Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1938 — Page 1

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•fcIDENT MAY ’ Iqdify stand ■0« COMPANIES ■ Modi'' s,an(l Against ■holding Companies Void Backfire KI " 1,,, r. (U.R) — i Presld-nt S "'"" g 1 W : ■ - .■ b , d 1u.f1.-f I'»H1 ■ I ■ ■ -*P>" ’"- 1 ■ 'J-':-" '> ' ,V 1W.,,,:...'.' .ml fui-in*” >■ ■ ■ M. nil <”»' m. . ■ -.'i..■ 1 1' 1 - 1 "* IK ' !, ' x M,l.'i’:- -lal-inelit <*t R..M! .1 Ohi,! ’ 18, ,„■• I n,ln. .nnpanns- to , remark "I S-n. Alva B , 1 K<> M mi 11..! I.,’ll'f tnrtliet |M, . - a;i|» anil to be .. all holding . stuck to his new deal. With t of Mr. ....■• - v;<l n<>- that Mr.. - iorihcoiaiiit message-' legislation dealing with ! ’.■■ will propose any such | reaching attack on holding as !)•■ discuss* d yesteraf his reeular press confer- . I: such a proposal is con- : in th- message there will allot!., i- battle judiciary reorgan iwill, a similar anuii . 1' aioc.-ais and an-; severe jolt to the party . : d -eenof indir-oial and financontrol is coming up. in the of observers, but they that holding companies be sentenced to die. |Mk-!:-f that 1; .os- \lt would d-ath sentences upon ' i«'s of holding companies House cooperaof business with labor and in the current eco- , < risis Im. on previous stateB l ' by the president. inability io obtain an all defini'ion of a holding! even from Irgh governofficials, is anticipated as factor in the possible of M,-. Roosevelt's Seen: ity and exchange | an.) treasury officials that there was “no uni- . accepted" definition. high official said that his : conception of a holding! was one which "holds , over Other companies." But securities of and exercises conadded that "permutations of companies are so various” i ■ an airtight definition is diffl- 1 K?” holding company bombshell ' B" Mt h 't a group of distinguished |k. f '' h,a,ivp s of banking, indus- ■ a,l(1 lal ™ at the White House.!’ arrived a few minutes after I PX l ||, tsion. headed by Owen D. 1 ■ 1 "' e ’ lhai 'man of the board of K/?? 1 Electric company, and, K tn,i , Lpwiß ' of the committee ' K» ,? Srlai organization. to disK e,,u“ rlo " 8 condi-' KnniHr" ' haS < ' ev€ ' loppd sillce >a»t! S t | r,>ad > 111 Waahi "K to « to-i' E tssve , h6y had Urg ' > ' 1 u P° n Mr - EE bins, , neCPSs!, y fo '' tnaintain- ! 1 K nce s d S \vu US dp P reM ion conse- i 1 Kgrstct ,? hpthcr an y conferee/ Hmr iat the govei 'timent re-J B s not rev P riminß expenditure 1 B ducted 3 fl bUt BUme obßerv -j' KrltsmJ. v s om warded reBnssed 6 ‘' emedy h ad been ‘' Buhee*' 80UrCe " U was lparllpd ' took an extreme- 1 B'Cunti Nl . Ed on pa(;e

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Latest of New Envoys 8K^ r 'ji 'Arw * BmMk Joseph P. KennedvßHMS , .t..' 1 :. —7— —•— This is the latest picture of ! Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of the federal maritime commission i and newly-appointed ambassador to Great Britain. This photo was snapped in Seattle, Wash., where he conversed with mari ti m e i traders. MAGNER RITES HERE SUNDAY. Mrs. Mahala Magner Died Friday At Hospital In Richmond Funeral services for Mrs. Mahala A Magner, 82. who died Friday at Hictunond state hospital. Richmond, will ’be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the filing and Doan ! funeral home on Marshall street. Mrs. Magner was an inmate of the institution for 40 years. Her i husband was a Civil war ve’eran. Two sisters, Mrs. Cora Renlcker, New Philadelphia. Ohio and Jane Andrews of near Monroe survive, Several hildren also .survive. I among whom are Frank and John Magner of Fort Wayne. iPltrlal will be made in th-* cemetery one mile west of Monroe. Rev. E. S. Morford of Monroe will offi- | ciate at the funeral services. o Plan Simplifying Os Appellate Proceedure ■v Indianapolis, Jan. 15. — (U.R) — I Specific recommendations fori simplifying appellate proceedure ■ will be suggested by the supreme court at the meeting of the Indiana judicial council in the statehouse today, according to Chief Justice Curtis W. Roll. Another change hi rules under ■ consideration. Judge Roll said, con- ■ cents service of summons on for- : eign corporations. The council was created to study legal and court proceedure in the state witha view to possible slm-1 plification and modernization. --o Parental Forgiveness For Youthful Elopers Miami, Fla., Jan. 15—(UP)—Parental forgiveness was