Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1937 — Page 1

Vol* XXXV. No. 212.

Japanese Refuse memand Os Three I Nations In China

Continue Bitter Attack Against International Settle inent Despite Nations’ Demand. D TRAIN IS BOMBED (Copyright 1937 by United Press) Bh»*gl> Sept. S- U.R Japan defledlFi 1 ' Britain anil the to their tßsand that she remove her warships »nd troops from the im mediate (vicinity of the Shanghai fiiternat|pi I settlement. Instead of Wit lid ferocious attack which is spread gig death and ruin through ml the Shanghai area and most of North At rihkiang. near Saanrliai a Japanese airplane bombed the Shanghai Hangchow passenger train, tjjfcclcd with Chinese refit gees tron Nanking A Chinese spokesman estimated that 300 refugees| were killed and 400 injured in the wreckage of five The Ch ‘Se said there were no Cfilnese itroops on the train or even in [the vicinity of Sunkiang Bombai: tent of ships airplanes and arttliiy continued all day and Into the night close to the Jinternatfonal settlement in Shanghai and Bn the area to the north along the Whangpoo river and «rd and westward on the show, red the United Hri ista and warships in the Whangpoo off Shanghai when Chinese airplanes, raiding tie Japanese fleet in the river, drew intensive antiaircraft fire Americans in Shanghai, defending their interests, again refused to leave and renewed their de..<i that the United States re--1 scind it» refusal to protect them Nwerth- -ss consular authorities IlWUTieii 2.100 Americans in NorthHfcina to get out because the government cannot guarantee their safety. The American consul at Teinvtao informed Atnerithat the " (OONTTNI 'l ON PAGE FIVE) 2 DEFENDANTS ARE ACQUITTED Two Adams County Farmers Acquitted In JusI tice Court Two jriininal charges brought of Indiana on the relation of a Jay coupty stallion owner against two Adams county horsemen, were heard before Justice of Khe Peace John T. Kelly this moving. The com t found the defendants 1 not guilty Squire Kelly's court ■ Was illed by farmers interI in M*® case. ..fflgMlOtm pla Suing witness was Bedtiß. Huily of Jay county. Beu jMlßni- the defendant la the first. Case .mil Raymond Baker. th« d«Mnd.int in the second case MMfeting his decision. Squire Kelly said that he had no doubts tbWWat the statute had been violated but ttyit Mr. Judy did not prove tM jurisdiction of the court, in that if there were a crime com'lt must have been in Jay county Sphere the stallion was In both cases it was brought out in twrttaouv that mares belonging to the defendants had been bred io the Judy stallion with the undoratAtding that the $lO stud fee would be paid in case the mares.goni- in foal. Both owners sold their mares before IS months had expired Prosecuting attorney Arthur R. Voglewede read the Statute fequiring that written pertniaalon be given by the owner of the stud before the mares can be sold without payment of the insur*nce tees until 18 months after the marcs are bred. L. DeVoss and W. H. EicON PAGE TWO) ° Kindergarten Opened Here Tuesday Morning I The Happy Time Kindergarten s»?ened Tuesday morning at the library under the direction of Mrs. Ruesell uOw-n. assisted by Mrs. ?l~de Han is of Bluffton, Mrs. HarMs la a graduate of Chicago univerin jrimary and kindergarten work and also a former critic tearI her in the work at Oberlin ctfllege.

