Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1938 — Page 1

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, JItISES AT ■ifflJG HIGH ■way night H' (| |or Hiuh And ■ (l rade Schools the -——— W n. 111 1 ■K auditorium i'.. ■K I- ' H " b ' '■ •' J & )H| |M, . Mrs in tlii'ir r ( m i • . I . Reception Held li. i: - ■ Hl!., pl.iy.'ll I'V 111.' Ol'l'lll'Ss. sang "Happy |k '" ,l .. .. ■ >~ ... ® ■. , ■ gM. .'lasi < .im> S ' 1 • "’ ''■ w , • ■ a f. g " ''' 1,1 '■' ,! ' " l " b £ played by III.' 5 |K” . ' ■ - lb.- program * Awards Made (| ■ - tb. . ■ 11" . . i B ..Ij-GG » Ethel Kleinheni, daughter [ .:■! Kleinhettz. i'?y. f."' highest record "> ■r. dining her four high - ii-iinmm., of Mr. and .' Heimann, of south of lour year average ■ the highest 11 will be sent by the /■'':.■.■■ 5,., ;. ty to the annual at Notre Dame. . ihiiialii' mo Iliac of i his < ity. giv. n a high school tui Hthe I cirls 111\ id Ti'i-vo r. had ihe highest average s.’ boys nuiion scholarship by Name society. . .- Meyer. of Mrs Mary N was award for his Pi. mlaii. .■ during his air J career. 'J ■ Rev. Derrick Speaks Derrick talked oil 111. the Whole Man." !l '"' 'he education ilm E mill ll).’ body is the easiest :< ’'.’. but is less important ' M h'" training of the will or II., pointed out that Ihe |^B XT1 M'l?l> ON PAGE TIIKEE) sHH ° ” ~ VIEW BOARD IMEETS MONDAY ®s County Board Os view To Convene londay Morning Atlants county board of redll convene Monday at the courthouse for the purpose swing assessing records and I complaints and objections. ’8 the first part of the seso hoard will go over all rec--11(1 papers of assessments, 9 hearing of objections conlater. 'He dates for hearing objec■°m respective units will be the board early in the The board will be in session 'he entire month. hers of the board are: Cal !rß °n, of Decatur; Ed StahLeneva; Ernest Worthman, assessor; John W. Tyndall, auditor and Jeff Liechty, treasurer. The latter three ’fficio members of the board.

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ABANDON HOPE KIDNAPED LAD STILL LIVING Parents Os Kidnaped Florida Youth Abandon All Hope Princeton, Fla., June 4— (UP)— 1 I James B. Cash, Sr., said today he ■ has abandoned hope that his kidnaped son, Jimmy, still fe alive. He I said he feared it might take a week or It) days to find the 'body in the I tangled Everglades of Southern Florida. Hollow-eyed and weary after a week spent in frantic efforts to locate the blue-eyed 5-year-jld boy, Cash said he was resigned him-1 1 self to the conviction that his son is dead. During the hec'ic days since the boy was .kidnaped and the silO,(>t)o ransom was paid, the father had clung to the fading hope that he would see his son alive once! more. ‘lf have now given up all hope i of finding my son alive,” he said this morning. The small town businessman whose so n was kidnaped from his bed one week ago tonight, was convinced the body will be found. His views were In contrast to those of I i many searchers who participated in j the most exhaustive manhunt ever! undertaken in Florida. ff the body is in this area they ‘believed, it never will be found. Cash talked with newspapermen: today .for the first time since the abduction. He displayed obvious indications of the strain under which' he has lived since the kidnaping. Mrs. Cash, near iprostra'lon and under care of a physician since loss of her only child, appeared with! her husband. The father told of his conversation last night with J. Edgar Hoov-| er, chief of the federal bureau of 1 investigation who is leading G-meni in the hunt for the kidnapers. “Mr. Hoover visited us last night! land said he naturally expects to ! solve this case," Cash said. | “Both Mrs. Cash and myself want. j to express our deepest and most I sincere thanlks for the hundreds of, I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) DEATH CLAIMS MARVIN RELIT Adams County Native Dies Friday At Wells County Hospital Marvin Kelly, 70 a half-brother of John Kelly of Decatur, died Friday at the Wells county hospital in Bluffton. Death resulted from com- ' plications following an appendix operation. The deceased was born in Adams county October 29, 1867, the son of' I Isaac and Isabelle Ramsey-Kelly. I He married Emma Metier in 1904. Surviving are the widow, one daughter, Gladys, of Los Angeles, ! Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Jennie Coons lot Dunkirk; four 'brothers, Alfred | of Portland. (Findley of Geneva, Is- ' aac of Edgerton, and Alonzo, of Pa’ducah, Ky., and the half-brother in ithis city. Funeral services will be held at I the Jahn funeral home in Bluffton !at 2 p. m. ‘Sunday, with the Rev. ‘ 'John Ward Rose oficlatlng. Burial ' will be made in the Six Mlle cemeItery. One Smallpox (ase Is Reported Here The weekly morbidity report, released today by the state board of health for the week ending May 28 disclosed that one new case ot smallpox was reported in Adams | county. No other contageious diseases were reported in the county. Knights Os Columbus To Elect Officers Members of the Knights of Columbus order of this city will elect officers for the coming term in the regular meeting as the K. of C. ha Monday evening at 8 ocloc .. members are urged to attend Incorporation Articles Filed Articles of inconporation ot Seyfert Foods. Inc., with John G. Herrn.ann. formerly of RluffTon as resident agent, have been filed * Port Wayne Incorporators are John • Herrmann, Gray Errick of Keystone and D. Burdette Custer of Decatur.

