Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1937 — Page 1

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QLIDAYWILL * Ji BE OBSERVED < IN THIS CITY; E*Oe* ■ ily Official Observance )t Fourth To Be Fire- ‘ woks Monday < ’he noise of wecrackers and ; riad lights cWnight fireworks , I officially proclaim Decatur aud i county's part in the nation te celebration of the Fourth of j Sunday and Monday. c no official celebration is t lined for the city, private pai | UCr and the Legion fireworks dis , Rky at Hanna-Nuttman pai\c will c Decatur’s participation fi the 161st anniversary of the Aning of the Declaration of Ind, I W]idence. I Mfeome residents will take advanof the two-day holiday afford || and leave the city for trips io 'lies, Camps and Summer resist |*n Decatur the only celebration I Sunday, the Fourth, will be the Jiai number of fireworks dis girged during the day and night. Jtn Monday, however, the legal i A' rervance of the holiday. Adams r* st No. 43, American Legion will msor the pyrotechnic display at inna-Nuttman park. The fire>rks will start Monday night at “.S. o'clock. •MMenrbers of the post and the ( ““inmlttee, headed by James K. ( smiley, expect to handle one of the , ■E-gest crowds ever to assemble f • the annual celebration. Open . | »>use will be observed at the Le-! ( m home on Madison street foll?h. ’jug the tireworks. I No parking will be allowed at ( e purk site entrance on Wash- i street from the woods to ( e creek bridge. All cats are to Tive into the large parking space p • forded. Legionnaires and special , ■ illce will patrol the roads. Stores To Close It-Stores lu the city will remain osed on Monday in observance ( the event. The post office, the irary, and the bank will also be osed during the day. in accord SiSce with annual custom, the Daily emocrat will not publish on Monty. -■ Confectioneries, beer parlors, ‘staurants, theatres and a few hers will be the only business -ms to remain open. Gives Second Appeal Chief of Police Sephus Melchi ■day issued a second warning and | iipeal to celebrants in the handng of fireworks. Chief Melchi urg--1 all parents to cooperate by keeie ■g small chikdren from personal- • handling the explosives. Retailers handling the fireworks >day reported an unusually heavy usiness, with the noise aud collision of banging firecrackers exerted to reach its height over the -eek end. —o Jryce Thomas To ! Attend Ft. Knox Bryce Thomas, principal of the entrai grade school, and an exeutive officer in the second battal-; on of the 325 fiield artillery, of he U. S. army will leave Sunday or Ft. Knox, Ky.. where he will >e one of 23 reserve officers in the it 'ort Wayne military sector who fill take active part for 14 days in Ihe 84th division command post xercises. Military problems will be worked mt by the officers, who will plan ■n imaginary battle in defense of he United States. Other reserve officers from Deatur will leave at a later date for . period of training at the camp TEETER GIVEN JAIL SENTENCE Drunken Driver Fined, Sentenced In Decatur City Court Walter, Teeter, 22, of east of Jern* was tlned $25 and costs and lentenced to 10 days in the Ad i.n« county jail late Friday, when irraigned before Mayor Arthur R. Uoltfaouse in city court. Teeter had previously plead guilty to a charge of driving while injoxicated and his case taken under advisement by the court. His driver's licsjtse was also revoked for a perlodtof 90 days. 11 Teeter’s arrest came earlier in >he week when he and a Fort Wayne Iccmpanion, Morris Lee Howeth, I figured in an auto accident, while allegedly under the inAlienee of intoxicating liquor. .-1 Howeth, hurt in the accident, "as allowed to go to his Fort Wayne home for treatment, and will be nrraigjed later on a charg? of pub-

