Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1938 — Page 1

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OPEN AUCTION SCHOOL AUG. 1 35th Semi-Annual Term (if Reppert School Opens On Aug. 1 The 35th sstni-unnua) term of | .the Reppert School of Auctioneering will open in this city on Monday, August 1, Fred Reppert, nationally known auctioneer and founder of the school, announced today. The largest pre-school enrollment in the history of the course has been experienced this year, a I survey disclosed. Seventy prospective students have enrolled for this year's sunt- ' mer class. Twenty states from i California to New York, and from Canada to Louisiana will be repre-. sented. One enrollment has also been received from Canada. The first enrollment this year came from John Ramsey of Bloom- 1 ington. Texas. School classes will be held daily for almost three weeks at Belmont park under the direction of Col. I Reppert and a large corps of in-1 structors. All instructors will re-i turn from last year. Students will make their homes in the clubhouse at the park, in the park cabins, at private homes | and the hotel. The first public auction will be ' held on the downtown streets Sat- | urday afternoon, August 6. Auc- < tions will be held each week day s from then until the close of the 11 school August 20. Drummond Funeral Sen ices Sunday Military funeral services for R. A. Drummond, 96-year-old Civil War veteran, who died Friday at his Root township home, will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30' o’clock at the home and 2 at the. Union Chapel church. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. Adams Post No. 43, American Ix'gion. will conduct the military services at the cemetdry. Drummond, the oldest of the . three surviving Civil War sets, , was also the last member of the . Sam Henry Post. G. A. R. The deceased was also the last charter , member. < CALF CLUB TO CIVE EXHIBIT Calf Club Exhibit During Fair To Be Housed In Cattle Tent The calf club exhibit, always an interesting part of the Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show, will be held in the cattle I tent on Madison and First streets again this year. A large enrollment of both boy% and girls in the calf clubs this year has given promise of an unusually fine exhibit. Judging in the various divisions will be conducted in connection with the respective adult shows. W. W. Yapp, extension dairyman at Illinois university, will conduct the judging this year. The Holstein division will have the largest representation in the show with a total of 20 boys and girls enrolled in that club. Fourteen are enrolled in the Guernsey, nine in the Ayrshire and seven in the Jersey division. A showmanship contest will al-1 so be held in each breed division. The 4-H older youth judging contest will be held all day Wednesday of the fair. The Jersey parish show is also , sponsoring a 4-H club team judging contest, with each team to be composed of three members and one coach. All counties in the district are eligible to enter. Adams county is expected to be represent- ( ed by three teams. — — Roosevelt Abandons Fishing For Business Aboard the U. S. S. Houston, en route to Cocos Island, July 23. - (Upj—(By Naval Radio to the United Press.) —The U. S. S. Houston, with President Roosevelt and his fishing companion!, aboard, made its way steadily toward the Galapagos Islands today. The cruiser was expected to reach the islands about noon tomorrow. While the journey southeastward was being made Mr. Roosevelt took the opportunity to devote his time to business. Yesterday he spent the entire day going over business matters. The Houston was making an unbroken run from Clipperton Island to the Galapagos group, a distance of 1,300 miles.

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Martial Law Reigns in Strike-Torn lowa City B&jSßhk * M ' -a jar i FwF I -VS Kk 1 '■■ ■ vXiKr ,/j . HHEfI ■HBffil —— —_— ~, — ( View of national guardsmen patroling Maytag plant; Governor Kraschel, inset

Steel-helmeted national guardsmen, acting under strict martial law, took over the city of Newton, la., following outbreaks of violence during a strike at the Maytag Washing Machine Co. plant. All law enforcement activities were in the hands of guardsmen after a battle between 100 members of

FINISH COURSE IN FIRST AID Activities Os Red Cross First Aid Classes Outlined Activities of the first aid classes, sponsored by the Red Cross, were nnthwrt today by Dorns StaKwr, instructor. The report compiled by Mr. Stalter disclosed that 11 have completed the course given at the Central Sugar company, 20 at the Central Soya company and 15 of the Adams county highway employes have finished the work. A class will also be started at the Geneva high school July 28, starting at 7:30 p. m. Classes are being held at the Berne high school each week. Advanced classes are to be held at the Soya company Tuesday evenings at 7 p. m. and at the Adams county garage Wednesday after(CONTINUED ON PACK THREE) Marion’s Charter And Key Missing Marion, Ind., July 23. — (U.R> — Mayor Carl F. Barney’s city is without both key and charter. The mayor started a search for the document when the federal law library at Washington requested a copy. He said it had not been seen for 25 years. The official "key” has disappeared also. It was presented to a horse thieves detective association convention many years ago and never was returned. o FAVOR BUYING OF FIRE TRUCK i Southern Townships Os County Soek Better Fire Protection Trustees and advisory boar<]» of townships in the south half of the j county have launched plans where-: by a rural fire truck could be pur- 1 : chased for use in Monroe, Hart-p ford, French, Blue Creek and Jes-p ferson townships. A meeting was held this week in I Berne, with lhe respective township trustees, Leonard Baumgartner, Berne fire chief, and Archie j McCabe, educational director of the I state fire marshal’s office, all in j attendance. The plan to procure the truck 1 reportedly met with general favor but awaits the county auditor’s report on the valuation of the various governmental units. If finally decided, the cost will have to be pro-rated according to these valuations. Several large rural fires in recent months are said to have fur-p nished the impetus for the move- ' ment better to protect the rural south half of the county against l : tire loss. ‘ i

