Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1938 — Page 1

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REGISTER FOR MAY PRIMARY Clerk’s Office Busy Registering Voters Os Adams County Activity in tht* county clerk's 1 office today rose to a new height | as the final week for various phases let the approaching May primary I election opened in the county. Registration of voters was the blg;gest item today as persons as yet unregistered called at the office in a continual stream, in an effort to avoid last minute rushes. Monday. April 4. is the final day for registration. Special hours will ’ i>e observed the latter part of the week to accommodate persons deslrious of registering after work. The office will remain open until S p. m. Thursday and Friday and . until 8 on Saturday and Monday. Saturday is also the latest day for candidates for public office to file declaration* of their candidacies and their petitions with the I county clertc. Saturday will also be the first day for the filing of applications of absent voter’s ballots. This is ex- ■ [>ected to cause an added amount of work in the office. County Clerk G. Remy Bierly has ! asked that only persons wanting to i register call at the office on busij ness after 5 p. m. on the nights when ‘be office retains open late. Butler Trial Is Again Postponed The trial of J. Earl Butler, local ' resident, charged with sodomy. | which was to have opened in the Jay circuit court today, has been; continued upon motion of defense i counsel, it was reported here today. I The trial has been reset for next Monday. April 4 The continuance was granted late Saturday by Judge ■ Hanson Mills after several hours j ! arguments. HENRY WEBER DIES SUNDAY — Former Adams County Resident Dies Sunday At Fort Wayne Henry Weber. 75. former resident of Adams county, died Sunday morning at 1:30 o'clock at his home 1308 Huestw avenue. Fort Wayne. Death was attributed to heart trouble. The deceased was born in Adams township. Allen county. At the age 'lot 12 he moved with his parents to Adams county near Decatur. For nearly 50 years he lived on ’ a farm in Root township, moving to •; Fort Wayne in 1925. While living in : this county he was a member of the | i St. John's Lutheran church at Binglen. In 1895 he was married to Louise Busse of Goeglin. His parents were the late Ludwig and Wilhel- . inina Weber. Surviving, besides the widow, are > two daughters. Clara and Nora at j home. Three daughters and a son J preceded. Other survivors are two ' grandchildren and the following >' brothers and sisters: Mrs. Auguet .: Sharpenbur, Mrs. William Reinking. I (CON HNUBD ON PAGE SIX) Berne Youth Assessed $lO Fine And Sentence Lester Habegger, Berne youth, ' I started this morning spending the | balance of a short honeymoon in ( ■ the the Adams county jail—without his bride. Habegger, married Friday to Harriet Schaefer, Geneva high school eenior. was fined $lO land costs and given 10 days In jail ' this morning when he pleaded II guilty to petit larceny. ; Habegger after being accused Fri- ; day of stealing money from the t clothes of basketball players at the Berne auditorium, reportedly sneak- -! ed away, secured his girl and porceeded to Covington. Kentucky, 1 where they were married. Upon re- . turn Saturday, he was arrested by 1 j Sheriff Dallas Blrown. t' o Central PTA Will Meet Here Tuesday The members of the Central PTA ' association will meet Tuesday afternoon at the Decatur high school, it was announced today. The theme of the meeting will be ? "Character Building Thoughts and 1 Dependability.” Approximately 40 ’ pupils will take 'part in the pro--1 gram planned for the meeting In- ’ strumental music will be a feature of the event. , | The meeting will open at 2:30 o- ’ clock and will be held in one of the 1 claes rooms of the Decatur high ’ school. All members are urg“d to attend. i

As 250,(MM) Mexicans Seconded Oil Decree 'JOB K * s’"-' A part of the 250.000 Mexicans who marched in Mexi'-o City in an unprecedented parade are shown as they shouted their approval of President Cardenas' decree by which his government took over the oil wealth of Mexico. Agents of British and American oil companies are reported leaving the country as fast as their i passports can be arranged.

