Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 1 September 1937 — Page 1

VeIiXXXV. No. 207.

pafety Campaign Is Launched With Committee Named

Chairman Gard Announces Committee On Safety For Decatur; Leaders On Committee. MEET THURSDAY Th.e b<»catur accident prevention camNpK" wl *l be officially launch cd at a meeting of the newly ap pointed ommittee. composed of civic Kl" I industrial lead rs to oe held it the city hall Thursday ■ .veiling at X o’clock. WaMF< (lard, appointed chair Q matt of <be committee' by Mayor A. H blolthouse. at the request ■| of ®ai Dunbar. assistant stat, di recto, of the accident prevens tion bin au. has announced that a compr>l msive plan will he prei seated [to eliminate the annual toll j of dea a and injuries from acci i dent#; in this community. Si Opened as it is. shortly before |f the beginning of school, the fiist | project io be considered will tie -? prevention of traffic accidents § among school children. Efforts I will b> made to control traffic ; through school zones and the ? organ! tion of safety patrols | among the school children to guard dangerous crossings. Another project to bo consideri ed Will be the removing of ob- • Struethn s to the views around b comers caused by shrubbery, a weeds and other objects * MrßDunbar will be in the city sugges ions as to traffic problems and lungers. Industrial and home safety will also be embraced in the program. Members of the general committee announced today by Mr. Gard pre: They are: Ralph Roop, city engineer; Ed Miller. Decatur policeman; I William Bell, state police commi sioner; Walter J. Krick, superintendent of the Decatur public schools; Rev. Alvin, assistant pastor of the St. Mary's Catholic church. Tom Smith. Central Sugar company; H E. Bromer, Decatur Casting company; Bert Gage. General Electric company; Dan Tyndall. Krick-Tyndall company; George Thoms Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc.; I Ben Schroyer, Mutschler Packing company; George Thomas. McMillen Feed Mills. Inc., and Dee Flyback. president of the Decatur Chamb r of Commerce. Mr.| Gard has called a meeting Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in I the city hall. Mayor A. R. Holthouse tas been asked to make a short ■ ilk. The committee has been organized here, to work in cooperation with Committees in other communities In the United States which are a< ing in an effort to reduce the number of deaths in the United States from accidents. There were [lll,OOO such deaths in 1037, (CON P'NUF.u ON PAGE FIVE) — To Attend District Meeting At Blutlton A district meeting of the Rebekah I<Ll gee will be held in the Odd Feßov hall in Bluffton Tuesday afternoon and evening. The state , officer will be present and instructions will be given. Several local members are planning to attends DISTRICT MEET HERETOMORROW American Legion Auxiliary To Hold Meeting Here Thursday Final plans for the annual convention of the fourth district of the American Legion auxiliary which is to bi held here tomorrow, have been completed, President Mrs. Waller Gladfelter stated today. Thi convention opens at 10 o’clock in the morning with registrationjat the First Christian church of South Second Street. TOilav was the final day for mak-' ing tojon dinner reservations. All reseaxations were to be made with the president. Ctoef event of the convention, which Is expected to be attended I by (Approximately 103 delegates and visitors from 18 auxiliaries In thi« section of the state, will be the instalation of district officers, head- 1 by Mrs. Nellie Pl ittner of [ Aubbrn as president. AU sessions of the convention will b e held in the church.

