Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1937 — Page 1

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Ken. Joe Robinson I Is Honored With I Rites In Senate OUTLINES YOUTH I ln State Funeral lor PLANTOCLUB I Late Leader. I FINAL TRIBUTE «• Wayne Student Speaks ■ r, ‘ To Rotary Club 1 hursSwash‘“K'* ,u ' J,lly 16 ,* UR) ~ day Night reat and humble said a sad today X aylor a program for the youth of the of Arkansas. country was outlined by Joseph T. 1 senate battlefield from Tucker of Fort Wayne, a student death took him in the midst at Northwestern University, in an 1 K |h „ climactic conflict of his enthusiastic talk before members ' was transformed into a of tbe Decatur Rotary club last ' of mourning as President evening. led dignitaries of the Tucker stuck to fundament' 1 at a state funeral in final a | objectives for the youth of the ' m "a soldier fallen with ( . oun t r y stating. "Let us become K, face toward the battle. germ carriers of ideas which will ' [■"As many are led by the spirit contribute to the better commute lbe y are ,h * > 801,8 ity In which to live.’’ Kr> Ze Barney Thorne Phil- Three objectives were given by * senate chaplain, intoned at |be B p ea g er He defined them as bier of his close friend of many follows: ‘ Constructive thinking. ■ jirightly blanketed with orch.da Spreading the germs of qualities gladioli, the body of the late wb j ( . b help you get along better leader lay in a grey cos- wßb other people. 1 1 Kb in the well of the chamber. Respect for and use of religion. it gathered the men with "W'e young people can do much he had fought and the men j n tbese fields of endeavor. Diswhom he had fought — C overy of new frontiers may be; 1 in a deathless moment of j m p OSS j b | e now. but there is much ' and friendship for a fallen to be done in other lines of help 1 K "The sufferings of this present better community," the speaker are not worthy to be com- sajd I with the glory which shall q- be prO g ram was in charge of Ke revealed in us, intoned the \y aßer Gard, new president of the • club, who introduced the speaker. K Th- president bowed his head Permanent committees, announc- ' in front of the ancient pd | aa( n jg bt by \y a iter Gard, presi- ' mahogany desk at which Rob- j en j_ are ag follows: Muon had led the battles of the Ainl(j and ob j ects: clarence Bell, ' deal. This desk, alone in the James Kocher a nd E. W. Lankenau. Kwh-d. silent c hamber, was un ( ~u b aerv|ce: H Schmitt. Sim 1 Ktrapied to symbolize a vacant Burk and j w calland. against the background of international service: Clarence ’warfare. Beß Rev G M Prugh and James ■ But few of the men and women Elbergon . had labored with the senate classification and membership: Msder were unable to see again Frt , d Patterson> C . C. Pumpb■ imag-ry his big hands gripping r and E W Lankenau. ■k sides of the desk, his broad- Program Rev. C. M. Prugh, Mowed head thrust forward to- Clarence Bell all<l A . D . Suttles, I Mani the vice-presidents chair as Eel , owsbip and attendance: Char - K pitched into the thick of de- , es I^ngßton Oscar Lankenau and Male Few could fail to hear again wi)son L ee Mk heavy thunder of his voice Publlc information: Peter Reyn \ ■which has resounded through a olds and A R Holthouse . ■chamber now hushed wifti the youth sprvice: Harry Maddox. 1 ■Klcmuity of a final parting. w McMillen and Calvin Steury. ! ■ He that spared not his own son Mug|< .. Leo Kirsch . Mt delivered him up for us all. vocation service: Roy Johnson,; ■now shall he not with him also j w R|ce and T c S|njtb ■freely give us all things?" the Commllllit y service: Clarence said. ~ . Stapleton. A. R. Ashbaucher and a . P , J 88t . \ J- Fred F ruchte ■black-clad widow of the majority B ■ work . BryfP Thomas,' ■leader and. stretching hack to the Avon Burk and c M E n SW orth. ■vails of the chamber were the Finance: C al Peterson. R. C. Mmocratic senators who had fol- Glendening a nd Clarence Weber, ■towed Robinson - some faithful Cri pled children: W. Guy ■Brough 15 years of tribulation and Brown 1)r Pa | mer Eicher alld ■of victory; some who had rebeled Bryce Thomas M times: none who had failed to Ruraburban acquaintance: A. R. ■mpect his leadership. Holthouse, E. W. Busche and M. ■ Jesus said, let not your heart . Mvlott Me troubled.” continued the chap- Adies''night: J. W. Calland, 11. Mm. in words peculiarly fitted to p Schmftt and Non)iau Kruse . T a " y , 8 “ T Athletics: George Thoms, I). W. Mralleled in congressional annals. McMillen Jr Charles Brodbeck, ■ am th,, way, the truth and — nßpallgl , T a ul Hansel. ■ ICONTINirun nN