Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 22 June 1938 — Page 1

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&> PRIMING ME STARTS ■fIER SIGNING Leaders Opc Multi-Billion Dollar ■ Recovery Drive ■ , ig ton. June 22- 'UP) K, public works administraS today opened the New W' sp ending-recovery drive °’ * 50 ' 653 ' 715 ,n and grants for 291 proa total value of $92.B"n\v.iyne- Ind., received a grant toward a $5,|Kgd sewerage improvement M,,. up) i " ’lislratinii n „ rl p billion dollar pump K against depression 'linn 24 hours after Roosevelt signed I lie bill. |M^ age ,ny has had a major program ready for ami later today will @K", |o'- public construction fj.uiHi.mio.oOO program. of this week. PWA i K s "ill have announced ap of L’.i'i'O projects costing ■ iioii.*nio. All were ap|H ... •!... president during tile M.' ,>,<■;■.< - debated the 1... Ki: |M t - including huge approK. the unemployed works progress adand PWA, and for through price parity pay and the farm security ailhad hardly been by Mr. Roosevelt, when |Kc'..,:.-e that business was betHi:..... most people believe and K<, |( that it would improve. with alinoiniie his imine tn Hyde Park, that he had signed the bill, said that he would a fireside chat from Friday night. The SHwill be gsieral, he said, but assumed that he will ex ainls , ls the recovery pro give a general review ot economic conditions. Roosevelt prefaced his an by reaching figuri s ■ he said, revealed that estiof national income for the months of 1938 pointed ■ 12-month total in excess of ■h" <l.Ol 111 111, compared with Kvii.iiiiiiii for 1937. He cited this as a definite improvement that had been anticipated for ■-approximately $55."' ■parting from the traditional House rule, he allowed corOX' PAGE Fl VE) ■rack Funeral 1 Rites Thursday services for Mrs. Charles ■ack. of Toledo. Ohio, who died ■hr at te home of a brother. ■ i. in Bryant, will be held ■■day instead of Wednesday, ■ported previously. will be held at the T in ■Catholic church of Bryant at ■dock Thursday morning. Burial ■ade In the church cemetery. ( MUN KILLER'S UNITY TESTED *0 Experts To Test Sanity Os Killer Os Mother-In-Law nth Bend, Ind., June 22 —(UP) »o psychiarlsts today prepared uaniine Mrs. Roberta Watters, far-old nurse, to determine ifher she wan temporarily in•at the time she shot, and killed ' n >otlier-in-law last April. 5 Morris Balia and Dr. Robert atnian were appointed by circuit **“ Dan Pyle to conduct the exInation. Their report, to be intro!e*l after other evidence is comwill be final. Watters is pleading temporB lnsanity to charges of murder ts Martha Watters, her 63-year Mother-in-law. The shooting oc,eh after the younger Mrs. Wat- • thought her mother-in-law J attempting to keep her tw dfen from her. They had gone K® older lady's home for a visit. '"Ion that the young woman 14 Insane at the time of the shoot * w as expressed by Dr. Paul E. of South Bend, a defense wit- - (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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David Coffee Rites Thursday Morning Funeral services will :be held at the St. Mary's Catholic church in this city at 9 o'clock Thursday morning for David D. Coffee, former mayor of Decatur, who died .early Tuesday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. Burial will be made in the Catholic cemetery. F. D. R. NAMES COMMITTEE ON LABOR STUDIES Committee Appointed To Study British, Swedish Conditions Hyde Park. N. Y., June 22 —(U.P) i — President Roosevelt today an-. 1 nounced appointment of a special I ' committee, composed of labor, industrial and educational experts. I ■ to study the workings of the 111 itI ish labor disputes law and Swedish ! I labor relations. The group is composed of Lloyd ' K. Garrison, dean of the Unlver- ‘ sity •of Wisconsin law school: | I Robert Watt, American federation I of labor representative; Gerard I Swope, president of the General ■ Electric company; Henry I. Harri-' man. former president of the chamber of commerce of the United States; William H. Davis, chair-j | man of the New. York labor mediation board; Mrs. Anna M. Rosen-! • berg, regional director of social ; security for New York: Charles R. | Hook, president of the American < Rolling Mills company: Miss Marion Dickerman. principal of Tod i Hunter school, New York; William' | Ellison Chalmers, assistant Anieri- i can labor commissioner in Geneva, j Most of the committee members | already are in Europe and they will begin their work soon. The president wrote to each j member of the group: “It is with great pleasure that I have learned that you have ac-< ' cepted the invitation of the secre-' i tary of labor to co-operate in the i preparation of a report on indnsi trial relations in Great Britain. "In view of the many comments I I I(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) RECESS SOUGHT IN CONVENTION G. 0. P. State Committee Meets Today To Plan Convention Indianapolis, June 22 — (U.P.) The Republican state central committee was to meet here this afternoon to make final arrangements ! for the biennial nominating con vention next Tuesday and Wednes-' i day. While the committee was pass-1 ling on routine matters, the five, i candidates for the 0. 0. P. United States senatorial nomination were launching their final drive to obtain delegates pledged to then . I cause. . . . Fourth county — Starke — joined I Porter. Allen and Tippecanoe coun- ; ties in approving a petition urging ' the delegates to recess the convention until after the Democrats have met July 11 and 12 and nominated I ! their candidates and adopted a ; platform. The recess petitions will be considered by the state committee al-, ■ though that body has not powei to act upon them. Delegationsurging 1 the convention to recess are advo-, eating that the Republican par y < either nominate Democratic > Frederick Van Nuys or endorse his ' independent candidacy by failing to . ' nominate a candidate. I Van Nuys has been ousted from; the Democratic party for opposing I new deal measures and Lieut Gov I Henry F. Schricker is scheduled to i receive the Democratic nomination. I The four counties urging » receßS have a total strength of 1.0 deleSa other matters to come before the state committee include determining the amount of contributions to be paid by various candidates to, JcoNTTNUED ON PAGE MX) BULLETIN Flushing. Mich., June 22.— upv-Three bandits raided the First State and Savings Bank “X k .'.»» hurried “ not pick up other money lying on the counter.

Majority of Bomb Victims Women and Children ISTkg'KnMk* ax. ffakilo * B K '■EL 7 - -' . ■ rView of Granollers after air raids

More than 85 per cent of the 200 victims who died when Spanish insurgent planes bombed the town I I ~~i~ ‘———

FLASHER LIGHT WORK DELAYED Erection Os Signal Flasher Lights Is Reported Delayed The erection of signal flasher lights at the Monroe, Jefferson and Madison street crossings of the Pennsylvania railroad tracks in 1 this city will be delayed several weeks, pending approval by railroad officials of revised plans and ■ specifications, it was reported at i the regular meeting of the city council Tuesday night. ! The lights were ordered installed . at the crossings by the city council in order that 24-hour protection might be given motorists. The railroad reported that the I anticipated cost would now amount ■ to about $21,000. A resolution calling for the reduction of rural light rates was approved by the council. At a special meeting of the council recently, the rate for the first 200 KWH was | cut from six cents a KWH to five | i cents a KWH. Tuesday night the ■ council reduced the rate for the second KWH from five cents a; I KWH to 4>/ 2 cents a KWH. This; 'will be subject to the approval of the Indiana public service commission and will be effective imraed- | iately. No objections were filed to the ' proposed construction of the Acker ■ sewer in the north part of the city. D. W. McMillen and Sam Acker | appeared before the council asking that the construction be rushed as 1 fast as possible. Easements have ' been given by most of the property owners. The council then adoptj ed a resolution calling for the construction of the sewer with mater(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) I — -o BAND CONCERT HERETHURSDAY Decatur Girls’ Band To Present Weekly Concert Thursday The complete program for the j [weekly band concert to be given! Thursday night at the ramp on the south side of the county court house, was announced today by directr Albert Sellemeyer. The Decatur girls band will pie | Re nt the concert this week, beginX at 7:30 o'clock. The pro-1 gram follows: March—Our Director-Bige ow. Triumphal March From AldaGypsiana Themes From Hungary j —Yorder. March-Iron Clad—Huff• | Moonbeams—Serenade— Hun. Honolulu March. Kllima Waltz - Saxaphone-Ac-cordion Sepette. March-Old Salt-Htldreth. _ Overture — Rippling Ruby Sl Andante from Surprise Sym-, ’’'March—X Hippodrome—Huff. Star Spangled Banner.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, .lune 22, 1938.

Andrews Infant Is Buried Here Today Funeral services for David Gerald Andrews, infant eon of Mr. and Mrs. Noel Andrews of this city, were held this afternoon at the home of the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Andrews on Ninth street. The baiby, born Tuesday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. died this morning at 4 o’clock. Surviving, besides the parents, Noel and Frances Smith-Andrews, are the parental and maternal grandparents. The Rev. C. J. Miner officiated at the services and burial was made in the Decatur cemetery. j DRUNK-O-METER USE EXPLAINED State Police Officers Give Demonstration To Lions Club A practical demonstration of the “drunk-o-meter,” an apparatus used by the state police department to determine whether or not an appre- [ bended person is under the influence of intoxicating liquor was effectively presented to the Decatur Lions club in the weekly meeting at | the Rice hotel last night. Frank Jessup, of Indianapolis, member of the Indiana state police department, and State Patrolman Truman Bierie of Bluffton, conducted the demonstration. A member of the club was subjected to the test. The drunk-o-meter is far superior to any other type of similar equipment, the officers stated, since it [ discloses the exact amount of alcohol which a subject has consumed, i All persons whose test discloses more than 1.5 ounces of alcohol per I I,ooo' ounces of blood in considered to be impaired in action and judgment and is arrested. The accuracy of the machine establishes drunkenness without a doubt, the officers stated, and removes any possibility of charging or convicting an innocent person. Ether and alcohol are the only things which will discolor the baloon used in the test, they stated. The test, which is made invariab- [ iy with the consent of the subject, is now recognized in court, they [stated. The drunk-o-meter test is (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 — Launch Campaign For “Hoosier Sentinel Edwin 11. Kaufman, president of the Adams county young Demo-1 ri-atic club, stated today that a drive is in progress to circulate the organization newspaper among the club members. A special price of 50 cents sot ■ live months' subscription to the “Hoosier Sentinel” has been made, Mr. Kaufman stated, and al! local members are urged to take advantage of the reduced rates. The drive to put the paper into ; the hands of each club member ' ends July 1, and club officials are ■ [ especially anxious to get subscription lists in early, he states. I I

|>f Granollers were women and children. This strikng photo is indication of the devastation resulting.

BENSON LEADS IN MINNESOTA Gov. Benson Leads By More Than 6.000 Votes In Primary Minneapolis, Minn., June 22 — (U.FO -Gov. Elmer A. Benson ran up a lead of more than 6.000 votes today in the spectacular gubernatorial contest of Minnesota's Far-mer-Labor party. With less than 600 small and . scattered precincts of the state's total of 3.739 remaining to be I counted, it appeared certain that he had defeated Hjalmar Petersen of Askov, himself a former governor, for the nomination. The totals, from 3.153 precincts, as tabulated unofficially by the I United Press, were: Benson. 185,838. Petersen, 179,264. Benson's majority, 6,574. In order for Petersen to overcome the governor’s lead in the remaining count, it would be necessary for him to poll a majority of more than 11 votes in each uncounted precinct. The mathematic possibility that he might do so was admitted, but not even the strongest Petersen supporter saw any actual hope of ■ such a thing. The Benson margin was expected to be increased even more, if anything. since a large block of votes in St. Louis county, labor stronghold. was still to be reported In that county the governor has run more than two to one ahead of Petersen. Lehman Seeks Seat New York, June 22 —-(U.R) —Gov. Herbert H. Lehman's announce(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) NO IMMEDIATE BREAK IN HEAT Predict No Immediate Relief In Season’s First Heat Wave No immediate relief in the season's first heat wave was expected today, as weather men forecast continued warm weather until Thurs- [ day, when a (possibility of thundershowers is seen. The highest temperature of the ! season was recorded here Tuesday afternoon when the Democrat ther- [ mometer registered '97 degrees above in the sun. [ This morning at 8 o’clock a season record for that hour was broken when the thermometer recorded 80 degrees above In the shade. [ Light "summer” clothing was | prevalent among downtown workers, electric office fans were put into action and other methods were huriedly employed in an effort to “beat the heat." Last night, local residents sought to cool off with an auto ride or a swim, while many sat on front porches until a late hour. Yesterday’s record mark was the | highest since May 3. «.

COMMITTEE ON RECREATION IS ORGANIZED HERE Permanent Organization of Recreation Committee Announced Permanent organization ot the executive committee of the Decatur | and Adams county recreation pro-, gram was announced today by. Walter J. Krick, superintendent of the Decatur public schools, and! chairman of the committee. Mr. Krick Is permanent chair-1 man. appointed several weeks ago 1 by A. R. Holthouse, mayor of Decatur. Other members of the executive committee tire E. W. Lankenau, Rev. Father Alvin, Deane Dorwin. Pete Reynolds. Mrs. Delton Pass- . water and Mrs. Marion Feasel. Mr. Reynolds, city editor of the , •Decatur Daily Democrat, has been i named executive secretary. Rev.' ! Father Alvin, assistant pastor ofj i the St. Mary's Catholic church, has . been named treasurer and chairman . I of the finance committee; Mr. Dorwin, high school teacher, is chair-1 ; man of the committee on activities and equipment. Mrs. Passwater is, ' chairman of the committee on pro-1 gram planning. Mr. Lankenau. | ; superintendent of the Decatur G.E. plqnt. is chairman of the commit- , tee on housing. Mrs. Feasel is a member of the activities and equipment committee. I Members of the recreation advisory council named to serve on the various committees are as I follows: Finance—Rev. Alvin, M. J. Myiott. Mary Martha Voglewede and John L. DeVoss. . I Activities and equipment —I ! Deane Dorwin. Sylvester Everhart, j i Mrs. Marion Feasel. Planning — Mrs. Delton Pass- i ' water, George Thomas and Lowell i 1 Smith. i • Housing—E. W. Lankenau. A. R. | i! Holthouse, Carl Pumphrey and • Walter Gard. -' Members of the executive com-! I nilttee are asked to.meet at the' I j office 8f Walter J. Krick in thej t high school building next Wednes-, ■ day evening. June 29. at 7:.'ll) p. m. ' for an hour's meeting. , __o— SCHOOL FACULTY MEMBERS NAMED Teachers For Decatur Public Schools Are Announced Today r ' The teachers in the Decatur pub- | lie schools for the 1938-39 term ' ! have 'been selected by the Decatur 1 school board and were announced J- today by superintendent of tchools Walter J. Krick. I! The classes, which the teachers . i wil Iconduct have not yet been de- ; ■ termined. The names of the teachers are: ij North Ward: John R. Parrish, i principal; Elizabeth Peterson, Della f • Sellemeyer and Florence H.niey. South Ward: Eva Acker, princi-i : pal; Effie Patton, Gladys Chamber- • i lain and Matilda Sellemeyer. ■! Riley building; Nell Winnes, prin-1 iclpal; Mrs. Mary Myers, Bertha.J I Bunner and Electa Oliver. ! Central building: Bryce Thomas, [principal; Grace Coffee, 'Harry i Smith, Margaret Moran, Edward Ja-l berg and Sylvester Everhart. 1 High school: W. Guy Brown, prin-, cipal; Siguard Anderson, Vaughn Millikan, Deane Dorwin, Elizabeth Frisinger, Eloise Lewton, Harold . Mumma, Amos Ketchum, Helen Hawbold, Kathryn Kauffman, Eleanor Pumphrey, Hugh Andrews, Mildred Wortliman, A. A. Adams and Albert Sellemeyer. Mrs. Angie Macy is to be the 1 clerk. 0 Becomes 11l In Lar, Is Taken To Hospital J Fred M. Ixtwum, of Parkridge. 111. . inois. was taken to the Adams eounj ty memorial hospital last night by Sheriff Dallas Brown when he sud- ] deuly became 111 in his car down- . town. He was released this morning i after treatment. — o— — , Convicted Man Is Taken To Prison t i Frank Waterfall, who was con- > victed of public intoxication in city court Monday was taken to the t penal farm at Putnamvllle today to i start serving a 30-day sentence. Sheriff Dallas Brown took Waterfall to the farm. The sheriff’s ■ daughter, Betty, and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Breiner accompanied hint.

West, North Ward School Buildings To Be Razed Soon

ACCUSED SPIES DENY GUILT IN FEDERAL COURT Four Indicted In German Espionage Ring Plead Not Guilty New York, June 22—(UP) —Four accused epies, Indicted by the federal grand jury as membert of a German espionage ring that obtaini ed United States military secrets, ! pleaded not guilty in federal court ' today and were continued in bail I of $25,000 each. Federal judge Vincent Liebell Issued bench warrants for the 14 oth--1 ers named In the indictment, which i charged members of the German i government with actively directing i spies in this country. Issuance of the warrants was only a gesture, for 13 or those indicted apparently are in Germany and safe from extradition, and the other, Mrs. Jessie Wallace Jordan, is serving a sentence as a spy in Britain. Trial date was set for August 1. Those who pleaded were: Guenther Gustave Rumrich. 37I year-old sergeant who deserted : from the U. S. Army in 1935. He ' was arrested last Feb. 15 after making a clumsy effort to obtain by : fraud a sheaf of pasport application [ blanks. Johanna Hofmann. 26-year-old I hairdresser on the German liner I Europa, in whose quaiters after her arrest last Feb. 26. a spy code book iand incriminating letters were j found. Erich Glaser, 28-year-old private I of the 18th reconnolsance squadron I at Mitchel Field, arrested with Miss < Hofmann and accused of stealing; an air corps code for Germany. I | Otto Hermann Voss, mechanic at the Seversky aircraft factory at Farmingdale. N. Y.. arrested March 11 and accused of stealing plan? ot military planes. Hope for Peace By Joe Alex Morris (Unit tl Press Staff Correspondent) Great Britain and France appeared to be gaining hope today that the Spanish civil war could be ended by a truce. Coincident with the sinking of three more British ships by Spanisli rebel planes, it was reported In London and Paris that prospects j for a settlement of the two-year-old conflict were better than appeared on the surface. Prime minister Neville Chamberlain was understood to have been persudaed at the last moment not ICONTINURD ON PAGE THREE) 0 Holy Name, K. C. To Meet Tonight ' Members ot the Holy Name sod- | ety and Knights of Columlbus lodge | will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at the ' K. of C. hall, from where they will jgo in a body to the home of the late David D. Coffee. ONE COMPLAINT GIVEN BOARD Only One Complaint Filed To Date To Board Os Review Only one complaint to an assessment has been received by the county board ot review to date, members of the board reported. This complaint was received Tuesday from a Preible township taxpayer and was adjusted, the I members stated. But two days remain for the noard to hear objections to assessments. On Thursday the board will hear residents from Berne, Geneva and Monroe, who have a complaint to make about their assessment. On Friday the board will conduct hearings for resident taxpayers ot the city of Decatur. The board to- ' day was to hear objections from residents of the south half ot the county, who had objections, if any. The hearing ot assessment obi jections will complete the work for ■ the board, which first convened June 6.

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Ward Buildings Will Be Demolished, Pupils To Attend Classes In High School. TO OFFER SALE Pursuant to an agreement made by the city school board and the government, in order to obtain the PWA grant for the construction of the new junior-senior high school building, the school board today announced it will offer for sale the Nrth and Riley ward buildings, which are to be razed. The pupils in these wards will attend school in the present Decatur high school building as aoon as the new school house has been built. Contractors have promised that the building will be ready for occupancy by October 1, barring unforeseen difficulties. The school board agreed to raze three school buildings, which had been declared unsafe by the state fire marshal's office, in respect to tire, eyesight and sanitary conditions. The 52-year-old Central building was torn down to provide a site for the new building. The others will be removed this winter. PWA regulations make it Impossible for school officials to obtain the final government payment of its share of the cost of the construction of the new building before certified copies of the letting of the contract for the razing of the North and Riley ward buildings. Warned Officials In 1937 the state fire marshal's office Issued an order requiring the school board to make plans for the improvement of the building conditions. The North Ward building is 45 years old and the Riley building 49 years old. In its order, the fire marshal’s office pointed out that the two i buildings do not conform to modI ern standards of school facilities, ! Windows on two sides of the rooms contribute to poor eyesight among the school children. The buildings do not have sufficient sanitary provisions due to overcrowding. The heating equipment is obsolete and dangerous. General repairs are necessary. Which the condition of the buildings do not warrant. These were some of the objections made by the fire marshal's office. In determining on the change, the school board took Into consideration the fact that 65 per cent of the pupils enrolled in the North Ward reside south ot Indiana street, and that in many conditions. the change would shorten the distance from the schools. It also considered the fact that Decatur has always had more school buildings than the average city its size and that the distance between the homes and schools under the new agreements would not be unreasonable. The present high school building can easily accommodate the pupils. To receive a grade A rating it is necessary for a school building to contain a gymnasium. This will he possible under the new plan. One to Remain The South Ward building, being the newest of the ward buildings, is in a better condition than the other two and will not be removed. During recent winters it has been increasingly difficult to heat the North and Riley ward buildings and the change is expected (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Gilliom Condition Reported Unchanged The condition of Leo Gilliom, brother of Walter Gilliom. who was critically injured in an auto accident near Fort Wayne last week, was reported unchanged today. His condition became somewhat worse last night, but no change was noted today, his brother stited. He is confined tn the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne. "■O " 1 — TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a m 80 2:00 p.m 94 10:00 a.m 83 3:00 p.m 95 Noon 87 WEATHER Partly cloudy in south portion local thundershowers in nqrth portion tonight or Thursday; somewhat cooler in extreme north portion Thursday.