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I Boys Asked Not To Shoot Firecrackers Near Churches Although tne city does not have ‘ un ordinance prohibiting the lit Ing of firecrackers on Sunday, it | is against the law to disturb the peace on the SRbbatb. An appeal was made today by > police and city officials, at the re- I quest of pastors of tile various churches to the boys and young men not to shoot firecrackers on Sunday, especially duiing the morning when services are being held in the churches. A committee of ministers asked Mayor Holthouse to make a request of the celebrants not to shoot firecrackers Sunday morning. The Fourth of July will be celebrated on Monday, since the holiday falls on Sunday. CIO ATTEMPTS TO HALT BACK TO WORK PLANS Mass Meetings Called Sunday In Effort To Prevent Work Youngstown, 0., July 3 —(U.R) — i The committee for industrial , organization shifted commanders in America's “Little Ruhr” today ' as the steel strike went into its sixth week with the inion attempt ing to stem the “back towork'’ ' movement. John Owens, strike commander in the Mahoning Valley, announced that John Mayo of Youngstown would replace John Stevenson as director of union activities in the Youngstown Sheet & Tube com , pany mills here. At the same time he said James O'Hara of Pitts ' burgh would supersede Robert j Burke as union organizer among ! Republic Steel Corporation's em- i ployes here. Owens explained that Harry Wines and John Gracjier had taken over the duties of Gus Hall. I held at Warren, O , in $50,000 bail on charges that he headed a ring I of terrorists thatattempted to] damage property of Republic Steel , Corporation. Owens declined to comment on the reason for the changes, but : said he took complete responsibility for them and bad not acted 'at the suggestion of any other jCIO official. With Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube claiming they were approaching normal producI tlon throughout the Mahoning Valley, Owens announced three union mass meetings for Sunday in an attempt to rally CTO forces to continue the strike. He will address a meeting at Canton at | 5 p. tn.; Clinton S. Golden, regionlal director of the Steel Workers' I Organizing Committee at Pittsburgh. will speak at a rally here ,at 3 p. tn.; and Philip Murray. I chairman of the Steel Workers' Organizing committee, will address an afternoon meeting at ' Johnstown, Pa„ where the strike continues against Bethlehem Steel Corporation’s Cambria plant. Republic opened two mills at Massillon, 0., under the protection of national guardsmen, and almost 400 men entered the plant where normally 4.000 are employed. Joseph Morton, union leader, watched the shifts change and said “there. may be trouble later.” However, there was no immediate threat of J violence in Massillon, a strong i CIO town. Inland Steel company, only one of the four independent concerns to resume operation under an | agreement, direct or Indirect, with the union, pressed toward normal production in the Chicago area, i The company was operating under | a “memorandum of agreement" which it signed with the Indiana i labor commission, thereby avoiding a direct contract with the CIO. Any chance that Youngstown I Sheet & Tube — which operates (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O Board Os Review Completes Work The Adams county board of review today closed a 30-day session in the county assessors room of the courthouse. The board checked all assessing records made by township assessors during the session. Mortgage exemptions were also checked. The board heard complaints of citizens on assessment valuations. A report of the board is to be made Tuesday on the assessment valuations in the county. The members of the board are: Ervin Farlow, Geneva: Frank Heimann, Washington township; Ernest Worthman, county assessor; Jeff Liechty, county treasurer and John J |W. Tyndall, county auditor.

President Extends Congratulations to Canada

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Extending a radio greeting to Canada on the : seventieth anniversary of its confederation. PresiI dent Roosevelt, speaking from the study of his Hyde Park. N. Y., home witli his mother present,

