Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1938 — Page 1

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11 gunboat JiSSTRUCK BY KffIESE SHELL IJornan 1< Slightly rMunded As Anti-Air-I I craft Shells Hit <u.p> shells ' hl ' boat l.uzott and a barge p raid on Hankow Thurs;lV. d was slightly wounded, said "ne y g ,i and several wounded Rl ~ Ksutned that the shells small calibre and were ,tlP Luzons was ~llly a . the mat me sources here asserted 8,-, t( ... » !■!..:>. se anti air< raft inside the ..m ' n ' ■L& I ...... .1 the United ■?■..■•< ureas. ..... ’ .. .!• ■:. i'. d yesterday planes might be . business and rest■Lmi. - : Ha ause i t.mese anti-air-■■guns to the center of the ■ win •' Japanese Wmoklrnati said however, that no to areas of had made. He said ■slsolttia' he could not predict ■whetler foreign gunboats would ■be X •.••■■! if !.■ mbing of business dp ’ ■iMh .Hsador N’-lsou T Johnson of his embassy staff Hankow. whii h had come from mdeat-d that the Chinese KofXte strength ami that the guns ■fc '■nr* . tmced the Japplanes to break formation out of range. K-'Ckfcese seuo.es said today that I'hien-Hlng. chief of staff ■tffl famous Eighth route army — , communist been named chief of ■Qt ' : ie newly reorganized 19th .■army || Rwas tl>. - rente army that fame the "Shanghai the city. It has been comreorganized, apparently. ■Elmany of its old officers and | Eighth r.ntti army is operthe northwest and it has that by concentratiMn guerilla tactics and refitsmeet the Japanese, with equipment, in pitch wßttie. the Chinese have caused .■■bpanese great trouble. Comhave been persistently and isolated units of Jap«Hß have been attacked. the entrance of the 19th ■A an entirely new force in this by an expert in guermight prove a matter «®ne importance. reported that eight diof tin ii men. under Gen. had taken up posi--3H t 0 nieet a new Japanese | south of Hsuchow on the I front, the most important It was asserted that the I had 80U 8ht, in their j: northward on Hsuchow, to a riv er near Mingkwang on rJR Tientsin-Nanking railroad, repulsed them, it was as- ' and ’ he Japanese struck that Gen. Hu's eight divis"■went into the lines. reports indicated that at Wuhu, on the Yangtze Nanking, was assuming largforces of Chinese were Wuhu and Shwanchen. artillery and Japanese were dueling near the it was reported; Chinese airPWs were bombing the Chinese aill ' Chinese guerillas were in to attack. that Generaliss- 1 PAOE TH R e e > HBMPERATURE readings thermometer fcoo a. m ,4 4'9 a. rn £ a ' m s ■ WEATHER Sur i» f !robable tonight and y. turning to snow northtemn.r PO . rt ' On Bunds| y- Rising fMnature tonight. Somewhat nnT** 4 and “b'hwest cenH portions Sunday.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Leaking Oil Line Here Is Repaired Workmen were busy today completing repairs to the oil line of the Indiana Pipe Line company on Washington street, at the iateraeclion of Harrison street. The line i sprung a leak yesterday and la being repaired as rapidly as possible. GIVES FIGURES ION DELINQUENTS Adams County Gross Income Tax Delinquents Totaled $2,303.31 Indianapolis, January 29—During the calendar year 1937, the gross income tax division collected , through the activities of its delin- j quent. auditing, and proving sections delinquent taxes with penalty iand interest charges totalling |l,- ■ 736,332.48. Clarence A. Jackson, dlrI ector of the state gross income tax division, announced today. The delinquent collections in Adams county during 1937 totalled $2,303.34. "In the state total of delinquent collections there is more than a quarter of a tpillion dollars of penalty and interest chafges. That is a high price for Indiana citizens to I [ pay for negligence and Intentional ; disregard of the rules, even thougn it does serve ae an object lesson 'that attempts at tax evasion do not ' pay.” Mr. Jackson said. "Since the inception of the law. . ; it has been the uniform policy of ; I the division to make every effort j possible to see that the gross in- ! come tax act is administered equi- i tably," Mr. Jackson continued. “To , that end, and for the protection of | the honest iaxpayer and insurance against his bearing the tax 'oad of those with no compunction about i‘chisling’, the auditing and checking departments were established and have been operating with singular success. "The state-wide auditing and inspection program is a continuous one, designed to cover the entire state each year, it is supplemented by an office program of checking reburus against information on per- i sonal property assessment sheets, federal income lax relUUULUtoizna- , tlon returns filed by employers and 1 others who pay out money, and other sources ot information "The above amount of 1937 delinquent collections in Adams county, ■ compared to the state total of Jl.736.332.48, with due allowance for the size of the county, is probably indicative of the position of Adams county in the swing of the current auditing campaign.” o INFANT FOUND DEAD IN BED Suffocation Os Infant Discloses Pitiful Living Conditions Wabash. Ind.. Jan- 29.—(U.R> —| Welfare authorities sought a better home today for 15 members of- - families whose pitiful plight became widely known after a 24-day-old baby, Roy Lemoine Bur-1 goyne, smothered in bed in the families’ crowded two-room farm home near Disko. Coroner Todd Bender asked wel- j fare societies to help the stricken families. He said the baby suffocated in bed beside Its 17-year-old mother and 19-year-old father, Mr. l and Mrs. Frank Burgoyne. Only two beds were in the home, i Bender said. Mrs. Burgoyne’s par-1 ents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Correll, and their 11 children also lived in the house and many of them had to sleep on the floor, the coroner declared. The families moved to the farm last fall from Ohio. Neither Burgoyne nor Correll have found steady employment since then Mrs. Correll gave birth to a son the day before Christmas and the suffocated child was born Jan. 4 A North Manchester church and other civic clubs gave the impoverished families blankets and food last month. Coroner Bender said he would file a verdict of accidental death due to suffocation in connection with the baby’s death. Equivalency Exam Held Here Today Four persons appeared early today at the offices of C. E. Striker, county school superintendent to take the high school equivalence examination, conducted annually to enable persons not having a high school diploma to secure the equivalent. A possibility of one or more appearing later today to take the exam, was seen. 1

