Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 7 June 1938 — Page 1

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i*NAVYBILL ■® approval Il COMMITTEE _ =u^» arr j cS Funds l<> Building Great War Fleet >y 18,,.. . 7 (U.R) Th..lisiotts. today , i.-an ... BK ■!• Hpi’i-'.i SUM' iMIIM 1 : '•) 'h" *1 177 ' ■" "' t - keels of j .) u s ami approximately t s Hg,,.; . ■:■ of the proHL navy's fiitht i. - -'OHB nditures. funds to begin g^^K;i„ n battleships, auxiliat - • imental “inosboats. Ha. <impanyillK report ex plans for an aircraft ■« •. •'.. appropriations . v regular navy d— appropriation bill im lulled $5.00(1,000 to of two battle- : m to start work <•! ’lr vessels for which in i.—veil asked funds m » f 1.157.000.000 naval priiitrain to build the navy to 20 per cent ' : ir-aty strength. The mu bill merely authth.- m w building and profunds. Near Compromise .Jim- (U.R) on tin- disputed wage-hour !<!.<' lea, lied an apparent - southern demands flexibility. miuproniise. drafted by IMc. liiui■. won the approval and of chaii y T Norton of the house group. It was underMrs. Norton would he by a majority of her ■ nw’.|',,. s in acceptance of (promise is formally I ; i lie senate and house > Is lieved that dim a filibuster by south-i n ' v. iln m been averted. li l • • i > ~n of 111- com «as | ,y. uni 11 tomoi i ' s>-d w on it today. '"Uferees will meet tomor lufi-eemeut upon the major H’"’')’. needy solution of reissues was expected. |V ipiiunise wage provision ■HL-'ablishment of a flat 25 on page three) B Extension Os ■ Bollman Street A. R Holt house and Her--I,'bis.,'bis. chaiman of the street committee of the city appeared before the board commissioners this afterBB | isk the improvement and |H' ' l] of Hollman street, located south city limits. street runs to the Home-' s '!• '-lopment. The cotnmisrs have been asked to extend B'" its west termination at Rusto Winchester street. were a'so askB fspair the existing road. ' B ■ EMp ERATURE READINGS Hcatur theremometer H :o ° a. m 61 nt 63 B° n 6k H'? 0 P ' m 74 ■ : "0 p. m 75 B p WEATHER ■ a| r tonight and Wednesday; ■f° er tonight; continued cool ■ybinesday.

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Urge Veterans Apply For CCC Enrollment Applications are now being received for enrollment of Indiana war veterans in the civilian conservation corps. Unemployud veterans Interested in enrollment or ’ I reenrollment must file formal application not later than July 1. 11 Application blanks and instructions will be furnished to interested veterans upon written request to the Veterans administration, W. j Riverside Drive and 86th Street, i Indianapolis. o BOARD ORDERED TO ISSUE BONDS Commissioners Are Ordered To Issue Bonds To Pay Assessments The county board of commissioners, under the authority of a court order made by Special Judge Henry F. Klster of Princeton, has been ordered by Homer Teeters, drain- | age commissioner for the proposed i Wabash river dredging, to issue approximately $128,000 in bonds to | pay assessments not already paid . by property owners in the Wabash | river basin effected The commissioners face contempt of court proceedings under i Special Judge Kister, if they refuse. Today the commissioners had I made no decision as to whether ! they would Increase the county’s I indebtedness by $128,000. This would be only part of the county's expense should the dredging be started, due to the fact that I the county would be compelled to build new bridges and. roads over the route. Loophole Suggested A loophole for the commissioners was suggested today by one of the ' attorneys for the remonstrators. Due to the fact that the board of commissioners also serves as a court in drainage matters, it is possible that the commissioners might face contempt proceedings with the plea that a higher court has no authority to jail a lower court for contempt. It is not known whether the commissioners will make a decision today as to whether or not they will face contempt proceedings by refusing to issue the bonds. A suit is now pending in the , Adams circuit court under Judge I Huber M. DeVoss in which twp of the property owners have remonstrated against the county's issuance of bonds. Last week demurrers to the complaint filed by the remonstrators were argued before Judge DeVoss, who took his decision under consideration, pending I the filing of additional briefs on | law questions involved by the at- | torneys. Would Halt Sale A decision for the plaintiffs in this suit would halt the issuance of bonds but could not be made until the case had been adjudicated. The issuance of th- bonds could have been held up from the moment the case before Judge De Voss was filed, had the remonstrators filed a cost bond. This was not done due to the exhaustion of funds to fight the case, which has been in , court more than 27 years. The assessments against land in Wells, Adams. Jay and an Ohio) county as ordered by Judge Kister. amounted to more than $140,000. of which more than $128,000 has, not been paid. Should the county issue bonds against the unpaid assessments, property owners would be compelled to pay the cost in installments at six per cent interest. Upon failure to pay, the county would be compelled to confiscate the land to meet the assessments. CHAS. MILLER TO HEAD K. C. Charles J. Miller Elected Grand Knight Os Lodge ■ Charlee J. Miller, local General i Electric factory employe, was elected grand knight of the Knights of, Columbus order here last night i the regular lodge meeting at the K. of C. hall. Mr. Miller succeeds Robert Gage, who served as grand knight during the past term Cornelius Geimer was named deputy grand knight; Herman Knapke. financial secretary; Fred Schul e, recording secretary and Bud Wertz Mother Officers, who were named advocate; Herman Wolpert, warden; Eddie Geimer, inner guard, Diok Wertzberger, outer guard and Robert Gage, trustee.

