Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1938 — Page 1
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Mrs. Olive R. Colby Widow of a New York sportsman. Mrs. Olive Randolph Colby of Kansas City. Mo., is seeking $2,000,000 from Harold F. McCormick, Chicago harvester millionaire, on charges of breach of promise. GERMAN PLANE LANDED AT SEA Members Os Crew Are Rescued As Monoplane Sinks Manila. Dec. 6. —(U.» —A German good will monoplane which flew* to Tokyo in record time made a forced landing in the sea off the Philippine Islands today on a Tokyo-Manila flight, first stage of its return flight to Berlin. Fishemen rescued the members of the crew as the plane sank. The five aviators and one passenger aboard were brought to Manila by launch. They said that they would dismantle the plane after it was hauled from the water and ship it to Germany. The four-motored plane, The Con-I dor, which made a record round trip flight between Berlin and New York last August, had flown from Berlin to Tokyo in 46 hours 43 minutes. It left Tokyo for Manila at 5:37 a. m. today. Its crew had planned to remain here overnight and fly on to Batavia, Java, tomorrow. At 3:30 p. m.. half an hour before it was due here, the plane radioed that it was experiencing motor trouble over Cavite, up the coast. The message added that the plane hoped to land at Nielson airport within 10 minutes. An hour passed. There was no sign of the plane and there was no response to anxious messages from the airport. It was decided to send out rescue planes. Mark Lewis. American army aviator. in a search plane, flew up the coast. About 100 feet off the village of Rosario, 30 miles from Manila on Luzon Island, Lewis saw the lane settling in the water. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o —— FILE ELECTION i COSTTHURSDAY Thursday Will Be Deadline For Candidates To File Thursday December 8 is the final day for candidates in the recent tall election to file a list of campaign expenses with the county clerk. A preliminary check today disclosed that a great portion of the candidates have already filed. The latest to file expenses were: George H. Harding, Republican candidate for city councilman. »l-8b and Kermit Bowen, Depubhcan candidate for county auditor $16.45. Those who filed statements saying that they had no expenses were all candidates for advisory board nosts They are: Evert O. Rich, French’ A W. Gulick, St. Marys; Randolph Everett, St. Mary's and Winfam <1- Bollen,bacher, Jefferson.,
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PAN-AMERICAN SESSION WILL START FRIDAY Some Nations Expected To Fight Roosevelt Program Lima. Peru. Dec. 6— (U.R) —A group of South American nations led by Argentina laid the ground work today for a diplomatic battle at the eighth Pan-American conference against President Roosevelt’s program for defense of the 1 western hemisphere. The United States delegation to lhe conference, headed by Secretary of State Cordell Hull and including Alf M. Landon of Kansas, will discover upon its arrival tomorrow that lines for the contest already nave been drawn in preparation for the'first session on Friday. But there were hints of unex-, petted developments. Usually well-informed sources indicated that Hull's plans for the conference—undisclosed as yet — might sharply change the outlook for one of the most important meetings ever held among the nations of the Americas. The conference, which Is the eight since IS9O, will last possibly six weeks. A total of 21 republics will be represented. The objective is to strengthen inter-A merican sol idarity. This year the objective has been made more important than i ever as a result of developments in Europe and the far east and as i tesult of Mr. Roosevelt's declaration that preparations must be made for the defense of both North and South America against any possible aggression by foreign states —particularly by totalitarian slates. The specific methods by which the United States would undertake such action, aside from strengthening her own navy and other defenses, was not made clear by the president, but several possi l ilities have been advanced informally. One possibility which has aroused much speculation would be by military alliances or agree(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o NATHAN NELSON NAMED MANAGER Decatur Attorney Takes Office As License Bureau Head Nathan C. Nelson, Decatur attorney and Democratic county chairman today was named manager of the Decatur auto license bureau. Mr. Nelson succeeds Dee Fryback, Decatur salesman, who has held the position since January. 1935. The auditor from the state bureau of motor vehicles arived in Decatur this morning to check out the records and turned the office over to the new manager. Miss Betty Macklin, clerk in the bureau, has been retained by Mr. Nelson as deputy in the office. The license plates go on sale for the first time next Monday. Two iMen Selected For Jury Service Paul Felber of Berne and Rolla E. Johnson of Monroe township were the two selected late Monday by the jury commissioners to fill the 1 places' on the December term of the Adams circuit jury, left vacant by the excusing of Jess Clark of Ohio and Melvin Ehrsarn of Monroe township. — o High School Youth Killed In Accident New Albany, Ind., Oec. 6 —(UP) — Vaughn Mcßae, 16, a high school student, died and George Reitz, a companion, was injured when Me Rae lost control of a borrowed automobile and it crashed through a fence and rolled into a six-foot embankment. The accident occurred near Mcßae’s home south of here. Promises Co-Operation To Change Election Law Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 6 —(UP) — Gov. M. Clifford Townsend today promised to co-operate on revising the state election laws, threw open again the question of state liquor law revision and revealed he is scrutinizing the state board of accounts.
Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 6, 1938.
Christmas Carols i And Chimes Here I Christmas carols to be played upon the organ and chimes of the Zion Reformed church will again be provided during the holiday season, according to announcement made today by Rev. C. M. Prugh. Arrangements have been completed by which tills unusual feature, intro- ' duced last year, will be continued, this year. Daily programs of Christmas music will be broadcast from the tower of the church, beginning Sunday Dec. 18 and continuing until after Christmas. Four matched speakers of thirty watts power will be stationed on top of the church tower, from which music will emit in all directions. As last year, the public address system Installed in the church, augmented by equipment provided by the Miller Radio Service, will be used in matting this service possible. o EARLY MAILING IS URGID HERE Decatur Postmaster Urges Early Mailing For Christmas “Mail Early" was the word today at the Decatur post office where Mrs. lAila P. Macklin, acting postmaster, and her entire staff began to note an intensive increase in Christmas mailing. Mrs. Macklin encouraged the use of “Do Not Open ‘Til Xmas” packi ages. These packages, she stated, i ian be mailed at an early date, thus j insuring their arrival in time for ' the event. While patrons are urged to use Christmas Seals, the seals ere not ■ to be put on the front of the envelope. These are to be put on the back only. Patrons are also urged to be sure that packages carry enough I postage, are packed securely and . durably, and they are asked to insure all valauble packages. The use of first class postage on Xmas cards is also urged by the i office. Greetings bearing but one and one-half cent .postage cannot be forwarded nor even returned unless the sender’s address is known and extra postage is secured. The use of first class postage thus insures prompt arrival. Mrs. Macklin stated that the office will be closed both Sunday and Monday, December 25 and 26, and 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o ; City Plant Grounds Are Being Decorated The grounds at the city light and power plant are being decorated with Christmas lights. A large star has been placed on the building, which attracted quite a bit of atten- ( . tion last night. The ornamental i evergreens and the rose arbor will be decorated with colored lights and employes of the department . hope to make the place one of the . most attractive in the city during , the holiday bossoil i . o 1 SCHOOL HEADS HOLD MEETING Adams And Jay County School Principals Meet Here — The school principals of Adams and Jay counties were the guests of Principal W. Guy Brown and superintendent Walter J. Krick in the new junior-senior high school. I nere last night in a group meeting of the national education associa. tion. | 1 D. S. Weller, principal of the Portland high school, presided at ■ the meeting. Superintendent Krick , led the discussion on "Curricula of County Seat High Schools and Superintendent L. L. Steed of Jay county led the discussion on “Curriocula of Township High Schools.” Following the meeting the prin- 1 cipals vtere conducted on a tour of the new building. Those in attendance were: Russell Steiner of Hartford; Mardy L. Logan of Bryant, H. C. Settle of Poling, Jerome J. Dilts of Pennville, Roy C. Harrison of Jefferson, M. Keith Smith of Gary high schol, Jay county; Hansel L. Foley of Kirkland. J. D. Carig of Redkey, M. Clyde Black of Pennville, John H. LeMaster, also of Redkey, D. S. Weller of Portland, L. L. Steed of Portland, Mr. and Mrs. M. Snyder of Poling, R. O. Hunt of Geneva, Wai- , ter Mehrlnger of Monroe and R. J-. , Mann of Pleasant Mills.
CUTS IN TAXES ARE URGED BY YOUNGER FORD Edsel Ford Says Reduction Best Encouragement To Business Washington. Dec. 6 — (U.R> — Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Co., asserted before the senate finance subcommittee today that the best encouragement to business would be a general reduction in taxes. Ford Slid he telt that a system of incentive taxation, providing for government tax credits to encourage industrial profit-sharing, "might create more problems than It would solve." “My feeling would be that a reduction of taxes generally would be as good an incentive as any." he told Sens. Herring, D„ la„ and Vandenberg. R., Mich. Referring to tax credits for social managenient of industries. Fold sale he “supposed” that "an incentive of that kind will always i have an appeal” but that “It leads to complications and consequences that might be difficult to handle.” He salii a general tax reduction program would provide business with benefits adequate to stimulate plant expansion, increased payrolls, profit-sharing and other practices for which incentive taxation might be an encouragement Ford called the Ford company high wage" system the best form of profit-sharing, saying that "we 'ry to be more than fair, and we believe earnestly in paying just is high wages as can be paid and producing just as cheaply as posi dble in order to get a large volume of production. “We feel that we have no serious labcr trouble," Ford said when asked whether the plan had been found satisfactory. When Ford went to the stand | he neld up his right hand to be I sworn as he was sworn yesterday for testimony before the O'Mai honey monopoly committee. “Sit down,” said Chairman Herring “You don't need to be (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 FRIENDS BOOM JOHN N. GARNER Texas Friends Rally To “Draft” Garner For President Detroit. Tex. Dec. 6 — (UP) — Friends of vice president John Nance Garner rally today to draft him as a presidential candidate for 1940. They were led !by Roy Miller, of Corpus Christi, a life-long friend, and by Toon De Berry, member of the Texas board of control and another friend of long standing. Others, who went to school with Garner in this northeast Texas community 50 years ago, helped arrange the convention which drew political leaders from over the state and took on the nature of a homecoming." Detroit was swelled to twice its normal 1500 population last 1 night as the vanguard arrived and. sponsors predicted that 5,000 would' be here by 2 p. m. Garner neither attended nor sanctioned the movement. He remained' at his Uvalde home and made no statement. But the overall clad farmers and the townsmen who were his boyhood companions were unconcerned. One said: “Wai, he hasn’t said yes—but then he hasn’t said no, either."” Most of them remembered him not as a young man who left for a distant outpost on the Rio Grande river to open a law office, but as “The best poker player in Red River county." The Garner —For President movement has smoldered in Texas for (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O — * Buys Health Bond — ■— • The Decatur Woman’s club has
voted uurchase of a $lO health bond, W. Guy Brown, chairman of the Christmas Seal drive, announced today. Proceeds from the health bond fund are used to aid in the fight against tuberculosis and to provide milk for unde r nourished children.
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Germany, France Sign Pact Pledging Both Countries To J Outlay) War To End Disputes
COUNTY BOARD ALLOWS CLAIMS Commissioners Slash Election Cost Requests Today The county commissioners in reg-' ular session this morning complet-; ed the allowing of claims, after j paring down to a large extent the election costs. A total of J 1,838.23 was allowed’ lor election costs. To arrive at the figure, which was within the appropriation. the commissioners had to cut $33.38 from the meals and $13.90 ! from the rent as asked by the var- j i ious inspectors. A set price of 50 cents a meal, as ! set by law, was allowed. In some | instances four meals were served. Pay was allowed for one nay only, at the following rates: inspectors, »8; judges and clerks, $5 and sher- ; iffs. $3. The total costs for 34 precincts' in each of the salaries and other | | items follows; Inspectors, $272; judges, $340; I clerks $440; sheriffs, $204; rents .CONTINUED on page five, o Lower Winter Wheat Crop Is Forecast Chicago, Dec. 6—(UP)—Private I crop experts today forecast an average 1939 winter wheat yield of 524,000,000 (M) bushels, more than 150,000,000 (M) bushels less than this year’s harvest. The experts estimated the acreage sown to winter wheat at appro- ' ximately 46,750,000 (M) aces compared with 57,316.000 (M) acres ■ seeded in the fall of 1937. o Receive Invitation To Society Meeting Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Klepper of this city have been invited as guests at the annual dinner of the Indiana Society of Chicago, which will bs neld Sautrday evening at the Palmer House, Chicago. Several Fort Wayne men and j their wives are planning to attend, Among them Banker Charles Buesching, Congressman-elect GeoI rge Gillie. The dinner is one of the high lights in entertainment and is largely attended by nationally prominent men and women. o- — BULLETIN Columbus, 0., Dec. 6.—'U.K— Gov. Martin L. Davey declared today that Mrs. Marie Hahn, 32 must die in the Ohio pententiary Wednesday night. The governor rejected her appeal. UNWED MOTHER UNDER ARREST Tipton Girl In Custody After Abandoning Her Baby Indianapolis, Dec. 6. —<U.R> —A 17-year-old unmarried mother was recovering from nervous shock in City hospital today while in a nearby ward surgeons deliberated whether to operate on her two- j weeks-old baby, abandoned by her i on a doorstep Saturday night. The girl mother is Ethel Cockrill of Tipton. Indianapolis detec-! tives arrested her at her home on a charge of child neglect. She told them she deqjdedl to abandon the tiny, black-haired girl, who is sufferiilg from a dread spin-1 al tumor, after overhearing a conversation in a downtown building. “I heard two girls talking of a married couple who wanted to adopt a baby,” he said. “I thought my baby would be better off in their care.” In the hospital with Miss Cockrill is Doris Tunis, 20. Tipton, who is being held on a charge of contributing to delinquency. She lived with the young mother and, after the child was born in an Indianapolis hospital, helped her take it to a home on the north side. “I laid the baby on the porch and ran,” the slim, brunette mother sobbed. Miss Tunis fainted four times (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)
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Lethal Gas Chamber Into these two black chairs In San Quentin. Cai., prison, Albert Kessel and Robert L. Cannon ■ -. -tinnn“fl in the state’s first execution with use of lethal gas. A lew seconds later the door was shut and made airtight. Wit- 1 nesses lined around the window mid th»n the deadly cyanide gas i was released, taking the lives of tue two tor the murder of War- ; ! den Clarence Larkin in an escape ( attempt in September. 1937. MUNCIE PUZZLE POLICE Mysterious Deaths Os Three Men At Muncie Probed Muncie, Ind., Dec. 6—(UP)—Police were puzzled today by the mys-j terious deaths of three men, one reputed to be wealthy, whose bodies were found yesterday in separate rooms of a gas-filled apartment. ; Investigators said they were not satisfied with the theory of accidental deaths although there appeared ;o be no motive for murder or suicide. The dead are Walter G. Johnson. I 65, formerly of Chicago and detroit, ■ the inventor and seller of an automobile carburetor heater; Joseph Connor, 47, a war veteran, and Rollen Reid, 23 odd job worker, i both of Muncie. One investigator said either the! three men had been murdered, that it was a case of murder and suicide,! authority said it was probable, how-| or a triple suicide pact. Another however that all three had been asleep when the gas was turned on. First word of the deaths was received by 'Police from James Tracy, a grocer living near the apartment, one of the most mysterious elements of the case. He said a man who introduced hitnelf as Ralph Johnson, 23, Fort Wayne, Ind., a nephew of the dead man, appeared at the grocery yesterday morning and reported that his uncle was unconscious in the apartment. Ralph Johnson said hej had lived with his uncle at the apartment for several months, Tracy said. Police said they had not been able to find the nephew tor questioning and that if he did not appear ' today they would order a statewide search for him. Police found the apartment fill-; ! ed with gas that poured from two I open gas jets, one under a heater j in the (bathroom and the other on the kitchen stove. The jets were wide open, police said, Indicating j that the presence of the fumes was 1 not an accident. Whiskey and beer bottles lying ! about the apartment and clothes (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a.m 36 2:00 p.m 34 10:00a.m 35 3:00 p.m 34 Noon 34 WEATHER Cloudy, light rain or snow in central and north portions tonight; Wednesday partly cloudy not much change in termeparture.
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Documents, As Signed By Foreign Ministers Is Designed To Arbitrate All Differences. NO TIME LIMIT Paris, Dec. 6— (U.R> —The foreign ministers of Germany and France tiday signed a cream-col-ored sheet of sheepskin parchment pledging the two historic enemies to meet at a conference table instead of resorting to war for settlement of their disputes. The document —signed by Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop and French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet on the spot where the Briand-Kellogg anti-war treaty was initialed a decade ago—may profoundly affect future European relations. But only future developments will demonstrate whether it will become an'historic document or a | political gesture. its formal purpose is to pledge | both nations to outlaw war as an I instrument in settling disputes. It bears no time limit. Hence the two powers agree to recognize their present common frontier along the Rhine after generations of sporadic warfare and to negotiate all future troubles, avoiding resort to force unless all efforts | 'oward compromise fail. The ceremony of signing the document was on a brilliant stage in the clock salon of the ministry of foreign affairs, with Premier Edouard Daladier and high officials of both governments present. Returning from a state luncheon at Matignon Palace, where the first informal French-German talks on European affairs took place over the coffee cups. Bonnet and Ribbentrop took their places in two high backed period chairs before the castly Louis XVI bur- ' eau in the clock salon. Brilliant sunshine poured I ihrough the windows, and the 1 scene was further brightened by motion picture flood lights and I the huge crystal chandeliers overhead. On the big chimney behind the officials was the clock which | gives th« salon its name. The accord was a brief document written on one side of the parchment, which was bordered in red. On the table beside it I were a two-centuries old Inkstand 1 and a pen-holder in which was stuck a golden pen for the cerei mony. There were two copies of the agreement, one in French which Bonnet s'gned first and one in i German which Ribbentrop signed first. The ceremony was made public I by admission of delegated repre- ! sentativ»s of the French and Ger- ' man diplomatic press, who stood l at opposite ends of the table. Motion and still cameramen swarmed through the salon. After the brief ceremony-, DaIa(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOU ajT J. NEUHAUSER DIES AT BERNE Prominent Retired Berne Farmer Dies Os Complications Monday John Neuhauser, 77, prominent Berne resident, died late Monday afternoon at his home in that town. Death was attributed to kidney | (rouble and complications. He had . been ill three weeks. He was recently returned from a Centerville, Michigan hospital where he had undergone treatment, lie was a retired farmer and at the I (me of his death held stock in several Berne industries. | The deceased was born in French township December 7. 1860. He was married in early life to Christina Steiner who died about 20 years ago. A few years ago he was married to Anna Hanson, who survives. Surviving, also, are the following children: Amos of Bluffton. Mrs. Noel Schlatzhauer also of Bluffton, Mrs. Joel Moser of Berne: a brother, Jacob and one sister, Mrs. John A. Amstutz, both of Berne. Three children are deceased. He was a member of the Defenseless Mennonite church, west of Berne. Funeral services will be held at I 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the I church and burial will bo in the church cemetery.