Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1939 — Page 6

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CAGNEY, DAVIS LEADING STARS Academy Os Motion Picture Arts Favors Cagney And Davis Hollywood, F«*b. 6 (U.PJ The academy of motion picture arts und sciences today issued Its nominations for the best this and the be.it that in Hollywood during 1938 and will hand Kold-plat"d statuettes to the winners ut a $25-per-plate dinner February 23. Members of the academy, including virtually everybody of Importance In the movie business, evuaijtiw are marking their ballon anil the proceedings are being, Veiled in secrecy, but the dinner j inevitably will be In the nature! of an anti-climax ('hats with producers, directors 1 and performers Indicate that they already have decided upon the 1 best actor —James Cagney; the best actress- Bette Davis, and the best picture—“ You can’t take It! with you.” The llth annual nominations for best acting performance In-, eluded Charles Boyer in "Algiers" | Holiert Donat in “The Citadel; "| l,eslle Howard In “Pygmalion;"! Spencer Tracy in “Boys Town," and Cagney in “Angels with Dirty Faces.” All odds point to the latter as being triumphant for his portray al of the bad boy who grew up to Be.iten by Father Mrs. Valerie Strachen and Jimmy Because he had an accident common to young children, three-year-old Jimmy Strachen of New York was beaten by his father, suffering the injuries shown. Jimmy, pictured with his stepmother, Mrs. Valerie Strachen, | was found by police trussed up with cord and wire. Police arrested Jimmy’s father on a charge of felonious assault. g

Crashes in Harbor Fog «r ■)»>.— jo I 1 .111., iVr: 1 i I. I _ *,-.l ' - -—- TR jgP wW tUP I I|plkv;j!,.-Pf m. :f ; rS * . '• :■'' ’■■'.- '•■,■'• -i ■, ■■'- : ' -'V/;' \?\ .'• ." .'. -: "v '■ . > This is the smashed bow of the collier Stephen R. Jones, berthed at het Brooklyn, N. Y., pier. Inbound from Norfolk, Va., the vessel collided in the Narrows with the outbound Norwegian motorship Vito, in a heavy fog. * v .. „ * ‘ f

go to the electric chair, while his | pul. who hud a break, became a I priest. The committee listed as possi * ble best actresses: Fay Rainier I in "White Banners." Wendy j 111I ler In "Pygmalion:" Norma Shearer In "Marie Antoinette;" Mar- ■ garet Sullurun In "Three Com- | rades." and Miss Davis in “JawI hoi." There were numerous excellent movies lust year- as well us some ‘ of the worst Hollywood ever made t —so the committee listed 10 ns - possibilities for first prize. They “ • included: ! | "Alexander’s Ragtime Band." I “Boys Town," "The Citadel," i “Four Daughters,” “Grand Illusion,” "Jezebel," “Pygmalion.” “The Adventures of Robin Hood,’’ ■ "Test Pilot." and "You Can’t 1 Take It With You.", "Alexander’s Ragtime Band" ! earned by far the most money of any on the list. "The Citudel" I was chosen by the New York , movie critics as the best of the year "Test Pilot” was regarded |as the most exciting picture of 1938. ’ The’ Adventures of Robin Hood" as the most handsomely produced, and “Pygmalion" as i perhaps the most unusual, but the i Hollywoodians held the Columbia I comedy. “You Can’t Take it With ; You," as the best of the 1938 movie crop.

GRANT NEPHEW DIES PENNILESS Nephew Os Gen, U. S. Grant Dies In Chicago Hospital Chicago. Fell fi (UR) -Jesse Root Grant. 74. a nephew of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, former president. died in poverty last night at the county hospital. His death was caused by exposure. He was removed to the hospital Saturday from an eight-room home in suburban Wilmette where he had lived for If, years with his son, Clysses S. Grant. 38. apparently too proud to seek relief. He had been found in a coma on a shabby cot near an unlighted furnace in the basement. The house was cold and almost barren of furniture. Four of thp, elder Gram's pet cats were found ; in the basement, hungry and cold | —the remainder of 14 which he kept in 1936 until neighbors filed a complaint against him. charging the -cats were a public nuisance. lie was found guilty and paid a fine of $5. The son said he has been unemployed since 1931 when he lost his job in a Chicago bank. He said his father had lived in the basement in recent weeks because a leg ailment had made it difficult for him to mount the stairs. The son was wearing an overcoat in the house when newspapermen talked to {iim. He said his parental grandfather was Orvil Grant, a brother of , Gen. Grant and that his father had been born in Gen. Grant's home at Galena, 111. He exhibited a shiny pewter coffee urn which, he said, had belonged to the gen--1 eral. j He said he has an uncle — his father’s brother —also bearing the name of Ulysses, who lives in New York City. His uncle, he said, is a retired banker of mod-

LEADERS PLAN FOR MEETING Junior Leaders To Meet Thursday; Report On Health Contest The Adams county Junior leaders’ will meet Thursday evening, February 9. at 7:3d p m ut the home of Miss Mildred Worthmun, 227 North Sixth street. The junior leaders will he usked to report on the interest found In their communities In the 4-H health contest. In order for a county to have a ; 4-H health eontest, there must be! ut least ten girls and ten boys entered Any 4-H club boy or girl j may take part in the county con- j test, but only those who will be 15 j years of age or over by December! 1, 1939, are eligible to represent | the county in the state contest. A vaientins exchange will lie held al the meeting Thursday evening and each person is requested to bring a penny vulentine If there is sufficient snow, a sled party will tie arranged. All 4-H club members wishing to lake junior leadership work in 1939 are invited to attend. LOYALIST FLEES — (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to surrender their arms. Troops of the French 32d infantry regl- i meet trained rifles and machine I guns on the border line and laid j down a warning barrage to pro-! vent them from crossing. There was no more loyalist gov- j eminent in Catalonia. Gen. Enrique. only a few days ago named commander in chief of the Cain-j lonian army, was in sole command. military and civil, direct- ’ ing the retreat. Conflicting reports circulated j regarding peace efforts. Julio Al- j varez Del Vayo. loyalist foreign j minister, was in contact with ; foreign diplomatic envoys here i and was reported to have made peace overtures through Jules; Henry, French ambassador. Henry denied this report. But President Azana was reported definitely to intend to seek peace at . Paris. The indication was that j there was dissension in loyalist ranks as to an armistice — that some men desired to carry on the | fight in central Spain, where Gen. \ Jose Miaja has an army of 400.000 j men. There were conflicting reports. too. whether the loyalist cabinet would try to set up head- ; quarters anew- at Valencia or Ma-1 drid Miaja was reported both to have invited the government to his territory and to have urged ii to stay away.

Seek Cessation London. Feb. 6—Jdl.PJl— lt was said in a usually reliable quarter J today that Great Britain and France were trying to arrange a cessation of hostilities in Spain. The two governments are maintaining constant contact regarding the possibility of mediation, it was learned, and British and French representatives consulted both loyalist and nationalist authorities regarding steps to prevent further bloodshed. Reports were current in parliamentary circles that Premier Juan Negrin of republican Spain had suggested three conditions for settlement of the war. •They were: 1. Elimination of foreigners from Spain. 2. A plebiscite by the Spanish people to decide their future form of government. 3. No reprisals by either side.

ATTACK AMLIE | APPOINTMENT Wisconsin Progressive Denies Charge Os Communism Washington, Feb. 6 — (U.fi) — Thomas R. Amlie, Wisconsin Progressive nominated by President Roosevelt to the interstate commerce commission, was pictured today before a senate subcommittee as an advocate of a left wing coalition of "radical unionists” and others to establish a “new social order” requiring adoption of a new constitution. Those objectives were set out in voluminous question and-answer exempts from Amlie’s book, “The Forgotten Man — A Handbook of 500 Questions and Answers." The book was submitted to the I senate interstate commerce sub- | committee considering the Amlie nomination by Chairman William D. Carroll of the Wisconsin state Democratic committee. Carroll appeared after Amlie had presented a vigorous defense against est means and until recently had helped with his father’s expenses. Jesse Grant retired In 1928 from his position as an accountant for the Chicago and Northwestern 1 railroad. For a time he and his son lived modestly on a small leglacy left him by an aunt. His wife, Gertrude, died In 1929.

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charges of communism raised against him by • the Wisconsin state legislature, which requested President Roosevelt to withdraw the nomination. Amlie charged that the charges ; issued from the same group which several years ago charged Glenn Frank, chairman of the Republican policy committee, with com-i munism. Amlie declared in response to questions by Chairman Edwin C. i i Johnson that he favored govern- ! ment ownership of railroads and i was unfamiliar with proppsals for reorganization of the ICC. In connection with a provision j of the ICC statute requiring ICC commissioners to be of various political affiliations. Amlie said j he was a member of the Wisconsin Progressive party and had supported President Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936. "What do you believe would happen in the presidential election iof 1940?” was one of the ques- ! tions asked in the book which ap I peared in 1935 and was revised j i in 1936. "By 1940," Amlie wrote, reply-1 ing to his own question “it would ' i be possible for a production-for- j j use party to elect a president of the United States and also to secure a two-thirds majority in both i houses of the United States.gov-I ernment. The old system based! on scarcity and profit would be discarded and a new social order would be established based upon the idea of planned production and abundance for all.” o Swine School Is Set For Feb. 23 I County Agent Archbold stated that the exension committee recom- i mended that more work be done in swine extension work and has scheduled John Schwab with a hog j school for Thursday. February 23rd ! , A swine committee is being formed \ and this personnel will be announcj cd within a few days, together with I | the location of the hog school. Each of the Farmers’ Institutes, in Adams County has contributed j $2.00 toward the fund to use as' door prizes at the hog school and at j a sheep school that is to follow on! March 10th. This money will be, used to finance attendance prizes

LOWER UTILITY ! RATE FORECAST i — TVA Director Asserts Lower Rates To Obtain In Utilities I Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 6 —(UP) —j David E. Lilienthal. director of the' Tennessee valley authority’s swiftly expanding power program, predicted today that utility rates would be forced down to the TVA level nearly all over the country within five years. j He based the prediction on the agreement whereby TVA and its cbent municipalities will purchase for $78,000,009 the vast tacilities of the Tennessee electric power Co., u subsidiary of Commonwealth and Southern Corp. "The agreement means, in my | opinion," Lilienthal said, ‘‘That j within the next five years electric ! rates comparable to the TVA yard- | stick rates will be put in force by utilities themselves in most of the | country." 1 He termed the proposed sale "A wise and sensible compromise, ’ I would permit TVA for the first time to carry on its public duties in a wholesome atmosphere of peace and constructive effort." Lilienthal spoke as he departed dor Florida to recuperate from undulent fever, from which he has suffered in varying degrees for the last six months Chattanooga and Nashville, prinI cipal cities affected by the Tepco Transaction, moved to transfer j consumer accounts from private to j public utility lists as quickly as posj siblev, | Nashville officials came here to | confer with TVA on the details of j taking over Tepco facilities in Dai vidson (Nashville) county and "one | or two other" mid-Tennessee coun- | ties. | Chattanooga already has spent I an estimated $1,800,000 of city and ; FWA funds for erection of a muntand everyone attending and present at the closing session will be eligible to a chance on these prizes.

. cipal distribution system. In Memphis, negotiations so. - purchase of Memphis power and light properties remained at a stalemate. The utility is another suhridiary of electric bond and share, j Maj. Thomas H. Allen, chairman of ti.e Memphis power and light com- . mission, said the negotiations pro- - bably would not be continued beI cause the city had spent so much I already on a municipal system. , TVA said it was also ready to I take over the facilities of the we3t Tennessee Power and Light Co. serving 22 towns. The purchase price would be probated among the towns and TVA. 'j Liliethal said that TVA would j soon begin negotiations for pur"hase of C. & S. subsidiaries in Mississippi and Alabama, where sever'ai towns have gone ahead w ; th municipal power plants. i o THOUSANDS ARE (CON'IiNUEL) FhOM rAUE ONE) Ohio in check, lessening the dan--1 gers in the valley during the weekend but the rise in temperatures

Smiles for the Conquerors of Barcelona This picture »u made shortly after Generalissimo Frenco’s Insurgents occupied the gj® metropolis of Barcelona, as the populace welcomed the Franco forces with enthusiasm. These , „ oDy , to* m the van of the feminine welcoming committee. The Navarrese soldier with them appears

melted recent snows quickly and sent additional thousands of tons! of water pouring into the river. Kentucky state police had a report that the Big Sandy river had surged to 48 feet, two feet over the previous record, at Paintsville, and that the Licking river had moved to a stage of 21 feet, one foot over a previous record, near its headwaters in south ceil- i tral Kentucky . 1 The flood was reported to have 1 disrupted the water supply a> \ j Paintsviile and inundated a por- j tion of the business section of Cattlesburg with five feet of water. Red Cross reports showed Kentucky to be the hardest hit area,; with 3,200 families homeless. West Virginia was second with 1,200, while Ohio had an estimated 1,000 families requiring assistance. Tennessee had approximately 200 homeless families in need. The .situation at a glance in other communities affected: Beattyville, Ky—Business district inundated: Red Cross orders food and supplies sent to score of - homeless; village water supply

failed. Breathitt County. Ky —250 a Hies homeless and in ne«i assistance; report water sap lied. Corbin Coun'>. Ky. —lsos lies homeless. Prestonburg. Wayland and« rett, mining communities in « eastern Kentucky- All street! ; ported inundated by sales Beaver Creek Ashland. Ky. —Ohio at staff !60 feet, eight feet over I ; stage: lowland areas flooded, j foot crest expected at dam a I miles north, and 61 foot crest | pected at dam 29. near AS* , Huntington. W. Va — Red W ! reports 350 families in wateffl areas homeless. Evansville. Ind.-Estimated 1 . lowland residents P r<ipar r. leave homes as metec.o ! predict crest of 43 to 44 middle of week: few iamm ready have left homes. Irontown. O. —River stage feet, rising steadily — —o i Trail* In A t-uod l-m" — ll "’-

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