Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1937 — Page 1

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NATIONS BREAK RELATIONS OVER WAR ARMAMENT New Crisis Feared After Portugal Breaks With Czechoslovakia Lisbon. Aug. 19. fUJO -Portugal, aligned with nazi Germany in the Spanish civil war crisis, served ; relations with €xe< hoslovakia toI day in a diplomatic move that was i expected to have startling reper [ cussious all over Europe. The break was made on the ground that Cxechoslovakia, under pressure from an unnamed third , nation, refused to make good on a . gigantic machine gun order for ' Portugal. Just how big this order must have been was disclosed in an official communiciue which said that ; Czechoslovakia offered to deliver 600 of the guns —for an army which, including hteria creof hgt ' wchich. Including the air, force. I the cavalry and artillery totals 30,000 men. The break came as a surprise. It was nnounced in the early hours of . this morning. Within a few hours Jose De Costa Carneiro, the minister to Czechoslovakia, was on his way to Vienna, to which he also is accredited. The long communique in which the break was announced said in substance that Portugal, “continuing its rearmament of the army.” invited bids fron/ principal factories for a “certain number" of machine guns. One of the foctories was the Ceskoslovenska Abrojovska factory, “which is practically a government concern.” It was 1 commented that Czechoslovak guns were preferred, "principally because of the time of delivery.” Negotiations went smoothly for some time, it was said, though there were delays which “in the , light of subsequent facts" seemed (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIV3) LOCAL VETERANS TO CONVENTION Veterans Are Urged To Pay Membership Dues By Friday Night - Many members of Adams post I number 43 of the American Legion will attend the annual state con- , vention of the Indiana department, which will open at Terre Haute Monday. While the convention proper will ' not open until Monday morning, various forms of entertainment i have been arranged for the veterans for Saturday night and Sunday, i J. Henry Faurote, commander of I the local post announced today that ! the regular meeting, scheduled for next Monday night, has been posti poned to S p. m. Monday. August I 30. All World War veterans who have not obtained membership j cards in the American Legion for the ensuing year are urged to pay these dues by Friday night. The iocal post set a splendid rec- * ord last year, when 102 paid-up i membership cards were presented i at the state convention at Muncie. At the present time, 75 member- ! ships have beee obtained, and local officials hope to have 50 additional members paid up by Friday night, to present to the 1937 convention. Herb Kern is chairman of the membership committee. Other - members of the committee are AlI bert Miller, Tillman Gehrig and I James K. Staley of Decatur, Edgar I Yoder of Berne and W. S. Hale of ; Geneva. G. E. Employes Picnic Saturday The annual -picnic for employes 1 of the Decatur works of the General E’ectric company will be held Satin'dey, starting at 1 o'clock. The picInic will be for all employes and their fxnilies. All those planning to attend the I picnic are asked to meet at the factory at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon. temperature readings democrat thermometer CA g:00 a. m. 10:00 a. m. Noon . — '„ 2:00 P 3:00 p. m. 8 WEATHER Thunderstorm* tonight or Friday, except becoming generally fair Friday north portion; not so warm central and north portions.

United States Marines in War-Torn Shanghai

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1 Additional forces of U. S. marines were ordered . to Shanghai to protect American citizens and : property there as fighting between Chinese and Japanese Hoops grew in intensity. Scenes similar |

