Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1938 — Page 1

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tied States To fake Firm Stand ■ In Europe Crisis

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PRESIDENT NOT IN OPPOSITION TO TVA PROBE Senator Bankhead Says Roosevelt Willing For Congress Probe Washington. March 21 —(UP) —President Roosevelt today told chairman Arthur E. Morgan of the T. V. A. he must with draw charges against his T. V. A co-directors by 2:30 p. m. tomorrow and agree to cooperate in the President s inquiry or face immediate suspension or removal from office. Washington. March 21 — (U.R) President Roosevelt Is willing to have congress investigate the feud, on the Tennessee Valley director ate and is making no efforts to avoid such an inquiry. Speaker Wil liam B. Bankhead, D. Ala . said today. Following the regular Monday morning conference of administration leaders with Mr. Roosevelt. Bankheud said that proposals for an inquiry Into the intradirector ate struggle are not meeting opposition front the White House. "There Is no disposition on the part of the president to avoid a congressional Investigation of the TVA." Bankhead said. During his conference with the TVA directors last week. Mr Roosevelt called attention to see tion 17 of the TVA act empowering the president to appoint assistants and attorneys to investigate the authority. His reference had led to speculation the White House might make a direct investigation ' of the intra-directorate fight, rather than awaiting authorization of a! congressional inquiry. Bankhead disclosed Mr. Roose velt's attitude shortly before the embattled directors resumed their; stormy showdown conference with | the president. Chairman Arthur E Morgan and his associates. David E. Lilienthal and Dr. Harcourt A Morgan, were summoned to tht- ] White House with a stern presidential mandate to back their furious charges and countercharges with factual evidence. Chairman Morgan, who In two previous White House conferences, defied the president and declined to elaborate his charges of nialfeas ance against his associates, was under orders to answer “yes” or “no” to Mr. Roosevelt's questions > or be considered gttilty of contum-> acy—resistance to authority. Meanwhile, Bankhead said the house tomorrow will begin consid-1 eration of the conference report on the independent offices appropriation bill in which a $2,763,000 TVA fund is at controversy between the two houses. Particularly at issue is $2,613,000 asked by TVA for in-j itiation of construction of the Gil bertsville dam. The fund was | stricken by the house but restored by the senate. Rep. John Taber, R.. N. Y.. j (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ELEVEN DAYSIO FILE FOR OFFICE Additional Candidates File Declarations With County Clerk Eleven days remain for candidates to file declarations and petitions in the offices of the county clerk at the courthouse, April 2 is the final day. Those who filed today or over the wsek-end on the Democratic ticket: Chris Eicher, candidate for county coluncilman -at-large. Dean Etyerly, candidate for county councilman-at-large. J. Frank Merriman, candidate for trustee, Blue Creek, towneliif.. Vernon Miller, candidate for ad vlsory board, Jefferson township. Chauncey O. Manley, candidate for advisory board, IBdue Creek township. Elmer C, Beer, candidate for precinct committeeman, Middle Monroe. Eugene Runyon candidate for county assessor. The Republican candidate: Cal F. Peterson, candidate for precinct committeeman, Decatur 1A ,

