Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 271, Decatur, Adams County, 16 November 1937 — Page 1

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pale W. McMillen |fciven Praise As ■ industry Leader

fc-jL-i-Jrial And Business I" 11 ’ Employes fav inj{ Tribute I<> Head. speaks ~..4 !’■' 11 - ■aZ ||1 '"" 1 | '" h 1 '" iv ’ - lll, ‘ ' H'l'-. I UH I : .t ! ,■ I•■ " 1 1■ ' I i 1111,1 '" ■ company's units. 111,11 || " i,i >' '■' ami l hi. I' . 1,1 MBWm» I I ' ' 1 • IlttlC 1.11. T i'l ii... 1 tiif HMM Rcy Hall Presides BptMii' was <■'i >»)' Bluffton. ■j 0! i:al S'lgar ..ITi.-.'i < ■■bn v 1 1 < .lint 1 < lia ::il>.-v ik.-rs < . ■ til.' McMillon “one of the 1 change r. H tie I. Now tip starved |Bj^Mir"• ' a few inen !>.vi ito iK.jEHfi 1 •<! is w ways to use agriiE SwtS# "I'S Ft'W new nielli...ls ■ prioiicai. Soybeans I "i ’li" few new crops for ■>■• b'" foiitid 1 ■ il <1.■ ;•! tit >t's M i ■ '" ' ll ""” , ’ 1 ' ,,l 11 ' 1 11,1 lll! ' ll '' v,l|l ’l , tneiit of this I Pays Tribute ■ ' I 'id 11 ilnlle to Mr - ' 'Hinge and Ills fai'h ■ i| l others Wore suffer I O» "shell shock" of de ■ li, ‘ 11,111 <lt ,11< ‘ appreciaI : holds for liini lor ills B ' th.' sugar beet crop 11 V1 d'pnient of ii. w agri- ' ■'' : '" l ne.d* more in-ii McMillen.” ,i- ■ i!i '"' | '" ll "'• | - vil ‘ s| "' l ''' 1,11 I,, ‘ llillf 111 ,lll ‘ l|M ‘'"l' Wayne it: th.- abseil ■ ■ S^W" 1 11,11 'T Hauls, who was ■ Mm lll Washington. I). ('. He I WE -1 ' Vl l:|> " X >’ A,:l ' : FIVE) o BJIURTOBE - ■N NEW ROUTE i fX-jt ' v I l ‘W <) He On Direct Ohio I B •’'Hchisan Through Highway of Decatur will be on ’t I '' 01 11 new federal highway. learned here, the new providing a direct route into Michigan. jsHhew route will enter Indiana , i^^E"' :ll:<, iire, on what is now as state road 527, continue hBB lllriiu " , i Decatur to Fort joining federal road 27 hetwo cities, Wayne it. will join with ?3^B 01111 ~ into South Bend, where JU Join wlth f « leral ’°a<l 31. jnto Michigan. roa(1 527, which runs from Ohio to Decatur, a distabout eight miles, will be Announcement of the ir^E° U ' te WiW! ma<le 1)y 1? - >r^K Ntine ’ <llslrlct superintendent ' state highway department.

