Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 14 June 1938 — Page 1

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■•■/MOVING ■pearly JfJIfIURNMENT Ejj. To Approve \\ Rili Report Ingress " 10ved * ,tep ymment today when proved and sent to for immediate action se wage hour conferjproval. sending the the White House for ooseveit's signature, , Jutir- 14 <U.R>~ The I 75th congress toward today, beginning final of the compromise I in the face of rising over railroad aid [journment by Wedjrsday. the house prerove quickly the cont on wages and hours :ely begin consideraronference report on j.OOO spending lend-. expected to take up the wage-hour bill the house acts, it developments: najority leader Alben inounced a new effort le to pass the bill to finance ans to railroads. The executives associate retreat from flat die measure. Lewis of the comdttstrial organization for house action on ,y act amendments om government cononvicted of violation er labor act. The tommittee tabled a end the amendments j William B. Bank j would set no time i >nt until the house | lovery and flood con-; e reports, and bills I development, radio I istigation, merchant y, Mexican claims,j . Md„ airport: the reau; railroad emliability, and monophates investigations, ndit and control comd a compromise on Tydings’ request for ito works progress ty. The compromise he senate campaign ommittee to investiencing by WPA and cies of federal, state iment. mouncement on the 1 complicated the ade since shortly after rred with the presi-,-ay labor executives led to retreat from ugly opposing enact--111. ecutives, who forced of the bill after the need intention td cut cent, met for two nsider withdrawing n. >t withdrawn our ops bill," George M. ident of the board, executives then ad- ) ON PAGE FIVE; lEWALKS IMPUTED hall Street Imnt Is Corn'd Today k improvement on street, from Fifth to i, was completed toof the fine improveproperty owners unwork program, t walks have been r ith the street within . The street was re■d with stone and a lewalk improvement, s light poles were reie street and a new the alley. The orna)les at the north and of Fifth street were to conform to the :rew built the sideproperty owners will twns out to the new

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Men’s Brotherhood To Meet Thursday The Brotherhood of the Christian church wil Imeet at the home of Klmer l>arwachter Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. All members are requested to attend. SPANISH REBEL 1 FORCES DRIVE ON VALENCIA Rebels Plan Preparations For Final Stage Os Drive On City London, June 14—.'U.R) —The British government firmly refused today to risk European peace by direct retaliation against aerial bombardment of neutral shipping by Spanish insurgents. By Joe Alex Morris (United Press Staff Correspondent) Spanish rebels fought their way \ into the Mediterranean coastal city of Castellon Be La Plana and prepared today for the final stage of their offensive against Valencia. The insurgent campaign is aimed at gradually widening their foot- * hold on the coast—they now hold 79 miles along the sea — and at capture of Valencia In order to cut supply lines to Madrid. They prob-1 ably will have to fight every inch of the way to that objective. The first successful drive to the \ Mediterranean early this spring' cut the main lines from Barcelona to Valencia and Madrid but failed l to crack the government s resist-! ance because rebel blockade of the coast proved ineffective. Capture of Valencia, however, would com-; plete isolation of the shell-shatter-ed former capital. Insurgents seized Castellon, 37 miles from Valencia, after a rapid , encirclement which surprised the. defending troops and almost trapp-1 I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TRI KAPPAS TO CONVENE HERE Province Convention Os Sorority To Be Held Wednesday Two hundred members of the Tri Kappa sorority are expected to register In Decatur Wednesday when Alpha Sigma chapter will he hostess to the province convention. | Province eight includes, other than the Decatur chapter, Fort Wayne and its associate chapter. Auburn and associate, Garrett, Kendallville, Bluffton and associate, LaGrange, Warsaw, Columbia City, j North Manchester, Huntington and Warren. . 1 Registration will be held at the; Elk's Home at 9:30 o'clock with a ; meeting of the delegates at 10 o'clock. Other guests will then enjoy bridge until 12:30. at which time luncheon will be served at the Masonic Home. During the luncheon a program will be held with Mrs. Milton Swearingen, president of the Decatur chapter, giving the welcoming, address Mrs. Dan Tyndall will sing the Tri Kappa song, followed with two piano solos by Miss I Louise Haubold. Presentation of bridge and I tendance prizes will then be made I |,y Mrs. Albert Gehrig, after which | Mrß Tyndall will sing three solos | . Gianni.,a Mia,” “Kstrellita” and i “Carmeucfta.'' I 411 luncheon appointments, decorations, programs and favors will eninloy a Mexican motif. Miss Helen Haubold, officer o Province eight, will have charge of the presentation of the chapteis. the honor guests and speakers introducing Rosalie Irwin of Fiank fort, grand president of Tri Kappa; “(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)" Flag Day Services Here This Evening Annual Flag Day services, spona hv the B. p. o. Elks and the ■"iS*,,.»«<! ruler, »' “■ , w |i[ conduct the flag ce S /h d.S.» or *"»'• Z.T. The band ... « r;,"T.ooVod j home.

