Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 87, Decatur, Adams County, 12 April 1938 — Page 1

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BOARD MEMBERS ARE APPOINTED Judge DeVoss Names Four Members Os Tax Adjustment Board Four of the members of the Adams county tax adjustment board were announced today by Judge Huber M. DeVoss, who appoints the freeholder members The members appointed by Judge DeVoss are A. D. Suttles. Cal Peterson, Far! B Adams and Carl C. Pumphrey, all of Decatur. Mr. Suttles is the Democratic member and Mr. Peterson. Mr. Adams and Mr. Pumphrey, the Republican members. According to the new law. four of the members must be resident freeholders of the county appointed by Judge De Voss. Not more than four of the members may be of the same political party and due to the fact that the others probably will be Democrats by virtue of their offices, it was necessary for Judge DeVoss to appoint three Republicans. Mayor A. R. Holthouse is a member of the board by virtue of his office as mayor of the largest city in the county, unless he appoints a representative of the city. The county council will be called in on April 14 to select its representative on the board. The township trustees, as the county board of education, who will Im l represented, will select their member within the next few days. All members must be appointed before April 15. acccording to the law. and will serve for a period of one year after April 15. They will meet tieginning the second Monday in September after tax rates are set by the various taxing units in the county, and have the power to decrease but not increase tax rates. Members serve without p«y LUTZ FUNERAL HERETOMORROW Funeral Services Will Be Held Wednesday For Clark J. Lutz Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon for ('lark J. Lutz, prominent Decatur attorney, who died at the Adams county memorial hospital Monday morning following an operation. Services will be held at the home of the son-in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith, 318 South Third street, at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, and at 3 o clock at the First Presbyterian church. Rev. George O. Walton, pastor of the church, will officiate. The Scottish Rite will conduct services at the church, and the Decatur chapter of the B. P. O. Elks will conduct services at the grave. The body was removed from the Zwick and Son funeral home to the Smith residence this morning. The Decatur Chamber of Commerce and Adams county bar association today requested that all business houses an,d offices in the city close from 3 to 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon during the services at the church. Name Pallbearers Members of the Adams county bar association will serve as pallbearers. These are Judge Huber M. Devoss, Henry B. Heller, Arthur E. Voglewede, J Fred Fruchte, Nathan C. Nelson and H. R. McClenahan. Honorary pallbearers will be David E. Smith and Benjamin Heaton, both of Fort Wayne; James J. Moran of Portland; Abram Simmons and O. E. Lesh ot Bluffton, J. T. Merryman, C. D. Teeple, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o NYA Registration At City Hall Wednesday In adidtion to those who register for unemployment compensation at the city hall Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock, John M. Doan, trustee, has asked that all youths seeking work under the NKA also register there. To Close Office For Three Hours The Daily Democrat office, including the composing room and job shop, will be closed from 12 to 3 o’clock Good Friday afternoon. Items for the paper should be sent in early and advertising copy should be in the hands of the printer by Thursday evening. A night force will work so that the newspaper office can be closed for the Three Hours and the paper sent to press about the usual time.

Caught In the Path of Georgia’s Flood I s _ _ . JA j Part of the debris left after a 23-car freight train was wrecked by a bridge washout in the flood at Fairmont. Ga . is pictured above. Three cars of acid fell into the stream, killing large numbers of live stock which had i ' 1 escaped from tile wrecked train * '

