Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1937 — Page 1

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M CAUSES MY damage | IN COMMUNITY | rn Anil Other Huild--8,, Destroyrd By l.iutilI nine't Preble ' ■ winds, a.cotnpan ■? t'V rain and brilliant ■ b/htninr. s*o|.t through ■ . ott.ty Wednesday asH' ' uth vonsidorable prop n-l-rted in its wake.. ■ U incurred at the W* 1 .- her home tn Preble. B , barn anti several outbuild d.sli">'ed !’>' ,il ' p ' af,pr ■•bit by lightning. ■ to.k was successfully ■ H | front Ihe •»>' ■ -s destroyed tn 1... k Within a few ■L th.' entire strut lure was |B T1,,. It.e.itnr tire depart- ■.'».< tall-d wll "‘ ar K howeter. the blaze was out Etli. ient efforts of the ■ parttit- til saved a garage. shop ..ml other valuable lEern near the barn. ■fl.'ll seven ami eight tons ■U about live tons of wheat. 1 dollars worth ■ , ii.-nts were entirely I No a. . urate estimate jB(i lr damage could be given. Damage In City .. , . rent, d unusual ■blay damage tn the jB' brJ ,, tree at the Sudduth ■. \ .. ~nth street was by the winds. Two trees |H t be S , nth Section of tile CitJ. ■,. ..... \ .11" streets, were over. a' Vt.p. Iman's grocery wh. n lightning fol down the wires. e ~i„tric light line was put of commission in the north , by a falling tree |Kt (he city light plant a large was shattered by a bolt |H Homesteads Affected H.mi.-i' "Is w.-re without Kt, for a few hours last night t wires w.re corn away by trees. Washington town ■ light lines wre out. as was township. Allen county; ■t of I nion township in this jßniy. J. Mylott. local night super reported that most ol service was restored by 10 Block last night. A few more' were -..iv.-d this morning ■ lights being out of order. |B'' : >' or two transformers on the lines were also put out of A transformer of the Wayne lines near Preble fire, evidently from the overload. Mirers all over the city were M» r . I, by ill., wmd. many branches ■ all sizes being thrown to the Some fell over city and h ai j (~ |„. removed be,ra ®t' could continue. ||,. superintendent of local telephone company re■twj apprexitiiately 100 phones ■siei. tn ■ from drop lines torn from houses and fuses blown lightning. I Bo Conduct Beer ■ Hearing August 12 |M* Se A( lams county alcoholic !>•’- Mta;.. ;l , ari j win conduct a hearing August 12 in the commie rooms of the court house application of Homer Sclltlg Place) in Berne, for a B* r retailer's license. g o111 IS FINED I IN CITY COURT I. „ — Man Is Fined On Assault And Battery Charge of Craigville, was »1 and costs on a charge of Z tttan< * battery when arraigned p Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse T court thia morning. ftintn plead guilty to the charge wh Waß “gainst him Iby his ». u ln law ’ Alfred ,11. Deam, of .police report. th ° f P°’ ice Sephus Melchi K ’he arresting officer in the fart u°^ Ceman Miller arrest- . Harris laet night on Tenth When he was allegedly found “ intoxicated condition. ign«J S ’r a translen L will be ar ar Se n mayor ’ s court on the

