Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 253, Decatur, Adams County, 26 October 1937 — Page 1

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IKerial here "■ additions ■ M G, E. PLANT 1 " r ' s< " ( *hl B sra|sß ’ ’■' 1 "' . ■ ■ •.-l-Wp th,h, ‘ gi '"*' ,u ’ :’"Vilig as a , r ’ temporarily " i<> Hie Liy-eff. ii called to tH»* ; . ..mpany Monday contractor and a w hir'd immediately. (•’ — ••"■ b,L employed as ' .■.•. ls Only necesi'll'l construction Will !"■ brought here by wise I■■ Large Improvement [• Bfiie new buildings, which will ’IDS H iJ, -i" the present plant. I. anii'iig the largest indus•Hy ms made in the K | rec hi years. These will Kind bay 1" feet wide and expy 1 * !,st f eet 0,1 the soll ‘ h Bd" t' the present building, and bay 30 by 110 feet, to be 7 the north side of the sac- , Ky All addition 69 by 150 feet. f Biair forth and south at the jy Ktte corner of the present ■udt t and connecting with the t'< t addition, will be eted. company, in agreed to complete i a . FIVH) 3n SUNDAY J SCHOOL MEET Bdai County Sunday ■School Convention Here I i November 12 fur the Adams county l School convention, which gW 1 held at the local U. B. all day Friday. November rapidly going forward, act» t liasi'. of this city, is chair•gUf arrangements: Rev. James "f the host church, is conreporter. exhibit. Mrs. Jesse Wil-, -Mrs. a. Light. Clara El•u Mumira. Mrs. E. S. Lochner. Frank Young, Catherine tl ‘" Rev. Paul Brandyberry., : " al Nazarene church, and Luke Martin. RegistraCatherine Hill, chairman; Hreiner. Wendel Smith. Macklin and Catherine JackBn. publicity committee is comEarl 'Chase, chairman; Marguerite Lewellen, Franklin, Agnes Nelson. B(' Huffman, Mrs. W. A. LowHouser. Earl Bussey. w^B 1 " Kohls and Leland LehThe visitation committee: 1- liman, chairman; Leland ' F. Baker, Victor Kuhn. Kolter, Norval Fuhrman, ■Nr" I'diiison. Fi'd Lindsey and B- J Miller. Rev. R H, Mueller, well Christian leader and Nellie g.. ‘ 1 state children's worker, ■’’"'vi'r, gn pjc.f Fount P& Dance Not To Be A Masquerade Jh. F a'loween dance, to be held R. P. O. Elks Imine Thursday will not be a masquerade gs®. as was erroneously -.innouncMonday's Democrat. * dance wil * f° r members I ■« C( 'ompanied by their wives or liearts. An excellent orchestra en obtained so“ the dance, ad'n for which will be $1 per • The dance hall has been apately decorated in Halloween lnd all members are urged to ,

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Nephew Os Decatur Woman Dies Monday Word was received Monday by i Mrs. Samuel Acker of the death of, her nephew. S, A. Miller. 55, of I 1 Marquette, Michigan Funeral sei- ' vices Were held this afternoon Cause of the d n nth wr.s not stated in the wire. Mr. Miller was born near Rock ' ford and resided for a time in Van Wert. Ohio. He has a number of relatives living In and near Decatur. He is survived by the widow, I Mrs. Minnie North Miller, and three sisters. CONFERENCE ON CHINA-JAP WAR IS POSTPONED Nine-Power Conference Delayed Because Os Cabinet Crisis Brussels. Oct. 26 — (U.R) —The nine-power treaty conference on the Chinese-Japanese war was postponed today, because of a cabinet crisis, from Saturday to. November 3. Foreign Minister Paul Spaak suggested the postponement yesterday to the British ambassador. Sir Robert Clive. Clive suggested that there would be no difficulty about convening the meeting Saturday despite the crisis. But the' matter was referred to the British, and other governments. It was announced at London that Britain was agreeable to the postponement provided that other nations were. Soon afterward it was announced here that the meeting would be deferred. King Leopold consulted political leaders today, hoping to find a premier to succeed Paul Van Zeeland, who resigned with his cabinet yesterday because of charges made by Fascist leaders against the management of the national bank. Today. Van Zeeland also resigned as a Brussels member of the chamber of deputies. Pledged To Peace London. Oct. 26- (U.R) —King George, addressing his parliament for the first time in a speech from the throne, pledged his government today to work unceasingly for peace in Spain and in the Far fcast. But he pledged the government also to maintain the racing pace of ' its rearmament program — with special attention to antiaircraft defense —so that if war comes, the i country will be ready for it. “My relations with foreign powers continue to be friendly," the king said—the customary opening of the throne speech. He continued, discussing foreign affairs: “My ministers have followed with growing concern the contin- | nance of the conflict in Spain. It is their aim to do everything that lies within their power to assist toward restoration of peace among the Spanish people. They believe I that strict application of the interI national policy of non-intervention in Spain will materially continue ( to this end. “The position in the Far East , will continue to engage the earnest . attention of my government, who( will persist in their policy of ' attempting in cooperation with other governments, whether members of the league of nations or not, to mitigate the suffering causi ed by the conflict and bring it to a conclusion.” The king’s reference to nations — (CONTTNUIBD ON PAGE FIVE) .— 0 ADAMS POST 43 OVER ITS QUOTA Local American Legion Post Goes Over Membership Quota Adams Post No. 43. American Legion has gone over the top in its ■ membership drive, it was announced today by the committee in charge of the drive. A quota of 175 members was set for the local post of the Legion earlier in the year. Following a checkup from the number turned In Sunday, final day for the drive, it was disclosed that a total of 183 cards I have been turned in, eight over the quota. Os the total number 46 new cards were turned in the final day. The 40 and 8 engine passing through the city Sunday, took the membership cards to Indianapolis to be filed with the state headquarters there. Herb L. Kern was chairman of the local membership drive and J. I Henry Faurote was chairman at the 'drive in the county.

