Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1938 — Page 1

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To Address Graduates The Rev. George S. Lozier, pastor of the First Evangelical church.. will deliver the sermon to the 60 graduating students of the Decatur high school at the baccalaureate I services, Sunday evening. May 22. - The services will he held at the Zion Reformed church

RECEIVE BIDS FORBUILDING . - - Bids To Be Received For Addition To Monmouth School Bids are to be received April 20 tor the purchase of the bonds to total 145.000 for the construction of the addition and repairing of the Root township high school and grade school at Monmouth. Bids for the general and sub contracts for the improvement are to be received May 2 at the home of I the township trustee. Ralph W., Rice at 2 o'clock Bids may be submitted on the general contract or any of the fol-j lowing sub contracts, heating and ventilating, plumbing and sewer, or electric wiring Each bid must be accompanied by a certified or cashier's check 1 payable to the trustee of the township. Bids are now on file at the office ■ of the trustee and the office of the architects. Houck & Hamilton, of Muncie, and may be obtained upon a deposit of S2O. j — Plans For Police Chiefs Convention Plans for the annual Indiana Police Chiefs' convention to be held in Fort Wayne the middle of June will be discussed at a meeting of the committee in charge at the city hall there April 11. RIVER AGAIN BREAKS BANK Forecast Os Fair \\ eather Expected To Halt Rising St. Mary’s Today's forecast of probable fair and warmer weather for Sunday predicted a timely halt in the rise of rivers creeks and streams of the county. The St. Mary's river at 8 o'clock this 1 morning stood at 17.95 feet, according to Walter S. Gladfelter. river observer. The mark is just above flood stage. ■While some rise is still anticipated from the emptying of smaller creeks upstream, the lowland flood menace is thought allayed. Fields and lowlands in many sectors along the river are already I under water. The precipitation overnight was measured at only .22 of an inch, Mr. Gladfelter stat-' ' ed. According to reports received in this office no main roads are under water, although the Wabash Is rampaging in the southern halt of the county. Further along the Wabash the condition has become much more tense. At the city of Wabash, traction cars are unable to enter town because of flooded streets. This is the third time within the past month that the St. Mary's has gone above flood stage here from a normal or near normal depth.

BREAK IN COLD IS PREDICTION FOR WEEK END Relief From Severe April Storm Is Predicted For Indiana By United Press Indiana's severest April blizzard in history today was expected to blow itself out over the week end with snow and ice blanketing the central and northern sections of the state melting under predicted fair weather. Rivers roaring well over the flood stage added to hazardous driving conditions on sleet-covered roads. Bridge run-arounds and general detours crippled highway traffic and motorists were urged by the state highway department to observe warning and caution signs erected for emergencies. Telephone, telegraph and electric lines, snapped by tons of ice forming as it fell from the rainwashed sky. were under repair and all line crews were working overtime. Ten deaths were attributed to ’ the cold wave. Seven were killed in automobile accidents on slippery pavements. Three men were crush|ed to death in a slate fall at the East End mine near Clay City. Heavy rains were believed to have weakened the mine shaft causing the cave-in. The rampaging Wabash and White rivers, out of their banks in some places eight feet above the flood stage, broke interurban service at Wabash Passengers were transferred by bus between Lagro and Peru. Thousands of acres of lowlands were being inundated but J. H. ■ Armington. Indianapolis meteorologist, said the continued rise of waters was “nothing to be apprehensive about yet.” At Vincennes a leak in a levee along the Wabash sent an emergency WPA crew into action with sandbags. Water already was over highway 41, but traffic, moving ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE. MIX-K HOLY WEEK TO BE OBSERVED Decatur Citizens To loin In Observance Os Holy Week Holy Week — Citizens of the city and commun- ' ity will join with the rest of the Christian world next week in the commemoration of IToly Week. Special programs during the fore part of the week will mark the occasion, followed by Good Friday services and climaxed by the Easter services on Sunday. Plans for union Good Friday services at the First Methodist Episcopal church have been completed. The three hours which the Lord spent on the cross at Calvary will be fittingly observed here with I the general suspension of business from 12 noon until 3 p. m. on Fri- | day. John L. DeVoss, president of the I Chamber of Commerce, has urged i the closing of all business houses , during the three hours and re- ! quested the attendance of business men and employes at the union I services. Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse, on I behalf of the city urged devout observance of the week and Good i Friday and commended the re- ' quest of the Chamber of Commerce I In asking the suspension of busiI ness. School classes will be dismissed Friday at noon and students will not return until Monday following Easter. Appropriate programs are being arranged for many of the city and county schools. The attendance of the students ; at the union services has been requested by the respective school officials and city school superintendent, Walter J. Krick. The series of Lenten meditations. written by the various pasItors of the city and published in the Decatur Daily Democrat, have received favorable comment from all sides and the Decatur Ministerial association has been commended by general opinion for lending the theme of Holy Week before its advent. The association has also been active in urging the support of Decatur citizenry in the commemoration of the event by placing placards in business houses, signifying that the store will be closed during the Three Hours. Most of the stores and business houses are expected to close to enable employes and employers to attend the union service.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 9, 1938.

