Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1937 — Page 1

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Aosevelt Signs W Bill Reforming J Federal Courts

n Kcoruani/inu lower Signed: Issues II tenu'iit Objecting To Satire ■defends PLANS U.R) liN,.. i;,..,-. v.-lt today signed M. . , ' ■ i o' -'anizatioii bill a formal statement d ■ the objectives of los *,, enlarge the supreme ’sto* predicated on th** |^L, lrs ~f a great and growing R iKl# eVelt acted on tile low- * Pleasure last night, |^T liai ,. i,. fore the midnight tor his consideration of ■». d «'ire. the signature was not until this morning. lie signed the bill the mad>' it plain that it did his belief that the fed i BMjadlciary should be re- j objections to the lower Kkill were cited as: jM), the side of omission, it I entirely untouched any l of relieving the burden I imposed on the supreme provides no increase in the I of the lower courts, j ini-teas*' confessedly neces-1 provides no effective means |Hw:c:intf district judges to areas Sets up no flexible maehinSc. tnethods of adniinistia adaptable to needs as leaves untouched the crowdof the dockets in our courts in pro! id-'S for no flow of n*-w

i'>' <.x page fouri ht’ - toH ■ YOUTH IS "■ELD AS KILLER ■•fesses Striking AuhR ■ lrn ' out h Who Died II Os Injuries * B Ind ' Aug ' 25—(U.R) Ed ) year-old college bo\from Bryan. (.)., was lS $3,000 bond today after to the slaying of Ches ■' 23. Auburn, with a -of his fist during a fight ov ■•Fort Wayne dancer Saturday counsel gave his < ons ,0 Sheriff Ben James yes ■•’after Steuben county attth nad arrested another youth questioned him many hours. ’ |B'-'t. a freshman last year at i Green college, was charg-, manslaughter. His casebe investigated by the grand i October 18. statement said Craw .Miss Helen Ritzius. "’ayne, a., she was walking Mm and attempted to emgirl. | the fight which ensued. |B«t claimed, Crawford smirk and he then hit the Aubtruck driver once on the The blow felled Crawford remained on the ground. ■‘llett said he returned to the r Lake dance hall with Miss and remained sometime he did not learn of Craw s death until yesterday and immediately. had arrested Robert 20, also of Bryant. Luke. had accompanied Will- ■ 1( - the dance. Confusion arose |^P u ’e both were left-handed and similar clothes to the dance Filed ||“ith Justice Os Peace affidavits were filed in justPeace court today, charging Becker and Ben Bixler failure to pay stallion fees |B/ lelling the mares serviced. ■*'“ >8 months without paying charges. The affidavits were by Bert E. Juday. who lives HP r the Adams-Jay county line. charged that mares belong MB* 0 Becker and Bixler were serhy his stallion and that the •^T ers of the horses did not pay ■'breeding fee and sold their j-Bt*’ If is one of the first cases ißj* kind filed in the county The ■ l>«Me John T. Kelly,

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Welfare Head I ***’ ’*?*» Bff ■ W. Guy Brown. Decatur high school principal, was re-elected president of the Adams county I board of public welfare Tuesday night. THIEVES LOOT DFCATUR STORE Reed Feed Store Is Victimized By Thieves Last Night • City p-.’lce and county authorities combined forces today in search for the thief or thieves who last night staged one of the largest robberies of recent years in the city. The yegg or yeggs broke into the Reed Feed & Supply Company some time during the night, smashed the combination on the safe and

escaped with a loot, totalled at approximately SBOO. Among the loot was a check for $486 written to the ffrrn on an Indianapolis bank At least $250 to S3OO cash was 11 also taken, J. J. Reed, store proI prietor. estimated this morning. I One bill was paid in cash yesterday amounting to $245. he said.; This, the large check, several oth- ■ er smaller checks and an unknown amount of cash were taken, he stated. The safe-crackers, who are thought to be professional yeggs, gained entrance to the store ’ through a northeast window, pry--1 ing out the nails and forcing it op en. From there they went into the ’ store office and then into the small 1 room housing the safe. Since the safe is located in a back room on the south side, it was noted that the yeggs could ’ have worked unseen from the j street. | The combination was hammered I from the safe. A hammer, a putty I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) ALLFGEOCANG MEMBER HELD Alleged Barker -Karpis Gangster Held I nder Heavy Bond Indianapolis. Aug 25 fIJ.R) Anthony Joseph (Tony) Ambersbach. 40, Cleveland, alleged member of the fast-dwindling Barker-■ Karpis gang, today was held. under $20,000 bond for removal to Toledo. , .. . 1 He is a fugitive from an indictment in Toledo federal district court and will be returned there soon, according to Charles W James, U. S. marshal. Amersbach was given a hearing before Fae W. Patrick, U. S. commissioner, after his capture in a local tavern where he had attracted attention of local federal agents by displaying large sums of money. The heavily built, gray-haired prisoner protested to the amount set for bond and declared that he "could have made a SIO,OOO bond. Harold H. Reinecke, chief of the local federal bureau of investigation office, said the capture of Amersbach meant virtual comply tion of the rounup of members of the notorious Barket-Karpis gang who kidnaped Edward B^ e ™ er , wealthy St Paul banker, and held him until ransom of $200,000 was to Reinecke, Amers ' (CONTINUED. ON PAGE FIVE) I

SOYA COMPANY OPENS WORK ON , NEW BUILDING * Storage Capacity Os Local Company Is Again Increased Excavating for the big soy bean I storage building at the Central Soya Company factory site is underway. it being one of the three new buildings erected in the expansion of this progressive and 1 fast growing organization this sum- ! mer. The building will be of the silo type and will be an exact duplicate of the one built last year. It will be about 120 feet high and sufficiently large to hold 500,000 bushels of soy beans. The new building will give the company storage capacity for approximately 1.500,000 bushels of I beans, Roy Hall, president of the Central Sugar Company, announced today. More than 125 tons of steel rods and between 15 and 20 ear loads. of concrete will be required in the 1 construction of the building. With the additions now being made, including the two factory , buildings, the Central Soya Company becomes one of the largest soy bean pocessing plants in the United States. The company plans to process between five and six million bushels of beans beginning October 1 , of this year. The concrete walls for the storage building will be constructed . through the slip-form method, and after pouring of concrete starts, the work will continue 24 hours a day until the entire building is : completed. The new silos are located south of the present battery and will be be connected with the belt conveylor system with the processing , plants. o LIONS SELECT W. F. BEERY I Decatur Man Is Elected Deputy District Governor Os Lions W. F. Beery, rural mall carrier and past president of the Decatur Li»ns club, last night was unanimously e’ected deputy district governor for this district of Lions , clubs. Mr. Beery will be chief aide to W. G. Willis, Waterloo, who was recently named district governor. Mr. Beery’s election was made unanimous, by representatives from all Lions clubs in this district in the meeting at the Rice hotel. W. G. Willis presided at the session and told of a new plan for district Indiana 25 D, of which Decatur is a part. Other clubs which will be included in the section are Portland, Dunkirk, Eaton. Geneva and I Albany. Mr. Willis also delivered a short address as the principal speaker of the evening. Plan All-Day Meet Members of the clubs here last night planned to attend an all-day meeting at Monroeville Wednesday, ; September 1. The principal sneaker at the i meeting will be Walter H. Paine, international director and former district governor. The Decatur Boy's band will also j take an active part in .the day and will lead the parade. — o Restrain Farmers Selling Raw Milk Hammond, Ind., Aug. 25 —(U.R) — ! The state board of health has won a temporary injunction in Lake 1 circuit court against farmers who j are alleged to be selling raw milk ! from diseased cattle by a ruling handed down late yesterday by! Judge T. Joseph Sullivan. In granting the restraining order, Judge Sullivan enjoined the defendants from disposing of their milk until the court rules on the state’s petition for a permanent in-, junction. _ o— Mission Festival At Magley Sept. 5 The annual mission festival will be held at Magley Sunday, September 5. Rev. Albert Schmeuzer of Louisville, Ky, will speak at mornJ ing, afternoon and evening meetings. Rev. A. J. Wahl of Chattanooga. 0., will speak during the afternoon. Neibhboring churches will present a special musical program dur-1 ing the afternoon services, which i will be conducted by F.aymond j j Borne* I

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, August 25, 1937.

U. A. W. Chiefs at Convention . S£ii& - jri'' rs f \\Y / i t ,7 ' , I IJI .A ' (IK A 1 Thomas] Jfolchard Frankensteen | Martin] QJr Chief issue of interest at the national convention of United Automo- , bile Workers of America at Milwaukee was the contest between Homer Martin, president of the U. A. W„ candidate for re-election, and his I opponent, Wyndham Mortimer, organizer and regional director. Martin, I right, is shown here in conference with Richard Frankensteen, center. I president of the Dodge division No. 3, and R. J. Thomas, left, president of the Chrysler lodge No. 7.

OFFICERS HUNT CHILD STEALER Chicago Infant Found Safely, Wearing All New Clothes Chicago, Aug. 25 —<U.R> —Police displayed expensive new swadd- | ling clothes before north side : store clerks today seeking the woman who stole three-months-old ' Diane Lucas from her carriage and abandoned her on a doorstep less than 24 hours later. Diane was found on the rear steps of a north side apartment late yesterday after an anonymous ] tip to police headquarters. 1 "A baby will be found on the 4-xear step* al 7420 Daiuen Avenue" 1' said a voice on the police telephone. Diane was wearing the new clothes and wrapped in a newwhite blanket. She was unharmed. Police said it substantiated their belief a woman with an “exaggerated mother complex” seized Diane from her carriage in front of a grocery store late Monday while her mother shopped. The kidnaper became frightened by the extensive search and realization of what she had done, police said. There had been no ransom demand and the father. Herman Lucas .poor Armenian rug mend- ' er, was in no position to pay one. He said he had no enemies A meagre, second-hand report of a woman who handled babies in their carriages along the north (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o ALLEGED KILLER UNDER ARREST; Man Wanted For Indianapolis Murder Held In California Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 25—(U.R) —Charles Streeton. Cincinnati, O. wanted here in connection with murder of Bert F. Callahan, local real estate operator in 1923, was arrested late yesterday in San Francisco. Cal., Herold H. Reinecke, head of the Indiana office of : the federal bureau of investiga-i i ttion. announced today. Streeton, who authorities have ' sought for three and a half years, was arrested for violation of the Dyer act, a federal law prohibiting interstate transport of stolen automobiles. Reinecke said. Streeton had been identified pre--1 ceding his arrest in San Francisco as the man sought for the fatal shooting of Callahan. Identification was made through a small piece of wood chipped from the hand grip of a gun found in the apartment where Callahan’s body was discovered. Streeton and Mrs. Theo. Horney Sherman, gray-haired mother of six children, who later was arrested, had been sought since two days after the murder. Mrs Sherman was apprehended in Cincinnati, 0., in November, I 1934, and admitted under questioning that Streeton told her while I they were seated on a park bench 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Lad Injured When Struck By Bicycle Bobby Gaunt, five-year old son of Wayne Gaunt, of near this city, was painfully injured shortly after 5 o’clock last evening when he was hit by a bicycle on South Sec- 1 ond street. The lad suffered a laceration on the forehead, contusion of the nose and upper lip and abrasions about the neck. He was treated at a local physician's office. The lad on the bicycle, evidently frightened after stopping at the accident scene, left before anyone could learn his name. o— MARTIN URGES FIGHT ON FORD Auto Workers’ Union Cheer Proposal To Unionize Ford Milwaukee. Wis., Aug. 25 —(U.R) —Wildly cheering members of the United Automobile Workers' Union roared their approval today of a proposal to pool the U.A.W.'s resources for a finish fight with Henry Ford. “No matter how much money it takes,” Homer Martin, U. A. W. president, told the organization’s second annual convention, “I tell you we are going to organize Ford’s workers because they want to be organized, they deserve to be organized and Henry Ford deserves a licking. "During the coming months, we will call upon automobile workers throughout the country to pool their resources and pool their strength to carry the gospel of organization and drive out of this country that kind of policy which ; today predominates in the Ford I Motor Co.” Martin said definite plans for • raising a “war chest” to combat I Ford will be laid before the con- , vention this week. No details were given. The resolutions committee now has under consideration a proposed 25-cents a month per member special assessment “in order that the U.A.W.A. will be able to sign an agreement with the Ford Motor Co, by the first of the year." Union officials estimated this special assessment would yield ap(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O. I Decatur Women At District Meeting A number of Decatur w-jnen prominent in club work are in Winchester today attending the district council meeting and luncheon at the home of Mrs. George W. Jaqita, who is first vice-president of the Indiana Federation of Clubs. Those attending are Mrs. Henry . B. Hel’er, president of the eighth district of the Indiana Federation j ..f Clubs: Miss Vivian Burk, secre-tary-treasurer; Mrs. John Tyndall, i chairman of education; Mrs. Ralph Yager, junior chairman: Mrs.' George Squires, chairman of rural | cooperation; Mrs. W. E. Smith, chairman of literature, and Mrs. W. Guy Brown, chairman of motion pictures. The state president, Mrs. Edwin | I Posten, Mrs. George Dillinger, se-c---.Wd vice j president and all department chairmen of the district will also be among today’s guests.

POULTRY TOUR I BANQUET HELD LAST EVENING Banquet A t Country Club; Flocks Are Visited Today Two Adams county poultry 1 flocks, the McMillen Feed Mills and the Central Soya Company 1 were inspected this morning, beI fore the 115 members of the IndI iana state poultry tour left for Huntington, where lunch was, served. William K.,hlmey.-r, Purdue poulI try evtens!. n head, stated that the . I regisration at noon today was. about 150, the largest in the history <>f the tour. More than 200 will have ! been registered before the tour 1h .completed, he anticipated. The members of the tour arrived In Decatur at 5 o’clock Tues-1 day afternoon from Wells county, I where the state park had been vis-1 I ited. The members of the tour assembled north of Muncie, making one stop in Marion for lunch and an inspection of the Swift & C 0.,; produce plant at Marion. Here the buying of eggs on a grading system ■ was explained. More than 250 poultrymen, hatch-' ’ erymen and other are expected to | join the annual three day tour at l different points. It is sponsored by } the poultry extension department of Purdue University and the state: poultry association. The highlight of the tour was the annual banquet, held at the ; Decatur Country Club Tuesday night, under the joint auspices of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce and the McMillen Feed Mills. Arrangements for the banquet were under the care of L. E. Archbold, Adams County agent, and William Kollmeyer, extension poultryman of Purdue university. J. Ward Calland was toastmaster for the banquet. The guest list included Mr. Kohlmeyer. W. P. Albright, of the poultry extension department; Prof, i C. W. Garrick, head of the poultry department; Glen Sample of extension publicity department, all •of Purdue university; Harold Mar-' I quart, of the Poultry Tribune; Mr. * McComb, of the Portland Cement j company, A. C. Noack Milling Company. Russel Lehe, of Allied Mills, and Hobart Grayton, of War- ' saw, president of the state poultry association. Mayor A. R. Holthouse delivered ' the address of welcome, in which he described Decatur as a com- ' munity with one foot in industry (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o Blue Creek Township Teachers Announced Trustee Dave Habegger announced today the list of teachers that will be employed this school Term in Blue Creek township. They are: R. M. Houk, district four; Clyde Troutner, district five and Elmer Ehrsam. district six. District one teacher has not been chosen. PROPOSE LAKE AT LOCAL PARK Conservation League Considers Building Lake At Sun Set The construction of an artificial lake at Sun Set park will be considered by the board of directors lof the Adams county fish and i game conservation league at the j park Sunday afternoon at 1 : O’clock. The public Is invited to attend ; this meeting and all directors are : expected to be present, as two prospective sites for the proposed lake are to be inspected. W. A. Fonner, president of the league, said today that the pur- | pose of the proposed lake is to I offer fishing and swimming to the public at no charge. It has been i recommended by the state con- : servation department. As now planned, the creek run- < i nlng through the park back of the , j pavilion would be dammed. This would be of concrete and dirt construction and the state department has stated that WPA labor I will be available. The state conservation departi ment has offered to stock the proposed lake with fish. A screen i will be set up on the overflow I part of the dam to prevent the I fish from escaping. As now considered, the lake j would be from three to four acres j j in area. If the plan is approved by the directors, work will be begun as soon as WPA labor is available.

