Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1937 — Page 1

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: W STARTED MM ZING OF I SWOOIHOUSE |)em®f>hing Os Central Schp l ’ l Started This Morning ;" ■ * 7W--0 » new.” %MK the heels of a crew of ff* <W ' Brothers’ wre<-k---,'gXirri'/ in ’" ri,> ‘' ,,f n "’ >■»,-■ . hool building. I ~'Korniii> ,l;iys ‘'arli'-r Ilian Br ,w le d - ■B» SW Jay. building was that it eoilhl nriH nE. cdSblt' ti today ripped of baseKiardsA' '■nils, lath and pi.i ■ lE7 S hue • ■ been knocked into K wSlr oerinit entraiue into "Bp l area - ' ‘•“ dried nit ' fte -it •■ )>■ ’ easilly. Crowbars pull•SKl oillßti' 1 ' '''ions of walls. s hale stored desks otk ■ able equipment in Ke OMHI reparatory to truesKg to »■ I'• ■ atnr Produce ConiKnv, ■ it will be stored until ■he neKbnilding is* erected. ■ls teat 1- >'t the blackboards in first floor rooms, it was Bianied hat new blackboards had VKtheKnics of H I’. Lina and ('. '■).]{& were written on the old .■BfcartUsßnde: the date. September ted that Several days will bejequiteil in the rem. val of tie lab n r facing walks before work CBI I." ■ n on t lie razina of tlm IFi t® sorted today by school officials lia' the new schedules of the high school building of both Bi high school and the Censchool pupils are opera!ittg sail hly. ■ Find Records Amoa, the more interesting in the razing of ibeeJfcl building, was a co"ection if.Mßiais belonging to the (1. A. Spanish-American War iteraaji BB” '' i|l|s ' bo. ks and other belonging to the G. LR.. wjii t disbanded here m 19-L d otto Yost, who lias be contrast for razing the build- #• Kuipment was taken to the legion home l:y I larry eetl - Aero it is to be pr.verved Ibr the »• terans. f. The raster of the G. A. R. in 1921.

ini i:i> <>x pack six, a—. ° Itlksyian Party | Saturday Nis>ht B The Second in the series of Salm parties will be held at Elks home on North SecMet Saturday night it 8:3o is I cW** swee,ll eai ts, and in■HMßlests. No admission wi’l !><• a ' grsSg ■ “ I Mrsfcjennie Rainier | Is Still Critical I. jpMb<>ndition of Mrs. Jenni" ■ ,Pma hied critical this aftet IHI'If suffered a heart attack I night at her home on 615 I Madison treet. No hope is held for I ’~ r r W’ v,!ry - Stuck) Christmas ■ Party December 21 The annual Christmas paity spun•ored by R. A. Stucky of the Cash toal company will be held friaay afternoon. December 2t. *"®* Buntil 3 o’clock, it was anhuuncga today. The party is given each year by ™ r -St#el. r for all kiddies between 1 ™ ages of 4 and 11. Santa Claus ' whppi.r i n person and distribute Wfcekag. to each child. ■»— -

