Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1937 — Page 1

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11l AVOIDANCE ■committee to ■speed action Kids Inquiry Into Mrs.! K Roosevelt ’ s Tax I Methods tax avoidance comtoday ended >’« inQUiry into ■Tp-ranUdi 1> Roosevelts tux ■ hlHt . and decided to rush rec ■Jetuianons tor closing tax loop ■” ul to aid the adjourn eanu- after the eotn ■ heard Assistant Attorney Roltett H. Jackson delend WmMnne. in whi. h Mrs. R005e- ■,.,..„ M’ a radio broadcast eon ■V, tli.ll charitable organize ■' rr ,<-oed r. 0.000 without pay- ■ ~,< nice.ne tax by Mrs. Hoose- ■„ attempt will be made to com- ■ o tmn on a tentative draft I ■' loophole closing bill tomor- ■ .l.attm.in Robert L. Houghton Bkukson appeared in refutation; ■ lh a, ges bv Rep. Hamilton Hah. ■ ‘ x Y that Mrs. Roosevelt .. s ,.d tax loopholes in her that-' donut ■ k,on «ho wart general conn- ■ . , hP internal revenue bureau ■ when the radio contract explained that Mrs. ■osM-elt acted on treasdry ad l. il her method as legal. in his opinion to tax- ■;..< ...-iM.illy and as having no ■ u , e*-. • on government rev ■L Roosevelt received no in for herself and was no rich■directly or indirectly for her Jackson said. from the $1 received by ■, Roosevelt to make the con■et binding. Jackson said, she ■, v ,.,i „o benefit whatever measin terms of money. Ha.kseii asserted that the m|K, , ax is primarily based not ■ what a person s services are but upon the amount that ■x payer receives. i R.I .—velt declined to woik ■ money he said, -and was only ■ ■iit.c to serve for charity's sake, i IHras and ls niy opinion that such broadcasts do not result in IHable income.' I Ke internal revenue bureau, he had never acted on the | |Kory that the value of donated, should be treated as con received income and broadcasts do not result in referred U? various nilby the bureau In connection baseball and other entertainKalnt performances for charity, ex that for years such prowere treated on the same ■ 9 as Mrs Roosevelt s radio ap emphasized, however, that bureau had sought to prevent aims.- of such assignment of to avoid taxes. Kate Tax Board I Conducts Hearing state tax board conducted a this morning on addition tions for the city ol The appropriations police, firemen, civil works and other miscel | items. hearing mi emergency appro for the school city of was also held by the board iICQHOL EFFECT I WILL BE SHOWN ■ovinjr Picture Showing Ifcffects To Be PresentI ed Sunday moving picture on the effects alcohol will be shown night at the Zion Reform church as one of the summer of union Protestant church ■he picture is entitled "The Reprobate." and was to give a history of alcoIM 11 Presents a scientific study ■ w [the effect, uses and abuses of ■Bohol as well as the results of scientific tests made by North»3plterl! University on the subject ■^fh p general public has been in ■Bd to attend the service, which been arranged by the Rev. church. BB ix Protestant churches will BB" Part fn the union service Sun SB' They are the Zion Reformed. ||jaf sbyterian. Evangelical. Chris|.K Methodist Episcopal and the

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PLAN TOUR OF INSPECTION AT CREAMERY HERE Open House To Be Held By Cloverleaf Wednesday Os Fair Week Details of the tour of inspection at the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., on Wednesday. 4-H club and Dairy Day of the Decatur Free Street, Fair, were announced today by .Carl C. Pumphrey, chairman for 1 the day. The creamery will hold open house from 2 until 4 o'clock, fol i lowing the livestock parade at 1 o’clock. Plans are being furthered to I make this one of the features of ■ the day. with hundreds of invitations to members of the Guernsey. I Holstein and Jersey cattle shows and other visitors at the fair, already in the mails. A conducted tour of the Clover- J leafs new cheese plant and mod- n ernlzed creamery department, with < I free ice cream and premium tie-)*' keto being given to those present * will open the activities. , Prizes in the "Sealtest ice cream 1 contest" will he on display In the Pumphrey jewelry store after Friday. The prizes include: a four ' piece Sheffield silver coffee set. a 35-piece Rogers silverware set in a Servidor chest, a ladies 10- ! piece pyralin dresser set; electric r hostess set. including toaster, chrome tray and glass fittings; five-piece military brush set and a seven-piece refreshment set with chrome tray. The awards will be given winners of the first to ( sixth places, respectively. r The winners will be announced j at the conclusion of the Wedens- f| 'day evening free act at 7:30 o'clock. The Decatur boys' and girls' i bands will furnish the musical entertainment at the creamery durIng the afternoon. CLUB TO HEAR • I REV. GRAHAM: I n Rev. R. W. Graham To c Speak To Conservation 1 Club Monday ‘ The Rev R. W. Graham, pastor of the First M. E. church here. ] I and a former member of the Ken ■ dallville conservation club, will address the local Adams county 1 fish and game conservation league in the regular monthly meeting at J Belmont park Monday night. I The meeting will start at 7:30 < o'clock. Musical entertainment s will be furnished by the Hobo i quartet. . The Rev. Graham will speak on 1 the subject of conservation and discuss the activities of the Kendatlville club, while he was a member there. I a Business relative to the annual ( pienic, to be staged in the near t future, and other matters of im- „ ! portance, will be discussed during f i the business session. All members and the general public is cordially invited to: I attend the meeting. o— Judging Award On Display At Store An engraved silver plaque, which ; will be given to the high team in the junior judging contest at the Jersey perish show of the Decatur Free Street Fair, has been placed •n display in the Vance and Linn clothing store windew here. The judge for the contest will be ’ W. W. Yapp, of the University of Illinois, a recognized leader in the dairy field. The parish chow, expected to be the largest of its kind ever held, is the third consecutive show to be held in Decatur. -a Fail To Break Buffalo Deadlock Buffalo, N. Y., July 28— (U.R) — Representatives of wholesale food - dealers and union leaders failed t|> break a deadlock over wages at a conference today, leaving the cltv ’ in the grip of an acute food short- ’ age despite the fact that merchants reopened their strike bound , warehouses. The merchants ie-| fused a union proposal to submit the matter of wage Increases to arbitration. * i it was reported the strikers, i members of an American federaI i tion of labor affiliate, had in- < ' creased their original demand. , . Spokesmen for both sides indicat- ■ ed final settlement still was far . away , although another conference was scheduled for 5 p. m

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More than 60 were injured and nearly 100 automobiles damaged when rioting broke out at the Corrigan McKinney plant of the Republic Steel corporation at Cleveland. Union headquarters was wrecked and pickets dispersed when company

TOM HUFFMAN IS RELEASED Tennessee Man, Chicken Thief Suspect, Released From Jail Thomas Huffman, aged 58. of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was to be released from the Adams county jail today after serving 10 days for resisting arrest. Thomas, an alleged chicken thief, was arrested July 16 by Sheriff Dallas B'. ,wn and his aides when he and a companion drove into a local produce company with a load chickens and fled when officers approached. Despite the belief of authorities that Huffman was guilty of the of- 1 sense, they were unable to produce . any tangible evidence of the.act. , The younger companion of Huff-1 man’s, who fled from the produce company has not been located. The chickens were sold to pay Huffman’s fine, imposed in city court on | the charge of resisting arrest. Mrs. Sophia Johns Reported Unchanged The condition of Mrs. Sophia | Johns, 88, corner of Adams and I Fifth street, was reported as unchanged today. She suffered a light stroke last Saturday. o Mrs. Green Is Added To Flower Committee Mrs. Lawrence Green has been added to the committee of the Decatur garden clu'b. which will be in charge of the flower show, on Thursday and Friday at the Decatur Free Street Fair. KIRKLAND LAD DIES TUESDAY Earnest Williamson Dies Last Evening Os Meningitis Earnest Eugene Williamson. IS year old Kirkland township school student, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Law’rence Williamson, died last evening at 5:20 o’clock at the home in Kirkland township. Death was caused by meningitis. The deceased was born in Wells county September 15, 1924. He attended the Friends church at Monroe. Surviving, besides the parents, are three brothers. Dewitt. Dorris and Nile; two sisters. Vida and Freda, all at home; the grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Grover of Liberty Center, and Mr. and Mrs. Rollie Williamson, Montpelier. Two great-grandparents. Mrs. Jennie Williamson, Keystone and William Grover, Poneto, also survive. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home, four miles south and three and one-quarter miles west of Decatur. Burial will be made in the Woodlawn cemetery at Warren. The Rev. Vernon Riley, of Monroe Friends church, will officiate. The body was returned home from the Gillig & Doan mortuary this afternoon, and may be viewed there until time for the funeral.

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y — police and men armed with various weapons I emerged from the plant to charge strikers. One man was killed and several seriously injured when police and returning workers rode through picket lines in their automobiles.

1 Final Band Concert Here This Evening I The final of a series of summer free band concerts will be given thie evening at 8:15 o’clock on the | court house band stand by the comI bined Decatur school bands, numbering approximately 75 pieces. As a special feature Cft tonight’s program will be the saxaphone-ac-cordian quintet, composed of the following girls: Kathleen Frytback, Patsy McConnell, Alice Yost and Anna Brandyberry, saxaphone players, and Marjorie Miller, accordian player. After the Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show, August 2 to 7 inclusive, the members of the band will begin a month’s vacation before beginning practice for concerts at football games in the fall. WELFARE BDARD ASKS FOR EXAM i County Welfare Department Asks State To Hold Exams — The Adams county public welfare department has requested the state department to hold special examinations for the positions of ■ visitors and clerk-stenographer in the local department. Mrs. Faye 1 Smith-Knapp, county director, anI nounced today. I Application blanks for the exam I I Ination may be secured from the local office and must be filed not 1 later than August 6. The examination Is made to establish an eligible list. Mrs. Knapp urged anyone interested to call at the local office. A clerk-stenographer must be 18 | or over, either a high school graduate or possess an equivalent eom- - blnatlon of training; be able to ' type at the rate of 75 words a : minute. The salary ranges from I SSO to sllO per month. ; A senior visitor must be not less ' than 24 years of age. graduate of :i i college and have at least two years ! experience as a social worker, or .any equivalent combination of ' training and experience. The salary ranges from S9O to sllO per month. A junior visitor must be at least . 23 years of age. a college graduate, I one year's experience as a social worker or graduate of an accredited high school with four years’ experience as social worker, or an equivalent combination of training. The salary ranges 'rom SBO to SBS per month. A visitor-aide must be at least 22, a high school graduate, two years’ experience as social worker or any equivalent combination of , training. The salary ranges from SSO to $75 per month. .1 0 Missing Sloop Reported Safe 1 ; Chicago, July 28. — (U.R) — The ' coast guard cutter Escanaba radio- ! ed its headquarters here today that the missing sloop Victory, unre1 ported since it set out with a crew of six in the annual ChicagoMackinac yacht race Saturday, had arrived safely at Mackinac Island. The yacht Wind Song, unreported since the crest of a gale which swept Lake Michigan, also arrived . at her berth, the message said. Coast guardsmen said they had : received no other details, except that they believed all persons aboard both vessels were Safe.

REV. ASPY IS CLUB SPEAKER Baptist Pastor Speaks To Decatur Lions Tuesday Night "Work might be an old and tried subject, but it is still the underlying fundamental principle of life," the Rev. Homer J. Aspy told the members of the Lions club in their weekly meeting at the Rice hotel last night. "Men Wanted" was the subject of the speaker, pastor of the First Baptist church here. "The frequent ’men wanted’ signs hung in the various windows and displayed in the newspapers iof today proclaim the return of prosperity and vouch for the increase in business trends.” he stated, "and yet the real meaning of the sign has been passed over." "Such signs mean not only that men are wanted for hard, material labor but as leaders in community and civic projects. Many i of us with our work and recreation i find no time for the advancement of public projects,” he stated. Relating a visit through the slums of a large city, he stated that he found a section where 100,000 men were sleeping under : the poorest of conditions, some lying in the streets. "The problem of each of us is to bring these men - to a ‘man wanted' position," he told the club. | In speaking of each man's work, he named the qualifications that are essential to a successful business life. Honesty, the satisfaction l of the soul in doing the right thing; initiative, doing the best in one’s own line; working for the interest of the organization and not just for the salary involved; (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) SUPPLY PASTDR ISAPPOINTED Rev. Rav Upson To Supply U. B. Church Until September The Rev. Ray Upson, evangelist of the St. Joseph conference of the United Brethren church, has been 1 assigned to the Decatur United Brethren church as temporary pastor until next September. Rev. Upson will fill the vacancy left by the resignation of the Rev. ' H. W. Franklin, pastor of the Decatur church for the last three years. The temporary pastor will arrive in Decatur Sunday and preach both the morning servio at 10:30 o’clock and the evening service at 7:30 o’clock. The reguk lar program will be carried o.tt Sunday, it was announced today. > The new minister will not make . his home fn Decatur, but will be t here each Sunday. He is well . known to many members of the r congregation, having held his ■ - present position in the conference t | for a number of years. Both Rev. Upson and his wife - are accomplished musicians, and i he is one of the outstanding I speakers in the conference. He; has conducted a large number of I j revival services In the last year. ; j A permanent pastor will be i named at the September session of the St. Joseph conference.

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WELFARE BOARD REFUSED FUNDS County Council Refuses Appropriation For Personnel The Adams county council, in special session this morning, refused to approve the request of the Adilins county public welfare board for an additional appropriation of $658 as salaries for extra personnel in the department. A request of $250 was asked for a clerk-stenographer and S4OB was asked for an investigator. Both were refused by the council. The board approved the $33.35 additional appropriation for salary of the county director. Two others were not approved. An appropriation of SSOO for repair at the county jail was not i needed. A S3OO appropriation for ! rebuilding the entrance at the 1 courthouse was also not needed. A cut in re-advertised bids for a heating plant and boiler at the [ county courthouse brought the price within range of the original so that only $7,000 was approved, instead of the original SIO,OOO. The only other additional appropriations that were lower than those requested were S2OO for clerical help for the county clerk and SSOO for staking ditches by the surveyor. The amounts requested were S3OO and SI,OOO, respectively. The others as approved by the council were : County clerk: books and stationery, $500; committment of insane, $275; furniture and equipment. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TO ORGANIZE CITY WORKERS CIO Seeks To Organize Indianapolis Municipal Employes Indianapolis, July 28. — (U.R) — Youthful Joseph D. Persily, regional director of the committee for industrial organization, last night outlined the program of the union for organizing municipal workers in Indianapolis and told a mass meeting at CIO headquarters there would be no strike against the city. "The aims of the United Municipal Workers union will be accomplished by means of legislation, negotiation and education,” Persily said. "Strikes and picketing will be deemed a violation of the policies of the organization.” Persily claimed the union represented 1.100 workers in 14 city departments. Last week he presentl ed a series of demands to Mayor John W. Kern, including wage in- '• creases. Mayor Kern replied by pointing out that "our policy is the same as that of the national administration. Any city employe has the right to join a union but does not have the right to strike." The mayor agreed, however, that “the employes pay is certainly inadequate" but added that “the only question is how to make it adequate and still keep the tax i rate from going beyond a point where none of us want it to go.” Persily voiced the belief that the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes j soon would affiliate with the CIO | in order to place all government employes under one organization instead of two separate groups. He said a national representation of the organization would be assigned to the Indiana-Ohio area soon to consolidate efforts in the two states. WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Thursday; slightly warmer east and south and cooler extreme northwest tonight; somewhat cooler north Thursday. TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. - 72 10:00 a. m. 76 Noon -— 80 Highest yesterday, 86. Highest this month, 99.

F.D.R. MEETS WITH LEADERS OF CONGRESS President Summons Congressional Leaders To ‘ Conference 1 -. _. _ Li Washington. July 28 — (U.R) — ” President Roosevelt today summoned his congressional leaders z to a 5 p. nt. (EST) White House t conference to discuss what legls- 1 lalion the administration would c seek before adjournment. J The conferees, announced by the White House. Included: t Senate Majority Leader Alben j W. Barkley. D.. Ky. 3 House Speaker William B. j, Bankhead. D.. Ala. j House Majority Leader Sara j Rayburn, D.. Tex. Observers believed that out of the session would come the administration’s decision on exactly what pieces of legislation are to be salvaged before the final adjournment rush sets in. One important decision to be made, it ® was believed, concers the fate of ‘ comprehensive farm legislation. The farm bill apparently is dead ' tor the session but strong pres- a sure for action now —or at a spe- ( cial October congressional session * —has continued. ’ Before meeting with his senate ’ and house leaders, Mr. Roosevelt ( will confer at 2 p. m. with Edward i A. O'Neal and Harold Smith, farm : organization leaders supporting the "ever-normal granary" farm i bill which the president has;, recommended in letters to senate I and house agriculture committee. chairmen. Majority Leader Alben W, Barkley, holding senate sessions until late each day, said he would move I the meeting hour up from noon to U a. m. if the wages and hours bill were not passed by nightfall. 1 A group of 14 Democratic "freshmen” in the senate an-' nounced after conferring with Barkley last night that they would insist congress “accomplish something” before adjourning. It was admitted that the ''something" included the wage and hour bill, tax loophole legislation, and a housing act. all part of the president's . legislative program. A bloc of veteran administration ( supporters in the senate, including Gherman Minton, D.. Ind.; George ' McGill. D., Kan.; Robert M. LaFol- 1 lette, P., Wis., and others, declared themselves in favor of enacting 1 farm legislation at this session or of returning to do the job in Oc- * tober. Persistent lobby rumors that the 1 president would call congress back 1 in the autumn to act on the apparently abandoned farm bills have been without confirmation and ap- I peared to be more of a threat than a reality. , The date of adjournment still < was indefinite, with Barkley re- | fusing to speculate on it. Other Democratic leaders not , (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) O INDUSTRIES TO HAVE EXHIBITS Industrial Exhibits To Be Part Os Decatur Free ; Street Fair , Plans for an industrial exhibit, wh-Ich will be a part as the Decatur [ Free Street Fair, are progressing . rapidly, according to Bud Townsend i chairman of the exhibit committee. > The exhibit, which will be housed in a large 100-foot tent, will be located on Madison street near Third street. in addition to the industrial, a grou'p of commercial exhibits, featuring special lines of various local agents, will be on display. The display of the Indiana state i conservation department, will also i ibe housed in the tent. The conservation exhibit Is expected to be one I of the feature exhibits cf the fair. To date, exhibits secured for the I display, include trucks, washers. : farm Implements, hatchery equipment and a host of others. Friday has been set as the deadline for entering products in the exhibit.

