Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 307, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1937 — Page 1

Vol-XXW. No. 307.

JITTTO JOIN OBSERVANCE OF NEW YEAR'S RAY jusineb Generally Will Be Suspended Here I Sat u rd ay I!ie exil 'if Old Man 1937 and the api'earance <>t tinL born i if'"*'- iK "' -i"'I 40IJ)! linn lb 'I in Various jw residoii's "f Dmrir and Fr'day night at mid-~-ht p r l»rte parties. including I JK- and “pajama" part ies 111 "I 1 " , " st mtmoro’.i ; a'r« at Xlebrat ing the a !•. < nt ~1 ' Beir year in many local Hoim-s. OttefD P" !| a, "‘ n(l dain-H at , it clubs and dame lialls to parriP»t9®f ||,L : "" r: v ma | ' i "v Ihl, i 'rhe only official celebration in ' be tb" dance al the I bo >, w New Year's Eve. f,.,-l the the Mils and whistles. An added touch wi’l also be lent of the h the Reformed church ~? d r*v4 special New Vi.r’s orU racial program. Soilness Again Suspended in the city will again be [ ma st<®i|tirely suspended tor tin 1 week. UM «i usiness hous-s. « :'h of ' ami a few o'ln is. . entMday. Since ?|ew Year's Hay falls on beer .S i';, Emm, . <-it ■ flMfcl or -by mail del;', ■ti' iMbi’ i' -b.m II"' al the exception at s'p j To Publish -m N-w leaf's Hay. B ;1 wBB custom. attractions 'tot'd t'.’y att'.o'mfejjf j. BHh-w \.:l'S ■ Swßth'rs tire expel led • Bdvaatfe' of the two-day holiday 'Brtfittl ■■ trit’s to various other communities. There is excourse, to be th, New Year's 1 ,ca! an early date. .■ w- — —

Church Bans Special Service SVMBI church services are to be Zion Lutheran church Rster Eve and New Year's ‘ service arranged for the ing of the old year will beo’clock with a sermon by r. On New Year’s morning, will be conducted in the language at 8:30 a. m. and nglish language beginning o’clock. The yearly meete voters assembly will bo nary 9 in the afternoon. H ° — MAL LIGHTS KING CHANGE!! > News Flasher Signals Are Bang Placed On WinI Chester Street MB flasher signals ar' being Places at the Winchester street nossijg of the Erie railroad, presratsF to the removal of the old wies. signals are being built “ntMslde of the street, awry from and will not be situated #n W 1 street right-of-way. type signals, which arc -sw )i lee, stand directly in the Kl »®of the street crossing. that severa’ weeks before the old ones are T. since the new ‘lashers flashers are also so* in the * nt *g[°f the street at the Mercer crossing of the Erie. Severa! BUits are Pending in circuit Ms result of the cars, striking "Wment foundation of the flasher.'W are being replaced railroad company.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Public Library To ('lose New Year’s | The Decatur public Wary will • lost, Friday evening at 6 o’clock and remain closed until Monday 'mon. Miss Ruth Wlnnes, librarian i announced today. MONOPOLY CURB FIGHT IS KEPT UP BY LEADERS Monopolistic Business Is Kept Under Continued Fire Washington, Dec. 30. — <U.R> — i Monopolistic business is under new deal tire today preliminary to a 1938 drive for greater government restraint on large concentrations of industrial-financial power. Political and economic sparks are flying as assistant Attorney General Robert H- Jackson expands President Roosevelt’s last fireside chat denunciation of “private monopolies and financial oligarchies." This strategy may rally some deserting new deal troops to Mr. Roosevelt's standard and. more de- 1 batable, make Jackson a political 1 figure of presidential proportions by 1940. Many liberal or progres- 1 sives scattered with conservatives and administration ranks were, broken durin gthis year's judiciary 1 reorganization conflict. Notable deserted'was Sen. c. O’Mahoney, I I)., Wyo., whose bill to curb monopoly by requiring federal license of interstate corporations now is reported to have Mr. Roosevelt’s favor. The 1938 anti-monopoly platform is one on which might be reformed some of the progressive leadership which bolted the president in 1937. How fast Mr. Roosevelt will move is not yet evident. His special session plans failed when congress turned up on adjournment day with nothing completed. Early new deal strategy was to feed con(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) BONDS SOLD AT ; LOW INTEREST Bonds For New School Building Are Sold At Low Rate The $140,000 bonds to be issued January 4 to take care of the city's ‘ share of the cost of the new jun- ’ lor-senior high school will bear one ’ of the lowest interest rates ever ■ set in Indiana for public loans. 1 Representatives of investment ’ houses who attended the sale ' termed it the "best” ever held in

| Decatur. Both the civil and the school city bonds will bear 2% peri cent interest plus small cash premiums. The City Securities Corp., of Indianapolis. in conjunction with the First State Bank, of Decatur, bought the civil city’s $50,000 share with a bid of 2% percent interest and a premium of $2lB. Other bids were: Central Securities Corp.. Fort Wayne, 2% percent interest and S6O premium; Ross P. Everett, Inc., Indianapolis. 3 percent interest and S3OO premium' Harris Trust and Savings Bank. Chicago, 3% percent interest and $467 premium; Bartlett, Knight & Co., Chicago, 3 percent interest and $438.95 premium; Indianapolis Bond & Share Company. 3 percent interest, and $844 premturn- McNurleen & Huncelman, Indianapolis. 3 percent interest and S3OO premium. _ „ The Central Securities Coip. of Fort Wayne, purchased Hie school I city's $90,000 issue with a bid , 2% percent interest and SBO premium Other bids were: City Seem ities Corp., in conjunction with First State Bank, 3 percent interKS S Johnson. J'-i percent, ♦ . i Harris Trust and Savpremium, Hams Ings Bank, 3’4 percent. sl.o4l V>* mium; John Nuveen & Co t ' int est 3H percent, premium slOl.Ol, BartMt, Knight nercent, premium. $394.11, l ’polls Bond & Share com P a " y ’ tore st 3 percent, premium, $1,152, , Si » X* ’ 314 percent, premium. $1.14,.00. 1 LaGrange Man Is ; Killed In Accident 1 Paul Engle, riding with him, | uninjured.

British Mass Defense Forces at Hong Kong I. y ti — ■' n.’.infe : ,>«SB i : ‘*** Site %I ■: ' rw MF±] View of Hong Kong harbor

Capture of Nanking and the advance of Japanese troops on sections of Central China have resulted in massing of British defense forces at Hong Kong, strategic port in Soutli China where Great Britain

ESCAPE INJURY IN AUIO WRECK Three Escape Serious Injury As Truck, Auto Collide Two persons were injured, neither seriously, at noon today when a truck driven by Owen Davisson, of South Bend and a car driven by Charles Miller, of west of the city, figured in a collision. The accident occurred west of the city, Immediately east of the Erie railroad crossing. Mr. Miller pulled out onto the highway from the north. After striking the lighter car, the truck, owned by the Swanson Service company, South Bond, and loaded with batteries, careened down the road for about 150 feet, climbed part way up the railroad bank and struck a telephone pole. Mrs. Miller, 76. was injured about the legs and suffered from shock. After treatment by a local physician she was removed to her home. Mr. Miller sustained an injured chest that did not require medical attention. The truck driver was brought to a local physician’s office. He sustained a head laceration and a badly sprained right wrist, with a possible bone dislocation. Both the truck and the auto were badly damaged. Sheriff Dallas Brown was called and investigated the crash. o — Root Township Man Is Named To Jury The name of Laurence Heckman, of R6ot township, was drawn today by the Adams county board of jury commissioners to fill the vacancy created by the excusing of Reuben GCrber. The board composed of Forrest Elzey, Henry Gallemeyer and G. Remy Bierly, county clerk, will meet again next week to fill the box from which jury panels will be drawn next year.

LOCAL COMPANY WILL BE SOLD Staley Dairy Products Company To Change Hands Soon A deal was being consummated today. whereby Noah Rich. Berne department store owner and Roy Price formerly of the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., here, will become the owners of the Staley Dairy Products company, owned by James K. Staley. , Mr. Staley stated today t iat the deal would not be completed until the first of next week. Mr Staley first organized the: biwiness here several years ago, manufacturing butter and ice-cream. Os the new owners, Mr. Rich, has been connected with the Rich and Stucky department store of Berne since 1935. Mr. Price was formerly cow tester for this region. Mr Staley stated this morning that he had not deftpita'y decided upon his Plans for the future, but that he expects to remain with the . new firm for several months.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 30, 1937.

a* Former Bluffton Man Gary City Attorney Gary. Ind., Dec. 30.--XU.R> Two Gary members of the state legislature will assume new potlitical posts on Jan. 1 in compensation for sponsoring the city's legislative program ill the last general assembly. Sen. Fred F. Eichhorn, formerly of Bluffton, will become city attorney and Rep. John E. Roszkowski will take over the post of deputy Lake county treasurer in charge of the Gary office. Eichhorn succeeds Harry Long, who will controller. Ray Madden, present controller, will become county treasurer. DEATH CLAIMS p r muNSfiN HI Utt jviinww” Richard .Johnson Dies Wednesday Night After Long Illness Richard Burton Johnson. 66. one of the most prominent Adams county farmers, died Wednesday night at 10:30 o'clock of complications at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient for about two weeks. He had been in poor health for the last two years. Mr. Johnson was born near Edgerton, Ohio. January 26, 1871. the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward II Johnson. His family moved to this county while he was still in the grade schools and he had lived here since. For a time he was a resident of Decatur. For the last 37 years he had resided on a farm one mile south of Decatur on I . S. highway 27. He was a member of the Evangelical church in Decatur. He was married to Viola Meriss in 1894. who preceded him in death. June 23, 1921. Mr. Johnson was then married to Mrs. Mary Koenig. November 24, 1936. She survives, j Also surviving are the following: children: Ellery, of Van Wert, 1 Ohio: Ben. of Fort Wayne; Mrs.: Rose Cryder, of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Robert Patterson, of Van Wert; Forrest, of Grand Rapids. Michigan; John, of Muncie; Mrs. Kenneth Props, of Rensselaer; Richard, of Edmore, Michigan; six step children; nine grandchildren, and one brother. A sister preceded him in death. ■ Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home and at 2 o’clock in j the Evangelical church in Decatur. , Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. The Rev. George S. Lozier, pastor of the Evangelical church, will officiate. -1 The body was returned from the S. E. Black funeral home this afternoon and may be viewed from 1 7 o'clock this evening until the time of the funeral. _ o TEMPERATURE READINGS • DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER ; 8:00 a. m 34 ; 10:00 a. in 36 Noon 36 ,1 2:00 p. m 36 1 3:00 p. m -35 1 WEATHER Unsettled tonight and Friday, I slightly warmer Friday and 1 extreme southwest tonight.

is heavily interested. This view of the city shows the harbor and. in the distance, the city of Kowloon on the peninsula which forms one arm of the shipping center.

PAINTERS WORK ON JURY ROOMS Circuit Court Jury Rooms Here Are Being Re-l’ainted A crew of painters is busily engaged in transforming the jury rooms of the Adams circuit court from dingy, inconvenient quarters into bright and colorful rooms. Remodeling of the rooms was done some time ago. when an extra rest room and lavatory for the ladies was constructed and the rear | entrance to the jury rooms blocked off. The jury rooms for men, for women, the two lavatory rooms and the stock rooms are all being painted Allspaw painters of Berne, were awarded the contract tor the work. The work of painting was started yesterday, and it is hoped that all work will be completed in time to accomodate a jury by Monday of next weekWork of cleaning is also being done by WPA labor hi the county clerk's office on the first floor of the courthouse. Walls and ceiling are being cleaned. Books and shelves had been previously clean-1 ed by the WPA workers. o Youth Is Drowned At Michigan City Michigan City, Ind.. Dec. 30 —• (UP) —Despite the efforts of coast guardsmen, six of whom were plunged into icy waters, Harold Kaeding, 18, was drowned late yes--1 terday when he broke through thin ice of Yacht Harbor on which he was skating. The six guardsmen who fell into the water attempting to rescue Kaedings' were saved by comrades. Kaeding’s "body was recovered 20 minutes later by coast guards-, men using grappling hooks. o TRUCK, AUTO COLLIDE HERE Both Badly Damaged In Collision Wednesday Evening A truck and an auto were badly damaged last evening at 5:10 o'clock when they collided at the in- 1 tersection of Monroe and Twelfth streets. The truck, driven by Fred Staub of the Decatur Laundry and the car, driven by John Miller, of route , four, crashed when M. Miller at- i temped to make a left turn off Mon- j roe onto Twelfth. Miller told Policeman Ed Miller who investigated, that he was blinded by the street lights. Both the ! ti uck and the car were badly damaged but neither driver was hurt., A lamp post at the corner of Rugg and Mercer streets was bowled over when it was struck by a car driven by 11. E. Steinman of Monroeville. Officers Adrian Coffee and Rov 1 Chilcote investigated. Officers Chilcote and Coffee were I also called to the Homesteads early this morning when a resident there reported a car on the road, with a | spotlight focused on the house.

Contracts For High School IBuilding Awarded By Board; To Start Work Immediately

PARIS GENERAL STRIKE ENDED Paralyzing Strike Os French Workers Is Ended Suddenly

Paris. Dec. 30—4U.R) -A paralyzing strike of municipal workers, which stopped subway and bus serI vice and threatened water, gas and electricity supply, ended today as suddenly as it began. Confronted with a threat by the | popular front government to break i the strike with the aid cf army i engineers, the strikers decided i early today to return to work. At 4:30 a. m.. after a conference with strike leaders. Minister of Interior Marx Dormoy announced that work should be resumed today. Truck drivers remained on strike as they had been since last week. Yesterday. Parisians left their homes for work to find that there were no subway trains and no buses. The strike had been called only at midnight and they had no warning This morning the city's workers left home early, girded for the walk to their jobs to find that I everything was normal. The result was that scores of thousands 'of people arrived at their jobs an ; hour or more early, and cases pro--1 filed heavily in serving breakfast. Subways started morning service I at 5:45 a. in., only 15 minutes late, and Ims service began l'-> hours behind schedule. Street sweepers, who were included among the strikers, arrived | in the Ain boulevards at 7 a. m . , instead of at 5. and began to re(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

REMODELING OF THEATER DONE Formal Opening Os Remodeled Adams Theater In Near Future Remode'ing and enlarging of the Adams theater was completed this morning, with only the cleaning and clearing away of the boards and loose materials yet to be done. Remodeling of the theater was started several months ago. The theater capacity was increased 200 seats, maing a total capacity of 850. The building was lengthened and the cooling equipment moved to the roof to increase the seating facilities. Dressing rooms have been set on the second floor of each wing, with footlights and floodlights for stage presentations. The stage which was made larger has been completed, custains hung and a new screen bui't. The walls and ceiling are of acoustic board. Formal opening of the newly remodeled and redecorated theater will be held in the near future. I. A. Kalver and son, Roy Kalver, are managers and owners of the theater. o Two Escaped Convicts Captured At Franklin Franklin, Ind., Dec. 30. — (U.R) — Two escaped inmates of the Missouri state reformatory were held here today, awaiting arrival of Missouri officers to return them to the institution. The youths, Richard Wells, 20, Anadarko, Okla., and James Collman, 20. Detroit, told officers they had stolen three automobiles on their flight from the reformatory. One was suffering from shotgun wounds which he said were received in an attempted robbery of a Kentucky filling station.

Number Os Unemployed Families To Be Found Indianapolis, Dec. 30. — ifIJ.PJ John K. Jennings, state WPA administrator, said today that he had received instructions from Washington to determine immediately how many families in Indiana are unemployed, in neef! of relief and eligible for WPA employment. Results of this survey are to be reported to Washington not later than January 8. Jennings also said he was instructed to compile weekly reports on the number of relief cases of state and local agencies and the weekly total of applications for relief.

JAPANESE OPEN AERIAL ATTACK AGAINST CANTON Launch Vicious Attack; Chinese Merchant Assassinated ' Shanghai, Dec. 30—(UP)—Japanese opened a terrific aerial attack on Canton today while Chinese con- ; ' tinned sabotage in Tsingtao and assassins bullets killed Loh Peh1 Hong, wealthy pro-Japanese merchant of Shanghai. ‘ The air raid on Canton was the 1 most severe in many months and 1 [apparently was aimed at the Chin- ' eee arsenal, possibly foreshadowing 1 ' the long anticipated offensive 1 against the southern seaport, with its adjacent vast foreign interests. ’ Foreigners expressed grave pertur- * bation over developments. > Eight Japanese war planes parI ticipated in the raid. Fo r 45 mhiutes > they dropped tons of explosives on suburban districts of the city, it i was the most severe air assault • since September 8 but Chinese l sources claimed that the damage

was slight. The assassination of Loh, Chinese leader who had been mentioned for the poet of mayor and presumably was acceptable to the Japanese, caused a sensation. la>h controlled tremendous interests and vast wealth. He was general manager of the Chinese electric power company and director of many big corporations. He was killed as he waited for his limousine outside his home in I the Frenh concession. The assassins disguised themselves as orange peddlers. Two series of terrific explosions left Tsingtao in terror as Chinese continued their destruction of utilities in the face of Japnanese drive I from the Interior. Moyles Shown New York, Dec. 20 —(UP) —The findings of the U. S. naval board of inquiry which investigated the bombing of the gunboat Panay were borne out today by films taken during the raid by Norman Alley, Universal newsreel cameraman. A preview of the film shown that the American flag on the Panay should have been visible to the Japanese plants that bombed it. In one part of the tilt the diving planes and the American flag at the stern post are shown in the same picture. Alley did not film the alleged machine-gunning of the Panay before it was boarded by Japanese. He explained he had to hide his camera. However, he 'photographed numerous machine gun bullet holes In the side of the ship. The film shows American sailors trotting to their posts and training machine guns on the planes, the abandoning of the Panay, the death (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O —- Beekeepers To Meet At Berne Beekeepers of Adams county will meet in Berne on January 20, It has been announced. The meeting will be in charge of James E. Starkey, chief apiary nispector of the state. ■ o CATHOLIC MEET HERE JAN. 11 National Council Os Catholic Women To Meet In Decatur Approximately 100 women from 'parishes in the Fort Wayne deanery are expected to attend the meeting of the national council of Catholic women, Which will be held here Tuesday. January 11. Nine parishes in the deanery will ibe represented at the meeting, which will open at 8 o'clock in the evening. The deanery president, Mrs. John H. Brooks, of Fort Wayne, will preside over the session, while Miss Mary Laughlin, also of Fort Wayne wi'l act as chairman of tbe program. “Study Clubs” will be the chief topic. Mrs. Hugh Daniels, of Decatur, is the president of the local organization. A similar deanery meeting was held here last year and was pronounced a marked success. Full details on the meeting will be announced later, Mrs. Daniels stated.

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Low Bids For Proposed Construction Are All Under Amount Os Funds Available. BIDS TABULATED Formal award of contracts for I the construction of the modern i new Junior-senior high school I building, heating and ventilating, I plumbing ami electrical work was I made this afternoon by the DecaI tur school board and the PWA. The general contract was awarded to Schinnerer and Truemper of Fort Wayne, $157,975. The Tibblts Plumbing & Heating Company of Union City was awarded the contract for heating, plumbing and ventilating. $47,500. The Dix-Kelly Electric Co.. Fort Wayne, received the contract for I electric work, $11,015.87. The aggregate low bids totaled $216,490.87, leaving a sufficient reserve for contingencies, architect’s and engineer’s and legal fees. There may bp a sufficient balance for equiping the building . out of available school funds, which Include the $50,000 donated by the city of Decatur. The PWA grant was based on a total of $244,045. The government participates in 45 percent of the total I construction cost, plus preliminary : expenses and other expenditures necessary. It does not participate in the equipment, The low blds for the general construction of the building, heating and ventilating, plumbing and | electrical work are under the amount of available funds, assurI ing the award of contracts and construction of the building as 1 originally planned by Architect A. M. Strauss of Fort Wayne. R. J. Buck, examining engineer from the Chicago office of PWA. attended the letting this morning j and has authority to approve contracts and make immediate awards. ! Schinnerer and Truemper, conl tractors of Fort Wayne, were the ' low bidders on the building. Their ; bid wins $157,975.00. which Inc luuvU all the alternates. There were 12 alternates, the major ones being the elimination of two rooms each ion the west and east wings of the building, known as music and study rooms. In view of the low bids it will be possible to maintain these rooms and all other alternates in the original plan. The building will be 288 feet 6 i inches, running east and west, faci ing Jefferson street and 132 feet 6 inches north and south. The next lowest bid received on ! the general construction of the ' building was from C. A. Moses Construction Co., Chicago. Their bid was $171,830. Yost Bros., of this city, bid $177,623.96, it being sixth I lowest in a total of 11. Separate bids were received on heating and ventilating Separate bids were also received on plumbing and combined bids were submitted on heating, ventilating and plumbing. The electrical work, which also included a loud speaking system in the building, was on separate bld. The Tibbets Plumbing & Heating Co., Union City. Ind . were low bidders on a combination bid of $47,500 for heating, ventilating and plumbing. The company was also low on heating and ventilating, as one bid, their proposal being $33,500. Their bid for plumbing alone was $15,900. The bid of A. Hattersly & Son. Fort Wayne, for plumbing alone was lower than the Tilibets’ proposal, the former submitting a price of $14,210. The bid of A. Hattersly & Son for heating and ventilating was $39,155. The company did not submit a combined bld for heating, ventilating and plumbing, leaving it low only on plumbing. The low bid for electrical work was submitted by the McKay Electric Co., Fort Wayne. It was SIO,IOO. Through an oversight the (CONTLNIT'TD ON PAGE THREE) O'. —.

Buys Health Bond The Delta Theta Tau sorority of this city has voted purchase of a $5 health Christmas Seals! b ” nd froD * the Adams CounGREWLN GSs ty tuberculosjv, > is association, U > W.Guy Brown, t president, an- ■ nounced toI 1937 J fffllV |i day. Proceeds O s JJ] e g a l eS Buy and Use Them aid victims of the disease and to give milk to undernourished children of Decatur.