Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1937 — Page 1

Vol. XXXV. No. 106.

China Apologizes For Bombing; One Os Injured Dies

Offer Immediate Redress ' lor Accidental Bombing Os U. S. Liner; .Japan Widens Operations. MANY CASUALTIES Washington. Aug. 31 (U.P.) Chines'* Ambassador Cheugting T. Wang today conveyed to Secretary of State Cordell Hull the “profound regret” cf the Chinese government for the accidental bomb ing of the Dollar liner President Hoover, and ■offered to make immediate redress. Wang told Hull, under instructi -us from his government at Nanking. that the President Hoover was hit by a Chinese aviator who mistook it for a Japanese trans I port. He explained that the American steamer was between two Japanese warships. He said that the aviator had •'absolutely no intention of attacking any American ship or the ships of any friendly country.” One of the injured seamen. 1 Lloyd Haskel, died of his injuries. Following his conference with Hull. Wang issued the following statement on behalf of the Chinese government: "The Dollar steamer President Hoover was bombed August 30 1937, by mistake by a Chinese airplane near the mouth of the Yang tze river and several passengers I and crew wore Injured. I "The position of the ship when I hit was between two Japanese war II vessels and she was therefore I mistaken for a Japanese transp.ni I by the airman who had absolute ly I no intention of attacking any I American ship or ships of any 1 friendly country. 1 "'eting under instructions of ■ my government I called on the ■ honorable Cordell Hull, secretary ■ of state, this morning to express ■ in the name of my government ■ profound regret over the accident ■ and to inform the secretary of ■ state that the Chinese government ■assumed the responsibility an-i is to make immediate redress ■ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ■ JURY TRIAL IN I JUSTICE COURT ■ Suit For Establishment Os Peace Bonds Goes To Jury ■ After deliberating less than S 15 minutes the jury returnIJj ed a verdict of not guilty. ■■ A suit for the establishment of bonds for Clyde and TheoDrake, on complaints tiled by y Hoop and Frank Berger, given to a jury of 12 men this at 2:30 o’clock in the of John T. Kelly, justice of peace. jury was approved at 12:30 this afternoon, but due to absence of the constable the could not be learned, as were not filed with the court. Arthur Voglewede the state's case with evi-j from Harvey Roop, who that Theodore and Clyde had threatened himself and , lilt family, had struck his automobfl'i with a scythe and had thrown ! symini’r at the automobile, iflrank Berger substantiated Mr. Roops story, stating that theDrukes threatened them without K.u. They also stated that Drake threatened to blow up the automobile. Both men said that they had lea d a part of the farm owned Mrs. Francis Schmitt. Harvey who holds the city garbage said he had the right to rhaul garbage tv. feed hogs on the ftßm. Berger said lie was employel to haul away dead animals and At he had the right to take them ■Kr ’be Schmitt farm. Sftiuline Roop also testified to threats made against herself and ON PAGE TWO) Sf CLOSE FOR FUNERAL As All business houses are asked jy- close from 9 a. tn. to 10 a. m. | ■Wednesday morning, during | services at the St. j Catholic church for Bern- | j jtrd T. Terveer, prominent lo- | gWral man, killed Sunday in a I ■ traffic accident, ■♦ ♦

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BROWN IS NAMED PAROLE OFFICER W. Guy Brown Appointed Parole Officer For Adams County Official appointment of Guy ‘ Brown, president of the board in | the Adams county department of public welfare as county parole officer for this county, was an-. nouneed today by John 11. Klinger, director of Hu* division of cor-. rections. state department of pub lie welfare. With this designation. the county welfare office becomes th * ; center at which all former Inmates of state penal and correctional institutions who live in this county must make their monthly reports during their period of parole. Be I cause of the part-time nature of the parole supervisory work, no I salary will be received by the' county parole officer. He will be j instructed and assisted in th-*! work by a district parole officer - working out of the office of Frank D. Hope, state supervisor of paroles in the state division of cor-1 rections. In consenting to handle count.,- ; supervision of paroled former pris oners of Adams county, the county department of public welfare will be performing an additional pub He service without additional com peusation and will be contributing to a program for modernization of Indiana's parole system. Before the public welfare act ’ of 1936 was passed permitting enlargement of Indiana's parole system. the state had only eight pa- , role agents in the field to super | vise an average of 1.850 paroled - former prisoners. These agents : were separately attached to the, various penal institutions, working. without definite knowledge of , what agents for other institutions I were doing. The new Indiana parole system, through cooperation of county wei i fare departments in some counties and local probation or law enforcement officers in other counties, will put more than 100 parole . supervisors in the field and v. ill j have all parole cases and informs-I tion cleared through a central ! head in the state department of' public welfare. It recognizes the principle that reformation of the j I former criminal is as much a duty i I of the community from which he ; (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Pulley Block Snaps, Spectators Unhurt Workmen and a small group of spectators luckily were out of the way this morning when a pulley block snapped under the great strain, as the men were endeavoring to remove the estimated six-ton boiler from the basement cf the courthouse. Flying to pieces under the -pull, bits of the wooden block flew yards away in front of the post office, while the scores of feet of heavy rope .lashed around a ter- ■ initial tree. The flying fragments hit no one, but workmen stated it was a lucky fact. W. C. I. 11. TO MEETTHURSDAY Kirkland Township Plans Meeting Thursday Evening The Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Kirkland township j has planned a program to be given ; at the Beulah Chapel Methodist Episcopal church Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock. Mrs. Edna Shady, president of the organization, will have charge of the meeting, the program of which will be as follows. Opening s?ng, “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” Devotions —Mrs. William Ehrman Special Music —Berne. Duet—Mrs. Edith Houck and Mrs. George Bright of Peterson Address —Mrs. Kattman of Berne. Male chorus — Pleasant Dale I church. This program will mark the j fourth meeting held in Kirkland township since the organization of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in that district. The public is invited to attend.

