Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1937 — Page 1

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BENATOR JOE ROBINSON DIES

jussian Aviators ■ Shaffer Records; I Reach California

Soviet Aviators AII Kc ‘ onls ■onipletion Today Ol Hong Flight. ■ 6.668 MILES Jaciato. 4'alif . J'lly U W T h iw y but happy K aruiors shall- 1-1 al 1-fbx-hr rds today H. ,1 ill cow pasture ■ hamlet after I ilirlii ovr the North Hfrotn Moscow. ■ alm look off Sunday ■y.,.. p nl il'STi and dropjied ■ nubs fiom her.- about lil’STi Imlay, revealed ■ Ih .v actually were as far K a j Sail Diego hut were K back north by fog. examination of their ■ lb.- flieis found that they sa-olim-. d--spite their ■ (0r.,;! diem down. The gas ■ >;r d nt.>l "hen it struck a H ■ me 1.- inolor. d HuBM-i.ue >. to a bumpy landing ■ exploit tile Russians H, ill. uul Id s non-stop flight Kj s,-t by iwo Frenchmen. H ('..iiib.s and Maurice Rossi, K i',,dos Rossi bop was H m.les from New York to K. arm.-ii. Michael tiroH Andrei H Yumashev and Ki Danilin, all are veteran Kt fliers. Kilin; wanly, the begrimed Mi tried to explain to villagers Mai; Jacinto and United States Men who arrived from March Mi, 15 miles away, the details Meir last hours in the air. Mabie to make themselves Mst.aid except to a Russian of ■ Jacinto, who had forgotten ■ONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE! ■ 0 MMN PLANT SCENE OF BIOT «en Workers Injured In Riot At Morgan Packing Plant ■•tin. Ind.. July 14. — (U.R) — d’e pickets were held under M bond today charged with fcipating in a riot at the gates In* strike bound Morgan Packtwnpany plant here. dozen workers were injured. * seriously, in the fight which is out when shifts were chang ( it the plant yesterday. For a noments the air was filled rocks, clubs and fists were j *5 ns nonstrikers attempted 188 through the picket lines, •ratal operations have been st the plant, which employs ' Persons, by a strike of the teamsters and chauffeurs r' n Protests against the presWf rate of 2 n 4 cents a mile rwkers. The rate, union ofli- • charge, is in violation of a ' signed at the termination I strike last June. union drivers also reportedrefused to ride with nonw men. c Morgan, president of the «uy. announced he would ask protection for non-union as result of the riots. II the plant would remain |)( ' n( '>ttg a settlement of the ■isrdays clash followed an-1 Monday night in which five' L, ■* Hre ’ n -i ure, i- The dozen r —involved in the melee surphNUEn on page four) lr Committees To Meet Thursday Night directors of ‘he l of aii ' omnierc e and chairstar p? Co! btnitiees for the hral X ee Street Palr and agriDllee.J’T W "’ moel at ,he fat s J”J reau Thursday evehrrn , °® lock - AH members to be present.

