Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1937 — Page 1

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EWeau y Death Toll " Is Piling Up As ' Forest Fire Rages

* J .Bodies Recovered And ; u siv Men Are u j|i<sin«: I ear Some <M I Injured To Hie j FOREST i IL< W'" Ai|> ’ •" 11 , I . who a’ready have I Lt out - the raging fire in . U . ,national forest the I L of 1- f|p f 'K ,ll, ' rs - n,,la > | ■ Ltlml '■ "" 11 11 I .tea • 1 they may hav • perished. 1 I L'ti),,.,. < tit hospitals w.io ... I L suff'-r. r>-• from burns of vary I L.-, .■ v four were considpit : danger. Do-tors said I Los .. rtain'y would die. ' I |trn. k ,|i 'er r>|H)rted t > forest I 're'' ’ that the .tlx aides I fa missing They were from a ’ I fc camp Holl call was imposI with more than Too men fight I .fcspe.-at. .V to check the flames I jjfi hate roared through liiind I Zof a.re. of virgin tiniberland I jthree days. Rangers Mid th. y I jit bring the tire under c ritiol I fifternooi! if they get a proper I tartift. I Rm from the flames wan inI Mm standing 150 feet from I )HE »ere ' :.-'e,| ; moke ov.r. .uno hy. but they returned to the It when revived. [ip. . . . alls’. r< .111’1 eon-el fat corp', youths were among CThiirne.j to death. The latter , Me up t ‘ • .■-••al. r porti n of th., bflghter-. working under the farisiotl ’ f tile U allied forestry L . ■ th. dead wer burii'-.t Ftodlt ■!• utifieation wa< impos ■ Thwe identified were: fared i < ’on. Sheridan. W vo. fa one ..; th- most <• -.mpetent fan in this area. toial Rovers, <’<’(’ enrol’ee. hr;- T a .latm s Sa in. fore-i i > brie’. ... tt \ i 11... \\ yo. Re\ llal-. L ■ forestry techno ian. fa Wy.. . Bill la a. bureau pubtaads • tup ... -of eltlie. Sh. 111.1: (ftrrwo .d, < >re . Roy B v ’ll. <'< ' pilee, Smithville. Tex. ints-n Sii. try. believed to b a ts pn’’ < • \ddr so iind.-ei mm Ifte dead were carried out of the (mains to the highway' on bur- , ». Some of the animals died of pt and suit .ation en route. Foreman Escapes injury in Crash [Doyle Foreman, son of H II Fore■U. of this city escaped serious Ijory ai'oai 4 o’clock Sunday after •00 when hie car crashed into a iHge. The accident occurred three files west of Van Wert, Olii.r on lfa»l road 224 According to refa. the | u , al man was tnroute •st about to pass a car at the ► of the wreck. It was etated that another car faattem; t d to pass, forcing him P® the road. The ear struck the fc-.a’i,.;t (ompleteiy di molish |the left side of the vehicle. It P lowed to a local garage. Mr. fanan escaped with minor cut-. B bruises, according Io reports loose Lodge Meets Tuesday Evening important meeting of Adams fa 1311, Loyal Order of Moose. “I be held Tuesday night at S “kli at the local lodge home. « will be served following the hitkss session. ■ o-— — Fake Eye Specialist Racket Exposed By Postal Department Postmaster Lola .Macklin has rer*<i an article from the post of*departnient dea ling with an e:;F*. of a fake eye specialist racket. [Jo* article tsays that generally r swindlers seek out elderly peoMve alone and in remote ?***■ They know that elderly peoP®ave defects in their sight, that r ß !' of them have great fear of f ß < blind; and that they will do possible to retain their The scheme Is cleverly deF“. The swindlers are so adept | 1 e game that they actually comWnf'dence, the bulletin states. , * swind>ers pretend to examine e ye« free of charge and sell 1 e > of a cheap type and of no to she purchaser. They are |a “ F without license and their comes from furnlshm 4e names and addresses of to others more advanc- ' lO the racket.

