Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1939 — Page 1

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hill DRIVE ■president Imo TODAY ■ Campaign For Evidential NominaEon Launched ■poliJjai) 9-(U.R>-Paul |K. , n < .impaign lor Ihe y P | th,, roiled states downtown Inoffice lending. culminP^ (| . ■do »hi< 11 11118 heen L oi i lor years. choice voterle r polii i, inns will assemble E> v office of Frank .McHale. Hemo, ratio national who formerly was nierican football star at ■ersity of Michigan and an I S Attorney General ■ jlurphy in their fraternity I’ali the immediate opj M. N ft tor-president here from which the ■ install the tall, handsome £. liana governor in the wil Ibe directed. McHale, who telephones three times a week ■I niies across the Pacific ■ Manila, will indicate fc*Nut\ will resign his posiS high commissioner understood here that to resign within a probably return to the KElates in March. Last week KBltiis. Bloomington publishfriend of McNutt. said K-stood the former governor Lee to sail from Manila Feb Hal- denied that this is decision. declined to reveal in adwould attend the meetBut it is certain that I will include Bowman intimate McNutt also is threasurer of famed Hoosier Demowo per rent club originsHlffiXutt to which all state contribute; Frank Me- 1 Indianapolis banker and ■ leader who is head of the finance com■kw Sink. - Jackson, preswhi have been McNutt ■s for years, possibly some PAGE WIVE) BOON HOPE ■ TWO BOYS BcCC Enrollees BeBed Drowned In || Lake .James Ba. Ind.. Jan 9 - (U.R)-Auth-had abandoned alhope for two missing CCC believed to have drownJames sometime durWw Year’s holiday. Roland Bailey, Jr.. ■<ichigan City, and Michael 20, of West Terre Haute, a leave to go home on 30. When they failed ■»- camp officials believed overstayed the leave. night. Bailey’s father 1 ramp to visit his son. In|M that he had not returned the New Year, the dr-y said the boy had not ■me at all. yesterday revealed e Pair had borrowed ice before leaving camp. B° Ot nearby Lake J ames lo- ■° Dail ' n f shoes and galosh■e place, two pairs of gloves in another, ■wts manned by CCC auth- ■ a ™ sta,e and local police, ■ Airplane, searched the lake ■® y with no results. Police ■f thaw of the ice on the lbe ' aa t week would ■ e any trace that might be ■ '— ■tys Health Bond * B eca,ur c - l. of BtMAS ed purc}llls e Os ■ALS a * s health bond, W. Guy Brown, ■dOs chairman of the ■HI 5 Christmas Seal s drive, announced H 11 today. Proceeds from the health bond fund are used to aid in the a K ai nst tuB- - ect herculosis and to provide milk for Ms Osis undernourished I children.

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Retired Jesse Cole, 710 North Fifth street, for 35 years a resident ot Decatur, was retired from active railroad duties bv the Erie railroad after 50 years in the service. Mr. Cole retied January 1. He was telegrapher and leverman at the Erie tower and began his railroad career in 1888. DECATUR JOINS IN OBSERVANCE To Join ‘March Os Dimes' On President’s Birthday Decatur will participate in the national “March of Dimes" program in connection with the annual celebration of the President's Birthday, chairman John L. DeVoss announced today. The “March of Dimes” movement here will be under the supervis- | ion of Harry Grube, Decatur atI torney, Mr. DeVoss stated. The “March of Dimes" will officially open on January 16. Tin boxes will be placed in various business houses throughout the city for contributors to place their dimes., to bo uoud in cuiuballmg infantile paralysis. Proceeds from the "March ot Dimes" will be handled in the same manner as the proceeds from the annual President's Birthday Ball — 50 per cent will go to the national committee for research work and the remaining half will be used here to fight infantile paralysis locally. Posters and placards, heralding the "March of Dimes” will be set I up at various points in the city. The “March of Dimes" will be taken into the schools, Mr. Grube said, and an effort will be made to have each student contribute. Boy Scouts will be detailed to canvass the business section. Each contributor will be given a badge, signifying that he has contributed to the “March of Dimes” i movement. Dance At Country Club Mr. DeVoss announced today that the annual ball here will be held at the Decatur Country Club, which was partially destroyed by fire last week. Mr. DeVoss stated that the dance pavilion was not damaged by the fire and that it will be given a thorough cleaning to insure removal of any smoke or odors that that might have remained after the Haze. The heating plant for the pavilion was not damaged and ample heat may be given on the night of the affair. The dance this year will be held on Saturday night. January 28, Mr. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) CHURCH NAMES NEW OFFICERS Zion Reformed Church Elects New Officers Here Sunday Officers were elected Sunday at the Zion Reformed church in the annual congregational meeting. A. R. Ashbaucher and J. H. Graber were re-elected to the office of elder. The terms of Ferd bitterer and David Adams continue another year. Cletus Miller, George Thomas, and Leo Kirsch were elected deacons for two years, with George Buckley, C. L. Yost an Edgar Gerber continuing in the office. Luther E. Clase was elected trustee to serve for three years, with Albert Fruchte and Dallas Goldner holding over. Lawrence E. Beal was named treasurer of the congregation to serve tor two years and Mrs. Agnes Yager was named church secretary for a two-year term.