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COUNCIL CUTS COUNTY BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR County Council Makes Reduction In Budget Requests The county council concluded its . annual session to review and lower > county budgets and levies shortly; before noon today, lopping eight I cents from the requested levies. The levy as allowed for 1938 by the ■ county council is 40 cents on the SIOO as compared to the 48 cents asked and the 47-cent rate in effect for 1937. , The county revenue budget was reduced from the $77,021 requested, which would have required a 32-cent rate, to $62,579 which will; require a 26-cent rate. The county bond fund budget re_-; quested at $9,627, requiring a four-1 ’ cent levy, was allowed to stand. The county welfare requested budget of $28,883, requiring a 12-! 1 cent levy, was cut to $24,069, re-I quiring a 10-cent rate. The total budget of $116,531, re-! quiring a 48-cent rate, was cut to $96,275, which will require a 40-. cent rate. < Levies Compared The comparison of levies for taxes payable in 1938 and in 1937 , are: county revenue, 1938. 26 cents, 1937, 29 cents; county bonds. 1938 ’ and 1937, four cents: county welfare department, 1938, 10 cents. 1937, 14 cents, total, 1938, 40 cents, 1937, 47 cfents. All budgets as quoted above give only the portion of the budget to be raised by local taxation and do not take into consideration revenue frofn other sources. ’ Most of the proposed budgets 1 were pruned by the council. However, the council allowed a difference of SIB,OOO between estimated expenses and receipts for the Adams county memorial hospital. The . total hospital budget is $51,000 as allowed by the council. It is estimated that the hospital will receive in revenue from sources other than taxation. $33,000 next year. The action of the council will permit the difference of SIB,OOO made |i up by local taxation. The differI ence allowed made up by taxation during 1937 is $3,500. This is an' increase of $14,500. * Reductions Made Items in which reductions were made and the total reduction for each of the county departments are: t County clerk: clerical assistants ’ in preparing for primary and gen--1 eral election, from $l2O to SSO; deputy registration officers, from ’ $l2O to SSO; clerk's fee, admission ' and discharge of patients at state institutions, from S2OO to $100; 1 clerk as ex-officio registrar of reg- ! istration, from $350 to $250; freight, ’ express and drayage, $75 to SSO; traveling expenses, mileage procur- ’ ing state ballots, from $75 to S3O; 1 rebinding records, from SIOO to ' SSO; stationery and printing, from ■ S3OO to $200; other office supplies, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) i GENEVA TO BE REBEKAH HOST' ' Geneva Selected For 1938 District Convention Os Lodge i ■ Geneva will be the site of the i 1938 district convention of Rebekah i lodges, it was decided at the clos- ■ ing sessions at the district conveni tion. held yesterday in Bluffton. The Geneva meet will be held ■ in March of next year, with repre-i . sentatives from approximately 13 ■ lodges in district 31 expected to at- • tend. Mrs. Lou Armstrong, of Geneva, ■ was named treasurer of the district meeting in the election held late yesterday. Other officers were; Ruby Hardin, Hartford City, district deputy president and Velf ma M. Cavltt, Zanesville, secretary. The Huntington degree team conferred the degree work at the con- > vention. which was attended by a . large crowd of delegates from . lodges in this district. The local representatives were: Mp and Mrs. Noah Fry, Mrs. Walter Lister, Mrs. Dorphus Drum, Mrs. Minnie Teeple and Fred Maj- , or, all of Decatur.