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Foreigners Gather Into Legation Quarters In Protection As Troops Battle Fiercely. MAJOR CASUALTIES Peiping July 28 —(UP) —War between Japan and China raged ferouciously in the Peiping area tonight while foreigners gathered In legation quarters for protection behind sandbags and the guns of their national treops. An American marine, Julius Filszar, of Easton. Pa., was shot by mistake by the Chinese as he herded American refugees into the U. S. embassy compound here, where 250 Americans are being protectedSimilar foreign defense precautions were rushed In Tientsin as Japanese troops from the homeland steamed in through Taku, the river pert. The precautions recalled vividly the defense of foreigners during the boxer rebellion of 1900. The major battling was in progress in a wide area south of the ancient Chinese capital. The Chinese dragon, its patience exhausted lashed against the invader from the Islands to the north and a showdown fight for ip.issesslon of North China appeared in prospect. China’s pride and fighting spirit was aroused and the Chinese jubilantly announced Important victories outside Peiping. The Japanese on the other hand, insisted that their modernized war machine was prevailing against the Chinese defenders, some of them fighting with the ancient two-handed against 1937 machine guns and artillery . All reports Indicated great slaughter. The Japanese announced tha 1 : they had “virtually annihilated” tha I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O AMENDMENT TO BILL PROPOSED Senator Sherman Minton Plans Amendment To Substitute Court Bill Washington, July 28 —(UP) —Sen. Sherman Minton, D., Ind., announced today that he w/vild offer an amendment to the substitute lower court reform bill requiring a twothirds majority of the supreme court to invalidate an act of gressMinton announced his intention of presenting the tv»'.thirds vote proposal less than 24 hours after the senate judiciary committee completed drafting of the 'substitute court bill .containing no supreme court features. Sen. Pat McCarran, D., Nev., reported the lower court procedure bill to the senate as it met Way. He said he would move to consider the measure when the senate ends consideration of the wages and hours bill. Monton said he would offer the resolution shortly with the idea of “letting -It lie on the table so that everybody has a chance to look at it.” The lower court bill, involving procedure changes, was drawn by the judiciary committee after the administration had abandoned its attempts t* pass President Roosevelt’s original supreme court enlargement measure. An “understanding" was reached among administration leaders and leading foes of the original court bill that nothing would be included in the new bill affecting the membership of the supreme court. Minton said that he did not know about any agreement but that "my pwxposal would not conflict with an understanding any more than CCONTTNUEn ON PAGE THREE) OMrs. Ruth Henery Dies Near Ossian Mrs. Ruth Ann Henery, 66, widow of James Henery, died at her home east of Ossian Tuesday after an illness of 10 months. Surviving are four children: Mrs. J. B. Anderson of Craigville; James Edward of Monmevilla, Orville Don of Rochelle and Harmon C„ at home. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Thursday at the McGill U- B. church near Payne, Ohio, with burial tn the Lehman cemetery, near Payne,