Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 261, Decatur, Adams County, 4 November 1938 — Page 1

{XVI. No. 261.

n Executives Abandon Plan To ufake Wage Slash

f I -— ’ ;isln Abolishes Plan HRailroad Workers 'olrike If Slash Made »ltive._ TOLD by wire ■ Nov. 4— (UP) —Execu--2j lass 1 railroads bowed . J le decision of President ■ s fact-finding board and K plans to cut wages of ■oyes 15 percent. > jj. ajnn banished possibility Kiwide railroad striae Dec. the cut would have takHylic carriers now can conHon a broad program of Hfhabilitation which PresiHeevelt will push in the too. tssHlroads' decision was disj if a wire to President RooHe telegram read: conference Oct. 31, yott H to inform you what the a( J« ould do about the recomH of the emergency board Krizontal reduction of railHes on a national scale ■pressed at this time. Hies eiecutives of rhe railHrns met in Chicago today Hr the situation cieated by Ht of the board. I advised ■<.:- • xpressed desire to be ■ the present situation and ■ope that there will be de- ■ tuns:: net ive program oK which you will be able ■t at the next session of ■ therefore been authorized ■ you that the railroads ■draw the persent notices ■eductions." frats To Rally Bluffton Saturday ■1 time” Democratic rally ■ held Saturday night at 7 at Bluffton, with Sam Jack'J Wayne as the principal I Sally will open with a torcliSade at 7 o’clock, starting fl Market street and ending ■ntgon park. ■ackson, prominent Fort ■ attorney and Democratic Swill speak at the park. Bill be served at the park. F 0 bve Contracts I For I. U. Building ■ington. Ind., Nov. 4—(UP) Itlve contracts for construeI new $525,000 school of bus■mintstration building at LndL University were awarded Board of trustees last night. I'VA is providing 45 per cent Bust and also must approve Bracts. itets awarded were: general , A. Sugarman, Chicago, I heating and ventilating, irothers, Indianaolis, $65,umbing, Fred Fenneman. Eton, $15,758; electrical Ufield Electric Co., Iridiana--6,358. IUAL SMOKER INDAY NIGHT sal Election Eve ►ker At Democratic Headquarters annual election eve smoker ch year by the Democratic, committee tor the voters of hty, will be held at the Demheadquarters over the Deca-1 nocrat office Monday evenPeakers are to be Judge HuDeVoss, Democratic candir Judge of the state appellate northern division; Mayor A. [house, candidate to rre-elec-Pick Heller, evecutive secreI Governor M. Clifford Townhd others. Democratic candidates are to 'oduce'd. men and women voters of the been Invited to attend etmg and get the last minute Uion on the campaign. atl C. Nelson, county Demochairman, said further dethe meeting will be announturday.

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REPORT FILED BY COMMTTIEE Critical Report Filed On Parties’ Campaign Tactics Washington, Nov. 4 — (U.RJI — The senate campaign expend!- i tures committee closed its preelection study of political tactics today with a critical report on Democratic and Republican organizations in Pennsylvania and on the use of federal road funds in j Illinois. Chairman Sheppard, D., Tex., ; said that the committee would not meet again until after Nov. 8 , unless an emergency arises. The report followed announcement by Secretary of Interior Ickes that he would participate I in the Pennsylvania campaign to-1 night with a radio address sponsored by the Philadelphia city Democratic committee. The campaign committee’s final report before Tuesday's general election charged that Pennsylvania Democrats used the works progress administration as a political agency, while Republicans in that state appealed to a large shipbuilding firm, holding government contracts, to employ workers pledged to G. O. P. The committee reported that men employed in Illinois and paid out of federal aid road funds had been dismissed the day after the primary. This report was a result of a charge by A. H. Greening, Springfield, 111., that federal road funds in district 10 had been (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) , RECEIVE BIDS FOR HOSPITAL Bids Taken Under Advisement Pending Board’s Action Bids for the Adams county memorial hospital addition were received this morning, but no action will be taken until a final decision is rendered by the state tax board. D. Burdette Custer, attorney for the project, announced today. However, he said the total of the low bids received will be about SIO,OOO under the estimated $58,363 cost of the proposed project. Evidence was taken Thursday I morning for the state tax board to enable the board to decide whether or not the petitioners had a majority of names on the petition and remonstrance and whether there is a need for such a project. If the remonstrators have a, majority, no further action can be j taken for a year. It' the petitioners have a majority the state tax I board can approve the action of. the county council in ordering the addition built. Mr. Custer said he expected | the tax board's decision would be received in a few days. If the I report is favorable to the petiI tioners, the board of county comI missioners and the trustees of the hospital will award the contract with anv alternates they may dpsire. . x , Mr. Custer said he estimated the cost would be around $48,000 or less. — o Fort Wayne Station Attendant Is Robbed Fort Wayne. Ind.. Nov. 4—(UP) Two unmasked bandits held up and robbed Frank Goral, filling station i attendant, here of $175 last night ' and escaped after Ibckin ghim in a rest room. Goral released himself from the room and called the police within a few minutes, but was able to give only a meger description of the pair. Auto stolen From Parking Lot Here A car. belonging to William Burger of near this city, was stolen off the parking lot on First and Mad ; son streets last night about 8.30 o’clock. Authorities were check ng the theft today, after broadcasting a description of the vehicle. |

