Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1937 — Page 1

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* fc AND S SEE "® LITHUMPIAN WRADE HERE H Thronn Streets To Ktch Annual CeleH bration Here P . ■. ,„p l>-ealurites and -I hy r '‘ v, ’ rabl '‘ th- city uh uh' P' , catur s annual K •u](j MtfWcrowds lined the sidewalks ~f d>>« I» Iteratin' t>> I ——of the largest and Wolorful of Halloween parI. ■injuenral.'d by the local IS ; Couan- re.' as a means re K l||W .■ ■ ' lamnient with:o ■ ’ Hie crowds and ' ■' damage or L J II pranks were re7'l Siam and city working with members of . > ceb'braUt'll - 111" w . . > ■. ,an i . by Fred Engle. A prizes given as tolI’K • stum.', $4 [J„ lOtniral man. $4 The R"v- --'/ Graham. Decatur. — comical couple. s 6— Mr. and Everett. Fort Wayne. .onmai fat man. $4 Rose Monroeville. E woman. St Argo Sudduth. Mur. ..g bars costume. $3 Peggy Willshire. | , comical group of live, siu A Gertrude Howman. ElizaHnlj me Eyanson, Max Bowman, ■ ■ Demur. funnies, $4 — Barbara tlD BAGE FIVE > nny - o—■OMPLETE PLAN lit MN LOANS Kb” To Be Presented To Roosevelt I Tonight Oct. 29 —(UP) — A finance corn loans without the President's budget will be puresented to K r '' at Hyde Park tonight Press learned today, detai's of the plan were at a lengthy treasury ’•:. which began yesterday and extended into the Attending the conference secretary of the treasury Morgenthau. Jr., assistant Wayne ('. Taylor, acting director Daniel \V. Bell, .111 Jesse Jones of the reHi in finance c rporation. " i' lees declined to reveal >: tlie corn loans agreed how funds were found boosting the estimated de.cii.mtU for the fiscal year. | H high government off'< la 1 rethat the plan will be carried |K*h.. President by secretary Mor- : and Bell, who are scheduldis, uss budget matters with I: ■ ...-v--lt at the summer White ' tonight. is .1 very good p’an that was said. ■ ] think it will work ■ all right.” indicated that announcement < P l, d. tails would be made either ■"■day and Monday. t ■ Favor Legislation 1 1 ■dumbus, Ohio, -(UP)-- Sen. < McGill, Kansas, said today j ■ j l * “overwhelming majority" ( ( PN’TIN’UED ov PAGE FOUR) I* ■ 1 ■ssionary Confab Will Be Held Soon , ■. home missionary society ■he Northern Indiana M. E. con- ' will be held in the Broad- I -Methodist church at Logan-! < ■ i t November 1 and 2. 1i ■ ilnong the speakers will be Mrs. t ■ ’* N. English, national W. S. G. .1 re,a yy and Dr. Mark Dawber, au- s 1 of ‘Rebuilding Rural America”. > ™ '• C. B. Coxall of Richmond is i I ■’ident of the society. 11

