Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1938 — Page 1

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Jill'S SICE SIIMHI OF till ELECTION ■ocratic Race KorOH*’ ll ' l d Best In Primary mJ d( mH £H X ’ - • " ”> h "" &H|f !’. ...'•. '■'" ' ' l' i -""’ 1 1 1 v a111 ... • i"’hi--». and c.Uitvst fill' -t :■ ||S A,la ~|.p. >*•■<! by Chr:-”-' Walt-'i w! ,„. ,;- y ’>!■■ DenioI , :he . y.- , ra-'W?.:— !'i "in four, unop- - ... i -ai > ' nr district. JtlM'.. I'hiisten. Mr. Mr Himber were un- *■ - tor the recity 1 id r. JS ii. ... -jo i ca-'S L-:pposed .. lb ‘.’.leans are o : ticket of the , BM ».'!. Mi'- Republican - ■ opposed the nominations. o ■■(auiija-.- and will '.‘r ’he fall race Offices of !:.n- ■ Mor- : r -of ■•srb-ring :'-->sion. is nnop- • —for from the George Hard -J employe, is un- ■ :h' third district nomi- ■ nii'i Cha: - Langston. G E ■ .mdidate from rth district. than >" ib-publiean votes ' ll . ity primary Den. cn.tlc . ■■y ballot will may the Offir" For Mayor R Holtllouse F • Berling Vance For Clerk-treasurer Christen ... _ _ Martin J Kiess C: -‘ n ciiman, First District W. Myers Second District w St,llts p«^B C ° unci| man, Third District '*■ Appelmaii Fourth District J -Keller .... Councilman-at-large tie^B r " la " M ,:i!l ’R r Butcher BULLETIN 1B ’Shington, April 25—(U.R)— Supreme court today affirm- ' con «titutionalityIity of the "' unicipal bankruptcy act, / con oress0 ress to replace a ■^Bth. UPtCy sta(u * e invalidated ;^B the court in 1936. i Hte'\m?T° n Was by a 6 to 2 v . * h Justices James F. Mcnßand Pierce Bu tier disHrdozo | JU “ iCe Benjamin N. - ’ °" 9 absent from the °* illness ' did ■ —— BB' EMp ERaTURE READINGS J® E1! OCRat thermometer - tn—74 Ml-.. m - 6 0 3:00 p. m... 76 HH 65 Shrn WEA TH£H unsett? l ?| Udy ton 'B ht ' becomK iB e ‘ ledTueada y with showsow r hwest Portion Tues«»te'. W ? at Warmer in north ■ J c.ntral portions Tuesday.

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Prom Queen **' - *c> --. 1 ** JI I w 1 118 * Juniors at Indiana University proved their ability to “pick 'em" when they selected pretty Jeanette Printz of Louisville as class queen to reign at their annual prom. SOME TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE Only Few Reservations Available For School Cabaret Dance Only a few reservations for the cabaret dance Friday night at the Decatur Country Club are obtainable, members of the committee in charge reported todaiy. Reservatione have ibeen going rapidly and with the exception of a few choice tables, a complete sellout has been reported. Persons desirous of securing reservations for the affair are ariked to contact Dan Holthouse* Don Death or Art Heller or call the high school as early as possible. Arrangements for the annual affair. sponsored by the Howling Hoets of the school, have been completed and everything is in readiness for an evening's entertainment. Soft drinks will be sold at the club, but no beer or liquors may be purchased, members of the committee assured those expecting to attend. Russell Blocker Is Hurt In Runaway Russell Blocker. 27. of southwest of Berne, was badly hurt early this, morning when a team of horses he was driving ran away. Blocker was engaged in running a dteqjng machine, pulled by the team, when the accident occurred. The disc ran over his ibody. A physician was summoned and it was learned that he sustained severe bruises and cute about the body and legs. His condition was reported satisfactory at noon today. Berne Graduates To Hear Dr. N. H. Muller Dr. N. H. Muller, of Indianapolis, district superintendent of the Evangelical church, will be the commencement epeaker at the graduation exercises of the Berne high I school to be held in the Berne community building Monday. May 23, it was announced today. o ——————- — JUNE ANDREWS TAKEN BY DEATH Jefferson Township Moman Dies This Morning At Berne Hospital Mrs. June Andrews, 39, of Jeffetson township, died at the Hossrnan hospital in Berne at 5:30 o'clock I this morning. Death was caused by dropsy and heart disease. The deceased was born in Jefferson township June 23, 1898, the daughter of Scott and Minerva McDaniel. She married Sylvester Andrews March 19, 1918. Surviving are the husband, one son, Warren, at home; the father, living in Jefferson township; and two brothers, Roy McDaniel of Monroe and Dick McDaniel of Oakland, Calif. Funeral services will be held at the L. L. Yager home in Berne Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Burial will be made in the Crawford cemetery, east of Berne.

