Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1938 — Page 1

Vol. XXXVI. No. 156.

1000 WATERS DESTROY CROPS IN MIDDLEWEST lillions Os Dollars Oi ( J Damage Caused To Crops In Area jjdago, July 2 (U.R) —Rivers idE> • Ks in northeastern Illinois Wisconsin, swolltorrential rains, threatened,, Hr additional flood* today imldnds and communities which ' ready have suffered an estimated loss in crop damage | ■ me. The! Iles Plaines and Fox rivers . ere p ported to lie rising steadily irly ioday as fresh torrents pourBl doan from creeks and streams Scattered showers ||ll ■> onghout the area during the , ght. I Police at McHenry. 111., said that conrivte dam on Nippersink reekl Fox river tributary, between Zipper ink Lake and Grass Lake, to be giving away. The southward through Carpentersville and ■igta] 111. _ Thiirivprs went over their banks several lowland sections early ■ idtiy after rains of near cloudiest Proportions had fallen in the <>a. Fifteen bridges, including o on U. S. highway 12, one of the ain routes from Chicago to Mln•apoli> were washed away. Highay *nd lowland farming areas ere fcovered by three feet of ater and trains on three main ilroad lines were held up teinirarlly Scores of homes in Winnetka, encoe. Northbrook and other ticago suburbs were flooded lie"use sewers were unable to carry “le beaky load. The water in those ■immunities was reported to bf ceding today but the rising j J reams and a forecast of addition ' raimj caused residents new con 15 tn. | C. A.| Hughes, Cook county farm | pmlviseri said crop damage in Cook >unty alone would total at least (Henry counties said damage in eir ten itories was just as severe, y rops (damaged included small a ins and corn. nd ,* Corn Washed Out at Indianapolis, July 2 — (U.R) —I irmers in several sections of In|l> ana today sought expert advice 1-i What crops to plant to replace “ousand s of acres of corn washed it or ’ inundated by more than (CON'INUED ON PAGE SIX) lENEFIT FUNDS j ARE APPROVED ump Sum Benefit Paynents Approved For 212 In This Area Lump sum benefit payments, now comig due under the social serity act, have been approved for 2 claimants during the period unary 1. 1938 to June 30, 1938 the Fort Wayne field office area, tich includes the counties of Adis, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Grange. Noble, Steuben, Wells d Whitley. The *tatement was made today the field office of the social se- I rity board at Fort Wayne, by irold O Mountjoy, manager. These benefits are now payable/ persons who have reached the e of 65 years since January 1. 17 and who have worked at any ne since that date in commerce industry. Benefits are also yable to the legal heirs of peris who have died, regardless of | ?ir age. after having been simft rly employed. In both cases ■ s lamp sum benefit payment “ lounts Jto 3% per cent of coverwages. The average payment 212 claims certified in this area is $42.93. the field office managpoited out. ‘Persons who come into either these groups, and who have not ” eady done so, should file claims ■ their their benefits at our field located in Room 305 Federal | tiding,” Mr. Montjoy stated. .niilWi' O TEMPERATURE READINGS JEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a m 70 9:00 a. m. 70 0:00 a. m .<>9 I l:00> a. m - 69 WEATHER ’• Unsettled tonight, Sunday ind Monday with occasional howers and thunderstorms; |or bmewhat warmer Sunday in xtreme north portion.

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File Petition For Lower Rural Rates The petitions for the lowering of the rural light rates in the territories served by the city light and power plant have been filed with the Indiana public service commission. The city requested that the new rates be effective as of July 1, or beginning with the meter readings on and after July 15. The re-' duetion. if granted, will apply on those bills paid after the July meter readings. The saving to the ruarl patrons will amount to at | least $3,000 a year, according to i tabulations made at the city hall. The petitions were prepared by I city officials and filed with the commission by city attorney John i DeVoss. o VARIETY SHOW FRIDAY NIGHT - - Recreation Department To Present Show At Kirkland Next Week A variety show, sponsored by the Adams county recreation department, will be presented at the Kirkland high school auditorium Friday night. July 8. at 8 o’clock, George recreation supervisor, announced today. The show will be directed by G. V. Zimmerman, assistant to Mr. Laurent, and Jim Harkless will act as master of ceremonies. The complete .program follows: Orchestra — "Fanfare.” “Cry, Ba'by Cry,” ‘"Stardust.” Tap routine — Don Lobslger of j Miss Fenimore’s school. Sagebrush Ramblers — J Brite family. Orchestra — “Sail Along, Silvery Moon.” Carl Roberts — song and guitar. Accordian.and string ensemble — : Robert Ehrman, J. Burke, Baum- ' gartner 'Bros. Girls from the Golden West —. j Erite girls. Orchestra and Harkless — “Basin ‘ Street.” Tap routine — Miss Fenimore. Carl "Roberts — Song and guitar. Harmonica and banjo duet — JBurke, C. Baumgartner. Western Sweetheart — Mies Brite. , Tap routine — Miss Fenimore’s school. Orchestra and Harkless — “Old Apple Tree.” Admission to the variety show will be 10 cents. The general public is cordially invited to attend. o Board Os Review Completes Session The Adams county board of review will complete its annual session today in the offices of the county assessor. The board met for 28 days, as required by law. During their session, members checked all assessments, heard tax assessment complaints, made adjustments and checked mortgage exemptions and other records. o Man Arrested For * Running Red Light Homer Hill, of this city, was. arrested last night by Officer Roy I Chilcote on a charge of running a I red light at Five Points. Hill is, i to be tried in city court. GRAHAM GIVEN CHURCH POST Pastor Os Decatur M. E. Church Is Given Epworth Forest Office The Rev. Ralph Waldo Graham, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city, was elected platform manager of the Epworth Forest assembly of the Northern Indiana conference of M. E. churches Friday in the annual session at Epworth Forest. The Rev. Graham also heads the program committee. The Rev. W. W. Roibinson of Newcastle was elected president of the group. Other officers are: the Rev. W. F. Brandsford, of Anderson, first vice-president; the Rev. Edward Paley, of South Whitley, secretary; the Rev. E. K. FLneh of Logansport, treasurer and the Rev. J. H. Richardson, of Westfield, ground and building manager. The eight-day assembly will close Sunday with a sermon (by the Rev. E. Smith, superintendent of the Richmond district, in the morning and a sermon in the evening by the Rev. F. E. Fribley, superintendent of the Fort Wayne district.

CITY PREPARES FOR FOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAY Fireworks Display Monday Night To Feature Double Holiday — Decatur residents were preparing | today to enjoy the Fourth of July' holiday, hoping inclement weather would clear up sufficiently to per- ‘ mil planned excursions and gatherings for the second double holiday of the year. Decatur's only public celebration of the holiday will be the annual fireworks display Monday night at 8:30 o'clock, sponsored by Adams > post number 43 of the American I Legion. The fireworks display will be | presented in the large field directly ; east of Hanna-Nuttman park. Parking space will be available for , thousands of autos and Monday night’s pyrotechnic display is expected again to draw thousands of persons to the city as in past years. Persons driving to the display will enter the field from federal highway 224 from the south and from Washington street, extended, on the north. Entrance through . the Homewood addition will not j be permitted. Legionnaires will be assisted in | handling the heavy traffic by city,' county and state police authorities. | Legion officials have announced ■ that in event inclement weather I prevents holding the display Mon- 1 i day night, the fireworks will be set i I off at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday night. Suspend Business Business generally will be bus- ; pended in Decatur over the double I holiday, with the exception of garages. restaurants, theaters, confectioneries and cigar stores. Other business houses will close, as will the post office, First State Bank and public library. There (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) SEEK TO SAVE SOLE SURVIVOR Rescue Workers Battle Feverishly To Reach Surviving Miner Praeo, Ala., July 2.—ftUJDl— Roscuse workers hacked at a wall of stone and earth today in an attempt to save the last of 10 men trapped 500 feet undergroud by a coal mine cave-in which killed five miners and injured four others. In a dramatic fight against time, miners worked in shifts all day yesterday and succeeded in bringing out four of the victims alive. One of the 10 escaped the avalanche and another —the one still sought—has not been heard since the section, 6,000 feet from the mine entrance, caved in early yesterday. The missing man was Bill Pepper. Those dead were J. I. Wingard, assistant superintendent of , the mine which is operated by the [Alabama By-Products Co.; Lloyd j Painter, his brother, Red, Howard : Morgan and Leonard Dockins. Dockins suffered a terrible death. He was pinned under a heavy rock I and talked feebly with rescuers I who had worked through to him I but were unable to free him. I “The rock kept settling on him,” | one of the rescuers said, "harder | and harder the more we tried to I j get it off. He quit talking finally i and then started moaning terribly as the pain got worse. Then the i rock just slowly crushed the life : out of him while we couldn't do ' anything. It was pretty bad to see something like that.” Those rescued, all injured, were Gus Hyche, Carl Shackleford, and i Willard Elmore. Bivens Allender, Jone of the 10 men in the section, ; was the only one* to .escape the J fall. II The slide started when a portion . jof the roof over the section colj lapsed, sending streams of rock and debris Mown the shaft. Oxy- , gen was pumped in the hole where the nine men were trapped while rescuers picked and shoveled , through a wall nearly 500 feet thick. Red Painter, one of the four I brought out alive, lived only 18 hours. He was the last to be rescued and was in weak condition. He (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) I 0 Library Will Close For Double Holiday ’ Miss Ruth Winnes, librarian, ■ announced today that the Decatur 1 public library will re-open Tues- : day noon after closing this evening for the holiday.

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Lincoln’s Room at Gettysburg JHB i AL’'* tin ■*. i “W i IB ill wW® _ Ik MHiS mSBaML « Dr. Mennet visits Lincoln's bedroom Among the historic highlights at Gettysburg is the bedroom where Abraham Lincoln slept when he visited there to make his famous address. Dr. Overton II Mennet. commander of the Grand Army of i I the Repuldic, is shown visiting the room, preserved in the same state j ! as 75 years ago, on the occasion of the anniversary of the battle.

RECOVER BODY ! OF MCCORMICK Funeral Services Will Be Held Late Today For Mountain Victim Albuquerque, N. M.. July 2—(U.R) Funeral services for Medill McCormick 21-year-old millionaire who w is killed while mountain climbing in the wild Sandia range June 22. will be held late today. McCormick's body was brought out of the J mountains yesterday after it was lowered from an almost inaccessible ledge on a sheer cliff. The Rev. James L. McClane of * ' Manitou. Colo., will conduct the | jserices in the Laquinto private I chapel at the Simms ranch on the I outskirts of Albuquerque. McCormick was the son of the late Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois and Mrs. Ruth Hantia McCormick Simms. Mark Hanna, the famous Ohio Republican, was his grandfather. McCormick and his friend. Richard Whitmer, 20, both lost their lives in an effort to scale Sandia Peak. Whitmer's body was found June 24. McCormick's was not located until Thursday when Indian trackers sighted it on a ledge in I the canyon Del Agua. It was doubtful that it ever would be known just how McCormick met death. Mountain climbers said he and Whitmer might have been (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o First Injury Os Holiday Reported The first Fourth of July injury occurred this morning when Didk IBriede, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul I Briede suffered a minor burn on his finger, while lighting firecrackers. FORMER MONROE RESIDENT HELD Roy Glen Martz Arrested For Theater Holdup In Fort Wayne Roy Glen Martz, 29, a native and for many years a resident of Monroe, was arrested Friday in Pullman. Mich., and returned to Fort Wayne, charged with the holdup of the Palace theater in that city June 10. Martz, who left Monroe several years ago, confessed to the holdup, which netted him SSO. and indicated he would plead guilty to a charge of robbery before circuit court judge Harry Hilgetnann. Miss Eulalia Martin, ticket girl at the theater, positively identified Martz as the stick-up man. The theater manager also identified the former Adams county resident as the man who had been loitering near the theater the evening of the robbery. Upon conviction, Martz faces a term of from 10 to 25 years. Martz was previously sentenced to 10 years in the state reformatory on a charge of auto banditry in the Allen circuit court in March, 1932. He served five months and one day of the sentence and was then paroled. He was released from his parole March 17 of last year.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, .July 2, 1938.

Seek Extension Os Rural Light Lines Hearings of the petitions of the city of Decatur for the extension I of the rural light lines to the Fred Busse and the Ehlerding farms in | Root and Preble townships, will be I heard by the Indiana public service commission at Indianapolis on I July 18. The petitions were filed Thursl day by city attorney John DeVoss. The city will extend the service if the petition is granted. The patrons pay for the construction of the line. STOCK MARKET I STILL RISING Composite Average Os Stocks Carried Into New High Ground — New York, July 2. — (U.R) — Apparently insatiable demand for stocks carried the composite average into new high ground for eight j months today in one of the most active Saturday sessios of the 1 year. Before the opening, huge volume of orders piled up. These i were executed in blocks of 1,000 to 5.000 shares at price advances ranging to more than a point. New orders poured in and tickers ran behind for some time. The advances carried many issues into new high ground for the year. Today's volume brought the week's sales to the largest since the week ending October 23. Considerable profit taking was accomplished although new demand from shorts more than offset it. Most gains were held and they ranged to more than two points in the active lists. Market operators ware encouraged bjf strength in metal markets and in steel scraps. Also encouraging was the federal reserve report on department stores sales for the week ending June 25, showI ing improvements in most sections. New highs for the year were j made by Chrysler at 66%, up 4%; I General Motors 39, up 1%; Doug- ; ' las Air Craft 51, up 2%; American I lean 101, up 1%; Consolidated Edison 28%, up %; Sears-Roebuck j 68%, up 1%, and Standard of New Jersey, 56, up %. Pool To Be Open On Holiday Schedules Marion Feasel, supervisor of the municipal swimming pool, announced today that the pool will be open on the regular holiday schedule Sunday and Monday, July 3 and 4. Swimming will be available to all persons from 2 to 5 p. m. on theee■ days. Wiest’s Condition Is Still Critical But little change was reported today by hospital attaches in the codition of J. C. Wiest, of neajr Bryant, who was critically injured in an auto-truck collision in Jefferson township Friday. He was reported to be semi-con-scious this morning and only slightly improved. His condition is still described as critical. Wiest sustained a brain concussion, a •crushed chest and internal injuries.

McNUTT NOT A CANDIDATE FOR 0. S. SENATOR Frank McHale Reported To Have Received Denial From McNutt Indianapolis. July 2 ~<U.R)~The j move to unify the Democratic party ; by the renomination of Senator ! Frederick Van Nttys reached a week-end impasse today, evidently dependent upon a further commitment from Gov. M. Clifford Townsend. However, It can lie asserted defii nitely today (hat a tentative move ' in some quarters to consider Paul | V. McNutt, former governor and | present Philippine Island commis- | stoner, for the Democratic senator- | ial nomination is beyond question. Frank McHale, Democratic national conn.iltteman who is mak- | ing the preliminary maneuvers for i McNutt's 1910 presidential campaign. is reported to have talked to McNutt on the telephone at Manila last night. The former governor told McHale that he positively would not be a candidate i for the senate. ! One of those to whom the Mc- ' Nutt proposal was credited was Senator Sherman Minton, closed friend of the Philippine commissioner. Townsend, after proclaiming that the Democratic state convention July 11-12 is “wide open,” left town 'immediately yesterday after creat-l ing a sizable furore over whether I this enigmatic statement meant that he would withdraw his yearlong open warfare against Van! Nuys. The statehouse machine controls an estimated 85 percent of the convention delegates and it is within , the power of the governor to deny the nomination to any candidate. McHale. Minton. Bowman Elder, an administration advisor, state chairman Omer Stokes Jackson conferred yesterday on the Van I Nuys situation, but they denied i tliat any decision had been reached I on Van Nuys. The senior Indiana senator is in i the political doghouse ostensibly I for opposing President Roosevelt's supreme court reform program. But actually he lias been scheduled I for retirement by the statehouse I organization for a series of breaks j with the regular Democratic organj ization dating back to liis election in 1932. This is one of the principle obstacles to Van Nuys’ renomination. It is still a question in the minds of some leaders if it would lie a very good precedent to accept Van Nuys now since he has bolted organization leadership and control (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Crop Prospects Poor, Farmer Commits Suicide Greenfield, Ind., July 2.— (U.R) —; Funeral services were being completed today for Franklin A. Roudebush, 59-year-old farmer who committed suicide by hanging himself in a barn on his farm in Buck Creek township. He had been despondent over crop prospects. The widow and a daughter survive. PHIL SAUER IS GIVEN CONTRACT Construction On Hospital Addition To Start Next Tuesday — Weather permitting, construe- ■ tion of the new ambulance drive j and building at the Adams county i memorial hospital will be opened j Tuesday morning. John Stults, of the board of trustees announced today. The bid for constructing the new addition was awarded last night to Phil Sauer, local contractor, on his bid of $3,492. His was [ the lower of two bids submitted. Mr. Sauer told members of the [board that the construction would require an estimated 30 days. Preliminary excavating work with a crane digger will start Tuesday, it weather permits. The new addition, a gift from the estate of the late John McClain, of Blue Creek township, is expected to add greatly to the efficiency of the Institution in [ handling ambulance patients. The i building will be located to the I south of the present hospital, with the roof of the ambulance shelter serving as a sun room. Most of the structure will be located underground, with the drive-in meeting the first floor | level.

Americans Driven From Chinese City By Japanese Raids I • II -

TICKET SALES TO STATE FAIR Advance Half-Price Tickets To Be Available For Indiana Fair Advanced half-price tickets will be available at the county agent’s office here again this year, according to an announcement made at a district meeting held Thursday night at Columbia City by the Indiana state fair committee. Only a limited number of tickets, 175,000, will be sold at the half price rate. This is 35,000 more than last year, but only equal to about halt of the requests for tickets last year. They will lhe sold to the first applicants. The limited number is sold by the fair board ’in place of taking out rain insurance. Speakers at the program Thursi day night consisted of several members of the fair board, headed by Lieutenant-Governor Henry F. Shcricker, commissioner of agriculture of Indiana and manager of the i fair. They stated that from this district of 15 counties, nearly 20,000 persons attended the fair last year. I An effort is 'being made to have a i total paid attendance this year of I more than a halt a million. The attendance has tripled in the ■ last five year and the event is now the largest state fair in the United States. Additional features are being added this year, —o PLACE SYMBOLS ON NEW SCHOOL Figures And Symbols To Adorn Front Os New School Building Installation of figures and symbols, which are to adorn the front of the new Decatur junior-senior high school building now under construction, has Ibeen started. Above each of the two front entrances, symbols, emblematic of the arts, vocations and sciences which will be taught at the institution, have been set in place. Among these symbols are a (book, the test tubes and equipment need in sciences, books, and the hammer, I saws and tools of the industrial arts room. In each of three panels, lower 'blocks, upon which are emblazoned human figures surrounded by other emblems and symbols, have been put in place. These firgurcs, when completed, will tower above the windows of the structure. All of the carvings are done in Bedford white stone and afford an | added attractiveness in comparison with thelbridk front. Meanwhile, in the gymnasium, multi-colored brick are being laid around the inside walls. These colored bricks will line the inside walls above the seats and around I the gymnasium floor. Footings for the gym entrance on | the east side of the structure have I also been poured. Bricklayers on | the front wall are now roof-joist high, while Interior and side walls I are following close 'behind. o “Silent Traveler” Continues Tour Ralph Kenneth Bradford, selfstyled “silent traveler,” a deaf mute who arrived in the city Wednesday, left Decatur today on another leg of his 100,000-mile world tour. Bradford, who lost his speech and hearing in a boat explosion In 1924, is touring the United States at present to secur historical information, which he plans to publish in book form in 1940. o Tax Hearing Date Is Set For July 7 County Auditor John W. Tyndall received word today from the state tax board, setting July 7 at 9:30 a. m. for the hearing on the additional tax appropriations. The additional appropriation of 1 $25,000 is being sought to purchase ' right-of-ways in widening county roads.

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Merciless Japanese Air Raid On Swatow Drives Out Residents; Hospital Bombed. PRIEST WOUNDED Shanghai, July 2 —(U.R)— American residents of Swatow took refuge on the United States gunboat Sacramento today during a merciless Japanese air raid during which an American priest was wounded, dispatches from Swatow said. Father William Downs, Erie Pa., menrber of the American Roman Catholic Maryknoll mission, was the American casualty. He was wounded when a bomb struck and demolished his home, dispatches said. 'He made his way to the water front and signaled a tender from the Sacramento. Chinese police arrested him, •' was said, and detained him three hours but then permitted him to board the Sacramento's boat. His wound was not believed to be grave. One Chinese was killed and one wounded in the American owned Berger building ross from the government buildings. The Berger* building was severely damaged. It was estimated that 1 000 persons had been killed in Japanese raids today and yesterday. No count was made of wounded. Today’s air raid was followed by a bombardment Iby Japanese warships and dispatches said that thousands of Chinese were fleeing in panic from the city. Chinese reports said that the American Union hospital at Foochow was bom'bed yesterday. Japanese reports from Nanking noted Japanese airplane pilots as saying that Chinese troops had diverted water from the Yangtse river 18 miles east of Huikow, flooding the Tsienshui and Huangshui rivers and the city of Wangkiang. The reports said that a dozen nearby lakes were rising steadily, i.nd experts expressed belief that the Japanese advance toward Hankow was seriously threatened. The Japanese Domei news agency revealed that Japanese units were fighting with 301,000 Chinese troops. Divided into five units, near the Manchukuo frontier in the north. The dispatch said that the Chinese were communists and it was assured they were guerillas of the famous eighth route army. A news agency reported from Peiping rumors of a “peace plan” formulated there as a basis for Chinese-Japanese negotiations. Under the alleged plan there would be five autonomous regimes in China, in the Peiping Kweishua, Nanking, Hankow and Canton areas. Japanese and foreign military and diplomatic quarters here denied knowledge of such a plan. Chinese reports here reported, a French naval concentration off the French district of Kwongchowan. on the south China coast opposite the Island of Hainan. Land, navy and air maneuvers were held Thursday, it was asserted, and two 16'nch guns were tested as part of (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) WELFARE OFFICE IS BUSY SCENE Applicants For Old Age Assistance Besiege Welfare Office The offices of Mrs. Faye Smith* Knapp, county welfare director, have been fairly besieged with applicants Friday and today as aged residents soueht old age assistance. This mor: rig the outer office of the welfare department was filled with applicants waiting their turn to be examined for the assistance. The concerted rush of the past two days is occasioned by the lowering of the minimum age from 70 to 65 years. Screens have been set np in the outer office so that three persons may be privately interviewed at the same time. Meanwhile an examination may lie conducted in the private office of the director. Thorough investigations are to be made before applicants are granted the assistance. The exact number of applicants that have appeared in the office since Friday morning, first day for lowering of the minimum age, could not be determined today due to the rush in the office,