DECATUR YOUTH HELD AS ROBBER I . .. 11-Year-Old Local Lad Thought Guilty Os Minor Robberies The arrest early this morning of a 14 year-old boy by officers Ed 1 Miller and Roy Chilcote Is bellev- ’ ed to have cleared up a series of 1 minor break-ins and reports of prowlers in the west end of the city. The boy was spotted hiding be- _ I side the fence of the Maier Hide j and Fur company near the railroad ' rigiil of way i*y tiw | m they were cruising about the neighborhood where reports of I minor crimes have been frequent in the last several days. Caughts in the beam of the flash- * light the boy ran down the tracks with the officers in pursuit, but he stopped and returned when the officers threatened to shoot. Upon being questioned he stated he was 1 only on his way home and denied ' he was in any way connected with the offenses. The arrest occurred at 12:45 o’clock this morning. The boy stated that he had attended a local movie show which closed at 10:451 ’ o'clock Wednesday night. Since] that time he said he had been, walking up and down the streets ; on his way home. He said that the sight of the police car fright-1 ’ ened him and so he hid and later | ran. He could give no satisfactory reason for kneeling near the fence at the junk yard fence. He had ' been seen often in the neighbor- ' hood where three of the break ins (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TRUSTEE LISTS TEACHING STAFF Wabash Township Teaching Staff Announced Bv Trustee Mann i Trustee Jesse C. Mann announc- : eu today the list of teachers for Wabash township during the 1937-38 i school term. Three changes were made this ■ vear. Harold Long, former teacher in the ane-room school, will teach the seventh grade in the junior high school. Ruth Mahoney, teacher at Hartford last year, will teach in the Geneva high school. Magdalena Johnson is the new teacher in the township. She will assume the position in the one-room scha L the last of its kind in the township. Teachers in the grade’school will be: Catherine Fravel, first grade; Mary Wheat, second grade; Blanche Shepherd, third grade; Elizabeth iKraner, fourth grade: Esther Greene, fifth grade; Go'dine Butcher, sixth grade; Harold Long, seventh grade; A. C. Cook, eighth grade. Teachers in the high school are: John Bauman, Nell Pyle. Ruth MaIwtey. Margaret Rhoades. R. O. Hunt, principal, and Blanche A spy. Mr. Mann was the first trustee to announce the complete list of teachers this year. Other lists are expected to be released shortly.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 19, 1937.

Itinerant Fined For Assault And Battery William Elkins, itinerant, who i was arrested Tuesday n’ght on | charges of assault and battery was fined $1 and costs, amounting to! $9.75. late yesterday afternoon in ] John T. Kelley's justice of peace j court when he p’ead guilty. The charge was filed by Frank ' “Red” Hower after an alleged I brawl at a hobo campsite. Unable | to pay the fine he waa remanded te I jail. Chief Sephus Melchi and Con- I stable John Meibers returned him to the jail after arraignment. YOUNG DEMOS OPEN MEETING Young Democrats Os America In Convention At Indianapolis — Indianapolis, Aug. 19. (U.R)-- An estimated 10,000 young Democrats of America converged on Indianapolis from virtually every state today for the opening of their national convention. Frank Wickhem of Sioux Falls. S. D., national president, promptly I ridiculed rumors that Democratic I dissension in congress over the j Roosevelt legislative program and I the Supreme Court reform issue I I would have repercussions here. The resolutions committee, WickI hem announced, will recommend no controversial measures for adoption and probably will ask the convention to endorse the entire Roosevelt administration and its aims. Harmony, he indicated, would be the convention keynote. The speaking program presented evidence of close friendship with ■ the national administration. ! James Roosevelt, eldest son of I hie president, will sound the keyi note of the convention in a speech I Friday morning. He is a member | I of the Young Democrats' executive committee. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the president will speak for 15 minutes tomorrow noon and then, appear at a reception in her honor. Postmaster - General James A. I Farley will deliver the main address tomorrow night and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace will speak to the delegates Saturday morning. Any political maneuvering appeared to be confined to election of their own officers and selection of the 1939 convention city. Seven candidates sought the national presidency. They were Alvin C. Johnson. Indiana's state president; Judge Charles Bliss of Taylorville, Ill.; Lockwood Thompson of Cleveland; Paul A. Williams' of Columbia. Mo.; Robert Campbell of Wichita. Kan.; Thomas N. Logan of Covington. Ky.; and Pitt (CONTINUED ON PAOE FIVE) | o Joe Faulkner, Jr. Greatly Improved After nearly one wek in the Adams county hospital, the condition of Joseph Faulkner, Jr., Fort Wayne lad injured in an auto accidtton last Friday night, was reported by the attending physician to be much improved this morning. He has shown Steady improvement for the past three days sinoe regaining consciousness. He is suffering from a severe head injury.'