Decatur Elks Lodge Plans For Annual Kiddies’ Easter Party

Despite the wintry weather which , i has struck this city for the past j 11 few days, the Decatur chapter of I the B P. O. Elks is completing i I arrangements tor the annual frolic II for the children of Decatur and j vicinity, the Easter egg hunt. The Easter party for the kiddies will be held again on Easter Sunday, April 17, and will be held on the spacious lawn of the home at | I North Second street. Inaugurated a few years ago by the local lodge, the first party was an instantaneous success, with i hundreds of youngsters roaming the lawn in a wild scramble for the coveted colored eggs. As in past years, a large number,

TO DEDICATE NEW WINDOWS M. E. Church To Dedicate Two Art Windows Sunday Morning Two new art windows will be dedicated during Palm Sunday services at the Decatur M. E. church Sunday morning. The windows have been installed as part of an extensive improvement program being put into effect. One of the windows is "Christ in ; Gethsemane,” the gift of B J. Rice in memory of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Rice. Mrs. S. Spangler and Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Rice. The other window . is "Behold I stand at the Door and Knock,” and is the gift of Mrs . John Peterson in memory of her , parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hale. These windows have been proi duced by the Anderson Art Glass company and have been installed . in the west side of the sanctuary Two appropriate chairs for the . chancel of the church have been given by the children of Mrs. Hen- . ry Krick. At the service Sunday morning, i the sacrament of holy baptism will • be administered. The pastor will ; speak on the theme “Struggle and . Triumph." and a special illustrated message will be given to the chil- ' dren. The chorus choir under the I direction of Mrs. Walter Krick will I present the anthem “Jerusalem," ' by Parker, with Miss Louise HauIbold at the organ. The church is to be decorated I with tropical palms and at the close of the service, the procession of the palms will be held and each 1 ' person present will be given a palm tip. The Palm Sunday observance will be continued through the evening service when the pastor will present the Easter story, which will be illustrated with stereopticon slides made from outstanding classical Bible paintings. The story will be taken from the Gospel of ! St. Mary and other works such as the “Unknown Disciple." Mrs. Walter Krick will sing “Open the Gates of the Temple.” Mrs. R. W. Graham will play the violin obligato, with Miss Louise Haubold • accompanying at the organ. 1 Holy week services will be held ' each evening at 7:30 o’clock. The 1 sacrament of the Holy communion 1 will be administered Thursday ■ evening with a candle light service commemorating the last supper. : c I / i Dr. Cornell Speaks To Medical Society i 1 Dr. Beaumont S. Cornell, of Fort Wayne, new member of the Adams 1 county medical society and discov- ' erer of the anomin treatment for cancer, addressed the members of the organization last night In the meeting at the B. P. O. Elk's lodge. Dr. Cornell discussed the pro- . gress made in his work with the I new cancer treatment. Dr. Harold ' : F. Zwick, secretary-treaeurer of the local organization, was in charge of the meeting.

LENTEN MEDITATION (Rev. James A. Weber) (First United Brethren Church) “The Cloak or the Spirit of Jesus?” I John 19:23. 24 —“Now the coat was without seam . . they said 1 therefore one to another, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be.” ; Can you imagine the soldier who won in the gamble for Jesus’ 1 cloak as he walks down the highway the morning after tnat terrible Friday? As he presses through the throng a frail woman catches a glimpse of the garment. Remembering the time when she had 1 received strength by touching the hem of that gannent, she f throws herself at the wearer's feet. Instead of a kindly voice and a hand of mercy, she receives a kick in the side and a curse. Bruised bleeding, broken in spirit, she looks up to see the warrior’s armor beneath the cloak. She understands now. This is not I Jesus. This man has the CLOAK of Jesus but not the SPIRIT of Jesus. , . „ , Why all this? A soldier came away from the foot of the cross 1 with the costly, seamless robe of Jesus, but while he was busy ’ casting lots for the garment, he had missed the spirit of the MAN. 1 At this season you are near the cross. Have you the CLOAK or the SPIRIT of Jesus?

of these eggs will be particularly I coveted by the youngsters, as the finders of these specially prepared eggs will be awarded live rabbits, the symbol to kiddies of Easter. Herman Keller is general chairman of this year's annual Easter i frolic, and is being assisted in preparations by all members of the organization. The hunt will start promptly at ; 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, April 17, and will be held regardless of weather conditions. If Inclement weather prevents successful holding of the hunt on | the lawn, the egg hunt will go on in ' the spacious home of the Elks.

Truck Driver And Lost Dog Reunited After Seven Days B. L. Elliot, Jamestown. Ohio truolodriver and his eight-mouths old police dog.” Roxie," left town Friday, once more inseparable companions. For seven days, “Roxie” reamed i the city streets, refusing offers of food and water, setting up a plaintive howl for his lost master. Elliot had lost the dog on his way through here last week. Then Thursday night Elliot returned, asking Police Chief Sephus Melchi's aid in finding the canine. As the chief and Elliot w’ere driving through town, searching for the dog. Roxie's happy yelps split the air. Tearing down the street, after first seeing his master's truck, one., leap carried him into the truck cab. His first real food and water in a weeHi followed. The re-united Roxie and his master stayed in Decatur j overnight. FARM MEETINGS ARE ARRANGED Farm Conservation Meetings Are Arranged In County The Adams county soil conservation committee has completed making the allotments for the various farms in Adams county ac- ■ cording to ownership. These allotments for corn and total soil dei pleting crops represent the owners' fair percentage share of the . total for the county given by the ' state committee. Planting within thel imits of the 1 allotments will insure owners and 1 tenants a considerable cash pay--1 inent for compliance. The pro- ’ gram is voluntary and the decision ' as to wether a man should comply r or not will rest with each oper-i ’ ator. In order to bring a fuller under-1 standing to each farmer, the fol- ' lowing series of meetings has been | ■ arranged so that more information can be secured regarding the pro- [ gram as it could affect each separ- , ately owned piece of land. Monday, April 11, 7 p. m. . Preble township —Preble school. , Washington township — Decatur high school. Blue Creek township — Jacobs school. Hartford township — Hartford r high school. Tuesday, April 12, 7 p. m. t school. i Root township —Monmouth high Union township—lmmanuel Luth- • eran school. t St. Mary's township— Pleasant s Mills high school. French township — Election . school. , Wednesday, April 13, 7 p. m. I Kirkland township — Kirkland , high school. ,' Wabash township—Geneva high I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ~~

