Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1937 — Page 1

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|U LEADERS WINED TO fa VAN NOYS Ly Os State Shows Kjl f Administration ■ Has Backing Aug. 17. — (U.R) — I leaders, instead of retheir announced proEousting U. S. Senator FredKvan Nuys- are slowly conKting their position to make K their battle against him VL Republican nominee will persons high in the Rfoutuils informed the United K today K r tid's announcement of Van Nuys is Kjsible.'' a careful survey has ov ,. r the state, district to determine whether ■Lt ~11,1 tile of the Democratic Kjn the 1938 campaign. K United Press was informed Eof Indiana's 12 congression. the district chairmen Kmintv chairmen in nine of Eire solidly behind the organ Kgs opposition to Van Nuys. K remaining three districts, Ed the chairmen are behind the Kleadership although there is K unrest among a few of the Kt chairmen, and the third is Kain. K means that in nine of the Kghcts the party organization Kick the candidate agreed upKtite leadership as representKs Governor Townsend, and Lthe remaining three districts Kis better than a fighting Kn of not disrupting the pres■mthine. H ;s fortified, there will be a Km this week of the acknowlK party chieftains at which a Kbte will be selected to opK Van Nuys. and carry the Krratic label. ■is entirely possible that the; K will be tentative in order Kum the reaction of district ■ county chairman. First word Kt selection probably will be ■at of the bag at the Indiana Krratic Editorial Association ■©stinted ON PACK SIX) HID CLAIMS IECAWR LA DY Ik Mary Sophia .Johns I Dies This Morning At Home Here ifa. Mary Sophia Johns. 87, ; ■inent Decatur lady, and memvof a pioneer Adams county *3y. died this morning at 5:10 Mt at her home, 422 Adams Bath was caused by apoplexy \ towing ~ several weeks' illness. It was first stricken on July : land suffered a second stroke : r week. So deceased was the oldest ■l*r of the St. Mary’s CathoItkurch here. She was born in ®, Switzerland, November 10,1 • the daughter of John A. • Catherine Kohler - Walter. ** she was five years of age lame to this country with her , settling* in French town-1 lot husband. Fred Johns, died *W. She was a member of iSt. .Mary's Sodality and of the Wk Ladies of Columbia, hniving are a daughter. Miss Johns, three sons, William, I ON PAGE THREE) *nship Trustee Changes Location of Washington Town- • Trustee John M.Doan has been , from Madison street to the • building on South Second *■> the rooms formerly occup7 John T. Kelley. The sewing , has also been moved to the Nation. has moved his office rooms, formerly occupied by Teeple on South Sec-ad *>t r act Awarded For Bridge On 27 ind., Aug. 17—(UP) t’Y highway department tofe? hi ghway c-atracts toj "686.92 in Adams, Posey count ies, The projects, 'ouTl> C ' ,Ur ‘ ty ’^ rl<lge on roa '* iji, . Or ’ lm Run creek, 1.1 mile ' hlku * tUr; one B P an - 28 feet; In „ 6r - Inc., Fort Wayne; SB,ft ■ Completka date, Nov. 1,

