Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 14 January 1938 — Page 1

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MESEPLAN ■hi DEFENSE KUNST JAPS Ln. Changes To K.lend Shantung 4 Jan - 14 ‘M’ I ChiunK KaiShck. stak on a defense of ma po-H-. has md-l-d a shakeup in tht ‘ ‘“7 E*> ll l,l.. reports said today. ( three Chinese military ‘I. p.a e '■« ' J |W_ removed litter till th " to the front atid lW 1;y menacing iK* «rtr ' ' I' l ' 11 ' ' ’ ' ET»b‘. - believed would ,: Ese Art: ■' ■ '' ! ‘ ’’’KZvfc from directions. JK same time the Chinese .X " Uan Sao Tang Pao, pre- ' ,,fselv Ikcß 1 ;<1 w.,'S i--. ..r I . H< tieOllonaW "idii.-t -o. -• meal’ ..ml a Lgh., w i incompetent. with him was Gen. Ten pacification commission-'■Khaii.-i ..ml Suiyuan provthey succeeded by Gen. 1 heng ■li : |.,.,. Bn Chu Teh. ‘Ted Napoleon" of the eighth route ■(cmßiinist) army. \ Bhßb' -> removals followed quickj all of Gen. Han Fu-Chu. governor of Shantung Hankow. provisional capitals, for ,i charge of inefficiency. ■W flea nil 11. m w..s , harm'd sp.-ci-Ifi-ailj with failing to keep a suf force in the defense of Tsinto check the Japan sfeeK Tsining until reinforcements addition, lie clashed with Gen Li Tsung-Jen. Spin-. commander along the railroad, whose at Hsuchow were imperiled ■ fall of Tsining. K (Chinese) news ■ K ■wind time but gave no de- ■ s'TINI’HIi ON PAGE SIX) WE TO TAKE IDTWO ROADS ■way Department ■rees To Take Over jßoads In County state highway department ' Teed to take over twu addi-1 stretches of roads in Adams , according to a letter receivn Earl Crawford, chairman state highway commission, tmty Auditor John W. Tynotfer is to be referred to the board of commissioners it meets in February. of the roads the state board treed to accept is the extend state road 101 from Its t southern terminus on state -4 east to Decatur, to state 21 east of Monroe. This road ion is estimated toy the state tj board at about six miles » to the fact that the state nd west roads are nix and a niles apart and that some rs would probably be necesbe extension would probably Ber than the state estimate other road approved is a part new proposed “farm to mareeder highway system and extend from U. S. highway east to the Indiana kfINUED ON PAGE TWO) ■ o dd-Be Robbers fail To Get Loot •yes broke into the Burk Elei>m V MonrOß some tirno last sited to gain any loot. 8 entrance by breaking in a J n. he wo «'d-be thieves - be combination off the an , P off the han<He--ID| ‘ y fri ßhtered or unable P'/be opening the safe, they tP , ut gaining entrance to wax kept h9 VaU,t Where the a t i L rk ; b'anager of the eleva--8 and°fi UtV nOth !” E WaS iturh th . 1 e P row 'ers did b ths interior of the build-