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BITTER STRIFE IS EVIDENT IN RANKS OF CIO Serious Factional Fisht Develops Among Auto Workers 1 Milwaukee. Wls. Aug 23 <U.R) I — John L. Lewis and other high • officials of the committee for in 'dustrial organization hurried to .Milwaukee today as reports spread • of a serious factional fight within j the United Automobile Workers; Union in convention here. j Kd Hall. 2nd vice president of ' the union, said Lewis, chief of the . 1 O. Sidney Hillman, David I Dublinsky ami Philip .Murray would arrive today, although they i had not planned to come until j later in the week. John Brophy j executive director of the I. ()., ' arrived this morning. Hall would not say whether he | believed Lewis planned to take al hand in the dispute, but added. “I don't think he is coming to listen to a bunch of speeches '' Opening of the convention was ■ delayed an hour by a prolonged struggle within the credentials j committee over the seating of 1 contested delegates The commit tee still was in session when the ’ convention finally got under way Prolonged applause greeted the reading of a telegram from Presi dent Roosevelt which said "will 1 I you please extend my greetings to the members of the Unit 'd .'.iito . mobile Workers of America and extend my good wishes for a sue , cessful convention.” The credentials committee was reported still in disagreement over the seating of nine delegates from Flint. .Mich. and three from De ttoit. The contested delegates are reported friendly U> Lie "unity i faction." headed by Ist vice presi dent Wyndham Mortimer Union President Homer .Martin is oppos I ed to the "unity" group. ; The delegates sang their state i songs and paraded through the ■ flag draped Eagles' convention hall during the hour the opening I session was delayed. Otto Hauser, secretary to Mil-1 I r ank Socialist mayor Daniel I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Pleads Not Guilty To Drunken Driving Raymond Rape, of Geneva, has [been released under SIOO cash ’ bond after pleading not guilty to charges of drunken driving before [Nathan Nelson, circuit court judge : pro tern. Rape was arrested Friday by ' Sheriff Dallas Brown when he ! allegedly drove onto an accident ‘ scene while intoxicated. COUNTY GIRLS TO STATE FAIR Catherine Mosser And Marjorie Dilling To Training School The Misses Catherine Mosser and Marjorie Dilling will leave[ Friday morning for two weeks' 1 training at the state fair school of home economics at Indianapolis. This trip has imen awarded these two 4 H Club members for their splendid achievements in ( dub work. Miss Mosser has been .in 4 H club work for seven years and lias been active in both home economis and calf club projects : She has also been an active junior) leader in the Jefferson township club for the last few years. , Miss Dilling has been in dub work for eight years and has taken j .23 home economics projects in 1 addition to her junior leadership work This year she had complete ■ charge of the Preble Jolly Juniors 4-H club. i The state fair school is held) ■ each year that young women of Indiana may have an opportunity ■ I to become interested in the subject of home-making; to give them practical knowledge along this line in the belief that knowledge in household science will increase heme efficiency; and to give them, [the educational advantages of the. 1 fair.

PLAN HEARINGS ON FARM BILL Senate Committee Will Conduct Hearings Throughout Nation Washington, Aug 23 (U.R) Senate agriculture subcommittee heads announced today that hearings on a general farm bill will l»e held throughout the country’ until late October, indicating congressional action on a crop control ; lull is unlikely before January. Ilie Indication of delay was re-i garded as important in view of) frequent forecasts that President I Roosevelt might call a special sea-1 sion of congress in November to take hip farm problems. Chairman Marvin Jones. D. Tex of the house agriculture cmitmittee announced he expects to have his , own draft of a general farm bill ready the first part of next session.” Chairman Ellison D Smith. D. I s C„ of the senate agriculture committee, appointed Sen. George McGill, D.. Kans, to head the! senate subcommittee delegated to ’ study the farm problems of the ! northern grain area. Smith took | [ charge of the hearings in the south. McGill announced an itinerary: would extend from Spokane,' Wash. Sept. 30 to Springfield. H1.,, late in October or early in November. Smith's plans, at present tentative and subject to change, called for hearings at Winston-Salem. N. C.. Oct 18 and continuing in I other southern cities to the end 1 of the month. The hearings will be public and based on the farm bill introduced I in the senate by Sens McGill and I James P. Pope, D.. Ida . and ill the : house by Jones. The Pope-McGill emliodies the views of the American farm burand production control when authI eau federation regarding soil con- : I servation. the ever-normal granary ' orized by a two-thirds vote of; producers. The Jones bill differs from the senate measure in that it is based (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) HILOA BLAKEY HURT IN WRECK — Suffers Fractured Collar Bone As Two Autos Collide Hilda Blakey, 17, of Union township. sustained a fractured rigid [collar bone in an automobile acci | dent about a mile south of Decatur 'on state highway 527 shortly after) midnight this morning. She was a passenger in a car driv- ' en by Harry Schamerloh. Her brother. Wilbur Blakey, was also riding with them. According to the reports, the accident happened when an autonv> bile driven by Anthony Teeple of this city, with Betty W-;bel, of Bluffton as a pastw nger attempted to pass. It was stated that Teeple drove part way around in an effort to pass when a car approached from the opposite direction. Teeple s'owed his car t". get in line behind the Schamerloh auto- ; mobile, which -it is reported slowed 1 at about the same time. The bump-1 er guards were locked for a moment, which was sufficient to 1 cause Schamerloh to lose control .! his car. The Schamerloh automobile i plunged down a deep embankment to the east, turned over and came 1 to a stop on its wheels approximately 40 feet from the highway. Teeple did not lose control of his car. The passengers -In the Schamerloh automobile had only minor lacerations and bruis’-s with the exception of Miss Blakey. All but Miss Blakey were discharged after treatment. This morning Miss Blakey I was still at the hospital for observation, but aside from the broken collar bone and a few bruises and .lacerations, no other injuries were discovered. Alabama Man Named Young Democrat Head Indianapolis. Ind., Aug. 23 —(UP) —Pitt Tyson Maner, private secretary to Gc.v. B-lbb Graves of Alabama, today started a two-year term , as president of the Young Democrats of America following his election here Saturday by acclamation in the organization's biennial con- ) Mention. Maner was chosen unanimously after his two principal opponents. Alvin Johnson of Indianapolis and Lockwood Thompson of Cleveland, withdrew when it was apparent [they had insufficient strength to[ ihalt him.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 23, 1937.

Slain in Shanghai I iSSIII Frederick J. Falgout (above) of Raceland, La., died aboard the U.S.S Augusta when an anti aftcraft shell struck the well-deck of the cruiser while lying in Shanghai harbor. Eighteen other sailors were injured in the explosion. POULTRY TOUR TO VISIT HERE Ward Calland Toastmaster At Banquet Here Tuesday Evening Ward Cal'and, field manager of the Central Sugar company, was an- [ nounced as toastmaster rJ the ban-, quet to be held Tuesday night at the Decatur Country Club for the ; 200 persons expected to spend the . night here as the first stop on the [three day state poultry tour. Final arrangements for the entertainment of the guests were made .today by the Decatur Chamber of I Commerce an ( i the McMillen Feed Mills. The visitors are expected in the | city about 4:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. They will stop at the Chamber of Commerce office in the auto license bureau, and will be shown to their rooms. Returning uptown, the crowd will go to the 1 Decatur Country Cub. I Following the banquet Mayor Holthotme will give a welcoming ad- [ dre'ss. followed by a history of Ad ams county, to be given by French 1 Quinn, Decatur attorney. Bud Me- [ Mill n will give a brief Irst-wy of j the McMillen plant*, their aims and their objectives. Community sing [ ing will be ’ed by Joe Seabold, of Bluffton. Music duing the evening , will be furnished by the Gretchen Stuckey accordian band of Geneva. At 7:30 o’clock Wednesday morning the group will assemble at the [Central F..ya company. In small part ies. they will be shown the Central Soya company and the McMillen (feed mills. At 9:30 o'clock the group will visit the Frank Habegger farm twom'.les east and a mile north of Berne. There they will see a large flock of big type white leghorns. This flock is in production and the eggs are hatched in Mr. Schwartz' equipment on the farm. The t.ur will start Tuesday (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) O LAW AGENCIES TO PUSH DRIVE — Authorities To Push Drive On Drunken, Reckless Drivers Law enforeement agencies of city and county Saturday afternoon I served notice that they were opening a vigorous campaign agains' public intoxication, reckless and drunken driving. Following close upon half a dozen arrests during the past twe weeks for similar offenses, the authorities stated that they will continue to pick up violators. The authorities stated that drunken driving will not be tolerated. They pointed out the great danger to other autoists and pedestrians, ias well as the intoxicated handler I the auto. Reckless driving has a’so been frowned upon by the officials because of the danger. Cooperating with the office of Prosecutor Arthur E. Voglewede. ' charges are to be placed against all offenders. In an effort to minimize reckless and drunken driving in the city and ciinty, the sheriff's department under Sheriff Dallas Brown, and the city police under Chief Sephus Melchi will push the drive. At present several charges are ’isted on the circuit court docket awaiting to be set for a trial date during the September term of court, after the alleged offenders had 1 plead not guilty.