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Riley PT A Meets Friday Afternoon The parent-teacher association of [the Riley school will meet at the | school Friday afternoon at 2:15 I , o'clock. .Mrs. Gertrude Meyers of Fort Wayne will be the guest speakher. She will discuss the first chapiter of the book. "Untying Apron Strings by Helen Gibson Hogue. A group of fourth grade pupils wit' sing Christmas carols. Plans ■ which have been made for the .Christmas party will be discussed. A good attendance is desired. SIX ARRESTED FOR VIOLENCE ATFOROPLANT Shots Fired; CIO Calls Strike Os Telegraph Workers Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 16 (U.P.) — Shots were fired today from automobiles, carrying workers to ■ the Ford assembly plant, in reply to barrages of bricks hurled al motor car caravans allegedly by members of. or sympathizers with, the United Automobile Workers I who called a strike at the plant. No one was reported hurt in the exchange of shots and bricks. Police arrested six UAW men tor questioning in the brick-hurl-ing incidents and began an invest!-' gation of the shooting. The union ' I men charged that Ford service I ! workers, accompanying the employes as bodyguards, fired the shots. Shootings occurred at three sepiarate points near the Ford plant. The workers had been reporting daily at the plant since the strike was called. They met each morning at designated points and proi ceeded to work in groups. Police also arrested seven men and a woman who started picketing this morning. It was the first outbreak of. | violence at the plant since the strike was called. Until today, men, women and children pickets had vied good-humoredly with the, police in an attempt to maintain I j a picket line. Almost 200 persons had been arrested and released. In Six Cities Washington, Dec. 16 — (U.R) I The committee for industrial orgai uization today called a strike in, | six cities among union employes i of the Postal Telegraph company., i seeking to force immediate action i upon their request for a 20 percent wage increase. The stoppage was ordered by i the American communications asso-; ; ciation, a CIO affiliate. Union offi-1 . cials contended the strike was not I a sit down but a "work stoppage." j Officials here said the strike | was ordered in Washington. But-1 falo. Philadelphia. Detroit, New i York and Pittsburgh Ted Zittel. New York union I J leader, was in charge of the Wash-1 i ington strike. He said that if no immediate; i indication was apparent that ' negotiations for a wage increase: would resume ' immediately, six i more cities would be struck tomorI row. He said that negotiations for a ; ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) BUREAU URGES FARM PROGRAM Farm Bureau Lrges Adoption Os National Farm Policy Chicago. Dec. (U.R) - The American farm bureau federation was pledged today in support of a national farm policy, designed to, restore the economic standing of American farmers and ‘guaranteed to provide price stability and sur-| nlus crop control. ; Such a program, the keynote of resolutions adopted at the closing session of the federation s annual , convention, will effect a fair bal-., ance between agriculture, industry , and labor," President Edwaid L. j O'Neal said. ; ■ O s 21 resolutions adopted, the main recommendations included. 1 Restoration of a high degree of soil fertility through soil con8' a'" Agricultural tariffs to protect the domestic markets from Imports that force American markets be'°3 P Re7ucdo V n' 9 of industrial tan Iffs to equalize the price levlls of industrial and agricultural com"’T* of new outlets for American-grown farm P 5. Stale and federal marketing (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