PAGE FOUR) “—~ I Services Are Held El (10 AI OTDCAU For Stillborn Child |LUbAL STREAM mfkf n 1111/0 morning at the St. Mary’s CathIr KuNK A olic chT.rch for the stillborn child Ul UflllllU of Mr. and Mrs. John Avalos, Mex . jean, of Union township. The in Sf D* I Ck..A fant was born Thursday afternoon Marys River Is Out at 2:30 oclotk . Os Banks In 'Low Burial was made in the St. Jospinppc eph's cemetery with the Rev. Jos c eph J. Seimetz officiating. Surviv- ( Swollen by torrential rains of “>* 18 ,he » arents and °“ e br °' h be past few days, the St. Mary’s er - r, 'er. for the first time in months, „ , Uw »tof its banke. Report Prowler f'-ood stage or the river is from ActlVC At Bcr’lH ? t 0 18 feet, varying in high and ~ lo » Places. At the east bridge the A prowler, who has been accostnte'’ has flooded over the banks ing young women, and peeping in started ♦/> >: 11 windows, has been reported a. Bianea to enter the fields on ; VIUU " • nolice to east side Berne. Efforts of town pome Creeks and streams of the coun- capture the man have been in yam filled to overflowing, as as he hur , rledly n,akes ”' 8 P ‘ e and drains. As yet no » 19 has been reported in the Hiithrnnk Os "brth section of the county in the Severe UutoreaK VI *«h considerable crop damage Hog Cholera Reported 8 p en experienced from the high . ers of the Waibash river. »A very severe and virulent outhittie danger of loss is feared break of hog cholera is reported in •«> as the river must still rise South Washington township, rhe fed to reach the crops situ-. outbreak te unusual in occurr n„ w«.x ° n h teher grounds. The ! this early in the year and condiu t er man has predicted general- tions are at the best for its eprea . •' wr weather for this evetring and therefore -It is recommended that a ‘‘» r <iay. h<)ge be vaccinated before they though somewhat cooler tern- ehow unusual temperatures, as imalures are forecast for Saturday, I munization is 100 per cent sa e «i.i^I y ls to have con- when hogs are we.’l However, if one ra ly warmer weather than has waits until his hogs show signs oi few e . sperien ced during the past sidkneee, the losses are in many ra *ny days. j cases quite heavy. I

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PLAN INQUEST INTO BLAST AT SULLIVAN MINE Plan Funeral Services For 20 Miners Killed Thursday Sullivan, lnd„ July 16. — (U.R) — 1 Twenty families who live on what 1 their men can earn In the black pits of Indiana's soft coal fields gathered up their meagre savings today to bury the men who perish- ’ ed in two explosions at the Baker mine. Each family had identified one twisted, charred victim of the blasts which shattered corridors i of the mine 225 feet underground, crashed the men against the walls, j and seared them with flame. It was the third major mine tragedy in this town of 5,300, and coroner Cecil Taylor ordered an inquest today to find out what caused it. Witnesses will include such survivors as Wesley Bond, 38, who dubbed himself “the miracle man" when he emerged from the shaft alive. "1 was right near the crew that was trapped,” Bond said. “There was a dull explosion, like a heavy gust of wind. It knocked me down and blew out my lamp.” Bond had been in mine explos-' ions before. He knew the first blast usually is followed by a second —or rebound — explosion. He leaped to his feet and yelled to other workers to run for their lives before the second blast reached them. “I must have run 100 or 150 yards, when the second blast knocked me down," he said. "I could still travel, though. I crawled to where there was some water, i tore off a piece of my shirt, soaked it and held it over my mouth. "I kept on crawling until I reached an air course and then I knew 1 was safe." Bond said if others had run after the explosion as he did “most of them would be alive, too.” The first blast probably crushed some of the men to death. The second- and most fatal- explosion, 1 shot flame through the corridor. "The men were terribly mangl | ed.” said Irving Wilcut, 30 years a coal miner. "Some of them were I lying face down and some were all crurirpled up. Nearly a’l of them were badly burned and their ‘ clothes were torn away from their bodies.” Wilcut said the blast loaded the air with gas. dirt and dust. He waited 45 minutes before venturing from his post to the elevator shaft. Miners believed accumulated ' dust, or gas formed by recent heavy rains, was ignited by a miner's lamp or a spark from an en(OONTINUETD ON PAGE TWO) SPECIAL FUNDS ARE REQUESTED County Council To Consider Special Appropriations July 27 Special appropriations of $35.i 