Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1937 — Page 1

Vol. XXXV. No. 155.

WIDEN SEARCH I FOR FIEND WHO | KILLED THREE Inglewood Citizens In Lynching Mood As Suspects Are Held Inglewood. Cal., July I.—(U.R) —James W. Summitt, 37-year-oid WPA worker who police said is known as "Eddie the Sailor," was arrested today for questioning in the Englewood triple child murder. Inglewood. Calif., July I.— (U.R) — Hunt for the fiend who assaulted unit strangled three little girls in the Baldwin Hills today reached a fury that developed new dues and suspects by the hour. One man, Luther Dow, 33, a transient and alleged ex-convict, was hooked on suspicion of muruer but even as the evidence against him was examined, southern California police and civilians pursued new wMpects against whom the evidence was damaging. More than IVO men had been de-! tallied for questioning and released. They were men who had a record of sex crimes, who rode in .battered old roadsters with box compartments; who had molested children or who corresponded to the polices composite picture of "Eddie the Sailor," the man whom ,tbey are hunting. Inglewood citizens were in a lynch mood. For the third successive night a howling mob surrounded the jail, threatening to slay suspects who were brought in for questioning. Last night there were 1.000 persons about the jail when two act- i ors were taken into custody. The two prisoners had merely wandered off the sidewalk into a vacant s house and the arresting officers iwere about to release them when | 'the mob surged up. i “K»',i them," the leaders cried. ■ Ed Muir, police captain, restrain ed the crowd with difficulty. Guards were posted about the homes of the three victims, Melba and Madeline Everett and Jeanette Stevens, after Olive Everett, I 11, older sister of the two slain girls, reported that a man accosted her yesterday and tried to lure her to Cintinella park. It was from the park that the girls dis appeared last Saturday. if Both children and parents were buffering hallucinations, police ■aid. and some of them were ready |o identity nearly every suspect 1 they were shown. | The Everett girls' funeral was scheduled for today, amid the tension. I Dow had scratches on his arms, back, sides and stomach; he rebembled the police's general description of "Eddie the Sailor,” Jtho loitered around the playground last week, and he carried a girl's 'Bandkercaief and a skate key m <(CONTINUED ON PAGE IHKEEI 0— — Assign Hunter To Lake Co. District r Floyd Hunter, former night police (man here, left this morning for Indianapolis, where he will attend Schooling preparatory to entering the excise department police forceijoffieer Hunter has -been assigned 818 the Lake county district. o WALTER TEETER I PLEADS GUILTY Berne Youth Admits Guilt I When Brought Before Mayor ■ Walter Teeter, 22, living three ■Dies east of Berne, plead guilty to a charge of driving an auto While under the influence of intoxicating liquor, when arraigned before Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse In city court late yesterday. s® Teeter, who first gave his adr4fess as Fort Wayne, stated to the I (hurt that he was living near I now. He was arrested late (Tuesday by State Patrolman Burl .Johnson and Deputy Sheriff Leo Gilllg, when he and Morris Lee mßoweth, 25, Fort Wayne, overturn- j ed in their auto southeast of here. plea was taken under' Apvisement by the court. Sentence , Bill be pronounced Friday afterBoon at 3 o’clock. gHoweth is charged with public intoxication. Injuries he received ■W t ” e Bcci^ent secured for him a JgjDnporary delay in his arraignMj£ nt - He was taken to Fort Sgtyne for treatment. Teeter was - ■feased on his own recognizance. I

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

U.S., ENGLAND PLEDGE AID IN FRENCH CRISIS Nations Pledge Support In Present Monetary Crisis Washington, July 1. (U.R) Sec- ' retary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., announced today at an emergency press conference lhat France, Great Britain and tne United States had reached an agreement permitting continuation of the tripartite monetary agreement despite collapse of the French franc. After four days and nights of almost continuous conference with uiplomatic and financial representatives of the other two parties to the “gentlemens" understanding effecteu last September 25, Morgenthau dispatched a message to; ■ French finance minister Georges Bonnet reassuring him of co-oper- ; ation during the'present fiscal cris- ■ I is. "Now that the French ministry ' ■ of finance has been given the pow- ! ers which it sought to meet the present situation," he said, "1 look forward to a continuation ot close co-operation between our treasur-l lies under the tri-partite declaration. i “May I express to you the sin-'-i cere hope that France will soon; | emerge from the temporary dim-1 culties with which she is now confronted.” wB Arrangements were made oy trans-Atlantic telephone to make public this reassuring message to ■ the French and British people simultaneously with Morgenthau’* I announcement. in effect, the agreement will conI tinufe to operate in full save for I the provision which fixed the parity value ot the franc before its ■ collapse with downfall of the, Blum government and its removal i from a gold peg. The gentlemen's agreement between the three “blue chip finanI cial nations was put into effect at a time when the franc was under-, going one of its many recent crises. ' fl provided for mutual operations lof the stabilization funds of the j three countries to support the franc at the level to which it was (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 WILL SUSPEND MOST BUSINESS City’s Observance Os Fourth To Be Held Monday, July 5 Most business houses and sac-1 tories, the post office and the First State Bank will be closed Monday. July 5, to permit employes to enjoy the official observance of the nations birthday. In conformance to the usual custom there will be no issue ot the Decatur Daily Democrat July 5. I An unusual display of fireworks 'at the Hanna-Nuttman city park, on the evening of July 5, has peen arranged for the public by Adams post number 43 of the American Legion. The display has been changed to the Hanna-Nuttman park this year because of the greater amount | of parking space. Entrance to the park may be! made from the Washington street gate on the north side. At the east of the gate is a field which | will be used for parking. To leave the park, cars are asked to drive through the east or center gate which leads into the Homewoods addition. These displays, because they compare favorably to those in larger cities, and eliminate the necessity of traveling over holiday filled roads, have been increasingly popular here. Many Decatur people are planning to visit friends or relatives out of the city and others to drive to the lake or other summer reI sorts. — o Conservation Club Meeting Postponed The meeting of the Adams county fish and game conservation league, i scheduled tor next Monday night lias been (postponed until Monday, Julv 12, because of the Fourth of 1 July celebration. The meeting on July 12, will be held at the Decatur high school, with both members of the senior and junior divisions ot the league in attendance. A speaker is yet to -be named. Special inus-Ic will be a i feature of the program.

Newlyweds Leave Church After Wedding

KJ f I /. ■ I-I WBBpffwWH till i L WK

7 i The former Ethel Du Pent and President Roosevelt’s son. Franklin D. Roosevelt. J,-., are shown leaving the Christ Church ii Christiana Hundred, Dela., after their wedding.

INDIANA TOWN TO BE REBUILT Leavenworth, Damaged By Flood, If Given WPA Giant Indianapolis, July 1. (UP' President Roosevelt has given ap proval to the workr*progress administration providing for rebuilding Leavenworth, lid., Ohio river town which was practically washed away during the January flood, John K. Jennings, State WPA adj ministrator, announced today. Work will be started immediately upon receipt of tie comptroller i general’s approval, which is ex- ‘ pecttd within the nixt few days, Jennings said. The town will be 1 rebuilt on a 400-foot b juft overlooking the Ohio river three-quarters of a mile west of the present site. The project is believe! to be the first of its kind in tie United States under the WPA progra®. First proposals of the project were refused by Washing uni Vi PA offiI cials but later approved wlen they had been revised and reaulmitted after the town obtained a W.OOO loan from the disaster loan, corporation . Everything, including the ejection of materials to be used, has l been arranged and operations may — (COWTINUWn ON KUIE FOUR) MORLEY TRIAL NEARING END Trial Os Former Colo/ado Governor Likely so End Today f Indianapolis, July I.—(tf.R) —Trial of C. J. Morley, former governor of Colorado, and four other defendants charged with using the mails to defraud is operation of alleged ‘‘bucket siops”, was expected to end today with final arguments by the prosecution and defense. Federal Judgrf Robert C. Baltzell warned thy jury late yesterday to come t<y court this morning prepared to set the case through Morley testified in his defense ■ yesterday and want through a gruelling two! hours of direct and cross examination. His attorney, William J. ijyans of Denver, attempted to slow that the 68yearold fiu'a?\’ei« had no active management in lie C. J. Morley company here aA that he had protested against tie of his name in the company. Elans maintained that Morley resiaed from the company in the fall <■ 1934. On cross® examination. United States DistAt Attorney Vai Bolan brought ou J that Morley actually I (COKTINWD ON PAGE FOUR)