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Killed in Shanghai - \ • T -Wk * w fc Ik f Ik Among th*» first American casualitles of the Sino-Jap war in Shanghai is the Rev. Dr Frank Rawlinson (above) of Boston, who, with his daughter, and two others were killed in the desperate tight Ing and . bombing which swept Shanghai. AUCTION SCHOOL CLOSES FRIDAY Commencement Exercises Will Be Held Here Thursday Evening The 33rd semi-annual term of the Fred Reppert school of auctioneering will close in this city on Friday noon. Col. Fred Reppert announced this morning. Commencement exercises will be held in the Knights of Pythias home on Thursday evening at 5 o'clock, with Col. Earl Gartin, of Greensburg, delivering the commencement address. “As a Man Thinketh So Is lie.’’ Col. Reppert will present the diplomas. Fifty-two students of the school will receive diplomas this term. Mr. Reppert stated that the class was “one of the best ever to be graduated from the school, and 1 that they had made wonderful progress throughout the term. Thej sales conducted on the street corner are evidence of their ability to conduct auctions in the most satisfactory fashion.” The class president, Everett Ruyler, of Beatrice. Nebraska, also expressed his appreciation to the | city in behalf of the class, voting a word of appreciation, as follows: ! “We. the members of the 33rd class of the Reppert School of I Auctioneering wish to express to ‘ the city of Decatur our appreciation tor the many courtesies extraded. You have made us feel welcome. As we return to our | homes in 22 states of the union we will remember Decatur as the ; Friendly City' and the most pro gressive we have ever visited." Banquet Thursday Preceding the commencement exercises Thursday evening, the Pythian Sisters will serve a banquet to the instructors and mem- ' bers of the graduating class of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE Fill'll) JIM MATTERN AIDS SEARCH Noted American Aviator .Joins Search For Missing Russians Fairbanks, Alaska. Aug. 17 — | (UP) —An emergency airway was routed across the Arctic circle today for American and Canadian fliers searching for a 4“st Russian airplane. Russia's Ice breaker Krassm was ordered to shore several hundred mile north of Alaska on (Ke 148th Meridian, where the crew was to establish an airplane base on an ice cap. x The other base will be at the , pole, where Russian scientists, encamped at a meteorolaogical station were instructed to prepare a landI ing field. Across this icy wilderness. where Russia's famous Sigismund Levan evsky and five companions disappeared last Friday on a flight from Moscow to the United States, the searching planes will ply. Already in the search were Jimmy Mattern. American round-the-' world flier, and Joe Alaskan pilot, both with specially equip-1 ped two-motor planes, and Bob Randall. flying a Macenzie air service, plane from Edmonton, Alta. I A Russian station in Siberia there were reports from Moscow j (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) I

SENATE OPENS CONSIDERATION OF NOMINATION Sen. Copeland Denounces Sen, Hugo Black As Klan Candidate Washington, Aug. 17 — (U.PJ— The senate today undertook consideration of the nomination of Sen. Hugo L. Black of Alabama to the Supreme Court with a charge voiced by Sen. Royal S. Copeland. D..1 N. Y., that the Ku Klux Klan once backed the Alabaman for election. The charge of Ku Klux Klan connection with the senator designated by President Roosevelt for the high court was placed before the senate as debate opened before spectator filled galleries. Copeland rose at his front row seat to address the chamber im-| mediately after majority leader Alben W. Barkley asked that the sen-1 ate vote on Black's confirmation. Black deliberately absented him-, self from the senate floor as the debate went forward. He did not, appear at his desk when the seas- 1 ion opened, one hour early at 11 a. m. and was not expected to be present during the discussion of the nomination. He has attended no senate sessions since he was, nominated to the Supreme Courts, last week. “Senators.” said Copeland as he assumed leadership of the tight ■ against Black, “our duty is clear, i This nominee should be rejected if the klan relationship charge is . accepted as true. “If there is a doubt in senator-! ial minds about his connection with the klan, the nomination' should be recommitted so that the judiciary committee may invest!-, gate and find the truth.” Copeland declared that Blai 9 made speeches “about and against: Alfred E. Smith, a devoted and devout Catholic” during the 1928 campaign. He then recited articles appearing in newspapers in which the question of whether Black was backed by or had belonged to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE RTX) DENT GUILT IN CIRCUIT COURT Two Men I‘lead Not Guilty When Arraigned I.ate Monday Gene Harold Maier, 22, plead not guilty when arraigned on two charges before Nathan Nelson, judge pro tern of the Adams circuit court, late Monday afternoon. Maier was arrested Saturday night on a charge of driving while intoxicated, by officers Adrian Cot fee and Roy Chilcote, after his automobile crashed into a car owned by Harold Baker, parked on North Second street. Previously he had been ordered off the streets after he was engaged in an argument. Monday afternoon, a charge of failure to support his wife and child from whom he is separated was filed. He was arraigned on both charges. The bond for the driving while intoxicated charge was set at SSOO and the bond for I the failure to support charge at I $250. He was remanded to the Adams county jail, where he had been ! held since Saturday night. Ray Steele was arraigned before Mr. Nelson at the same time on a charge of driving while intoxicati ed. He was arrested on state road 224 near Decatur Sunday by Sheriff Dallas Brown. Steele plead not guilty and was released upon supplying SIOO bond. The case against Ed Eichhorn in city court was continued because of the absence of Mayor A. R- Holthouse. Eichhorn was arrested Sat(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ' ' No Men Available For Project Here Due to the fact that there are no available WPA workers in the coun- ! ty little benefit is anticipated from 'the $1,153 grant announced Monday j for renovation of the Adams county court hcuse. An application for such a WPA grant was filed more than a year ago, with a number of other requests for projects. Since that time other acting WPA projects have been closed down by transference of the few remaining men to other I state highway, city and other pro- ! jects. The county commissioners are seeking $1,200 for repainting the I outside of the court house. Should j this be approved it is expected that ! all labor will have b? be paid for.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 17, 1937.