STATE BOARDS APE ANNOUNCED Gary Doctor Succeeds .Mrs. J. A. Lons On One Board | Indianapolis, July 3 Twenty ! chang-s in the boards of trustees l of the seventeen state’s penal and I benevolent institutions were made ; Friday by Gov. M. Clifford TownI send. Boards of three institutions—the ' Central State hospital at Indlanap- , oils, Evansville State Itospilal and 1 Soldiers Home at Lafayette—were I left intact. A board yet to be j named for the Muscatatuck colony at Butlerville, which was sepaial- - from the Fort Wayne school I tor feeble minded control by- an | act of the last legislature. The appointments and re-ap- | polntments include: Michigan City State Prison — Frank T. Flynn of South Bend to ■ succeed Jess C. Andrew of West Point: re-anpolnted—Leo T. Mulva of Whiting: E. M. Carver of Michigan City; and J. T. Arbuckle of Rushville. Pendleton Reformatory — Jack ; Clark of Marlon to succeed Wil-1 | liam O. Nelson of Anderson; re-1 appointed—Frank Hanley of Muncie, Jesse Yost of Winchester and ■ Albert E. Schumacher of Colum- ’ bus. Putnamville State Farm—Willis | Himelick of Summittville. Lee Bryi an of Fillmore, and John McFaddin of Rockville, to succeed John G. Klingler of Brazil. Peter Schlot of Linton and William B. Peck of Greencastle; re-appointed—A. E. I Kress of Terre Haute Indianapolis School for Blind and Industrial Aid Orville Meredith of Marion, to succeed Mrs. A. I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT DIES Ed Parent Dies Early This Morning At Roediger Lake Ed Parent. 57, a native of Adams county and former resident I of this community, died at Roedlger lake this morning, according to word received here. He had not been in ill health and the cause of death was not stated. Mr. Parent was born three miles southeast of Decatur on the old Parent farm on which is now state f road 527. Before leaving Decatur 17 or 18 years ago he was employed by the city. His home since has been in Fort Wayne, where he has been employed by the General Electric company. There are two brothers living in this city, Roman and William. Other brothers and sisters are: Bernard, of Fort Wayne; Miss Vena Parent, of Fort Wayne; Omer, of Clair, Michigan, and Mrs. Joe Rahrig, of Fostoria, Ohio. He Is also survived by the widow and three children, Joe, Paul and Helen. No funeral arrangements have I been made.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Welcome Bakery Being Remodeled The Welcome Bakery, formerly Miller’s, is undergoing a complete remodeling under the managership ot Gale Redd. The front display room has been remodeled, the walls and ceiling repainted, floors recovered and the dieplay cases redecorated. New office facilities have also been made in the front room. The bakery has been cleaned and redecorated and al! equipment overhauled and cleaned. SAFETY ROLES FOR HOLIDAYS State Medical Association Urges Safety Over Fourth Indianapolis. July 3 — "If you consider yourself up-to-date and thoroughly modern, go in for a safe and sane July Fourth this year and forget about the old-fash-ioned risk-running, take-a-chance ■ celebration that used to fill the ■ morning-after papers with pathetI ic tales ot needless tragedies." In advocating a safe Fourth, the bureau of publicity of the Indiana state medical association makes the following suggestions: 1. Leave thrilling and dangerous performances to those especially trained in fireworks exhibition work. 2. See that every wound receives prompt attention and thorough treatment. Injuries from explosives, no matter how slight, favor the I development of lockjaw. Tetanus 1 germs do not like clean, sharp cuts which bleed. They favor deep, airless wounds in bruised tissue—just the kind created by injuries from I explosives. I 3. If given at once following the ; injury, tetanus antitoxin effectlveI ly prevents the development of lockjaw. 4. "Nigger chasers,’ “spit devils," and si m liar fireworks contain pho f horus and are deadly poisonous. Do not let small children try to eat them. 5. Do not dress your children in fluffy, light material which will easily catch fire. Even ordinary harmless sparklers have set fire to light muslin dresses. 6. Every swimmer should know when to swim. He should not enter the water when overly tired or overheated, nor within two hours after eating. 7. Motorists who are planning jaunts into th© country should try to get an earlier start than usual. At the same time, they should remember to start home before they 1 are too tired. 8. Drive your automobile carefully for a smash-up never adds anything to the joy of an outing. 9. If everyone exercises just a bit more caution the high July Fourth accident rate will be cut down. o WEATHER Increasing cloudiness; somewhat warmer east and west central portions, possibly thundershowers extreme west late tonight; Sunday scattered thundershowers, Monday thundershows, somewhat cooler central and north.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 3, 1937.

extolled the friendship between United States and Canada and the common aim of the two nations to perpetuate democracy and further international goodwill.

