Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1939 — Page 1

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mate High Court Weenies Rehearing MOn Vote Recount

|>reme[Court Refuses To Grant Hearing To Republicans Defeated In November. DRAFTED Jail. 3 (UR) gtat« Wr ■''Hie cnur't today re--d to |Kii a hearing to def fcd Republican candidates in Novtmbe 8 election on pet ii a Jenylng 1h iietition the court N’E not hand down an opinion. PABe hearing had been sought by /V niond tin Willis and tile 11 or slate Icandidates. n opinion of the high court ember F iad prohibited the | mnt (n Hi* certain counties sailing th writ prohibiting the mnt, the tonrt found tile relt couid Slot he made only in w counties but had to lie made - r all counties it was believed ,1 .. It would ie too expensive for Republican party and that the , ie- would ie dropped. G. 0. P Prepare Bills dianapoSis Jan. 3 — <U.R> — mnldican legislative leaders toannt anced at state headquartthat foil bills to carry out ! platfom pledges are ready tie put before the legislation . -oons as bossible. ne li'lla at -: \ Reviser tin McNutt govern at reorganization act. Make Be attorney general • an elective office. Amend! the state securities 1 Abolish the “2 r ; club" by re 4 rne Town Officers „. Arc All Re-Appointed • officers if the town of Berne t re-Appo*! • d at a meeting of ' town hatE.l ! held last night. *• iris 'Ealsiger was re-elected pre tit Bt of Ule board. The officers )■ were Henry B. er, town ittornev; David Dui. town marshall: Andrew inger. street and water commisar;~ Aifijed Zumbrum, night j nail; Bernard Baumgartner, / chief and E. E. Bixler. assist- / !WSTUDENTS =ARE ENROLLED ree Students Are Enrbh oiled In Auctioneering School «T — tree new students have been Bed la the Reppert auction : _ 01, it war reported today. le new enrollees are: Claude > iyers. Columbus, Ohio; Chester Plattviile. Wisconsin and Fra-; w Ramish,;Ontario, Canada. | il. Roy Hiatt of Portland has Z i added to the staff of instruc-, Visitors at the class this week h 5« wnbui Clair and Calvin! ——l fomer students. ie class will go on a tour of in- ] tion of f the General Electic t Thursday afternoon at 12:'50 ck. _J:tiort sales are being held each l at 7.T clock in the Yager 15 ling. The auctions are open to public. , ristmas Lights, JDecorations Removed SO ie last Visible evidence of a 13' holidajiseaaoii in Decatur was oved today as workmen took j j' n the colored Christmas lights evergreens hanging on ornatal light posts. — Buys Health Bond | ie Masonic Blue Lodge has votr I1 TU . ( ed purchase of a $5 health bond, W. Guy Brown. C chairman es the 7 Christmas Seal ;6 wr l drive, announced W, IBjBl? today. Proceeds (rom the heaith bond fund are used to aid in the -'"SnEiSvJ fight against tupto Protect berculosis and to C rHorm- from provide milk for berculosis unde r nourished children. I

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IMPEACHMENT OF LABOR HEAD TO BE SOUGHT Rep. Thomas To Seek Impeachment Os Miss Perkins Wat hington, Jan. 3 — (U.R) — Rep. T. Parnell Thomas. R.. N. J.. a member of the house committee Investigating un-American activities. tniMimced today he will introduce within a week a resolution to impeach Secretary of Label Frames Perkins. He prepared the resolution as the committee, in u formal report to ihe house, renewed its challenge of members of President Roosevelt's cabinet and asserted t that communists have invaded the : federal government. Thomas said he would ask impeachment of Miss Perkins on grounds that she failed to enforce : laws for deportation of aliens. He j charg (1 specifically that she failed to deport Harry Bridges, west coast lender of the congress of industrial organizations. Bridget, Australian-born leader I of west coast maritime labor, has denied charges that he is a coinmunis'. Deportation action, based on the communism charge, was instituted by the department of labor but prosecution of the case has been delayed pending supreme court devision of a test case involving the right of the government to deport alien communists. • I've been working on the resolution for three or four days and 111 have it ready wituiu a week,”Thomas said “I’m going to cite ! as the grounds for impeachment I hei failure to enforce the laws and deport aliens.” He said he planned to introduce the resolution without any cosponsors. The committee, headed by Chairman Martin Dies, D„ Texas, renewed its challenge of Miss Perkins and other cabinet members in its report which also asserted that Nazi and Fascist groups are menacing democracy in the United States. The report also ask"d $150,000 for continuation of the inquiry. The requested appropriation will precipitate debate from both sides. President Roosevelt has criticized the committee for per- j mitting serious—he was convinc- i ed unwarranted —testimony to be uttered against former Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan, who yesterday became attorney general. Committee criticism was aimed at Secretary of Labor Frances (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) SUPPLIES BIDS ARE RECEIVED Commissioners Award Contracts For County Supplies The Niblick and Company store j was given the contract to furnish dry goods to the Adams county infirmary for a three-months period at the bid of $52.02, during the I meeting of the county commissioners this afternoon. The Burk Elevator company, on its bid of s2l, was given the contract to furnish clover seed. The I low bid of seven cents a loaf was submitted by the Rhodes Bakery of Geneva for the bread contract. Another bid was submitted by the Amstutz Bakery at 9 cents for a 1% pound loaf. The commissioners gave Sprunger and Lehman of Berne the contract to furnish the groceries on their bid of $174.76. The Home Gorcery of Decatur bid $176.6-5 and Deitseh Grocery of Decatur bid $183.40. The contract to furnish tobacco was awarded to the Home Grocery of Decatur at SB2 85. The Deitseh Grocery bid $83.62 A report from th e Irene Byron sanatorium in Fort Wayne was submitted to the commissioners showing the condition of the four tuburcular patients the county is keeping at the hospital. All are in j fair condition.

