Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 205, Decatur, Adams County, 30 August 1938 — Page 1

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COUNTY COUNCIL CALLED TO HEAR HOSPITAL PLANS Proposed Nurses Home Addition Request To Be Submitted A special meeting of the Adams county council has been called tor Friday morning. September 9, at 10 o'clock in the office of County Auditor John W. Tyndall. The meeting is for the specific purpose of considering a proposed issue of bonds by the county commissioners for the construction of a new addition to the Adams county memorial hospital. The legal notice today does not give the amount of the bond issue to be asked by the board of commissioners. When the announcement of the proposed addition was made it was stated it would cost about 155.650 of which the PWA has granted a 125.042 grant to pay part of the cost, and be used by the nurses. The commissioners and the board of trustees stated the general plans for the addition called for the construction of a two story building with a basement. The basement floor would be used for a recreational room for the nurses. The first floor would contain seven rooms and a 25 by 16 foot living room for the nurses. The second floor would be devoted to 13 rooms for the nurses. The plans call for closet space and other special rooms. Members of the board of trustees of the hospital have stated that in cases of emergencies, part of the proposed building could be used as rooms for patients. The commissioners have etn- i ployed D. Burdette Custer as special attorney for the proposed addition, and A. M. Strauss, of Fort Wayne as architect. o “Crime” Careers End In Jail For Youths Aurora, 111.. Aug. 30. —(U.R> —Geo. Ensminger, 13, and Delbert Winn, 12. started out yesterday on a make-believe career as kidnapers and were so convincing they ended up in jail today. They chose Jack Gibson, 11. and Richard Ewen, 9, as their victims, took them to a gravel pit on the handlebars of their bicycles, tied them to trees and then threatened to burn them alive. Finally Ensminger and Winn became hungry and abandoned their hostages. After they had left Ewen freed himself and ran home without untying Gibson. Police were notified, found Gibson, and soon picked up the “kidnapers.” They said it was only a joke but, pending investigations, were locked up in lieu of SSOO bonds on a technical charge of disorderly conduct. — o CALENDAR FOR 1938-39 GIVEN City Public Schools Will Open On Tuesday, September 6 The tentative school calendar for the 1938-39 term of the Decatur city schools was announced today by Superintendent Walter J. Klick. School opens next Tuesday, September 6. The first vacation will occur on October 27 and 28 when the annual northeastern Indiana teachers' association meeting is held. Christmas vacation for the students will open on December 23 and school will be resumed on January 2. The second semester of the 193839 term will start on January 20, 1939. The Good Friday vacation next spring will occur on April 7, with the spring vacation following on April 13 and 14. The term of school will end on May 26 of next year, following the regulation nine months period.

SCHOOL BOARD TAX RATE IS TO BE HIGHER Increases Made In Bond And Special School Fund; Tuition Lower The proposed tax rate of the Decatur School Board, payable in | 1939 is $1.40 on the SIOO valuation,; an increase of 12 cents on the han-1 dred dollars over the 1938 levy. | The estimated budget totals $56.164.36, compared to $48,480.71 this

Increases are made in the bond : fund and in the special school fund. The tutltion fund is reduc'ed in amount, with a corresponding i reduction in the levy. The rates proposed on each SIOO [of taxable property, compared with I those in effect this year follow: ‘I ’ 1938 1939 Fund Rate Rate ! Special school 56 .61 ‘ Tuition 42 .31 Bond fund 4 .22 Total $1.02 $1.14 ' The levy for the bond fund provides for payment of bonds and ! interest in July, 1939, and those coming due in January. 1940. I Walter J. Krick, superintendent of schools, who complied the budget. explained why the bond or sinking fund had to be increased | , to 22 cents on the SIOO for next year. The new bond issue of $90.000 bears interest from January 1. 1938, and runs to July 1, 1939. a year and a half. The interest for .18 months amounts to $3,712.50. On July 1. 1939. a payment of sl,- , 500 is also due on the bonds, making a total of $5,212.50. Another I payment of $1,500 on bonds and ■. the interest on $88,500 for six months, from July 1. 1939 to January 1. 1940, is due January 1. 1940. The total of principal and interest is $2,716. Since only one-half of the 1939 levy is paid in May. the ; school board must have sufficient funds to make the $5.212 50 payment. so the levy must be increased to provide funds for the July. i 1939 payment. In the working balance total of the tax compilation. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) LOCAL TAX RATE MAT BE RAISED City, Library 7 , State Levies To Be Same; Others Raised 50c Proposed tax levies in the tax-1 1 Ing units which comprise the city of Decatur total $2.96 for 1939. an increase of 50 cents per SIOO compared with the rate this year. The only levies not increased are those of the city of Decatur: the Library rate and the state rate. I The city of Decatur will levy a 40-cent rate, the Library board six ■ cents and the state rate is fixed ■ at 15 cents on the SIOO. The proposed rates are subject ■ to revision by the authorized gov--1 erning bodies in the various taxing I units. The county budgets and levies, will be reviewed by the Adams county council next week. ■ when it convenes for its annual session. A summary of the proposed levies, compared with those in effect this year, as they affect taxable property in the city of Decatur on each SIOO of valuation follow: Tax 1938 Proposed Unit Rat 1939 CountyGeneral 24 -54 Bonds 4 04 Welfare 10 15 Township Poor 30 .32 | Roads 13 -13 General 02 03 • School board 1-02 114 Library 06 .06 , State 15 15 City 40 40 Total $2.96 $2.46 Navy Appropriation Must Be Much Larger Washington. D. C. Aug. 30 (UP) ' -Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of naval operations, said today after • a conference with President Roose- , velt that he believed it will be necessary to increase the navy budget ; by $200,000,000 for the next fiscal : year. i Leahy said the increase would be required primarily because building I costs will become greater as work i progresses on ships now under con-: struction. I

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 30, 1938.

President Shows Off New House

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Accompanied by Congresswoman Caroline O'Day of New York. President Roosevelt inspects progress on the new cottage he is hav ing built on his Hyde Park estate as a retreat from political worries

BROKEN RECORDS TO BE KEYNOTE State Fair Opens Saturday With Unusual Attractions Indianapolis. Aug. 30— (U.R) — Broken records will be the keynote of the Indiana state fair ! starting next Saturday, it appear-1 od today, with entries of exhibits at an all-time high and officials ’ expressing confidence that last. : year's attendance mark would be! shattered. Approximately 380,000 persons I thronged through the fairgrounds last year despite the fact that downpours of rain reduced the attendance materially on the closing day. Lieut -Gov. Henry F. Schricker and other state fair! officials predict that with a fair break on the weather this year, the attendance mark probably will rise above 400,000 for the first time in the fair's long his-i tory. Confronted by the huge num-1, her of entries, fair officials today i hastily trected additional tents and 260 extra hog pens to take care of the increase. 100 More Exhibitors Officials said that 1,405 adult exhibitors have obtained space at the fairgrounds. 100 more than (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) -o BE SEVERSKY SETS REGORB Atlantic, Pacific Drawn Closer Together By 262 M.P.H. Clip Burbank, Calif., Aug. 30. —(U.R) — Major Alexander P. DeSeversky, crippled Russian-born airplane designer, held a new east west rec- ' ord today, the second transcontinental murk to be set in 10 days. DeSeversky not only lowered the former east-west record of Col. Roscoe Turner by one hour and 27 minutes, but he eclipsed the mark ' set by Howard Hughes on a westeast flight on Aug. 20. Hughes negotiated the distance from Los Angeles to New York in 10 hours ‘ and 32 minutes. DeSeversky accomplished his crossing in 10 house and three minutes, despite a ‘ 31-minute stopover in Kansas City i for refueling. The plane, designed and manufactured by DeSeversky is a lowwing. single motored pursuit plane, which he delivered to Jacqueline Cochran, California aviatrix who will fly the ship in the Bendix air , derby to Cleveland next Saturday.; DeSeversky averaged 262 miles per hour in traveling the 2.593 miles between thb two airports, j Hughes, who made his west-east I crossing over a shorter route, av- : eraged 229 miles per hour for 2,478 < miles. Hughes made his flight on a non stop basis.

President and Congresswoman O'Day

Washington Township Ditches To Be Mowed AU ditches in Washington township are to be mowed this year, John M. Doan. Washington township trustee, announced today. The following are ateo to be mowed and cleaned, he stated: Andrew Miller, L. L. Rupert, W. G. STnTth and Alphonse Kohne. number two d'tch. Mr. Doan reported that rapid progress was being made in cleaning most of the ditches and that all work should be completed by September 15, as inspection will be held at that time. FORGERY COUNT WILL BE FILED Harry Lawson Arrest Solves Passing Os SBOO In Bad Checks Harry Lawson, 23, of Blue Creek township. against whom two charges are pending in the Adams circuit court, was to be returned to the Adams county jail late this afternoon on a charge of forgery. The arrest of I-awson by Sheriff Dallas Brown late this afternoon at Wapakoneta, Ohio, aa he was dismissed from the jail there, is expected to lead to the solution of one of the county's major crime waves during the past two and one-half years. Dawson has confessed to Sheriff Brown and his aides that he had forged approximately S7OO to SBOO worth of checks in the county and neighboring Ohio connties during [ tuat time. For more than two years, the sheriff’s department, state police, and city police of the cit’ee and towns in Adams county have been working on the check forgeries. Although a detailed list of the checks forged by Lawson is not available as yet. it is expected that several hundred dollars worth ol thew orthlees paper was passed in the county. The majority of the checks were written on the Geneva bank and several were passed In Decatur and Berne. The apprehension of a young Decatur man who passed one of the checks led, directly to the solution of the series of forgeries. Whether the local young man is to be charged as an accomplice cannot be decided until Lawson is questioned upon his return here. Authorities have also indicated that one or two others, including a ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) — Clark Ross Released From Local Hospital ■ Clark Ross, of Wren, Ohio, who was severely hurt in an auto accident near Bobo on August 21 was released today from the Adams county memorial hospital. Mrs. Ross died from injuries received in the wreck and two others were hurt.

“War If Necessary” Answer Great Britain And France To Hitler’s Invasion Plan

ANNUAL MEET OFTEACHERS INPROGRESS I — Rodney H.Brandon, Child Welfare Worker, Addresses Institute “That the purpose of our public! school system should be not to train potential thinkers how to think, but to train the American < child how to live the particular life ' he has been destined to live.” waa the conclusion drawn by Rodney,: H. Brandon, in his address to the teachers of Adams county in the 1 annual institute held at the Decatur 1 high school today. Discussing "My experiences with 12.000 Illinois Penitntiary Prisoners” the speaker pointed out that surveys show that one out of every 150 men in Illinois is in the peniten t'ary. One out of every 75 men in Illinois ie willing to take the pro-j perty of his neighbor or to injure the body of his neighbor, Brandon 1 said. He added that these figures , are similar to those found in other, states in the Middle West. In sketching a verbal picture of , the “75th” man. or the average I criminal, Brandon described him as a 21-year-old American boy, ,-whose life is characterized by!, • I “homelessness, worklessnesss and , churchlessness.” The speaker said !the average criminal has less than ia third grade education. “Only 2 , i per cent of the criminals in Illinois i are high school graduates,” Brandon added. “A high school diploma us- , ually represents immunity from pri- ; son. for in most cases the. high I school graduate either has too much sense to bo to the penitentiary or I, has not time to go.” Listing home, church and school as the three agencies which society has developed for the training of children, the speaker stated that broken homes are salvaged to some extent by law conits, insurance I companies and fraternal societies. | Since the church, separate from the-state, provides no mandatory attendance, this agency cannot be ; depended upon to solte the problem j Brandon continued. The speaker pointed out the val- | ue of eduation in crime prevention; I however, he added that a “blind ;i school system has been endeavoring ’;to teach potential thinkers how to I think but has overlooke the fact I I that most of ue earn our living by ’ working and not by thinking. J Superintendent C. E. Striker, of ' the county schools, was in charge ; of the institute attended by all| ’ teachers of the county. “Suppose ’ you lose your mind was the topic I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) , _ o

SCHOOL ZONES ; ! ARE ANNOUNCED : I r, 1 All Fourth-Graders Soon i To Attend Old High 1 School Building ’ City school zones and regulations ' ' were listed today by Walter J. ' ' Krick, school superintendent. Un answering querries regarding 1 1 the age for beginning children, Mr. i Krick stated that all children who ’ are six years of age on or before 1 December 31 will be eligible to en--1 ter. ‘ In listing the zones Mr. Krick ! called attention to the fact that no 1 fourth grade class will be held this ! year at the West Ward, and that 1 following the completion of the new * junior-senior high school, all fourth ’ | grades will go to the present high school. Until that time fourth grade 1 pupils of the West Ward will be 1 transferred to the North and South Wards. Thus when the transfer to the new school is completed only the three grades at the South Ward will I remain outside of the naw and pre-1 sent high school buildings. > At the opening of school next - Tuesday ward students with the ex8 ception of the fourth grade, who 9 live west of the Pennsylvania will g go to the West Ward. a | All ward students grades, living I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVBi

TEST NEW DEAL IN A CAROLINA PRIMARY TODAY About 340,000 Expected To Take Stand On “New Deal vs. Smith” Columbia, S. C., Aug. 30.—<U.R)“" South Carolina Democrats decide in the party primary today whether to follow President. Roosevelt’s wishes and retire Sen. Ellison (Cotton Ed) Smith who has served in the senate since 1908. Seeking renomination. he was opposed by Gov. Olin D. Johnston, an ardent new dealer. Approximately 340.000 voters were expected to pass on the issue. described as “the new deal versus Sen. Smith.” It was not the first test of the new deal in the south this year, but it was the first test since President Roosevelt announced his intention of intervening in state primaries against Democratic candidates who had opposed his new deal program. President Roosevelt had not committed himself as strongly against Smith as he had against Sen. Walter F. George of Georgia, whom he denounced by name and to his face, but he had left no doubt of how he stood and how he considered Sen. Smith. First, from the rear platform of his special train, he had reminded South Cartflina voters that Smith had once remarked in the senate that a man or a family could live on 50 cents a day; then later, in a summer white house statment, he had said that the South Carolina issue had been clearly drawn —the new deal, represented hy Johnston, against the. old order of the south, represented (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o CITY TEACHERS LISTED TODAY Supt. Krick Gives Teacher List For Junior-Sen-ior High. Grades The teachers for the 1938-39 term of the city school syatem were listed today by Superintendent Walter J. Krick. The teachers in the high school which after the completion of the new building will include the seventh and eighth grades making it a junior-senior high, ate: W. Guy Brown, principal and sociology; R. A. Adame, chemistry, biology and geometry; Eloise Lewton, English; Harold Mumma. Eng-

lish and history; Deane Dorwin, public speaking and history; Betty Frisinger, Latin and English; Sigurd Anderson, typing and shorthand. Mildyed Worthman. home eco-| comics; Amos Ketchum, manual training and mechanical drawing; Hugh Andrews, algebra and physical education; Eleanor Pumphrey, physical training; Sylvester Everhart, science and physical education; Glennys Elzey, librarian and history; Lowell Smith, social science; Harry Dailey, physics and mathematics; Helen Haubold, music; Kathryn Kaufman art and Albert Sellemeyer, band. Grade Teachers The teachers in the fifth and sixth grades, which will be located in the present high school building, will be: Ed Jaberg, arithmetic and history; Electa Oliver, reading and hygiene; Grace Coffee, writing and language; Margaret Moran, spelling and geography; P. Bryce Thomas, principal and arithmetic. The teachers in the North Ward, all of whom will be motfed to the present high school after the completion of the new building. John R. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O City Budget Will Be Examined By Council A special meeting of the city council will be held this evening | to approve the budget and the gari bage hauling contract with Fred I Braun. The new garbage contract becomes effective September 1. Other matters will come before tjie body. __

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Democratic Nations Band Together To Call Hand Os Hitler As Odds On General War Drop. STILL SERIOUS By Richard D McMillan United Press Staff Correspondent Ixmdon, Aug. 30 — (U.R) — The British cabinet in a momentoua session today decided unanimously that Britain is ready to go “the full limit” to prevent the invasion of Czechoslovakia, highly reliable sources reported. The cabinet was said to have given Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax. foreign secretary. a completely free hand in all further moves. "The full limit,” it was explained. would be extraordinary efforts to settle the Sudeten German problem amicably, with a warning to Fuehrer Adolf Hitler that invasion would mean war into which Britain scarcely could avoid being involved, along with France and other European democracies. Live shells reportedly were ordered put aboard British war ships for maneuvers in their North Sea battle base. But yesterday's odds In diplomatic circles of 50-50 on war dropped today to 10 to 1 against. After the cabinet meeting, Joseph P. Kennedy. United States atfibassador, visited Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and Sir Neville Henderson, British ambassador to Germany, joined in the conference. The United States embassy confirmed that Chamberlain fully informed Kennedy of the central European situation and what, Britain proposes to do. It was believed Kennedy forwarded a detailed report to President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The British cabinet meeting was held simultaneously with that of the French, and it was obvious the two powers were working in close harmony along parallel lines. The French cabinet unanimously approved the policy laid down by Foreign. Minister Georges Bonnet, thus, in effect, also giving him a free hand The debate here showed no member of the government wavering .and the main question at issue was the technique of approaching Hitler. In view of the various signs of a more conciliatory German attitude in the Czech conflict —particularly the apparent willingness of Konran Henlein, Sudeten leader, to negotiate on the basis of Premier Milan Hodzas new proposals—the British cabinet is anxious to avoid making a conciliatory attitude more difficult for Hitler. At the same time, the ministers do not wish to leave Hitler in doubt as to Britain’s intentions. One highly - informed source (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TWO MEN SLAIN BY POLICEMEN Unidentified Pair Fire From Taxicab In Indianapolis Council Bluffs, la., Aug. 30 — (U.R) — Police said they had no record of Earl E. Lindsay or William H. Davis. tentatively identified by Indianapolis police as from this city. A check of the Omaha, Neb., police department, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies also failed to throw light on their identities. Indianapolis. Aug. 30 — (U.R) — Indianapolis deputy sheriff’s today shot to death two men who opened fire upon them when the officers halted a taxi in which the pair were riding. The men were tentatively identified as Earl E. Lindsay and William H. Davis, both about 35 years old, of Council Bluffs, la. The deputies were informed that the pair were touring Indianapolis resorts after they had displayed revolvers before two witnesses. Three deputies trailed Lindsay and Davis in a taxicab and finaItCONILNUED ON PAGE TWO)/'