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I PROBE OPENED INTO CRASH OF BUS ANO AUTO Elkhart County Officials Plan Inquest Into Fatal Crash Goshen. Ind.. Sept. 1— klj.R) Elkhart county sheriff's officers today began investigation of the collision between an automobile and a transcontinental passenger bus. in which five persons were killed and 27 injured, two seriously. Coroner Karl M. Vetter said he would start an inquest at 10 a. m. tomorrow State police department Supt. Don R Stiver said be was considering an independent j investigation. County officials investigated reports of witnesses that Allison Bishopric, S 5. president of the Bishopric Products Company. Cin- ; cinnati, drove his heavy sedan through a stop sign at the inter- ' section of highways 15 and 20 five miles north of here. Bishopric's automobile struck the loaded bus on the side. The bus rolled eml over end. came to rest in a ditch upside down. Fire started in the engine of the bus a few minutes later. The driver of a companion Ims, following a quarter mile back, extinguished the fire before it spread The bus. owned by the Greyhound lines and en route to Cleveland front Chicago, carried 36 passengers Ten ambulances from Goshen and Elkhart carried the dead and . injured to hospitals. The dead: A. G. Carpenter. lowa City. la. Mrs. James Kelleher, Chicago. Raymond Buskin. St. Loirts. potter. John Heinsohn, Buffalo, N. Y. Allison Bishopric, Cincinnati. I driver of the car.. Mrs. Andrew Statella, Omaha. Neb., and iter daughter, Anna, 7. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) DAMAGE SUITS FILED TODAY Two More Suits Filed Against City And Erie Railroad Two additional suits filed in the Adams circuit court against the i city of Decatur and the Erie raili road company, bring the total of damages asked for. resulting from an automobile accident at the Mercer avenue crossing of the Erie railroad on April 17, to $47,000 The latest two suits were filed I by Raymond Papenbrock and his | wife Betty Papenbrock, of near ; Monroeville. Raymond Papenbrock is asking for $2,000 in damages and [ Mrs. Papenbrock, $5,000. On August 13 three suits were filled seeking a«. »t al of $40,000. The largest amount was asked by Mrs. Catherine Rison, of Fort Wayne, I who sought $20,000. The administrator of the estate of her husI band, who was killed in the accident. sought SIO,OOO. The adminis- . trator of the estate of her brother, Daniel O'Shaughnessey. of Monroeville, who died as result of injuries sustained in the accident, is asking SIO,OOO damages. Mrs. Papenbrock alleged she sustained numerous severe contusions and lacerations as well as shock and internal injuries. As tlie result of the accident she said she was unconscious for a few hours after the accident. She stated she incurred heavy hospital and medical bills as the result of the I accident. Mr. Papenbrock alleged he sus(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Decatur Man Given Sixty Days In Jail — John Felger, of this city, plead guilty to a public intoxication i charge Tuesday afternoon before Mayor A. R. Holthouse in city court, and was fined $5 and costs, totaling sls. and sentenced to 60 days in the Adams county jail. He admitted being in an intoxicated condition early Sunday morning and annoying a 13-year old girl.

BUS CRASH KILLS 5, INJURES 24 FT if I % « a if . hl 'A I w f W -1 r * ”iii WI9I a. ~j When this Chicago-to New York passenger bus collided with a heavy passenger car which ran through a stop intersection five miles north of Goshen, Ind., five persons were killed and twenty-four injured. The bus was knocked end over end and came to rest on its top. The driver of tile oilier car was killed

SCHMITT SIGNS CITY CONTRACT F. J. Schmitt Starts Work Today As Garbage Collector F. J. Schmitt of the "S'.' and 87 Commission Ceaipany," started on liis contract today as city garbage collector. The contract and bond filed by Mr. Schmitt wae approved by the council last evening. Dynois Schmitt ajid Simeon signed the bond, which the city ordinance demands. Mr. Schmitt’s contract is for S6OO f-r the year. Harley Roop had the contract the past year and his bid for the 1937-38 job wae $1,200. The contract, which provides for the collection of garbage from restaurants and hotels and from all homes within the city limits, is effective September 1. The Homestead addition in the south part cf town is also included in the territory. Citizens are required to have regulation garbage pails at the end .. their lots or along the alley so the collector can pick up the garbage on his tripe through the restdental district. Two to three trips are required, depending on the season. The contract also provides that the cotlector ehall report at the city hall every day to ascertain if complaints on non-collection of garbage , have been filed with the clerk. DEATH CLAIMS MRS.BERTSCH Mother Os Adams County Men Dies Tuesday At Hospital Funeral services will be held Friday morning for Mrs. Malissa Bertsch of Grabill. mother of Cornelius Bertsch of Geneva and John Bertsch of Berne, who died at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne at 3:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon 1 Death was due to the effects of a fractured hip received in a fall I about a month ago. | Services will be held at 9 o’clock , Friday morning, (DST) at the i home in Grabill and at 10 o’clock 'at the Christian Apostolic church at Leo. Burial will be made in the Leo cemetery. The husband. John Bertsch, preceded his wife in death 12 years ago. Survivors include: four 1 daughters, Mrs. Kattie Jensen, Walloon Lake, Michigan; Rosie. Mina and Frieda, all at home; five sons, Samuel, Blnffton; Cornelius,; Geneva: John. Berne; Edward and Andrew, both at home. Twentysix grandchildren and one great grandchild, one brother, two sisters and a half-sister also survive.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 1, 1937.