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Wagoner Long-Time Democrat Subscriber The late Ira Wagoner, prominent Monroe resident, who died I Sunday at his home, was for more : than 47 years a faithful subscriber to the Decatur Dally Democrat, it has been recalled by his son, Frank, of Fort Wayne, who had the subscription continued to his address there. Frank, with six other children, ' survive the deceased. Mrs. Wag oner preceded him in death sevi eral years ago. 0 ALL OF JAPAN IS PLACED ON WAR FOOTING Entire Japanese Empire Is Placed On Strict War Basis Tokyo, Friday, July 16—(UP)— Emperor Hirohito today approved eteps taken by the government i Which have placed the entire em pire on a war footing and sanction-, ed the sending of the 12th division of the Imperial army from Kurume, on Southwestern Japan proper, to | the north china fighting area. One report was that the 12th division already had landed in Dairen and was moving toward Peiping. , Diepatch of troops from the home ' army followed announcement by the government at a conference of prefectural governors that 3,000,000 army reservists had been ordered to make ready for a call to I duty. Detailed instructions were given jto prefectural and colonial gover-, nors as result of which more than 100,000,000 Japanese and subject ■ peoples were ready -immediately to I render service to the army and I navy which have been given full i ' power to humble China and force ' her to accept responsibility for a week of fighting 'between Japanese and Chinese forces outside Peiping 'in which scores of soldiers have been killed. i Immediate instructions to mili- _ . (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) CURRENT BANK REPORT FILED Current Report Is Filed For Peoples Loan & Trust Co. The eighth current report filed today by Clark J. Lutz, a special I representative -in the liquidation of the Peupkn Loan and Trust company shows inventory assets as of December 31, 1936 of $59,250.86 | were decreased during the six months period ending June 30, 1937 to $37,049.04. The asseta listed ae of December 131, 1936 were: mortgage loans $3,204,93; personal and collateral loans, $49.222 95; over drafts, $56. 55;; due from banks, $6,766.43, and total $59,250.86. To this amount, interest of $38.18 wae added making the total, $59,'289.04. I Credits of $22,239.95 were claimed as follows: losses determined, j $20,350.02; taxes paid, $253.03; expenses of administration. $733.90; special representative salary, $600; attorney fees allowed, $303, and total. $22,239.95. This left the following inventory assete as of June 30, 1937: mortgage loans, $1,285 61; personal and collateral loans, $28,609.55; over'drafts, $56.55; due from banka, $7,097.38 and total, $37,049.09 No announcement was made about the of a distribution soon. —o Band Concert Will Be Given Tonight j Announcement was made todaz ! by the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce, sponsors of the series of free band concerts in thia city. ■ that the concert by the girls' band, cancelled last night ‘because of rain, will be given at 8 o’clock tonight. On tonight's program will be three special numbers: a vocal solo by Mrs. Walter Krick, and accord ian eolo by Marjorie Miller ami a trumptet solo by Mary Maxine Hilton witli accompaniment on the accordian by Irene Light. Name Frankfort Man Hoagland Principal Gerald F. Irwin, Frankfort, has Ibeen appointed principal and coach at the Hoagland high school in Allen county. Mr. Irwin will succeed Kelro Whiteman, who was elected superintendent of the Allen county | schools a few weeks ago.

,1 RUSSIAN FLIERS AFTER RECORD FLIGHT | I «.W < a ’A I 4 |T , r j iArI Ak SBro i ur ItßifiS _ —I

Three daring Soviet airmen landed In a pasture three miles west of San Jacinto. Cal.. Wednesday with a new long distance flight record established in an epochal flight across the North Pole from Moscow. They covered approximately 6.700 miles in slightly more th tn sixty-two hours in the air. After a short rest and shave, the fliers posed for this picture at the officers’ club in March Field near San Jacinto. Left to right ar*' Pilot Mikhail Gromov. Co-pilot Maj. Andrei Yumachev and Navigator Sergei Danilin.

ACCIDENT TOLL BRINGS ACTION State Police Given Further Powers In Traffic Accidents Indianapolis. July 15 — (U.R) —| Alarmed by Indiana's mounting automobile traffic death toll state. police today launched a vigorous, enforcement program, bolstered by an attorney-general's ruling aug-! luewtirte their -arrestmr power*.—-j Prosecuting attorneys and courts! I throughout the state will bo asked ' I to co-operate in the drive. The attorney - general's office I held that an enforcement officer ; may make arrests for traffic violations even though he arrives on the scene after an accident or I traffic violation has occurred. Ikm Stiver, state police super- 1 intendent, immediately ordered his | men to start making traffic ar-j rests, particularly where accidents have occurred. The state police j department will investigate and i file charges where prosecutions are warranted. Stiver indicated Previously most accident prose- ( cutions rested with persons injured. Stiver said that each state po- ■ lice post hereafter will have a I trained accident squad equipped with a camera, breath testers to determine if there was drunken driving, and other equipment designed to establish iron-clad prosecutions in court. The state police immediately I will began an enforcement pro-1 gram concentrating on excessive OXTIXIT.P ox PAGB rival I YOUNG PEOPLE PLAN SOCIAL I Ice Cream Social To Be Held At Memorial Park Friday The young peoples society of the Evangelical church will sponsor a party and ice cream social at the Memorial park on Winchester street Friday night at 8 o'clock. The Decatur boys' band will furnish the music for the event, which will also be featured by a series of special musical presentations. The program is as follows: Clarinet and accordion duet, “Silver Threads Among the Gold,” and "When You and I Were Voting, Maggie,” Mrs. Francis Eady and Edward Martz. Saxophone solo—Roberta Coffelt Mixed trio Betty Fuhrman, Ruth Hammond and Jane Eady. Accordion solo—Jane Eady Mixed accordion presentation — The Light giris. Home-made cake and pie will also be served in addition to the ice cream. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to enjoy this program and social. Miss Elva Anspaugh is in charge of arrangements.

