Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 272, Decatur, Adams County, 17 November 1938 — Page 1

XVI. No. 272.

U FACTORY MRS END OF BERN'S RUN To Be At Sugar Com■ny Monday ** ■Efrfrjt ,| i||.> 104,00" ions of establishes WjJJ ~r pounds ’■tris® ll Kite «!• "“Bais til I ■ ■''■ sugar (han produced in the tictory. and* will be the n since Dale W Mchis associates acquired feSii' " ■ ~r 77 * lay ” ’ ■b W H ’ - otli-r fnvoi - . tile K ihi< Knit wLlit'i 'li.in normal. MS Ail: i few I ts are betoday. ■Mj|Krks the etui of a work HH* l '" '"’ “■ Poop! ' ’ farmers who s 1..: persons (1.. campaign I RIH '" 1,1 about ".'to 1250 laborers. Otli be required in the distri-; (the sugar. ■ of the plant stated tojhe sugar beets this year in unusually high quaii’y and sugar content, 'the Itent will average about It and the quality about It. I are to receive their nent of $5 a ton, guaranthem by the plant, on ' 15. Thereafter on a second payment will The final payment will the growers on or before Lgaiti this year the grow■Huced beets under 50-50 ■ in which they share ■with the plant in the | I of the sale of the sugar K by-products, beet pulp F" ■bion. the farmers are ■for the special soil conI sugar beet benefit pay-1 ■ from the government. In ilie production of beets' ■e government insurance I deficit production. Where Suction of beets was de■ayments will be made by Brnment on the basis of lent of a normal yield. I ■ because of weather or ■use, tlio crop was abandjowers will be paid by the lent on the basis of one- I I a normal crop, philately 45 percent of br this year is to lie p in the new paper bags Btpment was installed this •order that the paper bag., i b used for the smaller | sugar. L E. Snyder To Speak At Berne >E. Snyder, well known Van PWo lecturer, will be the I for the first annual mother Kilters’ banquet of Berne, to I at the Chamber of Comjuilding there November 29. -DREN PLAN NUALBAZABR School To I § d Bazaar Monday, I Tuesday K^R I ' n,la l children’s bazaar will St. Joseph’s school Monand continue over to night. L> azaa, ' e wiu he heid in the £ r^r i,ln the school and the om is being attractively decrthe event. 011(1 :lv and Tuesday evenL^B* 1 ' 1 "' 1 ’ will be served in the fctH> 100ni of tlle afhool, beginn--0 The public is invitstands and other places Hjfcement will be located on the floor and the children king every effort to make aar one of the most attracsuccessful in the history rJasehooi. valuable prizes will be ain connection with the baHag_ ~ e proceeds will be used ; benefit of the school.

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Wilson Reaches Paris Enroute To Washington Paris, Nov. 17 —(UP)— Hugh Wilson, American Ambassador to; Germany, arrived today from Berlin. He refused to comment regarding his return to Washington. He will sail from Le Harve aboard the Manhattan tomorrow morning. The liner was scheduled to sail tonight hut was delayed by fog. o SHERIFFS MEET TO COUNT VOTES Sheriffs Os Three Counties Tabulate Candidates Votes The sheriffs of Adams. Wells and Blackford counties met in the office of Adams County Sheriff Dallas Brown Wednesday afternoon to tabulate the official votes of the candidates for join senator and representative in this district. The official tabulation showed that Von A. Pat Eichorn, of Uniondale. unopposed Democratic candidate for joint senator, received 13,753 votes as follows: Adams county 5.001; Wells county 5.220, and Blackford county, 3.532. Robert H. Heller, Decatur, Democratic candidate for joint representative received 9.492 votes as follows; Adams county 4.607, Wells county, 4.885. Edward E. Liechty, Berne, Repub- j Mean candidate for joint representative received 7.986 votes as follows; Adams county 3,830, Wells county 3,986. Mr. Eichorn was declared elected by 13,753 votes and Mr. Heller elected by 1,676 votes. They were presented sheriffs' certificates of election. Mr. Eichorn and Mr. Helier were the only Democratic winners of legislative posts in the fourth Congressional district and two of the few Democrats to win in Northern Indiana. On present official counts it appears as if the state senate will be Democratic by a sate margin while the house will be Republican by a margin of 51 to 49. Possible recounts may tie the house or give the Democrats a majority of two.

