Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1937 — Page 1

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LESLIE, ?>iOVERNOR, FRIDAY i <"lh' Dies In 01 ,leart At * -4HHL I- asl Ni * ht (U.P) l- psll lV '' l ' nor " r ut '. I l '-"' "■ ]■, died in .Miami. Fla., ofe. R»l*i i'l a heart attack. EL Ir-ia ■ s,: '"' Republican «■ 1,11 jE f „| ft Miaim Thursday 111 ''"^■rwwi* l i' ll ’ |j,is ' '"' a '" l ,lis p:iMpSK.. M ’ i ' > "' s ' t ' l ''- EiwW' 1 ' 1 ''■"" tak'-'i lo ;i< ••• >i <1 ine to physi ■" ■ iMTwHE-:- 1 v cl: .iirammy>KwMS<a >•■•' ■’> comph-ted ■mBF I -" 1 ': In- i.ir.-. r . 1S a era . Kry eter) in Lafayette. Ind., and the highest Hfccc M til leadership of Repair Indiana. S His Atieai career started m he was K ro*4| rlerk in 1313. From this Kitinnin? he gained several county ■ices, Became a member of the Bate Aslature and speaker of of 15 Kißi33T. r ßl'eWjt> graduated from Purdue ■’in.ersii in 1905 where he held S): tt*ction of being the only Benton Iter to hold two preside), MHh of a senior class. 1904 and He was the university’s first serving ’Wafwcitylwhile a student. ■ H« played football and basket Bail it fin . r and captained both in 1902 and 1903. graduation from th” .■tiiiivwsii. law school and coin- l HftiiietrtMS legal training there

II uk 1914. hi' went to the stat,- ~ J ‘ 111 " G Pl.'s.-u'ai.. A. for the WM||M> Serving both as speaker Ein aWh n. | OirW 24. 1928. Leslie v.as for governor. eiefljpflhe following November I Mlcili.v his governorship he time I slirl Jß ,)usillPSS ' Martha iii’.id. Ind., in 1910. They M Holier!. Hubard who death at then heme ON PAGE THREE) 1 , v Sent Word | 'Of Leslie's Death I Hlep’ier. Creameries, I 'W y ' rp<,( ‘ iv ed a telegram last I .lack Ix'Slie. notifying |wM>° death of the latte-’s frit ir■P■'!• Governor Harry Leslie a *S®'i. Mr. Klepper was a per•■■wiii of Governor Leelie amt ago was a dinner guest fiome in Indianapolis IBIe attended the Cloverleaf in 19?5 and preyear. He was here sev ?3Br es ’ n recent years in the in the Standard Life Insurof which he was prowill be one of the pa'l bearers at the funeral be held at one o'clock ' nSfe’ afternoon at the Scottish The body will lie in ■ the state house before the .... e ryb o dy 1 J||< Az/yjr ° n d uses Jpristmas Seals ' ? Ntwsboy listsT SC’ ( I i ( 4 “ *r ( A/sa- / 1 I> Qfx 11 ,. J it HShoppinq 1 Days Left i Hjr ti

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I Harry G. Leslie, governor of I Indiana front 1929 to 1933. died of la heart attack in a hospital at Miami Beach. Florida. Friday flight. Gov Leslie was well known In Decatur, having spoken here ! while governor and also visiting | here numerous times since his retirement from office.

CHECKS SENT TAXINC UNITS County Auditor Sends Out Checks For November Taxes County Auditor John W. Tyadall has sent out checks to the taxing units for the distribution of the November taxes. The collection of current taxes in November amounted to $216,558.79. Delinquent taxes collected totaled $10,867.89. The amount sent to the state was $23.064 23. The county's share was divided as follows: General fund. $35.-' 727.0 C; welfare department. $15.-, 856.46; bonds and interest. $4,868.20. The total for township poor was $13,699.18 and for township road bonds and interest, $22,167.48. These amounts remain in the | county treasury, although dis-, bltrsed during the year for the 12;