BRADY GANG IS REPORTED SEEN AT INDIANAPOLIS Patrolman Reports Seeing Gang Leader Near Fairgrounds Indianapolis, Sept. 8 — (U.R) — ! Indiana state police, spurred by a I report that Al Brady, self-styled I successor to John Dillinger was seen here last night, intensified I their search for the notorious gun- i man today as police officials of I five states met to co-ordinate their facilities against crime. William Fisher. Indianapolis pa- ; trolman, reported the presence of , Brady in the city. He said he saw ■ the gang leader in an automobile ; near the state fair grounds last . night. "1 saw Brady at headquarters after he was arrested in Chicago , and brought back to Indianapolis and I am positive he was the man in the car," Fisher said. "Traffic was heavy at the inter- i section and, as this automobile' approached, one man raised his hands as if in an effort to hide ( his face. “I recalled having seen the man ; somewhere, but before it dawned on me that he was Brady, the automobile had become lost in traffic." Fisher reported the incident to state police who broadcast an imI mediate alarm over the radio network. Later reports placed the automobile near Logansport, Ind., on , state road 29 and early this morning near South Bend, heading toward Michigan. State police of Michigan were asked to join in the search. Donald F. Stiver, superintendent of state police, described the report as "one of those things" but added that' his department would bend every effprt to trace the : automobile which reportedly carried the outlaw. This new emphasis to the Brady ease came as police radio communication heads of five mid-west- < ern states assembled here to disuss methods of effecting a eloser ; alliance in the interstate war against criminals. Stiver said Indiana. Michigan, (CONTU4USD ON PAGE FIVE) FORMER GENEVA MAN IS KILLED William McCollum Is Fatally Injured In Fall From Ladder William McCollum, 61, former' j Geneva resident, and a steeplejack painter, died late yesterday afternc..n in Fort Wayne after a fall 'from a ladder while working in that city. McCollum was thrown to the ground when a traveling crane dislodged the ladder. He apparently did not notice that the ladder was in the path of the moving* implement. Workmen on construction at the Joeyln mill in that city noticed that McCollum was not dead when they ' were attracted to the scene. He was taken to the St’. Joseph’s hospital in an ambulance. , Dr. C. B. Parker, deputy Allen ; county coroner, gave the cause of death as a skull fracture, after an i investigati. m. The victim had been I residing in Fort Wayne only temporarily, it was learned. The body was taken to tho Wells and Buyer funeral home in Geneva, The deceased was born near I Geneva May 21, 1876. Surviving are the mother, Mrs. Catherine McCollum, of Geneva; two sisters, .Mrs. Eva James, and Mrs. Ollie Huff, both of Fort W’ayne; twa brothers, Hiram, of Geneva and Jess of Kan sas. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Geneva U. B. church with burial in the Studebaker cemetery near there. Enrollment In Berne Schools Decreases A decrease of five in the total enrollment of the 'Perne schools was reported today by the superintendent, E. M. Webb. The total enrollment this year is 405 against 410 of last year. Os the total number thia year 291 are enrolled in the grades and 114 in the high school. Following is the total of each grade: First, 34; second, 33; third, 31; fourth, 43; fifth, 35; sixth, 37; seventh, 38 and eighth, 40. In the high school: freshmen, 31; sophomores, 29; juniors, 31 and seniors, 23.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 8’ 1937.

Noose Awaits Triple Murderer

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Cringing abjectedly as he is taken aboard train for San Quentin prison in California where he is to be executed for triple slaying of three little Inglew-ood. Cal., girls, Albert Dyer, right, cowered away from the cameraman. He was shackled to Eddie Hunt, left, convicted on burglary charges when the pair were taken to prison from Los Angeles jail, above.

WILL DISCUSS | DUST PROBLEM I — Meeting Called For September 16 To Discuss Problem . I —“ A meeting of residents in the . southwest part of the city, the city, •. health officer, the management of •! the Krick-Tyndall Tile Mill and ■the city council at the city hall. . Thursday evening. September 16, ■'was called last night by the city I council. At this meeting objections to the dust from the factory will be pre-i I sented, together with the findings' lof the city health officer. The man-. | agement of the factory will be consulted to learn what can be done. An effort will be made at the meeting, or following it. to settle; the question which has been rais- 1 ed several times during the last; several months. Frank Schmitz appeared before J i the council to object to the erec-1 ■'! tion of a three-foot elevation from the property line of the Al D. Schmitt Motor Sales to the side-; walk. Mr. Schmitz said that this elevation is used for the display of automobiles, which cuts off his i! view of the street. It was reterr- J ed to the board of public works and safety. ■ A report of the committee on ! licenses and ordinances, recorn- ] mending the change of the west boundary of the fire zone from the center of Fourth street to the al(CONTINURD ON PAGE FIVE) ' I o PROWLER AGAIN ACTIVE IN CITY Local Men Fire At Prowler, Who Makes Good His Escape Three ehots were fired last night lat the prowler who has been teri rorizing and robbing homes in the I west and south parts of the city during the last few weeks. The man was seen at about 8:30 o’clock Tuesday night by Pete . Losche and Harry Coffelt on Russell street. The men fired a shot gun at him, but could not determine whether or not he was hit. He ran into the high weeds in ! the direction of the Homesteads adj dition. w ' State and city police sco'ured the i j area for more than two hours as- •■ ter they were notified, but were ■ unable to find any trace of him. Only vague descriptions have so ! far been obtained by police from those who have seen him. In most instances the man has been running away when it has been poss- | ible to get a good view of him. One rifle shot was fired at a man 1 seen peeping into a residence in; the southwest part of the city several days ago but again the prowl-1 l er made good his escape in the | high weeds. i

Miss Marie Adams Is In War Zone Miss Marie Adams, of Fortville and cousin of Earl B. Adams, of , Uris city, hae arrived in China, the “hotbed" of the China-Japan war, according to word received by Mr. 1 I Adams. Miss Adams sailed from San Francisco on August 6. She, with 150 other missionaries .» various denominations, braved the danger i there, arriving ton Monday. The ! school, where she is located, is i now under control of the Japs. Before laving she indicated she might join the mursing carps. STATE SAFETY ’ MEETING SET Safety Councils Os State To Meet At Lafayette September 22 I I - I The Indiana association of safety , I councils, representing local safety councils in every part of the state, will be formally launched and I permanent officers elected at a state-wide meeting called for Wed- . nesday. September 22, at Purdue I university. Lafayette. . A tentative organization, set up | at a meeting of northern Indiana safety councils in July at Gary, has ' had charge of preliminary arrangements for the Purdue meeting. Present officers are C. C. Simpson, Michigan City, president, and H. A. Van Dusen, Gary, secretary. Chief of Police Thomas Martinson of Hammond is the third member of the steering committee. Each safety council in the state will be asked to send a delegation of at least five members to the I meeting at Purdue September 22. ; Some 40 safety councils are expecti ed to be reffresented. A board of directors consisting i of one elected member from each safety council will comprise the governing body of the state organiation, while an executive commit- ! tee of 13 will have direct charge . 1 of its affairs. One member of the i' executive committee will be select- | ed from each of the 12 congressI ional districts in the state, while II the president of the association , will be ex-officio chairman. A president, two vice-presidents and a secretary-treasurer will be . elected at the Lafayette conference, which will be held in the Memorial Union building at Pur- . due, beginning at 1 p. m. and continuing through most of the after- , noon. . | A meeting of the board of direct-; . ors has been tentatively set for; October 20, when the new organ(CONTTNTtRD ON PAGE FIVE) Beverages Board To Conduct Hearing The Adame county alcoholic bev- j ' erage board will conduct a hearing | I Thursday, September 23, on the application of Homer E. Schug, of I Berne, for a beer, wine ana liquor I jretailer's license, 1