Heavy Snow Stops Traffic in Northern Michigan rjER'-ar . n - Kr I -a (fife ‘ Scene on a Muskegon street, showing snowbound automobiles xjz r

A view of a Muskegon. Mich., street, where heavy snows tie up truffle and give motorists extra work cleaning off their automobiles. Northern Michigan

BIRTHDAY BALL HERE TONIGHT Annual President’s Birthday Ball At Decatur Country Club Adams county residents will join the thousands in the nation wflo will dance that other thousands may walk and be free of the effects of the dread disease, infantile paralysis. Tonight President Franklin Delano Roosevelt will donate his birthday in perpetuity as a memorial to his successful battle against infantile paralysis- A Birthday Ball for the president is to be held in nearly every community in ■ the United States tonight and the proceeds will go to the establishi ment of a national foundation to fight infantile paralysis. . The Birthday Ball for the Presi- ’ dent is to be held at the ftecatur I Country Club at 9:30 o'clock, with , Bob Dykeman and his entire radio band from Lima, Ohio, furnishing ' the music. Final preparations for the crowd will be made this afternoon by the decorating committee. The committee on arrangements is setting up tables and chairs for the coni venience of the patrons. Soft drinks i and sandwiches are to be served. The admission price is ?! a I couple, and tickets may be purchI ased at the door. President Roosevelt's address to J the nation will be broadcast at i 10:30 o'clock and will be received by radio during an intermission. The telegram which is to be sent ' President Roosevelt Sunday is now 1 being signed. The cost of each sig- | nature is 25 cents and all proceeds are to be donated to the Birthday I Ball committee by the Western Union telegraph company. Those who ■ signed and wish to may se° Janies J Murphy, chairman of the telegram i committee, at the VI estern Union 'office, this afternoon. ——o No Change Reported In Lindeman Condition ‘ No change was reported today i by the attending physician in the ' condition of George H. Lindeman, Tocsin section hand worker injur'ed Thursday. Lindeman remains in a serious condition at the Adams county memorial hospital safi ferlng from a skull fracture sustained a in a fall while at work. JAMES MURPHY IS SECRETARY Decatur Man Elected To Fort Wayne Deanery Youth Council James Murphy, former president of the Decatur Catholic youth council, has been named secretary of the newly organized Fort Wayne deanery youth council, modeled ! after the deanery CYO. ' Robert E. Banger, of Fort Wayne : was elected president; Irene Parker of Kendallville, vice-president, and Anna May Holland of Hunting- ! ton, treasurer. Mr. Murphy will be chairman of the CYO activities In this district. | The other officers will supervise activities In their respective sections. The four officers will also represent the Fort Wayne deanery In' the diocesan youth council, which; will be organized February 12 in that city. j

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 29, 1938.