RUSSIAN PURGE OF OPPONENTS j IS BROADENED Soviet Russia’s “Blood Purge” Brings Execution To 500 Moscow. Aug 31 — (U.R) —Soviet I Russia’s “blood purge" was broadened today to Include lesser offi-' cials in widely scattered parts of the country, including Dictator osef Stalin's native Georgia. Eight more persons were exc j cuted for counter-revolutionary acts against the government, j I bringing the total "liquidated" to ' more than 500. The newspaper r.abochi of Minsk, in western Russia, reported ' that eight “Trotskyist-Rightest di versionists" were executed there i : after they had been found guilty l»y a military tribunal of operating, an “X" unit of the Red army, poisoning foodstuffs and Retting) I fire to army barracks and ware houses Six other persons, all agricultural leaders on the Ostrov-Finn- ; ish frontier near Leningrad, were sentenced to death on charges of I i conspiring to disrupt collective ' i farming, discredit collectivism, sabotage mechanisms, discredit the government generally among the peasantry, and re-introduce capitalism. According to an official com-, inunique the defendants destroyed valuable machinery, poisoned fodder for cattle and interfered with cattle breeding. Included among those condemned were the president of the cen tral executive committee in the Ostrovsky region, the woman di-1 rector of a machine tractor station, Nina Mikhailova: an agrono- ■ mist and three managers of col- , lective farms Meanwhile, trials of 13 veterin(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) INSTITUTE IS CLOSED TODAY — Annual Teachers Institute Is Closed This Afternoon — The Adams county teachers in- • stitute continued today, with inI structional meetings for high ' school and elementary teachers held in the Decatur high school, under the supervision of Clifton E. ' Striker, county superintendent of I schools. ■ The elementary teachers met: t this morning and the high school j teachers met this afternoon. Special music opened the Mon : day afternoon session. This was furnished by members of the De- , catur school bands, under the di- | rection of Albert Sellemeyer, band instructor. Anna Brandyberry ■ played a saxaphone solo, Marjorie Miller an accordion solo and Alice Yost, a clarinet solo. The first talk was given by Thomas H. Mahan, from the licensing division of the state department of public instruction. Mr. Mahan first described the department's exhibit at the Indiana state fair, which will show the three types of buildings illustrating the history of the Indiana school system. The first is a log cabin, the second a frame building and the third a modern consul! dated school house. He told of the improvements made in recent years in buildings, equipment, teacher training and curricula. "The buildings and equipment are in the best condii tion in the history of the state j today," he said. A drive is now on further to improve the training of the teachers by additional educational requirements and increased pay. The new curricula ! includes vocational as well as the old academic subjects, he said. I Dr. Robert Hall, chaplain of ! the Indiana state prison, spoke oo "An Hour with Kipling.” “Kipling was the last great imperialist.” I he said. "He stirred the imagination of many continents.” He con-| tinned with a biography of Kip-, ling’s early life, from the time of I his birth in India to his education in England and his world travel and writing which ended at the age of 25, when he found him(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Decatur School Band Will Meet Tonight Members of the Decatur high school band are asked to meet at the Decatur high school ter practice tonight. The band will take part In the paratde at Monroeville Wednesday.,

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 31, 1937.