RUSSIA YIELDS TO JAP THREAT Agrees To Withdraw Troops From Disputed Island Groups Moscow. July 3. — (U.R) — Soviet Russia has yielded to a threat of I imperial Japanese military pressure and agreed to withdraw its armed forces from disputed island groups in the channel of the Amur river which forms part of the boundary between the far eastern territory of the U. S. S. A. and tbe| Japan-sponsored state of Manehu- ' kuo. Announcement of the settlement. which was believed to have ! 1 averted the most serioqs threat of I a new Russo-Japanese war in more than 30 years, was made by Jap anese Ambassador Marnour Shigemitsu at 8:30 p. m. after a new conference with Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov which lasted ’ half an hour. i The Soviet government has , 1 agreed immediately to withdraw patrols or troops from the disputed Islands — The Bolshoi and I Sennufu groups—and to remove its [ gunboats from their vicinity, Shig- ' emitsu said. ’ 1 Thus, the ambassador added. LitI vinov has accepted his demand 1 that the status of the islands r ! which prevailed previous to the ( Russo-Japanese battle earlier this week be re-established. The ambassador believed that 1 the entire incident may be consid- , ered settled “provided the Soviet government carries out its prom- ( ise—about the fulfillment of which ! I have no doubt." Shigemitsu protested on behalf .of Japan, which supervises the I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) j o PESTS DAMAGE WINTER WHEAT Grasshoppers Threaten Winter Wheat In Midwestern States ) Chicago, July 3. —(U.R) —Grasshop- ■ ners today formed the next serious . threat to the American winter II wheat crop, already cut down 7,- , 000,000 bushels in the last 30 days by rust infection, dust storms, too much rain and broiling sun. • In the last 60 days 10,000,000 bushels have been lost. Five Chicago crop analysts issued final estimates on the 1937 winter and spring wheat crops for the United States and the composite winter wheat estimate placed the probable yield at 642,000,000 bushels, a drop of 7,000,000 since the June 1 estimate of these same five men and the government, which placed the crop at 649,000,000 bushels. The spring wheat estimate was 229,000,000 bushels, unchanged from June 1. On May 1 the estimate for the crop was around 652,000,000 acres. As the crop report was released, from Washington came word that government agricultural officials have reported heavy grasshopper (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 1

