Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1939 — Page 1

«XVII. No. 106.

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Begins Life Term » c \ Til I I W ■ I \lf / i TI < [ 4 L * i \ 1A 1 j 7 John Henry Howland la taken from a Dover. N. H.. courtroom following his sentence to a life term for the slaying of Mias Maude Horne, (l-year-old M'lhm. N. H„ school teacher, after he robbed her of a arfthll yum. CHRISTIAN ROTH DIES SUDDENLY Retired Farmer Dies Os Heart Attack At Home In Linn Grove ■■■■■■■■■■Bale Christian H Roth. <5. wen known 'retired farmer, died ruddenly at his home in Unn Crore at S:3O o'clock this morning lAm th waa attributed to a heart attack. The deceased waa born in Fulton county. Ohio. December <. 1573. the son of John and Catherine Roth, but had spent most of his life tn and near Linn Crore. He was married to Lrd'a Yoder February 11. 18»7. Surviving besides the vdow are two songs. Clarence Roth of Fort Wayne and Raymond of Bluffton: one brother. Eli Roth of Archbold. Ohio. Funeral services will be held at the home at 1:30 p m. Sunday and M 2 o'clock at the De', useless Mennonlte church. Rev. Noak Schmucker will officiate. Rnrial will be tn the church cemetery. ' ■' iO' if ■ «— Jackie Heller Is Reported Better Word from Indianapolis at noon today was that Jackie Heller, son of .Mr. and Mrs. Dick Heller, ill with lobar pneumonia at the Methodist t vspllal. has shown some improvement. If this progress ccntlnues through the day. it would indicate I ihc remedies applied were effec- ' live, attending physicians stated. GENEVA RITES THIS EVENING Commencement Exercises At Geneva School Tonight The last of the rural school activities In the county will be held tanight when graduation exercises ate hel at the (leneva high school. The exercises were to have been held last Thursday but were postponed because of the death of Andrew Cook. Geneva teacher. Rev. F. H. Rupnovz of Fort Wayne will deliver the commencement address. C. E. Striker, county school superintendent; It. O. Hunt, school principal will al*" take part In the program. The annual alumni banquet of the school wll Ibe held Friday night. Classes In all of the rural schools were discontinued last week Plans are now underway for the annual graduation exercises for the eighth grade students of 'he rural schools. The exercises will be held lr this city sometime in June. Nd definite date has been selected. I

CONFESSION DY ADRIAN MILLER INTO EVIDENCE Police Officer Testifies On ConfessiM Made To Murder Fort Wayne. May 4 -<U.R> -Detectivr Sergeant Martin Ksmmey -r today testified that Adrian Miller. 31. on trial for the sex-slaying of Alice May Girton. IS. confessed strangling the girl leas than 24 hours after her nude body was dis covered on the floor of the rooming house where she lived. Millers written confession waa Introduced In evidence by prosecutor C. Byron Hayes. Hartter, I>r. Walter K. Kruse. Allen county coroner, told the jury that the Girton girl hud been attacked. but said <hemlcsl testa made soon afterwards could not 1 be used to Identify the person or persons who committed the act., Dr. W. H Rhamy. who assisted In the poet mortem, collaborated this. Hayes was expected to call three physicians appointed by the oourt to examine Miller for insanity to testify today. Howard Zimmerman. It. a Riga. Mich., high school student was the state's closing witness yesterday He told of fighting with Mias Glrtcn the evening before her death and of leaving her alive and fully clothed about three o'clock In the morning. He denied being Intimate with the girl. They had gone to an early movie and returned to the girl's room and talked, he said Zimmerman was working in Fort Wayne at the time and had met Miss Girton only a few days before their date. Mrs. Lillian Kelly, proprietor of ■ the rooming house where both Miss Girton and Miller lived was the first state witness yesterday She described finding the body, rude an dstrangled. and notifying police. Captain of Detectives John Taylor, and police officers Robert Moore and Eugene Bouchard also testified for the state. During the cross examination of Taylor, Wayne Miller, attorney for the defenae attempted to introduce a letter from the San Diego. (CONTINVBD ON PA'IE BKVKNI KISTER MOVES FOR DISMISSAL State Supreme Court To Hold Special Hearing May 12 The appeal of Tod Whipple, Portland attorney, from the 1100 tine xnd 30-day jail sentence imposed when Henry J. Klster of Princeton, special judge In the Wabash river drainage case, found him guilty of contempt at Decatur, will be the subject of a special bearing before • the Indiana supreme court on May 12. Judge Klster and Homer Teeters of Bellefontaine, superintendent of construction for the drainage project. filed notice w'th the supreme court that they will appear <>n that day to formally move for dismissal , of Whipple's appeal on the ground that It names neither of them and tint they are '•lnterested parties in the case. They also say in their notice. 1 which waa tiled for them by Morton C. Embree of Princeton, who describes himself as the "sole attorney" for the superintendent of construction. that Whipple did not ask for a change of judge ‘before he waa nrralgned and sentenced for con- ’ tempt. Whipple, who will be present at the hearing with his attorneys. J. Gordon Meeier of Portland and Clarence Menadum of Muncie, will contend that the request for a change of judge was mado before the Decatur contempt trial. If the iccord shows otherwise. Whippl.' said Tuesday, he will charge that !• has l>een altered since the trial. " The action of a judge petitioning a higher court to dlxmlss an c.|>peal from a sentence he himself imposed Is without precedent In Indiana court history." raid Mr. Whipple, "and we intend to stress thia fact and Its Implications when we answer the Klstrr-Teetcro motion." —: —rtr —7 — City School Board In Regular Meeting The Decatur city school board met In regular session last night in tue new school building. Allowing ihe bills and other routine business , waa conducted.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 4, 1939.

Knights Os Pythia* Meet This Evening A short business meeting will be I'.eld by the Knights of Pythlaa lodge tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Friday night second rank initiatory v ork la to be given to a class comP >sed of county auditor Victor Richor, James Kitchen and Robert HudSOU. • Next week a big meeting ts plann•>u in connection with third rank in'story work Invitations have been extended to 20 lodges tn Indiana aud Ohio. The redecorating of the lodge rooms Is to be completed before the meeting next week. ROYS AND GIRLS WEEK TO CLOSE City’s Observance To Close With Youth Service Program Dectur's observance of national boys and girls week will close Friday afternoon, with a program at the junior-senior high school auditorium at 2 o'clock. The final day of the observance, which opened last Saturday, will be known as Youth Service day. The committee In charge la composed of Harry Maddox. Misses Helen Haubold and Catherine Kauffman. The program will epen with three selections by the high school hand. The complete program follows: "Almo." by Huff—Band. "The Mountaineer." by Metcalf Band "King Totten -Marell." by Sousa —Band. Palno solo, "parade of the Wooden Soldiers."—by Joseph Daniela, of the St. Joe school. Motion picture of Boy Scout ac- , tlvities. Piano solo. "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen.” by Virginia Lee Kuhnle. of the St. Joe school. Sixth grade chorus of ths public schools, directed by Misa Helen Haubold. music supervisor, song group: "Come Thou Almighty King:" "Blue Bells of Scotland.” “Moorish Serenade;" "Mother Goose Nonsense” Piano solo. ‘Meridian Sparks" - by Rose Marie Kohne. of the St Joe school. Presentation of awards for individual athletic events--by Rivester Everhart and George Laurent. Bryce Thomas, principal of the Central school, and general chairman of the week's observance, will preside at the program. Entertainment Day Today was observed as Enter- ' talnment day The Woman's club entertained the giris of the seventh and eighth grades of both the public and Catholic schools at a special program late this afternoon in the dining rooms of the junior-senior high school. 1 Captains of the basketball, baseba I and track teams of the Junior High and St. Joe schools will be ! guests of the Rotary club at the weekly meeting thia evening at the Rice hotel. Russell H. Earl*, of the speech department of Fort Wayne Central high school, will be In charge of a program of music and youth discussion. Bryce Thomas will be chairman of the program. .„ o COMPLETE PLAN FOR POPPY DAY Auxiliary' Completes Organiztaion For Poppy Day Sales Completion of the Poppy Day organisation of the Adams Post No. 43. American Legion auxiliary, which will sell the red flowers hero on Raturday. May 27. waa announc’d today by Mrs. Joe McConnell, P.»ppy Day chairman. Ail women of the auxiliary who .lave volunteered to distribute popplea have been assigned to foams and earn Learn will be given a apec'flc location In the city. All parts of the city will be covered Each team will have a captain, who will direct Its activities during the day. the captains being appointed by Mrs. McConnell. The local poppy workers will be part of sn army of more than Ibo.iMH) women who will distribute the little red memorial flowers throughout the country on Pippy Day. Hundreds of veterans have been employed for months making the t lowers, working st their beds or in ths occupational tborspy departments of the government hospitals end In special workrooms maintained by the anxllinry. Every flower offered by the auxiliary will be a I veteran made poppy.

REDUCTION IN TAX PROPOSED DY COMMITTEE Announce Amendments To Reduce Social SeI 1 curity Taxes i 1 •I Washington. May 4 <U.R) Th<> house ways and means committee proffered to business today an estimated 31.000.000 turn reduction In social security taxes for the next three years. i As the committee neared com- , pletlon of Its proposed revisions , of the social security program. < hairman Robert L. Donghton, D.. N. C.. announced additional amendI menta designed to ease the social security tax load. Revisions approved include 1. Placing a celling of 33.000 on wages subject to the three per cent payroll tax for unemployment I compensation. Wages in excess . of that amount would be tax free. Doughton estimated that this . change would save employers 3«o.000 000 a year, or 3180.000.000 In the next three years. I , 2. Retention of old age insurance taxes at their present level . of one per cent on employer and i employe. Instead of permitting the ,■ automatic Increaae to 1.5 per cent on each to become effective Jan. , 1. Estimated savings: 8825.0twt.000 in three years. 3. Inauguration of old age annuity payments In 1840, two years j ahead of schedule. 4. Revision of the unemployk ment compensation tax law to permit states which have built up . reserves of probably one and onehalf times their highest annual total of benellts to reduce their , share of the three per cent tax 12 7 per cent for stalest, and at , i the stame time allow employers to k obtain their full 80 per cent credit on the federal payroll tax. i Dale Banker Heads Indiana Bankers Indianapolis. Ind., May 4—(VP) ‘j—-Albert J. Wedeklng of Dale, former member of the State h.ghway couMnlaaion. wm elected president of Indiana bankers aaaoclatlon at the close of Its 43rd annual conven- . non today. WELFARE MEET AT FORT WAYNE Regional Welfare Conference At Fort Wayne On May 18 ' Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp. Adams county welfare director, announc<‘d today the members of a local , attendance committee for the re- > gional welfare conference at Fort • Wayne May 18 in the Chamber of t Commerce building. The members of the local com- • mlttee are: C. E. Striker, county ' school superintendent: J. M Doan. ' Washington township trustee; Rev. ■ R. W. Graham, temporary chairman of the community coordinating council; Mrs. E W. Busche. president of the Adams county home economics clubs; Walter J. Krick. I»ecatur city school superF Intendent; Father Alvin Jasinski, assistant pastor. St. Mary's Catholic church; Mrs. Doria Relcheidefter. Adams county welfare board member and E. M Webb. Bertie . school superintendent. The meeting will be open to the general public and persons Interested In attending are asked to contact a member of the committee or see Mrs. Knapp. , Robert H. Stroud, executive sec- , retary of the Fort Wayne comrnun- , Uy cheat and R. R. Colman. Allen . county welfare director, are In charge of arrangements for the conference. , Local welfare officials hope to have a large delegation represent- ‘ Ing Adame county at the mectln'f. , Legion ConßiderH Convention Bids Indianapolis, Ind.. May 4—(VP) , - The executive committee of the American Legion will meet here today to consider Invitations from several cities for the 1840 slid 1841 i legion conventions. A representative from Boston will will present the bld of that city for , the 1840 convention. Milwaukee will i ask for the 1841 conclave. It waa understood that Kansas City, Mo. also would seek to play host to the Legionnaires iu 1841 In an effort to establsh the custom ■»f having a legion conventto t there every 20 years. The 1821 gather ng j was held In Kansas City.

Nationwide Coal Strike Is Seen As Inevitable After Negotiations Are Failure

ALF M. LANDON 1 SUPPORTS PLEA BY ROOSEVELT I Defeated G. O. P. Candidate Backs Roosevelt Peace Plea Kansas City. Mo.. May 4 (UJQI i Alf M. (.andon presented to the ’ political and military rulera of the i world today an appeal to support I President Rooiu-vi-lt's proposal for an International peace conferi ence. He criticised some of the foreign policies of the present ad ministration and charged that Mr. . Roosevelt "in no for as he speaks I and is able to do no has ulanuloned neutrality for the Vnlted ‘ States." but he guaranteed nonetheless to croon party lines to support the president for the g<aid • of the republic. In an address last night befor.' ' the Methodist EplM-dpal church uniting conference which was broadcsst nationally and Internationally. Imndon. leader of the ' minority party in the ('tilted ' States, declared that Adolf Hit- ■ ler’a speech last Friday leaves the door open for further discus- ' skm and urged that “we explore constructively the possibility for such discussion " He further suggested that “there might even be In the near future a general American appeal to the world for peace " Hla speech was considered ( especially significant in view of the part he has played in thia country's international affairs since he waa defeated by Mr. ■ Roosevelt in the last '-lection. He was chosen by the president as a 1 delegate to the Pan-American con--1 ference at Lima last winter. He declared last night that he found it necessary to admit that .Hitler in his reichstag address “made a rather strong case against economic injustices.” "We must face the situation as it is." he said, "and in doing so let us face frankly the tact that i the hluuderinga of statesmen in Britain. France, and even In America, are to some extent at ' i least, responsible for what has i come to pass — including Herr ! Hitler, also.” "It is always a dangerous j thing.'* he ssld. "for a political leader to cross party lines Nevertheless. to support my president Ido so Whether he deserves R. or not is not the question. The republic deserves It. and that is I all that should count with every i citlxen. “A great war threatena. On the face of things It seems that som« natlona are mad and bent on ruin. "On cloaer examination, how(CONTINUED ON PAOB FIVE) GIRLS BAND TO GIVE CONCERT Girls Band To Present First Concert Os Season Friday The Decatur Glrla' band will present lu ftrat concert of the 1838 > enson at a chapel program at the new junior-senior high school auditortum Friday morning at 8:15 o'clock. The band, directed by Albert Sol’••meyer. has been expanded to 80 nieces this year. One of the features of tomorrow'e opening concert will . he a number by the girl's all-reed . band, conaisting of 32 pieces, this i croup's first appearance. The public la Invited to attend th* Friday morning concert. The complete program follows: “Our Director." March—by Bigelow. 'iFf , "Osrmen,” march —by fflxet. "Hutnoreeke"—by Anton Dvorak. Raxaphone solo, by Kathleen Fryhack. 'rs.'M "Freldhutx Overture"—Glrla’ allrord band. "Fll take you borne again Kathleen" —bell lyre with band accompaniment. by Irene Brooks. "Andante from Surprise Ryvnphj<.ny“—by Haydn. Father of Victory,'' march —by i L. Uanne.

Queen in Chicago H Lt* JF lS J' ’ • 'A • //. < / ■ / !! [jUli % Anns Belle Dykstra Pretty Anna Belle Dykstra. Michigan's Blossom Queep. arrives in Chicago for a flying visit to the Windy City. She is pict'ired seeing the city from the top of one of Chicago's skyscrapers. LOCAL SCHOOLS GIVEN PICTURE French Quinn Presents Picture Os First School Building A photograph of the coun'v's first ■chool building hss been -,resented to the Decatur junior-senior high school by French Quinn. Decatur historian, it was learned today. The school bouse, which waa located at the Intersection of the U Inchest er road, known aa the Quaker Trace and the Poe road, tnree miles north of Decatur, was erected 10" years ago. Joshua Randall was said to be the first teachers In the school and thus the first teach"r In the county. Mr. Quinn presented the photo to W. Guy Brown, principal of the Decatur school, this week. At pteIscat the picture hsngs in Mr. I rown's class roam. However arrMgxtnonta are being made u> place It in the trophy case of the school. School authorities expressed tbetr snpreclatlon to Mr. Quinn for iho sift and recalled the appropriate(CONTINUED ON PA'IK TIIHEE) 0 ■ State Sen ice Places 6,451 Persons In Jobs Indiana polls. Ind.. May 4- (UP)— The s(ate employment service succeeded In placing 6.451 persons tn jobs In private employment during April. J. Bradley Haight, acting director, announced today. This la the second highest number in the 69 months the service has operated, being exceeded only by the 6,886 persona obtaining Jobs last March. - o — Decatur Student To Serve As Attendant Franklin, (nd.. May 4.—Miss Marten Kiefer of Decatut, will servo as a'i attendant to the Franklin college p.'twn queen, at the annual junior prom. Friday night, May 5 The social organlaatkma represented Include: Mias Margaret Golden. Denver. Ind., Delta Zeta sorority; Miss Sarah Deklc, Kokomo, Ind.. Delta Delta Dicta sorority; Miss Frances .Hyde, the queen-elect, Edinburg. Ind., PI Bets Phi sorority; Miss Virginia Guyer. West I Fra:rkllu independent Women.

Price Two Cents.

Failure For Agreement On Terms Os Contract Leads To Strike Call By John Lewis. EFFECTIVE NOW New York, rfay 4 — <U.PJ — A nationwide soft coal strike became inevitable today aa a result of failure of negotiators for this Appalachian bituminous Industry to agree on terms of a contract. John L. Lewis, president of I'MW. said that walkout orders affecting 12C.000 In districts outside Appalachian area would go into effect tomorrow and the next day. In the Appalachian area 338.000 miners have been Idle since April 1. After a two-hour morning sea slon the joint conference sub-com-mittee of operators and miners announced it waa unable to reach a settlement and said that the foil joint conference had lieen instructed to meet at 3 p. m. tomorrow to decide what next steps. If any. to take. W. L. Robison. Cleveland, chairman of the joint conference, issued the following statement: “Thia joint sub-committee has failed to agree on any of the matters paired before it by the joint conference and has now adjourned. and will promptly call the Appalachian conference Into a wieetIng at two o'clock tomorrow at which a disagreement will be report ed" It was the second time the subcommittee had reported a failure. Three weeks ago the foil Appalachian conference, after receiving the first report, ordered the subcommittee to keep working under I authorisation to return with an ' agreement. Today's development Indicated • the deadlock was hopeless, and made it prolmble that the nation's entire ohU i:id"«try would be suspended. The union already has canceled the contracts In districts ontslde II the Appalachian area effective toi night aud tomorrow night. Unleaa i It decided to enter into a dooed shop contract with outlying operjators agreeable to such terms. I 126.000 additional miners will Im Idle by the end of the week John L. Lmwis. president of the United Mine Workers of America, did not add to Robison'a statement. He left the conference to I; report the failure to 130 members i: of the miners' policy committee . which will decide the union's future strategy The disagreement today was , over an operators' proposal to sign ,| a new contract retaining the wage-hour provisions of the explr- ’ *d 1837-39 contract hut withholding dosed shop conditions demanded by I-ewts as protection ■ against rival unions. The next step Is up to the foil joint conference It waa under1 stood that John R Rteelman. head 1 of the U. 8. conclllat lon service, would address the conference and ■ urge It to undertake some new ■ means of ending the shutdown • which has cut off the flow of coal . from mines producing 70 >er cent ’ tOOWTIWt * KO PAGE WK VEN) ADAMS TRIAL IS POSTPONED Trial Os Jay County Man For Reckless Driving Postponed , The trial of George Adams. 03 , Jatiy county, which waa sceduled to i be tried today in Adams clrcttlX court waa postponed. Adams wan arrested early la«‘ year by State Policeman Earl Warnock and Truman Blerle and lodged t In the county jail on a charge of rcckleas driving while hla license ■ waa revoked. I Ife entered a plea of not guilty ' and waa released on bond. He wan r to have been tried on the former charge, that of reckleas driving. • No other criminal trials have • been sent for the April term of • court The trial of Ed Borling of De- . catur. who was charged with drunk : en driving, waa also postponed re- • 'ently. < ‘ A number of civil suits are achedt uled to go to trial, however, during r the term, some of which sre to bq heard by a jury.