923.71 will be asked at a special session of the county council, to be held at the county auditor's office in the court house July 27, at 10 a. m. The appropriations will be divided as follows: general county expense, $18,232.36; county highway department. $17,000, and county welfare department, $691.35. The county general expense requests are divided as follows: County clerk: books and stationery. $500; clerical help. $300; 'commitment of insane, $275; furniture and equipment, $125; rei fund for clerk fees. $13.36. County recorder: books and stationery. $300; 20 per cent fees, $350. Surveyor: staking ditches, SI,OOO. County agent, operating expense, $269. Irene Byron sanatorium, $2,500. Court house: repair of equipment, $200; rebuilding entrance, $300; heating plant and boiler, $10,000; engineer salary, S3OO, Jail: roof repair, painting and puttying windows, $500; stocker, $600; water main. $400; jail pressure pump, $100; jail, engineer salary, S2OO. Welfare Fund Salary of county director, $33.35, salary of clerk-stenographer, $250; salary of investigator, S4OB. Highway Repair Stone, $10,000; binder. $2,000; gas and oil, $2,500; truck and | tractor driver, $2,500.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July Ifi, 1937.

Green, Lewis Give Statement On Labor Situation In Nation (Copyright, 1937. by the United Press) Washington, July 16 (U.R)—John L. ia-wls and William Green today informed the 6.000,000 workers unionized into the committee for i industrial organization and the American federation of labor that al- . though there was no present prospect, for peace between the two factions. rank and file support of strikes called by either group would be tolerated by the other. In the following signed statements. Lewis and Green say expressly that workers in one organization who have supported strikers affiliated ; with the other have not been disciplined and that friendly relations among the mass of trade unionists are expected to continue. However, both leaders admit that prospects of peace between the I C. I. O. and A. F. of L. are dim. Green said: “There are no immediate 1 prospects of peace." Lewis said: "Any talk of peace must come from : the American Federation of Green intimates publicly for the first time that further action ; against the C. 1. O. will be taken at the next A. F. of L. convention, in ' addition, Green assailed the tactics of a general strike as "revolution." Lewis says for the first time that the closed shop and check-off are merely incidental problems in collective-bargaining and not ! essentials.

By William Green (Copyright 1937 by United Press) It is the opinion of the Ameri I can Federatiion of Labor that stability of industrial relations in employment calls for the negotiation of wage agreements through collective bargaining. When said I agreements are negotiated they , ought to be signed by representa- i fives of labor and industry. A signed agreement is evidence of good faith. Furthermore, an agreement properly drawn, cover- ( ing hours, wages and conditions of employment, will serve to avoid confusion and controversy. The American Federation of Labor realizes the difficulties which are met locally when a strike is inaugurated by the C. 1.0. | organization. Naturally workers. ■ tegardless of organization affiliation, are sympathetic to their fel- : low workmen who engage in a strike to improve conditions of | employment. They usually live together i associate together, and are ac- I quainted with each other in the 1 different communities where j strikes occur. The American Federation of Labor has not disciplined or penalized the members of the American Federation of Labor unions locally because of sympathy and cooperation extended to workers on strike, regardless iof organization affiliation. 11 Ordinarily. however, unions , I -r ■ ~ ' I /CONTINUED ON PAGB SIX) , : ,

ARRANGE FINAL PLANS FOR FAIR Executive Committee Os Street Fair Arranging Annual Event With the time of the Decatur I Free Street Fair rapidly drawing near, committeemen appointed by • Chairman Dee Fryback have inten- . sified their efforts in a last minute ’ drive to make the event one of the most successful in history. Members of the executive committee met last night with Chairman Fryback in the local license bureau to map out plans for the last two weeks preceding the fair. I All committeemen were urged by I Mr. Fryback to speed up the work ( of their divisions to insure the sue- j cessful staging of the event on ■ schedule. Following is the list of commit- ' teemen as appointed by Mr. Fry- ■ back recently: Decoration, Robert Helm and I ■I Herman Krueckeberg; music, Wil! II Bowers, Roy Kalver, Walter Gard ' and Walter Krick; 'program, J. W. 1 Calland and E. W. Lawkenau; publicity, Pete Reynolds, Dan Tyndall and Jesse Rice; lights, George Stults; streets, Ralph E. Roop; fin-' ance, R. E. Glendening; safety, William H Bell; 4-H and livestock stock exhibits, H. P. Schmitt and L. E. Archbold; housing committee, L. E. Archbold and H. P. Schmitt; floats, C. C. Baxter and Mildred Worthman; concessions, Dee FryIback; free acts, William Linn, Jghn L. De Voss and Dr. Ben Duke; ! Cloverleaf Day. C. C. Pumphrey. Members of the board of directors of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce serve as the executive board of the fair. They are: Dee Fryback, . R. E. Glendening, C. E. Bell, John L. DeVoes, H. P. Schmitt, Pete Reynolds, Felix Maier, J. W- Calland and E. W. Lankenau. o District Moose To Meet Here Saturday — | Plans were completed today for | the district convention of the Loyal I Order of Moose, to be held here Sat- 1 ; urday evening. The entire program has been arranged by the chairman, Marion dieare, featuring prominent musicians and a W’OWO radio en-l tertalner. Delegates from 17 lodges in thisl district are expected to be In attendance, with several district andj state Moose notalbles here for the event.

By John L. Lewis I I Copyright 1937 by United Press) < It is the opinion of the committee for industrial organization I that signed contracts are the | essence of mutual good will between unions and employers expressed in collective bargaining. ’ i No verbal contract has any stand- I I ing in business outside of those t verbal contracts between Indi- < viduals who have supreme confi- I : deuce in each other. 1 Businessmen sign leases and i papers of incorporation and sales 1 i contracts and it is regarded as 1 i good form to sign marriage con- i i , tracts, wills are frequently signed I I Finally, no treaty of peace, wheth- 1 er to end a war or threatened < combat, is finally confirmed with- 1 | out being set down in writing, i This is usually recognized as a 1 I common sense procedure. ' In an meployer employee rela- 1 lationship, assuredly the most 1 i workable arrangement is one in I which a union is recognized as 1 i the exclusive bargaining agent. 1 j Obviously, no employer could I make a different kind of contract 1 with one group of employes than with another. A union representing a majority j of employees wants to be recog-, nized exclusively by the manage-1 ment in order to insure its right l 1 to live and protect itself from the employers act of organizing count-er-agencies to supplant and displace it. (CGNTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Wind Blows Down M. E. Weather Vane After more than half a century’s continuous service to the people of Decatur in instantly tell- ' ing Taem the infection of the wind, the weather vane on the First M. , E. church steeple is through serv- , ing, at least temporarily. During The high windstorm of * yesterday, the weather vane was torn from the steeple of the church. In but a few minutes many local residents had noted its disappearance, giving evidence of its usefulness. The vane was placed on 1 the church at the time it was built i in 1881. WILL ATTEND : CONVENTION i 'Young Democrats Os County To Attend National Convention Young Democrats of Adams county today opened preparations for, the sending of a delegation to the third national convention of Young Democrats to be held in Indianapolis. The convention opens there Aug-! ' ust 19 and will Ibe held over August I 20 and 21. i Word has been received here ■ that August 1 will be the deadline for the registration of all who plan I to attend from this county. A regis-' tration fee of $2 is charged for the ! convention. These registrations are to be made with Edwin Kaufman, acting I chairman of the local club. A complete list of those who will attend from here will be sent to John W. King, head of the registration committee. Officials in charge expect to hold i cne of the largest and most enthusiastic meeting In htetory. Dick D. ! Heller, evecutive secretary to Govi ernor M. Clifford Townsend, is head jof the reception committee. ■ - o — . — Local Carrier Boy Back From Detroit Dick Briede, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brittle, of this o'.ty, returned i home last night after a two-day trip to Detroit with 75 newsboys, carriers of the Fort Wayne morning pa- ' per. Dick won the right to take the trip in a subscription campaign. ; While there they visited the Ford plant, museum and the zoo, among other 'places of interest.

JAPS. CHINESE SEEK BASIS OF KEEPING PEACE Japan Presents Rigid Demands As Basis Os Settlement Tientsin — Japanese and North China officials negotiate for settlement to avert war. Japan (presents rigid demands which Chinese may have to accept unless central government offers strong support., Troope meanwhile battle on highway between Peiping and Tientsin. Nanking—ChaiangKia-Shek wires to North to stand firm against any sacrifice of China's territorial sovereignty. Tokyo—Cabinet approves plan to intensify training of industrial workers in event of war. Soldiers Battle Tientsin, July 16 —Japanese and ' Chinese soldiers fought a battle on , the Tientsin-Peiping highway today as Japanese army officers and Chinese officials began negotiations to ; liquidate the crisis causej by j clashes in the Peiping areaJapanese sources said that Chinese troops fired on a Japanese de-1 tachment camping at Anping, 27 miles southeast of Peiping on the highway. The Japanese counter-at- 1 tacked, the dispatch said, and dis-' armed 100 Chinese. No mention was made of casualties. Both armies continued to mass men, and another Japanese destroy-1 er arrived at Tangku on the coast I near here, ready for war if today's negotiations failed. Japanese army men demanded, that the eenrb:-autonomous Hopei I Chahar political council administering the affairs of Northern China assume responsSuility for all North China affairs, particularly as regards Chinese-Jaipanese relations, ] to the exclusion of the National Chinese government. This the Chinese negotiators re fused to do. Chinese officials cognizant of the negotiations were deeply Pessimistic. This was taken to indicate that the possibility of real resistance to (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) PROF. DUTCHER DIES THURSDAY I. U. Professor, Native Os Adams County, Dies Thursday Prof. John Benjamin Dutcher, for 29 years a member of the physics department of Indiana University, Bloomington, died Thursday in the Robert W. Long Hospital in Indianapolis of a heart ailment, having become ill July 2. Had he lived un- | til Saturday Prof. Dutcher would have been 62 years old. The deceased was born in Root township, Adams county, July 17, 1875, a son of Samuel and Nancy Dutcher. He spent the early years of his life in and near Decatur, later teaching in the schools of Adams county and Decatur, 'both in th° grades an<] high school. He married Belle Evane Dec. 24, 1899- He went from Decatur to i Bloomington in 19C5 where he was affiliated with the university until 1 the time of his death. Prof. Dutcher held the A. 8., M. A., and Ph. D. degrees from Indiana I University. For the last several years he had been vice-president of the workingmen’s building and loan association. Survivors are the widow; one son Vernon and a daughter Loneita; three sisters, Mrs. Charles Nyffler of St. Mary’s twp ; Mrs. Herman Bosse, Washington twp.; Mrs. Homer Ginter, Craigville. Two children and a brother, Alonzo, are deceased. Funeral services will be held in Bloomington Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock, with Iburial in the Bloomington cemetery. Knight Offers To Stand Early Trial Landson, Penn., July 16 —(UP) — Albert R. Knight, 56, choir singer and one time wealthy oil company executive, offered from this jail cell today to submit to immediate immediate trial on charges that he attempted to destroy his three daugters by fire to collect $130,000 insurance. Predicting his full vindication, the tall portly father of five children said all his “insurance and other trasactions have been carried on openly and in good faith in the interests of my children”. A hearing scheduled for today on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to obtain Knight's liberty and reduce his bail from SIO,OOO to SSOO was postponed until Monday.

Roosevelt Orders Fight To Finish On Court Reform

PLAN ATHLETIC FIELD SHELTER School Board Plans Shelter House At Worthman Field Tentative plans for a shelter house for players at the Worthman athletic Held are being made by the Decatur school board, who j will probably include such a proI ject in the proposed budgets for 1937. The proposed building is being 1 designed by 'Amos Ketchum, manual training and mechanical drawI ing instructor in the public ! schools. An inexpensive but attractive building is desired by the school jboard . The proposed building is to include a dressing room and shower, I two features which have been badly i/eded at the Held. It is now necessary for athletes to dress at , either the high school or Central building and then walk or ride the 1 eight blocks to the field. Overheated players are susceptible to colds on their return trip, physicians have pointed out. ( One of the difficulties now being worked out is the hooking on of the proposed building to a sewer. One sewer would necessitate the digging up of the athletic field. WPA labor will be requested for i the sewer laying and possibly the construction. The state school architect has ' approved a maximum expenditure , of $2,500. School officials do not ' I expect the expenditure to amount • to any such large figures. o Three Convicts Release Hostage Sapulpa, Okla., July 16. —(U.R) — Three desperate convicts fleeing the Texas state prison farm releas- ' ed the 25-year-old son of an oil millionaire early today and conI tinued their flight toward the Kan- | sas