Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1938 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

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Base Completes Action To Amend I Compensation Act

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LINE 9F MARCH IS ANNOUNCED Line Os March For Various Fair Parades Are Announced The lines of march for the various parades to be given during the Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show here next week, were listed today by Will, Bowers, parade chairman. On Monday the parade will assemble at the jail yard at 6:30 p. m. for the 7 o'clock opening parade The parade will travel west on Adams to Second, north on the midway to Jackson and west on Jack--1 son to Third. On Tuesday the Fet Parade entrants will assemble at 3:15 o'clock at the jail for the 4 o'clock parade move west on Adams to Second, north down the midway to Jackson ( and then west to Third. For the Wednesday band and 1 float parades at 2 and 7 p. m., the f'oats are to meet at the Waterworks on Third street at 1 o’clock. Floats on Third street are to be headed south. Bands for the parade ! ire to meet at the Decautr Catholic high school, march in formation down Fourth street to Marshall, west on Marshall to Close street, aud then north to Park and east to Third street. The line of combined march for 1 the parade will be south on Third to Adams, east on Adams to First I north on First to Jackson and Mar- ' (COXTINL'E'D ON PAGE THREE) 0 FORD OBSERVES 75TH BIRTHDAY Henry Ford Gives I’ress Interview On Birthday Observance Detroit, July 30 — (U.R) — In a birthday interview, Henry Ford said today that the country needed to rid itself of "a dependent spirit” and realize that there is no "political Santa Claus or economic magic man in the world." Ford was 75 years old. In the past, he and his family have observed his birthday quietly, but today, for the first time, he will participate in public observances —two of them. Receiving the press on the occasion. Ford was reminded that he had said a few months aget that America’s most prosperous period was ahead. “I still mean it.” he said. "But if you expect it tomorrow you may be disappointed. Yet there is no reason why it should not come tomorrow. Do two things — get rid of the dependent spirit that so many artificial experiments have inspired in all of us; start right out as if there were not a political santa claus or an economoi cmagic man in the world — and we will be on the road again. “The trouble with all of us is that we think the future is tomorrow. If it doesn't come tomorrow. then we are not interested in it. It is that kind of here today and gone tomorrow stuff that causes most of our difficulties. We must build, we must plant and cultivate. Things worth while are not grabbed out of the air. “We never had prosperity in this country. We always have been moving toward it. Sometimes we mistook something else for prosperity and thought we had arrived: sometimes we greedily tried to hurry it up, and delay resulted. Rut we*have been headed right. If we take up the course again we shall get nearer to it still. There is nothing ahead for this country but prosperity.” Ford said he had seen signs of an immediate revival of business, but “the whole thing is so mixed up with utterly false elements that there is a danger we may pin our faith to these instead of the coni structive elements.” The automobile industry, Ford believes, still is in its infancy and the “only thing we can do is grow.” Asked if he believes the industry needed a lower priced car, Ford replied that the trend of prices bad to be low if the trend of wages was to be high. “I know that is not orthodox, but (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Among Passengers on Missing Hawaii Clipper !! B 1 V Swb W : Wk R lujSHßk ilk wßi uSHHHHk bbH - - wak E. E. Wyman Dr. Earl B. McKinley K. A. Kennedy ” Here are three of the six passenger aboard the York, and K. A. Kennedy, of Piedmont, California. ' missing Clipper ship, Hawaii. They are Dr. Earl B. division traffic manager for Pan-American Airways ’ McKinley, of Washington. I). C., well known for his Nine members of the crew also are aboard the I work in the field of leprosy; E. E. Wyman, vice plane, unheard from on a trip from Guam to president of the Curtiss-Wright corporation. New Manila, P. I.