CHINESE ABE MEN BACK. BI JAPANESE China I’accs Possible Disaster As Front Lines Are Smashed — Shanghai. Oct. 26— (T’P) - Japanese sho k troops smashed through the Chinese defense lines at two ; key faints of the blood soaked Shanghai batt'e front today. The momentum <n a feiocious drive carried the Japanese to the Shanghai-Nanking railroad tracks which they began to destroy in ; l.ape of ( Utting off tens of thousands of Chinese troops in the Chapei district of Northern Shanghai Foreign military experts said that the next 24 hours should tell whether the Chinese could withdraw in order and force to their second line of defense, the long-prepared Chi-1 ang Kai-Shek line of steel, concrete and barbed wire fortifications, or were faced with disaster. Chinese spokesmen admitted the gains which the Japanese joyously announced. The Japanese had broken thr. *tgh at Tazang. north of Shanghai, and at Miaohang, slightly to the east of Tazang. They were driving southward and southwestward in hope of cutting« off the thousands upon thousands of Chinese defending the Kiangwan ; suburbs northeast of Shanghai and I the Chapie-north railroad station sector which is the Southern end cf the front. The Chinese, sweat soake ( ] and at the point of exhaustion, withdrey sullenly and slowly, fighting for every yard. It was not a rout. The Chinese hoped to withdraw a’i their men to the new line, roughly five miles west of the r.ne which the Japanese cracked today, and there begin the fight anew. For many days, day and night, the Japanese had thrust against Tazang. They laid down Bombardments that crumble,] its buildings and still the Chinese stood fast. The Japanese flanked il. north and south. Today it was a choice for the , Chinese defenders whether they would stay and die, endangering their main forces by a reckless, h, peless resistance, or retire. A? dawn the Japanese opened a bombardment with airplane bombs (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 BOARD MEMBERS CLOSE HEARING State Tax Board Members Conclude Hearings On Tax Levies Few changes, if any. are anticipated in the tax levies as approved by the Adams county tax adjustment board recently. Leßoy Decker and Bert E. Woodbury. representatives of the state tax board, who conducted hearings in the county auditors office Monday for rates applicable in six taxing units and on the remonstrance filed by the county welfare department, will submit the data collected to the state tax board in session in Indianapolis. Because all of the counties in the state must be examined, it is j not expected that the decision on ■ rates in Adams county will be received for some time. Mr. Decker and Mrs. Woodbury complimented the county, township. city,' school and other officials j in Alanis county for the manner i in which their budgets were filed. ! stating that they were in better ' shape than the majority of the | counties in the state. The hearings were made necessary due to the fact that three towns or cities, Decatur, Berne and Geneva and three township, StMary's, Jefferson and Wabash, had ' rates totaling more than that per- , mitted under the new tax limitation law. No objections or remonstrances, however, were filed against any of these rates by taxpayers. A remonstrance filed by the 1 county welfare board was also heard Monday. The board is asking the restoration of the two-cent I cut made in its original 12-cent requested levy for 1938. CYO Dance Will Be Held Tonight Plans have been completed for the CYO dance, to be staged at the Decatur Catholic high school tonight. officials of Ihe organization stated today. The dance will start at 9 o’clock to permit all persons attending theater and indoor circus performances to visit the dance later.