Motorists Praise t Indiana Highways Indianapolis, Aug. 17 — Hoosier | motorists returning from vacation nips through other states have a higher regard for Indiana's state system and provisions for their motoring safety, it Is indicated in comments received by highway officials. Only the through highways in ..me states are as well kept and marked as are all of the roads in the Indiana highway system, one I motorist reported. Tourist traffic on Indiana's state highway system is believed to have set a new record this year, composing more than 16 per cent of the i total traffic n..vement throughout the state. LA FONTAINE TO BE ON PROGRAM Infirmary Superintendent To Speak At W elfare Meeting Indianapolis, Aug. 17. —Plans for i the forty-sixth annual session of) | the Indiana conference on social i work, to be held in Indianapolis ! September 30 through October 3,1 have been completed, it was an- 1 nounced at the office of the state, ; department of public welfare here j today. '( Professor Francis M. Vreeland,' “Greencastle, is president of this year's conference. Dr. Vreeland is professor of sociology at DePauw. | He served as chairman of the com-1 ' mittee selecting study courses and i leaders at last year's conference. I Thurman A. Gottschalk, adminis-! i trator of the state department of! public welfare, is secretary, and ’ . Murray A. Auerbach, « executive, secretary of the Indiana Tubercu- ‘ ’ losis association, is treasurer of the Indiana conference. In addition to the usual program! ■! of nationally known speakers at | ; the general sessions and division ■ meetings, a series of ten study' i courses has been arranged to dis-j i cuss best professional method and questions leading to a new vision and a better understanding of the i possibilities of the job, under leaders accepted and recognized as outstanding in vartows fields of soeud work. Miss Elizabeth Munro Clarke is chairman of the committee selecting the courses and the leaders. Programs for the four general ' sessions are being arranged by a committee headed by President Vreeland. This committee is also (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ■! o — Injured Fort W ayne Youth Is Improved The condition of Joe Faulkner, ' Jr., Fort Wayne lad injured Friday j night In an aut-j crath north of this city, was described by the attending physician as much improved to-. day. The young man partially regained consciousness laet night. While he still frequently lapses Into a semiconscious condition, the prysician , stated that he expected tho lad to recover. He is known to be a suffering from a brain concussion. Xrays were to be taken this afternoon to determine whether he is suffering from a skull fracture. The condition of Robert Dowling, also hurt in the crash, was reported improved today by the attending ! | physician. A total of 30 stitches were taken to close cuts on the lad’s face and head.