ROBBERY GANG IS BROKEN UP (Jang Operating In Indiana, Illinois, Four Years Is Smashed i Indianapolis, Ind.. April 12—(UP) —A gang of thieves and burglars operating throughout Indiana and Illinois for the past four years has been completely cleaned tip with the arrest of Ed Turner, 49. of Ind- . ianapolis, Lieut. Ray Hinkle, chief of detectives of the Indiana state police, announced today. Turner, charged with receiving stolen property, surrendered to po- ; lice this morning. A warrant for hie l arrest was issued several days ago. Hinkle said the arrest climaxed i a four-year search for the gang members. Last week three were arrested who implicated Turner in I various crimes. They are beinp held at Sullivan, Illi., on robbery chargee. Ernest Schaffer, arrested at MarI tiusville. Ind., last week on charges of stealing a car in Mattoon, 111., Frank Chambers and Raymond Turner, a relative of Ed Turner, were the ones to implicate the Indianapo- . lis member. Chambers and RayI mond Turner confessed three rob(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O Adams County Owners Protest Assessments Eight petitions protesting against ; the assessment of real estate or improvements have been made by owners in Adams county under the provisions of a 1937 state law. The requested reduction in valuations ‘ amounts to $4,361. The petitions in number and amount and the taxing units which ’ would be affected are: Blue Creek, one petition, $450; Monroe, one petition, $1,135; Root, two petitions, [ sr,B2; Wabash, two petitions, sl7l . and Washington, two petitions, $2,- .' 023. A represenative of the stat? board of tax commissioners will be in Decatur in the court house, Wednesday. April 27, to consider the appli- • i cation for tax reduction. HUGE STILL IS FOUND IN STATE Moonshine Equipment Is Found By Officers Near Hammond Hammond. Ind.. April 12—<U.R)— Pete Kouchis of Chicago Heights. 111., was to appear before U. S. ’ Commissioner Schuyler C. Dwyer : today on charges of possession of ; an unlicensed still and violation , i of the internal revenue laws follow- ■ ing seizure yesterday by federal • > agents of one of the largest cons traband stills uncovered in the . I state since repeal. The moonshine equipment was j found by officers of the federal alcohol tax unit in a tract of timber land three miles west of Lake j Village, which, from the outside I | was proclaimed by a sign to be a , i “dog farm." ‘ j The still was in a building among I I the trees and next to a row of kennels housing 40 dogs It was a ;! 750-gallon "St. Louis” type, ac- ‘ cording to James E. Scanlon, chief of the Indiana alcohol tax agents, and was capable of running off 500 gallons of alcohol a day. ’ Included in the equipment was a (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE).

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, April 12, 1938.

■ * WARN OF DANGER * Numerous reports have reached city and school officials of Decatur of the dangerous practice of a number of youths of this city in venturing out in ’ the high waters near the city in small boats. Only last Satururday, Adolph Liechty was drowned at Berne, a Fort Wayne youth was drowned in Lake James, in taking similar ’ risks, and numerous narrow | I escapes have been reported in various parts of this section. ■ »— — BAR MEMBERS” TO HONOR LUTZ l : Five Bar Associations To Attend Meeting Here i Wednesday Members of bar associations in i four comities from Indiana, and one j from Ohio, will meet at the Adams . county courtrooms Wednesday as- , ternoon to pay honor to the late Clark J. Lutz, prominent local at-torney-at-law. who died Monday at the local hospital. Representatives from Wells. Allen. Jay and Van Wert county. Ohio, bars have been invited to the meeting here in addition to mem- , hers of the Adams county association. Each of the associations will present a resolution, drafted in honor of the deceased attorney. The members of the Adams county committee, as selected in a ; ’ meeting of the bar held this morn- ’ ing in the courtrooms, are Judge Huber M. DeVoss. Earl B. Adams and Ferd Litterer. 1 Mr. Lutz’ prominence in courts 1 of surrounding counties had made ’ him personally acquainted with • many of the attorneys and a large number of professional friends of • the deceased attorney are expected at the meeting tomorrow. ' The meeting will open at 1 ■ o’clock Wednesday afternoon. For- i ■ iner Judge James T. Merryman, as • president of the Adams county bar association, will preside at the j session. Justice Os Peace Returns To Office John T. Kelley, justice of peace, i has returned to his duties after an attack of influenza that kept him confined to his home for the past ’ five weeks. Mr. Kelley is able to be at his office several hours each day. i