Makes Acquaintance Os Home-Town Native After 46 years in a town 3.000 I miles away, meeting a man from your old home town —that is the experience of county commissioner ( Phil Sauer, who with his wife atturned Friday from a three weeks' visit in Florida and the southern states. Sitting in an artificial garden spot in Both Towers, Florida, listening to the German strains of the tower chimes. Commissioner Sauer struck up an acquaintance with an old visitor at the place. When Mr. Sauer’s humming of the plaintive German strain paved the way for conversation, it was discovered that both men had been born in the same town in Germany —that the old fellow knew Mr. Sauer’s Family. The older man's still sharp memory was able to vividly refresh the ! memory of the commissioner, who i sailed from his birthplace when j but three years old. To Mr. Sauer l (hia couveraatiou and oue with ( "Dizzy” Dean, St. Louis Cardinal hurler. were the highlights of the trip. DEATH CLAIMS BARBARA VENIS Young Girl Dies At Local Hospital After Week’s Illness Miss Barbara Jacqueline Venis, 8-year-old daughter of Merlin and MaDonna Venis, died at the Adams county memorial hospital at 8:50 o’clock Friday evening following a week’s illness. The little girl had been living with her grandfather, Earnest Krugh of 219 South Eighth street. Barbara was born In Decatur, September 4, 1929. Her mother, and one sister preceded her in death. Her father and a stepmother survive. She resided in Decatur all her life, except a few months in Michigan. The body was removed from the hospital to the Gilllg and Doan funeral home, where it may be viewed until time of the funeral. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the funeral home, and at 2 ' o’clock at the United Brethren i church, with Rev. James A. Weber officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery.

Good Fellows Club Reports On Distribution On Christmas Eve

The Delta Theta Tau sorority, sponsor of Decatur’s Good Fell-] ows club, which annually spreads; good cheer and happiness among I the less fortunate of Decatur on Christmas Eve, today announced the detailed report of articles distributed on last Christmas Eve. ! Contributions by organizations and individuals of the city to the Good Fellows club totaled $461.15, and every cent of this fund was expended for articles distributed to the city's needy. Baskets were distributed to 62 different families at the last holiday season. Sorority members, in announcing their detailed report, today expressed their heartfelt appreciation for assistance given by all persons and groups who contributed funds or needed articles, and to those who aided in distribution of the bask-i ets. |

I was hardest hit in what was described as one of j the worst blizzards in history of the section. Drifts I in spots were 30 feet deep.

TO SET SCHOOL BOUNDARY LINE Lines For New School Building Will Be Set Monday The establishing of the boundary lines for the new Decatur high school building will lie done Monday. City Engineer Ralph Roop will survey the site and the boundary lines will he set. It is planned to set the building back as far south as possible and as soon as the width of the alley back of the property, running between Third and Fourth streets is determined, stakes can be set for the building. The new high school building will face north on Jefferson street. There will be a space of more than 20 feet on the east and west side from the building to the property line. ■ Schinnerer and Truemper. general contractors for the building will commence next week on the 1 3C wcr construction, if weather conditions permit Taps will be made into the Jefferson street sewer. o — 35 Years Subscriber To Daily Democrat Thirty-five years a reader of the Decatur Daily Democrat — that is the record of Phil L. Schieferstein, of Decatur, route one. Mr. Schieferstein subscribed to the dally during the first year of its existence as a daily, in 1903, which was also the first year for the mail route out of the local post office. He renewed his subscription Friday and recalled the days when he had to walk a mile and a quarter 25 times a year, through all kinds of weather, to get his copy of the weekly paper. Seven Couples Are Licensed To Marry Dan Cupid ended his extended "sit-down" strike today with a veritable barrage of marriage licenses, records in the county clerk’s office show. Since January 12 no applications for license had appeared on the marriage docket book until today when seven were listed. This 17-day interval when no applicants were listed is believed to have set a record for recent years.

The detailed report, showing the I amount in cash expended for the I various articles, follows: 1 Gloves I Caps 4 00 presses 42.56 Overalls and pants 6103 | Shirts 25.40 Sweaters and coats 40.50 Stockings and sox 25.85 Robes 5.42 Diaper material 8.32 Blankets 5-®0 Underwear 34.75 Dress material - 5.72 Slips 7 50 Skirts 600 Shoes and overshoes 42.33 Nightgowns 4-50 Candy 22.90 Toys 39.85 Coal 37.50 Groceries 38.00 ; Total $461.15

Three Explosions In Italian Munitions Factory Take Heavy Death Toll; Hundreds Injured