WILLIAM GREEN I I ASKS CONGRESS TO REVISE BILL ALF Opposes Wage sHours Bill; Lewis Assails Green Washington. Dec, 16 — (UP) — ! President William Green of the Am- , erican Federation of Laibor today called upon the house of rapresen-' 1 tatlves to recommit the administration's wages and hours bill because "it is objectionable to the member--1 ship of the federation." Green sent a telegram expressing I federation views to every member of the house as the battle to pass j jthe disputed measure reached a dl- j max. Last night the house defeated an effort to substitute the federa- ' : tion's wages-hours will for the version drafted by the house labor committee. Green’s telegram: "Because the pending wages and hours bill is highly objectionable to the membership of the American federation of labor I respectfully re- J quest you to vote to recommit it to the appropriate committee for re-1 vision. study. and necessary ( I changes in order to make it a prac | tical and constructive measure.” The American Federation of labor's plan for writing into law fixed minimum wages of 40 cents an hour and fixed maximum hours 1 of 40 a week —was eliminated last 5 night. 162 to 131, after seven and) one-half hours of parliamentary inI fighting. House leaders said the defeat of the federation-backed plan increased their chances of winning house nassage of a wages hours bill and of sending it to conference with the senate, which approved it last session. ißut they refused to predict which of the two versions would be selected. The two most astute political prophets in the lower chamber, majority whip Pat Boland, D.. Pa., and rules chairman John J. O'Connor. D„ N. Y., agreed a bill would pass. To which majority leader Sam Ray(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o — SENIOR CLASS TO GIVE PLAY Kirkland Seniors To Present Class Play Next Tuesday The seunior class of the Kirkland high school will present the three-act comedy, "Room for Ten,” ’ at the school gymnasium Tuesday evening at 7:45 o'clock. The play was originally scheduled for last week, but was postponed. t Mrs. C. O. Porter of Decatur is directing the production. Adiuis1 sion prices will be 15 cents and 25 1 cents. The cast of characters follows: Mr. Scott, the father — Donald Seesenguth. Ted Soott, his son—Henry Marshall. LMcille Scott, his daughter—Helen Longenberger. Mrs. Turner (Aunt Jane), Mr.' Scott's sister— Dorothy Adler. Stella, the cook— Georgia Young.! Walter, the gardener and handy man—Glen Griffith. Tom Morey, a bsnk cashier, Lucille's fiance— Stanley Arnold. Mozelle Adams, a typical newspaper woman — Virginia Zimmerman. Mrs. O'Brien, an Irish woman— Merle Frauhiger. Doris O’Brien, her daughter — Evelyn Troxel. Barry Appleton, her fiance—Carl Baumgartner. Mr. Fisher, government official |—Arden Byerly. o Sustains Fractured Arm In Fall On Ice Reuben Graber of Berne, Is recovering from a fractured arm sustained yesterday when he fell on the ice in that town. ~° Buys Health Bond J The Eastern Star lodge of this > city has voted the purchase of a $5 health Christmas Seals! "Co^-1 ,y tuberculosis association, ” ? ■ WGu y^ rowll ’ ' P resldent ' alb ■ nounced to1 \ T'PlI Y day - P rocee< ) 3 i of the sales Buy and Use Them aid victims of the disease and to give milk to undernourished children of Decatur.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 16, 1937.

Central School Building Razed V a ISj* Pictured above is a view of the Central grade school building on Jefferson street, which is being razed to make room for the new junior senior high school building, which will be erected on the site. Demolishing work was started this morning.

COALITION IN CONGRESS OUT G.O.P. Suspicion Grounds Movement For Coalition Washington, Dec. 16.— .(U.R)I—A 1 —A movement for a formal RepublicanDemocratic congressional coalition to swing the Roosevelt administration to more conservative channels appeared today to be stranded on the shoals by G. O. P. suspicion. Senate Republican leader Charles L. McNary steered the coalition "aground" when he advised his colleagues—upqn inquiry—that he was not impressed by the proposed “address to the people of the United States.” The “address" was prepared as a charter of joint Republican and Democratic national action. It promises to remain a rare first edition. One of the quickest desertions of a ship on record took place as McNary and several other RepubI lican senators refused to come i aboard either as seamen or as officers of the line. After 24 hours j of premature publicity the coali- ' tion movement appeared to be left I in the hands of its promoters, most of whom were said to have been 1 Democrats. No senator would admit sponsor- ' ship and in some instances they even refused knowledge of the) coalition movement after their I leaders reported the craft had been launched in shoal water. Sen. ' Peter G. Gerry. D., R. 1., who has been off the new deal reservation for some time, professed interest but no knowledge of reports that a coalition movement was under way. Most observers believed the formal coalition movement was end--1 ed today, at least for the time be- ' ing- But since no one would accept responsibility for the project there was no responsible statement that it would be called off. The address to the people which was circulated in search of endorsing senate signatures set forth that the recession demanded instant attention of all persons in responsible | positions. It then developed a 10- ■ point program, stated in general | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) —o Two Men Unhurt As Cars Collide Two men escaped injury late yesterday afternoon when cars driven by J. M. Delind, 69, of Lansing. Michigan and Fred V. Evans. 45, Grand Rapids, Michigan, collided on road 27. The accident occurred one mile north of Berne when the Evans car was passing the other auto, both enroute north. The cars sideswiped with but little damage resulting.

