Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 10 June 1938 — Page 1

I. No. 137.

.<5. Army Bomber Crashes In Storm, rjAll Aboard Killed

C®tAri' ' Bomber Falls’ By r Iklavan. Illinois All On Board Kihd. Kns |\ FLAMES | ’up* ' 1: , ''"’" l ' 111 ■ s ' H 'i 1 ’" ill' !<■ by liylil iiiiil'. I in \. on < .... mi. ■L* X y the fuselage. KX wreckage, she said. |e. clltilillg exploil ~ , 4 wreckage wore oiii lllol'e no ren Io lump or tie y were to tile ■Lioi 111 J I '' l ’'' l ' addressed to Hooves was Ramoul to OH Army officials :-.. Bfonial School I Service Planned .i Hihwest of tlte city, at will bold its Centennial Xivi< ■ ■ Tlie Rev Waller BbkO! jasper. Minn., son of the ftprtr in Ihe German s< i > ice ft) Rev W 11. Weening, present Hkr bi iho congregation. will I ■ mon in the blnglisli la be limn beginning a IK'i'lSl il.iy s< liool. which Ims be important factor in tie liisimy of tinBB Xsid-~ teaching all the sue il by the state, at letisl ■ llOlli mu h ilny is devoted to ■ A-lii’m of religion. 11. F the teacher the ipam s and Miss Frieda of tin three lower grades. - Asked ■ To Display Flags June 11. will be observed as flag day will be displayed by HI-trues and residents MEB>y in observance of the MES EARLY IREGISTRAYION guhty Clerk Urges Early Of Voters I For Fall lC®u|t y C]erk G Rp]ny Bj Pl .]y to,,u’ Par, y registration of who must register to vote election. becoming 21 years of the general election, ■** sb er 8, are entitled to vote E^X a y register now in the office. who have moved out of in which they lived at the the primary must transfer |^X 6 who experienced any diffe ■ at t ’ le P°" s during the priC Pyarp f -bed to call at the clerk’s FW'h! check their registration urged that registrations be »re of promptly to avoid the

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REBEL PLANES CONTINUE TO SHELL SHIPS American Warship Stands Oil Mediterranean Coast Today By Joe Alex Morris (UP. Staff Correspondent) An American warship stood off the Mediterranean coast today as Great Britain grouped for a plan of action that would end bombardment of neutral shipping in Spanish waters without upsettig Europe’s shaky peace. Rebel aerial bombs again rained on the Spanish port of Denia, hitting the French steamer Brisi bane for the second time and continuing a series of raids that have damaged or sunk half a dozen British and French vessels. The United States destroyer Claxton steamed into Denia, joining British and French warships already along the Mediterranean coast. Two British cruisers also are en route to the danger-packed waters. The bombardments have created I one of the most contradictory and j j potentially dangerous phases ■ through which Europe has gone recently in the struggle to lessen danger of general warfare. Among the cross-currents swirling around Spain is the fundamental fact that British Prime Minist(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O—RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED TODAY Co-Operate With Roosevelt Club Adopts An- • other Resolution The second in a series of resolutions adopted by the Cooperate with Roosevelt club of the Adams county Young Democratic organization, was filed today by Edwin H. Kaufman, club chairman. The resolution, supporting the plans and objectives of the president follows: "Whereas, we have the utmost confidence in the plans and objectives of the president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt; "Whereas, we believe that the prevention of human suffering and the preservation of peace is a proper funtion of government; "Whereas, we believe that the true facts surrounding the recovery program of the president should be available for careful study by the people of this county; -Whereas the Young Democrats, of Indiana have taken the leadership in a .program of education, which we believe to be necessary to the understanding of that recovery , Pr °Be it therefore resolved that we,j the Cooperate with Roosevelt club i of the Adams County Young Demo-1 cratic organization do here y f fer our pledge to support the Cooperate with Roosevelt’ and will aid in every way the sue cessful development of that program. O Bloomington Y o utl J?. 1 . , Accidentally Killed Bloomington, Ind.. June 10- (UP) Robert Bays, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bays, was shot fatally late yesterday when a shotgun with which he and his companion, Marion Skinner, 11, were play- • jng in the absence of hut parents ’ was accidentally discharged, i The gun exploded as the sk *“ner youth touched the trigger striking ' the victim in the abdomen. The par- . ents survive. _ TEMPERATURE readings democrat thermometer ’ 8:00 a.m 66 2:00 p.m 79 10:00 a.m 69 3.00 p.m - Noon 76 WEATHER Occasional thundershowers to- : night and Saturday; sl.ghHy warmer tonight in extreme north portion.

To Dedicate Remodeled Church Sunday r -- | I Wf r . :. Mftftfti *1 IJ , lialltO CSimwiMi uriMMMWW Above is pictured a view of the remodeled and redecorated First Baptist church of this city, which will be formally re-dedicated Sunday. Forenoon, afternoon and evening services will be held at the church on ] South Fourth street, with outstanding speakers on the program.

MINE WITNESS IS MURDERED IN KENTUCKY Government Witness Killed, Another Tells Kidnap Effort London, Ky., June 10 — (U.R) One government witness lay dead |in "bloody Harlan” today and I G-men pushed an investigation into reports that another had been kidnaped. Blazing guns, flashing knives and a man who charged he had been held prisoner in an automobile diverted attention from the calm little courtroom here where the federal government is trying 44 persons and 19 coal corporations on charges of conspiring to repel union organization of miners in violation of the rights guaranteed f under the Wagner labor relations act. Those events even overshadowed a government witness who flung into the face of defense counsel a charge that an attempt had been made to bribe him with money and a “good job” to come into court and "swear right.” Whether the killing and the reported kidnaping had anything to do with this trial or whether they were only isolated outbreaks of "bad blood” in Harlan remained uncertain today. Conflicting stories came from Harlan county officials and other persons who had knowledge of the sudden outbreak of violence. One fact is indisputable—Lester Smithers, a former president of the United Mines Workers’ local at Yancey, Ky., who was subpoenaed by the government in the conspiracy trial, is dead with a bullet wound in his head and Verlin (Billygoat) Fee and his brother, (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) —o LUTHERANS TO ATTEND SYNOD Local Men To Attend Annual Lutheran Delegate Convention The twenty-second delegate convention of the Missouri Synod Lutheran church will begin Wednesday June 15 at St. Louis, Mo., It will b? known as an anniversary convention since the fathers founding this church body came to this country 10# years ago. On Sunday, June 19 many thousands of Lutherans will gather at St. Louis from all parts of the country for a mass jubilee service at which Dr. J. W. Belinken, D. D., president of the Synod, will be the speaker. This service will be broadcast over a network of 56 stations in the country beginning at 3:30 o clock central standard time. Henry Schulte of Decatur is the lay delegate representing the Lutheran churches of this area at the convention. Mr. Schulte will leave for St. Louis Monday to attend preliminary meetings, since he was appointed to a special committee to consider the expansion of the Missouri Synod pension system. Rev. L. Dornseif, pastor of St. Peter’s Lutheran church near Decatur, will attend the convention as clergy representative. The Rev. Paul W. Schultz, pastor of the local Zion Lutheran church, plans to attend the convention part of the time and wil imotor to St. Louis with Mr. Schulte.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 10, 1938.

Annual Picnic To Be Held Sunday Plans have been completed for the annual St. Mary's parish picnic, which is to be held Sunday at Sunset park. Dinner will be served at the grounds, with tickets ! selling for 35 cents to adults and 25 cents to children. , Entertainment will be provided in the afternoon. A numlJer of i concesions will also be set up for the day. Le Ulman is general | chairman of the event. Mrs, Hazel Widdows Given Re-Appointment Mrs. Hazel Widdows has received word of her re-appointment as I i Geneva postmaster. The appointi I ment was made by President . Roosevelt, after a recommendation i by Congressman James I. Farley. . She has served a four-year term. 0 SCHRICKER TO ; BE CANDIDATE Expresses W illingness To /Accept Senatorial Nomination Indianapolis, June 10. —<U.R> —In- ’ diana’s powerful Democratic orr ganization today hurled its full 1 force behind the candidacy of 1 Lieut.-Gov. Henry F. Schricker (or ’ the United States senate sea. now i held by Frederick Van Nuys. . Unless administration chieftains change their minds again during the next three weeks, the mild- } mannered lieutenant governor will t receive the party nomination at I next month’s state convention. After several weeks of study, t Schricker announced his willingi ness to accept the nomination at a statewide Democratic rally at Bass Lake yesterday afternoon. He explained that he was reluctant to leave his present post and that he was not seeking the senatorial nomination. Present in the audience of 3,000 I were two other Democratic senaI torial candidates—-Samuel B. Jackson of Fort Wayne and Alex Gord on of Indianapolis. Neither would comment on Schricker’s statement ' j although both are expected to | withdraw in his favor before the I party convention July 11 and 12. Schricker’s announcement ap- -| patently made complete the breach - between Gov. M. Clifford Townr! send and Van Nuys, who six years ■ ago was the Democratic nominee .: but since has fallen into disfavor. , Van Nuys is expected to seek re- , election as an independent. He was read from the party by Townsend last fall for opposing President Roosevelt’s judiciary reform r I measure. ( I All the Democratic leaders except Townsend were present to " j hear Schricker make his announceI ment. On the speaker’s list were ’ Robert Tilton of Fowler, president ’ of the Young Democratic club, [ which sponsored the meeting, state chairman Omer Stokes Jackson and national committeeman Frank McHale. ’ “If my friends of the second con--5 gressional district desire to present my name and if the (conven- ' tion) delegates . . . decide that I * should be nominated for the Unit-. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O — Plan Convention At Berne June 26 The Ohio-Indiana Sunday School' . convention of the Defenseless ■ Mennonite churches will be held in . Berne on Sunday, June 26, it has been anounced.

COL. LINDBERGH REVEALS THREAT AGAINST SONS! Safety Os Two Sons Reported Threatened If Returned To U. S. By Webb Miller (Copyright 1938 by United Press) London, June 10 —(U.R) —Threats against the safety of his two little sons if he returns to the United States have reached Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. In consequence, it was learned today, Col. Lindbergh informed friends that although the threats presumably are from cranks, he feels impelled to defer indefinitely any plans to return to the United States to live, despite his desire to reside eventually in his ’Homeland. However, it can be stated definitely that Lindbergh has no intenI tion of relinquishing his American citizenship for British naturalizaI tion and never has had. His absence from the United 1 States has been due partly to concern for the safety of his family. ' because of crank threats over there, and also because of the unwelcome public attention to which the Lindberghs were always sub- ■ jected. In the two and one-halt years since Lindbergh left the United States, he has found what he ! sought—a feeling of safety for his I I children and almost complete free--1 dom from public notice. ’ I Since his arrival, when the British broadcasting corporation took : the unprecedented action of broadI casting an appeal for respect of his privacy, the British public and press have responded witli astonishing good will. Although he is among the fore(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) PLAN EXERCISES HERE SATURDAY Annual Eighth Grade County Commencement Here Saturday Plans for the annual county eighth grade commencement exercises here Saturday have been completed, C. E. Striker, county school superintendent, announced today. j The commencement will be held at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Decatur high school, with 223 students receiving diplomas. The graduating class will include students from the seven consolidated schools and all one-room schools 'n the county. Merle J. Abbett, city school superintendent of Fort Wayne, will be the commencement speaker. The respective township trustees will present the diplomas and Superintendent 'Sftriker will make the announcements. Leading scholars of each township wil Icarry township banners and the leading student in the county will carry the county banner. —o— Berne Fire Chief Is Named Director Leonard Baumgartner. Berne Are chief and retiring presKSgt, was 1 named to the board of directors of the Industrial and Volunteer Fire- ' men's association at’ the convention which closed Thursday at War- | saw. Arthur Baker and Cedric i Fisher were the Decatur delegates.

Florida Youth Confesses To Kidnap-Killing Os Cash Boy But Says Death Accidental

AMENDMENT TO I ACT IS UPHELD Federal Judge Baltzell Upholds Amendment To Frazier Act | Indianapolis, June 10. — *U.R> i Farm bankruptcy cases, dismissed by federal courts who held the Frazier-Lempke farm mortgage moratorium act unconstitutional, will have an opportunity to be I heard in court, following a ruling yesterday by Judge Robert C. Haltzell in the federal court, who up- ' held the amendment to the Frazier act providing tor re-instatement of those farm bankruptcy cases dis- , missed erroneously. Each case will be tried on its merits. Judge Baltzell said, and added upholding the amendment does not mean necessarily the land I involved will go back to the owners who had farm bankruptcy cases in court previously. Baltzell's ruling was made in the case of Floyd and Lucy Crouse, Clinton county farmers. B. Howard Caughran, assistant United States district attorney, supported the amendment before Baltzell. Henry I. Green, attorney for the i Equitable Life Assurance company, who held the mortgage, [charged congress with “passing i the buck to the courts” and claimed no reinstatement was allowable after a court had made final judgI ment. i o BOOST GARNER AS CANDIDATE Congressional Boom For Garner For President Is Disclosed ' Washington, June 10 —(UP) —Revelation of New Deal plans to puni ish three senators who bolted the ' administration’s judiciary bill coincided today with reports of a con- ( gressional boom for vice-president I John N. Garner as Democrat presi- > dential candidate in 1940. ( Published reports said 28 senate - Democrats already had told Garner they would back him in 1940. But -a check among conservative Demot crats including many of those who - are balking at some New Deal polE icies failed today to disclose any 1 organized movement in Garner's be- ’ half. There is no doubt, however, that ' the direction of Roosevelt policies, the severity of current business depression and recent political maneuvers interpreted as New Deal efforts to punish bolting legislators have established Garner among sevI oral others as potential conservative candidates in 1940 for the Democratic presidential nomination. Others mentioned in legislative ;' cloak room talk and dinner table conversation include chairman Jesse Jones, of the reconstruction finance corporation, secretary of state Cordell Hull and chairman James '! A. Farley of the Democratic nation- • al committee. Reaction of capitol ■ I hill to works progress administartor 1 Harry L. Hopkins intervention in i lowa’s senatorial primary has been 1 particularly angry among senators t j already critical of other New Deal 5 policies. Few senators cared today to dis--5 cuss for publication the develop- ' ment of a Garner boom. There were 1 frequent references, however, to the vice-president’s age. He will be ' 69 in November. By 1940 Garner 3 would be 71, which is considerably 5 — 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) - Union Chapel Bible School Closed Today ’ Thirty-two boys and girls have - been enrolled in the daily vacation Bible school held at Union Chapel U. B. church. This is the first vacation school held in this church. Classes closed today at noon and a picnic was enjoyed by the boys and girls. A program will be pre- ’ sented in the church Sunday even4 ing to which the public is invited. f Those teaching in the school - were Mrs. Forest Walters, Miss - Louise Bristol, Miss lona Schnepp - and Rev. Stacy Shaw. Mrs. Earl 2 Chase played the piano for the - school.

SUGAR COMPANY MAKING FINAL BEET PAYMENT Central Sugar Company Mailing Checks For Final Payment The final payment for the 1937 sugar beets 4s being made to 1,175 growers by the Central Sugar comipany today, and will bring the total of the Company's payment to nearly a half million dollars. The payment amounts to 40 centa a ton and represents the last check due from the company on the 50-50 contracts in which growers share equally in the proceeds of the sale of sugar, beet pulp and molaeses with the plant. However, government sugar beet benefit payments are still due. It is estimated that these payments will approximate 1150.000 to growers in 10 Indiana and Ohio counties in thia territory. Government ipayments on beets delivered to the plant are based on "recoverable” sugar, which depends on the county averages for sugar percentage in the beets and the sugar extraction percentage at the Central Sugar company. Theae payments are subject to deductions for administrative expenses. Crop Insured In addition, government payments will be made on the “insurance" features of the sugar beet benefit program where crops have been partially or completely lost. The checks are to be mailed in lump sums to the county sugar beet committees, which will write individual checks to the growers The payments from the company now total $6.40 a ton. Th" first company payment was $5 a ton and was made in December. A second payment of $1 a ton was made March 1. Many of the growers have already taken advantage of the final payment to finance the purchase of fertilizer for the 1938 beet crop with cash payments, and so will not be mailed checks today. Bright 1938 Prospects Central Sugar company officials stated today that the 1938 sugar beet crop .prospects are the brighest since D. W. McMillen and his associates purchased and took over the management of the firm a few years ago. In adition to almost perfect growing weather, the growers now have a government isured crop and government benefit payments. One of the largest acreages in the history of the territory will be harvested next fall, if some misfortune does not fall on the growers. Proof of the growing interest among farmers in the production of sugar beets, is the fact that the number of growers has increased from 1,175 last year to 1,650 this year. —oWAIT SHIPMENT OF MORE SIGNS Large Number Os City Street Markers Already Erected NYA workers are awaiting the arrival of a shipment of signs before completing the work of erecting street markers throughout the city. Markers designating the name of each intersecting street and the number of the block are being erected at street intersections. The work is being done by the youths working under the national youth administration program, and under the directio of Ralph E. Roop, civil works commissioner and his department. The work is well under way with a large number of city streets already marked. The marking will continue upon the arrival of needed supplies. Two men in the employment of the city light department are painting the new oramental light posts on Main street. The poles are given a new coat of aluminum paint nd the transparent shades washed.

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J. Edgar Hoover Announces Franklin McCall Makes Full Confession Os Kidnap-Killing. LAD SUFFOCATED , Miami, Fla., June 10 — (U.R) Director J. Edgar Hoover of the federal bureau of Investigation announced late today that Franklin Pierce McCall confessed to kidnaping Jimmy Cash and revealed that the boy suffocated accidentally shortly after he was snatched from his cradle. McCall, 21-year-old son and brother of ministers, made a complete confession of the abduction and collection of SIO,OOO ransom, Hoover said. The chief of the G-men said that McCall told him that he did not intend to kill the boy. But the child suffocated while McCall was taking him to a hideaway. Hoover said. Two handkerchiefs bound over his mouth apparently caused the death. McCall, married but childless, said he plotted the kidnaping to obtain funds to purchase "the things of life" for his wife and i for himself, Hoover said. Hoover announced the case as “closed." Under the Florida law, kidnaping is punishable by death. State’s Attorney J. A. Worley said he would prosecute McCall on charges of murder and kidnaping McCall, Hoover said, had intended to keep the boy in a house five miles north and west of Princeton. McCall told G-men he had tied two handkerchiefs around the boy’s face after stealing him from his ' crib in the Cash home. He said the child was head when he arrived at his home 15 minutes later. Hoover said McCall told him the ■ reason he kidnaped the boy was that "he had been wanting the things of life for his wife and him- . self" and had been unable to get steady employment. i The baby's body, decomposed . while it lay in the swamp outside Princeton probably since the night of the kidnaping. May 28. was in a funeral home at Homestead, six miles south of Princeton. The baby’s uncle. W. P. Cash, said funeral plans would be announced today. Last night the uncle accompanied J. B. Cash, the baby's father, to Homestead to > satisfy the law by making the offi- ' cial Identification. The mother remained at home, • secluded. A special grand jury will be convened Monday to act against McCall. Fedtfral authorities have . turned the prosecution over to the state, which has a statute similar to the "Lindbergh law.” punishing > kidnapers with death ’ At Jasper. Fla , high school, MeI Call had been halfhack on the football team. His friends said he ' read detective stories avidly. He had no criminal record, and had, ' until this crime, led the life of ■ the average small town youth, : working part time at various truckJ (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) Report George Foos Condition Improved The condition of George Foos, Yost Bros, employe, who sustained 1 a compound leg fracture several I weeks ago when a log fell on him, is reported improving. He is still confined to the Adams county memorial hospital, however. The broken bones have started to knit and he is reported recovering nicely. G. E. Employes To Meet Tonight i A special meeting of the Deca- ) tur G. E. employes association will t be held at the city hall tonight at ; 7 o'clock. All members are urged, to attend. ; Don Gage was reflected presiI dent of the association at a recent I meeting of the members. Other . officers are: Frank Gilllg. vicer president; Ralph Stanley, fiancial secretary; Ida Shearer, recording i secretary; Robert Gage, treasurer; - Charles Brothers, re-elected trus--1 tee so a three?year term. o - CHILDREN'S DAY I Many churches of Decatur s will hold annual children's day programs Sunday. Detailed t programs of the various services may be found on page 7 of today’s Democrat.