Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 18 December 1937 — Page 1

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JMT SHOWS MN TROOPS BONDED PANAY Armed Troop * Stopped I Gunbo; lour Hours Before Attack (f0(W 51»37 by United Press) ■ shanghai. ' 1 ' ' u p: tr ot)9» Itoppcd III.' I ni1..1 c-bIM I’niiay under threat Inf •rifl* I*''* 1 *''* ro ‘ ,v | Jap »Ba<i-"- T l -""- Sil,lk h " r ' " I qpe.l today. I | ie 'Canty l>i , (11 1" '''"''"" " ■■ field iSKY 1 " ; ls "" | MtJwffi l '"' 11 I tjSSBU. 1 ■ ■ ! ’ ■ .gin I '.isnßSf II (1,, UK W'-i'ui 'in. hl and .lapan«wßri'i-’i' office HOW mid li" B . t)» ■■ i. «iih Hi- ■'H'-il:.;! I plan to S I..living th.' cruise; I MarHefceßd here. Had it not been ■ forth« Wr y attack. he would ■ h;.ve MM* Tuesday. Most of the ipanay’Bße' except the seriously I aoundedßreic due to sail in the I Augusta. I The ddt. of this missing sac- ■ tor in the; sinking of the Panay ,| wer* disclos. <1 by Weldon .lames. I chief Os ih- United Press bureau I at Naekiig. who was aboard the | Panay. Innes wrote the story al ■;l the tis3a,B", I.lent Comdr Iliiali.s I Parinfe-'am any message e.mtaiii I ing Japhtiese troop activities I might aid the Chinese and vi >l:tt - Amerieang neutrality, thought it heat not |o permit the dispatch : ■■ be tr»ns|n:ttad on the Panay’s radio, the only means of <-<>mmntiieattott available Four hours later Ilugher was a casualty and his little ship was sinking under a co.abiaod bombing and nm.him guatuaf *t :k by Japanese aviators. I ™ it was at 9:40 a. in. Sunday. Jame* disclosed, that the Panay was stopp. I 22 miles above Nanking. A field gun was trained on !■■ from shore a boarding party of about 30 Japanese troops w. in out into the river and went along side. Asia lieutenant and a guard of two me i Went aboard, th- sol diera affix, t bayonets to their riflM. Th. lieutenant’s two gu .rds fixed their bayonets as they stood on the ddck of the American war ship, James reported. The ■jpanese lieutenant ques- | tinoned Lieut. Comdr. Hughes. James rep. irted, as to his nationality and destination. Then the Pansy Jra. permitted to proceed to her death. ThusSrith the missing factor supplied. |the sequence of events in an ifildent that seemed to observers here to be assuming wider propertloas proved to be as follow*: E Saturday -Panay leaves Nanking at about I p. m. because it was in urgent danger from Japanese and (’hinest£ fi re in their final fight tor theKapital. Remains under heavy fire from stray bullets for 25 minutes a Sunday Japanese troops board Panay at 9:40 a. m. Japanese bombing airplanes attack Fanny at 1:80 p.Hff. three miles farther up the river. According to American navy and civilian witnesses, .lap anese aviators machine gunned a boat carry ng wounded from the Panay to shore and two Japanese launches, flying the Japanese flag, machine-gunned the Panay herself after she had been abandoned. Men from the launches, according to the Witnesses, boarded tin shin just before she sank, inspected her. and left. Japanese authorities held a pr. <■ conference this morning. United (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ' • SW' - — Everybody >-Jl)uys and uses Christmas Seals f QAj2. [GREWLNGS J society GI!U JO&g -rW £ Shoppinq Days Left

