Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 259, Decatur, Adams County, 2 November 1938 — Page 1

XVI. No- 259.

® FOR TILE Ml 13 OVER ■.ooomark jfcMr.n 'l.l'lhl Settled E|&t;ii'l Rebuilding AM Plant ISK ' ‘ 1 " ’ i" i < > < i 1 1 tMMr !< ,l " 1 ' " k |^K r ' <<l,iy '"' "" 1 »■ ■ ~.t> t > . i 111 • ‘ l(*Ug 111 Os ■gtM, Illi' uiiusimlly —!' I'io full. .: # i^Eß'” : ' v asking 'hat the i„.. „ . 1 tiil!l ' s '»'••*■♦' ' lO’-'l-jBaBT t<» Th. .. was stressed. HHF| organization g£ . .y |II'. limimiry arfr. : niiaiK-es and plans been' HE tash or pledKtlgl. 'i.oiil The day final ap■p '■'.,-k Hearing away BE *i s bit by the disastrous h ..E|l«| three Stories -SgvsßU the first floor. HptM Jtiwu and two kilns re- '" 111 ' filt ‘ <l a *n a S»‘*Er H» '.ir.itiee i- reived HiWKUtary donations came in widen had been solic- , the Delta Theta Blrißrivf'-" OX PAGE FIVE! B&'.er Scheduled | Ko Die November IS B-n.l Ind Nov. 2 XU.R) warrant was mad> Dalhover. man and sole surgang. gfeO l P'ison (do(tri( Hteliiv. IS. clerk's the warrant. which Butbarizes r. S. Marshal Al. W ' BgHi 'o put Dalhover to death and before sun- ' -angster, who * make John Dillinger B£S'—' a “piker,” will be fTOkjfl’ t,l “ st ate penitentiary the fed. at Milan, Mich., where he HHE-- emifliied. shortly before j lon. o

■■Council Holds I fegular Meet Tuesday ■r Myloit. sup 'Tim oi light anil power departBj®' - ;' 11 '‘ 'I nt the regular mi.-et-HgV the city council Tuesday u street light request-Ih-iiseh. ~n Se'.lmeyer had bi i n placed in service. was approved. B tF h'-r appeared to ask ft Hat ■M hail been taken relative to of Meillers street over railroad. Ho said a means of egress for his Bw ( >. lie was informed that the company has not yet given iu build a new crossing the report is sti’.l in the the committee on streets Mary Mi l lure appea i <1 rel t'’a' extending and widening alley back of her property. engineer was instructed to yOa report as to the land ownBH*' l the possibility of . btafning fo rright of ways. o gBMPERATUrtE READINGS ■MOCRAT THERMOMETER am 81 3:00 p.m.......75 | f W !! 70 WEATHER | Considerable cloudiness, |^Bj’ ah| y showers in extreme portion tonight or by gWursday and In central and jB' th Portions Thursday; ■Bhtly warmer tonight, con■ttsd mild temperature ThursBHf*

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President Roosevelt Slash in the postage rates on books goes into effect at the order of President Roosevelt The order was the culmination of a 20-year fight by educational institutions, libraries and civic organizations for reduced rates. Postal officials estimate that it would cost the government $500,000 in revenue. President Roosevelt is pictured signing the proclamation

MONDAY FINAL TAXPAYING DAY Monday, November 7, Final Day For Paying r rsxes~ Here With but four more week days remaining in which to pay the fall installment of taxes, the personnel of the offices of County Treasurer Jeff Liechty is anticipating one of the biggest rushes in years. Monday. November 7, is the final day for paying without adding the delinquent penalty. Treasurer Liechty estimated today that less than half of the total taxes to be paid had been received in his office to date. This coupled with the fact that the office always experiences the usual quota of last minute payers, is expected to make the office a Imsy scene during the next few days. Taxpayers of the county were urged today by the treasurer to make the payments before the end of the week to avoid the jam expected on Monday, the final day. o

Phone Pole Broken, Service Disrupted Telephone service was temporarily disrupted at the Central Sugar company and other lines in that vicinity this morning whetj a telephone post was broken off. The pole tfas hit by a truck, belonging to the Dale Moses dairy and oper ated by Richard Moses, police reported. GIVE SUPPLIES ’ TO INSPECTORS

Election Supplies Will Be Issued To Inspectors Saturday Inspectors of the 34 precincts in the fall election next Tuesday, November 8, will receive their supplies from the offices of County Clerk G. Remy Bierly Saturday. The supplies have been packed and are ready for distribution. Monday is the final day for procuring an absent voter's ballot, according to the 1938 election laws. On Monday the board of county commissioners are to deliver the ballot boxes to the various polling places in each of the precincts. The clerk’s office has been experiencing a rush during the past several days. Most of the business is attributed to voters seeking sample ballots. County, city and township ballots are available there. The supply of state ballots is exhausted, however. A sample state ballot may oe seen at the office.