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: SIXTY PLANES 1 FAIL TO FINO MISSING PAIR — Search For Amelia Earhart To Be 'Resumed, > Weather Permitting i Honolulu. July 14— (U.R) —The ’ great aerial search of the Pacific I ocean for trace of Miss Amelia t Earhart and Fred J. Noonan, her I navigator, will be resumed today • if weather conditions permit. The i search yesterday by 60 planes from the carrier Lexington was • cut short by rain squalls. Hope the search would prove - , fruitful was at the vanishing point ■ but the navy fliers, under orders i of Admiral Orin G. Marfin, in i charge of the hunt, will scan ap- | proximately 360,000 square miles before they give up. Miss Earhart was forced down July 2. on i a 2.500 mile flight from Lae. New Guinea, to Howland Island. , Sixty of the la-xington’s 62 , planes joined in the search yester i day forenoon after poor visibility i had held the pilots on dec:, through th.* early daylight hours . By noon they had covered 21.000 I square miles without sighting even a sandspit on which tlw lost fliers, could have found refuge. Two planes were held on the big carrier i for emergency purposes. i The big long range bombers and , the lighter fighting class planes i were to have resumed the search in the afternoon but after 30 had : shot off the broad deck of the Lexington the clouds closed down and it began to rain. The re- " mainder of the planes were held aboard and those already in the air were ordered back. The pilots were ready to take the air anytime the skies cleared but there was no break in the , clouds and the search by air was i abandoned until dawn today, or about noon eastern daylight time. The planes carry from four to six men. [ The Lexington was about 100 miles north of Howland Island when her planes first joined the search, which started 12 days ago with the coast guard cutter Itasca plowing back and forth through the waters around the tiny island, first to the north and later to the south. The Itasca and the minesweeper Swan still are in the hunt, the former now working the waters i toward the Gilbert Islands, a I British owned group almut 600 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) WILL INSTALL NEW OFFICERS Knights Os Pythias Will Install New Officers Thursday ___ i New officers will be installed I Thursday evening at S o’clock at the 1 ’ Knights of Pythias home for the next six months term. Following the installation, a party will be held for all members at ’ which refreshments will be served. John R. Parrish will be the in- I stalling officer. W. F. Beery, rural mail carrier, I who served during the first six i ‘ months of this year, will be install- ' ed as chancellor commander for the next term. Other new officers are: John ] Stultz, vice-chancellor; Jess Ruppert. prelate: Robert Heller, master at arms. Frank 'Burns. inner guard; Ed (Highland, master of works anu D. Burdette Custer, master of fin- i ance. A large attendance has been re- <1 quested by the committee in 1 charge of the program Thursday o night as plans for the summer will L be made. No charge is to be made a for the refreshments-

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Collapsing from the strain caused by her fight to keep her job as : school teacher at Saugus. Mass., pretty Isabelle Hallen was ordered ic a hospital to recover. Miss Hallen, shown abovb with her father, was "invited" to resign by the school board following charges that she had entertained member students at a cocktail party. She denied the charge and retained an attorney to defend her case.

Wemhoff Is Named Associate Editor Bernard J. Wemhoff, former local youth and son of Mr. and Mrs.] (George Wemhoff, han accepted a po-i | sition as associate editor of the I Automotive Daily News in Detroit. 1 The publication is known as the, national newspaper of America's greatest industry. Bernard, a graduate of the local Catholic high school, is also a graduate of Detroit university. He was | formerly a memSier of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette and Detroit Free Press editorial staffs. WATERLOO MAN TO HEAD LIONS Herbert C. Willis "Elected District Governor At Meeting Here Herbert C. Willis, of Waterloo, publisher of the Waterloo Press, and deputy governor, was elected, governor of the North Indiana district D. Lions International, in a| close vote of 82 delegates at the, Rice hotel here last night. Willis, who succeeds Lloyd Lan-1 ahan. of Anderson, was elected by j a. majority of two votes over' Eugene E. Reynolds of Muncie. I The final vote was 42-40. Eighty-two delegates from 21, Lions clubs in this district, with 30 members of the Decatur Lions club, crowded their way into the dining rooms of the Rice hotel last night to participate in the meeting. Clubs represented at the meet and the number of delegates were: Anderson, two: Angola, five; Ashley. three: Auburn, four; Decatur, four; Eaton, four; Elwood, three; Farmland, three; Fort Wayne, 12; Gaston, three; Hartford City, two; Kendallville, three; Marion, six; Muncie, seven: Monroeville, three; Portland, three; Van Buren, two; Warren, two: Waterloo, three; Yorktown, six and Winchester, five. The new governor will take office in a few weeks following the international convention at Chicago. He is a charter member of (CnNTTNITED ON PAGE FIVE) _j o Drv Leader To Speak Here This Evening Mies Ethel Hubler, editor and . publisher of the National Voice, nationally known radio speaker of the dry issues, will epeak at the United Brethren church tonight at 7:30 i o’c'ock. Miss iHubler's appearance < here is sponsored by the Decatur and Adams county ministerial asso- , ciations.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 14, 1937.