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Sacred Cantata At M. E. Church Sunday The annual sacred cantata of the j Decatur M. E. church will be presented Sunday evening in eonnec-1 fjtiotl with the regu'ar church servirPß at 7 o'clock. The cantata this year is entitled I "The Christmas King" and Is to' | ted > a mixed chorus at 30 voices under the direction of Mrs. Dan Tyndall with Mrs. Avon Burk ae organist. Members of the congregation and ■ those interested In music are urged ( I to attend. . SMITH FOILED IN JAIL BREAK Allen County Officers Find Toy Gun In Killer’s Cell I Fort Wayne, Dec. 18 —From an | Allen county jail cell yesterday j j i afternoon sheriff’s deputies reJ moved a gun of soap which John I Dee Smith. 22. former Michigan' 11 convict charged with the first de(j gree murder of Arlie Foster here jin 1935 had intended to employe in an attempted break for freedom j I —if he had the chance. . I Fashioned closely after a wooden | model used by the late John Dill-1 1I Inger to escape from the Crown Point jail several years ago, I Smith's dummy gun was found to I be a bar of laundry soap to which i I had been fitted a “breach" of to- | baeco tin and the top of a tooth I I powder can for a barrel. Smith admitted to Sheriff Her-1 ' man C. Hoile that he had made 1 the gun with a pair of barber shears and had Intended to use it if he had an opportunity. ' Described as "too good a prisoner" by the sheriff. Smith had ’ been under constant surveillance ' in the jail since he was apprehend- ' ed at Los Angeles several months ’ ago and returned here for a grand ’ jury investigation that resulted in his indictment. Now awaiting a transfer of his case to another ’ county. Smith faces death in the 1 1 electric chair for the shooting of ; Foster, restaurant operator and ’: prothinent Legionnaire. i A week ago last Friday Sheriff j ' | Hoile and his deputies discovered j ' i that something was amiss in the] 'I cell block when a pair of barber I I shears was returned with a sprung '. hinge after it had been used on the ] ] i locks of prisoners. ! i After that incident. Deputies ‘ I Charles Coulardot, Clarence Kroe-1 1 . tier. Walter Adams, Fred Schopp- j ' man and Malcolm Rapp were > assigned to an investigation of; ’ happenings in the cell block which 11 ended at 3:45 o’clock yesterday] j afternoon when the make-believe 38 automatic was found tucked ’ under a mattress in a cell Smith . ’ shares at night with three other prisoners. > Lone Hobo Stages Sit-Down Strike ' ' A lone hobo staged a one-man sit- ' down strike at the LaFountaino handle factory last night and evid- - ently became "warmed-up” to his i intentions. i Perched atop the boiler at the factory, where it was good and . warm hobo refused to give up his . i precarious position. The intensive persuasions of Policeman Roy Chilcote soon cooled ' his liking for the boiler bed, however, and he was unceremoniously ! , ushered on his way into the "cold ; world." ICY PAVEMENTS ! CAUSE WRECKS Minor Auto Accidents Result Here From Icy Pavements Icy pavements and extremely: ■ hazardous driving conditions were deemed responsible for minor auto accidents last evening. Two ornamental light posts were damaged by skidding cars. A car, driven by Clarence Blenz of Will-1 shire Ohio, skidded into a post on | Mercer avenue near the Townsend , residence. Officers Roy Chilcote I and Adrian Coffee investigated. Brisbin Skiles, son of Ellis] Skiles of Peterson hit a lamb post at the corner of Second and Jackson streets. Officers Chilcote and Coffee investigated Three cars figured in a collision on East Monroe street. A car driven by Edgar Reinking struck an auto driven by Mann Fuhrman as Mr. Fuhrman started to drive Into the sale barn driveway. The Fuhrman car in turn bounced against a parked car. belonging to BUI Pettit. All were damaged. Officer Ed Miller investigated.