Five Killed as Bus Crashes Truck in Texas i 1 ‘7- < !. View of wreckage

Five persons were killed and several others seriously injured when a chartered bus carrying a dance band to fill an engagement at Oklahoma I City crashed headon into a eattle truck near Stephenville, Tex. Tim accident occurred as the

GIVE PROGRAM FOR SERVICES Children’s Day Program At First M. E. Church Sunday Night The complete program was anj nounced today for a children's day I program, which will be presented at the First M. E. church Sunday levelling at 7:30 o'clock. The program is as follows: Hymn — “This Is My Father’s World" —Children. Prayer -Jack Waldo Graham. I Song “Praise Him. 1 j —Beginners and Primary depart- ' meats. Playlette— "Pretending Town”— | Beginners and Primary depart- 1 I ments. Song — “What Can Thy Little | Children Bring ’—Cradle Roll. Beginners and Primary departments. < Hfertory— “Crescendo”- Lasson —Mrs. Ralph Wallace. "The Way to Peace" — Junior church. Playlette — “The Gateway to ‘ Happiness” —Primary department. Hymn—“ We've a Story to Tell to the Nations’— Congregation. Benediction—Lowell Smith. o North Second Street Opened To Traffic North 'Second street from Mar- ■ shall street north to the river bridge was opened to light traffic this afternoon. The temporary opening I will permit traffic over the street j i for a few days and then it will (be ! closed while the final coat of Kentucky rock is placed on the street. After the street is rolled it will ne completed and opened to trafsic. GENEVA WOMAN UNDER ARREST Charlotte Sommers Held At Fort Wayne I* or Stealing Purse Charlotte Sommers, 43, of Geneva is-being held by Fort Wayne police for an alleged purse-snatch- | lug in a Fort Wayne store Friday. The Geneva lady is charged wi I grabbing a purse from Edith M. Martin, employe of the Aithui M. | Coe detective agency. Miss MarI tin immediately started in pursuit | down the store aisle and caught up with the alleged thief. Fort Wayne police said that Miss Sommers admitted taking the , purse as well as about a dozen , I other similar thefts in Fort Wayne . | stores during the past year. | I Fstella Peel and Mabie Mosher, | both of Fort Wayne, identified the ' Geneva woman as the same one I who was near when their purses were stolen in the same store a year and a halt ago Miss Peel lost S4O and Miss Mosher lost $lO. • The suspect also confessed to the theft of a purse from a Mrs. . Postal of Bluffton four weeks ago. She said she took $6 from the pocketbook and then threw away. '

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, .lune 1, 1938.