. townships. The local taxing units received i I the following amounts in the dis tribution of the taxes. Townships; Blue Creek, $4.186.-j 74; French, $2,786.28; Hartford. $6,318.14; Jefferson. $5,296.29; i Kirkland. $4,865.35; Monroe, SB.563.76; Preble. $1,375.93; Root, $3,742.38; St. Mary's. $5,948.98; 1 Union. $2,749.16; Wabash. $12,661.29; Washington. $5,802.78. Schools: Berne, $9,264.13; DecaI tur. $25,092.26. Towns: Berne. $5,757.06; Deca|tur, $9,384.75; Geneva, $3,803.33; I Monroe. $274.17. I Libraries: Berne, $76».05; Decatur. $1,327.81. The November tax collection I was good. Jeff Liechty. county I treasurer stated, although it was. . not as large as the May payment. ( Falls Against Stove, Former Local Man Hurt Niland Ochsenrider recently appointed manager of the Blue Creek dairy store in Berne, is recovering from second degree burns Buffered when he fell from a ladder against a hot stove pipe. SARAH SPRAGUE TAKEN BY DEATH Mrs. Oscar Sprague Dies Today After Extended Illness Mrs. Sarah Ann Sprague. 56, wife of Oscar Sprague, of this, city, died this morning at 3:301. o'clock at the residence, 320 North Twelfth street. Death was caused by complications following an ill-1, ness of several months. The deceased was born in Aicola , < on January 22. 1881. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom McTigue. < She was a member of the firemen s auxiliary organization of this city. Surviving, besides the husband, are the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. C C. Schuck of Garrett. Tom McTigue of Fort Wayne; Mrs. J. W. Kaminski of Bakenfield. California; Mrs. Marie Goland of Chicago and Edward Hoben of Fort Wayne. . Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the S. E. Black funeral home with the Rev. James A. Weber officiating. Burial will be made in the local cemetery. , The body may be viewed at the Black funeral home after 7 o'clock tonight.

GOV, TOWNSEND INVHESMAYOR Mayor Holthouse Invited To Luncheon Meeting December 17 .Mayor A. R. Holthouse l as received an invitation from Governor M. Clifford Townsend to attend a luncheon meeting in Indianapolis, Friday, December 17, in the interest of Indiana industry. The luncheon will he held at the Columbia Club and Governor Townsend will be Hie principal speaker ami outline his program in the Interest of developing state industry. The governor has Invited mayors of Indiana cities to the meeting. His 'letter to the mayors reads; '"lndiana’s (peaceful labor rela- ' tions, fair taxes and central location ' are attracting the interest of many , substantial industries seeking new , sites. 1 believe now is a favorable . time to plan a program for the de- ; velopment of our industrial possi-bil- ■ ities. "Such a program would call for the cooperation of mayors and local Chambers of Commerce, and the Indiana state Chamber of Commerce has afforded me the opportunity to outline my proposals at the Chamber’s annual meeting on I December 17. | "1 should like to personally invite you to attend the meeting in I order that you may contribute your i own ideas and help in drafting a ! sound program.” Mayor Holthouse is planning to attend the meeting. o Ft, W ayne Presbytery Will Meet Monday Rev. eorge O. Walton, pastor of the Decatur Presbyterian church, will attend the Fort Wayne ; tery, which will be held at the First i Presbyterian church in Fort Wayne Monday. The morning session will open at , 10 o'clock and the afternoon session at 1:30. Most important business will be election of a moderator to succeed Dr. George W. Allison. HEALTH BOARD FILES CHARGES Three Property Owners Charged With Publie Health Nuisance In the interest of public health and as a means of eliminating unsanitary outdoor privies, affidavits have been filed by Dr. R. E. Dan- | iels, secretary of the city board of health, against three property i owners. The affidavits charge violation ' of sections 2 and 8 of a city ordi- | nance, in "unlawfully permitting a privy to become nauseous, foul, offensive and injurious to public health.” Demand for SSO and SIOO judgments are asked for in the complaints, which were filed in mayor's court. It is a violation of the city ordinance to maintain outside toilets which are injurious to public health or offensive to the general public. A state law also makes it an offense. The affidavits were filed against Frank Neadstine. who owns a property at 808 N. 2nd street. One affidavit was filed against Louisa Haugk, 235 N. 13th street. The third affidavit was filed against Julius Haugk. who owns properties at 226 N. 13th street, 228 N. 13th street, 1115 Patterson street and 405 S. Fifth street. It is the desire of the city health department to clear the city of offensive outdoor privies. In the program, the property owner is offered the cooperation of WPA 1 labor in rebuilding or building new' buildings, all labor being furnish- ■ ed, the property owner paying only I for the materials. The defendants will be arraigned in mayor's court Monday after-1 noon. — .o .1 ♦ *1 Good Fellows Club Previous total $l3O-27 A. V. Yost 1.00 A Friend .25 A Good Fellow 05 Total ..... . $131.57 TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m 12 10:00 a. m 15 11:00 a. m 19 WEATHER Generally fair tonight, not quite s>o cold west and south portions; increasing cloudiness Sunday with slowly rsing temperature.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, December 11,1937.

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u-S_> ' v Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pansa Her husband killed by two robbers as he sat helplessly bound to a chair in their home in suburban Chicago. Mrs. Edward Pansa. herself critically wouiidi'd, crawled through the ice and snow a quarter mile from their farm home to get aid. Before lapsing into a coma she ] described tile bandits who had attacked the couple in the belief they had hidden a $2,000 legacy.

GEORGE L KERN WINS VERDICT Jury Returns Judgment Os $1,203.50 Against General Ice , George L. Kern was awarded $1,203.50 last night l>y an Adams circuit court jury, after the body had deliberated but two hours and five minutes. The General Ice Machines Inc., of this city, was the defendant in the suit brought by Kern for money allegedly owed him on account and for labor and services ; rendered. . Kern had sought SI,OOO in the I first paragraph of his complaint, ’asking $417.50 in the second para- ; graph. Defense counsel sought to prove j that the money was owing Kern by i Dick Burdg, president of the corporation and not the corporation Itself. Burdg, on the 'stand, admitted owing the money, but stated that the debt was contracted before the incorporation. Mrs. Jessie Burdg. his mother, is the other member of the corporation. The jury of eight men and four women retired at 5 o'clock and returned with a verdict at 7:05 p. m. An over abundance of records introduced in evidence by defense counsel enhanced the belief that the trial might be continued over today, but with the introduction completed, the closing arguments were presented late yesterday afternoon. Judgment was awarded on the verdict. o Treanor Nominated For Federal Judge I Washington. Dec. 11 —(UP) —President Roosevelt today sent to the senate the nomination of Walter I'l. Treanor, Indiana, to be judge of the ! seventh U. S. circuit court of ap-: peals at Chicago. Trenor is now a member of the Indiana supreme court. Treanor was nominated to the va-. cancy created by retirement of cir-1 i cult judge Samuel Alschuler.

Give To The Good Fellows And Aid Decatur’s Needy

Two weeks from today is Christ-, mas! Have you done your part? Have i you 'been a GOOD FELLOW? I It not, make your contribution' | now to aid the Good Fellows club make this Christmas a little bright-, er, a bit happier for those less for- j tunate, who, without the aid of oth- j ers, will sit through a dreary, dis-' mal Christmas Day, a day which | should be the most joyous of the year. Sponsored for years by the Delta l Theta Tan sorority of Decatur, the Good Fe'lows club annually has sipread cheer among the city's needy and less fortunite. Last year, nearly S4OO was do- i nated to the Good Fellows club and food and clothing were distributed to 57 different families of the city, making Christmas happier for 185 children. Other and larger cities have their community chests, with concerted and high pressure drives to collect funds sufficient to aid the unfortunate. *

i Chrystiann Alspaugh Dies Friday Night Mrs. Chrystiann Akpaugh, age 92, died at her home in Stryker, Ohio Friday evening. The deceased was la resident of Willshire township for 40 years. The following children survive: J. E. Alspaugh of Stryker, Ohio., O. L. Alspaugh of Cuyahoga Falls Ohio, Dr. E. H. Aalspaugh of Willshire. 0.. and Mrs. Fred Herdring of Anderson. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p. m. at Rockford. DEATH CLAIMS MRS, HOAGLAND Mrs. Beatrice Hoagland Dies Friday Night At Fort Wayne Mrs. Beatrice Bard Hoagland, 35, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis ’ Whittenbarger of Union township. I died last evening at 6:55 o’clock I at the Fort Wayne Methodist hos-; pltal. Death was caused by embolism. The deceased was born in Union ; township August 15, 1902. the daughter of Willis and Etta DavidWhittenbarger. At the time of her death she was residing in Fort Wayne. She was a member of the Fort Wayne Church of GodSurviving. besides the parents. | are four children: Leroy, Geraldine. Truman and Kermit, all aL home The following brothers and sisters also survive: Mrs. Alma Lommons, Mrs. Robert Judt, of Decatur; Opal, at home; Carl Whittenbarger of New Haven and Harold of Union township. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 1 o’clock at the home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Whittenbarger. and at ■ 1:30 o'clock at the Clark's Chapel church. Burial will be made in the church cemetery. The body may be viewed after 7 o'clock tonight at the parents’ I home, where it will lie taken from the S. E. Black funeral parlors.

, In Decatur, contributions are all I voluntary, no pressure is exerted, members of the Delta Theta Tau I sorority work tirelessly for weeks | collecting the donations, making exhaustive investigations of each case reported to them, and then, |on Christmas Eve, distributing | these precious baskets of clothing , and food. | Malke your contribution today. Five boxes have been placed in I downtown stores and offices to ac- ' cept these donations. These boxes are located in the Daily Democrat! office, ■ the First State Bank, the I Rice hotel, the post office, and the j Adams county memorial hospital, i Any donors unable to drop their contributions in any of these various boxes, may mail their gifts to the Good Fellows club or to this office, where they will be given dir- j i ectly to those in charge. The distribution of the gifts will be made Christmas Eve by members of the Delta Theta Tau, assised, as in the past several years, by I members of the B. P. O. Elks.

FLOODS ADD TO | HARDSHIPS OF : COLD WEATHER Floods On Pacific (’oast, Snow In East Add Discomfort By United Press Floods, gales and torrential rains on the Pacific coast, com- ; blued with extreme cold and heavy snows to tin- east for the winter's most bitter advance, caused new I hardship and suffering across the nation today. Tlte west const from California ito Washington was lashed by I heavy winds At Buffalo. Red Cross workers aided city and suit mbun dwellers virtually marooned by one of the heaviest snowstorms for the area in a decade. From the northwest, down through the central states to the south, freezing temperatures continued unabated. U. S. government forecaster C. A. Donnel said that the cold and snow which has caused lit) deaths i may moderate in the north central : states over the weekend. He pre-' dieted a brief respite for the northwest. However, a great mass of, bolar air hovered over the Mac-j kenzie river basin and probably will advance over the United ; States early next week, he said. In California, the rapidly rising wateiw of the Yuba river swirled into the little town of Downieville, isolating it from the outside world. At least 450 persons were reported to have fled their homes before the power service was disrupted and the town plunged into darkness. All bridges on highways leading into the Sierra Nevada community were washed out. Telephone and telegraph lines were swept away' by the waters. August Costa. 75. retired mining man. was reported missing by I relatives. It was feared he had. been carried away by the high . waters. Other northern California rivers ' [ neared flood stage from nearly five ■ Inches of rain in 24 hours. Rail-1 road tracks were washed out as ' far east as Ogden. Utah. Dirt i ; slides blocked highways near ; I Monterey. Twenty passengers on a north-; ; west Pacific train escaped injury I when the train was trapped be-; j tween two landslides at Willit, I ' Calif. Ships reported hurricane winds I and mountainous waves along the 1 i coast. The Dollar liner President j ' Hoover struck a reef and was fast ■ (aground south of the Island of] ' Formosa, 400 miles from the Philippines. Ail its 500 passengers; were reported safetly landed on Hoishoro Island, one of the Formosa group. Five persons were dead in the, Buffalo area. Thirty inches of j snow, driven by gale-like winds, | I fell there in three days. Rescuers i battled high drifts to bring sup-' plies to isolated families. Rescuers reached 13 persons snowbound in a garage two miles from Buffalo. The stranded had subsisted on popcorn, crackers and ham since their isolation Wednesday. The death toll rose to 11 in western Pennsylvania. Five were coasting deaths and three were caused by exposure. Other deaths resulted from fires, j caused by overheated stoves, and j traffic accidents on icy pavements The mercury held below freezing I over the northeastern section of j the country and neared freezing in Florida and northern Texas. Nearly 150 motorists and truck drivers were stranded near South Haven, Mich., by heavy snows. Emergency state crews were sent' to aid them. Snow flurries and continued cold were predicted for eastern New York, Pennsylvania and northern. New Jersey. Slightly warmer i weather was predicted for West Virginia and Kentucky. Representative minimum temperatures were: Devils Lake, N. D., I 1-2; Mismatch, N. D.. 0; Greenville,| Me., 4; Duluth, Minn.. 6; Washington, D. C., 20; Philadelphia. 26; New York City, 29; Kansas City. ■ 6; St. Louis, 23; Albany. N Y 21; (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) i o Britain Train Wreck Kills At Least 32 | Galsgo, Scotland, Dec. 11—-(UP) '—Crews worked in a bitter blizzard : and six inches of snow today to extricate remaining bodies from the wreckage of an Edinburg to Glasgow express train which plowed into a stationary (passenger train at Castlecary last night, killing at least 32 persons. lit was the worst, train wreck in Britain since 1915, vhen 224 persons and 246 were injured in a j troop train collision at Gretna | Green.

Thousands Os Japs Storm Defenses Os Capital Os China

STATE SEEKING TAX PAYMENTS Town Os Geneva Appeals To Federal Court Os Appeals A decision in the case of the state of Indiana against the Geneva Water company, in which the stale seeks to compel the company to pay income taxes and penalties, amountling to more than $2,000, is expected : from the federal court of appeals : within 30 days. The appeal to the court was cotn- ; pleted Wednesday at Washington, i D. C., with Forest E. Deitsch, Geneva town e'erk and A. D. Unversaw,' iattorney, representing the Adams I county town. Mr. Deitsch was callled as a witness. it is stated that the state has been endeavoring to collect income I taxes, because the Geneva water system was installed by what was : actually a dummy corporation, ! which it is claimed was the only way the money for the Improvement could be raised The company built the water works and leased it to the town of Geneva, the lease specifying that the town pay $2,400 per year rental from the town treasury. The full amount of this, it is said, was to be used in the retirement of stock and bonds against the comptftty. Upon the retirement of these, it , is claimed, the water works was to I become the property of the town. 'lt is contended that the Geneva water works ceased to function as soon as the water works wag comi pleted and the town had always . made its payments directly to the : stockholders of the stocks and bonds. SUGAR COMPANY PLANS MEETINGS Central Sugar Company Plans Series Os Ten Meetings Ten meetings, which will be attended by more than 2,000 farm- . ers have been arranged for the next two weeks by the Central : Sugar Company. The first two meetings are set ! for Monday, December 13. The ! one for growers in Huntington and t Whitley counties and the southwestern part of Allen county will : be held in the Albert Knight build-! ing at Roanoke, at 1:30 p. m. The meeting for the growers of Wells and Blackford counties will be held at 7:30 p. tn. at the community building in Bluffton. Here December 16 Tuesday evening growers in the six southeastern townships of Al- ' len county will meet at the MonI roeville high school. Growers living in the western part of Van I Wert county, Ohio, will meet at , the Redmen’s hall in Convoy, 0., Wednesday night, December 15 at I 7 p. m. The meeting for the east I ' half of Van Wert county is scheduled for 1:30 p. m. Thursday the j 16th at the People Bank building in Van Wert. The growers in the I north six townships of Adams 1 county also meet Thursday at 7:301 ! p. m. in the auditorium of the De-j I catur public high school in Decatur. Friday night at 7:30 p. tn., grow- , ers in the south six townships of ; Adams county, along with those] ' from Jay county and the north] I part of Mercer county, Ohio, will! ; meet at the high school building in Monroe. i Growers from Darke county, O-, ! and those from the southern part of Mercer county will meet with growers from Randolph county. Indiana, at 7:30 p. m. Monday, Dec. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Buys Health Bond Members of the Decatur Rotary club voted Thursday night to buy a $5 health Christno, Seals! rcßEuiScs 9 ju is association, ' jj’W.Guy Brown, ; president, announced to:[l 'Hi Al a Y- Proceeds o f the sales Buy and Use Them aid victims of the disease and to give milk to un-j | dernourlsbed children of Decatur. I

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Japanese Confident Os Subduing Nanking By ‘ Nightfall ;Chinese Fight Stubbornly. ’ LOSSES HEAVY Shanghai, Dec 11 — (U.R) - Thousands of Japanese troops , stormed th»> last Chinese df'fetifws t inside Nanking today, mid- hoped . to subdue the city by night. At 6 p. m. a Japanese army . spokesman said that "encirclement I of the Chinese positions is proceedi ing rapidly and a formal entry will not be delayed long." He added , that there was "considerable Chinese opposition." Nanking's ancient wall. 32 miles ' long, had been broken in many i places by the thousands of shells . poured into it by heavy artillery. Tanks led the final assault and , crumbled the wall in some places. , The first Japanese detachment . to enter the capital broke through , the Kuang Hua gate late yesterday and advanced to the Chinese inner . defenses In the crowded blocks a hall-inile away. A rain of Chinese machine g :n . bullets, poured from houses and street blockades, swept the halfmile wide open space to the gate and cut down hundreds of Japanese. Some reports described the fighting as the most furious of the four months old war. The Chinese apparently were determined to defend the capital to the last man, but seemed to lack adequate leadership and fought as well as they did only because of their hitter hatred for the invaders. The battle raged throughout the night and. at 10 o'clock this morning, Lieut. Gen. Prince Yastthlko, a member of Japan s supreme war council and commander in the Nanking area, ordered all his troops to the assault. Immediately. Japanese swarmed up to the walls from three sides. Correspondents for the Dome! i News agency — only Japanese II newspapermen were permitted to I accompany the imperial troops—- ' reported that mountain guns, one pounders and machine guns had been placed atop the outer wall at several points to cover the infantry advance on Chinese positions in the heart of the city. Once the Chinese attempted a suicidal counter offensive but were thrown back. The Japanese correspondents claimed that the Chinese attempted to halt the advance by using gas-filled trench mortar shells They did not specify what (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Decatur W. C. T. U. Will Meet Tuesday The Decatur W, C. T. U. will meet at the home of Mrs. Hubert Zerkel Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The meeting will open with song, followed by devotions by Mrs. Jesse Trioker. Special music will be furnished by Mrs. Charles RoLenold, Mis. Ed Wicks and Mrs. Frank Crist. The principal address will be delivered by the Rev. James A, Weber .pastor of the First United Brethren church. Mrs. Fred Busche will lead the discussion of current events, followed by the closing song. YOUNG DECATUR MAN DIES TODAY Hubert Rumschlajr Dies This Morning At Fort Wayne Hospital Hubert Thomas Rumschlag, 22, well known Decatur young man, died this morning at 9:55 o'clock at the Irene Byron Sanatorium at Fort Wayne. Death was caused by tuberculosis. The deceased was born near Decatur March 1, 1915, the son of Ed- - ward and Agnes Omlor-Ruschlag. He was a member of the St. Mary’s ■ Catholic church and the Holy Name i society. The father preceded him In death Augimt 14, 1936. Surviving, besides the mother, are the following sisters: Rosemary, Mildred, Jeanette, Patricia, Marjorie and Ruth, all at home. Mildred has been a patient at the sanatorium for some time. The body is expected to be re- : turned io the home here Sunday 1 night. .] Funeral arrangements have not I been completed.