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Boyd May Observes His 84th Birthday Boyd May, who gained local fame an a muskmelon and horse , idisli producer, today came up i town as spry as a thirty-year-old ' youth. It was Mr Muy's birthday. > He was 84 years old. He is feeling fine, enjoying good health and Is able to get around with the spry- • ness of youth. Mr. May was bom in Allen county. August 10, 1854 . and came to Adams county when |he was two years old. He said,! j rve been here ever since and want to stay here.” . o ——— HEAVY LOSSES SEEN AS JAPS. RUSSIANS FIGHT Frontier Dispatches Indicate Big Scale Fight May Be Impending Tokyo, Aug. 10— (UP)— Japanese ! , and Russian troops hastily en- ■ ; trenched themselves on a five mile i front along the Siberian frontier • today after an 11 hour battle in which Japanese asserted that they repulsed repeated Russian attacks . with heavy losses. Dispatches indicated that a big I • scale fight might be impending. The . Russians were massing men behind ; • i their lines. The rumble of field guns ' intensified as the artillerymen fought to silence edeh others bat- . I teries. A. L. Aisin, Russian consul gen- , eral at Keijo (Seoul), capital ot i Korea, left for Moscow today "on furlough,” and It was reported that i Russia might close the consulate general because of the frontier situation. Fighting started in the Changku--1 feng sector at 8 o’clock last night and ended only at 7 a. m. today. It was believed that losses were heavy • on bothe sides. As the infantrymen stopped their 1 fighting at 7 a. m., the artillery took ' . up thew ork. The infantrymen on i both sides dug trenches and, in plain view of each other, erected ■arbed wire entanglements in front ■ of the positions. This afternoon they began ex- ■ changing a brisk bombardment of hand grenades, which they were ; able to throw into each other's ■ 1 trenches. Army auturitlee here said (that Japanese casualties in the ex- : change were light because the Russians could not throw accurately. , The Japanese play baseball. The new Trench line, the first, it was indicated, in the new series ot ' frontier clashes, extended from Hill I 52 northwestward to Changkufeng. ’ The soldiers in the lines were II sweating under a hot, bright sun after a spell of cloudiness. ! Japanese dispatches said that ■ Russians were massing on the Hsul- • infeng sector but that because the terrian was marshy there, and unsuited for trench warfare, they had to bring up their troops along a route which the Japanese commanded. The Japanese permitted the Russians to advanc unmolested, it was asserted, because they did not , want to violate Russian teriitory. Want End to War ' Moscow, Aug. 10— (UP)— Mamoru (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 LEGION OPENS MEMBER DRIVE ( l Adams Post Number 43 Opens Annual Membership Drive The 1939 membership drive of 1 Adams Post No. 43, American bel; gion has been opened here. Ralph I E. Roop, post commander, announc- : ed today. ■ j The committee in charge of the drive has set 120 1939 paid-up mem- > i berships as the goal, whicn they • hope to reach by August 20, first : day of the American Legion con ven ■ tion. All members are urged to contact Eddie Bauer, drive chairman, or any 1 officer of the post as soon as >pos- • j sible to assure the post of reaching i 1 its goal by that date. I \ Last July, when the 1938 member- ■ i ship campaign was closed, there > were a total of 226 paid up mem- • bers in the local post. This was a f substantial increase over the 1937 > figure of 217 members for the same ■ I date. x . Nearly half a hundred members have already paid for 1939 member- '■ ship dues and the committee in ' charge is endeavoring to reach the I quota within the remaining two weeks' period. , ■ j

REPUBLIC STEEL ATTACKS LABOR BOARD'S POWER Corporation Assails Legality Os Board’s Administration Washington, Aug. 10 — (U.R) — Republic Steel Corporation attack-, ed the constitutionality of the [ national labor relations board's administration of the Wagner act today and asserted a right to state its opinions of the purposes, aims and nature of the committee for industrial organization. The charges were made in 616 exceptions and a 136-page brief, opposing a proposed decision by the board against the company, in preparation for oral argument before the board tomorrow. The exceptions attacked almost every section of the proposed order which finds Tom W. Girdler's company ! guilty of violating the Wagner act < during last year's little steel strike. The board has ruled that the I j strike was caused by Republic's' “unfair labor practices.” It directed the firm to reinstate 5,000 CIO ; ■ strikers with back pay beginning i five days after their application Tor reinstatement and to disestab- • lish allegedly company-dominated I unions at five Ohio plants. Republic's brief denied that its ’ alleged unfair labor practices i caused the strike and asked the i board "to frankly and candidly i state in its final findings upon this j subject that the strike at respond-' ent's (Republic’s) plants was caus- I ed solely and proximately by its, refusal to sign the so-called Car-negie-Illinois contract presented to it.” Republic defended the right of Girdler, the board chairman, the I management and supervisory offi- i cials to present their opinions of the CIO, and added: “We contend that the national I labor relations act, as construed by the board in this connection, 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O DREDGE BONDS SALE SEPT. 10 Bonds For Wabash Ditch Case To Be Sold In Auditor’s Office Bonds totaling $133,880.94 in the Wabash ditch case will be sold in the office of the auditor of Adams county at 11 o’clock on the morning of September 10 to pay for the cost of the dredging of the river, duel, from property owners along the ' river who did not pay cash for their assessments. The dredging was ordered by Special Judge Henry F. Kister, of Princeton, who acted in the Adams circuit court. The case is officially known as the Fennig Ditch but has popularly been called the Wabash ditch case due to the fact that it petitions for the dredging of the W’abash river. Although part of the dredging > is to be done in Ohio, the commissioners of Adams county were ordered to issue bonds only for “the remainder ot the cost of construction, including all damages awarded and incidental expenses over and above the assessments paid in each of the work of drain-, age in the counties of Adams, Jay , and W’ells, in the state of Indiana. I petitioned for by William Fennig. I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) —o — BULLETIN Moscow, Aug. 10—(U.R) —First invasion of Jap territory by Soviet troops was announced tonight as the supreme Soviet of the USSR (Russian parliament) opened its second session in the Kremlin palace with a 10-minute ovation for Joseph Stalin. Wild scenes of enthusiasm were enacted in the former throne room of the czars as the red leader entered. More than 1,000 delegates from all walks of |i Russian life stamped and clapped in a demonstration of militant solidarity. TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER — ; 8:00 a.m 78 2:00 p.m 93 10:00a.m 84 3:00 p.m 96 Noon 89 WEATHER i Unsettled, local thundershowers in central and north portion tonight and in east and south , portions Thursday; somewhat , cooler Thursday and in extreme i northwest portion Isite j

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, August 10, 1938.

Evangelist I I, A I -X I Jr Catnp meetings will open next i Sunday, August 14 at Monroe and continue until Sunday. August 28. ■ Nathan Beskins, a converted Jew. | will be the evangelist. The evangelistic singers will be the Rev. and 1 Mrs. B. O. Crowe of Anderson. Ser- j vices are to be held each night at ■ 7:30 o'clock and Sunday afternoo ns at 2 o'clock. The public is in- 1 vit“d to attend. SEEK TO SAVE NEGRO'S LIFE Clemency Commission Asked To Show Leniency For Negro - - Indianapolis, Aug. 10 — (U.R) — The state clemency commission today refused to recommend a stay of execution for James R. Swain, 19 year old Evansville negro, and he will be electrocuted tonight in the Michigan City state prison for murder. Indianapolis, Aug. 10. — KU.R) — The state clemency commission today was to recommend either life imprisonment or take no action; for James R. Swaim, 19-year-old < ’ Evansville negro scheduled to die in the electric chair tonight for the murder of Christ Bredenkamp. ! 70, Evansville grocer. The commission last night deliberated over a petition for com-. mutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment, brought by the Association for Advancement of Colored People. The plea was based on allega-! tions that Swaim was driven to | robbery by hunger, that the fatal shooting of Bredenkamp during the attempted robbery was accidental and that Swaim did not have a fair trial. It commutation is recommended, Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, vacationing at Lake Wawasee, will be notified in time for clemency action to be taken before the execution. scheduled for slightly after midnight tonight. Townsend granted a stay of execution from July 29 to allow time for the hearing. Several prominent Evansville negroes attended the hearing yesterday. R. L. Bailey, Indianapolis (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 MANY APPLYING FOR PAYMENTS Employment Office Is Besieged W ith Applicants