Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 15 June 1938 — Page 1

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■lO FILE Son for IfaCED RATE Decatur To Seek Motion In Rural iy Light Rates UIIII will be filed by the to r.duce the rural - hl rat. IO five cents per h ■ lii>t -OO KWH con-ni.(-ting of the city h. Id Tuesday afterVB, Mayor Ilolthouse and it ■Kuar.'i-ly voted by the be prepar- ...-.-- lop rural light \ to five . a are proposed ■.,. SI hedules. The ~:■ rural power SHf'-r ;'»o KWH per month. all over 200 KWH 2' 4 r per KWH. Minir... per 11. I*. load. U- ~.<.king and heating aBL.a- First 50 KWH per p.l KA H. next 25 KWH 3, p. r KWH: all over KWH .hair. »i required. light rate in the cents per KWH KWH. all month, five per adjusting of the second |K- f 2iio KWH per month ■■. .. .i> the regular meeti..umil and board of Tuesday. rural rates will be at once, applying |H. .. ami after the June a:.'.. The meter readSB. ■ a-- quarter are being . .. the reduced rates mHir;..) nr. all electric current .lam 17. The quarterly ill th lober will carry tin rat.'. The monthly bills July will also carry the :. |.r>. tiding the Indiana service i omtnission apthe reduction. :. i11.i11.1 public Service . ..11l li.'id. that there must be rale for the particular ■ ■ Tlie commissi. hi rate? tt« npprovSB’ .. stat.- body must I n- .;. i that th. part i< ular lat - individual kind of service uniform In other words |M> -- - Iwo diff. :’■ ut same kind of service. Indian a public service comlias mi.wmed city ottii inis matter of the old conbe acted on unless for an interpretation of is tiled with the nr With the courts. These Mfe. ts w.-re made be i-ity had a rural electric til., with the commission. si.\-i-,-m late per kilowatt is the lowest ill file state. The tive-< ent rate will still reduce the charge for rural service and give the farm iiecatur area one of tin on page five) ■IE THREAT ■M VANNOYS ■tana Senator To Make ■’igorous Campaign ■ For Election ■jjWapolis, June 15. .(U.R) I Frederick Van Noys to B®*arned the famed Hoosier “two percent” club Way face a senatorial in ■fetimi if it misuses its repul treasury in the 1938 ■“ on campaign. if he were not a little disby the array of Wl’A. state relief and “two per funds in the control of ,a, fh<iuse o -ganization of Gov. BJ i!t,l rd Townsend which might ■** d against him. Van Nuys retigorously: Bp In the least. The senate ,n elections committee ap by Vice-President Garner. 8 as dean as a hound's tooth, toniniittee personnel will I"' an d it can function either beBfi°u a^er an e ' ect i° n - ■ ’a I say now that it is enBff and absolutely conceivable ■J senate committee will be K UP ° n to ' n QUlre into the acHi i? °‘ *^ e f wo percent club in K election campaign. This ■‘“Uy in reference to its own B” •’Ut in the expenditure of money which might be ■ I( ’° !,TI NUEQ on PAGE FIVE)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

CITY CARRIER IS TO RETIRE Jesse Swartz Retires As Mail Carrier Because Os Illness After nearly 21 years of continuous service as a letter carrier out of the Decatur post office. Jesse Swartz, of 712 North Second street, has made application for retirement under the disability retirement plan. I Arthritis, which suddenly attack-i ed Mr. Swartz the week before | Christmas in 1937 caused his un- ! wanted retirement, he said. AlI though ill, he was able to work 'Christmas week and then after a . second layoff, worked until early I in February of this year, when the , I rheumatic illness again forced him j from his duties. Late last week, he ■ ! decided to make application for rei; tlrement. Mr. Swartz first joined the local ’, post office staff during the post- . | mastership of J. W. Bosse in 1917. He served in the parcel post departI merit, In the days when parcels were delivered on foot. Farly in 11918, during the time when war i1 bonds and stamps sales were atl ‘; their height, a vacancy occu-red in the city carrier branch, and he, started delivering the letters for Uncle Sam. Walked 75,000 Miles Mr. Swartz estimated that in his 1 121 years with the post office he j walked approximately 75,000 miles, or nearly three times around the I world. Until the time when the new i post office was built, he estimated ' i that he had carried three box cars ?full-of mail, at 30 tons each. Since! I the building of the new post office , ■ he estimated an extra half carload ,' be added to the original figure. Walked Six Miles Up ■ i To the ordinary layman it is a fiehort distance up the steps to a l II residence or -business house. But ; according to Mr. Swartz’ figures,! ’ if these steps he made could be laid , 1 i into a stains, he would have walked I 1 six miles up into the sky and this ‘ I _____ ~ ' ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) WOULD REFUSE LEWIS PERMIT Mayor Frank Hague Continues Testimony In Federal Court -1 Newark, N. J-. -June 15— (U.R) ( Mayor Frank Hague testified today -; in federal court that he would rei i fuse John L. Lewis, C I- 0. chair- [ I man, an application for a peimit I to speak in Jersey City because . I "it would be endangering his life. I “Suppose John L. Lewis were to .'make an application for a perm) j lon behalf of the C. ««. would you ' ' grant it?” Hague was asked at tnc ( J S„g on an appHcationJ,y the . c i.O. and the American C vil i i Liberties union for an injunc ion ' to restrain Jersey City authorities i from interfering with organization | I ‘ ll “it'depends on the pulse of the people How they treat I cation." Hague replied. Under I present circumstances it would j endangering his life to gl ve him I the permit.” . : ! - Then your answer is in 1 xrsrxsaxs ■ ,„ e «««“> “ ‘ »»• y““ such a dominating influence in the JXi.: of Jersey Ci.y ( 1 word Is effectively the law titer . i .‘As head of the government for 25 ; ytars ‘naturally everyone feels that ’ J” judgment’ would ‘be ■ i- =';x"= H ’tni he government of Jersey y ■ .d it is only natural that every f one would seek my advice and seek . I -o — “ • I "i ured In E S Scaffold l •■Hike” Miller sustained a| ; Bh Xr injury and --al 0.. Tuesday When he ten - ribs luesuay . M in er was ■ i working on th w hen the 1 pCT n„i“h™»"“' " illg 10 "a ! h“ !. .M. » ». » ■ around.

Big Four After Conference at White House | -—- A f B.Fw> . gill ■ WBI I * B Garner, Bankhead, Barkley and Rayburn

Plans for cleaning up pending Dills and the railroad situation were discussed when the “big four” l Democratic leaders in congress conferred with the I president at the White House. They are, left to [right, Vice President John Garner, William Bank-

BANK REPORT i IS APPROVED — Final Distribution Made In Peoples Loan & Trust Liquidation I A final distribution of 4.5 per I cent of the amount in the hank I when the department of financial institutions took it over, is being ' made by Robert Cramer, special lagent in the liquidation of the Peoples Loan & Trust company.; following the approval of the final' report in the bank by Judge Huber | M. DeVoss in the Adams cu«mit court. This brings the total returned to depositors, based on the amount i | in the bank when it closed, to j I 79.75 per cent. The last distribution totals $7,703.91. Tlie final report showed that as of December 31, 1937. there were assets totaling, $26,820.04. Since that time the following money has been received: interest, $3.35; miscellaneous receipts, $.00.13; other receipts, $107.17, making a total of addition charges of $810.65. This made a total chargeable to the department of financial institutions. $27,630.69. Credits were claimed for losses determined and expenses incidental with the closing of the trust jat $19,926.78. These were divided ias follows: losses determined. $17,202.69; expenses of adminis- | tratlon, $505.66; special representa- ! tive allowance, $438.17; attorney’s fees allowed. $420; common claims (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) BUSGHE PLANS EUROPEAN TOUR E. VV. Busche Plans Extended Visit To Europe During Summer E. W. Busche of Monroe, presid-1 ent of the Central Beet Sugar growers asociation and prominent Adlams county farmer, will sail June | I 30 for Bremen, Germany for a two, to three months stay in the countiy of his birth. Accompanying Mr. Busche to New York will be Mrs. Bus 'he and their daughter, Miss Louise Busche. Miss Busche will enter Columbia, University, where she is taking the | third year work toward a masters, degree Miss Busche is a teacher in the Elkhart high school. Her mother will remain with her in New York during the six weeks term of school. The family will motor to the east. a Mr. Busche will sail on the b. S. Columbus of the German-Lloyd line He will land at Bremen. He will go , to Helpsen, Germany, near Hanovm c [where his three 'brothers add two I sisters live, and where he was born. I This is Mr. Busche’s third trip to Germany since he came to the United States'so years “go. l h trip is made in celebration of his 50th anniversary of his coming America. Mr. Busche intends to remain in Germany for two or three months and will visit many other iplaces of interest. |

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 15, 1938.

Barely Escapes Burning Up S2O The quick action of Dick Roon, local theater custodian, saved Roy Kalver, theater manager, $26 this week. Mr. Roop wae throwing papers and trash in the furnace when he noticed a flash of green. Hurriedly retrieving the papers, he found the money in small bills. Upon Mr. Kalver’s return from Indianapolis, he learned that the theater manager had lost the money supposedly on a downtown street. BIXLER HEADS DECATUR LIONS Dr. N. A. Bixler Is Elected President Os Lions Club Dr. N. A. Bixler, local optometrist, was elected president of the Decatur Lions club in the annual election of officers held Tuesday Slight at the Rice hotel. Dr. Bixler succeeds Walter J. Krick, city school superintendent,, who held the post during the past year. Ed Boknecht was named secretary of the club and George Rentz treasurer. Herman H. Krueckeberg. Glen Hill and D. Burdette; Custer were named first, second and third vice-presidents, respec-l tively. Roy Mumma and Ralph Gentis were the two new members elected to the board of directors, while; Phil Sauer was named Tail Twister and E. V. McCann, Lion Tamer. Committee appointments will be made by the new president at an early date. The new officials will assume office at the first July meeting, following installation I ceremonies. Rev. Barr Speaks The Rev. Alva Barr, of the I Pleasant Mills M. E.church was the I speaker at the meeting of the club. Mrs. Barr also presented several vocal numbers. “Faith” was the theme of the address. o Decatur 4-H Club To Meet Thursday The Decatur 4-H club will meet Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the Decatur high school auditorium, Miss Mildred Worthman announced today. All club members are urged to (be present. Left Eye Injured By Flying Cement Phil Sauer, local contractor and county commissioner, is recovering, from an injury sustained when a piece of cement flew into liis left eye. The injury although painful, is not thought to be serious. Fire Hydrants To Be Drained Tonight Fire hydrants in the soutli and | west part of town will be drained this evening. This is done to clear Hie water of rust settlings. Water patrons were asked to draw a pitcher of water for drinking purposes, I as the flushing of the hydrants riles | I the water for an hour or two.

head of Alabama, speaker of the house, Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, senate majority leader, and Sam Rayburn of Texas, house majority leader. • Adjournment of congress was contingent on their success in pushing through New Deal legislation.

OPPOSE MARTIN AS UNION HEAD Ousted UAWU Officials Seek To Oust Martin As President Detroit, June 15. t(LI.R)l —Five officials purged from the United Automobile Workers union by Homer Martin rallied today for a finish fight to oust the youthful president. They declared they stood for "establishment of a truly democratic union, not one controll-1 ed by the whims of a self-willed I and irresponsible dictator." | "We have fought for eradication . of all factionalism by honest and . concrete action,” the suspended of- j fleers said in a formal statement. I “Ou these issues we still stand and I are ready to rest our case with j 1 the ran and file. The issues are ' crystal clear.” There was little doubt that the five officials—Vice Presidents Richard T. Frankensteen, Ed Hall. Wyndham Mortimer, and Walter I Wells, and Secretary-Treasurer George Addes, would join with six friendly members of the international executive board in a campaign for a special convention of the union to remove Martin. Walter P. Reuther, a member of ! the executive board and president of the strong west side local, de- ! manded in a separate statement that “the absurd and illegal suspension of the five executive officers be rescinded and all the officers reinstated.’’ “I believe the war in the UAW (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DATES ARE SET FOR OBJECTIONS Board Os Review Sets Dates For Hearing Assessment Objections Dates for hearing objections and | complaints to assessments from | various assessing unit residents; were set today by the Adams county board of review. On Tuesday, June 21, the board will hear all complaints from the six northern townships, Root, Union, Preble, Kirkland, Washington and St. Mary’s. On Wednesday, June 22, the board will hear complaints from the six southern townships, Blue Creek, j Monroe, French, Hartford, Wabash and Jefferson. ■On Thursday, June 2'3, abjections will be heard from Geneva, Berne and Monroe. On Friday June 24, the board will listen to complaints from residents of Decatur. Persons having objections to raise before the board are urged to ' call at the county assessor’s office [only on the day set for hearings [from that unit. No objections will ['be heard otherwise. [ The board, composed of Assessor Ernest Worthman. Auditor John W. Tyndall, Treasurer Jeff Lieclity, Cal E Peterson and Ed Stahly, is expecting to have all review work j completed by the first objection j hearing date. |

CHINESE FLOOD WATERS AID IN FIGHTING JAPS 150,000 Persons Drowned As Flood Halts Jap Advance By Joe Alex Morris , (United Press Staff Correspondent I China fought with floods and I guns today along her two ancient i waterways the Yellow and the Yangtse rivers to turn back the Japanese invasion. The swirling brown waters of the Yellow river tumbled through broken dikes, submerged cities and towns, spread out over hundreds of miles of flat countryside and wiped out with one catastrophic sweep the battlelines for which Japanese had paid heavily in blood and money as they charged down from! the north toward Hankow. At a terrible cost, the great river known as China's so.'row had | become a military ally of the peo ] pie for whom it had been both a servant and scourge through the centuries. But its price was high. Possibly 150,000 persons have drowned and the flood are just beginning. Property destruction ’ dwarfed the ravages of many months of warfare. Where the water failed to reach the invading army, summer rains spread sticky mud around the Japanese mechanized army so that units which once speeded across the plains were reduced to impotence. Guerilla bands from the Chinese army harassed the invaders and other units clung to the defenses of towns still unflooded, including Kingshui and Chengchow. I To the south, the Chinese stiff ! ened their defense against the new Japanese naval, land and air offensive up the Yangtse toward Hankow. Generalissimo Chiang KaiShek declared martial law in the Hankow area, named new commanders and was expected to re(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) FLAG SERVICE HELDTUESMV Annual Flag Day Services Are Held At Elks Home Tuesday Inspiring Flag Day services were held Tuesday evening on the lawn of the B. P. O. Elks home on North Second street, with a large crowd m attendance. Rev. Ralph Waldo Graham, pas tor of the Methodist Episcopal church of Decatur, delivered an inspiring address on the "Meaning of the Flag." "We are not here to dedicate the. flag," Rev. Graham said, “but to consecrate our lives to the principles for which the flag siands. Among these principles, the speaker said, are freedom of learning, freedom of teaching, of speech, of assembly and of conscieuce. The challenge of the flag today, Rev. Graham asserted, is the call to consecration of our lives to the principles of democracy. In closing, Rev. Graham said, “a I democracy not supported by God- | loving men and women can not be I sustained.” Ritualistic ceremonies of the services were conducted by past exaulted rulers of the Decatur Elks lodge. These past exalted rulers taking part were: Herman L. Conter, H. J. Yager, A. L. Colchin, C. W. I Voglewede, F. T. Schurger, E. K I Adams and H. M. De Voss. The annual Flag Day services are sponsored jointly by the Elks lodge and Adams post number 43 of the American Legion. Music for the services was furnished by the. Decatur school band, under the direction of Albert Sellemeyer. The color guard of Adams ipost led the band in parade from the Legion home to the Elks preceding the services. T. J. Metzler was general chairman of the program. — Local Alumni To Attend Reunion Earl B. Adams, prominent Decatur attorney, left today for Ann Arbor, Mich., to attend the 40th 1 anniversary reunion of the 1898 graduating class of the University of Michigan, of which Mr. Adams was a member. The 1898 class holds reunions each five years and more than one-third of the members of the class are expected to attend. Dr. Roy Archbold, who graduated from the school of dentistry at U. of Michigan in the same year, will leave late in the week to attend | the reunion.

Lewis Demand For “Black List" Bill Is Flatly Refused

McCALL TAKES WITNESS STAND IN KIDNAP CASE Young Farmer To (Jive Testimony In (’ash Kid-nap-Killing Miami, Fla., June 15 — (UP) — 'Franklin Pierce McCall today will ; describe in circuit court the kidnaping of Jimmy Cash in an attempt to avoid the electric chair for the i abduction and death of the five- ] year-old boy. The defense announced plans to call the gangling, 91-year-old farm youth as a witness after Mr. and Mrs. James Bailey Cash testified on details of the kidnaping. McCall, who lias entered a plea of guilty to kidnaping charges, can hope only to ameliorate the sentence. Florida law prescribes a maximum penalty of death for kidnapers, but it is within the province of the trial judge to modify the sentence. The state’s case was completed in a little more than two hours. It was ‘built chiefly on testimony of [ E. J. Connelley, inpector forthe 1 ! federal bureau of investigation, and Mr. and Mrs. Cash. Circuit Judge H. F. Atkinson, who will determine McCall's fate, was notified by Jack Kehoe, courtappointed defense attorney, that McCall would testify. Atkinson recessed court until 2 p. m., when he will hear McCall's story. o Flags Are Placed In Circuit Court Room 11 A large American flag was placed | today on each wall panel beside the i judge’s bench in the Adams circuit I court room. The flags add greatly I to the appearance of the court room ' and aid in beautifying the room. Q — Court House Exterior Is Being Renovated 1 Workmen began today' in renovating the exterior of the county court I house. Two men were engaged in chalking the window ledges around '| the building. II ————Q Third Band Concert On Thursday Night I ) The third in a series of band . concerts will be ipresented Thursday night on Liberty Way under the . direction of Albert Sellemeyer, band . instructor. The concert is scheduled to start at 7:30 o’clock. o — G. A. R. PARADE HEADS MEETING ’I ■— , , - Annual Street Parade Highlights Kokomo Convention Today Kokomo, Ind.. June 15 (U.R) ' I All business was suspended here '! today in honor of the annual GA R. j street parade, a highlight of the ! ! 59th Indiana encampment of the J i Grand Army of the Republic. '; Twenty-six of the state's oldest ' warriors who fought to preserve ' the Union 75 years ago. tired and ' weary from two days of activities, '! will head the parade in a motor car I ■ procession which will be followed 1 by a brilliant display of Uncle . Sam's latest developments in mo- ■ bile artillery equipment. Others taking part in the parade will be columns of squads of Legionnaires, veterans of foreign wars, sons of veterans. Spanish war veterans, and hundreds of members of various auxiliary organizations. 'I Prominent visiting delegates who 1 will take their places in a review--1 Ing stand for the procession will 1 Include Dr. H. O. Mannett, national ’ commander; Brigadier General 1 William K. Naylor, commandant of ' Fort Benjamin Harrison; Dr. John > H. Stone, state department comI mander of the G. A. R, and Col. Walter H. Unversaw, grand mar- [ shall of the parade. ; More than 1.000 delegates attending auxiliary conventions hei ing held in conjunction with the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FLVBJt

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House Speaker Firmly Refuses Latest Move Os John L. Lewis On Legislation. MAY END TONIGHT Washington, June 15 — (U.R) — House Speaker William B Bankhead today blocked a last minute effort by John L. Lewis to obtain a house vote on a bill to establish a “black list" of government contractors who violate the Wagner labor relations act. Bankhead's statement came as Lewis’ 11th hour request and a filibuster in the senate complicated leadership plans for adjournment by midnight tonight. Two major adjournment barricades remain to be hurdled. These are a senate filibuster against the |375,000,000 flood control measure and disagreement over the $212,000,000 farm parity provision in the recovery bill. Sen. Richard B Russell, Jr., D„ Ga., conferred with President Roosevelt on the parity conflict and emerged from the White House saying that it would be impossible for congress to adjourn tonight unless leaders kept the houses in session all night. However. Senate Minority Leader i Charles L. McNary, R., Ore., an astute judge of congressional tem- ! per, forecast adjurnment by 8 p.m. tonight. Bankhead announced his flat refusal to cooperate in a plan urged by Lewis to bring up the controversial proopsed amendment to the Walsh-Healey government contracts act under supension of house rules. He declared he would not recognize any house members who sought the floor to move suspension of house rules to permit consideration of the measure demanded by Lewis Lewis advocated suspension of the rules as a means of bringing the bill to a house vote due to refusal of the house rules committee to give it righ -of-way to the floor. “It is not my purpose to recognize anyone for a motion to suspend the rules to bring up that mil,” Bankhead said, "and I so advised Mr. Lewis." Lewis, after seeing Bankhead, denounced the rules committee which bottled up the measure as “cowardly and pusillanimous" and threatened C. I. O. reprisals at the polls. ' Bankhead's announcement was made after conferring with Majority Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas. Bankhead's decision blocked all chances of action on the bill which Lewis has twice demanded. Protests against provisions of the flood control bill wrecked the program of leaders last night and kept the senate in session until 12:32 a m. EST. in angry debate. If that controversy can be adjusted, the third session of the 75th (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) . o- “ Road Workers Must Register For Work Men who want employment on the construction of U. S. road 27, south of Decatur to the Monroa turn, must register with the U. 8. Employment service, Enos Harvey, construction foreman for the Fairmount Construction company stated today. A number of men registered today at the city hall. TTia U. S. employment representative will be here again next Wednesday. Mr. Harvejr stated two crews would be employed on the job, working six hour shifts. The common labor waga scale is 50 cents an hour. About 35 men will be employed, Mr. Harvejr stated. Wonk on the road will begin earljr next week and the detour will be placed Monday. Traffic will be routed west of Decatur. o -— TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m lOAX.' a m........ .... 74 Noon .— *2 2:00 p. in 88 3:00 p. m - 9b WEATHER Occasional thundershowers probable tonight and Thursday, becoming fair in northwest portion Thursday; warmer in southeast portion tonight, cooler Thursday.