Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 206, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1938 — Page 3

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CLUB CALENDAR 1,1 Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Phonee 1000 — 1001 Wednesday Union Township Woman’) Club, Mrs. Marlon Stultz, 7 p. m. King’a HeraM. Standard Rearer, . program, M. E. church. 7 p. m. Thursday Ever Ready Class, Mr«. Fred Hancher, 7:30 p. m. Rurallstlc Study Club, Mrs. Peter '|C. .Miller, route 6, 8 p. m. U. ,B. Indies’ Aid Mrs. R. O Wynn, 2:30 p. m. Evangelical Missionary Society Church 2 p. m. Friday U. B. Work and Win Class. Han-ua-Nuttman Park. 7:80 p. m. Union Chapel Young Peoples Class Ice Cream Social, at the Church, 7 o’clock. Howard Wisehaupt and bis secretary, Francis Drake, returned to Decatur late Tuesday afternoon after > several months spent In touring . Europe. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ellsworth and I daughter Viola have returned from Coatesville. Pa. where they visited with friends and relatives over the week-end. Raymond Lichtenberger, on of j Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lichtenberger, j living east of Decatur, fell on a plow point this morning and cut his left cheek. The child was brought to a local physicians office for medical care. The Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Feller of I Naperville 111. and Mrs. M. E. Stbele I and daughter. Mary, of Mendota. 111. [arrived in Decatur Tuesday. They i are guests in the home of the Rev. ■ and Mrs. George Lozier of Winches-1 ter street. The Rev. George S. Lozier, pastor of the First Evangelical church, is jin Van Wert, Ohio today attending ia district group meeting in the in jterests of the church. ■ Officer and Mrs. Ed. P. Miller and I family have returned from a week’s ' vacation at the' lakes in Northern Indiana. Officer Miller returned to his duties on the city police force I today at noon.

three pictures at the time. Then there’s the story of the independent producer who was trying to decide whether to film a musical I number based on "The Blue Danube”. “Do you think they’ll remember The Blue Danube’ 7” he asked. “They ought to,” replied his weary assistant, “Acrobats have been taking bows to it for 40 years.” The ribbers have been busy again on the "Gunga Din” location. While Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., was snoozing between shots, they put a layer of black paint on his dark glasses. Fairbanks waked up, started out of his seat and stumbled over a chair. Victor McLaglen grabbed his arm, laughing. “It isn’t funny, Vic,” he said, “I think I’ve lost my sight.” Now that Priscilla Lane and her mother have gone to New York, leaving Sister Rosemary alone in their valley home, a Warner Brothers cop sleeps on the front porch every night. A special bodyguard assigned by the studio. The tragic death of Frank Capras little boy, Johnny, shocked the film colony. It happened just a few hours before the Hollywood press acclaimed Capra for his newest directorial feat, "You Can’t Take It With You” . . - Alexander D’Arcy is becoming an American citizen . . . Andrea Leeds, who has been working for 53 weeks, is taking a vacation in Pebble Beach. Goldwyn wants her to put on weight before starting "The Last Frontier” . . . Tony De Marco says not to worry, that he and Renee will be dancing together again soon , . . The chandelier in Louis B. Mayer’s office in the new M-G-M executive building fell with a crash the other day . . . A. C. Blumenthal's latest dinner partner at the Case Lamaze was Irene Castle . . • The Westmore's beauty salon at Palm Springs will be the swankiest yet. Girls in grass skirts will serve patrons with tropical drinks • . . Wallace Milam will produce the show at the Casa Manana here . . . Wallace Beery’s new plane, just delivered, has a cruising speed of 200 miles per hour . . . The Club 17 closes for the installation of an air cooling system . . . Milton Berle will be godfather to the Phil Berle baby and Wendy Barrie will be godmother. Baby’s name is to be Marshal! Stephen.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1938.