GIVE PROGRAM FOR SERVICES ON GOOD FRIDAY Churches Os Decatur To Hold Special Services Friday The complete program for the union Good Friday services for Pro- , testant churches, to be held at the First Methodist Episcopal church Friday afternoon, was listed today by the Decatur Ministerial association. “In the Cross of Christ I Glory" will be the theme of the services in commemoration of the three hours that Christ spent on the crot-s. The services will be held in 46r linuteiperiods. opening at noon and closing at 3 o'clock. The Rev. Charles M. Prugh will be the leader during the first period from 12 until 12:46. with the Rev. James A. Weber delivering the sermon.” The • “Tragedy of the Cross." The Rev. Homer J. Aspy will be the leader during the second period, with the Rev. George O. Walton preaching on “The Wisdom of the Cross ” The Rev. Glen Marshall will be the leader of the third period from 1:30 until 2:15 with the Rev. Kenneth Tim- , mons delivering, "The Power of the j Cross." The Rev. R. W. Graham will use as his sermon, “The Chal- ' lenge of the Cross,” with the Rev. George S. Lozier as leader of the fourth and final period. Persons who attend the services are asked to enter silently and leave < during the preliminary services of each period. Ushers will seat those I in attendance after prayer and duri ing organ meditations. Offering plates will be placed in the foyer for free-will offerings. Catholic Services Special services at the St. Mary’s Catholic church will mark the i Three Hours. The Way of the Cross iwill be held at 12:45. 1:45 and 2:45. i ! Confessions will be held afternoon land evening. Luthran Service The celebration of holy communion as 7:30 in the evening will mark ■Good Friday at the Zion Lutheran ' church with the pastor, the Rev. i Paul Schult delivering the sermon. Newly confirmed children and ar’ults will take cojnmunion for the first time. The complete program for the Proeetant union Good Friday services follows: First Period 12 to 12:45 P. M. The Rev. Charles M. Prugh, leader Organ Prelude — ' (Invocation —The Leader. Hymn No. 133—“ 'Tis Midnight i and on Olive’s Brow". Responsive Reading. Page 628 j (First Reading)—Leader and Con- | gregation. Prayer—The Leader. Vocal Duet—Rev. Glen Marshall and Mrs. Emory Hawkins. Sermon—“THE TRADEGY OF THE CROSS”—The Rev. James A. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o STATE FIGHTS REDUCED RATE Indiana Among States Opposing Lower Freight Rates To South Indianapolis, April 9 — <U.R) — Indiana representatives were to I leave for Birmingham. Ala., today i for the initial hearing Monday be- | fore the interstate commerce comI mission on a petition of eight southern states for lower railroad rates than those prevailing in the north. The southern petition, endorsed by governors of eight states as a means of building an "industrial south,” asks for lower freight rates on shipments from the south to the north than would be allowed on freight shipments from the north to the south. If the petition is granted it will mean an exodus of industry from the north to the south, according to H. A. Hollopeter, traffic director of the state chamber of commerce and chairman of the central states committee which is leading the northern fight. A number of northern governors are supporting the fight against the petition, including Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, who has ordered the public service commission to assist in opposing it. The petition has the support of North Carolina, South Carolina, ’ Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi and Florida. Kentucky was an original signer but withdrew after obtaining an adjustment in rates recently.

Organization Bill Is Sidetracked By Lower House Vote

Heads TVA Probe I _ I i < * Irak Senator Vic Donahey of Ohio takes the spotlight by virtue of his appointment as chairman of the joint committee named to investigate the TVA. Donahey is an anti-utilities man but not proNew Deal. This is his first major assignment since his election to the senate in 1934 as he has never made a speech nor introduced a bill.

