Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 31 January 1938 — Page 1

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'SrEME COURT Bolds power Ilaror board l gn ’t Enjoin Proceed- . Stanley Kmi , Kaki" Oath ■ . u.. i ‘ i,,hi t ": lly Al.ition-" iHitlding .« th■! plain*. iiivolvJ ;. ruling on j . appeal pro■S. |,| I- t..k- a until uf "' r ■ K|L KX. ' ""'" h,, ' , ’’‘’ l^K a!l 4!L thwK ~ • . h A.-übl b]^K"> V ■>!•■ if ’l’ l ’ ~,nl ’ '.-J -AKflinc .1 ’«”■ - •’ '‘Ja |llin N ‘li'l parti, ipat-. was, BranKlttision said, "that th- disBrW v.as without power to hea:dill not in any L Bpr into or affect the flow K |r t , .il'.d d'bi'il jurisdiethe ■ The th-v did Krork ■ w i Hl-n < <>nships were deI;.. ; < the plant p-int-d that the act v-st. il th- power to * engaging rr.f.-Jr • ' ' h WWJBTET) 0N PAGE THREE) j WnS JERSEY ■show at fair Olpal Jersey Parish ■fiw To Be Held Here ft J During Fair « Their ' - .Jersey hreodthe northeastern Indiana Parish show district, met in agent’s office Saturday antl decided to hold their MN parish show in connection Decatur Free Street Fair full week in August Thoee were Merwin Miller, secreBlSßthe state Jersey Cattle Club Prl■■•?, director of the club; chairman of the North-Jers.-y Parish show district, Wk 1 Griffiths. C.irist John KorCavitt ami Son, Sanford >uMM, 11-”.',.-n Stemy. and County Mosser appointed the E3ft ; ~ p: ' sl!lt i.‘ ( ‘nibers of the ItW”’ committee. It will be the |®7 c ' this committee to find boys who wish to enter the ( alf club and to assist £*■ > finding calves suitable for Th. y will assist the memfinding the means for fint! - :r venture. Boys and girls age. from 10 to 20, desiring LJ r !he Jersey 4il Calf Club, in touch with a member |JB cnninp"-,,. C ow tester FraRHB’fie county agent. Following I itsi - on "-’ | i' I, ee wfll Investigate |^t p , iicant ' farming conditions, MB determine the quality of calf IzW le an<i 'earn what steps are to nance the member, on V committee wiil meet again 'Z3H*' 11 12. at which time proscandidates will be considplans laid for a Jersey ■Jf 1 banquet, i n which the club tg^B 8 W 'll be recognized and ‘ , 1 “ e given by a nationally ?»■ Oree d represenatlvo. p ERATtJRE READINGS E Jft mocrat thermometer |^ft' ni 12 2:00 p.m 19 vAy ni 13 3:00 p.m... 21 |K- 16 WEATHER r tonight and Tuesday; ÜbJA e east, ast portion tonight, |K S 0 co, d Tuesday afternoon.