Bombs Hit U. S. Rescue Liner L .-,1 g—< \ £ <■•***“ rssfe- '-Sc « l -i— The President Hoover |_<.-jdfL .. -.a Returning from Manila to Shanghai to evacuate Americans trapped in the war-torn city, the Dollar Liner President Hoover was bombed by Chinese planes as it neared the juncture of the Yangtze and Whangpoo rivers not far from the former Chinese capital. Seven members of the crew and three of the 257 passengers were injured. '

SCHOOL OPENS REGISTRATION Registration Os High School Students Is Started Registration for the 1937-38 term of the Decatur high school opened this morning in the office of Principal W. Guy Brown. Mr. Brown reported an unusually heavy number during the early hours of the morning. Registration opened at 9 o'clock. It will continue each day this week with hours of 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. being observed. Members of the senior class regj istered today, juniors will register Wednesday, sophomores on Thursday and freshmen on Friday. Mr. Brown stated that special hours ! will probably be observed on Saturi day. Meanwhile in the assembly room of the high school, elementary teachers of the county held their annual institute meeting and made preparations for the opening of school next Tuesday. County school superintendent. C. I E. Striker, addressed the teachers ' and led in the discussion of plans for the coming school year. o : —- Former Monroeville Banker Dies Monday Commodore P. Mitchell. 80. for 29 years a banker at Monroeville, idled Monday evening at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. Mr. Mitchell also served as president of the Monroeville town board and also was a member of the school | board for many years.

Passengers On Bombed Ship Relates Eyewitness Stories

(Editors: The death of a seaman abobard the dollar liner President H<-'.ver of wounds suffered when the ehip was bombed yesterday by Chinese warplanes, and an eyewitness account of the bombing, were related to the United Press J today in a radio message from Mrs. Grace Shecklen, one of the passengers aboard. Mrs. Shecklen is the wife of George F. Schecklen, viceipresident of the radio corporation of America.) By Mrs. Grace Shecklen | (Copyright 1937 by United Press) Aboard S. S. President Hoover, een route to Japan. Aug. 31 —(UP) —Lloyd Haskell, a member of the crew, died today of abdominal wounds which he suffered during an attack on the ship yesterday by I Chinese warplanes. Haskell was struck by fragments of an exploding bomb. Seven other members of the I crew and several passengers were injured but we were told that only I one person other than Haskell was seriously hurt. Staff doctors of the President Hoover and the medical crew from ! the British cruieer Cumberland, . which was nearby, treated the I wounded after the bombardment. The p'anes drepiped about six I bombs on or in the vicinity of the President Hoover. The first one, produced a geyser of water 100 feet ahead of the ship and the second was a direct hit. It struck the hur-1

Terveer Funeral Rites Wednesday Funeral services will be held at i the St. Mary's Catholic church at 9 a. m. Wednesday for Bernard T. Terveer, pr. ininent Decatur busi- , ness man. who wae fatally injured in an auto truck crash near this city Sunday morning. Rev. J. J. Seimetz, church pastor , will officiate; assisted by Rev. Alvin, assistant pastor and Rev. A. J. Kohne, of Goodlaud, Nephews of the deceased will act as pallbearers. LIONS TO MEET AT MONROEVILLE All-Day Session Os Lions Clubs At Monroeville Tomorrow A large delegation of members from the Decatur Lions club are expected to leave the city Wednesday morning to attend the all-day session of Lions clubs at Monroeville. The meeting will open in the morning and continue throughout the day, with Lions in attendance bearing addresses by W. G. Willis, • district governor; Walter H. Paine,! international director and other leading Lion personalities. The local delegation is to be headed by President Walter J. Krick and other officers. The Decatur high school band wil lalso attend and 'ead in a street parade during the afternoon. The Lions meeting will be a feature of the street fair being held in Monroeville this week. All I members are urged to attend.

Keane deck and penetrated the cabins and passageways, wrecking ' most 6 fthe porthole glass in the dining salon. The huge glass d'ine over the bgrand stairway collapsed and glass was scattered everywhere. Many machine gun bullets enter- ! ed the portholes of the passenger cabins nad others struck the side of the ship, tearing holes in lockers I 10 feet from the point of entry after I going through steel plates threequarters of an inch thick. The dead man, Haskell, was from Baltimore. The passengers were rushed frcan the upper decks to the dining salon, where the crew did wonderful work ; in maintaining calm and there was no panic even during the height of the bombing. The Italian steame rConte Verde stood by as did H. M. S. Cumberland. which sent a boarding party with doctors, while the Japanese destroyer No. 33 circled the President Horv-e-r after the bombing. Throughout the bombing, I saw a young mother sit in the dining salon, calmly nursing her four-weeks-old infant. After the emergency had passed the- passengers gathered in the salon where everybody tried to simulate a semi-holiday spirit to conceal their taut nerves. The radio rcom did a rushing i business with passengers and crew | ((CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

Seven Persons Are Killed As Greyhound Bus Overturns Near Goshen After Collision Today

NATIONS FEAR COMPLICATIONS FROM WARFARE Powers Fear Embroilment In Far East Crisis At Any Time London, Aug. 31.— (U.R) -British leaders fear that the Chinese-Jap anese war has taken such a menac- ! ing turn that foreign powers will I face the threat constantly, for j weeks or months, of becoming embroiled in real difficulties, it was understood today. •It was understood that British officials foresaw the likelihood before long of serious joint representations by the big powers to Japan, feeling that pressure on her to stop her war with China, or to conduct it on lines less dangerous to ] international relations, might prove the only solution. The view was taken here that Britain, France and the United ! States probably would be the pro- ' testing powers if joint action were taken. Russia’s participation would ,be unwelcome, it was indicated, : because it would only antagonize Japan. Neither Germany nor Italy was believed ready to make repre- , sentations to their fellow “antiI communist” power. Tile bombing of the American liner President Hoover by Chinese airplanes, coming only a few days ' after a Japanese airplane ttack— I nearly fatal —on the British am- ' bassador to China was all that was | needed to convince people here that the far eastern situation was ; one that might break out of all control. Officials watched intently to see the attitude the United States government would take toward the liner bombing, for they thought that this incident might open the way for a joint protest—one which, : if made, might prevent even more serious foreign embroilments in future. The attack on the President ' Hoover detracted some interest from Britain's own big incident— I the attack on the ambassador. JapI an's reply — expected to be so phrased as to call for further British notes and thus play for time was awaited impatiently. o_. 0 _. —. —- Special Council Meeting Tonight A special meeting of the city council will be held at 7:30 o clock ; this evening at the city hall fcr the purpose of taking action on the budget. A few other matters are scheduled on the calendar. The regular semi-monthly meeting will be held. Tuesday, September 7. o ADELA FRUECHTE DIES SUDDENLY Cousin Os Local Man Dies Os Heart Attack At Fort Wayne Funeral services for Miss Adela M. Fruechte, 47. sister of Edward ' Fruechte, of near Magley. who died unexpectedly at her Fort Wayne I home yesterday, will be held in that city Thursday afternoon. Miss Frucechte died of a heart ■ attack at the home of her father, I John Fruechte. She was a surgij cal supervisor at the Methodist hospital for four years preceding her death. Surviving, besides the brother, are the father, a sister: Mrs. Mildred Marberry, Bryan, Ohio and a : brother, Ernest Fruechte of Austin, Texas. Fred Fruechte of Decatur is a cousin to the deceased. The services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday (CDST) at the home, 2720 Broadway and at 2:30 o'clock at the St. John's Reformed church in Fort Wayne with the Rev. F. H. Rupnow officiating. No Trace Found Os Reported Prowler Police were called to the Dwight Sheets residence on Adams street last night after midnight, where a i prowler was reported lurking. No I trace of the intruder was found.

GIVES RULE ON LABOR POWERS Holds State Labor Department Has Few Compulsory Powers Indianapolis, Aug. 31.—<U.R> The ' state labor department has no compulsory powers except to prescribe | safety rules and regulations in' I factories, the attorney-general's of-1 I lice ruled today in an opinion ■ sought by state labor commission- • | er Thomas Hutson. it was the first clarifying opinion . handed down since the bill creat- | ing lite labor department was passled by the legislature six months ' ago amid a storm of claims that I its clauses would set up a large 1 iforce of “snoopers” to persecute Indiana industries on behalf of labor. Attorney-General Omer Stokes ' | Jackson's office held that Hutson land his staff of labor conciliators ' had only the power to administer ' | oaths. Every other authority except that establishing safety rules is 1 ; purely voluntary on the part of both employers and labor, the opin- > • -1 ion said. 1 i The attorney-general's office rul- • ed that the labor department is *1 not empowered to take depositions, I issue subpoenas, compel witnesses ’ I to attend hearings and testify, or I order any corporation to produce its records or accounts of payrolls 1 and employment. The labor department may act 5 for the governor was compulsory -1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) i-- o - SCHOOL ZONES fIREANNOUNCED Zones For Grade School Children Os City Announced ' The school zones were announced I today for grade children of the public schools by Walter J. Krick, superintendent. The- zones are: ’ All first, second, third and fourth grade children, living in the territory bounded by the Pennsylvania railroad on the west, corporation line on the north. St. Mary’s river on the east, and Adams street on I the south are to attend the North I i Ward. All first, second, third and fourth ’ i grade children in the territory* ■ iI. .unded by Adams street on the '■ | north, St. Marys river on the east, ' corporation line on the south and : Pennsylvania railroad on the west ■ are to attend the south ward. All first, second, third and fourth ■ i grade children in the territory I bounded by the corporation line on : the north, west and south and the I Pennsylvania railroad on the east ’are to attend the Riley building. All fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade pupils are to attend 1 1the Centra! building. All boys and girls who will be six years of age on or before December 31 may enroll in schc.“J this fall. Gasoline Is Stolen At Monmouth Station Thieves early this morning broke J the lock on the gasoline pump at ; the Monmouth service station, and filled their automobile's gasoline ’ tank. It is believed that approxi--1 mately 10 gallons was taken. It was also reported that they attemped to break into a house but ' were unsuccessful. Sheriff Dallas Brown investigated the theft. ’ o Clothing Stores To Remain Open t According to an announcement made today, the three clothing . stores will resume their regular schedule tomornew and remain ; open Wednesday afternoon of each , week. > ” - TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m ■ ■ 80 10:00 a. m. 82 ’ Noon 89 2:00 p. tn 91 : 3:00 p. m 92 t WEATHER i. More or less cloudiness tonight > and Wednesday, probably unsettled at times; continued warm.