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New Parking Rules Are Receiving Many Favorable Comments I “Say. I can park on Second street! now ahd do my shopping". "It's easy to find a place to park ■ on Second street since the new or-, dinauce went into effect." These and other favorable comments have been heard many times within the iast 10 days as the. public reacted to the one-hour parking on Second street. The concensus of opinion is that I the farmers and local residents like tlie system very much. The onehour parking regulation provides many parking spaces on Second street and those who come to town to shop are enthusiastic in their praise for the limited parking system on Second and .Monroe streets. Merchants like It also, for the shoppers can find a p'ace to park and trade at the stores. The free parking lots on First street are lighted for the conven-1 inece of those who wish to vise them. o — PAULV.McNUTT MAKING SURVEY INFAREAST Former Governor Os Indiana To Report Personally To Roosevelt Washington. Jan. 14 — (U.R) — 1 Paul V. McNutt. American high commissioner to the Philippine Islands, is making a flying survey of American interests in the far east and will report personally to President Roosevelt early next month, it was asserted in high official quarters today. McNutt now is on a tour of investigation of Japanese land holdings on the Island of Mindanao where Japanese virtually control the important hemp industry and ■ are asserted to have some 15.000, nationals concentrated around the important hemp port of Davao Upmi his return tn Manila he is i expected to take passage on an American warship and go to | Shanghai to confer with Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, commander-in- ; chief of the U. S. Asiatic fleet, and other American officials. President Roosevelt and state de- - | partment officials are concerned over the Shanghai situation where Japanese threats of encroachment; on control of the international! settlement are considered alarmI ing from the point of view of American rights and Interests in j j the rich China port. Navy officials were not certain | whether McNutt would proceed to! Shanghai aboard the U. S. cruiser , Augusta, flagship of the Asiatic I fleet which is now undergoing j overhaul in the Philippines. They , said the Augusta’s overhaul probably would be completed in time for the flagship to leave for Shanghai about Jan. 17. McNutt is the highest ranking j American government representsI tive in the far east, a former' military man. an experienced politician and considered a keen observer of national and international affairs. It was understood President Roosevelt is anxious to obtain McNutt's observations at first hand of the entire far eastern situation. Returning from Shanghai to Ma- . - nila or Hong Kong. McNutt is due to leave for Washington on the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) PETTY THIEVES AGAIN ACTIVE Two Local Business Firms Are Looted Thursday Night I Petty thieves were again active in the city last night, breaking into | two local stores. The thieves gained entrance at , the Simeon Hain meat market by throwing a brick through the west window of the store. They escaped with three or four cartons oi cigarettes. A checkup this morning revealed nothing else missing. At the office of the Frank Krick coal yard, thieves jammed in the front door and escaped with a small loot. A checkup this morning reve&'ed : I that approximately 10 quarts of motor oil and aibout 80 cents in change were taken from the office, A small strong box was broken open to secure the money. Neither j of the robberies was noticed until this morning, when the respective proprietors came to work Officer Roy Chilcote was notified and an immediate investigation >be-, I gun. I

PEACE RETURNS AFTER RIOT IN MICHIGANTOWN Two Officers Injured In Night Os Rioting At New Haven, Mich. New Haven. Mich., Jan. 14. (U.R; Peace was restored to this Industrial village today after a night of rioting at the New Haven foundry. Two deputy sheriffs were injured and numerous unionists suffered minor hurts as they struggled for control of the foundry. Officers. after four attempts to break through picket lines which had surrounded the plant since it was closed three days ago because of labor difficulties, were repulsed and a truce was called. Numerous shots were fired into the air as deputies made unsuccessful attempts to penetrate the picket lines to go to the air of a small guard which earlier had entered the foundry. Tear gas bombs were hurled into the mass of 700 pickets and sympathizers who millI ed around the plant but they did ; not disperse. Meanwhile Sumner D. Lampkins, - owner of the foundry which makes heavy castings for Chrysler, Hud-1 son and other automobile manufacturers, was in conference with , j officials of the United Automobile I Workers union After a seven- , hour session, a truce was called and Lampkins said he would not I attempt to reopen the foundry until a final settlement was reached. The injured deputies were Clarence Moran. 35, Mt. Clemens, who was believed to have suffered a skull freture, and German Jacobs, also of Mt. Clemens. They had been mobilized under Sheriff Rob-; ' ert C. Havel who brought three I score special deputies to aid the ' town marshall of New Haven in 1 preserving orderIt was not known how many pickets and sympathizers were hurt i but there were many minor injuries in the hand to hand fighting. The foundry had been reopened Tuesday after a long seasonal shuti down. Officials of the U. A. W., charged discrimination against em- ■ ployes and ordered the plant pick- ; eted and closed. The foundry nor- [ mally employs 600 men but it had I attempted to reopen with only 200. The foundry had signed a con- ' tract with the U. A. W. last July. (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) O DECATUR HOME DAGIT BURNED — Anna Ripberger Residence Is Badly Damaged By Fire An exploding coal oil stove started a fire Thursday afternoon about 3 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Anna Ripberger, corner Eighth and Monroe streets, that resulted in more than a $1,500 loss. It was estimated that the loss I to the property would amount to approximately $1,200 to $1,500 and ; the damage to household possess- ; ions would total about S2OO. No one was home at the time of I the fire, which was started by a 1 10-gallon can of water that boiled i over on the coil oil stove, spraying; the burning fluid over the kitchen. The inside and outside w’alls of the kitchen were entirely burned I away, with all furnishings and inside fixtures of the room destroyed. Billowing clouds of smoke caus- ' ed heavy damage to furniture, fixtures. and curtains of all other I rooms, with exception of the front ' room, which houses Charlotte's I beauty shop, owned by Mrs. Fori rest Baker. Firemen checked the blaze effii ciently, preventing it from spreadI ing to other parts of the home, deI spite the fact that the entire kitchen was enveloped in flames i when they arrived. i Miss Madonna Ripberger, daughter of Mrs. Ripberger, was the first I to arrive after the blaze started. A pet kitten, belonging to the Ripbergers. died from the smoke. Holiness Group To Meet Sunday The monthly meeting of the Adams county holiness association will be held Sunday at 2 p. m. at the Pleasant Mills M. E. church. The Rev Harry Holtza<ppie of Lima Ohio, will be the speaker, with special singing toeing presented. The public le cordially invited to at (tend. ‘