Discovers Menace To Sweet Potatoes A rare bug. a new menace to the sweet ipotato plants, has been dis- . covered by Erneet Worthman, counj ty assessor. Mr. Worthman. while working in , his potato patch Friday, spied what ! appeared to be a tiny piece of gold. Upon looking closer, he saw that it I was a small gold colored insect. The bug, with partly transparent wings and shell is covered with a i fine golden glow that brightly reflects sunlight. Mr. Wortbman is planning to ask agricultural experts’ 1 advice about the insect, which he | says is ruining his sweet potato I crop. SEEK TO STRIKE OUT COMPLAINT City Os Decatur Files Motion In Accident Damage Suits Motions seeking to strike out parts of the second amended complaint were filed by the city of Decatur in three suits brought I against the city and the Chicago and Erie Railroad company One I of the suits was for SIO,OOO and was I brought by John O’Shaughnessey, as administrator of the estate of Floyd Rison; one was for SIO,OOO and was brought by John O Shauglinessey. as administrator for the I and,the third was brought by Cathestate of Daniel O’Shaughnessey, ; erine Rison, widow of Floyd Rison, for $20,000. The suits were filed as the result of an automobile accident last year i at the Mercer Avenue crossing of I the railroad in this city, when the I car in which the plaintiffs were riding crashed into the cement base of the traffic signal light. Floyd Rison and Daniel O'Shaughnessey .died from their injuries. Mrs. Rison was seriously injured. In the motion, the city of Decatur is seeking to have Judge DeVoss strike out the following paragraph from the second amended complaint: “And the defendant, city of Decatur carelessly and negligently permitted the defendant railroad company, to, and the defendant railroad company did carelessly and negligently erect said concrete base and flasher lights system, and installed the same in the middle of said street when there was ample room and space to erect and reasonable care required, that said lights be mounted on posts located on the side of the highway on each side of the railroad right of way and between the sidewalk and the curb line of said Mercer Avenue; and defendant city of Decatur carelessly and negligently permitted defendant railroad to, and defendI ant railroad company did carelessI ly and negligently maintain for a long period of time before said col- | lision and at the time thereof said concrete flasher base and signal system in the middle of Mercer Avenue when there was ample room between the sidewalk and ' curb line of said Mercer Avenue to I maintain the same, and when reasi enable care demanded that said ' flasher signal be so maintained.” The motion asking the paragraph to be stricken out claims “the al- | legations are mere surplusage;” 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

truck swung around to pass another car and swerved into the path of the oncoming bus. Both | truck and bus driver were killed, as were two sing-| ers witli the orchestra, and an unidentified hitchhiker burned to death in the truck wreckage.

BERNE YOUTH IS ARRESTED HERE Lawrence Smith Under Arrest, Companion To Be Returned One Berne young man is in jail : awaiting arraignment in court, and ' another is facing possible charges as a climax to a wild driving orgy 1 that kept county and city police on j the constant move late Friday evening. Lawrence Stacy Smith, 18, driver of the car. is being held in jail, following his apprehension by Chief of Police Sephus Melchi. and Henry Schug. his companion, is to be returned here for questioning. Chief Melchi stated that he nabbed the pair on Winchester streel about 6 o'clock last evening, after he and the sheriff's office had rei ceived five or six calls regarding I the pair. The calls stated that the men were driving through fields, cutting across lawns, careen--1 ing around corners, narrowly miss- ' ing several persons, and that two attempts had been made to “brush , 1 off” the watchman at the Five: ' I Points detour. 1 At the Nickel Plate railroad sta;l tion, the car was reported to have. ; torn up 20 feet of fence after 1 ■ jumping the curb. ' | When he finally caught up with ■ the pair. Chief Melchi stated that I he ordered Schug to follow him to 1 jail, while he took Smith, the driv- • er. in the police car. Schug, however, the chief stated. ■ drove to a local garage, had a tire repaired and left the city. The | ■chief stated that charges, probably | ' of reckless driving, would be filed ' \ against Smith and that Schug would undoubtedly be returned l here, at least for questioning. FORTY SCOUTS AT CAMPOREE Adams CountyßoyScouts Attending Camporee At Fort Wayne Forty Boy Scouts from Adams county are attending the annual Anthony Wayne area Boy Scout camporee in Fort Wayne today and Sunday. One patrol from each of Lions, | Rotary and Legion troops in De- ■ catur and from the two patrols in Berne are attending. Each patrol i ■ is comprised of eight Scouts. The Scouts will pitch their own ■ tents, prepare their own meals ami sleep outdoors in the tents tonight. Other Scout activities will be indulged in during the two-day cam poree. On Sunday, merit badges and other Scouting awards will be made to troops and individuals. Local Scoutmasters and Scout officials ' 1 accompanied the lads to Fort Wayne, but will not be permitted to assist them in their work. The area camporee was held at I the Hanna-Nuttman park in DecaI tnr "last year. The local Scouts also held a county camporee recently.