Van Devanter Predicts No Further Effort At Reform

(Editor's Note: We are particularly proud of the following exclusive interview with retired Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter. It represents the first ' extended discussion of the supreme court question by a member of that court intended directly for newspaper publication, and is one of the few newspaper inter views granted by a supreme court justice. ! United Press Associations) By C. L. Sulzberger (Copyright 1937 by United Press) Ellicott City, Md„ Aug. 17 — (U.R>—Willis Van Devanter. retired justice of the United States Supreme court, predicted today in an exclusive interview with the United Press that no more efforts would be made to change the present size of the high tribunal. He said that he believed a nine-jus-tice court should continue as it insured “stability.” Justice Van Devanter received I the correspondent on the porch of his modest white frame home on , j his 80-acre livestock farm near i this city, 40 miles from Washington. He was attired in his favor- | ite dress —riding breeches, heavy

HOUSE SPEEDS WORK TOWARD ADJOURNMENT Leaders Confident Congress Will Adjourn By End Os Week Washington, Aug. 17— (U.R) . The house of representatives serv- | ed notice it is ready for adjourn- * ment today by approving a leadership resolution suspending rules I which cause procedural delay. : Leaders expressed confidence j the 1937 congressional session could be ended by the end of the I week. The resolution, always a prelud a 1 (o sine die adjournment, was offered by Chairman John J. O’Connor of the house rules committee. It was approved over the protests of wages and hours legislation advocates. who believed it ended all possibility of passage of their measure this session. i Passage of the resolution was the signal for leaders of both | ! houses to apply spurs in a drive 1 1 for final action on the five major ' problems still facing the 1937 i , session. ; The $78,000,000 third deficiency j bill was scheduled for house pas- i sage before nightfall. The Wagner - Steagall housing ! measure will receive final action I in >he house possibly tomorrow. The senate debated the nominai tiou of Sen. Hugo L. Black to the | U. S. supreme court. The senate finance committee ! scheduled a night session to con- ! sider the tax loophole closing bill : already passed l>y the house. A house-senate conference com- , mittee worked to compromise dif- | ferences in sugar marketing bills ! passed by both houses. | If the house takes final action ' on the third deficiency bill today 1 and the housing measure tomor- ' row —as leaders plan—the lower chamber will have cleared away all of its pressing business and will spend the rest of the week on minor legislation and in con- , (CONTINUED PAGE FEW HALF-PRICE LICENSES SOLD Very Few Auto License I’lates Are Sold At Half-I’rice Few licenses have been issued since August 1. first day for the sale of auto plates at half price, i : according to Dee Fryback, manager of the local license bureau, in a statement today. Giving evidence of returning prosperity, figures compiled by i Miss Betty Macklin, bureau clerk. ! show that despite the much larger total number of plates issued for the year, a sharp decrease has been noted in the sale of the half-1 price licenses. But 64 plates have been issued to date, she stated. Only 13 were issued on August 1, the first day. Tlie customary number for the first day averages about 50. It was also noted that 13 persons pur- ! chased the plates on Saturday, July 30, when a two-day wait wotlld | (PO-’"INUED ON PAGE FOUR)

shoes, wool stockings, and a blue shirt open at the neck. He sat in the porch swing and drew on his briar pipe as he talked. His interview came as the senate met in Washington to begin rbnsideration of the nomination of Sen. Hugo L. Black. D., Ala , whom President Roosevelt has chosen as Van Devanter’s successor on the high bench. The retirement of the 78-year-old jurist May 18—effective at the end of the court's last term, June 2 —came in the midst of President Roosevelt's battle to increase the number of justices. It was credited in many quarters with having helped defeat the attempt. "Considering the long period," Van Devanter said, “during which the number of justices has been fixed at nine, and considering the outcome of the recent effort to increase the number of justices, I think it may be taken as now settled that the number will remain nine. “I believe it certain that in the | future this number will be so far accepted .that there will be no j effort to make any further change. That is the thought and hope I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

President Roosevelt Orders 1,200 Additional Marines To Reinforce Troops A t Shanghai

