Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 12 January 1938 — Page 1

No. Ten.

Os Nation’s ißusiness Heads .To Meet F. D. R.

iAecutixe'. T<> IV. ith R * '<■!’ HR Cooperation T<>I » Belt* r r.u-ii'.e— J MEET .I AX. 19 ES ■ ■ »■. . ■ " ■ r ■ Jar. 'l>' 'iss ar’ t••I. ■•" <1 fi »r... ■ < uav.-rlimelit co V,.|r •>>’ E|L.. : Alfred I’ time NR \ I' ; "te ipated in the "Wflrt liirr ■ ss men invited to the represented virH_|>. . litre p.-rsonm lof the a.p advises Ka,;*. i: y at . oinmerc ■on EmK. between business and disclosed that the presiferttlteiHlal 'll” invitations as as Dec. ; that when he attendof ll, e busi-BjSHvi.-rry council at Chicago carried with him the Kgfekt's "suggestion" that the confer with him at the next regular Jan ■■.' Roosevelt surprised yesterday with a sudwith Alfred P lair General Motors Ernest T. Weir, chairJL#.#!'>' •! corporation. W'W. i'll: ■ ’. I ”Sid' .! of the Mrißhauia railroad. Lewis Hpro and ( ■ Ihy M. Chester. General Foods cor was their spokesman. ■9 J s.,w a ao-ater degree of .ding and cooperation bet>ii<::.- - and government. <1 Wi.-r told iptestloners was public however, for details of ■saufei-eiK-e as Well as for identl.” B t W*‘ rs r 'K ii! d”d by Mi. RooseWtjtn !'■'poi -ibl -for evils and has pledged the new eradicate Mr. Roosevelt it silly for questioners w th< identity of those recallei-::.. - imd-'S’,rai>le O’n'tei OV.-1 finance and H' '■ I’ --s was informed few* - '" 1 "” 1 authority that the MS - •• had made start toward working out between business and ” mpls to reach ■S^^Bfhstat.t i.C.iy i<l-• 111 i < •;» 1 objeca... t-ank discussion ■BUB hottf and a half in which IH ''’"‘t-'s ii ■ b-lieved to ■■^B’ rix ''K[> 't.v PAGE FIVE) WISE SUIT IIRIAL DELAYED Discharged And Jay j Bunty Damage Suit I 1 Continued nearly an hour of argujury j n th e Adams circuit ‘ ls discharged today and the SU " VPn,led here from Jav backST'*' Wae brot >sht by Rolland Ror » r eki " g *2.500 damages Wand co!lision with Wilmer tro ßs ■ ( .1 00 , d , 1 ’ 9eeklng $1 rft on a Bh&t o ' e . stated to the court |L> n W . of witlles s*». who had 1 09 Poenaed is now engaged F orl ß'‘ l ynp " ly n fP<Jeral court in lie?!'’)'’ 1 e v last JI "Y ‘rial schedfedtsa, elm ovembe F ter in of the '' ourt ' whieb pnd * Li .'° On No other mat■efetZb, h g Ury ,ria ' s had 'been |eS<th o r CaU9e k had bren exfequip th» Jay county case would B I® lt- rerna iu<ier of the week, " ,entB for holding the attx>rne ys for the l’« « 'eadv h ' ned that thp ease pitnes ’ bee n set for trial six I