t MIAMI PAPER • SAYS RANSOM : NOTE CASHED Miami Daily News Says Bill Cashed, G-Men Refuse Comment Princeton, Fla., June 7—(UP)— A five dollar bill, one of tho notee Included In the SIO,OOO vainly paid to ransom kidnaped Jimmy Cash,; I was cashed at a filling station near . Jacksonville, Fla., the Miami Dally " News said today in a copyright i story. Federal bureau of Investigation agents, awaiting appearance of the ransom bills to give them their first major lead toward solution of the kidnaiping, refused either to con- . firm or deny the report the bill had I been cashed The News said the bill was offeri ed in payment for gasoline by two • men, believed to be Tennessee poI I'cemen returning home from a va- ' cation at Miami. The filling station 1 attendant recognized the serial 1 numiber on the bill, accepted it and 1 reported it to the FBI, the newspaper said. The News said the men were 'believed to have been overtaken and stopped by G-men near Tallanassee, , but whether they were permitted to ( continue on their way was not known. Walter Fisher, 20-year-old Princeton newspaper carrier who was said to have been delivering papers in 'I (CONTINUED GN PAGE THREE) . ~ Ministerial Group To Meet Thursday The Decatur ministerial association will meet Thursday morning at 9 o’clock at the Decatur high school building. Members are requested to 1 be present, and if possible to attend the chapel service of the daily vacation bible school, which begins at 8:30 a. m. o ED KRUECKEBERG TAKEN BY DEATH Prominent Union Township Farmer Dies In Chicago Hospital Edwin Krueckeberg, 45, prominent Union township farmer, died late Monday at the Hines hospital in Chicago, following an illness of, nearly 20 years. Death was attribut-, ed to complications. The deceased was a son of Mr.' and Mrs. Fred Krueckeberg and was born in Union township. He was a World War veteran and a member of the Emanuel Lutheran church. Surviving, besides the widow, Marie Melking-Krueokeberg, the following children: Mrs. Herbert of Root township: Louis, Marcele, Alvin and Edwin, at home. I The parents and the following brothers and sisters also survive: Gustav of Union township; Fred and I Emil of Convoy, Ohio; Ferdinand of i Fort Wayne; the Rev. Harry of 'Ohio; Mrs. Richard Kreiselmeyer of new Haven; Mrs. Edwin Steele of Ohio; Mrs. Louise Springer of Yoder. One sister is deceased. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. The body is to be returned here by Zwick & Son Still-Born Births Reported At Berne The 18th child in the family was , still-born to Mrs. John Avalos, wife of a Mexican beet worker living near Berne Sunday. A still-born child was also born to Mr. and Mrs. | Dale Parr of that community on I Sunday. o K P. Hold Annual Memorial Services Memorial services were held by i the Knights of Pythias lodge Monday evening in the Decatur cemetery in memory of deceased members The services this year were over the grave of E. Burt Lenhart. Following the services, flowers were placed on the graves of other members buried in the cemetery. Decatur Bands To I Van Wert Festival Seventy-five band members of both the Decatur girls’ and boys •bands will take part in the annual „ eon y festival at Van Wert WednesI day under the direction of Albert | Sellemeyer.