DETOUR ROUTES ARE ANNOUNCED I s Detours For State, Federal Highways During Fair Listed , Detour routes for state and federal highways through the city during the Dectur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show were listed today. Traffic enroute south into the I city on federal road 27 will be sent down Fifth street from the north- ! ern traffic light intersection to Nuttinan avenue, west on Nuttman avenue to Tenth street, south on Tenth to Monroe street, west on Monroe to Thirteenth street and then south on Thirteenth out of the city. Traffic on federal road 224 from : the east will be routed north on : First to Marshall, west on Marshall to Fifth, south on Fifth to Nuttman avenue and then west j out of the city Federal road 33 from the north , will be Identical with 27 entering the city, south on Fifth to Adams, east on Adams to Mercer avenue and regular 33. Mercer avenue, which has been closed for resurfacing is to be opened all the way late this after- | noon, while Winchester street is 'to be opened to the Erie railroad i tracks. Russia Protests To Japan After Battle Moscow, July 30 —(UP) Yhe Soviet foreign office strongly protest- • ed to Japan today a new and more 1 serious pitched battle on the Man-chukuo-Siberian frontier where the I Russians said invading Japanese troops were driven off after attempting to seize a disputed border hillside. o— I DENIES ITALY ■ APING HITLER Premier Mussolini Intends To Carry Out His Racial Program Forli, Italy, July 30.— mier Benito Mussolini said in a speech today that the government > I intended to carry out its racial program. He denied that-as the i pope said yesterday— Italy was imi itating Germany. . Mussolini made his statement tn . a brief speech to young fascists at an inspection tour he made, in , the presence of provincial fascist secretaries of the north, of a young I fascist camp. ■ “Hear ye,” he said, and let s everyone know that even in the ' question of race we intend to go straight ahead. t “To say that fascism has imitat- . ed someone or something is simply I absurd.” I “Mussolini came to Forli this ' morning from Riccione, where he ■ spent his 55th birthday yesterday. His pharse “we intend to go I ahead” is in Italian “noi tireremo 1 diritto.” the fascist motto. Naturally his remarks were in- ' - terpreted as a reply to the vigor- ■ otts criticism by the pope yester- ; day of racialism and nationalism. 1 “We ask ourselves,” the pope i said, “why Italy with unhappy , imitation felt the necessity of j copying Germany.” ,

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 30, 1938.

I Swimming Pool To Be Open Mornings As has been the custom, the city II swimming pool will be open in the morning and not during the after-' I noon and night of fair week. Marion ■'Feasel, director of the pool, stated that the pool would be open from *9 until 11:30 in the morning, beginnI ing Monday, August 1. Thia schedi tile will be maintained during the ' week, including Saturday. The reg- , ular schedule will be resumed next I i Sunday. DEATH CLAIMS :| MRS, FLEMING — Mrs. Lucinda Fleming Dies This Morning After Long Illness > Mrs. Lucinda E. Fleming. 78. died : at 5:45 o’clock this morning at her home in Union township. Death waa i due to complications of old age. She ; had been ill for the past two years , and confined to bed for the past i four months. The deceased was born in Adams i' county June 2, 1882, a daughter of ‘ Christian and Roee Hines-Fleming. • She resided here her entire lite. She I married J. A. Fleming July 18. 1882, I I and was a member of the Union ■ Chapel U. B. church. The following children survive: | John and Edna, at home; Mrs. Hazel Gibson. Monroeville; Mrs. Mon- ‘ ema Hawkins, Monroeville; Mrs. I Lucille Miller, Decatur. A son is • deceased. One sister, Mrs, John ■ Hoffman of Richmond, eighteen ■ grandchildren and seven great, ■ granchildren survice. t Funeral services will be held ’ Tuesday afternoon at 1 o clock at • the home and 1:30 at the Union ' Chapel U. B. church. wRh burial in the Decatur cemetery. The Rev. — I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

List Os Historical Sites In I County Tentatively Selected

The tentative list of historical ’ sites in Adams county, as prepared by French Quinn, local histori ian, was released today for public ! suggestions, objections or excep- .! tions. Mr. Quinn, who consented to sponsor the project, has invited I suggestions from the general publie. Any such letters are to be . addressed to him. The project is to be conducted as a federal and state project, with i WPA funds allotted for labor and material. The cost of each marker is about S4O. However, with : the WPA paying for all but the standards, the cost to the county would be but $1 per marker. The markers would be of sheet i steel, 24 inches high and 36 inches wide, with a background of white and the inscriptions, not to conIsist of more than six lines exclusive of title, and not more than 30 letter spaces to a line, in black. The frame would be black. The markers would be perman- ' ent. After wearing out, they would be replaced. For this reason, Mr. I Quinn and the project heads are especially anxious to have the unanimous approval of the county on each of the signs. “The public should have a voice in the erection of these markers,” Mr. Quinn stated. “Long after these sidewalks are gone; long at- , ter this courthouse is gone, the

DOUG CORRIGAN ENROUTE HOME “Wrong Direction” Flier Leaves Dublin For New York Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland. July 30 — (U.R) —Douglas Corrigan, who started out from New York in his S9OO airplane for Los Angeles and | landed in Ireland, wants to make 1 a coast to coast tour of the United States exhibiting his plane, he said J today as he sailed for New York in the liner Manhattan. As soon as he gets to New York i next Friday. Corrigan intends to get his plane, which preceded him | on the steamship Lehigh to Baltimore. A hero's welcome awaits , him in New York. Corrigan received a hero's fare- ■ well from the Irish. Yord Mayor j Alfred Byrne saw him off at Herb-1 lin. He was cheered at every railroad station on the way to Cork. . Mayor J. K. Hickey received hint I at Cork. This morning, as the liner sailed, a big crowd cheered him enthus iastically. Many American tourists came to join in the cheers. Until the tender sailed out for the Manhattan, Corrigan industriously wrote in autographs in the many books proffered. Before he left. Corrigan said that he was considering a Hollywood offer to make a flying movie i and a position In a mid-west aircraft factory. The factory job would remain open until September 1, when he intends to go to the national air races at Cleveland, he said. FAIR WEATHER Weather outlook for the period of August 1 to August 6: For the region of the Great Lakes: mostly seasonable temperatures; not much precipitai tion likely first half of week, shower period within latter half.

l signs will mark for posterity the ■ sites which our forefathers first ■ blazed in establishing the community.” Directional markers would be erected additional for marking of • trails. The tentative list as submitted for public approval by Mr. Quinn: The Winchester road (laid out in 1833, known as the Quaker Trail. Joined Military Road, now the Poe road, in northwest corner section 20, Root township. Wayne’s Trail through Adams county.) The Wayne Trace. The Piqua road. The Plank road route (Willshire to Fort Wayne) Indiana reservation (to be placed on Piqua road at 24-mile creek.) Site of first school house in Adams county (Root township, sec- ’ tion 20.) , Site of first white man's house in county (section 29, Blue Creek township. Henry Lowe in 1819). ■ Site oi white oak tree on which Samuel Rugg blazed the location of Decatur In 1836 (near east bridge). Peace monument (First war . memorial dedicated to peace in United States. Located on courthouse lawn). Site of first house in Decatur. . built by Jacob Hofer, 1837. Site of first courthouse in Ad- ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

All In Readiness For Opening Os Decatur Free Street Fair Monday; Continues All Week

LIST BANDS TO | PLAY AT FAIR Complete List Os Bands At Street Fair Announced Today The complete list of bands, which will participate in th» Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show, which opens here next week, and the respective parades in which they will take part, was given today by Will Bowers, parade and band« ' chairman. The Decatur girls' and Decatur ( : Boys' bands and the American Le- ( gion City band will march in each ' of the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday parades. The following bands, as finally approved by the band committee, , which will participate in the two , Wednesday paradee: < Van Wert. Ohio, high school band j , Fort Recovery, Ohio, high school, ( band; Berne high school l*and, St. p Henry, Ohio high school band. Wren. Ohio, high school band; and i Ohio City, high school band. All outside bands are to assemble ' at the Decatur Catholic high school. Perntissio nto use the school was 1 gianted to the band committee by J the Rev. Joseph J. Seimetz. The committee in charge of this 1 phase of the fair: H. V. DeVor, Will ' Bowers, Maurice Kindler, Oscar ( Lankenau. Walter J. Krick, Walter, < Gard. George Flanders, George Lau-. rent, Charles Langston. Virgil Krick , Earl Colter and Dan Tyndall. o PENNSY SOLONS t TO HALT PROBE — Legislature Passes Bills To Prevent Probe Os Governor Earle Harrisburg. Pa.. July 30—(U.R) — ' The legislature early today passed ■ four bills that will prevent a grand ' jury investigating Gov. George H. Earle and 13 leaders of his Demo- 1 cratic administration. The legislature, convened in 1 extraordinary session by Earle this week for that purpose, superceded 1 the Dauphin county grand jury and i took upon itself the investigation of criminal charges against the 1 administration. The charges, made orally by rival Democrats during the recent primary, were that Earle's forces extorted money from state contractors and employes aud sold legislation. The legislature has a large 1 Democratic majority. The senate, by a vote of 27 to 18. passed the bills after midnight and sent them to Earle, who signed 1 them immediately. The house had ' passed them previously. The legis- 1 j lature then adjourned until Tues- 1 I day. when the house committee, ' set up by one of the bills, will ' I start its investigation. The grand jury had been scheduled to meet Aug. 8. Earle’s followers twice had appealed to the state supreme court to stop the j grand jury investigation and has j ] been refused. In convening the legislature, Earle made a scathing attack on the state judiciary and asked the legislature to investigate it. The charges against Earle were an outgrowth of the primary last : spring, in which Earle campaigned successfully for the nomination to the U. S. senate and Democratic candidates were attacking one another. A Democrat. Charles J. Marglotti, ; candidate for governor on a rival ( ticket to Earle’s first charged in ( speeches that a system of graft ( was rampant, that beer legislation had been sold, that Earle had bor- ( rowed money from a contractor who had been awarded $10,000,000 worth of state business. Margiotti then was attorney general. Earle demanded his proof. 1 Margiotti declined to give it. Earle ousted him and he was subsequent- > ly beaten in the gubernatorial race. 1 Margiotti took his evidence to the I Dauphin county district attorney, a Republican, who summoned a 1 grand jury. i The four bills permitted the leg- . islature to assume jurisdiction over any grand jury investigation that concerns an impeachable state ( official. They prescribed the legisIWNL'INUED. OK PAGE SIX). .

HOPES DIMMED FOR SAFETY OF HUGE CLIPPER Finding Os Circle Os Gas And Oil On Sea Dim Hopes Manila. P. I, July 30—(U.R)—A circle of oil and gasoline on the sea near the position where the Pan American Airways' Hawaii ' Clipper last reported Thursday night today dimmed hopes that the big plane and its 15 passengers would he found safe. The U. S. S. army transport Meigs, searching the area where the Clipper sent out her last position report, radioed that samples of water from a 1500-foot oil spot contained both gasoline aud lubricating oil The message added to the grave fears that the oil slick was left by the Clipper in a crash into the ocean. It was held unlikely a steamship would leave an oil slick containing gasoline. Pan American officials, however, reluctant to give up hope, pointed out that even if the oil spot was left by the Clipper it did not necessarily prove the plane had crashed and sunk, They said the slick could have been caused by the Clipper dumping gasoline and oil preparatory to a forced landing. The giant flying boat, carrying six passengers and a crew of nine, last reported its position at 10:09 p. m. CST Thursday as latitude 12:27 north, longitude 130.40 east. The Meigs reported the oil. which covered an area 1,500 feet in circumference. at latitude 12:11 north, longitude 130.33 east. Army heartqnarterw saH it might be impossible to determine whether the oil catne from the lost flying boat or from a vessel until tomorrow morning. The oil was discovered as darkness was settling over the sea. Pan American officials said the Clipper carried a large quantity of anchor oil used to quiet waters in event a forced landing on the sea was necessary. The plane was not far from the end of its flight to Manila and would not have a great quantity of lubricating oil left. The Meigs turned searchlights over the area covered by the oil in a search for wreckage. Army officials announced that six heavy bombing planes which searched throughout yesterday would take off at dawn to aid the Meigs in searching the area. The oil was south of the course the Clipper had been flying, but j the Meigs gave no indication of the direction of either ocean currents or winds which would have caused the oil to drift. The report from the Meigs said: “Found thick oil 1,500 feet circumference. Lowering lifeboat to take samples of water. Remaining present position until investigation finished." The transport's radio came as hope for the giant flying boat and the 15 persons aboard her faded. Five army bombers which also had (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ————O WORK RAPIDLY ON NEW ROOF Roof Over New School Building Is About Half Completed Erection of the roof over the new junior-senior high school building on Jefferson street is nearly half completed, a checkup revealed, today. It is expected that the construction of the insulated, built-up roof over the main school structure will be completed next week. Roofing has not been started over the gymnasium-auditorium as yet. Wui kun jn are also engaged in pointing up and«polishing the huge white Bedford stone columns and figures in front of the new structure. Bricklayers have completed the laying of the Interior north -val! and are working their way around the stage. All other work is reported to be progressing rapidly. W. E. Rhodehammel, PWA engineer on the project, stated today that all work is exipected to be completed by early November,

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Fair To Open Officially With Parade Monday At 7 p. m.; Many Features During Week. BANDS, PARADES Final plans for the annual Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show, which will open Monday night at 7 o'clock and continue all day and night until midnight Saturday, were completed at the meeting of all fair committee members Friday night. Streets of the city have been decorated, extra lights have been 1 strung, tents for the livestock shows have been erected, and all is in readiness for the location of rides, shows, concessions and free acts Monday. The fair will open officially at 7 o'clock Monday evening, with a short opening parade, led by the three Decatur bands, and city and fair officials. The midway will become a beehive of seething activity Sunday at midnight when the streets of the midway will be marked off for the concessions, followed by erection of the rides, shows and concessions. Special features have been arranged for the entire week and advance indications point to one of the finest fairs in the city's history. Two innovations will be introduced this year, a Pet Parade and Twins Day celebration. The Pet Parade, sponsored by the Decatur recreation department, with George Laurent, recreation supervisor, and Mrs. Marion Feasel as co-chairman, will be held at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Merchants of Decatur have contributed a long list of prizes which will be awarded to the winning pets. Entries may be made by any boy or girl, living in Decatur. Adams . county or adjoining counties, who is under 14 years of age. The Twins Day celebration will be held Thursday. A total of SSO in cash prizes will be given by the fair association to the twins adjudged winners in the various contests. The Twins will parade through the midway at 2:30 p. m. The outstanding spectacles of the week will be presented Wednesday, with the float and band parades at 2 o'clock and 7 o'clock. More than 25 floats are being prepared for both parades and a score of bands will be in the line of march for both the afternoon and evening parades. The annual parade of prize win(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) WILLSHIRE TOT BADLY INJURED Four-Year-Old Willshire Girl Struck By Auto Last Night Eunice Hamrick, four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hamrick, of Willshire, Ohio, was seriously hurt last night when struck by an auto in that town. Ivan Douglass, of Blue Creek township, was the driver of the car. After being taken to the office i' of a Wren, Ohio, physician, she , was brought to the Adams county memorial hospital in this city. The attending Decatur physician repored that she sustained a brain ■ concussion and a slight skull fracture. He stated that hopes are being held for her recovery. The child had not regained consciousness shortly before noon today. The accident occurred as the ; girl darted across a Willshire street, directly in front of the Hamrick residence. Stopping for one car, it was reported that she ' stepped into the path of the ap- ' proaching Douglas auto. The mother and other relatives were with the child, but had stopped at the curb. TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER ! SiW a. m 72 9:00 a. m !74 i 10:00 a. m 77 ■ 11:00 a. m 80 WEATHER Local showers and thunderstorms tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature.