Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 11 August 1938 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

NO- ' B ’-_

to German Plane I Compos Record Over Ocean Flight ;

fit Westward Hight From di, To Ne» ' ork kis Aft* rnoon ' UPRISE FLIGHT i 1 Hjrurg arrived here at BrJU •' tetldV. completing 'f.e-tward n» n a,op f, . iK,,t * jwinile course from , York in 24 hours 1 1 all metal conJ. designed to carry 'LL took off secretly , airdrome near , tl’lsp.mfST yesterday. , [iw its scheduled departure L to take advantage of favfather over the North At- , flight. made to test the ‘ Bv' of 24-hour mail and service between the two ns comparable in aviation [ , only to the New York to fligilt made by the late p„,t in 1933 at the start of sh around the world. ; (|ew the distance in 24 hours i Minutes. ] peat airplane, making Gerllatest bid for transatlantic an. flew the great circle ho Berlin. It made its first y otcr Newfoundland, turnfthward over the Gulf of St. nceand New Brunswick, and snoss Massachusetts and ’ bland Sound to Floyd Bentjort. ■ Brandenburg is a Frockeawlur type plane powered by tarnet motors built by the ‘ na; Motor works and each lit si generating 720 horsetad he craft is of a type Bi to carry 26 passengers, it BXIED ON PAGE FOUR) ( mSLfifER IS REPRIEVED FReed Swain Saved Chair By Habeas Corpus Writ i tkigan City, Ind., Aug. JI — Hames Reed Swain, 18-year Evansville negro, was saved lit electric chair at the state I early today by a writ of haeorpus on the ground that his fitment papers were not corentey Tenola Graves obtained trit from Judge Russell W. io! the Laporte superior court It was served on Warden Al- ; to’ii at 11:30 P. M. (CST) Icalled oft the execution a few Bister. *ls was to have died in the , de chair shortly after middor the murder of Chris Bred70, an Evansville grocer, IS an attempted holdup. James Wer, Swain's accomplice, is J's life time for the crime. L-Bailey. Swain's Indianapolis 'ey. discovered the error in “amitment papers. They plachm in custody of former warE. Kunkle and ‘deputies' •rdered him to carry out the Petition. “lining the writ Groves • hat inasmuch as Kunkel no ' * " rar(i6n - having resigned broths ago, he had no deputS l m ci>uld not ca rry out the on the writ will be held page TWO)'"' tal Men Attend State Convention and Tilman Oe ™« Ja B o Y o : Garywhere «>ey HUvaTn^ 6 Btate conVention » of Mooje as of ' ' x° E Adam 3 ,od 8* M . «*! others are planning to READINGS EMOCRat JHERMOMETER ” 82 3:00 p m 90 We ather fesjr* Friday:

POPE’S LOSS IS NEW DEAL BLOW Defeat Os Idaho Senator J Is Blow To Administration Washington. Aug. 11. — |(U.R) Idaho's Democratic primary today ' produced the first reduction in the new deal's senate strength. President Roosevelt lost a lOOfi per cent supporter in Sen. James P. Pope. D’, Ida., who was defeated by Rep. D. Worth Clark, a self-1 styled conservative who courted— I , and apparently received— Republi- j ( can support. Os the three senatorial contests ; . in Tuesday's primaries, however, the new deal won two—in Ohio ( and Arkansas. In both the presi- ( dent had indicated his desire to ( have the incumbents. Sens. Robert J Bulkley. D.. 0.. and Hattie W. ( Caraway, D., Ark., renominated. f During his recent trans continental ( trip, he referred to both as his , friends. Bulkley was renominated by a two-to-one margin. Mrs. Caraway, , however, was pressed harder by , her opponent, Rep. John J. McClel-j lan. On the basis of almost complete returns she held a small but , , comfortable margin. 11 Mr. Roosevelt, on his way back to Washington after nearly a month's absence on a fishing vacation. made no comment on the resuits. But they apparently had no i; effect upo nhis determinaiton to . urge the primary nomination of, outright new dealers, opposed by. candidates he has described as | “yes, but" supporters. Entering Georgia yesterday, he, declared for U- S. District Attor-! ney Lawrence Camp, candidate or . senator against Sen. Walter b •;' George. It was understood that in one of his two speeches today he would say more about his opposition to George. Although Mr. Roosevelt had said I nothing in behalf of Pope, the new i deal was a clear cut issue in the Idaho primary. National Democratic committee chairman James A. Farley had spoken in his behalf, and Secretary of State Cordell Hull had praised his position On the administration's reciprocal tiade treaty program. Idaho's unique primary ballot, on which appeared the candidates , of both parties, probably figured in Pope’s defeat, making it less of an anti-administration victory than appeared on the surface. But re- , gardless of the cause political | Washington believed that new deal 1 prestige would suffer from the fact that a co-author of present farm ; act failed to win renomination in an agricultural state. In off years encounters with conservative elements within the Democratic party, new deal candidates have held their own in many pieces, but have failed to make an important gain in congressional strength and have lost several con- | ] (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) O FREE LIME AT SUGAR COMPANY I' Company Again Makes Free Lime Available To Farmers The Central Sugar company has installed a drag line at its yard and is beginning immediately to give away free lime to farmers in this area. I As in the past, in addition to the donation of the lime, it will be loaded free of charge onto trucks or wagons owned by or hired by the farmers wishing to improve their crops. Since the beginning of this ser-; vice to agriculture a few years ago hundreds of tons of lime have been obtained by land owners and the ■ benefits to the soil are already apparent. As the lime is a by-product of the beet 'processing industry, it contains considerable organic matter which includes a number of Important fertilizing elements, besides its ability to correct the excess acidity of a large part of the soil in the area. The drage line will remain in the Central Sugar beet yards for at least a week, possibly two weeks.

MERIT SYSTEM IS ANNOUNCED BY GOTTSCHALK System To Be Used To Select Employes In State Hospitals Indianapolis. Aug. 11 — <U.R) — Thurman A. Gottschalk, state welfare director, announced today that the Indiana merit system will be used to select employes of all state hospitals for the insane. Adoption of the merit plan will take place immediately, he said, I and the present patronage system of selecting employes will be discarded. The announcement followed a meeting yesterday of five state institution superintendents in which a program to begin immediate testing of present personnel was adopted. Gottschalk said that committees will be set up by the state welfare department to supervise tests which will be given to all employes in state institutions. The director asserted that adoption of the merit system was not a result of recent deaths among patients in state hospitals. “The institution of the new system was decided on long before the situation at the central state hospital or at the Richmond hospital occurred." he said. "We began working on it two months ago.” Gottschalk outlined a seven point program for improving personnel at the institutions. The reforms will include: 1. Adoption of the merit plan for selecting institutional attendants and employes. 2. More humane working conditions for attendants with fewer working hours. 3. Training courses for attendants. 4. More trained nurses for state mental hospitals to assist in new treatments to be adopted. 5. An increase in the discharge rate of patients from mental hospitals through the aid of new types of medical treatment. 6 Development of a social (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ENROLLMENT IN CLUB HIGHEST 103 Members Are Enrolled In Gold Medal Colt Club Enrollment in the Gold Medal Colt club activity has been completed July 30th, and Adams county reports the largest enrollment that it has ever had. One hundred three members have enrolled 139 colts and six get-of-sires. The members are as follows: Tillman Affolder, Ned Alspaugh, Earnest Anderson, Zack Archbold. Henry Aschleman, Daniel Augsburger, Noah Augsburger, Palmer M. Augsburger. Chas. Bailey, Marion Baker. Wilbert Baker, Roy Balsiger, Ivan V. Barkley, Silvan Bauman, Cloice Beam. Arthur Beeler. W.. A. Biery. Fred Bilderback, Ben Bixler, Ed Bollenbacher, L. A. Braun, Adolph Bultemeier, E. W. Busche, Helmuth Carlson, Eicher Bros., Fred Eickhoff, Eugene Farlow, James M. Foreman, Winfred Gerke, Rudolph Fuelling, G. G. Gottschalk, Martin J. Graber, I Frank Habegger, Jones & Habegger, Jacob Haggard, Frank Hamrick, Frank Hanni, Earl Haines. John H. and Christian Hilty. Johi Hindenlang. Rufus Hirschy, Henry 1 W. Hockemeyer, O. T. Johnson & i Son, Christ Knipstein, William Kohne. Paul Krueckeberg, Kruetzman Bros., Dewey Kuhn, Harry Lehman. Otto B. Lehman. Peter B. Lehman, Walter Lehman. Lengerich Bros., Calvin R. Liechty, Jeff Liechty, McAhren Bros., Menno Mertz, B. H. Miller, Kenneth Mitchel, Russel Mitchel, William Mitchel, Homer E. Neuenschwander, Joel Neuenschwander, Leon Neuenschwander, Edwin Neuhauser, Forest Railing. S. S. Reynolds, Everett Rice, William Riff. Leland A. Ripley, Chester Roth. C. C. Runyon, Floyd Rupert. Herman Scheumann, H. P. Schmitt, C. W. >R. Schwartz, Ernest R. Sharp, Floyd Shoaf. Roy Shoaf. Archie ' Smitley, Chalmer Smitley. Matir- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) Sons Os Legion To Meet Monday AH members of the Sons of the American Legion are asked to meet Monday night at 7:00 o’clock at the local American Legion home. It is urged that all members attend, as Important business is to be transacted. .

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 11, 1938.

President Roosevelt Back Home I * .1.1 -.J 1 L ■ President driving through Pensacola, Fla. Back in United States after an extended fishing trip through Pacific waters. President Roosevelt appeared tanned and fit as he drove through the streets of Pensacola, Fla.

COOLING WINDS BRING RELIEF Central Plains Area Gains Heat Relief After Showers (By United Press) ( A mass of cool air. borne by northwest winds, swept over the central plains area today and brought temperatures down from record highs to near seasonal averages. The cool front was expected to reach as far east as New England by tonight. Temperatures dropped sharply in parts of the southwest and in the northern Mississippi valley early today, the first break in stifling heat which has covered most of the country for four days. U. S weather forecaster J. R.' Lloyd predicted thundershowers for the Ohio valley and southern Missouri and light rains in the lower lakes regions, western Penn- , sylvania and Virginia. Cooling ( showers, which fell throughout the night, kept temperatures down to ( normal along the eastern seaboard At Kansas City the temperature dropped 20 degrees in five hours from a maximum of 103, the seas- ' on’s highest. At Chicago the mercury which yesterday rose to 95, a high for the year, had dropped : to 78 early today. Four persons, three men and a woman, died from the heat there. Continued high humidity in most sections added to the discomfort. At Washington, D. C.. an electric storm climaxed the most humid day of the summer. Lightning struck the roof of the union station and splintered a flagpole on the U. S. treasury department building. The highest temperature there yesterday was only 90. but the humidity was 80 per cent, far above normal. Over maximum temperatures: Springfield. 111., and Dodge City, , la., 100; Wichita, Kan., 102; Boise, [ Ida., 94; Phoenix, Ariz.. 106; New Orleans, 92; Fresno, Cal., 96; and Miami, 84. i

| Adams County Girls Seem To Prefer Out-State Husbands

The power of the halo of fascination that seemingly surrounds the eligible young men fr<wn out of the county and the lack of the same glamour on the part of Adams county's swains in attracting the fair sex, is creditably proven by aj glimpse of the marriage records in the offices of County Clerk G. I Remy Bierly. A total of 183 marriage licenses have been issued thus far in 1938 I to the ladies of Adams county who | called at the office with the object ! of their affections. But the most astounding part—l 104 of the prospective bridegrooms ; were from out of the county and ! out of the state. Only 79 male resi-1 dents of the county were able to successfully court the county's fairest. The allure of Adams county's fair ladies spread into six states, besides parts of Indiana, outside the boundary lines of the county. Young men from Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin

Utilities Values Show A Decrease Indianapolis, Aug. 11.—<U.R> Total assessed valuation of all Indiana utilities property decreased almost $12,000,000 in new assessment figures announced today by the state tax board. Valuations ofr 1938 were estab-! lished at $647,899,181 as compared with $660,347,460 last year, a net decrease of $12,448,279. The utilities pay their property taxes on the valuations to local taxing bodies although the assessments are fixed by the state board. GIRDLER BACKS ! LABOR POLICIES Republic Steel Chairman Appears Before Committee Washington, Aug. 12 — (UP) — Tom Girdler, chairman of tile board of Republic Steel, defended his company’s labor practices before the senate civil liberties committee today demanded amendment of the Wagner act and charged New Deal policies are causing industrial turmoil, Girdler appeared before the committee so ra dramatic defense of his policie sduring the period when executives ot Little Steel rallied to his leadership in resisting last year’s unionizaztio ndrives of the committee for industrial organization. He presented his version of the struggle in Little Steel in a legnthy i statement offered to chairman Robert M. LaFollette, P. Wis., LaFollette, however, refused to permit him to open hte testimony by heading the statement, insisting the committee adhears to a rule that “examination be made first.’ “At any time after that examination. any witness will have every op- i portunity to make any statement or! explanation he desires,” La Follette, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

and even Texas called at the office during the year to secure a permit to wed an Adams county lass. Ohio claimants of Adams county's brides leads the list, with 50-odd youths from Bowling Green, Fosj toria, Findlay (a seemingly popular producer of bridegrooms), Newark, I Bucyrus, Canton. Willshire. Van j Wert, Cleveland, Ashland and many ; other Buckeye cities, marrying the ■ girls from here. While Fort Wayne, Portland. Huntington. Bluffton and other I neighboring Indiana cities have i done their share in contributing ; eligible bachelors in an effort to [ keep the county’s fair sex within I the Hoosier state, Indiana has been sadly outnumbered by the Ohio lads. The honor of traveling the furthest to claim a bride from Adams county undoubtedly goes to Keith Kelton, El Paso. Texas engineer, who came all the way from the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR).

