Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 293, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1936 — Page 1

iXXXIV. No. 293.

lOSEVELT IS JIIENT TODAY QN ABDICATION hi( j en t Refuses Statenent On Abdication Os Edward VIII ... of Spain, Trinidad, Dec, 11. -president Roosevelt was J today on the abdication of „] vill in England. . p president, pausing here for ' hours on his homeward voyLn South America, was askt a press conference if he id say anything on the British wehial crisis. „ Roo# evelt looked grave and [ quickly: q 0 I have nothing to say". t , press conference was held ud a Trinidad Island steamer i orl AU Spain, as the President i being taken ashore from the qer Indianapolis on which he travelling to Charleston, S. C. sill continue to Washington Inin. resident Roosevelt was greeted u honor guard in white hela white tunics and blue trousdrawn up on the dock, as he led for an official call on Gov. Murchison Fletcher and a motdrive before sailing again for he cruiser Indianapolis, carryMr Roosevelt on his 14.000[peace voyage to South Amerind return, anchored in the ir harbor to await official cere-' lies With it was the escort jer Chester. he two ships will remain in liix hours, refuel and continue Ir voyage to the United States, awhile, the president will pay till < alls ashore. fir A. G. Murchison Fletcher, finor of Trinidad, will personI welcome Mr. Roosevelt, in the r of his government. I: Roosevelt and Sir Murchil with their respective staffs, I then go ashore on the TriniI government cutter Tobago, (resident Roosevelt will receive pain De Vaisseau Latham, comIding officer of the French ' hr Jeanne D'Arc in port on ( (lining cruise. He also will in- ’ tt a guard of honor of British ops and receive an address of < (COXTIXUED ON PAGE SIX) li’EPROGRAM SIMA Y NIGHT bristmas Program Will , Be Given At United Brethren Church ft* following Christmas program I be given Sundav evening at the ted Brethren church beginning " o’clock. heltuie— Irene Light tong—Audience, Mies Bernie toiklin, leader. scripture—Vivian Hitchcook. hayer-Rev. w. H. Franklin welcome— Jack Fieher. hsket of Good Wishes —Jimmy *kley, Bobbie Roop, Junior Hak.kobby Shackley. Don Marbaugh ■Harold Zinsmaster. alogue — Jean Straum Eloise thou. 8“-itation— Kenne.h Durkin, wming of Peace—Delores Wat- » Bonnie Roop. Ruth Myere, Jean r, um. Donna Gilpen, Norma BakClaire Jackson. Jhtylette-A Big Surprise ’-'•‘‘-Night before Christmas. Characters. S aata —Dan Zinsmaster. Santa Claus—Betty Huffin. J’tber— Bob Forman. "other-Evelyn Burnett. ' ■)—Charleen Schackley. ( ie —Dick Zinemaster. a.?* 111 ®B—Dick 8 —Dick Sheets, Russell «y. Bobby Marbaugh, Jack er - Billy Marbaugh, Gerald hunger u'/ Mildren—Jack and Jimmy £ Eddie Deitsch, Nola and Martha Sheets; peace and announcements — ’’ Fr anklin. "[ n Lowly Bethleeha»v, 086 Marie Stanley, Katie •*’>• Alice Sheets, Betty J. Beatrice. Light, Betty G. Roop Eileen Davis and ON PAGE FIVE) Jd)od Fellows Club U ki to,al 114576 5 2 °S ToTal $150.96 |

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E. J. HECHT! DIES SUDDENLY Adams County Retired Farmer Drops Dead Thursday Afternoon Emanuel J. Liechty, 87. promin«nt Adams county retired farmer, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home one half mile notrh of Berne Thursday afternoon at 4:15 o’clock. Mr. Liechty had done his chores and walked back to the house. In the door-way he to'.d his wife he was not feeling we'l and then dropped dead. H? was born \ugust 13. 1849 in Switzezrland. the son of Jacob and | Marie Liechty. He came to thi|j country in 1850, settling in Wayne county, Ohio. In 1860 he moved to. Adams county., and had tivedhere ' since. ’ On July 17. 1875 he was married to Miss Anna Sprunger. who survives. Last July the couple celehrat-: ed their 61st weding anniversary. For many years Mr. Liechty was i a carpenter. He was also a cheeseinker and farmer. He had not been actively engaged in business foi several years. He was a member of the Herne Mennonlte church. Besides the widow there are seven 1 surviving children: Mm. A 111 "' 1 Srrunger; Mrs. Hiram Sprunger.] Robert Calvin. David, and Menas, all near Berne and R-’iiben of Mont(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIV E) FEDERAL COURT TERM IS OPEN] Kendallville, , Portland Man Plead Guilty In Fort Wayne Fort Wayne. Dec. H (U.PJ M.M ter E. Wehmeyer. 52. form dallville postmaster. I*i ty yesterday to a cha g , bezzling $1,084 86 t> Fede ral when arraigned befor Judge Thomas W. Slick opening of the fall term of the S -S riC of Portland! pleaded liquor.' Se S: so? Sii Wehmeyer and Black was not set. The trial of the titre men in dieted following the clos I>* : Columbia State Bank aC City last February was January 4. Heber Two of the de^ dß ß S d e n t of Alton Beeson, former P M|Upr of I the bank, and Latin • ' lesman Lima. 0.. alleged rto™ fac j for the Consolidated ot pleaded not guilty > fed . < conspiracy to violal: u|i .. ligned eral banking I* yesterday. of Warsaw J Elmer F. Harecej^-— • Tvt’AGE FIVE) I (CONTINUED ON PAU* I

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Decatur Boy In College Chorus Tiffin. Ohio. December 11, 1936— Heidel: >rg Co'lege will give its annual presentation of Handel'e Oratorio. The Messiah, on Sunday afternoon. December 20, at 2:30 e'cloc.k in Rickly Chapel. The chorus < f over 100 voices is under the direction of Prof. A. S. Ebersole, head I of the voice department of the col- : lege. Richard Brodbeck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Brodbeck. 210 North Sevnth St. Decatur. Indiana, is a member of the chorus. He is a sophomore at Heidelberg. C. C. ELECTION SET JANUARY 13 Annual Banquet Will Be Followed By Naming Os Directors The annua! election of ofifeers 'and banquet of the Decatur Cham--1 r of Commerce will be held Wednesday. January 13, it was decided . t a meeting of the directors of the organization Thursday night. An invitation to the Junior Cham- : oer of Commerce to meet with the - nior organization and to hold its election at the same time, was aci cepted thfe morning by Deane Dor--1 win. president. Chairmen of the committee in charg ■ of the banquet are: J. Ward Cullahand, entertainment: H. P. Schmitt, arrangements; Dee Fry>dai k, tickets; Albert SeUemeyer, I instrumental numbers, Leo Kirsch, Long leader. Mr. Calland will a'so act as toastI master. I The committees wi’ report to the I d’rectors at a meeting to be held j ;n the Rice Hotel Thursday evening, j 1 December 17. at 7:3'1 o clock. Three new directors will be electI, d for the Senior Chamber of Comi merce. They will replace Roscoe I ( Hendening, Jeeee Rice and J. Ward ' ‘(■a'land. Hold-over directors are . D,. e Fryback, E. W. Lankenau, ■ I Merle Ellenberger, 11, P. Schmitt,; it’ E. Bell and Clifford Saylors. Five new directors will be elected | for the Junior Chamber of ComPi rce. Retiring directors are: Jesse Sutton; Dorothy Young and KathIrvn Hyland. Mise Bernice DeVoee, ! i director is now located in South: ]Bend, and Mrs. Harold Grant, form-| ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Muselman Talks To High School Pupils c H Muselman, Berne publisher Lnoke at the Decatur high school ckapel program this morning. Mr Muselman recently made a trip to| ' The 1 liberties enjoyed by the American people as compared to those I experienced by the citizezns of fo>ign countries were stressed by Mr. ■ Muselman. He cloeed by saying he X gTad to return to the United I states, Indiana and Adams county.

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s OFFICIALS WILL VISIT GERMANY l-1 y! 0 Central Sugar Company Officials To Investid gate Industry iHarry C. Offutt. Fort Wayne conil suiting engineer and Norman F. • Kruse of thin city, research chemist • for the Central Sugar company, will • sail from New York next Wednesi day for Germany where they will •spend a month making an investigation of the beet sugar industry. The two company officials will sail on the S. S. Bremen, one of the [largest ships afloat. While In Germany they will devote their time to a study of beet sugar factories and methods used . in that country. They wi’l also make “ an investigation of the beet sugar seed market and obtain first hand i information on this important industry in that country. 3 Germany was one of the first countries in the world to. encourage the growing of sugar beets. As far j back as 1747 Andreas Marggraf, a , Prussian chemist, discovered the existing of sugar in beets. Upder Frederick the Great the industry s was encouraged and in the early i 1890's it spread to France. . ] Much of the sugar beet seed used .: in this country conies from Ger- ; many and the industry is looked up- , I on as one of the most important in [ ] the country. RETAILERS ASK TAX REDUCTION I Retailers Ask Reduction In State Gross Income Tax Indianapolis, Dec. 11. —(U.R) —Proposed reduction of the gross income tax rate for retailers from [one to one-fourth of one per cent j was studied today by a conference I convoked to consider any inequalI ities in the controversial revenue measure. The reduction was proposed by W. W. Welqh, Peru, a representative of the Associated Retailers of j Indiana, who declared merchants I favored the gross income tax but believed the rates were not equitable. He pointed out that both the retailing and manufacturing interests pay the gross income tax on turnover receipts, but added that the rate for the former was one I per cent while the latter was asI sessed only one-fourth of one pei i cent. Welch said such a rate reduction would cut the gross income tax revenue approximately $6,000,TDO annually, but he added that improved business would eliminate a portion of the shrinkage. Payment of the full one per cent (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 1

Hendricks Trial Is Set For January 1 1 The trial of August ‘Gue" Hend- | ricks, Monroe charged with violation of the postal laws, will be held in the Fort Wayne division of federf a' court on January 4. Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick set the trial date after Hendricks I plead not guilty in federal court yee--1 terday. The charge followed a federal grand jury indictment after Hend- '■ ricks had allegedly sought to obtain t $3,000 from a neighbor. George 1 Strickler, by threatening members -of his family. 1 o WALTON SPEAKS ON FELLOWSHIP t Rev. George O. Walton Speaks To Decatur Rotarians Thursday Urging good fellowship throughout the world, hte Rev. George O. ; Walton, pastor of the First Presi byterian church of this city, delivi ered an inspirational Christmas ■ message to the Decatur Rota,ry ■ club at the weekly meeting at the • Rice hotel Thursday evening. Rev. Walton took as the theme I of his address, “Peace on earth, . good will toward men.’’ There is p. different atmosphere at Christmas time, the speaker said, even the worst person has a kindlier feeling at this season. World fellowship is needed. Rev. I Walton said. It is not enough merely to cease hostilities, to call an armistice, this does not insure lasting peace. “We have had the birth of man. we have had the birth of clans, we have had the birth of a nation, 1 now we have the birth of a world, To live pelacefully, we must have world fellowship. “The league of nations was a step in the right direction, although we must admit it is weak and vacillating.” The speaker said the mood of (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) _ . —— Hie | SHOPPING I X DAYS LEFS D> 1 • DONT p° rget TO FEED the B/ROS BUY Christmas SEALS

Edtvard Signs Bill Formally Abdicating Throne; Brother To Rule Empire As George VI

Abdicated Kinjj Orders Personal Pilot To Be Ready For Flight To Continent. WALLY TO FLEE? London. Dee. 11. —(tf.R)- -King Edward, spending his last hours as Ung emperor, bade iarewel to his staff at Fort Belvedere today and ordered his personal airplane pilot to stand by for a flight to the continent. There was a rumor, unconfirmed, that he might leave for Zurich. Switzerland, and go into seclusion at some Alpine winter resort. The Duke of Kent, his “baby" brother and sole sympathizer in the royal family with his romance, was his first visitor as he prepared. in his study, a farewell message to the empire, to be broadcast at 1(1 p. m. (4 p. m. CST). Flight Lieut. Edward H. Field-1 en. "captain of the king’s flight."! Edward's pilot, received orders to stand by at Hendon airdrome, in the North London suburbs, today 1 and tomorrow. Edward's own plane I was tuned for flight there. His reign of 325 days, one of the shortest in his kingdom's long history, was drawing to its tragic end. He could look out on Windsor great park, grounds of the castle which his ancestor, William the Conqueror, built and which such I men as Henry VIII and William 111, warriors, statesmen, gallants. - had occupied, and hope that soon .. he would be in France with Mrs. i j Wallis Warfield Simpson, twice di- . vorced Baltimore society woman, and next spring make her his wife, j as a duchess, a knight's wife, or s Mrs. Windsor. For him now there were but two jobs—to give his formal assent to' his abdication bill, to broadcast at I j 4p. m. CST a message of farewell' to his people. Then to go into ex-, ile for years if not forever from British soil, to wander the earth in | search of the happiness he sought vainly as king. There were reports that he! i would go eventually to Argentina to be a rancher, or buy a castle in I ((?ONTINI'EI> ON PAGE SIX) O Christmas Vacation i For Public Schools Walter J. Krick, city superintend-1 < nt of schools, announced today that; the annual Crhistmas vacation will, ■ : extend from Wednesday afternoon, | . December 23 to Monday morning, j . January 4. All public schools will have pro- ! grams in the afternoon, after which 1 the classes wi) Ibe dismissed for the vacation. The South Ward will hold its annual Christmas dinner in the ■ buildng, at noon. The West Ward | program wll be held in the United s ' Brethren church. Other programs | will be held in the afternoon in the ! [ buildings. No announcement has been made 1 yet of the dates of the Christmas vacation for the parochial schools. BANGS' APPEAL IS DISMISSED Mayor Os Huntington May Spend Rest Os His Term In Jail Indianapolis, Dec. 11. — (D.R) , Quarreling in the official family of ■ Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs of Hunt-1. ington today cost the militant!, I champion of municipal utility own-1 ( ership a court fight which might; ( keep him in jail for the remaining tw'o years of his term. An appeal from a contempt cita- , tion — under which the martyred . editor—lawyer —mayor spent 101 ‘ days in jail last summer—wab dis-!! missed by the state supreme court ( because supporting briefs were not |, filed within the prescribed 60 days. f A change in city attorneys was believed responsible. ] Claude Cline was city attorney £ for Huntington and conducted 1 , Bangs’ multiplex legal tangles from f the time he took office Jan. 1, 1935 j,, and launched the “toy” city electric ‘ plant as a municipal utility until last July. i After a second contempt convic- f tion in Huntington circuit, as re- a suit of which Bangs again went g to jail July 6 and has remained ! ever since, Cline and Bangs sep-1 c I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 1 1

CONCERN FELT ’ OVER FOREIGN AID IN SPAIN — League Os Nations Discusses Use Os Foreign Troops G neva. Dee. 11 (UP)— Viscount Cranborne. of Great Britain, declared at an extraordinary session iof the League of Nations' council today that the entrance of foreign troupe into Spain new has reached "alarming proportions." Lord Cranborne. par’imentary un-der-secretary for foreign affair* in ‘England, followed the Spanish forI eign minister, Julio Alvarez Del ■j Vayo, who warned that an “international war" already exists in Spain. After saying that the influx of foreign eoldiers was dangerous. ! Lord Cranborne suggested threefold action by the council: 1. Advocate strict enforcement of the international non-interven-tion agreement in Spain's civil war. 2. Endorse the recent Franco-Brit ish peace project by which these two power* hope to lead to an armlstis in Spain before Christina*. 3. Tlie League lend its secretariat, technica service for a humanitarian effort to diminish the suffering* of j (he civil population and ultimately j help reconstruct wa> -torn Spain. The council was eummoned by Spain in an effort to elicit league aid in checking the rebellion. Del Vato in an impassioned address before the council which ! Spain summoned into session criticized the Italian and German assistance allegedly given the Spanish rebels, now at the gates of Madrid. Thousands of their troops I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) NEW EVIDENCE IS UNCOVERED Coroner Finds Franke Left Fort Wayne After 10 a. m. Monday ‘ Eidence was uncovered ThursI day afternoon by Adams County I Coroner Robert Zwick, revealing ithat William C. Franke and Fred j Schultz did not leave Fort Wayne until 10:15 o'clock Monday morning“on the trip which resulted in Schultz’ death in an accident south of Decatur. This finding of Coroner Zwick cleared up some of the mystery | which has surrounded the case. Frank has maintained that he left I Fort Wayne at S o'clock Monday: morning and did not arrive in De-j j catur until after 11. He could I give no reason for the trip requir-j ing three hours, except for the suggestion that he stopped once or twice to fix a leaking gas line and that he may have been gassed. He denied he had had a drink. Coroner Zwick was unable to I find satisfactory evidence that the I man was intoxicated at the time, of the accident. He learned that | he had one drink of whiskey at the j first restaurant. The men stayed there until 9 o'clock, according to | witnesses, instead of 8 o'clock as Franke had maintained. The two men then left for a second restaurant at which witnesses j stated they had a bowl of chilli and a glass of beer. None of these witnesses w’ould testify, however, ] that the men were intoxicated at the time of their departure at | 10:15 o’clock. This reduced the time the men wore actually on the road to about an hour. Two witnesses testified i, they were traveling at about the rate of 30 or 35 miles an hour.' Coroner Zwick found no points ( along the road where the men stopped on the way to Decatur. ! Coroner Zwick indicated today 1 he probably will return a verdict! of accidental death to which he will. attach a statement revealing his , findings. This wmuld leave further ’ action, if any, to the prosecuting ■ attorney. I Mr. Franke is recoveijing from! injuries sustained in the accident. 1 He will be released from the Ad- 1 ams county memorial hospital, ‘ soon.Funeral services for Patrolman t Schultz were held in Fort Wayne i Wednesday afternoon, t

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Formal Abdication Today Leaves Edward Free To Marry Mrs. Simpson; To Broadcast Message. PRIVATE CITIZEN London, Dec. 11.—<U.R>—Edward ■ VIII ended his brief reign today i by giving his royal assent to the bill legalizing his abdication. His brother, the Duke of York. 41 next Monday, became the king emperor to rule, as George VI, onefourth the world's territory and ■ | people. 1 The tragic crisis in the life of I Edward VIII was over. He was i free to marry Mrs. Wallis Warfield I Simpson, twice divorced Baltimore society woman, when she obtained . her final divorce decree. i All that remained was for Ed- . ward VIII to make, as a private [ ; citizen, his farewell to his people . in a broadcast to the empire at 10 o'clock tonight (4 p. tn. CST). The house of commons passed ‘ the bill through all its stages in i a two-hour session and recessed I to await the lords' action. It took the lords, at the other end of Westminster palace, only six minutes to pass the bill. At 1:50 p. in. (7:50 a. m. CST) a royal commission sitting before the throne in the lords announced that the royal assent had been given. A lords official rose and said: “Le roi le veult.” "The king wishes it”—it was Edward's royal assent to the death warrant of his reign, and George VI was king emperor. Edward, a private citizen as he always wanted to be from the day he realized his position—born to 1 be king - was expected to leave his ' country in voluntary exile tonight ■ i or tomorrow. His brother, the new sovereign, was at his leased home at 145 1 Piccadilly when he became king, busy reading and responding to telegrams of congratulation. Hi« queen. Elizabeth, the Scots earl’s [laughter who now unites the kingdoms of England and Scotland, I was seeing to the studies of the 10-year-old girl who will be queen unless a son is born — after six childless years—to the royal ilyLittle Elizabeth, an imperious girl who looks much like mother Queen Mary—she became queen mother when George VI ascended I to the throne—was with her sister, Margaret Rose, the second heir, 6. They knew something big was happening in the big folks’ lives and hiid been told that their father was ascending the throne. "What’s happening to Uncle David?” they asked. In St. James’s park, hardly five minutes after the new king had begun his reign, a gang of workMen hurried up and began hammering away at the stands for the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) — —O Weather Generally fair tonight and Saturday; Somewhat colder extreme south portions tonight; rising temperature Saturday. MOOSE PLANNING SOCIAL EVENTS Ladies To Be Entertained Tuesday; Christmas Party Dec. 21 The local chapter of the Moose lodge will hold two social events this month, it w r as announced today. The first will be held on Tuesday night of next week, when the members entertain the Women of the Moose in a party at. the lodge home on Second street. Clayton P. Young, novelty entertainer and musician, will appear on tlie two-hour prog’am being arranged, it was announced by the program committee. Refreshments will be served during the meeting. The second of the events will be held on Monday night. December 21. when the member* entertain the kiddies. Santa C.'aus will appear in person and treat the youngsters. A large Christmas tree has been secured. All members are urged to attend the Tuesday night meeting, at which time plans for the other party will be completed.