Amelia Earhart Forced Down In Pacific; Vast Search Os Ocean By Ship And Planes

SWIMMING POOL OPEN HOLIDAYS '■■■ll Regular Sunday Schedule To Be Observed Sunday And Monday For I lie convenience and enjoyment of local residents who will not leave the city over the Fourth, the city bathing pool will i be available for swimming to all ; persons. Marion Feasel. instructor in charge, announced today that Sun--1 day hours will be observed on ■ both Sunday and Monday to per- | mit all persons to enjoy a swim Dispensing with the regular boys' ■ day hours, the pool will be open to I everyone on Monday afternoon I from 2 until 5 o’clock. The same ' hours will be in effect Sunday. It is planned to drain and clean I the pool the latter part of next week to insure swimmers of clean, cool water at all times. The pool will undergo a thorough cleaning while it is drained. It will be re- : filled with fresh city water. Plan Life-Saving Course Both Mr. Feasel and Miss Glennys Elzey, girls' swimming in- ! structor. are planning to open a I life saving course at the pool with the advent of warmer weather. Both hold certificates in junior | and senior life-saving. Final ex- : aminations must be had from an i examiner at Fort Wayne or one of the many lakes in Indiana, howj ever. The pupils will receive their instructions here. Boys over 12 years of age are asked to meet at the pool Wed- | nesday afternoon at 3 o'clock to 1 register for the course. CONSTRUCTION INCREASE SEEN Applications With FHA Show Increased Construction Indianapolis, July 3. —An increase lof approximately 244 percent in applications through the federal ■ housing administration for new i construction for the first six months of 1937 over the last six months of 1935 reflects the rehabilitation of the building and allied industries in Indiana. R. Earl Peters. Indiana federal housing administration director announced today. Applications for new home construction to the federal housing administration office, for the last six months of 1935 totalled $824,373. For the first six months of 1936 the total was $1,037,060, an increase of $212,687 for the period. The total for the last six months of 1936 was $2,377,675, an increase of $1,340,515 over the proceeding j six months, while the first six I months of 1937 reached a new 5 high of $2,839,980, an increase of $462,305 over the last six months of 1936. The increase for the first i six months of 1937 as against the first six months of 1936 totalled therefore, $1,802,920. Total applications for insured mortgage loans under the FHA amortized payment plan for both new and existing construction totalled $28,405,994 as of June 30, 1937 an dos this amount the total for new construction of homes was $7,079,088. The month of June just passed broke all records for months on new construction with total applications of $724,500. The next highest month was in April this year with $653,100, the highest month in 1936 being October, for a total of $643,300. The steady trend toward increased new construction of homes in Indiana is reflected in the figures for each month of 1937 as follow-s: January, $214,900; February, $244,500; March. $409,880; April, $653,100; May, $593,100 and June. $724,500. o Frank Day Named Jackson Principal Frank E Day, former Wells county school superintendent, has been named principal of the Jackson township. Wells county school. Trustee Lee Morrison of that township announced today. Day recently j ended hfo second four-year term as (county school superintendent.

ENGLISH FLEET REINFORCEDIN MEDITERRANEAN Hope Is Dying For Preservation Os Neutrality In Spain London, July 3. — (U.R) —Great Britain began reinforcing her . Mediterranean fleet today as hope | died for preservation of neutrality I in the Spanish civil war. Three crack battleships, all re-, constructed to withstand fire of I late model airplane bombs, and | with anti-aircraft batteries doubl-' ed. received orders to join the fleet in what is now-the world's most dangerous sea. The Royal Oak, on a paradecruise of seaside resorts —part of the admiralty's policy of showing the fleet to the people—received I orders to cancel its schedule and ■ proceed at once for the Mediterranean. it sailed direct from I Liverpool. The Malaya quietly left the home fleet to go to tne Mediterranean. The Warspite received overs to leave as tests were finished on its new engines and anti-aircraft guns, and was due to join the I Mediterranean fleet within two weeks. it is asserted in many quarters that the Malaya and Warspite, their reconstruction just completed at a cost of $15,000,000, are the "hardest hitting, best protected" warships in the world. News from all capitals was grave. Paris reported a Spanish loyalist charge, transmitted by the Agence Espagne that Italy was speeding war planes to nationalist Spain. Berlin, through its official DNB agency, alleged in a dispatch dated from the French-Spanish border that basque loyalists on the Bilbao-Santander front were using gas shells. Valencia, the loyalist capital, denying this, charged that the allegation was the foundation for the "use of poison gas by the foreigners who have invaded our Fatherland and by tho wretches! I who wish to hand Spain over to | them." Rome reported that Italians were astonished by the sudden' hardening of Jlritish-French policy and were preparing to meet what they felt would be the gravest crisis since the World War. There were indications here that there was real ground for the Italian astonishment. Britain had considered granting the nationalists belligerent rights, which would have permitted them — with any aid they could get—to blockade the coasts of Spain with the sanction .of international law. On Thursday this attitude changed suddenly and drastically. Britain and France agreed to reject all Italian-German demands and to permit the collapse of the entire non-intervention plan is necessary. This change of attitude was first disclosed through inspired statements to newspapers, and was (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) j O — Drinking Fountain Is Damaged Friday Night Police here are investigating the malicious destruction of the drinking fountain installed last year by the city and county on the court house square. The cup on the fountain was blown off by a firecracker Friday night- Police announced today that prosecution will follow. o - — Marriage Licenses Arc Issued Today The fact that tomorrow is Independence Day evidently meant little to five men in losing their rights of bachlorhood. The five, with their brides-to-be, appeared at the county clerk’s office this morning in quest of marriage licenses. Combined Band To Practice Tuesday The combined Decatur boys’ and girls’ band will practice Tuesday j night at 7 o'clock at the high school , auditorium. The practice Monday night has been cancelled because of the fire works demonstration at Hanna-Nuttman city park.