Germany’s “Tank Stoppers” on Siegfried Line a- . . . F : 'A., "•.. \7 Looking at Germany's new Seigfried line facing France

One of the first photographs made of Germany's new Siegfried line facing France shows a long line |of reinforced concrete “tank stoppers." In the | foreground is a new type of road barricade, also

ENGLISH KING LAUDS ACTION OF ROOSEVELTS Terms Action In Czech Crisis Powerful Aid To Peace London, Nov. 4 — (U.P.) — King George, in a message to parliament today, praised President | i Roosevelt’s action in the Czccho- j Slovak crisis as a powerful aid to | i th*-cause of peace and expressed | hope that with the passing of the j crisis a new era might have been opened in Europe. The message, in which the king j prorogued or ended the present session of parliament in favor of the new session which starts next Tuesday, was read in the house of lords by the lord high chancellor, Lord Maugham, at a joint session. The king traced the solution of I the Czechoslovak crisis and in paying tribute to President Roosevelt for the messages he sent to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini urging a peaceful solution said: “The cause of peace was powerfully aided by the timely action of the president of the United States of America. “The desire of all peoples not j to be drawn into war with one i another is manifest and significant, and everywhere men and women share with me, I am convinced. a feeling of deep thankfulness that the imminent peril was thus averted. “0 pray that with the passing of this peril a new era may have i "(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) O MONROE GLASS I TO GIVE PLAY Monroe Juniors To Present Class Play At Berne Nov. 10 The cast of characters for “Hans Brinker,” a play to be given by i the junior, class of the Monroe high I school at the Berne auditorium Thursday, Noveber 10, at 7:30 o clock, was listed today. The cast is as follows: Raff Brinker, the sick father, Harry Habegger. Meitje Brinker, the hardworking wife, Esther Sprunger. Gretel, their young daughter, Emma Jane Sprunger. Hans, a boy of Holland—their son, Jesse Habegger. Hilda van Gleck, a Dutch maid, Portia Burkhead. Annie Bouman, a Dutch maid, Arveda Mazelin. Peter von Holp, Han’s friend, Alvin Nussbaum. Voostenwalbert Schimmelpennick, a fat boy, Howard Flueckiger. Benjamin Dobbs, his English , cousins, Arvine Steiner. Carl Schummel, snobbish, Gilbert Brookhart. Mynheer Boektnan, famous: Dutch doctor, Robert Monnier. Mefrouw Vollenhoven, his nurse, j | Ada Marie Sprunger. [

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Decatur. Indiana, Friday, November 4, 1938.

