Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1939 — Page 1

XXXVII. No- ,71

B'TICSBILL Esses house msi EVENING H Prohibits l edcral Uploxt s l n»m I’olitH ical Activity uP> ThHB h ■ h ■ •''' or '< •<> V ,,.„ I' IBB- ■ lusklag olßclata from ' Iral activity. Including pare jn presidential nominatrrturon* It cmW cripple ial political niarhlne. 11l »*» passed by the house I sight after tta opponents imentary man<o»ld think of to de- ' < .■. * . i: t<> r"’< |H,. M Hat. h. D N |i. X M hilt the the > tile well- - for injihat Hl I *(.>■( Iw-fore to - la-mo wan ■"<•• one labonte. that th- howl bill which - W|«ni B - the court Mb ' ! 11 promised to be l El ‘ " s f-UtK FIVE) ■NESS MIN. ■ IS PREDICTED Mmerce Department Bkonomi't* See BusHit'-. Improvement e.'ononiiati |B<><l.<. ’ uher »ase pay- ■ “ !1(! •• l .wi < oat cf living |B niip-ov-nien' ■amentum tor the teat of IB* *lll far from boom to I'r-sp-cts are. they |B‘-" ' I’-’t, that bus- ■'" r ,h - >*»> aa a whole ■ atit'-rtant K a.r.» u vgr '">• * T I- substantially M the 1(0*1; I>Bl IB*' factor, were cited fay tlw ■" •» the fur lhr mprov.-ment. W If- r..!.. government <-xprn- ■' 'hi'-rtitnent spending is ■V li-siler In the f' lM half . v *'" r Mme July Mg 1 ‘-t ond half ■f-ntiiiu..,! c panalnn In the ■V'T ‘ ndu «' , y. particularly " hl " f ***ld*ntlal building. ■ "f relationship between inMr./" r ’*'" 11 P r, e*s. resulting HLr. ‘‘" r< l>o * w ‘ tor ■ Pointed out m , ■rX‘ n H rN for «*<*w <* K. " r .7 a H ®3k'tu that ■flat. J y <,,,rln * ,h * Or»t the« "*• J " n * ■* ln * |, normal'y a aea- ® MPERATURe HEADING! »°CRATjrHE«MOMFTe R ?! Jit?-’ ” * <v 1.00 p,m aa H 10 * J WtATHgR ••wr. Mparij 0 * "’“ eh

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(Jives Open Verdict In Cycling Accident Fort Warn*. Ind. July il—(UP»< -Coroner Walter R. Kruse today had returned an open verdir* In the death of Vern Hinrichs. 13. who waa atruc.lt and killed by a bicycle.' Kruse said testimony at the InUiimtt Indicated Howard Adtma. 22, Itder of the (bicycle which struck yenna Hinrichs, was riding without roper lights as prescribed by the state law effective July 1. tinder til's statute, all bicycles ope-ated a* night must carry lights front and tear which are visible for Goo feet. Authorities today promised strict enforcement of the statu to to prevent further accidents of the hind. PROGRAM WILL BE EXPANDED Welfare Department To Expand ('rippled Children Program Plana are being made by the county and atate departments of public welfare to expand the crippled childrens program In accordance with the legislation passed at the last session of the general assembly. which became egectlre July 1.

From Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp. Adams county welfare director. It was learned that needy crippled children between the ages of IS and 21 became eligible on that date for surgery, corrective treatment and other services through placement by the welfare department. "Before July 1.” Mr* Knapp stated.** the welfare department's crippled children service was not opsn to children over IS years old. but the new legislation makes thia service available to all needy children up to the age of 21." The records of Mra. Knepp disclosed that on July 1. of this year. 21 crippled children in Adams county w • rja receiving treatment through services of the county and slate departments of publb welfare. llospitaliMtion or other care is offered only to those children who wwtHd be anable to ototata the necesMry services without outside help. To be eligible for the service. a child must be a resident of Indians and must be suffering from some form of crippling which offers a fair chance of being improved. Mra. Knapp stated. The number of crippled children In the state between the ages of IS and 21 is placed at 1.600. The new law also includes children in need of reconstructive or plssttc surgery in Its definition of a crippied child. "Thia means that needy 'CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Young Girl Killed In Auto Accident Noblesville, Ind . July 11—(UP) - Jane Wilson. 17. was klll 'l today and five others rore injured In a hrodiin automcdi'le crash on the top of a hill near here. Mlm Wilson wug the daughter of Mr and Mr*. David Wilton. Jean U iderwood. 18. and Helen Scull). 17. paaaengers In Mias U llson's car. were Intured severely, Harold King. 98. Zionsville, driver of the other machine, a milk track, received a p«»Mkb! • broken back. His wife. 18, and taelr son. Dennis. 18 months old, wtre taken to the Hamilton scanty hospital In serious condition

JAPAN PROTESTS RUSSIAN ACTION t — News Agency Dispatch Says Three Jap Lumbermen Kidnaped Tokyo, July 21—(UJO A Domel news agency dispatch Mid today that three Japanese lumbermen were believed to hve been "kidnaped" by RuMlan soldiers while fishing on the border between the Japanese and Russian part of Sakhalin Island. Wltneroes mw the lumbermen croMing the border, followed by RuMlan soldiers, the dispatch Mid. It was added that the Japanese authorities ou Sakhalin Island had reported to the foreign office here so that a protest could be made to Rnnsia. A Domel dispatch from Hsinklng. Manchukuo. quoted Japanese army authorltlM as asserting that 29 of a fleet of Russian airplanes were shot down over Lake Bulr. on the Mongolian frontier, when they "invaded" Manchukuo this morning. It waa said that one Japanese plane did not return from the engagement and that two made forced landings.

f. D. R. STATES ■I SENATE ACTION BUSINESS HURT Says Refusal To Act On Neutrality Killed Business Boom Hyde Park. N. Y . July SI <UJO 1 —President Roosevelt said today that refuMl of the senate to act at • thia session on neutrality has killed off a nice little business boom and will have an adverse economic ■ effect until next January. Mr. Roosevelt, speaking at a press conference, again emphasised that full responsibility for, refusal to revise the neutrality law - must he accepted by the senate 1 The senate, he Mid. la gambling - against the poMlbillty of war thia year, and the result of its refuMl to act will have an adverse eco-1 nomlc effect. The president described a con verMtlon he had with a prominent 1 business man thia week. The bualneMtnan. he said, discussed the effect the senate postponement 1 may have on business, and they concluded that the postponement probably cut short a nice boom. With the International situation and Its effects on this country highly uncertain, the president Mid. bualueMtneii will hesitate to make commitments because they can have no idea of what form a neutrality bill will take if congreM acts on the fame when It meets again next January Accepting the fact that the senate will not act. Mr Roosevelt Mid. all he can do now la pray that there will not be another aerloua crisis In Europe before congreM meets again. He Mid. however, that a crisis alone would not force him to convene congress for a special session, pointing out that | other crises have come and gone I without developing actual war. Hut he Mid. from every capital In Europe without exception, thia government has received evidence of preparations lieing made tor an eventuality that those capitals beUetMt to Im taUly clm*_The pre I parations. he Mid. appear to be moving at .a fast rate. The president gave no indication that he plans to take the Imus of neutrality to the country , There can’t be any immediate issue liefore the country, he Mid. because groups in the senate have precluded any action until next (CUNTINCKD ON PAGE FOUR) DEPUTIZE MEN ' ON ROAD WORK Wells County Sheriff Deputizes Workmen On Highway 224 t ■ - ' Sheriff Fleming French of Wells county has degmtistd five employes t of the Putsnan Construction comi puny. In charge o< the re-vurfacln* . of federal road 32< west of Decatur i tor the purpose of guarding against reported threats from union or- . gjnlsers. according to reports roj celved here. i I* was reported that th- men appealed to Sheriff Fiencdi when the i otgnnisers threatened to damage i machinery and equipment being used In the work if the workers did not join their union. The report staled that tno organiters had failed In their nttempts to unionise the workers. It la thought that the Wells conn- | ty sheriff wus contacted by the wcikers since the actual construction wonk la not taking place in that county. No appeal has Ibeen ( ' made to the Adams county sheriff's department for protection. It was revealed today. A report several weeks ago that several employes were carrying guns was not corroborated upon Investigation, it was known, however that the workers and the or ganlsera were having trouble. The road Is btingi re-surfaced ' from Magley In Adasns county to the junction of 224 with state road 1 In Wells county. 1 I Second Victim Os Plane Crash Dies Ixiganeport. Ind. July 21—(UP) —Herb Hurton. 68- a (Mas county farmer, died yesterday, the second victim of a plane crash near Camdon last night. John Bradfield. 46. secretarytreasure.' of the federal soil conssr- . ration program In Cam county, pilot of rhe plane, died the day after the crash. They were attempting to land In a hay field near Camden wnen the plane struck telephone w.res and icrashed. f

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 21, 1939.