'RECEIVE BIDS ON 2 STOKERS City School Board To Re- 1 ceive Bids For Two New Stokers I The city school board ie considering the installation of two new stokers for the boilers at the Decatur public high school. | Bids for the furnishing the stokers, including labor and materials, ; wi'l he received by the board until 17:33 o’clock Wednesday evening, I August 4. The bids will be opened! i in the offices of Walter J. Krick, .city school superintendent. If the bids are deemed accept-' aible by the board, the successful bidder will be awarded the contract. ; I The proposals are to be made according to the specifications and plans prepared by R. W. Noland, consulting engineer of Fort Wayne.' Each bidder must, submit with Iks proposal a certified check equal I to five per cent of the principal proposal amount. Only bids from sjoker manufacI turers will be given consideration i according to the board, with the | I manufacturer acting directly as the I contractor and being held respons-. I ible for the entire installation i Members of the school board feel [ j that the installation of new stokers ' would bring about a decided saving ! in the operation of the heating sys- ! tern and curtail much of the cost in purchasing fuel.

Local Man Tells Experience With First Auto In Decatur

In the spring of 1900 Joseph Kiess, local electrician ,clad in goggled speed cap and a trench-like overcoat, rattled through the streets of Decatur in a two-cylinder, openair Rambler horseleee carriage — the first man ever to drive a horseless carriage here. Today 4,988 county-owned streamlined autos, ipropelled by four to 15 cylinders, speed through the county at rates as high ae 100 miles por ' hour—that is the reminiscent comparrison of Mr. Kiess, himself. In 1900 Mr- Kiess, accompanied by a company representative, came from the factory at Detroit, Michigan, wuth the first car. When they arrived at the county line, the representative relinquished the steer ing wheel of the "flivver” to Mr. Kiess, so that he might have the ■ distinction of being the first person ever to drive an auto in Decatur. 'After they arrived here, as proof cf the “urtbelieveable powers" of the ear, the demonstrator drove the car |

ASSERT JAPAN SENDING MORE MEN TO CHINA Reinforce Troops To Prepare For Expected War With China Peiping, July 14.— (U.R) —Japanese troop reinforcements, pouring down from Manchukuo ready for war with China, overflowed the capacity of the Peiping-Mukden railroad today and took to the roads for a two day march to the Peiping front. Fourteen Japanese troop and supply trains arrived at Tientsin. 60 miles southeast of Peiping, in the early hours of this morning. They jammed all available transport from Tientsin to Peiping, and those left were ordered to start at once by highway tor the old capital. In full war equipment, regiment after regiment started on the 60mile hike in the sweltering summer beat Japanese army commanders at Tientsin, angry at suspected sabotage by Chinese railroad officials, | were understood to have threatened to seize the entire PeipingTientsin Mukden railroad unless they obtained immediate cooper- ■ ation. They brought officials and operating personnel from the South Manchuria railroad ready to take over. Negotiations between Chinese and Japanese to settle the crisis that arose from Clashes between Chinese and Japanese troops were at a complete deadlock today. Chinese were increasingly convinced that Japan meant to force j capitulation to its demands. It was reported from Nanking I that 10,000 Japanese reservists had been called to the colors in Korea. I and that 300 chauffeurs, several I hundred surgeons and 2.000 labor- ' ers were recruited for service in China. Japanese army authorities admitted a defeat in a brisk early morning fight southwest of Peiping, a little way outside the Yungting gate to the city. They admitted the loss of four soldiers killed and two wounded. A communique said that Chinese troops caught a Japanese detachment in a “nut ci acker” movement. between two forces, and that ’ I the Japanese were unable to esI cape until reinforcements arrived from Fengtai, a few miles to the i south. The fight broke out at 1 a.m., when, according to Chinese, the , Japanese opened artillery fire on Tahungmen village outside the I Yungting or southwestern gate. By 1:30 both sides were machine ; gunning. Firing continued until 3 ia. m. Chinese said that about 1,I 000 Japanese were involved. The I Chinese strength was not given. o Men’s Brotherhood To Meet Thursday — The men's brotherhood of the First Christian church will meet at the church Thursday evening at i 7:30 o’clock. Autos will be at the 'church to take the members to an open air meeting-

