Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1937 — Page 1

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s»[ CHURCHES W SERVICES ; ISJER SUNDAY ■ I S< r*i<‘“" l’lann<‘ < i ~W lot < ) ;;'.ni<in<»rale ■ Easter *“■ ,nb Mb”- ‘ , (| , h „ , I,nr. h<*« will h<dd Knu.ur <l.ts ' r.iiy l-l-u.m-.l .arshin #i !| 1 l"‘ 'l“' in the " i!| • ,ls '’ " | ”' n ■ .. I-' ■ y ~ , 1... k 111 the mill'll- > liiah mass. ''"l' •’«•’ —|.... Seuuetz. will 1,1 l‘el'l •'! • o’clock morning, opening the serI which will include two othdaring tho day at ihe Catholic church “East: r Morn" w ill be by 'lie Sunday School First H.-.t-'i't < him h at K in the The east ■h Harold H.iiillui as I‘il.ile, Kenworthy the chief M.i Mrs )(.— \|..i i Mis U.iki'l the tlhC',- ■ ' II as John cantala « .'. !,'• 4 .it B| F ' usl "’ Hln-eop.n a’ I ■ lb Hda a- ' Third l>ay ted ilia i >■ First I i him 11 night at 7 o'clock by the Ibers of the church choir. Cool Weather Seen spite the prospects of unusucool weather prevailing on lay. the customary colorful | of church-goers, bedeck new E:i<- \ i iicli ii eipecled to throng to the u\ i-ac.p six, ,, Biden Wedding Will ■Be Observed At Berne H' and Mr.. Frank Allen, rewidnt Berne for the past 43 years. Adam.-- county couple jr.m- t ii-i: wedding The couple was mar- ■ Marh is. ixs 7 M| . Allen , g - s «f age and Mrs. Allen. 6S. are enjoying fairly good I

Bizabef/i Speheger, 105, Like Bhist/er s Portrait Os Mother (By French Quinn, Decatur Hiatorian)

|H Chronology) Eliza!., th Fi atihiger, .Nh W 2. in Switzerland. and Mother Jacob and Frauhiger. died in 1854, with her « br °lhfr and sister emito America in 1855. arrie<l John Speheger in 1855. ove(i into Indiana in Wells counAdams county line hi 1862. ■r' e children were born to her, ‘'mg. oldest so. youngest 67. ■"“sband died in 11)15 at 86 years and tended own garden W 1 ““ accident at 100 years of Kn h" b 6 r ~ A P° sto >lc Christian * 3 We "' wa 'k ß “bout the Khtiy deaf. a ~ faCUltle8 ’ bUt BL*’. b l es with her daughter In Craigville, Indiana. ■ric<. l l S „j t)een a long - lon 8 time, Knt nt n .t Jackson was PresiK had h Un!ted stato »- a “ d Eseizhi een Only lhree y par s of K real lna ' tlng years mak E«u all,. tOry in hls hlgh °®ce, Eland r Ue glrl was born in Swit- ■ our Lord 3 < Jl L ty day 1,1 the year B-two. d eghteen hundred thlrI** ° rdlnary persons hazily put

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Police Aid Search To Find Farm Wife Bluffton. Ind.. Mereh 27 (UP) (Special)—State police have been I asked to search for Mrw. Clara An j drewe. wife of Harold Andrews of i near Helffsburg, six miles eolith of I here, who has been reported nilasnig from her home since last Saturday. The missing wife! Is 5 feet 16 inches tall and weighs Util po untie jif was at first believed she had | gone to Fort Wayne In search of i iiiplny m nt. GOOD FRIDAY PROGRAMS ARE i WELL ATTENDED Christ’s Death Upon Cross Is Commemorated In County Thousands of persons in Adams county heard spec ial chilli h pro grams, cantatas and services. Fri day. commemorating th.* death of i Christ upon tin* cross. 1.937 yars i ago. Large crowds in Decatur attend ed the six half-hour periods conducted by nine Proteatant churches at the Zion Reformed church from ! 12 noon to 3 p. m. Special music was presented by the participating churches, which wen* the Baptist. Christian. Evangelical. Methodist Episcopal. Presbyterian. Church of Gori. Church of Nazarene. First United Brethren and the Zion Reformed. Union Services The program was: Rev. Paul Brandy berry, pastor 1 of the Church of the Nazarene. de I livered the first sermon on "Jesus ' and Personal Temptation." in a ! session presided over by the Rev. George O. Walton, pastor of the ■ First Presbyterian church. "Jesus and |>ivlne Fellowship ’ was the I subject of a sermon preached by ' the Rev. George S. Lozier at the I second session. ' The third sermon at 1 o'clock was preached by the Rev. II \V Fmuklin. pastor of the Finn U. B. church, on the subject “Jesus and Human Treachery." with the Rev. H. W. Carson, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, presiding Tne Rev. Homer J. Aspy. pastor of the Baptist church, preached a sermon on “Jesus and Loving Service" at the fourth session. The Rev. Glen Marshall, pastor of the Church of God. spoke at the fifth service on "Jesus and Victorious Suffering." at a session presid ed over by the Rev. Kenneth Timmons, pastor of the First Christian Church. The Rev. C. M. Prugh. pastor of the Zion Reformed church, preached the last sermon on "I Gave My Life For Thee." Catholic Services The Public Way of the Cross was made at 12:45, 1:45 and 2:45 . j o'clock at the St. Mary's Catholic church during the Three Hours I The balance of the time was de i voted to private devotions and con sessions. | 1 Other churches in the county ' , -peciur services in the afterI noon. Communion services were held 'at boih the Zion Lutheran and 1 iCOSTINVEn ON PAGE THKKK'

