Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1938 — Page 1

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IOWA CITY IS PLACED UNDER MARTIAL LAW Governor Orders Martial Law Proclaimed In Newton, lowa Newton, la., July 20. — <U.R> — National guardsmen, acting under a proclamation of martial law, today took command of this industrial community of 11,000 persons, i home of the strike bound Maytag ■ Washing Machine company. Troops pitched camp three miles ■ outside the town as Maj. Willard ■ M. Gaines of the lowa national , guard proclaimed from the steps of the Jasper county courthouse | that a state of martial law now ex- ; I isted in Newton and "adjacent territory." Gaines read the proclamation to ' two policemen and Judge Homer I Fuller. Military courts replaced all civil | courts. Gov. Nelson G. Kraschel issued ' the proclamation last night and I ordered out the troops “for the ex-1 press purpose of preserving peace ■ and the protection of life and prop-1 erty.” As Gaines read the governor's I order, two motorized "battle wag-1 ons,” each equipped with machine guns and carrying eight steel-hel-meted guardsmen. proceeded through the streets of Newton to ■ the encampment grounds. Troops were not stationed on the. I i streets immediately. Tear gas was included in the ■ militia’s equipment, hut it was not Issuett. Bayonets were issued to the battalion of trope, but were i not fixed immediately to guns. Meanwhile, several hundred i spectators gathered near the Maytag plant to await arrival of the I guardsmen. Three pickets were stationed at each of three gates at the plant, ■ I carefully fulfilling requirements set ■ forth in an injunction issued June ' i 22 restraining the union from mass i picketing. Before the troops were sent to j the factory, three men who tried I to go to work were mauled and 'beaten utside the Maytag gates. A policeman who tried to rescue one of them from a crowd of nearly 500 union employes was pushed several times against a building across the street. One of the back-to-workers,; identified as “Red" Alger, was cut about the face when a knife suddenly appeared. Police said they ■ believed he had produced the; knife. One policeman swung his night stick freely during the melee and a special deputy, who came to the | plant with a gun, was disarmed. A few minutes later another man (CONTINUED Ol» PAGE FIVE) LET CONTACT FOR NEW SEWER Contract For Materials For New Sewer Awarded Tuesday The street and sewer committee •jf the city council reported* last night during its session that th© contract for furnishing materials to be used in constructing the Acker, sewer from Washington street to the St. Mary’s river had been let to R. A. Stuckey. Mr. Stuckey’s bid of $4,561.31 wad the lowest submitted to the council I at the session earlier in the month. Petitions Outlet Harvey Suddeth, of West Street, appeared before the council last night with a petition asking for an outlet from West street tc either Twelth or Thirteenth street The petition proposed that the outlet be constructed of cinders. The matter was referred to the city street and sewer committee with power to act. Sam Acker also appeared before the council and asked that the grade crossing over the Pennsylvania railroad on Washington street be improved. The city attorney was ordered to notify the Pennsylvania railroad to im'prove the crossing.

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Pickets Routed by Deputies at Illinois Plant • V* S flf I ' Jb . s / feSb I Deputies take pickets out of battle at North Chicago foundry

■Two hundred special sheriff's deputies charged with the task of reopening the strike-bound Chicago I Hardware Foundry, at North Chicago, on strike ■ since June 6. routed 500 pickets with clubs and 'tear gas in a skirmish at the factory gates. The

“GADGET" LAW IS UP BEFORE LEGISLATORS Committee Sends Building Measure To House Os Representatives Indianapolis, nd., July 20 —(UP) t I Indiana’s house of representatives today began consideration of amendmenta to the controversial ■ ’’gadget’’ law while the chamber’s i ways and means committee prepar-' i ed to report out the $5,400,000 api propriation bill to finance the! ■ state’s share of an $11,000,000 (M) ' instiutional building program. The “gadget" law was reported to ■ ■ the house in a five-minute session ■ last night, along with a measure' 'appropriating $20,000 for expenses| | of the special session. Thfese two i bills were the first order of business I in the assembly today. Presented by Rep. Winfield K.i Denton. D.. Evansville, the measure 1 would be posted anyplace within Ute assessed for the certlciate card con tainer and would leave the display of registration certificates the same | as it was before the "gadget" law ( was passed by the 1937 Legislature. I Under this system, the cards would pa posted anyplace within the i driver’s compartment so long as the | j registration number, description of I the car, name and address of tihe ( owner were plainly legible from the i outside. Motorists would not be forced to (purchase any type of container from I the state. After short debate, the bill was approved on second reading and cent to the engrossing committee ' for preparation to be passed, proI bably tomorrow. Indications were, ■ that the house would approve the I Denton bill without further ado as j soon as it returns from the en-| grossing committee. The house also suspended thej rules and passed, &2 to 0, a measure appropriating $20,000 for expenses I of the special session. The senate, marking time until some of the administration s “rei lief and recovery" measures, were enacted by the house, decided to consider in committee of the whole the administration-sponsored measures to redistribute welfare costs and establish a tuberculosis hospital for southern Indiana. : I These bills are companion bills (CONTINUED on PAGE FIVE) —O ■ Lions Club To New Haven On Wednesday The regular weekly meeting of the Decatur Lions club scheduled for Tuesday night will be cancelled, and the members will go to New Haven in a body on Wednesday •aight to attend the charter night: meeting there. I Arranging of transportation will be under the direction of a commit-| tee, composed of Phil Sauer, W. F., Beery and D. Burdette Custer. ,

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 20, 1938.

plant was closed when the C. I. O. unionists walked out after they had won an NLRB election and when an attempt was made by the management to force a 15 per cent blanket salary reduction. Photo shows deputies removing picket from battle. — V - - — I

Retired Banker Dies At Marion Marion, Ind., July 20. — —■ George Webster, 89, retired Mar-1 ion banker, died at his home today. With U. S. Supreme Court Jus-1 tlce Willis Van Devanter, Webster was one of the charter members of Grant lodge, Knights of Pythias. Webster owned and operated the electric light plant at Wabash, ! Ind , for several years. The widow and a son. Lawrence | Webster, survive. WILL RECEIVE GARBAGE BIDS City Council To Receive Sealed Bids For Contract August 2 The city council will receive sealed bids on August 2 in the regular i council session for the gathering and disposal of garbage in the city. In addition to the provisions of the present contract, providing for sanitary receptacles anu other items the new contract will probably include other provisions. Among these provisions will undoubtedly be a clause stating that no persons under the age of 18 shall be engaged or employed in the gathering of the garbage. The requirements are now being drawn up and will be placed on file, i upon completion. It is stated that the collector might! , be required to employ the use of . two wagons during the three sum- ( mer months to insure a more thor- ( ough canvas of the city. The gar- • (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ! 1

No Social Security Number Starts Doug On Hero Lane

Los Angeles, July 20 —(UP) — A young man with a far-away gleam in his eye was working at his bench last month in the northrop aircraft factory when his foreman tapped him on the shoulder. “Let’s have that social security card, Corrigan” the boss said. “I guess I must have forgotten,” Douglas Corrigan grinned ly“But Doug,” said the foreman, “We told you and we begged you to get one. Now I’m going to fir? you.” Doug packed his welding tools and the next his boss heard of him he was making headlines in the newspapers as the absent minded aviator who headed for California and landed in Ireland. Cf he had remembered to apply for his social security number Doug still would be welding parte of armypursuit planes. But he didn’t remember. So he's a world hero oday currently receiving the adulations of Ireland and Great Britain and destined to earn a fortune, if he wants it. When the 31-year-old Doug lost his job, lie went home to the modest

LATEST GERMAN MOVE SEEN AS AID TOPEACE Peace Adherents Heartened By Nazi Approach To Britain By Joe Alex Morris (United Press Staff Correspondent > j Tightening bonds of friendship j between Great Britain and France today promised important developments in Europe’s 1938 game of realists diplomacy. At the hour when King George VI and President Albert Lebrun were pledging peaceful cooperation in the firmest possible words in Paris, it was disclosed that | Nazi Germany had approached I Britain in regard to problems that have threatened conflict on the ■ continent. Most encouraging factor emerging was that the Nazi representative—Fritz Wiedemann, personal envoy of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler — had visited British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax on German initiative. In the past the chief problem in the British campaign (CONTINUED on PAGE FIVE) o Fort Wayne Man To Be Rotary Speaker W. C. Wittwer, of the Investment Syndicate of Fort Wayne, will be the speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur RotSfry club Thurs-' day evening at the Rice hotel. A. R. I Ashbaucher will be chairman of the ■ program.

Lome of the Rev. and Mrs. S. Fraser, Langford, the aunt and uncle with 1 whom he ha dlived since his parents died more than 10 years ago. The Rev. Mr. Langford, pastor of the first Baptist church at Santa Monica, was w-orned about his job-! less nephew. So was Mrs. Langford. I He seemed to be acting strangely. For the first time in his life he wouldn’t eat. They urged that he go to Sunday School again and even stay for the sermon, but Doug said as politely as he could that he didn’t have time.. The Langfords didn’t learn until after their nephew suddenly became one of the best-known men in the world, why he wouldn’t eat his dinner, nor what he was doing in his bedroom until all hours of the night, nor why his hands always were so greasy he couldn’t get his fingernails clean. After he had flown non-stop to New York and then on to Ireland in a plane which originally cost ?310, these triple mysteries explained themselves. Doug wouldn’t eat with (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) !

Application Is Filed Today For Constructing Addition To Adams County Hospilal

BUDGET DRAFT SUBMITTED TO CITI COUNCIL — Mayor Holthouse Submits, Tentative Draft Os 1939 Budget Submitting a tentative draft of , the city budget for 1938, Mayor I Arthur R. Holthouse informed the j council last night that the budget I exceeds that of this year, but that ' it was hoped the levy could be kept, i at the same figure as that in effect ilbw. The mayor’s letter to the council reads: "Gentlemen of the Council: “In order to comply with the law and at the same time furnish " you with a work-sheet of' the civil I city budget for 1939, I am submitting a tentative draft of estimated expenses for operating the city departments next year. "I ask your cooperation in helping to arrive at the final draft of the budget. Under the law the council has the right to reduce any appropriation. Your help and suggestions will make it possible for me to prepare the budget and submit it at a later date for passage and approval. “You will note that, w*fth©several exceptions, the proposed appropriations are materially the san# as those appropriated this year. Expenditures in the various funds and departments have been checked and where existing appropriations are sufficient, the amounts have been left at the same figure. “Included in the budget for next year is an appropriation of $3,063.00 for payment of bonds and interest on the school aid bonds, I $1,000.00 principal and $2,063.00 for I interest, the latter covering a period of one and one-half years. “The total budget is higher than a year ago. Naturally the appropriation for school bonds and interest increase it in the amount listed, as the items were not included in this year's budget. “An additional appropriation has been listed for the police department, in the event that extra seri vices of police are required in j 1939. “To take advantage of the WPA program, to provide work for WPA men, the appropriation for material on street improvements has been increased from $3,400 to $4.- , 500. With this amount, the city can obtain more from the WPA in the way of material for improvements and provide extra work. Nominal increases have been made for regular street department labor and operation of trucks. This year, it has been brought to your attention, the department is handicapped by lack of sufficient funds for furnishing trucks on WPA work. “I have included an approprij (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) FAT LEAS TO BE SWORN IN Ft Wayne Attorney Given Commission As Allen Superior Judge Fay W. Leas, prominent Fort J Wayne attorney in partnershiii with R. Earl Peters, former Decai tur resident, was to be sworn in J this afternoon as judge of the Al- ■ len superior court No. 1. Mr. Leas received his comrais- ; sion Tuesday from Gov. M. Clifford i Townsend, after his recommendation by the Allen county bar association. He will serve until December 31, filling the unexpired . term of the late Judge Charles J. . Ryan. ,1 Judge Leas will be the Demo--1 cratic candidate for the judgeshiit . at the general election in November, following Lis selection Mon- ' day by the Allen county Democratic ! central committee. Judge Leas was to be sworn into ■office by Judge Alphonso Wood of the Indiana appellate court. ' At the November election, Judge Leas will be opposed on the Re- ’ publican ticket by Edward W. Meyers, a native of Adams county, who 1 , has been a practicing attorney in I Fort Wayne for many years.

WAR ON SOCIAL DISEASES TOLD Dr. Eberly Speaks To Lions On Fight Against Social Diseases The growing war against syph- . ills, gonorrhea, and other social , diseases was outlined to the members of the Decatur Lions club last' ( night by Dr. Karl Eberly, secre- , tary of the Fort Wayne board of| health, in his address at the week- , ly club meeting last night in the Rice hotel. , The occurrences of syphilis, its treatment and cures were discuss- : ed at length by the Fort Wayne , physician, who told of the attempts , in larger cities to lift the veil of secrecy and false modesty surrounding it. ; One out of every 10 people of the United States are afflicted with syphilis, he stated. Today 16,800,000 person are afflicted with syph- , ills and 13,000,000 have gonorrhea, , the doctor stated. A total of 20,000 babies are born each year with the disease in their blSod. Ten per cent of all blind- . ness is caused by syphilis and 20 per cent of the inmates of insane asylums are afflicted, he stated. Five still births are® recorded to each normal childbirth, the doctor stated, directly because of syphilis. The physician stated that syphilis can be contracted only by per- , sonal contact and emphatically asserted that it can be cured, if treatment is given early by a competent physician. The social hygiene league, founded by the Rockefeller foundation, is making a concerted drive throughout the entire nation in an effort to stamp out the disease and encourage open battles against its spread. o ADAMS POST TO NAME OFFICERS American Legion To Elect Officers At Meeting Next Monday Adams Poet No. 43. American Legion, will elect officers for 'he coming year at a meeting in the Legion, home next Monday night, Commander Ralph E. Roop announced today. : Two members are candidates for ■ the commander’s post now held by Mr. Roop. They are Ed Bauer and V. J. Bormann, local hardware man ' and creamery representative, res- 1 pectively. Dr. Ben Duke is the unopposed candidate for first vice-president, while Joe Rash and Ches Massonnee are the two candidates lor second vice-president. The candidate for adjutant is Tilman Gehrig, unopposed. William Linn, candidate for finance officer, is also unopposed. The three executive committee candidates are unopposed. 1 hey are (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) — 4-H Members To Meet Thursday At School Miss Mildred Worthman asked today that all members of the 4-H club meet Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at she Decatur high school for an important meeting. Members are to bring records and pencils. It is urgent that all members attend this meeting. o —— Local Men To Go On Fishing Trip Paul Uhrick, Ernest Uhrick, Elmer Chase, Dr. E. P. Fields and Dr. R. E. Daniels will leave on a fishing trip through Northern Michigan next Sunday. The party will stop at Monascon Bay, Michigan, near the Straite. Q Beautiful Flower Garden Is Claimed Billy Bell and his wife, Mina C„ lay claim to having one of the most colorful flower gardens in the city of Decatur. They have a beautiful assortment of blooming gladiola, dahlia and hollyhook plants at the garden at their home on 239 North Eleventh street, |

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PWA Grant Os $25,042 Is Sought By Officials For Building Addition To Hospital. PLANS DRAWN The announcement that plans for the construction of a $55,650 addition) to the Adams county memorial hospital in this city are well underway, was made today by th» county commissioners and the hospital board through the offices of I). Burdette Custer, project attorney. Application for a grant of $25.042.50, representing 45 per cent oil the total construction cost, was mailed into the federal emergency administration of public works this morning by Attorney Custer. The new addition, according to the tentative plans of A. N. Strauss. Fort Wayne architect emfeet by 38 feet in size, and would ployed by the board, would be 87 be located south and east of the present building. The new structure would face the north, setting on the cift-ular drive in front of the present structure. The plans call for two floors and a basement. The first floor would be composed of seven rooms for nurses’ quarters, a living room 25 feet by 16 feet in size, a parlor, dinette, reception hall and bath. The second floor would house 13 individual rooms for the nurses, closets, a room for cleaning and pressing and a bath. The basement, according to the plans, would consist of a recreation room 38 feet by 14 feet in size, two large storage rooms, a trunk room, equipment room and nurses' laundry. It would be heated by the two boilers in the present structure, the heat being piped to the new addition Petition Presented Impetus for the construction of the addition was first given last week, when members of the hospital board presented to the board iof county commissioners a petiI tion, citing the inadequate facilI ities of the present structure in view of the increasing popularity of the hospital among residents of this and neighboring communities. The petition, signed by Earl Colter and John Stults, of Decatur; Fred Kamholz of Berne and James Briggs of Geneva, members of th« board, states in part, that “We. the undersigned, respectfully petition you for the issuance of bonds for the cost of defraying the expense for the building of an addition to the Adams county memorial hospital. “The present county hospital was constructed in Decatur 17 years ago and was at that time considered as being too small for the future needs of the county and surrounding territory. Since the construction of the original hospital, the third floor has been used for nurses’ quarters. This proved satisfactory until the last few years. During the last few years the hospital has become widely known for its humane and efficient, skillful administration of hospitalization for patients. * * ♦ Today they are sorely taxed for room and on several occasions it has been necessary to move patients up to the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TRUSTEE DOAN LETS CONTRACT School Bus Drivers’ Contracts Are Awarded Tuesday Contracts for school bus drivers of Washington township were awarded last night by Trustee John M. Doan and advisory board members in a meeting at the trustees offices. Twenty-three bids, ranging front over s2fl to SSO were received from. 12 bidders. Awarding of the contracts wa« made as follows:! Washington School Thomas V. Johnston, route one;’ John Geels, route two; Melvin Ma’lonee, route three and Carl Barnett, route four. Deßolt School Curtis Engle, route five. Brandyberry School Elmer Tricker. route six; Frank ' Hurst, route seven and Floyd Shoaf | route eight.