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John Trout Fined On Two Charges John Trout, of south of the city I was fined en two chargee in city • I court late yesterday iby Mayor Ar-, : thur R. .Holthouse. He was fined $1 and costs, a- , mounting to sll, on charges of public intuKication and $lO and costs, ■ I totaling S2O, on charges of unlaw-1 fully parking hie car on a highway. I Trout wan arrested late Tuesday night by State Patrolman Burl Johnson and City Policeman Ed Miller when he was found lying in a ditch with his auto parked in the center of road 27 near his homeHONOR SENATE LEADER FRIDAY State Funeral Will Be Held Friday For Sen. Joe Robinson | Washington, July 15 — Senateaisle shared today in the work of completing plans for tomorrow’s state funeral in the senate chamber i for the late Joseph Taylor Robineon, as all Washington grieved over | the sudden death of the senate majority leader. Capitol Hill itself was particularly grief-etricken. Veteran Senators, personal friends of Joe Robinson for more than a score of years, joined with "freshman” legislators. Stenographers, elevator operators and other Hill workers in mourning Robinson's untimely death. The task of perfecting detailed arrangements for the funeral fe 1 jto Col. Edwin Alexander Halsey, I i secretary to the senate, and Cheeley j I W. Jurney, senate sergeant-at-arms. I | Theirs is the task of re-arranging I |the senate chamber to accomodate the colorful solemnity which accom-, I panies the services. President; ■ Roosevelt will be ipresent, as will I | those members of the senate and house, the diplomatic corps, the I cabinet and the supreme court who are able to attend. The funeral will be the 14th such function in the Senate chamber since it was put in use in 1860. The Jast state funeral in the chamber was in 1933, when services were held for the late Sen. Thomas J Walsh, D., Mont., who died suddenly aboard a train as he wan about to take office as attorney general. The funeral cervices will begin at noon, with senate chaplain Zebarney Thorne Phillips, D. D., LL. 1) pastor of Washington's fashionable Epiphany church, conducting the services and preaching the sermon. Robinson’s body will be taken to Little Rock, hie heme town, on a special train .leaving Washington (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) College Choir To Give Berne Concert The Bethel college capella choir, in making a coast to coast tour, will present a concert of sacred music at the First Mennonite church in Berne Friday night, July 23, it has been announced. Samuel Barkman, former Berne young man, is a member of the choir, which sings under the direction of Prof. Walter Hohmann.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 15, 1937.

MOOSE TO HOLD DISTRICT MEET i I , Decatur Moose To Be Host To District Meeting Saturday Several hundred members from 17 lodges in this section of the state are expected to attend the district meeting of the Loyal Order of Moose to be held in Decatur Saturday evening. | Moose notables from all over . the state are also expected for I the event. Most prominent of I these will be Ralph Campbell, 1 regional director from Marion and i James Ford, director at Moosei haven. The lodges which will be repre- | sented are: Auburn. Angola. Garrett, North Manchester. Columbia I City, Fort Wayne, Huntington, Wabash, Peru, Bluffton, Portland, I Muncie, Montpelier. Hartford City. | Marion, Kendallville and the host j city, Decatur. ' The meeting will open at apI proximately 7:30 o'clock although | many delegates are expected to arrive in the early afternoon. Announces Program Marion Heare, chairman of the program committee, with William Lister and Adam Schaffer, announced today the complete pro gram for the event, which is expected to be the most entertaining and unusual ever to be presented at the local lodge. *Foremost among the entertainers will be Bob Shreve, talented WOWO radio star vocalist, who . has been secured to sing on the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O KILLER CAUGHT IN CALIFORNIA Man Sought Here At One Time Is Captured After Two Years The California capture of John Smith, alias Earl Jacobs, alleged slayer of a Fort Wayne restaurant proprietor, recalls to mind his escape from a police net here the night following the killing. On the night of August 14, 1935, Fort Wayne police received a tip that the slayer of Arlie Foster was enroute to this city to “get” a local resident, with whom he had associated in Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne detectives and police, aided by local police and members of the county sheriff's department surrounded the Bertha Baker home on Seventh street, where he was reported to be. Smith, however, escaped the net, evidently leaving before the police arrived. The occupants of the Baker residence told police later that Smith forced them at the point of a gun to drive him to Van Wert. Ohio. Fort Wayne police immediately j took up the trail there. His appearance here on that night is' thought to be the last time he was I iu this Vicinity after the crime. |