the Jackson period way back some time in the beginning of tnis Republic, like the Revolutionary time, and with It all Just u matter of history of the long ago. It does in<deed seem a long time from those days to now ami to hold conversations with a dear little old lady, hale and hearty, holding her little court rig’it here in this neighbor hood, who was this little girl of the year 1832, and for one hundred and five years come this July has seen the United States of America of “Old Hickory's" day unfold in an ever changing panorama into the wonder laud that is today, it is certainly thrilling. Born in Switzerland on July 10th 1832, Elizabeth Speheger, then Elizabeth Frauhiger. the daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Frauhiger lived there her first twenty-three yeaxs. After the death of her father in 1854, she with her mother, brother and sister emigrated to America, to the land of the free and the home of the brave, with high ambitions and settled in Ohio near Massilion. There In 1855, young Elizabeth married John Speheger, and Cite couple came to Indiana, via the covered wagon, built a cabin and commenced pioneering in the year 1862 on a little farm a few miles | — (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) I

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Ten passengers and a crew of three were killed Thursday when a giant transcontinental skyliner suddenly nose-dived from a height of Son feet and crashed into a field near Pittsburgh. Pa. The twisted wreckage of Hie airliner, which was enroute from Newark, N. J , to Pittsburgh al lime of crash, is shown here. fStves-

ITALIANS SHOT AS DESERTERS Mussolini's Soldiers Are Pound Unsatisfactory In Spanish War Valencia. Mar. 26HU.fi) A high official of the Spanish loyalist air. tuluialry said Friday night that the i corpses of many Italian soldiers, scattered in the wake of the rebels’ retreat from Guadalajara, indicated that the Italians had mutinied and were shot by their comrades. The air ministry officials said that loyalist troops, driving Gen. Francisco Franco’s insurgents along the Aragon highway, northeast of .Madrid, found "a tremendous number of bodies, ” all of which were those of Italian volunteers. “The corpses lay in positions which never were bombed by our air force,” he said, “and I believe i the Italians staged a mutiny, broke into flight and were shot down.” Loyalist leaders said about 25,000 Italians, allegedly including several ■ units of the Italian regular army. ‘ participated in the fifth rebel offensive against Madrid, launched from the Guadarrama mountains northeast of Guadalajara at daybreak March 8. Franco used them as the i spearhead of his attack but they broke under a surmise loyalist | counter-attack and fled. Franco, enraged by their headlong flight and claiming that they "demoralised" his Moorish and | Spanish troops, reportedly removed they from the Madrid front and replaced them with Moors. Span(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o — — DAVID FUGATE DIES SUDDENLY Kirkland Township Man Is Victim Os Death Early This Morning David Frank Fugate. 69, died suddenly at his home in Kirkland township at 1:30 o’clock this morning. He was a life long resident of Adams county and a farmer by occupation. He was active in the Methodist Episcopal church in Monroe and was to have united with the church soon. The deceased was born November 22, 1867, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Fugate. He was married February 4, 1896 in the St. Paul's parsonage to Martha T. Estell who survives. Surviving besides the widow are a daughter, Blanche, at home and a foster daughter. Mrs. Glenn STraub. Three brothers and two sisters are deceased. One brother, Peter Fugate, of Monroe, survives also. Funeral services will be held at ' 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at the j ial in The Pleasant Dale cemetery. j M. E. church in Monroe With bur-1 The Rev. E. S. Morford will have | j charge of the services.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 27, 1937.