2 ORDINANCES ARE PASSED BY CITY COUNCIL Gas Ordinance, Salary Increase Ordinance Passed Tuesday Two ordinances were passed and , one was amended by the city coun- 1 1 cil, in regular session last night, and each was signed by Mayor A. 1 R. Holthouse. Previous to placing the ordinances on their first reading the i committee on ordinances and fran-I I chises reported favorably on the proposals and the measures were adopted with the unanimous conj sent of the council. The ordinance was passed permitting the Northern Indiana Public Service company the right to sell and distribute natural gas with-| in the city of Decatur. The change i from artificial to natural gas, which will be supplied to the company by the Michigan Gas . Transmission j Corporation, will be made this fall Decatur, Bluffton and Fort Wayne, will he supplied the new gas. A letter from Tom Kelly, division manager of the company, agreeing to install a calorimeter in one of the city buildings for the measuring of B. T. U. content in the gas. was written to the mayor and placed on the record. The company agrees to furnish gas with an average heating content of 1014 British thermal units per cubic foot, and not less than. 950 British themal units, nor exceeding 1060 British thermal units 1 [ per cubic foot. It will mean cheaper gas costs for local patrons, company officials declare. The schedule of rates has al ready been approved by the Indiana public service commission. Less natural gas will be used in obtaining the same heat content. Salary Ordinance An ordinance was passed increas-i ! ing and fixing the monthly salaries and wages of city plant employes.: both in the electric and water departments. Heads of the departments were given an increase of approximatei ly five per eent on their former salaries, while employes in the lower income brackets were boosted $lO and sls a month. A scale of wages for regularly employed and part-time employes was also fixed. The board of public works and | safety submitted a recommendation for the increases, which was approved by the council and the ordinance was passed adopting the wage scale and salary increases as recommended. Employes at the city plant, at the city hall and those of the construction crew were included. Civil city employes, including the firemen and policemen and employes of the street department, will be given wage and salary in-, creases, beginning January 1, 1938. j The increases are provided in the, budget for next year. The petition of the city to make the increases effective as of July 1, 1937, was disapproved by the state board of tax commissioners, on the grounds that they could not be changed during the calendar year.' Plumbing Ordinance Amended A paragraph in the present plumbing ordinance was amended (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o DEATH CIAIMS MRS.TUMBLESON Mrs. John Tumbleson Dies This Morning After Long Illness ■ After being bedfast for five and . 1 one-half weeks, Mrs. Manti-j Tum- • bleson, 32, died this meaning at 3 ■ o’clock at the Adams county mentorJial hospital. She resided two miles i 1 south and one-half mile east of Sallem in Blue Creek township. Death i was due to diabetes. i Mrs. Tumbleson was the wife of ■ John Tumbleson, to whom she was > married, February 19. 1901. She was • | th® daughter of William and Sarah •! Buffenbarger and was born in Adams county, February 16, 1885. She had been a life-long resident et the i county. She was a member of the Church ■ jof God at Willshire. Ohio. Surviving besides the husband are a brother, Fred Buffenbarger, lot Scottsville, Michigan, and a sisIter, Mrs. William Baker, of Eaton {Rapids, Michigan. One son and one | sister are deceased. Funeral services will be held at the home Friday at 1:30 o'clock (C. j I S. T.) and at the Mt. Hope church near Salem at 2 o’clock. Bu’ ial will i be made in the Mt. Hope cemetery. i (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO). I

Britain Further Aroused By New Attacks Bu Subs

LET CONTRACT i FOR NEW WELL Council Approves Con-; tract For Drilling Os New Well Approval of a contract with Moody Brothers of Rockford. Ohio for the drilling of a well in the I south end of the park at the Homesteads addition, was granted the water committee at the council meeting Tuesday night. The well is to replace one located in the South Ward field, which has been found unfit for drinking purposes because of the large amount of iron held in suspension. The South Ward well I will be maintained, however, for sprinkling and emergency use. The contract for the drilling of the new well is at the rate of $2.50 a foot. The contract calls for the drilling of other wells at the same terms, should this prove unsatisfactory. The well is to be | 10 inches in diameter and the casings are to be provided by the city of Decatur. Approval of the location of a i well in the Homesteads addition : has been granted the city by the government and the Homesteads association. It is expected that it will provide sufficient water of a good quality to satisfy the southwest part of the city. Work prob- : ably will begin on the drilling I next week and will be carried ■ i through continuously until completed. weather permitting. Light Requested A petition was filed seeking the ; erection of a light at the alley between Madison and Jefferson streets on Seventh street. The : petition was signed by Mrs. A. J. ! Beavers and other residents of | Seventh street. It was referred to the board of public works and safety with power to act. A petition to open an alley on (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) CONTRACTS ARE LET BY BOARD County Commissioners Award Coal Contracts For Year Contracts for the furnishing of 'the winter coal supply for the three ■county institutions were let by the county commissioners before the September session was adjoprned ! t.day. The Carroll Coal and Coke comany was given the contract to furnish a car load of Pocahontas coal at the court house and one at the i county farm f-,' $5.25 a ton. The Cash Coal and Supply was given the contract to furnish three car loads of Kentucky coal for $4.90 a ton. One car load is for the jail, one for the county farm and onb ! f. <r the court house. The commissioners also appointed Alden Beeler, of Geneva route one, as constable in Berne to replace Alfred Zumbrum, who has resigned. o Mid-Week Service At Local Church The mid-week prayer service of , the First Baptist church will be held this evening at 7:30 at the church. During the month of September the pastor is leading a study of sth, 6th, 7th, and Bth chapters of the Epistle to the Romans. In looking forward to a heavy iprogram of activity and spiritual advance in the initial experiences with God, which will serve as a basis for spirI itual iprGgress. The paetor stated last week that the gospel is preached to the unregenerate but is exp'ained to the believers in the Epistles. Every member of the church is urged to attend these study and prayer periods. TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 66 10:00 a. tn. 74 Noon 80 2:00 p. m. 90 3:00 p. m. t 86 WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Thursday; somewhat warmer central and north i Thursday.

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Great Britain Seeking To Induce Italy To Join Conference Friday To End Attacks. CRISIS GRAVE (Copyright 1937 by United Press) London, Sept. 8 — (U.R) — Th® i British government, further aroused by new submarine attacks on merchant ships, was understood today to be making every effort to induce Italy to attend Friday's conference on exterminatiun of “piracy" in the Mediterranean. Following two meetings of the cabinet, it was reported that Britain had given assurances to Premier Mussolini that she would use all her influencer to prevent Soviet Russia from repeating in the conference the accusations that Italian submarines were responsible for the torpedoing of two ships. Russia delivered a second note of protest to Italy today and there were predictions in Rome that Italy would boycott the conference unless Russia was excluded. Gravity of the situation was indicated by the length of the two cabinet meetings —two and onehalf hours in the morning and nearly an hour more in the afternoon. It remained clear that regardless of whether Britain is success--1 ful in inducing Italy to attend the ■ meetings at Noyen, Switzerland, she was determined to proceed with operations to clear the Mediterranean of marauding submarines. Toward this end. it was understood. the cabinet considered an entirely new plan which will be submitted to the conference in event Italy and her ally, Germany, do not attend. Presumably these I new proposals, while seeking collaboration of other naval powers in Mediterranean operations, would be aimed at preventing any appearance of a common front being formed against Italy and Germany. Also it was obvious that the original plan calling for the registration of ail submarines in the Mediterranean, would not be feasible if Italy was not present at the conference and chose not to abide by its decisions. The new proposals were understood to have been inspired byPrime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who returned from Scotland to take command of the situation that involved every great power tn Europe. With anger mounting here, in Paris, in Rome and in Moscow, there was danger of a blow up at any time. Even as the cabinet met the news was published here of two new incidents, either susceptible of trouble. It was reported, by Lloyd’s shipping agency, that a “pirate" warship attacked the British motor tank steamship Harpa, 3,007 tons, off the French North African coast. It was said that the “pirate” fired one torpedo at the Harpa near La Goulette, on the Gulf of Tunis, and missed. An unidentified submarine halted the British motor tanker Pegasus, 3597 tons, off Rhodes, the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) LIONS PICNIC HELD TUESDAY Decatur Lions Club Holds Picnic At HannaNuttman Park . Approximately 90 persons attended the picnic of the Decatur Lions club, held last night at the Lions troop Scout cabin in HannaNuttman park. The number present included members of the club, their wives and families and a few invited guests. The meal was in the form of a mulligan stew, with W. F. Beery in charge of the preparations for the meal. Entertainment was in charge of a committee headed by Mrs. Harold F. Zwick. Novelty vocalists on the program included Walter J. Krick, Robert Zwick, John M. Doan and Donald White. Contests and games were held, with Roy Mumma winning high honors. The picnic was held in place of the usual Tuesday night meeting at the Rice hotel,