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Temperature Falls To Below 60 Again ________ I i For the second consecutive night, l the temperature dropped below 60 ( degrees, occasioned by the unusual- j ly cool breezes that floated over the I city. Closed doors and windows, extra bed blankets and other wintery-; like items were prevalent last night. , Light topcoats and jackets ateo ! were put into use last night as i downtown visitors sought to protect themselves against the cool, night air. __o RUSSIAN-JAPAN ;; CRISIS FEARED Soviet Gunboats Make Show Os F'orce Following Clash A I li Tokyo, July I.—(U.R)-Five Soviet ,|jlussian gunboats cruised off Senns’ fu Island in the Amur river today - in an apparent naval deinonstrarKion, a Dome! news agency news 1 dispatch from Hsinking reported. •! The dispatch said that the gun- ■. boats’ activity seemed to be a ! show of force, pending the com- - pletion of concentration of Russian > land forces in the area. ' This grave news reached Tokyo as Japan’s war chieftiuns conferred with Prince Konoye, the premier, and Foreign Minister Koki .H(rota, on the crisis that has oc- , curved over an armed clash be- | tween Russian and Japanese-Man- | ■ ehukuai forces on the Amur. | Gen. Hajiml Sugiyanta, war minister. and Vice Admiral Mitsumasa ( (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

President's Son And Bride On Honeymoon; To Visit England

‘ Greenville. Del.. July 1 — t Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Jr.. ■ and his bride, the former Ethel ■ Du Pont, whose wedding proved I that their politically opposed fami-1 lies could be “friendly” enemies, were honeymooning today, deter- - mined tor the time being at least ; to keep their whereabouts a secret i from the nation. ’ Before leaving the gay reception 1 held last night at the Owls Nest 1 estate of the 21-year-old bride’s • parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Di • ' Pont, the newlyweds refused to j • discuss their plans. Mrs. Roose-, ■ velt. blushing prettily when ad ’ dressed by her new name, referred all questions concerning theh ■ honeymoon destination to her hits- : band, and he—the 23-year-old third son of President and Mrs. Roosevelt—had “nothing to say about I that.” 1 The wedding, solemnized in ' candle-lit Christ Church at Christiana Hundred whiile a thunder-

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 1, 1937. 3*• ®

RED MEN NAME COMMITTEES Committees Are Listed For Tri-State Meeting Here July 10 ’ Committees, who will be in charge of the eemi-annual convention of the improved Order of Red Men to be held here Saturday, July 10, were I announced today. • The committees were chosen last | night at the regular meeting of the Decatur order by the local chairman of the convention, J- M. Breiner. A. N. Hilton and Otto Huffman ■will head the program committee. Jacob Musser, Chris Spangler, Wai j ter Lister, form the finance commit- i i tee. iB. F. Breiner, Charles Cook and ; Carl Hower were named to the wigwam committee. Al! members of the order here have been named to the reception committee. The registration committee will be composed of Orland Brown, | James Brown and Dan Gould. This I committee will be stationed at the Rice hotel at 11 o'clock on the morn-. ing of the convention ana handle I the registration of all delegates. Harry S. Clevenger, Ohio state' ( junior sagamore, from Antwerp,! i Ohio, was present at last night's; session and made final plans for the opening ceremony of the conve (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, somewhat warmer Friday and in Central and north | portions tonight.

storm gathered and broke outside ' brought together the nation’s first ‘ political family, flanked by scores of relatives and new deal chtefi tains, and its ranking industrial clan, anti-new deal to the core. All political differences, however, were forgotten during the austerely beautiful protestant episcopal single-ring ceremony in the flower-banked little church which has been the scene of Du Pont weddings and christenings for 78 years. I The rites were conducted in part i ! by the Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, i ' 80-year-old headmaster of Groton ’ school, Groton, Mass., who 32 ' , years ago presided at a similar j ceremony for the bridegroom’s parents. Yesterday’s vows, however, although “for better, for worse; tor richer, for poorer,” did not contain the word "obey.” Nor did the bride, whose family is consider (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Townsend 9 s Conference With Company And Union Leaders Ends Inland Company Strike

