Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 25 January 1939 — Page 1

Eavy Death Toll I Reported. From | Chile Earthquake

l rn ( hile «< Kked ■ n s Reported AL. ■ Destroyed. Led belief ■,„ Chile. .I.iil -i' ■ , MV ■,|.-»< 'ait ml" ■,,n ; "" 1 ■eIH'UIIH ’ -I" il Hl' I’l.in.-S ■i,) trains will. food. <*'» ■ .i”'l ■,. shaken region. ■ Illi;l tion> 'l'siupfil ■ . un|"'ss:l>i" I'l 'Miniate ■ „( life amateur 1 '"l' M" ■ a message saying lie be- ■ p, • soil- lia'l I"'' ‘i' ll ' 11 ■p.'luii alone, and 40 l»r ■ buildings d. siroyed ■ i... oth"i ' ''l*ln ination ■i K h estimate, ■joasw fioni \aldivia K Jeaih toll in Coin ep. ion not 2,000 ■piioii is the third largest ■ Chile, with a population p is MW mil' s south ■iagn Smim towns were K aim.-’ d.'SH..;e.| l-'il-es ■tirnh.g in sonie of llieni. Concepcion. Tab a. Maule. c,in< -piion. Biuliio ami ■ wrh a total population ot ■h... o"i‘. lay in the ■gk- loughI- 11 tnil'-s and M'O ■v ■ the country, along the ■ coast. ah latio Zone Hos Santiago, "as pku-'-d ■ eyed ■ naval ■ Ililaimd. reports wre so that no attempt was ■ ■rtNUEPOX PAGE FIVE) BER LISTS ■CISTRIBOTION ■ibulion Os School ■nds Announced By I Auditor ■ distribution of $3,679.02 in ■n school >.... nu.. ~m( $462.-■tw.c-ssi-m.ii -■ iiii.-i.-si ■ corporate units of Adams ■ was annoimced today by ■ Auditor Victor 11. Eicher ■ common school revenue is ■on an average daily attend ■- 4.542. or a per capita of ■ts per pupil. Th.- eongres- ■ school interest is based on y* wnmeration report, ■ioiiig are the units and the ■’ each received from con■tul school interest: * 3() ' F'leiich. $28.14; '4: Jefferson, $50.93 ■®d- $21.32; Monroe. $17.58; *■ 335.77; Root. $59.19; St. ’<3l9; Union, $33.50; 125.36; Washington. $lB.frIhTEP ov PAGE THREE) in d To Speak At Ohio State Meeting 5‘ d (allail,i . vico-i lesidetit ’ ““ager ot the Central '®wny, of this ci. y win be nctpal speaker at "Sugar J, at the annual farmer’s Terence at Ohio State Um7'Columbus, Ohio. January will speak on the “ « sugar beets and the at 1 °L?* et SUKar - Farmer’s ~ university is slrn-l ““short course held at Pur- *■“ year. ‘ th e . r ° ffers Ohio will at-' nner“Z lng and m '”' e tha “ J r are at the su . w Program. ** p ERATURt READINGS *°CRAT THERMOMETER km "1J 2:00 P" 1 24 ' I. 3:00 p.m 24 We ather |t' r con ‘lnued cold toji Thursday increasing hwe « port bably * n ° W ln

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

SENATE PASSES I ELECTION LAW REVISION BILL Provides Central BallotCounting; Act On Two Per Cent Club Indianapolis. Jan. 25 (U.R) — The state senate today passed. 41 to 4. an election law revision measure providing for central counting of ballots while the house was advancing to the passage stage a bill outlawing the ! Hoosier Democratic “two percent chib”. The senate bill which now goes to the house applies only to counties to which there is a first or second class city. The proposal is virtually a nonpartisan measure and is designed to eliminate charges in the future that votes in some precincts were withheld until a late hour to permit irregularity. There were some allegations after the November election that the counting of votes was delayed and the Republicans charged they were withheld by Democrats. The two percent bill voted upon today is sponsored by the Republican party and the state committee, by G. O. P. leadership and its majority in the house. There were no dissenting votes from the Democratic ranks, and no legislator offered a single protest when the bill was called out for second reading by Speaker James M. Knapp. It was automatically sent to engrossment and will reappear on the house floor /eady for final enactment. But whether it will get through the Democratic-controlled senate is problematical even though several Democratic senators have said they are opposed to the -two percent’’ club. What the bill does is repeal the 1937 act exempting the club from the corrupt practices act. This would compel it to make public its funds and also show how they are disbursed during political campaigns. If the bill does get through the senate, the money raising activities of the club probably will be taken over by the Democratic state committee. In marked contrast to yesterday, when partisan feeling ran riot in the house, the session to-, day was very orderly. The house advanced 14 measures to the passage stage, while the senate calmly received pro'CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) —o Rev. Dawson Speaks At Townsend Meet Rev. J. M. Dawson of north ot Decatur spoke at Bluffton last evening in behalf of the Townsend old age recovery plan. The meeting was largely attended, the crowd being estimated at 700 persons. Rev. Dawson was recently named a state speaker by the Townsend recovery plan organization. He is cheduled to make several other talks in the interest of the pension plan. LIONS, ROTARY JOINT MEETING Narcotics Expert To Speak At Joint Meeting January 31 Plans for a joint meeting of the Rotary club with the Lions club nevt Tuesday night were opened last night at the regular meeting of i the Lions club in the Rice hotel. A narcotics expert is to be the i chief speaker ot the evening. Dr. N. E. Bixler, president of the Lions ■ club, will be in charge. Complete details of the meetin;; will be announced late this week or early next week. The Lions, following the meeting in the hotel, went to the auditorium of the Central school last evening, where they were entertained with a marionette show. Tom Sellers, of Fort Wayne, prerented the entertainment, which was highly commended by the mem- ! bers who attended.