ENROLLING IN I 4-H CLUB WORK Annual 4-H Club Enrollment Campaign Is Started Today i The annual 4-H Club enrollment, i campaign was started today. The work is being done by Mrs. Helen E. Mann, county 4-H Club leader, I with the assistance of the junior leaders in the different townships. Indications are that there will be I a most satisfactory enrollment for , thi* year. Any boy or girl between the ages ' >f 10 and 21 is eligible to join the I 4-H Culb. Training is given in the I following projects: girls—clothing. 1 canning, food preparation, baking, I room improvement; agricultural— I calf, corn, garden, potato, pickle and tomato. An extra activity for ■ both boys and girls' club work is junior leadership. 1 Adult leaders tor the girls' 4-H j Clubs have already been secured' I through the efforts of the home 'economics clubs of the different townehips. The roll of leaders for 'the boys’ clubs has not yet been I completed. All of last year s clubs will continue with their work this year, and there is a possibility that | new clubs may be formed. 4-H club w ork is essentially a vacation pro((■ONTINI'WD ON PAGE THREE) j —0 Citv Council Will Meet This Evening A special meeting of the city ; council will be held at 7:30 o clock this evening at the city hall. Ordinjances fixing the, light and power rates as approved Saturday by the Indiana public service commission and the salaries of city officials for 1939. will be acted on. The light and power rate* have ikeen lowered and the savings will; Ibe mad© effective with the March I meter readings. Under the iaw the salaries of the mayor, clerk-treas-urer and city attorney are set by law. Every four years, on or before April, the council must fix the salj aries for the next four years o FREE THREE AS THEFT SUSPECTS Al Anker Service Station Cash Register Looted Saturday After more than four hours intensive gruelling, three Pennsylvania youths were released late Saturday night after being arrested on suspicion of robbing the Al Anker eer--1 vice station. i The robbery occurred sometime late Saturday. Al Anker, proprietor of the station on Adam and Winchester street, noticed the theft immediately after waiting on an auto that had pulled into the drive. The cash register was open and about $lO missing. He called to his son-in-law, Lawrence Linn, who telephoned Sheriff Dallas Brown. Sheriff Brown started in pursuit and apprehended the trio near Monroe. Upon return, Mr. Xnker identified the men as the trio who had been at his station : shortly before the robbery, but could not say that he saw them take the money. All three of the men persisted in their innonence, and were released about 9:30 Saturday night when j they did not change their story. I The men were 24, 17 and 18 years | of age. J

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Decatur, Indiana, Mon day, March 28, 1938.

Decatur Lions To Entertain Ladies The weekly meeting of the Decatur Lions club will be held Tuesday I night in the Knights of Pythias j home instead of the Rice hotel. The | club will observe ladies’ night with la dinner at 6:30, followed by the i program. Robert Zwick. Dr. Harold ; Zwick and Andy Appelman are in I charge. 10 CANDIDATES SEER OFFICES Saturday Will Be Final Day For Candidates To File Declarations A long list of office-seekers made i their way into the county clerk's 1 office over the weekend as the final ■ week for filing opened. Saturday. ■ April 2 is the last day. 1 Following are the candidates who ' filed: Clifton Kohler. Democratic candidate for precinct committeeman. Berne A. Elmer Winteregg. Democratic ; candidate for precinct committeeman. Berne B. Rufus Huser, Democratic candidate for precinct committeeman, Mort' Wabash. August Kruetzmann. Democratic candidate for advisory board. ; Preble township. Richard Bleeke, Democratic candidate for advisory board. Union township. J. Fred Fruchte. Democratic candidate for judge. 26th judicial district. Mr. Fruchte filed a copy of his declaration. William Kauffman. Democratic candidate for advisory board, Blue Creek township. Fremont Bowers. Republican candidate for precinct committeeman. East Union. Floyd W. Baxter. Republican candidate for precinct committeeman. North Monroe. Edward P Warren. Republican candidate for precinct committeeman. Decatur 38.