Mine Explosion At Sullivan I Kills 20 Men; Accumulation Os Gas Held Cause Os Blast

PARTY LEADERS PLAN TO OUST SEN. VAN NUYS Gov. Townsend To Oppose Renomination Os Van Nuys Indianapolis. July 15. —(U.R) —The man whom Gov. M. Clifford Town | send will support to succeed U. S. Senator Frederick VanNuys in the 1938 election probably will be selected at the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association meeting at French Lick next month, the United Press learned today. This was the first comment in Democratic circles today after the I governor bluntly said in Washing I ton yesterday that “I don't believe any power in the state could nominate him (VanNuys) and our organization wouldn't try the impossible.’’ This statement, the first open declaration by Townsend that his administration will oppose Vanj Nuys as reported by the United ! Press months ago, has thrown the field opdn for the nomination next spring and will precipitate a rush of candidates for Townsend's fav-: or. However, it appears here that j the field already has been narrowed to about three men. These are ' Sam Jackson, Fort Wayne lawyer I who was permanent chairman of the 1936 state convention that nominated Townsend; John Kern, | mayor of Indianapolis, and Earl I Crawford .chairman of the state highway commission. Crawford is a recent entry. R. Earl Peters,! state federal housing administrat(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) .I Q — RUSSIANS FLEW ACROSS BORDER Three Aviators Who Set New Distance Record Take Needed Rest San Diego, Calif., July 15.—(U.R) —The three Russian fliers who flew over the top of the world to establish a new non-stop distance record and demonstrate the feasibility of the Polar aerial route, rested here today preparatory to spections of aircraft factories, a round of civic receptions and InThe trio: Michael Gromov, Andrei Yumashev and Sergei Danilin —flew more than 7,000 miles along a route that carried them from Moscow- over the pole and then | south over the Arctic wastes across ' Canada and down the Pacific coast . into Mexico. Their actual mileI age will not be known until the , i three sealed barographs they car ; ried are checked by the National Aeronautical Association. 'i*" fact that the fliers crossed . 1 the Mexican-United States border I and circled as far south as Agua ! Caliente was reported by S. ShumI ovsky. Soviet aviation representj ative from Washington. He said 1 that when the entire mileage was | calculated it would be near 7,000 , i miles, or 1,343 miles farther than ! Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi flew when they established the old 1 record in 1933. When the fliers came down in a , ■ plowed field near San Jacinto, 62 I hours and 25 minutes after their take-off, they were 6.262 miles, on ’ I a direct line, from Moscow, which , also exceeded the Codos-Rossi record. The Soviet fliers were brought i here last night from March field, , where they got a much needed five hours sleep. In the field near San Jacinto was (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) WEATHER Local thundershowers, this 1 afternoon or tonight; Friday generally fair with not so warm northwest. TEMPERATURE READINGS ’ ■I DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 78 10:00 a. m. 80 Noon 86 2:00 p. m. 9° 3:00 p. m. S 4 I Highest yesterday, 94. I Highest this month, 99.