Decatur. Indiana, Saturday, July 23, 1938.

a back-to-work movement and 500 pickets. This aerial view of the plant and vicinity shows squads ! of troopers patroling the vicinity. Gov. Nelson G. > Kraschel. in set. ordered the guardsmen when the company refused to accept the decision of an arbitration board appointed by the governor.

I Receive Bids On Highway Aug. Ift Among the proposed road construction projects, upon which sealed bids are to be received by the state highway commission at 10 a. m. on August 16 at the state house in Indianapolis, is a stretch of a little more than 10 miles between Geneva and the Wells county line. The road is to be constructed in accordance with federal highway MUa It has been recalled by olderi residents of the city that this was the first stone road to be built in the county. DEATH CLAIMS MADELINE DUNN Mrs. Madeline Dunn Dies This Morning At Home Os Brother Mrs. Madeline Dunn, 36. died this morning at 1:15 o’clock at the home of her brother, TJturman Drew in in Root township. Death was attributed to sleeping sickness, following an extended illness. The deceased was born in Geneva April 15, 1902, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Drew. Her husband preceded her in death. Surviving are two daughters, Peggy and Gwendolyn; the father,: Thomas of Geneva; four brothers,! Ralph of Marion, Ohio: Dr. Charles of Bartlett, Oklahoma; Thurman! (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) —o Steel Shares Rally On Stock Market New York, July 23 —(UP) —Fav; orable news in the steel industry today caused a rally in steel shares sufficient to impart a strong tone to the general stock market list. Trading lightened compared with recent Saturdays. Transaction in, the first hour amounted to 200,000 shares against 330,000 shares last j Saturday. Improvement was reported in most of the steel centers. Chicago reported it would operate next week at 37.6 per cent of capacity, Western Railroads Not To Boost Fares Chicago, July 23.—(U.R>—Western railroads will not ask the interstate commerce commission for a right to boost coach fares in line with the recent fare increase by eastern roads, Harry G. Taylor, head of the Western Association of Railyway Executives said today. Taylor said the 54 presidents of western roads decided at their monthly meeting yesterday that while upping fares might help eastern roads it would not help western lines. The reason given was that the competition with 1 automobiles is more severe in the west. ..

FEENEY WINNER BY 272 VOTES I, Special Judge To Rule On Contested Ballots After Recount Indianapolis. July 23 —(U.R) AlI G. Feeney, who was defeated in' tin- May pi iiaui y elecliuu for the , I Democratic nomination as Marion ] county sheriff, today was certified the winner over his opponent,; i Charles Lutz, by a majority of 272 votes after a recount board comi pleted its checking of the county's ' ; 336 precincts. Lutz was given the nomination ; last May by the canvassing board which reported official tabulations as 24.015 for Lutz and 21,760 for! Feeney. This gave Lutz a majority > ! of 2,225 votes and Feeney immed-' I i iately demanded a recount. The official winner, however, cannot be determined until approximately 4,000 ballots contested by both candidates are ruled upon by special circuit court Judge John G. Rauch. These votes were not tabulated by the recount board. It was expected to take at least another week before the final rul-I ing required to determine the j winner can be made. Both candi- I dates contested about an equal number of ballots. Numerous discrepancies were revealed in virtually all precincts i I by the recount board which com- I i pleted its checking late yesterday < ! after more than a month’s work. I Official recount figures showed : (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ; , 4-H GIRLS TO HAVE EXHIBIT Girls 4-H Club Exhibit To Be Housed In Graham Building Plans for the girls 4-H exhibit. I to be housed in the Graham building on Madison street during the Decatur Free Street Fair and Agri . , cultural Show are progressing rapidly, according to reports from the ! , offices of the county agricultural . agent. i i Canning, clothing and room Im-1 provement projects of the club i members will be on exhibit that , week. All of these exhibits will be brought into the building on next' ■ Wednesday, preceding the fair. ’The baking and food preparations exhibits will not be brought > in until Thursday of fair weeK. Judging of the canning, clothing :yid room improvement exhibits will be done on Friday and Saturday of fair week by Mrs. Howard j Erwin and Mrs. Geneva Gladbury, ( both of Hartford City. Judging of the baking and food preparations will be conducted on Thursday, the same day the exhibits are brought in, by Miss Catherine V, . idler, Monmouth school teacher.

SPECIAL MEET IS IN RECESS UNTIL MONDAY Hope T« End Special LegWutivtt Session Late Next Week Indianapolis, July 23—<U-R)—ln recess for the weekend today,, Indiana's special legislature will 1 return Monday and plunge into work on the administration's "must'' measures in a drive to | reach final adjournment late next i week. The house is expected to dispose i of all the "relief and recovery" j bills by Monday evening and turn 1 them over to the senate for possible amendment. It was not con-! sidered likely that any of the bills I would have to go to conference ■ committee. Two of the major bills — the I $6,551,000 building appropriation and the $2,000,000 welfare measure j —were ready to be passed by the house as soon as it reconvenes j Monday at 2p. m. They were hurried through second reading yesterday and sent to the engrossing! committee. The other two administration | bills —one repealing the "gadget" | law and another creating a $650,000 1 tuberculosis sanitarium in southern | Indiana— already have passed the: lower chamber and will come up for action in the senate when it ( is called to 'order at 10 a. .m j Monday. The senate has been discussing | and amending a companion measure to the house's sanitarium bill 1 the past two days and was expected I to substitute its own bill and send it back to the lower chamber. The “Gadget" law ateo will probably be returned to the house for concurrence in amendments. The Senate will pass a hili repealing the ’ 1937 “gadget” law. just as the house did. but is likely to establish some \ regulations concerning the display of automobile ownership certificates. As passed by the house, the measure would repeal the 1937 “gadget" , ' act htH would set up no regulation to replace it. The Senate, ptobably, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | JUDGING TEAM PLACES SECOND Second-String 4-H Dairy Judging Team Places Second Adams County s second string 4H dairy judging team, coached by Sanford Frazee, took second place | in a contest in which 13 4-H club j teams were entered at Columbus, Indiana, this week. The judging was on four classes of Brown Swiss cattle. Franklin Steury. out of a poss-| ible 250 points, secured 203 points, | being top ranking individual for the entire contest. Alvin Nussbaum filled place fifth with a score , of 191 and Lester Habegger placed > tenth with a score of 187. The i first placing team was coached by vocational instructor Cobb of Madison county, who coached the successful team at the local judging i contest in connection with the Decatur Free Street Fair last year. The first and second string teams will both compete at Pine Manors near Goshen on Tuesday, July 26, and will also enter the locally sponsored judging contest Wednesday, August 3. o Indianapolis Cops Nab Errant Monkeys Indianapolis. July 23 — (U.P.) Policemen can't stand monkeyshines. especially from monkeys. *So Patrolmen Wray and John- i son started after two they saw in I a front yard, and were led a merry j chase. An appreciative crowd followed: the monkey chase through alleys, over fences, telephone poles and j trees, where one finally was caught' when his chain became entangled. The other was hauled down from ' the top of a telephone pole. The j monkeys were, returned to their cages at a carnival from which they had escaped. _o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a.m 70 11:00 a.m. 78 10:00 a.m 75 WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Sunday; somewhat warmer Sunday north portion.

Russia Protests To Poland After Police Activity

COURT VOIDS BOARD RULING U. S. Court Os Appeals Voids Ruling By Laher Relation Board Washington, July 23 — (U.R) Charles Fahy, general counsel of the national labor relations board, said today that he would ask the i board to appeal from a decision of the seventh I'. S. circuit court of appeals at Chicago which voided a | labor board finding in the Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation case. The court decided yesterday that i since "an employer is justified in discharging employes who seize 1 property against his will," the j board erred in ordering the FanI steel company to reinstate 83 per--1 sons whom it had discharged for I conducting a sit-down strike at its I North Chicago plant 17 months ago. “I hope the board will appeal the i ease to the supreme court because i I think that it should." Fahy said. “This case involved only an unfair I labor practice by the employer in I which the circuit court opinion indicates that it agrees with the I board." In the majority court opinion, .Justice Will M. Sparks said: "In I this (the sit-down) they (the employes) violated the law which they now seek to enforce against i the petitioner.” Justice Walter C. Lindley con- | curred. Justice Walter E. Treanor i dissented. The board had ordered the Fansteel company to reinstate disi charged employes and to enter into bargaining with the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and ■ Tin Workers Union of North Ainer- , ica. a C. 1.0. affiliate. The union charged that the compauy refiutd to bargain collective- ( . ly. that it hired an agent to spy i upon the activities and membership of the union, and that it at- ! tempted to organize a company union and threatened to discharge all who did not join. A labor board examiner's report i found that the company was engaged in unfair labor practices. It ! was this report that ordered rein- | statement of the discharged employes and collective bargaining with the union. The court's ruling threw out the entire board order, but it asserted i that the “present employes htill | have their right of bargaining without interference of the petitioner (Fansteel) and this may be enforced upon proper procedure.” There seems to be no denial by < the board that there was ample cause for "discharge,” the majority 1 opinion said. “Indeed in the argu- 1 ment before this court, the board : admitted that the men in conduct-1 ing a sit-down strike and resisting > the officers ‘did a foolish and illeg- I al act.’ Certainly it cannot be denied that an employer is warranted ; in discharging his employes, and ; severing that relationship, when they take and retain exclusive , possession of his property against his will.” "They (striking employes) had a complete and adequate remedy (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) ADDED FLOATS FDR FAIR WEEK Four Additional Firms Contract To Enter In Float Parades Four more firms have contracted for floats in the float and band parade of the Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show, members of the fair float committee announced today. The four new contracts bring the I total firms, which have signified their intentions of entering floats in the parades to 20, they stated. The new firms are: Giles Porter I Tire Co., Burk Elevator, Habegger I Bros., of Berne and Van Wert county fair association of Van Wert, Ohio. The list of firms which had al--1 ready entered floats was published in a previous issue. The members of the float committee are: Dr. H. V. DeVor and Maurice Kindler. It is considered possible that three or four additional may enter floats before the final day. The big float parade will be held on Wednesday afternoon and evening of fair week.

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Protests Angrily Against Police Repression On Russian Embassy And Officials. SHADOW EMPLOYES Moscow, July 23 - (U.R)—Russia has protested angrily to Poland against "intolerable” police repression against the Russian embassy and Russian diplomatic officials at Warsaw, it was announced today. The protesting note asserted ' that embassy employes, even those possessing diplomatic passports, were kept under police surveillance and that some were taken to police stations and required to sign depositions. Embassy employes were shadowed, visitors to the embassy and servants were arrested, it was asserted, and mail and newspaper deliveries to the representatives of the official Tass new agency were forbidden. The protest asked a cessation of police “repression" and a resumption of formal relations. It was indicated that the government was becoming increasingly resentful of what it believed to be unauthorized interference with Russian diplomatic envoys abroad. Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov, in rejecting a demand by Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu that Russian troops evacuate a disputed hill on the Siberia-Manchukuo-Korea frontier, took occasion to protest against police inactivity when Japanese demonstrators tried to invade the embassy at Tokyo. Litvinov charged that on July 19 Japanese “vaded" the Tokyo embassy and distributed provocations! hand bills. "Although usually no person can enter the embassy without being stopped by the considerable police I force on duty there," Litvinov said, “the latter made no attempt to prevent the incursion of the band into the embassy.” As regards the frontier incident, Russian authorities made it known that they had found new maps of the disrupted area. Some suspicion was expressed in nonofficial quarters that Japan had artificially created the incident —possibly to withdraw attention from its troubles in China. Russia had cited maps attached (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) — ■ — 1 'M ■ ■■ ■ Discount Suicide In Youth’s Death Michigan City, Ind., July 23.— (U.R) —Police today searched for evidence of foul play in the death of Abner Dilley. 11, 18-year-old son of a Grand Rapids, Mich., attorney, whose body with a bullet wound in the forehead was found on the Lake Michigan beach near here Thursday night. Authorities said they were pressing their investigation at the insistence of the youth s father who ridiculed the idea his son committed suicide. Police found a pistol holster on Dilley's body but were unable to locate the gun. His shepherd dog was found shot to death two miles from where he was found. o | Two Men, One Swarm I Os Bees, But Not A Sting In The Crowd ♦ —♦ Three hardy residents of Adams county have offered their services to Willis Fonner, Decatur barber and beekeeper, to make of their bodies human beehives during th« Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show'. August 1-6. Mr. Fonner will present a performance four afternoons of th') week. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, when he demonstrates the method for hiving :i swarm of bees. The performance will be shown near the conservation tent at Third and Madison streets. That spectators may watch the demonstration unendangered by the bees, a special cage is being constructed for the bees. Mr. Fonner and the volunteer. An Adams county volunteer will act during the first three afternoons, and a representative from the state conservation department will be present Saturday afternoon. While the bees to be used in the demonstration will be regular, "stinging” bees, Mr. Fonner asserts that his assistants will be safe as the proper method of hiving swarm results in “not a sting in swarutiul,”