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i -1 SEYMOUR DAILY TRIBUNE Weathi Generally fair today and Sunday. Not much, change in jtemperature. thi wholi family VOLUME LVl NO. 247. SEYMOUR.

INDIANA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1938. PRICE THREE CENTS WHEAT FARMERS mm IIISII 24 Japanese Advance. Br AMoelatad Praw Shanghai, Oct. 15-Japaniie new ens imSr THAT'S GRATITUDE Portland, Oct 15 AP) Capt. Karl wasn't surprised' when only three of 25 jersons saved from drowning in 1937 thanked the harbor patrol.

What amuoeri him, Prehn toM a club audience, was this 'The day following his rescue, one man sent a lawver to Prehn's office with a demand for $10 because the patrol overlooked fishing out his hat, too! ADAGE ALL WRONG Winnipeg, Oct. H6 (AP)3 ''A bird in the hand ia worth two in the bush didn't run true to form for Albert Armt-stead and' Walter Soofteld-S Armistead fired into a flight of ducks and brought on down. Scofield placed the duck carefully in the pocket of his hunting coat. A short time later Scoflel4 felt a rustling as the mallard, only stunned by Ajmi-stead's shot, took off from his pocket. The hunters were too exasperated to think of firing second time.

MAY REGISTER IN WW KILLED BV TRUCi Estimated 420,000 Men to be En- i rolled in Move Officials Say Is Peace Procedure, FIVE CLASSES INCLUDED Mobilization of Youths Called Measure Necessary for Hungarian Society. By Associated Press. Budapest, Oct. 15 Hungary sturted doubling her army to an estimated 420,000 men today for what officials said was peace, not war. The mobilization of, five classes (age groups) totalling approximately 200,000 youths was called -a measure necessary for Hunger- ia security, "endangered by the continued mobilization of the Czechoslovak nrmy," and the collapse of negotiations on Hurt- demands for parts of Czechoslovakia.

Surprise was occasioned by tll0 that the Hungar- ian army numbered about because the post-war Trillion Treaty, declared abrogated just two months ago, limited the to 35,000. The official press declared Hungary wus not alone in de iiiiinding Ma'-vur-inbabited slices of her already-dismembered "We have powerful friends, who fully support us," said the Pester Lloyd. The reference was perhaps to fJermany and Italy, with whose loads two Hungarian envoys conferred yesterday. Mobilization was reported to have been post poncd once previously at the request of "great foreign pow cis." especially Germany. The call to the colors decided Truck Driven by Brownstown Man Runs Over Body Lying In Roadway After Mishap.

THOUGHT IT WAS SACK Rebecca Dixon, eighty-year old Negro woman living on U. 8. Road 50 about one mile west of North Vernon, was killed abuMseHt, meeting first at Shields 4 o'clock Friday afternoon whenjllih School. DEFENSE SERE Legislative Proposals Permitting Such Register in Britain Expected Soon. PLAN SPECIAL DEPARTMENT By Associated Vrmn.

Ijondon, Oct. 15 National reg istration of Britons was conoid-. today to give the British I government an index of tones available for service in an emergency. Legislative piojHisals giving Prime Minister Neville Chamber-Iain's cabinet power to establish Such a register were expected to be announced in King (ieorge's si-eech reopening parliament vember 8. I quarters Informed iolitica said a special department of national defense, responsible for all branches of civilian home protection, was planned.

Sir John Anderson, author of a scheme for evacuating London civilians during (iei-nian-Czechoslovak crisis last month, was mentioned widely as the probable first minister of the proposed division. SenrWary for War Leslie Hore-BeHsha appealed "to all employers and workmen engaged on con- stniction of (armament) factor-j i I i upofjkty' Hi cabinet last nigltt 4 ies and on production to exceed to report to regiments by Mon-anticipatious in the months that day. are to come" simultaneously it was said He announced a project where- Hungary had no aggressive plana by industrial workers aged thir- ad that str0ng army was nee-ty-eight to fifty would operate pssrv sprure aion tB ARRANGES MEET Representatives From Fourteen Churches Expected for Stone Belt Session, Oct. 17, 18. WILL DISCUSS PROBLEMS Gathering to be Held at Brownstown Next Monday and Tuesday.

Members of a group of fourteen Nazarene churches with as many pastors, several evangelists and a number of outside leaders and speakers of the Nazarene denomination will meet at Brownstown next Monday and Tuesday. For the first time in the new-church year, this group is to gather to hear their leaders speak on vital subjects related to their church life and activities and to discuss their problems. The churches, known as the Stone Belt group, with pastors who are expected -to be present are: BedfoVd, the Rev. A. R.

Me-Murrin; Blooinington, the Rev. Leo C. Davis; Columbus, the Rev. Samuel Walls; Corydon, the Rev. C.

C. Chapman; Brownstown, the Rev. K. M. Sutherland; Birdseye and French Lick, the Rev.

Oliver Boston; Milltown, the Rev. Wayne Cooper; Mitchell, the Rev. Loy Snow; New Albanv. the Rev. R.

M. Banning; North Vernon, the Rev. Ruddy Kitterman; Salem, the Rev. Clarence Davis; Seymour, the Rev. S.

C. Johnson. On Monday night in the first service, the Stone Belt Nazarene Women's Missionary Society will take charge of the program. Mrs. Lei a Davis, of Bloomington, president of the zone organization, will preside.

The Rev. Albeit R. McMurrin, of Bedford, will give an address on "Missionary and Mrs. Effie Towns, president of the Indianapolis District Missionary Society will address the group. Tuesday morning the services begin at 9:30 o'clock with a worship period.

The Rev. JesseTowns, District Superintendent, will preach at 10 o'clock. He will be followed by a report of National Sunday School Convention by the Rev. Leo C. Davis.

The Rev. W. E. Albea, of Indianapolis, will give an address on Sunday School objectives, closing the forenoon session. The Rev.

H. J. Rahrar, of Indianapolis, vil give a paer in the afternoon on "The Stranger Within Our followed by two other papers: "The Layman's Idea of a Successful by Prof. James Tatlock, of Brownstown, and the "Pastor's Idea of a (Continued on pare 8. column 7) To Demand Death Slaying Penalty By Associated Prtf.

Fort ayne, Oct. 15 State's attorneys indicated to day they would demand the I death penalty for Adrian H. Miller, 31, of Racine, confessed sex slayer of seventeen-vear-old Alice May (in ton of Winchester, Indiana. Detective Captain John Taylor said Miller confessed smothering the pretty brunette business college student with pillow and attacking her early Thursday in the rooming house here where both lived. Miller, who came here last June to study errrinecring in a technical school, was held without bond for the Allen county grand jury on a first degree murder charge.

The penalty for first degree murder in Indiana is death or life imprisonment. Prosecutor C. B.vron Hayes said the charge, would changed to murder in commission of an assault to make death in the electric chair mandatory. Eartfer, though, he had collapsed as he was about to enter city court for a hearing. Uoward Zimmerman, 18, of Riga.

friend of Miss Girton held as a material witness, helped carry him to a chair. The murdered girl's funeral was held todav at the home of I orr parents, mt. ni Mrs. uau Oirton, north of Winchester in ith eonntry. Burial was in wirihioi.

ateaminr ui the Yansrtze River toward Haokov, .7 were reported today to hare ad- vanced to within eighty milea the provisional capital heavy artillery exchange with Chinese shore batteries. Thf Chi-neue said their batteries had sank a Japanese munitions transport in the Yangtze. Club's Annual Bean Feed to be Given at Shields Park Next Tuesday Afternoon. WILL COOK 00 POUNDS All the boys in Seymour who are not over fourteen years of age are being invited to be the guests of the Seymour Lions Club at the organization's annual bean supper which will be served at the shelter bouse in Shields Park next Tuesday afternoon beginning at 5 o'clock. Hiram Jones, in charge of the affair, said today 100 pounds of beans will te cooked.

The youngsters arc asked to provide their own plates, spoons and cups or glasses. Punch will served the boys this year, he said. Working with Mr. Jones as a committee to make the arrangements for the bean supper are J. Beldon and Ralph Williams.

All three are members of the October program committee for the Lions. An annual affair on the club's list of community activities, the bean supper has come to be one of the highlights of the year for the boys, of Seymour, The emb has sponsored the bean suppers for many years, and officials are preparing to feed more thun 250 boys this year. It was announced that any boy within the age limits should see J. R. Mitchell, principal of Shields High School, and obtain a free ticket for the event.

Those holding tickets will be fed first, and any who have not secured tickets will fed if there is sufficient food available. Officials in charge said if all the boys in the city who attend will first obtain the free tickets it will be possible for them to plan more definitely for the number to be fed. Members of the Lions club will assist in the serving, and will have their attendance there counted as attendance at a regular meeting. Jury Is Hearing Final Arguments Damage Case Nearing Completion Tincher Pleads Not Guilty, Bond Fixed. Final arguments were being made this morning in Jackson circuit court at Brownstown in the case of Hayes Clark vs.

Charles Pelizzari and tit hers, asking damages as the result of an accident on a highway near Bedford in January, 1937. The case, which oened Thursday is expected to go to the jury today. It was venued to Jackson county from Lawrence county. Jesae Tincher, age thirty-six, of Fort Ritner, charged with m-volnntary manslaughter as the result of an auto crash one and one-half mile of Spaiks-ville October 10 in which Hay Eisele, age thirty-two of Ft. Ritner, fonncrly of Seymour, was killed, was arraigned in circuit court Thursday, lie entered a plea of not guilty and hi bond wag fixed at m.OOO by Judge John C.

Branaman. The cim of the state of Indiana vs. Ivan Stout, assault and battery, was dismissed on motion of the prosecuting attorney and at the request of the prosecuting witness. A divorce was granted in the ease of Russell Baughnmn vs. Oladys Baughman and the plaintiff, who waa awarded the decree, also waa the care and custody of Ave minor children, aged two, five, eight, ten and twelve, respectively.

BOYS TO ATTEND Two Dozen Completed In Jackson County From Aug. 1, 1135 to Aug. 1838. PROJECT SUMMARY IS GIVEN Many Listed In Survey of Work Done Over Period of Three Years. Twenty-four projects were completed in Jaekson county under the Works Progress Administration program from Auguut 1, 1935 to August 1, 1938, according to a summary of WPA activity in this county compiled by F.

W. Sparks, of this city, area supervisor of the WPA. The summary does not include any projects operating at the present time in Jackson county. The summary, with one project to each paragraph, follows: Construction of new six-acre park in CrothersvHle, including 400 lineal feet of enclosing fence 1,000 cubic yards of excavation and fill grading of six acres and construction of 700 lineal feet of trunk lines. Painting consolidated school in town of Crothersville, surfacing and varnishing desks, varnishing floor in two rooms; total of 50,000 square feet of floor space.

Building and repairing sidewalks, alley crossings, sanitary severs, grading one mile of street, (Travelling and cindering streets in Crothersville. Included 1,170 lineal feet of new paved walk, 350 feet of repair of un-paved walks, 104 lineal feet of new sewer trunk lines. Widening and straightening bad turns on county highways, also reducing steep grades on bilN, -cleaning tch twid installing culverts. Included 132,000 lineal feet of open ditches and 1,670 lineal fret of shoulders. Sanitary sewers in Beymour, construction of 3,801 lineal feet of trunk lines.

Ditch ami tile drab repairs, clearing of channels and banks of seventy-five miles of dredge ditches, repair of tile drains and constructing baffle walls to retard tension in open ditches. Included repair of 3,220 lineal feet of open ditch and laying of 450 feet of new pipe, making total acres drained. 450. Community sanitation, construction of 420 new toilets and '420 new cesspools. Construction of concrete tunnels for heating system, installing new si en in and return lines and construction of garage for Jackson county cars at Brownstown.

Volume was 8,000 cubic feet; garage four-vehicle capacity; 1,920 cubic yards of excavation and fill; G20 lineal feet of tunnels; twelve square feet of cross section and and 875 lineal feet of extension ot steam and return lines. School and playground improvement, grading and drainage of school grounds at Crothersville, laying 300 feet of tile, painting and repairing gymnasium. Included a two-acre athletic field, 7,200 square feet of painting and forty lineal feet of trunk lines. Storm and sanitary sewer construction in Seymour, including 2,782 lineal feet of new frank lines 500 feet on Ninth street, 1,250 feet on Broadway, 1,400 feet on Vine street and 2,000 feet on Tipton street Landscaping and drainage on U. S.

Road 50 from Brownstown to Seymour, 350 lineal feet of paved gutters and 1,595 cubic yards of excavation and fill. Construction of two construction camps to house transient labor assigned to O. P. No. 65-52-3930, Vallonia eight dormitories with 12,800 square feet of floor space and capacity of 300 persons.

Construction of awimming pool, Seymour, including frame bath house, filter pit, metal fence, levelling and grading grounds and installing equipment at 'Shields Park. Included 11,250 feet of water surface. Construction of new state police post at Seymour. Building has 1,600 aqnara feet of floor apace. Emergency flood control, preparing and serving meala and (Continued oo page tf columa 3) PR01EGTS HEfi nrrrinn in ULI lilt Fear Continued Uckf Rain Will Prevent Germination of Seeds for 39 Crop.

THE DRIEST FALL IN YEARS No Rainfall Recorded Since September 28 And Unusually High Temperatures. With unusually high tempera- tures prevailing in recent weeks, and no rainfall having been recorded here for practically a month, Jackson eounty farmers are beginning to worry over the prospects for their 1939 wheat rops. The county's federal allotment for the 1939 crop is approximately 20,400 acres, according to Raymond L. Rucker, chairman of the county agricultural conservation committee, but it is believed the total planted will aggregate about 22.500 to 23,500 acres due to the isrt that a good many farmers are disregarding the allotments set up for this county. The continued lack of rain is Ixheved to have caused a few to gamble on getting a good crop with high prices, and thus offsetting the federal plan and making more than thev would under the suHT ised program.

However, Mr. Rucker and other officials pointed out that this practice tends to miter the effectiveness of the federal program as a whole. With thousands of acres of wheat in the ground where it should be germinating and taking root, it is practically inactive because of the lack of moisture in the grennd, and unless there is ram enough to cause tne seeds to take root before cold weather the crop will be seriously damaged, growers say. Figures received from Miss Louise Ahlert, local weather observer, show that this has been one of the driest falls in many years. There has not been a rainfall of sufficient quantity to make even a trace in the recording equipment since September 26, she said.

Adding to the acuteness of the situation is the unusually high temperature. When the mercury would ordinarily be going up into the seventies for its daily maximum, this year it is going into the eighties- -just about ten degrees above what it would normally average. The top figure for Thursday was eighty -five degrees, and on Friday it surpassed the eighty-degree mark. Continued high temperatures have helped to dry out the ground and farmers in many localities report it is so hard that working the soil is out of the question, and will be until after it rains. Press dispatches from Bartholomew eounty indicate that conditions there are similar to those in this county, and alrhough that county's allotment is 28,000 acres for 1939, an estimated 33,000 acres are being seeded in wheat.

Lecture Set On Recovery Plan A lecture explaining the features of the Dr. Francis E. Town-send recovery plan will be held at the Shield auditorium at 7 30 o'-c'ock Monday night, Edward Newkirk, Jackson county chairman of the Townsend movement, announced today. The address will be given by Dr. C.

C. Pen-in, of Noblesville, one of the principal speakers at the Townsend atate convention in Indianapolis last week. B. J. Brown, national representative, stated there are more than 150,000 members in Indiana and another 50,000 will be added before the end of this month.

Leaders of the movement claim a membership of Ave million in the United States. Mr. Newkirk laid the public is invited to the meeting Monday night. Special music has been provided for the entertainment of the crowd before the apeaking Erogrtm begins. The meeting ha fen advertised in all parts of the cotaty, Ut.

Newkirk said. nnnirn blUMILU Large Number of Seymour People Expected to Attend Ceremonies at County Seat. LOCAL BAND IS TO PLAY Shields High School Music Group to Entertain Local Legion Post Will Cooperate. A large number of Seymour people are expected to go to Brownstown Sunday to attend cornerstone laying ceremonies for the new joint high school building and gymnasium, expected to cost approximately $165,000, now under construction there as a Works Progress Administration project. Members of Seymour Post No.

8f), American Legion, will take members of the Shields High School band to Brownstown where they will play during the program, which is in charge of Camp Jackson PokV No. 112, American Legion. They will leave here at 1 :30 o'clock to go to the county Following music by the local musicians', the Rev. J. R.

Quick, pastor of the Brownstown Baptist Church, will give the invocation and Brownstown High School students will sing "Onward, Christian Greetings will be given by a representative of the state department of educa tion, expected to be Floyd Mc- i a I superintendent, who has been invited by Ralph Denny, superintendent of the Brownstown schools. A talk will be given by John A. Cody, of New Albany, district director of the Works Progress Ad-nur istration, followed by a talk by Arthur Crabtree, head of the illiteracy and Americanization department of state WPA. The Brownstown grade schools will sing "America" and an address will be given by F.ugene B. Crowe, of Bedford, congressman from the ninth congressional district.

The cornerstone will he laid by Brownstown American Legion members in charge of S. Owen, uusi commanarr. itussr A. 1 1 r- age, chaplain, and Howard Snyder. "The Star Spangled Runner" will be played by the Shields band and the Rev.

Mr. Quick will pronounce the benediction. Thomas H. Branaman, Brownstown attornev, will act as master of ceremonies for the cornerstone laying. The high school wil be owned, operated and maintained jointly by the town of Brownstown and Brownstown township.

Methodist Union To Be Observed A number of Seymour and Jackson county Methodists lire expected" to go to Mad ison Sunday to attend the first official celebration marking the union of three great branches of Methodism, the Methodist F.piscopiil Church, South, the Metho.fist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church. Dr. S. L. Martin, of th is fit v.

superintendent of the Sevmour district of Methodist Chunl a memner oi tne committee in charge of the observance. Plans are to symbolize the unification with a commemoration celebration on the banks of the Ohio River which, historically was the line of division between the north and south. Bishop Blake, of Dc troit, head of the local ana of the Methodist Church will attend and Bishop V. V. W.

Dr lington of Huntington, Wet Virginia, head of the area south of the Ohio, also has been invited. STEEL ARRIVES Pieces for Construction of WPA Bridges in County Here. Steel for the construction of new bridges included in the county-wide Works Progress Administration road project on which work' is now progressing arrived at. Brownstown Friday. The steel included twenty-sev-et-I-beams and 600 pieces of re- inforcement bars.

The steel is expected to be enough for twelve bridges on county roads. was subject to formal decree hy the war minister today, and pro vided that the new classes were 4 territories HumrarV expects to get from Czechoslo vakia with the help of Italy, France and Britain, whose diplomats reach an agree ment in Munich granting Adolf illitlct's demands for Sudeten-; lnnd. An nppeal was sent to the four poweis to mediate the dis pute. Pester Lloyd said the present Hungarian demands 1. A decision of the four poW-ers thHt nil Czech territory which the 1910 census showed a Hungarian population of more than 50 percent should be returned immediately to Hungary.

2. After the return of those she was struck by a truck driven en by Howard Kllis, of Columbus, Ohio, enroute west on the highway. While trackmen were making a place on the truck to take the woman back to North Vernon, state police were told, a track belonging to the Jackson Brick Holloware Company, driven by Hovis Carter, of Brownstown, ran over the body as it was lying in the roadway. Mr. Carter told state police that he saw the body and thought Continued on page 8, column 1) U.S.

Defense Tp Aid In Recovery Revised Program Expected To Tie In With Business Efforts. Washington, Oct 15 (AP) The administration's revised de fense program, informed oiTicials mm i ii mi ptivpihii in i in i i a- closely with its business recovery efforts. The double-barreled program already is taking shape around plans to stimulate a billion dollars worth of construction work by private utilities. This will have the two-fold objective of as-unng an uninterrupted How of power to vital defense center in time of emergency and of pumping new life into the heavy industries. The power program is one of several phases of national defense which ire being rrstudled in the light of world developments.

President Roosevelt indicated clearly at his press conference yesterday that prorwo-als for a stronger army, navy and air force were being prar ed for consideration by Congress. Meanwhile, the President is delaying his budget estimates for the next fiscal year until he can determine the probable cost of the program. MEN IN APRONS Three Male Purdue Students Enrolled In Home Economics. Ufayette, Oct. 15 (AP) 'Men in caps and aprons instead of the traditional engineering overalls may become a familiar sight on the Purdue University campus.

This year three male students enrolled in the school of home economics. Besides these, eleven male students from other schools signed up to take certain home economies' course along with their regular work. FLEETWOOD NAMED Local Youth on Staff of Butler University Publication. Appointment of Robert Fleetwood of Seymour, to serve on the staff of the Doghouse, humor publication at Butler University, Indianapolis, has been announced bv Max Wildman, editor-in-chief. Mr.

Fleetwood is majoring in journalism in the college of business administration anti-aircraft guns to guns to protect their plants in case of air raids. The men would enter territorial army reserve corps, a kind of overalls iinnv. Hore-Bclisha expressed the hope of doubling in a year the men operating anti-aircraft guns, searchlights and de tectors. Tlwit number was 5,000 in April, HUH, he said. Mot of the new anti-aircraft i units wiiuld have li-uicti guns, which arc said to be in mass product urn.

It was understood under-sec-retnrns would be appointed to head Mirii'iis departments of the proposed defense ministry including the air raid precaution division. The main puisc of the reported national register would be to determine what technical skill was available and insure that key technicians would be retained in essential industries. Experts considered indispensable in industry would not be accepted for lighting service. The register would nlso classify citizens probably from the age of eighteen upward according to training, experience and other qualifications to enable the government to get a (dear picture of the nation's human resources and make plans accordingly for the rapid drafting of men and women in wartime. Recruiting for the register probably will be voluntary, with the government listing only those prepared to pledge service in a national crisis.

It was suggested the recruiting might be effected in three ways: 1. Through the labor ministry's employment exchanges, which already list details about some 12.000,000 workers. 2. Through professional busi-iess organizations, which would circularize members and invite detailed information regarding their qualifications. 3.

Bv house-to-house canvass throughout the country. The listing might be followed bv inducements to train for vol-Vntary service. The whole scheme was eharae (Continued oa page 8, columa 1) 1 eot'nns Hungary would guaran- tee the new Czechoslovak borders onlv if plebiscites are CXJJ ducted among all border minorities. A government map showHt the extent of the Hungarian claims included the cities ef Biatisalva. Vitra.

Leve, nnd Munkase. One government offliesl on the contrary, that it mirrht be Hifflen't to evacuate Czech aeil Hiers from anv zone ceded tT Prague. He referred to reports that some Czech armv pom manders in border sections Bad declared they would disobeirTlflt Pranie order to evscuste' tf tain disputed areas. It was pointed out that shohM HunHrv receive onlv the CseeV districts ofTered at the hroVeK1 down Komaron conference, -the" fContinned on pare 4. eolninn.JVi Weather Records? Tha followtna la I aa unofficial rssord.

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