INVESTIGATION l | MADE IN DEATHS “Black Hole Os Calcutta’’ Scene Repeated In Prison i Philadelphia, Aug. 30.— <U.R> — Three convicts who experienced i the tortures of Philadelphia county prison’s “klondike” punishment [ | cells turned accusing fingers on, their guards today. i Guards Alfred W. Brough and I Francis Smith were held without | bail on homicide charges to await I , action by a coroner's Jury In the i “roasting to death" of four inmates, I after the three convicts testified [Brough and Smith had participat-j ed in the week-end of heat torture ' that drove some of them mad. Describing scenes inferno-like in \ ‘ hprror, Patrick Di Marco, 28, who has served about four years of a , 25-year sentence, told questioners j that he lost 15 pounds in the bake I oven that was "klondike” during' three days. Di Marco told how the “boys” endured the stifling heat caused by huge radiators lined along the punishment block until they could stand it no longer, and how some butted their heads against hot prison bars in an effort to end their agony. “The boys screamed they were 1 dying," Di Marco said from the witness stand under direct questioning by Assistant District XL tomey John A. Boyle. Scream For Waater, Mother “We couldn't breathe. We screamed for water and air. Some 'of the boys hollered: ’Shoot us quick. Get it over with. Kill us fast and don't let us suffer.’ ” Di Marco said the convicts bit their own flesh and screamed for j their mothers and wives to save them. He narrated how Joseph Forte, another convict who had been placed in an adjoining cell with two 'of the men who later died called to him that his cellmates were "cold and stiff and not breathing. ’ I He said when a guard finally came and Forte told him about the other two, the guard replied: “That's their tough luck.” Morris Spatz, who was in the I cell with the other two dead men.: was called to give his version. j which coresponded generally with • Di Marco’s. “These two men," Spatz charg-1 ed, nodding toward Smith and j Brough, “turned the heat on us. 1i got down on my knees begging I ' them to stop it. I almost cried. ,We couldn't breathe or stand up. I “Eddie Hayes, tone of the men who were killed 1 hollered ‘mother all night long. He trampled on j me as I lay there. Jim (James i McQuade, another of the dead j men) was very quiet. It must have gotten him when he came in, for ' jit was very hot. Recalls Finding Two Dead “I cleaned the scum from the | j toilet hopper and jammed JifiTs • shirt into it to get some water. “Sergt. James was the only kind , man there. He opened the water: 'up for us. “But these two men,” Spatz snarled, pointing to Smith and Mrough. “turned it off tight." He said in the morning of the ' third day. when it began to be- ; come light, “things didn't look j , right.” “Jim especially looked funny. He was quiet. I shook him. There was no answer. Then I looked at Eddie. His head was big like a football. He. too. never moved." The alleged “inside story of; what went on in the dark, insufferably hot “black hole of Calcutta, broke shortly after Gov. George H. Earle ordered the state motor police to start weekly inspections of the state's 500 penal institutions, i to avoid a recurrence of “this hor-| rible affair.” —o —— GREAT BRITAIN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) going the same way. Italy would remain neutral if possible. Poles Change Attitude Most keenly illustrative of this j powerful ring drawn by Britain i to discourage a Nazi explosion, was newspaper comment in Poland, which recently has been trying to play both sides of the fence. j “Germany has lost the war be-' fore it has begun.” remarked the Warsaw newspaper Ilustrowany Kuryer Codzieny. “The attitudes j of France, Great Britain and the, United States show that Germany is entirely isolated. Germany cannot risk war in this isolation, nor can she start one; and this isolation works for peace." The attitude of Poland was significantly emphasized by a visit by Antoni Jazdzewski. Polish charge d’affaires in London, to Foreign Secretary Viscount Hali- ; fax, who was understood to have urged Polish collaboration for peace. On paper—and rather like paper profits on the stock exchange that might suddenly vanish — Poland remained the only powerful link to be welded into the chain intended to curb any

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i Nazi blow that might start war . in central Europe. Elsewhere on the world’s trouble fronts: j Czechoslovakia — The Sudeten i Germans were reported to have | rejected in advance the govern- | ment 'sproposal to grant them semi-automony on the Swiss Cantonal system, demanding instead full autonomy similar to the independent status of the Irish free i state. Government officials j sought to calm newspaper attacks , on Germany. London, Aug. 31 —(UP) —Sir NeI vile Henderson, Ambassador to j Germany, left by Airplane for Berlin today with instructions to warn 1 Germany against attacking Czecho j Slovakia and at the same time to ; appeal for a cooperative gesture to safeguard European peace. For the moment he was the key man of Europe diplomatically. He had spent three days in conference with cabinet ministers. He left with ' a full and intimate knowledge of his governments views and his instructions were entirely verbal. The government was understood to have considered eending a personal letter from Prime Minister ‘Neville Chamberlain to Fuerrer Adolf Hitler, appealing for a pacific gesture. This plan was understood to have been abandoned. When Henderson left Croydon airport at 1:15 P. M. (6:15 A. M. CST) it was said that he carried no I secret message or document, and •hat he would not “seek out anybody to give a message.’. But it was reported that he hoped to see Fuehrer Adolf Hitler personally before the convention of the Nazi party in Nuremberg Monday. (The United Press Berlin Bureau reported that reliable quarters said he would see Hitler Friday). o ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gattshall of Fourth street are the parents of I a boy baby born at the Adams county memorial hospital. Wednesi day morning at 1 6':22 o'clock. The baby weighed eight pounds and thirteen ounces. A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Baumgartner of route 4 Tuesday, August 30. Mrs. Baumgartner was formerly Miss Betty Swygart of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Worst of Schirmeyer street are the parents of a boy baby born Saturday night. I The baby weighed seven and one half pounds. He has been named Walter E. This is the second child but first son in the family, j Mrs. Worst was formerly Miss Reba Sudduth. o C. A. Douglas of LaGrange visited here today.

NEW DEAL LOSES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ( James Rolph 111. son of the . late governor and a prominent [ young attorney, apparently won I i i both the Republican and Demo-) J cratic nominations for lieutenant l I governor. In the congressional races, the , 17 incumbents who sought return i to Washington appeared assured: i of renomination by at least one party. Six led for both major | party nominations. ——o NEW DEAL l (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) t political power will be followed , Sept. 14 by the Georgia primary in which Mr. Roosevelt backs U. r S. attorney Lawrence Camp against > Sen. Walter F. George. On Sept. , 20 the final challenge to Demo-1 t cratic conservatism will be made . in New York's 16th congressional district where the new deal has proscribed Rep. John J. O’Connor, | I Democratic chairman of the powerful house rules committee, in fav- , or of James H. Fay. Firmer Action 'j South Carolina’s poll, however, may jar the administration into • more active participation in ail ■ three of the contests-to-come. It | was only last week that Mr. Roose-1 velt decided finally to enter Mary- ' land to back up his implied support of Lewis with a personal ap- ' peal. Postmaster General James | A. Farley urged that strategy, fear-1 ing that in Maryland the administration might encounter a repeti--1 tion of the embarrassment occasioned last June when the White House attempted by indirect, rather than direct, means to defeat I Sen. Guy M. Gillette in the lowa primary. Missed Trick? Some observers believe Mr. Roosevelt missed a political trick I jin his campaign against Smith, I which also was carried out by inti direction to the extent that the ■ President never actually mentiontied the senator s name in opposing l his re-nomination. Only in Georgia | have voters heard face-to-face from the president and party leader that j . a candidate does not fit into the I . new deal pattern being shaped • here in Washington. j Under those circumstances, Mr. Roosevelt may return to the wars !I in Georgia, although more likely by radio or press conference statement than by physical appearance. His attack on Tydings is likely to be sharpened and voters in New i York probably will hear from him ( directly on the fitness of O’Connor .by new deal standards to remain in the house. Columbia, S. C., Aug. M.—<U.R>— Sen. Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith,

first of the conservative Democrats j denounced by President Roosevelt ■ as foes of the new deal, to face his constituents at the polls, won re-nomination today on the basis jof almost complete returns from ' yesterday's primary. Denounced inferentially by Mr. Roosevelt as a foe of progress and reform, he defeated nis “100 per cent new deal” opponent, Gov. Olin jD. Johnston, who twice received Mr. Roosevelt's inferential blessi ing. His margin was expected to be over 20,000 votes when all precincts are counted. With only 121 precincts missing. Smith led by 29.994 votes. Johnston, refusing to concede, rej mained closeted with his closest advisers in the state house until j after midnight, then went to bed | without making a statement. By contrast, the 70-year-old j Smith, a member of the senate I since 1909, was lively and overjoy- ' ed. A little after midnight he went | on the air and thanked the people for “this overwhelming victory." Then he put on a bright red I shirt and addressed the similarly j shirted members of a revival of i the old “shirt” organization in the I country. I “I congratulate the people of .South Carolina in again reaffirming their allegiance and loyalty to I the real principles of democracy I for state rights and local self government,” he told his radio attdi- | ence. [ To the red shirts, he said: “I am glad to see that the spirit |of the heroes who wore the red shirt is not dead in South Carolina and that the spirit of individuality | still lives.” , "We conquered in ’76 and we conquered in '3B, (he told the red I shirts.) We fought with bullets then, but today, thank God, wej fought with ballots. “No man dares come into South' Carolina and try to dictate to sons of those men who held high the hands of Lee and Hampton.” o Navy Bombers Leave For Panama Today San Diego, Cal., Aug. 31 —(UP)— A squadron of 14 navy patrol bomb[ers left the waters of San Diego harbor today for a 3,160 mile 25 hour non stop flight to Coco Solo, Panama. Lieut, commander W. K. Berner ie in command of the personnel of 97 men and officers who were ferrying the huge bombers to the navy air base at Coco Solo. The ships are scheduled to arrive at Panama at 10 a. m. P. S. T. tomorrow. o New Coats, Suits and Dresses direct from the market. Large selection. E. F Gass Store.

French Flying Boat Lands In New York i Port Washington, N. Y. Aug. 31 — (UP) —The French flying boat Lieutenant de Vaiseeau Paris landed here today at 1:18 p. m. CST after a 2 397 mile flight from the Azores. The 37 ton sea plane under command of Captain Henri Guillaumet, dipped into the water here 22 hrs. and 48 minutes after it left Horta, the Azores. Roosevelt Praises Labor Settlements Washington. Aug. 31—(UP)—President Roosevelt, at his regular press conference yesterday, praised peaceful settlement of the long struggle between mine operators and labor in Harlan county, Ky. He was aeked his reaction to sign-

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I ing of a contract by John L. Lewis’ United Miners with operators in . the rich Harlan field. o Roosevelt Comments On Smith Nomination Washington. Aug. 31 —(UP)— President Roosevelt, commenting on the primary victory of his political foe. Sen. Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina, eaid today: i “It is often true that it takes a ! long time to bring the past up to —o — — The Misses Joan and Janet I Zeser are visiting their cousin Miss Marjorie Krouf of Fort Wayne. the present.” Just returned from market with large selection new Fall Coats, Suits and Dresses. E. F. Gass Store.