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SCOUTERS MEET ; TUESDAY NIGHT — Plans Made For New Boy Scout Y ear At Geneva Meeting Plans were laid for the beginning of the new Boy Scout year in Adams county at the regula- monthly meeting of Scouters, held in the Equity Union store at Geneva Tuesday night. Attending the meeting wefe members of the Adams county district Boy Scout committee, troop committees, Scout-masters and assistant Scoutmasters. Al! of the troops which number three at Decatur, two at Berne and one at Geneva, were represented. Plans were made for the Adams county first aid elimination contest, to be held in the Berne gym. February 22, at 7:30 p. m. The winner of this contest will enter in the Anthony Wayne area council at Fort Wayne and compete w ith the winners of the other nine counties. Sylvester Everhart, of Decatur, is chairman of the Adams county contest. An announcement was made that the annual Anthony Wayne area council banquet wil be held in Fort Wayne, February 3. Preliminary arrangements were made for the annual Adams county Boy Scout banquet, to be held in Decatur. February 10. CharlesGruenert, Anthony Wayne area council field executive, was in charge of the meeting Tuesday night. Preceding the business ses sion. a lunch was served. ■ —o COURT TERM TO END SATURDAY Circuit Court To Have Three Weeks V acation Period The November tetm of the Adams circuit court will te con•luded here Saturday. For the first time in the memory | of local court executives a three weeks vacation period will seperate the November and February terms. The next term of court will open on Monday, February 7, juet three weeks after the close of the present term. Several cases are expected to be held over until the February term. Included in these is the rare trial of Beryl Harmon, of Geneva, which is expected to rival that of the recent rape trial concluded here. Each term is nine weeks in dur■atlon. The terms in the local cir[cuit court are set by statute, as follows: first Monday in February, second Monday in April, first Monday in September and third Monday in November. o Bluffton Lawyers In Auto Accident Four Bluffton attorneys, well known here, w’ere participants in a head-on collision on the north ena of the Main street bridge at Bluffton Monday night. One car, driven by John H. Edris carried as passengers, W'. H. Eiehorn, Joe Eichorn and Frank W. Gordon, a'l members of the firm of Eichorn, Gordon and Edris. It collided with a car driven by W. J. Dustman, of Villa North. Dustman received bruises about the face and chin and W. H. Eichorn sustained a bruise to one knee. Others were not injured. . ' o Assessor’s Office Is Being Cleaned WPA workers are engaged in cleaning the office of County Assessor Erneet Worthman, in the general cleaning being given the interior of the courthouse. Walls and ceilings of the office will be cleaned. TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m 34 10:00 a. m 33 Noon 30 2:00 p. m 28 | 3:00 p. tn 28 — WEATHER Cloudy to partly cloudy and colder tonight, snow flurries extreme North Portion: Generally fair Thursday

Pilot, Type of Plane and Map of Crash That Killed 10 ■ Lockheed Zephyr air liner] i ~ & TiiinwMiit —Wt M 1 i w > - i hi iSawLwsiBMMO I JR* p-....... p. anfLspokane CRASHED •< A <— r~- > **»/M O hr Lx • I /XHeitNAr J, tv //\ aJMI Ol «J j v' BUTTE T .’ ND - / I • [PLANE TEMPORARILY I / BILLINGS . WT f* GROUNDED HERE | / X N •BOISE Ko. / IDAHO. i ! , tl — (Map show* where crash occurred| - 1 Nick B. Mamer [

Crashing in flames atop the Continental Divide, near Bozeman. Mont., a new-type Lockheed Zephyr passenger plane was demolished and ten persons were killed. Including Pilot Nick B. Mamer. of I

LOCAL PERSONS BANDIT VICTIMS Mr. And Mrs. Willard Steele, Jacob Kiper Are Victims Two armed thugs entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Steele early last evening, robbed the couple, ransacked the house I and then tied them and their farm hand. Jacob Kipfer. before leaving. The thugs were admitted to the home, east of the city, by Kipfer I when they knocked at the front door about 6:30 last evening. After asking. “Where's Willard," the pair herded the three into the front room, where they searched them. After securing about sl7 the men had m their possession.' they proceeded to ransack the house. Leaving bank notes and bonds, they then bound Mrs. Steele to the bed and tied up Mr. Steele and i Mr. Kipfer, leaving them on the floor. Jerking the wires from the telephone. the men fled from the home. The local residents were unable to see the car the men usetT. Both men carried guns. One was described as 6 feet tall, weighting 190 pounds and dressed in a dark overcoat and dark felt hat. The other was described as five feet, 10 inches tall, wearing practically the same style clothing. Neither wore masks, but they were not recognized by the local persons. Mr. Steele was able to loosen the bonds of Kiper, who in turn freed Steele and his wife. They estimated that they were tied for half an hour. William Bell, state police commissioner, SherfiT Dallas Brown and City Policeman Ed P. Miller . made a search for the men but (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) LEG FRACTURED AS GAR SKIDS Mrs. Joe Lose Is Injured Tuesday Night When Auto Skids Mrs. Lillian Lose, wife of Joe Lose local restaurant proprietor, was severely hurt last night at about 12:30 o'clock in an auto accident on South Second street. Mrs. Tx>se sustained a fractured left leg, a deep laceration of the left leg and other body bruises and cuts. The accident occurred when Mrs. Lose was returning home from the Arthur Meyers residence on Mercer avenue. In making the diagonal jog from Mercer avenue to Second street at Five Points, the car she was driving, suddenly skidded on the elippery pavement and struck a tree on f the lawn of the 1 Yager residence near the curb. Mrs. Lose was assisted from the car by Officer Roy Chllcote and taken to the Adams county memorial hospita', where she was reported resting comfortably this morning. The car was badly damaged In the company of Mr. and Mrs. Meyers an dfamily her brother and sister-in-law, she had been to Fort Wayne. After taking the Meyers family home, she was returning to her own residence when the accident occurred.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, January 12, 1938.

Former Geneva Man Is Named Superintendent Word has been received here that R. C. Cooke, former Geneva resid- j ent, is now superintendent of “Le- , proßorunt." an institution for lepers at Molokai, territory of Hawaii. Ira D. Hirschy, formerly of Berne, is assistant superintendent of the institution. Mr. Cooke's appoint-1 nient was recently made. He be-1 came well known while serving as cameraman for the late Gene Strat-1 ton Porter. Limberlost novelist. FIRST TICKET SALE REPORTED Decatur Clothier Pur- • chases First Birthday Ball Ticket Cal E. Peterson, Decatur clothing store proprietor, purchased the first ticket for the Birthday Ball for the President, to be held at the Decatur Country Club. January 29. it was announced today by Don Wait and Dr. E. P. Fields, cochairman of the ticket committee. The ticket- committee also announced today that the price of the tickets for the affair this year will be $1 per couple, the same as last year. Bob Dykeman’s orchestra of Lima. Ohio, well known here, will furnish the music. Members of the Decatur and Geneva ticket committees were also announced today by the cochairmen of the affair. They are: Decatur committee: Guy Tester, Margaret Holthouse, Glen Dickerson. Dick Macklin, Frieda Scherer. Marcia Martin, Corolene Townsend, Bernadine Myers. Cecil Melchi, Pat Fullenkamp. Bud Townsend, Donna Rawley, Delores Leonard, Eloise Lewton, Naomi Borman, Miriam Gay. Harry Neal. Dr. Ben Duke, Paul Briede, HarryKnapp, Walter Gladfelter, William Lister. J. L. Ehler. Dolores Omlor. Dick Sheets. Donnabelle Fenimore, Gerald Strickler. Dan Holthouse, Phyllis Tooke, Bill Voglewede. Ray Keller. Ralph Gentis, and Fern Bierly. Geneva committee: Mrs. James Briggs, Mrs- William Widdows, Ernest Reicheldeffer and Kathryn Pyle. The tickets are being distributj ed to members of the committee i today and may be purchased from any of them. Proceeds of the affair are to be used for victims of infantile paralysis. I The Whole Family —enjoys reading the Decatur Daily Democrat o RENEW TODAY A YEAR by mail 9 * Within 100 Mile Radius.