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AMENDMENTS TO WAGNER LABOR ACT PROPOSED .Senator Walsh Submits Amendments As Drafted By AFL Washington. Jan. 25 4U.PJ Sen David I. Walsh, I).. Mass , today introduced amendments to the national labor relations act which would permit employers tn express opinions on union matters and petition the NLRB for employe elections. The amendments introduced by Walsh were drafted by the AinerI lean federation of labor. They proposed changes to meet AE'L charges that the labor board ha» discriminated against it in favor of the congress of industrial organizations. The amendments, however, included two which were designed to meet two of the chief object.ions expressed by employers to the labor statute. One would allow employers to “express opinions on matters of interest to their employes or the public provided that such opinions are not accompanied by acts of discrimination or threats thereof.” Businessmen have complained that the lioaid as presently constituted has repeatedly ruled that expressions of opinion by employers on union matters constitute an unfair labor practice. In addition, the AFL amendments included a provision which would allow employers to petition the NLRB to conduct elections among their workers for the purpose of choosing collective bargaining representatives. Elections are now ordered by the NLRB only upon request of a union or employe group. Those two AFL employer proposals were in line with changes sought in employer criticism of the act. which has been expressed repeatedly. It was not known whether separate NLRB amendICONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) C. 0. TO ELECT NEW OFFICIALS Directors To Meet Friday Night To Select Officers The election of officers of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce will 'take place at 7 o’clock Friday even ing at the office of Attorney John L. De Voss, president ot the organ ization. A president and secretary-trea-surer will be elected. Pete Reynolds city editor of the Daily Democrat,, now holds the office of secretarytreasurer. Three new directors, elected- at the annual meeting last Thursday, will assume their duties Friday evening. They are, Robert Helm, local clothier; William Bowers, hardware merchant; George Thoms, office maanger of Cloverleaf Creant . cries. Inc. The hold-over directors are J. Ward Calland, Mr. De Voss, Mr. Reynolds, Herman Kruckeiberg Roscoe Glendening. Walter Gard. The officers are selected front the board of directors and several names have been mentioned in connection vzith the poets. One of the major duties of the Hoard of directors will be to put on and manage the street fair and agri- ' culture show next August, the 1 Chamber of Commerce membership voting to sponsor the annual event again this year. Ritter Funeral Rites Held This Afternoon The name of Robert Ritter was unintentionally omitted from the list of surviving children in the death of Quincy Ritter, published in Tuesday’s issue of tne Daily Democrat, Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Ritter resid cnee. —o Public Hearing On Extension Os Lines The public service commission has given legal notice that a public hearing will be held in Ind'anapolis at the state house February 7 at 2:30 P. M., on the petition of the Indiana Service Corporation to extend rural electric lines in Preble township. Public participation is Invited at i the hearing. /

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, January 25, 1939.

Woman Is Sea Crash Heroine ____—___m ■ '■■■ . ■ /■ o F w <■ Av ■ * ' Mrs. George Ingham and Mrs. Edna Watson Stories of the crash of the flying boat Cavalier 300 miles off the Jersey coast and the subsequent rescue, hours later, of 10 of 13 persons aboard continue to thrill the nation. Two of the women survivors of the crash are pictured in New York after being returned by the tanker Esso Baytown which made the rescue. They are Mrs. George Ingham of Hamilton, Bermuda, left, and Mrs Edna Watson, of Montreal, the heroine of the sea tragedy. Mrs. Watson saved the life of (’apt. M. R. Alderson by bolding him up for hours in the water while he was unconscious. Captain Alderson had given Mrs. Watson his life belt.