Ito that above, showing marines on duty in the International Settlement during the 1932 outbreak, were re-enacted as refugees fled the war-torn city by the thousands. i

WIN PLACES IN POPPY CONTEST Local Entrants Win Second Places In District » Poster Contest — Two winners of the Adams county Poppy Day poster contest won I recognition in the district contest conducted at Lagrange, according j to word received here today by Mrs. . Ve'ma Roop, local Poppy Day chairman. I Robert Franz, a graduate of the i Decatur public high school and win ■ner ."f first place in the district contest last year, was awarded second place in the district contesf this : year, according to the report. His • poster will be entered in the state contest this week-end. Miss ane Kleinhenz, last year a | student in the St. Joseph’s eight I grade, won second place in the juni ior high school class, comprising the seventh, eight and ninth grades. Her poster wae alw: entered in the state contest. Posters made by students from the entire fourth district were entered in the contests ana adjudged by members of the American Legion auxiliary there. o Young Democrats From County At Convention An estimated delegation of 25 y,.ung Democrats from Adams county were in attendance at the national convention of Young Democrats, which opened in Indianapolis today. Os the 25, sf-veral were former Decaturites who are now employed in the capital city, but keep their membership in the .local club. RESCUE PLANES ; ARE GROUNDED Storm Hinders Arctic Search; Wilkins Starts For Arctic Fairbanks. Alaska. Aug. 19. —<U.R> —The third day of a northern storm kept rescue fliers grounded today and lessened the chances for finding a lost Russian airplane before winter settles over the Arctic. Dense clouds, intermittent rains here and snows farther north, precluded the search. The six fliers had been missing six days. They made their last report by radio two hours after crossing the North Pole last Friday. ■ Jimmy Mattern and Joe Crosson, American fliers, were waiting out the storm here, ready to take out their two-motored planes at the first break in the weather. Another rescue plane, piloted by I Bob Randall of Canada’s Mac Ke-n-1 zie airways, was grounded at Point Barrow. Wilkins To Aid New York. Aug. 19. — tU.P) —Sir Hubert Wilkins, Arctic explorer, and a crew of four took off from North Beach airport, at 10:42 a. m. CST today in the flying boat Cuba in which they will search for the missing Russian fliers. The seaplane will fly to Toronto, take on additional fuel and another - pilot there, and continue to the > (CONTINUED. ON PAGE FIVE) !

Earthquakes Add To Horrors Os War Between Japanese And Chinese; Hundreds Are Killed