36 CONVICTED > | OF CONSPIRACY IN UNION WAR Jury Returns Guilty Verdict In Illinois Dispute Springfield. 111., Dec. 18—(UP) — I A jury of farmers and tradesmen i today found 36 men guilty of using ! a bombing conspiracy as a weapon in a struggle between rival unions! of coal miners. 1 The verdict, ending five weeks trial, in United States district court, , was guilty" on three counts ot interfering with foreign and interstate , commerce, bombing of mines and j trains, carrying coal and obstruct- ! ing United States mails by bombing "Most of the defendants were mem- I : bers of the progressive miners ot America, rebel offshoot of John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers ot America, The government alleged they I bombed mines holding contractswith the U. M. W. an dblew up trains carrying U. M. W. mined coal. Maximum penality is four years in prison and fines totalling $20,j 000. The verdict climaxed a five year “reign of terror" in the Illinois coal fields, marked by killing of more 1 than 50 persons in riots, street fighting, the bombing of homes and other property. The national guard i was called out on several occasions. The jury found its verdict after 1 three hours deliberation. o Berne Man Recovering From Broken Ankle Charles Van Balscom, of Berne, is recovering from a fractured ankle sustained in a scuftlling match j In that town Thursday on the icy : ; walks. 0 ■ ♦ Good Fellows Club Previous Total $313.39 Post Office Employes 17.25 Mrs. Ella Hyland 1.00 Mrs. Virginia-Hyland SmUU l.uu , Kathleen Janell Smith.... 1.00 Totals $333.84 FARMER INCOME REPORTED HIGH Cash Income For 1937 Crops Reported Highest Since Washington. Dec. 18 — Agricul- ! ture department economists estiI mated today that American farm- ; ers, despite bumper crops that j depressed prices, would receive a cash income of $8,500,000,000 this year—the largest since the 1929 1 l boom year. This is approximately twice the j 1932 income of $4,328,000,000, the J ; lowest since the bureau of agricultural economics first began making estimates in 1924. The peak income was $10,479,000,000 in 1929. Last year's income totaled $7,920,000,000. The 1937 estimate fall half a billion dollars short, however, of predictions made earlier by Secy. Wallace. But for the fact that the level i | mately 18 per cent between Janu|of farm prices declined approxiary and December, the figure [ ; might have exceeded $9,000,000,- ' 000. economists said. The estimate was described by officials as a “bright spot” in the I economic picture. They explained : that the income estimate indicated the size of the agriculture populaj tion’s purchasing power this year. It did not Include, however, comI modifies produced and consumed ion the farm, valued roughly at | $1,400,000,000. Included in the total estimates I were government benefit payments ' of $380,000,000 this year, compared with $287,000,000 last year. The bureau said the greatest in- ! creases in cash income were re- j '■ ceived from wheat, tobacco and the ! more important fruit crops. Wheat : for example, brought in $667,000,I 000 this year compared with $408,- | 000,000 last year. Tobacco returned $318,000,000 compared with $235,000,000. o Decatur Restaurant Reported Sold Today J. V. Hollifled has purchased the Dew Drop Inn, Monroe street restaurant, it was announced today. Mr. Hollifield, a former resident of Georgia, is the father of the Rev. ■Clifford Hollifield, of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Ella Talbot formerly owned the restaurant.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday. December 18, 1937.

Cross of Light Aids Seal Sale

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I An impressive double-barred cross, 300 feet high and 120 feet wide, I formed by a special lighting pattern in the windows of a Chicago | skyscraper, aids in the sale of Christmas seals which finance the , campaign against tuberculosis.

FRANK WILLING TO TAKE POST Dr. Glenn Frank Tentatively Accepts G. O. P. Leadership — Chicago. Dec. 18. — (U.R) — Dr. ■ Glenn Frank tentatively accepted . chairmanship of the Republican ■ party's newly formed program committee today and the way virtually was cleared for determination of a G. O. P. policy for the forth-' coming presidential and congressional campaigns. National party chairman John D. M. Hamilton lett early today for a regional meeting at Tocoma, . Washington, after he announced Frank s acceptance. He said there would be no statement of party position until after detail work by sub-committees. it was necessary for Frank to delay final acceptance, Hamilton said, pending outcome of the pressure of business and personal affairs. Frank was not present when Hamilton made the announcement and refused to make any Btate- ■ ment other than that authorized ] in a brief typed form. It read: "if I am able to arrange my per- ] sonal and business affairs I shall ) accept this position as the greatest honor arid obligation of my ! life. I cannot know for a few days." o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. 32 10:00 a. nt 31 a. nt :!1 WEATHER Generally fair in the extreme south. Much cloudiness in the central and north tonight and Sunday with snow Sunday. No decided change in temperature.