Arabs Abduct Two Americans Ba i H&s Rev. Jacob Goldner Rev. Oerould Goldner A widespread hunt by British royal air force planes, police dogs and groups of monks and miMiojiaries has been launched In the Wadi Nar. Palestine, for the band of Arabs who kidnaped and held Rev. (lerould Goldner for 35.000 ransom The Arabs also kidnaped Rev. Goldner's father. Rev. Jatob Goldner of Cleveland. 0.. but released him so he could go to Jerusalem and there raise the ransom money.

CONVICTS DENY KIDNAP CHARGE I I Three Michigan City Prisoners Plead Not Guilty To Charge Michigan City. ind.. July 21 — (UP) —Three convicts In state prison here who held Mrs. Ruth Jolaef, Crawfordsville weMar > worker, ,as hostage in an esoape attempt June 27. pleaded not ro’’ f y to kWU" taping changes when arre'gned In superior court today. Richard Sweet and Alphonse Siuswwlch appeared cocksu e and when Judge Rvasel! W. Smith aaked It they had lawyers Skusewich drawled: “Naw. they wouldn't let ns have I nothing.” Earl NI verson appeared nervous. AU three declined court appoint--led lawyers and indicated they would secure their own defenro counsel. Judge Smith Mid the case probably would be Jrle-l tn the O.’cflter term of court. In their prison break attempt, the trio seized Mr*. Joiner and held her in a prison phslclan's of- , flee demanding gbna. an automobile and free access to the outside tu return for her life. During negotla tmns one of the convicts held a knife at her throa'.. She Wa* rescued when prison guards stormed the offlc-dS Should the three be convicted of kidnaping, they would be aen-> i fenced to death under InHana law ’ for kidnaping and hold ng for ransom. Ransom la d-Hnrd as "anything of value,** •kfter rhelr arraignment all thro* were returned to solitary confln- , inent cells in the prison. 0 I President To Spend Week End At Hyde Park I OMMsiawam I Hyde Park. N. T., July 21 —<UJ9 —President Roosevelt arrived at ( his Hyde Park estate late laat . night to spend the week end.

Michigan Governor To Keep Up Crusade For Womanhood

i Lansing. Mich.. July 21 <U.R> • Gov. Luren D. Dickinson announced today the next step In hie per- , i aonal cruaade to eave America's , I young womanhood. He la going to , > do anmr “plaintalking" to dry* , and art them right on the method* or Influencing public opinion. The 80-year-old chief executive, who on two occasion* In the laat week haa dacrtbed how liquor lead* young women to their ruin, had tangible evidence of the rightnbaa of hi* own methode Hr had over 300 telegram* from penton* who listened to hl* radio bout with sin Wednesday night. Some were ' | not laudatory, hut the** were In 1 I proportion of one to 20. he said '! "Many people seemed to think ' Michigan would become dry suddenly on the day I became gover- : nor."’ he said "I can’t see that 1 the public mind la shaped up along , that line now I expect to give 1 ■ some plain talking to drya about 1 | working for changes in public '

Ixises His Big Toe, Files Suit For $5,000 Evansvlile, Ind.. July 21.—RJJ&A big toe Is worth IS.OOO. at least to Solomon Holmes He filed suit against the F. W. Cook brewery asking for that amount, and charged that negligence of the company In not cleaning a wet slimy substance from a keg of beer he bought caused him to drop it on his foot. He Mid injuries necessitating amputation of the toe resulted. INDUSTRIES TO HAVE EXHIBIT Industrial Exhibit To Be Housed With Livestock Show Individuals or Arms wishing space for exhibits in the Industrial display In connection with the livestock show at the Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show July 31 to August S. are requested to make reservations Immediately. Robert Helm. conceMions chairman. is in charge of the Industrial exhibit. This exhibit will be io-atvd between the large tents which will house the horse and cattle shows at the fair. The livestock show will be housed on the Schmitt field, directly east of the city along federal highway 224. Farm machinery and equipment will be placed In the field between th* two tents, and a tent 20x80 foet. will be erected at the rear of the machinery exhibit to house Industrial exhibits of various types. A number nf exhibitors have already signed for space in this exhibit and others interested are asked to contact Mr. Helm Immediately. Only a nominal charge is mad* for exhibits in the Industrial and machinery display*.

* opinion." Leaders of IHckinagn’s party quickly agreed with hla estimate of Michigan public opinion on the liquor question, by disavowing hla vlewa. "Perhaps hr la In a position to apeak for the state administration." James p. Thomson. chairman of the Republican state committee said, "but the party la greater than one Individual and the governor doesn’t speak for the party." Political circles In thia capital of Michigan were speculating tod# on whether the "gladiator of irresistible force" wa* going to force Dickinson to run for re-elec-tion in I*4o when he will be *1 year* old This gladiator la a char acter of Dickinson’s own and when*" he created It In his opening speech to the legislature In January. It created a tremendous Impression ccontinund on faob nva> I

Senate Committee Makes Cut In Huge Lending Program As Outlined By Pres. Roosevelt

NAZI LEADERS SEE SOLUTION IN FREE CITY Nazi Spokesmen Declare Peaceful Solution Is Expected Washington. July 21 —(UP)—The senate banking committee lopped f400.U00.000 off Preslden* Roosevelt's 12.800.000 000 lendinr proSiam today. It then added |#o.<u>o, 0»t0 for reclamation projects in the west. The committee, striving to complete work on the program before the week-end. trfmmed the proposed outlay for toll roads, highways and bridges from |760.000.000 to fSOO.OOO.OtMk It reduced the proposed lending authority for railroad equipment purchases from f500.000,COO to |360.00«k000. Both reductions were made on .amendments offered by *teh. Alva B. 4<fams. D. Colorado, a leader of ! ‘.he economy bloc. The net results of tha commitI tee's action left the bill 32 480.000.MK Additional economy amendments were erpected to be offer'd before . the committee con’rpletex consideration of the bill. Senate majority leader A’ben W. Barkley. D. Ky.. submitted an . amendment yesterday removing the i revalvlng fund fea'ure of the proi gram and putting It on a year-to-year basis. Under such a plan, re- ; publican* contended, congress at this time ought not to autborlza intro than is needed for 1940. Federal loan administrator Jesse H. Jones told the committee yeav»day that the reconstrnctton fini ance corporation, which h< formerily headed, has »i‘proxknately fl,of borrowing rapacity at present, and that it alone could handle the entire program for at ■ least a year. Jones testified, it was learned, that his immediate requirements involved only authoritv'on to make loans for some of the proI jects contemplate uunder the pro- ’ gram. 'He was Mid to have declarI el that he needed no additional bort rowing power, and that be was In a l j position also to handle tue propoI S tCONTINL'ED ON PAGE THREE/ I O Favorable Report On Local Station

As a service to partrona, the Phil-lips-Petroleum company Is conducting a campaign for clean and »anltary rest rooms in service stations throughout the country. Mlm Hazel Diehl, a registered traveling nur«e of the company, recently visited the Harry Knapp Phillips 88 station here ar.d after inspection reported the rest rooms to be in a clean. Mnitary audition. PLAN SPECIAL COUNCIL MEET County Council To Meet August 2 To Consider Appropriations Notice has been given that th* eounty council will meet in special session Wednesday. August 2 'n th* offices of Auditor Victor li. Eicher in the court house at 9 a. tn. to consider apeclal appropriations for several county offices and institutions. • i Th* additional appropriations sougll.t Include: clerk, operating expenses. 8200; apeclal judg*. 6600: surveyor's deputy hire, |300: auditor. stamps. Ifii-. auditor, books and printing. 8160. The appropriations also Include for highway repair: per diem of aMtgtanta, 8300; per diem of tractor end truck drivers. 85.750; repair of equipment. 81,000; gasoline and oils, 8860. tires and tubes, 11.109; insurance. 8234 85. An appropriation of 8700 Is also sought for the welfare fund in the assistance for dependent children in the custody of individuals. Included also are 8481 65 for mileage of the hlghwa; superintendent and 11 290 for highway gazo'lne and oils for the HKls budget of highway repair.

MAIER SPEAKS TO ROTARIANS Felix Maier Discusses Scrap Iron And Steel Industry Felix Maier, proprietor of the Maier Hide and Fur Co. of this city, presented an Interesting discussion of the scrap iron and steel Industry at the weekly meeting of Decatur Rotary dub Thursday evening at the Rice hotel. This industry, the apeaxer said, ha* grown greatly In recent years and now ranks as one of the foremost and essential businesses of the nation. The steel Industry, tu 1937. purchased 18.Dt6.299 tons of scrap Iron. Considerable Importance attaches to the use of iron and steo. scrap as a meins for preserving the world's Iron ore resources. Mr. Maier asserted. Speaking of the sources of ore and other raw materials. he quoted Chat les M. Sdiwah as saying, “the supply Is not unlimited. Machinery and plan's can be replaced, but natuisl resouices are not the handiwork oi man. We cannot replenish an ore depcslt.” Were it not for the use of scrap, the speaker said,.the drain on the iron ore reserves of the country would be serious. For every ton of scrap used, five tons of Iron ore, coal and limestone are conserve! for future generations. This industry has been greatly ‘inproved. Mr. Maier pointed out, since the fomiation 11 year* ago of •he Institute of scrap Iron and rteel. This organisation has succeeded in bringing about an industrial consciousness and unity of industrial thinking, resulting in establishment at merchMtd fating standards, through the process of (ducation In costs, trsde practices and mutuality of contracts and obligations. Fete Reynolds, vice-president, conducted the meeting in the absence of the president, E W. Busche. who left Thursday on a trip to the west coast.

FEAR NEW WPA DEMONSTRATION Officials Fear Demonstrations Against Provisions Os Act Washington. July 31 — (UR) — * The work projects administration said today that strike# against abolition of prevail Ins wage# for skilled WPA workers were virtually at an end. but officials feared new demonst rat lona In protest of other provisions of the IS4O relief act. WPA commissioner F. C. Harrington coupled a statement that the strike# were "practically all over" with a wanting that the projected layoff before Sept. 1 of 650,000 workers who have been on the relief roll# IN months or longer would "seriously cripple" operations of the WPA. Those workers are forced under the new law to take 30-day vacations. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney. D. Wyo., said that the recent strikes, in which more than 100,000 pat tlclpated. would not be a "patch" i on the disturbance# to follow. He was supported by Sen. Francis T. Maloney. D.. Conn., who demanded that congress amend the reilief act before adjournment to prevent "serious suffering." President David Lasaer of the workers alliance checked reporta on the scope and effectiveness of "icONTINUKP ON PAGE TIIHKKt ■ O' — Regular legion Meeting Monday .. _ The regular meeting of the Adams poet nutriber <5 of the American Legion will be held at the Legion home Monday evening at 8 o'rlo<*| All memftera are urged to be present* Auto Is Damaged In Collision Here A new car, owned and driven by E. D. Engeler. of thia city, was fhtmaaed last evening about 15:SO o'clock when It collided with another auto. The right side of the Engeier auto was badly damaged.

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Trims Proposed Outlay For Toll Roads And Bridges In Proposed Program. MORE CHANGES By Joe Alex Morris. (UP. Foreign News Editor) Peace plans were heard in Europe today. Conciliatory words came from high sources in both London and Berlin, as only a day after a Polish customs guard was slain on the Danzig frontier, nazl spokesmen declared that Germany expects a peaceful solution of the free city problem without resort to force and probably within a few months. “We reject a warlike solution of the Danzig problem 100 per cent.** the spokesman Mid, In echoing Polish Indict lona that the Danzig shooting was a closed matter. Reliable sources in London disclosed that a small group of influential British leaders were advancing a new “positive" peace plan even more important than what Berlin describes as “the Hitler plan" for solving the Danzig issue.

This "positive" plan was described in British sources as having nothing to do with appeasement programs of the past and. in fact, was designed for open discussion only after all danger of a new totalitarian war threat thia summer has been eliminated —if possible—by the rearmament of the Britishled security front. Britain and France would go firmly ahead with their present program of protection through powerful arms in an effort to preserve peace and prevent aggreaaion during the aocalled crisis months of August and September. Then, if they are successful, they would sound out Germany on a plan to aid the relch in transforming Industry from a war basis to a peace basis by siding in raising a big loan to Adolf Hitler In return for reduction of nail armaments. The fact that R. R Hudson, sec retary for overseas trades, was reported to be interested In the plan appeared to eliminate the possibility of a sudden recurgence of “appeasement psychology" because of the firmness be has shown In the part toward the nails. How far such a plan would progress by the end of the summer depends upou the attitude of Germany and the success of the security front in stalling off a new war threat. At the moment the conciliatory attitude of the reich toward Danilg —on the surface at least-appeared to offer aome hope of progress later. An indication of the trend may come next week when Hitler is expected to meet again with the Danilg nail leaders at Berchtesgaden A desire to concentrate more on peace-time progress than on war preparations also was hinted in Rome, where Premier Benito Mussolini announced that hit! plan for breaking up the great estates of Sicily and creating 20.000 small farms within 10 years now would be put into effect at a coot of some 1100.000.000. The premier said he expected the population of Sicily to double and its productiveness to be vastly increased. BERNE SEEKS CHURCH MEET BerneChurch Extends Invitation To World Men • nonite Conference A probability that the IMO world conference of Mennonltea will be held In Berne has been seen by in terested persons tfrom tha' town. Th* Invitation to hold the conference there next summer has been extended by the pastor, the Rev C. H. Suckau. Th" First Mennnnlte church at Berne is hailed as the largos': church In the world for Its denomination and it is believed that the large crowd could be efficiently handled. If awarded the conference, the date for the con vent loti In Berne would probably be set Ute tn the summer of IMO and would last about 10 days, It la believed. Mennonltea from all over the world would be seat to the convention as delegates of their respective districts and congregations.