LENTEN MEDITATION . < (Rev. Kenneth Timmons) (First Christian Church) l “Maintaining The Spiritual Glow" < Romans 12:11 1 1 All of us have hours in the interior life when we are conscious . of the glowing spirit. Our hearts burn within us as we journey. 1 Some times these hours reach us unexpectedly, sometimes after 1 periods of prayer. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and so is every one that' is born of the spirit. But when such hours come, i the inward life grows radiant, and in the light of heaven we see . light. In such hours, as by unseen fingers, the veil is taken from the face of Scripture, and the Word, that was marred more than any man, now shines on us as altogether lovely. We have caught the spiritual glow. We are in Heavenly places with Christ Jesus. But the great difficulty in the interior life is to maintain that spiritual glow. Seasons come when we are over-wrought, and when 1 the keepers of the house do tremble. Or It may be, in the providence of God, that for long days we have to take our journey ' through a dry land where no water it. It is easy to lose the glow in such experiences. The Bible loses its fragrancy and dew. ’ \ Heaven recedes; we miss the golden ladder. But there is one thing that we must remember. That the spiritual life is not a luxury. It is a divine command. Now it is jiist here that we thank God afresh for the unspeakable gift of the ’ I Lord Jesus. To love Him gives the glow.

WILL PRODUCE HYBRID CORN Certified Hybrid Seed Corn To Be Produced In South Part County Certified Indiana hybrid seed corn is to be produced this year i for the first time in the south ’ , half of Adams county, as growers ! expand their acreage to accomoi date the growing demand for hybrid seed by Adams county corn ! * raisers. It has been estimated that about : half of the corn acreage in the 1 county this year will be in hybrid corn. The demand for the crop was fostered by the exceptional ‘ yields in 1937. among which were , Leland Ripley’s all-time county record of 130.6 bushels to the acre.. Other factors have been the ability I to stand up under unfavorable weather conditions, disease resist-; ance, even height from the ground | of the ears and better feeding. ' quality. Otto Hoile, of Decatur, has announced lie has been granted an application for seed to plant 50 acres in Indiana certified hybrid seed corn. This will be the largest acreage in the history of the tyRobert H. Heller, also of Decatur, who, with Mr. Hoile pioneered in 1 the introduction of hybrid seed corn in 1936 in Adams county, will 1 enter into a partnership with Leon Neuenschwander of south of Berne i ' I to produce 10 acres of hybrid seed j ■ corn —the first ever to be produced i in the south half of the county Winfred Greke, of Root township, ! ’ who began the production of hybrid ili seed corn in 1937 will have a nine-1 acre plot for the 1938 season. Other persons may have made i arrangements to grow the corn, but have not yet reported. All seed produced in the county | by these growers has been termed i adapted to the county by the hot-1 anical department, before the allot-1 meat of the seed. Certain rigid ■ : requirements must be met before j ’ the seed is certified and inspection ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ——O— New Business Is Opened In City Announcement was made today I of the opening of a new rug and carpet shampooing business. The new ; business ie located at the home ot Albert Beery on Winchester street. Mr. Beery is the proprietor. The .cleaning process is used also as an i exterminator of moths and germs.

