Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 288, Decatur, Adams County, 7 December 1938 — Page 1

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U PROGRAM W TO BOOST 1 FISCAL BUDGET I’rogram To |ESin>' Only Slight ■ Increase ■ llllrli.ls 11. |lll 1 111,0 effect ' W, »as°'i ' - ■ Keel*/ 4 iCKt*K ' x ' >••••> s fede’-.tl ftjget v ' greatly 'Air.'.l . i BpresW > IP.os.'V.'ll s.r l Ins ..- : on ■ ■ft•oll-J.IO lillSl.S Wi' I 111I ft**“ X ' ' '"ll'A - IBft 'ii ipl? ! ' |K 7 ft .i ■ fiscal year. sai'i .i. Lun ot . il’ai V budget s w In. .1 , ■ ftp flft Ho said, liowov. r. that |* tori' bo . ftsnuitli id Iho self 1 iq. •:. 1.1 till.', projects of I’WA. /■JjeitJeS - tor d' i ftNtt' ■ it d"t. I . i> war record. “■ Budjbl expenditures and th.- a■ftount [f ' national defense this stat ft previous fiscal y,-ais ■breftt.'i Heil as: 1939. iota! exfttntlitti s7.i»7o.ssS.ihHi, defense ft* ■ s'.t33,77i;.l'Ui; 1997 total .\ . - ft JTO» > ail! greatly eX(“ •d. ami aß*rikft double, those of last year. Committee | greets This Evening of officers and :»:•- heads for ■theft i ,o year wi || 1,,, made at of the Adams countv BMft 1 committee. in be held Lloyd Cowens, - £ intact is to be placed on rural Of Windsor I To Visit England Blulsur will visit England fol towards the end of Febprobably accomby the duchess, an unimsource said today. It was ■ stated definitely, however, that ho at present planning to live so!.- purpose of the - isit. it .ared, is that the MBi- mother, Queen Mary. | Marians To Hear | | Concordia Professor ftftr l '-' Xeitzel of Concordia I'm- “ Wayne, will be the speakthe weekly meeting of the ■aft"" ,! 'y ‘- i,b Thursday I the Rice hotel. Paul Hansel chairman of the program. B o |D MEN WILL ■MEET TONIGHT Lodge Os Red | Men Will Elect New Officers of Pocataligo tribe of | t i^B e <:atur Unproved Ord'T of Red I will meet tonight at 7:3b oI 'l* at the Re<? Men lla!L I of officers will be the B event of the meeting. Brown, sftchem of the local ; will .preside over the meeti members are also planning , the district meeting of I Jftßed Men order at Monroeville Wrsday night. The meeting there ! Bktpen at 8 p. m. Members of the B lodge will go in a group.