Spokane, Wash. The type of airliner, a twinmotored Lockheed Zephyr, is pictured, with a map locating the scene of the crash and the pilot l of the plane.

150 WOMEN AT DEANERY MEET Catholic Women Os Deanery Hold Meeting Here Tuesday Night Approximately 150 Catholic woI men of Fort Wayne and Decatur ati tended the Fort Wayne deanery as- ! sociation meeting of the national council of Catholic women held at the local Knights of Columbus hall lost night. Nearly ha-’f a hundred women were present from the six parishes in Fort Wayne. The Rev. Father Joseph J. Seim- , etz, of the local church, delivered i the address of welcome, opened and closed the meeting. Special honors were given “The Belles of St. Marys' a playlet in honor of the 100th anniversary of the local St. Mary’s church, in which local young women took part. Mrs, John Broks, deanery president, commended the play and asked that it be presented at the final deanery meeting in Fort Wayne on May 10. Mrs. Broks and Mrs. Hugh Danin's, president of the local council, were in charge of the business session. Miss Mary Laughlin, oi Fort Wayne, who was to conduct the club, was unable to attend because of illness, and will vieit the local (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o 540 Lost Licenses For Drunken Driving A report received from the state department by Chief of Police Sephus Melchi, shows that 541 persons lost their driver's licenses in the state from October 1 to December 31 of 1937, for driving while intoxicated. Reckless driving was the cause ot 122 revocations, seven chauffeur’s licenses were suspended and two denied. o CLOSED BANK REPORT GIVEN Semi-Annual Report Os Peoples Loan & Trust Company Given The ninth current semi-annual report of the liquidation of the Peoples Loan & Trust company, shows that inventory assets as of December 31, 1937 amounted to $26,679.10. The report is: Inventory assets as of June 30, 1937: mortgage loans, $1,285.61; personal and collateral loans, $28,609.55; overdrafts, $56.55; due from i banks, $7,097.38, and total, $37,049.09. To this amount $630.01 was added'as follows during the six months period: interest received, $285.95 and miscellaneous receipts, $344.06. Credits were claimed for expenses and losses determined as follows: losses determined, SB,952 53; expenses of administration, $938.76; special representative salary allowance, $600; attorney fees allowed, $367.77, and total, $lO,859.06. Inventory assets as of December 31, 1937, were: mortgage loans, $700: personal and collateral loans, $16,862.79; overdrafts, $56.55; due from banks, $9,200.70 and total inventory, $26,820.04.