Adams County Girl Dies At Hospital Doris Gerber. eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gerber of near Preble, died Thursday I evening at 5: OH o’clock at the Adjanis county memorial hospital. Death was attributed to coinpli- ! cations, following an operation Tuesday for the removal of her appendix. The girl had been making I her home with her grandmother, Mrs. Charles Burris of Geneva. Surviving are the parents, the grandI mother, six brothers and sisters. Funeral services will lie held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the : Geneva M. E. church and burial will ' be made in the Riverside cemetery. LAYING WALKS TO NEW SCHOOL Begin Construction Os Sidewalks To Gymnasium Entrances — Workmen today began the construction of the sidewalks to the | gymnasium entrances of the new Decatur junior-senior high school. The sidewalks to the front entrances of the new structure have already been completed. Classes of the school are being j conducted in routine manner with the students returning to the old high school building for shop and science instruction. This will be done until the equipment for these courses is moved into the new building. Students, who formerly attended : school at the North and West Wards are no attending classes in the old high school building. Razing of the West Ward building was postponed this week, but j is scheduled to be started next : Monday. The work will be done by I Yost Bros., local contractors. o Minnesota Farmer Corn Husk Champ Dell Rapids, S. D. Nov. 4 -(UP)— ! Ted Balko, 33. Redwood Falls, Minn., a rangy powerful farmer, is king of all America’s cornhuskers. He won the title for the second time late yesterday by virlue of a “bangboard romp” over 20 other young farmers from 11 states in the 15th annual national cornhusking tournament. He husked through mud, rain and Intermittent snow to pick a total of 22.24 bushels of corn and win SIOO and a silver trophy. o Church Planning For Annual Homecoming The annual homecoming observance of the Bobo United Brethren church will be held Sunday. The j regular morning service will be 1 held, followed by a basket dinner ■at the noon hour, after which an interesting program will be preI sented. — o —— Public Is Invited To G. E. Party The public is Invited to the party I to be given this evening by the G. E. Club in the club rooms at the General Electric plant. The program will begin at 8 o’clock.

(made of reinforced concrete. Note how the line of "stoppers" winds througli the peaceful fields. Concrete machine gun pillboxes and heavy gun placements back up this line.

ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK TONIGHT OVER NETWORKS President To R e v i c w Legislative Program Over Radio Hyde Park. N. Y„ Nov. 4 — | ’ (U.R) — President Roosevelt said today he will review and defend ■ his entire legislative program of the past five years in his address : to the nation tonight. Tius chief executive at noon i still was working on the speech which will be broadcast at 6:30 p.m. CST. He indicated that he i would speak of labor relations. , social security and a number of other subjects, as well as politico I He was asked whether pos-! sible revision of the Wagner act would be discussed He did not confine his reply to that measure alone, but asserted that every law j ’ needs improvement and always ■ I will. - The question of revising the Wagner act has become an im- ' portant campaign issue, especially in New York state, where the 1 author of the act, Sen. Robert F. Wagner. Democrat. is oppos’d ’ for re-election by Republican John I 1 Lord O’Brian. I Mr. Roosevelt in his address I will call for the election of the > Democratic ticket in New York i state. He was asked at his press : conference about reports of coer-1 cion on WPA workers and others [ I in local contests. He was emphatic in stating i t that it ought not be done, al- ■ though he pointed out the reports named both Democrats and Re- ■ • (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ! MONROE CHOIR PLANS CONCERT School Choir To Present Concert Sunday Evening I ; The Monroe high school robed chojr, -consisting of 40 voices, will present a program of sacred songs : at the Pleasant Dale church of the ‘ Brethren Sunday evening at 7:30 , o'clock. Miss Dorothy Baker, Monroe school music instructor, will direct. . the program. No admission charge will be j made but a free will offering will ■ betaken. The public is invited to attend. J The complete proram follows: Choir, “Invocation Sentence.” , Congregational hymn. , Invocation, Rev. Russel Weller. . I Choir, “My Jesus, I Love Thee.” Solo, “An Evening Prayer,” Julia Lehman. Choir, “Wonderful Grace of Jesus,” “He Is Mine." Boy's quartet, “Ashamed of Jesus.” Reading, “The Lord's Prayer,” Betty Jean Williams. - Choir. “The Lord’s Prayer.” Girls ensemble. "Softly and , Tenderly.” j Duet, "Carest Thou Not.” VirI ( (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