up and down a three-feet-high ramp used to haul away dirt in the construction of the p.’eeent K, of C. building. The late John Smith, of this city was the first man in the city to own a car. He purchased the Rambler through Mr Kiess. the late D. D. I Clark. Decatfir physician then i bought the auto, which he later sold to Chris ißoknecht. The city’s first auto went up in I smoke, when it caught fire after getting too hot from a “speeding , "trip through the county, Mr. Kiess recalled car and garage Iboth were destroyed in the conflagration. Today, 37 years after the county's first auto, there are 4,988 cars, according to the recent figures of County Assessor Ernest Worthman. An increase of 385 cars was shown , this year. Decatur itself han 1,203 autos at present. Mr. Kiess reca’led hie distinction I yesterday while sitting in a local i restaurant, chatting about the traf- 1 [fie problem of today. t

i V Senator ils Found Dead In Apartment At Washington This Morning

President Mourns Death Os Robinson As Close Friend And Political Ally. LEADING FIGHT Washington. July 14 — (U.R) President Roosevelt, personally mourning the death of Sen. Joseph i T. Robinson, declared today that I “a soldier has fallen with face to the battle." Robinson was leading the senate fight for Mr. Roosevelt's supreme court program. Mr. Roosevelt's statement: “In the face of a dispensation so swift in its coming and so tragic in the loss it brings to the nation, we bow in sorrow. A pillar of strength is gone. A soldier has fallen with face to the battle. “I personally mourn the passing of a greatly beloved friend whose fidelity through long years never wavered. Those who knew Joseph Taylor Robinson best recognized in him the qualities of true liberal thought. Mindful of the needs of the underprivileged he was devoted always to improvement of the lot of the masses. “In his going, Joe Robinson has left a record in high achievement as it was faithful in performance. He never temporized with principal nor bargained where the public interest wa.s the issue. “But, day by day, through long service in high office, he brought : to the national councils the con- , tribution of great learning and sound wisdom —a leadership inspired by courage and guided by consummate common sense and a devotion to duty given without selfish interest. “And so death found him at the last with hope unfaltering, with vision undimmed and with courage unafraid. Os him well may it be said: He has fought a good (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TOWNSEND AND McGrady meet Governor On Indiana Confers With Assistant Labor Secretary Washington July 14—(UP) —Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, of Indiana, conferred today with assistant secretary of labor Edward F. McGrady, regarding the Indiana steel situation where Townsend has negotiat-l ed settlement of walkouts >by the' comm-lttee for industrial organization. Townsend said that he and McGrady had talked over the general situation and the provisions which ended strikes called against Youngstown sheet and tube company and Inland steel company in Indiana Harbor. Towns hend said he had thanked McGrady for his assistance in’ helping mediate the strikes. McGrady xvas a member of the federal steel mediation board which unsuccessfully sought to end the dispute between the CIO and four independent steel companies. Townsend said he had thanked CCnNTINTTSno ON PAGE THREE) o — Sprunsjer Released From Local Hospital Carl Sprunger, Berne young man injured July 5 in an auto accident, was released this afternoon from the 'Adams county memorial hospital. He had been suffering from internal chest injuries. His companion, Ralph Braun, also injured in the crash, was released several days ago. o — Mrs. Davis’ Condition Is Reported Unchanged No change was reported today In the condition of Mrs. J. W. Davis, who has been confined in the local hospital, since she was injured in an auto accident July 4.

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Joseph T. Robinson, senate majority leader, wivs found dead in his apartment at Washington, D. C. this morning. Death was caused by a heart attack.