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Children Didn’t Elope After All Hr v i Kt' /. KI Mmr? mu w * IS' h ' a ■MI Ijui-11 , Edwina Keyser | zCs

» * w Missing for several days. Lowell Mast. 14. and Edwina Keyser. 13, of Bremen, Ind., were thought to have eloped. But the two turned up unmarried in Miami. Fla., in the Keyser family car. It seems the whole thing started when Edwina tried to back her father’s new car out of the garage and knocked both doors off the garage. She was scared, so she found her school sweetheart, Lowell, and with $6.50 between them, they headed south. When their funds ran out they sold, among other things, the car radio, the spare tire, the seat covers and Edwina’s traveling bag.

CITY CHANGES CONNECTIONS Residence Connections On Second Street Are Being Changed Electricians for the city electric department are busy changing the residence connections on North | Second street from the old to the new circuit. The connections are made from the rear of the houses to the new line built back of the properties on the east side of Second street, north of Marshall street to the end of the residence district. The work is being done without any charge to the patrons ot the I city plant and with the idea ot imj proving the e'ectric -service. On the west side of the street, about half ;of the new circuit has been constructed back of the properties. The line will be extended north to the end of the street on the west side, j The new circuit makes it pos-; ' sible to remove the big poles from Second street. Many of these poles were erected by the old interurban | company and the electric wires were strung on them. All the poles, except those where transformers or terminals are located, will be removed fom the east side of Second street. The board of public works and safety has ordered the rebuilding ! of the distribution lines .not included in the program in 1930 and 1934. These include Second street Mercer avenue and Winchester street (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) I —o YOUTHS GATHER AT CONFERENCE All Attendance Records Broken At Purdue Conference Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 14. —<U,RX“ Youths from virtually every sec-! tion of the state gathered at Pur-1 due university today for the openi ing of the older youth group sessions, a closing feature of the annual agricultural conference which has been in session here since Monday. All previous conference attendance records were broken last night with a total registration of more than 7,600 persons. Approximately 200 more youth delegates were expected to register today. T. A. Coleman, assistant director of agricultural extension, was the principal speaker before the youth meetingin a prepared address. Coleman said, "It is essential that young men and women carry over from their 4-H club days the lessons learned from that work." He lauded the program to aid young farm folks who are too old for club work and who have not yet taken their places in farm and home orI (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Elks Plan Chop Suey Dinner January 19 The Decatur chapter of the B. P. O. Elks will hold a chop suey din- : ner at the homie on North Second street, Wednesday, January 19. Serving will start at 5 o’clock. The dinner will be for members and their families, at a cos’ ot 35 I cents per plate. The commiitee in I charge Is planning to accomodate a Targe crowd and members planning to attend are urged to purchase tic- ! kets early. 0. E. ADDITION IS NEARLY DONE General Construction Will Be Completed Next Week General construction work on the new addition to the General E’ectric plant on Ninth street, will be completed by the first of the week, E. W. Lankenau, local works super-. intendent stated today. The H. K. Ferguson Construction | . Co., of Cleveland has had the gen-; ; eral contract on the building. The ac'dition includes a wing on the j north and south ends of the building and a large evtension at the i northeast end, which will include the electric crane for unloading: stee.' and raw materials. The building is built of brick, con- I Crete and steel, conforming to the ! major part of the original struc-; ture. Work on the electric wiring and plubing will start next week Mr. Lankenau said. The new boilers were installed sometime ago and are in operation. The building, except the installing of the crane and other unload- ' ing equipment, will toe completed about February 15, Mr. Lankenau i estimated. The wings on the north and south | are 30> by 154 feet each. The northeast wing is 150 by 30. The freight trains will enter the building and all steel and raw material supplies ' unloaded under roof by electric I ! crane. A major part of this addij tion is constructed of steol frame i ’ and glass. Do Your Shopping —thriftily and speedily through the columns of the ; DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ' o Renew Today for 1938 ! 1

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MANY CHANGES ARE PROPOSED FOR TAX LAWS House Committee Proposes Far-Reaching Changes; Aid Business Washington. Jan. 14 — (U.R) — The house ways and means tax i subcommittee today proposed far- . reaching changes in the undistributed profits and capital gains taxes and declared that such I changes should mean ‘‘a very substantial stimulation to business." The subcommittee, headed by Rep. Fred M. Vinson, I) . Ky , 1 recommended in a report to the | full committee 62 specific changes in present tax laws under five difi ferent headings and also proposed I that all internal revenue laws be I codified. The report will form the basis of the revenue act of 1938, which i leaders hope to push to enactment by mid-March. The full house ways and means committee will . begin hearings on it tomorrow. Most important single recommendation of the report was that I America's "small" corporations — I those earning $25,000 a year or less and comprising 88 per cent of the 200,000 that do the business of this nation —be exempted from the undistributed profits tax. The recommendations for changes in the income taxes on corporations included: i General rule: A tentative tax of 20 per cent on corporations earning more than $25,000 a year, with credits for distribution of dividends at the i rate of 4-10 s of one per cent for I each 10 per cent of earnings declared out making possible a re- : duction of the tax to 16 per cent for a 100 per cent distribution. Exceptions: Corporations earning $25,000 or less to pay a normal tax as folllows: 12H Per cent on the first $5,000; It per cent on the next $15,000, and 16 per cent on the ! last $5,000. This means an effecj tive rate of 14.1 per cent on an I income of exactly $25,000. Corporations with incomes slightly above $25,000 would be ! subject to o complicated “notch” provision designed to smooth out their jump from an effective rate of 14.1 to 1G per cent or more. . Certain types of their income I would be placed in one category up to $25,000 and other types in . another. Net operating losses: Corporations with a net operatI ing loss for any taxable year beginning after Dec. 31, 1937. would ' carry over the loss into the suci seeding taxable year and in effect added to dividends paid the sueI ceeding year. The effect would be I to permit the corporation to reduce ! its tax by 4 per cent of the net (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 MURDERER PAYS DEATH PENALTY Willis Fuller Is Executed For Murder Os Deputy Sheriff Michigan City, Ind., Jan. 14.— I <U.R>—Willis Fuller, 29, today paid i with his life for the slaying July ' 16, 1936 of Paul Mankin, Vigo , county deputy sheriff. Two minutes after midnight he , was led from his cell in state prison “death row" to the electric chair. At 12:09 a. in. he was pronounced dead by prison physicians. Fuller, the first of seven condemned murderers to die in the chair before spring, lost his last chance to escape death yesterday when Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, in a long distance telephone call front Florida, rejected a petition for executive clemency. Mankin was shot and killed when he attempted to arrest Fuller after a hold-up on a lover’s lane near Terre Haute. He fled after the shooting but was captured at Paris, 111., the next day. He was sentenced to die in Vigo ! county court Oct. 29, 1936, and his ! execution set for March 5, 1937, but he received a stay from the I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

BUILDING WORK STARTS FEB. 1 Actual Work On New School House Likely To Start By Feb. 1 | A probability of the construction work on Decatur’s new $250,000 junior-senior high school intensively underway l>y February 1, was seen today by school officials and interested persons. Frank Richards, PWA engineer, representing the federal government, was again in the city this week to confer with local school heads and discuss final plans for the building. Meanwhile, a crew of Yost Bros., workers is busily engaged in cleaning and sorting the brick from the old Central building, with all of the walls laid flat. Members of Yost Bros., and school officials have estimated that enough time will be required to remove the broken bricks and debris, in addition to piling and cleaning the good bricks, to delay actual construction until February 1. Workmen of Schinnerer & Truemper, of Fort Wayne, who were; awarded the general contract in ■ the erection of the school, have, already hauled lumber to the school site, preparatory to actual construction work, in accordance with the PWA requirement that work start on the new building by January 4. Estimated 400 Apply While no official tabulation has been released in regard to the number who applied for work on the new building, it was reported that approximately 400 made application with the firm of Sehin-1 nerer & Truemper. when registration was conducted January 8 at the local city hall. The wage scale has already been adopted by the Decatur school board and approved by the PWA, under which the contractor bid accordingly. The bid by Schinnerer & Treumper was $157,497. As many local workmen as it is possible to use are to be employed on the construction work, the firm executives have stated. CHURCHES PLAN FOR INSTITUTE Sub-District Epworth League Institute Opens Sunday The Decatur sub-district Epworth league midwinter institute wil' open at the First M. E. church Sunday, January 16 at 2 P. m. The following classes will be offered, with the respective pastors in charge: "Worship," the Rev. R. W. Graham; “Life Work.” the Rev. J. W. Reynolds; ‘“Evangelism,” the Rev. Albert Morford and “Missions" the Rev. C. M. Fawns. The Rev. Richard Bender, pastor of the Geneva circuit, will act as i dean. Registration will be held at 2 o’clock in the afternoon; devotions at 2:30 o’clock; class periods Hat 3 o’clock; carry-in-supper at 4:30 o'clock; class periods at 5:30 o’c’oek and devotions at 7 o’clock, to ; which the public is invited. Other sessions of the institute ' I will be held Monday, January 17 at the Geneva M. E. church; Tuesday at the Monroe high school and Wed-1 nesday at the Union Chape’ church. I All of these sessions will open ’ at 7 o’clock. II n — Rotary Club Holds Business Meeting i The Deatur Rotary club, meeting jin regular weekly session Thursday 3 ; evening, held a brief business meet- ’ ing. Walter Gard, president, t eview'l ed activities of the club for the past six months and George Tho3 1 mas, secretary, presented a brief ; *■ j report. f o 1 TEMPERATURE READINGS 1 DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 1 8:00 a. m 29 10:00 a. m 31 1 Noon 32 5 2:00 p. m 40 '• 3:00 p. m 36 WEATHER Cloudy, snow east and ex- ' treme north early tonight, 3 colder tonight; Saturday fair, colder extreme southeast.

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Demands Elimination Os Holding Companies Os Nation; Calls Leaders To Conference. TALK BUSINESS Washington, Jan. 14 — (U.R) — President Roosevelt today demanded elimination of all holding companies from America’s economic structure and called in top-flight labor, banking and industrial leaders to discuss his fight against business recession. The president in drastic language revealed plans to carry the holding company warfare started by the new deal in the utilities field to all industry. He cited banking specifically as an area in which the administration objects to holding company control. Immediately after uttering his warning in a press conference statement to reporters, Mr. Roosevelt left his executive office for the White House for an important conference. Those he Invited to meet with him were: John L. Lewis, chairman of the committee for industrial organization; Phillip Murray. Lewis' chief ; lieutenant; Owen D. Young, chairI man, General Electric Co.; Thomas I W. Lamont. J. P Morgan Co., partner; Adolph Berle and Charles Taussig, ecom/nic specialists and ' braintrusters of the early new deal era. The group entered the White House to meet with the president at 12:15 p. m. Mr. Roosevelt declared that specific methods of proceeding against ; banking and business holding comi panies had not been determined I but uttered his unalterable opposition to such structures and em--1 phasized that by no means would the new deal consent to modification of the “death sentence" imposed on utilities holding companies By the holding company act of 1935. Sharp significance was seen in Mr. Roosevelt's conference with t h e Lamont-Lewis-Young-brain-trust group today. It is the second to which the president has invited topflight industrial and business leaders this week. The earlier group comprised five business and industry heads, led by Chairman Alfred P. Sloan. Jr., of General Motors Corp. Subjects of the White House conference were expected to include: 1. The general business recession, its causes and methods of combatting it. 2. Proposals for some form of government-business cooperation to achieve greater stabilization of production, eliminating sharp prosperity peaks and deep depression lows. 3. Price problems, their effect upon industry, business in general and relations to wages and purchasing power. In this connection reports have circulated of the possibility of a reduction of steel prices, possibly linked with some adjustment of wages. 4. The holding company ques(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 AUCTION SCHOOL CLOSED TODAY Graduation Exercises Are Held Thursday Night For Auctioneers Urging the men to use to advantage the training that they had re- . ceived when they returned to their home community, Col. Earl Gartin, of Greensburg, spoke to tbn members of the graduating class of tha F d Reppert School of Auctioneering last night at the Knights oi Pythias home. Col. Gartin delivered the Commencement address to the 35th semi-annual ch-ss of the school which numbered 49 graduates. Col. Fred Reppert presented the diplomas during the exercises which followed the banquet. Col. Guy Pettit wa" the toastmaster. Members of the class returned to their homes today, after being dismissed at noon. At pi eseul the school has gradun es in every state in the union, in addition to the Dominion of Canada. The activities today concluded three weeks of study in atic’ioneering under a staff of instructors including Col. Roy Johnson and the Rev. Harry Thompson, of this city, in adition to Col. Reppert.