BATTLE FOREST < FIRES IN FIVE STATES TODAY Isolated Homes Endangered; Indiana Fire Under Control By United Press Nearly 5,000 volunteers, WPAI workers and CCC enrollees today' were battling a series of forest! fires in Indiana, Illinois, Ken-! tucky. West Virginia and Virginia which already had destroyed thousands of dollars worth of timber and are endangering iso- ; lated homes and communities in their paths. The fires were sweeping across I sections of Wayne and Hamilton counties in southern Illinois, and I through a dozen counties in the Cumberland Mountain region in I ! southeastern Kentucky. Scores i of small brush and timber fires were reported across the Kentucky border in Virginia and West Virginia. Forestry rangers said the areas; were extremely susceptible to fire due to a lack of rain during the past few weeks. A strong south-. east wind, which reached a veloc- i ity of 35 miles an hour in south-1 ern Illinois early today, hampered; firemen’s efforts. Conditions were most serious' in southern Illinois and in south-1 eastern Kentucky where flames have destroyed more than SIOO,- 1 000 worth of timber and threaten-1 I ed coal mine tipples in Harlan. Bell. Leslie, Whitley. Jackson, Letcher, and Pike counties. Three hundred CCC workers were fighting fire along a three mile front northw’est of Columbus. Ind. The fire already had destroyed 1.500 acres of timber. The firemen warned several families in the path of the flames to j evacuate their homes. H B. Leonard, state forestry ranger, said about 700 men were fighting the fires in southeastern I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) , SEN. VAN NOYS DISCOSSES CCC Indiana Senator Praises Splendid Benefits Os CCC Camps — Anderson, Ind., Nov. 4.—(U.R) Sen. Frederick Van Nuys went back to his old home town last night to deliver one of his closing addresses of the 1938 political campaign. He speaks tomorrow night at 1 Shelbyville and then will return to Indianapolis to wait for election day. Van Nuys discussed the benefits of CCC caps in his Anderson speech after remarking that “it is with gratitude and most pleasant ' memories that I return to my home city.” “It was here, as a young man, that J was given the opportunity lto make good. As prosecuting attorney and state senator, I learned j much about the duties and responsibilities of public office. As counj ty chairman, I was schooled in the way of politics." "Turing to "the many activities of this adinistration toward helping the youth of America” Van I Nuys said that the CCC camps “are I one of the greatest vehicles ever ' undertaken to help the young men of the country to help themselves. | They represent the first direct attempt upon the part of the feder!al to preserve the morale, health and character of. our idle youth.” Through the efforts of these boys, hundreds of thousands of i acres of land have been develop- ’ ed for conservation and recreational purposes, he said. “It has been a successful ven-1 j ture which has prepared thousands of young men for the duties and responsibilities of useful citizenship." Van Nuys also discussed the benefits new deal legislation has brought to all classes of American society and declared that "so long as there is a hungry child in Am(CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) q Townsend Plan Meet Here Saturday Night Harold F. Miller of Fort Wayne will speak on the national recovery plan at the city hall Saturday night at 8 p. m., it was announced today by the Rev. J. M. Dawson. The Rev. Dawson spoke last night at Fort Wayne on the plan.

Discarded Boxes Os Sutton Store Are Found Today

PLAN FOR FALL ' ELECTION HERE NEXT TUESDAY — Heavy Vote Is Expected At General Election Tuesday The poles in the 34 precincts of making final plans for one of the ' niggest events of the year — the ( general election next Tuesday. Thep ols in the 34 precincts of I the county will open at 6 a. m. i-and close at 6 p. m. In the space of I those 12 hours a great poition of 1 the 12,292 registered voters in Adams county will cast their ballots ! tor their favorite candidates. Voters will be given four separate ballots at the election —the city, ! county, state and township. Several i good races in prospect are expected | Ito bring out an unusually large; j vote. Candidates of both major parties here were making a final effort to- | day to contact as many voters as I possible and were handing out cards , blotters and matches, carrying their. i names and aspirations. The clerk’s office was a busy scene, as the personnel was making final plans for the ballot-cast-ing event. Persons were calling at regular intervals to vote by the absent voter's method if they plan i to be out of the city election day. Clerk G. Remy Bierly stated today that applications for absent (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O Farm House Destroyed, Woman Fatally Burned I Vevay, Ind., Nov. 4—(UP) —One woman was burned to death, her husband critically burned aud five persons forced to flee in their night I clothing today when fire destroyed a farm home, four miles from Ve-' vay. The dead woman was Mrs. Leo- | nard Smith, 45. Her husband, 50. I suffered first degree burns and was not expected to live. A woman tenant, living on the ■ first floor with her four small children, first noticed the blaze at 5:30 a. m. She fled from the building with her family. o Fourteen Persons Are Dead In Plane Crash London, Nov. 4—(UP)—Fourteen persons wer ekilled today when a Jersey airways airplane crashed about 550 yards from the airport at St. Heller, Jersey, in the Channel Islands, while tryin gto land in a fog. The victims included 11 passengers, one of them a baby, the pilot and wireless operator of the plane, and a man who was working in the field. o FEAR PLOT TO FREEDALHOVER Probe Attempt Thought Meant To Free Condemned Killer Niles, Mich., Nov. 4— (U.R> - Police investigated today what they believed may have been an intended attempt to liberate j James Dalhover, a membei- of the ! old Brady gang in Indiana, who is being held at the federal detention farm in Milan, Mich. Police disclosed that Mrs. Beri tha Craig, mother of the gangster, was brought here by a telephone 1 call from an unidentified woman. ' Mrs. Craig Was called by telephone at her home in Madison, Ind., yesterday and advised to come here “in the interest of your son.” Police said she was sent $6 by commercial telegraph to pay for . traveling expenses. ’ A woman, about 30 years old, was arrested today on a Niles 1 street with Mrs. Craig. ’ Police said she refused to talk • but gave her name as “Mixie.” They theorized that a plan was 1 afoot to liberate Dalhover, who ■ has been at the Milan prison farm | since mid-summer.

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Jewelry Boxes, Cases, Emptied Os Loot In Thursday Holdup, Are Found Today. MEAGER CLUES The discovery of a quantity of I empty jewelry boxes and cases, bearing the name of the Sutton Jewelry store, this morning spurred on the efforts of police authorities in their attempt to bring about a quick solution of the $4,000 daylight robbery of the local store early Thursday morning. A large, partitioned wooden box, three of the estimated 10 ring trays and a score or more of ring boxes were found this morning in Monroe township at a practically uninhabited section. All were empty. John Fox. county highway ernI ploye, found the empty boxes, that had held part of the $4,000 in loot obtained by an unmasked man and woman who slugged and robbed Jesse C. Sutton, the store owner, ; yesterday. The boxes were lying near an old wooden gate, on a road deserted of homes, located three miles east of federaf road 27 and south of Monroe. Fox. who had not heard of the robbery previously, overheard Jess Essex, field agent of the local sugar company, discussing the theft and asked him to notify authorities. The boxes were brought to the county jail and W. G. Spaneth, state police fingerprint expert, was immediately summoned. Efforts are being made to get prints from the boxes. Release Suspects The blockade of nil roads leading from this vicinity yesterday resulted in the apprehension of sev'oral suspects, but all were released when they proved alibis. The couple whose description tallied with that of the bandit pair, were apprehended south of Mar(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o — NEIGHBORS AID ! B.F.BREINER Kirkland Township Neighbors Husk 15 Acres Os Corn Their good deed for the day vas done by friends of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Breiner in Kirkland township Thursday when they assembled to husk and place in the bins 15 acres of corn. Breiner became seriously 111 September 1 and Mr. Breiner had been unable to keep up his work on the farm, so the friends J met, brought their wagons and their dinners and had a fine time helping Mr. Breiner. Mr. Breiner. who is well kr own I over the county having served three terms as county cominisj sioner and having been active in j governmental and civic affairs, today said he was unable to uiank I his friends adequately for their I neighborly act. Ethel Courtney. Mrs. Tom v, Johnson and Mrs Rolland G. Piling brought the dinners to feed ■ the group at noon. Those who helped are Harry Beaverp. Dale Hoffman, Joseoh Schultz, Charles Sickafns. Elmer Lautenschleger, Otto Thiele, Ed Shoaf. Ellis Eicher, Virgil Martin, Fred Ross, Jim Ross. V. L. Baltzeli, Peter Hess. . Harry C. Andrews, L. L. Wil- . liamson, Charles Schnepp, Clayi ton Thorn, Chris Eicher. Jacoo . Heimann, Roy Snutbine, Oscar Burry. Cal Falb. Frank Liniger, . Dave Hollinger. W. B. Martz. Ed Kohne, Charles A. Cook, , Walter Heimann. Lucky Heimann, T. V. Johnston, Ed Isch, Frank . Shoaf, Wayne Gibson. Herbert LaFountaine. Rolland G. Poling , and Melvin Mallonee. —o TEMPERATURE READINGS r DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER , 8:00 a m 52 2:oQp.m 71 j 10:00a.m 61 3:00 p.m 70 Noon 70 t WEATHER s > Rain tonight and Saturday; t cooler Saturday and in southwest oprtion tonight.