TRAFFIC TAKES TOLL OF LIVES — State’s Death Toll Mounts From Traffic Accidents Indianapolis, Ind., July 14 —(UP) — The lives of seven more persons wore added to Indiana’s sharply mounting traffic toll today. All of the victime died from injuries suffered in automobile accidents. Wayne Venters. 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs- Clifford Venters, Detroit, Michigan was killed instantly when an automobile driven by his uncle, Frank Wilson, Cincinnati. 0., plunged off a 15-foot embankment 15 miles west of Seymour, Ind., late yesterday during a heavy rain- ! storm. Miss Bertha Marie Mullins, 20, Charleston, W. Va., died in the St Joseph Hospital at Anderson from injuries suffered in an automobile accident last Saturday. Miss Mullins was a passenger tn an automobile driven Iby James Davis, Middletown. Ohio, when the car left state road 67 and overturned east of Anderson. Miss Katherine Elizabeth Gray, 37, died at Deaconess hosiptal at I Evansville from injuries sustained i earlier this week in an automobile accident near Engiefield, Ind , Lester Thompson. 46, Gary died in a hosipital at Muncie shortly after ' being injure,] in an automobile collision near there. 'At Indianapolis Donald Lamlb, 9 died of injuries sustained when he was struck by an automobile while he was riding a bicycle in front of his home, and Miss Josephine Maas, 37, was killed when her car crashed into a truck as she was leaving town for a vacation in West Virginia. Allen Cripe, 75, retired farmer and grandfather of police chief Vernon Cripe, Goshen, was killed instantly at a Goshen railroad crossing early today when his automobile was struck by the 20th Century limited of the New York Central railroad, Cripe had waited for a freight train to pass and then drove directly into the 'path of the speeding passenger train, witnesses said. o WEATHER Local Thundershowers tonight and Thursday, somewhat warmer north portion Thursday afternoon, TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 76 10:00 a. m. 82 Noon 88 2:00 p. m. 92 3:00 p. m. 94 Highest yesterday, 88. Highest this month, 99.

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Senate Majority Leader Was The Choice Os His Colleagues For Vacant Court Seat. ROOSEVELT AIDE Washington, July 14 — (U.R) — Senate Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson died alone in his apartment today a few hundred yards from the legislative chamber where his political career was coming to angry climax in the fight to enact President Roosevelt's plan to reorganize the judiciary. Robinson was 65 years old. His I body was discovered pajama-clad | and he was pronounced dead at 7:15 a. tn., CST., by Dr. Warren Fletcher. Robinson leaves the senate after 24 years service and on the eve of new honors. He was the choice of his colleagues for the supreme court vacancy created by retirement of Justice Willis Van Devanter and it generally was realized in Washington that Mr. Roosevelt intended to reward his old and faithful servant in that way The senator was not on the senate floor yesterday although he appeared briefly at the capitol for cloak room reports of the battle into which he was leading the | new deal forces. Court debate I had been underway just seven days when the senator died. His death will abruptly if temj porarily interrupt senate debate of the court proposal. He leaves the senate and his party torn by the bitterest debate since “a little group of willful men" scuttled Woodrow Wilson's league of nations. The Democratic party in the senate will pass now almost immediately into a contest over the leadership with the outcome likely to indicate the extent to which Robinson's sudden removal from the scene has diminished chances of ramming the court bill through a reluctant congress. Sen. Alben W. Barkley. D„ Ky., and assistant leader is the candidate of those Demorcats who insist that Mr. Roosevelt shall be authorized to expand the court. Sen. Pat Harrison. D., Ky., and Sen. James F. Byrnes, D„ S. C., are contenders less sympathetic than Barkley with court reorgani(■CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o A. F. I. SEEKS TO ORGANIZE G re e n’s Organization Drives To Consolidate Independents Chicago, July 14.—(U.R)—William Schoenberg, representative of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, today announced a drive to consolidate “independent” unions of Chicago district steel workers. The Carnegie Illinois independent union already has received an A. F. of L. charter, and Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube units will receive their charters soon, Schoenberg said. Independent steel plants in the Chicago area meantime headed toward capacity production for the first time since the steel workers organizing committee called its 46day strike. Nearly 5.000 of sheet and tube's normal 7.000 employes resumed w’ork at East Chicago, Ind., steel and tin mills yesterday. Union officials said they had accepted a “truce" arranged by Gov. M. Clifford Townsend. Company officials insisted they had made no bargain, that workers were returning under the same conditions as prevailed before the strike. Inland Steel, which accepted the truce arranged by Townsend with S. W. O. C. was employing its normal force of 13,000 in East Chicago. Republic Steel corporation continued to operate its South Chicago, 111., mill in defiance of the S. W, Q, C., and without disturbance.