STATE LEGION MEETING OPENS Annual Street Parade Today’s Feature At Slate Convention Terre Hute, Ind , Aug. 23 (U.R) All busineM was cast aside to- < day by delegates attending the I 19th annual three day state con ' vention of the Indiana department of the American lx-gion for the [ annual street parade this afternoon highlight of the meeting. Approximately 25.000 legionnaires and their families were expected to witness or participate in the parade which will be routed I through downtown streets, lasting ’ [ about two or three hours. Harry W. Colmery. national comI mander of the Legion, addressed convention delegates yesterday at the opening business session in the Hippodrome theater. He listed objects of the Legion as peace, more adequate methods of handling rehabilitation of veterans ami protection of the nation against I subversive influences. Attention today centered around I the annual election of officers, particularly the office of state com . mander, and the selection of a 1 1938 convention city. Both will be decided at the final business ses- ; [ sion tomorrow morning. Michigan City was reported to ■ he a strong bidder for the annual meeting next year. Most prominently mentioned for the state' commandership to sue- I ! ceed Charles 11. Matson, Indiana-1 polls, present state commander, were Russell R. Rhodes. Peru, state 1 membership chairman; Judge Wilfred Bradshaw. Indianapolis, rev tiring 12th district commander, and George Hulsh, East Chicago publisher and former head of the Indiana Forty and Eight. District commanders elected at caucusses held yesterday inelude: First district. David Grand. Gary; Second. Don Kitch. Plymouth. Third. Carl McMann, South Bend: Fourth. Carl Graham. Fort Wayne; Fifth, Fred Badt. Portland; Sixth. Robert Prox, Terre Haute; Seventh, Herman Boles. Franklin, and [ 10th, Loren 11. Murphy. Shelby- ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ATTACKS STIR CHICAGO COPS Attacks On Four More Women Spur Police To Intense Hunt Chicago, Aug. 23—(U.FD Attacks on four more women and a negro's attempt to date a pretty 19-year-old national beauty contest winner today spurred Chicago’s 6,000 police in their search for the apelike negro who murdered and assault\ed Anna Kuchta. 19. a student nurse. Miss Florence Swanson, night superintendent of nurses at Jefferson Park hospital, was slashed by a man who invaded her room while she slept. • Mrs. Edith Reuter, 22. told police she was seized while walking and attacked by two men in an automobile. | Mrs. Ruby Stoekel, 23, reported i she was attacked by two men who forced her to accompany them In an automobile. Mrs. Anna llollender, 50. a dom- ' estic, was beaten by a negro who tried to attack her on a lonely I street. Among more than 100 suspects rounded up by police was a huge negro accused of passing a mash note of Michaeline Delau, 19, pro- ' claimed “Miss America" in a Mardi Gras beauty contest at New Orleans three years ago. Miss Delau, appearing as "Miss America" at a downtown “Art museum.” notified police when a negro handed her a note which read: i "I saw you this afternoon. I want to see you again. Please let • me see you. I will give you anyI thing you want if 1 can see you. ' Just say yes and call this number tonight at 1 o’clock. Drexel 7587. Earl.” Miss Delau agreed to meet the masher half a block from Central police station. She accompanied (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Loses Three Fingers In Saw Here Saturday Dan Sipe, — this city, loot three | fingers on his left hand Saturday, when he caught the hand in a saw, j while working in the Wayne Novelty company. He was admitted to i the hospital here and treated by a local physician. It was reported that he reached ’ toward the machine to catch some leavings, when the saw pulled in his hand. The thumb and forefinger were saved,

\Two Americans Wounded And Hundreds Os Persons Killed As Huge Aerial Bomb Strikes

FORESEE FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF DEMOCRAT HELM Foreseen As After math To Stormy Session Os Congress Washington. Aug. 23 — (U.R) Political warfare for control of the Democratic party was foreseen today as a likely development of the bitter session of congress which scrambled through the wreckage of President Roosevelt's 1937 program Saturday and adjourned. The new deal has been weakened on both right and left wings. A conservative, southern Democratic bloc began to emerge in i congress this year, possibly to ' challenge new deal forces when the party convention meets in 1940 to make a presidential nominee. Mr. Roosevelt is believed ready .to go to the people in protest ’ against wreckage of'his legislative | program and possibly to contemplate a