Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1938 — Page 1

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WEALTHY ""•th dead in ■IINTAIN FALL 11 4 McCormick Fear..'Had. Body Os ComIs Found rK*’ *• ; ,,nR " 5 r Sfcjreliers I'll l>y Gov - * 'y df ' go in, ° ,hP Sandia >1 dawn today to search nf Medill McCormick. IX of one of America's most " “*^K lt families. They already '' the body of his hiking n . Richard Whitner. ‘ evidence indicated that killed in a tall from .. cliff~1< ‘ srarchers was , Hanna McCormick of the late senator publisher, Medill wife of Albert C. '^H uru |iliy Albuquerque lawand the boy s Daughter of Mark Hanis a former member of I J^^Exij'"f Whitmer was found on a 2.000 foot cliff in Sandia mountains 18 fgM from here, about 200 feet top. It appeared that he scaling the cliff and had about to climb over Darkness was falling I searchers came upon his 1 the search for McCor8 K body had to be postpon' d ■today. j, 8 ■ ,iud Whitmer set out . by automobile for a ■Min the mountains, some of ■ in Los Poblanos, the vast o■ of his step-father. They ice to return the same day. I| Mrs. Simms reported her but was not alarmed. lr ‘ he and his companion io lost in a storm. when nothing had been them. Mrs. Simms apto authorities. National cavalry directed by Adjut- . R. C. Charlton and Bingley, C. V- C. members, Imiliai.s eiftered the inounbaftemoon, they found Melick's automobile, its windows N its doors locked, parked in pillow canyon which leads jtly to the almost sheer side » great cliff. it surmise seemed justified the boys had attempted ■ to lit. At dusk, searchers reachitop and from that point saw Mer's body on the ledge. 1 could not see McCormick's The failing light made clifftog extremely hazardous, recovered the body and took , national guard camp where identified by Mrs. Simms. body was crushed and bones were broken, lie was ,-Mioii of a wealthy Albuquerque man and a former stuON PAGE THREE) —o Substation J Will Be Improved 'll. (^•bro cements totalling will at the Indiana Service cor Herne substation within PM next month, it has been anThe improvemet will in’■ba large transformer bank a’ iMiubstatio.n.

Bnusual Weather Conditions | [I Produce Large Clover Crop

... weather conditions have the greatest crop of I-it- ■ Dutch or white clover seen in ■ country in many years. jyhe clover, which is the original native variety, is never except in lawn mixtures, B' B a volunteer crop one which without planting. It has Beared mostly in pastures, as larger legumes have crowdB" out of hay fields. B* is smaller than the varieties for hay, but, being a legume, B 8 the same beneficial results to B soil. ■There jg no one reason for its this year except that the B' 1 ' season, which began as one ■'ite poorest, suddenly changed B'arin almost perfect growing ■filter for the legumes—frequent B l ' l rains. All of the clovers are B®*tng in more profusion than B y have for many years. ■'ire exceptional quantity of | B' te clover in the pastures, probB y Will have a beneficial effect on B” year's crops of blue grass in ■’tores. They probably will add B r ogen to the soil. ■ n this process the free nitro-