D ALHOVER TO DIE TONIGHT Brady Gangster Slated For Execution Late Tonight Washington, Nov. 17—(U.R) — The supreme court today refused to intervene in the case of James Dalhover, middle western desperado under sentence to die in the electric cha'r at Michigan City, Ind., tonight. Michigan City, Ind., Nov. 17 --(U.R)—James Dalhover, Brady gang tr.gger man who will die tonight in the electric chair, was brought here today from Milan. Michigan, federal prison by three carloads of officers Michigan City, Ind.. Nov. 17.— (U.R>— Rhuel James Dalhover, 32, formerly Al Brady gangster who penitently asked for death in a form valuable to science, will die like any other criminal in the state prison electric chair tonight for the murder of an Indiana state ’policeman. All hopes for a stay of execution for the pint-sized slayer apparently were gone. A few weeks ago the U. S. supreme court denied his appeal and since then the U. S. circuit court of appeals in Chicago has twice refused petitions for a stay. Yesterday the department of justice refused to recommend executive clemency, which ended an effort to gain a respite on commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment from President Roosevelt. DaMiover’s mother, Mrs. Bertha Craig, Madison, Wis., told the department her son wanted to give his life in an experiment with some "dread” disease, in hopes “my Indiana neighbors (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) ■ ——o —— Daughter Born To Queen Os Egypt Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 17 — (U £’“ Queen Farida, bride of young King Carouk, gave birth to a daughter today, the first child of the royal C °A P 'salute of 21 guns advised the pqpulace of the birth of a girl. K it had been a son, the salute would have been 192 guns, announcing birth of a crown prince.

Physician, Three Others Tried for Abduction |-.g a ■r y L»f Y| < K Ewx ' Mtv TtSsamiwra: V -

Irving Baker Accused with three others in the torture-abduction of Irving Baker, former coast guard officer. Dr. Kent W. Berry. 50-year-old socialite physician, is on trial at Olympia. Wash. The defendants are being tried under the “Lindbergh law” but the death penalty is not being asked The prosecution

AGREEMENT ON TRADE TO BE SIGNED TODAY U. S. To Sign Important Pacts With Britain, Canada Washington, Nov. 17. —KU-Rl —The United States signs politically important trade agreements with its two biggest customers —the United Kingdom and Canada —today. Canadian- Prime Minister Mackenzie King will sign merely a revision of a previous agreement with tlie United States. But Sir Ronald Lindsay, British ambassador, will put his name to an Anglo-American trade pact i formally aligning the world’s two greatest trading nations in an effort to beat down trade barriers, clear global trade channels and bolster international commercial theories of the democracies against restrictive totalitarianism. The treaty with Great Britain is a triumph for Secretary of State Cordell Hull who, single-handed, sold the new deal on a reciprocal trade treaty policy, then set a course leading ultimately to agreement with the United Kingdom. His signature will represent the United States today. With signature of the Anglo-Am-erican pact, the United States, will have 20 such agreements with nations acounting for 60 per cent of our normal trade. The reciprocal trade program has been praised and condemned and some persons cite statistics of its failure. Editorial research reports say that our trade with agreement nations increased 66.2 per (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o CHARGES SOLON IS COMMUNIST Auto Worker Says Michigan State Senator Is A Communist Washington, Nov. 17 — (U.R) 1 — Richard Eagar, Detroit automobr-i worker, charged before the house committee investigating un-Amer-ican activities today that Stanley Novak, newly elected Michigan state senator, is a communist. Novak was elected to the Michigan legislature as a Democratic candidate, Eagar said. Sen. Vandenberg, R., Mich., was a spectator at the committee table as Eagar named 11 officials of the Detroit west side local of the United Automobile Workers union as members of the communist party. Eagar, former chairman of the UAW organization in the Turnstedt division of the General Motors Corp., asserted that communists control all policy in the Turnstedt union. He charged (hat a candidate could not be elected to a plant union office without communist support. He said that Walter Reuther west side local president, ( s a "revolutionary socialist” and named the following as commun(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 17, 1938.

