Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 161, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1938 — Page 1

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|hnnuk Ijo PER CENT jffiR PLATFORM ■„r Approves Prop(» ,1 Plank Endorsi‘nd Nc" hil >' '' <UR) b"”' \ m Xuvs. outstanding 1 ■ , lu< n nomination by apX "blanket. 100 per eent of President Roose ’ '3 , . . fteb'limk «as proposed •< a I I E 3v tiov M. Clifford TownU Jho only 'a*' Monday " M , ,k l>|| ~u k m'" * ,u,e ■' ..■ist.nl him almost C’3 Haro for opposing the court 'i, JoH'h as Townsend person- ( nr B'S. Uted the plank, it was o f inclusion in the plat-, iJB nd said that no specific would lie made of the . *r^g ry .. , .■■■; ..ml governmental " mi measures which \ an, toys t - opposed ami helpd d«at. I “I ■reposed that the Indiana: lemoctatic convention give abso- [„ . endorsement to I Roosevelt and his promm. No >m u'ion was made of the two ®ls Sen. Van Nuys opposed. . Both tl 'hem are llead an y wa >'- vJn y< followed the governor I jjtoTe committee room although ! the Ko leaders did not meet. They 1 ave not met personally since Van Buys was inited back into the party- „ „ “Mrythini was just fine, Van Nuys eported. "1 talked over the pl.ii.lj that have been presented and Jas unable to find anything abject Mtable.” “Os plank endiSng the president and his policlt- I made it clear I would rWrtK able to ri a platform I incoas talent with my views on fedsralwublems but no mention is. to be made of the court or reorganisation bills." Oth. wise. Van Nuys had only I | oneKiggistion to make to the' resolu lions committee. He asked ' thatll convention go on record as fJoi n . in.mil:;.i ions of senator. govßor and other state officers by ♦ret primary instead of by party '(invention. Under the pres- . ent 8} stem, only memlters to conthe state legislature are nomii ted by primary. TtJnseud made several other i proper ils to the committee. These prere: > Lw’h.ins:.' tli.. date for issuance trfßtor vehicle licenses and drivers' fienses from .lan. 1 to July 1, iirgHling of the fiscal year. L ?-.iHiii.oiio annually froffljtlie state surplus of $25,000,I 1 ' aiding counties in paying » poor;i 'lief and thus enable them Ito rJuce their poor relief tax levies L®:.d."clly endorse the "Hoosp.’rc. nt" dub. which exacts from the salary of employe for the party's j Him: fund F H gu'ertior said that most citi-j | ijl M ,lb ' s,a, e Were hard pressed Phase new auto licenses at! of the year because of i shopping and other bills xplalned that many other ■ have shifted the date to the ■ing of the fiscal year instead calendar year. climated that counties would red 3 to 4 cents in the local de it the state gave them »ice in administering poor He made no recommendas to what would be done with ■'Minder of the surplus in neral fund. third suggestion would con--1119 ®°Wcitation of campaign front "selfish interests” •night attempt to dictate the tatration’s policies once it office. Townsend explained eved it much more satisfac'l " ' Hom ..mpluycs who tyf , ;;" y ‘oei'onsible to the par•r It their jobs. Eilii.. i ,e '" ocratic congressmen, ■ and nZc? ° f lhp nlnth <l‘ a - I i. William H. Larrabee ‘ Ink adv* I d,BlrlCt> ProPoßed M< with th , B,ate CO-°Per-iiiX on .' ioderal government -JjZl river flood control pro- « '-N H.M'Et, Bmperature readTngs B MOcr AT thermometer Sifa m 77 10:00 a m 79 ■ 11:00 a.m 80 B WEATHER ; der'Z CloUdy ’ possibl « thunders; fair Sunday<

