ■SUNDAY NIGHT Bsiderabk* Property Caused By ■ Storm Here ■ miwialiy severe electrical rainstorm fell upon the las; night. leaving proper,y ‘ la ' ,,aK ** 111 the i enter of the etonii did u,ev, iniietl damage was •«> W- «“<» . . i,,,,Ttees oil the streets also suffered. P ] Myloit, city light superinI ted that the property i, sustained i ohm damage. ■■ „j Monroeville and .Monroe • .: , ot . oniinisHion by lull- . revered connections ill the town of Monroe ih,. damage there. Others by trees on the lines here. A tree on Eighth street a section of the city to darkness. —■Mvlott expected to have all mi,oat.mi shortly after noon be statedKldntter. superintendent of — Telephone company I that most of the dam- ■ -1 by company (property, to the "drop-lines" or Hie nidi v idnal homes. Much resulted, he said. B Heavy Rainfall tiladfelter. official weal lie; here, stated this morning rain fall last niglit was heaviest of the season. of .85 of an was recorded. damage was aim, done lo this , inity. caused by t rain. Many tree limbs in were broken down by tin- ■ and rain. . ui the largest of these ock at iL- intersection of Fourth streets, where virtualtree snapped from the i and ha: ricaded Fourth - T ' IK- niy street department imt went to work, sawing the ■ limb into sections and reuiov- . su that traffic might he re--9 B storm blew the roof from a ■ wagon shed on the Central farm nortlT fiTTiecatur. No I B buildings on file farm were In BLUM ,'Rouits cabinet . Hbinet Resigns When w Btefused Powers By 1 Senate ort an Bin-, June 21 — (UPI - France, labor troubles and more da Bt h> the Franc, waited anxious for news that a new govhad been formed to sin ■ the left front coalition of pie- “ ■ Leon Blum. I fear was that millions of | ■ front workers, angry ai the of the first left wing cabi: might stage disorderly munior call a general strike. Albert Leßrun. workBf >t urgent stpeed in an all night | of conferences, invited Cam ■ Chautemps, radical socialist to form a cabinet. at once -began a Hos conferences, seeking from leaders an indication of a basis -on which lie migh’ ■» a left center coalition and ■ parilamentary leaders the ex emergency powers he might ■ for to solve the delicate finsituation. B[was reported that he sought > in which he would be and minister of interior.’ police authority, with Deblos remaining as foreign and Edouard Deladier re■inS as war minister. the general relief, the Bourse noon without reflecting ON PaOE FIVE) OBpmary Resident I Dies This Morning ■orthy Rutman, 69. a life long e nt of the county, died this ■“‘he at 2; 30 o’clock at the fftthty infirmary. Death was cansfl* 1 hy complications. |M* e was never married. Funeral ■’| ce » will be held Wednesday ■® ln K at 9:30 o’clock at the jßhh Chapel church, weßt of Geand burial will be made tn By Riverside cemetery.

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♦— fireworks display Police warned dealers today that the sale of fireworks is 1 prohibited until July i. orders 1 , | for tlerworks may he given the 11 dealers, hut deliveries shall not | ' be made until the tlrst of the | mouth. This is a state law and | I loi ' ul Police today received of- | flciai notice from Slem Smith, j | state fire marshal, calling at- I | tention to the limit on sale. Shooting of fireworks is also , prohibited until July 1 and po- | | lice warned boys not to violate > | the law. ! ♦ — CHECKS MAILED ! IN SETTLEMENT County Auditor Issues Checks To Taxing Units Os County Checks totaling $152,692.72 were mailed Saturday by County Auditor John W. Tyndall in settlement of a distribution of $253,416.67 as shown in the settlement sheet for j the first half of 1937. i , In addition to the $152,692.72 Auditor Tyndall took credit for $6,050 as advanced draws from county funds by local units. The j county retained $97,724.18. A total of $3,050.23 in funds not raised by taxation, including the comI mon school interest, permanent endowment interest and docket fees, is not shown in the settlement. The checks, which w'ere mailed | Saturday are listed and itemized as follows: Blue Creek: township, $716.43; tuition, $1,604.97; special school. $2,199.73; and total. $4,521.13. French: township. $552.43; tuition, $1137.80; special schoo.l sl,413.73, and total. $3,103.96. Hartford: township. $711.72; tuition, $2,215.47; special school. $2,174.19; schodl building bonds, $1,790.41. and total, $0,891.79. Jefferson: township, 736.46; tuition, $1,894.41; special school, $2,591.86, and total, $5,222.73. Kirkland: township, $608.08; tuition, $1,872.39; special school. $2,440.34; school building bonds, $3.02. and total. $4,923.83 (Advance tuition fund draw, $150.00). Monroe: township, $959.14; tui- ! lion, $2,424.52; special school, $6 - i 074.37, and total, $9,458.03. Preble; township, $555.88, tuition, i $237.58; special school, $557.82, | and total, $1,353.28. Root: township, $788.21; tuition, $974.68; special school, $2,322.32, and total, $4,085.21. St. Marys: township. $854.98; •tuition. $2,341.59; special school, $3,022.18, and total, $6,218.15. (Advance special school draw, $ * 00.) i Union: township, $654.69; tui'tion, $1,072.22: special school, sl.248 02, and total, $2,974.93. Wabash: township. $1,982.38; tuition. $3,275.71: special school, $5,618.56; school building bonds, $2,224.76, and total, $13,141.41. (Advance draw, township, $200; special school, $600). Washington: township, $1.66811; tuition. $2,360.10; special school, $2,444.79, and total. $6,473.00, Berne school: tuition. $6,206.14, special school, $4,659.84, and total, $10,865.98. Decatur school: tuition. $9.• -4.1 (J 9 special school, $13,508.94, school building bonds, $1,100.88, and total, $24,334.51. (Advance draw, tuition, $2,100; special school, $2,300). Berne town: Corporation tax, $6,750.29. nccatur town: corporation tax, i (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) : — —o- —■ GENEVA WOMAN DIES SATURDAY — ' i Mrs. Henry Muth Dies Saturday After An Extended Illness Mrs. Martha Muth, 52, wife of ( Henry Muth, and prominent resident of Geneva, died Saturday St at 11 o’clock at her home.Death was caused by complies- ; Hons She had been an invalid i for the past eight years. Formerly Martha Fenters. she ( near *Geneva* r ZXZ « ! ! a r-rS ; | e \ o LT^rydo J „ 0h a n nd B £. i | Fred Ridenour, of Newcastle, also j SU Fune e ral services will J* , \ Tuesday afternoon at *.*oo , L 1 ! willTmade in the Hivers.de J cemetery.

MARTIAL LAW I DECLARED IN BILBAO AREA Rebels Plan New Advance; 750 Killed When Mines Explode By Wedd Miller, (Copyright 1937 by UP.) Bilbao, June 21.— (U.R) — Nation- 1 alist authorities declared martial law In the Bilbao area today and, setting up an emergency government, poured thousands of men into the city ready for a new advance against the retreating basque loyalist army. For the moment, contact between the victorious nationalists and their opponents seemed broken. The main basque army was ! far lo the west, along with the hundreds of thousands of refugees including, apparently, threefourths of the people of Bilbao—who were crowding into the Santander region. Gen. Jose Fidel Davila, command-er-in-chief, named Col. Garcia Valino acting military governor, and Valino in his first decree proclaimed martial law. Miguel Ganuza del Riego was named civil governor of the region. Civil guards, the crack police force of the country, arrived from Vitoria to take charge of policing the city. With them were assault guards and municipal and provincial policemen who remained at their posts. The new temporary government set up its headquarters in the, Carlton hotel, which the basque defense junta fled Friday. The main nationalist force paraded into the city in full war panoply at 1 p. m. yesterday and this was made the official time of occupation. Mines Explode Madrid, June 21. —(U.R) —An estimated 750 men. with tons of munitions and machine guns, were (CONTINUED ON PAOE TWO) ANNUAL SYNOD OPENED TODAY Lutheran Missouri Synod Opens This Morning At Fort Wayne The Rev. Paul W. Schultz and August Werling, as representatives of j the Decatur Zion Lutheran church, left this morning to attend the an- j nual convention of the central dis- J trict, Lutheran Missouri synod, | opening in Fort Wayne today and j ! running through Friday. The convention sessions will be | held in the Concordia College cor. cert hall, A total of 550 clerical and lay delegates will be in attendance. The opening service was held at the Concordia Lutheran church this morning with the Rev. F. J. Lankcnau, Napoleon, Ohio, first vicepresident of the Missouri synod, as the speaker. The Rev. Wather Lichstsin, of Hammond, president of the Central district, ipresided. He was assisted by the district vice-president, the Rev. Paul Dannefeldt, Fort Wayne and the Rev. T- W. Streiter, Evansville. Other outstanding speakers on the program will include the Rev. John W. Behnken, president of the Missouri synod; the Rev. Carl Eber--1 card, Louisville, Kentucky and the Rev. J. W. Acker, Sherwood, Ohio. As editor of the Central District Messenger, the district paper, the Rev. Schultz has been intimately connected with the many endeavors and various missions of the district. An effort will he made at this convention by an especially appointed committee to merge the present Lutheran district paper with the Lutheran Witness, a national synodical bi-weekly, the Rev. SchuPz stated. Rev. -Schultz is chairman of the committee. Homecoming Picnic Is Held At Salem Approximately 400 persons attended the home coming picnic of former students and teachers at the Salem district school Sunday. Many of the visitors traveled hundreds of miles from several states to return to the scene of their first schooling. A basket dinner was served at noon. Speakers at the afternoon program were the three former teachers present, namely O. L. Vance and John W. Tyndall, of this city and Roy Holmes, of Ann Arbor, Mich-, igan A committee was named to j superintend another reunion in three or four years- 1

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Injured In Steel Strike Clash * Jp m I.i k V' Talking to his son from his hospital lied. Mils photographer was hit by a load of buckshot during a fierce battle between C. L O. pickets and police at the Republic steel corporation's Youngstown. Ohio plant, Saturday night One person was killed and twenty-six injured, including six women.

CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES SPEAKS Supreme Court Head Calls For Preservation Os Ideals Providence. K L, June 21—<U.R) — Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the U. S. supreme court today called for preservation ot America's democratic institutions against "the pressure of economic forces ami the insidious teachings of an alien philosophy.” "We still proclaim the old Ideals of liberty hut we cannot I voice them without anxiety in our hearts," he said in an informal address at the annual meeting of Brown University alumni. He was a member of the 1881 class; and his grandson, Charles Evans Hughes, 3d, was graduated today "The question is no longer one of establishing democratic institutions, hut of preserving them,” the 1 chief justice said. "The question is no longer one of triumphing j 1 over sectional disorders and unify-1 j ing the nation, but whether a | j united people, putting forth its , great strength for national ends, i will leave appropriate scope for | individual freedom. “The question is not one of adequate power of government, designed to keep clear the highways of honest endeavor, but how that power shall be used. Safe as we may still be in the present, what of the look ahead? Are our democratic institutions growing weak(CONTINUED ON PAOE FOUR) G. E. EMPLOYES ARE ORGANIZED Local Union Is Formed Saturday Afternoon By Local Workers A permanent organization of the Decatur General Electric Employees association was affected at a mass meeting of the workers, held in the Catholic auGltorium Saturday afternoon. Approximately 150 persons attended and the announcement was made than more than 500 applications have been received from the 600 employes of the company. Nearly 100 percent enrollment is anticipated. Recognition under the Wagner labor act has been asked by the association, which seeks to be the sole collective bargaining agency of the employee. The association is entirely local in nature and has no connection with labor unions in other G. E. plants and is not affiliated with national labor unions. The permanent officers are: president, Don Gage; vice-presi-dent, Sol Bowser; treasurer, Frank Bohnke; financial secretary, Milton Brown; recording secretary, Erna Welland; trustee for three years, Tillman Gehrig; trustee for two years, Charles Brothers, and trustee for one year, Ralph Roop. Meetings will be held once a month, by-laws established at the I mpptine: provide.

St. Mary’s Picnic Nets Over $2,000 The St. Mary's parish picnic netted $2,123.58, the Rev. Father Joseph Seimetz announced at tiie church services Sunday. The net receipts were larger than a year ago. Father Seimetz expressed his appreciation to those who donated food, money and mer- | chandise for the picnic and to the public for its patronage. The proceeds from the picnic | are used to pay the bonus on the Catholic school building. RETURN FROM ANNUAL MEET Local Delegates Give Report Os Psi lota Xi Convention Mrs. Gerald Smith and Mrs. i Alfred Beavers have returned front Richmond, where they at- | tended the 35th annual convention jof the Psi lota Xi sorority last j week. Approximately 300 delegates and guests attended and were welcomed by Mrs. Lloyd E Setser of j Bloomington, grand president, who j presided. The Decatur women were delegates of the local chapter. A report was made to the convention that Psi lota Xi, during the past year, had spent $26.563.34 in its charity program. The principal project carried on by the | various chapters was the installing of oxygen tents in hospitals in the state. The Meyer-Alexander achievement cup was awarded to lota f chapter of Rushville on the basis of a charity expenditure of ! $63.93 per capita during the year. The grand officers elected were: Mrs. Thomas Schumacher, Richmond, grand president; Mrs. W. I). Simmons. Jr., Fort Wayne, vice; president; Miss Virginia Lee Bridghtwell, Jeffersonville, secretary; Mrs. William Sayer, Indianapolis, treasurer; Mrs. Lloyd E. Setser, Bloomington, advisor; Mrs. J. C. Fout, Rushville, editor; Mrs. Harry C. Mulder, East Chicago, conductress; Mrs. J. W. Springer, Columbus, chairman of charity committee. Among the social events enjoyed by the delegates were a buffet luncheon, a formal dinner party at the Forest Hills country club, a breakfast fashion show and program at which Kathryn Turney (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 School Commencement Exercises Wednesday Rev. W. H. Franklin, dean of the daily vacation Bible school, announced today that commencement exercises will be held Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock, instead of Thursday, as previously announced. The change was made in order to permit the children to attend the Haag Bros, circus, which will be here Thursday. The picnic will be held at Han-na-Nuttman city park Friday as scheduled Classes will close Thursday morning. The coramencememnt program will be announced Tuesday.

Tom Girdler Tells Mediation Board Republic Steel Will Not Sign Contract With CIO

THREE RUSSIAN FLIERS REACH UNITED STATES Dense Fog Forces Aviators To Land Short Os Their (loal Pearson Field. Vancouver, Wash. June 21 U.R. Three Russian m I ers, heroes in u si range land, prepared to leave today for San FranI cisco to receive the plaudits for their non-stop flight from Moscow • lo the United States accross the i north pole. They were in charge of the Soviet ambassador to the United States, Alexander Troyanovsky, ; who sped up from San Francisco by chartered airplane to greet them, bringing the congratulations ; of President Roosevelt and Joseph • Stalin. The offieial reception hud been i arranged at San Francisco, by a delegation of American and Rus- 1 I sian officials. Here on an army airport. 592 ! miles short of that original goal. Russia’s greatest aerial expedition j ended Sunday morning a 5,500 i mile flight across barren Siberian j ' wastes, shifting ice floes and frozen tundras of tiie arctic and polar regions and the towering mountains of the Canadian north i west. Tiie fliers landed here after 63 - hours and 17 minutes without sleep or food, only because they could not penetrate a fog belt that • had closed over the entire north- , west. They were to continue to San Francisco in a commercial plane !of United Airlines. It is a four- , hour flight. Their own l»w-wiug ed. red and gray monoplane was at a journey's end. It will he dismantled here and shipped hack to Russia. The fliers said it was lit perfect condition. The flight probably failed to break the long distance record of 5.675 miles, set by the Frenchmen, I Codos and Rossi, in a trip from New York to Syria. Stanislaw I Shttmovsky, soviet aeronautical | I official, announced that the three | j fliers themselves had made two 1 previous non-stop trips, each about i 6,000 miles, but had not claimed any record and had not been trying to establish one on the present ! trip. “They are not glory seekers, hut • scientists doing a matter of fact i job in the world’s greatest attempt to build planes for long range flying," he said. Shttmovsky. who accompanied the ambassador here to welcome Russia's new heroes, said the ! present flight had been valuable in many respects. For one thing (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) RICHARD EGLEY INJURED SUNDAY Young Decatur Boy Suffers Fractured Leg When Hit By Auto Richard Paul Egley, young eon of Alvin Egley, 115 Scheimann street, ot this city, sustained a fractured leg Sunday morning at 9 o’clock. The accident occurred when the lad ran in front of an auto, as he was leaving the Zion Reformed church where he had attended Sunday School. It ie thought that the driver of the car, Dina Gutierrez, a Mexican, living on route five, Decatur, i was not at fault. He told Policeman Ed Miller, who investigated, that he wtw unable to avoid striking the child, when he ran into the street. The boy was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital, where the injured leg was treated. He is reported as resting nicely. o Fair Committee To Meet This Evening The executive comthlttee of the Decatur Free Street Fair and agricultural show will meet at the Rice hotel this evening at 7:30 o'clock. All members are urged to attend tonight’s meeting.

SET UP CLASSES OF HORSE SHOW Annual Horse Show To Be Held During Decatur Fair The committee for the 1937 horse show met recently and set up the classes for the sltow. which will lie held in connection with the Decatur Free Street Fair. August 2-7. Inclusive. Belgians only will lie shown this year ill connection with the fair. Tile elasses are as follows: Gold Medal Pure bred mares, pure bred studs, grade mares, grade studs. Open Class Pure bred mares, three years ami over, pure tired mares under three years, grade mares three years anil over, grade mares tinder three years. Suckling cults: pure bred mares, pure bred studs, grade mares, grade studs. Geldings any age. pure bred mare and colt, grade mare and colt, get of sire. Three Animals Any Age Stud classes: four years and over, two years and under four, under two years. Matched team any tired, shown I in harness, four teams to make a class. The Neuhauser trophy will lie awarded to the owner of the best purebred Belgian mare in the show. Last year this trophy was awarded to Henry Aschleman. 4-H CALF CLUB TOUR THURSDAY Annual Club Tour Will Be Held In County Thursday The annual 4-H Calf clul) tour will be held Thursday. It is hoped that every club member will arrange to go on this tour, as this ; will give them an opportunity of I finding out what the other club j members are doing and of learnI ing better methods Os caring for their calves. An excellent program of demonstrations and talks has been arranged. The tour wilt start at the home of Homer W. Arnold at 10 o’clock. Mr. Arnold lives four miles west of road 27, three miles south of Decatur, and three miles north of Monroe A picnic dinner will be held at the Thomas Griffiths residence at 12 o'clock and the group will see Mr. Griffiths’ Jersey herd. He lives one and one-fourth mile north of the Kirkland school and one mile west; or six miles west of road 27 and two miles south of Decatur. Every member is asked to come prepared foi' a basket dinner ami bring table service for his owu party. in the afternoon at 2 o’clock the group will see the Holstein herd of E. H. Kruetzman in Kirkland township and following that they will go to the Dale Moses residence in Root township and see his Guernseys. Club members are welcome to bring parents and friends. Heaviest Rainfall Is Reported At Berne A total precipitation of .97 of an inch was recorded at Berne during the night. Despite the heavy rainfall, little wind hit the town with no damage resulting. o You ns Democrats Receive Charter A state charter hae been received -by the Adams county Young Democratic club, according to Edwin | Kauffman, president of the j county organization. The charter j number is fourth-6, meaning that this is the sixth club in the fourth congressional district to receive a charter. o— WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Tuesday, preceded by local Thunderstorms this afternoon south portion: cooler central and north portions tonight and South Tuesday

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Company Head Says CIO “Utterly Irresponsible” As Plans Are Made To Reopen Plants. ' ASK PROTECTION Cleveland. June 21 — <U.fi) Chairman Tom Girdler of Republic Steel corporation today toiil the federal steel mediation hoard that (liscussion of a signed contract with the committee for industrial orgunizalion sole issue In the seven state steel strike was “futile.” As the Republic amt Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. officials unuounced plans to defy picket lilies and reopen plants in the Youngstown area tomorrow. Gird ler and executives of three other struck companies appeared before the mediation hoard an hour ufter the hoard had conferred with C. I O chairman John L. la-wis and his aides. Girdler said his company would not enter into an oral or written agreement with the C. I O. and added that "any discussion of this is futile." In regard to maintenance of the status quo pending negotiations, as suggested by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Girdler said his company "will not be a party to any such arrangement." Girdler said his company would not sign a contract with any irresponsible party and that he regarded the C. I. O. as "utterly irresponsible.” Republic Steel Corp.. and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., announced that they would git tempt to re-open closed plants at Youngstown at 7 a. m. tomorrow, with assurances of police protection. Republic steel also won a court order restraining pickets who have forced the Warren and Niles plants to operate oil a restricted schedule with workers living inside. The order limited pickets to 12 at tile Niles plant gate and to 52 around the big Warren plant, ordering them to lay down their clubs and picket on the side of the street farthest from the company property. The company announcements and the court order came as C. 1.0. chairman John 1,. Lewis and his aides met with the three-man mediation board in Cleveland "to explore tiie possibilities" of a peaceful settlement of the seven state steel strike. The conflict is now 26 days old and keeping perhaps 80.000 men from their jobs as the strikers demand that the companies sign union contracts. Activities on both sides indicated that “showdown” on re-opening of the plants despite doubled pickets would come tomorrow. “They won’t go through those picket lilies and into the mills,” John L. Mayo, suit-regional director for the steel workers organizing committee at Youngstown, said. "They won’t have enough men to work the mills. We are going to strengthen the picket lines." Ray L. Thomas, liack-to-work (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) SENTENCE TWO MEN TO PRISON _ Two Redkey Men Are Given 1-10 Years In State Prison Sentences of 1-10 yeare in the Indiana slate prison were given this morning to Joe Jaurigue, Mexican and Everett Williams, both of Redkey, when they were brought before Judge Huber M. DeVoas in Adams circuit court. Both of the men on Saturday ' plead guilty to charges ot grand larceny. The pair was arrested Sunday morning, June 13 in Redkey by Fher-iff Dallas Brown and deputies !on a charge of stealing sll4 worth |of corn from the farm home ot Joel Shaffter, In Blue Creek township. The theft occurred on the night of June 6. Jaurigue. 32 years of age, admitted his guilt Sunday. Williams,, 26, after three days of intensive questioning, finally admitted his part in the theft. The men will be taken to the prison as noon as admittance papers are secured.