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Noted Aviatrix Forced To Land In Pacific As Gasoline Supply Is Exhausted. SENDS SOS Howland Island, Oceania. July 3— (UP)— Distress calle from Amelia Earhart’s iplane today sent shipe and planes into a vast search of the middle o fthe Pacific ocean. A powerful amateur radio station at Los Angeles reported that it was i picking up continual calls for help on Miss Earhart's frequency and [ they were “growing weaker and I weaker ” Miss Earhart was forced down j with her navigator, Fred Noonan, i and her SBO,O<M) “flying laboratory" on the most dangerous stretch of their flight around the world. A report, broadcast by radio station KGU at Honolulu early today, that a British freighter had rescued the fliers, was not confirmed. The British warship Achilles had broadj east a few minutes earlier, that it | Intercepted two SOS calls from Miss Earhart. KGU was in contact with the U. S. S. iltasca, which put out from Howland Island last night to search for the plane. The Achilles’ report was intercepted by coast guard headquarters both in Honolulu and San Francisco. It said the iplane’s signals were strong, but there were no details and no indications as to the plane’s location. The call was made twice and then the sender went off the air, the Achilles reported. None of the messages gave an sstimated location ci the plane, but by best calculations, its fuel supply would have been exhausted at 7 p. m. PST (9 P M. ( ST) Friday. It was believed that the plane would be floating, possibly within 100 miles of this tiny dot of an island that offered the only haven for landing. Wa'ter McMenamy and Karl Pierson, who operate ths Los Angeles amateur station, said they picked up the calls until 1:30 A. M. PST (3:30 A. M. CST.) and then they died out. "It sounds as though their batteries went dead,’’ McMenamy sai l. “The calls just came ‘SOS, SOS. i SOS,' and then the call letters KHA;QQ over Miss Earhart's frequency. Nothing else. No latitude or longii tude are given.” KHAQQ are the ' plane’s call letters. Earlier, Pierson said the signal sounded as though the transmitter “had water in it." Navy and army headquarters at (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O FIELD AGENT TO BE HERE Gross Income Tax Agent To Be At License Bureau Three Days Harry R. Hart, field agent for the state gross income tax division, will be in Decatur Wednesday. July 7, Tuesday, July 13 and Thursday morning July 15. to assist taxpayers in preparing gross income tax returns which are due by July 15, it was announced today by Dee Fryback, manager of the local automobile license branch. Mr. Hart will be stationed at the license branch office, Madison St. It was urged particularly that taxpayers affected by recent amendments to the gross income tax law but who are not certain concerning the new requirements, take advantage of the field agent’s assistance. Principal groups affected by the amendments, according to the license branch manager, are: (1) Retail merchants, wBo are new entitled to deduct $750 from receipts from selling at retail for the second quarter of 1937, as compared with the $250 exemption permitted for previous quarters. (2TTartnerships, which now file a distinct return accompanied by tax payments instead of an information return. (3) Non-profit organizations, such as clubs and lodges, operating bars or restaurants, renting rooms or business properties, or otherwise engaging in business acj tivities. Such non-profit organizations now are taxable on receipts (from business activities.