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THREE KIDNAP GANG MEMBERS ESCAPE PRISON i i New York Kidnapers Esi cape From .lemsville i Penitentiary Syracuse, N. Y„ Nov. 16. —<U.R) — John J. Oley. Percy (Baby Face) i Geary and Harold (Red) Crowley, i members of the gang that kidnaped John J. O'Connell, Jr„ in Al- ' liany, N. Y„ in 1933, dncaped today ■ from the Jamesville penitentiary. • State police patroled all roads In . central New York. An eight-state I alarm was broadcast. Albany police immediately plac- ■ ed a guard around O’Connell's ' home, and announced that “every- ■ thing was being done" to protect • him and his uncles. Daniel P. and Edward I. McConnell, powerful i Democratic leaders of Albany coun- ' ty. Prison Superintendent Herbert ■ Paddock said that Oley, Geary and t Crowley, who were captured in New Yofk City last February, surprised John Corbett, a guard, while • he was making the rounds of the ■ penitentiary’s time clocks. The bars of Geary's cell had been - sawed through “some time ago,” ' Paddock said, and had been “stuck i ■ together with gum.'' i Holding a revolver in Corbett's ■ side, Geary took him to a door near ’ the prison guardroom where three | other guards were on duty. He. ■ forced Corbett to shout that onei • of the prisoners was hanging him- : self. ■ i As the three guards entered the i cell block, Geary covered them i and ordered them to open the cells of Oley and Crowley. ‘ The four guards and a patron. ■ Mrs. Nellie Hills, were bound and i gagged. The convicts went to the, i yard, tried to start an automobile, 1 , were unsuccessful and returned to (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o 1 POSTAL CENSUS STARTS TODAY I Unemployed Census Cards Are Delivered By Mail Carriers i . » City and rural mail carriers from the local post office started out this morning, loaded with cards, in the opening of the national unemploy- ■ ment census in Decatur. The cards, bearing the question- ■ naire and a message from the presl- ■ dent of the United States, were isi sued to every unemployed or parti iy employed worker in the territory • of the local post office. In event anyone in the group did i not receive a card, it may be secured from a carrier or at the local , ■ post offi’. e. The carde are to be filled out by ■ the unemployed or partly employed i and returned to the local post oftice by midnight of November 20. • The cards may also be given to the carrier or dropped in a mail box. No postage is necessary. ’ Persons not affected by the census are asked not to register since (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Move Fred Musser To Decatur Store i Fred Musser, former Decatur, young man, who has been manager of the Blue Creek Dairy store in Berne for the past several years, i has been transferred to the Deca-1 tur store. Marek Everhart will assume managership of the Berne store. 1 ■ o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 34 10:00 a. m. 35 Noon 34 2:00 p. m. 34 3:00 p. m. 34 WEATHER Cloudy and unsettled; snow flurries tonight and in north- , east and extrefne north Wednesday; somewhat colder tonight and northeast Wednesday.

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Packed galleries greeted the nation's legislators I when the seventy-fifth congress went into special I session. Called back by President Roosevelt. |

REV. PRUGH IS I CLUB SPEAKER Decatur Pastor Speaks To Professional Women Monday , I “Education versus propaganda” ' was the subject of the address of | the Rev. Charles M. Prugh. pastor iof the Decatur Zion Reformed I church, in his address last evening before the Decatur professional and business women’s club in the Rice hotel dining rooms. The speaker discussed the major part that propaganda_ played in Europe in constantly’ causing intense unrest and revolution, and the part that education had in checking the influences of wrongful propaganda in this country. The speaker, who once visited in Europe, told how dictators and rulers of foreign countries used ' propaganda to further their own selfish ends, both by radio and newspaper and even spreading it through education. Miss Mathilda Sellemeyer, club president, presided at the session and Mrs. Agnes Yager was .in charge of the program. She was assisted by ?he Misses Marcia Martin and Erma Kirschner. Mrs. Prugh was a guest of the club. I—o1 —o Lions Will Attend Portland Meeting Members of the Lions club, their wives and sweethearts, will go to Portland tonight on the invitation l of the Jay county club to take part in a district fellowship meeting. G.E.GLUBTO SPONSOR DANCE Dance Will Be Held Saturday Night At Recreation Hall Members of the Gecode club of the local General Electric p'ant, will i sponsor a dance at the G. E. recreaj tlon hall next Saturday night, Nov- ' ember W, Miss Ruth Elzey, club reporter, announced today. Music for the affair will be furnished by Bob Rice and his orchestra of local musicians.. . Tickets for the dance may be secured from members of the committee in charge or from members of the club. The tickets are selling for 50 cents per couple. Single tickets may be secured for 35 cents. The committee in charge of the affair is composed of: Catherine Kurber, chairman; Rosemary Omlor, Pauline McKean and Dorttthy Feasel. Plans for the event are rapidly being completed and menthene of the committee hope to make the affair one of the most entertaining ever staged by the local organization. . x , jta

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 16, 1937.