TAX LOOPHOLE BILL PASSED BY SENATORS Conferees Unable To Agree On Controversial Sugar Bill Washington. Aug. 19 —(UP) —The senate hurdled one more obstacle jin the drive toward adjournment toi day when it approved in less than ' 15 minutes after convening the administration’s bi'l i?. close tax loopI holes. Vice President John Nance Garner gavelled the important bill through to passage without objection and without a record vote. Approval of the complex measure, designed to plug eight specific i types of tax avoidance which the treasury estimated cost the government more than $75,000,G00 in annual revenue, came without extended debate. The bill now goes to conference with the house to adjust minor changes made in the measure by the senate finance committee. Passage of the bill by the senate leaves the adjournment schedule in shape virtually G, assure quitting of congress by Saturday night as ' leaders have hoped. Passage of the tax bill by the senate came with almost unprecedented speed. The senate considered the complex bill which contains nearly 50 pages of complicated legal lan(■CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) TOGRADUATE 52 STUDENTS [ I — Reppert Auction School To Hold Commencement Tonight Fifty-two students, representing one of the largest and most suc- . cessful classes in its history, will receive diplomas tonight, symbolic of graduation from the 33rd semiannual term of the Fred Reppert school of auctioneering. The exercises will be held in the I Knights of Pythias lodge home on Third street, with Col. Earl Gartin, of Greensburg, delivering the II commencement address. A banquet for the graduates and instructors will precede the exercises. Col. Fred Reppert, nationally known auctioneer and founder of the school, will present the diplomas. Following is a list of the graduates : Carmack Robertson, Memphis. Tennessee; Harry Osman, Portage, Pennsylvania, Robert Byrne, Olney, Illinois: Lloyd Porter, Fullerton. Nebraska; Frank Dumke, | College Station, Ohio; John W. Me- ! Kinney. Newton. Illinois; E. H. . Bloomington; B. B. MaiI j lory. Hamlet. Lloyd A. Ottun. Sterling, Illin- ' ois; Wilbur Eatinger. Fremont; Wendell Drake, Joliet. Illinois; Al b J. Hoffman. Tremont, Illinois; Ray j ' Key Hall, Fremont; S. A. Humph- | rey, Bowling Green, Missouri; ! Leonard Jahde. Sioux City, Iowa; A. P. Carney and Ben Carney. Mer- . idian, Mississippi; Earl Hamrick, , Berne; L. S. Curran, Mason City, j Iowa; Gay Quammer. Webster City, I ' Iowa; Stanley Ogrychziak. Cincinnatus. New York. Lloyd Garsueh, Centerburg. O.; Henry Buss. Jr., Columbus, Nebras- ’ ka; John Skidmore, Louisville, ’ Ky.; John G. Thompson. Corpus (CONTINUED GN PAGE FIVE) ~ — 0 Bluffton Tax Rate Is Set At 75 Cents ; Bluffton, Ind., Aug. 19—The city council has adopted a budget for 1938 totaling $35,496. Despite the ’ I fact that this is an increase in the budget of $2,300 the council adopted ; a rate of only 75 cents on the SIOO, | a decrease of 21 cents compared to | the levy this year. The budget adopted provides for slight in- ■ creases in salaries of city policemen and the street commissioner. An ordinance was amended by the council to provide for additional pay for the city attorney and the clerk-treasurer to com'p'y with the law. The same law applies to the j salary of the mayor. The amended I ordinance will add SIBO the maylor's salary.

LOCALPROJECT IS CONTINUED WPA Approves $1,152 For Hospital Sewing Project Here A WPA project announced approved for the Adams county memorial hospital today will permit the continuation of a sewing project at the institution which has been carried on for the last few years. One woman has been occupied witli sewing and preparing surgical dressings. She has worked with the other ladies engaged in the township sewing projects in the office of Washington Township Trustee John Doan. The project was approved in the sum of $1,152 but was to have included materials, which previously were furnished by the county. It is doubtful whether, under the new PWA regulations, the materials will be purchased by the federal government. Eleven Approved Indianapolis. Aug. 19 — (U.R) — State Works Progress Administrator John K. Jennings announced the approval by Washington authorities of eleven project applications totalling $232,051. Three of those approved provide for the continuation of projects already in operation. Since July 1. all applications regardless of whether they are for new projects or ones all ready active must be filed as new applications. Jennings pointed out again that Washington approval does not mean the projects are to be I placed in operation soon because of recent curtailment in WPA activities. In addition, he said, most of the projects now being approved were submitted before July! 1. when the new WPA regulations large expenditures of federal went into effect, and provide for funds for materials. With such expenditures greatly reduced it now appears problematical if federal money can be used to purchase materials. Among the new projects approved was one for construction of a public school building in Indianapolis carrying an allotment of $48,407. o- — Called Meeting Os Conservation Club A called meeting of the board of directors of the Adams county fish and game conservation league wiiT be held Monday night at the home of W. A. Fonder, club president. 225 North Ninth street. The meeting has been called to discuss the advisability of erecting a dam and three or four-acre lake at the Sun Set park site. Members have been informed by the state department that WPA labor is available for the project, Mr. Fonner stated Anyone interested in the project is invited to attend the meeting. The regular meeting of the club will be held on September 13, being postponed one week due to the Labor Day celebration. o DEATH CLAIMS CHAS.FRAVEL Wabash Township Native Dies At Hospital This Morning Charles F. Fravel, 31, Flint, Mich., a native of Adams county, died at the Adams county memorial hospital at 11:02 o’clock this morning. Death was caused by cancer of the kidney. The deceased was born in Wabash township, near Geneva, July 10. 1906, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Fravel. He had been employed in the Chevrolet factory in Flint since 1926. He was forced to quit work three weeks ago and was admitted to the local hospital Tuesday of this week. Surviving are the parents, at Geneva; the widow, formerly Miss Agnes Biery; four brothers, William and Herbert of Geneva; Robert of New Castle and James of Flint; five sisters, Catherine and Jean Fravel of Geneva; Mrs. Mary Bowers of Battle Creek, Mich.; Mrs. Erma Brunner and Mrs. Verena Blum of Flint, Mich. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