Lutheran Church W ill Hold Concert Sunday A sacred and secular concert will ; ■be presented at the Zion Lutheran church Sunday evening at 7:30' o’clock. The program will be given by Mies Helen Limbert. soprano so-■ loist of Fort Wayne, assisted bv' Mr. Clare Edwards. Fort Wayne.; who is known as an outstanding concert organist. Mr. Edwards will; also play various numbers from master composers as organ solos. Thuee *iw> kuow both artists will indicate that this will be one of the finest programs of the year All music lovers are urged to attend. The public is invited to the concert. No admission charges will be made for this concert but a collection will be taken during the program. After the concert the ladies of the church will serve a light lunch to the public in the basement auditorium of the church. FRY RESIGNS LIQUOR POST Resignation Submitted By State Liquor Administrator Indianapolis, Mar. 27. — (U.S) — Paul P. Fry, Linton, state liquor administrator, today submitted his resignation to Gov. M. Clifford Townsend. Fry wrote Townsend asking that he be released of his duties May 1, "to return to my private business after devoting four years to state! service.” Fry is a Linton automobile dealer. It was the first of more than a dozen changes in the state admin-' istration expected to be announced over the week end. Gov. Townsend and Dick Heller, his patronage | secretary, who leave this afternoon | for a Florida vacation, are expected to leave behind a group of dismissal orders and new appoint , meats comprising the major changes in state personnel as, Townsend arranges h*s own official family to replace the one interited when he succeeded Paul V. McNutt as governor last January. Fry was appointed head of the state liquor department by McNutt when the department was created by the 1933 legislature in anticipation of repeal of the 18th amendni'jit. Severly criticized throughout the following four years for alleged partlsianship and favoritism in Issuance of licenses he was steadfastly defended by the McNutt administration. Many important changes long 'CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE 1 o I). Morningstar Pleads Not Guilty To Charge Dick Morningstar of Geneva plead not guilty to a charge -Issuing a fraudulent check when arraigned before Judge Huber M. DeVoss in Adams' i circuit court short’.y before noon today. He was remanded to the ! county jail until able to furnish bond in the sum of SI,OOO.

GERMAN ENVOYS SNUB SERVICES Nazis Display Anger Over Pope’s Recent Encyclical i: J Vatican City. Mar. 27. —KU.fi) German diplomats to the Holy See. emphasizing that German anger , had not yet cooled over Pope Pius I Xi's recent encyclical denouncing Nazi church policy, “snubbed" Good Friday mass held in Sistine , chapel yesterday. The delegation Thursday boycotted Holy Thursday mass, further straining relations between Germany and the Vatican. When the envoys failed to attend mass Friday. reports were strengthened that they would boycott Easter mass when Pope Pius makes his first public appearance since his illness. Good Friday mass was celebrat'ed by Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli in the presence of 19 other cardinals, ’ members of the papal court, clergy, diplomats from other nations, the governor of the Vatican City, the i Pope’s relatives and aristocracy. | The Pope, feeling stronger than since he was bedridden early in December, prepared to attend East- , er mass Sunday when he will of- ' fer benediction to the crowds expected in St. Peter’s cathedral. While Good Friday ceremonies were in progress, a prelate said ’ he did not tbelieve the Vati-can-Nazi dispute would reach the breaking point. He said the Vatican was extremely anxious to know whether the German diplo--1 mats would attend Easter mass. > i Premier Benito Mussolini was l using his influence with Berlin to [ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ANNIVERSARY IS ANNOUNCED Plans To Be Made Tuesday For K. C. Centennial Program Members of the Fourth degree of the Knights of Columbus have been ; invited to a dinner to be given - Tuesday evening at 6:30 o'clock at ■ the K. of C. hall. Plans for the initiation to be I ' held In Fort Wayne on May 30th. will be discussed and the members i are urged to participate. The celebration of the 100th anniversary of saying the first mass ; in Decatur, which occurred in the spring of 1838, will be an objective of the Fourth degree and plans ; will be discussed at the meeting. St Mary's Catholic parish had i ‘.its origin in Decatur in 1837. but | I the first mass was not said until the next year at the George Fettig home. It will be the purpose of the Fourth degree members to cooperate with the parish in the proper celebration of the centennial and preliminary steps will be taken at , the Tuesday meeting.