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Epworth Institute Will Open Monday Epworth Forest Institute at Lake Webster for the Fort Wayne and Richmond districts will open Sunday, June 26 and continue until Sunday. July .'I. The Rev. Ralph Waldo Graham, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city, is life work secretary and publicity chairman for the assembly program. Mrs. R. W. Graham and Mrs. B. H. Franklin, formerly of this city, will have charge of Camp Yo-Pe-MI-Ca, the girls camp held in connection with the assembly. MINTON QUIET ON NOMINATION Sen. Minton Refuses To Discuss Van Nuys’ Situation Indianapolis, Ind., June 25 —(UP) —U. S. Sen. Sherman Minton, back home for a rent before the Demo- i eatic state convention July 11 and 12, said today he was not planning “To take any part in selecting" a] senatorial candidate to succeed Sen. Frederick Van Nuys. At the same time, Van Nuys re-| affirmed hie declaration to the United Press several days ago that ! he would not accept the Republican nomination were it offered him by the G. O. P. convention next week. Van Nuys is planning to run as an independent. Minton was cautious about discussing the Van Nuys situation, ex-' plaining that he had not been in Indianapolis long enough to confer with Gov. M. Clifford Townsend and ' other party leaders. He called at Townsend's office but the Governor was out of town. The junior senator refused to comment on constantly increasing reports that a strong element in the I Democratic pary is demading that ! peace be made with Van Nuys and he be re-nominated by the convention. Neither would Minton comment on Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker as a Democratic senatorial nominee. Schricker has been selected by Townsend to run in place ot Van Nuys. who was consigned to politi-. cal oblivion for opposing New Deal measures. “What are your views on the possibility of the Republican convention nominating Van Nuys next week?” Minton was asked. • “Very interesting, if true.” was Minton’s only comment. A reporter facetiously asked Senator whether he was planning to make any speeches for Van Nuys.] “That depends upon which ticket' he is running on.” Minton retorted. Van Nuys’ refusal to consider i running as a Republican was taken I in many quarters as an indication j that he was keeping himself available in case the Democrats decided , to restore complete harmony in the party and present a united front in the fall election by nominating him as the seatorial candidate. Van Nuys said that he would “be pleased to accept the Democratic nomination if chosen by a free convention without intimidation or co-j ercion ” 'He asserted it would be , “inconsistent” for him to consider running as a Republican. “I appreciate thoroughly the wide spread offers of support from Indiana Republicans, but it must be ON PAGE THREE)"

gen, a gas which is three-fourths of the atmosphere, is "fixed 01 changed into a form phich plants j can assimilate through the agency i of small "nodules," concentractions of bacteria, which store tip "available" nitrogen. The nitrogen nodules both in-; crease the growth of the legumes. , which it attaches itself to, and, when the plants are returned to the soil, increases the amount available nitrogen. Nitrogen is the fertilizing ele-. ment which is associated with, growth in plants and anima s. It I s one of the more rare fertil,ze ™ I and is expensive. Commonly it is added to the soil ''trough manures or commercial fertilizer. A lack of nitrogen in the soil results in yellowish plants. , Un animals, nitrogen produces the protiens and animo « c ‘ ds ’ C °™ P chemical forms, which buitd the red muscles. Animals can obtain only through plants. Because of its effect in building up the reserve of available “fixed nitrogen in the soil, an exceptiona y large crop of blue grass Is being predicted for next year.

APPROVE PLAN FOR BUILDING $500,000 Improvement Program At State Fairgrounds Approved Indianapolis, June 25 —- (U.R) — A 1 $500,000 building and improvement | program at the slate fairgrounds! was approved today by the state - budget committee and the state I legislature, expected to bo sum- , moned into special session next ' month, w ill bo asked to appropriate , funds. The state would expend $275,000 I and the remaining $225,000 would | be obtained from the public works | I administration as a grant. The slate board of agriculture i had presented plans for a $2,500,0001 ] program at the fairgrounds, $1,500.-1 ' 000 to come from the state and I $1,000,000 from PWA. This was' chopped by the budget committee | ' to a total of $500,000. Originally, the board of agriculture desired funds for construction of a new 4-H club dormitory, re--1 pair or rebuilding of the coliseum, I construction of a new state depart- ■ inent building and a new conserva-. Lion department building. The budget committee told the' ■ board to determine which part of I the program was most necessary ( and to make its plans according, within the $500,000 budget. The board will hire architects to I draw up plans and specifications for the new dormitory and repairs I'to the coliseum. Both these pro-1 ! jects will be undertaken if their combined cost is not more than i $500,000. The architects' report is to be submitted June 30. -Original plans called for a dor-' I mitory building large enough to - provide living quarters for from 800 to 1,000 boys and a similar number i of girls. A center exhibition arena j and a restaurant also would have ; been included. Swimming Party For Cub Scouts Monday All Cub Scouts are asked to meet Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock at ! the municipal swimming pool for | a swimming party preceding the . ■ Scout activities at the Hanna-Nutt-. man calbins. The swim will be held j from 1 until 2 p. m., under the dir-1 ection of Sylvester Everhart WILL DESCRIBE : SOIL TREATING Farmers To Visit Huntington County Field Plots July 1 Friday afternoon, July 1, has! been set as the date for farmers iof northeastern Indiana to visit the Huntington experiment field. | located on the Flax Mill road, two I ■ miles northwest of Huntington. | The field trips will start at 1:30] ] with the visitors conducted over . ! the field plot tests in groups led j by men from the agronomy depart-, I ment of Purdue university. These I men will describe the soil treatments that are being tested and point out the effects on the giow-j ing crops of corn, wheat and mix-' ed clover seedings. Some striking things may be seen at this meet-, ing that give practical Information of value to men who are 'handling black and clay land oU Ithis type. The effects of fertilization on i I the previous wheat crop is very { striking on the mixed clover and , alfalfa hay crop on the ground. ; l The use of the “shot gun mix- j ture in making the legume seed-1 ing is also well illustrated by this ' year’s hay crop. Surprising diffeii ences in wheat prospects produced ■ by different fertilizers may be; seen, os well as the effects of| elover and of timthy in the crop I rotation on the yields of wheat and corn. The use of soil saving dams i "co.vrixinn> on page threeT Fort Wayne Woman To Head Psi lota Xis Chicago. June 25.-|(U.R> - Mrs. W d Simmons. V, ot Fort Wayne ! today was the new grand prestI dent of Psi lota Xi sorority. She j was chosen at the close of the annual two day conventin. Other officers chosen were, grand vice president. Miss Virginia I Lee Brightwell, Jefferson, Ind.. grand treasurer, Mrs. Wairen H. Miller, Princeton, End. grand conductress, Mrs. Paul Norton, Lebanon, Ind.; grand editor, Mis. E. JHancock, Greensburg, Ind.; charity chairman. Mrs. W. E. Sayer, I - dianapolis. . I The sorority voted to hold the 1939 convention at French Lick,. Ind. 1

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, .lune 25, 1938.

War Secretary Declares Piece cWw*' ' : - F ' w- \ < *~w .-''J ' j -• X 1 /1, kA1 % Z M I l r ■ jl .A- 7 r - 'JJ h • Harry Woodring and Son Although Harry Woodring is secretary of war. he is working toward a piece arrangement here, cutting the birthday cake which featured : the party given for his four-year-old son, Marcus, and three-year-old daughter, Melissa, who were born a year apart. (

SAUER LOW ON HOSPiTAL BID Phil Sauer Submits Low Bid On Proposed Ambulance Entrance Phil Sauer, local contractor, was low bidder on the proposed amI balance entrance to the Adams ! county memorial hospital, John I Stults, member of the board of trustees, revealed today, following I a meeting last night. The low bid was $3,492. Only 1 one other bid was submitted, that ;of Yost Bros., for $3,640. Award- . ing of the contract is to be made in a meeting of the trustees next Tuesday night, if the board de- ( cides upon the construction. The proposed construction work includes the erection of a building on the south side of the pres- ' ent hospital building for receiving I and discharging ambulance patients. The building would be approxi- | inately 35 feet long and 15 feet ' wide, would be built mostly underi ground, the roof of which would j be level with the first floor of the present building. This would peri mit a sun-roof on top of the ambulance building. The work would also include the j construction of a drive from High 1 street to the shelter and then out ! the west side to the present cir- j I cular drive. Hospital attaches and officials i believe that the erection of the I drive and building would increase ■ l the efficiency of handling ambit-1 | lance patients, in addition to as-1 ! fording an extra sun-parlor. BOARD TO END | WORK JULY 2 — Adams County Board Os Review To End Session Next Week The Adams county board of review will complete its work in the ! assessor’s office Saturday July 2. ' The board at that time will wind up a 28-day period of checking assessments and hearing objections. The last of the objections | was hear Friday. Two residents of the city of Decatur appeared before the board Friday for adjustments to their assessments, bringing the total ’ who appeared to six. I Beginning Monday, the board will check mortgage exemptions, ’ foot assessments and complete oth- j er book work for the balance of the 28-day session. The members of the board this year are Ed Stahly of Geneva, Cal E. Peterson, o£ Decatur and the i three ex-officio memibers. County Assessor Ernest Worthman, CounIty Treasurer Jeff Liechty ami County Auditor John W, Tyndall.

Escaped Convict Captured Friday LaPorte, Ind., June 25 — (U.R) —| Police expected Putnamville state ■ ! penal farm officials today to remove Robert Walker, 27. Indiana- 1 I polls, back to the farm from which he escaped last Saturday. Walker was captured yesterday! | as he attempted to board a boxcar. | 1 He tried to escape but surrendered ' after several warning shots w#re fired. Walker has been serving a one Ito 10 year term for burglary at i Evansville. CLUB TO MEET MONDAY NIGHT Democratic Woman’s Club To Hold Final Meeting Os Season The final meeting of the season | will be held by the Adams county Democratic Woman’s club, at the B. P. O. Elks home here Monday night at 7:30 o’clock. The business meeting will start promptly at 7:30 o’clock, Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp, the president, has announced. She will preside. Following the business meeting, 'hree numbers will be played by the memibers from the accordian ■ axaphone sextet. These musicians I will be: Marjorie Miller, Betty Fuhrman. Mary Kathleen Fryback, Alice Yost, Patsy McCornell. Anna Brandyberry and Marilyn Bonitas. The principal talk will be given by Robert Heller, Democratic cani didate for joint representative from ! Adams and Wells counties. After the talk, a social meeting I will be held and refreshments served. o —— Democratic Leader Dies At Indianapolis Indianapolis, June 25. — |(U.R>‘ — Funeral services were "being completed today for John I). Gray. .1, Pike county Democratic leader and [ for several years employed in the state gross income tax division, who died late yesterday after a short illness. I Gray, a resident of Petersburg, suffered a stroke while walking in ' the downtown district here late Tuesday and failed to regain conI sciousness. He had served a term as Democratic chairman in Pike ! county and two terms as auditor. He was the father of former State Senator Carl M. Gray. — oTEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER, 8:00 a. m—72 10:00 a. m... 76 9:00 a. m—76 11:00 a. m... 80 WEATHER Thundershowers tonight and Sunday, except cloudy in extreme northwest Sunday; cooler Sunday and in the northwest and extreme north tonight.

WRECK OF TWO TRAINS CAUSE DEATH OF MAN Crack Olympian Again Figures In Fatal Wreck; 18 Injured Ingomar, Mont., Juno 25- (U.P) I Robert Eskert of Avorey, Idaho. | was killed, and 18 persons wore injured today, one critically, when the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul i k Pacific railroad's fast Olympian passenger train struck a special I train carrying civilian conservation corps enrollees. Eskert was a passenger on the] CCC Main. Another youth named Kohlbruner was injured seriously. | The engine of th<> special train was derailed and rolled down a long embankment. Most of the injured were on the! Olympian. It was the second Montana train wreck in less than a I week involving the Olympian, fast-’ est of the Milwaukee passenger trains. The other occurred last week at Custer Creek near Miles City, when a bridge collapsed be- ' neath a sleeper coach ( carrying at ! least 53 persons to their deaths. I Heavy rains, which were respon- 1 sible for the collapse of the bridge,' i hae continued through the week. | Overlooked Orders Chicago, June 25—(U.R)—An official of the Chicago. Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific railroad said today j that the headon collision near In ! gomar, Mont., between the Olym-j plan, fast passenger train, and a special train carrying CCC en-; rollees was caused by "failure of I the Olympian's engineer to follow I orders.” “The engineer has had an excell-! i ent record." the spokesman said "However, he had been scheduled I to meet the special at the Ingomar, station. For an unknown reason ! he went beyond on the station to ! the point where the crash occurred. "He has told his immediate su- , periors that he could not explain I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THP.EB) ! “r - , — Farmer Is Killed By Lightning Bolt Muncie. Ind., June 25.— (U.R) — Harvey Wyne, 58, of near Selma, was killed here yesterday when lightning struck the uny>rella which he was carrying on his way home from work. I 0 Special Speaker At M. E. Church Sunday j I The message at the First Methoj dist church Sunday morning will ' ' be delivered by Mrs. Maidie Ruth Norman, a professor of music and I dramatics in the Bennett College 1 for negro girls, Greensboro, North r Carolina. This college is aided by I ' the Methodist Episcopal church as one of the projects of its missionary program. Mrs. Norman, forrnt erly Miss Maidie Ruth Gamble, is >ia graduate of Bennett College and | -! an unusually talented and culturied young woman. She will also .' sing two negro spirituals at the •' i morning hour of worship, t \ Mrs. Norman presented an tint usual program of readings and , song at the annual Blossom tea of . I the woman's home missionary soil ciety of the local church Friday . I afternoon. She will be on the i faculty at the Camp Yo-Pe-MI-Ca .| which will be held during the as-i i j sembly program at Epworth F orest beginning Monday. FORMER LOCAL . RESIDENT DIES Mrs. Joe Elzey Dies Friday Night At Her Home In Ossian Mrs. Joe Elzey, 75, of Ossian, ' formerly a resident of this community, died Friday night at t?:15 ’ o’clock from complications or old I a ® e - Before her marriage she was Lide Sudduth. Surviving besides the husband, ’ are the following children, Mrs. William Parker of Bluffton, Mrs. George Lepper. James, John and Charles, all of Ossian and the following brothers and sisters, Mrs. Charles Brown. Margaret Sudduth, Walter Sudduth and Albert Sudduth. all of Decatur. Funeral services are to be held at the home in Ossian at 2:30 p.m. Sunday and at. the Ossian I . B. church, of which she was a member, at 3 o’clock. Burial will be made in the Ossian cemetery. Mrs. Elzey was well known in Decatur, having visited friends and relatives here many times.

President Flays Labor, Capital In Talk Friday

WORK RAPIDLY ON NEW SCHOOL Gymnasium - Auditorium Part Os Building Rapidly Taking Form The gymnasium-auditorium, part. i of the new quarter-million dollar junior-senior high school now under ' construction, is rapidly taking ' form, a glance at the worksite reveals. Workmen have completed pouring the concrete foundation for the; I basketball floor, and are preparing to pour the flooring in the spacious corridor and lobby of the gym. Concrete seat foundations of the bleachers, from which Decatur's basketball fans will watch their I favorite sport, have been poured I and supports for the wooden seats ' have been installed. The lobby of the gym has been ; lined with the finished brick, as have various other parts of the building. In the school proper, rapid 1 strides are being made, as contrac- ; tors and workmen endeavor to complete construction by early Octo-, i her. Interior third wall floors are nearing the top. several now on a, level with the steel peak of the gymnasium. Plumbers and sewage system workers continue to follow bricklayers and masons up toward the i top of the structure. Barring inj clement weather, school officials anl construction leaders have ex'pressed an enthusiastic hope of winding up the work during Octo- | ber. SLAYER TO DIE TUESDAY NIGHT Attorney-General Rules Robert Shaw Must Die For Murder I Michigan City, Ind.. June 25 - (U.R) -Warden Alfred Dowd of the ! state penitentiary said today that ! Robert Shaw, 27, slayer who was' granted a last hour reprieve from ■ the electric chair early yesterday, will be executed Tuesday. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend grant- | ed the stay after Dowd had found , what he believed to be an error in the commitment papers. The tech- - nicality was based on an old statute j which made a trial by jury neces- , sary on pleas of guilty before cap!- ■ tai punishment could be assessed. Attorney General Omer Jackson, to whom the question was submitted for ruling, said that a later statute, upheld by the state supreme court 'in 1935. gave a court the lower right to impose tile death sentence without a jury verdict. Shaw pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the fatal shooting of Deputy Sheriff Harry E. Spice, near LaGrange. Ind . in December, ' 1937. ■

Outline Requirements To Gain Old Age Assistance

An outline was given today by Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp, county | ' welfare director, of the require- ] i ments which must be fulfilled be- ■ for an applicant can be granted old age assistance. On July 1. the minimum age limit will be dropped from 70 to 65, and it is anticipated that a large number of applications will be filed for assistance. Mrs. Knapp pointed out today that the assistance is given only those persons who actually are in I need of financial help in order to ! maintain a minimum stadard of living. Eligibility Rules Eligibility rules under the wel- ! fare law permits the granting of the assistance to any person who: 1 Is 70 years ot age or over, or, after July 1, 1938, is 65 years ot age or over; and 2. Is a citizen of the United Staties; and 3. Has not sufficient income or other resources to support himself; and 4. Has resided tn the state of Indiana tor at least five out ot the last nine years, the last year of which must have been continuous;

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Slaps Tactics Used By Both As Deterrent To Business Recovery; Hits Opponents. SPEECH FREEDOM Washington. June 25 — (U.R) President Roosevelt headed the new deal toward wider "reform" horizons today und stood ready for personal primary election war upon conservative Democrats after a fireside appeal for nomination of liberal candidates by all parties this year. The president snapped a challenge to "copperhead” defeatists among his opponents who would have him abandon (he new deal program. In a three section chat, broadcast last night, he dealt with the record of congress, depression and recovery, and his role in the primary and general election campaign. He told business that the people would demand: 1. "Complete honesty at the top in looking after the use of other people's money and in apportioning and paying individual and corporation taxes according to ability to pay." 2. “Sincere respect for the need ' of all at the bottom to get work—and through work to get a really fair share of the good things of life and a chance to save and , rise.” Naming no names but firing freely at identifiable individuals and institutions. Mr. Roosevelt rebuked labor and capital for mistaken tactics, repudiated interference with freedom of speech- that shot apparently was aimed at Jer--1 sey City's Mayor Frank Hague—and made sarcastic reference to a , $365,000-a year business executive who feared the effect of a national i minimum wage of sll per week He told the nation that the new deal had won the fundamental issue at stake in the judiciary reorganizaI tion battle—"the attitude of the sui preme court toward constitutional questions is entirely changed.” He ! said that barring the unforseeable there would be no special session of congress this autumn. He called for a "united front" of government. ’ capital and labor to “resist wage | cuts which would further reduce purchasing power." The new deal program will go ' on. he insisted, under impetus ot ' the national will. Upon labor and capital he placed principal responsibility for current depression, although conceding that government, too, had made mistakes. In sharp language evidently di--1 reeled at Hague, he said constitutional democracy could not survive | denial of freedom of speech. He intimated possible repudiation of Democratic candidates responsible for denying free speech or of candidates whose sponsors deny it. His language was potential with political dynamite because Hague not only is Democratic leader of New Jersey, but is vice chairman of the Democratic national committee. There would be no opportunity this year, however, for White House interference in New Jersey primaries. They took place May (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

and 5. Is not an inmate of a munici- , pal, state or national institution, although any inmate may receive assistance it he leaves such institution and is otherwise eligible; and 6. Has not transferred any property within five years prior to application in order to evade auj; provision of the welfare act. Where Filed Application for aged assistance should be made to the county department of public welfare of the county in which the person last resided for one full year. If a person is residing in a private institution he should make his application in the last Indiana county in which he resided for one full year prior to the date upon which he entered the institution. Lien Provision Any assistance granted an aged person under the welfare act constitutes a lien on the real property owned by the recipient. This lien remains in force until it is satisfied, but the county department cannot enforce during the ON HkQfi XWOJL '