Gov. Townsend’s Ability Hailed As He Settles Steel Strike Without Any Violence. FIRST GOVERNOR Indianapolis. Ind., July I—(UP)1 —(UP) —Gov. M. Clifford Townsend took on new stature today as the only governor in seven states to end without violence a hitter steel strike involving 22,000 men. This was accomplished without sending the national guard to the County steel area, which has a precedent for bloody steel rioting dating back to the 1919 steel strike when Federal troops campea at 1 the East Chicago and Gary mills to I suppress outbreaks. Townsend is known to be a firm friend of organized labor, (particularly when an analysis of last fall's election returns revealed that votes' In Industrial districts put him in office. But the strike negotiations with officials of the* Inland Steel company prove that Townsend also is no foe of big business and is an able negotiator in his drawling Hoosier fashion, capable of dealing with industrialists in the same i understanding manner with which j he has made a friend of labor. The governor insisted that the | last legislature create the new state department of labor which started functioning only in April. At the 1 time the move was condemned as a political lure to organized labor, that it would oppress business and that it was another vast governmental “snoop.” But under the able administration of Townsend and his labor com- | missioner, calm, blue-eyed, grayhaired Thomas Hutson, this department amply has proved -Its worthTen days ago Townsend and HutI son were able to announce that the only strike in Indiana which remainefi unsettled was the steel ' strike. Today they can look at their books and find them virtually (clean. The means by which the Inland I (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) O DEATH CLAIMS MRS. SANDERS Mrs. William Sanders Dies This Morning At Home Near Monroe Mrs. Ida M. Sanders, 51, died at | her home three miles west of Monroe this morning, after suffering approximately two years from comi plications of ailments. She had been seriously ill for the last six months. Mrs. Sanders wHs the wife of ' William A. Sanders, who survives. She was born in Tipton county, ' May 12, 1886, and spent her entire life in Tipton county and Elwood until coming to Adams counj ty five years ago. She is survived by two sons, Donald, of Elwood, and Kenneth, at home. There are four brothers, Andrew Paxton, of Hemlock; Charles Paxton, of Indianapolis; Milton Paxton, of Elwood, and Paul Paxton, of McCordsville, and two sisters, Mrs. Minnie McCreary, and Mrs. Ethel Gordon, both of Elwood. There are two grandchildren. She was a member of the Christian church of Elwood. Short funeral services will be ' held at the home Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock, with the Rev. E. S. Morford, pustor ot the Monroe M. E. church, officiating. The body will then be removed to the home of the son Donald, in Elwood, where services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O Board Os Review To Finish Work Saturday With Saturday. July 3, the final day allowed , members of the Adame county board of review are rapidly nearing the completion of their work. All records of assessments and mortgage exemptions have been checked and assessment complaints heard. Last minute details are now being completed by the board. Accurate figures on the assessment values in the county cannot be tabulated for several days, Ernest Worthman, hoard chairman, stated today.

POLICE OFFICER DEFENDS ACTION IN FATAL RIOTS Chicago Sergeant Denies' Accusations From Union Leaders Washington, July 1 (U.R) Police Sergeant lAiwrence J. Lyons of Chicago charged before j the LaFollette civil liberties com I inittee today that many partiei- | pants in the fatal Memorial Day steel outbreak were foreigners who lacked “traditional respect for the American flag." Spectators at the committee ini quiry into the outbreak which cost | the lives of 10 persons booed Lyons' statement, drawing a rebuke to the audience from Chairman Robert M. LaFollette. Jr.. P., Wis., against "unseemly demonstrations." Lyons, one of the commanders of a police force of 300 men which participated in the outbreak at the South Chicago plant of the Republic Steel Corp., declared that: “A great many people in this crowd were foreigners and don’t ■ have the same traditional respect for the American flag that I do." , Asked about clubs carried by I police in the demonstration, Lyons • said officers were armed with standard city equipment. Shown pictures which LaFollette . contended exhibited officers arm- . ed with clubs which differed from . standard equipment. Lyons suggested that the pictures were "distorted by the sun’s reflection" , in one instance. Os another picture lie said that "that thing which I looks like a club probably was a . crease in the man’s pants.” “The police picked up a lot of different clubs which the rioters dropped on the field.” Lyons said. He testified that his men all were armed only with regulation nightsticks and service pistols. "I’m standing up for the police department," Lyons said heatedly when Sen. Elbert D. Thomas. D., Utah, kept hammering questions 1 at him. “My father was a police- ) man, my brother was a policeman and I married a policeman's wife.” rend an affidavit hy i Lyons in which the sergeant said that a group of the marchers broke away from the main line in “military formation." LaFollette called attention to a • picture showing the marchers ■ milling around in disorder. I “What army have you ever seen ■ in your long experience as a naval I man aud policeman that looked : like that, Sergeant?” asked. I “The Mexican army.” Lyons retorted. Lyons said he had been “hit in (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o W. LOWE BRYAN QUITS INDIANA Dr. Bryan Ends 35 Years As President Os Indiana U. Bloomington, Ind., July I—(U.R)1 —(U.R) —Dr. William Lowe Bryan ended ' his 35 years as president of the University of Indiana today and turned his office over to his sue- \ ceeeor, Herman B. Wells, dean of the school of business administra ' tion, who will act as president ’ until a permanent selection is ’ made. . In relinquishing his office Dr. Bryan said: "Indiana University has been made what it is by the devoted cooperation of many thousands of persons, beginning with those who founded the school more than 100 I years ago. The men and women of my generation have done their i part. I am grateful beyond words ' for all they have done for the . university and for me. I gladly resign the responsibilities of office to a man who is an unexcelled executive and a right-hearted man •—the acting president, Herman B. Wells.” Dr. Bryan asked the university trustees last January to select a successor to him and later asked (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