OHIO GOVERNOR ORDERS TROOPS | INREADINESS Gov. Davey Orders Troops Ready In Middletown Strike Area Middletown, Ohio, Nov. 2— (U.r.> — Five hundred national guardsmen were ordered to Middletown by Adjutant General Emil F. Marx today to preserve order in the strike at the P. Lorillard Tobacco company plant, closed since Oct. 3. Columbus. 0., Nov. 2— :U.R> - Gov. Martin L. Davey, calling upon 500 national guardsmen to be ready for duty at Middletown, where a tobacco company strike has been in progress a month, today issued a biting statement attacking the committee for Industrial organization and, the national labor relations board. Gov. Davey, at odds with John L. Lewis, CIO chairman, since [ the little steel strike of 1937, accused the CIO of “a reign of terror" at Middletown, and charged that the labor organization planned "a campaign of strikes” in Ohio after his retirement from office in January. It was Gov. Davey’s use of national guardsmen that ended the little steel strike. He has not called out the state troops in a labor emergency since. The governor asserted that the labor board was “controlled" by Lewis and that it discriminated against the American federation ; of la nor. The governor said he spoke as i "an American” because he was retiring from office in a fewweeks. He said he had no future ■ political plans. “I fear for my country if John ' Lev. is gets a complete stranglel hold on our industrial life and makes American labor vassal to his attempted dictatorship," Gov. Davey said. "I fear for my native . suite if wulu. Lewis can carry on i his urnivil IST&slon of this coni- ! mor.wealth.” He said he feared that it might (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o r LEGION PLANS ARMISTICE DAY

Adams Post To Commemorate Armistice Day November 11 Preliminary plans have been opened for the annual commemoration of Armistice Day here Friday, November 11, by Adams Post No. 43, American Legion. The event will be opened as customary with a short ceremony at 11 o’clock in the morning, in observance of the exact hour of the ending of the World War. Promptly at 11 a. m. a bomb will be discharged in the vacant lot east of the Legion home and taps will be sounded by a post bugler. The program will re-open that night with a dinner at the Legion home for all members of the post, their wives, auxiliary members and Spanish-American War veis. The banquet will start at 6:15 o’clock followed by a program of addresses and entertainment. Aspy To Speak Rev. Homer J. Aspy. pastor of the First Baptist church of this city, will be the main speaker on tne program. which will be augmented by short talks fr»m post leaders and officials. An orchestra and other entertainment will ho staged after the dinner and a dance will climax the day’s activities. Committees under the d'rection of Adrian Baker, program chairman and V. J. Bormann, post commander, are now working out final details of the event. Rev. Prugh Attends National Convention Rev. C. M. Prugh is spending Wednesday and Thursday in Chicago attending the national stewardship convention in session at the Stevens Hotel. The convention is composed ol representatives of the Portestant, Catholic and Jewish faiths and will be addressed by outstanding leaders, including Dr. E. Stanley Jones, Dr. Albert W. Palmer, Dr. Edgar DeWitt Jones, Rabbi Solomon Goldman, Gov. Henry Horner of Illinois and others. In the absence of Rev. Prugh. the regular mid-week service Wednesday evening will be in charge of Elder F. L. Litterer.

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♦ ; ♦ Daily Democrat To Give Returns On Election Nov. 8 Arrangements are being made by the Dally Democrat to give election i-eutrns next Tuesday night. The re- ! turns from the 34 precincts in the county will be received at the newsI paper office and running totals will be kept of the county races, the township trustee races and the city of Decatur election. •Inspectors are asked to telephone the results to the Daily Dem'oc.rat. 'l’hone ONE THOUSAND. Au i extra edition will be printed for the l rural routes and towns, giving complete returns. For local election returns, call [ONE THOUSAND. G. E. LEADERS MEETING HERE Executives From All Over Nation Inspect Local Plant — Prospects of better business conI ditions in the future were predicted by C. E. Wilson, of New York, executive vice-president and assistant ■ to Gerard Swope, president of the ' General Electric company, and who [ is heading the list of high officials j visiting the Decatur works of the i General Electric company this asI ternoon. | After a day and a half session in Fort Wayne as the guests of Neil I Currie, Jr., manager of the Fort I Wayne works, the delegation atI tending the sales conference came to Decatur after 1 o’clock this afternoon for a banquet served in the new recreational club rooms at the Decatur plant, as the guests of E. W. Lankenau, superintendent of the Decatur plant. Shortly after 2 o’clock this afternoon, the visitors began an inspection tour of the Decatur plant. Later this afternoon, a final session of the sales conference is to be held here, f The conference is represented by high central and regional offices from all over the country and Is for rhe purpose of aiding the sales department in the distribution of fractional horse power motors through witnessing the production of the ; motors. • The Decatur works is considered i one of the outstanding, if one of the smaller, of the various plants maintained by the General Electric company in the United States. iln addition to Mr. Wilson, E. O. Shreve, vice-president in charge of sales, and 33 other officials as well as representatives of the Fort Wayne works were in Decatur today, to furnish one of the most distinguished group of officials ever to visit the Decatur works. ‘‘Business has definitely turned I upward both here and throughout the entire General Electric company in ths past few weeks, Mr. Wilson said. “We expect a continued steady increase during the coming weeks and believe that 1939 will find business on a more normal level. Prospects are hopeful. In creases during recent weeks, although not large, have been steady, a truer sign of returning business prosperity than a sudden burst of activity,” he continued. BECKMEVER TO BE CHAIRMAN Root Township Rally To Be Held At Monmouth Tonight Lawrence Beckmeyer wijl be chairman of the Root township Democratic rally tonight at the Monmouth school house, which is the last of the rallies scheduled to date by the Democrats in the county. Both county and local candidates are to be introduced at the meeting! The speakers will be J. Fred Fruchte, Democratic candidate for judge of the Adams circuit court, who will talk on national issues Arthur E. Voglewede, Democratic candidate for re-election .as prosecuting attorney, who will talk on local issues; Robert H. Heller, Democratic candidate for joint representative, Adams and Wells counties, who will talk on the correct method of voting, and Winfred Gerke, Democratic candidate for trustee of Root township. The Root township meeting is one of the best atended of the local rallies held during each campaign and it is expected that a large crowd will be present tonight.

RAIL OFFICIAL TALKS TO CLUB Pennsylvania Agricultural Agent Speaks To Lions Club Corn aqd hog farmers of the mlddlewest are about to have new competition in the raising of these two long staple products, L. P. East, agricultural agent tor the Pennsylvania railroad, told members of the Lions club at the regular meeting Tuesday night in the Rice Hotel. Mr. East said the agricultural and livestock division of his company was principally Interested in the trend of travel of agricultural production areas and. the for transportation. In very recent years, he said, due to the over production of cotton, the farmers of the south and southwest have been turning to the production of corn and the business of feeding out livestock. In the past, he said. 50 percent of the livestock had been raised west of the Mississippi river, but SO per cent had been concumed east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio river The majority of the livestock was raised to the age of feeders or yearlings in the west and then sent to the corn belt area for finishing, he said. It has been discovered that the car loadings of hogs from the south are increasing each year. The state of Texas recently held a conference of southern states i in an effort to encourage the finI ishmg of livestock in the south. I One of the large packing companies is spending a million dollars this year on the construction of a plant in Texas, he said. He pointed out this would require more efficient feeding of livestock in the corn "belt, if the farmers are to make money. He also said additional cash crops, such as soy beans, are providing a new source of income for the farmers, which may prove valuable in view of the competition. He told the group Decatur is one of the national centers of this new industry. Roy Price was chairman, of the 1 Tweeting. Other guests were Leslie M. Cox. traveling freight agent for the Pennsylvania railroad. and Bob Heller. MOVE STUDENTS OF NORTH WARD Transfer Os Students Is Being Made To Old High School The transfer of the students of the North Ward school building into the old high school building was scheduled to be started by school officials late this afternoon or Thursday morning. The transfer is part of a citywide public school shift, in which a’l high school, seventh and eighth grade students will be moved into the new junior-senior high building, and all but three grades at the South Ward will be transferred into the old high school building. The students of the West Ward have already been moved to the old high and preliminary work in razing the old landmark started. Students of the fourth grade at the South Ward will be moved next into the old high school. At the new junior-senior high on Jefferson street, the high school students, with the highest to elementary grades have been practically all moved in. With the exception of shops and sciences, all classes are now being held in the new structure. The offices of Superintendent Walter J. Krick and Principal W. Guy Brown are still located in the old building. All moving is expected to be completed within a few days, however. o — Women Os Moose To Hold Public Party The entertaining committe of the Women of the Moose will be in charge of a public party given at the Moose Home Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. The proceeds will go to the social work fund of the organization. The public is invited to attend. o Winchester Doctor Dies Os Injuries Winchester, Ind., Nov. 2, —(U.P.) —lnjuries received Saturday in an automobile crash were fatal last night to Dr. John M. Wallace, prominent Randolph county physician. Harry Day was killed instantly in the same accident |

GREAT BRITAIN PUSHES PLANS TOWARD PEACE Peace Program Takes Form; Cordell Hull Issues Appeal Vienna, Nov. 2— (U.R) —Germany and Italy tonight announced a settlement of the Czech-Hungarian minority dispute in which the city of Braitslaba will remain in Czechoslovakia and other disputed cities will be ceded to Hungary. Evacuation of the ceded territory by the Czechs was ordered November 5. By Joe Alex M<#ris (Copyrignt 1938 by United Press) Great Britain's program for pea:e with the dictators took form slowly today on four important fronts. Coincident with an appeal by U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull for the world to follow a reciprocal trade pathway toward peaceful relations, the plans of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain for reaching the same objective were summed up as: 1— Effectivization of the British friendship treaty with Italy as a step toward isolating the Spanish civil war and inaugurating an era of friendly collaboration among Europe’s “big tour" powers- -Britain, France. Italy and Germany. Parliament, beginning debate on the pact, was considered certain to approve it. 2 — for an agreement abolishing gas warfare and banning bombardment of civil populations. 3— Extension of the “appeasement program” into the hitherto jealously guarded realm of British foreign trade vs indicated by | references of government spokesmen in the house of commons to: the "dominant” position of Ger-; many in central Europe and the Japanese penetration of China. 4 Settlement of mantis tor return of pre-war colonies in negotiations expected to, beg'n with conversations inaugurated in London this week by [ Oswald Pirow, South African minister of defense, and to be 1 continued in Berlin later. Chamberlain's program as thus far developed will not be approved by many British factions, but there appeared little doubt that the protests to be raised in the; house of commons debate and elsewhere would be effective in interrupting his plans for further deals with the dictators. The fact that his proposals fit into the German and Italian plans in a general way has encouraged a belief in many sources that a period of peace is in prospect for Europe—at least while Fuehrer Adolf Hitler is busy consolidating his economic and political hegemony over eastern Europe France, too, has fallen into line in the march toward the broad objective of establishing conditions under which the democracies and dictatorial governments can collaborate in peace, although French Premier Edouard Daladier has adopted a middle ground, politically, the tendency generally aas been sharply away from the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DEATH CLAIMS AMADDA LOPEZ Monroe Township Resident Dies Tuesday Evening Amanda Lopez, 49, Mex'can, a resident of Monroe township died Tuesday evening at 5:30 o clock of neart disease at her homo on Decatur route six, two and a half miles east of Monroe. 'She was born in Mexico, tne daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Masidonia Oralz, and had lived Ln this community two years. She was married to Domingo Lopez, who survives. There are also three living daughters, Deloris, Nevies and Lucy all at home. The parents and a sister are deceased. She was a member of the St. Mary’s Catholic church of this city. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 9 o’clock at the St. Mary's Catholic church and burial will be in the St. Joseph's cemetery. Rev. J. J. Seimetz, pastor of the church, will officiate. The body will remain at the Glllig and Doan funeral home and may be viewed there until the time of the funeral.

Four Members Os Kidnap Gang Are Nabbed By G-Men

Boy Author at 11 i MWW SO • jM Jr r I p k i ■ IDavid Statler Only 11 years old, David Statler of Memphis. Tenn., has a book in the best-seller class. It is “Roaring Guns.” published recently. Critics regard the book as the most hilarious in a long time. Not that David intended it to be funny In one chapter, called "Trouble," 800 men get shot, stabbed and tomahawked. In another chapter, Bill Johnson, “the badest robber in «the west, "gets killed twice in shown in New York where he was three pages. Young Statler is ' to appear on the radio. I AAII ni lIITH Mi nnti x LUUHL. I unn i u ARE INSPECTED Randolph County Residents Visit Decatur Industries A delegation of nearly 300 men and women from Randolph county, visited Decatur today and made tours through the Central Sugar factory, the Central Soya company, the Cloverleaf Creameries and the Homesteads division. The women represented the Home Economics clubs in their county and came here at the invitation of Mrs. E. W. Busche, president of the Adams County Home Economics clubs. They brought basket dinners with them and enjoyed their meal at the Decatur Country club, where a short program was held. This was the third delegation of Home Economic members to visit Decatur within the last month. Another tour is scheduled for next Wednesday. Mrs. Busche was chairman of the program. Gretchen Stuckey’s accordian band furnished music during the dinner hour. Words of welcome were extended to the visitors by Mayor A. R. Holthouse. A talk on the dairy industry and the use of dairy products was made by Carl Klepper, manager of the Cloverleaf Creameries at Huntington. Harold W. McMillen, vice-presi-dent and general manager of the ' Central Sugar company, gave an i Instructive talk on the processing of beet sugar and told of the improvements made in the local factory to aid the making of the best sugar on the market. The sugar factory will process more than 105.000 tons of beets this year and the quality of the crnNTTNTTFn gn page FIVE) o Field Mass Is Held Here This Morning A field mass was raid at 8 o'clock this morning at St. Joseph's cemetery in observance of All Souls day. The mass was celebrated on the altar in front of the crucifix group and was said by Rev. Father Joseph J. Seimetz. pastor of St. Mary’s church. The boys’ choir sang the requiem. A large crowd attended. Five masses w’ere said this morning at St. Mary’s church, priests being privileged to say three masses on All i Souls Day.

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Gang Responsible For Three Kidnapings In New York Trapped By Federal Agents. VICTIM SLAIN New York. Nov. 2.—<U.R>-J. Edgar Hoover announced today his department of justice agents had captured a gang of former convicts believed responsible for three New York kidnapings which had not been disclosed heretofore. All the victims were adults, one was murdered. Arthur Fried, 32. misisng since Dec. 4, was shot to death and his body burned in a furnace while »he gang was demanding $200,000 ransom for his safe return, Hoover said. Those seized were Joseph Stephen Sacoda, 27, Demetrius Gula, 30, John Virga, 34, and William Jacknis. 27, all of New York. All had prison records for crimes ranging from counterfeiting to burglarly and arson. • A total of $14,900 was paid in ransom in two of the kidnapings, none in the third. Hoover said the gang also was wanted for three robberies which netted $1,798. Those kidnaped besides Fried were Benjamin Farber. 38, Brooklyn coal proprietor, and Norman Miller, 19. whose father, Charles, has a stevedoring business. The disappearance of Fried had been a mystery. On the night of Dec. 4. Hoover said, two men in an automobile forced a car driven by Fried to the curb in Whi|e Plains, N. Y., and made him get into their car. The next day he was forced to I write his family a note demanding $200,000 for his release. The . ransom negotiations continued un--1 til January 3 when Hugo Fried, his brother, agreed to cuutacl the kidnapers. He was to have gone to a theater and dropped the ransom money from the mezzanine floor to a man on the street below. He did not drop the money. Hoover said the victim was dead when the contact was arranged, that Fried was killed by one of the kidnapers four days after he had been seized. He said the body was burned in a furnace in the basement of the Ukranian hall, the same hideaway used when Miller was kidnaped. Hoover said that Farber was kidnaped April 18 while he was walking in front of the National City Bank, Brooklyn. He was taken to New York while negotiations for $25,000 ransom were carried out. He was released a few days later after $1,900 had been dropped from a bridge to a man in the street below. Miller was seized at Coney Island on July 24 while he was walking with a friend. Sidney Lehrer. Lehrer was taken to the lodge hall along with Miller but was released with a note to the family demanding $25,000 ransom. The Miller family agreed to pay 313.000. acording to Hoover, and dronped the money into a garbage can. Miller then was released. Hoover gave no details of the manner in which the four men were arrested. He said the arrests took place over the weekend. Some of (CONTINUED on PAGE FTVE) o START WORK ON MAINS FRIDAY New Water Mains Tn Decatur To Be Laid With WPA Labor Work on the first of seve-al citv water lines will be started Friday, Charles Brodbeck. city water department manager, stated this morning. The work will be done by WPA labor under the direction of the city department crew. A line at Grant street will be tho first to be laid, followed by one it Fifteenth street, at Sehirmeyer. and a block on Thirteenth street. Mr. Brodbeck stated that nil lines and hydrants have been given the customary winter check in preparation for the approaching cold wetither to keep repairs at a minimum, Ixtcal residents are urged to taka precautionary measures at the first sign of freezing weather to prevent I frozen pipes and lines.