SLIGHT RELIEF IS FELT FROM GOLD WEATHER Temperatures Rise But New Cold Wave Forecast By Sunday By United Press A lull between successive cold waves brought temporary relief today throughout the Mississippi and Ohio valley regions but on the Atlantic seaboard temperatures dropped to new lows. Temperatures were considerably above normal over most of the western two-thirds of the country, but U. S. weather forecaster J. R. Lloyd predicted a new cold wave “more severe" than any of the week for central states by Sunday. 'i He forecast more snow for the ' central great plains area. Great I Lakes region and Mississippi val-. ley. East of the Alleghanies. New York and the New England states shivered as the mercury dropped to near zero levels. Heavy seas were reported along the seaboard. At Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., coast 1 guardsmen received a distress | message from the Norwegian freighter Newsome, aground off the coast of Nicaragua, that pound- ' Ing seas might force its crew to abandon ship. Two ships were standing by but were prevented . I from lending immediate aid because of mountainous waves. Much colder weather and snow was reported for the territory from I West Virginia to Canada. Tem- : peratures in the deep south hover’l ed near the freezing mark. It was I unseasonably warm west of the I Rockies. :' Drifts and heavy ice coverings ' 1 still impeded traffic in Michigan,; Illinois and Wisconsin. Conditions j were reported teLuiulug tc EC-rrua! i as emergency highway crews workj ed double shifts to clear highways. Government observers watched an ice gorge forming in the Mississippi river near Montpelier, 111. | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) CUTS HOURS OF OFFICE WORKERS United States Steel Reduces Hours Os “White Collar’’ Workers Pittsburgh. Jan. 29 —<U.R) —A salary cut amounting to 9 1-11 percent and less work per week for all ■ “white collar” employers of the I United States Steel corporation ' and subsidiary concerns will be put J into effect Feb. 1 in a "share-the-l work” employment plan. i A spokesman for U. S. Steel to- ■ day said the wage cut and shorter ■ working hours would be continued i until a “definite" Improvement In i steel operation conditions is seen. . The “share-the-work" program was • conceived, it was said, to combat the revenue shortage because of i lack of steel orders. Approximately 23,000 office workers and executives of the steel empire will be affected by the new working schedule, which will prevent discharge of about 3,000 workers in offices from coast to coast. "That wage reduction,” the 1 spokesman said, “appears the best way of evading dismissal of a number of our men and women.” ' The "share-the-work” program i was modeled, somewhat, after the plan by which mill workers in most steel plants now are employ- ' I ed. While labor organizations had ’' nothing to do with the office work’l ers system, the steel workers 1 organizing committee, a committee 1 for industrial organization unit. ! <CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) , I O Scarlet Fever And Measles Reported The weekly morttldlty report * from the state board of health for 1 the week ending January 22, shows ' that seven cases of measles and 1 two scarlet fever were reported In 1 Adams county. No other contagious | 1 diseases were reported. 1 The report discloses that 111 ■ j cases of measles have 'been report- 1 iI ed in Delaware county.

ADVISERSTAKE OPPOSITE SIDES Richberg And Jackson At Cross Purposes On Monopoly Washington. Jan. 29.—<U.R>—New deal business advisers are talking at cross purposes for White House approval today In a pulling and hauling contest that will be decided in President Roosevelt’s forthcoming monopoly message to congress. Two trusted White House advisers—Solicitor General-Designate Robert H- Jackson, and former NRA general counsel and Administrator Donald R. Rlchberg—seem to be as far apart as the poles on their industrial planning philosophies. Both men have already access to Mr. Roosevelt. Jackson told a Syracuse, N. Y., audience last night that he was skeptical of any industrial planning which would be made in the presence of "observers or conferees representing the government or with some kind of governmental representative, either participating in the decisions or approving them.” “Industries are represented in such negotiations by their own specialists," he said. "They are paid to look after the industry's interests which frequently conflicts with that of the consuming public. They cannot be expected to serve two masters. “The government would be represented by jack-of-all trades, a lawyer perhaps, with theoretical knowledge, at best, often with neither experience nor staff to measure the full effect of the polI icies with which he is dealing. Many kinds of business wonid confer with government, not to get ; advice of a government counsel, i but immunity from the penal provisions of inc anti-trusl laws. “Unless I misjudge the temper of congress, it is in no mood to authorize any government officer to dispense immunities from those laws." Jackson's words carry considerable weight because he is head of the justice department anti-trust division and he has just been given a presidential vote of confidence by nomination to be solicitor general. Jackson is believed by many ! persons to be Mr. Roosevelt's canI didate for governor of New York I this year and possibly the presi--1 dent’s current favorite to follow him to the White House in 1940. "The blunt truth is," Jackson said, "that no one has yet pointed away by which the public's interest in the policies of an industry can be protected short of being represented in the day-to-day management and control. This would be a degree of public participation which I do not believe business men will grant or government can accept.” In any such relaxation ot antitrust laws, Jackson saw further opportunity for concentrtion of control over industry and he predicted that congress will continue its efforts not to foster such control but to break it down. Jackson is rated now among the so-called radical new dealers, largely because of his speeches last month denouncing concentration of industrial and financial power and implying that capital was on strike to coerce the Roosevelt administration. Rlchberg, who is counted among the conservative new deal advisers, helped draft Mr. Roosevelt's Jan. 3 message to congress. Speaking in New York City earlier this week he proposed almost exactly what Jackson opposes —a relaxation of anti-trust laws. Richberg said there should be written into a law a more precise definition of monopoly and illegal restraint of trade. o Blind Whittier Is Gaining Attention Jerry Hockenberry, the blind I Decatur native, whose whittling attracted considerable attention here during the Centennial in 1936 is making quite a name for himself in other parts, according to word received here. Hockenberry, an expert whittler |ls displaying a wooden saw mill, which he built himself, in Celina, I Ohio, and larger cities, the report I stated.