WALLACE WILL SPEAK AT PERU Agriculture Secretary To Speak At Peru Thursday Afternoon A general discussion of the proposed 1938 Agrictultural conservaIti ai program, now under considera ution, and comments on new agricultural legislation are expected to lie included in an address which Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace will deliver Thursday afternoon at Macoonaquah Park Ln Peru, i County Agent Archb'Jd said this would be one of the few opportunities that Adams county farmers would have to greet and hear the nati iial agricultural official. Lee ixing, ipresident o fthe Miami county farm bureau and a “Master Farmer," will appear the program with Secretary Wallace, and will give the results of the soil coni servation 'programs in Indiana, according to word received by County Agent Archbold from Marshall Vogler, chairman of the Indiana : agricultural committee, with offices at Purdue University. Several of the state’s agricultural leaders will be introduced to the several thousand farm men and women, who are expected to attend. They will include: Hessial E Schenck, president of the Indiana farm bureau; members of the Ind ■ iana agricultural conservation committee; Claude Wickard, Carroll o unty farmer and director of the A. A.A, north central region; John B. Wilson. Jr., ranking AAA official and others. Leßoy Hoffman, who was reared on an Elkhart county farm and now assistant county agent leader at Purdue University, will introduce •♦ffie cabinet member t»i the attend- ■ ing farmers. The Peru meeting is one of a ser- ; ies of such meetings being held throughout" the cornbelt states and I the Indiana meeting is being held I under the auspices of the Indiana ! agricultural conservation committee. Mr. Archbobld said. In case of > rain the meeting will be held in the Peru gymnasium. o To Release Decatur Youth From Hospital Haro’d Kolter, Dc-catur boy in- . jured late last Saturday in an auto accident in Fort Wayne, was to be returned here this afternoon. It ; was planned to return him Monday ■ but physicians advised another day’s confinement in the Methodist ■ hospital in that city. Kolter sustain- • ed a broken nose, a bruised shouldi er and other injuries. . | His companion, Raymond Roop, driver. the car in which the two [ boys and two Fort Wayne girls . were hurt, will remain there for several days, according to reports. He . sustained a wrist injury and other i bruises. BUILDING SALE IS ANNOUNCED Fred And Richard McConnell Announce Purchase Os Buildings i —— i The purchase of the builidngs on North Second street, known as the • Sether block, by Fred and Richard : McConnell, was announced today, i The purchase price was not made ,' known. i The purchasers are members of ■ the firm of F. McConnell & Sons. I local tobacco and candy whole- ■! salers. ■ The Sether block was owned by ■ Charels Sether, local cigar manu- ' facturer and others. The block i ■ includes the business rooms occupied by Mots’ Place. Coffee shoe : repair shop. U. S. Package Liquor I store and an empty building ad- ■ joining the McConnell & Sons room, in addition to the upstairs, which houses the Sether cigar ! manufacturing store. The purchase also Includes the I lot in the rear of the McConnell & Sons building and all lots from the rear of the above buildings to the alley between First and Second streets. This makes the McConnell brothers owners of the block from Monroe street north to the alley, with the exception cf the building (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Slain Child i Ii I This is one of the last photos taken oY little Joan Kuleba, latest victim of a murderer’s brutality. The child is pictured only a few weeks before her ravished body was found in a deserted house at South Beach, S. I. JUDGING TEAM TO STATE FAIR Adams County .Judging Team To Compete In Indiana State Fair The Adams county judging team, which, under the snupervision of Sanford Frazee, Adams county cowtester, is becoming one of the first rank teams in the district, will be ’ entered in the contest at the state fair on !.abor Day, Monday, September 6. The four members of the team are Glen Griffiths, Decatur route 2; Chester Schwartz. Berne; Stanley Arnold. Decatur route 2, and David Mosser, Geneva. Sanford Frazee is the coach. The team began to study the facts about judging on Decoration Day and have since entered in six state open 4-H judging contests. Entrants must be between the ages of 16 and 20 and must have kept up their record books in 4-H club work. Their record in the three state open contests in which they have competed is: fourth place among the 19 teams competing here during the Decatur Free Street Fair land Agricultural Show; sixth place at Huntington among 33 teams; fifth place at Muncie out of 26 teams. These placings were against teams which have had much more experience. Some of the teams have been ccached the year around in schools having vocational teachers. The teams at the state fair must judgei beef cattle, dairy cattle, horses, hogs and sheep. The first prise in each of the classes will be $l5O. The winners of the dairy judging contest will be given free trips to the national dairy show at Columbus. There are three districts in the state and each district winner will get $25. o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 80 10:00 a. m. 88 Noon 90 2:00 p. m. 99 3:00 p. m. 99 WEATHER Possibly local thunderstorms tonight or Wednesday south this afternoon or tonight north, with partly cloudy Wednesday; not so warm along northern boundary tonight and central and north portions Wednesday.

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,■ I - —— Americans In Shanghai Are Advised To City At Once; Japanese Take Offensive. LONG CAMPAIGN Shanghai, Aug. 18 — (Wednesday) — (UP)— Fires blazed over great sections of Shanghai at 2 a. m. today—results of fierce artillery bombardment of the Tootung, Hangtze Too and Chatei sections — but inexpliably the gun duels suddenly quieted at that hour, 12 noon CST. Tuesday. Washington, Aug. 17 — (U.R) —■ President Roosevelt today decided to send 1.200 additional U. S. marines immediately from San Diego, Calif., to Shanghai to reinforce the marine guard already stationed there. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced the reinforcement, and at the same time said the administration will seek an appropriation of $500,000 for relief activities in removing American nationals from the war areas of Chifia, particularly Shanghai. Hull said the order would be issued immediately but that it probably would be 10 days before the detachment actually sailed, and five weeks before they reached Shanghai. Dispatch of the marines to Shanghai indicated the American government has decided to maintain its armed guard at Shanghai and at other points in China regardless whether the Sino-Japan-ese hostilities are formally declared to constitute war, with the consequence automatic application of ■ the embargo provision of the American neutrality act. It is expected that 1,200 of the 3,800 Americans in Shanghai will leave by various boats dnrfn£ the pres|I ent week ' Advise Evacuation ; Shanghai, Aug. 17 — (U.R) — American consular authorities ad- ,. * vised all Americans today to take ’ “any ship, any where" at once and get out of war torn Shanghai. Three hundred and fifty Americans, most of them women and children —one born last Wednesday. son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. j Kent, of Mississippi—left today , for the Dollar liner. President Jefferson, lying at the mouth of ! the river. Consular authorities estimated that when the Dollar liner President Hoover leaves Friday a total 1 of 1.100 to 1,300 Americans will have been evacuated and that about 2,600 will remain here. The I President Hoover left Manila for I Shanghai today, bringing a company of U. S. marines. , The fact that no ships are ! scheduled to sail direct for the . United States within the next fewdays caused the “any ship, any ' where” advice from the consulate ' —that and the increasing fury of I the Chinese-Japanese battle. There was supposed to be a truce today while the Americans “ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) , o PREDICT BREAK IN HEATWAVE t i Temperature Drop Is ! Forecast In Middlewestern Heat Wave t ' By United Press t Temperatures dropped slowly in 1 the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconr sin, Northern Michigan and Ne- • braska Tuesday and Forecaster C. r A. Donnell of the Chicago weather . bureau said he hoped the current - middlewestern heat wave is over. “I think the cooling off forces will spread south over lowa, Central and Northern Illinois, lower Michigan and northern Indiana Tuesday night and Wednesday,” Donnel said. A slight chance for local thundershowers in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, southern lowa and possibly northern Indiana was seen in the next 36 hours. Highest temperature in the United States Monday was 110 at Needles, Calif., while Phoenix, Ariz.. with 108. was a close second. Other temperatures above 100 included: Sioux City, la., 106; North Platte, Neb., 104; Topeka, Kan., 102; St. Joseph, Mo., 102; Omaha, Neb., 102; Des Moines, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)