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ALL OFFICIALS TO FILE BONDS County And Township Officers Required To File Bonds A notke relative to the filing of bonds by local officers for the coming year has been received by \d.inm County Auditor John W Tyndall from the state division of accounting and statistics, and was reported to the county commissioners 1 uesday. The bonds must be fiied within 10 days after the men take office. The county auditor must file a bond for SIO,OOO, approved by the commissioners and filed with and recorded by the clerk of the cir-, cull court. The county treasurer must file a bond of not less than the amount which will come into his hands at any time during the term, it must b n approved by the county commissioners and tecorded by the clerk of the circuit court. The dark of the circuit court must file a bond, the amount to' be fixed by the county commissioners and filed with and recorded by t b r county recorder. The county sheriff must file a bond of not less than $5,000 or more than $15,000, fixed and approved by the board of county commissioners and filed with and recorded by the clerk of the cir- 1 cult court. The county recorder must file a bond of $4,000, approved by the board of county commissioners and filed with and recorded by the clerk of the circuit court. The county coroner must file a bond of not less than SI,OOO nor more than $5,000. fixed and approved by the commissioners and filed with and recorded by the clerk of :he circuit court. The prosecuting attorney must file a bond of $5,000, approved by the judge of the circuit court and filed with the clerk of the county. CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVEi CITY COUNCIL APPROVES BOIL Preliminary Assessment Roll On Acker Sewer Approved The preliminary assessment roll on the Acker sewer in the north part of the city was approved by the council last evening and December 20 fixed as the date on which objections or remonstrances would be heard. The assessment roll was filed by civil works commissioner Ralph Roop, who was the engineer on the job. The total cost for material is $4,719.94. The work was done ; by the WPA crew. Petitions for building curb on two streets were filed with the council last evening and referred to the street and sewer committee. One petition was signed by Richard Bogner and others for a curb on Tenth street, between Nuttman avenue and Marshall street. Fred Blosser and others filed a petition for a curb on North Seventh street ■ between Nuttman avenue and Indiana street. The petitioners asked that the work be done by the . WPA, the property owners furnishing the material. A petition for a rural light extension in Root township, signed by Gustave Koeneman, Theodore Bulmahn and Walter Walchle was filed and referred to the board of works and safety. Under the law petitions for rural light extensions must be filed with the public service commission and the matter heard by one of the state com-1 missioners. Bills were allowed by the council and the session adjourned. Beverages Board To Hold Hearing The Adams county alcoholic beverages board will hold a hearing in the county commissioners room In the auditor’s office Thursday, December 22. at 9 a. m„ on the applies-, tion of Willis Marion Pickason (Shamrock Inn Restaurant) at Geneva, for a license as liquor, beer and wine retailer. o — temperature readings democrat thermometer 8:0oa.m 10:00 a.m 35 3.00p.m . Noon -7 38 WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; not much change In temperature.

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SIX INDICTED AT NEWCASTLE Factory Employes Indicted Following Strike Violence Newcastle, Ind.. Dec. 7 —<U.R) f - Six employes of the Chrysler corporation indicted on charges of violence to a fellow-worker at the plant were expected to post bonds of SSOO each in circuit court today. Four were arrested by Sheriff Charles Zornes last night and the others were being sought today. Those arrested. Crosby Anderson. James Tucker, Kent Romine and Hiram Jones, were released after posting SSO bonds and were ordered to return today to give the higher bonds. Prosecutor H. M. Edwards said! the men were members of the United Automobile Workers Union, a congress of industrial I organizations affiliate. The Henry county grand jury, j which returned the indictments' after a special investigation of reported violence at the huge automobile factory, charged the defendants with the rough treatment of Jot Pickard, a non-union laborer who was dragged to the front | door of me plan' last Wednesday and nearly thrown out. Only the appearance of factory Manager Sherman Welch saved him. It was alleged the men had “ganged" Pickard. They specifically wen charged with assault and battery. The alleged ‘violence occurred the day before the plant shut down in protest of UAW pickets at the main gate who refused entrance to all except CIO workers. A truce was reached Saturday and the plant re-opened Monday morning. The giand jury revealed it had handed down the indictments last nigh* after examining more than 100 witnesses. TWO EXAMINERS FACE CHARGES State Board Os Accounts Examiners Named In Floyd County New Albany, Ind., Dec. 7. —{UR) —Floyd county’s public fund scandal quieted down temporarily today after a former city clerk pleaded guilty to embezzlement and the trials of two state board of accounts examiners and a former county treasurer were expected in the January court term. Former City Clerk Joel Ford, who had been missing since June, 1937, surrendered in court, pleaded guilty to embezzling $4,227 and was given a suspended sentence of 2 to 21 years by Circuit Judge John M. Paris. Judge Paris explained that he grante leniency to Ford because the latter’s mother had repaid half the shortage and had signed a note for the balance. Ford’s 18-month disappearance was not explained but he was said here to have been in Florida. J. T. Crandall of New Albany I and Claude M. Gladden of Scottsburg. state board of accounts examiners, and Frank Hoppenjon, [ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) i

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 7, 1938.