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WPA Teacher Wins "WK.'* A Michael Lantz An instructor in the Works Progress Administration at New Ro- ! chelle. N. Y.. Michael Lantz wins a federal competition and prize of $45,600 for his statuary group. I laintz’a designs, depicting work- , horses being held in control by (powerful men. are intended for the terrace in front of the Federal I Trade Commission building in Washington. CHICKENTHiEFSUSPECT HELD Joe Rodgers Os Near Monroeville Is Taken Into Custody The continuance of an intensive investigation into the theft of a number of chickens late last fall ! led Sunday to the arrest of one Adams county young man. Joe Rodgers, 23, who gave his home as near Monroeville, was arrested Sunday northeast of Monroe on the charge. Sheriff Dallas Brown made the arrest after concluding investigatics tetf* th® th aO Rndeern waa ! brought to the Adams county jail. ( He will be held there until | | brought Into court for arraign- ! ment. Charges of petit larceny were filed against Rodgers today The chickens were allegedly taken i from the farm of Mrs. A. L. Macy, east of the city. He w4ll be arraigned in the Adams circuit court. Local authorities state that Har(CONTTNUFfD ON PAGE THREE) O — No Extension For Signing For Program Members of the Adams county rural electrification committee to-; day announced that there wfll be no extension of time to sign up with the new rural electrification program for the six south townships of the county without penalty. On February 6, the names of the signers will be sent to the Jay county committee for inclusion in the master project which will cover the six south Adams county townships, al’, townships in Jay county and two townships in Randolph county. At-1 ter the names are filed, a penalty will be assessed to others who want to come in the program. GLEN BUNNER IS SERIOUSLY HURT Adams County Man Badly Injured At Local Plant Today I Glen Doras Bunner. 26, of Decatur route three, is thought to be in a serious condition at the Adams countiy memorial hospital as result , of injuries sustained while at work this morning. r Bunner, an employe of Hie Central Soya coscpeny, was hurt about 8 o’clock when a pile of sacks, containing beet pulp, fell on him. He was brought to the local hoepii tai, where it was ascertained that he suffered an injury to his back. , The attending physician stated that I he was seriously hurt. The physician stated that the extent of the injury could not be definitely determined until Xrays were made. lHe was working on the sacks when the pile nearest him gave way falling on him. He was not first thought seriously hurt, but upon examination it was decided to take him to the hospital. The Injured man, who lives east of the city, is a nepherw of Sephus Melchi, local police chief.

SCHRICKER TO BE SPEAKER AT FARM BANQUET Lieutenant-Governor To Speak At Annual Banquet February 21 Henry F. Schricker. lieutenant-gov- , ernor and commissioner of agriculture of Indiana, has accepted an jnvltation to speak at the fourteenth annual Adams county farmers’ banquet to be held at the Monroe M. E. church, Monday evening, February 21. The ladies of the congregatlon will serve the meal. This will be the first speaking | engagement lieutenant • governor I Schricker has filled in Adams counity. He toured several of the industries of Decatur during the McMillen Day program last fall. Lieutenant • governor Schricker i comes from Starke county. He was a farm boy and lived on a farm during many of the years of his life. I.ater he became editor of a country weekly newspaper in Knox. During the depression he was president of one of the few small coun-1 ■ try bunks which remained open. He ie considered one of the best speakers in Indiana. The annual Adams county farmers’ banquet is one of the outstanding features of the agricultural extension adult program in the county. It was first held in Monroe, sponsored by the five acre corn club and now has come to embrace (all adu’t extension activities. Mar- ' tin Busche, who was county agent during the time the banquet was held for the first time, was the chief speaker at the affair held last year in Geneva. The banquet has now been held in every community in the county. Because of the popularity of the affair in the last few years, the size of the banquet hall has been the only limit on the size of the crowd. Dale D. Moses, president of the Adams county dairy herd Improve(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) O — JURIES CHOSEN THIS MURNINC ■ I ■ ■ W ■• ■ x* ■• • «■«« • ■— Grand And Petit Jurors Drawn For February Term Os Court The grand and petit juries for the February term of the Adams circuit court were drawn today by the Adams county board of jury commissioners. The board is composed of Henry F. Gallmeyer, Forrest Elzey and G. Remy Bierly, clerk of the court. The names of five men and one women were drawn for the grand ; jury. They are: Grover Neuen- . schwander, Berne; Edwin J. FuellI ing. Root township; William Noll. St. Mary’s township; Victor Ulman, Union township; Mary Custer, St. Mary's township and I Robert Fuelling. Jr., Preble. Nine men and three women will form the petit jury for the term, which opens here on February 7. They are: Earl A. Crider, Decatur; Edith Yoder, Hartford township: William Biery. Hartford - township; Vernon C. Aurand, Decatur; Otto Stuckey, Berne; Edward Reppert. Preble township: Clyde Harden, Union township; ( Edna G Dean. Root township: ' Charles Nyffler, Washington township; Cecile P. Connor. Geneva; ! Edward L. Arnold. Kirkland township and Fred Thieme, Decatur. Court will be resumed next Monday after a three weeks’ vacation, the first of that length in the memory of most local court officials. Several jury trials are expected ' to be heard during the next term 1 of court, including that of Beryl Harmon, 26-year old alleged Geneva rapist. John Roosevelt To Be Married June 18 • Boston, Jan. 31 —(UP) John Roosevelt, 21, youngest son of the president, and Miss Anne Lindsay Clark 21. of Boston and Nahant, will be married June 18 in the Little Nahan’s Episcopal church, according to Mrs. F. Haven Clark, the prospective bride's mother. — Aged Woman Suffers Fractured Hip Sunday The high winds Sunday were blamed for an injury to Mrs. Gottlieb Christener, 79, living northeast of Berne. Mrs. Gottlieb was bowled over by the wind as she stepped into the yard, with the fall resulting in a fractured hip. She was brought to the Adams county memorial hO3- ' pltal.

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Banquet Speaker Henry F. Schricker, lieutenantgovernor of Indiana, will be the principal speaker at the annual Adams county farmers' banquet, which will be held at the Monroe M. E. church Monday evening. ( February 21. j ESTIMATE 500 SPANIAROSDIE IN AIRRAIDS Two Nationalist Air Raids On Barcelona Take Heavy Toll Barcelona. Jan. 31.—W.PJ-Weary gangs of civilian men. impressed into duty in a police raid on cases, toiled throughout the night and into i today digging bodies from debris : in the old quarter of Barcelona after two nationalists air raids Sunday. Officially the deaths list, including only bodies found up to 10 o’cldtk last night, was 153, includ- | ing 47 children, with 106 wounded, ’ including 43 women. But morgue officials only an hour later said they had 288 bodies. Unofficial estimates put the probable total of deaths at 500. i Six nationalist airplanes raided the old quarter, with its narrow crooked streets and ancient buildings, at 9 a. m Sunday. Casualtfes then were heavy. From an ! over the city, following the trail of sirening ambulances, volunteers crowded into the old quarters to aid in removing dead and wounded. Then at 11 a. m. nine more planes swept over head and bombed the same quarter. This time rescue workers were caught. Long after the planes had gone Red Cross workers and stretcher bearers could be seen wandering about the ruined streets, dazed and bleeding. As they recovered their senses, they bandaged each other and went back to 1 work. In an official communique, the, government said that the raiding planes came from the direction of the Balearic Islands. It was asserted that one of the planes in I the scond raid was hit by an antiaircraft shell and fell 12 miles from the coast. Other planes lost speed, it was asserted, and “undoubtedly” had been hit. It was the worst raid of many of Spain's chief industrial city, and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DEATH CLAIMS HENRY MANGOLD Retired Farmer Dies Sunday Morning At Home In This City Henry Mangold, 77, retired farmer, died at his home in this city Sunday morning at 10 o’clock. I Death was caused by carcinoma. The deceased was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, May 23, 1860, , I the son of the late Abraham and Katherine Mangold. He came to | Adams county with his parents while a young boy and resided in Preble township until moving to this city several years ago. He had never married. Immediate survivors are a sister, Mrs. Henry Krick and a brother, Noah Mangold, both of Decatur. Two sisters and two brothers preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at the Black funeral home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, with the Rev. Charles M. Prugh, pastor of the Zion Reformed church, officiating. Burial will be made In the Decatur cemetery. The body may be viewed at the funeral home until time for the funeral services.

SUGAR BILL TO ( HELP GROWERS Congress Passes Appropriation Bill For Beet Growers The $39,940,000 sugar beet appropriation bill approved by Congress Sunday will affect all beet growers in this area, it was an- 1 tiounced today by J. Ward Calland. field superintendent of the Central i Sugar company. The bill was adopted by congress Saturday and is now awaiting the president's signature before becoming a law. The bill setting up the | sugar beet benefit program for' 1937, 1938, 1939 and 1940 was approved by congress at the last regular session held during the I first of last year. Because it was passed in the last days of the session and was not signed by the president until after congress had , ' adjourned, no appropriations bill ' i was adopted at that time. No ap-1 I proprlation bills were considered | the close of 1937. i at the special session held during' 1938 Crop Payment The new bill provides for pay- ■ ment only for the 1937 crop. However, provisions for the payment of the 1938 crop are included in the regular appropriations bill, which has not yet been considered ( by congress. County Agent L. E. Archbold has announced that the administra- i tion of the benefit payments will be done by the soil conservation i committees in each county. These committees will check compliance. E. W. Busche, president of the ' Central Beet Growers association, and who was consulted by mem-1 : bers of the congressional committee before the benefit program was adopted, stated at a recent meet- ( ing of growers that the Adams : county farmers will have little difficulty proving compliance on their 1937 crops, because of the high standards of labor payments and crop production in effect in this area. Payments Estimated The payment on the 1937 beet (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) MINOR WRECKS OVER WEEKEND Rain, Slippery Pavements Cause Accidents Over Weekend Rain and slippery pavements caused a number of minor accidents Saturday night and early Sunday morning. Warren Harrod, 12, son of William Harrod of Schirmeyer street, received minor head injuries when his bicycle was struck by a car driven by Floyd Baker, of Berne I route two. at the corner of Elm and Winchester streets. Saturday evening at 5:45 o'clock. Mr. Baker told police he did not see the boy until his car struck him. The bicycle did not have a light on it. Warren sustained a cut over the eye, which required four or five stitches to close and some minor contusions. ( He was treated at a local physician’s office. Early Sunday morning a car ran into another at a stop light here when the brakes failed to hold on North Second street at the Monroe street intersection. Sherman Koos was the driver of one car. in which his wife. Herb Brown and Miss Dorothy Young were passengers. Mr. Koos had stopped at the stop light. Don Gage drove up from behind in a car in which Miss Mary Jane Fritzinger and Walter Brnnnegraff were also riding. The car (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Notices of Candidacy To Be Published in Daily Democrat. For the information of candidates. at their request, we wish to announce that we will again publish political announcements in listed form, beginning, Monday, February 7, 1938. The list will run not less than ' four times a week until the day of the election. The charge per candidate for these announcements will be $1.50 per week. SPECIAL OFFER For the period from February 7, ’ 1938 to election day, May 3, a total lof 12 weeks, a special price of $12.50 will be made. * • * Charges for all political advertising, including the printing of campaign cards, literature and cuts is payable in advance as in previous years. • * * A few samples of how the listings will appear is shown on page 4 of today’s paper.

SEVERE WINTER ENVELOPES ALL OF MIDDLEWEST Slightly Warmer Weather Is Predicted For Tuesday By United Press I Bitter cold enveloped the middlewest today and moved rapidly toward the Atlantic seaboard. While the middlewest shivered iin sub-zero weather, the Atlantic I and Pacific states were enjoying i unseasonably warm temperatures. U. S. Forecaster J. R. Lloyd at Chij cago said the cold would strike ; the eastern coast late today or | early Tuesday. j Temperatures at Chicago fell 46 I degrees to zero in 24 hours. Lloyd said comparatively warmer weather would boost temperatures about 20 degrees by tomorrow in the area between the Rocky MounI tains and the Alleghenies. Ice jams at the junction of the Rock and Mississippi rivers in northern Illinois began to break up. releasing pent up flood waters which had driven lowlands residents from their homes in the Rock river valley. One hundred families fled their homes south of Rock Island during early stages of the flood. The cold wave spread southward to the Gulf of Mexico. It was 20 I above at Memphis and 28 at San Antonio. Tex. The weather bureau reported a reading of 50 de-1 grees below zero at White River,' Ontario, 200 miles north of Sault | Ste. Marie, Mich. Other representative tempera- ! tures: Duluth, Minn., -24; Wausau. Wis. -20; Green Bay, Wis., -14; Madison, Wis., -10; Minneapolis, Minn., -12; Moorhead, Minn., -20; Omaha. Neb. •8; Kansas City, Mo., 2 above; Peoria, 111., zero; Grand Rapids, Mich., 8 above. A snow plow bored through 30- : foot snow drifts attempting to reach 60 lumberjacks marooned since last Monday in northern Michigan. The lumberjacks' food supply was reported low. i Firemen from Kokomo. Ind., rushed to aid in fighting a $500,000 | cannery fire at Tipton but several men were overcome by the cold and had to be treated for exposure before they could fight the flames. Five persons were burned to death and three others injured in an Oxford. 0., home when kerosene, being used to kindle a fire, exploded. Disastrous fires occurred in three Nebraska towns as near-blizzard conditions prevailed Sunday. Heavy property damage was caused by the fires at Wall--1 ace, Humboldt and Ogallala. Storm warnings were posted from Sandy Hook, N. J., to Eastport, Me., as the U. S. weather bureau at Washington reported a 1 disturbance of “marked intensity" moving northeastward ‘from the Great Lakes region. Severe cold was forecast for all states east of the Alleghenies. It may be accompanied by snow flurries. Deputy Collector Here On Saturday Persons who wish assistance in making their federal income tax returns will be assisted here Sat- | urday, February 5. by a deputy colI lector for the office of Will H. Smith, internal revenue collector. ANNUAL DINNER PLANNED HERE Democratic Women’s Club Plans Washington Day Banquet Committees for the annual Washington Day dinner of the Adams county Democratic women's club, which will ibe held here Tuesday, February 22, were announced today iby Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp, club , president. The annual affair sponsored by ( the Democratic women of the coun'ty will be staged in Decatur, the (exact place to be announced later. The committees, as announced by the president are: Program: Mrs. John Tyndall, : Miss Bernice Nelson, Mrs. Arthur E. Voglewede and Mrs. O. L. Vance. Dinner: Mrs. Ralph E. Roop, Mrs. Dallas Brown and Miss Mildred Niblick. ! Ticket: For Decatur, Mrs Alice. ( Christen. Mrs. Adrian Coffee, Mrs. Fred Heuer, Mrs. Lawrence Green, Mrs. George iSquier, Miss Betty ( Macklin aiid Miss Anna Nesswald. For Berne: Mrs. Roy Dubach,, Mrs. . Leonard Baurgartner. For Geneva: ( Mrs. J. A. Long and Mrs. Harold ( Mattax.

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Slapped By Japs ! _ I I ‘ a ; 1 Ji I s I kJ John B. Allison ' John B. Allison, U. S. charge j d'affairs and now acting consul 'at Nanking, was slapped in the face by a Japanese centry when he attempted to go inside a Chinese house. Japan has apologized. COMMENDS NEW SAFETY LIGHTS — Earl Dunbar Commends Plans For Guarding Crossings — Earl Dunbar, assistant director of the governor’s committee on pubj lie safety, commends very highly the flasher signal system proposed! by the Pennsylvania railroad at four of the street crossings in this city. Mr. Dunbar wrote to Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse, stating that the j state safetiy committee was held to see that steps were taken here to ( install traffic lights, Mr. Dunbar has visited Decatur j several times and has talked before ' I the high schools and service cluibs Ton eo'fety. His letter to the mayor , follows: x nave just read in the papers where the Pennsylvania railroad has offered to place flasher signal systems at their crossings in the city of Decatur. I believe that this one of the best safety measures that could be obtained for your city. "A great many persons have been killed at railroad crossings in the past year, and in my work in northern Indiana I have advocated the flasher system becase of the fact, that it gives 24 hour service daily. Having spent some time in Decatur I in safety work, you no doubt realize that after this system has been installed, I will at least breathe a sigh of relief. ■ “dn passing through your city this week, I noticed the new sysI tem at the Erie railroad and I am ’ mighty glad to sec these safety measures being brought about. “If I can be of any service to you (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Health Board Essay Contest Is Closed Entires in the essay contest of the state board of health were to : ibe turned into the school superintendent's office today, C. E. Striker i county school head stated. A number of students of county high schools were expected to turn in essays on sanitation before the close of the day. The essays will be graded by Dr. F. L. Grandstaff, county health officer, as required by the state j board. o John I). Aber’s Wife Dies In New Mexico Mrs. Robert Garard received word Sunday morning from her nephew, John D. Aber, formerly of . Decatur, of the death of his wife, Rachel Diggs Aber, at their home :in Gallup, New Mexico. The message did not state the cause of ( death. Mr. Aber left Decatur about 10 years ago. Surviving besides the husband is one son, Richard, j Funeral services will be held in Gallup Tuesday.

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Mrs. Cordelia McF’eely And Daughter, Mrs. Florence Hawk, Fatally Burned As Fire Damages Home. STOVE EXPLODES Two Fort Wayne women, both natives of Decatur, met death late Sunday in the blazing structure of their six-room home, when an exploding kerosene stove ulmost completely ruined the bungalow at 2503 Poinsette Drive, in that city. The victims were Mrs. Cordelia McFeely, 78, who was born in thia city, moving to Fort Wayne about 45 years* ago. and her daughter, Mrs. Florence Hawk, 47, also a native of this city, leaving about the same year. Sisters Here Mrs. Rena Huffman and Mrs. James Bain, of this city, are sisters of Mrs. McFeely. Both victims died of third degree burns. Mrs. Hawk died in the muddy driveway of the home, as she fled the building with her clothing ablaze from the spraying kerosene. She collapsed dead in the drive. The charred body of the aged Mrs. McFeely was found in the doorway to a bedroom, almost unrecognizable. The charred remains were removed to another room until the coroner arrived. Firemen had to extinguish the I flames still licking at the feet of the victim who died in the driveI way. Mrs. Hawk was the daughter of the elder lady. Caring For Mother Mrs. Hawk, whose husband oper- ( ated a nearby grocery, had been helping at the McFeely home, caring for her aged mother. It Is believed that the kerosene stove exploded as she was preparing the evening meal, igniting both their clothing. Damage to the home (mounted to $3,000. To Bury There Burial will be made in the Parker cemetery at Fort Wayne following double funeral services Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the I Klaehn & Sons’ funeral parlors. Because of their condition the | bodies cannot be viewed, the funer!al directors announced. Surviving I Mrs. McFeely are three sons, Jack- ' son R., Fred T. and Donald H., ail jof Fort Wayne, who are wellj known here. The two sisters of ! Decatur, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive. Surviving Mrs. Hawk, beI sides the husband, are a son, Glen Ansberger, of Fort Wayne and the three brothers. Firemen were forced to lay almost a quarter of a mile of hose to reach the home, situated on a knoll. o Frank Liniger Out For Re-Nomination Frank Liniger, present county commissioner from the second district, today announced that he would be a candidate for re-nomin-ation to the office on the Democratic ticket in the May primary. Mr. Liniger is now serving his first term in the office. o FIRE DAMAGES CODNTRYSTORE Barr Grocery At Linn Grove Is Damaged By Flames Sunday Fire early Sunday morning caused more than S6OO damage to the William Barr grocery store at Linn Grove, in the southern part of the county. An overheated furnace set fire to the walls which quickly burned to the ground floor of the (structure. The flames were first noticed by ' a neighbor, Woodrow Yodor, who turned in the alarm. The Berne fire deupartment was called and arrived on the scene in time partly to check the rapidly spreading flames. Aided by the high winds of Sunday morning, however, the flames had spread over nearly the entire building before the department was summoned. A great portion of the stock of merchandise was either burned or damaged by smoke and water. The loss wae partly covered by insurance, the owner stated.