Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1937 — Page 1

EXXXV. No. 189.

IBLACK APPOINTED TO COURT

In New York City; 19 Persons Killed

2 Inflation I ndermined Heavy Rain ColI Lpses. Burying Vic- || linb: Only 3 Escape. I ho PROBE CAUSE il-.’ -. 'UP) |K| X 19 bodies from |H,.. : a six lamily dwell MHI Island which eollaps Mf.:.':.. • light s torrential [mHIS were killed ■ ;h. tropolitan arm UK' thH height Os the storm. IMn- •- whi ' h ,i,lla i> s, ' tl Kl, . I "id iwo Story tone toil it, three sections upon hri. k foundations with a g|Kp super st rm titre. It was ..t V W street, a cobble- ■ Kid ..;.y like thoroughfare in ■K ■ - I New Bi mi.loll ■■«, -.■ k ”P from a < 1..s : Cions and dump tb- superstructure into its KI'B-I wllar. nearly 20 feet deep ■Bk ' ■ s* used the immin■K) disaster several minutes KI. ■ ,I.l'irr’ d Felix Szewc ■Kj’> j tit of the neighbor K 9 l which is one of the most im-->d and squalid in New K I City's smallest borough. si reams of fright and saw ami .million huddled at of the building. ■ o'-led poltee and three emEHp. i respond’ d S/.’ w e IfHti.e sent tn his home, a block tor planks police intended Sb-■ spall th” flood. Will’ll he ■Kr.”'. tie t.’id the I'nited Press. house was gone." kOso terrific was the rain and ■■u-'-'orni that the building's nut audible above th” dm HHtte elements. gl B ? i-.itrolmen stimin’.nfc®!™ " ,h, ' r s, 'i lions of the borE.Mtt and Manhattan started the rd r-ci.o' Uig the bodies Uli■Btrttii glare of arc lights and the BMttrhlights of fire trucks. Hhtwimar. Mi Ifreen s body was BMteofthe first to be found. In HBams w. r- two dead children. hotii-s of three or four adults BM*tt nearby B Bill the bodies were crushed. K ■ b’ H 1-a Guardia and KHnii” c. t’i:m ...uti’-r Lewis K Vai BMlfee real li.ml lb” scene at dawtl ■ •tsuym remised an investica ' determine the cause of th” K l Ta,l! Hurl. y. husband of one of Wims. ’-scaped because he J: tone in th” movies. He said three weeks ago the building similarly flooded by waters down "te slope from BM*t! street which is at one end i ■*'■'■- alley toward Jersey street other. I he said, tore down a the building and left ■’Continued on page five) BTH CLAIMS I GEORGE FINK Dies UnexpectIj'y At Home Os I "aiifhter Wednesday Fink. 78, died unexpect,HZ . te Wednesday afternoon at of his daughter. Mrs. ’ I lb i, ai ' ey nort heast of Berne. ad ' )een in poor hpa,, h for year 9 hut his death was K' j ’/ <tp<l - He rame *° ,his co ”"' ?ML U . a s' Par a so from Montana, >. Bn,,.I*' 1 *' had resided with a sept. Mto rpn surviving are: Mrs. bK|>„ nd Mrsl ' Tiln ’ an Affolder. Kt p Berne l Mrs. Ted Ever.■h'k DeVa ’ Omer of New Cas■l.,'' Ovando and Sam of InK ’'“ls and Charlie of Fort Ben ■h, Montana - M" er »l services will be held' K k artP|noon at 1:30 o’clock at » e » atld at “ o’clock at the ’■Khtiti p orme <l church in Berne. be made in ‘he M. R. E.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

