Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 26 February 1938 — Page 1

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Former Chairman Os State Tax Board Dies Wabash. Ind , Feb. 26 — (U.R) Relatives here were Informed today of the death of James ShoI Walter, 57 former chairman of the Indiana state board of tax commissioners. at Tyler. Tex Showalter. former prominent Republican. began working for the ’ tax board In 1919 and was made ! chairman during the adralniitra-! tloti of Gov Harry O. Leslie, lie resigned shortly after (lov. Paul V. McNutt took office. The body will he returned here . for burial, relatives said I BUILDING BOOM PBEDICTED HEBE Contractors Predict Boom In Construction Work Here The opening within the next few months of the biggest building boom In the history of the community. is being predicted by several contractors here. The major work, of course, is to j be the construction of the new Decatur $250,000 junior-senior high school, which, weather permitting will proceed rapidly within the next few weeks. Heavy power machinery. Including a new drag line, is expected to speed up the excavation so that work on the laying of the founda- ; tlon and the beginning of the erecj tion of the super structure can ; commence within the next week or two. A notice of intention to issue ‘ bonds and of special appropriations Is now being published for the proposed $45,000 additiofi to the Monmouth school house. The Decatur housing authority has been collecting information preparatory to making a final api plication for a project here. The i government has already earmarked i $50,000 pending the successful qualification of the city as one 1 having a definite housing shortage i and sub-standard housing in some ■ sections. It will be necessary to ; raise 10 per cent or $5,000 in the l 1 focal community. A bond sale for i the entire amount will be held. with the government purchasing i $45,000 of the $50,000 to be issued, providing the city can qualify. Banking officials, dealers and workmen have been examining the | i new FHA act passed by congress, making the terms better for new house construction and re-opening the loans on remodelling jobs. Since the first of the year sever- j al applications have been received for FHA loans for new houses. In addition many more Inquiries have . been made, a number ot which , probably will result in formal applications for loans. Remodelling will be heavy in the next few months, according to dealers who are planning to push the loan features of the new FHA . act. Several applications have already been received More than half a dozen business houses are considering the installation of new fronts, which probably will be done this spring. Two houses are now nearing completion in the city. Carpenters, painters and wall paperers have enjoyed more em--1 ployment than usual throughout the winter months on minor repair remodelling work. Farmers have continued the ; building of new farm buildings and repairs to present buildings • throughout the winter. ' o Japanese Claim 30 Planes Shot Down Shanghai, Feb. 26 —(UP) — A ! Japanese communique said today that 30 Russian and American-made airplanes had been shot down in a gigantic air battle, over Nanchang, capitol of Kiangsi province. , Chinese reported that Russian pilots with their forces shot down eight Japanese craft in the fight which involved 100 planes. Nothing was said regarding Chinese losses, ; but the Chinese also claimed a "great victory.” Fearing further attacks on the island of Formosa, off the east coast of China, the Japanese command ordered two destroyer flotillas to return to Japan to be euipped with additional anti-aircraft guns, the Ohinese asserted. o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER ■! 8:00 a m 32 10:00 a m 33 9:00 a.m 32 11:00 a m 32 WEATHER Unsettled and warmer tonights more or less cloudiness Sunday, with moderate temperature.