promised to- 1 day for two Indiana grade-school sweethearts who itin away from home last week and ended their111, 1 500 mile trip out of money and curled up asleep in a car on the ocean front. The parents arrived there from Bremen, Ind., and prepared to go into juveni'e court today where Judge Walter H. Beckham will waive a technical reformatory sentence imposed on the run-aways and return them to their parents. o Drainage Commissioner Testifies In Court IHomer Teeters, commissioner of drainage for the Wabash diich case, testified today in the Adams circuit court as to why he let the contract to dredge the Wabash river to the Fred C. Morgan company, instead of Albert Hash, the low bidder. Special Judge Henry F. Kieter presided. Mr. Teeters testified that his attorneys conducted an investigation of Albert decided he was not financially able nor did he have sufficient equipment to dredge the river. He said he was still of the i opinion. i

SELECT BUICK EUR BUILDING HERETHURSDAVi Type Os Brick For New School Building To Be Selected — Selection of the brick for the new Decatur high school building will be made Thursday by the hoard of trustees, the architect and general contractor, Ira Fuhri man, president of the school board I stated today. Samples of the brick will be exhibited in the assembly room of I ; the library building. Selection of double vitrified , brick and the possible selection of! salt glaze brick for the corridors, home economics room and other places in the building will also be i ! made. If there is not too much difference in price, the board fav-1 ors using salt glaze brick where use demands this kind of brick. The steel window frames and sash for the building will also be ! selected at the Thursday meeting | All frames in the building will be of steel. The board will also take up the selection of stokers and boilers for the new building. W. C. Bevington, consulting engineer of Indianapolis, is expected here and Will advise the board about boiler ratings and efficiencies. The board nas practically determined to put a ceiling in the gymnasium. The original plans do not ! call for a covered ceiling. The ceiling was eliminated to hold down the general construction cost, but since the bids were received the board believes it has sufficient funds to install it. This improvement will step-up the general appearance of the gymnasium and hide from view the steel girders and frame work. Accoustical treatment for the ■ gymnasium, the music and com- | mercial rooms will also be considered by the board. The general contractors. Schinnerer and | Truemper of Fort Wayne, are fur- j nishing estimates to the board on I ! the cost of the gym ceißng. the j acoustical work and a better Sight- , ing system for the latter place. The general contract, plumbing' \ and heating and ventilating and I the electrical work totaled I $206,000. Due to the low bids the : 1 board will be able to include sev-1 eral items in the construction I which were not originally planned. o RURAL ELECTRIC DRIVE PLANNED — Electrification Drive Started In Southern Part Os County A new drive for memberships in the Adams county committee for rural electrification has been an- ’ nounced for the south half of the county by Ralph Myers, chairman. According to Mr. Myers, the south six counties are to be associated with Jay county. Efforts are to be made to contact interested farmers immediately in order that a report may be made out and submitted early in FebruaryMr. Myers, has stated that Jay | I county has already received twofifths of its appropriation and is expected to obtain the remainder I ' during next summer. Work will be begun during the first of February in that county. According to Mr. Myers, little difficulty is anticipated in the obtaining of the required number of j contractors in this county. It is necessary to insure the average of at least three users to every mile of line constructed. To contact the farmers and ex- ' plain the program, the following schedule of meetings was arranged: Thursday, North Brick School house in Blue Creek township. Monday. Jan. 17, Jefferson Cen(CONTINUB7D ON PAGE THREE) 0 1 Continue Hunt For Salesman’s Slugger : Evansville, Ind., Jan. 15. Southern Indiana police today con- , tinned their search for a youth ( who slugged and shot James T. . Stewart, 37, in his motorcycle shop while Stewart gave the "custom- ( ■ er” a demonstration ride. / Stewart, meanwhile, was recov- ■ ering from an operation to remove ! a copper-jacketed .32 caliber bullet | from his brain. His condition was i reported favorable. < The “customer” tied Stewart to < a tree and rode away on the mot- 1 orcycle which was later recovered , i jin Warrick county. Il