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Chinese Province Badly Devastated By Quakes And Flood; Jap Army Claims Victory. MORE MARINES By Earl Leaf (Copyright 1937 by United Press) Tehchow. Southern Hopei Province, China. Aug. 19 — (U.R) — I reached this bomb-pitted city in southern Hopei Province today just in time to be caught in the last of a series of oarthquakes which has added to the horror of the Chinese-Japanese war in that sector. Hundreds of people have been killed by the earth tremors, which were followed by floods in the valley of the turgid, yellow river 1 reached Chinese military headquarters after a hazardous journey from Tfing Tao. the chief seaport of this province, to find that Gen. Han Fu-chu had diverted many of his troops from war against the Japanese to a war against the elements. The earthquake had been continuing for a week. The whole district between Tsinan-Fu. the provincial capital, and Tehchow is devastated. I walked much of the way through a stricken country. Houses had toppled and fields were ruined by the quakes. It was impossible to obtain any estimate of the casualties. Hundreds of people had fled, however, before the earthquake and flood came, because of the sporadic bombing by Japanese airplanes from Tientsin. Japs Advance By H. R. Ekins (Copyright 1937 by United Press) Shanghai, Aug. 19 — (U.R) — Powder-burned, khaki-clad Japan- | ese forces drove forward along a L 2U-mUe trout northwest of Shanghai today and Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa announced that he expected this bomb-devastated city of 3,500,000 to be freed of (OUNTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) DROUGHT HITS PART OF CROP Parts Os Corn Belt Are Threatened By Severe Drought Chicago, Aug. 19. —(U.RF After a late start, drought has struck the corn belt and done severe damage in fields of Nebraska and lowa. State crops statisticians, grain brokers, meteorologists and college authorities told the United Press today that although Missouri. Kansas, Oklahoma and parts of Minnesota have suffered some, lowa and Nebraska were hardest hit by dry weather and hot winds. In Ohio, by contrast, farmers feared some loss of crops through too much rain. But even in Nebraska. where it appeared the greatest loss of corn would be suffered, not all of the state was stricken. Farmer S. A. Maley, in the heart of the Nebraska Panhandle drought area, harvested 20,000 bushels of wheat this season from 1,000 acres of land. O* D. Burris, in Cheyenne county, Neb., who gained fame last year when he discussed the farm problem with President Roosevelt, today auctioned his farm equipi/ent. “It's too much for me,” he said. Fred Wallace, chairman of the Nebraska state agricultural conservation committee, described the damage to corn as “very marked,” and added: “I have never seen corn burn up so fast. Drought went through the state like a prairie fire.” M. D. Updike, Oamaha grain dealer, reported to a Chicago grain house that in his opinion Nebraska would produce only 100,000,000 of the estimated 196,730,000 bushel crop. lowa cornfields have been burned in the three weeks drought but rains early this week arrested the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Former School Pupils Plan Reunion Aug. 29 Former pupils of district No. 8 school in Monroe township will hold a reunion In Lehman park at Berne Sunday, August 29. Dr. Amos Reusser, of Berne, teacher In the school In 1891-92 is in charge of the arrangement# tor the event.