Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1939 — Page 5

INES WITNESS JIIES OWN LIFE ■, rir c Weinberg, State ■ Witness. Commit* ■ Suicide ■ V „rk :l " ‘ U ' PJ I,iß ' ■’ ,„ v Thomas E !™'f ■ At ' h L ,ase against Tam■ird 1,1 ' , j nines with IK., loader James J ■-' witnesses today. Sul- ■ . ■"L .» »' i” 1 " ■ , tek to limes to protect ■ Itch Schultz lottery racket. ■ ‘ ’" out a bullet through ■ bran vesterday in the hathan old mansion on tne ■L. of White Plains. N V ■ ■ ' he was kept in protective i v with two other key Hines ■'aptnesses. J. Richard (Dixie) ■ a ,,| i: . Hany Sehoenhans a prndud 1,1 ,he luW side slums who helped ■ , couldnt be shaken at trial ill his story that Kieimls of dollars had been ■':*' limes Wh.ther that tes- ■ r js admissable in the secWill determine how large ■ c :::r stH" bt' :n Dewey's ■L; defense counsel Lloyd ■i Stryker said Im would tight it because the accused ■ : . - ,i.,w cross examine the je r Dewey said the testi■,v might be read into the rec■but -of course it is quite dis- ■ from having the man ■' V11 ,, s (I Squire. W.stches- ■ conntv nu dical . xamimr. said ■ death "as ' learly suicide. mill,-cis. Jo>. ph Kaitz. three years a special investi- ■/; |yw.y and five deter■es «-’■ when a she’ : mg on' upstairs. ■ Weinbergs l»d room they ■nd Kaitz's revolver holster, ■ey pushed open th- bathroom ■? and found W • mberg sitting ■ ■>.. tiooi- glassy yed unconK rl < ■ -ailored reflected m a wail mirror ■side liiiil was Kal'Z s .evolve!', ■ „f ils live cartridges empty. ■ died a hospital without reconsciousness. ■fiiberg. facing a prison sent■ce. bad 1- morose, Dewey ■hi fora leng tiim- lb’ had com- : ami ex-■t-s-,,1 .unrein fin the future of follow- ■ ihe Hit.-~ mis'ii.il last SepDewey said, he was Hr; ■:< h dis. as. das to his future." Bjr». y d ivai'z pending ■ inquiry to determine whether I was guilty of ueglest in leavk the gun where one of the witI ould get it. The revolver is taken from a pocket of the igator's overcoat, which he Id left in his own bed room, nr Weinberg's. _ HOPKINS SEEKS rONTI.VIED FROM PAGE ONE) t forecast of what is coming re to be known as "the HopIts plan." rHopkins will amanince shortly fceptaace of one 1 t many speakI invitations which he has relived siine his nomination to the ibinef He wants to deliver his F speech within a toifjiight and ky at that time outlive his profile United Press was informed Rt he expected to approach tl’e Wes-new deal problem through F Commonwealth and Southern kwratinn dispute in which the kporation is seeking to dispose [III large interests which are ill jupelition with the Tennessee ■ y Authority for what stock;r» consider to be a fait-

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price. The administration and the corporation are far apart, however, on price and Hopkins may attempt to persuade the authorities to raise the bld Hopkins was represented as believing that if a "fair price” policy could be worked out the utility industry would be reconciled to the fact that henceforth there always will be a certain amount of government competition in the production of electric power. Hut If privately-owned plants acquired by governmental authorities were purchased at fairly satisfactory prices and if the charge for government - produced power were kept within a "fair range," it was suggested hero that the industry would be almost immediately stabilised. The desire for utility stability is primarily to re-estab-lish utility securities as an attractive investment for private funds It was understood that the CIO, AFL and business groups probably will be asked to accept a compromise program of national labor relations act amendments. The major changes would provide: 1. Speedy determination in behalf of frequently perplexed employers which of two union groups rightfully was the bargaining agent in any plant. 2. Provision for employers to discuss unionization with their employes without becoming liable to federal penalties on charges of coercion or interfering with collective bargaining 3. Efficient machinery to adjust jurisdictional disputes between unions. Amendments now sponsored by the AFL would accomplish the first two objectives. The CIO objects to amendments of any kind and business generally was expected to demand change beyond anything satisfactory to the AFL. PARTIAL WORK PAYMENTS MADE Filth Os Unemployment Checks Paid For Partial Unemployment Fort Wayne, Jan. 30.—Approximately one-fifth of the 1,600,000 benefit checks paid out by the Indiana unemployment compensation division in the last nine months have compensated for weeks of partial unemployment. The job insurance plan, in providing both supplemental and full compensation, keeps out-of-work income at the maximum benefit level for all qualified beneficiaries, E. F. Kixmiller, manager of the service in this area, pointed out. “This means that assured buying power, which was wiped out or reduced by total or partial loss of work before inauguration of the job insurance program, now continues at a known level by reason of unemployment compensation. The influence exerted upon the economic picture by this assured income cannot be over-emphasized. "Since last April $1,560,000 has been paid to totally and partially jobless workers in this district, and they tn turn have poured the money into local trade channels. Had it not been for unemployment compensation the 14,500 persons who have drawn benefits through Fort Wayne, Columbia City. Bluffton and Decatur offices of the division, would have had to draw against savings or depend upon relief or made-work. "That ratio of payments covering unemployment in Indiana has varied from 29.4 per cent in June tv 16.1 per cent in October, with a nine-month average of 20. per cent. Benefits for partial unemployment have average $6.01 per week for the state as a •whole.”

SNOW, SLEET AND (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) lays were attributed to snowclogged switches. The Chicago Motor club reported that all motor traffic was at a standstill in northern Illinois, northern Indiana and southern Michigan. The ctub warned that automobile travel in that, territory will be impossible for several days. f give Train Wrecks Chicago, Jan. 30 — (U.R) —*hicage's worst blizzard in eight years today caused at least 10 deaths and five elevated train Wrecks in which upwards of 29 persons were Injured. One man died in the suburban Des Plaines railroad station of exhaustion after battling the storm from his home. Another died at a hospital of the same cause. The "el" accidents were on the west side and were attributed to poor visibility and slippery rails Fourteen were injured and scores shaken up in the first, when a Douglas Park train slid into another train halted at the California Avenue station about four miles west of the loop. One may die A short time later a Garfield Park elevated train rammed the

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Discuss F. D. R.’s Tax Program ' * Wv lo®*-’ X- —*** •• 'Bn Representative Doughton and Undersecretary Hanes President Roosevelt's reciprocal taxation program serves as the subject of conversation between Representative Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, left, chairman of the house ways and means committee, and Undersecretary of the Treasury John W. Hanes, seen in Washington.

rear of a standing Chicago. Aurora l & Elgin electric, which uses the same tracks, at Kedvale and Harrison streets, about six miles west of the loop. Trucks of the suburban train were derailed and A. F. Potter, Lombard received a slight back injury. The flagman of the C. A. & E. train jumped into the car from his cab just in time to | avoid injury. The collisions occurred during a rush hour intensified by delayi d transportation. Street cars were virtually at a standstill and hundreds who tried to use automobiles — including 200 police and detective squad cars—were stalled in drifts. Frank Becker, an employe of the elevated line en route to work., was jammed in the rear cab of the train struck at California Avenue. Doctors feared they would have to amputate his left leg The others were less seriously injured and most were able to leave hospitals after treatment. Airplanes were grounded trains slowed, street cars halted and. automobile transportation was ex tremely hazardous. The Chicago’ Motor club advised its members to remain off the roads if possible. All public and private schools were closed. The Chicago board of trade, for the first time in the memory of many traders, delayed its opening because members could not get in from suburban: homes HITLER SPEAKS ON (CONTINUED F-KOM PAGE ONE) and Great Britain In the Mediterranean basin Os equal importance will be the Nazi fuehrer’s plans for expanding the German end of the RomeBerlin axis by demanding restoration of the Reich's pre-war colonial empire or even by an adventurous new step eastward toward the oil wells and wheat fields of the Ukraine. Hitter, in fact, will speak not to the Reichstag and not to the German people. He will speak instead to the government leaders of Europe. And on what he fails to say as well as what he says they will l»i«e their next moves in an historic struggle that now j touches every corner of the world i For weeks, the inarch of events

Boy, 5, Saves Three From Fire B ... a.. *' Jhat t ? ! V '■ FZ I . x # • * Clifford Morns, 5, holds his baby brother, Jerry, to show how he carried the child from their burning home at Sanlick, Va. (near St Charles). The boy hero made three trips into the flames to rescue Jerry, another younger brother, and a younger slater,

Jurist Probed f' I I p 1 jiS Judge Martin Manton I I Far-reaching investigation into the judicial conduct of Martin T. Manton, senior judge of U. S Circuit Court of Appeals, by the Department of Justice was answered by Manton in New York, with statement he “never thought it was wrong” to engage in outside business. has been toward the day when plans of the Nazi-Fascist partnership would be disclosed and a sign given whether they would risk enough for each other to work a squeeze play on the democracies by simultaneous demands at lioth ends of the axis. This week's schedule of events indicates the day cannot long be delayed. In Sppin, the Nazi-Fascist sup ported armies of Gen. Francisco Franco are smashing toward Gerona. This week might even decide the civil war. o Sheriff Always Gets His Car Sonora, Tex. — (U.R) — B. W. Hutcherson, sheriff and tax collector of Sutton county, was reelected for his 23rd year in that office on the record of never havI ing lost a stolen car. For 22 years I Hutcherson lias policed the rugged t sheep country around Sonora.

TRAIN STRIKES AUTO, FOUR DIE Traffic Accidents In Indiana Claim Several Deaths By United Press At least nine persons met violent death In automobile accidents on streets and highways of Indiana over the week-end. a survey by the United Press showed today. Four of the victims were killed when a Big Four railroad passenger train struck an automobile at the Muncie city limits. The dead: Clarence Murphy, 38, Hartford City. Mrs. Lena Murphy, 35, his wife. Gerald Johnson, 31, Newcastle. Mrs. Catherine Johnson, 34, his wife. Winifred E. Stohler, 18, Anderson. Archie Smith, 42, Anderson. H. D. Briggs, 50, Wilmette, 111. Charles Addison, 32. Monticello., Patrick J. Troy, 66, Indianapolis. There were no witnesses to the automobile-train crash at Muncie, in which MrM. and Mrs. Murphy and Mr. and Mrs. Johnson met their deaths. Both engineer J. O. said they did not see the automoBrown and fireman Earl Cashman bile until their engine was upon the crossing. There was no watchman on duty. The Stohler girl died of a broken neck and severed spinal cord when an automobile driven by her brother overturned near Markleville. She was on her way to church Sunday with four other members of the family. They were unhurt. Smith was injured fatally when his car skidded near Anderson and hit a telephone pole. His wife, Vera, received several cuts and two passengers In the car, Mrs. Helen Lavell and Mrs. John Tenlisie of Brandenburg, were hurt less seriously. Injuries received by Briggs Saturday when his ear skidded and was struck broadside by another resulted in a skull fracture that was fatal Sunday. In the other car were seven students of Notre Dame university and St. Mary s college of South Bend, enroute to their homes in Chicago for the weekend. They were not hurt

Treasure Island Aglow At Night The "magic city" that is the setting for the California World's Fair more than ever appears to be a city “afloat on San Francisco Bay” when the million dollar illumination perfected by General Electric Co. engineers is turned on at night. Here are the courts and towers as viewed from nearby Yerba Buena island. Many of the exhibit palace walk and towers, appearing white in this picture, are actually bathed in many pastel hues.

seriously. Addison was killed when his car collided with a transport truck three miles from Monticello. Two friends riding with him were injured. They were Woodie Cable, 35. and Max Mayers, 30, both of Monticello, Troy received fatal injuries Saturday night when the car In which 1 he was riding crashed head-on into a safety island in Indianapolis. His son, Charles, 38, suffered a fractured skull and is in critical condition in ahospital. o SUPREME COURT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) out the TVA area to destroy, illegally. all private power companies. They asserted that actually the' general TVA program constituted a vast illegal conspiracy designed to acquire "operation and control" I of the power business throughout i the TVA area. They further charged that power phases of TVA — which they | contended were the basic phases of the program—in effect amounted to an unconstitutional invasion of rights reserved to states by the constitution, and that operation of the power program would denrive states of their regulatory

YESTERDAY A BABY WAS BORN On your block, or a short way down the street, is a new baby to help make Decatur a better place in which to live. I The proud parents months ago began planning for the extra clothing and furniture needed for this new citizen. You can be sure advertisements helped! Now they are reading the advertisements carefully for the baby food the youngster will need ... for his crib and blankets. All mothers can rely on what the local merchants say because these business men are not afraid to put their names to announcements of their goods! They can be trusted to do the honorable thing in every transaction. It’s a good idea to deal with folks who keep their word ... as successful advertisers must.

authority over public utilities. Takes Office Washington. Jan. 30 — (U.R) Felix Frankfurter, 56-year-old former Harvard law school professor and confidante of President Roosevelt, took his seat today as an associate justice of the United States supreme court. Frankfurter ascended the bench after a brief ceremony in which court clerk Charles Elmore Cropley administered to him the judicial oath required of all federal judges. The courtroom's 300 seats were filled with spectators including many high in government and legal spheres. Frankfurter, President Roosevelt’s third appointee to the court bench, swore the general oath required of all federal employes immediately before the court con- ' vened today. Chief Justice CharI les Evans Hughes, in accordance I with custom, administered that . oath. Only the other jurists were ! witnesses. 0 Canners, Fieldmen To Purdue Conference Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 30 — Up-1 wards of l.OOft Indiana canners. I fieldmen, and medal winning growers are expected to attend their twelfth annual conference to be held at Purdue University.

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Feb. 7 and 8 under the sponsorship of the university in cooperation with the Indiana Canners' association. Gold, silver and bronze medals will be awarded to outstanding tomato growers who participated in the U. S. “Won" and double tonnage tomato clubs during the past year as sponsored by the Purdue horticultural extension division assisted by the Indiana Canners' association and the Indiana Vegetable Growers' association. o — C. E. Holthouse made a business tr'p to Berne Saturday evening.

VW —ft YOU TOO SHOULD TRY CREOMULSIOH For Coughs or Chest Colds