DALADIER ASKS FOR POWERS TO RULE BY DECREE French Premier Seeks Wide Powers To Aid Nation’s Recovery Paris, April 12 <U.R>~ The government of Premier Edouard Daladier asked parliament today for power to rule by decree until July 31 and submitted a financial bill seeking wide authority for the government. The preamble of the bill announced the government's intention of asking an increase of another 10,000.000,0b# francs <5310,000,000) in the limit of its borrowings from the Bank of France. The bill was drawn in the midst of a spreading strike movement which seriously retarded the rearmament program and involved walkouts or sit down strikes of nearly 150.000 workers. It was announced that a new defense loan is envisaged, but details were not given. The bill consisted of a single article calling for power by decree 'until July 31 and stipulating that the decrees promulgated shall be ratified by the chamber before Dec. 31 or become void. It was explained that the program outlined consists strictly of emergency measures and that additional projects will be submitted to parliament later designed to speed recovery. The preamble of the bill explained that the full powers will be used as follows: 1. To reestablish budgetary unity and eliminate the extraordinary budget. 2. To improve France’s commercial balance. 3. To augment state revenue by (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) JUNIOR GLASS TO GIVE PLAY Kirkland Juniors To Present Class Play Thursday Night "Anything Might Happen” is the name of the three act play, to be presented by the members of the Kirkland junior class at the Kirkland high school gymnasium Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock. Tickets are selling for 15 and 25 cents and may be secured from members of the class or at the door on the night of the performance. Miner Borden, teacher at the school, is directing the play. The music will be furnished by the Kidkland township rhythm band. Following is the cast: Rosebud Brown, a colored maid Dorothy Mankey Lincoln Garfield McKinley Jones, a gentleman of color Eugene Arnold Mrs. Herbert Flowers, a widow Erma Mcßarnes Violet Flowers, her daughter Lorene Steffen Lyle Flowers, her son. Arthur Girod Marjorie Pryor. Lyle’s fiancee Hazel Yake Mrs. Clara Colby, a young widow Nadine Barger Paul Harvey, a young know-it-all Chalmer Borne Mrs. Lyle Flowers, a disappointed wife ... Berniece Cable Ward Mclntyre, a lawyer Everett Schlagenhauffen A warden Raymond Kolter Plan Annual Drive For Boy Scout Funds Walter Gladfelter, chairman of the Adams county Boy Scout financial committee, announced today that a meeting will Ibe held this evening in the mayor’s court room in the city hall at 7:30 o'clock to make plans for the annual financial drive. , The date for a banquet to precede the drive and the date of the drive will be set at the meeting tonight. It is again planned to hold a one-day drive. All soliciters are requested to attend tonight’s meeting. oTEMPERATURE readings DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 54 10:00 a. m 58 Noon ..... 65 2:00 p. m x 70 3:00 p. m -t'2 WEATHER Fair tonight and Wednesday; somewhat warmer extreme northwest portion Wednesday.

Roosevelt Plans Fireside Chat On Recovery Problem

PARTY CONTROL :| UP TO VOTERS Illinois Primary Today Question Os Controlling Party Chicago, April 12 —(UP) —Illinois i votes today in primaries that usher Ln a crucial election year in which Republicans will seek to overturn Democratic control of congress and lay the groundwork for victory In . the 1940 presidential election. Though the first of a series of state primaries, today's voting held ■ little of national significance. The 'liprincipal queetion to Ibe answered •' by the voters was which of two I Democratic machines would control ' | the state Democratic party. The machine headed by Mayor Edward J. Kelly and Patrick A. ’ nash. national committeeman, has • ’ controled Chicago for five years. Today it paced the opposition of a ‘‘downstate machine led by Gov. Henry Horner and state’s attorney 1 Thomas J. Courtney. The Republican primary was peaceful. State representative Richard J. ( j Lyons, candidate for the U. S. Senate. was without major opposition. . ’ he and his running mates concen(rated on keeping party members out of the Democratic fight Although it marked the start of preliminary skirmishing for the • next presidential race, no test of President Roosevelt’s popularity or policies was involved. The Democratic machines with jtheir eyes on the Chicago mayoralty next year and the Governorship in 1940. were split by two main issues, i One involved nomination of a cani didate to run for the seat of U. S. i j Sen. William H. Dieterich, a Demo-1 ! crat, and the other, the re-election i lof Cook county Judge Edmund K. Jarecki, whose office controls the | I election machinery in Chicago and i ! Cook county. The Horner-Courtney machine J ■. l acked state congressman Scott W. i ■ Lucas for the senatorial nomination 1 and sought Jarecki's renomination. Kelly and Nash supported U. S. Dis- ■ trict Attorney Michael L. Igoe of ! Chicago for the senate nomination ’ and circuit Judge John Prystalski : 1 for the county judgeship. i Other candidates were to be nom- ; ' inated for state treasurer, state I ’ school superintendent, state supreme court clerk, 27 congressional I seats, state senators and represen-, i I tatives and local offices. Candidates i: were to be elected to state 2entral I committees, senatorial district comi mittes and township committees. Secretary of state Edward J. Hughes predicted that Ideal wea- ; II ther —the forecast was generally fair and cooler —would bring out 1 I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) I • • 1 i Holiness Association I I Will Meet Next Sunday ■ i 1 The monthly meeting of the Ad'ams county holiness association j will be held Sunday. April 17. at 2 ‘ p. m., at the Clark’s Chapel M. E. i church northeast of Decatur. Rev. Harry Holtzapple of Lima Ohio, will i ' be the speaker. The public is invit--1 ed to attend this meeting. o TWO CASES IN JUSTICE COURT r j Two Assault Charges Are Continued In J. T. Kelly’s Court , Waymon Patrick, local young . man, charged with assault and J battery, was granted a contin- 1 ’ uance when he appeared before I John T. Kelly, justice of peace, in answer to the charge yesterday. Patrick was charged with striking a fellow-workman, Deloyd Garwood, while they were engaged in | WPA work, following an argument. Ed Gaffer plead not guilty to committing assault when arraigned before Justice Kelly. The charge was filed by Carl McConnell. Bond was filed for his appearance. He is to be tried on the charge in justice of peace court on May 11. Patrick is to reappear on May 10. H. R. McClenehan represented Patrick and Nathan C. Nelson represented Gaffer.