Japanese Declare 700-Mile Blockade Against Shipping

SCHOOL BOARD PROPOSES GUT IN '3B BUDGET Decatur School Board Proposes Cut Os 10 Cents In Tax Rate The Decatur school board proposes to cut the school tax rate 10 cents next year, the estimate for 1938 being >1.02, compared to >1.12 on the >IOO this year. The largest reduction Is made in the special school fund, the levy being reduced from 62 cents to 56 cents a >IOO. The tuition fund rate is reduced from 46 cents to 42 cents on the >IOO. The proposed bond fund rate remains the same, Tour cents on the SIOO. The budget totals approximately >86.000. The special school fund amounts to >32,352.64; the tuition fund. >50.892.27 and the bond fund. $2,700. In the tuition fund, the school board will receive more than $31,000 from gross income and other taxes and transfer fees from other townships. The amount to be raised by taxation is $48,480.71, which is $2,000 less than the total estimated for this year. The 56-cent special school fund levy will produce approximately $26,685.00; the 42 cent tuition fund rate, $20,127.00 and the four cent bond fund. $1,667.71. The budget was prepared by Superintendent Walter J. Krick and approved by the Decatur school board trustees, Ira Fuhrman, R. E. Mumma and Joseph A. Hunter at its recent meeting. o — MAN SOUGHT IN CHICAGO DEATH Chicago Police Seek Blonde’s Friend As Murderer Chicago, Aug. 25 —(U.R) —A man with whom blonde Lucille Buehler, 21. shared her earnings as a viva- . clous party girl was sought by police today for questioning in connection with the slaying of Herbert F. Lee, alias Robert Francis Burns. Police Lieut. Thomas Kelly said he believed the killing was prompted by fear Lucille would marry Lee and cut off her old sweetheart's income. Kelly refused to name the suspect but said one of Lucille’s acquaintances and another man checked out of a hotel shortly after Lee was slain early Sunday. “This girl really was in love with Burns,” Kelley said. “We are looking for the two men who checked out. When we get those two, we’ll have gone a long way toward solving the murder.” Lee was shot by two men as he strolled in the moonlight with Miss Buehler through Grant Park, along the Lake Michigan shore. Miss Buehler said they were planning to be married. Lee has been living in Chicago with another woman. They said they were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Francis Burns. He was part owner (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O To Conduct Hearing For Beer Retailer The Adams county alcoholic beverage board will conduct a hearing September 9, at 9 a. m. in the auditor’s office for a beer retailer’s license, sought by Charles I*’. Brown I proprietor of the Jeftenson Lunch. |at Berne. o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 68 10:00 a. m. - 72 Noon 76 2:00 p. m. - 82 3:00 p. m. 86 WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Thursday except some cloudiness extreme east portion; not quite so cool near Indianapolis tonight.

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Japan, Determined To Beat Down Resistance By China, Takes Steps For Blockade . ADD SOLDIERS | (Copyright 1937 by Uofted Frees) Shanghai, Aug. 25—(UP)— Japan determined to smash organized military resistance throughout all China, was officially announced tonight to have declared a blockade of more than 700 miles of the Ch*!nese c.">ast against Chinese shipping from Swatos Ln the south the north bank of the Yangtze river Delta, north of Shanghai. Simultaneously the Japanese prepared to bring their total strength in China up to 350,000 men equipped with all the meet modern machines of war. Meantime, the great Nipponese military machine already here reared into action on four major fronts along a line of more than 1,000 miles aga-nst Chinese armies estimated to total 750,000. An unprecedented battle was under way at Shanghai. In north China two Japanese columns converged on five Chinese divisions trapped between the Nankow pass and Galgan on the Piep-ing-St»:yuan railway northwest ot Peiping while other apanct*e divisions fought defensive actions southwest of Peiping and south of Tientsin. The positions of s-me 2,000 Americans remaining and thousands of other occidentals in the bombtorn, fire-swept international settle* ment of Shanghai was desperate. There was grave dange rt’.iat maddened Chinese soldiery would ba driven into the settlement areas guarded by U. S. and British forces. Additional French and. British tßiops arrived and more were en- . route or preparing to embark. Italy was sending a battalion of her Savoia grenadiers from Ethiopia and 1.200 U. S. Marines were packing their war kits at San Diego. Within a month, it was estimated * that armed forces of Britain, the U. S., France and Italy in the I Shanghai area will b* more than 15,000 men. The Japanese blockade of ChinL ese shipping was announced by vice admiral Kiy/ishi Hasegawa, commanding the Imperial third battle fleet here. It is designed to prevent Chinese troop movements by water and to prevent Chinese vessels with wa: munitions from entering the great ports ot Shanghai, N*;ngpo, Wenchow, Foochow, Amoy, Swatow, and a d izen others. Admiral Hasegawa, in announcing the blockade, said it would be undertaken by ships of his third fleet. I twas believed, however, that scores ot additional war vessels of the first and second fleets would have to be called into action. The cruiser and four destroyers already have taken up positions at Swatow. Hasegawa emphasized that the blockade does not affect foreign and Japanese shipping. Such an action, it was said, could not be taken without a formal declaration of war which would force application of the U. S. neutrality laws against fc?4h Japan and China. The ominious possibility remained however, that a virtual general (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) W. GUY BROWN WELFARE HEAD High School Principal Re-elected President Os Board W. Guy Brown, public high school principal and prominent welfare worker, was re-elected president of the Adams county board of public welfare in its annual re-organization meeting last night. Mrs. Nathan C. Nelson was also re-named to the position of vicepresident. Mrs. Faye SmithKnapp, by virtue of her office as county welfare director, was named secretary. The other members of the board are: Mrs. Doris Reicheldeffer, of Geneva; Elmer Baumgartner, ot Berne and H. P. Schmitt, of this city. The meeting was held in the welfare department offices at the county court house. Routine business was conducted during the session.