Find Wreckage Os Samoan Clipper In South Sea; |Fear Entire Crew Os Seven Perish

SUPREME COURT OUTLAWS STATE MARRIAGE MILLS State Supreme Court Upholds Validity Os 1852 Law Indianapolis, Jan. 12.— TU.PJ —Indiana's famed “Gretna Greens,” featuring a 24-hour service as a haven for out-of-state cottp'es seeking quick and easy marriage, were closed today by a ruling of the state supreme court. The high tribunal, in a sharply worded decision, upheld the constitutionality of a law passed in 1852, providing that marriage permits be issued only by the “clerk of the county where the female re-. ' sides." It was a death blow to the prosperous marriage mills of Crown i, Point. Valparaiso, Auburn, South Bend and other northern and eastern Indiana county seat towns < which have grossed thousands of ; dollars since neighboring states ■ passed more stringent marriage lawsThe ruling held That every county clerk who issued a marriage license to a non-resident woman violated a law which “still is in effect.” The court urged strict eni forcement of the law, which makes ’ th clerks liable for a judgment to. I be turned over to the state school I fund. Adherence to the statute. 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) — — AUCTION SCHOOL CLOSES FRIDAY t ' Graduation Exercises M ill Be Held Here Thursday Evening Forty-nine students of the Fred I Reppert school of auctioneering will receive diplomas Thursday evening in the graduating exercises of the 35th semi-annual class of the ’ school. The exercises will be held at 6 I o'clock Thursday evening at the local Knights of Pythias home on Third street. Col. Earl Gartin, of Greensburg, will be the principal speaker and deliver the graduation address. > Col. Fred Reppert. of this city, founder of the school, and head of ’ the faculty, will present the diPl-o- --" mas to the graduates. Col. Guy . 1 Pettit will act as toastmaster. ' True to custom, a banquet will be served prior to the exercises. The " faculty of the school has been enthusiastic in its commendations 1 of the class this year, stating that I ' 'much progress and ability has been I ! shown among the students. The last of the daily auction sales, which have been held since ! the first few days, will be held tonight in the Yager Bros, building on North Second street. I The school proper will close on Friday afternoon, with dismissal of students occurring shortly after noon. Pictures of the students and faculty have been taken and wil! ; be preserved along with those of previous graduating classes. o Norwegian Student i Champ Hog-Caller Pedestrians on Decatur streets f last evening wondered if some ami bitioue Adams county farmer had .moved his livestock into the Yager 1 building, but discovered to their amazement that the "Oco-ee’s"; were only those of Adolph Peterson, i Reppert auction school student. i Peterson, a native Norwegian ski-, jumper, added another prize to his list of laurels, when hb was ac-: c'aimed the best hog-coller enrolled , in the school. He was unanimously I - named to the honor by the crowd during the contest. o s Foot Caught In Saw, Badly Cut Irwin Martin, of Elm street, was 8 admitted to the hospital yesterday ■ after sustaining a painful injury when he caught his right foot in a p circle saw. ’• Martin was working on the Law- • rence Roop farm at the time of the i accident. He was brought to the •i Adams county memorial hospital. j The foot was badly cut.

CHINESE MASS MILLION M E N AGAINST JAPS Stake Everything On Stopping Japan North Os Nanking Shanghai, Jan. 12. —<U.P>—China's army leaders are staking everything they have on a defense of the Suchow area north of Nanking, according to information received today by foreign military experts. It was estimated here that 1,-j 000,000 Chinese soldiers had been j massed in the area to meet an at-1 tack by 500,000 Japanese moving! on the area in four separate columns. Foreign experts believed that if the Japanese smashed the Chinese army on that front reorgnization of the Chinese army would be impossible and that the Japnese would be able to free scores of thousands of men to clean up guerilla fighters, drive southward on the Peiping-Hankow railroad to , take Chengchow, and drive up the I Yangtse to Hankow. It was indicated that the Chinese had quietly massed nearly every unit they had in central China on a front that centers at Hsuchow. 380 miles northwest of Shanghai. Reports received here were that the Japanese had been taken by surprise and that their formidable armies had been stopped almost i cold for the present. Admittedly, however, the battle i was yet to come. All that foreign military men could see so far was that when the battle came it might be the decisive one of the enX:e war. They saw defeat for the ! Chinese as disaster. The situation was as follows: During all the dramatic fighting' 'at Shanghai the Japanese were j driving quietly down the railroads | I which extend southward from Peip-| ling to Hankow and from Tientsin) to Nanking. For the present the situation on! I the Peiping-Hankow ine was quiet.: But on the Tientsin-Nanking road' to the east, the Japanese are driv-l ing not only southward but north-j (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o CARDOZO CRITICAL Washington, Jan. 12. —(UP) A 'council of specialists, was called to confer at 3 p. m. today at the bedside of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo in critical condition with a heart ) ailment. Dr. J. P. Earnest, Jr., Cardozo's physician, said he would confer with three other physicians at Cardozo’s apartment to discuss the case. , The justice has been slowly sinking and his condition this morning was less favorable than yesterday when he failed to rally as had been hoped. BANKER SPEAKS TO LIONS CLUB Oscar Buesching Speaks To Lions Club Tuesday Oscar H. Buesching, vice-presid-ent of the Lincoln National bank ,i n Fort Wayne delivered an unusually interesting address last night before the members of the Decatur Lions club, in their weekly meetI ing at the Rice hotel. In his talk on "Counterfeit Cur-1 rency and Silver,” Mr. Buesching ' described the various methods in 1 which counterfeit money is made and distributed. He also listed various ways in I which counterfeit money could be ■ detected. Various parts of a genu-, ine piece of currency cannot be exactly duplicated, the speaker stated. The speaker stated that while ■ it seemed almost impossible, much of the counterfeit money in circulation today, came from prisons, where convicts manufacture it in their spare time. The sneaker stated that this w’ae possible because onl" a small handpress is needed to print the bills. The speaker also listed the various modern methods and means being used to detect counterfeiting and arrest the manufacturer.