Cantata To Be Given At U. B. Church Here 1 A sacred dramatic cantata direct- | ed by Mrs. R. O. Wynn and Bernie Franklin is to be given at the First United Brethren church Sunday , evening at 7 o’clock. The characters are as follows: Gains, a young Roman legionary Orland Brown. Rachel, his wife Marcella Williams. Child of Gains and Rachel Jun ’ ior Hakey. i Anna, a maid servant — Ruth I Hurst. Sarah, the mother of Rachel — i Mrs. Carl Fisher. Christian friends of Rachel — Marcelia Sudduth. Kathaleen Fore ■ man. Robert Sheets. Bud Hakey. Mary Magdalene—Lois Bovine. A physicians —Donald Bohnke. Two men Harold Hitchcock. Bob Fuhrman. i' o PLANT MAY NOT BE RE-OPENED I — Anderson Factory Owners Threaten Employees After Strike Alexandria, Ind.. Mar. 27 —(U.R) — A Madison circuit court hearing on , a SIOO,OOO damage suit brought by i the strike-bound Aladdin Industries, Inc., against sit-downers who , went on a strike March 2, today had been continued until Monday , after plant officials threatened to close the factory permanently. Alexandria. Ind . March 27 —(UP) ’ —‘A threat to dose its plant ipermanently was made Friday by ofI ficiale of the Aladdin Industries. Inc., as opening arguments were | heard in the company’s suit for SIOO,OOO damages against sit-down-ers who went on strike March 2. I In an announcement printed on I the back of employment application forms mai’ed to all employes, the company stated: , “If the plant is to open again it must be with employes who are ' satisfied to turn in an honest day’s ; work for an honest day's wages.” "The plant will not be opened ! again w’ith employee who are not ’ satisfied to work under those con- ; ditions.” At Andereon. Judge Charles t Smith of Madison county circuit court heard arguments by the firm that the union had forced the plant ((CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Sunday; not quite so cold south portion tonight. o Large Crowds Attend Services -At Geneva A iarge crowd attended the union Good Friday services at the Geneva Reformed church Friday, according . to word from that town. Three splendid sermons were delivered, with the Rev. J. M. Dawson of near this city the first to speak. 0

Indiana Turns Eyes To State Tourney Today

STUDENT SALE | IS HELD TODAY; High School Students Become Junior Business Men Here L Sixty high school etudents, both boys and girls wearing the colors of purple und gold, designating their position in the store, acted as clerks in 60 local business houses today in cooperation with the plan of the second annua’ Student Day sale. Earning $2 each which money will be turned over to the school, for use in financing Its various activities, the students started to work at 8 o’clock this morning and will continue until closing time tonight. Cooperating with the spirit of event, the 60 .participating merchants offered attractive bargains at usually low prices in various lines of merchandise, tn an effort to make the sale one of the most profitable shopping events of its kind in the I city. Combined with the spirit of the , spring and Easter shopping appeal, the Student Day sale is expected to form into an unusually brisk businass day for the local stores. The second annual event of its • kind is sponsored jointly by the Senior and Junior divisions of the ' Chamber of Commerce, the mer- ’ chants and the senior class of the 1 Decatur high school, under the lead- ' ership of Lewis Smith, president. Another valuable aid had from the sale is the experience gained by f the students in clerking work. Figures show that many of the students who participated in the sale last year, are still employed at least part time in the store in I which they first worked. :1 1 o — Bluffton Couple Is Jailed For Drinking Bluffton, Ind., Mar. 27.—(Special)—Mr. and Mrs. Everett Neuenschwander, southwest of Bluffton, were both lodged in the county jail shortly after 7 o’clock Thursday evening. He will face charges of intoxication and resisting an officer, and she will be charged with public intoxication. officers indicated. Both I plead not guilty. Neuenschwander was first arrested by city police at a point on North Main street. The arresting officers reported that he put up a fight before they were able to subI due him. Shortly after he was placed in jail, his wife appeared at the jail and according to officers began i raising a disturbance. Officers i were again called and she was also - locked up. > Neuenschwander furnished bond i of SSOO for hearing later on the r charge of intoxication and resist- > ing officers and his wife furnished bond of $250 and will have a hearing later on the intoxication charge.