LEGISLATURE IS CONVENED AFTER RECESS Large Number Os Important Bills To Be Submitted Indianapolis, Jan. 9 — <U.RJ — A heavy schedule of legislative business confronts Indiana's general assembly when it reconvenes this afternoon following a week- : end recess. A Isrge number of important bills. Including labor's 1939 pro- 1 gram and measures to carry out planks of the Republican state convention were ready for intro-, duct ion. The house was to convene at i 1 p. m. and the senate at 2 p. m. Also awaiting introduction were measuies to liberalize the state's old age pension laws by paying higher amounts to a greater num- ' her of old persons. Keystone proposals in organized labor's program are: state, wage-hour bill fashioned after the federal act; a measure to extend provisions of the unemployment compensation act to more work- i ers; creation of a state work- < men’s compensation fund; new regulations for mining; and a wage collection law. The w.ige-hour law would apply to intra-state industries not affected bv the federal statute. A working schedule of 44-hours per week would become effective for I the fi st year, a 42-hour week Ilf the second year and a 40-hour week in the third year and thereafter. Time and a half would be paid for overtime. The minimum wage scale during tl.e first year would lie 25 cents an hour, for the next six years 30 cents an hour and 40 cents an hour thereafter. Unemployment compensation taxes would be extended to those persons -employing one or more workers. The law now covers ; only the employers of eight or ~ uuu e. Indiana would be placed in the insurance business under the proposed workmen’s compensation law. \ state fund would be created from which benefits would be (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O STUDENTS HEAR COLLEGEHEAD Cleary College President Speaks To Decatur Students Assailing the principles of the “isms” and other foreign influences that have invaded the nation, Dr. O. J. Cleary, president of Cleary college. Ypsilanti, Michigan, charged the youth of today with the task of defending their country against the invation of these influences, in his address to the students of the Decatur junior-senior high school this afternoon. Dr. Cleary asserted that he, personally. knew of the growth of communism. Nazism and other redical views of government in the United States, and that he watched with alarm the tendency ot modern youth to accept these influences. “We shouldn’t save democracy purely for sentimental reasons — simply because others have given their lives in its defense. We should protect it because it means the right to choose one's occupation, to worship in the manner which ons deeires and to pursue life and liberty as the individual wants,” the speaker stated. The speaker defended capitalims against the attacks of communists and Nazis and predicted that with(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O . * j Township Trustees Meet Here Today > The Adams county board of township trustees met this morning in ' the offices of C. E. Striker, county ’ school superintendent. Routine business was discussed and plans made for the new year. All of the trustees were present., Violation Os Parking Law To Bring Fines James Borders, Decatur chief of ' police, warned today that beginning Tuesday local autorities will isI sue the red tickets for parking vlo- > lations. Those who are given tickets will be assessed $1 for the first; offense, with later offenses at an ; additional cost.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, January 9, 1939.

Mooney Leaving Cell For Last Time '* ' ’ \ ’’7 OBp'll Swhfc. . ■ ' 1 k W i * ~ S' 1 ’ * * * ' ATom Mooney, the nation's most celebrated prisoner, walks through ; the door of his cell in San Quentin prison, California, for the last time, i Newly-elected Governor Culbert L. Olson gave Mooney his pardon, Mooney began his sentence in 1917 for complicity in the fatal 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day parade bombing.

HARTMAN YOUTH DIES SATURDAY — Preble Township Boy Dies Os Peritonitis Following Fall Werner Hartman, 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hartman, of Preble township, died aturday night at his parents’ home from peritonitis. Peritonitis developed from injuries sustained December 22 when he fell while ice skating. Surviving, besides the parents, ire a brother. Gilbert and a sister, Lorien; the grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. August Hartman. Mr. and Mrs. Christ Schaekel, all of Adams county. Funeral services wil be held Tues- | day afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home and 2 o’clock at the Freidheim Lutheran church. Rev. W. H. Werning will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body has been returned i to the home from the Zwick « Son funeral home and may be viewed there until time for the funeral. Miss Ruth Winnes To Conduct Kindergarten Miss Ruth Winnes will assume the supervision of the local kindergarten for the next few weeks, it was announced today by Mrs. Russel Owens, present teacher. The illness of her son has forced Mrs. Owens to relinquish her duties during that time. She will assist Miss Winuess part of the time. WOMEN TO HOLD DISTRICT MEET National Council Os Catholic Women Here February 2 Plans for a district meeting of the national council of Catholic women, which will be held here Thursday, February 2, were opened yesI terday in a meeting of the Decatur district NCCW’ board. The board is composed of Mrs. Charles Lose, president; Mibb Ed- . ith Erwin, vice-president; Mrs. Dick Garey, Bluffton, secretary; Mrs. Lucy Overby, Besancon, treasurer and Mrs. Eli Gaunt, Monroeville, Parliamentarian. Mrs. E. W. Proegler, Besancon parish chairman and Mrs. Hugh Daniels. Decatur parish chairman, were also in attendance. The district meeting will be held at the Knights of Columbus ball, and members of different parishes, whether or not they are connected with the NCCW, have been invited to attend. The complete program, including an unusual feature, will be announc- | ed later.

Bortz Funeral Rites Held This Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Frank Bortz, mother of Mrs. Chalmer C. ' Schafer, who died Saturday at her : daughter’s home, 2313 Forest Park boulevard. Fort Wayne, were held this afternoon at the Methodist church, Leesburg. Mrs. Bortz took ill with pneumonia last Wednesday. Besides Hie daughter, a sister. Mrs. Porter Harley of Leesburg and a brother, John E. Hall of Bradenton. Fla., survive. Burial was in the Leesburg cemetery. FORD COMPANY REFUTES PACT Denies Any Agreement Made To Unionize Factories Detroit, Jan. 9.—(U.R>— The claim of a high United Automobile Workers union official that union President Homer Martin was nearing a personal agreement with the Ford Motor Company brought a denial from the company today and swept the UWA to the b’rintf of a showdown fight between its factional forces. Harry Bennett, personnel director of the Ford Motor Co., declared that he never had talked to Martin about an agreement which would bring Ford workers into the UAW. “There is no agreement,” Ben- ■ nett said. “I have talked with Martin a few times, but 1 didn’t mention anything about bringing a union in here. We intend to continue with our present policies.” Martin, too, denounced the union official who made the Ford cl&im and warned that factionalism “no longer can be tolerated.” But at the* moment Martin’s warning was sounded his opponents were rallying for an international executive board meeting tomorrow. George Addes, secretary and treasurer of the union, said that 17 of the 24 members of the board had voted to meet at once. Addes said that the board, when it convenes, will “deal with the Ford (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) Savings Association Re-Elects Officers Officers for 1939 were named this morning in a meeting of the Decatur Savings and Loan association, held in the Paul H. Graham offices on South Second street. Edgar Mutschler, local packing company official, was re-elected president of the association. Don Farr was re-named vicepresident and Paul Lichtensteiger. secretary-treasurer. William Shaffer was the new director named . and Mrs. Lois Graham was re-nara-j ed to the board.

CORDELL HULL WARNS NATIONS ON AGGRESSION Secretary Os State Issues Warning To Aggressor States New York, Jan. 9 —(U.P> Secretary oi State Cordell Hull warned N aggrersor states today that the' western hemisphere stands united j in defense of its territorial integrity. principles of international relationship and national inslituI tiulis. Hull voiced his warning when he returned aboard the S. S. Santa Ma-ia from the Pan-American I conference at Lima. Peru. He was prepared to follow up President Roosevelt's latest warning to | dictator nations with economic and diplomatic maneuvers. Hull's statement was keyed to i the spirit of unity developed tmong the nations of North and South America at the Lima conference. These nations, he declared, do not desire isolation from the rest of the world l>ut are’ prepared “to maintain and defend the peace of this hemisphere, their territorial integrity, their principles of inter- ' nation'll relations, their own instiI tutions and national policies. He tireed the world to adopt Fan-American principles of equality. inter.iational justice and good faith “designed to safeguard the rights of all peoples and nations — weak and strong.” He marked the lawlessness and international anarchy existing in many parts of the world and said that tne situation could be remedied only by universal acceptance of a code based upon respect tor the rights of all nations and individuals, regardless of race or religion. The United" States, he said, did not seek military or political alliances at the Lima conference but desired to strengthen the cooperation of the western hemisphere in support of an interAmerican and world program for i peace, economic welfare, and rec-, ognitmn of human rights. “That hope was fully realized," he said. Kept constantly advised by radio during the voyage northward of .all world political and diplomatic developments, Hull and his advisers believed that two of ihe outstanding possibilities in the immediate future of American foreign relations were: 1. An outright rupture of dipi lomatic relations between the United States and Germany. 2. An increase in the already 1 dangerous strain on relations be- ' tween the United States and Japan. The secretary and his advisers (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Elks Planning For Dinner Wednesday A special dinner, for members, their wives or sweethearts, will be held at the B. P. O. Elks home on Second Street Wednesday evening from 6 to 7:3d. The cost will be 25 cents per couple. To the first five cotyMes correctly guessing the kind of meat to be served, no admission will be charged. Following the dinner, the regular lodge meeting will be held. POLICE EXTEND MADMEN SEARCH Another Os Five Escaped Lima Convicts Caught In Omaha Omaha, Neb., Jan. 9.—<U.R>—Police extended a search through the midwest today for two ot five fugitives from the state hospital fbr the insane at Lima, 0., who invaded the National Guard armory with a companion Saturday night and injured an officer and his wife. Frank Haines, 37, Chicago, lead- . er of the madmen in their escape from the hospital, and William Blatz. 32, were the fugitives sought. Their companion, Willard Brucks, 34, an insane killer from Cincinnati, was captured. Haines and Brucks left Blatz outside the armory standing guard and entered through a skylight to steal pistols and ammunition. Inside they encountered Capt. and Mrs. Earl Kelso, Omaha, and Maj. I B. B. Miltonberger, Lincoln, In a supply-room. Haines rushed at Kelso with a knife and blackjack and Brucks attacked Miltonberger with a crow- , (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

La Guardia Asks For Increase In Funds For Relief

CLUB LEADERS I . TO CONFERENCE Home Economics Club Leaders To Purdue Conference Leaders of the Adaans County Home ■ Economics clubs will make their annual trip to the Purdue Agricultural Conference Tuesday. The buss will leave the Decatur station at 7 A. M. and will continue south through the county, picking up the leaders at the various bus stops. This trip is again being made under the leadership of the county chairman, Mrs. E. W. Busche. The persons making this trip are: | Mrs. R. M. Houck and Mrs. Floyd' Stoneburner of Kirkland township; 1 Mrs. Thurman Drew and Mrs. Mar- 1 gie Shaffer of Union township; Mrs. Erma Runyon and Mrs. Flossie Lybarger of Wabash; Mrs. A. J. Everett and Mrs. Dewaid Beitler Os the Berne Swiss Village Club: Mrs. Paul Gould and Mrs. Glen Stucky of the Monroe club; Mrs. Luella Hilty and Mrs. Gerald Timmons of he Berne Happy Homes club; Mrs. Ida Riley and Mrs. Velma Brunstrup of Blue Creek; Mrs. Martin Reber and Mrs. Clarence Mitchel of Washington township; Mrs. Wesley Lehman and Mrs. Walter Meyer of Hartford; Miss Lucile Bollenbacher and Miss Lola Fogle of Jes-; -ferson; Mrs. Glen Beechier and Mrs. Virgil Draper of Root; Mrs. | Noah Schrock and Mrs. Jerry Liechty of the M. W. F. club; Mrs Francis Eady and Mrs. Ralph Stanley of Decatur; and Mrs. Ben Colter and Mrs. Fred Hilton of St. Mary's., While at Lafayette the ladies are] making their headquarters at the: ' Lahr Hotel and the group will return *o Adams county Thursday evening. | Other persons in the county who have signified their intentions of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o THREE SLAYINGS LAID TO GANGS Police Blame Gambling Feuds For Chicago Killings Chicago Jan. 9—(UP)—Police of three men, all of whom were slain 1 area blamed gambling feuds today for the gangland assassinations of three men, all of whom w-er slain within a period of 36 hours during the week-end. The last killing occurred last night on Chicago’s Michigan boulevard when gang gunmen shot and killed Walter J. Kelly, 38. negro,; known as the policy gambling king of Gary, Ind., He was a brother of| Ira Kelly, reputed head of the policy games in Chicago. The other victims were Robert Lewison, Alias Lewis, 24, who was ; found shot to death Saturday night; on a lonely road north of Hinsdale,; ■ in Du Page county, 20 miles west iof Chicago; and John Balma, 25,; an alleged slot machine Hi-jacker| who was shot to death near Jolie jin Will county, 30 miles southwest I of Chicago early Saturday. Kelly was seated in his automo- ! bile when the killers approached. The gunmen thrust a shotgun Ihrough a rear window and tired ; four times. Two of the charges struck Kelley in the head. A companion who was with him fled, appatently unharmed. Lewison was shot five times. Several slot machine master keys were found in his pockets. Investigators worked on reports that he had operated with a gang that specialized in looting slot machines of their coins. —o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a.tn 40 2:oop.nt 54 10:00 a.m 45 3:00 p.m 54 Noon 53 WEATHER Rain tonight and Tuesday; slightly warmer in east portion tonight; colder Tuesday in west portion; colder Tuesday night and Wednesday.

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1 New York Mayor, Speaking For Conference Os U. S. Mayors, Asks Roosevelt Request Increased. GIVES TESTIMONY Washington, Jan. 9 — (U.R) — Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York today proposed that I congress provide $915,000,000 to finance relief until July 1 instead ot the $875,000,000 recommended by Piesldent Roosevelt. La Guardia, representing the I conference of United States mayors, said Mr. Roosevelt’s recomi mendation is “not enough” to | meet the needs of the works proj gress administration until the end | of the fiscal year. The New York mayor came here to testify at executive hearings of the house appropriations sub-coin-nittee studying a deficiency appropriation for relief. He arrived as house Democrats faced a decision whether to rally around the new deal standard raised by the president on Jackson Day or to rebuff the administration with a 4*ote to cut relief costs. La Guardia’s proposal was $40,000,000 above the recommendation of Mr Roosevelt, sent to congress in a special message last week. He explained that the mayor’s conference last year urged an appiopriation of $2,340,000,000 for j relief during the full 1939 fiscal year. Actual appropriations to date, he said, total $1,425,000,000 for WPA, and President Roosevelt has warned that this sum barely iis sufficient to meet needs j Ihrough this month. La Guardia said the additional . $915,000,000 which he will request 1 in tesi'mony before the appropria- ! (ion subcommittee represents api proximately the difference be- ’ tween the $2,340,000,000 originally asked by the mayors and the actual appropriation. La Guardia said the United States conference of mayors looks at the relief problem “realistically because the mayor is closer to it I than any other official." “An upturn in business,” he said, ‘is not reflected immediately in tht WPA or on business payrolls." He said he had not discussed “politics in relief” but commented that ‘the situation is all right" in New York. Before going to the subcommit(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o Pneumonia Fatal To Infant This Morning Christian Schmidt, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Emanual Schmidt, died at 6 o’clock this morning at tha Schmidt home near Berne. Death was attributed to pneumonia .following an illness of four days. The baby was born November 1, 1938. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1 j o’clock at the Schmidt home. The mother was formerly Barbara Schwartz. o CAPONE PRISON HOME CHANGED Al Capone Is Transferred To Terminal Island Prison San Pedro, Cal., Jan. 9.—(U.R) — Al Capone entered the final period of his prison term on Terminal Island, the government’s most modern correctional institution, today. A guard said that he was vanced paresis. He was not ex“screwy as a bed bug” from adpected to be allowed visitors, even his wife, before he is released on Nov. 19, with good behavior and payment of the outstanding $20,000 on a $50,000 fine. At Alcatraz he could receive one visitor once a month. A prison physician said Capone's paresis had reached the point where he was partly paralyzed. “Normally the case could have been arrested earlier,” he said, “except that fear has complicated the disease. Capone's had reached an advanced stage before he entered a federal prison.” Capone was brought here Satur(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)