Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1938 — Page 3

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CLUB CALENDAR <> Society Deadline, 11 A. M. y ! Fanny Macy I Whones 1000 — 1001 ,f ! d Wednesday ’ i Calvary Evangelical Ladies Aid, s Mrs. E. W. Jackson, all-day. i Shakeepeare Club, Mrs. Herman a Ehinger. 2:30 p. tn. < Hlstorial Club, Mrs. Delton Pass- “ water, 2:30 p. m. ? Thursday t i Christian Indies' Aid Society Mrs. Elmer Harlacher, 2 p. tn. Women of Moose, Moose Homo 7:30 p. m. Regular Stated Meeting of Order ■ of Eastern Star. Masonic Hall, 7:30 ’ i p. m. St. Rita's Study Club, K. of C. 1 Hall. 7:30 p. ni. Friday •; Mt. Pleasant Bible Claes, Mr. and ’ Mrs. Milton Fuhrman, 6:30 p. m. ’ American Legion Auxiliary, Le--1 gion Home. 7:3oip. m. Riley P. T. A.. Riley School, 2 ‘ p. m. 1 Kirkland Home Economics Club, Kirkland High School. 1:00 p. m. ! I M, E. Ladies’ Aid Society. Mrs. Jesse Leßrun. 2:30 p. m. Saturday r Supper, Zion Lutheran Church, ’ sto 7 o’clock. Monday ' Research Club, Mrs. Dan Sprang 2:30 p. m. • and Marshall streets. A modern ’ six-room house is being construct- • ed. Ira Jones of Fort Wayne looked I after business in Decatur Wednesday. Mrs. Milton Hower will leave Fri-1 i day for Indianapolis, where she will ’ join her daughter. Miss Marcella . Hower, for a trip to Menomonie. . Wis., They will visit for a week • with Mrs. Hower’s son-in-law and ■ daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William : Lundy and daughters. I i Forrest Ross, local shoe store i manager, was uptown today for the i first time since being confined to ’ the hospital and his home with an ' attack of influenxa. Ed Aumam-i of route 1 attended to l business in Decatur thte morning. Mrs. Dan Clevenger of Monroe- > ville shopped in Decatur this afternoon. Mrs. H. B. Heller. Mrs. John W. Tyndall and Mrs. W Guy Brown • attended a county federation of i clubs meeting in Wells county Tuesday THREE DIE RS PLANE CRASHES Two Men And (Jiri Killed In Plane Crash Near Benton Harbor Benton Harbor, Mich., Mar. —XU.R>—The bodies of Fred Warton and George Heppler of South Bend. Ind., and an unidentified young gill today were carried out of a ’ dense swamp where they died in a flaming cabin plane which crashed last night. Deputies at St. Joseph said Sheriff Carl E. Burr had attempted to identify the dead girl but had not yet succeeded She was believed to be a resident of South Bend. The plane crashed less than a minute after it took off from the Benton Harbor airport. The swamp j in which it fell was almost inpenatrable and sheriff's deputies were forced to wade through water almost waist deep to extricate the, bodies. The plane was demolished and the bodies of the two men were burned. The young woman s body was thrown approximately 20 feet from the wreckage. Burt Briney, airport manager, said the trio came here from South Bend yesterday afternoon and took off late last night in the glare ' from his automobile headlights. Warton reportedly was a transport pilot and Heppler had recently attended an aviation course at Dallas, Texs. The plane belonged to Homer Stockert of the Stockert Flying Service, South Bend. O ; Frank Ulmer Confirmed As Bluffton Postmaster Washington, Mar. 23.—i(U.R>— The senate late yesterday confirmed the nomination of Frank Ulmer to be postmaster at Bluffton, Ind. o Tickets Available For Democratic Banquet Tickets for the monthly meeting | ■ ot the Democratic Woman's club, to be held March 31, at Geneva, 1 may be obtained from the ticket 1 committee in this eity. The committee is composed of Mrs. Ada Martin, Mrs. Alva Nichols, Mrs. Charles Brodbeck. Mrs. j ’ Leo Kirsch, Mrs. Harve Baker. | - Miss Alice Lenhart and Miss Mary | McKean. 1 The program is being arranged, I

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which will ho in charge of Mrs. i I Margaret Rhoades, t>f Geneva, gen-i i eral chairman. A dinner meeting will be held. The banquet will be served at the Methodist church at 6:30 o’clock. Man, Woman Sought As Robbery Suspects South Bend. Ind., Mar. 23— Police today sought Russell A. Knhkelbein of laiPorte and Mrs. Bertha Mending of Michigan City who are wanted for questioning in connection with a series of hold ! ups in Michigan City, laiporte. Rome City, and two In Mishawaka According to police here, Knick j elbein. who has boasted he never 1 would be taken alive, was adjudged Insane after he kidnaped Dor- ’ thea Emmons. 17, in 1935. He ■ was sent to the state prison hospital at Michigan City and recent-1 ly was paroled. He held Miss Emmons for 12 hours. o URGE HIGH TAX ON WAR PROFIT Senate Subcommittee Favors High Taxes On W ar Profits Washington, March 23 — (U.R) — | A senate finance sub-committee , today recommended that Sen. Tom Connally's bill to levy high taxes on war profits be attached to the ■ new tax bill as a “rider.” The sub-committee, headed by i Connally, recommended the action despite announcement by Chairman Pat Harrison. D., Miss., of the finance committee that he hopes to keep the tax bill clear of; controversial “riders." Harrison wishes to expedite con- ' sideration of the bill as an immediate aid to business. Connally predicted that the full committee would accept the subcommittee recommendation and make the war profits measure a separate title of the tax bill. Connally estimated that his war profits levies would provide |7,800,000.000 in revenue on personal i tavs based on 1928 income. No estimates have been made on the 1 revenue from corporate taxes. Personal surtax rates would be imposed during wartime beginning at 6 per cent on the first SI,OOO of net income after a $3,500 exemp tion. and rise to 80 per cent on net incomes exceeding $50,000 annually- | A system of graduated taxes based on the theory of the undis- : tributed profits tax would Ire stipulated for corporations. Corporations retaining all of their earnings : would be taxed 77 per cent. Lower rates would depend upon the amount of earnings distributed. Meanwhile, committee members studied voluminous testimony in preparation for executive sessions beginning tomorrow. oDEATH CLAIMS K-nMTTKt’RK frßrrM I'SOS OVEI with Rev. J. J. Seimetz. pastor.' officiating. Burial in the Catholic i 1 cemetery. The body will be returned from the S. E. Black funeral home Thursday afternoon and may be viewed at the Lang home until ' the time of the funeral. BUTLER TRIAL CONTINUED FROM FAO» OM> counsel. J The case was originally set for February 14 in Jay county but was postponed upon motion of defense ’ counsel. o CCC Vacancies Open To War Veterans A replacement quota of 146 Indiana War veterans hae been author-. ibed to fill vacancies in the civilian conservation corps, to be enrolled from April 1 to 20. Unemployed veterans seeking to enroll must apply , at once, as formal applications on the prescribed form must be received by April 11. Application blanks and instructions will be furnished to individual veterans upon written request to the Veterans Administration, W. Riverside Drive and 26th Street at Indianapolis. Riley Hospital Is Recipient Os Gifts Indianapolis, Ind., March 23 (UP) —Gifts totaling more than $27,000 received from settlement of five Indiana estates today were i turned over to the James Whit- ■ comb Riley hospital for children to be used for research, endowment : and building. Phone SM IMS W. Adams

ANTI-LYNCHING ACTION URGED Roosevelt Suggests G-Men Be Authorized To Probe ! Lynchings Washington. March 23 — (U.R) - , Threat of filibuster appeared today ; to be the likely answer of southern I statesmen to President Roosevelt's suggestion that the federal govern-' ment be authorized to investigate 1 and publicize facts relating to | lynching or any fatal mob violence. , An anti-lynchlng bill foundered in the senate this session during a filibuster. Mr. Roosevelt had not directly endorsed the bill, but his , leaders were in charge of it and ! maneuvered it close to enactment before the massed oratory or southern statesmen prevailed. Some of those filibusters are ready to talk again, if necessary, to prevent a grant of authority which would enable G-men or other! i federal representatives to pursue ■ lynch-law inquiries in their states. ; The United Press was informed 1 that they would prefer for the i time being to avoid public discus-1 sion of the issue but "that pressure I for Mr. Roosevelt’s plan would “prolong the session.” If the president's congressional leaders report similarly to the White House it Is not likely that any real effort will be made this year to deal further with lynching problems. Considerable practical politics is' bound up in the lynch-law dispute which has split the new deal-Demo-cratic party. Sens. Frederick Van Nuys. D., Ind . and Robert F. Wag ner, D.. N.Y., sponsored the antilynching bill. Their states are two iof the nine in which Postmaster General James A. Farley said dur-j ing the 1936 campaign that negroes held the balance of power. I The president was asked at his press conference yesterday wheth-1 :er he cared to comment on the 1 situation created by senate refusal 1 to pass the anti-lynching bill, which ; already had been approved by the house. Failing to obtain a federal statute on lynching, he said, there should be some provision of speedy investigation. He said he had proposed to individual senators that such provision be made in one of I two ways: 1. Investigation by the department of justice. 2. Investigation by a permanent joint congressional committee. Either method would require ' congressional authorization. No L-ueial penalty would attach to lynchers investigated under the Roosevelt plan. But whoever made | the investigation, Mr. Roosevelt i continued, should be required to make a complete and public report of the facts. An effort was made during the anti-lynching bill filibuster to substitute an investigation bill along the lines ot that proposed now by Mr. Roosevelt. But filibustering senators refused then to consider I It. o MUSSOLINI TELLS ‘ C-ONTINtJgp FROM rAtlB ONE’ ope. Thus, the sphere of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s territorial political and economic expansion would be cleared of one im--1 portant point of pressure for the present at least. The effect would be to give itler greater freedom of action and seek to dissuade him from using force. In addition, British negotiations with Italy in an effort to ease war dangers were reported progressing favorably. London sources predicted that similar talks with Hitler soon would be started by the | Chamberlain government. In both instances, the objective would be to grant concessions to the expanding dictatorial regimes and win pledges that military force would be abandoned in an effort to stabilize Europe's shaky peace. In Spain, where Britain's ace card is to achieve withdrawal of , foreign support for the insurgents, Franco’s army was reported ready for the final big drive against the loyalist government in an effort to reach the Mediterranean. Minor successes in the last few days appeared to have bolstered the nationalists hope of quickly splitting the loyalist territory in two and hemming the government in Catalonia, before withdrawal of Italian i and German volunteers. The nazification of Austria continued rapidly, with 3.000 persons arrested as political offenders, including Archduke Josef Ferdinand of Hapsburg, who lunched on prison fare of soup and beans and meat. The hopes of nazis in Czechoslovakia mounted with the action I of the Agarian party in joining the Czech followers of Hitler and indications that the German Chris- J tian social party may break away : from the government coalition. , The French government, pledgjed to aid the Czechs if Germany ' moves agatnst them but promised British aid only if France is attacked, completed the reorganization of its national defense fund under which Gen. Charles Nollet will administer the huge sums de-

! voted to military preparedness. ( T'.iere were two western hernia- , phere echoes of the European de-1 developments. In Mexico City, Leon Trotsky, once the most powerful figure in sovie Russia, forecast that the "In-, i evitable" world war would leave ' the United States in the world's j ! dominant economic power but that i there was danger ot an American ' revolution. in Rio De Janeiro, newspapers j criticized the inference by nazi j party leaders that the German minority in Brazil was oppressed. BIBLE SCHOOL LEADERS MEET Regional Institute Os Leaders To Be Held At Fort Wayne Pastors, superintendents, leaders land teachers of Bible schools in Ad- i 'urns county have been invited to attend the regional institute of Bible (school leaders at Fort Wayne, March 31. The meeting will be held in the Fort Wayne Y. W. C. iA. building, elartlng at 10 o'clock in the morning. The purpose ot the institute is to aid leaders and teachers in the sei-1 ections of materials and methods for use in the Bible school work. The institute is under the direction ot the Indiana council of Christian education. Devotions and discuseions will comprise the majority ot the morning session, with a luncheon at 12 i o’clock noon. Hymn appreciation and worship and a continuance of discussions ! will be held in the afternoon. The i meeting will be dismissed at 4 1 o'clock. O ONE-ACT PLAY . (CONTINUED FROM FADE ONE» | Grile, Marie Stucky. Franklin Arm- ' strong. “Orville's Rig Date" will begi ven by the following Monmouth students: Jack Mahan. Mary Rabbit, Irene Marhenke. Nellie McKnown. “A Shot in the Dark" will be given by the following Kirkland students: Armine Steiner, Juanita Cable, Donna Belle Arnold, Harold Borne, Eugene Johnston. Irene Fosnaugh, Dale Baumgartner. Paul Baumgartner, Herman Drayer. "Contrast" will be given by the following Hartford students: La--11 Vera Sprunger, Dorothy Moser, Majtsta Baumgartner, Ola Kistler, Richard Amstutz, Kenneth Manning, Ralph Schlagenlhauf. Thurlo Shoemaker, Velma Holston. Earl Burry, Robert Dubach, Herbert , Bentz. — o— Ernest Eickhoff Dies In Kansas Word has been recived by relatives of the death Tuesday of Ernlest Eickhoff, 77. a native of Adams I county, who died at his home in 1 Nacoma. Kansas, following an extended illness. I The deceased was bor n near DeI catur, moving to Kansas 28 years ago. Survivors include three eons, William, George and Walter Eickhoff, and a daughter, Mrs. Amanda , Ahrens, all of Kansas; two brothers Fied of near Decatur and William of near Fort Wayne; three sisters, Mrs. Fred Koenemann and Mrs. i Hannah Schelmann of near Decatur and Mrs. Sophie Conrad of Kansas. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Keystone Young Man Dies Os Injuries Bluffton. Ind.. March 23 —(UP) — Funeral services were held today for William Edward Wright, 24, Keystone, who died in Wells coun- ! ty hospital of injuries suffered Sunday night when the car in which lie was riding struck a parked car here. Wright died of a blood clot on the main. A large vein in his neck was served in the crash. Max Studabaker. 19. driver of the car, escaped serious injury. Prominent Elkhart Attorney Is Dead Elkhart. Ind.. March 23—(UP)—I John T. Holdeman. 27, prominent Elkhart attorney, died last night in an Elkhart hospital following an abdominal operation. He was the son of John W. Holdeman, Elkhart high school principal. He was a graduate of Indiana university in 1931 and of Elkhart high school in 1927. Where he wae a football and basketball star. Star Hammond Guard Suffers Severe Cut Hammond, ilnd., March 23—(UP) —George Sobek. etar gnard of the Hammond basketball team which enters the state touranment at Indianapolis Saturday, suffered a bad cut under his right eye in practice last night. Four stitches were taken j to close the wound.

YDUTH ACCUSED IN PAL’S DEATH Wisconsin Lad Questioned After Fatal Shooting Os Friend Spooner. Wis., Mar. 2.3.— <U.P>Charles Lockhard, 17. was held for questioning today in the slaying ; of his former buddy, Raymond , Washkuhn. victim of a $lO extori tion plot which police believe was I ' Inspired by the recent kidnapslaying of Charles S. Ross. Washkuhn, also 17, a high school senior and son of a well-to-do farm- ' j ing family, was shot Monday night while en route downtown to fulfill the extortion demand. With 1 a bullet from a .2} caliber pistol : in his lung, he crawled nearly a ! block to the home where he boarded during the school term, then ' i collapsed. Early Tuesday, just before he • died, he gasped out part of his story from a hospital bed. Sheriff t Robert 11. Willis said he named Lockhard as his assailant. In his pocket was found a type- ‘ written note. It read: "You are a pretty well-dressed young fellow. Your folks must ■ have money. Put $lO in an en- j i velope and leave It at the public ; • library Saturday night or Sunday , —or else.” Willis said Washkuhn kept the note a secret until Monday night ' when he confided in the son of his landlady and revealed that he was going downtown to telephone his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fred K. Washkuhn. at nearby Spring Brook. WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILEWithout Calomel—And You II Jump Out of Bed Ib the Morning Rarin’ to Go The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile Is not flowing t reely, your food doesn’t digest. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get constipabsi. Your whole system is poisoned and you feel sour. Bunk and the world looks punk. A mere bowel movement doesn’t get at the cause. It takes those good, old Carter’s Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you feel “up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter’s Little Liver Pills by name. 25c. Stubbornly refuse anything else.

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■ to ask them for the money. He had just left file house when I 'ho was accosted. In his death-bed I statement, lie told Sheriff Willis ( J he heard Lockhard’s voice just as two shots rang out. Ono bullet I went wild and struck the boarding house, I Lcokhard, Willis said, denied i knowledge of the note and slay-1 Ing. He formerly went to school i with, and spent much time with j Washkuhn, Willis said. Spooner was the scene two I months ago of Intense activity by G men who .guided by John Henry 1 Seadlund, condemned kidnaper, located the bodies of Ross and J. Atwood Gray, Headland's slain ac-' complice. "It appears that constant talk , of the Ross case and a desire to: 1 imitate it, inspired this case,” Wil- j *lis said.

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Zion Lutheran Plans Fourth Lenten Service The fourth In u series of midweek Lenten services at the Lutheran church will be held this evening. The service will Itegin nt 7:30 j o'clock and will be in the charge of the pastor of the church, the Rev. Paul W. Schultz, who will also de* liver the sermon. The history of Jesus' passion is presented in a series of readings during these seri vices. The public Is cordially in- ' vited to attend tonight. It Is Dangerous It is dangerous to sell a SUBSTITUTE for 666 just to make three or four cents more. Customers are j your best assets; lose them and you lose your business. 666 is worth three or four times as much as a SUBSTITUTE.