Robert Heads District Group Robert Augsburger. of Berne, will head the Porter district of the i Christian Endeavor societies, it was 'announced, following the district meeting held in Port Wayne over I the week-end. He succeeds Rny [ Sparrow of Fort Wayne as president. other county persons named are: second vi«e-preeident. Winfred Sprunger. of Berne; lookout rommittee, Margaret Rohrer, of Berne; evangelism. Homer Augsbrrger, of Berne; interstate committee, Dorothy Unversaw, of Berne; pastor, counselor, the Rev. Stacy Shaw of the Decatur circuit. SUGAR COMPANY ENDS CAMPAIGN Last Beets Sliced At Central Sugar Company This Morning The last beets of the 1937 sugar campaign were sliced this morning , I at 5:30 o’clock at the Centra! Sugar i company, it was reported today. Complete tonm&e figures were not available today at the plant as last minute reports were being tabulated. The sugar content during the campaign has been slightly higher than average, being about 15 per ’ cent. The sugar content and purity of the late beets were found slightly better than that of the earlier beets. The last of the beets were brought into the factory anti dumped in the yards Monday afternoon I as the party of visitors were inspecing the plants as part of the program for McMillen Day. The plant opened this year, September 25, making the present run total 52 days. The average daily production of the plant was speeded i up this year through the installation of new machinery installed so that farmers might get their beets ' out of the fields and truck them to the factory as rapidly as they desired. oAccident Victims Taken From Hospital Miss Florence Holthouse and Norbert Ho’thouse, who were painfully injured in an automobile accident near IndianajKilis November 8, have been released from the Adams county memorial hospital. Miss Holthouse hae been removed to the home of her brother, Charles Holthouse, and Norbert has been taken to the home of his mother, Mrs. Minnie 'H'olthouse. • o F'ort Wayne Man Given Acquittal Russel Hryder of Fort Wayne, was acquitted Sunday in the court of C. H. Muselman, Berne justice of peace, on charges of trespassing antjj hunting without permiasion. The charge was filed by L. E. Fiedler, of Linn Grove.

1 congress is to consider a farm relief program, possible revision of the social security act and wages and hours legislation.

STRIKE GLOSES FISHER PLANT Sit-Down Strike Forces Closing Os Huge Body Factory Pontiac, Mich., 16—(UP) — One ! hundred fifty members of the unit- | ed automobile workers' union, who barricaded themselves in the Fisher Body plant during a sit-down strike, | marched quietly out of the building this morning. The vast plant, which builds bodies for the Pontiac motor car com- j pany, remained closed and officials of General Motors corporat'on indicated the Pontiac factory would be forced to close during the day. Fisher normally employes workers; Pontiac 9,000. Both plants have bee noperatng on curtailed j schedules. Union officials said the sit-down strike, called last night, was spon- [ taneous. Approximately 2,500 workers on the night shift participated, j A general motors spokesman said the sit-down had occurred in two 1 divisions almost simultaneously. Employes struck first in the cushion shop and a moment later in the metal division. The Fisher plant has been operating on a 28 hour week. Union j charges that employes had been laid off were confirmed by the company j who explained that production remained curtailed. ■Union Leaders, who will confer with the management at 1 p. m. over their alleged grievances, indi-1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O-. JAPAN CLAIMS NEW ADVANCES Japanese Assert Decided Gains Are Made Near Soochow Shanghai, Nov. 16.—|(U.R> —Japanese troops are within 10 miles of Soochow, key point on the new I Chinese defense line west of Shanghai, and are driving the Chinese before them in disorganied bands, a Japanese army spokesman asserted today. Usually relieble informants reported that the Chinese might retire 20 miles west of Soochow, where their line would pass through Kiangyin and Wuhsiem, on the north, and southward past i Lake Taihu. Chinese losses have been fright-! ful, the Japanese spokesman said. | He asserted that bodies of 5,000 I Chinese had been counted along roads and that sometimes hundreds of bodies were sprawled within such a short space that they impeded the Japanese troops. On the front north of Shanghai, the Japanese are bombarding Changshu, 23 miles north of Sooj (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

ROTARIANS OF DISTRICT MEET HERE THURSDAY Group Two Rotary Clubs To Meet At Masonic Temple Thursday Rotarians of Decatur will be hosta to the district meeting of group two at the Masonic temple in this city Thursday evening. Reservations have already been made for approximately 150 Rotarians from clubs in Angola, Auburn. Bluffton. Columbia City, Fort Wayne, Hartford City and Kendallville, all members of group two. In addition, members of other nearby clubs are expected to attend. Paul V. Barrett, personnel direc-1 tor of the Ohio Oil company, Findlay. Ohio, will be the principal speaker during the program follow--1 ing the banquet. Mr. Barrett, one of the outstand- ' ing speakers in the middle west, was governor of the Ohio district o? i Rotary International two years ago. Paul Chalfant, member of the Columbia City club and group representative of group two, will speak briefly during the evening. Arthur R. Holthouse, mayor of Decatur and member of tho local club, will de'iver the address of welcome to the visiting Kbtarians. Presidents and secretaries of the 1 various clubs will meet in conference with the group representative at 4.30 p. m. Registration will be held at 6:15 o’Clook, followed by a turkey dinner served at 6:30. Special music during the evening will be sung by Mies Helen Haubold and Paul Saurer, accompanied at (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Albert Miller Named Century Club Member Albert Miller, member of the De catur city council, and former commander of Adams post number 43 of the American Legion, has been j notified of his election to the IndI iana Legion Century club. Membership in this club is earned j by obtaining 100 new members for I the American Legion in a single 1 year. Mr. Miller wi’l be formally taken into the club in its second annual banquet, to be held at the j Antlers hotel in Indianapolis Satur--1 day evening. Thirty members added this year bring the club's mem-; ! beship to a total of 50. o MOVIE STARS THREATENED! Gangster Menace Is Feared By Hollywood Movie Officials Hollywood, Nov. 16 — (U.R) — | A movie-scenario-come-to-life, with ; murder, gunmen, bomb plots, mys-1 tery men, plush-lined gambling sanctums and all the other paraphernalia of a screen thriller sent 1 j shivers through Hollywood today as it headed toward an unknown i climax. While Los Angeles officials were jin New .York pleading for police 1 help in quelling what they called ! a gangster menace brought on by [ I the film strike of last summer. other officials here reported they had uncovered an alleged plot to bomb the homes of such Jewish film notables as Eddie Cantor and Louis B. Mayer, operating head of Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer. Still other officers crowded around the hospital bed of a film player, before he died of wounds inflicted by an unknown gunman, while a fourth group of authorities ran down clues to the murder of George “Les" Bruneman, on whose bullet-riddled person was found a check for $2,000, signed “Chico Marx.” Could these developments be mere coincidence, Hollywood wondered, or were they manifestations of an Invasion by eastern public enemies seeking to muscle into the rich gambling games, where some movie kings—and queens — shrug at the loss of thousands of dollars at the turn of a card in Chemin de Fer? This question went unanswered i insofar as the office of district I attorney Buron Fitts was concern- , ed. Fitts even refused comment j upon the call of two of his invest!I gators upon New York’s police commissioner Lewis J. Valentine, from whom they sought to hire at least two veteran gang breakers. Valentine could spare none of his own men. but offered to seek retired detectives familiar with the Ways of the big-time underworld, which local authorities fear is moving its headquarters westward.

Senator Harrison Leading Congress In Economy Drive

NO OBJECTIONS ARE FILED TO NEW BUILDING No Remonstrances Filed To Proposed New School Building Monday, the last day to file rei monstrances or objections against j the petition signed by 454 property owners of the city, seeking the issuance of bonds for the city's share of the cost of erecting the proposed new PWA school house, expired with no objections being filed. Duplicate petitions had been submitted to the city school board and the city council seeking issuance of the bonds. The petition filed with the city [ council asked that the city issue 1 bonds for $50,000 to donate to the school board for assistance in the j erection of the building. The petition submitted with the school I board asked that bonds totaling 1 $90,000 he issued. These two bond issues would account for 55 per cent of the cost of the building. The balance is to be donated the ! city by the government in the form ’ of a 55 per cent PWA grant in ! the sum of $110,045. Bids Received Tonight , Tonight, the city school board is to hold a meeting for the pqgpose of receiving bids on the demolishj ing and removal of the old Central building, which site will be used for the location of the new PWA school building. It is planned to have enough of the old building out of the way in order that the contractors for the new building j can begin work about the first of the year, when the government's ■ time limit of 14 weeks for beginning the project will expire. At the regular meeting of the j city council this evening, an ordinance will be submitted for approI priation of the $50,000 to be dei rived from the bond issue as a . gift to the school city, for assistance in the erection of the pro- | posed new school building. Wednesday night, a resolution 1 will be brought up in the meeting | of the school board for the api propriation of the money it is to i receive for the erection of a new school building. With one of the last major obstacles in the way of the erection of the school building overcome by the expiration of the time limit for objections, the school board is proceeding rapidly with plans for ' the new building and the accomoi dation of the school children while ! the Central building is down and i before the new building is com- | pleted. Approval of the plans for the new building now being drawn up Iby A. M. Strauss, architect employed by the board, will soon be made by the school board, it is expected. OMLOR HEADS DECATUR OYO Charles Omlor, Jr., Elected President Os Organization Charles Omlor. Jr„ employe of j the local General Electric plant, was elected president of the local JCYO organization in the meeting at : the Decatur Catholic high school i! last night. j Mr. Omlor, who will serve for one year in the office, succeeds James ' Murphy, Jr., president for the past ; I term. j | Elected on the slate with the new president, was Miss Rosemary Miller as vice-president. Miss Mary Martha Terveer was elected secretary and Pat Murphy was named ■ treasurer. .Each of the officers holds for a ■ one-year term. Plane for the coming • year were discussed and a program , of activities outlined. A report of the activities during the past term disclosed a successful year, mem- ! bers of the organization stated. Plans for each of the various ■ phases of the Catholic youth organ- , ization, including religion, athletics t and several others, will be perman- . ently outlined in the near future.