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SMALL DROP IN TAX RECEIPTS | Only Slight Decrease Reported in Gross Income Tax Receipts Indianapolis. July 9—Encouraged ' by the small decline in tax receipts compared with last year. Clarence A. Jackson, director of the gross Income tax division, estimated to-1 , day that funds from the gross income tax collections will be avail-1 able to enable the state to meet its share in the increased cost of ! old age assistance due to minimum ■ ' age requirement being lowered. from 70 to 65. This change, which became effective July 1. will result in an addi- | tional demand of approximately I j $2,000,000 on the state treasury, I which pays thirty per cent of the ' cost of this program. “Intliana is already obligated to distribute more than 20 million I dollars of gross income tax funds . to the schools and civil units of the st'ate during 1938," Mr. Jackson i stated, in citing the requirement of I S7OO per teaching unit, which will amount to about $14,000,000, and the state's share of the 1938 wel--1 fare appropriations, which have j been set at $6,220,392.30. The 1938 state contribution toward the coat I l of caring for needy aged, depend-' ent children and needy blind shows ■ a definite increase over the 1937. •| figure of $4,053,174.73. Mr. Jack-' son pointed out. With July 15 as the deadline for second quarterly returns, gross income tax division officials are relying on receipts in proportion i with the first quarter of this year. I "Analysis of the $533,655.82 drop ' in the first three months of this year indicates an actual reduction of only about 5% of the 1937 busi-j j ness picture." Mr. Jackson said. ' "The last legislature tripled the retailer's exemption and this cut I about $300,000 front the receipts of' ; this period.” In reminding all taxpayers that quarterly returns for April, May I and June receipts are mandatory when the tax is more than $lO and will be delinquent unless filed be- | fore midnight July 15. the director stated that this partial payment ' plan is an aid to the taxpayer as i well as the state for it lessens the i tax burden at the end of the year. WAR VETERANS TO MEET HERE District Convention Os American Legion Here Wednesday About 200 war veterans are ex- 1 pected to be visitors in the city Wednesday afternoon and evening, July 13, when Adairs Post No. 43,1 i American Legion plays host to the ; members of the Fourth District, American Legion. H. Vernon Aurand. convention ■ publicity chairman, stated today that ail plans for the convention have been completed and that banquet tickets are rapidly being re-; | served. The banquet at 6:30 p. m. Wed- ! nesday evening will be held in the ; Knights of Pythias home on Third street, following registration at the ! Legion home on Madison street. Tickets for the banquet may still be secured from V. J. Bormann, banquet and registration chairman of the convention. All reserva-' tions are to be made as early as possible to lend those in charge a definite estimate of the number who will attend. A prominent list of speakers, including Glen K. Hillis of Kokomo, and Richard Urbine, governor of the Hoosier Boys’ State, held re-' cently at Indianapolis, will appear, on the program. Other notables I who have been invited, are: Rocky! Rhoades, state commander and William Sayer, state adjutant, and other Legion officials. Carl H. Graham, fourth district commander, will conduct the business session, following the banquet. The Rev. D. L. Faurote, district chaplain from Avilla, and Frank Foote, memorial chairman from i Albion, will ’be in charge of j memorial services. o New Insignia For City Police Car A new has been placed on the city police car. The words "Police, Decatur, Ind.” have been painted on the white shield on each side of the car and bold white letters above the windshield also spell out the word, “police.” With this insignia and the recently painted white fenders, the city police car is expected to prove much more efficient, especially in traffic use.

President Backs Barkley in Covington Speech IBBi■HiH■MHIBfii ■ jfci L ( ' ' ' Rival candidates ride with president

Re-election of Senator Alben W. Barkley of Ken- | tucky was urged by President Roosevelt when he ! spoke at Covington. Ky.. making the second address lon his western tour. This indorsement was made despite the delicate situation of the primary which

NEW FRONT TO BE INSTALLED Modernistic Front To Be Installed At H. A. Colchin Store Another of thet many new tnod- ! emistic store fronts being built in downtown Decatur is to be con- ' structed within the next few days, it was learned tday. Charles Robenold. local contrac- ■ tor and carpenter, has been awarded the contract for erecting a new 'front on the Herman Colchiu cigar store building on North Second ! street. The new front will be of the modernistic structural glass, sim- ; ilar to the type used on other new fronts recently built here. The entire front of the store i will be rebuilt around the structural glass. Mr Robenold stated, and will be completely redecoratI ed. The contract was given this morning and work is expected to start within a few days.