I ROOSEVELT IS ) READY TO LET CONGRESS ACT Report President M illing To Abide By Decision On Court Bill Washington. July 15 — (U.R) —‘ President Roosevelt, it was re- ' ported today, is willing to leave up to congress the decision on whether the supreme court reorganization shall be shelved. This was the statement, it was reported, that he made today to four "freshman” senators who visited him in his White House ' | living quarters. The senators —Guy M. Gillette of I lowa, Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan, Charles O. Andrews of Florida and Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado—called to urge the president, it was understood, to withdraw the court reorganization bill or ask that it be recommitted to committee—a move that would shelve the measure for this session at least. They urged this action, it was understood, in view of the legisla- . tive and political situation created iby the sudden death of Senator l Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson yesterday. Mr. Roosevelt, the United Press was advised, told the senators that the question of what was to be done with the court reorganization measure was up to congress, lie was represented as feeling that it was not up to him to advise congress what action should be taken. The senators, however, were understood to feel that the White House was willing to accept philosophically whatever , the congressional decision might be. Opponents of the court measure answered with unofficial declarations that they would move to kill the bill on Tuesday, confident that they have a safe majority In the senate. It was learned, however, that an I opposition re-check of strength was started in order to determine positively whether there were sufficient votes to pass a motion to re-commit the bill to the judiciary committee. The outcome will guide a final decision whether to force the test of strength next week. Some opponents claimed as high as 50 ballots for the motion. Supporters of the bill predicted defeat of the proposed motion. Final decisions on all legislative matters were delayed until after the services for Robinson, which will include a state funeral in the senate chamber on Friday, attended by the president, and a second service at Little Rock, Ark., which will be attended by Vice-president John N. Garner and a huge congressional delegation. President Roosevelt was expected to confer with congressional (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) WABASH RIVER OUT OF BANKS Heavy Rainfall Sends Wabash Out Os Banks Near Geneva Reports from Geneva state that the Wabash river has gone on a rampage from the heavy rainfall of the past two days. According to the reports, farmers along the river south of that town, have been forced to carry their wheat shocks to higher ground. One farmer in the community reported having more than 65 acres of good corn under water. Others reported crops ruined by the water. In Decatur the rainfall last night and late yesterday afternoon was also unusually heavy, the report of Mrs. Walter Gladfelter, official weather observer, shows. A precipitation of 1.84 inches of rainfall, had been experienced here at 7 o’clock this morning since the beginning of the rain late yesterday. The total precipitation since January 1 measures 28.28 inches, according to Mrs. Gladfelter. Evidence of the heavy fall thus far this year was shown, when it was discovered that the average yearly fall since 1932 is but 29.19-

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'Balance Os 150 Men At Work In Mine Escape Injury; Rescue Squad To Remove Bodies. ALL MARRIED Sullivan, Ind., July 15 —(UP) — William Cunningham, superintendent of the Baker mine at whies there was an explosion today, and a member of the rescue squad which searched the shaft, said that 20 men still underground are all dead and that removal of their bodies will start within 45 minutes. Cunningham made this statement in a report to Dr. Harvey Crowder, chief surgeon for the Glendora coal company, which owns the Baker mine. Removal of the ‘bodice, Cunningham said, probably would taka about two or three hours. The explosion was caused by an accumulation of gas in the mine shaft, which seared 23 men who were working in the corridor in which the blast occurred, Cunningham eaid. When the explosion occurred there were 150 men in the Baker mine, all of whom escaped with out injury except the 23 who were trapped, leading to erroneous reports of the number of men rescued. All of the men Cunningham reported dead are married. Delaying efforts to remove the men from the mine was the lack of electric power. The explosion shattered some of the powerline below and the bodies of the men will have to be removed by mule teams to the elevator shaft, to be conveyed to the surface. Four rescue squads scoured the mine corridors for the bodies, directed by E. P. Wilson, state euperintendent of mines and Jack Ogelby of the United States mining department, stationed at Bicknell. The squads were recruited from fellow workers of the men entombed ‘below and Trt> m ether mines at Vincennes, Terre Haute and Brazil. All the equipment was brought from the federal mine station and it was not until three hours after the explosion, that flames in the shaft a mile and a half from the entrance were extinfCONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) NAVY CONTINUES EARHART SEARCH Chances For Rescue Os Aviatrix Placed At One In A Million Honolulu, July 15 —(UP)—< The navy continued its search today for Miss Amelia Earhart and Frederick J. Noonan, her navigator, who have been missing since July 2, when they failed to reach Howland Island on their 2,500 all-water flight from Lae, New Guinea. Chances of finding the fliers alive were placed at one in a million by aviators of the carrier Lexington but there was no reported change in the navy’s plans for the mop up search of the Ocean near Howland Island and 600 miles westward to Gilbert Islands. Miss Earhart, her fuel exhausted is believed to have landed near Howland Island but the search to the west will be made on the theory that her big Lockheed - Electra plane may still be afloat, drifting with the current. Most of the area immediately around Howland Island already has been canvassed both by boats and planes. Weather conditions were reported improving and it was likely that 60 planes, each carrying from four to six men, would be utilized in today’s search. Only 40 iplanes were sent out yesterday. o Mrs. Hapgood Arrested For Disturbing Peace Worcester, Mass., July 15- (U.R) —Mary Donovan Hapgood. redhaired committee industrial organization organizer, was taken from a picket line in front of Reed & Prince Manufacturing company plant today and arrested with seven others on a peace disturbance charge. Only a fortnight ago her husband, Powers Hapgood, New England committiee industrial organization secretary, was released from the Auburn, Me., county jail on a habeas corpus writ pending a state supreme court review of his conviction for contempt of an anti-strike injunction. He wis serving a slx-month sentence.