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Mississippi Senator In Van Os Fight To Cut Expenses And Reduce Tax Payments. SENATE LEADER Washington, Nov. 16.— U.R) — Chairman Fred M. Vinson, D„ Ky., of the house ways and means tax sub-committee said today that the three business tax revisions already tentatively made by the committee will save tax payers an estimated $93,800,000 yearly. Washington, Nov. 16 — (U.R) —• Sen. Pat Harrison. D„ Miss., chairman of the powerful finance committee. today stepped into leadership of a congressional drive for governmental retrenchment and tax reduction. Harrison, returning to Washington on the second day of the special session, outlined his views regarding revision of the undistributed profits tax, probably early next year, and said he hoped that congress would stand firmly for reduction of emergency relief expenditures. “Nothing would aid business more than for the country to know definitely that we are retrenching and are going to balance the budget,” the Mississippi senator said. "That seems to be the administration policy and 1 only hope that it can be exaggerated.” Harrison did not preclude the possibility of action at the special session to modify the undistributed profits tax but he said he favored an “orderly procedure” which would call for action by the senate after the house Initiates such a move. That procedure, he added, probably would mean delay until ! next session. , Harrison’s statement was sig- ! nificant in view of a drive, led j by the senate bloc that last session smashed President Roosevelt’s supreme court program, to speed up and broaden the indicated administration program for aid to business. Harrison has one of the strongest personal followings in the senate. He was defeated for the leadership last summer by one vote and his position was believed likely to aid in crystallizing congressional sentiment for a definite swing toward economy and business aid. He expressed opposition at this time to repeal of the capital stock tax but said that the capital gains and loss provisions of the present law should be modified. Resumption of PWA spending in restricted spheres also was advocated by Harrison in connection with a general program for aiding 1 economic recovery. "The main thing that I have in mind is employment,” he said. “I believe that if private industry can be encouraged it will help to solve the entire situation. "The unemployment problem has been and still is with us. i Within reasonable limitations the federal government should assist through loans and grants in the construction of public works that (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Grand Jury Adjourns To Thursday Morning After a short session this morn- , ing the grand jury for the November term of the Adams circuit court adjourned until 9:30 o’clock Thursday morning. The jury met with Prosecutor Arthur E. Voglewede in this morning’s • session. Frank Parrish, b'ind Tlecatur rest- [ dent, is again bailiff for the grand jury. Among other things to fee done before completion of the jury work is tlie inspection of the coun- , ty buildings. t ° Menno Burkhalter Heads Association ’ Menno Burkhalter, of Berne, has ■ been named president of the MonI roe township Sunday School association, following the convention i held Sunday in the Monroe Friends ; church. l Other officers are: vtce-rresldent, ! Rolland Sprunger; secretary-trea-i sue, C. H. Muselman; administatlve ■ superintendent, David Zuercher; ed; educational superintendent, i Fred Von Gunten; adult superintend - dent, Roy Gibson; young peoples* i superintendent, Gordon Braoker - and children's superintendent, Marguerite Lewellen.