GREAT BRITAIN MAKES PROTEST AFTER ARRESTS Protests To Soviet Russia For Failure To Report Arrests Moscow, April 25 — (U.R) — Viscount Chilton, British ambassador. protested to Foreign Commissar Litvinov today against the alleged failure of the government to notify Great Britain of arrests of British subjects in Russia. Viscount Chilton said that the British government took a grave view of the arrest of Rose Cohen, a former British communist, and others without the notification I which Russia had promised to give under an agreement concluded in ■ 1937. A repetition of the incidents complained of. he said, would be detrimental to British-Russian relations. Chilton said specifically that the • ; 1937 agreement was violated when ' the British-born Miss Cohen was - arrested last August. The embassy was informed only a few days ago, he said, that Miss Cohen was held on an espionage charge. He asked that she be tried as soon as possible. that details of the charges against her be given the British government and that members of the embassy staff be permitted to i • visit her. The British protest coincided i with an intensification of the merciI less purge of “enemies of the state," quiescent since the recent trial of 21 bolshevik leaders. it had been reported before the protest that Miss Cohen, a former British communist who came here ' eight years ago. had been arrested and that she would be tried soon on espionage charges, entailing a possible death sentence. Britain based its protest on her . i ease even though, it is recorded, • she acquired Russian citizenship by marrying a Russian here. She was but one enmeshed in the 1 ON PAGE FIVE) L , ». —.. DEATH CLAIMS SOPHIA AUMANN Mrs. William Aumann Dies Sunday At Preble Township Home Mrs. Sophia Dirkson-Aumann. 78 wife of William Aumann, of Preble township, died Sunday evening at 4: W o'clock at he rhome. Death was ; caused by complications. The deceased wtus born in Preble i township January 6, 1860, the ■ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Dirkson. She was a member of the : St. John's Lutheran church, i Surviving, besides the husband, are four sons, Henry of Root townehip. Martin and William C. of Root I township and Edmund of Preble . township. ■ The following brothers and sisi ters also survive: Henry of Root -ownship, Charles of Montana; Mrs. Henry Reiter of Root township and Mrs. Carl Scheimann of Allen county. Sixteen grandchildren and one great grandchild also survive. Funeral services will be held ’ Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home and 2 o'clock at (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) L 0 Four Jailed After Series Os Robberies Kokomo, Ind., Apr. 25. (U.R) Four men were in jail here today after allegedly committing a serI : ies of robberies in Peru and Deer Creek which brought them SSO I yorth of cigars and cigarettes and i 25 cents in cash. Those held are Roy Stafford, "I Kempton; William F. Holloway of inear Tipton; Miles H. Hobson of 1 near Lebanon, and Lieroy Mclntosh, ‘ Kokomo. According to police, the men broke into a deer Creek filling sta--1 tion after stealing the car of Har- [ low Summers and later held up two parked couples at Peru. -o Dr. H. Frohnapfel I Is Named Officer Dr. H. Frohnapfel of Decatur was ’ elected second vice-president of the ' Indiana Naturopathic association at ' the group’s 13th annual convention, . held at the Hotel Severin in Indianapolis Sunday. , Dr. Donald Harpham of Huntington was elected president. The next quarterly education meeting of the organization will be held July 31 at Huntington

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♦ Democrat Officials Warn Subscribers Os Pseudo-Representative * * Officials of the Decatur Daily j Democrat today issued a warning to all subscribers against a young man, who represents himself as a bonaflde representative of the newspaper and then attempts to persuade the suscribers to renew their subscription to the paper. While but one particular Instance has been reported where the man hae been able to dup a subscriber out of the subscription price and that in an adjoining county, officials of the company warn all subscribers against the attempt, unless proper credentials are shown. The pseudo-salesman reportedly used the age-old "gag,” that he was "working his way through college” in duping the customer. FOUR BRITISH 'S GREW MEMBERS DIE IN SPAIN — Victims Os Heavy Air Bombardment Os Valencia Today — Tendaye, April 25 —(UP) — Na- ’ tionalist planes heavily bombed the i Port of Valencia today/ killing 31 | persons and wounding more than i 70 including members of the crews 1 of two british ships which were ' etrudk by bomibs. Fire broke out in the portl As the Nationalists renewed their assaults on Loyalist cities from the air Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s infantry hammered at the loyalist lines at three widely separ- ( ated points. 1 The principal developments j . were: 1. Tri-motored nationalist bombr 1 ers swept down fro mtheir new air I base in the Ebro Delta and dropped .; 40 bombs on the Port of Valencia. ; One member of the crew of the British ship Stanrake and three members of the crew of the British ship Celtic Star were killed. Three members of the crew of the British ship Cltic star were wounded. The | decks and sides of both ships were damaged when they were hit by ! bombs. 