Former Decatur Man Is After Post Office Job Among the 25 candidates for postmaster of Fort Wayne are John Carmody. Clyde F. Dreisbach, Abie i Lincoln Schaefer, James Henry j Hipskind and Godfrey J. Gladbach. ' Mr. Carmody formerly lived in Decatur. Mr. Dreisbach and Mr. Tipskind are well known in this city. The appointment of a Fort Wayne ' postmaster is expected around the i first of the year. L. G. Ellingham, | formerly of Decatur, has been acting postmaster since March 1933. ; Mr. Ellingham is not eligible for . appointment under the new civil service rules. PLANS PROTEST : IN DITCH CASE Asks Jay County Commissioners To Support Local Board Tod Whipple, of Portland, attorney for the petitioners in the famous Wabash ditch case, will pre--1 sent a petition asking a itsolution Lacking the Adams county commissieoners at the special mooting of the Jay county commissioners, Sat-. urday. Mr. Whipple has announced he is seeking the backing of the Jay county board in the Adams county s commissioners stand in refusing to issue bonds because what he calls “a $30,000 gift” to contracting firms and associate is included irt the contract through the insertion of a clause providing for “unforseen eon- j tingencies,” The attorney claims the amount; of bonds, $133,880.45 approved by Special Judge Henry F. Kister in the Adams circuit court, is approximately $30,000 too much. The Adams county commissioners, acting on order of Judge Kis- . ter approved the bond issue, but the day before the sale rescinded the order that the amount might be rec-1 tified. Before Judge Kister could rule further on the issuance of the bonds, an action was taken to the supreme court challenging Judge Klster’s right of jurisdiction iu a suit on the bond issue in an effort; to transfer this to the regular judge of the Adams circuit court. This is still pending in the supreme court. Mr. Whipple further claims that Homer Teeters, engineer appointed by Judge Kister and former Jay county surveyor, has received ■5,-j (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) —O Await Arrival Os New License Plates The personnel of the Adams county license bureau here is awaiting the arrival of the county's quota of auto license .plates for 1939. As yet , tne local bureau has received no official word, stating when they will arrive. As is customary, the new 1939 plates are expected to go on sale on or about December 10 and enough time Is expected to be given ; the local bureau previous to that date to prepare for the sale. Auto owners will be required to purchase their plates between December 10 and January 1, 1939. The plates for 1939 are to be black and I orange In color.

Dr. Kent W. Berry and wife charges that Berry hired the three other defendants and participated in the abduction and beating of Baker because of the physician's belief that Baker had assaulted Mrs. Berry during a party. Dr. Berry and wife and Baker are shown in court in these photos.

VOTE RECOUNT DEMANDS UPPED BY REPUBLICANS State Candidates Announce Recount Sought In 21 Counties Indianapolis. Nov. 17 — (U.R) — Charging widespread ‘fraud and mistakes” in the Nov. 8 election. Republican state candidates today announced they would d? maud vote recounts in 21 Indiana counties instead of only five as originally planned. Arch N. Bobbitt, state chair man. refused to reveal Immediately the additional 16 counties involved but the recount suits must be filed by Saturday. The candidates decided that they probably would not gain enough votes in the original live counties — Marion, Vigo, Lake. Vanderburgh and Vermillion —to change the lead gained by Democrats, al'hough in most cases the lead was narrow. James M. Tucker, Republican candidate for secretary of state, did not join in the recount petitions as he was elected on the basis of official returns from M) counties. All other Republican state candidates were defeated. With Ripley and Marshall counties still unreported, the 90 other counties gave Tucker 763. Ci” votes and Edward D. Koenemann, Democrat, 763.439, a margin of 504 votes. Sen. Frederick Van Nuys had 777,379 votes in the same 90 counties, and his Republican opponent, Raymond E. Willis, had 771,547, a margin of 5,832 for Van Nuys. The other two counties (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) DEATH CLAIMS EDWIN LEHMAN Prominent Berne Man Dies At Home Wednesday Evening Edwin Lehman, 60, prominent Berne farmer and former business man, died last evening at 5:30 o’clock at his home. Death was attributed to heart trouble. He had been 111 since November 2. The deceasd was born in French township, October 31, 1878, the son of David and Elizabeth Moser-Leh-man. He was at one time manager of the Berne Artificial Stone company and was affiliated with the Gilliom Lumber company. Surviving, besides the widow, are the following children: Floyd, at home; Mrs. Otto Gerber, Wausa, Wisconsin; Mrs. Clyde Sprunger, Berne and Miss Loretta, at home. The following brothers and sisters also survive: Oswin, Berne; Mrs. Ida Stuckey, Fort Wayne; Alvin of Pandora, Ohio; Mrs. Leonard Sprunger of Berne; Elmer of Riverside, California; Enos of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Frank Goodrich of Blue Creek township; Mrs. Robrt Blackwood of Pittsburgh, Pa. Funeral services will be held Saturday afetrnoon at 1 o’clock at (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

Threat Os Economic Pressure By U.S. Against Nazis Seen In Commercial A ttache Recall

Great Britain And U. S.i Work Together On Plan To Aid Migration Os German Jews. FUNDS NEEDED London, Nov. 17 —• (U.R) —Great Britain, working in close agreement with United States repre-i sentatlves. consulted empire ad ministrators today on final details of a plan to aid migration of German Jews. The government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, authorized by the cabinet to try to find a rescue plan for 700,000 Jew’s in Nazi Germany, scanned colonial empire maps for suitable places of settlement. British Guiana appeared to be one of the most favorable considered possibilities, providing sufficient funds are raised in the United States and elsewhere to finance the migration. About $150,000,000 will be required. Government sources said that enough progress had been made in the Anglo-American conversa tions — agreement was near on details of the broad plan--to encourage them to believe that a concrete program could be com pleted within two weeks for sub mission to the five-power direci torate of the intergovernmental refugee committee. In its essence, the plan calls for Great Britain to privide land in her colonies, while Jewish and other private organizations of the Unitod States raise money to finance their settlement. France and other colonial powers. as well as South American nations, also might be asked to contribute land. ff the negotiations succeed Lord Winterton would summon the five-power directorate, including representatives of the United i (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) CITY TAX SMALL PART OF BURDEN Civil City Levy Less Than 15 Percent Os Total Rate Os the $2.69 tax rate, Decatur taxpayers will pay in 1939, only 40 cents or less than 15 percent will be required for the civil city budget. Less than half of the city’s budget is derived from local property taxes, the remaining coming from returns from the state and donations from the municipal plant, under the present arrangement. The total tax rate next year in Decatur of $2.69 will be 23 cents higher than the $2.46 rate now in effect. The state tax board, after examining the city’s budget, approved it without change, one of the few in the county to be so approved. Cuts in county and township budgets resulted in a 20-cent saving to Decatur taxpayers, however, through the action of the state tax board. The comparison of property taxes to be paid next year and this year iu Decatur is: Unit 1939 1938 State 15 .15 County 35 .24 County bonds 04 .04 County welfare 11 .10 Township .03 .02 Township p00r32 .30 Township road bonds .09 .13 School tuition 31 .42 Special school 61 .56 School bonds 22 .04 Library 06 .06 Civil city 40 .40 T0ta152.69 $2.46 o Two Decatur Men Named By Legion The appointment of two Decatur men to fourth district American Legion offices was approved Wednesday in a meeting of Legionnaires at Fort Wayne. Dent O. Baltzell. of Decatur, has been yarned to the aeronautics position and Ralph E. Roop, local engineer, is in charge of emergency relief. The appointments w’ere first an- , nounced at a meeting of Legioni aaires in this city seme time ago,

Seeks Retirement k 1 li ll Tty vl ■ i Charles E. Hocker, assistant , postmaster here for 28 years, has , made application for retirement. , He is succeeded as assistant by , Carrel H Cole, clerk in the Office , since 1935. ; j COLE SUCCEEDS CHARLES HOCKER ( Named Assistant Postmaster; Hocker Has Served 28 Years Mrs. Lola P. Macklin, acting postmaster of the Decatur post office, announced today the promotion of Carrel H. Cole, a clerk in the local office, to the position of assistant postmaster. Mr. Cole succeeds Charles E. Hocker, assistant postmaster in the office for the past 28 years. Mr. , Hocker has made application for ; retirement. The promotion was effevtive i Wednesday, November 16. i Mr. Cole was graduated from the 1 Decatur high school in 1925 cud has since completed four semesters of ' accounting and business law at Indiana university extension center in Fort Wayne. He was first appointed clerk at the local office in 1935 and has 1 served in that capacity since. He is 1 married and has one child Former Teacher Mr. Hocker’s retirement follows ' a long service in the post office here, having received his first appointment as assistant postmaster ' in 1910. The appointment was made ' by the late W. A. Lower, then 'postmaster. Previous to receiving this appointment he had served 15 years as a teachers in the county school system. He first taught for two years in French township. He was then named principal of the Peterson school, acting in that (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O , CHECK MOVE TO BACK 3RD TERM CIO Leaders Sidetrack Roosevelt Third Term Endorsement The Grotto. Pittsburgh, Nov. 17— (UP) —An attempt by a delegate to place the convention of the congress of industrial organizations on record endorsing a third term for President Roosevelt and praising the New Deal, was sidetracked quickly today by CIO leaders. The convention was assured by Lee Pressman, counsel of the CIO and head of the resolutions committee, that a measure dealing with the administration and other political subjects would be submitted. It was not disclosed what attitude the CIO will take toward a third term for the President but several of its Individual unions, including the mine, mill and smelter works, already are on record in favor of such a development. George Bucher, of Philadelphia, 1 representing the United Furniture workers, made an attempt to place the convention on record on the Issue today. He sought to suspend the rules to offer his resolution but did not press the point when Press(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) I

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Nazi Press Makes Attack On Roosevelt’s Speech Condemning Persecution Os German Jews. TO LOSE HOMES By Joe Alex Morris (Copyright 1938 by UP.) The United States hinted today that economic pressure might be used to back up President Roosevelt's condemnation of Germany’s anti-semitic campaign. The American commercial attache at Berlin, Douglas Miller, was suddenly ordered back to Washington a few hours after U. S. Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson had started home for "consultations” which may last indefinitely. The return of Miller was unexpected as far as public knowledge was concerned, although the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce at Washington discounted suggestions that it was anything more than a “routine move that had been planned some time ago. Coming at a time when the ambassador to Berlin was en route home as an obvious gesture of disapproval of anti-semitic activity in Germany, the disclosure of Miller’s recall nevertheless emphasized the unlikely prospect of improving American economic relations with the reich under the present circumstances. Departure of Wilson had been accepted by the German press as an opportunity for the American government to get a "clarified” picture of the conditions in the reich. The recall of Miller was an indirect economic blow that not even the most optimistic nazi editor could interpret as anything except stern disapproval of the extremist policies of German officials. Germany’s foreign trade is one of her most important and perhaps her weakest point. Any hopes of bolstering that trade by negotiating a treaty with the United States —as recently suggested by the Germans and coldly received in Washington because of the reich “barter” system—is likely to be indefinitely delayed as a result of the return of Miller. The Washington government has persistently expressed Its disapproval of the totalitarian theory of “force” in world affairs and has indicated that it preferred to carry out the new deal trade program by deals with the democratic powers rather than with the dictatorial bloc. Thus, while the prospects of any trade accord with the reich became even more remote, the United States and Great Britain prepared to sign a reciprocal agreement of great importance. The British-American treaty, regarded as the keystone in U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull’s program, was desired by the United States as an indictaion of solidarity and amity as much as for economic reasons. Elsewhere developments in connection with the Jewish problem included: 1. Announcement that the right of Jews to continue occupancy of homes and apartments would be abrogated and that they could be dispossessed at any time. Probably 8.000 will be ousted in Berlin alone. 2. The nazi press let loose with both barrels in an attack on President Roosevelt's statement, which has never been printed in Germany. The theme of the German press attack was that American imperialism again was rising in the western hemisphere, backed by Jewish influence in the United (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o i Presbyterian Session Here Friday Evening All elders cocmprfsing the session of the local Presbyterian church are requested to meet in regi ular session Friday evening at 7 o'clock. Plans for the program of the church will be discussed. The meeting will be held at the manse. TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a.m4l 2:00 p.m. 58 10:00 a.m49 3:00 p.msß Noonsl WEATHER Rain tonight or by Friday; cooler Friday in central and | north portions.