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Radio Speech To Nation Planned Thursday On Relief; Report Garner In Conflict. SPECIAL MESSAGE Washington, April 12 — (U.R) —• President Roosevelt and Vice President John N. Garner were reported In conflict today over new pump priming expenditures under circumstances foretelling a bitter battle to keep spending under congressional control if a big fund is voted. Garner neither confirmed nor denied the report. The conflict appeared to be a continuation of policy dispute arising in the past year between conservative Democrats and new dealers. President Roosevelt, meantime, kept engagements to a minimum to work on a message to congress which will request $1,250,000,000 for relief for the first seven months of the next fiscal year. He expects, also, to deliver a fireside chat to the nation April 14 if the relief message can be gotten off to congress on that day. Whether Garner objected to the large relief spending plan as well as to the program for $1,500,000,000 of unsecured loans to states and political subdivisions for WPA projects was not known. The White House said the three national broadcasting companies have tentatively reserved for Mr. Roosevelt a 45-minute interval on Thursday evening beginning at 9:30 p. m. CST. The fact that 45 minutes has been allotted indicated the presi(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o RURAL PHONE LINES OPENED Toll Lines To Berne And Geneva Are Opened For Service Officials of the Citizens Telephone company today announced that the toll lines to Berne were opened Monday evening and that a line from Berne to Geneva had been opened this morning. Most of the rural lines out of the Decatur exchange have been repaired and put back into service. The majority of the lines around the Berne and Monroe exchanges, as well as the direct lines to Portland will be repaired by Thursday evening. It is expected that with the possibility of a few scattered exceptions. all rural lines operated by the company will be in service by the end of the weeik. Heavy damage to the system was done to the company's lines in rural districts by the sleet and ice which formed on the wires, breaking them and tearing down many of the poles. Much of the damage was escaped in the urban districts due to the company's improvement program during the last several years, which has resulted in the buying ot many of the lines. iAll of the damage to the city ot Decatur’s municipal lines has been repaired. Due to the fact that the main force of the storm was felt in a belt a few miles south ot Decatur, less damage was done to the municipal plant’s system. —o ————— Candidate To Speak At Meeting April 25 Von (Pat) Eichorn, of Wells county, a candidate for the Democratic nomination as joint state senator ot Adams, Wells and Blackford counties, has announced a group of Uniondale citizens has rented the Blutfton community building for the evening ot April 25. Mr. Eichorn will make the principal address. The public and candidates have been invited to attend. * * CLOSE FOR FUNERAL Officers of the Decatur Cham- | her of Commerce and the Ad- ’ ams county bar association this I morning requested all business i houses and offices of the city | to close from 3 to 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon during funeral services for Clark J. Lutz, prominent attorney of | this city. ♦