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GILLETTE WINS BY BIG MARGIN lowa Senator Is Re-Nomi-nated By Wide Margin In Light Vote Des Moines, la., June 7.—<U.R>— Sen. Guy M. Gillette, who lost favor with the new deal for opposing President Roosevelt's supreme court reorganization bill, today won renomination to the United States senate in the lowa primary by a wide margin. His opponent, Rep. Otlia D. Wearin. who had been endorsed by Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator, and James Roosevelt, son of the president, conced- | ed defeat early today on the basis of incomplete returns. The vote in 1,556 precincts out of 2,447 gave: Gillette, 49,792. Wearin, 28,408. The Republicans nominated for the United States senate, Lester J. Dickinson, the opponent of "everything new dealish.” He defeated Rep. Lloyd Thurston, considered one of the more liberal members of the G. O. P. conl gressional delegation. Unofficial returns from 1,556 precincts gave: I Dickinson, 93,360. Thurston, 69,242. Thurston conceded defeat at 3:30 a. m. and wired congratulations to his successful opponent. Gillette's total, with more than half the precincts reported, was greater than the vote polled by his four opponents. In 1,556 precincts, Mrs. Ellsworth Richardson, a farm wife, had 6,224; J. J. Meyers, Carroll attorney, 10.892; and W. G. Beyerhoff, Fort Dodge attorney, 4,990. On the basis of these returns, it (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Q LYDIA LEHMAN DIES MONDAY Mrs. Burkhart Lehman Dies Monday At Home Near Berne Mrs. Lydia Lehman, 71, wife of Burkhart Lehman, of Monroe township, died Monday evening at 4:20 i o’clock at her home, northwest of Berne. I Death was attributed to heart ' disease and complications. The deceased was born in Mon- | roe township November 26, 1866, i the daughter of A. A. and Maria Luginbill-Sprunger. On September 15, 1889 she was married to j Burkhart Lehman, who survives. The surviving children also survive: Mrs. Noah Neuenschwander, of Monroe township; Leo Lehman, i Berne Hardware manager; Elmer, of Berne; Mrs. Frank Nussbaum, Albert and Reuben, of Berne; Viola at home; Harley of Decatur; Lester of Bertie and Harry at home. A sister, Mrs. David Lehman, four half-brothers and four halfsisters also survive. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home and at 2 o'clock at I the Berne Mennonite church. Bur-' ial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery.

Dunten Speaks At Conservation Meet L. H. Dunten, Fort Wayne attorI ney and conservation leader, spoke to the members of the Adams county fish and game conservation league in the regular meeting at the local Moose lodge hall last night. Mr. Dunten talked on a sewage disposal system and its advantages. The club leader also reported that 225 pheasant eggs have been received from the State and are being hatched under the supervision of various league members. Plans for coon dog field trials in the fall were discussed. ELECTION COST FIGURES GIVEN Cost Os Recent Primary Election Is Announced Today It cost taxpayers and candidates i more than $1 for each vote counted in the nominating primary, last May 3. according to figures compiled by County Clerk G. Remy Bierly and County Auditor John W. Tyndall. The county commissioners Monday allowed claims for election expenses to the county amounting to $3,175.34. Candidates, as required by law, filed their expense accounts for the j campaign in a sum totaling $3,706.02. Os the 11,626 persons qualified to vote, approximately 6,826 cast their ballots in the proper form so they could be counted and not termed mutilated. The number of ballots cast is inexact, because although it is equal to the total vote of the two highest candidates on each ticket,' It Is - probable that some persons voted for other candidates. but failed to vote for these. Many were mutilated and so not counted. By adding the sum expended by the county to that sworn spent by the candidates, the total of $6,88136, is obtained. This figures more than $1 a vote, when compared to the 6.826 votes. These figures reveal it cost taxpayers of Adams county nearly 55 cents for each of the good votes counted. Claims totaling $3,756.34 were presented the commissioners for their approval. Monday However, the commissioners lopped $5Bl from this total to make it $3,175.34, before approving it. The greatest cause for reducing the expenses of precinct election boards, was because $3 had been requested for an extra day’s work after 12 hours work. However, the state law sets the election day at 24 hours, and precinct election board workers were not eligible for additional , ! sums unless they had been employed after 6 a. in., the morning fol- 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o State Policeman Undergoes Operation Earl Warnock, Jr., of Portland, a member of the Indiana state police force, underwent an emergency appendectomy at the Jay county hospital Sunday. He is reported recovering satisfactorily. Warnock, who has been assigned to detail (work in this city at various times, is well known here. He is the son of Mrs. Hazel Warnodk of Bluffton, formerly lived here.