GOVERNMENT TO STOGY PROBLEM OF WAGE SLASH Mediation Board In Conference Over Railway Pay Cut Chicago, Aug. 11—(U.R)—The gov-; eminent today began its effort to' compromise the demands of the railroads for a 15 per cent wage i reduction and the assertions of the railroad workers’ brotherhoods that ; they will strike before submitting, i Dr. William M. Leiserson. chairman of the national mediation board, met first with the carriers’ joint conference committee. He planned to see the labor spokesman later. Leiserson was accompanied by the other members of the board. George A. Cook and Otto S. Beyer., Before entering the conference with Leiserson, H. A. Enochs, chairman of the carriers' commit-, tee, commented: “The condition of the railroads is well known to the public; the roads have overloaded j payrolls which must be reduced.” I In direct negotiations between the railroads and the brotherhoods over the past three weeks, the union leaders have stood on count-! er-demands that the carriers reduce ! their overburdening capital struc- i tures before carving $250,000,000 out of payrolls. Officials in Washington call it I the "biggest job” in the 18-year I history of the mediation board. : Chairman William M. Leiserson was accompanied by George A. Cook and Otto S. Beyer, the other : members. Last year Leiserson single-hand-ied brought the roads and the I brotherhoods together on a compromise which increased wages eight per cent. Both labor and management have declared “no compromise” on the proposed 15 per cent reduction. Management representatives say the financial fate of the railroad | industry is at stake. Intervention of the mediators i marked the second step in the pro-; traeted negotiations established j ; under the railway labor act of [ 1920. Discussions between management ' land labor representatives — the' I first step—ended last week with I the invitation to the mediation I board to intervene. Board members were expected | first to meet with the 15-member carriers’ joint conference commit-; tee. representing management. Conferences with A. F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen's 140,000 members. and George M. Harrison, president of the Railway Labor! Executive's Association comprising 18 other brotherhoods with 774,000 I members, would follow. o Berne Band To Play Concert August 20 Due to a conflict in dates, the, Berne band will be unable to present the final concert of the summer season here tonight, as originI ally scheduled. However, the band will iplay a concert here Saturday evening, Aug-, ust 20. for the final of the summer | series. o FIVE GIRLS TO ! i PLAY AT FAIR Five Members Os Girls’ Band To Play During State Fair For the first time in history, the city of Decatur will be represented In the all-state band at the sttjte fair in Indianapolis. September 3 to 9, it was announced today. Five members of the Decatur! girls’ band, which has achieved j state-wide recognition, have been! invited to take part in the huge music festival. Four of the girls, Monica Schmitt.! Harriet Gilson, Anna Brandyberry and Betty Fuhrman have been Invited to play in the 75-piece symphonic ' band, while one girl, Helen Jean Kohls, has received the invitation to play in the 75piece smphonic orchestra. All of the girls will be eligible for blue ribbon awards for outstanding musicianship and work. Miss Kohls plays a trombone. Miss Schmitt, a clarinet, Miss Gilson the snare drum, Miss Brandyberry an alto saxophone and Miss Fuhrman an oboe. Board and room for the girls will be furnished with-out charge. Each (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO).

Warfare Between Russia And Japan Is Ended By Truce

SHOWERS BRING HEAT RESPITE I) e c a t u r Experiences Temporary Relief From Rainfall After letting residents of Decatur and community swelter for days under a boiling sun and extremely high temperatures, Mother Nature relented last night and sptinkled the city with welcome showers to cause the first temporary break in the heat wave, which has gripped the city since the latter part of July. Late last evening, Decaturites watched with a hopeful eye the Hashes of lightning and rolling black clouds that appeared in the north, hoping against hope that rain ! would fall at an early hour and bring at least a temporary respite ' from the heat. I Cool breezes that forcast the fill- ! ing of the rain brougnt the first re[lief late Wednesday afternoon when the mercury tumbled from 96 degrees at 3 p. m. to hover around 80 before the precipitation. Then about 10 o’clock, as residents had despaired of the community receiving any rainfall, a brisk shower started, swept by cool winds that brought instantaneous relief. Although a warm sun once more greeted citizens this morning as they tumbled from bed, the heat wave had been broken. Wet pavements and raindrops still clinging to trees and homes cooled the morning breeze and the 1 temperatures hovered in the high' 60's. The rain resulted in the first — *- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) CONCERT HERE SUNDAY NIGHT Arlington String Ensemble To Play At Union Service Another in the series of Sunday I evening services being sponsored by five Decatur churches will be held Sunday at the Zion Reformed church at which time Rev. Arlington and his concert company will give a concert of sacred and classii cal music. For ten years head of the I violin department of Manchester i College, Prof. Arlington has become widely known in the mid west, both for his own skill as a concert violinist, and for his string ensemble, which plays regularly on Sunday afternoons from radio station , WOiWO. That the Rex Arlington Concert , Co., Is a musical ogranization of . unusual ability is attested bv music critics and by leading newspapers throughout this part of the country. ' The group recently appeared in a concert at the Presbyterian church, ' Tipton Ind. and the ministers of ths city were warm in their praise of 1 the fine work done by this organi-, zatlon. • 1 The program, which will begin: promptly at 7:30 P. M.. will include violin solos and duets, xyophone solos, as well as numbers by the entire ensemble. The public Is invited to attend this concert which has been arranged by the group of I co-operating churches of the Decatur Ministerial Association. A freewill offering will ibe taken. — o— — Allen County Man Injured In Fall | Frank Gibson 66, of near Mon- ; roeville fell from a hay mow this ■ morning and sustained probable i serious injuries. He was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital where X-rays were taken to determine whether he sustained a fractured hip. The extent of his injuries will not be known until the X-rays are examined. o Volunteer Firemen In Regular Meeting The Decatur volunteer firemen’s association met last night at the engine house in the regular meeting. Rotftine business was conducted. ■

Price Two Cents

Month Os Undeclared War Ends As Truce Is Signed; Plan Commission. HALT FIGHTING Moscow, Aug. 11 — (U.R) — One month of undeclared war betwsen Russia and Japan on the Siberia-Manchukuo-Koi ea frontier ended today in an agreement which offered hope that the diplomats of Moscow and Tokyo might now settle peaceably a dispute which for years had threatened to involve their countries in a conflict of world importance. The Russian and Japanese war offices sent urgent messages to their headquarters at Vladivostok, Siberia, and Kojei (Seoul), Korea, early today ordering formal cessation of fighting at noon. (Far eastern time, specified in the agreement for an armistice, is 14 hours 47 minutes ahead of central standard time. Hence the moment set for the armistice was 9:13 P. M. Wednesday—CST.) Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov and Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shlgmeitsu reached the agreement for an armistice — in reality for what it was hoped would be a definitive end of the fighting —at a conference which lasted, with one interruption, from 7 o’clock last night until midnight. Under their agreement, fighting stopped at noon frontier time. The Russian and Japanese troops are to remain on the line which they had occupied at midnight, so that any fighting after the moment of the agreement here would be ruled out of calculations. Further, a mixed commission consisting of two Russians and two Japanese —a matter for angry dispute ever since Japan seized Manchuria from China in 1931, to form the puppet state of Manchukuo. Both Russia and Japan made concessions of importance in an effort to prevent a war which would have had world wide repercussions. Russia agreed to establishment of the temporary troop lines wherever they might have been at midnight, whether on what Russia regards as the frontier or insidn territory which Russia claims. Until last night Litvinov had insisted firmly that Japanese troops must withdraw from all territory which Russia claims, and that Russian troops retain their present lines. Litvinov made this concession after Japan had made one of her own —an agreement that a commission to negotiate demarkation of the frontier should contain two Russians to two Japanese-Manchu-kuans. In years of discussion of a border commission, Japan had insisted that Japan and Manchukuo should have one representative each for each representative of Russia, so that they would have had a two to one vote. The agreement came in Shigemitsu’s third long conference on peace possibilities. The first two had ended in complete and almost angry disagreement. Litvinov had rejected the proposals made by (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) DEATH CLAIMS MRS. ANDERSON Mrs. Ellen Anderson Dies Today At Home Near Linn Grove Mrs. Ellen N. Anderson, 87, widow of the late John Anderson, ofi near Linn Grove, died this morning at 10:48 o’clock at her home. Deata was attributed to a stroke of apoplexy. The deceased was born in Dayton, Ohio January 6, 1851, the daughter of Rannals and Cynthia Walser. She was married to John Anderson afi the age of 19 and had resided near Linn Grove since her marriage. She was a member of the Eastern; Star the Rebekah lodge and thq old Salem Evangelical church. 'Surviving are the following children Oscar of Muncie, Orestes ot Montana. George of St. Louis Arba, of Mississippi, Carl ot Wabash, Lewis and Miss Mabel Anderson ot near Linn Grove. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:20 o’clock aS home and burial will be made In the Alberston cemetery near there,