LENTEN MEDITATION (Rev. L. J. Martin) (Eighth St. U. B. Church) “THE MAN OF SORROWS” He is despised and rejected of men: a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as ia were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Isaiah 53-3. 'Twas Bethlehem of Judeah nineteen hundred years ago. The narrow streets were alive with busy people talking and chatting together. The beggars sat with their cups, crying out with pitiful voices for alms from the passerby. Night was settling over the little city, lighted candles began to appear sending their rays through the small windows of the rustic old buildings The rooming houses and inns were filled to capacity, came a tired man. with his wife heavy with child inquiring for room and lodging. “No room in the Inn. only a stable at the back," was the answer. Here the Christ, the man of sorrows, began His earthly career. The angels announced His birth, shepherds and wise men alike paid Him homage, yet from the hour He was born plans were made to destroy the Christ. The shadows of the Cross was always over Him. until grown shadows shortened and thirty-three years later this same babe, grown to manhood, found himself on Calvary, ready to die for all men. He came to his own and his own received him not. His great hear’ was moved at multitudes of people. He wept over Jerusalem with bitter tears, crying out with that sorrowful plea. “How often would I have gathered thee, but ye would not.” In the garden he prayed with agony of soul until He sweat as it were great drops of blood fallign down to the ground And even while H 6 prayed one of His own desciples was laying the tray for His betrayal. Look at Him now. the despised and mocked the scarlet robe the crown of thorns, the reed in His hand, the slap in His face,’ spit upon, beaten. The mocking words of the crowd were "Hail King of the Jews!” But see Him as He trod from evil judgment to the crest of calvary. blaizing the trail to the city of God. opening the way to that city which Abraham sought whose builder and maker is God. Today He is looking in on our lives, seeing all. Are you living today a life which brings sorrow to this great saviour? Are you like Jerusalem of old, turning a deaf ear to his call? “Man of Sorrows." what a name For the Son of God who came Ruined sinners to reclaim! | Hallelujah! What a Savior!

WORK PROJECT TO WASHINGTON VVPA Work Relief Pro-' ject Sent To Washington For Approval The WPA work relief ■project for I the city of Decatur, has been forwarded to Washington for approval, according to word received by Mayer Arthur R. Holthouse from John I K. Jennings, State administrator lor the WPA. The project Includes improvement of streets, alleys, sidewalks and building of district sewers with \\ PA labor, property owners and ■ the city supply ing the material where necessary. The present WPA program will run until about June 1 and the new one filed will give employment to a number of men throughout the balance of the year. Mr. Jennings in his letter to the I , mayor said: "In reply to your letter of March i 21st. the subject project aipnl’cation i was submitted to Washington throughout ■Chicago Regional office, March 23, 1938. "Due to an exceptionally large influx of project applications occai sioned by the recent authorization : of a large increase in employment | both in this city and nation-wide,: approval of your application was delayed somewhat here and will take approximately one month to clear our Washington office. "We assure you that every effort will be made to obtain prompt ap- ■ proval of your application” Several improvements are plann-1 ed by the city. On the streets, the . (CONTINt'ETD ON PAGE THREE) I o Spanish War Vets’ Meeting Postponed i The meeting of the Spanish-Am- ■ erican war veterans, which was to have been held Friday, has been i postponed because of the Legion ■ anniversary party also scheduled this week.