Price Two Cents.

! Steel Employes Return To Work At East Chicago After Conference Is Held With Townsend j FIRST SETTLED j Warren, 0./—July I—(UP) —Gus Hall, CIO organizer, sought here on a charge that he was head of a gang that set off explosions on and near the property of Republic Steel corp., surrendered today to chief of police M. J. Gillen. The technical charge against Hall is “Illegal posaesqion of explosives.” East Chicago, Ind., July 1 (U.R) —Steel began rolling again today in the huge Indiana Harbor mills of the Inland Steel company while Indiana officials sought to extend the first “settlement” of the sevenstate steel strike to the Youngstown Sheet & Tube company. The month-old deadlock between Inland and John L. Lewis' steel workers' organizing committee was broken at midnight in the office of Gov. M. Clifford Townsend at Indianapolis when representatives of the company and the S. W. O. C. signed a “memorandum of agreement” with the state labor department. Seven hours later approximately 4000 men —weary from a night of celebration rivaling the hilarity of the armistice day which ended the world war —filed into the inland plant. Hearths which had been cold for a month turned red. stnoke belched thickly from the long rows of smokestacks and smiling men again hurled steep through the rolling mills. By Monday company officials believed all 13,000 men would be back at work. An additional 7000 remained out at the Youngstown plant, nearby, which was picketed by 2500 men and women. The memorandum covered all differences between the company and the union except the issue on which the strike was called (lie S. W. O. C.’s demand for a written contract. That was left to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE three) —■■ - O MRS. 0. YODER DIES SUDDENLY French Township Woman Suffers Apoplectic Stroke Today Mrs. David Yoder, 65, died suddenly this morning at 10:30 o’clock at her home in French township. Death resulted from a stroke of apoplexy sustained while she was doing her housework. The deceased was horn in Wabash township. June 15, 18’2, the daughter of Chris and Marion Moser-Lugenbill. She was married to David Yoder February 27, 1907. Surviving are two children: Ervin, at Fort Wayne and Goldie, at home. The following brothers and sisters also survive: Mrs. Sol Stucky. Geneva; Mrs. Sol Klopfenstein, Grabill; David Lugenhill, Wells county; Mrs. Noah Ellenberger, Berne; Mrs. Rufus Schindler, Geneva; Henry, French township; Joseph, Bluffton; Mrs. Christina Southwood, Marion. The deceased was a member of the Defenseless Mennonite church in Berne. Funeral services had not been made at a late hour today. 0 ByFair Committees To Meet This Evening The executive committee and finance committee of the Decatur Free Street Fair will meet at the Adams county auto license bureau this evening at 8 o'clock. All committeemen are urged to be present as important business will be transacted. —„o —— Amelia Postpones Departure Today Lae, New Guinea, July I—(UP)—1 —(UP)— Amelia Earhart postponed her departure for Howland Island today because a line breakdown at the Halabar radio station made it impossible to obtain time signals to set the chronometer on her planeThe 2,550 mile hop over the pacific to the tiny island will be made tomorrow if conditions permit. It is considered most dangerous lap ot her around the world flight.