Dismiss School Children To See Good Fellows Show Here 1

iA trip to the North Pole with a sight-seeing tour of the workshop of Santa Claus and his merry elves, is the treat promised local school youngsters on next Monday afternoon when they attend the special show at the Adams theater. Teachers and principals of elementary grades have extended their ■ permission for all kiddies in school to attend the special showing Mon- | day of “A trip to the North Pole and ’ a visit at Santa’s workshop,” which is to be given at the theater for the benefit of the Good Fellows club. The kiddies will be charged five cents each to see the picture, which includes an especially selected

Rural Schools Start V acation December 24 The Christmas vacation will open in the rural schools, of Adams county Friday, December 24, C. E. Striker. county school sperintendent, anj nounced today. School will be dismissed in the afternoon on that day following Christmas programs in most of the i schools. The day will also mark the end of the first semester of the 1937-38 i . school season. Report cards will be , handed out in the afternoon. Students will return to classes on Mon- . i day. January 3, following the week’s L vacation from classes. CIO BEATEN IN MINE ELECTION I I CIO Affiliate Voted Down By Miners In Illinois Chicago, Dec. 16.—(U.R> —The Pro- ( » gresslve Miners of America, lock-, . ed in a dispute with United Mine' i Workers of America over repre-’ . sentation at the mine B Coal comt pany at Spt ingfield, was selected by company employes as its bar i gaining representative, the national labor relations board announced - today. The vote was 404 to 25. rj The decision, result of an elecI tion held at the Springfield armory • yesterday, breaks the stalemate I which has halted production at the mine since last May, L. C. Bajork. i j NLRB regional, director, said. i Approximately 450 men were | t eligible to vote, he said. Four ‘ t hundred and thirty-one ballots ■ were cast, two voting against eith-i ! er union having jurisdiction at the ■ mine, he said. The dispute began shortly after ■ expiration March 30 of a PMA- - Mine B company wage agreement. : The two groups agreed April 2 to . continue under the old contract pending 'negotiations for a new i agreement. May 12 there began what the : company described as a strike and - the PMA called a "lockout." Al ■ few days later, Ray Edmundson, ■ Illinois UMWA head, announced I the mine B PMA local "had bolt-1 ed" and that a majority of the mine employes were members of i the UMWA| Then the UMWA and

(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o * Good Fellows Club ♦ — Previous total $271.34 Pythians Needle Club 5.00 Holthouse, Schulte & Co 3.50 Totals $279.84 The $25 donation reported yesterday from the American Legion should have read, American Legion Auxilitary.

group of short subjects, including “Mickey Mouse", "Minnie Mouse", "Pluto”, and a group of “Silly Symphonies.” I All proceeds of the show arc to go ; to the Good Fellows fund, sponsored I by the Delta Theta Tau sorority. The (personnel of the Adams theater has donated all services for the afternoon. Miss Mary Margaret Voglewede, sorority member, is in charge of the arrangements tor the show. Parents are urged to provide their children with a nickel before they leave for school in the afternoon, so they will not have to return home before the performance. The show will start at 2:30 o'clock.

Relations Between U. S. And Japan More Strained Daily As Further Reports Are Received