James Roosevelt and Samuel Goldwyn

I Goldwyn on the Hollywood set. Jimmy is reported to have signed for about $5(1.000 a year, but in an interview said that the report was_toojligb.

Commissioners End Monthly Meeting The county commissioners adjourned their regular monthly meeting Tuesday afternoon until a special meeting December 19 when 1 final bills for the year will be allowed and bids received for printing and road supplies for the coming year. The commissioners were shown the bonds already filed by township trustees for the coming year which are to be finally approved by the county auditor. Before adjourning Tuesday night the commissioners inspected roads bridges and other county property. DEMOCRATS TO MEET DEC. 19 Indiana Solons To Meet Dec. 19 For Organization Indianapolis, Dec. 7 — (U P) 1 Democrat ic members of the house and senate of the 1939 legislature will meet here Dec. 19 to organize foi the session, State Chairman Omer Stokes Jackson announced today. The Democratic party lost control of the house in the Nov. election by two votes. 51 to 49, but | still control the senate, 34 to 16. Senator E. Curtis White of In- i dianapolis, who was president pro tem of the senate in the special session last August, is a candidate i for selection to the post in the' regular session starting Jan. 5. i He may be opposed by Senators Fred Eichhorn of Gary and Claude j B. Mcßride of Jeffersonville. Although the Democrats are the minority party in the house, they will select a full roster of candidates for all posts Including speaker, chief clerk, assistant clerk ant. chief doorkeeper. Edward Stein of Bloomfield,! speaker during the last two sessions of the legislature, is expected to be the Democratic choice again and probably will become minority leader of the Democrats as the Republicans take control of the lo ver chamber. Democrats have a remote possibility of gaining a tie with the Republicans through a recount of the LaPorte county votes where Rep. Martin T. Krueger, Michigan City Democrat, is contesting his defeat. Preliminary recount returns, however, show that he has little chance of being elected. Senate Democrats will choose in addition to the president pro tem, a caucus chairman, secretary, assistant secretary, principal doorkeeper and postmaster. Republicans have held their (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOU *) or Buys Health Bond The Tri Kappa sorority has

voted purchase of a $lO health bond,' W. Guy Brown, i 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 undernourished children.

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TWO CONVICTS KILL OFFICERS North Carolina Sheriff City Policeman Slain Today Burlington, N. C. Dec. 7 —(UP) — A sheriff who had been in office only two days and a veteran police officer of the Burlington Ci y force were shot and killed today when they surprised two escaped convicts robbing a tilling station. One convict was killed by a third officer but the other escaped. The dead were: M. P. Robertson, 45 Alamance county sheriff who took office for a four-year term Monday. S. W. Vaughn, 55, Burlington policeman of 20 years service. Roy Huffman. Greensboro, who escaped Oct. 22 from Anson county prison camp. The escaped convict was Roy Kelly. * 4 Robertson and Vaughan were slain before they could draw their guns as they walked into the filling station two blocks from the business section of this industrial city of 10.000 persons. F B. Faliff. a third off'cer who remained outside the station, fired through a window at the two convfets, killing Ruffman. Roberstson had been a member of the city police force eight years prior to his election as sheriff last month. He was in his office shortly after 2 A. M.. when a truck driver telephoned to report he had seen a light in the filling station at the corner of Trade and Church streets. The sheriff called the two city policemen and they drove to the station. Robertson and Vaughn left the car and weift into the station. They were met by a blaze of shots from the darkness and both were killed (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) — 0 SLIGHT QUAKE IN HOLLYWOOD No Damage Reported As Quake Rocks Studio Area Hollywood, Dec. 7. — (U.R)I An earthquake apparently centeringnear Hollywood sharply jolted the area northwest of Los Angeles last night. No damage was reported although movie stars and other residents became alarmed as floors shook under them and chandeliers swung. In the Hollywood area the effect of the temblor was described as “twisting the house around a bit, and then letting it snap back in place.” Residents said It was accompanied by a low rumbling. Some persons ran to the street in alarm, but most recognized it as one of the periodic shakes that cause no harm. Pasadena felt a “rolling” shock and Glendale, and Burbank along the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains were shaken. Beverly Hills and the exclusive movie residential colony of Brentwood Heights received a sharp jolting. Residents there said it felt "like a bump or the result of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy Will Face Test In Pan-American Conference

REPORT ITALY DEMANDS HELP FROM GERMANY Assert Open Support Demanded In Quest For French Area Paris, Dec. 7—(U.R>-Italy has demanded open support by Germany of her unofficial, undeclared but spectacular popular demand for Tunisia and Corsica, it was reported reliably today. French - German conversations here were interrupted while Joachim Von Ribbentrop, visiting German foreign minister, awaited word from Fuehrer Adolf Hitler on his report of yesterday’s talks. Hitler was said to have received a message from Premier Benito Mussolini and his foreign minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, asking suppoit of the colonial demands. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet was understood to have put the direct question to Ribbentrop yesterdav: “What will Germany do if France, :n defense of Tunisia, Corsica and Djibouti, goes to war with Italy?” Ribbentrop was able to to give only an incomplete answer, insisting that Hitler had not been forewarned cf the Italian demonstration', and that the Reich did not support the Italian aspirations, but asserting also that the Rome(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) VARIETY SHOW MONDAY NIGHT Second Os Shows For Good Fellows Benefit Next Monday The second in a series of variety shows, sponsored jointly by the Delta Theta Tau sorority and the WPA recreation department, will be presented next Monday night, December 12. The show will be staged at the Catholic school auditorium Monday night at 8 o’clock. Admission prices will be five cents tor children and 1C cents for adults. The entire gate receipts of the show will be given to the Good Fellows club, holiday charity organization sponsored annually by the sotority. The first in the series of the ••'nows was presented last week, and an unusually good program was offered. The complete program for (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Lawrence Crosbie Os Bluffton Appointed Indlanaolis, Dec. 7. — (U.R) —The Democratic state administration which controls practically all state house officials under the McNutt organization law today extended a conciliatory hand to James Tucker, newly elected secretary of state. Tucker, only Republican in the state house, was to name Lawrence Crosbie of Bluffton as his chief clerk in charge of election records. Moose Plan Public Party Friday Night A public party will be held at the Moose home on North Second street Friday evening. The homemaking committee of the Women of the Moose will be in charge. o Initiatory Work At K. Os P. Thursday The Knights of Pythias lodge will present second rank initiatory work at the regular meeting Thursday night. The meeting will begin promptly at 7:30 o’clock and all members have been urged to attend. o f Good Fellows Club Previous total $62.48 Business and Prof. Woman’s club 10.00 Friend 35 T0ta1...... $72.83

11 DEMOCRATS FILE REPLIES TO VOTE COUNT State Officials File Briefs Contesting Vote Recount Indianapolis. Dec. 7 — /U.R) — Eleven newly elected Democratic state officials today filed in the state supreme court their reply briefs seeking to prevent a re-, count of 'he vote in seven Indiana counties in the November election sought by their Republican oppon- j ents. The brief on behalf of Senator 1 Frederick Van Nuys is expected to be filed with thq court this j afternoon. Court attaches said tha, the supreme court Justices and attorneys for both Republican and Democratic litigants will have a conference to determine whether further oral arguments in the case are necessary. Albert H. Cole and Edward H. Knight, attorneys for the eleven Democrats, today offered much the same argument presented when they obtained a temporary | writ preventing the recount. The i Democrats now seek to make the writ permanent, thus blocking the recount altogether. They said that the vote in Clark, Franklin and Vermillion counties, where only paper ballots were used, comes under the provisions of an 1881 statute providing that in the event of a recount of the vote in a general election, the ballots cast In every county in the state must be re-. counted. A later act of 1921 which con- j cerned counties which use both, voting machines and paper bal-1 lots allows for recounts in some counties where both methods are used. Tais law the Democratic candidates' attorneys claim is unconstitutional. They asserted today that under he constitution all election laws, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ; q— State Police Speak To Men’s Brotherhood Members of the men's brotherhood of the Baptist church Tuesday evening heard talks given on the state police by William Bell, state police commissioner, and Truman Bierie, state patrolman for this district. | Mr. Bell confined his talk to the organization of the state police and the requirements for membership on the force. Mr. Bierie described the duties of a state patrolman after he had been selected as a member of the force. Preceding the meeting a steak dinner was served by members of the Philathea class. o QUIZ PROGRAM HELD BY CLUB Special Program Is Held By Lions Club Tuesday Night A “Professor Quiz” program was held at the weekly meeting of the Lions club in the Rice hotel Tuesday evening. Harold Sautter was in charge of the program and had scheduled a speaker, but due to an illness in the family of the speaker, it was necessary to change the entertainment. After a number of laughs, a team captained by Dr. E. P. Fields was declared the winner and given cigars by a score of 3 to 0. The three members of the winning team standing after the five members of file other team were retired, were D. Burdette Custer, T. J. Metzler and E. V. McCann. The fifth member of the team was Walter J. Krick. Following this, a business meeting was held. The annual boys’ party held by the club before Christmas was announced. The affair this year will be held Tuesday evening, December 20. Complete plans have not been made.

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United States Seeks To Band Nations Os The American Continent For Mutual Benefit. HULL TO LIMA Editor's Note: The following dispatch explains what is at stake In terms of world peace as secretary Hull disembarks today in Peru for the eighth conference of American republics.) By Joe Alex Morris 'Copyright i»3» by United Press) The United States began today a bold test of whether the Americas can stand together In a chaotic world. Tne test was inaugurated w’ith Secretary of State Cordell Hull’s arrive! at Lima for the eighth Pan-American conference. This meet!) g may be the most difficult and possibly the most important American foreign problem in many years—the first real test by fire of President Roosevelt’s good neighbor policy. The objectives of the United Slaies have been outlined in a broad wry; burial of the “colossus of the north" idea and creation of a family of 21 American republics, aligned with Canada, for mutual economic and cultural benefits and for defense against any aggression from abroad. In a general way and without written commitments the conference appears almost certain to endorse that male objective. But there is much more to the picture to be painted at Lima. The Issues are vast. They may mean success or failure for men and nations tar removed from the western world. For instance, German trade unuer 'he government-subsidy and barter system has boosted Nazi commerce with Brazil to iqual status with that of the United States. in event of war in Europe, the governments in power In South (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o GIVE BEQUESTS FOR CHURCHES Two Mennonite Churches Are Beneficiaries Under Wills Mennonite churches were the acepients of bequests In two wills nobated in the Adams circuit :ourt Tuesday. One was probated in the estate >f a prominent Berne woman, .ho died recently, and contained (he following unusual request in a provision’’asking that the gift to tne church be kept anonymous: It Is further mv will, and I do ere by direct that my name shall not be used in word or print in connection with the gifts made under this will, but instead thereof, such gifts shall be designated as gifts from a friend or from a member of our church.” This will first ordered all just debts ai d funeral expenses be paid. Then it directed that the executor pay to two women, the sum of 812.50 per, week for the time occupied by them in caring for the lecedent. A grandniece was given a Swiss charm clock and a cedar chest with its contents, including clothing. The sum of SI,OOO was given lhe poor fund of the First Mennonite church of Berne. The remainder of the estate was given the First Mennonite church of Berne for missionary purposes. G. Orland Stauffer was named as executor. The second will was probated In the estate of Sarah Ellen Beery. Evidence was heard and (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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