THOUSAND DIE AS JAP PLANES SHELL CANTON Protests From Other Nations Unheeded In China And Spain By Joe Alex Morris (United Press Staff Correspondent» American and British moral 1 pressure against unrestrained war-, fare vanished today In the dust of aerial bombs and preparations for redoubled conflict in Spain and, China. Like a bitter echo of London and Washington protects against boni-! bardment of civilians, Japanese' bombs exploded again on the city of Canton with an unofficial estimate of 1.000 dead and rebel planes again raided the Spanish loyalist capital at Barcelona. In similar fashion, the British I gesture toward mediation in Ute Spanish civil war and secretary of! state Cordell Hull's idea for inter- ( [national cooperation to restore’ ’ world law and order was met by preparations for intensified watI fare in both China and Spain. Hull, warning that rigid isolation | .as a guarantee of security was | "bitter illusion.” said that the in- 1 fluence of the United States was more urgently needed titan at any I time in history in support of "world order based on law." He j proposed American support for reI vival of international law, for limiI tation of arms and for new rules ! to “humanize" modern warfare. Coincident wttn the secretary's declaration, activities of the European dictatorial bloc indicated preparations for a climactic offensive against the loyalist government in Spain. From Berlin came reports that ! Nazi Fuehrer Adolf Hitler had! i reached an important decision be-, lieved to point toward speeding a i rebel victory in Spain. From Rome ! came authoritative reports that the ! Spanish insurgents would soon ■ launch a great offensive intended I to crush the last lines of governI ment resistance. Rebel Generalis-1 I simo Francisco Franco will per-, sonally direct the attack ano Hal-! ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O PLAN CHILDREN DAY EXERCISES Children’s Program At Church Os God Sunday Night A children’s day program will I be presented at the Church of God I Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock.' The general public is invited to at-; tend. The complete program follows: Congregational song. Prayer. Welcome—Lavonne Strickler and l nursery class. Recitation—“ Good Evening, Dear | j People.” Sharon Strickler. Recitation—“A Greeting,” Doris : Ann Marshall. I Recitation —“A Job for Every-1 'one,” Barbara Jean Marshall. Recitation- “His Helper," Bobby, I Mitchel. Recitation —“A Wish,” Barbara ! Bollinger. Exercise — “When I Read That I Sweet Story of Old." Recitation —“A Large Attend-: 1 ance,” Catharine Hess. i Recitation —“Christians,” Waneta I Welty. Song—Alice Jean Hawkins. Recitation — “Christ in the, j Home,” Bobby Switzer. ' Recitation—“ The Sunday School ! Harbor,” William Kocher. Exercise — Bobby Haley and 1 Jacky Welty. „ | Recitation — “Mother’s Helper,” i Dorothy Smith. Recitation —“My Sermon,” Mary j Hess. Song—Mary Ellen Wagner. Exercise —“Gifts for Childrens I Day," Phyllis and Joan Bowman ' Recitation—“A Question,” Billy' Woife. ! Recitation — ”1 Wonder Why. I Billv Hawkins. Recitation —“Win the World,"! Betty Wolfe. Recitation — “Wave Little I Leaves,” 110 Frank. Song—Billy Bollinger. Recitation —“Winning a Life,” Ruth Hess. Recitation — “The Children’s Day,” Betty Irwin. Recitation — “The Candle of I Faith," Bonnie Melcbi. Guitar solo—Russell Deam. Recitation — “God's Check," Dwight L. Marshall. Recitation — “The Savior Wei(CONTINUED ON FAQB SIX).