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Fall Festival At South Ward Tonight A large crowd Is expected at the annual full festival, to be held at the South Ward this evening. The festivities will open with a playlet at 7 o’clock, with a number of pupils taking part. Booths have been built and other arrangements completed. All patrons of the school and the public are urged to attend. o AFL UNIONS TO TAKE NO PART IN ELECTIONS Green Announces Organization To Stay Out Os Local Fights (Copyright 1937 by United Press) Washington. Oct 29—(U.R) The American Federation of Labor will maintain a national policy of neutrality in the forthcoming municipal elections despite its new program to fight the committee for industrial organization at the polls. President William Green said today. In an interview which followed the first day of recess between negotiators for peace between the rival labor organizations. Green said that local units of the federation will retain full autonomy of > olitical decision Nov. 3 and until the next meeting of the federation's executive council next January. The A. F. of L. convention at Denver earlier tlrts month ■nsnimously to oppose -all political candidates sponsored by the C. I. O. Green s statement was interpreted as tacit approval of the action of the New York state federaFiorello H. LaGuardia for re-elec-tion which is backing Mayor tion. LaGuardia is sponsored l>y the American labor party, an offshoot of John L. Lewis’ non-parti-san league. "We will rely on the local unions, the city central bodies, and the state federations of labor to define their local political policies in local political campaigns this year," Green said. “No general and national policy will be formulated until the council meets.” Green said that despite the action taken at Denxer, no machinery for a national policy had yet been formed. The only possible chance for a change in the plan to extend the labor war between the federation and the C. 1.0. into the political ’ field would be an agreement on peace terms at the joint confer-1 ence scheduled to resume next Thursday. There was little hope for such a reunion. It was reported last night that Lewis had told a close friend i that the negotiations were "all over —busted.” Meanwhile, behlnd-the-scene attempts were being made to resuscitate the conference. Former assistant secretary of labor Edward S. McGrady, who recently accepted a position with Radio Corporation of America, conferredwith Lewis by telephone from New York yesterday and later called at the president’s temporary offices at Hyde Park. N. Y. There were unconfirmed reports that George M. Narrison. chairman of the federation's peace conference committee, had gone to NewYork to see Sen. Robert L. Wag(CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) BARBER LAW IS RULED ILLEGAL Indianapolis Legal Counsel Decides Law Unconstitutional Indianapolis, Oct, 29 —(UP) —The ordinance regulating Indianapolis i barber shops, passed at the last meeting <’f the city Council will be held illegal. Floyd J. .’.lattice, city corporation counsel, indicated yesterday. Mayor Walter C. Boetcher sev- ] eral days ago requested an opinion j from the city legal department as to the legality of the measure. Passage of the ordinance was op- , p sed by downtown barber shop operators who protested against a provision closing all barber shops at 7:30 o'clock at night. The ordinance provided that bar-' ber shops open at 7 a. m. and close at 7:30 p. m. It exempted beauty shops from provisions of the act. Mr. Mattice said 12 states have acted on the constitutionality of similar measures and that in 10 instances the measures have been held to be illegal.

GALLOWS ASKED FOR DALHOVER BY GOVERNMENT Brady Gangster Anionn Those Indicted By Federal Grand .Jury South Bend. Ind., Oct. 29.—(U.R) James Dulhover, chesty little "trigger man' of the notorious Al Brady gang, today was under federal indictment for the slaying of State Policeman Paul Minneinan while fleeing from tin l holdup of a Goodland, Ind., bank. Federal authorities indicated they would attempt to send Dalhover to the gallows, where he , would join in death his tw‘o gangland pals. Brady and Clarence Lee Shaffer, who were shot down by G-men on the streets of Bangor, Maine, on October 12. A federal grand jury returned a murder indictment against Dalhover last night. The gunman also was indicted for robbing the Goodland bank of $2,668 last May •>r. District Attorney James Fleming said he would go to Washington within the next few days to confer with U. S. Attorney General Hom:er S. Cummings on wether Dalhover should bo tried in a state or federal court. It was shortly after the Goodland bank opened on May 25 that Dalhover and his companions staged the holdup. Officers began to dose in on them as they fled so the gunmen hid in ambush at a cross roads near Royal Center and shot Minneman dead. Because the Goodland bank was a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation the gunmen became guilty > of a federal crime. Mourns Life Dalhover. who mourns the fact that he didn't die like Brady and Shaffer, already is under indictment in Marion county for the slayi ing of Richard Rivers. Indianapolis police sergeant. He has been held in the Marion county jail at Indianapolis since his return from Bangor. He was the only member of the gang to survive the withering I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN > o NEW OFFICERS ARE SELECTED County Home Economic }■ Club Leaders Meet Here Thursday The leaders of the Home Economics clubs of Adams county met :at the Decatur high school on j Thursday, October 28. The lesson given in the morning session by Miss Inez Kent of Purdue was on a “Safety Code in the Home.” A complete outline was handed out and discussed in detail. A delicious pot luck dinner was served to 32 members and five visitors at noon. Walter J. Krick, county chairman of the Red Cross and Mrs. Feagles. national field director of the organization, gave talks requesting the cooperation of all the Home Economics clubs in the Red I Cross roll call. The following officers were elected for the year 1938: Mrs. E. W. Busche, president; Mrs- E. M. Ray. vice-president; Mrs. Forrest Walters, secretary; Mrs. James Moses, treasurer, and Mrs. Earl Chase, news reporter. The afternoon lesson was on practical Christmas gifts and table decorations. In the month of November one dollar from each township club is to be sent to Oft’county agent's office to be placed in the "Virginia Meredith Memorial Fund." The project lesson decided on ! for the year, 1938, is "Home Furn- ! ishings," with Miss Blanche Zaring I of Purdue as the specialist. o Two Occupants Os Buggy Are Injured Two Amishmen were injured last [evening north of Berne at 5:30 ; o’clock when the horse-drawn ' buggy in which they were riding [ was struck from the rear by an auto driven by E. A. Puterbaugh, Fort Wayne salesman. The injured: Jacob A. Schwartz, 65, of near Berne, who sustained : a wrenched back and a head lacer- [ ation and his son-in-law, Jacob Hilty, who suffered a broken collar bone and a severe head laceration, which nearly scalped him. They were both thrown from the ' buggy. After treatment at the 10-* cal hospital tlwy were dismissed. The driver of the car said he could I not see the buggy because of the I lights of an approaching auto. i