DEATH CLAIMS EDWARD HOUSE THIS MORNING Adviser Os Former President Woodrow Wilson Dies Today New York. March 28 --(U.P.) Col. Edward Mandell House, who tried to stop the world war and failed, ' (lied peacefully in his sleep today. The man who advised President > Woodrow Wilson during the World | War and was credited with formi ulating the foreign policies of the ' Wilson administration, died four I mov'hs before his 80th birthday. I His wife, daughti ■ ana a tew close I associates of his latter years were I at his bedside. He went to bed at the usual time last night, about 9 o'clock. He seemed to be in fair health, and it was believed he was gaining strength after the long illness dating from an attack of pleurisy last June. Before dawn, however, his nurse summoned Mrs. House, his son inlaw and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss. and Ills secretary. Miss Frances Denton, to his room. He had taken a turn for the ■ worse. ; He died in his sleep at SA M F A’ chincloss. New York City atI torney. attributed House's death to "old age.” Born in Texas, where he acquired I «•_- title ot Colonel. House became I oii> the nation's foremost states- ■ men. Yet he never held a public office or wanted one and performi ed his greatest services to the couni try in an unofficial capacity. House and Wilson met a year I before the latter became president. I ItWe talked and talked.” House I once said in describing the meet- ; ing. "We knew each other for congenial souls at the very beginning." In 1914, before the World War ~TcONTINUED <»N PAGE FIVE) CLUB RELEASES i 57THYEARBOOK Ladies’ Shakespeare Club Releases Its Annual Yearbook The 57th yearbook of the Ladies' 1 Shakespeare club of this city has been released, it was announced today. The yearbook contains a com- ' plete list of active, inactive, honori ary and departed members a roster of officers and a schedule of dqb I meetings for the approaching sea I 30n - The constitution of the club is I also printed in complete form. The I club was organized here in ISB2 The officers of the local club are: | and federated in 1895. ! Mrs. Herman Ehinger, vice-presi ! Mrs. Arthur Suttles, president; dent; Mrs. William Bell, secretary; Mrs. Walter J. Krick, assistant secretary and Mrs. Harry Moltz. treasurer. Mrs. Charles Teeple is chairman of the book committee and Mrs. Palmer Eicher is chairman of the j social committee. Meetings are held on Wednesday afternoons at 2:30 o'clock. The first meeting will be 1 held October 5. o Asks Citizens Aid In Keeping City Tidy In the effort to keep the streets j clean and looking tidy, civil works I commissioner Ralph Roop, made an appeal to citizens not to throw I brush and trimmings from their 1 shrubbery into the street. It has occurred several times, 'that immediately after cleaning the I streets, grass, brush and shrubbery ■ have been placed into the street. It remains there until the next round ! of the street sweepers or is washed i down to the catch ‘basins, clogging I them in heavy rains. Mr. Roop asked citizens to burn j the brush or shrubbery trimmings, or place them at the back of their lots until It could be burned or hauled away. Geneva Youth Injured In Dynamite Blast Francis Huffman, Jr., 16-year-old Geneva lad is recovering at the local hospital after a seemingly miraculous escape in a dynamite explosion. The lad was severely hurt late Sunday afternoon, when a dynamite cap exploded in his haurds. He had found the cap and not knowing what it was endeavored tc open it with his pocket knife. Both of the lads hands were badly torn and his face cut in the resultant explosion.

Utility Company Act Upheld Today ' By Supreme Court

NATIONALISTS , RENEW DRIVE ON LOYALISTS l Insurgents Drive On In Effort To End War Speedily Hendaye, French-Spanish Fron- - 1 tier. Mar. 28.—<U.R) -Spanish nat- * ionalist troops, fighting at last on 1 the rich soil of Catalonia, renewed 1 the biggest drive since the world l war today in an attempt to end ' quickly what Generalissimo Fran- ' cisco Franco called “the last chapter of the civil war.” Moors from Africa, Italian black- ' shirts, and Spaniards joined in an ‘ i offensive on a 120-mile north-to-I south front from which came re- ' ports of almost unchallenged nat- ' : ionalist victories. ’! Airplane fleets number as high 1 as 200 each smashed a path for the 1 troops and loyalists reported that ? j one village — Rosels- — had been completely destroyed by aerial bombardment. Tanks, big guns, even newly arrived cyclist corps cooperated with nationalist! nfrantrymen. ' Thirty-five miles from the Mediterranean at one point, 15 miles from the loyalist general headquarters at Lerida at another; less J than 100 miles from the loyalist I ' emergency capital. Barcelona, at J. the third, the nationalist troops pushed on. Loyalists asserted that their aviators had shot down one German and four Italian planes. Nationalists crossed the Catalan border yesterday near the village ) of Fraga, on the main Zaragoza--1 Barcelona road 18 miles southwest * , of the loyalist grand headquarters at Lerida. John De Gandt, United y Press correspondent with the nationalists at the front, watched the nationalists cross the Cinca river and the border. The- actual entry was made at >' the village of Masalcorreig. souths ) east of the key village of Fraga, '• and the border was the battle line at Fraga and Veilla de Cinca. I To cross the Cinca river, the ' nationalists had blasted a path with ■ airplanes through what seemed to II have been one of the strongest l " trench systems the loyalists had i built durin gthe long war. 3 ; The loyalists reported their e Cinca river line holding after a ■ day of tretreating. But the nationalists countered with detailed claims to the capture '' of several thousand loyalist sold- ’ I iers and 15 pieces of artillery at i ' j Fraga. , The nationalists, on tne basis; " ' of their reports citing specific posin tions captured, seemed to be advaluing with astonishing speed e and organization. (I Northwest of Lerida. drilling 0 along a 12-mile front on the Huese I ca-Lerida highway, the nationalists ”(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ■ CAITLE SHOWS ) AT LOCAL FAIR n ¥ r All Four Cattle Breeds To Be Represented At e Street Fair y I t All four cattle breeds will be d represented in the Decatur Free d Street Fair and Agricultural Show, g it was voted at a meeting of the breed association committees Satn i urday night'in County Agent L. E. j. Archbold’s office. r ; E. H. Kruetztnan, Kirkland town>r ship dairyman, was elected chairI man of the cattle show and will be I assisted by some of the members i of the older youth organizations. Five separate shows are to be 4 \ held at Decatur next August, it was I determined. They will be: Jersey d Parish show, Guernsey regional ’■ show, Holstein county show; Ayrt' shire county show and 4-H club > show, representing all breeds. In addition, the four breed assoe I ciations decided to sponsor a dise trict judging contest to be held in connection with the agricultural >t sho’”. o Breed representatives will attend h a district meeting in Fort Wayne n tonight, when plans are to be made £■ | for a district 1,000, 2,000, 3.000 and I 4,000 pound dairy cattle show.