o Gives Open Verdict In Gilliom Death Dr. Walter E. Kruse, Allen counI ty coroner, has returned an open verdict in the death of Leo Gili Hom. brother of Walter H. Gilliom, i Adams county surveyor, who was killed in an auto crash near that I city June 23. o Adams County Man Shoots Two Eagles — Henry Schlagenhauf, of west of Berne, is in possession of two bald , eagles, which he shot on his farm this week* The eagles before being brought down attacked a collie dog . several times. —o BLAST CAUSE IS UNCERTAIN Unable To Determine Cause Os Fatal Blast Os Freight Train Missoula, Mont.. July 9.—ffl£R>— Officials of the Northern Pacific railroad company said today that the death of the engineer and fireman in a freight train wreck at Hell’s Gate canyon yesterday might make it impossible ever to determine the exact cause of the engine’s explosion. The engine was a mass of wreckage in the Clark Fork river. Ten of the 75 cars traveling l through the mountainous country 27 miles east of Missoula were overturned and splintered along; the railroad right of way. Besides Ernest Western, engineer, and Elva Dunlap, fireman. | three other persons died in the wreck. They were: Ernest Bedil-1 lion, brakeman; Raymond Hartstick, 15-year-old Norfolk, Neb., | transient, and an unidentified transient. Many of the other approximately 100 transients aboard the fast freight were bruised and cut.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, .July 9, 1938.

Harry Lawson Enters Plea Os Not Guilty Harry Lawson, young Blue Creek township resident, entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of petit larceny, when arraigned before Judge Huber M. DeVoss in Adams circuit court this morning. The court set his bond at SSOOI and he was released after the bond was furnished by his father. Lawson is charged with stealing a tire and wheel from Arman Habegger, of near Monroe. HITLER AGAIN HITS CHURCH I Promulgates Law Prohibiting Churches Performing Weddings Berlin. July 9. —(U.R) -A law coordinating marriage and divorce laws of Austria with those of Germany was promulgated today, effective August 1. The law is made to include all of Germany, though

its design is to unify Austrian and German mws. "Henceforth marriage will be considered not a private contract but the concern of community ex- ; istence,” said the German news agency in announcing the law. “Divorce will be based on the pre- ; cept that only those marriages may be dissolved which have become valueless to the entire na- ! tion . . . “The new law will eliminate abuses in Austria arising from the static dogmatic-clerical bonds which previously obtained. Through a provision that civil marriages alone will be legally valid, the condition by which the marriage ceremony is performed by a priest without the state and under confessional requirements and rituals will be eliminated. "Marriage hereafter will be pronounced ‘in the name of the state.’ ” Thus the role of the Roman Catholic church, recognized under previous regimes in Austrial, is I abolished. In addition, the new law recogl nizes as legal the unions of Austrians who remarried by civil cere-: mony after having been divorced. These unions, estimated to number from 50,000 to 70,000, were not recognized under the Dollfuss and Schuschnigg regimes. ■ o Attend Tri-State Meet At Dunkirk A caravan of more than one dozen cars, carrying the Decatur girls’ I band and Red Men lodge members, left the city early this morning for Dunkirk, where a tri state meeting of the order is being held. O Regular K. Os C. Meeting Monday The regular meeting of the Knights of Columbus will be held Monday evening at the K. of C. hall. The new officers will be in, charge of the meeting. Charles i Miller, grand knight, and the newly elected officers will have charge of the program. The members are asked to attend. 1

has embroiled the Democratic party there in a fight between Barkley and his opponent. Governor A. B. (Happy) Chandler. Shown above, left to right. President Roosevelt, Governor Chandler, Senator Barkley.