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, .January 15, 1938.

Raymond Schutz Heads Insurance Company J. Raymond Schultz director of i | sociology and economics of Man- j I Chester College at North Manchester, today was chosen President of I [the Standard Life Insurance Cornt any of Indiana. Mr. Schultz succeeds former Governor Harry <l. LeMfe, who died early In December. The company also announced today that despite the business recession, the company made a net gain ' jot $2,8611.000 in 1937 with a net Increase in resources of $171,255.37 and a 90-percent increase in life insurance in force Dec. 31, 1937, as compared to the same date the year before. o TWO MEN FINED FOR VIOLATIONS State Officer .Johnson Makes Arrests Here Friday Afternoon Two men chose the wrong time to do their fast driving late yesterday and as a result paid fines, of $20.20 each in justice of peace' court. Ralph Cloppert, of Fort Wayne, was arrested when he allegedly drove at a rate of 50 miles an hour I near Second and Marshall streets, passing a car occupied by State Patrolman Burl Johnson and an applicant for a beginner's driver’s license. Ordering the applicant to give chase. Cloppert was apprehended at the north end signal light. Patrolman Johnson got into the Cloppert auto and started toward town, when a car driven by Clare Eddy, of Scott, Ohio, allegedly passed them and almost struck the car driven by the applicnt. Order-; ing Cloppert to give chse, Officer Johnson made his second arrest within a few minutes. Cloppert and Eddy were both taken to the court of John T. Kelly. justice of peace. Cloppert was fined $lO.lO each for speeding and not possessing a driver's license. Eddy was fined $lO.lO each for speeding and reckless driving. Eddy was remanded to jail when , unable to pay the fine, but was re-, leased last night when his father' arrived to pay the $20.20. Mean- j while the applicant finished his ex-' amination Patrolman Johnson reported today that 58 drivers’ license applications have been approved, one has been rejected and seven will I be re-examined. o Rev. Smith To Conduct Spring Hill Revivals The Rev. N. S. Smith, of near Berne, will conduct the revival camj paigns at the Spring Hill church least of Berne. Substituting for the 1 Rev. Verlin Radcliff, who was seriously injured in an auto accident I Tuesday. The Rev. Radcliff's con- | dition is reported some improved ■ today. o Pastor Seeks Office Os Jefferson Trustee 1 The Rev. Frank Johnson, well , known Jefferson township farmer , and assistant pastor at the Bethel Brethren church, east of Berne, has | announced his candidacy for nomination to the office of trustee of his < j township on the Republican ticket. jl AUTO LICENSE BUREAU BUSY: ' Gross Income Returns, i Driver License Exams Create Rush ‘ j i Busy crowds thronged to the local license bureau on Friday as two ( types of business were being con- ( ducted in addition to usual -outine. | G. C. Baumgartner, of Berne, representative of the state department was at the bureau, assisting local persons in the filing of gross income tax returns and answering various questions pertaining to the tax. Mr. Baumgartner will again be at the loal bureau on January 20, 21 27 and 28, Manager Dee Fry-back of the bureau, announced today. Meanwhile, at the bureau Friday state patfolman Burl Johnson resumed Kls investigate no! applicants for beginners driving licenses. He was here during the day conducting the exams, taken mostly by persons under 18 years of age, who with those who have never before held a license, are required under the new law to undergo the test. Applications for the driver's licenses continue unabated at the .local 'bureau, but applications for 1938 license plates have decreased, occasioned by the extension of time granted by the governor. | ■