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1 Although the entire area was reduced to shambles ■ I by a terrific two • week aerial bombardment, I Chinese defenders of Hsuchow succeeded in ward- I iug off the attacking Japanese. This photo shows |

PAPERS GIVEN I TO PATIENTS Local Merchants Give Papers Daily To Hospital Patients Through the generosity of 21 I local merchants, the long hours of confinement for patients at the Adams county memorial hospital have I been considerably shortened these [ days. Appreciative of the loneliness of la sick bed and the inability of a j patient to keep contact with the I social life of the outside world, the : 21 business houses have subscrib- ! ed to the Decatur Daily Democrat I with hospital patients as recipients of the newspaper. Twenty-one copies of the Democrat are sent to the hospital each I evening. The copies are passed ! from room to room, so that all . paients, not too ill to read, are able to keep pace with the news , ! in the city, entity and nation. No longer need the hospital. patient depend upon word-of-mouth news to answer his or her question of “Is it true that so-and-so married soand so?” or hundreds of similar queries. Their opportunity of finding out will come when the nurse brings their copy of the ! Democrat. On each paper is pasted a cheery message, "Good evening, we hope you are feeling better." The name of the contributing merchant is also stamped on the copy. The local firms who are sending | copies at present are: Ashbaucher’s Tin Shop, Dr. N. i a Bixler, Blue Creek Dairy, Burk ‘Elevator Co., Burke's Standard Service, Citizens Telephone Co., ! cioverleaf Creameries, Inc., The Decatur Hatchery, C. A. Douglas Co „ Essex Men's Shop. Edwards Studio, The First State Bank, Fortney Shoe Repair Shop, Gerber Meat Market, Keller Jewelry Store, Kohne Drug Store, Rentz Florists, Suttles-Edwards Co., Sheets 8r05.,. Wall's Bakery and the Decatur Democrat Co. CHURCHES PLAN UNION SERVICES Union Services To Be Held Sunday Nights In July, August In continuance of an annual custom, the Decatur Ministerial association is again planning to ho d , union church services in Decatur throughout July and August, the Rev. George O. Walton, association secretary, announced today. The services will be held on Sun d iv might at the various partklpatIng churches throughout July. August and the first week ,n 'Sep ( tember. It is planned to have special outside speakers ae guests at ( ££ Evangelical. Zion Reformed and First Christian. A program of special music, Including local talent, will be presented at the services. The complete program for the services is expected to be announced within the next week.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, June 14, 1938.

Tropical Fever Is Fatal To Children Rochester, Ind., June 14. —<U.P>— Two small children, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Lennie Davis, living live miles south of here, have died and two others are in critical condition today front Ta iSsease diagnosed by doctors as tropical fever caused by mosquito bites. Charles Bernard, 4, died last Friday and his 18-month-old brother, Leslie Lee, was taken by the same illness yesterday. Those in a critical condition and not expected to survive are Lennie, Jr„ 7 and James, 16. Both are being treated for the strange disease at the Owensboro hospital near here. Physicians thus far far have been unable to check the malady. PAY HONOR ON ANNIVERSARY Honor Is Paid To Mr. And Mrs. James Bain On Anniversary More than 100 members of the Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sister lodges and members of their families gathered at the local K. of P. home last night to pay honor to Mr. and Mrs. James Bain on their 50th wedding anniversary. The crowd in attendance packed to overflowing the dining room of the lodge at the 6:30 o’clock dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Bain sat at a center table with Mr. and Mrs. James Hurst, also of this city, who recently commemorated their golden wedding anniversary. A huge anniversary cake stood in the center of the table. Mrs. Clara Passwater, of the | Pythian Sisters, presented the couple with a gift from the Knights of Pythias and the Pythian Needle club and congratulated the couple on their anniversary. Mr. Bain responded. | Following the dinner, a program | ; was presented in the lodge hall i with Donnabelle Fenimore acting j as master of ceremonies. A mock j wedding featured the program. W, Guy Brown portrayed the part of the minister, Dr. E. P. Fields the bride, Bob Shraluka the groom and Robert Heller, Joe Hunter, Fred Ashbaucher, John M. Doan, W. F. Beery and T. R. Fenimore acted as flower girls. Virginia Lee Kuhnle presented a tap dance, Miss Jackie Lee Lutz and Victor Porter gave recitations, June Teeple a tap dance, Darwin Leitz and Marjorie Miller presented several piano selections. Mrs. Kannie Fristoe and O. L. j Vance delivered the main addresses which were followed by a social hour. The dinner was prepared and served by the Pythian Sisters. | o — To Close Law Offices Saturday Afternoons At a called meeting of the De-J I catur bar association, it was voted today to close law offices on Satur-; day afternoons until the close of the summer vacation of the Adams cir- j cult court next .September The court went into vacation, Saturday afternoon. , . , A few of the attorneys stated their offices would be kept open for j the collection of loan payments onj Saturday afternoon and would be j run by office girls. J

[Nipponese soldiers manning a light field artillery during the attack Note the burning farm houses and thatched roofs of homes on the town's outskirts.

BIBLE SCHOOL EXERCISES SET Commencement Exercises Will Be Held Here Friday Night Commencement exercises of the daily vacation Bible school will be held Friday night at 7 o’clock at the Decatur high school auditorium, the R. W. Graham, school dean, announced today. A sample demonstration of the work and activities in each of the classes will be given at the com-1 mencement. Promotion and recognition cards will be awarded each of the students completing the course. 1 A total of 148 students is enrolled. ] Parents are urged to attend. An j invitation has also been extended to j the general public. An exhibit of the ' handwork and art work done by the students may be seen in the corriLlors of the school previous to the I exercises. I The Rev. Graham stated this 1 j morning that the regular percent- 1 | age of attendance at this year's j ; school was the largest in history, despite the fact that three upper! grades were eliminated due to the lack of playground facilities and prevalent illness among the younger students. A picnic will be held at Memorial Park on Winchester street at 11 o’clock Friday morning. Each child will bring his lunch| ice cream will be furnished 'by the committee. —o Injured Youth Is Reported Better [ The condition of Dick Gehrig, son [ of Mr. and Mrs. Tilman Gehrig, who ' suffered a severe eye Injury last week, while playing with a knife, was reported as improved today. I Whether or not he wiill lose the sight of the right eye is still undetermined, however. URGES CHANGE IN NOMINATING Daniel Tobin Advocates Adoption Os Primary Election System Indianapolis, June 14. —■ :(U.R> — Daniel J. Tobin, labor leader today called upon the Democratic party to advocate adoption of the primary election system to replace the present state nominating conI ventions. In an open letter to Omer Stokes | Jackson, chairman of the state Democratic commltee, Tobin asI serted that "the mass of toilers I are losing confidence In state coni ventions’’ aiul will not be satisfied (to vote for “candidates chosen by i three or four leaders." Tobin was chairman of the labor I division of the Democratic national j committee in 1932 and is president of the Internatioal Brotherhood of I Teamsters and Chauffeurs union, ! an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. i The workers believe that state ! conventions "are controlled, the stage set and the ticket agreed up- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO),

McCall Pleads Guilty To One Charge In Kidnap-Killing But Not Guilty To Murder Charge

RESURFACING OF j STREET DELAYED Final Resurfacing Os j Streets Delayed Until After Fair The final resurfacing of the streets In the city over which the state roads pass will be postponed until after fair week, it was decided today by state highway officials. Second street, Winchester and Mercer avenue are now being improved and the final top dressing of Ky-rock will be placed on the streets after August 6, when the fair closes. The postponement of the street improvement was made to prevent damage to the top surfacing. Kyrock remains soft for sometime and with stands and rides erected on the midway on Second street, highway officials believe it would be best to defer the resurfacing until a later date. Winchester street, south to the intersection of U. S. road 27, will be opened about Friday, Ora I). Baker, district supervisor stated tfiday. The shoulders along Mercer avenue, south of the hospital to the city limits, will be built this week. It will not be necessary to close the street to make this improvement. The improvement so far gives Decatur several miles of the finest type of improved street and when completed next August the thoroughfares will lie as smooth as glass. The entire cost of the improvement is paid by the state | highway department. DEATH CLAIMS WM. WILLIAMS Retired Decatur Laborer Dies At Home Early This Morning — I William Williams. 77, retired Decatur laborer, died this morning at 18:140 o’clock at his home on Patterson street. Death was caused by comiplications. The deceased was born in Decatur February 1, 1861, the son of Jesse and Alice Williams. His wife, Louisa, preceded him in death three years ago and he lvad since made his home with his dauhgter, Mrs. Fred Cook, 416 Patterson street. Surviving are the following children: Albert, Jesse, Mrs. Fred Cook, and Benton, all of Decatur; Mrs. Marie Ault of Vicksburg, Mich.. Mrs. Elsie Sprunger, Kalamazoo, Michigan and Mrs. Myrtle Harker of Vicksburg. Michigan. Six children are deceased. Twenty-three grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Ben Butler. of this city, also survive. One brother and two sisters are deceased. He was a resident of the city his entire life. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the Cook residence with the Rev. Earl Bragg officiating. Burial will be made in the Reynolds cemetery. Recreation Committee To Meet Wednesday Walter J. Krick, chairman of the executive committee for the Decatur and Adams county recreation program, today called a meeting of the members of the committee, to lie held in Mr. Krick's office in the high school builuTng Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. A permanent organization of the committee will be set up and plans for future recreation activities In the city and county will be discussed. _ -o * Indiana Communists To Have Full Slate Indianapolis, Ind., June 14-(UP) The Indiana Communist Party announced today it will conduct an independet campaign for the November general election. The party "wholeheartedly endorsed the sentiments of Gov. M. Clifford Townsend in proclaiming June 17, Humanity Day,” and urged full cooperation with the Red Cross in collecting funds to help the stricken Chinese.

LEWIS DEMANDS! ROUSE IRE OF HOUSE SOLONS » ! John L. Lewis’ Demand For Labor Legislation Is Scored Washington, June 14 — (U.R) — John L. Lewis apparently lost ills fight to obtain house action on farreaching amendments to the WalshHealey government contracts Dill today when the house rules committee tabled a resolution to send the measure to the floor for a vote. The rules committee action was tantamount to killing the measure for this session since without rules committee approval hills cannot be brought tip for a vote In the ses-sion-closing drive. The rules body met today to consider action on the measure after Lewis personally visited Ihe cupitol yesterday and urged members to give the bill right-of-way. The measure would establish a government "blacklist” of violators of the national labor relations board orders and these violators would not he allowed to contract to do business with the government. The committee’s vote was taken in the absence of several members including Rep. Martin Dies, I)., Tex., and Rep. Byron It. Harlan, D., Ohio. The bill, sponsored by the committee for industrial organization, embodies proposed amendments to the W'alsh-Healy act of 1936. It would permit "blacklisting” of concerns which have disregarded NLRB orders and also extend the law regarding government contracts to shipbuilding. C. I. C. spokesmen assert that it | has been specifically endorsed by | the labor, treasury and interior de- j partments, although opposed by the war department. The bill, in one form, passed the senate June 7 after perfunctory discussion notable chiefly for the statement of majority leader Al- j ben W. Barkley, D., Ky., .that "It is very greatly desired not only by the government hut by all branches of labor. It is very desirable that the bill he passed." There would be a possibility of a filibuster if the Issue were raised again in the senate. Lewis went to the office of Speaker William B. Bankhead yesterday when he received a report of the ipudiciary committee’s vote. He warned Democratic house leaders and congressmen to pass the bill or the new deal would answer in this fall’s elections. The house judiciary and rules committees, acting in concert, could bring such legislation to the floor or, under the parliamentary situation existing, the rules committee could act alone. Lewis' ultimatum, delivered to Bankhead, house majority leader Sam Rayburn, D., Tex., horse whip Patrick J. Boland, D., Pa, and (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ONE STUDENT 1$ KILLED IN FIDE Michigan LT. Fraternity House Is Damaged By Flames Ann Arbor, Mich.. June 14 -(U.R) Elames swept the Alpha Rho Chi fraternity house at the University of Michigan today, killing one student and forcing nine others to flee for their lives. Richard A. Polland, 28, Buffalo, N. Y., a senior in the college of architecture, was killed by the smoke and flames. Only eight students and two guests were in the house when the fire broke out. Most of the fraternity members fled down the stairway on a fire ' escape, hut Polland, who had re--1 tired only an hour before the fire ■ started, had to be aroused by two companions who were occupying ■ the same room. They carried him , to a window but were forced to • leave him there when overcome by smoke. Firemen rescued Polland's cotn- ! panions but were’ unable to reach “(CONTINUED ON PA«H VlV»h

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Florida Farm Youth Is Indicted On Kidnap And Murder Charges By (Jrand Jury. DEATH MAXIMUM Miami, Fla., June 14 — (U.R) — Franklin Pierce McCall today pleaded guilty to charges of kidnaping Jimmy Cash but entered a not guilty plea to a second charge accusing him of murdering the five-year-old boy. Only a few minutes after an 18man grand jury returned indictments charging him with kidnaping and first degree murder, the 21-year-old farm youth was brought into court to enter his pleas. His trial on the murder charge tentative was set for tomorrow. McCall asked the court to appoint Stafford Caldwell of Miami to represent him as defense counsel. Although the youth entered a mixed plea, conviction on either of the two counts carries the maximum penalty of death 111 the electric chair under Florida law. McCall entered his pleas before Circuit Judge H. F. Atkinson. Hustled from his 19th floor cell in the courthouse to the fourth floor courtroom by li policemen and six sheriff’s deputies, he heard the indictments read by G. A. Worley, state's attorney. Clenching his hands, biting his lips, and staring at the floor, McCall listened to the kidnaping Indictment. “Guilty." he said when Worley asked how he pleaded. Then Worley read the murder indictment. "Not guilty,” McCall said as a tear rolled down Ills face. James Bailey Cash. Sr., testified before a Dade county grand jury today against Franklin Pierce Me""(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) REMOVE BODIES FROM WRECKAGE Bodies Os Nine Killed In Plane Crash March 1 Are Removed Wawona, Cal., June 14. —(U.P>— The bodies of nine persons who died March 1 in the crash of an airliner on Buena Vista Crest, high in the Sierra Nevada mountains, were carried from the wreckage today. The victims, wrapped in canvas and strapped to pack horses, reached here this morning from the crest, 16 miles away. Forest rangers who brought out the bodies said they would be sent immediately to Fresno, the direction in which the Transcontinental and Western Airways craft was headed when it lost its way in a storm and crashed against the snow-capped crest. The first rangers to return from the scene said the pieces of the plane were strewn over a wide area oil the southwest slope of Buena Vista. The only intact section of the craft was the tail assembly. The main part of the wreckage was only 15 feet from the summit | of the crest, the tail assembly extending over the summit. The bodies of Pilot John D. Graves and Stewardess Martha Wilson were found 200 feet, from the plane, testifying to the terrific force with which the plane had struck the side of the crest. The seven oTher bodies were in the wreckage when the searching party reached it late yesterday. Those aboard the plane In addition to Graves and Miss Wilson were: co-pilot C. W. Wallace, San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Waltz of San Francisco; J. Tracy Dirlam and Mary Ix>u Dirlam, Mansfield, O.; Victor Krause, Lincoln, Neb., and H. M. Salisbury, ’ Kansas City, Mo. i o TEMPERATURE READINGS i ___ DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER ! 8:00 a m 66 2:00 p.m 80 | 10:00 am 70 3:00 p.m 80 ’ Noon 75 i WEATHER Partly cloudy In extreme south, occasional thundershowers probable in central and north 1 portions tonight and Wednesday; somewhat warmer.