Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 266, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1937 — Page 1

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“SHr. CALLS ~I|G BUSINESS JIjcONFERENCE Swope A m n g l eaders CallConference H. . v ■ " IS '" sliinu ' .njiiiz I" ivat'* capital •-jMjthiu ■ « s . iluiurnth.Hi Jr., and San llyid l> 'lt. ■*»' ,| "’ I"''‘ si,ll ' nl ' s .... Kewi 'K^||;... sid- rs ill.' r 'l 1 :- 1 ' y ll "' among which m,iv 1... ..null increased 'K)| il Li.'l!l and purchase of materials. < ' 11 inyi’.'d io tinKifawree: l»H»KetlIl. '■■ ' 1 Wood, president Roebuck. Sic.|" pundent of Gen- ' .i.H}l«r} C Turner. New York. . i - w Yo: k hank F. McGrady, former KiisUtii secretary of labor now will, Ihe Radio Corpora Kg o| Am. ia a also was invited k ' financial ami labor 1 who will sit on the session ■tre I ■' Mari iner S Ec< les . the federal reserve ■ i>tßr io:.;. ■ - im lud. d.l Mat to JKt fe'i ral o serve hoard, and Lubin, head of the departi Kent ■>(' labor statistical bureau. ■ UM 1 Huis, aid.-s said it was to assume that the cosfoT* H|Bg materials Mr. Roosevelt i ■Mjtfenlly they were too high I Imii volume construction rTINUED ON PAGE TWO) O ITH CLAIMS I. VOGI EWEDE ony Voglewede Dies lay After Extended Illness — my Voglewede. SO. uromin.Btf ir. ,i Washington • ownship life-long resident of Ad- ., K” 8 toin.i'.. died this morning at. K" aiafi.s . aunty memorial hos.plo'clock. was caused by com plicafollowing an illness of two He had been bedfast for and was admitted to imspital thtee weeks ago. deceased was born in this JW-faly 16, 1557. the son of GarI®* ll Henry ami Mary Catherine Voglewede. married to Annie Meyer. Preceded, him in death. was niember of the Holy a " iety and of the St. Mary's h. At the time of his lu residing at 415 Jackwhere he had moved fol|B>n- retirement from farming. ®^fr s! '" Sl,n Raymond Voglewede Elizabeth Voglewede. both s city; a brother, Lewie o« K<' WTINUED ON PAGE SIX) i - .. Mexican For ■ Public Intoxication IM I "'' Navarro, Mexican, was arlast night by Policeman Roy . on charges of public intoxThe officer stated that I woulj be filed in city court. ‘ B l ‘ r Chairman Os I Decatur Delegation L. Ehler, local insurance • has been appointed chairthe Decatur (Relegation to tri-state lite underwritcongress, to be held at; Wayne next Tuesday. Five insuror? from Indiana, | and Michigan will attend the of national prominence will address the congress inErnest W. Owen, director e national association of life g^Vt Writers: Sara Frances Jones, woman insurance agent' |»e country; A. R. Jaqua, CincTn--IM. editor, and Claris Adams,[ B 1 ” 1 of the Ohio National Life | company.

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Church Speaker tzv Rev. Homer .1. Aspy, pastor of the First Baptist church, will deliver the sermon at the union Thanksgiving service, to be held at the Zion Reformed church Thursday. November 25, at 8 a.m. PLAN EXTERIOR FOR BUILDING Architect Drawing Plans For School Building Exterior A. M. Strauss architect for the proposed new Decatur school bouse is now drawing up plans for the exterior of the building: Tentative interior plans have been approved by the Decatur i school board and the exterior plans are to conform with those for the design of the inside. The s.hool board is seeking a I simple and economic design for the exterior yet one which will be in keeping with the program t.> build and beautify Decatur. The exact dimensions of the new building have not yet been determined pending the fixing of a wage scale and the learning of material I costs. A meeting of the architect with ithw eity school hoard will he held ’thte week, probably Friday night. Other details in connection with the prcmi'.inary plans for the, construction of the new building and the razing of Central building will he made after the final date for the filing of remonstrances, November 15. This is required by law. The school board plans to have enough of the Central building razied to begin construction of the new i building at the first of the year. This is required under the terms of the government's offer of a J 110.045 i PWA grant, its purpose is to furnish new jobs for labor as soon as possible. o Named Liquidator Os Union City Bank Robert T. Kramer, special liquidator in charge of liquidating the Old Adams County Bank in this city, has been appointed liquidator for the Commercial Union hank, at Union City, The Union City bank closed last week, /.t is a million dollar institu-1 tion. Mr. Kramer will continue as assistant to C. .1. Lutz, liquidator of (the Old Adams County bank, but as affairs of the bank are practically : closed, it will be necessary to deI vote only part of his time to the loa! job. o BRYANT, GENEVA MEN ARE FINED Two Indiana Men Are Fined In Courts At Celina, Ohio Celina. O„ Nov. 10. —Philip Boni--1 fas. 55, of Bryant, Ind., was fined | SIOO and costs Tuesday when he | pleaded guilty to charge of driving while intoxicated when he was I arraigned before Judge H. A. Miller lin Mercer county common pleas court. He made arrangements to ■ | pay the fine and was released. Bonifas was taken into custody early Sunday after the autonjobile i he was driving crashed into a car : driven by Clyde Kincaid of Celina on highway 32 six miles west of! ' Celina. When arraigned he first {entered a plea of not guilty but then changed it to guilty. William Wesel of Geneva, Ind., was fined $25 and costs when he pleaded guilty to charges filed by the Ohio utilities commission for failure to file insurance policies i with it, also for fai’ure to obtain a i permit to transport freight between ’ Mendon and Geneva. He paid the ! fine and costs and was dismissed.'' | Wesel was arraigned before Jus-! tice C. D." Rice.

WILL OBSERVE ARMISTICE DAY HERE THURSDAY Ceremony At 11 a. m. Banquet To Be Held Tomorrow Evening Decatur and Adams county, led by Adams Post No. 43, American Legion, will join v/ith the nation tomorrow, November 11, in celebration of Armistice Day Tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock, 19 years after the never-to be for- l gotten “Eleventh hour, eleventh day of the eleventh month" word of the ending of the most disastrous war in the history of the civilized world, I special . eremonies will be he’d here by the local Legion post. In reverence to the “Buddies” I who lost their lives in the "war to ; end wars", members of the Adams Post will present a short ceremony on First street, immediately east of the Legion home. Two minutes before 11 o'clock, a bomb will be set off. One minute before the hour a second bomb will be discharged and at 11 o'clock the final bomb will be set off, followed I by the blowing of “taps" by a post i bugler. Bells of local shurches and schools wlil be rung and whistles of factories will be blown on the ■ hour. The First State bank will be closed in honor of the day. Banquet at Night At 6:30 o'c'ock in the evening a ■ banquet will be hel<i at the Legion home with Legionnaires, SpanishAmerican War vets, members of the organizations' auxiliaries, wives, families and husbands in attenda nee. David Adams, Legionnaire is general chairman of the day. Principal speaker at the banquet will be the Rev. R. W. Graham, pastor of the First Methodist chuneh here, a World War veteran and former distict chaplain of the Legion. C. E. Striker, county school supenintendent, will be toastmaster. Ladies of the post will serve the bamiuet to those present. Tickets ?~niay be sei med from im inl ors of the organization at 50 cents each. CENSUS DATA TO BE KEPT SECRET Individual Information On Unemployment Census To Be Private I All individual information will be ! kept strictly confidential by postal emp'oyes and members of the na- ’ tional bureau in making the unemployment census here next Tuesday, i November 16. Mrs. Lola P. Macklin, acting postmaster, stated teday. The confidential nature of the answers to questions on the card will <be respected and the names of the signers will not be published or made public in any manner, Mrs. Macklin stated. The icensus will be conducted here, as well as all over the United States, next Tuesday in accordance with the request of Congress and President Roosevelt to determine the number of persons unemployed or on'y partly employed. The cards will be delivered to 1 each home in the city or rural routes, Only one card will be left at each home unless the respective | carrier has reason to believe there arq two or more unemployed persons residing there. Additional cards will be available at the 'post office and carriers will also have a supply. Postal employes and members of the ceneus committee will answer any queries in re- ! gard to the registration and assist in filling’out the cards upon request. A check will be made at the local post office following lithe census to weed out duplicates and any effors that might occur. The cards are to be returned to the carriers, dropped in a mail box or returned to the post office on I or before midnight of November 20. 0 City Employe Is Injured In Fall Ervin Elzey, employe of the city, I was admitted to the Adams county memorial hospital this morning as-1 ter he had fallen 10 feet from a | ladder at the water works. The attending physician stated that- there was a probability of a broken vertebrae in his back. 'His condition is satisfactory considering his injury. Martin J. My'ott, city light superintendent stated that the accident [occurred when a wrench which Elzey was using slipped off a pipe [ [allowing him to fall 10 feet.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wedresday, November 10,1937

Mayor’s Proclamation Once again Ute time has come fot* our community to demonstrate its concern for maintaining a very necessary part of our civic welfare program the work maintained by the Adams County Chapter of the American Red Cross. It is not necessary for me to remind citizens of our community that the work of the Red Cross is a vital contribution to our coni' munity welfare. We have all seen, during the Past year, how effective Red Cross work is, both from the standpoint of the yearround program and that done during times of great national emergency. Perhaps never before has the work of this great national agency been so universally endorsed as in this year during the gigantic relief operations in the devastating floods in the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys. It was a great work, done in an efficient manner, and truly deserves our most sincere commendation. Our community, 1 am pleased to say, carried its full share of the responsibility for making this great relief work possible, through contributions of our citizens. The annual Roll Call of the Red Cross, through which such fine work is supported, is from November 11 to Thanksgiving Day. Memberships enrolled during that time will support the work for the year ahead of us. The Red Cross asks little from the community. yet contributes much to the general welfare of our people. It gives me great pleasure, as mayor of Decatur, to set aside the designated period as the time when all members will be asked to renew their memberships and those who have not enrolled before are urged to add their names to the ranks of Red Cross members in our community. ARTHUR R HOLTHOUSE, Mayor, City of Decatur.

TEACHERSAND PARENTS MEET — New Committees Are Named For Central PTA Tuesday Afternoon — New committees were named for the Central PTA at a meeting held Tuesday afternoon in the Central school building. The program Tuesday was open- ■ ed with a playlet, "The Magic Box," | by the six-B class It showed the value of apples and other fruits as health builders. The numbers, “Gently Fall the' Shadows" by Mildenberg and “Keep in the Middle of the Road" | a plantation song arranged by I Bartholomew, were sung by the i glee club under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold. music instructor in the public schools. The balance of the program folM .lowed that quLlined by the national. Teducation council. The theme was' [“Education in Our National Life.” W. J. Krick Speaks Walter 1. Krick, superintendent iof the public schools, talked on i “Meeting our Educational Needs.” He said .in part: ' "To meet the changing needs of I the people, education has had to l change and. add to its curriculum. Such subjects as geography, hisi tory. domestic science, industrial i subjects and physical education I have been added at different times i ito meet needs as they became ’ | manifest. ! i “Recently a course in safety has [ been added because of the increase ' : in the number of accidental deaths. Other new courses are visual edit- ' cation and radio education. “Today many of the subjects which were at one time thought to i 5 be essential, are today found to be [ inadequate in meeting our present > day needs." Sylvester Everhart, who teaches I the new safety class at Central,. I spoke to the council. He discussed safety zones at the schools of (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) LEAGUE GIVES CAST FOR PLAY Immanuel Walther League To Present Play Saturday, Sunday The cast of “Small-Town Romeo” three-act comedy to be presented at the Immanuel Lutheran school in Union township by the Immanuel ' Walther League on Saturday and Sunday nights, November 13 and 14, at 8 o’clock, was announced today. The cast of characters: Betty Braxton, young hotel owner —Margaret Schamerloh. Sarah Higgins, spinster maid— Martha Kreuckeberg. Anna Aldrich, village school I teacher —Gertrude Schultz. Jane Hastings, village banker’s daughter—Hilda Thieme. Miss Gates, another mysterious [ guest—Alice Reinking. Sly Perkins, village constable — Elmer Schultz. L. B. Dloyd, mysterious guest— I Karl Keinking. Joe Stanford, breezy young playwright—Harry Schamerloh. Bud Williams, village mechanic— Arthur Bischol’. Morton Kendall, village miser— ! Edgar Krueckeberg. This action of the 'play takes [ place in the lobby of a small town [ I hotel. B. Schultz is director of the presentation. I

New Coal Conveyor Put In Operation The new coal conveyor at the City light and power plant is in operation. A test was made yesterday | afternoon and coal was delivered to [ two of the boilers with the new [ equipment. The remodeling of the west silo [ has been completed and the coal is [fed into the conveyor and wtighed before it enters the boiler room. This system eliminates dust in the boiler room and gives a more uni- [ form supply of coal. The improvement will be com-1 pleted within the next week. Much of the work of installation is being done by the plant employes. CHURCHES PLAN THANKSGIVING Churches Plan For Services At School, Union Service The Decatur ministerial association will again sponsor Thanksgiving services in this city, officials of the association announced today. The annsal union Thanksgiving service will be held at the Zion Reformed church at 8 o'clock Thanksgiving Day morning. Instead of Thanksgiving eve, as in previous ayears. Rev. Homer J. Aspy. pastor of the First Bapist church, will deliver the sermon at the union service. Rev. Charles M. Prugh, Zion Reformed pastor, and president of the ministerial association, will act as chairman and will arrange special music. The program follows: Invocation, Rev. James A. Weber, United Brethren church; Scripture reading, Rev. Glen Marshall, Church; of God; prayer, Rev. R. W. Gra ! ham, First M. E.; president’s proc-j lamation, Rev. George S. Lozier, First Evangelical; offering, Rev.| George O. Walton, Presbyterian; sermon by Rev. Aspy; benediction. Rev- Paul Brandyberry, Church of the Nazarene. The association will also spon-| ' sor services for the several schools [ [of the city Wednesday afternoon, November 24. The school services and the speakers are as follows: North Ward school at Zion Reformed church, Rev. Paul Brandyberry. West Ward school at United Brethren church, Rev. James A. Weber. Central school at Baptist church, Rev. Charles M. Prugh. High school in high school building, Rev. R. W. Graham. — o — Peace Picture At Presbyterian Church A talking picture entitled, “The Way to World Peace”, will be shown at the local Presbyterian .church next Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock. This film has an ail-star cast of 25,000 players and was pro- , duced at a cost of a quarter million dollars. Raising the curtain on the past, through the ages, and reveal- [ ing the present in the light of the present world crisis? this great pic- [ ture delivers a crushing blow to the forces of greed, conquest, war and [ hatred. The picture is being presented by i the religious and educational films of New York. This picture is brought to the city because of it*' timely presentation of world affairs I and its dramatic appeal for world peace. There will be no admission charge, a silver offering will be taken to assist in paying the local ex1 pense.

EX-PREMIER OF GREAT BRITAIN DIES SUDDENLY .lames Ramsey MacDonald Dies Os Heart Attack On Board Ship London, Nov. 10—(U.R) Leaders [ of all political parties, friend and enemy, paid tribute today to Janies Ramsay MacDonald. Britain's first labor prime minister, while the liner Reina Del Pacifico aboard which he died last night, made its way to Bermuda. Men who had denounced him as a pacifist and as a traitor to the labor party, joined in praising' MacDonald as a man who had fought hard for 50 years for the things he thought were right. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. conservative, Sir Archibald Sinclair, liberal, and Maj Clement Attlee, labor, leaders of the three great parties, were expected to speak in the house of commons this afternoon In praise ! of him. It was expected that MacDonald's body, after its arrival at Bermuda Monday, would be returned to Britain for burial at Lossiemouth. Scotland, his birth- [ place. There, in the little- fishing [ village overlooking Moray Firth [ which he loved and which ostra- [ cized him for years as a pacifist traitor —he will lie beside the wife whom he bad mourned deeply for i 26 years. She died in 1911. MacDonald, seeking rest in a cruise to South America, died last night while, in London, political leaders were attending the annual lord mayor’s banquet. It was at this banquet, a year | ago last night, that MacDonald I collapsed in his chair while his successor in the prime ministry, the present Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. was speaking. Heart disease was blamed for his death. The few details that came from the liner said that MacDonald's end was peaceful. It was not expected. but it came as no great surprise. For many months MacDonald had been deeply depressed. After turning over his prime ministry to Baldwin in 1935. MacDonald had I served as lord president of the | council. Last May. when Baldwin [ retired. MacDonald left public life. His death was of no political j ! importance and it was as an elder statesman that he was mourned. I He continued in a sort of shadowleadership of the national labor party —a handful of right wing labor men who support the coalition government and are regarded as bitter enemies by labor party men generally. It was even pre- [ dieted that this party would not long survive him and that his son, Malcolm, who is minister for the dominions in the cabinet, might soon turn conservative. MacDonald’s eyesight had been bad for some years. He had overworked all his life. He was con- , vinced himself that he was going ; blind, after several operations | I which —partly because he resumed [ work too soon—were not entirely ■ successful. At the time he left home, a week < ' ago, for his cruise. MacDonald was (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o McCOY DENIES COURT CHARGE * Bernard McCoy Denies Guilt In Fort Wayne Accident 'Bernard McCoy, of Decatur route one, who was arrested Monday by Fort Wayne police on a charge of leaving the sicene of an accident, yesterday denied the charge that his auto* had struck and injured Mrs. Margaret Dorrseif, of that city, Saturday night. McCoy insisted that mistaken id- [ entity was responsble for his arrest saying that he had been in the city at the time of the accident but his car was not involved in the mishap. When Fort Wayne police broadcast for the driver of the car, whose identity was not known. Sheriff Dallas Brown traced the car to McCoy’s home. McCoy, whose post office addrese is Decatur, lives in Allen county, , immediately across the Adams-A'-len county line. Nade Haley Fined Nade Haley, who with Joe Smith of this city, waS aarrested in Fort Wayne Monday after he had allegedly stumbled into a pedestrian, was found guilty of public intoxication in city court and fined $1 and costs. Smith was acquitted.

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Slain After Kiss i -I 1 Ik * * i S s : Mrs. Evelyn Wright, formerly of Detroit, was shot and killed at [Glendale. Cal., by her husband. Bayl A. Wright. Glendale airport manager, when he allegedly found I her in the arms of his “best ! friend.” John B. Kimmel. Kimmel. traffic manager of the Glendale Union Air. terminal, was critically wounded by the enraged husband. DEATHCLAIMS BESS FAILING i » Flint, Michigan, Resident Dies At Home Os Sister Here Miss Bese D. Failing, 63, well known Flint, Michigan resident [died I* l ’ B afternoon at 1:30 o'clock ! at the Jtome of her sister, Mrs. Earl [ B. Adams on Mercer avenue. Death 'was caused by complicatiqps follow- [ ing an illness of some time. The deceased was born in Flint [ Jn'y 19. 1874. the daughter of James 11. and Angeline Rullam-Failing. Her entire life, with the exception [of about two years, was spent ir. Flint. , She was brought to the Earl Ad'ams home here about eight weeks j ago from Flint, when she became [ ill. The deceased was well known [here, having made frequent visits I to the city. The sister, Mrs. Earl B. Adams, is [ the only surviving near relative. She was a member of the F.int Cen- ; tral M. E. church. While definite -funeral arrangements have not been completed, it ' is thought that a short service will !be held at the Adams residence j Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock. 'The body will be taken to Flint Fri- ' day morning and burial will be made Saturday. 0 Venued Cases Filed In .Wells Circuit Two complaints were filed in the! Wells circuit court yesterday on a change of venue from the Adams circuit court, in which the department of financial institutions in charge of the liquidation of the Old | Adams County Bank here seeks judgment on stockholders’ liability against a group of stockholders named as defendants. It is alleged that the stockholders are liable for 100 per cent of the face vujue of stock which they owned at the time the bank was closed. o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 46 10:00 a. tn. — 58 Noon 64 2:00 p. m. 69 3:00 p. m. 68 WEATHER Partly cloudy north, rain south portion tonight and Thursday; colder central and North Thursday.

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Conference Deadlocked; Japanese Continue To Bombard Chinese With No Mercy. ASSAILS PACT Brussels, Nov. 10- (U.R) —Great Britain. France and the United States co-operated closely behind the scenes today in an effort to salvage something from the deadlocked nine-power conference on the far east and persuade Jtiigjn to enter peace negotiations. A brief meeting of the conference, which adjourned until tomorrow, served as a screen for important private conversations among the three powers. Norman H. Davis of the United States, foreign secretary Anthony Eden of Britain and foreign minister Yvon Delbos of France were in almost constant contact during the day. Delbos leaves for Paris tonight but Eden will stay, and further Anglo - American conversations were expected. Diplomatic sources said Japan many reject the conference’s mediation proposals because o£ Russia's insistence on participating in the negotiations. Merciless Bombardment Shanghai, Nov. 10 — (U.R) —Terrorized Chinese refugees and fleeing troops threw themselves at tlie barbed wire barricades of tile French concession today, seeking to escape a merciless Japanese bombardment of the Mantao quarter. Many Chinese soldiers deliberately cut theiiselves on the wire, believing that they had to show’ wounds to gain admittance. Japanese shells shrieked over the international settlement and the French concession from north and west into the Mantao quarter, which nestles between the French concession and the Whangpoo river. Japanese airplanes circled high ' over the United States cruiser Augusta as they set themselves I for power bombing dives. The Japanese were shelling Nantao, where apparently up to [ 12,000 Chinese troops and militarized police remain as rear guards, from the Chapei-North railroad station quarter in North Shanghai and the Jessfield Park area in the western suburbs. Thus shells passed over the International area from two directions. A Japanese army spokesman said imperturbably that the shelling and airplane bombing would continue as long as Chinese troops remained in the quarter and that the artillery would continue to lie fired over the international area. He explained that at long range, the artillery could place its shells more accurately. West of the city, the Chinese resistance stiffened. Japanese opened up a barrage with machine guns, trench mortars and airplane bombs. There came from the Chinese lines such a burst of fire in response that Japanese tanks, moving forward under shelter of the barrage, were forced to retreat. CLews of the foreign warships in the Whangpoo watched curiously as a small Japanese river gunboat armed witli two light guns (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o LIONS TO HEAR VAN DEVANTER . . I Local Lions Invited To Hear Retired Justice At Marion Members of the Decatur Liomi , club have received an invitation ! to hear the address of former Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter in Marion on November • 29, sponsored by the Lions club of . that city, it was announced last i night at the weekly meeting of the local organization, held in the Rice hotel. It was also decided to observe ladies night on Tuesday, November 23. when members of the club will be served a turkey dinner at the Knights of Pythias lodge home. Wives and sweethearts of all members have been invited to attend. The regular meeting of the club next week will be cancelled to permit members to attend the group meeting at Portland. Dr. Ben Duke had charge of the program last night, presenting a questionnaire for the club members to answer.