Christmas Only Week Off, Give To City’s Good Fellows Club

With only one week until Christj mas, citizens of Decatur are urged ' to make their contributions to the | Good Fellows Club at once. While the total reported to date ; has gone over the S3OO mark, additional funds are needed to make Christmas happier for the lesh fortunate of Decatur. Boxes to hold donations to the fund are located in the Dally Dem-1 ocrat office, the First State Bank, Rice Hotel, post office and the Adams county memorial hospital. With a coulple of days required | to sort out the gifts and toys and assemble them for the various families, members of the Delta Theta ! sorority are making an urgent request for immediate contributions to the fund. These Good Fellows gifts will be distributed by members of the sor|ority next Friday night, Christmas'

• I Newton I). Baker Is Reported 111 Cleveland. Dec. 18.—<U.R> —Newton D. Baker, wartime secretary .-.f war under President Woodrow Wilson and internationally known corporation attorney, was treated today for a recurrence of the heart condition he suffered in mid-sum-mer: A physician and nurse were call-; ed suddenly to Baker’s home today. | Mrs. Baker told the United Press that "Mr. Baker has suffered an- 1 I other slight thrombosis.” Baker spent several days last: July in Saratoga Springs, N. Y. re-' ! cuperating from a cerebral throm- 1 ] bosis he suffered at that time. G. E. CHRISTMAS PARTY TONIGHT Employes Dance Tonight. Party For Kiddies Sunday Plans for the annual Christmas i party of the local General Electric employes have been completed, it ■ was announced today. The dance will be staged tonight I at 9:30 o’clock in the recreation' hall while the annual party f. r the kiddies of G E. workers will be held Sunday afternoon. Bob Rice and his orchestra will furnish the music for the dance, I which will be open to those who: present tickets at the door. Two shows will be given Sunday afternoon by the Lesseli Marion-! ettes to entertain the kiddies. Tick-] ets have been distributed to the ■ children. Tickets stamped No. 1 entitle the bearer to admittance! at the first show at 1:15 o’clock while those stamped with No. 2 are for the second show at 3:151 o’clock. Parents are asked to see that the children attend the show j corresponding with the number on the ticket. Santa Claus will appear at. the conclusion .-J each performance to distribute candy, gifts and Santa, balloons.

Eve. The sorority members will be assisted by members of the Elks | lodge in making the distribution. Benefit Show Monday Just a nickel to get an inside peek at the worksholp of old Santa Claus—that is the opportunity to be given elementary school childiren Monday afternoon when I. A. and Roy Kalvcr of the Adams i theater present “A Trip to the North Pole and a Visit at the Work-1 shop of Santa." | The show is sponsored by the ; theater owners and all funds are to be turned over to the Good Fellows Club. The theater employes have I donated their services. The show starts at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon and grade school I children will be dismissed in time to attend. In addition to the Santa pictures, Mickey Mounse and Silly ' Symphony shorts will be shown, i

