Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1938 — Page 6

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TWO PRIMARIES HOLD INTEREST Florida And Indiana Holding Primary Elections Today Washington. May 3,— <U.R> -Primary elections in Florida and Indiana today tested public reaction to President Roosevelt’s administration for the first time since his defeats in congress on the supreme court and government reorganization bills. Both states presently are in the new deal eatnp. In Florida, Sen. Claude Pepper is running for reelection with Mr. Roosevelt's good wishes and the outspoken support of James Roosevelt, the President s son. In Indiana, Gov. M. Clifford Townsend's state regime is loyal to the Democratic administration and Archie N. Bobbitt. Republican chairman, believed that any increase in the usual Republican voting strength today would indicate a trend away from the Democratic leadership. Bobbitt said that Democrats were deserting the party in many sections of the state to register their displeasure at business recession

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land mounting government debts. Florida is a one-party state. Pepper's opposition came from ■ within two Democratic opponents who charged that he had been a "rubber stamp” for the administration and declared they would support the party in congress only I when their own convictions warranted it. They were Dave Scholtz. former governor, and Rep. Mark Wilcox. James Roosevelt said on a visit in Tallahassee. Flu., last winter that the administration “hoped Pepper ’would be returned.” Mr. Roosevelt's prestige in Indiana was involved only insofar as the total Democratic and Republican vote might show a trend from one party to the other. Senator Frederick Van Nuys, an anti-ad-ministration Democrat, did not run In the primary but will be on the ballot in November's general election as an independent. Eight of the 12 Indiana incumbent congressmen had no opposition, among them Louis Ludlow, author of the war referendum bill which was an issue early in the current session of congress. Primaries also were held today in Alabama and South Dakota, where state issues were paramount. o VOTERS FLOCK TO (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Democratic- strength is most apparent. For example. Mayor Joseph Kimmel of Vincennes is having a pri- ; ! tnary battle. So are Mayor Barney Clayton of Gary and Mayor John Dress of Evansville. All three are important cogs in the general state Democratic organization. South Bends primary fight has become sufficiently heated to bring from Washington officials a statement that WPA workers are not to be intimidated into surrendering their i voting freedom. _ o— HITLER SEEKS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ' Berlin axis more firmly. None of I the specific differences between the ; two nations appeared difficult to i solve, but suspicion and historic i hostility made it unlikely that < Mussolini would go far toward tightening his partnership with 1 Berlin. Such an outcome, however, would : not necessarily impede the nazi program for expansion through i ■ central Europe although it might < I improve efforts of Britain and France to prevent Germany's conflict with Czechoslovakia from ex-1 ploding in war. Elsewhere: Washington — The senate was scheduled to pass the house-ap-proved $1,156,000,000 navy building bill despite a final plea by the opposition—led by Sen. William E i Borah. R.. Ida —to put the money in America's "first line” of defense < by using it to relieve economic dis- i tress. 11 Paris —The quasi-dictatorial gov-1 ernment of French Premier Edouard Daladier boosted taxes eight ’ per cent in its campaign to strengthen the nation financially and press ahead with a big rearm- I ament program. Shanghai—British seamen, with 1 fixed bayonets, chased Japanese ■ troops out of the British consulate general's courtyard in the latest and perhaps most serious of several clashes in the international settlement Chinese reported that their troops had "shattered” Japanese i'loans'i $lO to S3OO O’urn £lgnatu.se NO ENDORSERS NO CO-MAKERS Let us solve your money problems Convenient repayment terms Call, write er LOCAL LOAN COMPANY INCORPORATED Rooms I and 2 Schafer Building Decatdr. Indiana Phone 2-3-7 Every requtit receives our | CORT 4 MORE DAYS Matinee Tues., Wed., Thurs. 2 p. m. continuous. 15c —3O c Shows at 2:00, 3:35, 5:10, 7:45 tie First Full Length Feature!