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25 Others Reported Hurt As Large Sedan Ignores Stop Sign At Crossing Os Highways. GOES INTO DITCH Goshen. Ind., Aug. 31. — (U.R) — Seven persons were killed and 25 injured today when a huge transcontinental Greyhound bus overturned in a ditch after being struck Iby a large, fast moving sedan which ran through a stop sign. None of the injured were reported to have been in a serious condition. They were taken to hospitals here and to Elkhart, about 15 miles away. Fire did not break out, but rescuers had great difficulty extricating the dead and injured from the wreckage. The driver of the automobile was reported to have been killed, but was not identified. The dead were: Allison Bishopric, 55, president of the Bishopric product company of Cincinnati. John Heinsohn, 50, of Buffalo. A. G. Carpentier of lowa City, la. His daughter, about 20. name not learned. Mrs James Kelleher of Albany, N. Y. Raymond Buskin of St. Louis. Joseph Fzefz of Cleveland. The injured, most of whom received cuts, bruises and rent joints as they were hurled upside down from their seats to the roads. The force of the impact with the large sedan, reported to have been traveling at a high rate of speed, knocked the large, trans-continen-tal Greyhound van 20 yards, witI nesses said. | Attendants at the cross roads filling station telephoned for help and rushed across the road with a II fire extinguisher. The Goshen fire 11 department was dispatched to the I scene as the sheriff's office sent eight ambulances. : j Firemen and volunteer rescuers tore at the sides of the bus. yanking the accident victims through holes in the frame battered and pried carefully open to avoid further injury to those inside. First reports relayed to the sheriff's office were that most of the passengers on the bus had been killed outright. The identified injure*" were: Mrs. Carpentier. Mrs. Adolph Lades, 43, of Lexington. Mass. Clyde T. Cadwallader, 39, of Buffalo. N. Y. Rose Schakheitle of New York City. Mrs. Winnie Jackson, 60, of Chi , cago. James Kelleher, 28. of Chicago. Mrs. S. Stetzelberg, of New York City. Mrs. John Heinsohn, 51, of Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs. Josephine Dunn, 25, of San Francisco. Mrs. Marie Janssens, 54, of Chicago. Her granddaughter, Renee Kalleth, 11. of Chicago. Mrs. Gladys Schmaemann, 27, of Cleveland. Her two children. Loren, 12, and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) JURORS DRAWN FOR NEXT TERM - Commissioners Draw Juries For September Court Term The grand and petit juries for the September term of the Adams circuit court, which opens September 6, were drawn yesterday by the ! jury commissioners. Following is the grand jury: Milton Fhurman, R'ot township: Claude Foreman, Blue Creek township: Rufus Liechty, Berne; William Patterson. Blue Creek; Milo Glendenning, Hartford; Herman Stopenhagen. Members of the petit jury are: Herman Roth, Union; John W. Blakey, Union; John C. Fleming, Union; Henry C. Miller, Preble; Eli Habegger, Wabash; George Cook, Wabash; Stephen Longenberger, St. Mary's; Bert Bear, Hartford; Grover J. Schaeffer, Geneva; Raymond B. Kohne, Decatur: Edna Roop, Decatur, and William Kreutzrnan, Preble. The jury commissioners are: For- • rest Elzey, Henry Gallmeyer andi County Clerk G. Rem?;