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Wreckage Found By Mine Sweeper Only 14 Miles From Harbor ;No Trace Found Os Crew. FEAR ALL DEAD Washington, Jan. 12— <U.R) — J. P. Trippe, president of PanAmerican Airways, announced today that he was distressed to state that “on the basis of a radio message received from Samoa, it has been definitely established that Capt. Edwin C. Musick and six other members of his crew, met death Tuesday morning, at approximately 8:30 ! o'clock (Samoa time) when the Samoan Clipper was destroyed by fire of unknown origin.” Trippe announced that facts now available showed that the fire developed Incidental to the discharge of fuel necessary to trim the ship to proper landing weight, which he said “was in line with conservative and normal practice.” Paso Pago, American Samoa. Jan. 12 — (U.R) —The U. S. navy station here announced today that the wreckage of the Pin American Airways Samoan Clipper had been found by the ancient mine sweeper U. S. S. Avocet. 14 miles northwest of this South Seas island harbor and that there was no trace of the crew. It was feared the seven men had perished. The big flying boat had been missing 22 hours and seven minutes. On an initial flight with air express from Honolulu to NewZealand when word of the discovery was announced here. The brief announcement did not indicate what fate had befallen the seven members of the crew, including Capt. Edwin C. Musick, fam(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ADA MARTIN TO BE CANDIDATE Mrs. Ada Martin Seeks Re-Nomination As Clerk-Treasurer Mrs. Adq Martin announced today that ehe would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination ot clerk-treasurer of the city of Decatur. Mrs. Martin is the first candidate i to announce for city office. She is I the present city clerk-treasurer. ! Previous to being elected to the office, she served five yars as city | treasurer. At that time the offices ) were separate. Candidats for city offices must run in the May primary, which this year conies on May 3. Petitions ot candidates and formal notice of candidacy can be filed with the county clerk after March 4. City offices which are elected this year are mayor, clerk-treasurer and five councilmen. The ci’y election is now held in connection with the county and state elections. o William Bovine Is Taken To Hospital William Bovine, 21. of thie city, is now a patient in the university hospital at Ann Arbor, Michigan where he will undergo special treatment. Mr. Bovine, a driver of the McConnell & Son Wholesale Tobacco company of Decatur was injured in an automobile accident, December 8, about eight miles north ot Fort Wayne on the Lima road. He sustained a skull fracture and his condition is considered serious. He was moved this morning from the Fort J Wayne M. E. hospital. o Rebekahs, Odd Fellows Install New Officers Members of the Rebekah and Odd Fellows lodges and their families met at the a. O. O. F. Hall Tuesday night in honor of the birthday anniversary of Thomas Wiley, founder of Oddfellowship. Officers were installed by Fred Major, grand warden of the state organigation,those installed: Helen Lister, noble grand; Jessie Fry, recording secretary; Mrs. Clara Drum financial secretary; Doriphus Drum treasurer; Mrs. Leota Gattschall, R. S. to N. G.; Mns. Minnie Teeple, chaplain; Mrs. Emma Heckathorn, warden. A social hour was enjoyed, after which prizes were awarded to D. L. Drum and H. Moffett. Refreshj ments were served.