Ohio Youth Is Given Suspended Sentence William Harshman. 19. of Milton Center. Ohio, was given a 1 to 10 year suspended sentence, anjl placed under probation for two year; on a grand larceny charge before Judge Huber M DeVoss in th Adams circuit court this morning. Harshman plead guilty to the ■ charge two weeks ago before Nathan C. Nelson, judge pro tern. • He admitted stealing a car from A. J. Grice here and abandoning it in Deschler. Ohio. Harshman stated that his brother had found a job for him here. : He was turned over to Mrs. Fay - Smith Knapp, probation and juv« - pile officer. SHIP ATTACKED BY SUBMARINE “Pirate” Submarine Attacks British Destroyer Near Spain London, Sept. 1. (U.R) British warships hunted in the Mediterranean today for a "pirate" sub-' marine which attacked the British destroyed Havock last night off Cape Antonio. Spain, about 60 miles south of Valencia. The Hardy and Hyperion, British destroyers, joined the Havock in forming a circle around the area -where the submarine made its attack. There were strong intimations here and in Paris that the underseas boat was suspected of being Italian. The British warships, eight destroyers and two cruisers, were, available for the search. Hasty orders were flashed by the admiralty to the Mediterranean naval command for them to join in it. France Complains Paris, Sept. 1. —(U.R) France has | complained formally to Great Britain against Italy’s aid to the Span- - ish insurgents, the foreign office I admitted today. There was a plain ; suggestion of joint action to bring about general European neutrality. The Quai D'Orsay confirmed the fact that the French embassy in London had informed foreign Secretary Anthony Eden of France's jconcern and dissatisfaction over ; the latest Italian intervention in 1 j - ; (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Boiler Is Removed From Court House Members of the Victor Bagley construction crew worked until 11:30 o’clock Tuesday night to I complete the pulling of the six-ton boiler from the basement of the Adams county court house. The men are now- engaged in the re-; moving of a layer of floor in the basement preparatory to the setting up oT the two new boilers for the new heating system being installed. Liechty Brothers of Berne j have the general contract.

PLAN ACTION ON GAS ORDINANCE Council To Act On Gas Ordinance At Sept. 7 Meeting Action on the ordinance granting the Northern Indiana Public Service Company, the right to furnish natural gas to patrons within the citv limits of Decatur, will be taken September 7. the council informed gas company officials last night. An ordinance permitted the company to make the change from artificial to natural gas, which is piped front the Texas gas fields, will be passed. It will not contain a schedule of rates. The Indiana public service commission approves utility rates and it is not i necessary for the council to approve the schedules. The council may demand that the company install a calorimeter for the testing of gas content ' served in the city. A meeting will i be held in the next few days with Thomas Kelley, general manager ;of the company, and points of' ; interest in the proposed ordinance | discussed with him and city officials. M. F. North, Fort Wayne and Joe Lessig of Hammond, repre- : seating the company, attended the i special meeting of the council last ! evening. Due to other matters on the calendar, final approval of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) OFFICERS KEEP HOBOES MOVING Tramps Find Decatur No “Friendly City” For Transients Decatur city police have served notice that itinerants, hoboes, tramps and bums are not welcome in the city limits. Each year at this season, hundreds of men of this type take to the roads as means of a livelihood. Declaring that the city has no room for such men, local police have instituted a policy of immediately asking them to "move on.” In response to several calls from residents along railroads and near suitable camp-sites for the so-call- { ed “knights of the road," the police | daily visit these sites and move - the men on their way. What was once a “jungletown’’ ■ for the hoboes, located at the old J foundry near the Nickel Plate railroad, has been destroyed. Two fallen trees have been moved across the camp-fire site of the! hoboes. At one time yesterday, residents I in the south section of the city re- - ported nine of the railroad hoboes (CONTINUED. ON PAGE FIVE). 1