, — — Ear-Tabs, May Be Worn, But i Elk’s Egg Hunt “Must Go On”

Ear-tabs and snow suite, which 1 nay be needed by many of the 1 K X* 1 ? ou n g partlci--5 x int 3, are not ex ‘ t cted t 0 ,he s | enthusiasm nor munle the excited cries of the hunI *' f dreds of kiddies I who will take part ql/ 5 in the second anc 1 nual Easter egg hunt at the Elk's home Sunday as--1 \ ternoon at 2:30 1 _ o’clock. t Undismayed by the fact that the weatherman has predicted that the proverbial Easter bunny, himself, will appear clad in woolen winter clothing to escape the cool March winds, officials of the Elk's decided yesterday to hold the event despite the kind of weather prevailing. In event of inclement weather the hunt will be held inside the * home proper. This decision was made by R. C. Ehinger, chairman 1 of the hunt, and his assistants, 1 who were determined not to disap- < point the kiddies and grown-ups. 8 who have looked forw’ard to the I- event. r The appeal of searching for more than a thousand Easter eggs, in hundreds of brilliant hues and the

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All Available Tickets Sold Here As Decatur Fans Join Throngs At Butler Fieldhouse. I CENTRAL FAVORED Decatur today sent its own delegation to Indiana’s biggest athletic event, the state finals of the basketba’l tournament at Indianapolis. The first 12 men on the Yellow Jacket squad, Hurst, Worthman. Brodbeck, McConnell, WortAiman., Freldt Heller, Beery Smith, highland, Stapleton. and Gaunt, with Coach Hugh Andrews made the trip financed by the recent exhibition game. Others who w-ere included in the city’s representation were Bud Anspaugh, student manager, Miss Eloise Lewton, Miss Mildred Worthman. Mrs. M. F. Worthman. Miss Elizabeth Frlsinger and the Democrat's sport editor, Pete Reynolds. Tickets were at a premium here with many others desiring to attend had they bsen able to secure one of the scarce ducats. Capacity Crowd Indianapolis, Ind., March 27 — (UP) —Anderson, central of Fort Wayne. Huntingburg, and Rochester today sought the 26th annual Indiana high school basketball championship in competition at spacious <Butler University fieldhouse. They represented the survivors of an original field of 781 teams which launched play four-weeks ags for the most coveted high school athletic honor in the state, The pairings: 2 P. M.—Central vs. Huntingburg 3 p. tn. —Anderson vs. Rochester 8 P. M. The championship game. An audience of 14.800 fans was expected to fill every available corner of the huge fieldhouse to witiness the most spectacular and thrilI ling even of the 1937 harwdood season in Indiana. i Tickets for the colorful attraction were distributed weeks ago and today net fans from every section of the state converged on the capital city forth annual classisOfficials named to referee the performance of the four top-ranking quintets were Carl Burt, North Manchester, and Nate Kaufman, Kaufman. Shelbyville. The team favored most highly to capture the title v.-hieh Frankfort relinqquished in sectional competition was Central cf Fort Wayne. Coach Murray Mendenhall’s Tigers, runnerups to Frankfort in the i 1936 tournament, earned the backing of countless sports observers through their brilliant season's pe. 1 - (ICONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o BULLETIN Indianapolis, Ind., March 27 — William H. Bell, Republican, Decatur, was appointed a member of the state police board this morning by Governor M. Clifford Townsend. The boa’rd is composed of two Democrats, and two republicans.

added prospects of being fortunate i ■. ■ of the 25 rabbits off. 1 ’ lr ■t. is expectd to att .1 d- of Djcatur kiddies and oldsr people. Twenty-five Rabbits The 25 rabbits will be awarded to those who are fortunate enough to secure an egg imprinted with the word, “rabbit,” Last year the excited cries of hundreds of kiddies wildly scrambling for possession of a treasured egg. mingled with the encouraging shouts of scores of grown-ups lined around the lawn, attracted many to the scene. The officials of the B. P. 0. Elks lodge of Decatur has extended an invitation to all children of Decatur and Adams county, seven years and younger to participate in the hunt. The part played by older children and grown-ups will be limited to the forming of cheering sections around the young hunters. Those who attended the event last year may well remember the entertainment afforded and are promised even greater fun this year with more eggs and more rabbits to provide for the larger crowd expected. The event will start at 2:30 , o’clock Easter Sunday afternoon, despite the kind of weather prei vailing at that time.