CHURCH PLANS FOR HOLY WEEK Services Are Listed At St. Mary’s Catholic Church Next Week The schedule of services at St. Mary's Catholic church during . Holy Week was announced today ! by Rev. Father Joseph J. Seimetz. : pastor. A visiting priest will be here to i assist Father Seimetz and Father Alvin beginning next Wednesday. On Wednesday afternoon and I I evening, confessions will be heard | and Holy Communion will be distributed at the 6 and 7:30 o'clock l masses on Holy Thursday thorn- ! ing. Procession of the Blessed SacraI ment will take place at the 7:30 mass. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will be held throughout I the day and on Thursday evening a holy hour will be held from 7 to 8 o’clock. Confessions will also be [ heard during the evening. On Good Friday, the mass of the Presanctified will be said at 7:30 o'clock in the morning. Holy Com- | munion is not distributed on Good Friday, the priest consuming the Holy Eucharist consecrated on i Thursday, the day on which the I Catholic church celebrates the in- ' stitution of the sacrament. ' The Three Hours The Three Hours, commemorat- | ing Christ's passion and death on ' the Cross, will be observed from .112 to T o’clock. The Way of the , Cross will be made at 12:45; 1:45 and 2:45. Confessions will be . heard in the afternoon and even- • ing. Blessing with the relic of the I true cross will take place after ■ the 7:30 mass, at 2:30 in the afternoon and after the evening service I on Good Friday. On Holy Saturday the services . will begin at 6 o'clock with the II blessing of the fire, water and 1 , Pascal candle. A high mass will be I celebrated at 7:30 o’clock, during i I which Holy Communion will be distributed. Confessions will be 1 heard Saturday afternoon and evL- - — : (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) William Aumiller Dies At Infirmary i William Aumiller, about 88, in- > mate of the county infirmary for I a number of years, died this morns ing at 5:20 o’clock there. Death . was attributed to a paralytic stroke, suffered Thursday noon. ! He never regained consciousness. , No surviving relatives are known. , Funeral services will be held Mon- . day afternoon at 1 o’clock at the ■ infirmary. The body has been rei moved to the S. E. Black funeral home.

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Democrat House Members Join Republicans To Hand Stunning Defeat To Measure. VOTE 204-196 Washington, April 9 — <U.R) — The administration was stunned and silent today by its unexpected and overwhelming defeat in the house where Democrats rose suddenly in revolt and joined with Republicans to defeat President Roosevelt's government reorganization bill. The defeat had been so little anticipated that administration leaders had pledged the integrity of President Roosevelt's mandate on the issue. By their own request, the house was voting on whether or not it had confidence in the leadership of the White House when it voted, 204 to 196, to recommit the bitterly contested bill to committee where it is effectively dead, at least for this session. While Republicans, insurgent Democrats, and other opponents of the hill were issuing jubilant statements. not one word came from leaders of the administration. What would happen next could not be ascertained on any basis of certainty, but it seemed certain that the issues growing out of the long fight over reorganization would dominate this year’s primaries and general election campaigns. It was the most far reaching defeat the house has given President Roosevelt, comparable in political significance to the senate's rejection last year of his plan to reorganize the supreme court. It was accomplished by a Demo-cratic-Republican coalition. Although the 88 house Republicans voted to a man against the bill, they were outnumbered by its Democratic opponents, who totaled 108 and included Chairman John O'Connor, D., N. Y„ of the house rules committee. Six Progressives and two Farmer-Laborites joined them. Sen. James F. Byrnes, D., S. C., author of the bill, declined to discuss the house's action or the possibility of a senate attempt to enact the house-approved Warren bill—providing for creation of a new cabinet department of w-elfare —now pending. This would permit enactment in part of the president's plan. Sponsored by Rep. Lindsay C. Warren. N. C., this bill was approved by the house last August. The rejection of the request for presidential power to reorganize the bureaus and commissions of the 150-year-old United States governmental structure into 11 cabinet departments held even more immediate political significance than the supreme court defeat because it came on the eve of the Illinois primary—the first important one preceding the 1938 national elections. The voters will choose nominees for one senate and 27 house seats. Primaries in other states —Notably Indiana and Pennsylvania — will be held in May. What made the defeat so clearcut for the new deal were the statements of the ranking house (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) THREE INDIANA MINERS KILLED Slate Fall In Mine Near Clay City Kills Three Miners Clay City, Ind., April 9 —(U.R)— Week-long rains in this section were blamed today for the slate fall in the Stewart Estes east end mine near here late yesterday which took the lives of three men. Investigators believed rain had seeped through the soil and loosened the earth which caused the cave-in and pouring tons of slate upon the victims. The dead were: Milburn Estes, 40, Brazil, part ■ owner of the mine. Dera Steele, 35, Patricksburg. Homer Steele, 30, Clay City, : brother of Dora. Estes and the Steele brothers were at work in an entry-way when . the roof weakened and fell on ■ them. Rescue crews worked for ' more than two hours to reach the ■ mangled bodies. All three left widows and families.