SLOWLY RISING TEMPERATURES SHATTER COLD Hazards From Ice Disappearing Under Warmer Weather (By United Press) A slippery glaze of Ice that covered a third of the nation, crippling traffic and communications, disappeared gradually today beneath slowly rising temperatures. The ice sheet extended from Nebraska to Pennsylvania and from Kentucky to the Great Lakes region. U- S. forecaster C. A. Dotinel of Chicago said. Intermittent,' freezing rains over the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri valleys have ceased except in scattered local-, ities, he said. He predicted further increases 'in temperatures throughout the middlewest. Fourteen automobile and pedestrain deaths attributed to icy pavements increased the death list due , to a week long onslaught of cold and snow to 124. New deaths re-| ported included four in Kansas i City, two in Idaho, two in Detroit,, two in Chicago, and one each in Oklahoma, Albany, Cleveland and Montana. Sixty persons were under treatment at the Cook county (Chicago) | hospital for injuries suffered in falls. Other Chicago hospitals re-1 ported scores of minor injuries from falls. At St. Louis physicians attributed 56 cases of fracture and I 140 minor injuries to hazardous; ‘ walking conditions. In western Oklahoma, 27 crews. were repairing telephone lines ■ , snapped by the weight of ice. The ■ ' broken communications and peril- ' ous driving conditions virtually, I isolated 45 Oklahoma towns. Kansas City reported 159 breaks in telephone wires. The Chicago Motor club issued a warning against extended trips through Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and lowa until the glaze is completely dissipated. The club reported hundreds of minor automobile accidents throughout the area. The ice was melted almost completely in Omaha. In lowa. 200 highway employes sanded icy hills and curves. Ten inches of snow covered the northern section of the state. Sluslt was ankle deep in the De- ' troit area and a number of trucks still were snow bound in the western area of Michigan. Air flights were resumed at Kansas City but remained grounded at Minneapolis, the northern fringe of the ice area. Occasional rains and slightly warmer temperatures were fore(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) XMAS MAILING RUSH REPORTED

Postmaster Reports Heavier Christmas Business Than Usual The usual Christmas mailing rush has started with an added intensiveness at the Decalur post office, Mrs. Lola P. Macklin, acting postmaster stated today. Postal receipts for the month of j December are running far ahead of i those for December of last year, she stated. While the rush has already 'begun, much heavier business is anticipated for the final week before Christmas. To date, parcel post mailing has been much heavier than Christmas card and letter mailing, postal employes report. Mrs. Macklin urged that all long distance mailing be done by at .least Friday evening. Packages, letters and cards to California should be in I the mail by that time to insure delivery by Christmas, she stated. All foreign mailing should have been in the mail last week to insure prompt delivery. Mrs. Macklin and the employes urged that all mailing be done as soon as possible. Proper and clearly legible addressing as well as the marking of a return address are essential in j insuring the prompt and proper delivery of a package or letter.

RAIN REMOVES ICE ON ROADS Rising Temperatures Combine To Clean State Highways (By United Press) Rising temperatures and a steady, rain combined todJy to remove the sheet of ice and snow that has! covered Indiana since early in the! week. A heavy fog which shrouded large sections of the state throughout the night was lifting today and vehicular traffic was returning to normalcy. Main highways, although covered by water, were safe for travel again, the state highway commission reported, but country roads ■ were turned into quagmires and ■ many school children still encountered difficulty getting to classes. Bus companies reported that ' they were resuming normal schedules after operating two or three hours late yesterday and in some I instances not at all. Air service was discontinued throughout the night because of ! the dense fog and rain. Officials ! said planes would leave today but 1 probably would be grounded again J tonight. Rain was falling this morning l over the entire southern half of i Indiana, the weather bureau rei ported. Clouds hung iow over the ■ northern part of the state and rain was expected. Minimum temperatures, which ' had been near the zero mark earlier in the week, averaged about : 32 or 33 over the state this morning. the weather bureau said. The low reading in Indianapolis was 34 1 degrees. CHURCH HOLDS XMAS PARTY First M. E. Church Holds Christmas Party W ednesday Night Approximately 250 persons attended the Christmas party staged at the First Methodist Episcopay church here last night. The Rev. R. W. Graham delivered the welcome address, and the following program was presented: Scripture reading—Earl Colter. Prayer—Mrs. E. N- Wicks. Welcome— Bobby Barber. I Wrote a Note to Santa Claus —Joan Doan. Jingle Bells—Beginner's class. If You’re Good —Karlan Striker. Stunt—Jack Leigh's class. Far Way in a Little Town—Billy Graham. The Doll's Lesson — Betty Hollingsworth. Song—Bedford and Byford Smith. Just For Xmas—Victor Porter, i Song—Russell Owens class. The Xmas Highway—Leigh Edward Nelson. Away In a Manger — Primary class. Reading—Mrs. Hollingsworth. An acrostic and song — Louise Haubold’s class. Song—Mesdames Ralph Wallace, Clyde Butler, Jacl< Leigh, Ralph Graham. Accompanist—Louise Haubold. Demonstration — Mrs. Freldt's class. Children were treated at the party to cocoa, cake and candy while the adults were served a ; luncheon in the dining room. — -o Preble Man Injured Wednesday Afternoon ■Samuel Smith of Preble was treated Wednesday afternoon tor an injury to his hand, caused when a screw driver slipped, piercing the flesh. He was discharged after receiving medical attention. TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m 32 10:00 a. m 33 Noon 33 2:00 p. m 36 3:00 p. m 37 WEATHER Cloudy tonight and Friday, rain probable; slightly warmer tonight except north.