JUDGE GRANTS CITY JUDGMENT — City Cleared Os Liability! In Action Os Robert Hendricks Judge Huber M. DeVoss Friday' ! afternoon sustained a motion so a judgment on the pleadings filed by the city of Decatur in the SIO,OOO damage suit brought ; against the city by Robert Hen- ' dricks, a minor, through his father, I John J. Hendricks as next friend. This ruling eliminates the city's ' liability in the action. The suit was originally filed ; charging that the city was liable j ■ for injuries sustained by Robert Hendricks when burned by electricity in a tree at his home. The complaint charged the city electric ' light and power plant with negll- ; gence in the stringing of its wires. A demurrer, filed by the city of Decatur, was sustained May, 20, j 1 1937, by Judge Huber M. DeVoss, i The demurrer set up the fact that I i a state law requires that a city be ’ 1 notified within 60 days after a! | cause of damage occurs. The demurrer stated it was approximate- 1 ' ly a year after the accident that I the city was notified. ' The action Friday was to officially remove the case from the court records. Judge De Voss gave a judgment to the city and charged the costs to the defendant. o Purdue Conference Is Closed Today Lafayette, Ind.. Jan. 15. —<U.PJ — Dr. Thurman B. Rice of Indianapj oplls. chief of the state bureau of health and physical education, w r as principal speaker today at the closing 'session of the annual agricul- i tural conference at Purdue University. Addressing approximately 500 members of various older youth organizations throughout the state. 1 Dr. Rice said “we must train all riage career as we would train young people for a successful marj them for a successful career in, 1 medicine, law. agriculture or modI ern plumbing.” Approximately 8,000 persons at- ‘ tended the week-long conference, shattering all previous records | I Total rgistrations last year exceed- ! ed the 7,000 mark slightly. o DEPUTY CLERKS WILL BE NAMED Deputy Registration Clerks Wil! Be Named Next Week The Deputy registration clerks for the various precincts in the approaching election will be announced next week. G. Remy Bierly, county clerk, stated today. The clerks are recommended by county chairmen and appointed by the clerk. A deputy for each precinct will be named >by each party. The work of the deputy will be limited to his preceinct. To date six prospective candidates for office tyave taken cut petitions from the county cletk’s office. These petitions must be filed simultaneously with the filing of candidacy. One-half of one per cent of the votes cast by the. party so. - secretary of state in the last election must be represented by the number j of signers on the petition. A Democratic county candidate must have 29 signers, a Republican, 17. A Democratic city or township candidate must have 10 signers, as must the Republican, since 10 is the minimum. March 4 is the first day for filing I candidacies with the clerk. Thirty days are given candidates to file, i Confidentially - • I wouldn’t bs without the DECATUR DAILY 7 DEMOCRAT for only A by a year J mail within 100 mile radius. RENEW TODAY for 1938. I

Stanley Reed Is Nominated kJ By President Roosevelt To Vacancy On Supreme Court

REPORT CHINA DENIES JAPAN PEACE OFFERS — Jap Cabinet To Announce Imperial Policy At Noon Sunday Tokyo. Jan. 15—(U.R) The cabinet announced tonight that a long awaited statement of imperial policy toward China would be issued at noon Sunday. Before the announcement. 24 I generals of the imperial army con- ! ferred with Gen. Sugiyama, war I minister, and cabinet ministers I I met with leaders of the imperial headquarters—the supreme su)>ervisory war council. It was reported that China had failed to accept peace terms submitted secretly by Japan and that, in consequence, the government felt there was no alternative to intensification of military action. It seemed quite clear now that through the medium of the German ambassadors to China and Japan, the Chinese and Japanese governments had exchanged peace terms. China, it was indicated strongly, bad failed even to reply to the last statement of Japanese terms. The Dome! news agency, whose dispatches in such instances are! i often of semi-official inspiration. < said that the cabinet-imperial headquarters conference resulted in I agreement that China still was | | "recalcitrant” and that therefore: I “The government is compelled | , to proceed with resolute enforce-1 I ment of a policy for attainment of I i its ultimate objective of securing j f peace in east Asia.”” This could mean only the con- ! centration of every national effort on winning the war as soon as possible