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Decatur. Indiana. Tuesday, October 26, 1937.

To Search For Lost Russian Fliers V " % \ 1%. X * \ ft Sir Hubert Wilkins (right) with Herbert Hollick Kenyon are shown tit Floyd Bennett Field. N. ¥.. as they inspected the 1' S. S It plane in which they plan to make their second attempt to find the Russian fliers who were lost in the Arctic wastes last August

REPORT BAILER STILL AT LARGE Sam Bailer Fugitive From Charge; Hesher Is Given Fine Late this afternoon, approximately 24 hours after his failure to appear in city court for arraignment on charges of possession of untaxed liquor. Sam Bailer, local alleged bootlegger, was still being sought by local anthorities. Bailer was scheduled to be tried ! on the charge in city court late yesterday afternoon after excise ; officer, county authorities and local ’ police found nearly half a gallon I of “white mule'' and other contraband beverages at his home Sunday morning during a raid. Bailer was not at home during ( the raid. When officers returned I for him several times later in the ; day. he still was not to be found, i A thorough search had failed to j locate him up to a late hour todayAuthorities express the belief (that he is “hiding out" with rela- ■ tives in Michigan. ■ Meanwhile au additional charge, ■ that of illegal sale of the untaxed intoxicants, has been filed against ■ him. Hesher Sentenced '! John Hesher, whose home was -(raided Sunday morning simultan- ■ ( eously with the Bailer residence. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) -— o— — New Regional PWA Office Open Nov. 1 An announcement was leceived . here today that F. M. Logan, forj meriy state director of the PWA and Donald Graham, formerly state J engineer inspector for the PWA, have been transferred to the regional office in Chicago. The state ofi fice is being cVred due to the clos- ] ing out of PWA projects. The new regional office will be ! opened Monday, November 1, at 20 i North Wacker Drive, Chicago. David R. Kennicott is regional director. J

p inal Performance Os Circus At High School Gym Tonight

"Ladie-e-e-e-s and gentlemen — your attention please. With your approval, the United Indoor Circus, direct from the circus city of Peru, presents at this time one of the most magnificent, colossal and stupendous performances ever to be given in your fair city." — thus opened the afternoon engagement of the indoor circus in the high school gymnasiunf this afternoon—to be followed by a second showing tonight at 8 o’clock. Mid the oh's and ah's of the spectators, scores of performers,. ied by clever tumblers, aerialists, clowns and equine artists, provided one and a half hours entertainment for those who attended the matinee. Opening with the Hodgini fam-I

Colored Quartet To Sing Here Wednesday The Mississippi Four, noted colored male quartet, will present a| vocal program at the Church of God. Cleveland street. Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. This quartet. which broadcasts thrice weekly on tlie Bible story hour from WOWO. has appeared at the local church several times, and has been ■ greatly enjoyed. Tlie public is invited to the Wednesday night concert. The offering ■ will be used to assist in keeping ■ the Bible story "hour on the air. SOUTH WARD TO HOLD FESTIVAL Annual Fall Festival M ill Be Presented Friday Night ) The South Ward pupils will give r their annual fall festival, sponsered by the parent-teachers associat ion and the teachers of the school ' Friday evening at 7 o’clock, at the 1 s hool building. A clever p'aylet will open the festivities with a number of the children taking part. Admission to the 1 play will be 10 cents for everyone. ’ There will be fish ponds for the ' kiddies and decorated booths witn home made candies, pies, pop corn and other delicious articles of food. A hot dog stand will be in evid- ' ence and coffee and hamburgers will be sold. Fortunes will be told and the spirit of Halloween will prevail. The public and also the patrons of the school a’re urged to attend. No admission charge will be made t". the festival 'proper. ( Following is a cast of the characters for the playlet, “Jack o’La.n--tern Inn”. Mrs. Witch—LaVon Strickler. , Real Children—Libby Macy and , Donald Kirsch Little Witches —Nancy Bell, Kathryn Ann Edwards and IWviai Venis. (GONTTNUED ON PAGE FIVE)

ily, widely-known bareback riders, direct from a summer tour under canvas, the “Aerial Ortons," provided'one of the outstanding acts with their “dqjtble trapeze and breakaway." when Miss Orton hurled through space, held only by a single strand of rope, linked around her ankle. Then “Daredevil Orton", himself, perched atop a single strand of wire, blind-folded, balanced himself on a chair in his precarious position. I The Merrills, a brother and sister act, was one of the features of the performance, with the duo thrilling the spectators with their , handstands and handsprings, I (CONTINUED ON

CIO Makes Peace Offer Today ToAFL Leaders At Meeting To Halt Long Draum-Out Dispute

COMPLETE PLANS FOR HALLOWEEN HERE THURSDAY Annual Callithumpian Parade To Be Held Thursday Night — Dee Fryback, president of the I Chamber of Commerce, and general , chairman of the Callithumpian par- j ade Decatur's annual Halloween celebration, announced today that all plans are complete for the ob- ; servance. which will be held on the streets of the city Thursday evening. The Thursday night parade will start promptly at 7:30 o’clock. Starting on Third street, the line of I march will move south to Adams, the.n.e east to Seccnd, north to Jackson, west to Third, north to Monroe, east to Second and south on Second, in order that all paraders will pass the judging stand ; t wice. A total of $154 in cash prizes will be awarded to winners in various classes. / costumed individuals and groups. The largest (prize, $5.5. will be presented to the best costumed band or drum corps. Second prize in this (division will be S2O. A sls award i wi’l be given to the best rube band or druni corps. E. W. Lankenau is chairman of the judging committee. Judges for individual and group costumes are: Mr. and Mrs. Herman F. Ehinger, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Ashbaucher, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Carroll and Rev. and Mrs. C. M. Prugh. Band and drum corps judges are ■Cail C. Pumphrey. Dr. Fred Patter • s .n and Herman Krueckeberg. : Two judging platforms will he : erected, one on Second street, in front of the court house, and the other on North Second street, near Monroe street. Prizes other than those menti.Ji ed above are: Ladies costume (most comical) $4; men's costume (most comical) i $4; boy's costume (most comical) $3; girls costume (most comical) (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Mrs. Eleanor Cook Slightly Better The condition of Mrs. Eleanor I Cook. Ceylon, who has been in a i critical conditon since an auto ac-1 cident Sunday night, was reported as “slightly improved’’ by Adams county memorial Ivcspital attaches this afternoon. Mrs. Cook is suffering from a brain concussion, probable skull fracture and other severe injuries. Her companion in the wreck, Mrs. Glen Brewster, of Ceylfn. is also rep, .' ted recovering from injuries. o ——— WALTER KRICK TO HEAD DRIVE School Superintendent Named Chairman Os Red Cross Drive Walter J Krick. Decatur school superintendent, was named chairman of the annual Red Cross mem- ; bership drive, at a meeting of the ' Adams county Red Cross workers’ I conference, held Monday evening at the Rice hotel. ' : Roscoe Glendening. cashier of the First State Bank, was appointed vice-chairman. The annual roll call for mom-1 L hors will open on Armistice Dav, , November 11, and conclude ■ Thanksgiving Day. November 25. Mrs. Marv Foagels. Fort W’avne. ■ national Red Cross field worker, . was the principal speaker at last j night's meeting. I Mrs. Feagels devoted her adt ( dress to the various projects soon- , sored by the Red Cross. Principal II projects as outlined bv the speaker I are: First aid on highways; home I and farm accidents: public health jl nursing; home hygiene; Junior Red Cross ( \ The national worker then outlined the plans for the annual membership drive, which will be held throughout the country on the ' dates mentioned above. ' Wai Wemhoff. Adams county Red Cross chairman, acted as i chairman of Monday night’s meeting.