Recovery Bill Is Passed By Senate Late Last Night

EXACT ORIGIN OF FIRE STILL UNDETERMINED Belief Expressed Hoop Mill Fire Started By “Firebug” At noon today the exact origin iof Decatur's 130,000 hoop mill 1 blaze, its second large industrial i fire of recent months, remained as much of a mystery as it was Thursday night when the blaie first started its destructive patlt 1 through the entire plant. Tlte expected arson investigator from Ihe state fire marshal’s office had not arrived in the city at press ! time, to conduct his investigation | of the conflagration. An investigation into the fire had been asked from the state office j Friday l»y Fire Chief Charles Robenold at the request of C. (). Porter, factory owner and operator. Prepare Facts Meanwhile Mr. Porter, firemen and factory employes have pieced together facts of the fire which they believe conclusively establish I that the fire was started intentionally. Most important of these is the fact that all of the recent industrial fires have started in opportune positions to be fed by the winds. It was recalled that each i of the main factory fires was started where the wind could sweep the flames across the entire structure. First arrivals on the scene re1 ported to firemen that they detected an odor of gasoline in the smoke-filled air. Workmen attest to the fact that a suspected firebug could easily j have reached the southwest part of i the factory, started the fire and ! slipped away without being detect- ' ed hy the night watchman, since ■ his post is at an opposite corner. First Suspicion Suspicion was first directed to- ! ward the blaze when it was dis- ! covered that the fire started in the “vat-room," a thoroughly waterI soaken section, which is dampened ' day and night. Those connected witli the factory : and firemen unanimously agree I that a fire could not originate (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Accident Victims Reported Better The condition of Sylvester Beard, Fort Wayne man, who suffered a I broken arm in an auto accident earlier in the week, was reported as “better” by the attending physician i today. Beard is confined to the Adajns | county memorial hospital. Mean- ! while charges of drunken driving have been filed against him in cirj cuit court as an outgrowth of tho i wreck in which he allegedly crash- ! ed into tho car of William Stewart, | of Fort Wayne, while driving drunk. The attending physician for Peter Minch, hurt at Geneva in a Memori ial Day auto accident, reported that the aged Decatur resident was itn- ! proved today. 0 K, P. MEMORIAL RITES PLANNED Annual Knights Os Pythias Memorial Services Monday Night Annual memorial services for departed members of the Kekionga lodge No. 65, Knights of Pythias, ! will be held Monday evening, it was j announced today by lodge officers. | The members ot the lodge are reI quested to meet at the lodge homo lon Third street at 6:30 o’clock Mon'day evening. From there they will go to the Maplewood cemetery to decorate the graves of deceased members. Memorial services will be held there. All lodge members are urged to attend and to bring flowers, which are to ‘be used on the graves. Transportation will be furnished those who do not have away to the cemetery. Lodge officers will conduct the ritualistic memorial services.

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Senators Approve Huge Fund To Aid Nation’s Recovery; Free Hand To Roosevelt. TO CONFEREES Washington, June 4 <U.RF The senate gave President Roosevelt a I $3,723,000,000 appropriation and authorization bill today to finance and extend his $5,000,000,000 lending spending program against depression. Senate approval of the bill, which had been passed by the house, came a few minfites before midnight last night by a vote of 60 to 10. It made possible the adjournment of congress by next week. Senate majority leader Al lien W. Barkley. I)., Ky.. expected quick conference agreements on this hill and the wages and hours bill. They are the only major pieces of legislation remaining. After 11 days of attack in the senate by the combined forces of Republicans and anti-new deal Democrats, the recovery bill emerged unscathed. No restrictions were placed on the spending and lending of vast sums to create jobs for approximately 4,000,000 of the unemployed army which. Mr, Roosevelt said, has increased since he requested the money six weeks ago. As approved by the senate the legislation is a triumph for the president, who had demanded a free hand in spending the huge fund, and a stinging defeat for the anti-new deal coalition which had sought to earmark the money as a safeguard against political reprisals. Although the heaviest barrage of opposition was based on the charge that the money would become a huge “slush fund” in forthcoming primaries and elections to influence voters in favor of new deal candidates, only three Democrats and seven Republicans voted against it. Only one limitation was placed on Mr. Roosevelt’s spendig authority and it was imposed with administration consent. The president will be permitted to divert only $125,000,000 of the proposed $1,425,000,000 works progress administration fund to direct relief. Despite its size the bill is not the largest appropriation in history. or even of the new deal. Tho 1935 relief appropriation topped it with a total ot' $4,880,000,000. The measure represents a broad political philosophy covering virtually all the major activities of the Roosevelt administration. Its funds will be used to provide jobs for needy unemployed in works and building projects; to rehabilitate needy farmers; to aid youths unable to get a foothold in private employment; to clear slums and establish low-rent dwellings for wage-earners; to carry -electricity to rural homes and farms; and to contribute toward raising the income level ot all farmers. Technically, the bill is now back in the house, but only a formality remains before it goes to conference. Sen. Alva B. Adams, D., Colo., its floor manager, had the senate conferees appointed before last night's adjournment. In addition to himself. Sens. Kenneth McKellar, D., Tenn., James F, Byrnes, D., S. C„ Frederick Hale, R., Me., and John G. Townsend, Jr., R., Del., were appointed. Barkley, who held the senate" in continuous session 13 hours yesterday to get it passed, said that if wages and hours, and recovery conferees “work dllingently,” nothing should prevent sine die adjournment of the 75th congress next week. The recovery bill started out from the house appropriations committee aggregating $3,054,425,000. The house added $100,000,000 for the rural electrification administration. The senate appropriations committee raised the total to $3,247.025,000, chiefly by adding $212,000,000 for parity price payments to farmers. Before the senate fin(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o TEMPERATURE READINGS DECATUR THEREMOMETER ’ 8:00 a.m. 62 11:00 am 70 10:00 a.rn.... 65 WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday; somewhat cooler in extreme southwest portion tonight.