2. Some 4,000 loyalists were killed 1 j in a battle at Alcala De Chievert as i the nationalist continued their ' drive down on the sea.| 3. Nationalist forces from Tremp I battled their way 15 miles east a1 ’.ong the road between the Noguera 1 Pallaresa and Segre rivers toward j Eeo de Urgel on the French border. 1 Thy reached a point near Abella I De La Conca and were nearing the , Railp river. ' 4. On the south central front in ' the big pocket formed by a line ex1. tending back from the Ebro Delta i southwest toward Teruel, r.ational--1 ist forces were making rapid progress after taking the Eastern ’ slopes of Sierra Del Popo, south of ! i Aliago. At Alcala De Chivert the loyal(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Mrs. Cochran Taken To Ann Arbor Clinic - Mrs. Hubert Cochran of Monroe . Street was taken to Ann Arbor, Michigan this morning, where she will undergo special medical treatment at a clinic there. Mrs. Cochran hae been ill for some time with a nervous disorder. ONE WEEK LEFT ; TO PAY TAXES l Next Monday Is Final Day To Pay Spring Installment Os Taxes Only one week remains to pay 1 the spring installment of the cur- ’ rent taxes. Next Monday, May 2, is the final day. I As the last week for payment of taxes opened a concerted rush was experienced in the offices of Jeff Liechty, county treasurer, in the • courthouse. At a n early hour this morning the i office was filled with prospective : taxpayers, and the rush continued ; | throughout the day. The personnel of the office re- •; ports a heavy paying of delinquent taxes also, in addition to the cur- • rent payments. Taxes are urged to come to the II office as soon as possible to avoid . | the usual last minute jam in the I treasurer’s office.

WILL IMPROVE CITY STREETS State To Receive Bids Tuesday For Resurfacing Streets Bids will be received Tuesday by the Indiana State highway commls- ’ cion for the resurfacing of Wlnches- | ter and Second streets and Mercer I avenue. U. S. roads 27 and 33 pass over these streets and the state ( highway commission is paying the cost of improving the streets. 'State road 27 will be improved ' from the intersection south of Decatur to the (bridge north of town. ' j Mercer avenue will be improved from Five points corner to the city ‘ limits. O. D. Baker, district supervisor I ( of maintenance for the highway de- j j partment was in Decatur today ’, looking after details pertaining to j ( the improvement. It is estimated ( that the cost will be around $50,000, all of which will be paid by the Ind- | ; iana highway department. The installing of water hydrants ‘ j and water taps along Mercer ave- | nue, Winchester and Second streets (has been ordered by the city previous to improving the street. The taps will be made In front of vacant j lots so the street will not have to be dug up after it is improved. ——-o > | City Coal Silos Are Being Painted i The coal silos at the city light and power plant are being painted ; adding much to the appea-ance of i ; the place. The tile blocks are paint- i ! ed red, stripped with white. The painting preserves the tile and at the same time improves the ; looks of the silos. Property owners ( in the district expressed their pleasure over the paint-up campaign. The lawn at the city plant is one of the most attractive in the city. I The ornamental trees, shrubbery ' and roses are coming out in full ■ color and bloom and the grounds at-1 tract the attention and admiration 1 j of all who pass. —o 1 ■ COLLEGE CHOIR GIVES CONCERT Ball State College Choir Presents Concert Sunday > An appreciative crowd that filled f the Methodist Epicopal church au--1 ( ditorium last evening heard an im- ‘ • pressive sacred concert rendered by 1 (the Ball State College choir of Mun-. ! cle. For the hour and a quarter, the 1 choir sang hymns, spirituals and ■ folk songs, interspersed with vof cal and instrumental solos Prof. -1 c. E. Palmer directed the choir and • the performance was a most de- ‘ ilghtful one. Rev. Graham gave a ’ brief introduction, welcoming the young people and made a few re- - marks closing the evening, with • thanks and appreciation for the treat. Miss Vera Porter of this city gave one of the features of the program, a baritone horn solo, "My, , heart at thy sweet voice” Miss ' Faith Davies sang “Christ went up into the hills” and Miss Harriett Slaughter on her violin gave ’ “Songs my mother taught me.” Following the concert the entire group of 44 went to the home of Mr. i and Mrs. Miles Porter on Mercer j avenue for a half hour of greetings before starting home. During the afternoon, the choir gave a similar concert at Bluffton. — o Club To Sponsor $ Benefit Movie The Business and Professional Women's club is sponsoring a benef fit movie at the Adams theater Friday and Saturday evenings. The name of the show is "Bringing Up Baby.” Tickets are being sold by members of the club. The public is y urged to purchase tickets and assist the club. 9 f Farmers Working s 24 Hours Each Day t b Noblesville, Ind., April 25 (UP) —Many farmers in North Central b Indiana, behind in their spring s work, have been “burning the "mid--1 night gas" in an effort to catch up. Recent heavy rains have delay- • ed farm plans in several localities t and farmers are operating their ’- tractors after dark. Some have been working on a 24-hour schedule. 9 Observers believe that not more 1 than half of the corn ground has s been broken and that planting will likely be late. j

NEW EUROPEAN PEACE THREAT IN NAZI FIGHT Hitler’s Bid For Power In Czechoslovakia Is New Threat 'By Joe Alex Morris (United Press Staff Correspondent) The Nazi fight for jpower in Szechosiovakia today threatened a new central European crisis. Adolf Hitler, determined to dominate middle Europe economically and politically,'generally was credited with inspiring a speech by Konard Henlein. Nazi leader in Czechoslovakia, demanding minority privileges and close cooperation with greater Germany, speaking darlkly of danger of internal or foreign war. Henlein's virtual ultimatum was bold and blunt. Premier Milan Hodza called the Czech barinet to an emergency meeting scheduld to re-: ject the Nazi demande. The Czech crisis was a carefully-1 planned move on the European chessboard and. in the Hitler man-, ner, it was quicker and more drastic than expected. Czechoslovakia and Roumania are the two vital points in the Nazi campaign for economics expansion eastward. The presence of a large German minority in Czechoslovakia has been made the basis for a Nazi attempt to shift the country from its alignment with France and Russia to the position of a satellite of greater Germany. The attempt is given greater strength by the fact that Germany is in a position to choke Czechoslovakia either economically or militarily and by the comparative impotency at present of the Czech's ties with France. The Technique has been to threat- ( en international troubles through j the nwly-strengthened Nazi part in Szechoslovakia with the implied backing of Germany if necessary. Furthermore. Hungary and Poland have joined in the Nazi demands because of their minorities in the post-' war state, tubs virtually surround-, ing Czechs. j The new crisis was of significance in the generl Burapen pic-j j ture. Gret Britain's campaign to ease tension by making treaties of friendship with Fascist Italy and France’s current negotiations with Ctaly have weakened the partnership between Berlin and Rome. The Nazis’ bold move in Czechoslovakia thrusts Hitler back into a strong position for negotiations; gives additional importance to his coming visit to Fascist Premier Benito I Mussolini at Rome. Violence Flares Prague, Czechoslovakia, April 25 —(XIP)—The first major outbreak of Nazi anti-Jewish violence in Czechoslovakia was revealed today, simultaneously with an emergency call by Premier Milan Hodza for a cabinet meeting to consider demands of the country’s German minority for recognition. Shortly after the cabinet meeting was called, the German minister held a long conference with foreign minister Kamil Krofta. The Nazi outbreak occurred last J night in the tbwn of Theusing, near (Marienbad, where the town council resigned voluntarily and was , joined by 300 sudten Germans in a | torchlight parade through the streets. The wemonstrators, first disper- ! sed by Gendarmes, who threatened to fire on them, subsequently reas(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o BERNE WINNER AT BAND MEET Berne High School Band Wins First Place In District Meet The Berne high school band, under the direction of Freeman Burkhalter, won first place in the district band contest held Saturday at Goshen. The Berne band carried away top honors in the Class C contest, with 16 other schools entered. The band, by virtue of the district win, will compete in the state contest at Huntington on Maiy 6 and 7, as representative of this section. Berne also was accorded another honor when Donald Lehman of that town, won first place in the drummer’s contest. Regular rehearsals will be held by the band in preparation for the [state finals next month,

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To Talk Oil “ & Josephus Daniels. U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, is pictured on his arrival at Washington airport. He I will answer questions of the State Department concerning the recent expropriation of American oil property by the Mexican government. SCOUTS LAUNCH DRIVE TONIGHT Annual Campaign Drive For Funds To Start Officially Tuesday The annual drive for funds to sup--1 port Boy Scout activities in Decatur will be launched this evening, with a dinner meeting at the Rice | hotel at 6:30 o’clock. Thirty workers who will have j charge of the campaign will attend, with the principal speeches by Mayor A. R. Holthouse and R. L. Van Horn, Fort Wayne, Anthony Wayne area scout executive. Walter Gladfelter is chairman of the Boy Scout finance committee, and is conducting the drive in this I city. "Decatur has always done its share to support Scouting financial-, ly,” said Mr. Gladfelter. "We are pround of our record and intend to maintain it. Scouting deserves our support now as never ibefore. If w r e expect to develop honest citizezns. grounded in the American ideal of, government, we must train our boys and girls in character and citizenship. It is better to build boys than ’ to mend men.” Plans for the drive will be detailed at tonight's meeting, with the actual solicitation of funds to be launched Tuesday morning. .' o Evansville Police Seek Young Bandit — . ( Evansville, Ind., April 25 —(UP) i —Police today sought a youthful . bandit who forced his victims to drive him around town while he attempted to learn how to operate the automobile's elecfric gear shift but who gave up and fled after robbing them of SIOO. U J. Ervin Taylor, treasurer of the ' Blount Plow Co., here, said the bandit forced him and his wife at the point of a gun to drive around and explain how to shift gears. HowI over, the youth apparently didn’t understand it, Taylor said, and got j out in the downtown district after taking SIOO from them. Q__ Firemen Make Run To Schneider Residence Firemen were called to the Al Schneider home on North Second ( street about 7:30 o’clock this morn- [ ing when an overheated hot water I heater started smoking. No damage ( (resulted. H 0 s Plan Visits To Red Men Lodges t J. M. Breiner and A. N. Hilton • i will leave Friday on a tour of the i northern part of the state in the II interest of the Red Men’s lodge. : i They will visit lodges throughout | northern Indiana before returning.

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Mould Subject Government Salaries, All Future Bond Issues To Income Taxation. ONE OF SERIES Washington. April 25 — (U.R) — President Roosevelt today asked congress to enact promptly a “short and simple stature” to subject all governmental salaries and all future governmental bond issues to income taxation. The president’s recommendation was one of a series in his recovery drive. Mr. Roosevelt advised congress he believed the recent trend of supreme court decisions indicated tax exemption of government securities and salaries both federal and state — could be ended by statute and without constitutional amendment. The statute proposed by Mr. Roosevelt would enable the federal government to tax income derived from federal, state and municipal bonds and offices; reciprocally, the states would be authorized to tax income from federal bonds and offices as well as their own. The president declared that “men with great means” placed funds in tax-exempt securities and that “a fair and effective progressive income tax and a huge perpetual reserve of tax-exempt bonds cannot exist side by side.” Under present conditions ail state, municipal and feleral bonds are exempt from both state and federal taxes. Federal salaries are subject to the federal income tax but not state income taxes. State salaries are subject to state income taxes but not federal taxes. The president proposed to end all such exemptions. The president sent to congress his views on the question of reciprocal taxation of governmental bonds and employes’ salaries in the first of two messages he is expected to transmit this week. Th eother message—on monopoly problems—is expected to round out ’ his major congressional recommendations of the year. I Mr. Roosevelt noted that the language of the 16th—or income tax —amendment to the constitution authorized congress specifically to “lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived." “This is plain language," said Mr. Roosevelt. “Fairly construed this language would seem to authI orize taxation of income derived from state and municipal as well as federal bonds and also income derived from state and municipal as well as federal offices.” Mr. Roosevelt noted that the 1 courts had not agreed with his interpretation. “Instead,” he said, “a policy of 1 reciprocal tax immunity was read into the 16th amendment. This resulted in exempting the Income from federal bonds from state taxation and exempting the income from state bonds from federal taxation.” The president noted that such exemption had “created a vast reservoir of tax-exempt securities in the hands of the very persons . who equitably should not be re- ' lieved of taxes on their income.” He characterized this reservoir (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ' O FIREMEN PLAN FOR CONCLAVE Annual Firemen’s Convention To Be Held In Marsaw June 8-9 • Final plans for the convention of the Indiana industrial and volunteer fiermen's association to .be held at Warsaw on June 8 and 9. were k made Sunday in a meeting at War- ' saw. L. L. Baumgartner, of Berne, who was elected president of the organI ization at the conclave held in this city last year, presided at the Sun- ' day meeting. W. Stuckey, of Monroe, a member of the board of directors, is the other Adams county man, who has been named an official of the or- ; ganization. | Arrangements of contests and II listing of prizes for contest winners 51 were discussed at the meeting. b i Representations from Decatur . Berne. Monroe and Geneva fire det ■ partment are expecting to attend ;. the annual event.