special November session of congress to obtain some of his 1937 objectives. He already is booked for an address here Sept. 17 in which he is expected to continue his counterattack on conservative opponents begun last week at Roanoke Island. N. (’. Congress adjourned Saturday after a bitter session marked by | division in new deal ranks and legislative refusal to enact several major proposals sumbitted by Mr. Roosevelt. The senate scuttled Mr. Roose- . volt's supreme court reorganiza- | tion bill. Both houses joined in ! passive resistance against crop snrrdus control legislation at this’ session. The wage and hours bill designed to make good some of Mr. 1 Roosevelt's campaign promises I passed the senate but was buried . in the house under southern Democratic opposition. Bills for re- ) organization of the executive de i partments and for nationally planned control of water power and other resources likewise were I lost at this session. L A shitting combination of Re1 publican and conservative Democratic votes in house ami senate ■ defeated Mr. RooSevelt this year ' on a dozen legislative fronts. ' But if a special session is called ■ this autumn it would be primarily to obtain crop surplus control and wages-hours legislation. Mr. Roosevelt has indicated that he • has not surrendered on some plan 1 to deal with the supreme court, I despite overwhelming rejection of . (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O DEATH CLAIMS : MARY GERBER ! Miss Mary Gerber Dies Os Paralysis Sunday Morning 1 Miss Mary Gerber, 69. died Sunday morning at 6 o’clock at the I'.’.me of a sister, Mrs. John Stef- ’ fen. Kirkland township. Death was caused by paralysis. ’ I The deceased was born in Adams ' county July 24, fB6B, the daughter ’ of Mr. and Mrs. Ulrich Gerber. She was never married. Surviving are 1 the following brothers and sisters, r Mrs. Steffen, Emanual. Joseph, Gideon, all of Bluffton: Reuben, 1111- ' nois. William and Daniel Craigville Funeral services will be held • Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Steffen L vne and at 2 o'clock at the Christian Apostolic church. 1 Burial will be made in the church ' cemeterv. David Pearl Dies At Local Hospital j Funeral services for David Pearl, i i 53, Ohl? City, Ohio resident, who . [ died Saturday shortly before noon , [at the Adams county memorial hos1 pital, will be held Tuesday morning > jat 10 o’clock at his home in that town. was caused by embolI ism. Three brothers and three sisters ► 1 all of New York,, in addition to the i! widow at Ohio City, survive. The de- • | ceased was born in New York City, •moving to Ohio sometime ago,

GIVES WARNING ABOUT DISEASE Health Officer Gives Statement On Infantile Paralysis Dr. R E. Daniels, secretary of the city hoard of health, today issued a statement to the people of Decatur in warning against the disease of infantile paralysis. The physician stated today that there was to date no cause for alarm, as only one case has been i’e|)orted in Decatur. Several have been reported in the south part of : the county. There is also known : to be an epidemic throughout parts of Indiana. As a preventive measure, he has urged that all children who show a slight sign of illness be given observation by the family physician at once. Since the symptoms are so variable it is not easy to list them, he stated. Sometimes the early signs are no more than a slight fever, or possibly no more than the fact that the child whimpers during the night and repeatedly asks for a drink of water. Other symptoms include a stiff neck or a high fever. Apparently the disease is not highly contagious, he said. It is thought that direct contact causes Its spread. He stated that it is imperative that for successful treatment of the disease it must begin in the early stages. Dr. Daniels stated that the disease is generally considered to be on the decrease throughout the nation and that every known method is being used to combat the spread of infantile paralysis, hence the warning to Decatur people: MRS, RAUCH DIES SUNDAY Mis. Magdalena Rauch Dies Sunday Afternoon Near Be..ie Mrs. Magdalena Rauch, 77, widow .f the late Rev. Godfrey Rauch, died Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home of her daughter, Mie. Ed Ringger, tour and one-half miles northwest of Berne. Death was caused by complications. The deceased was born in Wells county June 2, 1860, the daughter of Ulrich and Catlierine Strahm. She was married to Godfrey Rauch December 9. 1895. Rev. Rauch, who for many years was paster of the Christian Apostolic church, preceded her in death July 21, 1936. Surviving are two daughters, Mis. Ed Ringger of Berne and Mrs. I Adolph Geieel of Bluffton and one son. Godfrey, Jr., of Berne. Funeral services will be held at [ 9 .’clock Wednesday morning at ' I the home and at 10 o’clock at the | Christian Apostolic church, with inI terment in the church cemetery. O — Two Decatur Men Fined By Judge Two Decatur men were fined sls and costs and had their drivers’ license suspended for six months when they pleaded guilty to charges of drunken driving before Judge Huber M. DeVe.’.s in the Adams circuit court. Jesse Leßrun, Decatur theater owner, was the second of the two heard. He was arrested Friday night by Policemen Ed P. Miller and Roy Chilcote on Second street. He was released upon payment of the fine and costs. Gene Harold Maier changed his plea to guilty after he had plead not guilty betore Nathan C. Nelson judge ipro tern last week. Judge DeVoss fined him sls and costs and suspended his driver's license for six months. Maier was remanded to jail where he Is being held under bond on a wife desertion charge. , o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 66 10:00 a. m. 70 Noon 75 2:00 p. in. 79 3:00 p. m. 82 WEATHER Considerable cloudiness tonight and Tuesday; slightly warmer Tuesday

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From 30(1 To 700 Killed By Bomb; Japs Launch Great Offensive In Shangai Area CHINESE PLANE By H. R. Ekins (Copyright 1937 by United Press) Shanghai. Aug. 23 - J.R) — A huge aerial bomb c ued into Upt>er Nanking road, .ween the Chlg Chinese-owned 1 agon and Sincere department stoies at 1:10 p. m. today and killed from 300 to 700 persons. More than 1.000 were wounded including Anthony Billingham, a j correspondent of the New York Times, and Miss Blanch Tenney, an American, born in Shanghai. Several Europeans also were hurt Japanese said tile bomb c.am< from a Chinese plane which lac been flying high over the city. A second aerial bomb, 18 indies in diameter, crashed through the roof of the U. S. navy warehouse, adjacent to the U. S. and British consulates general, hut did not explode. It is in the hands of U. S. naval authorities. While the bombings were going on Japanese threw more than great offensive designed to crush 75.000 soldiers ami sailors into a more than 200,0(10 Chinese soldiers who have been besieging Japanese positions in tills city for 12 days after the killing of two Japanese navy men l>y Chinese militiamen the night of Aug. 9. Today’s bombings brought civilian fatalities in the Anglo-Ameri-can area of the internatjonal settlement to more than 2.000 including three Americans who were killed a week ago Saturday when ' Chinese aerial bombs hit in lower Nanking road, between the big British-owned Cathay and Palace hotels, and in the great world Chinese amusement resort at Tih- | et road and Avenue Edward VH. J The Americans killed in the earj Her bombings were H. S. Honingsberg, a Shanghai Intsiness man; I Dr. Robert K. Reischauer, of Princeton University, and Dr. Frank J. Rawlinson. veteran American missionary. Earlier in the day three Japanese airplanes had bombed Chinese lines dangerously near the United States cruiser Augusta, anchored in the river, and had flown over the cruiser in maneuvering. Only a few hours before the bombs struck, requiem mass was celebrated for Frederick J. Falgout, young U. S navy first class season, killed when a shell struck the Augusta Friday, ‘ Foreign hanks had reopened for "normal" business this morning, and had been operating just three hours after a week’s suspension when the bombs dropped. The Nanking road bomb fell between the big Wingon and Sincere department stores. Billingham was in the Wingon store and was struck by fragments that penetrated an elevator in which he was ' standing. His arm was cut so badly that it was believed an artery was severed. He suffered (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) FRED SOHR YER ESCAPES HURT — Local Younjj Man Escapes Injury When Auto Overturns Frederick Schroyer of this city , escaped serious injury when his car turned over on U. S. highwaj 27 about a mile and a half north of Decatur shortly after midnight, this morning. Mr. Schroyer lost control of his car about a half mile north of the first curve as he was driving south into Decatur. After skidding, his car turned completely over once or twice and came to a rest on its wheels against the fence on the west side of the road. He was able to get out of the car without assistance and was taken to the Adams County Memorial hospital by a young man Who was driving behind him. A. physician closed a deep laceration on the back of his head, which was his only injury. He was discharged from the hospital immediately. The car was almost completely demolished. Mr. Schroyer said he did not know how the accident happened, _