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' lines In Shansi province and stalled the climactic Japanese advance i In Shantung province on the ceni tral front. i Spain—Loyalist troops renewed . attacks against insurgents In the Cordoba mining area of southwest - Spain and also were reported seek- . Ing to open an offensive in the Tremp area of Catalonia. — - o — PIONEER DAY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) pils of both grade schools presented special music and two short plays were presented by the art department. The program closed with a~xy lophone solo by Patsy Edwards and a violin solo by Tony Faurote. The committee in charge was Mayor A R Holthouse, Misses Kathryn Kauffman and Helen Haubold. Boys' and Girls' day in industry i was observed today, with eighth grade students of both the Central and St. Joseph schools being taken on a tour of the city's leading industries. also the county Jail and municipal light and power plant. The committee in charge: E. W Lsnkenau. H E Bronter, Mrs. Harold McMillen and Mrs. William j Klepper. A mock city election will be held Wednesday as the feature of citizenship day. Three tickets have ; been named, and a mayor, clerktreasurer and five councilmen will be elected. The election will be held at the public library, and regular election equipment, used in today's primary, will be used by the student voters. Members of the committee are: Jack Ellsworth. Cal Peterson, Mrs. R D Myers and Mrs. C. J. Beavers. o PARLEY DATES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) convention. District and state reorganization meetings were scheduled by both parties during the next two weeks The Republicans will hold district meetings on May 10 with the exception of the first and 12th districts, which are set for next Saturday. The new G. O. P. state committee will meet May 11 to organize and make plans for the convention. District convention dates fixed by the G O. P are: second district, Winamac; third district. South Bend; fourth district. Fort Wayne: fifth district, Marion: sixth district. Crawfordsville; seventh district, Spencer; eighth district. Rockport; ninth district, North Vernon; tenth district. Rushville; eleventh district. Greenfield Democratic district reorganization meetings were set for May 11 with the state reorganization session on May 14. The first day of each of the con ventions will be devoted to caucusing and the convention proper will be held the second day. Party candidates for the U. S. senate and high state offices will be selected at the conventions. VOTERS FLOCK TO (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) cratic ticket while the G. O. P. posts are uncontested. Discussions at the voting places led an observer to believe that I the mayor's race topped the others in interest in the city, closely followed by several other contests. Other races that were discussed frequently were the contests for , Judge, for sheriff, for auditor, for clerk, for treasurer, joint representative. joint senator, city clerktreasurer, assessor, councilman-at-large, and township trustee. The balance of the races are uncontested. The fact that voters had to mark two ballots, county and city, is thought to have caused them to use more time in the secret voting booths Get Returns Tonight The interest will undoubtedly continue until the early morning hours, as voters and interested persons stay on the city streets tonight awaiting results of the votes. The Daily Democrat will post the ■ returns as they are received from the various precincts. They will be listed on a huge bulletin board in the Democrat window. The results may also be learned by calling at the office, phones 1,000 and I 1.001. A special election edition will | also be printed by the Democrat as soon as the races are conclu- ! sively decided. FOUR CONVICTS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) early today was not Breining’s I machine. Breining told police that the convicts made no attempt to harm I him. Two of the men had knives, ihe said. None had guns. He said one of them pushed him out of the driver's seat and drove I off. with Breining beside him and > the other three convicts in the back seat. "W'est of Michigan City I was ordered Into the rear seat between two of the men,” he said. “The others rode in front.” For the next six and one-half hours, the ride continued. Brelrting said they went from Michigan City to Cedar Lake, Ind., then skirted

ISIS BUSINESS • AID PROSPERITY t . V. S. Chamber Os Commerce President Asks Business Men Aid Washington. May 3—(UP)—President George H. Davis of the United States Chamber of commerce summoned business men today to the task of leading the country back to prosperity. Opening the general session of the Chamber’s 26th annual meeting, He expressed faith in the capl-| talistic system and declared that it was time for business to concentrate on agreemen rather than on magnifying reasons for disagreement. believe that this American businese system, it it is permitted to operate effectivelly, if it is disentangled from hampering restrictions and freed from unnecessary and illadvised checks and obstructions,” he said. "Will not only solve the very grave problems with which we are contending, but pave the way for a resumption of the forward drive that >has made us the greatest economic :power in the world and can make us still great , er.” Davis, who is head of a Kansas City grain firm, joined with B. O. | lieacock. president of the Caterpil-j lar tractor company of Peoria, 111., I and Dr. Robert <A. Millikan, one of j the world's outstanding scientists, and a defense of the capitalistic system of free enterprise as contracted with other systems employing socalled "Planned economies." Unlike Winthrop Aldrich, chairman of the Chase National bank of New York, who last night blasted the New Deal spending-lending- ! credit policies, none of today's major speakers mentioned the Roosevelt Administration iby name. Aldrich, who with 15 other in- \ fluential industrialists and financiers offered President Roosevelt t co-operation in his recovery drive last week, addressed the international chamber of commerce ban-\ quet. He said that the administra tion's program of increased federal spending was risking national solvency, credit and the future of the currency system. Davis told today's gathering of 2.5<W delegates that the major question confronting the chamber was to endure or whether some oth- • er form was to take its place. "Fortunately,” he said, "The point at which he must make a decision I has not yet been reached. But it I might be well to remind ourselves that such questions are seldom ans-1 wered by a 'yes' or ‘no.’ "We reach a decision by'gtadual stages, sometimes without knowing it, yielding in one place and compromising in another, until we suddenly discover that we are com-. pletely off the old track and it is ’ too iate to turn back.” Davis decried efforts to judge business by its shortcoming and not by its achievements. If the same method of appraisal were applied to other institutions — - government, for example — we would be a thoroughly dissatisfied' and sadly disillusioned people,” he said. o — NAVY MEASURE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) bat ships. Appropriations must be ! obtained for the actual laying of j the keels. o Negro Is Executed For Holdup-Murder Michigan City, Ind., May 3—(UP) —Monroe White, 32-year-old Gary] Negro, paid with his life in the elec-! trie chair at the state prison early today for the holdup-murder last January of Michael Pappas. Gary lunchroom proprietor. He was taken from his cell at! 12:06 A. M. CST and ipronounced dead by prison physicians at 12:13 A. M. OST. Witnesses said White, who was convicted in Kentland, appeared resigned to his fate East Gary, Ind., and crossed the state line and went to the vicinity of Joliet. 111. From there they went! to Morris, Manhattan. South Joliet, I Bourbonnais, Bradley and finally to Kankakee. "They drove west of Station street, highway 17, in Kankakee,” Breining said. "A mile and a half i west of Kankakee they turned south on a side road and drove for a mile until they came to a farrn- . house.” The felons ordered Breining out of the machine and drove on. He i went to the home of Paul Kent, a ■ farmer, and reported to police. I “They all were pleasant,” he > said. "They said they didn’t want my jewelry and money but took my i clothes and gave me one of their i khaki uniforms. They said they > would leave the car within 50 miles of where they let me go.” t Breining. a bookkeeper, was re- [ turned to his home today by his r father, John, and Indiana state 1 police.

AFL RESCINDS CIO CHARTERS AFL Council Revokes Charter Os All But One “Reher’ Union -j Washington, May 3 (U.R) Labor's civil war was intensified | today by the American federation j of labor's severance of final ties with all but one of the "rebel” I unions of the committee for Indus- , trial organization. Most observers regarded the fedI eration executive council's negative decision to leave Davil Dublnj sky's international ladies garment workers union still -technically affiliated with the A. F. of L. as more significant than the formal expulsion of six other unions Federation President William Green would not comment on the | lack of action against the garment workers, but it appeared to be a formal bid to Dubinsky to return j to the A. F. of L with his 252,000 members. He has been reported 1 ready to bolt the CIO and has publicly disagreed with CIO Chairman . John L. Lewis over establishment ; of the insurgent labor organization ,as a permanent rival to the feder- ■ ation. The A. F. of L.'s council late yesterday revoked the charters of : six CIO unions, which claim a total , membership of 1.747,200 workers. I The garment workers union now is I the only one of the original ten I unions which seceded from the A. F. of L. to form the CIO that has not been formally ejected The Federation of Flat Glass Workers, the International Union 'of Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers and Lewis' own United Mine I Workers were ousted at the prev- | ious council meeting in Miami. The six unions expelled yesteri day and their claimed membership I are: Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers of North America (including the Steel - workers organizing committee), 519,200; United Textile Workers. 450.000; United Automobile Workers of America, 400.000; Amalgamated Clothing Workers. 200.000; International Union, Oil Field. Gas Well and Refinery Workers. 100.000; and United Rubber Workers of America, 78,000. None of the above have paid FEELINGS AND LOOKS IMPROVED SAYSMRS.SHARP “Results Os Taking Retonga Have Been Remarkable,” Says South Bend Lady “The results of my taking Retonga have been remarkable in both my feelings and looks,” is I the enthusiastic way in w'-’ch Mrs. i Laura Sharp. 530 North St. Louis i Bolevard, South Bend, tells how G MRS. LAURA SHARP I this remarkable new preparation benefited her. "I blame my health troubles on stomach and kidney disorders that ; put my system in a bad condition generally,” said Mrs. Sharp. “After meals it seemed like my stomach would just boil from food fermentation, and so much gas would form it would almost cut my breath off. My kidneys must not have eliminated the poisons from my system because my skin was not ' clear, and I had such awful pains i in the joints of my arms and legs sometimes I felt like screaming. J My back felt like it would break in two, and I had nagging headaches that were terrible. My circulation was poor and I suffered with chilis, and cold feet, and all the winter I was just full of colds. "The results of my taking Retonga have been remarkable. My complexion is clear, the pains are gone from my arms and legs, and I am free from those terrible nagging headaches, and backaches. My appetite is fine and I -am able to eat without having acid stomach, gas pains, or shortness of breath. • I am not bothered with chills and ■ cold feet any more, either. I am i glad to tell of my experience with Retonga for the benefit of other women who may be suffering like i I was.” i Retonga may be obtained at Holthouse Drug Co. advt.

dues or taken any part In federa tlon activities for nearly two years Lewis Would not comment on the federation's latest action, but when ( his own United Mine Worwers were expelled he said that “the action, is unimportant and of little sig-1 niflcance." John Brophy, CIO director, commented tersely in Milwaukee that | the federation's action was "in j keeping with that group's policy, of obstruction . . . and splitting the[ labor movement. Green announced that the council i will consider chartering rival 'unions to fight the CIO, but emphasized that no definite plans j have yet been made Last week. the council chartered the progressive Miners of America as the I initial move in a drive to cripple j lewis' United Mine Workers. "The council believed that ample | time had been given these organizations to consider the future and present situation,” Green said in announcing the ouster. “The council has acted cautiously It has not acted hastily. It believed the time had now arrived when, in order to prevent misunderstandings. the charters of these unions should be revoked." Eckrote Named Head High School Alumni — Losier Eckrote. of Lin n Grove, has been elected president of the Hartford high school alumni association Lamar Schoemaker is vice- ( president and Miss Anne Romey, t secretary-treasurer. Perret Funeral Rites Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. Ernest Perret, who died Monday at Fort , • . — —

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SYNOPSIS When Gregory Sallust first saw the girl, in the Casino at Deauville, it was near midnight on the last day of the young Englishman's leisurely tour through Normandy. Sallust, a former Intelligence officer, is now confidential investigator for a great British commercial corporation. The girl, tall and beautiful, came into the gaming room accompanied by a strange little man, not a dwarf yet curiously ill-proportioned, whom Gregory recognized as a sinister figure in international affairs. When, at midnight, the girl left the Casino alone, Sallust followed her. She walked a few blocks, entered a private limousine and took the road to Trouville a mile away. Following in a taxi, Gregory saw a man in a leather aviator's coat enter the big car at the edge of the village. The two proceeded through the narrow streets, leaving the limousine near a cheap case. They disappeared up a narrow stairway. Gregory was about to turn away when a sharp cry caused him to dash across the street, race up the stai-s, and fling his weight against the only door beneath which a light appeared. CHAPTER II The room was almost a replica of the case below. In one corner four men were writhing in a struggling heap. Three wore the blue cotton blouses of French dock laborers. The fourth, who lay beneath them, was the fellow in the airman’s coat. The girl stood nearby with distended eyes, her hands gripping the sides of a little table over which she leaned, apparently too paralzyed by fear to scream. Gregory took in the situation at a single glance. Seizing a bottle from a nearby table, he held it by the neck and smashed it against the wall. Then, waving the jagged end, the ugliest weapon in the world, he sailed into the fray. As Gregory leaped a knife flashed in the hand of one of the thugs. For a second it looked as if the vicious stroke would pin the young man to the floor, but Gregory struck with ail his force. The jagged bottle bit through the flimsy covering of the Jock rat’s shoulder and into the grimy flesh beneath. With a sudden scream he dropped his knife and clutched at the torn and bleeding muscle. The other two swung round, still crouching in the corner over the prostrate man, to face Gregory. With his free hand he seized a chair and flung it—just as the nearest was about to spring. It caught the man below the knees. He staggered wildly, grabbed at a frail tabie and ’ went down with it on top of him. The other had whipped out a knife i and, with a quick twist which Greg- , ory recognized tn sudden fear as the manner of the expert, drew back his arm to throw it. But they had all reckoned without the man in the airman’s jacket. He was a hefty fellow, well over six feet I tall, and broad in proportion. DeI spite his recent gruelling it seemed that he had plenty of fight left in him, for his muscular hand closed , like a vise around the ankle of the knife thrower and, with a violent 1 jerk, he brought him crashing to the ! floor. Next second the young man scrambled to his feet, pushed the i girl roughly from his path, gasped out “Thanks a lot” to Gregory, and dashed from the room. The wounded thug was cursing vilely as he tried to stanch the flow ' of blood from his shoulder. The 1 other two picked themselves up and the knife thrower, a sinuous dark > young fellow with crisp curly hair, cried wildly, "Vite! Vite! Arretezt Is/” Without so much as a glance in

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Wayne, will be held Wednesday' afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home of James Borders, 1015 Russel street and at 2 o'clock at the Zion Reformed church. The .body will be talken to the Borders home this evening, instead of Monday, as was previously announced. — o Fort Wayne Girl Killed By Auto Fort Wayne. Ind., May 3—(UP)— Allen County coroner Walter E Kruse today launched an investigation into the death of four year-old Annie Koehlinger. Fort Wayne. The child died In St. Joseph's hospital nine hours after she ran in front of a neighbor's automobile and suffered a compound skull fracture. Daisy Baumgartner, 21, driver of the car, was not held. Trade la A Good Tuna — Deeatar

Gregory’s direction al! three thrust themselves through the door and pounded down the stairs in pursuit of their late victim. • Gregory turned to the girl. She seemed to have recovered her selfpossession completely and was watching him with a curious intensity beneath which, he just suspected, lay a faint amusement. “You follow me from the Casino. I recognize you,” she stated softly. “Lucky for you I did," Gregory replied promptly. She was Freffth, as he had supposed, but obviously English came quite easily to her. It was the first time that he had had the leisure to study her at close quarters and the quick smile which twitched his thin

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lips showed that he was in no way disappointed. A long coat of mink with a heavy double collar now hid her graceful figure, but above it rose her heartshaped face with its broad low brow and little pointed chin. He admired again the dark penciled eyebrows which curved back like the two ends of a Cupid’s bow, the points rising almost to her temples, and the sleek black hair, parted on the side and flattened on the crown but spreading into a mass of tight jet curls behind her small pink ears and on the nape of her neck. As her large dark eyes held his with an unflickering gaze he was suddenly aware that she was no young girl but a very dangerous and fascinating—woman. “Wa must get out of here, ’ he said suddenly, for the noise of the chase had hardly died away below when he caught the sound of hurrying feet from somewhere in the rear of the house. If the landlord of the place was not in with the thugs he was now making a bee-line for the telephone and the police would be arriving at any moment. Gregory knew just how inconvenient a French police inquiry could prove even to innocent persons. He dropped the bottle, held open the door and, removing his hat with a laughing bow, said quietly: “Madame, the time has come for

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