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Official Reports Reveal Japs Machine Gunned Panay; Japanese Naval Head Recalled. DRAFT REPLY Washington, Dec. 16 — (U.R) — Secretary of Stale Cordell Hull today announced that official disj patches from American goveru- | inent representatives on board the ' gunboat Panay confirmed reports ! lhat the gunboat was machine I gunned by Japanese surface vessels after the ship had been bombed from the air. Confirmation of the reports was expected to lead inevitably to stiffening of this country's indignant protest which demanded complete indemnification for loss of the gunboat and the fatalities, i and definite measures to assure against repetition of the incident in the future. Even before revelation of the auxiliary machine-gun attacks, President Roosevelt viewed the matter so seriously that he insisted that Emperor Hirohito of Japan be informed of his deep “concern und shock." Hull said that while the official version had not been completed in dispatches from American representatives, sufficient information I has been received to confirm the. I eye-witness accounts of the disaster carried in newspaper reports. The confirmation of the machine gun attacks by Japanese surface craft was considered a most serious development in the already strained situation Reports being received from official representatives in China were being forwarded t.o Ambassador Joseph C. Grew, who is continuing his representations to the Japanese ! government, Hui’ said. The satisfaction demanded by I the American government was exi peeled '<» lie broadened eonsiderI ably as a result of the official dis- | patches. Reports from eye witnesses, | which are now confirmed by I American officials, were considerIrd to have proved beyond doubt I that the attack on, the Panay was no accident, as claimed by the Japanese government. The reports related deliberate attacks upon the survivors of the Panay by Japanese airplanes and surface forces Survivors charged that Japanese airplanes swept low over the water and machine gunned the boats in which they were escaping. The reports said that Japanese surface vessels raked the Panay with machine gun fire while . ‘he American flag still was flying from the gunboat's masthead. Finally, according to the reports. Japanese officers swept up to the gunboat, in their surface vessels and boarded the American war vessel while the American flag still flew from its mast. Visits Emperor Tokyo. Dec. 16 (U.R) Admiral Mistumisa Yonai. secretary of the I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) CHECK REPORT DEATH THREAT Check Report Mrs. Wilma Carpenter Threatened By Youth Norristown, Pa., Dec. 16.—(U.R) — Detectives checked today a report that Mrs. Wilma V. Carpenter, attractive widow slain by a mysterious youth with a "flat-topped head,” had lived in terror of an enemy who had threatened her life. The report was given to pollen by Mrs. Carpenter's brother, Emil Dorsett, 35. of Kankakee, 111., who hurried here with his father, William Dorsett, to aid in the investigation. Major William Ruch of the statu motor police refused to say whether he believed the threats had any connection with the sllooting of Mrs. Carpenter, 38, and the attempted attack on 22-year-old Mary Griffin, manager of her beauty parlor. The story told by Dorsett and the fingerprints found on a .38 calibre revolver were the principal clues uncovered by police. The revolver was found yesterday near Mrs. Carpenter's fashionable home in Camp Hill, a Philadelphia suburb, and it was definitely estab(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)