border. They had held him ’ seven hours as a hostage. The hostage was Baird Markham, Jr., a student at Yale university and son of a director of the American Petroleum Institute In- ■ dustries committee. He had not i been harmed and seemed to have , I enjoyed his experience. He was - the second hostage to have been d held by the convicts in their spec- : tacular flight northward from Tex- ■ as which began July 8 and has I been accompanied by a trail of ; shooting and stolen cars. : o STORM GAUSES ; MORE DAMAGE Wind, Lightning And Rain Again Hit This Community Wind, lightning and rain again hit the city of Decatur and surrounding community late yesterday ' afternoon for the second time in as many days, leaving more propI I erty damage in its wake. While on the whole the damage ' created yesterday was less severe than that of the day before, the added burden to utility workmen ' was doubly increased. 1 j Light and telephone lines to homes were ripped away. Falling 1 limbs from trees knocked down ' wires and disrupted the service. A transformer of the city light department caught fire from lightning. Scores of fuses burned out from I overloads by the jagged streaks of lightning. Another heavy rainfall, added to ' I the nearly two inches of the day ' preceding, impeded the labors of I utility workmen and water-soaking ■ the lines being repaired. (■ Employes of the city light plant ' arose early yesterday morning with ' I but a few hours sleep and immed- | lately went to work in an effort to ' restore the disrupted service. Martin J. Mylott, city light superintendent. described the freqquent damage done this year from lightning as the worst he had ever experienced in 44 years with the city light company. Traffic on the city streets has been greatly impeded by falling limbs, many completely blocking traflic until removed.

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j President Demands Fight To Finish On Court Bill; Adjournment Hopes Smashed. FAVOR BARKLEY Washington, July 16. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt’s abrupt fight-to-the-finish orders on judiciary reorganization smashed head-on today with a congressional movement to scuttle the court bill and adjourn. It caught adjournment forces unprepared for the maneuver by which Mr. Roosevelt became the active, aggressive leader of senators who would expand the judiciary. Some observers believed Mr. Roosevelt also had boosted Sen. Alben W. Barkley, D., Ky., toward the majority leadership under circumstances which may bring a caucus showdown among senate Democrats next week not only on the court issue but on new deal spending and its policies in general. Barkley’s election would soon administration prestige and place the senate in charge of a man enthusiastically committed to new deal plans. Choice of Sen. Pat Harrison, D., Miss., the other outstanding candidate, would be viewed as notice to the White House that a majority of Democratic senators believed the new deal was moving too fast and too far. It would be a step toward early adjournment. The president wrote Barkley that it was the duty of congress and especially of Democrats to devise methods and enact judiciary reorganization. He rebuked senators who forgot "recent respect” for the memory of Majority Leader Tdseph T. Robinson to discuss political and legislative measures before his funeral. Robinson’s state funeral will take place in the senate chamber today preliminary to final services at his Little Rock, Ark., home. Mr. Roosevelt ruled constitutional amendment an “impossibility because it would require too much time and could be blocked by a minority in 13 states. He said his first administration had heard a public call for bank, agriculture, labor, housing and judicial reform and that when he recommended judiciary reorganization to congress last Feb. 5 “the time had come to act.” Restating his objectives as improving the process of federal justice by systematically adding younger men to the courts where oldsters lingered beyond retirement age, he said he sought action: “For the dual purpose of helping the older judges give a maximum of justice in a minimum of time, rjnd of keeping social viewpoints of the courts abreast of changing conditions. "These improvements,” he continued. ‘also contemplated adequate machinery for supervision by the Supreme Court of the expeditious dispatch of business by the lower courts, and for getting constitutional questions to the Supreme (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Dr. Piccard Plans Stratosphere Flight Rochester, Minn. July 16 —(UP) — Dr. Jean Piccard’s experimental flight into the stratosphere in a gondola gangling below a cluster of 800 rubber baloons, probably will start Saturday night or Sunday he announced today after being Informed that weather forecast was favorable. This flight, if successful will be the forerunner of a record breaking attempt with 2000 of the rubber balloons instead of 80. On this flight Piccard will not attempt to set a record, but plans to travel” eeveral miles into the stratisphere,” x) WEATHER Partly cloudy gnd unsettled tonight and Saturday; continued warm except somewhat cooler Saturday afternoon northwest portion. TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 78 10:00 a. m. 82 Noon 88 200 p. m. 96 3:00 p. tn. 99 Highest yesterday, 90. Highest this month, 99.