Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 163, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1938 — Page 3

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— ■ 7 ——■ RE O HARMON rTHDAY PARTY taunt surprise P artv "** « r , Fred llurmon at her J* Decatur Sunday on the , of | l( ir birthday annlver- , noon , » delicious pot luck enjoyed. , wo re Mr. and Mrs James of Monroeville. Mr. and e„ Knlttle, Mrs. Ollle KlUtjrandduughter Honarna. Mr. . ot | 9 Shirferly, Mrs. Osia of Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. Barkley of Anderson Mrs. Berne, Mrs. Delia Mlller - Mrs Joe Harmon of Con o'Mr and Mrs. Dilmer HarWren Ohio, Doris. Mildred m ll Dale Shlfferly. Jean Father. Alma, Harold and .reta Kgley and the iunAuest. Fred Harmon. Fn HyMrer-h league of the First „ . h Ot this city Will give ■„ so, ~l Saturday evenSix to eight o’clock. The If public is cordially invited to attend. till By iuc l’eoi'b class of the rg. gnu,jay si of H»;l o vsi.l L Jfe :]1 jre .-ream social Friday ;1 . ;ii,, 1t,,h0 school house. he provided for, reunion -1 Hd SUNDAY a annual Junior YYoiden reheld Sunday at Franke t«. «rk 1 Fort Wayne. A basket dinj hr «, s enjoyed at noon. Ihe fol.i, were elected at the, taltlss meeting: W. E. Meyer of, U,,Mr. president; Mrs. Lawrence! M ,v| of Fort Wayne, secretary, y jlnK.iy:.. daunt of Decatur, trea- : surer. reunion next year will be pJHe f Sunday foil >w :ng July Franke park, were Arthur 0. Worden. LJkiU. Loretta, Rosemarie, Hi. I..‘ieta. Thelma. Wodena, 1 Janii Berneta. Harry, Myrtle, Jr.. Edward, Wanda Rich- ■■ t .latte ' Worden; Chaaf . Dorothy. Ito'ert, Wayne,, * ! Lomi Putt; Wayne. Elmar. Billy,. * Toma : ami Eb-nora Gaunt; Alice ; Shaft. • Betty, Jimmy, Lawrence, * H Meyer: George Lehnert, Wit- * Bernard. Robert and * Meyer; Chester, Eulalia,! ■Msrsi Charles Lott and Alice ; miss Violet brown ENTWTAINS WITH SHOWER | Mbs \ Brown enti rtained guests with a shower! if honor M: ~nd Mrs. William Den-, r recently. Mrs. DenJay IBs : 't:. Mis- Mary Louise Cabli of route three. tiitta spent playing! gam«f after which the guests of| . honor were invited to the dining, - cleverly arranged under m umbrella were presented I Lovely refreshments were serv# by the hostess, assisted by herliother. Mrs. George Brown, Charles Bailey. ■ Venue Crusaders’ class of the Evaat lital Sunday school enjoyed ink fry at Ilanna-Nuttman park last*ening. Time and place of the ■wAteetlng will be announced later, H ladies’ aid society of thej church will meet in rooms of thej Thursday afternoon at two o'clo, Bw. M. A of the United Brethren Jhurch will meet with Mrs.! » A. Weber at the pareonage i Wefflesdav afternoon at two o’-J ■ Assisting hostesses will be' siiann - Frank Baker and ' Clarice Drake. B Tith annual reunion of the' deesldiuHs of the Revolutionary Thomas Archbold, will tie ■' ' 'ssian high school, Ossian, SunAy July 17. B Better Homes club of Mon9#il! roeet at the school Thursat seven-thirty o'clock, ‘■i.tt-y Bee 4-H club members the guests of the Better ■e Club. gillig f »ILY REUNION was lypij Sunday at : Wet paik by the Conrad Gillig A chicken dinner was servtbe noon hour, following interesting program was were Mr. and Mrs. Andfev Gaunt and family, Mr. and jyobert Gillig, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Harry Sheets, 11 Dr. S. M. Priedley I Veterinarian Phone 9434 Jffice end Re*. n 33 Ni 2nd gt

CLUB CALENDAR Boclety Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Maey Phones 1000 — 1001 Tuesday Delta Theta Tau, Mrs. Charles Holthouse, 8 p m. Zion Reformed Girls’ Guild, Church Parlors, 7:30 p. m. Rpbekah Lodge, I. O. O. F Hall, 7:30 p. m. Loyal Dorcat Class Jlcnlc, Legion Park, 0 p. m. W C. T. U.. Mrs. C. E Baughman, 2 p. m. Church Mothers’ Study Club, M E. Church, 2:30 p. m. Zion Junior and Senior AValther Longues, Church, 7:30 p. m. C. L. W. Class, Betty F.ihrman, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday U. B. W. M. A., Mrs. James A. Weber, 2 p. m. Evangelical Band Picnic, Charles Maloney, 1:30 p. m. Thursday Christian Ladies’ Aid Society, Chttrrh, 2 p. m. M. E, W. H. S„ church basement, 2:30 p. m. Eta Tau Sigma sorority, Mre. Bob Shralutka. 7:30 p. m. Union Chapel W. M. A. Picnic, Hamma-Nuttman Park, 11 a. m. Saturday Ice Cream Social, First M. E. Church, 6 to 8 p. m. all of Fostoria. Ohio; William Gillig of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Al Kloster man of Celina, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gillig, Mr. and Mrs. Leo GilUg, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Gillig, Teresea Zeser, Bill and Ed Zeser of j Decatur and the honored guest, ! Conrad Gillig”, who will soon be 1 92 years old. | MRS. LESTER RICHARDS HOSTESS TO HER CLASS The Corinthian class of the first” j Christian Sunday school met at the ! home of Mrs. Lester Richards Monday evening. Mrs. James Kitchen, 1 class president, opened the business ' meeting with the reading ot Corinj thian 1, followed by the Lord's ' prayer repeated in unison. Ten members answered foil call , by naming one signer of Hie declaration of independence. Three guests 1 other than members were present. The class decided not to have an August meeting. During the social hou-. which was in charge of Mrs. Paul Daniels, | members tested their general knowI ledge by true and false questions. A delicious luncheon was served by the hostess assisted by her daughter, Mrs. Thurman Haggerty. mmm<, Mrs. Danilo Jean Santini and son ; and daughter of Jersey City, N. J.. are spending several weeks with i Mre. Santini's parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Smith of Third stree*. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heuer, Miss Della and Albert Sellemeyer and Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Vance accompanied Mrs. Samuel Merwln and son Matt to Waterloo Sunday, where they took the train for Concord, Mass, after a five week's visit in Decatur. Dr. N. A. Bixler is in Indianapolis attending a three day mee'ing of I the state board of optometrists. He 'will return home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Heller will reI turn this evening from a several ! days visit in Indianapolis. Fred Voglewede was a visitor in Huntington last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Thetus Hoeker and daughters Mary, Jean and Anne of | Austin. Minn., are spending this | week with Mr. Hocker's parents, , | Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hooker of First 1 street. | Mrs. Elmo .Smith, and sons, Eugene and Paul and Bob Reed are * spending the week at Sylvan Lake. o —— ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Kirchofer of northeast of Decatur are the parents of a baby girl, born at the | Kirchofer home at 4:30 o’clock this | morning. The baby, who has been . named Naomi Ruth, weighed eight and one-quarter pounds at birth. ADAMS CIRCUIT t (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ■ dates were nominated unanimously, "j A rumor that President Roosc- > j velt had sent a letter to the coni i vention was denied. But the entire roster of Demo- - cratic leaders was represented, l confidently claiming victory in the 1 November election and sounding , the keynotes for the campaign. • Former Gov. Paul V. McNutt, Philippine Island commissioner whom the convention endorsed as the 1940 presidential nominee in the 1938 platform, sent a letter predicting “certain victory this fall" by a “millitant and united" party. , Gov. M. Clifford Townsend in the

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, JULY 12,1938.

F. D. R. SPEAKS IN COLORADO Roosevelt Says Bijf Objective “Is To Make Democracy Work" Pueblo, Colo,, July 12 —(UP)— This nation is not going to copy other forms of government because "ours Is good enough for us," President Roosevelt told an audience that crowded around the rear plat- j form of his special train today. His administration's big objective j "Is to make democracy work" Mr.' Roosevelt said. The chief executive j then pledged maintenance of the j present form of government. The President made no mention j of polltlcg nor did he refer to Sen! j Alva B. Adams, Democrat, up for; re-election. It was anticipated that he would maintain a hands-off policy where Colorado 'politics was concerned. Mr. Roosevelt whose talk concerned his oft-repeated philosophy j of proper land use, was presented to the crowd here by Gov. Teller Ammons. In a speech last night at Amarillo, Tex., Mr. Roosevelt mentioned the names of several members of the Lone Star state's congressional delegation as the type that | he preferred to be in Washington, j He called the names of Representatives Maury Maverick. Marvin Jones. W. I). McFarland and Lyndon W. Johnson, all of whom were on board the president’s special train as it sped across Texas. Senator Tom Sonnally and Rep. Hatton Sumners, although they ' also were on the train, went unnoticed by the president in his public utterances. Connally and Sumners were two of the most bitter opponents of the supreme court reorganization bill. From Colorado to Roosevelt train will proceed to California, via Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah. Mr. Roosevelt’s departure from Texas was marked by his speech at Amarillo where thousands of residents of the Panhandle country assembled in a driving rain to hear him. Mr. Roosevelt stood in dripping clothes to explain his land use policy and to re-define the administration’s agricultural policy. “People who are ignorant,” he said, "and people who think only in terms of the ttioment scoff at our efforts and say—let the next generation take care of Itself —if the people out in the dry parts of the country cannot live there let them move out and hand the land back to the Indians. “That is not my idea or yours. We seek permanently to establish this part of the country as a fine and safe place which a large number of Americans can caTl home.” Mr. Roosevelt referred to subsidies and said: “The farming and cattle raising population of the United States has no desire to be paid a subsidy or given a handout from the federal treasury. They have come to understand, and the rest of the country is learning too, that the agricultural program of this administration is not a subsidy.”

DEMO PLATFORM (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) character . . . Paul V. McNutt has never failed his community, his state or his country. With him as the nominee for president of the United States our party can proconvention’s keynote address said that “the issue of the campaign, the battle cry of democracy shall be security,” and urged the party to “forget our differences of the past.” This was a reference to his long feud with Senator Van Nuys which once induced Townsend to read him out of the party. "As liberals,” Townsend said, "we may differ consciously with one another on some few issues, but we must unite to push forward the general program of security and progress. That, my friends, is quoting from the spirit of President Roosevelt’s last fireside chat.” Senator Sherman Minton as permanent convention chairman reviewed the new deal and paid a tribute to President Roosevelt as “the idol of the masses of America, the best-beloved man in this troubled world, the captain of the hosts of democracy — may we ever be worthy of his leadership.” As usual, no pretense was made of starting the convention on time. At 9:30 the balconies were not halffilled but the crowd was arriving steadily. Delegates milled on the floor talking with such party leaders as Dick Heller, the governor's secretary; Thurman Gottschalk, state welfare director; Bowman Elder, and many others The convention band sounded off. Governor Townsend entered the convention hall at 9:45 a. m. and took a seat in the balcony with Mrs. Townsend, bringing a scattering of applause from those seated nearby who recognized him. The governor shook hands with Senator Van Nuys near the coli-, seum entrance, observed by only a few persons. No words passed between them except those of greeting.

ceed with full consciousness that every promise will be kept, that each platform declaration will be respected, and that the best interests of the people will be conserved and advanced.” Concerning the liquor laws, the platform said: "The Democratic party has repeatedly declared and carried out its declarations that the alcoholic beverage act from time to time be modified as conditions may require. We believe that in the light of the evolving construction of the 21st amendment of the constiution of the United States under federal decisions interpreting the same, proper provisions should be made to protect Indiana industries and the labor and capital employes therein against discriminations in interstate commerce.” Other major provisions of the platform are: Agriculture—The new deal farm program was endorsed and congress was urged to “make provision for marketing agreements that will bring benefits to types of farm-produced commodities that do not readily lend themselves to operation under the AAA program." State administration — McNutt and Townsend were praised "for the manner in which they brought greater security to out state.” Public welfare —The party took “considerable pride” In the manner In which the aged, blind and unfortunate children have been cared and pledged a continuation of “a sound public welfare program.” Social security — “Public officers and leaders of the Democratic party of Indiana have kept faith with the hosts of Hoosier citizens who are seeking social security under governmental guidance." Labor — The recently created state division of labor was praised; “progressive Improvement of workmen’s compensation and industrial safety laws” were favored; the party was pledged to reduce further competition of prison-made goods on the open market; "progressive improvements" of child labor laws were approved; enactment of a state wage collection law was urged; legislation was favored which "will better secure the payment of miners’ wages and lease royalties, particularly in the case of operators financed by sales

companies,” Education — The party “shall strive to increase the amount of state tuition support as funds become available without additional taxation.” Property tax — Continuation of the present property tax program was urged with continued study to determine whether "a reasonable deduction may be granted on personal property where the actual cost of assessment and collection thereof would equal the amount of the levy." Gross income tax — No specific Changes were urged. Marriage laws — “We commend Governor Townsend for his foresighted program of study and research into needed adjustments of the marriage laws of Indiana.” The press — "We express our, thanks to the editors of Democratic and independent newspapers of the state for their loyal devotion to the principles of our party and for the generous use of their newspaper columns in support of our cause." Other subjects discussed were: The special legislative session, public highways, reassessment of real estate, economy in government, tax limitation, public service commission, state institutions, merit system, conservation, campaign expenditures, elections, veterans, law enforcement, local self government and civil liberties. The special session, called for July 19 to enact a building program, was endorsed. The remaining planks lautfed past activities of the state administration in respect to the subjects and promised a continuation of these policies. The famed “Hoosier two percent” club was given endorsement in the campaign expenditures plank which read: “We deplore the practice of soliciting powerful and wealthy interests for funds to operate a political campaign and we condemn the Republican attack on small and voluntary contributions by Democratic employes as shameful hypocrisy.” o TO ASK REPEAL (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) rates” he said. "But I would be willing to accept some other plan that was founded on an abiliy-to-pay

basis.” Representatives of 10 taxpayers’] associations and the Indiana farm bureau have objected to the tax rate basis, claiming it unfair be- 1 cause of the wide variance of assessed valuations between counties, j They have asked that any redistribution of state aid be made applicable only to 1939 and suggested a study be made and its results presented to the regular session of the 1939 legislature which convenes in January. Most of the state senators previously have advocated revision of the gadget law and agreed to cooperate with the building program. o j 200 CIVILIANS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | v;ay station of Wuchang. They fell wide, however. The Wuhan district is made up of the provisional capital of Hankow and the cities of Hanyang and Wuchang. It is the objective of the present Japanese drive, which today was within a few miles of the city of Kiukiang on the Yang-] tse. Intensify Drives (United Prees Staff Correspondent) Dominant military forces in Spain and China today intensified drives to end the world’s two great, wars, but without definite prospects of an early peace in either country. The Japanese armies pounded up the Yangtse toward Hankow and the Spanish insurgent forces hammering grimly at the defenders of Valencia w'ere both attempting to ( seize enemy capitals to climax ser-', ies of important military advances.; Normally success of the current offensives—in event they are successful —might open the way for a quick conclueion of fighting. But in the case of both China and Spain strongest indications were that the, process of modern warfare would reverse the normal situation. In China the Japanese definitely ! would prefer to make a peaceful settlement when and if they capture Hankow. They intend eventually to: dominate all China but at present their most advantageous program would be to etop fighting until they have had an opportunity to consolidate the huge area—or part of it—alread claimed to be under Japan-

I ese military control. The teriflc ecomonic cost of the conquest of China makes such a course advisagle. In aditicn, every | victory won at the battlefront in- ! creases the need for more troops 1 from Japan to hold the army’s ' gains.. Still more important in one way is the desirability of placating British and American commercial interests in the Yangtse valley for the time being. The task of fighting China with j one hand and keeping the other ready to gard Japan’s world position —particularly on tho Soviet frontier —is growing more difficult daily. j o Wheat Yields 45 Bushels To Acre I Samuel Bertsch of six miles west of Monroe on state road 124 is won- 1

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! doring whether he has the best crop > of wheat in the county. His sixi acre tract produced 270 bushels of • wheat when treehed Friday. This is • a yield of 45 bushels to the acre. 1 1 ° LaPorte Business Executive Is Dead La Porte, nd., July 12 —(UP) — ‘ Funeral cervices will be held today for Edwin W. Schurz, 63-year-old LaPorte industrialist and director and treasurer of the DeLnxe products corporation, who died at his home after a brief illness.

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