CITY HAS PAID TAX ON PLANT Taxes Assessed Against Municipal Plant Paid t’p To Date All the tax assessed against the I city light and water departments |of the municipal plant has been I paid. Mayor A. R. Holthouse anI tiounced today. The November installment was , paid today. The tax on the elecI trie department for the half year was $589 and $244 90 on the water department. The electric department is assessed for $190,000 and the water department, $79,000. Under the j law. the municipal plant pays only the state and county tax levies. The state levy is 15 cents and the county levy is 47 cents on the hundred dollars valuation. Last May. when the spring installment was paid, including the back taxes for 1934 and 1935, the penalty for the two years was also paid. Recently the attorney--1 general ruled that the penalty should be refunded if the current tax was paid. The city filed a demand for the penalty refunds and payment was made today by county treasurer Jeff Llechty. The penalties for the non-payment of the tax in 1934 and 1935 amounted to $363.30, which amount was credited to the 1 city utilities. A cash refund of $296.59 was made and remitters issued for $66.71. City officials took the position that the tax should not be left to pile up. The tax was paid under protest and if th« United States supreme court does find the state law, which taxes municipally owned plants unconstitutional, the ( city will file for the refund. If the law is upheld, the eleefrfe and water departments will not he forced to dig up the whole amount at one time and also will avoid | paying the penalties. 40 HOURS WILL BEGIN FRIDAY Father John Tracey To Conduct Forty Hours Devotions Here Rev. Father John Tracey, O. M. 1., will conduct the Forty Hours Devotion at St. Mary's Catholic church, beginning Friday morning. Three masses will be said Friday and Saturday morning and four on Sunday morning. Services will be held each evening at 7:30 o’clock, the solemn close of the devotions being held Sunday evening. Masses on Friday and Saturday will be at 5:45. 7:00 and 8:00 o'clock. On Sunday the masses will be said at 6,7, 8, and 9:45 a. m. Confessions will be heard every afternoon and evening and Holy] j Communion will be distributed | every morning. On Sunday the entire congregation will receive Holy Communion at the masses. Father Tracey is an excellent speaker. He acted as assistant to the Father Joseph Seimetz for (CONTINUED GN PAGE FIVE) O — Marcus Schuler Hurt In Fanning Machine Marcus Shuler, 17, son of Adolph Schuler, of Decatur, route one, was dismissed from the Adams county (memorial hospital this morning at(ter being admitted for treatment 1 when his left heel was lacerated in a 'Combining farm implement. o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 68 10:00 a. m. 48 Nopn -— 66 2:00 p. m. 68 3:00 p. m. 59 8:00 a. m. 48 10:00 a. m. 50 Noon - <7 2:00 p. tn. 46 3:00 p. m. - 44 WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Wednesday; slightly cooler tonight and east and south portions Wednesday.

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AFL Conferees Promise To Answer Proposals From CIO Wednesday Morning. UNEXPECTED Washington, Oct. 26.—(U.R) The committee for industrial organization today offered to make peace with the American Federation of Labor in exchange for the right to organize mass production wofkers and to retain complete autonomy inside the framework of the feder- . | ation. The proposal came with dramatic suddenness before a peace conference in which ten CIO delegates and three fro mthe A. F. of L. were attempting to end orgaui ized labor's two-year civil war. The conference, caught unprepared by the proposal, adjourned almost immediately after receiving the plan to await a reply, and perhaps a counter proposal, from the federation. A. F. of L. spokesmen said their answer will be ready when the conference reconvenes at 10 a. m. tomorrow. Federation conferees inferred that breadth of the proposals caught them unprepared. "The proposal submitted by the CIO is in such broad terms that we are unable to give any statement in respect to the proposal at this time," they said in a statement. "We sought an explanation of the proposal but were unable to get any helpful information from the committee of the CIO this morn- , ing." The CIO peace committee of ten i men offered to lead the 3.700,000 . workers they represent back into . the federation, with the provision > that existing CIO unions retain . their autonomy under a new and I distinct department of the A. F. of , ( L., and be permitted to continue the principle of industrial organI ( ization. The offer, submitte das the historic conference of federation and CIO representatives began its second day, constituted the first concrete program to end the two-year | civil war within the ranks of or- : ganized labor. The three-man federation delegaI tion, headed by George M. Harrison, gave no immediate indication J of how the CIO s three-point peace plan would be received. William Green. A. F. of L., president. refused to comment immediately on the proposal. The federation spokesmen, in an earlier conference with Green, were understood to have reached agreement on a definite program of their own. terms of which were not revealed immediately. The CIO proposed, as a condition ' of peace, that all existing CIO affiliated unions be grouped in a new department in the A. F. of L.; that they be allowed to unionize mass production, marine, public utilities, service and fabricating industries on an industrial union basis, and that a joint convention of the two groups be held in the near future to ratify the agree- ' ment. I Submissio nos the plan was ex- ■ pected to bring the peace confer--1 ence directly to the basic issues which have divided labor for 23 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ANNOUNCE LIST OF COMMITTEES Rev. C. M. Prugh Announces Ministerial Committees The Rev. Charles M. Prugh, pastor of the Zion Reformed church, recently elected president of the Decatur ministerial association, today announced standing committees of the association for the year. These committees have been appointed by the executive committee. The committees are as follows: Christian education: Rev. R. W. Graham, chairman; Rev. James A. Weber and Rev. Paul Brandyberry. Evangelism: Rev. G. S. Lozier, chairman; Rev. Homer J. Aspy and Rev. Glen E. Marshall. Program committee: Rev. Paul Brandybenry, chairman; Rev. G. S. Lozier and Rev. James Weber. Civic welfare: Rev. J. Aspy, chairman; Rev. R. W. Graham and Rev. C. J. Miner,