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TO REDEDICATE LOCAL CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY Remodeled Baptist Church To Be Formally Dedicated Sunday Dr. F. D. Whitesell, former pastor of the First Baptist church of this city, will be the principal speaker at services in the local church Sunday, when the newly remodeled and redecorated church will be formally dedicated. Highlights of Sunday’s services, which will be held in the morning, afternoon and evening, were announced today by Rev. Homer J. Aspy, pastor of the church. Dr. Whitesell, who is now a professor in the Northern Baptist theological seminary at Chicago, will speak at the morning service at 10:30 o'clock, as he will be forced to leave the city immediately after the morning service. Other services will be held at 2:30 p. m. and 7:30 p. in. Dinner ’ will be served at the church during the noon hour. Rev. J. M. Horton, pastor of the First Baptist church at Hammond, and president of the Indiana Bap- • tist convention, will speak at one of the services. Mrs. P. J. Mann, president of the Indiana Baptist I women's society, will also be one , 1 of the speakers. i Professor Hammond, representing the Hammond organ company, I will present organ concerts at both I the afternoon and evening services. Special music will be presented I at all services, with the Berne quar-1 tet singing at the morning service. • I and the Berne chorus of 12 voices i will sing at the afternoon service. Pastors from the various churches in the Salamonie association • are expected to attend, and pastors of other Decatur churches and the I general public have been invited to the dedication services. The detailed program for all ! services will be announced at a I later date. Church Redecorated The entire interior of the church has been redecorated and a new | system of indirect lighting has | I been installed throughout the . I church. ! A new platform for the pulpit I and new pulpit furniture have been I installed. The pews have all been ' i finished in a natural wood finish. , New carpets have been laid throughout the church and the balcony and Sunday school rooms have been redecorated and re- , arranged. Redecorating of the basement is ■ being completed this week and new carpet is being laid on the , I basement - floor. The redecorating and remodeling i work has been done at a cost of .; $2,000. —o PLAN OPENING OF ROAD DETOUR Seek To Open Road 33 Detour Over The Coming Week End Arrangements are now underway to open the detour of federal road 33 in the south section of the city over the week-end to permit traffic to travel on Mercer avenue south from Grant street. This will be done, it possible, to pemit traffic enroute to picnics at Sunset park over the week-end to ' use Mercer avenue. At present Mercer avenue is closed all the way out to the city limits. 1 Traffic on federal road 27, leaving the city at the south, is being routed out to Thirteenth street. Winchester street is closed at present from Five Points to the Erie railroad. Geneva Man Held In Muncie Court Ernest "Pat” Mahoney of Geneva was to be tried in Muncie city court today on a charge of assault and battery arising out of a labor tight i n that city when Mahoney and others allegedly acted as pickets at a Muncie grocery store.

1 LIST PROGRAM OF EXERCISES County Eighth Grade Commencement Exer- . cises Saturday The complete program for the annual county eighth grade commencement exercises, which will be held at the Decatur high school iSaturday afternoon at 2 o’clock were .announced today. A total of 223 students will receive diplomas during the exercises. The program follows: Music —Orchestra. “America” —audience. Invocation—The Rev. George S. Lozier, pastor of the First Evangelical church, Decatur. Music—Quartet. Commencement address — Merle J. Abbett, superintendent, Fort Wayne city schools. Announcement — C. E. Striker, county school superintendent. Pesentation of diplomas—Township tustees. Benediction—the Rev. George O. Walton, First Presbyterian church, Decatur. The trustees, who will pesent the diplomas: Union, Howard Manlier; Root, Ralph W. Rice; Preble. Ed Zwick; Kirkland Hibbard H. High; Washington, John M. Doan; St. Mary’s, Ben McCollough; Blue Creek, David D. Haibegger; Monroe, Edwin H. Gllliom; French, Edwin Beer; Hartford, Ell Dubach; Wabash, J. C. Man n and Jefferson, Charley Abnet. READS RECORD OF TESTIMONY — Evidence Before Labor Board Read Into Coal Conspiracy Trial London. Ky., June 7. — (U.R) - A 28-year-old lawyer, who scored a single handed victory over two of the best legal mids in the south, comes into court today with additional ammunition for the government in its prosecution of the Harlan coal conspiracy case. Walter Gallagher, a recent graduate of Georgetow Diversity, Washington, D. C„ plans to read into the record of this trial the words of Theodore Middleton, former high sheriff of Harlan county and a defendant in this case. Yesterday he got on the witness chair and read for the jury the words of Ben Unthank, alleged “pay-off" man for the coal operators, and George Ward, secretary of the Harlan county Coal