ALLEGE GERMAN DISCRIMINATION U. S. Accuses German Discrimination On U. S. Citizens Washington. Jan 25. — (U.R) — The United States accused Germany of “well known discriinin--1 at ions" against American citizens today hi a formal note suggesting that settlement of Austria's debt would he facilitated by extension of the most favored nation treatment to American creditors. The note, another in a long ( series exchanged between the two countries on alleged discriminations against the rights and property of American citizens in Germany. was made public by the state department. It was delivered to the German minister of foreign affairs in Berlin Jan. 20 by Charge d'Affairs Prentiss B. Gilbert. Simultaneously, it was announced that on Jan. 3, Germany delivered a note to Gilbert proposing to negotiate the Austrian debt ! situation with a view to scaling dowm interest rates. The first note regarding the Austrian debt was delivered to the German government by the U. S. ambassador on April 6. a fbw days after Germany’s absorption of Austria. The latest note said the United States “cannot accept" Germany’s legal interpretation that no obligation exists for it to assume debts contracted by the former Austrian government, and declined the offer to enter direct governmental negotiations. “Indebtedness toward private citizens is a matter for negotiation between debtor and creditors rather than between the government of the debtor country and I CONTINUED on PAGE FIVE) o ADAMS COUNTY NATIVE DIES —. Mrs. Anna Dailey Dies Tuesday At Home Near Bluffton Mrs. Anna Dailey, 71, widow of the late Edgar A. Dailey, died Tuesday afternoon at her home in Villa North, north of Bluffton, following an illness of complications. She had been in poor health the past four months. Mrs. Dailey was born in Adams county on May 13. 1867, a daughter of Adam and Amanda Christ Rltch ey. Her marriage to Edgar A. Dailey took place in Bluffton on August 10. 1893, He preceded her in death on March 9, 1923. Mrs. Dailey was a member of the Christian Science church. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Ida Clowser, of Craigville, and Mrs. Curt Shady, of Craigville. Two brothers, Mack and John Ritchey, are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at the home in Villa North at 2 p. m. Thursday in charge of a minister from the Christian Science church. Interment will be tn a man- ! soleum at Fairview cemetery. |

Initiation Held At Moose Tuesday Night A large crowd attended the meeting of Adams lodge 1311, Loyal Order of Moose last night in the Moose home on North Second street. Several visiting members were present, including Ralph S. Campbell, regional Moose director of Marion. Mr. Campbell delivered the principal address at the meeting and outlined plans and programs for the Moose lodges in this director. The Decatur lodge drill and degree team conferred initiatory work upon a class of 16 new members. Officers of the lodge were in charge of the meeting. o SOLONS FIGHT NAMING AMLIE Wisconsin Legislature Asks Roosevelt Withdraw Nomination Madison. Wis., Jan. 25 — (U.R) — Both houses of the Wisconsin legislature today adopted similar resolutions — introduced by the Democratic floor leader — asking President Roosevelt to withdraw his nomination of Thomas R. Amlie, Wisconsin Progressive, to the interstate commerce commission. The legislature asked the U. S. senate, if President Roosevelt refuses to comply, to reject the appointment. Assemblyman Maurice P. Fitzsimons, Jr.. Democratic floorlead- ■ er. introduced the joint resolution which declared that appointment of the former congressman would be “a severe blow to Democratic government in this United States and dangerous to our American Institutions and industries.” Bitter debate ensued. The resolution charged that Amlie "has by 1 his public utterances and other i expressions of policy aligned himself with the communist inovei ment in this country." "Has given himself considerable notoriety by his sympathy for a foreign i element which has been promis- , cuous in its slaughter of chrisj tians and their apostles" . . . that his name “appears prominently in the politically notorious register "Who is who in Communism' . . . that as. congressman from Wisconsin Amlie “co-spon-sored and supported the Ezekiel plah to ‘legislate abundance' by (■CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) * ♦ OUT OF DOGHOUSE I I Chicago. Jan. 25.—(U.R) —An- | | drew Thomas, 38, not only got | | out of the doghouse today, he | 1 was ordered out. | Judge Philip J. Finnegan rul- | I I ed a month ago that Thomas, | whose wife, Anna. 35, is suing j him for divorce, could sleep in | the basement of Tier tavern | ■ where she keeps her two dogs, j but he cautioned Thomas not | ( to interfere with his wife or | operation of the tavern. Mrs. Thomas filed a com- j plaint in municipal court yes- | I j terday, charging that her hus- j I band had not only bothered her but also, in one instance, had j ■ | chased her and some custom- | i I ers out of the tavern. !♦ «

Rebel Troops Delay March To Barcelona To Cut Off Lines Os Retreat For Loyal Force

T7 1 Foreign Warships Open Anti-Aircraft Fire On Rebel Airplanes After Bombing. TEST FORESEEN Aboard LT. S. S. Omaha. Jan 25 (U.R) Anti-aircraft of pint of the foreign warship fleet off I Llavaneras opened up on insurgent warplanes today when they boinlmd the landing stage in front of the British embassy. The foreign warships, including United States. British and French vessels, are anchored off Llavaneras to rescue nationals from the Barcelona area. All foreign warships, including the Omaha and the U. S. S. de- 1 stroyer Badger, cleared their | decks for action and manned anti-j aircraft guns when the planes: from rebel Gen. Francisco Franco’s aerial fleet bombed Llava-1 neras. A dozen shots were fired by one or more ships in the foreign fleet. Officers believed it was a French destroyer that opened fire but could not confirm identity of the guns. Bombs from the aerial raiders destroyed the landing stage in ’ front of the British embassy and blew up an ammunition truck, which burned for an hour. The burning truck was on the' road from Caldetas. over which [ refugees — including probably 30 Americans —proceeded to the warships which dashed here to rescue them. The foreign diplomatic refuge is at Caldetas. The French destroyer 62 shifted her position after the bombing. Lookouts were posted on all . war-1 ships to watch for re-appearancc! of the rebel planes. Admiral Henry E. Lackey, in . command of the cruiser Omaha, said Gen. Franco has been informed of the presence of the foreign, warships off the coast at this point, 20 miles north of Barcelona. The Omaha arrived last night and searchlights were kept glow ing on American flags on the deck all during the night to warn insurgent aviators. The village was bombed earlier last night increasing the danger to refugees attempting to board the warship,". See Grave Test London. Jan. 25 —(U.R) —Europe’s | big powers braced themselves to-! day for Hie diplomatic shock that many statesmen fear will follow the show-down in the Spanish war. The drive of the insurgents into Barcelona may not mean the end of the two and a half year old war but dispatches from almost every European capital reflected the view that the march ing armies of rebel Gen. Francisco Franco are bringing closer and closer a test between the democratic and totalitarian powers in the Mediterranean. The pay off may come at almost any hour. How grave that test will be and whether there will be another' great international crisis remains i to be determined, but factual developments on the continent ap<CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) PLAN CHANGES IN MOTOR FEES — Would Reduce Passenger Car Registration Fee To $1 Indianapolis, Jan. 25. —(U.R) —Revision of the motor vehicle fee system was outlined tentatively at a caucus of Democratic members of the legislature with Gov. M. Clifford Townsend yesterday. The new plan, if carried out, would reduce passenger automobile registration fees to $1 a year; increase gasoline tax from 4 cents to 5 cents a gallon; repeal t?ie truck tire tax law outright, and rebate approximately $400,000 already paid so rpassenger car registrations. Members of the legislature said that according to estimates given by Frank E. Finney, state commissioner of motor vehicles, the revenue under the new system would be, about the same as under the present set-up. The additional gasoline tax, it was believed, 1 would offset the loss of revenue resulting from registration fee reduction and repeal of the tire tax 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) j

ASK CHANGE IN TEXTBOOK LAWS Schricker Favors Textbook Multiple Adoption System Indianapolis, Jan. 25 — (U.R) | “The present system of adopting textbooks in Indiana is a racket in that it sets up a monopoly." ' Lieut -Gov. Henry F. Schricker told the senate book investigating committee last night. i "Any system which gives one book company a monopoly on a I certain type of book for five years, to the exclusion ot all others, is a 1 racket. I had no intention of itn- | plying anything else." lie said. j Schricker. who stepped down ! from the senate rostrum Jan. 11 and called upon memliers to adopt I i a resolution for the investigation, i and branded the system a “racket.” told members of the committee lie would lie in favor of revamping the adoption system entirely. He said he believed members of the state board of education were in favor of a multiple adoption system for all books. “As long as we adopt books the way we do now. there is going to lie a lot of heat on the board of education in Indiana.” Schricker said. ”1 hope you will recommend a change to a multiple adoption system." In answer to a question by Senator Thurman A. Biddinger. Marion Republican, regarding charges of graft, Schricker said only on one occasion did a book salesman "approach” him. The agent said . his company "might be interested in my future" if a certain book (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) SIOO,OOO FIBE LOSS TUESDAY — Marion Theater Scene Os Costly Fire Tuesday Night Marion. Ind.. Jan. 25. — (U.R) — Four hundred persons watching watching the movie, “Too hot to Handle," thought it was a joke last night when an usher jumped onto the Lyric theater stage and asked them to leave in orderly fashion because the building was afire. But" when they saw flames licking at the ceiling in the rear of the auditorium, they lost no time in clearing the house. Forty-five | minutes later the blazing roof crashed into the auditorium, injured several firemen who respond- . I ed to a general alarm. The loss was estimated by fire department officials at SIOO,OOO. . The injured were Capt. Wc-sley McFarren, 50; truck driver Frank King, 36 and Glenn Cole, 38. Me- ; Farren and King were pinned by , falling timbers as they entered I tlie burning building to fight the I flames from the inside. Cole, manning a hose at the rear, received a crushed riglit arm when a brick I wall collapsed. Firemen said the fact that patI rons obeyed orders of the ushers | to leave the auditorium in orderly fashion prevented serious injury ' and possibly loss of life. The fire completely destroyed the newly decorated interior of the theater and demolished the roof. ; Cause of the fire was attributed by firemen to defective wiring. A crowd of several thousand persons joined the 400 theater patrons in the street as +5 firemen and six i pieces of apparatus, answering a 1 ' general alarm, fought the blaze. The fire for a time threatened several adjacent buildings. o Mary Elzey Rites Thursday Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Mary C. Elzey, who died Monday at 4 p. m. will ibe held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home and 2 p. m. at the First U. B. church. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. it was erroneously stated Tuesday that Mrs. Charles Howell of Marion was a surviving sister of the deceased. Mrs. Howell is a daughter end the surviving sister is Mrs.: | Homer Walters of Defiance, Ohio. |

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Last Desperate Defense Put Up By Loyalists As Insurgents Enter Barcelona Suburbs. CITIZENS LEAVE Perpignan, French-Spanish Frontier, Jan. 25. —(U.R)- Feneral Fran- ' cisco Franco's main force of 20 rebel divisions battled rapidly eastward around Barcelona late today to cut the last line of loyalists retreat for the French frontier. The insurgent column of General Juan Yague which thrust through the suburbs into the southern edge of Barcelona proper last night, was reported in loyalist dispatches to have met stiff resistance as they rallied under the leadership of General Jose Serrano Ramero, hero of the defense ot Madrid. Although fragmentary advices from Barcelona reported fighting in the suburbs the insurgent forces said the inarch into the city had been delayed. Frontier dispatches said General Franco wanted French and Spanish troops to enter first. Harold Peters, United Press correspondent, reported he had traveled northward in Barcelona over a road crowded with a slow moving procession of refugees and army trucks. All were headed northward to the Spanish frontier. But picked Republican troops elected to make a last fight. They held the Moors from Africa, shock division of nationalist army, in the southern suburbs. The Unifed Press correspondent at Barcelona, after the city had been silent for many hours, reported that Lieut. Col. Jose Serrano Romero, a hero of the defense of Madrid and a veteran of the fight for Malaga in the sotiTh, had assumed command of the defending forces. The correspondent reported that the roar of cannonading became louder south of the city, and LTiat the crash of falling houses could be heard. I A great fleet of 32 three-motor-i ed bombing planes flew over ths city, without dropping bombs, in silent warning that surrender was expected. Nationalist leaders had hoped that the loyalists were demoralized beyond hope of reorganization, and that all Catalonia, in addition to Spain’s greatest city, would soon be theirs. It was indicated that the nationalists previously had awaited only reports from their spies in the city that the main body of loyai- ' ists had gone, to order a triumphal advance, and to proclaim Barcelona the capital of nationalist | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O Fort Wayne Man To Speak To Rotarians R. E. Cardorette, cf Fort Wayne, | will be the speaker at the weekly : meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Rice hotel, i Mr. Cardorette, a collector of accounts, will speak on his experiences in his 20 years as a collector. J. L. Kocher will be chairman of the program. K. OF C. PARTY WELL ATTENDED Old Fashioned Card Party, Dance Is Held Tuesday Night More than TOO members of the Knights of Columbus lodge, their wives and sweethearts attended the entertainment at the K. ot C. hall last night. The entertainment was in tha form of an old fashioned party and dance. Card playing, including rhuni, pinochle, and bridge opened the evening’s festivities. A large crowd pa> ticipated in the card playing. A dance was held following the card party, with more than 50 couples taking part. Refreshments and eats were served. Other entertainment was also afforded those who attended in the f 'rm of games and recreation. The entertainment committee of the j Knights 6f Columlbus lodge was in | charge of the event.