Price Two Cents.

Death Toll Expected To Reach 40; Mussolini ArI rives On Scene To Take Charge. KING ON SCENE Segni. Italy, Jan. 29 — <U.R) — Three terrific explosions shattered the powder sections of the muni* ' tlons factory here today, taking a ; heavy toll of life and injuring i hundreds. I Premier Benito Mussolini arrived ■to take charge. King Victor Em- • manuel also hurried to the scene • from Rome. Ten bodies had been recovered -by mid-afternoon but it was esti- > mated that when the debris had • been searched thoroughly the death - toll would reach between 30 and 40. t It was estimated 300 soldiers were 1 slightly injured by glass and flying . fragments, and approximately 150 r factory workers injured, of whom some may die. Mussolini was accompanied by i Achille Starace, secretary-general . of the Fascist party and Price , Colonna, governor ot Rome. Mua- . solini hastily sized up the situation and ordered all cellars in the immediate vicinity flooded. As soon as he arrived. Mussolini questioned one of the head engineers, whose head was swathL ed in bandages. “Have you enough water.” thw , premier asked. He then ordered ( the flooding, which ended the search for bodies. 1 The factory at which the explo sion occurred is a powder plant situated at Segni Sealo, the lower part of Segni. It has been working on a 24 hour schedule and was [' being worked at full capacity at the time of the blast. ' Villagers evacuated Segni in fear ’ that big depots of the plant might be ignited. One hundred ambulances and 300 carabinieri arrived from Rome and 1 other points, and began taking care ' ■ of the injured as rapidly as posI aible King Victor Emmanuel and , Queen Elena arrived and at once , took an active part in aiding the , wounded. Police, fearing more explosions, would permit no one near the sac- . tory. It was necessary to work slowly . and cautiously in removing the . wounded. ’ One villager, describing the ter- . rifle force of the explosion, said he believed there had been an earthquake because the explosions . came in a series. r O , County Corn Show At Monroe Feb. 3-4 The annual Adams county corn ; show will again be held this year ■ with the Monroe Farmers' instiI tute at the Monroe high school i building Thursday evening and Frit day, February 3 and 4. i The program is being arranged by C. W. R- Schwartz, chairman . of the institute. The Thursday evening program . will open at 7:15 o’clock and will . be presented by pupils of the Mon* i roe high school. The institute I proper will begin Friday morning | with special music and talks. Judg.l ing is also to be done Friday. _ I —a ASK RETURN OF LOCAL PASTOR 1 Nazarene Congregation Asks Return Os Rev. r Brandyberry . By a unanimous vote of the con* j gregation of the Church of the Naf zarene here, the Rev. Paul Brandyf berry, church pastor, has been asked to return, it was announced today. The Rev. J. W. Montgomery, ot Fort Wayne, conducted the election at the church. 1 Rev. Brandyberry’s present term expires in August, when the annual I district meeting te held. The return ■ of the pastor will be approved at i this meeting. i Rev. Brandyberry was first api pointed pastor of the church in • Ju’y, 1936. about two month* after the church was built and organized. At that time, there were 19 char* . ter members and an average attend* . ance in Sunday School of 18. At pre>- ■ i sent there are 54 members and an I average attendance ot 70.