and ousting the present Chinese government provided it did not submit to Japanese demands as regards peace terms. The newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun predicted early rupture of Chinese-Japanese relations — the combatants being officially on friendly terms diplomatically. It was added that arrangements had I been made to recall Shigeru Kaj wagoe, Japanese ambassador to China, and to hand Hsu Shihying, I Chinese ambassador to Tokyo, his i passport. o Find Bones, Shirt In Stomach Os Shark Pago Pago, Samao. Jan. 15 — (U.R) —Human bones and a man’s shirt were taken today from the stomach of a shark caught on the north shore of Tutuila Island, near where the Samoan clipper exploded and sank with Captain Edwin C. Musick and a crew of six Tues-1 day morning. There were a man's rib. arm and thigh bone in the stomach of the shark caught by a native. Q JURORS'ROOMS ARE RENOVATED Renovation Os Circuit Court Jury Rooms Near Completion Improvements nearly completed in the Adams circuit court rooms,' have transformed the jury rooms I from an inconvenient, dingy place i into a modern and comfortable quarters. Most attractive of these rooms is i the ladies lounge, vhich may be used bj - women of the future jury panels. Overstuffed wicker sets, ample lighting, convenient lavatory facalities and a general cleaning of l the rooms have (been completed. | New curtains and blinds are yet to be placed and the floor painted ; and stipp'ed, which will complete, the work started several weeks ago. 1 Separate rest rooms for men and | women, in addition to the consultation room, are now available to jurors. The entire courthouse has also been undergoing a complete cleaning for the past several weeks, with each of the various offices being cleaned. The corridors will also be , ' leaned. This work is being dune by i IWPA labor. I

' Accused Wife Slayer • Everett Hughes Candy Salesman Everett Hughes, 52. of Salt Lake City. Utah, was held in jail at Pueblo. Colo., accused of slaying his wife. Anne, 52. Hughes was arrested in Las Vegas, N. M.. and is said to have confessed to police on the way back to Pueblo. Police claim Hughes shot his wife when she threatened him with a pistol, and transported her body in the trunk of his car before burying it on a lonely road near Walsenburg, Colo. MAN ARRESTED HERE IN JAIL Dan Shanks Is Fined And Sentenced In Ohio County Dan Shanks, who was arrested here several days ago upor the request of Wapakoneta, Ohio, authorities is serving a sentence in tho Aug’aize county jail for aiding and abetting in the desertion of children. Shanks, it was learned here today, was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to one year in jail for the alleged offense. Nine months of the jail sentence wae suspended Shanks was arrested with Eileen Fess, of Wapakoneta, the mother of four children, whom Ohio authorities claimed deserted the children to live here with Shanks. The arrest attracted considerable attention here, when Mrs. Fess related to the Adams county sheriff a story of being sold to her husband for S2O by a mercenary father. She alleged that the husband threw her out of the home. Mrs. Fees was released from jail and placed on probation to return ■ to her children. o Beer Industry Pays Nearly Two Millions Indianapolis, i’.nd., Jan. 15 —(UP) Indiana’s beer industry paid $1,958, 898.97 in license fees and gallonaga taxes to the state during 1937, the Indiana brewers association reported today. A total of 1.164,134 barrels of | beer was sold in the state during the past year, the report showed. Approximately 29 per cent of the total was imported. The 1937 consumption was an inrease of 16,891 barrels over the previous year. o Treasury Official Backs Tax Changes Washington, Jan. 15 —(UP) —Under secretary of treasury Roswell Magill today gave full support to the tax changes proposed by the house ways and means sub-ommit-tee and said the treasury is studying additional revenue revisions for possible future action. Magill appeared before the full house ways and means committee at the start of consideration of a broad program of tax revision including changes in the undistributed profit tax. TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m 25 10:00 a. m 27 11:00 a. m 30 WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday; not so cold northeast portion tonight, rising temperature Sunday.

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Solicitor General Named To Vacancy Created By Retirement Os Justice Sutherland. SURPRISE MOVE Washington. Jan. 15. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt today nominated Stanley Reed, solicitor general of the United States to the suprein court judgeship left vacant by retirement of Justice George Sutherland. The president submitted the nomination of Reed to the senate in a surprise move, as the recommendation had not been expected before Tuesday, when Sutherland will formally step down from the bench. Reed is a 53-year-old veteran of new deal legal battles before the high tribunal. Upon him has fallen the burden of defending the government in repeated challenges before the supreme court of legislation enacted by Mr. Roosevelt's administration. Reed's nomination was laid on • the desk of Vice-President John N. 1 Garner at the opening of the senate session. ' Unlike the nomination of Asso- , ciate Justice Hugo L. Black, the nomination was on a typewritten i sheet rather than a regular su- ■ preme court nomination blankI Black's name had been written in by the president in a large, firm hand while Reed's name was type- ' written. The senate had met an hour earlier than usual to consider the anti-lynching bill but there was only a meager attendance when the nomination was disclosed. As solicitor general. Reed direct1 ed the legal defense of the governj ment before the supreme court reI j peatedly had been suggested as a likely nominee to a high court vacancy. The senate already had given notice that the nomination would be subject to closest scrutiny by the judiciary committee prior to a report to th esenate, which must confirm the selection. Chairman Henry F. Ashurst, D., of Arizona, of the senate judiciary committee, said the opportunity would be given for any “coherent” citizen who desired to appear at hearings on the nomination. o BIRTHDAY BALL PLANS ADVANCE President’s Birthday Ball To Become Annual Affair President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has given his birthday, January 30, in perpetuity for the establishment of a Foundation to Fight. Infantile Paralysis, according to word received here by the Birthday Ball for the President committee. The offer means that the Birthday Balls for the President will become annual events in order that the newly organized foundation may have a permanent source of income. Previously President Roosevelt has been requested to donate his birthday for only one year at a time. The president's birthday this year falls on Sunday and for this reason, the Decatur committee has determined to bold the dance and party on Saturday night, January 29. It will be given at the Decatur Country Club, with Bob Dykeman’s orchestra furnishing the music. The new foundation is to be set up with four fronts for immediate i action. These are: 1. Scientific research. 2. Epidemic first aid. 3. Proper care — Disseminating to doctors and parents present and new knowledge of the proper care which may prevent sad after-eff-ects, such as crooked backs, curvature of the spine, twisted bodies (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 0 ♦ — ♦ GAME SUNDAY The Decatur Commodores will play their third game in four days Sunday, meeting St. John’s at Delphos, Ohio. Both .first and second teams will play, the first game starting at 1 o'clock, Decatur time. The Commodores defeated St- John’s here earlier in the season, 23 to 17, ♦ ♦