URGES CHANGE IN TAXES TO AID BUSINESS U. S. Chamber Os Commerce Member Urges Revision In Tax Laws Washington. Mar. 21. <(J.R> Ells j worth C. Alvord, representing the United States Chamber of Commerce, urged the senate fluence committee today to "unshackle" business by revising the undis tributed profits and capital gains taxes. Testifying at hearings on the 1 house-approved tax bill, he asked the committee to remove the "fears of vindictive taxtion.” and to . abandon the practice of using “our tax system as an experimental laboratory." Alvord represents the chamber's committee on federal finance. To "direct our country upon a course leading to true recovery." he rec omtnended the following tax rei visions: 1. A maximum 15 per cent rate 1 on corporate incomes, with lower i rates on incomes of less than $25,-1 ; 000. 2. A maximum 12% per cent 1 rate on capital gains, or rates graduated from 15 per cent to five per cent over a 10-year period. 3. A maximum individual surtax rate of 40 per cent. 4. Retroactive removal of “a few of the most glaring mistakes of the undistributed profits tax. “Opportunities for private employment must be provided for those able to work who are on relief." Alvord said. “Industry must be unshackled. Confidence must be restored. Government revenues must be stablized. Our national income and standard of living must be increased substantially above present levels. Fears of vindictive taxation must be removed. The use of our tax system as (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) W. C. I. 11. TO MEET MARCH 2D County institute To Be Held At Pleasant Dale Church The complete program has been ■ announced for the county W. C. T. U. institute, to be held Tuesday, March 29. at the Pleasant Dale 1 church, one-half mile east of the Kirkland high school. There will | be a morening and afternoon session with dinner served at noon by | the Kirkland ladies club. Followiing is the program: Morning Session 10 a. m. Devotions —Rev. H. H. Mckstroth ' of the Vera Cruz Reformed church. Worship in song—Miss Frances i Burkhalter, county evangelist. Call to order—Mrs. Delton Passwater, county president. Organization of institute. Departmental work— County di- ! rectors. Alcohol education — Mrs. Ralph i Starr of Bluffton. Address, “A personal respousibity of a Christian citizen'—Rev. Moore of the Craigville U. B. i church. Quiet hour and noontide prayer I—Mrs. Neva Sharrow. Dinner served by Kirkland lad- , ies' club. Afternoon Session 1:30 p. m. Pevotions-Rev. J. W. Reynolds of Decatur. Special music —Kirkland Rhythm • band under direction of Mrs. Ehri sam. White ribbon recruit service — Mrs. Wayne Hoffman,' state directMotion pictures and the child Mrs. C. Habegger. Address. “Bible knowledge and a preventive of crime”—Rev. C. j M. Prugh of the Reformed church, Decatur. Special music. Address, "World progress to ward peace and ’ sobriety"— Rev. George S. Losier of the Evangelical church of Decatur. Offering. Closing prayer. Valuable Pet Dog Poisoned To Death A valuable Scottish terrier dog belonging to J. P. Cairns and children was poisoned and died last Saturday. , _ The dog had been gone a couple of days and when it returned home, I got as far as the front porch and i tell over dead. It had been a pet in the family for five years and the | Cairns children were heartbroken.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 21, 1938.

Lobbying Investigators A J > > / ♦’’t. \ r— A A rs / mF .. JI I±jMl > ;Z. « IQ, I \ A •’ J 11 Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana (left), chairman of the Senate I Lobby Committee, and Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington 1 are shown chatting at the investigation into the lobby campaign which ’ has been directed against the New Deal's government reorganization bill.

ASKCAMPOREE BE HELD HERE Business Leaders Ask Boy Scout Camporee Here Again This Year Heads of civic organizations, city officials and others joined with ! i local Boy Scout leaders in requesting that the annual Boy Scout Camporee be held again this year in the Hanna-Nuttman city park, j The Boy Scouts who attended I the affair here last year reported ' they enjoyed the two-day camp more than any other in the past. The fact that the park has been | improved since the 1937 Camporee and even more ideally suited to the camp was pointed out in Jhe ! petition. The letter which was sent with I the request is: 'R. L. Van Horn. Executive, Antony Wayne Area. 1 Boy Scouts of America, Fort Wayne, Indiana. ■ Dear Sir: The clubs and scouters of Adams county wish in this manner to ‘ petition for the annual Camporee to be held this year. We promise our full COOPERATION AND SUPPORT to make it la Howling Success. Hanna-Nuttman park is full of ‘ beautiful trees, foliage, a creek. I running water, toilet facilities anil a new 2,300 volt electric light line ! running through it with plenty of ■ lights, making it the ideal spot to ] show the Boy Scouts of our area a real outing. Yours Sincerely. Arthur R. Holthouse, Mayor; R. E. Glendening, director of Chamber of Commerce; W. J. Krick, president. Lions club; P. B. Thomas, chairman of Rotary troop commit(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Mrs. Ainos Lewton Greatly Improved The condition of Mrs. Amos Lew--1 ton, who was serevely burned 1 March 8 after a gasoline explosion a’ her home north of Monmouth, ' was reported as greatly improved ■ today. Mrs. Lewton has been confined to the Adams county memor- ' tai hospital since the day of the , fire. ' 1

MEDITATION (Rev. Glen Marshall) (Church of God) SELF - DENIAL “If any man would come after me. let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." No doubt, self is man's greatest enemy. Everyone has the potential ability (by the grace of God) to rise above the trials, temptations and things which tend to keep men on the level of earthly things. But to rise above these earthly things and walk on the highway of holiness, and soar in the heights of God’s spiritual atmosphere, self must be denied. But, self does not want to be denied, nor humbled. It would rather God be denied of the service and devotion due him than itself denied of having its own way Self would rather be ministered unto, than to minister. It would rather walk in the way of the majority and condone the sins of the day than to stand, alone perhaps, against the existing wrongs. , , Self must be denied and humbled before anyone can rise above the common, sinful level of the human race. But mere self denial is not enough. One must follow Christ. How? "He left us an example that we should follow His steps, who did no sin. neither was guile found in His mouth, who when He was reviled, reviled not again, when He suffered He threatened not, but committed himself to Him that judgeth righteously."

Warm W eather Greets Spring Opening Today Appropriately warm weather today greeted the first official day of spring. Temperatures of 53 above were observed at 8 o'clock this morning, with a rise of five degrees noted the first hour. Undismayed by the prediction by , weathermen that (possible showers and cooler temperatures are on tha way for Tuesday, local residents prophesied the continuation of favorable weather and definitely decided that winter is over. NEW VOTERS TO CAST BALLOTS Approximately 409 New Voters Expected To Vote In Primary Nearly 400 voters will cast their ballots for tfie first time in 15 Ad- ] ams county precincts in the May ' primary, according to a report by | Miss Berniece Dubach, registration clerk in the offices of county clerk G. Remy Bierly. In these fifteen precincts, which have already been covered by deputy registration clerks. 268 persons have registered. This list excludes transfers and includes persons be-1 1 coming of age before the fall elec- ■ I tion and those moving in from out ] of the county or state. A total of 268 voters were regis-1 tered by the deputy clerks in these precincts. Ninety-eight have also registered with the deputy regisflee. t In four Decatur precincts that have reported. 81 persons have (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Adams County VV.C.T.U. Officers Hold Meeting Mrs. Delton I’asswater. Mrs. Clarence Drake. Decatur, Mrs. Edna Shady. Mrs. Lucinda Yager, Miss Victoria Stoneburner. Kirkland, township. Mrs. C. T. Habegger, Berne, officers of the Adams counI ty W. C. T. U. met at the home of Mrs. L. L. Yager in Berne Saturday afternoon for the semi-annual busi-1 ness meeting. Plans for the county institute program were completed I and other business transacted.

House Passes Naval Bill To Provide United States With Its Greatest Fighting Fleet

NO IMMEDIATE DANGER OF WAR SEEN IN EUROPE United Press Writer Sees No Nation Desiring War Now (Editor's Note: Europe, emerging from its gravest week since the world war. has escaped from the i immediate danger of a general war, Ed L. Keen. European vice president of the United Press, says in the following dispatch. Keen, dean I of foreign correspondents and a reporter of European affairs since ! before the world war. analyzes the position of each of the principal powers and finds none eager for i war now.) By Ed L. Keen i (Copyright 1938 by United Press) Paris. March 21 — (U.R) Patches |of silver lining are visible today] through war clouds that have dark-i ' ened Europe for the last week and i caused more fright than at any j time since the world war. Europe enters a new week with powerful forces working to prolong peace. Unless there is another Sarajevo, another spark like the one that started the 1934 holocaust, war can be averted for months, : even years. The important fact today is that governments are calmer than their peoples. Among civilian populations in England and on the continent there is panic. Hoarding of canned goods has started Austrian Jews have the choice of fleeing or submitting to the persecution of the swastika. Czechs wonder whether the uazis are preparing I for another thrust to the east and if so when. Lithuanians grumble over their government's capitulation to Poland. But governments, not peoples, declare wars and nowhere in Europe is there a government that wants war now. England does not want it until I her rearmament program, particularly the expansion of her air force, is completed France, seeking to stabilize an uncertain internal situation, does ' not want it. | Soviet Russia, busy consolidating the Stalin regime through liquidation of many old-time bolshevists. does not want it. None of those three great pow- | ers seeks territory. What they do seek, and seek desperately, is prei servation of the status quo. To keep peace, England. France and Russia are w illing to endure almost ! any provocation except direct atI tack. Informed persons believe Hitler probably will refrain from further | Balkan adventures until he consoli- ' dates his position in Austria. The bite that Germany took out of middle Europe when she absorbed Austria seems to have temporarily appeased the Nazi hunger for land Hitler now controls the bottle(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) O HAROLD ESSEX TO OPEN STORE Essex Men’s Shop To Be Located On South Second Street Harold Essex, well known Decatur young man, today announced plans for opening a men’s clothing store in this city, to be known as the Essex Men’s Shop. The store will be located at 107 South Second street, until recently occupied by the 'Blue Creek Dairy store The definite date for the ■store opening has not been set, but Mr. Essex plans for the opening ] shortly after the first of April. Mr. Eseex will carry all kinds of (men's clothing, including shoes. The store will carry all nationally advertised lines, both in clothing and shoes. The proprietor of Decatur’s newest clothing store was employed in the Teeple and Peterson store in August of 1929. and two years ago became a partner in the Peterson Clothing store, leaving the firm a few weeks ago. The store will be equipped completely with new fixtures and the in (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

RUSH WORK ON NEW BUILDING Work Progressing Rapidly On New lligh School Building 1 Evidently enoouraged by the t warm weather, supervisors of work] at the new junior-senior school site j on Jefferson street today rushed a- . long construction. The resultant scene resembled a ■ beehive, with sores of workers actively engaged in various branches of construction work. Inside walls of the building seemed to grow on sight as bricklayers and helpers started in earnest the I wonk of bringing up the walls. Deep down in the huge hole, which is to house the big boilers of | the new building, tens of workmen j busied themselves ut individual tasks in making ready for the heating system of the new $245.0a>0 ] structure. Meanwhile the dragj-line crane ■ i continued its work of excavation and moving away the yards of dirt . ] I that must make way for the base- , |i«ent of the building. Carl Schinnerer, of Schinnerer (and Treumper, general contractors, and L. C. Annen, resident engineer, : were on the job continually super- ' vising the work of building the 1 city’s new school, while Cal Yoet of , Yost Bros., directed the excavation ' wodk. The advent of spring and favor- ■ . able weather lias given promise of an early completion of the job and removed a possibility that much of , next season's schooling will have to l be held under overcrowded condi(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) [ o — EARL CHASE TO HEAD SOCIETY l Decatur Man Named President Os Adams County C.E.Societies Earl Chase, Decatur post office 1 employe, will head the Adams 1 county C. E. societies during the coming year. Mr. Chase was nam- : ed president of the organization ' Friday night at the meeting in ■ Berne. He succeeds Miss Winifred Sprunger, of Berne. Miss Sprung--1 er was elected secrotary-treasurer of the societies. ' Sephus Jackson, also of Decatur, ' was elected vice-president. The members of the advisory ' board are: The Rev. George S. Lozier, pastor of the First Evangelical church here; Homer Augsburger and Miss Inda Sprunger. both of Berne. t . o i Adams Post To Mark Second Anniversary Plans are now being made for ' the commemoration of the second anniversary of Adams Post No. 43, American Legion in its new home on Madison street. The event will be held on April 1 with Vernon Aurand in -charge of 1 arrangements. Among the things tentatively 1 planned for the event are a stag fish fry and open house. Further de- > tails will be announed later. — ——o ——— Holstein Breeders Planning For Show i The Holstein breeders of Adams , county met in the county agent's ] office Saturday evening to reorganize and to discues plans for this - summer's Holstein show. The fol- , lowing officers were elected: Rudy , Kolter, president; Ben Mazelin, vice , president; Leo Nussbaum, secretary; and Wm. Kruetzman and Edr die McFarland, directors. ’ Representatives of all breeders t will attend a meeting Saturday , evening. March 26, in the county . agent's office to consider plans to? I the joint show. —o — Enters Guilty Plea To Petit Larceny I ’ Ferdinand Reynolds plead guilty to a charge of petit larceny when 1 arraigned before Judge Huber M DeVoss in Adams circuit court this afternoon. Judge DeVoss took the affixation of penalty under advisement,

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Authorizes 20 Per Cent Increase In Strength Os Navy; Carried By 291-100 Vote. UP TO SENATE Washington, March 21 — (U.R) — The house today passed and sent i to the senate a bill authorizing the ) greatest fighting fleet in the hisj tory of the United States. The vote was announced as 291 to 100. Designed to carry out President Roosevelt's request for a 20 per cent increase in America's naval fighting strength, the bill authorizes additions to raise U. S. fleets to a total of 1.500,000 tons at a cost of $1,121,546,000. Passage followed a house vote of 276 to 114 defeating a motion by Rep Ralph Church, ■ R., 111, to recommit the bill. The measure, sponsored by Chairman Carl Vinson. D., Ga., of the house naval affairs committee, specifically authorizes 46 new combat ships. 22 naval auxiliaries and 950 airplanes to bring the navy's aerial arm to 3,000 fighting planes. , The 1,500,000 tonnage falls just short of maintaining America's I share of the 5-5-3 naval ratio among the United States, Great Britain and Japan under the announced and reported building programs of the three great naval powers. While it projects this nation into , the international armaments race, ' the measure carries a statement asserting the United States would I welcome a disarmament conference. It also specifically authorizes the president to suspend construction to carry out the terms of a possible treaty. Originally this section carried a statement of policy committing the United States to a fleet powerful enough to defend both coasts simultaneously and to protect our j territories and possessions as well ' as “commerce and citizens abroad.” Opponents of the measure, fearing this indicated the enlarged ] fleet was to be used for aggression j abroad, concentrated attack on this i provision. It was eliminated on a I point of order. The two great points of house controversy—naval policy and the wisdom of continuing to build battleships—are certain to be revived in the senate. Opponents of the bill's authorization of three battleships maintained that a dreadnaught is primarily an offensive weapon and that the development of air attack has made huge battleships obsolete. House members, however, agreed with the contention of high ranking naval officers that as long as other nations continue to build battleships the United States must match them. The United States is the only nation in the world which imposes on itself a limit of naval construction. The legislation was necessary because present law permits only enough tonnage to reach the limits of the London naval treaty of 1930, no longer observed by Japan. Building beyond those limits by Great Britain and Japan required further authorization in the United States if this nation was to match them and maintain the 5-5-3 ratio. Appropriation bills will be required before any of the ships can actually be started o DEATH CLAIMS MRS. BOYERS — Word Is Received Here Os Death Os Mrs. James Boyers , Mrs, James i 9. IBloyers, formerly . of this city, widow of the late Dr. . James S. Boyere, died March 11. a$ Cnampaign. 111., according to a card II received today by the Daily Demo- - i crat from her brother, R. F, Mus- . ■ son. . No further details were given and as far as known, friends in this city were not advised of Mrs. Boyers’ death. Dr. Boyers died several years ago in the west. They moved to Los Angeles and made their home from time to time with a eon, ’ Dr. Luther Boyer, in Berkley, Cal., and a daughter, Mrs. William Matt- ] hews of Tuscon, Ariz. Mrs. Boyers visited here on her i way to Champaign. Her brother did ■ i not state if burial was made in that j city or in the west.