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Upholds Congress* Power To Force Companies To Register Under Utility Act. ONE DISSENTS Washington, March. 28 —(U.R)- • The supreme court today upheld constitutionality of the Utilities Holding company registration and penalty provisions in what appeared likely to be the outstanding new' deal court test of the year. The decision, reached by a six to one vote of the court, upheld congress' power to force utility holding firms to register under the act and impose penalties for failure to register. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes read the majority opinion. Justice James C Mcßeynolds dissented without opinion. Justices Stanley F Reed and Benjamin N. Cardozo did not participate. Justice Hugo L. Black, a senate leader in the fight for enactment of the utilities legislation, participated in the case, voting to uphold the act. The utilities decision was the major opinion of a day which saw the court again uphold national labor relations board jurisdiction — this time over a small packing firm. Other important actions included: Upholding validity of New York City’s three per cent tax on gross income of utilities. Upholding application of the Nor-ris-LaGuardia act, barring federal I injunctions in labor disputes, to a I controversy over employment of negro clerks in a Washington, D. C„ grocery chain. Acceptance of a ease challenging validity of Kansas ratification ot the long-pending child labor act. Refusal to review constitutionality of the now-repealed Kerr tobacco act. The first occasion in which Prest ident Roosevelt's two court nominees — Black and Reed — joined in a dissent against a court major(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TO LET BIDS ON HIGHWAYS Adams And W ells County Projects Included In Letting April 19 Indianapolis, Mar. 28. —Bids will be opened Tuesday. April 19, on highway paving, grading and surfacing projects in Jefferson, Morgan, Adams, Dearborn, DeKalb, i Marion. Wells. Montbomery. Clay, i Owen, Vermillion. Hendricks, Martin, Boone, Lawrence and Clark I counties, Earl Crawford, chairman of the state highway commission, announced today. The projects provide for work on slightly more than eighty miles of highways, about thirty-fice miles of which are to be improved as a part of the federal-aid feeder road program. The combined group of projects have a'n estimated cost of $1,560,000 which will be financed with both federal and state funds. This is one of a series of lettings | being held by the highway commission to place the 1938 construction program under contract and enable successful bidders to begin work as early as weather conditions will permit. These and other projects included on the 1938 program will provide employment for several thousand workers during the construction season In addition to contributing to the modernization of the highway system. Among the projects on which bids will be received April 19 is one for the paving of a four-lane highway between Lawrenceburg and Aurora with a traffic separation curb separating the lanes for vehicles moving in opposite direction. Qthers include paving a bypass on road 62 around Madison; (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m - 56 10:00 a. m 60 Noon - - 60 2:00 p. m 67 3:00 p. tn 68 o WEATHER Increasing cloudiness, showers Tuesday probably beginning late tonight; warmer tonight and northeast portion • Tuesday.