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NAZI TREASON TRIAL OPENS, i 100 INVOLVED Nearly Score Os Hitler Opponents Likely To Face Death Berlin, Jan. 3.— (U.R)— The greatest treason trial held since the nazi accession to power six years ago started today before the dreaded “people's” court. In all more than 100 persons were involved and of these it was forecast that 17 to 18 would be sentenced to death by beheading. There were 22 principals, and of these the chief figure is Ernst Nleklsch, a prominent writer and political partisan of pre-nazi times. The principals were charged not only with disseminating propaganda against the nazi regime but with actualy plotting the death of high nazi leaders. Niekisch aSid two men charged with aiding him in leadership of a treasonable nazi movement were put on trial in secret this morning. it was understood that during the personal testimony of the the first few hours the court heard three defendants. An official told the United Press that he expected the trial of all 22 principals to last only two or three days. The official news agency, in a dispatch which apparently foreshadowed the line of evidence to be offered against Niekisch, said: “Long before 1933 Niekisch antagonized national socialism and from Adolf Hitler’s ascent to power until his arrest he combated the political and economic aims of the national socialist state, indulging in foul vituperation against leading personalities of the reich." Niekisch and his associates. Dr. Wilhelm Drexler and Karl Troegler, arrived at the first section of, the peoples court in a green police van. The trio was marched into three roomy cells used during intermissions. , When court convened the defendants were led into the pres(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) AUTO ACCIDENT INJURIES FATAL Mrs. Elmer Yoder Os Berne Dies Suddenly Saturday Night Funora. services for Mrs. Elmer ' Yoder, 4i. of Berne, who died Saturday night as result of injur-j i ies sustained December 7 when | the car she was driving collided witu a school bus, will be held : Wednesday at Montpelier. Mrs. 'Voder was brought to the | Adams county memorial hospital following the accident and after being confined there for several days was removed to her home in Berne. She was thought to be improv- ! ing steadily. Saturday night about 9 o'clock as she was sitting : at home, she suddenly threw up her hands and fell over dead. Death was attributed to embolism. The dt ceased was born in Montpelp- July 17, 1891. She moved to Berne after ber marriage to. Elmer Yoder. Surviving are the husband, the mother la Montpelier, two sisters and one brother. Funeral services will be held at the mother's home there Wednesday afternoon at 1 ' o’clock, aim burial will be at j Montpelier. Fort Wayne Utility Publishes Statement In page advertisements published in both daily papes, the- Fort Wayne city tight and water utilities, give a financial statement to the people of the 1938 operations of the municipal plants. The electric department shows a net profit of $402,800, before city expenses are absorbed and the water department ,$31,200 for the year. The electric department had net revenues of $1,198,000 and the water department, $589,900. o Carl France Given Gary Appointment Carl H. France, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl O. France of Gary, formerly of this city, has been appointed a member of the Gary city park commission by the new administration which took chage of affairs this week. His picture and the announcement appeared in last evening's j Gary Post-Tribune.

Decatur, Indiana. Tuesday, January 3, 1939.

Honored for Heroism at Sea ||f' ' - $ .. * Herbert Satterlee, president of the Life Saving Benevolent Association, presents a medal to Captain Alfred M. Moore (leftt, master of the American Banker, who directed rescue of five persons from the blazing schooner Pioneer last October. The ceremony was aboard the American Banker at its New York pier. It was the third occasion on which Captain Moore had been decorated for heroism at sea.

VET RAILROAD MAN RETIRED Jesse Cole Is Retired After 50 Years Os Rail Service Jesse Cole, vetean railroad employe and prominent citizen of Decatur, has been retired from active service after 50 years employment with the railroads. Mr. Cole's retirement from active | duty became effective January 1. f Since July 1903, Mr. Cole has] been the telegraph operator and loverman at the Erie tower, at the junction of that road, the Nickel Plate and the Pennsylvania rail- ' roads Beginning his railroad career, August 16, 1888. he was first employed by the New York Central railroad. At that time he lived at Pittsford, Michigan. For the next Fix years he was employed at points along the line between Toledo and Chicago and in 1894 became associated with the railroad. Thirty-five years, ago, Mr. Cole was assigned To the telegraph post in Decatur and the family moved here. He has been a resident here (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) School Resumed After Holidays Classes in the city schools were resumed today after being dismissj ed for 11 days in the annual Christmas holiday period for the students. Students in the rural schools returned to their classes New Years’ Monday. DEATH CLAIMS JOSEPH DAILEY Lifelong Resident Os Adams County Dies Monday Joseph J. Dailey, 89. a life-long resident ot Adams county, died at 12:45 o’clock Monday afternoon at the homo of his daughter, Mrs. Ben S Colter of near Decatur. Death was attributed directly to an attack of pneumonia, from which he had been suffering three days. He had been ill of infirmities for more than eight years, however. The deceased was born March 1, 1849, the son of James and Mary Johnson-Dalley. His wife, Samantha RobinsonDailey, preceded him In death. Surviving are three sons, Eslas, of Fort Wayne, Stanton of Will- j shire, Ohio and Stanley of near: Decatur; six daughters, Mrs Ralph Gates of Knightstown, Mrs. Colter, Mrs. William Carroll of Anderson, Mrs. James Keifer of j Concord, Michignn; Mrs. Dale Fannin? of "Angola, Mrs. Grover] I Nuitie of Fort Wayne. Three daughters are deceased. Two brothers, Eslas M. and Joseph E. Dailey; two sisfers, Mrs. Mary Jones of Wren, Ohio and Mrs. Ed F. Moses of Decatur, and 38 grandchildren also survive. Funeral, services will be held Thursday morning at 10 o’clock at tne Colter residence and 10:30 at the Mt. Tabor M. E. church. , Burial will be In the Mt. Tabor, | cemetery.

Clock Autos For Parking Violation Police chief James Borders started this mining to dock the automobiles in the one hour rarking areas on Second and Monroe streets. Tickets will be issued to violators and the city ordinance passed a year ago will remain in force. One hour parking Is allowed on Second street, between Jackson and Jefferson streets, and on Monroe street, between First and Third streets. Double parking is prohibit- ] ed by city ordinance and also by | state law on these two streets, since both are routes so rstate highways. Chief Borders goes on duty at 7 o'clock. Seph Melchi, former chief, begins his beat at noon and is on duty until 9 in the evening. No , change has been made in the shifts of the two night policemen. COUNTY BOARD HOLDS MEEDNG Commissioners Allow Claims; To Make Appointments The Adams county commissioners late this afternoon appointed Waiter C.iiliom as highway supervisor for the coining year. He will continue to hold the combined office of county highway supervisor and county surveyor. One change was made in the four deputies. Fuelling was named deputy supervisor in district one to replace Hugo Gerke. The, other three deputies will coni tinue. Dr. J. M. Miller was re-appoint-ed coun’y physician. The board delayed action on the appointment I of a trustee for the Adams county memorial hospital for four years to succeed James Briggs, of Oei neva. who is eligible for re-ap-pointment. The board of county commissioners, meeting in its regular monthly session today, took up the alfowing of the claims and the letting of bids for supplies at the 1 county infirmary for three months before making the appointments. It is probable that the appointments will not be made until late this afternoon. Appointments to bo made at this time are: county physician for one year, a position now held by Dr. J. M. Miller, of Decatur; hospital trustee, a position now held by James Briggs, of Geneva, and five county highway appointments. All are eligible for re-appointment. The commissioners must determine today if the highway department is to be continued to be i operated the same as in effect in i the last few years. Under the county highway superintendent are four deputies, one for each of the four road districts. At one time (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) High Court To Hear AAA Program Challenge Washington, Jan. 3—(UP) —The supreme court, meeting in its first session of 1939, today agreed to he#r its first challenge of constitutionality of the Administratrion’s AAA program. An expected decision on constitutionality ot the Tennes- ( see valley authoity power program j was not presented.

Impending Political Strife In Atmosphere As Congress Opens Session Today Noon

81ST INDIANA ASSEMBLY WILL MEET THURSDAY State Legislature To Convene For Biennial Session Indianapolis, Jan. 3.— (U.R) — Indiana’s statehouse hummed with activity today as final preparations were made so rthe 81st legislative session opening Thursday morning. A corps of workmen was busy scouring the house and senate chambers, installing telephones and clearing the committee rooms which have housed the overflow from many state office*. Desks, tables and filing cabinets were moved into the statehouse corridors and set up into makeshift, open-air offices. There they will remain until March when the legislature adjourns aud the committee rooms are vacant again. Many of the 100 representatives and 50 senators already were in Indianapolis, milling about hotel lobbies and wandering through the statehouse. They discussed the many controversial issues impending and the chances of the two houses — one controlled by Democrats and the other by Republicans—to reach compromises and return home with a record of constructive legislation. The house will have a membership of 51 Republicans and 49 Democrats while the senate will be composed of 34 Democrats and 16 Republicans. There were many who predicted that the bi-partisuu complexion of the assembly will result in deadlocks on many controversial questions and that the 81st assembly will adjourn after having passed the least number of bills of any legislature in recent years. More optimistic observers claimed. however, that the two parties will submerge their differences and attempt to work diligently for the enactment of “good” legislation. The first party fight probably will break out when the almost evenly-divided house attempts to organize. Although the Democrats will nominate former speaker Edward H. Stein. Bloomfield, as their candidate speaker, there has been no indication they will try to sway Republican votes to their side. Republicans were expected to elect the house officers headed by Rep. James M. Knapp, Hagerstown, as speaker. Another partisan clash may en~CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) RECORDER FILES ANNUAL REPORT County Recorder Files Annual Report Os Fees Collected The annual report of fees collected during the year 1938 was released today by Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth, Adams county recorder. The report shows a total of 3,307 instruments and total fees collected in the sum of $2,373.34. A comparison with 1937 figures shows a decrease of $123,76 during 1938 in total fees. There were, I i however, 3.440 instruments recorded in 1937 compared with the I 1938 figure. The decrease was due to the fewer number of transfers. The report, as filed with the, state by Mrs. Hollingsworth, discloses the following instruments and fees for each: A total of 629 deeds. $646.50; j ’ thiee transcripts. $7.40; 339 mortgages, $728.59: 38 mechanic's! : liens, $9.50; 861 chattel mort-l gages, $430.50; 194 releases, i $37.50; 50 assignments, $41.50: two powes of atorney, $2; six articles of incorporation $34.50; five plats, $5; 812 marginal releases, $169.80; seven marginal assignments, $1.40; 266 miscellaneous, $199.15; 88 old age certificates, two old age releases and four honorable discharges, no fees; ore Wabash ditch assessi ment, S3O.

NOTE DECREASE | IN INVENTORY Annual Appraisal Is Made Monday At County Infirmary The annual appraisal of the Adams county infirmary, made Monday, was filed today with the Adams county board of commissioners. The appraisement shows the total inventory of January I, 1939, was $18,789.36 as compared to sl9. 927,34. a decrease of $1,146.98 for the year. | The decrease was chiefly due to the decease in the value of horses, hay and produce, fewer heads of horses aud a smaller valuation given the household articles. Tlie inventoy was taken by Amos Huser, of 'Blue Creek township and William C. Aumann, of Root township, in company with the cominisstones, Moses Augsburger, Frank Liniger and Philip Strahni, the superintendent of the infirmary, Harve LaFontaine, and the county attorney Henry B. Heller. The losses during the year were shown as follows: cattle, $55; horses, $535; grain and hay, $413.75; produce, $265.75; househo'd goods. $445.75. and total loss. $1,715.75. The gains were: hogs, sl9; poultry, $67.50; farm implements. $461,25; clothing, $20.52, and total gain, $568.27. Inventory The totals in the inventory were: Cattle, $2,625: hogs, $623; horses $730; poultry, $405. Grain and hay, $3,082.50; farm implements, $3,976; produce and supplies, $3,405.75; clothing. $170.91 household goods, $3,377.25; miscellaneous. $284.95 and total, $lB,780.36. FARM MEETINGS | OPEN TONIGHT Soil Conservation Program To Be Explained In Meetings Adams county farmers and thei* wives will get their first opportunity to learn the provisions of the 1939 conservation program in a series of township meetings beginning tonight, states Winfred Gerke, chairman. All meetings: meetings begin at 7; 30 p. m. aud tonight’s meetings will be held in the Kirkland high school, Geneva high school, Monmouth high school, and the old high school building, Decatur, corner Fifth and Adams. Thursday, January sth, the second series of township meetings will be held In the Jefferson high high school building, Pleasant | Mills high school, Hartford high school, and the Monroe high school. Friday, January 6th, the third set of meetings will be held at the Election school in French township, Jacob school in Blue Creek township, Preble school ill Preble township and the Immanuel Lutheran school in Union township. There seems to be greater interest in the 1939 program than any so far, and the county committee is looking forward to a much larger attendance of both j farm men and women in the above series of meetings. o Interesting Clipping Sent To This Office — Mrs. 11. A. Breiner of Peterson ; sent an interesting clipping to the i newspaper this morning, represent- ! mg a chronology printed in the i Daily Democrat of the year 1891. j The item was clipped from the | Democrat 4(7 yeas ago and tells a ; word picture of the main events j that occurred the year previous. o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a.m 40 2:00 p.m 54 10:00 a.m 44 3:00 p.m ITT Noon 52 WEATHER Considerable cloudiness tonight and Wednesday; somewhat colder Wednesday and in Northwest portion tonight. t

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7Gth Congress Is Opened; President To Deliver His Annual Message Wednesday. I FOREIGN AFFAIRS — Washington, Jan. 3 — (U.R) — The 76th congress, elected In the first popular rebuff to the Roosevelt administration, met at noon today in an atmosphere of im- ! pending political strife. President Roosevelt for the first time is on the defensive and under effective pressure to modify the new deal. Arayed against him, j but not yet in coalition, are a re--1 juvenated Republican party and i a conservative Democratic bloc goaded by the so-called “purge," House and senate met separately today. They will meet jointly tomorrow to hear Mr. Roose\ ell's annual message. This was a routine first-day of organ- ! izaiion. But committees in each | chamber were ready with reports critical, in part, of the administration. The house committee investigating un-American activities shot firsl with a report of its tumultuous hearings. The committee renewed its challenge against Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. It cited Nazi. Fascist and Communist developments in this country as grounds for alarm. The senators and representatives assembled in an atmosphere tautened by disturbances In foreign countries. They may have their repercussions in this capital before congress ends next : summer. In their absence the United States stiffened its attitude toward the totalitarian ’ states—a policy which the congress will now he, asked to bulwark by voting tens of millions for shot and shell. An overtone of potential tragedy pervaded the capito! as this congress met to erect around the western hemisphere harriers of arms and eonI tentment. The political barometer was j falling as congress met. The capita! sensed a storm. But there | was harmony and laughter and | back slapping today as senators and representatives strolled the aisles There was a cross-section of America in the packed galleries for a glimpse of an opening ses- | sion that is a prelude to party- ! jarring political dispute. First I coiners—those without a friend lof a friend who could get a rej served ticket —were queueing up at 9:30 a. m., outside public gallery doo,s. Social and diplomatic Washington. a snrinkling of lobbyists and others ivith the password swarmed later to the reserved areas. It might have been a fashion show if politics could have been moved backstage. Vice President John N. Garner, who is celling signals for the prospective conservative bolt, gavelied the senate to order. Clerk South Trimble of the house pounded representatives to silepce in the other capitol wing but shortly will surrender his (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) COUNCIL HOLDS FIRST SESSION — New City Council To Hold First Session Tonight Numerous councllmanlc and other important city appointments to be made by the newly-elected mayor of the city of Decatur, Forrest Elzey, will be announced to- ; night at council meeting, Mayor Elzoy stated. The meeting tonight will be the 1 first official meeting of the new council in the new year. Appointment to be announced tonight include all councilmanic committees, members of the city board of health and several others. The new city family met Monday in an informal session at the city hall but no important TTusin’ess was conducted^ Following the session in the city hall the party inspected the city plant and engine house. The group included the new councilmen, the mayor, and the appointI ed city officials.