Operates’ Association. The two men gave incriminating testimony at a national labor relations board hearing on the Clover Ford Coal company. In a half hour of reading that testimony to the jury yesterday Gallagher bared to the jury the details of the Harlan county “umber men," a squad hired by Unthank and paid by Ward to go through the coal fields spying on union organizers. Gallagher, a boyish-looking, enthusiastic young man. is able to play this dual role of “witness” and Counsel for the government because he conceived the idea one night that he could persuade Judge H. Church Ford to admit the labor testimony in this trial. A federal court had never passed on that question. Brien McMahon, assistant attorney general in charge of prosecution, told Gallagher to go ahead. The young lawyer sat up all one night surrounded by law books and preparing briefs. Then, at a spec(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o THREE FLIERS KILLED Randolph Field, Tex., June 7— (UR) _ Three army fliers were killed and one was critically injured today in two airplane crashes. The accidents occurred within a 20 minute period. The dead were second lieutenant Nathan H. Goodingdon, 28, of Los Angeles, Cal.; second lieutenant Arthur M. Keppler, 29, of Houston, Texas and flying cadet William H. Conevy, 25, of Washington, D. C. Second lieutenant Frederick M. Thompson, 24, of Los Angeles, was injured critically.

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Answer Foreign Protests By Declaring Shelling Os Chinese Cities To Be Re-Doubled. STEAMER SUNK By Joe Alex Morris (United Press Stuff Correspondent) Aerial warfare today intensified the threat that fighting In China ■ and Spain would explode into international conflict. With world powers watching both battle scenes as constant dangers to the struggle for stabilization of peace, a Japanese spokesman in Shanghai answered American, British and French protests by declaring that bombardment of Chinese cities would be re doubled. Japanese airplanes made three more raids on Canton, where probably 2,501) have been killed and 5.000 wounded in the last two weeks, and it was indicated that mass aerial bombardment of Hankow would soon be undertaken despite Chinese defense plans concentrated there. There are about 125 to 140 Americans in the Canton area. The Chinese must realize "that it Is futile to resist.” the Japanese spokesman said In explaining why the bombings would be intensified and in ignoring past experience that bombardment of civilians usually has consolidated rather than shattered resistance. The Canton devastation provided a constant threat to foreign interests. particularly to the huge British commercial center at nearby Hong Kong, but there was even greater danger of an international explosion in Spain. The fifth British steamship—the Thurston at Valencia harbor — to be bombed by rebel aviators was struck below the water line shortly after the British SS Saint Winifred had been attacked and three of her crew killed at Alicante. The cities of Valencia. Alicante, Barcelona. I Albocacer and Mora De Rubielos I were bombed by rebels as their I ground offensive against Valencia was halted in the coastal hills. Trouble behind the Spanish nationalist lines was persistently reported without confirmation. Reports told of counter-revolutionary uprisings and a split between Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Gen. Quiepo De Llano, nationalist commander at Seville. French Premier Edouard Daladier, meanwhile, turned over to the general staff the problem of preventing further invasion of French frontiers by war planes from Spain. Three such raids in the last ten days resulted in order to shoot down any further invaders, and in dispatch of French infantry with 15 antiaircraft guns to the Pyrenees frontier. The problem of protecting the French frontier is no longer a diplomatic task but a military one. it was announced in Paris after Daladier said that “the necessary steps” for protection had been taken. Although it was generally believed that the invading planes were from the Spanish rebel side, any such incidents along the French border gravely complicated the efforts of Great Britain and France to isolate the Spanish conflict and jeopardized plans for withdrawal of for(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) DEATH CLAIMS GEORGE McCUNE Prominent French Township Farmer Dies Monday Evening George Clayton McCune, 65, prominent French township farmer, died Monday evening at 5:30 o'clock al his home. Death followed a stroke of paralysis, suffered last Thursday. The deceased was born in Monroe township, the son of Amos and Rachael Young-McCune, On September 26. 1896 he was married to Anna Bixler. Surviving, besides the widow, are the children: Mrs. Menno Burkhalter, Dale. Theodore and Mrs. Clifton Liechty. all of near Berne; Mrs. Fred Malchli of Fort Wayne; Harold of Warren and one sister, Mrs. William Fleetwood of Berne. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 9:30 o’clock at the home and at 10 o’clock at the West Missionary church. Burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery.