Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1938 — Page 1

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ISSUE WARNING AGAINST SCHOOL Civil Service Commission Warns Against “SoCalled" Schools Word has been received at the local post office from the United ; States ciivl service commission, warning against so-called “civilservice" schools, their agents and advertisements. The word states that no school ■ is able to fulfill any promises of government positions. The public i is also warned against any schools ' or agents, who state they i'epieaeiit the government, are connected with the government in any way. i or who give assurance in passing i civil service exams. Extravagant claims of this type are bringing some schools nnder federal investigation, the report ; states, and it is the aim of the gov- : eminent to protect the public against such frauds. The report states that anyone \ ' can obtain civil service information I free from the secretary of the ‘ United States civil service board, at any first or second class post office or direct from the federal office. Upon request, the cotnmis i sion will place the person's name upon a mailing list to send him a i examination held for any particuI notice, without cost, of the next I lar position in which he is inter I ested. The commission will furI nish upon request sample announcements of any examination The above Information was re- ! leased from the Decatur post office I by Carroll Cole, clerk, for the genI eral information of the public. CHAS. WEALING DIES OF INJURY — Father Os Decatur Woman Dies Os Injuries Suffered In Fall Charles Werling. 59. New Haven [ hardware clerk, and father of Mrs. Cecil Dull of this city, died last night in the Lutheran hospital from injuries received Monday in a fall down an elevator shaft. Werling's death was attributed to a skull fracture and nine broken ribs, the Allen county coroner, stated. The accident occurred at the Stucky brothers hardware in New Haven, where he is employed as a hardware clerk. He stepped backward into the shaft, carrying two galvanized feeding troughs. It was the second time that he had fallen down the shaft, his clothing catching on a projection and saving him on the first occasion. The deceased was a member of the Emanuel Lutheran church at New Haven, and had lived there for the past 18 years. Surviving, besides the widow. Mary, are the following children: Mrs. Dull of Decatur; Mrs. Arthur Bosselman, New Haven; Mrs. Harry Deeter, Fort Wayne; Mrs. Walter Schmidt, Fort Wayne; Arnold, Fort Wayne; George. New Haven; , Herbert, Dorothy and Lorene all at home. Two brothers. August and Fred of Fort Wayne and a sister. Mrs. Susannah Brueck of Hoagland, and four grandchildren also survive. The body will be returned to the home from the Harper and son funeral home Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock and may be viewed there I until time for the private funeral , services Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home, and 2:30 at the Emanuel Lutheran church. I Burial will be made in the New Haven cemetery. Junior Class Play Here Friday Night —~ I Aunt Tillie Goes To Town, a farce in three acts, will be presented Friday night at 8 o’clock at the Decatur high school auditorium by the members of the junior class of the Decatur high school. Dress rehearsal for the play will be held this evening in the school. The presentation is directed by Miss Eloise Lewton. teacher and class sponsor. Tickets are selling for 15 and 25 cents and may be procured from members of the class or at the door on the night of the performance.

Model of the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition

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This model of the 1939 Golden Gate International exposition on a “treasure island" in San Francisco

REBEL TROOPS SCORE VICTORY OVER LOYALISTS Spanish Insurgents Launch One Os Greatest Os War’s Offensives • Hendaye, FrancosSpanish Frontier. March 10. — (UP) — Spanish other greatest offensives ot the civil war. have driven back government troops in nine fierce battle? along a 110-mile Aragon front, dispatches An estimated 400,000 troops. 180, 000 on the insurgent side and 220,of opposed each other along a line extending from Fuentes de Ebro, juet below Zaragoza, to Montalban on the north front. The insurgents said government lines had been broken in four sectors and that their troops bad advanced an average of five miles along the entire line. Loyalist officials at Barcelona admitted that j their troops had been forced back. The road from Belchite to Montailban was out by the insurgents early today just north of Segrua. depriving the government army of .direct contact between its two strongest positions. Communications between the two forces must now be made byway of Alcaniz. Immediate objective of generalissimo Francisco Franco's nationalists appeared to be the recapture of Belchite and control of a strategi|cal'y valuable triangle area bounded by Pina on the north. Alcaniz to the east and Montalban to the south. Success would further remove government presure north of Teruel and enable the insurgents at the same time to strike down the Ebro river valley toward she mediterranlean, to drive a wedge between Vaiencia and Barcelona, and cut out (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) 14 STALLIONS ENTER IN SHOW Adams County Enters 14 In District Spring Stallion Show Archie Smitley, Edwin Neuhauser and County Agent L. E. Archbold attended the district show eta! lion meeting at Fort Wayne Wednesdayevening and presented entry forms I for 14 stallions for Adams county. Eighty-one stalliorts in all were en--1 tered from the eleven counties in i the district and will be judged by Ralph Hudson of Michigan State i University on Tuesday, March 15, at the Speedway Park just north of I Fort Wayne. p, T. Brown, Purdue extension horseman, states that this is likelv to be the largest of the five spring stallion shows to be held in the state. Dr. Gilley, chairman of the show, has assigned the various ringside duties to all county agents in the district, a move which will permit the horsemen to give full time and attention to the handling of horses in the show ring. Without a doubt mare owners will profit greatly by attending this show and deciding which stallion in this show will nick best with their mares.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 10, 1938.

Four Persons Injured In Fort Wayne Accident Fort Wayne, Ind., March 10— (UP)—Four person® were injured today when their automobile skidded into the rear of a truc’k driven bv Lawrence McLaughlin, 23. Indianapolis. Most seriously hurt were Miss Bernedetta Waltz. 20. and Erma Kapuspa. both of Fort Wayne, who suffered severe laveratfons and bruises and other possible injuries. PLAN TOWNSHIP FARM MEETINGS 1938 Farm Layv To Be Explained In Series ’ I Os Meetings There have been majiy conflicting versions of the new farm law, ■ which is to be effective on the 1938 ■ crop. Therefore it was felt desirable ■ to give the interested people of • Adams county an opportunity to hear the whole story in regard to . the 1938 farm law in a series of • township meetings, which are as : foVows: Monday, March 14: 9 A. M.—Blue Creek township, 1 Salem church. 1 P. M.—Root Township. Monmouth Gym. 7 P. M.—Hartford township, Hart- ' ford high school. Tuesday. March 15: —All at 7:00 P. M. Kirkland township. Kirkland high ' school. 1 French township, Election school. I ' Union township. Immanuel Luth-! eran School. , Wednesday. March 16: All meet I ' Ings at 7:00 p. m. ' Jefferson township, Jefferson ' high school. Washington tow’nship, Decatuhigh school. Monroe township, Monroe high School. Thursday, March 17 —All meetings at 7:00 p. m. St. Marys, Pleasant Mills. Preble, Preble School. ■ Friday. Marchll78 —7 P. M I Wabash Township, Geneva high I school.

LENTEN MEDITATION (Rev. Paul W. Schultz) (Zion Lutheran Church) OUR SAVIOR’S SUFFERING A fact of profound importance emphatically reiterated by all I Christian teachers during Lent is Jesus' suffering. And when people concern themselves in understanding and believing the significance of it, upon the basis of Scipture. then the multitudinous blessings of Jesus entire passion are their heavenly benediction for time and . eternity. Note especially the extreme greatness of Jesus’ suffering as revealed by the certainty that as our substitute he bore the sins of the whole world and paid every penalty exa'cted by divine justice. No : wonder His human nature felt the killing weight of it all when in Gethsemane His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling to i the ground. And only because of His divinity could Jesus bear such an awful load and make His substitution sure and comforting to us. Freely must we also acknowledge that we are the cause of Jesus' > suffering, that He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, and that He hath made Him to be sin for us, as the Bible affirms. We are the reason why Jesus suffered such agonies of soul and body, why He ' died such an ignominious death on Calvary. Your sin and my sin 1 and every man’s sin was the cause. We should have suffered that 1 curse of sin which made Jesus writhe in Gethsemane's dust as a worm. ■ Then the purpose of Jesus’ suffering depicts that heavenly granI dear of the Father's love for sinners. Jesus suffered to set mankind i free from sin, death, hell, and the power of the devil. Here Is a purpose most unique, a purpose of incomparable importance, a purpose ; unsearchably great. A Savior suffering to bring eternal freedom to untold millions of immortal souls dyed with the deep dye of sin—- ’ who can measure such a task! : Make this hard fought redemption your own by implicit faith in j Jesus. It you are lost, it is only because you refuse to accept it.

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ROBERT SHAW SENTENCED TO DIE IN CHAIR Lagrange Slayer Os Deputy Sheriff' To Die June 24 Lagrange. Ind . March 10—(U.R)- — Robert Shaw. 27. who blazed a trail of crime across three states, was under sentence today to die in the ' electric chair at Michigan City state prison June 24 for the guider of Harry Spice. laigrange deputy sheriff, last Dec. 3. Shaw, crippled by bullets from Indiana and Michigan state police 1 guns, was carried into court late yesterday from the automobile which had brought him here from the prison hospital. He pleaded guilty to Spice's slaying after protesting: “I shot in self-defense. Nobody gave* me a chance and 1 knew it was either Spice or me. "Spice shot at me three times but missed. That's why I shot.” Judge Clyde C. Carlin, who proi nouneed sentence, said evidence indicated Spice did not use his gun. Shaw shot and killed Spice and wounded Sheriff Irvin Cazier of Noble county in the arm when they approached the Walter Devenbaugh farm home where Shaw had worked. The officers had gofie there to arrest Shaw for the shooting of Earl Eulitt, Kendallville grocery store clerk, the night before. Shaw escaped the trap but was captured and shot in a corn field near here Dec. 4 after officers of I three states — Michigan. Indiana and Ohio —had searched for him. Judge Carlin appointed Dudley W. Gleason. Angola, io act as (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) O Rudolph Hotter Out For Committeeman Rudolph Kolter has announced that he will be a candidate for Democratic committeeman from I North Kirkland.

CHAUTEMPS ANO CABINET QUIT, POWER DENIED French Cabinet Resigns _ After Support Is Denied By Deputies Faris, March 10 <U.R> — Premier ‘ Camille Chautemps and his cabinet ( resigned today, after seven weeks and two days in office, because their own followers in the popular front coalition had rejected their demand for extraordinary financial | powers to safeguard the treasury. , With his written resignation in his pocket, Chautemps faced the, chamber of deputies and announced that socialists and communists of the popular front coalition refused to support him. He said that unless they changed their minds, ? he would resign. t Socialists and communists re- , mained unmoved. With a gesture r of disgust, Chautemps left the t tribune, waved to his cabinet ministers to follow him and at an in- t formal meeting in a chamber ante- , | room the cabinet made its final ( , decision. Members went’ at once to the | Elysee palace where President Al-1 £ ! bert Leßrun was waiting, and , there Chautemps handed the presb , dent the resignation. , Leßrun began consultation at ( once with political leaders in , I hope of selecting a new premier— ( perhaps Chautemps himself —by , |! tonight, so that a reorganized ministry could face parliament not , ' later than the middle of next week ‘ to make its declaration and seek | a vote of confidence. The prospect was for a widened ( coalition in which the communists I would be excluded and the centrist groups included, with a premier ( from either Chautemps’ own radi- ( cal socialist party or Leon Blum's ‘, socialist party. ' I The previous cabinet, which ’ i Chautemps led. and which contained socialist as well as radical 1 r socialist members, was overthrown ’ . .. i I.—i < >i (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o GUN GIRL AND LOVER GUILTY , I Allen Circuit Court Jun Convicts Pair Os Banditry , ( Fort Wayne, Ind., March Id—- - Luci'le Martin Reeves, 19. blond > gun-girl, and her sweetheart, Gail Richendollar. 32. Fort Wayne truck I driver, were convicted of automo--1 bi’e banditry by an Allen circuit, • court jury last night. Judge Harry H. Hiligemann sen- 1 1 fenced Richendollar, who ie married ■ and the father of two children, to | - serve 10 years at the Michigan City ■ state prison. The court deferred sentence against Miss Revees until t next week. 1 The jury deliberated about three f hours. It did not return a verdict i: on a second affidavit, charging rob - < ; bery. ' \ Richendollar and Miss Reeves re- j ’ mained calm as the verdict was ’ I read, their hands c’asped together. , Tears streamed down her face as she was led from the courtroom. Miss Reeves committed three robberies. she confessed, to Leip finance her courtship with Richendollar. Her crimes included the holdup of her brother’s restaurant at r Walkerton,-Ind., and the robbery of 1 a street car motorman and a chain grocery store here. She declined to implicate Richendollar in the crimes. — o — Two Bank Cases Are Delayed To March 18 The two cases brought by the j liquidators of the Old Adams County Bank against stockholders who have failed to pay their assessments were reset for trial on Fri!day, March 18, in the Wells circuit court by Judge John Decker. The case was set for trial today, by Judge Decker granted the defendants an extent of time when i their attorneys, Smith and Parrish, failed to appear. No new answers i to the complaints have been filed since Judge Decker sustained deI murrere against all of the defense I set up by the deefndants except the I genera’ denials. Bert Seesenguth Is Candidate For Trustee Bert A. Sessenguth, today announced his candidacy tor the Democratic nomination as trustee of French township, subject to the pri-: mary election Tuesday, May 3. Mr., Seesenguth is married and the father of three children.

Plebiscite Vote Call Results In Protest By Nazis

AGNES EICHER TAKES OWN LIFE BY CHLOROFORM Mrs. Chris Eicher Commits Suicide During Night Mrs. Agnes Eicher 56, committed suicide last night about midnight in - a local hotel, it was learned today ' when no answer was given when maids attempted to enter the room i to e'ean it. Mrs. Eicher is the wife of Christian Eicher well known Preble resident and a member of the Adams , county council. It was learned today that Mrs. I Eicher registered at the Rice hotel at 5:30 o’clock Wednesday evening and returned to her room for the night at 10:30 o’clock. At 1:30 o’clock thks afternoon hotel officials cal’ed policeman Adrian Coffee, who was able to pick the lock. The door had been locked from the in- . side. Mrs. Eicher was found dead. Adams County Coroner Robert Zwick was summoned and estimated Mrs. Eicher had been dead about 12 hours. Chloroform was used. Coroner Zwidk indicated he would return a verdict of suicide by chloroform.” , It was reported by the police, ■ that Mrs. Eicher had padded the , door of her room in order to pre-, vent the fumes from escaping. Four ! bottles of chloroform were used. She left an unsigned note, which did not give the cause for the suicide, but gave her wishes as to the disposal of her personal effects. | Mr. and Mrs, Eicher were married (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) i - Regular Legion Meeting Monday A regular meeting of Adams Post, No. 43 will be held at the Legion | Home Monday evening at 8 o’clock. A specia’ program has 'been arranged to celebrate the birthday of the Legion, in conjunction with the regular meeting. All members are requested to attend. o Geneva Man Arrested For Beating Mother Arlington Miller, aged about 26. ■ was arrested at Geneva late this afternoon by Sheriff Dalia; Brown I and deputy Leo Gillig. [He was arrested on charges of | assault and battery, filed by his | mother, Mrs. Milo Miller. He was brought to the Adams county jail pending arraignment. — o — Tuberculosis Clinic Held Here Wednesday Ten local persons were at the tuberculosis clinic held yesterday, W. Guy Brown, president of the local association reported this morning. The clinic was conducted by Dr. Kittle of the Irene Byron sanatorium and he was assisted by Mrs. Oscar Lankenau. local nurse. MORE FILE FOR OFFICES HERE Five Additional Candidacies Are Filed With County Clerk With 20 days remaining to file declaration of candidacy, the list of candidates who have filed in the county clerk's office continued to I grow today. Among those who filed today were three candidates for the Hartford advisory board. The name of William Adang, Democratic candidate for trustee ■of Jefferson township, was erroneously listed the other day as William Adams. Following are those who filed today : Gerhard C. Reinking, Democratic j candidate for trustee, Union township. Eli Dubach, Democratic candidate for trustee, Hartford township. Peter N. Moser, Democratic candidat efor advisory board, Hartford. Chester Hall, Democratic candidate for advisory board, Hartford i Ray F. Eicher, Democratic candidate for advisory board, Hartford.

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Austrian Chancellor In Call For Plebiscite On Independence For Country. NAZIS RIOTING Vienna, March 10— (U.R) —Nazis I demonstrated in Vienna and in cities of pro-Nazi Styria province today in protest against Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg's call for a national plebiscite on Austrian independence. Workers of the fatherland front | dashed with Nazis at Graz and elsewhere in Styria. The extent of j casualties was not immediately reported, but first aid detachments | stood by. Troops, gendarmes and police ' guarded key cities against more I violent outbreaks. Clashes occurred In Vienna around loud speakers broadcasting recordings of Schuschnigg's plebiscite speech, the Nazis trying to drown out the speech. Later, demonstrations occurred in the neigh--1 borhood of the German travel bureau and were broken up by mounted police. In Graz, the local Volks Kultur —Nazi —section of the fatherland 1 front instructed Nazis not to participate in the plebiscite, in which the ballots bear only the printed word “yes,” unless the voting instructions are changed Tyrol Nazi leaders issued similar instructions. Gendarmerie and police reserves 1 were mobilized for emergency service and ordered on duty to supple- : ment the regular forces. It was reported that leaders of the Heimwehr veterans' associations and the Catholic storm troopers had sent secret orders to their men to observe a week end i (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) WARM WEATHER REMOVES SNOW Only One Accident Reported As Result Os Bad Conditions Despite the unusually hazardous driving conditions overnight, but one accident in or near the city wae reported. 41 888 Early this morning a car driven I by Cectl Dull. McConnell and Sons employe, collided with a car driven ! by a Mr. Runser of Fort Wayne, i No one was hurt but the cars were I badly damaged. The accident occurred on federal road 27, north of the Allen-Adams county line. Mr. Dull was enroute to New Haven, where he had been called by the death of his father-in-law, Charles Werling. Motorist® to Fort Wayne last night and again this morning reported numerous accidents and cars in the ditches. One motorist this morning reported four cars in the ditch and several tracks where others had gone in. A heavy snowfall last night packed tightly to paved roads and slowed traffic considerably. Extra caution in the city is believed to have prevented the usual number of minor mishap®. Temperatures rose rapidly this morning, however, to erase practii cally the last vestige of the heavy ' fall. The thermometers rapidly rose ■ above the freezing point about 9 o’clodk. Townsend Asks Review Os Prison Sentence Washington, Mar. 10. —<U.R> —Dr. > Francis E. Townsend, old age pen- : | sion advocate, today asked the sui preme court to review validity of > the 30-day jail sentence imposed on conviction of charges of con- ’ tempt of a house committee. Townsend's petition contended that the District of Columbia's fed- , eral district court, where he was i tried, erred in refusing to permit - him to introduce certain trans- • cripts of the committee hearings from which he was accused of • walking out. o ! TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER ) 8:00 a.m 27 2:00 p.m 50 - 10:00a.m 33 3:00 p.m 46 Noon .38 I . WEATHER - Fair tonight and Friday, war- . mer Friday.