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, October 29 1937.

1 No Hobgoblins in Her Pumpkin W ; "X ■" ? wk f w wfc ; JB r ** i uk Lim £ I . ' ‘J; .L, . . 1 Am. DMM When two-year-old Irma Ann Dance, diminutive Miami. Fla . miss, was presented with a jack-o’-lantern, she decided she’d better invest!- i gate and make sure there were no hobgoblins in her pumpkin, accounting for the unusual expression on the little lady's face.

HOUSING BOARD IS ORGANIZED - -—— Graliker Heads Committee On Financing Building Plan Theodore Graliker. president of the First State Rank, was named hairman of a committee o investigate the possibility of financing a building pr gram here under the Decatur housing authority. . The organization meeting of the commissioners on the authority, was held Thursday afternoon. It was ca'led by the chairman of the authority, Nathan C. Nelson, appointed by Mayor A. R. H dthouse in naming the other members of the board. At the meeting Thusrday, Dr. Harold F. Zwick was elected vicechairman, and Robert H. Heller, secretarj. A committee composed of James Kocher, Jr., and Dr. Zwick was appointed to investigate the costs of cheap h uses, which might be built under the new state and federal slum clearance acts. The financial committee, composi ed of Mr. Graliker. chairman, and Mr. Heller, is to investigate the > means of financing proposed pro- . jects, which might be through fed- : eral purchase of bonds, issued against property which might be i obtained by the authority. ■ At a meeting to ibe called soon by Mr. Nelson, persons interested (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ■I o ROTARY HEARS DR. DANIELS Health Officer Talks Here On Social Diseases Thursday Night 1 Dr. Robert E. Daniels, secretary of the City Board of Health, made a ' plea in an address before the Ro--1 tary club last evening for a wider ■ distribution of information in dealing with and combating social dis eases. 1 The health officer’s talk dealt ’ with the social diseases. "One way : to curb it and eventually eliminate t lit is to bring it out in the open and ' discuss it", he said. "Recently the who’e state seem- ' ed afire because of a few cases of [ infantile paralysis. Reports show ' there were about 46 cases in the : state. They talked on an epidemic. ) Records show that about 10 per i cent of the civilized race is afflicted ; with one of the degrees of social i disease which cause more havoc ,• to the human system than paralysis”. Dr. Daniels stated. , ! The sipread of syphilis has been I increasing rapidly in recent years - Dr. Daniels stated. The health of- . ficer advocated that education on • the subject was the best means of • curbing the malady. The program was in charge of > Tom Smith, chemist at the Central Sugar company. A moose dinner was served to the club, H. P. Schmitt, who recently returned from a hunting trip to Cani ada, providing the steaks.

Forty Hours Opened At St. Mary’s Church Forty Hours Devotion opened at St. Mary's Catholic church this i morning. Four masses were said during the morning. Services will be held at 7:30 o’-1 | clock this evening and the church I will lie opened during the day for | private devotions. Rev. Father John Tracey, O. M. I. is the raissi nary in charge of the devotions. He speaks at the morning masses and will deliver the sermon in the evening. o MARTIN BRAUN DIES SUDDENLY City Water Department Employe Dies Suddenly This Morning Martin G Braun. 38, employe of the city water department, died suddenly this morning at 10 o’clock at his home on North Seventh street. Death was caused by a stroke of anonlexy. He had visited up town last evening. attending the Halloween' celebration with his family. He had been ill for a time several > weeks ago. The deceased was born south of the city, December 18, 1898, the j son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Braun. | well known Adams county couple. He was a member of the Loyal! Order of Moose and of the Holy Name society. He was a member of the St. Mary's Calhollc church. | He was first employed by the city water department under Mayor George Krick and was reappointed under the administra-1 tion of Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse, a position which be held at the ! time of his death. Surviving, besides the widow, j Margaret M. Kriegel-Brown, are! eight children. Marcyle. Arthur. Eugene. Richard. Robert, Floyd, Roger, and Florence, all at home. The following brothers and sisters, besides the parents, also survive: Nicholas. Mrs. Ben Lang. Bernard J., Daniel. Mrs. Cornelius Geimer. Herbert. Albert. Herman and Florence, all of this community. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock at i-the St. Mary's Catholic church > with the Rev. Father Joseph J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be 1 made in the St. Joseph cemetery here. The body will be taken to the home. 222 N. Seventh street Saturday morning from the Zwick & Son mortuary, where it may be viewed after noon until time for the funeral. Beet Truck. Auto Collide Here Today A beet truck was. badly damaged and an auto slightly at 12:35 o’clock this afternoon when the truck driven by Emmett Ackerman of Van Wert, Ohio, crashed into the car, driven by G. Fredericx Owen, of Colorado Springs. Colorado The truck careened into a nearby tree after the crash. Neither of the men was injured. The accident occurred at the intersection of Marshall and Second streets. I

Three British Soldiers Are Killed By Japanese Shells; Predict Swift Action Likely

DISTRIBUTION IS ANNOUNCED BY LIQUIDATOR Old Adams County Bank To Make Two Per Cent Distribution A two per cent distribution has- | ed on the 96 per cent of deposits |on hand in the bank when the ■ State Department of Financial Institutions took it over, will be; made Saturday in the liquidation ! of the Old Adams County bank it was announced today. The distribution will total $9.-, , 620.69. and cheeks will be available at the office of the Special Representative, Clark J. Lutz, in the DeVoss building on South Seci ond street. The checks must be called for, as they will not be mailed due to the high postage costs ion small accounts. Robert Kram-| I er, assistant special agent in < harge of the liquidation, said to-1 ! day. Available For Taxes I A petition prepared by the bank s attorney. Henry B. Heller, was approved late Thursday afternoon by Judge Huber M. DeVoss in the Adams circuit court. Final preparj ations for the distribution were rushed in order that the money might be available before the final date for paying taxes, Monday. The distribution Saturday will be made as follows: 1.1 per cent from liquidation, totaling $5,291.38; .09 per cent from collections of stockholder’s liabilities, $4,329.31, totaling. 2 per cent, and $9,620.69. The distribution payment also I includes interest dividends, as by la recent ruling of Judge De Voss ' these have been added to the deposit claims. The interest covers that period savings accounts and certificates of deposits were in the I bank between the time of the last interest payment and the time the bank closed. Late Collections Since the last current report filed June 30. 1937. at which time cash on hand and in banks amounted to $12,672.88, cash collections have amounted to $4,656.06, making total cash and collections new $17,328.94. It was stated today that distributions. consisting of expenses, taxes, preferred an d common ! claims since then have amounted I to $10,793.59. The report on the stockholders ! liabilities tiled last June showed cash on hand at $4,518.14 to which additional collections of $45.09 ! have brought the total on hand to $4,563.23. With the allowance of the disputed A. J. Smith claim, all claims i (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o MILLIONAIRE LIFER DIES Rochester Man Dead At Michigan City; Worth Million Dollars Rochester, Ind , Oct. 29. —(U.R)— Joseph Musselman. 68, whose extensive property holdings and frugal ways of living made him a millionaire, died in the Indiana sfJte prison at Michigan City yesI terday where he was serving a life ! sentence for the murder of his ■ son-in-law, Edgar Burton. Musselman stabbed Burton to J death a year ago last March durI ing an argument over division of | hogs on one of Musselman’s farms where Burton was a tenant. The murder, first in tNe county in 30 years, created considerable ev'eltement. He was indicted for first degree murder hut later asked a change of venue asserting local prejudice existed against him which precluded his chance for a fair trial. His request was granted and the case was sent to the Marshall county circuit court at Plymouth where a jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. The aged millionaire was taken ill two weeks ago and was removed to the prison hospital where he > died. Survivors are his wife and Mrs. Grace Burton, widow of Edgar Burton. I Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

TWO ARE FINED IN CITY COURT Man And Woman Are Fined Today For Public Intoxication Fines were meeted out to two persons in city court by Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse this morning, both on charges of public intoxication. Harley H. Combs, pipe line worker, arrested Wednesday afternoon by Policeman Ed Miller on Monroe ■ I street, was fined $1 and costs, a-1 | mounting to sll. Unable to pay tho i tine, he was remanded to the coun-! i ty jail. Mrs. Ray laiinhart, arrested by i Policemen Mi'ler and Adrian Coffee I Wednesday night when she was allegedly participating in a brawl on [ South Second street while intoxicated, was fined $lO and costs, amounting to S2O. This was her second appearance ! in court, having been convicted on | a similar charge September 16. She | was remanded to jail until able to pay the fine. Driver Arrested Bud Metzger, local young man, was arrested last night by Policeman Roy Chilcote after he had al- I legediy run through a red stop signal at Five Points and driven through town at an excessne rate of speed. Officer Chilcote stated that charges would be filed against him this afternoon. A car, at first reported stolen last night, was later found by police t ■ have been borrowed. The car, belonging to Edward Schultz, was leaned to Ed Geimer. When Schultz saw the car downtown, he thought that Geimer did not need it anymore and drove away with it. When Geimer retrned he reported it stolen. o COMMITTEE ON CENSUS NAMED Charles Heare Heads Committee On Unemployment Census In accordance with a request of John D. Biggers, administrator of the national census of partial employment and unemployment, recently advocated by President Franklin I). Roosevelt and the United States Congress. Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse today named a local committee to afford au agency through which the community can cooperate with the! efforts of the administration. The members of the committee represent each phase of community life including, labor, business, religion and schools as well as clubs and organizations. Charles Heare, superintendent of the Citizens Telephone company > and secretary of the Loyal Order of Moose, will head the committee and work directly with Mrs. Lola P. Macklin, acting postmaster and ex-officio committee member. Other committee members, as appointed by Mayor Holthouse, are: Charles Robenold and John Deßolt, representing labor; C. O. Porter and George Thoms, representing industry; Robert W. Shraluka, publicity; the Rev. Father Joseph J. Seimetz and Walter J. Krick, schools; the Rev. Charles M. Prugh. Rev. George O. Walton, ministerial association; the Rev. Paul Schultz: Mrs. W. Guy Brown, president of Woman's Club; Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp, county wel- > fare; Miss Annie Winnes, Red . Cross; Dee Fryback. Chamber of ■ Commerce and Joe Laurent, i American Legion. The census, calculated to give a i quick and adequate picture of the • unemployment conditions will be conducted through the facilities of (CONTINUED ON PAGE J'IVE) 0 TEMPERATURE READINGS I DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER ’ 8:00 a. m. 52 i 10:00 a. m. 56 II Noon 70 2:00 p. m. 71 i 3:00 p. m. 72 WEATHER I Fair south, some cloudiness north portion tonight and Saturday, not so cool tonight: t cooler Saturday northwest, ...warmer extreme southeast.

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Three Others Wounded As Japanese Shell British Outpost; Serious Action Likely Result. ATTACK HALTED I Shanghai. Oct. 29 (U.R)-Japan-ese shells wiped out a British outpost at the edge of the international settlement tonight, and a high foreign official predicted swift action would be taken as a result. Three British soldiers of the British ulster rifles were killed and three others were wounded by I the Japanese shells that fell in the settlement and the French concession. • "I am positive that things are going to happen fast," the high foreign officer told the United Press. Unable to dislodge a “suicide squadron" of 150 Chinese barricaded in Chapei. and harassed by Chinese sniping posts on the new western front, the Japanese opened up with artillery and one shell made a direct hit on a British outpost on the Jessfield road, along Soochow creek. When ambulances from the settlement arrived they found the post demolished, with two of the British riflemen dead and three wounded, of the six original occupants. Previously a royal ulster rifleman had been killed in the western suburbs, after which the British royal Welch fusiliers turned back two armed Japanese boats in Soochow creek on the banks of which the "suicide squadron" is barricaded in two warehouses. Entrance of the Japanese navy motor boats into the creek thoroughly aroused British commanders, who ordered the Japanese to get out of their defense sector. The Japanese complied. British soldiers said the Japanese had informed British military commanders that they would resume the artillery barrage which is endangering foreigners along the western boundary of the settlement and the French concession. The warning was given, it was understood, despite a British protest against the Jessfield road killing. Brigadier Telfer-Smollett, British commander, immediately started on a tour of the British defense sector. British soldiers said thus far 15 Japanese shells had fallen in the Jessfied area. Refugees were panic stricken. A new detachment of Ulstermen was sent to man the Jessfield outpost. Observers speculated on the ulstermen to the British defense outcome of the routine transfer of sector adjoining the North station, where they will face the Japanese ! for the first time since the death ) of their comrades It appeared that the Chinese “doomed battalion." 150 strong, barricaded in Chapei, would remain there until exterminated by the Japanese despite foreign appeals for them to save themselves. ! Lieut. Gen. Sun Yuan-Liang, commander of the 88th division, sent a message urging them to "shed your last drop of blood, fulfilling your sacred duty, defending na(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BAILER FINED IN CITY COURT Alleged Local Bootlegger Is Given S2OO Fine Here l Sam Bailer alleged bootlegger, ' whose home was raided last Sunday , by federal agents, county and city police authorities, was fined S2OO i and costs, amounting to s2ll when ■ he appeared before May°r Arthur ■ R. Holthouse in city court late yesf terday. ' Bailer plead guilty to a charge of possession of untaxed liquor and was given the minimum fine under the statute. Bailer was not at home Sunday when the raW was made and could not be found when officers returned to arrest him. Yesterday he appeared and was Immediately apprehended and arraigned. He paid $l5O of the fine in cash and secured a freeholder to stay the docket for the balance of the fine for approximately 15 days. He was presented at the arraignment iby John L. DeVoss, local attorney. Prosecutor Arthur R. Voglewede acted for the state.