GOV.CHANDLER PLAN REVEALED Governor’s Proposal To Obtain Senate Seat Is Revealed Today Washington. July 9.- <U.R> —Gov. A. B. Chandler, it was revealed today, proposed to President Roosevelt last spring a plan whereby | Sen. M. M. Logan, D„ of Kentucky, would accept a judicial appointment to create a senate vacancy which Chandler would take instead of opopsing Sen. Alben W. Barkley. | In a letter written to Logan last February, made public today by Logan’s office, Mr. Roosevelt wrote that he informed Chandler that “he would not traffic in judicial appointments in order to satisfy the ambition of one office seeker.” In New York. Logan said Chandler and his administration sought to persuade him to accept a cirj cuit court position. "The idea was that Chandler . would step into my post and that would leave Barkley without op-

position," Logan said. The letter was made public less than 24 hours after Mr. Roosevelt, I in his speech at Covington, Ky.. threw the full force of his influi ence behind the campaign of Sen. ' Alben W. Barkley, K„ of Kentucky to win the nomination over Chandler in the Kentucky primary. Farley On Tour Fon Du Lac, Wis., July 9. —<U.R> , I —Chairman James A. Farley of I the Democratic national commit-| tee headed west today to speak in two states where new dealers faced strong Republican opposition in coming senatorial elections. Yesterday he opened his speaking tour here—a tour which will , include a vacation trip to Alaska | —by giving support to Wisconsin i Democratic Senator F. Ryan Duffy at a state Democratic party convention. In lowa, where Sen. Guy M. Gil-1 lette opposes the Republican stalwart. Lester J. Dickinson, Farley plans to talk briefly from the rear i platform of his train at Cinton. In i Oregon, where Willis Mahoney. ' Demcratic nominee, is opposed by : Rufus Holman, he has scheduled | three stops and three addresses. ' Both states turned Democratic with the advent of the Roosevelt administration. O Howard Hughes Ready For Paris Flight New York, July 9 —(UP) —Howard Hughes received official permission from Washington today for his flight to Paris and perhaps around the world and plant ed to Lake off about 3 p. m. CST. Two new cylinders were installed In one of the two motors of Hughes’ Lockheed airplane overnight and will be tested today about noon at Fort Bennett Field where the millionaire aviator will take off. o Weekly Swim Party To Be Postponed The weekly swim party of the Cub Scouts will not be held next Monday, as scheduled, Sylvester Everhart announced today, since the swimming pool is being cleaned.

JAP INVASION ENTERING NEW CRITICAL STAGE Danger To U. S., Other Foreign Interests Is Intensified By Joe Alex Morris (United Press Staff Correspondent) The Japanese Invasion of China i entered an extremely critical stage todcy due to increasing danger to American and other foreign interests and intensified counter-blows by Chinese, aided by floods along the Yangtse. Grave worries haunting the Japanese high command were indicated by another request -almost a demand—that foreign warships and merchantmen move out of the Yangtse war zone and that they go to unusual lengths in marking i I themselves as foreign vessels. ■ A similar previous suggestion I that foreign warships paint their ' decks red was rejected curtly by the United States naval command and it had been indicated that American gunboats will go wheri ever necessary to protect American interests. 1 Behind the Japanese request was ’ a desire to speed up their offensive against the Chinese capital at I Hankow. Time is working for the Chinese at present as the Yangtse flood waters are mounting and. unless Japan moves quickly, the river I may turn back the invader in event the stiffened Chinese defenses fail. Defenses of the capital, however, appeared to be reasonably strong. > Chinese claimed their airplanes crippled one Japanese warship, bombed another and destroyed | Japanese airplanes in the Hukow j and Anking sectors. Their troops also were counter-attacking effecI tively and the river is mined and blockaded at many points. All of these things are Japanese had expected. They fully realized ! the difficulties of attacking up the . Yangtse and of maintaining communication lines along it because of poor land communications in that area. But they had expected (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o DISSENSION IN OFFICES TOLD : — | Judge, Prosecutor In Marion County Reported At Odds Indianapolis, Ind., July 9 —(UP)— I The investigation of May primary i irregularities discovered in a recount of ballots cast in the Democratic race for nomination of Marion county sheriff today developed into a verbal battle 'between criminal court Judge Fank P. Baker and county prosecutor Herbert M. I Spencer. | Spencer, answering charges j against his office brought by Baker in an action before the state supreme court, declared That he will! not “defend anyone guilty of elec-1 lion fraud," but that he will not be I “stampeded” before he has the ' facts. In a lengthy, scorching petition I filded yesterday with the state’s! ' highest court, Judge Baker asiked j dissolution of a writ prohibiting him j mrom-legalizing the appointment of' ' two special prosecutors to conduct an independent investigation. Spencer intimated tha» there has been dissension between the ( criminal court and the prosecutor's office for sometime, dating back to the prosecution of Spencer of Peter Cancilla and Joel A. Baker for as- j sault on Wayne Coy, former 'lndiana WPA administrator. Judge Baker and Joel Baker, althouhg no j relation, were closely associated. The petition filed yesterday was ' directed largely at Spencer, contesting his right to conduct the elec-j tion investigation. o Directed Verdict Os Acquittal Is Refused Danville, Ind., July 9 —(UP) —Defense testimony was recessed until Monday today after special judge Edgar Rice of Crawfordsville reI fused to grant a routine motion for a directed verdict of acquittal in the second murder trial of Mrs. Etta Jones, charged with the fatal shooting of 12-year-old helen Schuler at Beech Grove laet July 14. Nine witnesses testified in behalf of the 38-year-old former Indianapolis rooming house operator yesterday when the state rested its case after presenting more than 25 witnesses during a weeik of testimony.