FRENCH LEADER ASSERTS NATION TOBACKACCOBO Foreign Minister Delbos Says France Will Stand By Allies - ■■ Paris. Feh. 26— (U.P) —Foreign , Mluisler Yvon Delbos told the chamber of deputies today: “We will not permit the installs--1 tlon of any hegemony in central Europe. No racial excuses can he used for mixing in the affairs of another stale. France has ties with three states And as regards j Czechoslovakia 1 reaffirm that our j ' engagements will he executed if necessary ” The engagement to Czechosloj vakia is. in cold essence, to go to her defense if she Is attacked by | (lermany. Delbos spoke for the popular front government on the climactic j j day of a foreign policy debate at j whose end Premier Camille Chau- j temps was determined to force a ! confidence vote. Adolf Hitler had spoken; Chanj cellor Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria had told his country's stand; Vis- j count Halifax had succeeded An- j thony Eden as British foreign min- | ister with a mandate to seek rapprochement with Italy and tiermany. Now it was Fiance’s turn and Delbos was her spokesman. And he spoke with clarity and force. He said that France would not abdicate her interests in central Europe. He said that she wanted peace hut not peace at any price, j He said that she wanted disarma-1 ment but that until it came, she would keep a powerful army. He | revealed that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain In a letter to Premier Camille Chautemps assured France of Britain’s faithfulness | to French-British cooperation. He told the crowded chamber: “Some here propose a policy of abdication. They insist that France withdraw behind her physical frontiers. But that is contrary to France’s mission, her tradition, her commitments, her friendships, so the government resolutely re- • Jscts It.” Delbos rejected the idea that war was Inevitable. But he Intimated that France would face it if she were forced to. | As regards Britain, he said that France was In closest contact with her. That Britain was informing her fully of conversations with Germany and Italy. As to demands of left wing eIe<CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) SMALL FARMERS WILL BENEFIT Operators of Small Farms To Benefit Under New Farm Bill Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 26 (Special) Larger agricultural conservation program payments will go to operators of small farms who cooperate In the 193 S program, as a result of changes which the recently enacted agricultural adjustment act i of 1938 made In the method by, which payments are to he made this year, says L. M. Volger, chairman of the state committee at Purdue University. To provide for a scaling upward of the payments on small farms, the farm act provides a system of increasing the payments to farmers who would earn less than S2OO under the regular rates. The following scale will he used: WTien i payment (at regular rates) is not more than S2O, the total payment will be increased 40 per cent; payments of S2O to S4O will be increased SB, plus 20 per cent of j amount over S2O; payments of S4O to S6O will be increased sl2, plus 10 per cent of the amount over S4O; payments of S6O to $lB6 will 1 be increased sl4; and, payments of $lB6 to S2OO will be increased to S2OO. This scaling upward of the smaller payments will be a first charge against funds available for payments. Knights Os Columbus Bazaar Monday Night The public has been Invited to attead the bazaar to be staged Monday night at the K. of C. Hall by the Knights of Columbus lodge here. IA card party wilt open the festivities, starting at 8 o’clock and will be followed by a dance at 10:30, o’clock. Awards will be made to the various winners at cards. Admission to I the affair will be 25 cents per per- | son.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 26, 1938.

Townsend to Fight Jail Term jlWßfgg fFfr* In Washington where he had come to serve a 30-day jail sentence for contempt of a congressional committee. Dr. Francis E. Townsend. "1-year-old leader of the Townsend pension movement, changes his , mind He is seen telling reporters he will appeal the case to the U. S. supreme court. Dr. Townsend walked out on a congressional investigation in 1936.

ELECTION BOARD i HOLDS MEETING — Adams County Election I ' Board Plans For Pri- • I maries May 3 i Plans for the approaching May primary were furthered this morning in an organization meeting of the Adams county election board. Members of the board are: W. P. Robinson, Democrat, chairman: Homer D. Lower, Republican, vice- ! chairman and G. Remy Bierly, counI ty clerk, ex-officio member. The Decatur Daily Democ-at was awarded the contract for printing of the ballots. Several other important rulings were listed by the board in way of explanation to candidates and voters. They include: | ijn the event the same name ap- ' pears on petitions of two candidates j from the same party for the same 'office, the name will be accepted on the petition of the fi-st candi- : date to file. Filing dates are March 1 to lApril 1 2. i Candidates are urged to file petiitions at an early date; as soon after the first day as possible Petitions are required for, all candidates with the exception of those of precinct committeemen. De’egates to the state convention require no declaration of candidacy, but the board insists that candidates for delegates be consulted and approval granted befor petitions are filed. MOVE IS MADE AGAINST BUND Injunction (iranted In Gary Against German Activities Gary, Ind., Feb. 26— (U.P.) —A motion to make permanent an injunction banning all activities of the German - American Volksbund in Lake county. Indiana, will be heard March 8 by superior judge Bertram C. Jenkines. He issued a temporary order yesterday restraining the Volksbund from soliciting members or holding any meetings in Lake county. Named as defendants in the application, filed by Attorney Richard S. Kaplan, were Fritz Kuhn and Wilhelm Kunze, bund officials. Kaplan charged bund activities "endanger the happiness, good will reputation and homes of American citizens.” He said he acted as a citizen and a member of the Jewish faith. The injunction also prohibits the bund from attacking or villifying any member of the Jewish race, attacking the principles of the United States constitution, or leas- | ing any premises in the Lake | county. Kaplan said he was prepared to institute similar proceedings in Chicago or any other counties In j Indiana where he deemed it “necessary.”

Von Eichhorn Running For State Senate Seat Von A. "Pat" Eichhorn, of Uniondale, today announced that he! would be a candidate for the nomination of joint senator from Adams. Wells and Blackford counties on the Democratic ticket in the May primary. This will be Eichhorn’s third race for a state legislative office, having been defeated twice for the office of joint representative of Wells and Adams counties. He is the second candidate to announce for the position. Dwight Gallivan, of Lancaster township. Wells county. Wells circuit court reporter, having declared his candidacy previously. FIRE DAMAGES WABASH PLANT Damage Os Nearly SIOO,000 Is Caused By Fire Last Night Wabash, Ind., Feb. 26 —(UP)— Fire swept a two-story building of the American Rock Wool company plant laat night, causing damage estimated between $75,060 and fiX 1 ,- 000. Spontaneous combustion was the only theory advanced on the fire's origin. The Wabash fire department fought the blaze for more than three hours. A lack of water —the plant is located two miles west of here —seriously handicapped firemen. A favorable wind and fire wall j prevented flames from threading !to adjoining buildings. James R. Addington, company vice-president, said the burned building was used to store rock wool, a construction ; insulator material. Fire broke out on the second story and soon spread to the wood|pn roof and floring. Cardboard boxes in which wool was stored and empty cartons and sack 3 ignited easily. Railway freight cars on ; nearby side tracks eaght fire but j were pulled to safety and the flames ' extinguished before much damage had been done. The building was built last summer. Company officia's said the fire would not interrupt manufacturing j operations. ■ o Reuben Habegger Is Reported Improved The condition of Reuben Habegger, who was hurt Thursday while working at the Central Soya company, was reported by the attending physician to be improved today. Habegger sustained a brain conj cussion when an iron grating fell on hie head. The physic Tan stated that X-rays disclosed Habegger did not suffer a skull fracture. — o Berne Woman Suffers From Fractured Jaw Mrs. Enos W. Lehman is recovering at her home in Berno from a fractured jaw which she sustained several daye ago. Mrs. Lehman fainted and fell to the floor, suffering the injury. i

AUSTRIA FEARS NAZI RIOTING OVER WEEKEND Minor Anti-Jewish Riots Are Staged; Others Are Feared Vienna, Feh. 26.— (U.R/ —Hans l Schmid, pro-nazl mayor of Graz, announced his resignation today In protest against the government ban on demonstrations. Angry nazis indulged in a number of minor antl-semitic disorders here last night and this morning. They Jibed at and even attacked Jewish-looking persons in the streets. There had been no arrests but the incidents were symptomatic of a delicate situation. Police prepared for a week-ejid of expected disorders at Graz, turbulent capital of pro-nazt Styria province, and remained on the alert in nazi Carinthia and othe centers. Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, determined to face a showdown with the nazis, sent special instructions to police all over the | country to enforce a ban against 1 demonstrations or propaganda of any sort. Schuschnigg. it was reported, sent an order to Schmid to take a J "vacation" as the first move to- j ward ousting him. Schmid, de- ; fiant, said to the United Press of his having given permission to nazis to hold demonstrations: "The population full agreed with what 1 did. It would not be veryclever to force my resignation.” But after this apparent implied threat, he said he would resign. He said his resignation was to protest against what he considsrled the government's disavowal of his attempt to prevent serious riots. It was understood, however, that he decided to resign because of the revelation that he had stored away for days a nazi flag to fly on his city hall and that he had agreed to participate in a festival banquet of nazis at the cityy hall restaur- j i ant last Thursday night. Arrangements for this banquet showed with portentous plainness what Austrian nazist hink of the present situation. The dinner was to have celebrated the speech of Schuschnigg to the diet. It was to have been a celebration, ac- ! cording to reliable reports of an admission by Schuschnigg of his “capitulation" to nazi demands. Nazis listened to the speech with amazement and white hot anger. Before it was ended, even, arrangements for the dinner and celebration summarily were canceled. The celebration, it was explained, would have been premature. Schuschnigg seemed determined on a finish fight to exert his auth- j ority. Yesterday he addressed an emergency meeting of police heads from all over the country. He issu- j ed personal orders as regards enj forcement of public safety measures. Dr. Arthur Von Seyss-Inquart, nazi minister of interior —who is also a devout Roman Catholic and an old, close friend of Schuschnigg —presided. With him was the executive police head. Dr. Michael Skubl. a strong Schuschnigg man. However, it was Schuschnigg himself who issued the orders, apparently to emphasize that as head of : the government he is actually the supreme executive leader of all departments. MARY McCOLLUM RITES SUNDAY Funeral Services Will Be Held Sunday For Geneva Woman Funeral services will he hold Sunday for Mrs. Mary Catherine MeCo'lum, 83. widow of John McCollum, who died Thursday at midnight at her home in Geneva. Death resulted from infirmities and complications. The deceased was born in Jay county, but was nearly a life-long resident of Geneva. The services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Geneva U. B. church, of which she was a member. Burial will be made in the cemetery there. Surviving are the following children: James of Fort Wayne, Hiram of Putnamville, Mrs. OUie Huff and Jesse, both of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Bertha Martin of Geneva, Mrs. Alta Williams of Kansas and Frank of Lansing, Michigan. One son and the I husband preceded her in death.

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THIRD MURDER TRIAL MONDAY Finkenbiner To Go On Trial Monday For The Third Time Rochester, Ind., Kelt. 26 — (U.R) — The third murder trial of Robert Finkenbiner, now 23. for the murder of Howard (Pete) Holcomb In a Wabash county jail cell on the night of March 9, 1935, is scheduled to start Monday in the circuit court here. Finkenbiner’s first trial resulted in a conviction, which was reversed by the state supreme court on the grounds that handcuffs which the defendant was compelled to wear in the courtroom had prejudiced the Jury against him. At his second trial here last year, the jury was unable to reach a verdict after more than 24 hours of deliberation. The state charges that Finkenbiner. who had had a long standing quarrel with Holcomb over payment for the sale of an overcoat, ! killed Holcomb during an argument ! in the Wabash county jail where both were confined —Holcomb following his conviction for stealing a pocketbook and Finkenbiner for investigation after a dance hall fight. Finkenbiner’s defense was that the third man in the jail bullpen, j Charles Moore, was the killer. Moore was detained as criminally insane and today is confined in the state prison at Michigan City as a lunatic. The night of the murder Finkenbiner broke out of the jail and fled as far as El Paso. Tex . where he was caught a month later and returned to Wabash. He said he was afraid that he would be charged with the crime, alleging that on one occasion before several witnesses Holcomb threatened to kill. Selection of a jury is expected to require several days. Judge Albert Chippman of Marshall countywill preside as special judge. ROOSEVELT AND McNUTT CONFER Paul V. McNutt To Report Today On SinoJapanese Crisis Washington, Feb. 26 — (U.R) — 1 High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt of the Philippines will report in detail to President Roosevelt today on the Sino-Japanese conflict. McNutt held a preliminary conference with the president Thursday but said that they "merely scratched the surface" of the "brief-case full” of information ! which he obtained by flying to Shanghai and conferring with Rear j Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, com--1 ntander of the Asiatic fleet. ! No hint of McNutt's report has been released yet, although after Thursday's conference he indicated the position of United States military forces in China when he said I that Y’arnell is “figuratively sitting on a keg of dynamite.” A large portion of McNutt’s re- ! port, however, was expected to be on the effect of Japanese economic penetration into far eastern macj kets and industry. The conference follows another i warning sent by Secretary of State Cordell Hull to Japan that the rights of American nationals in China must be protected. Diplomatic observers here believed that the latest note clarified President Roosevelt's original announcement that Americans In the war zone remain there at their own risk. Many were of the opinion that ! Mr. Roosevelt’s firm isolationist stand of last summer was nullified when Hull had Joseph Grew, ambassador to Tokyo, deliver a note to the Japanese government objecting to “such jeopardizing of the lives of its nationals and of non-combatants generally and to the suggestion that its officials and nationals now residing in and ■ around Nanking should withdraw from the areas in which they are lawiully carrying on their legiti- | mate affairs.”

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TwoAdams County Teams To Meet In First Round Os Sectional Tourney At Fort Wayne. BERNE vs. OSSIAN Decatur's Yellow Jackets and Monmouth’s Eagles, Adams county's only entrants In the Fort Wayne sectional tourney, will meet in the first round of the meeting, as the result of the schedule announced from Indianapolis this morning. The two Adams county quintets will tangle In the second game of the tournament at 8 o'clock next Thursday night, March 3. The tourney will open at 7 o'clock Thursday, with the South Side Archers drawing an easy foe In Huntertown. Play will continue Friday morning. afternoon and evening, with semi-finals Saturday afternoon and the final game Saturday night. The tourney will he played this year at the South Side gymnasium. The winner of the Decatur-Mon-mouth game will play again at 7 o’clock Friday night, meeting the winner of the Harlan-Lafayette Central game. Others At Bluffton The remaining seven Adams county teams will compete against the nine Wells county quintets in the Bluffton sectional. The feature clash of the first round in the Bluffton tourney will pit the Berne Bears against the Osslan Bears. This game will be played at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. The break in the Fort Wayne tourney draw goes to the South Side Archers, with the other Fort Wayne schools, Central and North Side, in the opposite bracket with New Haven and Hoagland. Officials for the Fort Wayne tou/ney will he Ed Anglemyer, believed to he from the north part of the state; George Yarnelle, Wabash and Harry Coolman, Warren. Sectional pairings follow: Fort Wayne Thursday 7 p m. —South Side vs Huntertown 8 p.m.—Decatur vs Monmouth. 9 p.m.—Harlan vs Lafayette Central. Friday 10 a.m.—Woodburn vs Central. 111 a.m.—New Haven vs Monroeville. 2 p.m.—Hoagland vs Elmhurst. 3 p.m.—Leo vs North Side. 4 p.m.—Areola vs winner game 1. Officials—Ed Anglemyer, George ! Yarnelle, Harry Coolman. Bluffton Thursday 7 p.m.—Jackson vs Hartford. 8 p.m.—Union vs Jefferson. 9 p.m.—Pleasant Mills vs Rockcreek. Friday 9 a.m. —Bluffton vs Chester. 10 a.m.—Geneva vs Petroleum. 11 a.m.—Monroe vs Kirkland. 2 p.m.—Berne vs Ossian. 3 p.m.—Lancaster vs Liberty Center. 4 p.m.—Winner game 1 vs winner game 2. Officials—Cecil Young. George Lambert, Harold McSwane. Fort Wayne Regional Saturday, March 12 2 p.m.—Winner at Hartford City vs winner at Bluffton. 3 p.m —Winner at Huntington vs winner at Fort Wayne. 8 p.m.—Winners of afternoon games. Muncie Semi-Final Saturday, March 19 2 p.m —Winner at Muncie vs winner at Warsaw. 3 p.m.—Winner at Fort Wayne vs winner at Marion. Indianapolis Final Saturday, March 26 ■ 2 p.m.—Winner at Vincennes vs (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) DePauw University To Hold Special Program i DePauw University graduates, , former students and special guests . living in Adams county have been invited to the DePauw campus at Greencastle to take part in a spee- > ial dinner program Friday evening I which will inaugurate DePauw’s . Centennial development campaign. > Prominent persons from all over - the country have been invited to t this event. Lowell Thomas, well f known radio commentator, will > serve as toastmaster for the banI quet and will make his regular eveI ning broadcast direct from the De- ■ Pauw campus. Guests who attend ■ the dinner are also invited to see - his broadcast. A studio is being improvised in Ltongden hall.