This Morning Despite the assurance of E. F. Klxmiller, deputy in charge of un-l employment compensation tn the local state employment office, that; persons eligible for benefits need not hurry to make applictaion, the office was besieged this morning. A large crowd of unemployed or party employed men and women formed a line outside the unemployment office In the council chambers ot the city hail early this morning, awaiting their turns to make applictions. The increase in the number ot applications is caused largely by the repeal of the $lO earning requirement. It was called to the attention of , applicants that application can | made during the week of August j 15 to 20 and the claim will still' be dated August 15 and full credit | will be given for the whole iveek j as a waiting period. This was done to partly relieve the congestion in the office. Repeal of the $lO requirement does not effect any other part of the rules in securing the compensation, it was pointed out,

BONDS WILL BE ' SOLD AUG. 25 St. Mary’s Township To Sell Bonds For School I . Addition Bonds for St. Mary's township’s share of the proposed $62,000 PWA i at the Pleasant Mills school house ; will be sold August 25 and bids ! ■ for the construction of the project | i will be let August 22 The bonds which are to be sold ( at 2 o'clock in the afternoon on , August 25 will be received in the , high school building at Pleasant Mills. , These are to be in two issues. , One issue will total $19,875 and wiH be sponsored by the St. Mary’s ; school township for the class rooms !in the proposed addition. These I are to bear interest at a rate of : not more than 3V4 per cent and | will consist of 15 bonds in the deI nomination of SI,OOO each, and 15 bonds in the denomination of $325 I each. The other issue is to be sponI sored by the St. Mary’s civil township and are to be for the community building facilities. This i issue will total $15,000 and will hear interest at a rate not to | exceed 3H per cent. There will : be 20 bonds in the denomination of $750 each , The bids for the construction of i the building will be received at I 10 a. in. August 22 in the Pleasant I Mills school house. Five types of bids will be receiv--1 ed: for the general construction lof the addition; for the instalia- ' tion of heating and ventilation; for ' the installation of plumbing and ' sewer; for the installation of elec-1 trie wiring; for the combined in- ! stallation of heating and ventilat- ! ing. plumbing and sewer. The plans and specifications are 1 on file in the office of the archiI tects. Houck & Hamilton, In Muncie. Certified checks for 5 per cent of the bid shall be submitted with each bid. o STUDENT TALKS TO LIONS CLUB Quentin R.Chaffee Speaks To Lions Club Tuesday Evening Quentin R. Chaffee, high school i supervisor and principal of Town- ■ send. Pennsylvania, who is attend- ■ ing the Reppert School of Auc- . tioneering here, was the principal speaker last night at the meeting ' of the Decatur Lions club, held in the Rice hotel. "Thinking It Through" wa- the title of the speaker's address, who used the art of being able to forget present misfortunes and unfavorable conditions and look into the future as his theme. The speaker denied the allegations of those who look darkly into the future and cited the conditions of 1857. from which the country rose higher than ever, as a good example of its ability to arise from any crisis. He stressed ethics among bust- : ness men and the country leaders ! | as a solution to a faster return to prosperity and better conditions. Col. Earl Gartin, instructor at (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Youth Is Drowned In Flooded Creek Washington, Ind., Aug. 10—(UP)! Jimmie McCall, 20. drowned in I Flooded Prairie Creek here late yesterday while swimming and wading J The body has not been recovered. Two companions Ruth, 16, and' i Bonnie Grove, 2ft. were rescued as- ! ter they had gone under several I times. I o Reppert, Students Conduct Auctions Col. FrcM Reppert ahd James Patterson. of Columbia, Tennessee, a . student of the local school of auctioneering, returned last evening from Owenton, Kentucky where Col. Reppert, assisted by the student, conducted a sheep sale. Earlier in the week, Col. Reppert, assisted by Robert 'Seitz, student from Waukesha, Wisconsin, conducted a said j of registered sheep at Peewamkee, Wisconsin. The William Bracht house and lot . in Magley was sold at public auction by Col. Reppert Monday to H. A. Hildebrand, of that village. The high bid was $1,160. The students of the school attended in a body and were treated to a practical demonstration of the value of real estate in the county and the method of selling it by auction.

TILMAN GERBER DROPS DEAD AT PORTLANDTODAY Heart Attack Is Fatal To _ Prominent Decatur Resident Tilman D. Gerber, 49, prominent i Decatur resident and veteran meat j packing company salesman, died suddenly this morning about 9:30 o'clock at College Coiners, a small village south of Portland. Mr. Gerber, who had been employed by the Mutschler Packing company here as a salesman for the past 18 years, was making his regular stop at the general store ( in the village there, when he was suddenly stricken and fell to the , pavement. Deputy Jay County Coroner Frye, who was called, stated that death was caused by angina pectoris. The family here was notified immediately through the sheriff's office. Native of Berne The deceased was born in Berne September 15, 1888, the son of David and Sarah Gerber, pioneer Adams county residents. He later moved to a farm near Decatur after his marriage to Lydia Heckman. Nearly 20 years ago he moved to , this city and had resided here ( since. At the time of his death, the Gerbers resided at 334 North Tenth street. , He was a member of the Zion Reformed church and of Adams . lodge 1311, Loyal Order of Moose. His business associations had made , him well known in Decatur and ; the county. Surviving, besides the widow and the father, are three children: Mrs. Robert McGriff, of Portland; Carl , D. Gerber. Decatur meat market . owner, and Mrs. Robert Cole, also . of this city. j , A brother, Edgar, and a sister. Miss Lulu Gerber, both of this city, . also survive. The body was taken to the Baird i funeral home in Portland and returned this noon to the Zwick & ! Son funeral home in Decatpr From 1 there it is to be returned to the ( Gerber residence on Tenth street Thursday morning and may be 1 viewed there until time for the funeral. , Funeral services will be held at . the home at 2 o'clock Friday after-! noon and at 2:30 o'clock at the! Zion Reformed church, with the 1 Rev. Charles M. Prugh officiating. o i Fall From Scaffold Results In Death 'lndianapolis Ind., Aug. 10 —(UP) ' —Robert Marlin. 40, Indianapolis, ' who was injured critically 10 days ago In a five story plunge from the Block building here when he and a fellow worker were cleaning the building, died today in an Indianapolis hospital. Clayton Hogsten, 40. who was ( working with Marlin at the time the scaffold fell, was killed instantly in the fall. Witnesses said Marlin grasped a rope when the scaffold gave way and slid down several stories until his grip failed and he plunged to the sidewalk falling on to? of Hogsten. o GIRLS'DAND TO [ STATE MEETING ■— I Decatur Girls’ Band To Parade At State Legion Convention The Decatur girls’ band will appear in the Monday parade of the American Legion state convention at Indianapolis on August 22, Ralph E. Roop, Adams Post No. 43, commander, announced today. Adams Post is sponsoring the trip lor the band members and paying expenses incurred in making the .parade appearance. Approximately 50 members of the : band and the director, Albert Selle-1 meyer, will go to Indianapolis on: that date. In addition, the pest and' auxiliary will have their colors in the parade, followed by a delega-f tion from each unit. V. J. Bormann. Jamee K. Staley l and Mr. Roop are the delegates from the local post. They will leave on Saturday to attend the business sessions of the convention. About 50 Legionnaires and auxiliary members are expected to make the trip. The Adams county delegation will be in the first line of the parade by virtue of the Fourth district's winning the percentage of membership contest. The local post is part of the the Fourth district.

Governor Davey Is Given Defeat In Ohio Primary

CLARK DEFEATS SENATOR POPE Idaho New Deal Senator Concedes Defeat In Primary Washington, Aug. 10 — (U.R) — President Roosevelt’s campaign for election of strictly pro-new deal primary candidates suffered a severe blow today in the defeat of Sen. James P. Pope in Idaho by Rep. D. Worth Clark, conservative Democrat. Pope was one of three Democratic senators carrying adminis- ' (ration endorsement whose seats were at stake in yesterday’s primaries. Os the others, Sen. Robert J. Bulkley won renomination handily in Ohio over former Gov. George White and Sen. Hattie Caraway : held a small lead in Arkansas over Rep. John L. McClellan. The Idaho contest was most ' significant because Pope was one < of the authors of the farm bill and Clark campaigned as a conserva- i tive Democrat. Pope sought reelection on the basis of a 100 per cent new deal loyalty. He is the first important administration sen- : ator to fall in the primaries. Sen. Herbert E. Hitchcock. D., S. D.. was defeated previously, but by another new dealer, Gov. Tom Berry. The significance of Pope’s de- , feat was complicated by the fact ; that some Republicans apparently voted in the Democratic primary to help vanquish the sitting Democratic senator. Meanwhile the new deal was hop(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) PRESIDENT IN TWO CAMPAIGNS Roosevelt To Speak In Georgia, South Carolina Primaries Warm Springs, Ga.. Aug. 10 — (U.R)—President Roosevelt returned to his “other home” today prepared to restate the philosophy of the new deal in the heat of the Georgia and South Carolina senatorial campaigns. The chief executive came here from Pensacola, Fla., where he disembarked last night from the cruiser Houston after an 11,000 i mile vacation cruise from the Pacific coast. With him he carried the rough ' drafts of two speeches he will deliver tomorrow, one at the University of Georgia in Athens, the other at Barnesville. White House friends looked for Mr. Roosevelt’s verbal shafts to be aimed inferentially at Sen. Walt.-: F. George, anti-new deal Democrat, seeking renomination in the September primaries. He is 1 opposed by Lawrence Camp, a 100 ' per vent new dealer, and former Governor Eugene Talmage, a well ' known enemy of the new deal. ' George incurred White House displeasure by bucking the supreme court plan, wages and hours and I other administration measures and | observers have long felt that he i was a likely candidate for the new deal purge. Some political observers believed that Mr. Roosevelt would not crack down too hard on George in view ( (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Flaugh Funeral Rites Thursday Funeral services for John M. Flaugh are to be held Thurday afternoon at 1 o’clock (CST) at the Ake funeral home in Poe and at 1:30 o’clock at the Antioch church in Poe, instead of the hours previously announced. The Rev. Charles M. Prush will officiate. o Negro Singers To Present Program The Cotton Blossom singers from Piney Woods, Miss., will present a musical program at the Etnauel Lutheran school in Union township Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. The sextet, composed of students of the negro school, will offer hymns, spirituals and plantation songs. No admission will be charged and the public is invited to attend.

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Concedes Defeat In Race For Governor In Bitter Primary Battle; Bulkley Easy Winner. CARAWAY LEADS Columbus, 0., Aug. 10—(U.R)- — Gov. Martin L. Davey today conceeded the Democratic nomination for Ohio governor to his opponent in Tuesday’s primary election, Charles Sawyer of Cincinnati. Gov. Davey sent a wire of congratulations to Sawyer from his home in Kentucky. U. S. Senator Robert J. Bulkley was re-nomlnated on the Democratic ticket and Robert A. Taft won the Republican senatorial nomination. The Davey-Sawyer race was close from the start of the balloting last night. Sawyer gained 438,399 votes as compared to Davey's 412,576. Cochran Ahead Omaha, Neb., Aug. 10 — (U.R) — Gov. R. L. Cochran, seeking to become Nebraska's first chief executive to hold the office a third time, apparently was assured of renomination on the Democratic ticket today. Returns from yesterday’s primary gave him a commanding lead over four opponents. His margin increased steadily as tabulating progressed. Charles J. Warner, speaker of the unicameral legislature, appeared certain of winning nomination as the Republican candidate. He had three opponents, all of whom trailed by several thousand votes. Since there was no senatorial contest in Nebraska, the governor’s and congressional races were of chief interest. A leading new deal senator was defeated, another was renominated and a third was out in front in returns today from primaries in four states. Idaho Democrats chose Rep. D. Worth Clark for the senatorial nomination in preference to the incumbent. Sen. James P. Pope, coauthor of the farm act who based his campaign on 100 per cent new deal loyalty. In Ohio Sen. Robert J. Bulkley defeated former Gov. George White for renomination and will face Robert A. Taft, Republican, in November. In Arkansas Mrs. Hattie Caraway maintained a lead over Rep. John L. McClellan. Nebraska, without a senatorial contest, renominated Gov. R. A. Cochran, Democrat, and nominated Charles J. Warner, Republican, speaker of the one-house legislature. Congressional seats also were at stake in the four states. Latest figures in the important) (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O Returns Inmate To State Institution David Everett, an inmate of tho state epileptic institution at Newcastle, was returned to the village by Sheriff Dallas Brown Tuesday, after he had wandered away several days ago. BOOK SALESMAN SERVING TERM Charles Carey Given FiveDay Term For Fraudulent Check Charles E. Carey, Kansas, law book salesman, is serving a fiveday sentence at the Adams county jail after being senteced by Judgn Huber M. DeVoss on a fraudulent; check charge. Carey was given a fine of sll and costs and the jail sentence after he plead guilty to issuing a fraudulent check for $2. The check was allegedly given! to Milton Werling, Preble service station operator in payment for 4<» cents worth of gas. The change! was taken by Carey, it is charged. He was apprehended in Huntington after allegedly endeavoring to issue a worthless check there! and was returned to the local jai( by Sheriff Dallas Brown. Frank Click and Roy Shoaf, wha plead guilty to a charge ot vehicla taking before Judge DeVoss last} week, are still being held in tha jail, awaiting the decision of the, court. j