Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 22 June 1937 — Page 1

I-! XXXV. No. 147.

■fl DRIVE ON ijj FOR FAIR Jietomorrow Committee ■ r(h( . rs Plans For AnWnual August Fair drivH for funds to aid In l!le third annual DmaFair and agrlenl 'fH’j.ow « ; >l be launched W. d morning us 111" executive in ting Monday eve soliciting .onnnil canvass the city. £■.. !!!:h ,|;, Us of dollars award W ( . fc year to prize winning flK| tl , rs ' in th" cattle and horse ■K’',,.11.1..!!. d With til" cost of K dies" exhibit*. income ■V' 0..-. IS and concession.-, Hl sufficient to cover the |K,u<t of the fair. :.,l . olltlllit !•••■ of th" lias prepared a list of contributors to the Hll business house m.i ■■. will I”' asked to donah ,' iU p: oportioll to oile rs nI , necessary to condm : the Hfl,. August 2-7 this year, will less Ilian was needed last when the city field its Cen |Kfi cel-luation. At that time .i . Jc.iiih) was donated K, : -s of the city to make |Kj|,|e "lie of the greatest shows |Hheld in Decatur. Plan For Fair ■. V , \ , lee annually by the further plans Monday nii-ht the 1937 fair the best in the city. . are being pl.urn <1 day of the fair, which Mrun each day of the week. i.d.iv through Saturday K- horse shows pron:i< larger than ever, and I II ■ . . ..monies < lub lead.-i - to present the b. st ■ever shown in the: d free acts have K booked and a host of bands in tlm city throughout the 1" provide plenty of miisi. aits., shows and pared -s latest in rides and shows be located on the midway on.. .naires ha lakm all the best 1. >< mums early date. Bijection to I TAX IS FILED Kbash Township liesiBent First To Appear mi Before Board aa first objection to the recent valuations was heat.! the cmmty board of review Mke offices of the county aseesB ■ Wahash township resident. of the state at the time of ■ assessing. was the first to pre ■> a complaint. An arbitrary was reached by the and the complainant. two days remain for the of complaints. On Wi'ilmr- ■ tbe board will hear those from of Geneva. Berne and r oe and on Thursday they will Decatur objectors. ■•si year eight complaints weie In the event a complainant satisfied with the ruling of he may appeal to the ■«board prior to the last of Jun" the board's decision is ■ —o ■ ■ ca l Man Arrested ■ For Assault, Battery ■*eph Kaehr, of this city, was ■*ted last night about 11:30 o’by Policeman Floyd Hunter ■barges of assalt and battery. ■ ie br is ,o have struck ■.beat his wife at their home on Kaehr was to be arbefore Mayor Arthur R in city court this aft' ' ■ • _o ■nior C. Os C. ■ To Meet Wednesday ■ ihort but important meeting of B Decatur Junior Chamber of ■Jbierce will be held Wednesday ■ l a t 7 o’clock in the city hall, ■les of those who will attend the ■ a James meeting of the club B, a - V will be taken. A vote on the ■ ’ Participation in the Free ■ et Fair and agricultural show ■bst 2 to 7 will be taken.

DECATUR BATLA 7 DEMOCRAT

♦ Marriage License Reports Reveal l ßan Cupid Busy Dan (’iipid Is out to break all reci ords for issuing marriage licenses | during June, the month of brides 1 according to present indications hi the offices of County Clerk G. Remy Bierly. To date 35 marriage licenses have been issued during the first ; 22 days of June, Lust year but 28 were issued hi the same period of [time and in 1935 cnly 18 for the I same number of days. ' Saturdays enjoy the largest number of applicants, with the three Saturdays totalling 20 of the total i 35. The total for the month last year was 45 and in 1935, 29. it the 1 present rate continues more than | half a hundred will have received I licenses by the end of the mouth. Cupid is evidently “patching up" old troubles, the figures reveal. A total of 16 tpersons during the month have been married before. Two I couples secured licenses to remarry ; after they had been divorced. GUERNSEY SHOW PLANS LISTED Classes And Rules For County Show Are Listed By Club — Plans for the Adams county I Guernsey show, to be held in conI nection with the Decatur Free : Street Fair and agricultural show, i Argust 2 to 7. have been made by members of the Adams county I Guernsey cattle dill). All entries must be filed by July 20. The entry fee of $1 per head, must accompany the entry, which \ should be sent to Janies Moses, secretary, Decatur route 1. Prof. | W. W. Yapp of the University of Illinois will be the judge for the i Guernsey show Classes and rules are as follows: Classification: Same as State Fair Open classes: base dates for i age distinction. August 1 to January 1. Female Classes 1. Cows, 5 years old and over. 2. Cows, 4 yrs. old and under 5. 3. Cows. 3 yrs. old and under 4. ; 4. Cows, 2 yrs. old and under .3. ' 5. Senior yearling heifer. 6. Junior yearling heifer. 7. Senior heifer call. 8. Junior heifer calf. Bull Classes 1. Four years old. 2. Three years old and over. 3. Two years old and under 3. 4. Senior yearling. 5. Junior yearling. 6. Senior bull calf. 7. Junior bull calf. Groups as follows I 1. Produce of cow (2 animals). 2. Get-of-sire (4 animals, at 1 least 2 of which must be females). 'I 3. County herd (1 aged cow, 1 I 4-year old cow. 1 3-year old cow, 1 12-year old cow. 1 yearling heifer. | 1 heifer calf, bull 2 years old or j over, 1 bull under two. Production Requirements: None ou female classes this year. Dams I of bulls exhibited must have a rec- ' i ord which exceeds advanced regis- ■ tered requirements by at least ' 25%; in other words—soo pounds 1 mature equivalent. Prizes:—Ribbons will be given ; to the sixth place in each class ' and $3.00 in cash per head regaid- , (CONTfNUWO ON PAOW FOTTR) LOTS ARE SOLD MONDAY NIGHT Eight Lots, Owned By Old Adams County Bank, Sold Monday Eight lots were sold Monday night by Roy Johnson for the Old Adams County bank which Js comI pleting the liquidating of its as- ■ S The sale was under the direction ’ of Clark Lutz, special representative, Robert Kramer, assistant special representative, and Hemy Heller, attorney for the ban . The sale was opened at a lot on Thirteenth street west of Worthman field, which was purchased by MadgXe Barton the northwest corner of fourteenth , and Adams streets wa » pu \ chM w I by George Rentz for SSO. Glen W. and Felma R. Potts purchased a lot |cn Fourteenth street near Monroe ■ at $55 Two adjoining lots on Fit - 5.5'......' Lawrence Michael for $35 ea . ! wad sold to triauy uiah i » mt nn Mercer avenue at Hign , , A lot on »erce £or street was sold to Jesse p | j s2oo.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

TAX AVOIDANCE COMMITTEE IS GIVEN EVIDENCE Treasury Officials Tell Os Alleged Tax Evasions Washington, June 22 - (U.R> — Treasury officials told the joint house-senate committee on tax avoidance today that Richard E. Dwight, former law partner of Chari‘s Evans Hughes, Jr., obtained a $53,448 income tax reduction in 1932 in a transaction with a foreign insurance company which was “all pure fiction." Morris Shaffroth, Internal revenue bureau general counsel, testi- I fied that Hughes. Jr., learned of ! ! the methods allegedly used by | I Dwight and threatened last Feb- ! ruary to break up the law firm. The firm Hughes. Schurman and Dwight of New York — later was dissolved on June 10. Shaffroth testified after undersecretary of treasury Roswell MaI gill and assistant chief counsel Mason B. Leming explained to the committee the complicated transaction between Dwight and the Standard Life insurance company. Incorporated in Nassau, Bahama Islands. Leming stated that Dwight obtained a $2,832,000 loan from the ' company after negotiating to pur- ; chase a paid-up life insurance policy of $4,000,000. Interest on ! the loan deductible from income —amounted to $141,628 for 1932' I whereas Dwight's total Income for he year "would be wiped out with i reduction of $143,000," Leming 1 testified. Leming submitted treasury tables showing that Dwight's actual Income for the four years ' 1932-35 was $599,185. The tables I showed that interest deductions . (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) , ! O LOCAL CHURCH IS REMODELED — - - - - ——l,l , Dedicatory Services Will Be Held At Church Os God Sunday i The remodeling of the Church of ' God 0,1 Cleveland street, will be I completed late this afternoon, the Rev. Glen R Marshall, pastor of the church, announced today. A new addition to the south side of the present structure hae been , built to accomodate the rapidly 1 growing Sunday school classes. Uni der the o'd arrangement, with one I main auditorium, only about 115 persons could be accomodated in .; Sunday School classes. Now, between 175 and 185 persons . may attend the new departmental ■ ed classes. The addition is 28 by i 16 feet and will make room for two ■ classes. Below this addition and under part of the old church building, a | 1 large room has been provided which j will make it possible for the conducting of two olasses and possibly ' three. The addition is of frame structure, as is the rest of the building. | Manley Irwin, superintendent of the Sunday school, was the carpen-' ter in charge of construction. Much of the labor was donated by members and friends of the church. 1 Increases capacity Folding doors have been hung in front of the adition which may be opened to permit persons seated r in these rooms to view the services, increasing the capacity of the church from 175 to about 215. Before October and possibly in July, unified services will be held, ' with Sunday school beginning at 1 9:30 o'clock and worship services ' ending at 11:30 o’clock, Sunday mornings. First classes !n the new Sunday school rooms will be held next Sunday morning at 9:30 a. m- At the ' regular church services, Sunday morning, at 10:30 o'lock, Dr. J. A. Morrison, president of the Anderson college and theological seminary, will preach. Sunday afternoon at 2 o clock the . I dedicatory services for the addition ! will be he'd. With Dr. Morrison, de(CONT’NUED ON PAGE FIVE) Will Receive Bids For Supplies July 6 —— Bids for supplies for a three-> month period at the Adams county infirmary will be receivedl by the county commissioners, Tuesday, July 6, at 2 p. m. in the court: house. A requisition is iioa on file in the office of the county audi- | tor. 1

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, June 22, 1937.

Lewis, Murray at Steel Parley _ ■ /< . 3L * - Safe? J It Il - ' < I • ——* . . .. . < John L. Lewis Philip Murray Present at Cleveland for the federal mediation board s parley to end I the gigantic steel strike were John L. Lewis, head of the C. I. 0., and Philip Murray, chairman of the C. I. O. Steel Workers Organizing committee. Representing the strike-harassed independent steel companies were Tom Girdler, Republic; Eugene Grace, Bethlehem; Frank Purnell, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and Wilfred Sykes, Inland Steel Corporation.

BIBLE SCHOOL EXERCISES SET Bible School Commencement Exercises Wednesday Evening Commencement exercises for the Decatur daily vacation Bible school will be held at the Decatur high school gymnasium Wednesday evening at 7 o’clock. The feature of the program will be “Seekers All,” a ipageant demonstration. Rev. M. O. Herman, pastor of the Berne Evangelical church, will deliver the commencement address. Rev. H. W. Franklin, pastor ot United Brethren church, will deliver the foreword, and will also present certificates and awards to the students of the school, which will close classes Thursday morning. The school will close officially Friday, with a picnic at the HannaNuttman city park. A treat will be given to the children, who will bring their own lunch for the dinner hour. The complete program for the commencement exercises follows: Processional. "America.” Salute to the American Flag. Prayer, Rev. G. O. Walton. Onward Christian Soldiers. Salute to the Christian Flag. Foreword by the dean, Rev. 11. W. Franklin. Christian education, Ruth Virginia Baker. The Seeker, Jack Porter. Kindergarten demonstration. Hymn, Father, We Thank Thee. Christian Education. Primary department demonstrai tlon. Solo, Fayma Miller. i ! 'CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 1

“Iron Lung” Occupant Taken To Hospital After Long Trip

Chicago, June 22.—(U.R)—Frederick B. Snite, Jr., who has lived the last 14 months of his life in a ponderous “iron lung” was installed in a specially air-conditioned room at Billings Memorial hospital today at the end of a hazardous 10,000 mile trip from China. A police escort led the way ' from the railroad yards to the 1 hospital overlooking the University of Chicago campus 10 miles from the downtown "loop.” Young I Snite entered the hospital as a 1 "medical” and not a “surgical” patient, his father explained. There physicians hope to restore the paralyzed lungs which collapsed after he was stricken with infantile paralysis in Peiping, [ China. A reinforced five-ton truck was i j waiting today as trainmen shunt-1 ed the special observation car in ! ' which he made the trip from San 1 Francisco off the main line and up | to'the railway express loading, platform. Five husky freight handlers, ' each wearing a surgeon’s mask, swiftly removed back partitions. Then, 28 minutes later and with three men on each side, the 600pound “lung" and the youth inside, I were wheeled down the runway I and across the platform. Snite was smiling broadly as

Adams County Man Fined Here MondayFred Hockemeyer, of north of the ' city, was fined s ll *' all< * costs, when arraigned in city court before Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse late Monday afternoon to answer to chargee ot public Intoxication. Hockemeyer. who had appeared In city court on a similar charge in February 1935, was arrested late Saturday on Jeffereon street by Policeman Ed Miller and Sheriff Dalas Brown. The fine and coets totaled S2O. o LOCAL WOMAN DIES MONDAY Katharine Flickinger Dies Last Night Os Complications Mise Catherine D. Flickinger, a resident ot this city for 61 years, died at 10:30 Monday night at the home of her niece, Miss Kitty Fought, 1103 W. Monroe street. Death was due to complications. She was 83 years of age. Miss Flickinger was born in Wayne county, Ohio, January 14, 1854, a daughter of Abraham and Hannah Flickinger. She is the last survivor in the family and for many years made her home with her niece. i The deceased was a member of .the Methodist Episcopal church. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from the church with Rev. R. W. Graham officiating. Burial in the Decatur cemetery. The body was moved to the Gillig and Doan Funeral home on Marshall street, at which place it may be viewed until the funeral hour.

they crossed the platform. "He stood the trip in fine shape,” Snite senior said. “All he needed was to get back here and get some American cooking.” The elder Snite, wealthy president of a Chicago loan company, has been at his son’s side constantly since he was stricken while on a world tour more than a year ago. In the party also which arrived today were his mother and his sister, Loretta Mary. A great-aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Quigley, met him at the platform carrying flowers as his “arrival I home” present. I The unloading at the yards, carefully planned in advance, was accomplished without a hitch. Four electric cables attached to ' powerful batteries in the truck j were stretched across the platform ; to the respirator and were plugg- , ed in the instant current from the train was cut off. The huge “lung ■ which every four seconds forces air into the youth’s paralyzed body, never missed a beat. It took four minutes for the freight handlers to wheel him across the platform and into the truck which had been turned into a miniature hospital. A doctor, two nurses, a mechanic and an (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

National Guard Troops Sent To Strike Area In Attempt To Prevent Further Violence . 1,...— , , I - - - . -

I Roosevelt Appeals To ReI public Steel Heads To 1 Assist In Halting Violence. SENDS TELEGRAM Washington. June 22. <U.R> President Roosevelt today appeal-1 ed to the heads of Republic Steel Corp., and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., in an attempt to prevent possible violence and blood shed in connection with the pro posed reopening of Mahoning val ley steel mills. The chief executive used the influence of his high office in supporting the request of the steel j mediation board that the two com- : panics abandon plans to reopen ! their plants today. He directed his appeal to Tom M. Girdler, chairman of Republic's board, and to Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet and Tube. "The secretary of labor has advised me that the mediation board, ; of which Mr. Charles P. Taft is chairman, has requested you not to open your Youngstown plants tomorrow (Tuesday) morning.” the president said in his telegram. “In the promotion of public safety and the interests of a reasonable and peaceful settlement which should be expected and can be attained. 1 earnestly join with the board in this request to you." Earlier, John L. Lewis, chairman of the committee for industrial organization which is sponsoring the seven-state steel strike, appealed to Secretary of Labor | Frances Perkins and Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio to stop the "contemplated and projected butcher of our people.” o Three Cars Collide On Winchester Street Three cars figured in a minor accident at noon today when care driven by Ervin Mauller and Ernest L. Kitaon, both of near here, collided on Winchester street. The Mauller auto was thrown into I another owned by Curtis Hill, also ! of this city. None of the cars was badly damaged. All occupants escaped injury. _o_ Russian Leader Commits Suicide Moscow, June 22 —(U.R) —Nikolai Vladimirsky, head of the White : Russia railroad, shot and killed himself upon being denounced as a wrecker and a fascist, it was announced today. —o Says Railway Strike Vote May Be Held Indianapolis, June 22 — (UP) — Martin Miller, Indiana representative of the brotherhood of railway trainmen, announced today that a national strike vote of all rail road brotherhoods can be expected soon unless some agreement is reached in negotiations between the rail road brotherhood now in Chicago. o RED MEN WILL PLAN MEETING Local Chapter To Plan Tri-State Meeting Here July 10 The Decatur PocataUgo Tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men ‘ wl'l meet Wednesday night at 7:30 | o’clock in the local Red Men hall. Plans for the tri-state meeting of the order, to be held here on July i 10, will be furthered with Harry ’ Clevenger, great junior sagamore of the state of Ohio attending the ' meeting. As this is one of the last meetings i before the event, all members are ~ urged to attend. Responses have already been received from a number of lodges throughout Indiana, Ohio and Michigan pledging their eupiport to the convention. | Committees, both local and general, are expected to be named at the session tomorrow night. J. M. Breiner, local chairman, will name his committees at that time. Others are expected to be announced ( through the organization officials. Hugh Patterson, Indianapolis, i great prophet of Indiana, is general j chairman for the entire event.

FARLEY DEFENDS HIS ORDERS IN j STRIKE CRISIS Postmaster General Denies Assertions Os Steel Company Washington, June 22 — (U.R) — Postmaster General James A. Farley charged In District of Columbia federal court today that efforts of Republic Steel Corp to mail food and clothing to strikebound workers was u subterfuge Intended to Involve the government in the steel strike. Farley's statement was made in answer to Republic Steel's petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the post office department to accept and deliver mail addressed to workers in strike bound plants of Republic steel. Defending his "full authority” under the constitution and the laws for refusing to accept such mall, Farley said that the packages were not offered "in good faith.” The offer of packages containing food and clothing was not the true and “sole purpose" of Republic Steel’s action, Farley said. “The parcels were not offered in good faith but were offered with the design and ultimate and real purpose of involving the postal authorities and employes in the controversy existing between the Republic Steel and its striking employes," Farley's answer said. Farley denied the assertion in Republic Steel's petition filed last week before Justice James Proctor that the Niles, O„ postmaster told a Republic Steel official that an agreement existed between the post office department and the committee for industrial organization not to deliver mail to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o PAROLE DENIED TO ORAL BRAGG Berne Filling Station Robber Is Denied Leniency Oral Bragg, 21-year old Marion youth, serving the ninth month of a one to 10 year term in the Indiana state prison at Michigan City for grand larceny, was today denied an application for parole by the state clemency commission. Bragg, the son of a former Decatur minister, was sentenced in the Adams circuit court by Judge Huber M- DeVoss on October 10, 1936 for his part in the robbing of two 'Berne filling stations. Charles Carey and Edwin Walker, his two companions, both of Muncie, were given 10-25 years on charges of auto banditry. The former minister in a recent appearance in Decatur stated in an interview that he would appear before the board in behalf of his son. The eider Bragg said his son had been ill since admittance to the prison at Michigan City and that on one occasion fell, striking his head on the iron bars. The resulting injury, he said, caused the young man to be confined in the prison hospital for three weeks. He also said that an old illness of the young man had kept him In the hospital a greater (•CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 0 Weather Fair tonight and Wednesday Slightly warmer Wednesday. ■■■ -o Postpone Regular Prayer Services Rev. H. W. Franklin, dean of the Daily Vacation Bible school, announced today that ths regular Wednesday evening prayer services in the different churches would be postponed this week on account of the Bible school commencement exercises. Pastors of the diferenet churches will cooperate in the exercises and informed Rev. Franklin they would postpone meetings In their churches- Services will not be held at the Methodist Episcopal United Brethren, Presbyterian, Nazareno, and the Zion Reformed churches.

Price Two Cents.

Scheduled Re-Opening Os Youngstown Plants Is Cancelled; Mediation Board Confers. STOP AUTOISTS Youngstown. ().. June 22 (U.R) — National guard troops poured into tile Mahoning Valley steel strike center today to enforce military law and prevent re-opening of struck plants until the federal steel mediation board has a chance to settle the seven-state labor conflict. Called out suddenly late last night by Gov. Martin L. Davey, the militia — 4.800 strong — began arriving in full force shortly before noon after officers and advance detachments had prevented scheduled re-opening of Republic and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., plants at 7 a. tn. Davey mobilized the guardsmen and sent them rumbling across the flood stricken central Ohio roads before dawn todaj in order to avert a threatened clash between re-doubled picket lines and back-to-work marchers. When whistles shrieked the signal for re-opening of the plant gates only a handful of the militia was in the strike zone but the presence of national guard officers and the military rule proclaiinatlon proved effective. Company threats to "open the gates" despite the governor's order failed to materialize. Picket lines, strengthened last night by arrival of hundreds of C. I. O. sympathizers from other Ohio cities and from nearby states — many of them carrying pistols — faded skeleton shifts Peace officers stopped hundreds of invading union autoists in nearby towns and at the city limits and more than 115 were arrested on open charges or because they carried weapons. Seventy-two carloads, however, reached one main gate and 65 "invading" cars were counted st another gate. By daybreak, however, the word had gone out that the re-opening was postponed and that the troops were enroute. It was almost noon, however, before the main national guard I detachments began arriving and I taking over the strike zine into I which Davey ordered them when the federal steel mediation board negotiations at Cleveland failed to reach a quick agreement that would have permitted peaceful reopening of the plants normally employing 32,000 workers. Resume Meeting Cleveland, June 22 — (U.R) —The federal steel mediation board announced resumption of negotiations to end the seven-state steel strike today as military rule was put into effect hi the violencethreatened Youngstown zone. Chairman Charles P. Taft 11. and the three-man board, arranged to confer this morning with C. 1.0. chairman John 1.. Lewis and his aides. Tomorrow. Taft indicated, the ' executives of struck steel companies might return to take part In the so far unsuccessful negotfa (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O BAND CONCERT PROGRAM GIVEN Second Band Concert Os Season Here Wednesday Evening Vacation time necessitated a change in bands at the free public concert, to be given Wednesday night at 8 o'clock on the court house band stand, Albert Sellemeyer, director, a: ounced today. The boys’ band was scheduled to play this week, but because a ' large number of the members are attending camp, the high school 1 band will play. The boys' band ’ will be on the ptogram for next week. 1 The program for the concert is: ' March, “Fort Chester” Huff c March, "Thunder" Sousa ’ Overture, "Cinderella”. Rosenkraus "Stilly Night" Serenade 1 March, “Peerless” Huff I March. “Footllfter" Fillmore I Overture, “Dynamic" Huff March, "Ceerio" Goldman. I Waltz, "Golden Rod" Huff I March Hu® , “Go Ga10p”..... Huff "Star Spangled Banner”Smltn