DALHOVER WILL ! LEARN DATE OF HIS EXECUTION Last Os Brady Gangsters Scheduled For Sentencing Today Hammond, Ind., Dec. 18.— <U.R) Little James Dalhover, who prob-! ably thinks now that pushing a 1 plow On the family farm near Madison. Ind., was a lot healthier than pulling the trigger on a i “tommy gun.” will learn today when he will die for the murder of Slate Policeman Paul V. Mlnneman. The 31-year-old gatsgnre shrdlu The 31-year-old gangster will be brought here from South Bend under heavy guard to hear Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick formally i pronounce sentence as decreed by a federal jury at his trial Dec. 9. Sentence was to have been proI nounced last Monday but attorneys for Dalhover, Tim Galvin and C. B. Tinkham. district attorney James Fleming and Judge Slick , postponed it until today in order ]to confer on the procedure to be followed. Galvin and Tinkham also said I they desired more time in which | to study the case, indicating they I may tile an appeal. Under the law, the defense has i five days after sentence is formally pronounced in which to file an I appeal. When Dalhover walks the “last 1 mile" to the electric chair in the , ! state prison at Michigan City there will be only one member of the notorious Al Brady gang still alive —Charles Geisjing who is safely behind the bars of the Ohio state penitentiary. Brady was shot down by federal agents outside a hardware store in Bangor. Me., last October as was Clarence Lee Shaftti. Dal (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Blackford Jury Finds For Adams County Man A jury in the Blackford circuit court at Hartford City has awarded j a judgment of $7,300 against Rich■ard Fennig, Jay county in an action I I brought by Dore Anspaugh, Adams ! county fanner. The judgment was awarded on a i damage euit brought as result of injuries sustained in a 1935 auto accident. Ice And Sleet Stop Court House Clock Ice and sleet Friday afternoon] | stopped the court house clock. I I Clarence Beavers, who is in charge 1 of the maintenance of the dock, i stated today that the ice on the | hands makes them too heavy to jbe pulled by the clock works. It : will be placed back in operation ] as soon os the ice melts. o Master Mix Train Leaves City Today i One of the first complete trains I of Master Mix feeds to be sent from (Decautr left McMillen Feel Mills ■eatlly this afternoon. The shipment, which went over the Pennsylvania i consisted of 56 cars, each loaded I with Master Mix feeds. The train was consigned to dealers in eastern Ohio. The shipment will remain in Fort Wayne yards overnight and | will proceed to its destination to- ! morrow. TRIAL OPENED I IN CITY COURT Benjamin Voo r d Is Charged With Malicious Trespassing — The trial of Benjamin Voord, Belgian, living west of Decatur, who is charged with malicious trespassing, was opened this morning in city court. Special Judge Nathan C. Nelson Is hearing the case. Voord allegedly cut the fences on two properties in Preble township to erect ingenious snares for catching rabbits. William C. Werling, owner of lone of the farms, testified that his fance had been cut in 34 places. Louis Reinking is the other complaining witness. It is charged that the fences i were cut and a loop made of wire, which would choke the rabbit, tightening with its struggles. | Prosecutor Arthur E. Voglewede is carrying the prosecution, while j Hubert M. McClenehan is defense I counsel.

Wages-Hours Bill i Apparently Lost At This Session

DAMAGE SUIT VENUED HERE $3,000 Suit For Damages Sent Here From Allen County A suit to collect $3,000 in damages brought by Sophia Dlefenbach against Garfield H Eshelmau as : Warner College of Beauty culture, I Jean Ferrell. Inc., has been venued ‘to the Adams circuit court from ' Allen county. The plaintiff alleges that on ' "November 7, 1936. the defendants invited her to come to their place lof business at 204’-j W. Jefferson ! street for a public demonstration ! of the use and benefit of cosmetics sold and used by them." The complaint continued: "The ! defendants placed the plaintiff in a chair and applied to her face 1 certain treatments and certain cos- ' met les and chemicals used and I sold and manufactured by the deI fendant, Jean Ferrell. Inc. “The plaintiff further says that iat the time the cosmetics were placed on her face she was in good . and perfect health. That the chemicals and cosmetics administered to the plaintiff were of a highly i dangerous, inflammatory and poisonous nature. That the chemicals and cosmetics so placed on the plaintiff's face by the defendants caused her face to burn and smart and her eyes to twitch and her nerves to become Irritated. That a few hours after the defendants placed the cosmetics and chemicals on plaintiff's face, her eyes were swollen shut and remained |so for several days. That her face , burned and her nerves were irritated and the skin on her face | I peeled off a few weeks after ! "That the chemicals and cos-1 i metics seriously affected the I nerves in plaintiff's face and the I ! pupils in her eyes and so injured (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) i— WARNING GIVEN BY FIRE CHIEF Chief Robenold Warns Os Fire Danger At Christmas Time "Beware of a red Christmas.' was the warning of Fire Chief Charles Robenold today as he issued a list of Instructions in reducing fire haards during the holfilay season. He urged the use of good wiring sets in Christmas tree lights and i decorations and the replacing of a burnt fuse with a good one and , not with a penny, in event the wiring is short-circuited. He stated i that there was considerable dang : er in overloading wires by plugg- ! ing fn a number of bulbs and appliances. Other things he warned against include: Children’s electric toys that are , likely to overheat if not carefully | watched, including toy irons, stoves, I curling Irons, etc Open fires, hear which the chili dren hang their stockings, fireI places, grates that are not guard--1 ed by a screen thlit will confine embers to the hearth. The keeping ot a fir tree after | January 1. when It becomes thor- ;' oughly dried and easily ignited. The careless use of candles on 1 trees and windows. I “The fire department will be on I the job if needed, but we would . prefer to say a Merry Christmas . and a safe holiday season to * everyone—and let it go at that, • Chief Robenold stated. — O' 11 " i ♦ Buys Health Bond Tito Business and Professional Women's club has voted to buy f a $5 health ’ Christmas Seals! ’ y tuberculosis is association, j : y W.Guy Brown, ' president, announced toI 1937 f I’ffiy day. Proceeds , Q f f g S al t > R > Buy and Us* Th«m aid victims of ? the disease and to give milk to undernourished children ot Decatur.

Price Two Cents.

Senate Passes Farm Bill In Wild Session; House Recommits Labor Bill To Committee. HOUSE REVOLTS Washington. Dec. 18.’—<(U.R>—The new deal's attempt to enact a minimum wage and maximum hour law was virtually killed in the house today by a powerful congressional rebellion that failed to defeat the administration farm bill in the senate. The two paramount items on President Ibwsevelt's program for the extraordinary session, affecting almost every American directly or indirectly, ran into vigorous opposition at the hour of thler scheduled approval. Amid scenes of wild disorder, the house revolted last night and sent the wages and hours bill back to the lalitr committee for revision or possible burial. The vote was 216 to 198. The senate, however, passed an unlimited-cost crop control measure based on restriction ot acreage after the leadership had defeated a coalition proposal to substitute a domestic allotment plan by the narr .w margin of six votes. By a vote of 59 to 29 the way was clear- . ed for joint house and senate con- ■ ferences to reconcile the differences h) the farm measures of the two chambers, and for final passage. Congressional leaders debated whether the controversial 40-hour week and 40 cents an hour measure will tie in committee. Many veterans said privately that they did net believe the bill could be revived in its present form and possibly not In any form at the 75th congress. House leaders had , pleaded frantically that a vote to I recommit meant a vote to defeat the legislation. The significance of the rebellion I was illustrated by the fact that the labor standards bill and the supreme court reorganization) plan have been the only major new deal measures ever recommitted to committee. On the recommittal vote 133 Democrats voted with 83 Republicans to send the measure back to committee. Against recommittal were 179 Democrats, the majority parly having been deserted on the issue by southerners, six Republicans, eight Progressives, and five Farmer-Laborites. Despite the general feelhig that the administration's figfit to* law to regulate hours and wages in industry had been lost, chairman Hary T. Norton, D.. N. J., of the labor committee, shouted a challenge at the victorious insurgents: “This Is the beginning ot a great fight for this legislation.” Action on both bills was packed with the possibility *f tremendous political and economic repercussions. Both represented Democratic platform pledges as interpreted by the administration. Both were fought by a colltion of Republicans and Democrats, with southern majority party members taking the lead against the labor measure in the house. 11 .th measures were designed to affect vitally the daily activities of millions of farmers and laborers and indirectly the entire national economy. The American h ede: - ation of Labor bitterly fought the wages-hours bill provision tor ati NRA — type administrator, while the rival John L. Lewis CIO supported it. House leaders declined c-Tnment on the immediate future of the labor bill"A motion to recommit is the defeat of the wage-hour bill," Majority leader Sam Rayburn. D., Tex., shouted as the members lined up i to vote. , "The rank-and-file of the work- ■ ing people of America are with the Democratic party in d'Jng something about carrying out their platform pledge," Rep. John J. O’Con- , nor, D„ N. Y„ warned hi a last frenzied burst of oratory. , "This is a deliberate stab at the bill. Don’t think that you can alibi that with the voters. The ( people want a step forward. The , method is unimportant. This Is our opportunity.” Rep. FretF A. Hartley, Jr., R , N. J., moved the send the bill back to committee instead of complet- ’ ing passage of the measure — already passed in different form by j the senate—and the members Un- , ed up just before 9 p. m. to file f past the tellers. The announcement of the final (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)