Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1937 — Page 1

' Bj XXXV. No. 202

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■[DECREASE I hTAXRATES I IN THIS CITY L Tax Kate in DecaL To Be At Least I 17 Cents Lower ■K, total tax rate payable by ..wii.-ts in Decatur in 193 s ,ni .11 least 17 cents and nioi'". according to fig County Auditor John W . ■ and advertisements total amount estimated by ■K. r < for next year Is $2.57, as to th.' total $2 74 rate ■ ■ |;,,ards reviewing the |K>. , a ii dectease but <an not this |K ~.;,; lr ;.'tve statement of the applicable in Decatur is: 1937 1938 |K. $ r> i -ir. BK r . .14 K bond .04 .04 i general .21* .321 bonds 24 .13 fund .05 .03 i Kapoor M -30 st hool 62 .561 |Ki bonds -04 .04 |Kk:. <6 K 05 .06 |Kcitr 40 <0 $2 7 4 $2 77 K making the above table it necessary to estimate the the maximum p-t under the state law as the State rate has not yet : However, since the • o maximum 17, cent , for the state, the levy has been lowered. | county council and other |Mbr so..:■ will meet Tuesday 7. to review the pro budgets and make reducvhere possible. \i\ adjustment board Monday. September 13 to the final review in Adams of the rates. rates will be set by the tax board, which will an them later in the fall. ■B -— —© — BEST FIRES I IRE REPORTED Bco Fires Are Reported j | In Northwestern I Minnesota ■ ifaiid Marais. Minn., Aug. 26 — Flames today raced through sections of the Superior NaBr* 1 forest in northwestern Minwhere more than 400 acres already have been blaze, reported almost tin control, was in the vicinity of Lake. IS miles northwest ct and the other raged near Lake, 36 miles north of here, the Canadian border. fires were being fought by of the Civilian Con . iW’stion Corps. More than 1.000 j S ual CCC workers in nine I |pV were standing by for emerca>l' P*"! rains in the Brule Luke last night aided fire fightei s but the Loon Lake ON PAGE FOUR) iK — —o— ■ Eminent Democrat i Publisher Is Dead [jWville. Ind.. Aug. 26 /U.R) D. De Prez, 64, publisher Shelbyville Democrat and y* a power in state Democratic died last night at hii BJ® 6 after suffering a heart Tuesday, B* Prez had been the publisher weekly and daily Democrat F* for 33 years and was a for- ■ I President of the Indiana Editorial association ■F s board member of the state press association. ■1" o F - David Litwiller i Dies At Pontiac, HL ■ Mrs. David Litwiller, 70, mother Pyhrlg Litwiller, of Berne, died F' ev ening at 5 o’clock at her lh Pontiac, Illinois. Death ■“ caused by pneumonia. FuF’’ »ervlce ß will be held Satur- | « Lanagan, Illinois.

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Plan Addition To General Electric Plant Mi ft- > i. >: : .«1 ■ E. W. Lankenau. superintendent of the Decatur works of the General Electric company, today announced plans for construction of an addition to the plant. Three units will be added to the present building, pictured above, and employment provided for 200 additional persons.

FARLEY HOLDS 1 [ PRESS MEETING Democrat Leaded Denies Reprisals Against Any Solons Washington. Aug. 26 — <U.R> — Chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic national committee today handed to a grass roots jury the question whether Democrats who opposed President Roosevelt's 1937 new deal program should be returned to congress. There was not much doubt in the minds of persons who attended Farley's press conference here—the first in five months—that he believes the verdict will be against some of those who helped scuttle the White House program. Farley denied there would be administration reprisals against offending legislators. He Insisted that any member of congress was privileged to speak and vote as , he saw fit. And Farley said the choice of congressmen was the business of the voters back home and not of the national committee, i Prodded by questions. Farley said there would not be an effective third party in 1940 and predicted that the Roosevelt administration would hold the support (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TEACHER STAFF IS ANNOUNCED St. Mary's Township Teaching Staff Is Announced Today Trustee Ben McCullough announced tMay the list of teachers for St. Mary’s townshep, including the school at Pleaeant Milla. Following are the teachers a Pleasant Mills high school: Henry Enyder, principal; Gerald V izar . Agnes Yager, Zelma Fortney. One teacher for the high school is yet to be hired, the truetee stated. Teachers in the Plesasant Mills grade school will be: William Ml. seventh and eighth grades; Berniece Masters, fifth ami sixth grades; Gladys Doan, third and fourth grades and Dora Shosenberg. first and second grades. Harry Johnson will be the princinal at the Bobo school and Myrtle Clements will teach the primary position in the Pleasant Mills high scho'U is the only one yet to be filled, Trustee McCullough stated today. School opens Tuesday, September 7 after a preliminary opening on Friday, September 3.

Berne Physician Injured In Fall Dr. Harry O. Jones, prominent physician of Berne, is confined to "life home, suffering from tiijei-ies received in a fall from the first floor to the basement in hts office Dr. Jones entered his office and the trap door to the basement was , open. He fell from the opposite end of the steps, a drop of about eight feet. He fractured several ribs on the left side, injured an ankle and was bruised. He will be laid up for several days, but considers himself lucky that he did not break an arm or leg. PART OF THEFT LOOT IS FOUND Two Checks Found Today; Part Os Tuesday Night’s Robbery I Two checks of small denomination were the only tangible clues as yet in the hands of the authorities. who today intensified their efforts to apprehend the yegg or yeggs who Tuesdav night broke ‘ into the Reed Feed & Supply company and escaped with approximately SSOO in cash and checks. | 1 The checks were found along I the Pennsylvania railroad tracks In the north part of the city. One check was for 16.30 and the other i for $1.30. They were found by the train crew and local authorities. Sheriff Dallas Brown stated today that clues In the robbery were i scarce and that a possibility of , fingerprints showing up on the , checks afforded about the only leads on the robbery. As yet no word has come to the local officers of anyone attempting to cash a large check for $466, drawn on an Indianapolis bank, which was part of the loot. Fingerprint experts are expected to arrive in the city shortly from the state police bureau of investigation to examine the possibility of securing a good fingerprint from the checks. One of the checks is badly soiled. o—temperature readings DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 10:00 a. m.Noon — — - 92 >1 2:00 p. m. 3:00 p. WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Friday except possibly becoming unsettled extreme north; slightly warmer northeast tonight.

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Decatur; Indiana, Thursday, August 26, 1937.

HUBERT COCHRAN MANAGES CLUB G. E. Recreation Rooms To Be Opened Monday, August 30 The club and recreational rooms club will be opened Monday noon. August 30. it was today | by Eno W. Lankenau, plant super-I . intendent. Hubert “Hex” Cochran, veteran employe and active athletic and social leader of the plant, has been selected as manager of the recreation building and will have . charge of its activities. All phases of recreation are expected to be ready for the re-open ing of the building by Monday The four bowling alleys have been re-conditioned and re-finished, the pool tables and ping-pong table have been re-conditioned, the floors painted and a general cleaning is being given the rooms. Directors of the club are Herman Lengerich, president; Harriet Shockey. Don Gage. Robert Gage, Elsie Brunnegraf and Milton Brown. Club directors and the house committee are said to be looking forward to a successful and enter- i | taining season. The recreation I —-———— — (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O RAILROAD MEN FAVOR STRIKE Railway Brotherhood Officers Vote To Strike September 6 Cleveland, Ohio. Aug. 26—<U.R) — Alexander F. Whitney, president of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen, announced today that officers of the “Big Five” railway brotherhood, meeting In Chicago. ’ had agreed to call their men out on strike September 6 at 6 a. m. Whitney said the agreement as! to the date of the proposed strike I had been reached by brotherhood I officials, and that it must be ratified by a committee of brotherhood chairmen later tbday. But he added that ratification was | "just a matter of form." Announcement of the decision | of the brotherhood to call a strike followed collapse of negotiations 1 j between the union and the carriers i over a 20 per cent wage increase sought by the workers. The “big five” brotherhood — I trainmen, firemen and engine men, conductors, engineers and switchmen —said the carriers flat refusal (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

WPA Worker Is Found Guilty Os Lust Murder Los Angeles, Aug. 26 — (U.R) — Albert Dyer, diminutive WPA crossing guard, today was found guilty of the lust murder of three small girls. He must die on the gallows for the crime. A jury of seven men and five women returned a verdict of guilty — with no recommendation for mercy — after 43 hours of argument. For many hours the count, had stood 11 to 1 against Dyer., with one juror holding out against the death penalty. HEALTH LEADERS FIGHT DISEASE Authorities Marshal Forces Against Infantile Paralysis Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 26 —(UP) j—lndiana health authorities marsh a’le-d their forces today to prevent further outbreak.of infantile paralysis after an apparently victorious battle with the dreaded disease in Henry and Delaware counties. Slowly gathering headway after the arrival of warm weather during June, the disease— already responsible for seven deaths in the state this year—spread rapidly in Henry county during July. Sixteen cases were reported there during the last three weeks that month. Spurred by what appeared to be an epidemic threat, state and local health authorities centered their forces in a drive to isolate infanti’e paralysis pati?nts and hold the disease In check. Dr. Verne K. Harvey, head of the j state boarj of health, said the medical drive had met with success. No new cases have been reported in Henry county during the past three weeks and all patients have been released from quarantine. The outbreak in Delaware county reached similar serious proportions. Five cases were reported to the state health board late in July and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Third Degree Rank To Be Given Tonight Third degree rank work will be given this evening at the Knights jof Pythias lodge. All officers, degree team members and other members of the lodge have been requested to be present. .o— Reports Apples Taken From Sheriff Dallas Brown was called to Pleasant Mills this morning when Harold Steele reported that a quantity of apples had been stolen from a tree near his home.

Enlargement Os Local Plant Will Increase Production; Provide Added Employment

TOWNSEND AND SEN. VANNOYS FIGHT IN OPEN Battle To Come Out In Open At Editors’ Meeting French Lick, Ind.. Aug. 26 —(U.R) J —The first open battle between 8 Gov. M. Clifford Townsend and U. ‘ S. Senator Frederick Van Nuys for 1 control of the 1938 Democratic ' state convention started here to- 1 day as the advance guard of cele- 1 brities arrived for the annual summer meeting of the Indiana f Democratic Editorial association I tomorrow and Saturday. At stake for Van Nuys is re- ‘ nomination to his senate seat next vear, which Townsend repeatedly \ _ has pledged himself to oppose with ( all the resources of the statehouse . organization. • , In the balance for the governor are his prestige with the towering Democratic machine for the next three years as well as his standing with the Roosevelt administration. with which he has established intimate relations in the last six months. Starting tonight with the arrival of Dick Heller, private secretary and field marshall of the governor's strategists. Townsend and his aides will maneuver for the editors’ support to remove Van ! Nuys from the senate for four years of rebellion against the acknowledged Democratic leadership. The governor will make his own appeal in an address to the i editors and an expected 1.500 party leaders and workers Saturday night. The first few pages of Town' send's address already have been I revealed but the last paragraphs. I believed to contain the “dynamite" | are being saved to guard against premature publication. Van Nuys. reaching Indianapolis j after the adjournment of congress, j asserted he w’ill not take Townsend’s opposition lying down and will make his first bid for renomination in his speech at the same banquet with Townsend Sat-. urday night. His supporters, their number admittedly unknown, will vie with the Townsend cohorts for the editors’ backing. Beclouding the issue was Van Nuys' refusal to reveal whether he will run as an independent in the 1938 election if Townsend sue- 1 ceeds in unseating him. Reports were current today that j (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) E. D. R. SIGNS TWO MEASURES Tax Loophole Closing Measure Is Signed By Roosevelt Washington, Aug. 26 —(U.R) — President Roosevelt today signed the tax loophole closing bill, placing “pressure taxes” on various methods used by wealthy persons to reduce their federal levies. The measure is an outgrowth of a prolonged treasury inquiry, a request from the president for legislation ending “evil practices," and a joint house-senate investigation during which names of thousands of alleged avoiders were made public. The bill sharply increases surtax rates on personal holding company income, increases levies on non-resident aliens and puts restrictions around individual attempts to incorporate personal talents, country estates and yachts to save taxes. The eight-paint program for sealing outstanding loopholes is expected to be followed early next session by a more sweeping bill, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

GREAT BRITAIN AMBASSADOR IS SHOT BY JAPS Ambassador To China Wounded By Fire From Jap Airplanes London, Aug. 26 —(UP)-- Great Britain will protest the shooting by a Japanese aviator near Shanghai of its ambassador, Sir Hughe Knachtbull-Hugessen, but will avoid making an international incident of it. reliable sourches disclosed tonight. The British are expected to consider that a full apology from Japan will enable them to avoid aggravating the far eaet crisis by creating tension in British-Japanese re’ations. Indications were that the incident w. .ild be smoother out and classified ae an unintentional accident aris- ■ ing from the turmoil in China. The Japanese already have expressed their regrets and were re-1 ported to have made a formal apol-1 ogy in addition. They said the Brit- j ish flag on the ambassador s auto-1 mobile could not be distinguished by an airplane and the pilot mistook the car for one carrying Chinese army officers. The Japanese also pointed out that the automobile was going unannounced through the war zone. It was believed here that diplomatic tact would prevent an ugly sitI nation arising fn.m what is admittedly a grave incident. Condition Critical (Copyright 1937 by United Press) Shanghai, Aug. 26 —(UP) — Sir Hughe Knachtbull-Hugessen, Brit-1 ish ambassador to China, was shot i through the body today by a Jap-1 j (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) LOCAL MEN ON STATE BOARDS N. A. Bixler, John Heller Are Named By Gov. Townsend ■ Two Decatur men were among | the personnel of state boards and comniissvns, announced yesterday through the offices of Governor M. j Clifford Townsend. Dr. N. A. Biler, local optometrist, , was named to the board of registration and examination in optometry, i Dr. Bixler will serve on the board | with Orris Booth, Valparaiso; J. R. Victor, Evansville; Walter Kocher, I Richmond and J. P. Davey, Indianapokls. The latter will act a* secretary. John 11. Heller, president of the I Decatur Democrat Co., was re-nam-ed to the board cf trustees of the state teacher’s colleges at Terre Haute and Muncie. Serving on the board with Mr. Heller will be Sanford M. Keltner, of Anderson, Frank C. Bali, of Muncie: William F. Cronin, of Terre Haute and Floyd I. McMurray of Thorntown. Mr. McMurray is an exoffici"? trustee by virtue of his office as superintendent of public instruction. The appointments of Senator Thurman Gottschalk, of Bi rne, to the governor’s commission on unemployment relief and that of Dick D. Heller, as executive secretary 1? the governor, to the state housing board, were also announced. o Monroe WPA Project Approved By State The approval of a $2,295 WPA project in Monroe was among 23 announced today by John K. Jennings, Indiana WPA director. This was requested last spring by trustees of Monroe to construct new sidewalks and curbs, and to repair old sidewalks and sewers. This will be the first WPA projects in Monroe since the construction of the fire cisterns.

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Three Units To Be Added To Present Plant; 200 More Persons May Be Given Work HEAVY DEMANDS An addition to the General Electric building on North Ninth street, which will provide additional facilities for increasng production and at the same time Increase employment. was announced today by Eno W. Lankenau. superintendent of the Decatur plant. Three units will be added to the present building and after production gets underway in the enlarged structure it is expected that employment will be furnished an additional 200 persons. The company now employs 610 persons and is running two full shifts, with a third smaller force, each 24 hours. Production of frac- ! tional horsepower motors has reached a peak at the local plant and to keep up with demands for G. E. i motors, the addition is provided to take care of a heavier production schedue in 1938. Mr. Lankenati stated that de- | tails of the new additions are expected to be completed by the latter part of next week. Preliminary plans call for the new addition to be built on the . south and north sides of the presi ent buiding. The addition will be of the saw-tooth type, similar to ’ the present, he stated. An addition will also run along the east side, 150 feet to the north. This will be of the monitor type and will house a crane, to be used in loading and unoading railroad cars on the factory siding. The capacity of the powerhouse will be increased to take care of j the additional heatiug. Mr. Lankenau stated that on the whole, an increase of 18,000 to 19000 additional feet of floor space will be created by the construcj tion of the new buildings. Other than the housing of the ■ crane, the buildings will be used I for manufacturing and storage purI poses, Mr. Lankenau said this 1 morning. Plans and specifications will be ready for contractors within the next two weeks and estimates furnished on the cost of the proposed j addition. The machinery for the i building has already been ordered. I Construction work will begin imI mediately following the award of the contract. The new additions at the north and south of the present building | will in no way Interfere with the I club room and recreational hall i completed last spring and dedicat(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) LOCAL YODTH ON PROBATION 1 - Barker Sentenced To 2-14 Years But Placed On Probation ; W. P. “Junior” Barker, 19-year old Decatur lad. was fined $lO and costs .and sentenced to 2-14 years 1 in the reformatory today. The sentence was suspended. Barker appeared before Judge Huber M. DeVoss in Adams circuit court this morning to receive his sentence afte rpreviously pleading guilty to a charge of forgery. Barker was charged with passing a check for S2O on the Staley’s confectionery and forging the name of Earl Butler. Judge DeVoss, In passing sentence, told Barker that he was well acquainted with the facts of the case and that the sentence would be suspended, but that Barker would be placed under probation for a period of two years. He is to make regular reports to the local probation officer until the expiration of the probationary period. Judge DeVoss stated. Barker was arrested Saturday, August 7 in Lima, Ohio, where he had been staying, by Sheriff Dall- - as Brown. He had been confined in the local iail sinep that time.