SEVERE STORM CAUSESOAMAGE IN THIS CITY High Winds, Heavy Rainfall Cause Damage In City And Vicinity Near cyclonic winds and lashing showers late yesterday and early this morning again created considerable property loss in and near the city, and wreaked havoc with I light, power and communication lines. Starting late yesterday after noon, the heavy showers coming j from the north brought dashing hail to add further loss in injuring crops. Within a 20 minute period after I 3 o’clock yesterday, the temperI ature skidded from SO to 80 dei grees and later dropped to near 70.; ■ The hail lasted but a few minutes Following several showers early last night, accompanied by loud | claps of thunder, the downpour i started again near midnight last night. This morning gave evidence of i the fierceness of the storm. Huge i limba and sections of trees were blown down, in many instances t frilling across light and uoimuutii- ‘ cation wires. During the night the Adams | county memorial hospital was with I out lights for more than an hour, ■ (CONT’NUED ON PAGE FIVB) FIRST TOMATO i FESTIVAL HELD Gov. Townsend Is Principal Speaker At Elwood Wednesday Elwood. Ind.. Aug 12. —(U.R) —Approximately 30.000 Hoosiers yesterday attended Indiana's first tomato festival here at which Gov. M. Clifford Townsend was the principal speaker. One of the highlights of the program sponsored by local civic clubs, the Indiana Canners Association, Purdue University and the Indiana Farm Bureau was the coronation of Miss Zola Mae Cook. 20- ■ year-old 5 and 10 cents store clerk, I as queen of the festival. The governor, speaking at the conclusion of the program, told the huge audience that “Indiana raises ' more tomatoes, produces tomatoes I with better quality and grows the most beautifully colored tomatoes of any state in the Union. “Industries, seeking a location for expansion, are coming to Indiana because of its labor policy, the governor said. “These Industrie* are not fly-by-night, low-wage industries. We don't want irresponsible industries any more than i we want irresponsible labor." Other speakers on the day long program included Dr. E. C. Elliott, president of Purdue University, who crowned the queen; Virgil Ray, general chairman of the festival; Mayor Orla A. Wann of Elwood; Hassil E. Schenck, president of the Indiana farm bureau, and Craig Pillion, president of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) — O — North-South Highway Passes Through City Enthusiasts in three states have starte da fund to popularize a new highway, kuiwn as “The Blue and Gray Trail,” which runs from St. Joseph, Michigan to Richmond, Virginia. via Decatur and other nearby cities and towns. The new highway enters from Fort Wayne at the north, passes through Decatur and follows 527 to Wiltehire. Ohio and from there through St. Mary’s and Belief.w taine, Ohio, toward its terminal in Richmond,

Failed To Stop Japanese March Into Peiping Til ■ fl I • ♦ ♦ -f MTi... ssa fl . M LST* H 4 iSMMWEjK B w —-Ihlkl "*r®*3sS iV'-tolvA A sandbag barricade, one of several erected in Peiping, failed to stop the Japanese march on the city for Japanese troops now control the ancient city following several reversals at the city's gates.

PLAN EXAM FOR LOCAL OFFICE Examination Is Ordered To Name Decatur Postmaster An open competitive examination for the purpose of filling the appointment of postmaster ct the Decatur post office has been ordered by the civil service commission, at the request of the Postmaster General - Mrs. Lola Macklin, widow of the late Phil L. Macklin, former (postmaster, was appointed acting pestmaster on the death of her husband She assumed the office July 30. The official notice sent out by the U. S. civil service commission for publication follows: "To fill the vacancy in the position '«f postmaster in this city, the United States civil service tommission has announced, at the requet of the postmaster general and in accordance z '.h an order of the president, an open competitive examination. “To be eligible for the examination, an applicant must be a citizen of the United States, must have been a t. ;ia fide patron of this post office for at least one year immediate/ preceding the time fixed for close of receipt of applications, must be in good physical condition, and within the prescribed age limits. B ,‘h men and women are admitted. “Under the terms of the executive order, the civil service commission will certify the name of the highest qualified eligible to the postmaster general who sha'l thereupon submit (he name to the president fqr nomination. Confirmation by the sen(CONTINUE® ON PAGE TWO) DEDNE MAN IS HEART VICTIM Christian Liechty Drops Dead At His Home In Berne Today Christian O. Liechty, 59, well known Berne iphotographer, died suddenly at his home there at 11:45 o’clock this morning. Death was caused by a heart attack. He had just completed a picture, when he suddenly dropped dead. He had not been in ill health. The deceased was born in French township, August 28, 1877 the son of Jacob and Annie Liechty. He was married to Rose McCollough September 29, 1906. No children were born to the union. Surviving are the follwing brothers and sisters: Mrs. Catherine Inniger, Jacob L. Liechty, and Mrs. Dan H. Ilabegger, all of near Berne; Mrs. Verena Inniger, Aspens, Michigan and David Liechty, of near Fort Wayne. Two brothers and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the West Missionary church of which he was a member. Burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 12, 1937.