Intervention By Russia In i China Growing More Likely, Latest Reports Indicating

EPIDEMIC FEAR DELAYS OPENING CHICAGO SCHOOL Health Board Moves To Halt Infantile Paralysis Spread Chicago. Sept. 1 <U.R>— Chicago schools were ordered by the board . . of health today to remain closed | indefinitely to avoid spread of, infantile paralysis among 600.000 pupils. Public schools were to reopen Sept' 8. Re-opening was ordered delayed "until it is safe." The board of health announced , the highly contagious disease was more prevalent in Illinois last month than in any previous Augma, including the epidemic years of 1016 and I!H7. The peak of the disease probably has not been [ reached, the board announced. Dr. Herman Bundesen, board president, announced the board would meet today to consider securing cooperation of theaters in avoiding further spread of the disease. “Anything that unnecessarily crowds together young school children must be considered." . Bundesen said Mayor Edward J Kelly said “the situation is not one that should, alarm parents unduly, but it calls ; for drastic action as a preventive of even more serious developments." Bundesen said 109 cases of the ; disease were reported in Chicago . in August, compared to the prev- , ions record of 99 in August 1916. Os these, 56 per cent were among children 5 to 15 years old. In August. 1935. there were 16 cases and in August, 1936, 23 cases. Eighteen new cases were re- . i ported in Chicago in lite three days preceding the board's action. In the corresponding period of the previous week. 10 cases were re- | ported. Dr. Morris Fishbein. editor of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) LOCAL WOMAN FOILS BANDIT Matilda Appelman Near Victim Os Thief At Chicago Miss Matilda Appelman. daughter of George Appelman of North I Seventh street, escaped being a victim of a thief the other day in ; Chicago, as she was waiting in the railroad station to take a train to Milwaukee. Her cry of alarm and the quick work of the police officer prevent- | ed the hold up and the thief getl ting away. The would-be thief or j thug was shot by the officer. The thief tried to snatch a pocketbook from Miss Appelman's arm She screamed and attracted the ! attention of the policeman. The 1 thief started to run away and when he failed to stop the officer I shot him in the shoulder. Miss Appelman returned home . yesterday and told of the incident to her family. The attempted robbery occurred on her way to * Milwaukee about 10 days ago. She proceeded on her trip unharmed I and with her money intact. It was not learned what charges I were filed against the thief or if ■he recovered from the bullet \ i wound. Decatur Girl Is Bitten By Dog i Dorothy Frohnapfel, young daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. Frohnapfel, of this city, suffered a painful injury this miwning to her right leg when she was bitten by a dog, [ while riding on her bicycle in the (West section of the city. TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 78 10:00 a. m. 82 Noon 86 2:00 p. m. 89 3:00 p. m. 90 WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight j and Thursday; local thunder- [ showers Thursday afternoon; I continued warm.

CITY COUNCIL APPROVES LEVY . AND'3B BUDGET Council Approves Budget And 40-Cent Tax Levy For City The city council, In special sesision last night, approved the budget | and 40-cent- tax rate fj- the city of Decatur for 1938 and ordered the ordinances certified to the county auditor. The budget totals $38,130 of which only $18,96.3 will be raised through a tax on property. The 40cent levy on the city's assessed valuation of $4,740,91.3. will pr/aluce approximately that amount More than half of the budget is made up from Income other than I that raised by taxation. The electric light and water departments of the city plant make a donation of $7,000 to the general fund, the balance of the inc.cne being state gas tax, stale excise tax and miscellaneous income. Next year will be the sou ’th year that the c-Ity will have operated on a 40-cent levy, the lowest ever collected. The city does not make a levy for ornamental street lighting and maintenance and fire hydrant rental, which items would total ap-pi-.ximately $20,000 and require more than a 40-cent levy for these charges alone. With these charges added and the cash donations from ■ the electric and water departments eliminated, the city levy would be nearly sl. on the SIOO. Mayor A. R. ' I Holthouse stated. The levy in 1 . nearby towns run from 75 cents , Ito SI.OO. , Reports Made The water committee reported . tlie completion of the water main , extension on West Monroft street to the Decatur cemetery. The com- , mlttee also recommended the drill- . ing of tlie water well at the Homestead site and contract will be en- , tered into with the drillers by the ■ next meeting. The well will be tied in to tlie main in the addition and besides giving Decatur an additional supply’ will improve the condition of the water in the soutli part of the city. Improvement Ordered The council authorized the board I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) I O Plans For Enlarging Theater Are Approved I. A. Kalver of the Adams theater ■ has returned from IndianApolis where he submitted the plans for the improvement and enlargement . of the show house and received approval, from the state fire marshal. The contracts for the brick and carpenter w .k on the new addiition have been awarded and work will start within a week or ten days, according to Mr. Kalver. The new section will he built to the south of the present building and will make room for 250 additional seats. TERVEER RITES ARE HELD TODAY I Funeral Services Are Held This Morning For Crash Victim Funeral services were held at 9 o’clock this morning at the St. Mary’s Catholic church for Bernard T. Terveer, prominent Decatur c-Iti-r zen wh« was killed in an auto ac- • cident Sunday’ morning. A solemn requiem high mass was celebrated, the Rev. Father Joseph ' Seime-tz, pastor, being celebrant; Rev. Joseph Hennes, Fort Wayne, deacon and Rev. Father Alvin, sub- ’ deacon. Father Seimetz delivered the sermon following the mass. Officials and employes of the Schafer Company and the Schafer Store attended in a body. Mr. Terveer was associated with the Schafer company for 23 years. A number of relatives and friends from out of the city were here for the services. Arthur E. Voglewede, Norbert Holthouse, Arthur R. Holthouse and Tom Voglewede .of this city, Bernard Uhl, Toledo, William Dowling, Jr., Fort Wayne, nephews of the deceased, acted as pall bearers Burial was made in the St. Joseph cemetery.

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Possibility Os Direct Intervention Feared Growing Daily; Roper Gives Statement. TENSION LIFTS By H. R. Ekins (Copyright 19.37 by United Press) Shanghai. Sept. 1 IU.R> —The possibility of Russian Soviet direct intervention in the ChineseJapanese war is increasing daily, ' a survey of diplomatic opinion indicated tonight. Diplomats based their predictions on several developments: 1. Persistent reports that 20 or more Soviet military fliers have been "lent" to China by Russia ami now are in combat with the Chinese air force. 2. Extension of the Japanese drive northwest of Peiping into Suiyuan province. This directly menaces Russian-controlled areas in outer Mongolia and Sinkiang and Russia lias announced that she will fight at once if outer Mongolia, particularly, is endangered. as it now is. 3. Reports that Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin rapidly is completing Jiis "blood purge" of the Russian communist party and re-consolidat-ing his supreme power over the entire Soviet military and political machine. Japan's relations with Britain and tilt* United States, because of the shooting of the British ambassador to China l>y Japanese military fliers, and the repeated actions of the Japanese navy which have endangered United States warships here, also were growing worse. Both the British and the Americans have been forced to use warships to convoy their refugee vessels ever since the fighting became acute on Aug. 12. 1 Britain has used destroyers for 1 tenders between Shanghai and the ■ deep water port off Wooaung. ' where refugee ships anchored. The United States lias put naval guards on ordinary commercial tenders evacuating refugees. Russia, it was pointed out, already lias ample excuses for sending troops into China where her consulate general in Tientsin was wrecked and its archives confiscated by alleged Japanese military (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) PASTOR SPEAKS TO LIONS CLUE Rev. Graham Speaks To Decatur Lions Club Tuesday Night “The Problem of Crippled Children" was the subject of the Rev. R. W. Graham's address before the members of the Decatur Lions club in their weekly meeting at the Rice hotel last night. The Rev. Graham, pastor of the First M. E. church here, spoke from his experiences in visiting an institution in Camden. Massachusetts, where crippled children are cared for from infancy to high school age. He explained the virtues of the school, showing how educational and vocational training teaches the cripple to be self-supporting, inde- [ pendent, and gives him a better outlook toward the world. Many of the cripples today are not only handicapped physically, but mentally as well, he stated. This handicap starts with the parents in many cases, he said. Some parents pamper and favor a crippled child, leaving with him the impression that he is always to be aided and favored. The fact in many cases that a person is crippled need not stand between him and a self-supporting life, the Rev. Graham asserted. The world’s most terrible cripple, he said, is the so-called “bonehead," who refuses to heed the advice and training he is offered. To Hold Picnic The meeting next Tuesday night will be in the form of a picnic at Hanna-Nuttman park in the Lions Troop Boy Scout cabin. The picnic will be open to members of the club, their wives and families. The eats committee is composed of W. F. Beery, Ralph E. Roop and Harold Essex. The entertainment is in charge of Mrs. H. F. Zwick, chairman; Mrs. Clyde Butler, Mrs. E. P. Fields, Mrs. Glen Hill and Mrs. Clifford