Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 143, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1938 — Page 1

kXVI. No. 143.

ME SEEKS ''Bthrowcase : ■III OF COURT “nth __ \ Counsel Opens T<> Throw Out tW Coal Case xv. <(J.R) T ’’hnw govcr ■,?.< lla ' h ‘" II < jury f' ,r ,H >- W , |, 11; .1> Ford listened to SKgN by ri'nl lawyers on the of the trial of 50 N .... . h.,< reputation of ..f lie- host corporation in th,, south, argued for I lie told the sie miec' had failed to ... pioniise of its openilia »■... ’li.it it would prove UJ . .. and Harlan S ||. • n . against unionism jrmi. .1 tile ■K, d about ill the in hull any impact on inter- < :!••-i and that, therep.. i:..v i iiment had transits jurisdiction. |K,..l |>.wson. chief defense fallowed Johnston in fm '-niliug the case now. ■K. .. ie links in the alleged he told the court. |^Kif th,- government has not ■e„| all 111 links, then tile it it fails to connect |K-.- ~ n.I with the eonspii Sflip that defendant must be ■I -oilay government counsel opportunity Io argil. |K. directed verdict of ac Sfl - government, resting its ha yesterday, saved its binfur tile last. It called : o .ii .ii youths on. was - . he asked to -a' |Hs: : ■ ty to the w itn.-ss drew from them a si ry one Ilf the defendants at ■ il ’a buy from them an alibi murder of the son of a- - assault .ig.o member. ■■ - o — -- - Bk Children To fl Meet Saturday children of the Christian’ Bilile school are asked to I Saturday afternoon at 1 ai ih. church for final prac|H| o fcATUR WOMAN ■lEs SUDDENLY H Bn Lesetta Liemenstoll ■ Dies Suddenly This ■ Morning jjflJN Lesetta Leimenstoll. 71. pro life long resident of Adams died suddenly this morning o'clock at her home on Third street. Death was a ’ri to a stoke of apopl'xy. Sim' tio-n ill for several weeks, but thought to be recovering. deceased was born at Magic) and Mary Fruchte-Kruetz- ■ a - Her husband, John, preceded death. She was a member of Zion Reformed church, of this and of the ladies’ aid and societies, are three children: fIF- Floyd Andrews, Mrs. Myron and Frank Leimens’.all, all city, and the following bro■frs ad sisters: John of Louisville, ■ntuc.ky; Fred of Chicago, Ernest fl 1 ' 1 August Kruetzmann, both of BJ a!;1, “'; Mrs. Ben Elzey of Van Ohio; Mrs. John Scherry, of Berne; Mrs. Caroline Arnold, Itliis city .Three children and one “ter are deceased. Fttueral services will be held 'CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ■ TEMPERATURE readings DEMOCRAT thermometer B: Ma.m.__66 2:00 p.m.--75 ' " : 00a,m.__69 3:00 p.m.-.76 •'°on 74 WEATHER Considerable cloudiness, with powers in extreme south porlon ' and somewhat cooler in ‘outhwest portion, tonight; SatUrda Y becoming fair and somewhat warmer.

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Widening Os Federal Road 27 Started Here Preparatory work to the widening I of federal road 27 between Decatur and Monroe has been begun. Far- ’ mers have started building second fences back of the 100-toot ilght-of-i way and the road proper has been I taken out. ; The filling station west of Moni roe is to be moved several roads further west to make room for the' right-of-way. Electric light poles for i the town of Monroe are also to the I moved. A large number of trees Including • i a long row at the Trout farm will 11 have to be removed in making way 1 11 the modern three-lane highway. YOUNG FLORIDA KIDNAP-KILLER 11 IN DEATH ROW : Convicted Kidnaper Os Jimmy Cash To State Prison Farm Raiford, Fla., June 17 —(UP) — Franklin Pierce McCall, 21-year-old minister’s son, was placed in “death row’’ at the state prison farm today to await his execution j for kidnaping Jimmy Cash at princeton. Fla., May 28. McCall, rushed to the prison farm from'Miami by sheriff D. C. Coleman. was placed in Cell No. 5 with I 14 other men sentenced to die in the j electric chair. He arrived at the prison approximately 24 hours after he heard the death penalty pro-| nounced yesterday in Miami. Superintendent L. F. Chapman of the prison farm talked for a few minutes with the condemned youth. •'He was very quiet,” Chapman said, “He seemed to realize the ser-1 iousness of his situation.” It required a/bout 15 minutes for, McCall to be “dressed in” as an inmate of the prison. McCall was not assigend a number. Chapman said that would not be done until after a death war-j rant has been signed by by Gov.: Fred P. Cone. Coleman said the transfer of the ; ' prisoner from Miami was very | quiet.” It was started in secrecy ‘ from Miami at 3:15 A. M. McCall talked about the kidnaping at intervals during the eeven-and-a-half hour auto trip from Mi-1 ami, Coleman said, but told his guards on the trip little that had not already been disclosed in his I confession and testimony. , j I Coleman was asked if McCall exhibited any hope that the move for communitation of his jleath sentence to life imprisonment started I by an attorney retained by his family would be successful. “He showed that he had some | j hope, but he didn’t believe it would be sufefssful,” Coleman said. o —■ j Herb Kern Condition Is Reported Improved The general condition ot Hei b Kern, local garage owner, who underwent an emergency operaUon at the Adams county memorial hos-1 pital late Thursday, was reported as improved today. Mr. Kern was I taken to the hospital with a rupI tured spleen. - farmer county RESIDENT DIES - Theodore W. JJ®ila n <l Dies Thursday ?*ight At Ft. Wayne Home Theodore W. Mailand, 52, a native of Adams county, die Thursday night at 7 oViock at * the , home of his sister, Mrs. L,sett Droege «n Fort Wayne. Death was attributed to coronary occlus-1 t io He was a life-long resident of northeastern Indiana, and a orm i er deacon ot the E"s Luther | u C 8 h Me h n’s a crub m and of the maj [he General Electric company th Sur C vi[ing are three brot^ e ". : Charies of Decatm SX-— the Concordia cemetery.

ASSERTS NAZIS ARE LIABLE FOR AUSTRIAN DEBTS Secretary Hull Rejects Suggestion Germany Is Not Liable Washington, June 17—(UP)—Secretary of state Cordell Hull revealed today that the United States’ has rejected Germany’s suggestion that the Reich is not liable under international laws for the foreign debt of the former Austrian gov-1 ■ ernment. Hull made public a former note ’ delivered to the German foreign . .office by American ambassador Hugh R. Wilson on June 9th. It re- ■ iterated the American contention I that Germany, when it absorbed the , I former Austrian republic, assumed at the same time responsibility fori Austria’s depts and other liabilities, j Austrian obligations to the Unit-, I ed States at the time ot the Nazi i drive approximated $50,000,000. Os : this total $24,055,708 represented a post war debt for food supplies made in 1920. The residue repreI sents private loans, bonds and obligations to Austria. The note called attention to Germany’s failure to make the monthI ly payments due on June 1 on the Austrian loan, and expressed “the I hope that Germany may yet under- , take the (payments incumbent on it both under international law and ' under equity.” Hull’s action in making public the text of the note reveals that ] this government had challenged the position of the German government before it was enunciated publicly •by Walther Funk, German minister of finance, in a speech earlier this i week. o Report Equipment Damaged By Boys Damage to the equipment in the men’s toilet room in the basement iof the court house was done by several boys about 6 o’clock last • evening. William ‘Tlhina” Schu-1 macher, custodian, reported today, j One of the steel doors on a locker was torn from its hinges. A man | watt in the toilet room at the time and a clue has been obtained as to who the boys were. They are requested to get in touch with Mr. i Schumacher immediately, v as the boy who reports will not be prosecuted. —o CHOIR TO GIVE CONCERT HERE Program Listed For W alther League Choir Concert At Church The complete program for the I sacred concert to be given at the Zion Lutheran church Sunday eve- ’ ning at 7:30 o’clock by the Walther League choir was announced toi da TThe quartet, which will sing in the concert, was recently named the winner of the Indiana district I talent quest contest. The general i public is invited to attend. The program follows: ' prelude—Now Thank We All Our God Crueger Helene Koeneman I Lead Me, Lord W ® S . le , y i o Lamb of God, I Comeßlair Choir ! Fairest Lord Jesus Brackett Flora Marie Lankenau Organ sold—Calvary Rodney Darwin Leitz How Lovely Are Thy i Dwellings ; nes The Lord Is My LightAllitsen Karl Krudop Offertory-My Jesus, I i Thee Offertory Sentence ,- Fofrntm Helene Koeneman and Choir I Grant Me True Courage, I Lord j Jesus, The Very Thought of Thee Quartet Show Me The Way -■Tourjee . (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Local Man’s Father Is Critically IH Dr Ray Stingely received word today that his father, Jacob is critically Hl at hls home near Roches ,’ ter. The elder Stingely is thought ’o be suffering from .pneumonia. Dr. and Mrs. Stingely left immediately to be at his bedside.

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Decatur, Indiana, Fr iday, June 17, 1938.

- ' —«r F — — ’ > - — Accused in Foster-Son’s Death -A.iti*-- !■’ IM K—(S** L a .Ja flfl fs fli Francis Black Marion Black Accused in the death of their foster son, Marvin Neblltt, who plunged | to his death over a 500-foot cliff while on a picnic near Alpine, Texas, Francis Black and his wife Marion, shown above, were held by police lat Alpine. Authorities investigated and found that a $5,000 insurance policy had been taken out on the boy shortly after he was obtained from a San Antonio orphan home two months ago.

MAY NOT HOLD EXTRA SESSION Gov. Townsend May Not Call Extra Session Os Assembly Indianapolis, June 17—(U.R) — A special legislative committee conferred for an hour today with Dick Heller, executive secretary to Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, and failed to decide either the date for a special session of the legislature or whether there would be one called. Indianapolis, Ind., June 17 —(UP) 1 —Gov. M. Clifford Townsend said I today that he may not summon the I Indiana legislature into special session to appropriate funds for an SBAiO,OOO state .building program. He explained that time necessary ■ for drawing .plans for the projects Land obtaining federal PWA funds I might preclude starting the program late this summer or early in | the fall, as has been proposed. “'lf ! find we cannot start the construction work within a short time ' after the money is appropriated there will be no reason for a special session as the matter can be taken care of at the regular session ini January,” Townsend said. The governor has been planning for several weeks to summon the law makers, probably, late next month, to appropriate $4,400,004) in state funds. An additional $3,600,- ' 000 would be obtained from the, PWA for construction of a new • state office building, a new tuberculosis sanatorium and additions to the various state hosipitals and the state fairgrounds. Townsend said he has been informed that 60 or 94) days would be required to draw up plans and specifications after the money had been appropriated and projects approved by PWA officials. Thus far only preliminary plans have been worked out. Expense of drawing up (plans and specifications ; could not be Borne until the funds (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) | o DISTRICT MEET HERE SATURDAY Local Moose Lodge To Be Host To District Meet Saturday Possibly more tha 250 persons are expected to be in the city Saturday night to attend the disrict meeting I of the Loyal Order of Moose, sponsored by local Adams lodge, 1311. Charles Heare, secretary of the local order, stated today that attendance records for district meetings of the lodge are expected to be broken during the meeting. Sixteen lodges in the northern indiaa district are expected to send delegates and visitors to the conI vention. Although no speaking program has been arranged, officials of the visiting orders will make short, . impromptu addresses. . A luncheon and entertainment j will complete the activities of the ( convention. The meeting proper will , open at 8 p. m. Saturday evening, but many are expected to arrive in ■ the afternoon to join in social acti- • vities. Officers of Adams lodge will i act as the reception committee for i the visiting delegations. I ! >

i Rotary Club Meets In Brief Session The Decatur Rotary club, meeting in weekly session Thursday evening, held a brief, informal session. J. Ward Calland, chairman of the ladies’ night committee, outlined the program for lad-1 les night, which will be held at the Decatur Country club next Thursday, June 23, at 6:30 p. m. Ernest W. Busche. who will leave late this month for a visit to his birthplace in Germany, told of his experiences when he first came to this country. Clarence Bell presided at the meeting in the absence of Walter Gard, president, who left Thursday for San Francisco, where he will attend the Rotary International convention. o CHURCH PLANS CHILDREN DAY Children’s Day Program At Christian Church Sunday The Childrens' Day program will [be held at the Christian church Sunday morning at 9:30 o’clock. The public is cordially invited to ' attend. Following is the program: Song “The Best Day of the Year" —Junior class. Prayer—J. E. Anderson. Recitation “A Welcome” — Nancy Callow. “Little Boy Blue” —Dick Callow I “A Pretty Suit”—Billy Callow ' Song “Raindrops”—Primary class. "Why I Brought the Dollies" Joan Lichtensteiger. “A Child's Service”- Billy Hutker, Sammy Bogner, Sheldon Daniels, Roy Guenin and Everett Hutker. “My Little Word"— Jimmy Callow Piano solos "Lullaby” and ' Fairy s • Dance”—Dick King. “The New Umbrella" — Phyllis Kraft “The Joy of Summer” — Doris Richards I Song "Little Sunbeams" — Junior class “His Best Prayer"—Junior class I 'Betty Didn't Laugh” Jean Hutker Piano solo “Robin’s Lullaby" Jerry Lichtensteiger. "The Lesson” —Avonelle Kraft "The Three Irises" —Patricia Ann Peake. Offering. Playlet "It's Worth While”—Flora Belle Kohls, Virginia Hutker and Herman Guenin. Song by congregation. oPriests Will Attend Notre Dame Retreat Rev. Father Joseph Seimetz, I pastor and Rev. Father Alvin, as- . sistant pastor of St. Mary's Cath- , olic church, will leave Sunday for Notre Dame university, where they will attend the annual spiritual re- j treat for the clergy. The retreat , ends Wednesday afternoon and the ; two priests will return home that evening. 1 _ o — ( McCormick-Deering Dealers Meet Here Approximately 60 dealers and ' representatives of the sales and 1 service division of McCormickDeering Harvester company attend- 1 ed a meeting at the local McCor-mick-Deering store last night. < The meeting was in charge of ' W. W. Black, of Fort Wayne, ser- i vice manager and Charlqs Flickinger, his assistant. Following the < meeting, the men lunched at t a local restaurant. . i

75th Congress Is Adjourned After Appropriating Immense Sums To Speed Recovery Plan

GERMAN NAZIS OPEN RENEWED DRIVE ON JEWS Hundreds Os Arrests, Desecration Os Jewish Shops Reported By Joe Alex Morris (United Press Staff Correspondent) Sudden renewal of Nazi efforts to drive Jews from German national life today emphasized the diminution of threats of an early European war. Hundreds of arrents. acts of violence and mob desecration of Jewish shops indicated that Nazis bad opened a major campaign against German Jews. Significance of the action lay in the fact that whereas earlier Nazi efforts were directed at elimination of Jewish cultural influence, the present action is intended to remove Jews from every phase of business activity. Since Fuehrer Adolf Hitler came ! to power in the Reich, his efficient propaganda machine has kept Nazi enthusiasm and energy boiling by constantly directing it against some officially - designated foe. Thus German Jews were the first to suffer under the Nazi regime until Hitler's domestic position was consolidated and the propaganda shifted to foreign interests. Militarization of Ihe Rhineland, revival of German armed forces and seizure of Austria kept press and public opinion occupied until this spring when the Czechoslovakian crisis brought Hitler to within pistol-shot of a showdown w’itli Europe’s democracies. The i result, if not a stalemate, at least | was no triumph for the Nazis. I Firm action of the Czechs, clear warnings from Britain and France and Italy's aloof attitude ended one | phase of German foreign expansion. It clarified the European alignment. It indicated where strength and the weakness lay. Most of all. it created the need for time to permit a shake-down of Europe’s reformed lines. These factors are behind the general diplomatic relaxation that followed the Czechoslovakian elections and the opening of negotiations at Prague for settlement of the minority problem which Nazis sought to use as the basis for bringing the Czechs into Berlin's orbit. Until these negotiations progress, the improved outlook may be expected to continue and Hitler may concentrate his efforts on domestic policy. At the same time, the main points of European friction remain unsolved and capable of creating a new international crisis whenever circumstances appear to favor ambitions of the dictatorial bloc. One factor that might recreate a crisis at any time was the Spanish civil war which the Nazi and Fascist supported rebels appeared to be trying to bring to a speedy (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) NEW FRONT IS NEARLY DONE New Fronts On Monroe Street Rapidly Nearing Completion One ot the most colorful and attractive of the recent new store | fronts being installed on downtown Decatur business houses is nearing completion on West Monroe street. A crew of workmen is making the final steps in installing new glass .fronts on the Citizens Telephone company and the Wertzberger Confectionery buildings. Partial installation of the glass reveals that the background will Ibe in black and the lined decorations are bronze in .color. White metal trimmings complete the front decorations. The renovating of the store fronts also includes the redecoration of the stairway entrance to the second floor of the building. Display windows in the confectionery are of the rectangular style, while those in the telephone office are (panelled. Renovating of the double front is considered an added beautification to Monroe street business houses as a whole.

REDUCED RATES I CUT EARNINGS i City Light Department Shows Reduction In Earned Income The lower light and power rates of the city light and power plant for electricity were reflected in the reduced earnings of the department for April and Muy. according to a report made today to Mayor A. R Holthouse. The reduced rates, affecting every user in Decatur and giving patrons one of the lowest light rates in the middle-west, became effective in April and applied on all bills from March 20. — For the five month period, January to June 1, 1938, the profit in the department is $24,382.49, compared to $27,802.50 for the same ' five month period in 1937. The showing is satisfactory as 1 city officials anticipated that the ’ lower rates, estimated to reflect 1 savings of approximately $15,000 a year to patrons, would reduce net earnings. The April profit was less than that shown in May, due ' to the fact that boiler and stoker expense, a car load ot salt and repairs to the buildings were 1 charged in that month. Production at the city plant is 1 keeping up above last year’s record. The Central Soya company is using the largest amount of current. The power load of this indus- ■ try was placed on the switchboard 1 last September and for that reason 1 this business was not contained in ’ the five months report tor 1937. The production for the five ' months is 5,782,800 KWH’s, com--1 pared to 4,226.600 a year ago. Os this amount, the commercial and 1 industrial power users consumed ■ 3.731.215. or about 65 percent of the total. City officials look for a fairly ' good year, recognizing ot course ' that the net earnings will be less 1 than a year ago, due to the reduced rates in effect. The light ■ rates were reduced from five cents to four cents per KWH for the 100 KWH. DEATH CLAIMS HERMAN ULEMAN Well Known Decatur Man Dies This Morning At Hospital 1 Herman S. Uleman, 42. an assist 1 ant county highway superintendent • and a World War veteran, died at ’ 8:30 o'clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital of pulmonary embolism and contpli- ' cations, following an emergency 1 operation for appendicitis Saturday night. ' He had been in a critical condition for the last two or three days. Mr. Uleman was a native of Bryant, born there August 26. 1895. the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Uleman, botli of whom are deceased. He had lived in this community for 26 years. He was prominent in several organizations, was a member of the 1 St. Mary's Catholic church and belonged to the Adams post No. 43 . of the American Legion, the L. O. O. Moose and the Holy Name society. Surviving are the widow, Frances Uleman. two children, Leona and Dorthy, at home; two brothers, , Noah, ot Toledo, Ohio; Edward of Bryant; seven sisters, Mrs. Joseph Spangler and Mrs. Charles Schirack, of Toledo, Ohio; Mrs. Peter Loshe, Mrs. Herman Meyers and Mrs. L. A. Ray. of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Sylvester Remaklus of Bristol!, Oklahoma and Celesta, at ""(CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o Spiritual Retreat Closed Here Today The annual spiritual retreat for the Sisters of St. Agnes which has been in progress at St. Mary’s Catholic church this week will ' close today. A number of Sisters from near-by parishes attended. ' The Rev. Basil Ruess, a Norbertine priest from Wisconsin, has been conducting the services. The Sisters of St. Agnes from the local home also made the retreat. Several of the Decatur Sisters are planning to enter school in the colleges next week.

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1 Appropriations During Last Session Set New Peace Time Record As Congress Closes. HUGE DEFICIT Washington, June 17. <U.R> The 75th congress, swept to office with the 1936 Roosevelt whirlwind, dispersed to the campaign wars today after having appropriated $21,000,000,000 during time out from bruising battles which split the new deal-Demoeratic party wide open. Congress adjourned last night since die am<d scattering warnings that national emergency might require a spe . .1 session in the autumn. Rail-! id problems were high on the list of potentially urgent recess problems. Final business of congress was to appropriate $3,752,000,000 to spend against depression and vote a $290,000,000 deficiency bill. Since Jan. 3, when this final session convened, congress has appropriated $12.ooo,(>o0.o00 —a peace time record — although President Roosevelt’s last estimate of probable revenue in the coming fiscal year was only $6,000,000,000. The prospect is for a tremendous treasury deficit in the next twelve months. This congress, born in a flood tide of returning recovery, died in a depression ebb. It was generous to farmers to the last. The recovery appropriation included $212,000,000 for subsidies to cotton, corn, rice, wheat and tobacco farmers, voted over Mr. Roosevelt’s protest against unbudgeted expenditures. In its final day congress bounched back at White House a veto message in which Mr. Roosevelt sought to prevent extension of low interest privileges to farm borrowers at a cost ot $48,000,000 annually. But congress snapped an abrupt “no" to the final demand of labor, uttered by chairman John L. Lewis of the committee for industrial organization. Lewis demanded enactment of new labor standards legislation involving a government blacklist. Democratic house leaders refused to bring the Lewis bill to a vote. The senate quit last night at 8:22 p. in. EST, cutting off filibuster dispute over new appropriations for the lobby investigation. The I house followed at 9:10 p. m. Vice President John N. Garner skipped early aboard a 6:45 p. in., train for Uvale. Tex. Mr. Roosevelt and ills party left at 9:15 p in., for Massachusetts to attend the wedding of his youngest son, John, to Anne Lindsay Clark, of Boston. The calm of summer fell on this political cockpit. But the battles continue on a hundred election fronts. Garner .and a group of old line Democrats are judged now to be out of sympathy with some of Mr. Roosevelts major aims and specially with continued big spending accompanied by huge treasury dtfieils. Mr. Roosevelt himself, (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) o FT. WAYNE MAN PLEADS GUILTY Sylvester Beard Is Fined And Driver’s License Suspended Sylvester Beard, 38, of For? Wayne, changed his mind this afternoon and plead guilty to a charge of drunen driving before Judge Huber M. DeVoss In the Adams circuit court. When arraigned thisl morning he plead not guilty. He told Judge DeVoss he had had only one drink of whiskey and 12 aspirin; tablets. Judge DeVoss fined him sls anti costs and suspended his driver’s license for six months. Beard was arrested Thursday by Deputy Sheriff Leo Giilig at tho time he was discharged from the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient suffering from a fractured arm in an' automobile accident north of Decatur. May 31. W. M. Sitcwart, of Fort Wayne, who signed the affidavit, charged that on that date Beard, under the Influence of intoxicating liuors, crashed his automobile into Ihe one In which Stewart was rid(CUNTINUED UN PAGE bIX).