| Beware—Tomorrow , Is Friday, August The Thirteenth Day People who are afraid to walk under a ladder, spill salt, see the moon I over their left shoulder and scores :of other supposedly signs of evil are warned !•' be unuually careful tomorrow Friday, the 13th. This will be the only time in 1937 that the 13th day of a month occurs on Friday. In May, 1938, Friday will fall on the 13th. Last year the 13th day of November occurred on ■ F/iday. To the superstitious, the day is .supposed tm carry an added chance ' for evil and they expect many unlucky events to occur. To the less ■ superstitious, it’s just another Friday however. Q G-MEN, POLICE I IN BRADY HUNT • I Baltimore Police Uncover Arsenal Used By Notorious Gang i| ’ Baltimore, Md., Aug. 12.—(U.R) — G-men and police of two states to- ■ day conducted an intensive search '; for three members of the notor- ■ ions Brady gang who are believed ■ to have used Baltimore as a base ■ for forays into the middlewest. ' | A dozen crack detectives were 'assigned to the widespread hunt * i after police uncox-ered an arsenal i lot machine guns, hand grenades. ammunition and other parapher- ' nalia which they said the three ; had hidden here. ■ i Mrs. Josephine Economidis, sis- ■ ter-in-law of two of the three des- ! peradoes, turned over the weapons i and ammunition to police. It was 1 in two large suitcases which she said Alfred Brady, the gang's 24-year-old leader, asked her to hide. Mrs. Economidis and her two I! sisters were held for questioning I by federal bureau of investigation officers. Brady and Clarence Shaf- | fer, another of the desperadoes, . 'married her two sisters only a ehort I time ago, Mrs. Economidis said. She asserted that her sisters did not know that they were bandits. She said that Brady brought the suitcases to her house and asked her to hide them. When Mrs. Economidis read of the hunt for ‘ the Brady gang and recognized : their pictures, she decided to turn the weapons over to police.

■i — — Airplane Is Forced Down By Storm; Tied Down By Ropes

• David Macklin, son of actinf postmaster Mrs. Lola Macklin, and ■ Robert Lankenau, son of Mr. and ■ Mrs. E. W. Lankenau, underwenl . a more thrilling experience thar ■ , they had bargained for late yester ■ day. ’ | The two local young men engag ed Ned Bottoms, of Indianapolis I for an airplane ride from the Eit i ing field late yesterday afternoon just as the storm was brewing. ’ After a few minutes in the ait I the rain and windstorm struck compelling the pilot to make a forced landing between Decatui

OFFICERS FILE 1938 DUDGETS Additional Budget Estimates Are Filed By County Officials More estimates of 1938 budgets have been filed by county officers with County Auditor John W. Tyndall this week. These are: County Clerk The estimated budget for 1938 for the county clerk is as follows: salary of clerk, $1,840; salary of first deputy. $960; clerk in clerk’s office, $600; clerical assistants in preparing for primary and general election. $120; registration fees in county, $175; registration fees in clerk’s office, $100; per diem of clerk, cases venued to county, $300; clerk’s fee, admission and dis--1 charge of patients, state institutions, $200; clerk as ex-officio registrar of registration, SSO; freight, express and drayage, $75; postage, • $100; telephone, $75; traveling expense, mileage procuring state ballots, $75; repair of equipment. $45; rebinding records. $100; furniture repair—cleaning office and records, SSO; official records, $200; statlonI ery and printing, $300; registration I supplies. $150; other office supplies. SSO; clothing for insane, $500; other expenses inclldental to ’ I committment of patients to stato | institutions, $600; chairs, S3O; law c books, S6O; shelving for store :l room, $550; filing cabinet for court ■record forms. $100; telephone ex- . | tension — registration and election purposes, $18; and total, $7,423. | The 1937 appropriation for the | county clerk totaled, $5,380 and is: 'I salary of clerk, $1,840; per diem ': of clerk in cases venued to coun'jty, $300; salary of first deputy, 1 $900; salary of clerical clerk. $300; registration assistants in county, I SSO; freight, express and drayage. $25; postage, $100; telephone. S6O; , • (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) I o Man Is Fined For Resisting Officer Henry Schug, 21, of Berne, was fined $1 and costs amounting to ■ $9.75 in C. H. Muselman's justice I of peace court yesterday on charges of resisting an officer. ’ Schug allegedly fled from a I drunken brawl and resisted Marshall Dave Dubach when the policeman attempted to arrest him.

g and Monroe. d i Successfully lowering the plane, d' despite the near cyclonic winds, it Pilot Bottoms employed the local n pair to aid in holding the craft to r- the ground. | Waving down a passerby, Mr. g-’ Macklin was able ter get a ride s. i back to the original landing field t- i near here. Returning with his car, n' ropes were used to secure the I plane to a temporary mooring. ir! The lads finally returned to their c, I homes here, soaking wet from the a j lashing rain, but happy to return ir unharmed from their experience.

Sen. Hugo Black Os Alabama Is Nominated Byoßoosevelt To Supreme Court Vacancy

CHINA INTENDS RESISTANCE TO ALL AGGRESSION Tantamount To General War; Shanghai Is Near Martial Law Nanking, Friday, Aug. 13.—(U.R) —The foreign office today announced that China intends to resist Japanese aggression. The statement was tantamount to an admission that a general but unofficial war exists between the two nations. “China has no other way out except to act in self defence and resist aggression,” the statement said. “The responsibility for future developments rests entirely ’with Japan.” There was no intimation immediately as to wether the statement was preliminary to a severeance of diplomatic relations with Tokyo. Martial Law (Copyright 1937 by UP.) Shanghai, Friday, Aug. 13. —(U.R) —Virtual martial law prevailed today throughout Shanghai's international settlement, the French concession, and the native city. Britain mobilized a regiment at Uongkong. her crown colony in South China, for possible trans- ' port to this war threatened city of 3,500,000 people and was reported to have appealed to the United (CONTINUED ON PAGE SfX) o HOUSE BATTLES OVER MEASURE Fight Over Wages And Hours Bill Threatens Adjournment Washington, Aug. 12 —(U.R> —A house battle over the administration's wage and hours bill today wrecked p’ans to adjourn congress by Aug. 21 and threatened to force sidetracking of the measure for this session. Disgruntled southern Democrats, opposed to the labor standards measure and critical of President Roosevelt's crop loan stand, led the fight to keep the bill in the powerful house rules committee. Administration leaders, lacking votes to win house right-of-way for wages-hours legislation from the rules group, worked to break a committee deadlock. They admitted that failure to bring the bill ”.ut might kill it for the session unless adjournment is delayed for i several weeks. Adjournment by Aug. 21, leaders said, is definitely “out” regardless of developments on the wage and hours measure. Chances faded for any house action until next week on wages-hours, housing and tax loophole-dosing legislation, the three “must” bills remaining on the house list. So confused was the situation that the house prepared to consider today a minor measure establishing a commission to study irrigation reclamation projects in behalf of water users. The senate was entangled in a dispute over an anti-lynching bill already passed by the house. Majority leaders Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky worked to avoid a possCCONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m GO 10:00 a. in 72 Noon "4 2:00 p. m "8 WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Friday; slightly cooler extreme southwest portion tonight, slightly warmer Friday central and north portions.

BOARD SEEKING HIGHER BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR Commissioners Ask sl6,000 Increase For Budget During 1938 An increase of approximately $16,000 has been estimated in the 1938 budget for ,he Adams county commissioners, as compared to the 1937 appropriation. The budget was prepared and tabulated at a meeting of the board held in the county auditor's office I Wednesday evening, and includes expenses directly under the supervision of the commissioners and those estimated by department heads under the commissioners. The proposed 1938 budget is approximately $35,000. The appropriation for the commissioners in 1937 is $22,763. The two are difficult to compare as a new foym Is required this year in which several departments are not included. Among those ommitted in the commissioners' budget and included on separate budgets are: county agent's office, $2,690 and county health officer, $563 Election Year Several new expenditures are ineluded in the new budget, the largest being $6,124 for election expense next year. The appropriation for registration this year is $l4O as compared to a request of S7OO next year. Requests for entirely new appropriations are: per diem engineers ! helpers on road. $200; highway right of ways. $500; examination of records. $2,500; ejection rental, ! $300; election meals, $750; election equipment. $300; registration sup- , plies. $350; election supplies, $2.1000; fees so rrogistrati«n of voters, $350; engineers helper on roads, $200; election inspectors, $428; election judges, $550; election clerks. $728; election sheriffs, $414; canvassers board and commissioners. $450; canvasers board and commissioners’ assistant, $l5O total requested new expenditures, $10,224. Increases totaling $5,950 have been ought in the following items and amount s of increase: county council, S 80; per diem of road viewers, $100; township assessors. $1,295; county agricultural association, $475; American Legion (Memorial Day), SSO; Irene Byron. $2,500; commissioners ditch expense. SI,OOO, and in(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 LODGE MEMBERS TO CONVENTION Local Moose Members Attend State Convention At Fort Wayne A large delegation of members from Adams lodge 1311, Loyal Order of Moose, left this morning for Fort Wayne to attend the’ opening session of the state Moose convention at Fort Wayne. The opening session sartefl at 4:30 o’clock this afternoon. Registration opened at 8 o'clock this morning. Wamen of the Moose met at 2 o’clock this afternoon for committee reports. This afternoon’s session heard Mayor Harry W. Baals of Fort Wayne, Harry Hilgeman, past dictator and J. Oscar Clem, dictator of the Fort Wayne lodge. The convention will continue throughout Friday and Saturday, with a banquet Saturday evening at 6:30 o’clock and a dance as the closing event of the convention. Others from Decatur ledge are expected to attend sessions later In the week. The Women of the Moose exipect to have a large representation in attendance, local officials state.

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Nomination By President Is Expected; Senate Delays Confirmation Os New Justice, BLACK A LIBERAL Washington, Aug. 12. — (U.K) President Roosevelt today nominated Sen. Hugo l-afayette Black as associate justice of the Supreme Court but the still glowing flames of congressional battle over the high tribunal prevented immediate confirmation by the senate. Nomination of the slight, fairhaired Alabaman came as a shock to the senate despite the fact that there had been scattered speculation of the possibility that he might be selected to succeed retired Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter. Sen. Henry F. Ashurst, D., Aril., chairman of the judiciary committee, arose in the senate after VicePresident John Nance Garner had announced receipt of the nomination and moved that it be acted upon immediately. From the Republican side of the aisle, silvery-haired Sen. Hiram W. Johnson, R., Cal., who bitterly fought the president's original Supreme Court legislation, arose to object and insist —without reflection on the nominee—that the regular procedure be followed. The nomination was then referred to a subcommittee of the judiciary headed by Sen. M. M. Neely, D., W. Va., which was expected to report expeditiously. Black, clad in a white linen suit and with his usually rumpled hair combed back slick from his high forehead, sat silent at his deck on the Democratic side, turning occasionally in his chair to face the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) URGES ACTION ON FARM PLAN Senate Committee Votes Approval Os BlackBilbo Resolution Washington, Aug. 12 —(U.R) —The senate agriculture committee today voted approval of the BlackBilbo resolution, expressing the “sense of congress that a permanent agricultural program should be the first legislation to engage the attention of congress” when it reconvenes. The committee action came after Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, testifying before an executive session, had pointed out that the Smith bill providing for mandatory commodity credit corporation crop joans might cost the government as much as $1,200,000,000 (B). Leaving the committee room, Wallace declined to comment on his testimony, but members of the committee said he had testiied in effect “if you want to help the farmers enact general farm legislation with production control.” Action on the Smith bill, sponsored by committee chairman Ellison D. Smith, D„ S. C„ was deferred until a special meeting of the committee scheduled for tonight. The resolution reported favorably, sponsored by Sens. Theodore C. Blblo. 0., Miss., and Hugo L. Black. D., Ala., was amended to provide that the proposed legislation should be the first business when congress reconvenes. It originally provided that the legislation should be the first business of congress (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Boy Scouts Plan For Trip To Turkey Run Boy Scouts of the city are asked to meet at the Central school building Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Final plans will be made for the trip to Turkey Run next 'week. Approximately 15 Scouts are expected to make the trip, which will take three days, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.