Thousands Listen To Roosevelt On Tour Os Country

FAVOR DE VOSS AS CANDIDATE Little Attention Has Been Paid To State Office Candidates Indianapolis, July 9.— (U.R> —So i much atttention has been devoted I by Democrats to the dispute over I the senatorial nomination in the . last few' months that little has ; been heard of the prospective can- ■ didates for state offices. Senator Frederick Van Nuys, as I a result of his truce with Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, probably will be renominated on the first ballot. It appears today that there will be contests for tthe state office nominations, but convention delegates were reported to be considering a slate of candidates, more or less the joint work of the statehouse and Van Nuys, which lines | up as follows: Secretary of state: Edward D. Koenemann of Evansville, present Vanderburgh county auditor. State auditor: Frank G. Thompson of Bluffton, publisher and majority leader of the house in the state legislature. State treasurer: Joseph M. Robertson of Brownstown, state senator and chairman of the senate’s ; patronage committete. Superintendent of public instruction: Floyd I. McMurray, the encumbent, for renomination. Clerk of the supreme and appellate courts —Paul Stump of Crawfordsville, for renomination. Appellate court, first division: A. J. Stevens of Danville, present assistant attorney-general, and possibly William H. Bridwell of Sullivan. , Appellate court, second division: I Harvey G. Curtis of Gary and I Huber M. DeVoss of Decatur. I Supreme court: incumbent Jus-, j tices Curtis Shake of Vincennes, . I James P. Hughes of Greencastle j and Michael L. Fansler of Logans- ' port have no opposition. There will be contests for sev-' I eral of these offices and the above I lineup may be revised when the ' delegates finish voting next Tuesi day afternoon, but today it appears that these candidates are in ' the lead. Joseph Hoffman of Indianapolis, also is a candidate for secretary of state and will muster some support. John E. Ellerbush of Princeton, present chief deputy state auditor, wants to step forward to the state auditorship, but he is confronted by Thompson’, to whm the administration is indebted and the state house delegates probably will go for Thompson. Ralph R. Ferguson of Anderson is seeking the state treasurer I nomination and again the TownI send leadership is expected to go j for one of its legislative stalwarts. Posey Klime of Evansville, pres- ' ent appellate court judge, is slated for retirement by the administration and is expected not to be re(CONTINUWD ON PAGE THREE) O LOCAL WOMAN'S BROTHER DIES Cyril Baxter Drops Dead At Richmond, Burial To Be Here Funeral services for Cyril Carlton Baxter, 55. brother of Mrs. Blanche Elzey, of this city, who died suddeni ly Thursday at the home of a daugh- : ter in Richmond, will be held Suni day in Fort Wayne. The deceased, a retired PennsylI vania railroad conductor, dropped dead of a heart attack. Survivors I include the daughter, Mrs. Lavern Elman at Richmond, the sister here and a brother, Dr. Clarence Baxter I of LaGrange. The body will be removed to the Lome of a sister-in-law, Mrs. Bertha Baxter, 2320 South Anthony boulevard in Fort Wayne, The service will be held here at 1 o'clock (CST) Sunday afternoon and at 1:30 o’clock at the Calvary United Brethren church. The body will be brought to Decatur for burial in the Maplewood cemetery. He retired from active service in 1936 after serving with the railroad for 32 years. He was well known in this city.

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President Endorses New Deal Senators Bulkley And Barkley; Expected To Aid Thomas. SPEAKS TODAY Aboard President's Special Train, en route to Oklahoma City. July 9 — (U.R) —President Roosevelt was expected to endorse this afternoon another new deal senator seeking renomination in a bitterly contested primary. Yesterday he assisted senate majority leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky and Senator Robert J. Bulkley of Ohio, and today, in a major speech in Oklahoma City, he was expected to speak out for Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma. Mr. Roosevelt arrives in Oklahoma City at 5 p. m. and will be taken by automobile to the fairgrounds where a large crowd will be waiting for him. He was expected to be greeted not by Thomas alone, but by Thomas’ rivals for the Democratic senatorial nomination, Rep. Gomer Smith, who supports Mr. Roosevelt “when I think he’s right,” and Gov. E. W. Marland, who is a “100 per cent Roosevelt man.” They were expected to be on the platform when Mr. Roosevelt gives his approval to Sen. Thomas. Mr. Roosevelt's speech will be his third major one in 24 hours. In addition, he spoke informally from the platform of his train in Louisville, Elizabethtown and Bowling Green. Ky., each time giving endorsement to Sen. Barkley as he had in his major speech yesterday afternoon in Covington where Gov. A. B. (Happy) Chandler sat, smiling, on the platform while the president extolled Barkley as a man beloved by all the country. Close friends of Mr. Roosevelt were elated by his reception in both Ohio and Kentucky, particulI arly by what they regarded the apparent success of his endorsements of Barkley. From a stand in the middle of the Latonia race track at Covingi ton, the president told 50,000 listeners that while he was not interfering in the primary campaign and he had no doubt that Chandler would make a good senator, “it would take him many, many years to match the national knowledge, the experience and the acknowledged leadership in the affairs of our nation of that son of Kentucky, of whom the whole nation is proud, Alben Barkley.” To Chandler’s campaign slogan that he had balanced the state budget, Mr. Roosevelt said he had done it with federal money. “Your government,” he said, “deserves due credit for getting his state on a sound financial basis. He never came to Washington and went away empty-handed. And I say to him, and I say to you, that I have considered him a friend of mine and that I think he has done a good job as the chief executive of the state." At the same time he discussed the New York state budget balanced this year by Governor Herbert H. Lehman who once was the president's “good right arm” but who opposed his supreme court reorganization program. At Elizabethtown, Louisville and i Bowling Green, operating stops on | the tour, the president talked to thousands. Those speeches were brief but in a similar vein, stressing that he believed it important to Kentucky and the nation that Barkley return to the senate. At Bowling Green, the last stop in Kentucky, he also paid tribute to Senator M. M. Logan, also a new deal adherent. Discussing Logan the president; said: “I am going to tell you some, thing that perhaps is a little pre, mature but which you will know, about soim day. “Some day when history comes to be written there will be recorded an episode in the life of Senator Logan—an episode that took place in the spring of the year 1938. Unhesitating, clear-cut action on the part of Senator Logan whereby, at possible personal sacrifices, he stood square like a rock firm like a rock—against dragging the federal judiciary into a political campaign. That action on his part will be recognized as a splendid and spontaneous act of moral and ethical righteousness. “By that act, Senator Logan, stands for all time as an example of probity in public life, an example of which I and the people of Kentucky are proud.” There was no immediate explan(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE).