Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1938 — Page 1

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CONFERENCE ON NUTRITION HELU Central Soya Co. Is Host To 200 Men Here On Friday i - . The nutrition conference for veterinarians, sponsored by the Central Soya Company. Inc., held here Friday, was attended by about 200 veterinarians and agricultural ex--1 perimeht station workers from Indiana. Ohio, and Michigan, many 1 of whom left their work and drove 1 long distances to attend this meeting, the first of its kind ever held. ' The morning was devoted to a tour through the soybean processing plants and the McMillen Feed Mills. Following this tour, the groups were served a buffet lunch at Suu ' Set park, where the afternoon pro--1 gram was also held The address 1 of welcome was given by Roy Hall. ’ executive vice-president of the ‘ Central Soya Co., Inc., who then 1 introduced Dr. George Gillie, of Ft. ’ Wayne, who welcomed his fellow 1 veterinarians. Dr. L. A. Merillat. the dean of the veterinary proses--1 sion then presented a sketch of • the progress of the veterinary profession. ‘The feeding value of soybean 1 oilmeal" was then discussed by an ’ eminent array of nutritional auth- ' orities, who covered the subject for ’ the various species of livestock as ‘ follows: Prof. F. G. King, of Purf due University, beef cattle; Prof. ‘ C. F. Huffman. Michigan State col- • lege, dairy cattle; a paper on sheep by D. S. Bell, of Ohio Agricultural experiment station, who was not ‘ able to be present, was read hy W. L. Robinson, pr. R. M. Bethke, r one of the foremost authorities on poultry nutrition, covered the sub- ' ject of poultry, and W. L. Robison. 1 of the same station, covered the ' subject of hogs. A most excellent and scholarly talk on protein pois- ’ oning was given by Dr. B. H. Edgington of Ohio State University, college of veterinary medi-; ’ cine. | 1 1 Dr. HR. Kraybill, state chemist 1 1 of Indiana, covered the subject of 1 “Are Feeding Stuffs the Cause of ‘ Suspected Poisoning" by quoting from the records of his laboratory 1 covering some 700 examinations of • feedstuffs. A short talk on “Co--1 operation" by Lyman Peck, direc--1 tor of nutrition of the Central Soya 1 Co.. brought the afternoon program • to a close. Many very flattering • comments were made by the visit- ’ ors following the program, who ’ stated that the Information pre--1 seated would be of material value ' to them in their veterinary pracs — (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) , o ' Fair Sidelights 1 1 A pocketbook and drivers’ license ? belonging to Dan Gehrig, was found i on the midway last night and s trough to the police booth. The ar--1 tides were returned. :> A large container from the B f’snowbaH” stand, corner Second and Monroe, was reported Ly the ’ concessionaire to have been stolen last night. Lester Reinking reported to the police booth, that his lady companion lost a wrist watch on the mid- ' way ' Six patients were treated at the Red Cross booth last night. The resS pite from the heat was thought to have lessened the number of dally | patients. A prowler at the C. A. Stapleton home last night was frightened g away by the combined appearance t, of Mr. Stapleton and his two sons, n 1- Officials at the flower show In t- the court house were surprised Thursday to see some of the most n respected citizens of the county o suddenly begin taking flowers from d one of the commercial displays in the court houae. An investigation 1- revealed the cause. A supply of cad talogues had been exhausted. In 1- front of the catalogues was a sign reading “Take one.” After the cata>l logues were gone the sign made it 8 - appear that the flowers were to be y taken. y ■d Bobby Huser, young son of Martin Huser, of north east of Berne, >t was returned to his parents late e Friday after he became lost on the midway.

Mayor La Guardia Officially Welcomes Corrigan ! mwR CLlf—-Jir 1 V* jO bl ▼ rh- a. Z1 . W* 4 ’'' • W M " ' l ' ' tESE ’JmE k H WbIM J WHKnSM 4 /SB w w Hl Wl f ' Mi M Following a triumphal procession from the Battery to the city hall. Douglas Corrigan, daring young Irish flyer who crossed the Atlantic in a second hand “jaloppy." was officially welcomed by New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, right, as Harry Corrigan, center, brother of th>‘ aviator, stood by.

JACOB SCHUELER TAKEN BY DEATH Retired Preble Tbwnship Farmer Dies Early This Morning Jacob Schueler, 77, prominent retired Preble township farmer, died this morning at 3 o’clock at his home. Death was caused by apoplexy. The deceased was born in Preble township November 14, 1860, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Schueler. He was a member of the St. Paul’s Lutheran chuich. His wife preceded him in death in 1907. Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Adolph Bieberich of Root township, Adolph and George Schueler of Preble township, Herman • and Robert, of Texas. A son, Otto, is deceased. Two brothers. John | of Fort Wayne and Fred of Preble, one sister, Mrs. Mary Werling of Preble, also survive. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the house and 2 o’clock at the church, with burial in the church cemetery. The body will be returned home this evening from the Zwick & Son funeral home. Leg Is Broken In Fall From Bicycle Barbara Elaine Roop, 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Roop, is confined to her home with j a compound fracture of the right leg, sustained when she fed from her bicycle. She was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital for an X-ray and later returned to her home. She is reported recovering' nicely. o— — TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m - J 6 10:00 a. m - ■••• 79 11:00 a. 83 — WEATHER Probably local thundershowers tonight and Sunday. Slightly cooler in northwest and west central portions tonight. j

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 6, 1938.

* FREE ACTS PROGRAM * AM. Saturday 1:0—Wells Bros., Third and | Monroe. | 2:oo—Bee act, South Second. | 3:3O—H uma n Cannonball, | . First and Monroe. j J ; 5:00 —Diving revue, First and |t Madison. j 7:oo—Wells Bros., Third and | Monroe. I B:3o—Human Cannonball, | r First and Monroe. : 10:00 —Diving revue, First and |- s Madison. | i IMS' BAND TO MICHIGAN CITY Decatur Girls’ Band In j Indiana Days Parade This Afternoon Led by a state police motorcycle I' escort, the Decatur girls’ band left 1 early this morning for Michigan i City, where the group is to appear j ' in the huge Indiana Days parade, ■ as a part of the annual festival. I Besides the police escort, a i school bus and five cars composed i the caravan, carrying the 50 girls ; their director, Albert Sellemeyer. and a few enthusiasts. The police escort was arranged ' by Bill Bell, state police commissioner, of this city. At Ligonier, ' the band will be given a new escort from the Ligonier state police j barracks. Out of 122 positions in the parade this afternoon, the local band ' has been given 19th place. This is, Mr. Sellemeyer states, ' I one of the greatest honors ever be- ‘ stowed upon the local group of, ' musicians, and was directly due to > ; winning first place band honors at ' Dunkirk recently. n Homestead Group To Meet Here Wednesday A special meeting of the Homestead Association will be held in the circuit court room at the coun- 1 i ty court house Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. All residents of the homestead are urged to attend as j important business will be discuss-1

CONTEST WON BY FUNK TEAM More Than 3,000 Witness Horse Pulling Contest This Morning A team owned by Clark Funk of Decatur won first place in the annual heavyweight horse pulling contest this morning by pulling 4.803 pounds three feet and three inches to beat a team owned by Glen Myers of Berne by one and a half inches. More than 3,000 persons saw the contest. This was one of the most highly contested in the history of the annual event. Poor conditions made it impossible for the heavyweight teams to pull as much today as the lightweight teams did Friday, when all of the winning teams moved 5.441 pounds and the winning team pulled this weight the required 10 feet to qualify for the next load. The ground was sticky from the rain Friday afternoon and the humidity prevented the horses from being at their best. Question Raised A question was raised when the turn came for the Funk and Myers teams to make their final attempts at moving the 4.803 pounds the required 10 feet. The Funk team, which had, by the second pull, dragged the weight ILa inches farther than the Myers team, arrived at its third and final pull, first. The point in dispute was whether the Funk team would be disqualified if it failed to make its third pull at its proper time and could pull after the Myers team if the Myers team beat the Funk team’s record. This was doubly important in view of the fact that the mud boat was imbedded in the sticky clay and that the team which moved it even slightly would help the succeeding team. The judges ruled that Myers would be required to beat Funk’s record before Funk would be compelled to make his last pull. When Myers did not do this, Funk's team was declared the winner of the S4O first prize and the Glen Myers team the winner of the $25 second prize. Ralph Bollenbacher’s team from (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

Decatur’s Annual Fair And Agricultural Show To Close At Midnight This Evening

KENTUCKIANS I CAST BALLOTS IN PRIM ARIES i Voting Today Climaxes 1 Bitter Primary Campaign In Kentucky Louisville, Ky., Aug. S. — (U.R>~~ Ken;'icky Democrats select their 1 nominee for the United States sen- I ate in primary votig today and 1 provide a clear-cut test of the - popularity of President Roosevelt I and the new deal. Opposing senate majority lead- 1 er Alben W. Barkley for re-nomi- : natio nwas Gov. A. B. (Happy) 1 Chandler. The issue had been unmistakably drawn in a campaign 1 exceptionally bitter in this state , where political campaigns always ‘ are bitter —President Roosevelt had made three campaign speeches for J Barkley and the last word of the I ‘ Barkley forces to the voters was a plea not to humiliate Mr. Roose- ' velt by defeating the man who became the Democratic leader of the senate through his intervention. i ( Various straw votes and other samplings of public opinion dicat- . ed a Barkley victory and Kentucky political observers agreed with ’ them, though Chandler, who un- ( dertook to “shake hands with every , voter in Kentucky.” was believed ; to have made strong strides in the ( last weeks of his strenuous cam- ( paign. i Four investigators of the senate ] campaign expenditures committee were in the state watching the balloting. They previously had re- , ported that campaign methods on . both sides were such as “to im- j peril the right of the people to a ( free and unpolluted ballot.” The , of coercing WPA workers and fed- , I Barkley forces had been accused I eral employes in favor their can-1 , didate; the Chandler forces had I been accused of identical tactics ( against state employes. Sen. Barkley is 60, rugged, hum- , orless. a veteran politician; Gov. ( Chandler is 40. of a gay. irrepress- , ible disposition who has been in ; politics only 10 years. The Democratic nomination in Kentucky is tantamount to elec- i tion. An estimated 500,000 votes were expected to be cast. The polls open at 5 a. m. and close at 4 p.m. The outcome may be apparent late tonight. But if tabulators have 1 not completed their count by midnight. they must halt until dayShowers, predicted generally throughout the state, may retard voting in rural areas. Barkley and Chandler concluded their campaigns last night. Barkley spoke on the lawn of the lawn of the courthouse in his home town, Paducah. He has opened and closed every one of his campaigns there during 26 years in politics. .He urged his hearers to j “silence the governor's wisecracks | and dash the faint hopes of new | deal haters that the state would ; turn from the president.” “Defeat stares Chandler in the face and he is frantic and sick,” he said. “In another day he can cease having his picture taken.” Chandler spoke at Versailles and Lexington. He reviwed his record as governor, boasted of his success in reducing the state debt two-thirds, and claimed the full support of the laboring classes. Although denied presidential support, he has not ignored the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Wells County Man Fined For Speeding Harvey Langle, of near Bluffton, was arrested Friday by State Patrolman Truman Bierie on a charge of speeding. Langle was charged ' dith driving 60 miles per hour on Adams street. He was fined |1 and 1 costs when he pleaded guilty before John T. Kelly, justice of peace.

DOUG CORRIGAN !' SPURNS OFFERS FOR FORTUNE Irish Flying Hero Dozens Os Offers To i * Make Fortune New York, Aug. 6—(U.R>—Doug-1 ’ las Corrigan, a weary and battered 1 hero, spurned a dozen fortunes i I today and decided to remain just ’ another young man in search of a ' flying job. ’ Offers were accumulating by the hour for him to exhibit himself on ! a stage or talk over the radio at 1 prices of $12,000 to $20,000; to ' become a movie actor for even ‘ larger sums; to write stories of bis 1 life and endorse products he doesn't use. But Corrigan shook his head. 1 demanded with a trace of Irish 1 anger to know who used his pic- 1 Hire in a beer advertisement with- 1 out permission, and said he’s just 1 wait until somebody offered him a ' steady job. It will have to be a 1 flying job, he said, and if it wasn't forthcoming soon (he had only sls ‘ when he landed his S9OO airplane 1 in Dublin after an ocean flight. July 18) he would pick out a few ' products to endorse for profit, but they would be only those he actually used on his flight. He had to have an x-ray made today to determine how badly the 1 cartilage in his chest had been ' torn by the shoving around he took at yesterday's wild celebra- 1 tion in his holier. His program for today included ' a trip to Peekskill, N. Y., to review ' a “fighting Irish” regiment at the national guard encampment, and a 1 dinner of the Dublin Society of ! New York at the Hotel Astor to- ' night. ( His most cheering news today ( was contained in a telegram from Dennis Mulligan, head of the bur- ( eau of air commerce, at Washington, announcing that his five-day ( suspension for flying across the ocean without permission had expired and he could fly again any- . time he wanted. o Two Men Murdered In Broad Daylight Chicago, Aug. 6 — (U.R) —Two , men were shot and killed today by a gunman who stood by their auto , in broad daylight, emptied his gun and then fled. The victims were identified by police as Bruno Switaz, 35, and . Leo Muszinski. 32. Muszinski was . believed to have been a former state policeman. —o NEW CRISIS IN MAYTAG PLANT: — New Controversy Developes Between Company And Employes Newton, lowa, Aug. 6 —(UP) —A new controversy between the Maytag Washing Machine company and the committe for industrial union representing its employees developed today over the company’s announcement it will investigate a nine-day sitdown strike in its plant. The company refused to reveal the number of registered letters sent mployes informing them of the investigation. However, it was reliably reported letters were sent to 275 employees estimated by the company as having participated in the sit down strike June 23 to July 1. Officers of the United Radio, electrical and machine workers of America, a CIO affiliate representing the employes as bargaining agents, immediately telegraphed the company to halt the investigation,

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Midway To Be Closed At Midnight Prompt; Rain Friday Evening Cuts Down Attendance. FAIR WEATHER The annual Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural show will be brought to a close tonight, with fair officials closing the midway promptly at midnight. Witli fair weather in prospect as this story was written, another record-breaking crowd was in prospect for carnival night tonight, which will dose* the fourth annual event sponsored by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. This year's fair has equalled or surpassed previous fairs for attendance. with the Wednesday night crowd to view the colorful float and band parade, the largest to date. Friday night's attendance was somewhat diminished by the heavy rainfall between 5 and 6 o'clock, and cloudy weather which continued for some time. Despite the threatening weather, thousands milled through the midway until long after the final free act at 10 p. in. The regular program of free acts will be presented this afternoon and tonight, with the Wells Bros, at 1:30 and 7 p. tn., Human Caiinonl>all at 3;30 and 8:30. and the Bentum Diving revue at 5 and 10 p. m. Free acts at the 1938 fair have been praised on all sides as among the finest and most spectacular ever presented in this city. The heavyweight horse pulling contest, held this morning at the H P. Schmitt field, was the last of special attractions scheduled for the week. Another great crowd gathered for today's pulling contest, which has become one of the sail’s leading attractions. This year’s fair has been one of the cleanest and most attractive of the annual events, with the concession stands, rides and shows dressed up in attractive style. Two new innovations, introduced to Decatur fairgoers for the first time this year, proved of great interest to those in attendance at the event. The Pet Parade, held Tuesday afternoon, attracted an entry list of approximately 75 boys and girls with their pets. A total of 48 prizes, donated by Decatur merchants, were presented to the owners of the prize winning pets. The Twins Day observance, climaxed with a parade through the midway Thursday afternoon, had (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)? 0 Romance Blossoms For Fair Worker Romance found its way into the Decatur Free Street Fair today and employes of the F. E. Gooding company were celebrating the mariage of one of their fellow workers. It was Henry White, worker on the merry-go-round, who was unable to withstand the advances of Dan Cupid, and last night took Virginia Roberts, Monroe, Michigan beautyoperator as his bride. The Rev. Homer J. Aspy, pastor of the First Baptist church here, performed the ceremony in the house-car of Charles White before a crowd of carnival workers. The newlyweds were serenaded previously by the Legion band, who obligingly played "Here Conies The Bride.” After a wedding trip on the merry-ground, the couple will be at home with the Gooding company. o Hartmann Child Dies At Findlay Mrs. C. D. Teeple of this city received word this morning of the death of Patricia Ann Hartmann, eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hartman of Findlay, Ohio, former Decatur residents. Death was caused by mastoiditis. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 1 o’clock (CST) a( Sidney, Ohio.