Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1938 — Page 1

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Party Listed Wrong Among Candidates Through an error Ell Augsburg er was listed as a Republican candidate in the list of those who til |ed Wednesday Mr Augsburger Is ! a Democrat and lias tiled his inten I tions of running for the township advisory board of Wabash townI ship. THREE NATIONS LAUNCHED INTO BUILDING RACE I 1 U. S.» Britain And Japan Begin New World Navy Building Race By Joe Alex Morris ! (United Press Staff Correspondent) The United States, Great Britain 1 and Japan began a new world ! naval race today as the tide of war I I swung uncertainly in Europe and ■ | Asia. I I In Spain the hard pressed loyal ists dynamited dams on the Cinca ’ I river to delay the advance of Gen. Francisco Franco's insurgent arm--11 ies against Lerida. but a national ■ ■ ist encircling movement appeared i to doom the strategically important city on the Catalonian border. In China the widespread Japan- • ese advance stalled for the time > being and Chinese reports said the -' invaders were in "general retreat" - in sections of vitally important i Shantung and Shansi provinces. ' Advices indicated that advance . 1 Japanese forces had out-distanced their communication lines and | , | that counter attacks by Chinese , had forced them to fall back until positions could be consolidated. Formal opening of the new naval ( 1 building race was heralded in , Washington and London by an- ( nouncement that an exchange of | notes would invoke the so-called , "escalator” clause of the 1936 naval treaty signed by the two powers and France. The action gave notice that henceforth the signatories would be free to ignore the treaty limit of 35,000 tons of battleships iJecMHon to buiM bigger ftoeluw fortresses was credited to reports 1 1 that Japan would build battleships ! up to 43,000 tons. The action of the United States and Britain brought an immediate reply from Tokyo. I "If other powers expand and I I menace our security, we are ready ■ I to build to the necessary levels," : Rear Admiral Kiyoshi Noda, head i i of the Japanese navay information ' bureau announced. France, studying the declaration of Italian premier Benito Musso-. lini that armed forces of fascism are ready for war on land, sea and in the air, delayed formal notice I that she. too, would build bigger . ' ships. It was believed Paris would be guided by Italy’s future action i I In the .Mediterranean. Other international developments: ! Peripignan—A horde of deserters from the Spanish loyalist cause fled across the frontier into France i as the nationalist drive cracked down on Catalonia. Militiamen, soldiers and civilians filled the ‘ frontier mountain passes. More than 60€> armed soldiers and 400 civilians passed through Port De . Benasque in 12 hours. Vienna—l6,ooo Austrian Legion-1 naires who were forced to flee into | (CONTINUED <>N PAGE FIVE) NEW STORE TO OPEN SATURDAY Lankenau Electric Store, Miller Radio Service Open Saturday The formal opening of the com bined lb. L. Lankenau company and Miller Radio Service store on Moni roe street, will be held Saturday, i it was announced today. The new business is housed in | the building, formerly occupied by the S. E. Brown cream station, in the Bowers building on Monroe street. Marcellus Miller, proprietor of the Miller Radio service, formerly operated at his home on Seventh street, will be in charge of the business in the new building. Sale of radios, electrical equipment and fixtures, radio servicing and electrical contracting, will be handled by the Miller Service. Refrigerators, ranges, washers, water softeners and sweepers, all electrical, will be demonstrated and sold by the Lankenau company. The entire Interior ot the store has been remodeled and renovated to accomodate the new type of bust-; ness.

. PRIZES TO BE CIVEN HERE AT COOKING SCHOOL Attractive Array of Prizes Will Be Presented Next Week An attractive array of prizes which will be distributed Monday, i Tuesday and Wednesday at the Ad i! ams theater following the free hioi tion picture school, sponsored by ' the Decatur Daily Democrat, was announced today. | The prizes will be awarded each day following the presentation of J"A Star In My Kitchen." by employes of the Democrat in < barge j of the school. Each person will be registered j upon entering the lobby of the 1 theater by a number of hostesses, I who wifi assist Democrat employes. In addition to the prizes, a quan- ( tity of free recipe pamphlets will be distributed in the Adams theater lobby. The show will start at 2 p. m„ on Monday and Tuesday, with doors open at 1:30. On Wednesday. a special showing will be held [ at 2:45 o'clock to accomodate girl . high school students, who will be I dismissed from classes at an early hour in order that they might at- .: tend. Doors will open at the same . time. Principal W. Guy Brown and the Rev. Joseph J. Seimetz I have given permission for the early dismissal of public and Catholic ■ ; high school girls. Ladies of all II women’s and girls’ organizations 1 in the county and community have been extended a special invitation I to attend. Following is the list of prizes as arranged to date which will* be given away each day: Three five-pound sacks of Pillsbury flour in three prizes; two boxes of Sno-Sheen and Farina ' flours in two prizes; one three- ' pound can Os Spry shortening; one Lux soap gift box; one Foley mixer and blender; two-pound Ideal butter by the Price and Rich Dairy Products Co.; two-quart Cloverleaf ice cream by the Cloverleaf Creamseries. Inc., $1 In trade by thd Blue 1 Creek Dairy store; mirror by the i Sprague Furniture Store; electric toaster by the City of Decatur; coffee maker by the Northern Indiana Public Service corporation; a 25-pound sack of sugar by the Central Sugar company and either a magazine rack or card table by Zwick & Son furniture store. 0. C. BANQUET HERE TONIGHT Annual Chamber Os Commerce Banquet To Be Held Tonight The annual banuet of the Decatur I Chamber of Commerce will be I lield at the Knights ot Pythias home in this city at 6:30 o’clock this evening L. A. Hawkins, Chicago director of the advertising for the International Harwester company, will deliver the principal address. He will I be accompanied to this city by E. O. i manager of the Fort Wayne ' branch of the company. John L. De Voss, president of the ! Chamber of Commerce, will preside l at the banquet and will make a i brief review ot the organization’s activities during the past year. Several vibraphone solos will be played during the banquet by Miss Mildred Wolf, accomplished musiIclan of near Willshire. Ohio. Community singing will be led by , Leo Kirsch, accompanied at the piano by Miss Louise Haubold. The Decautr Rotary club has abnndoned its regular meeting this evening and will attend the C. C. banquet in a body. Members ot the Junior Chamber of Commerte and other civic organizations will also be in attendance. — o—- — Men’s Shop To Open Saturday Formal opening of Essex Men’s Shop in the building formerly ocleupied by the Blue Creek dairy store on North Second street will be held Saturday, April 2, it was announced today. The new store will handle a complete stock of nationally adi vertised lines of men's wear, including clothing, shoes and furnishings. Harold V. Essex is proprietor ot the new store. Neil Highland has been employed at the store to [assist Mr. Essex. Favors will be I given to the ladles on the opening 1 day.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 31, 1938.

Key West Highway Now Open ■: ' ' - . \ /I View of the new highway linking Key West with Miami, Fla. New. |7,400,000 overseas bridge on "the highway that goes to sea," linking Key West with Miami, Fla., now is officially open. The new system of roadways and bridges extends 175 miles.

JACKSON LAUDS I j F.D.R. POLICY Sam Jackson Speaks At Democratic Woman's Club Meeting I More than 150 persons heard Sam i Jackson, Fort Wayne attorney and . | Democratic candidate for United , States sneator, address the Adams j County Democratic woman’s club ( and Democratic candidates from > Adams and Wells counties in the Geneva school house Wednesday. Preceding the address, a banquet , 1 vas served in the Geneva M. E. t church, but the dining room was too small to accommodate the , crowd for the speech. Mr& Faye Smith-Knapp, presi- ] dent of the Adams County Demor cratic Women’s club, opened the f meeting and then introduced Mrs. Margaret Rhoades, of Geneva, chair- , man of the program committee, who ' introduced the special music and Mr. Jackson. The Democratic state candidates from Adams and Wells counties and the Democratic candidates for ( county offices in Adams county ' were introduced by Mrs. Knapp. , judge H. M. DeVoss, of the Adame ; circuit court, a candidate for the judgeship of the state appellate ! court, second division, and Frank i Thompson, of Wells county, joint ) epresentative of Adams and Wells [ counties, and candidate for auditor , of state, were introduced. They spoke briefly, thanking the county for the support it has given them in the paet. The address by Mr. Jackson was- • “Five years ago was the th st inaugural of Franklin D. Roosevelt — the beginning of the New Deal, the best thing that has happened to this republic in more than half a century. ‘ j "Five years ago. our party assum- ! ed as its first obligation the ad--1 vancement of the people’s welfare. : Five years ago, to lead this advance, the president, head of our i ’ i party, was charged with full respon- ' sibility. The stoutest heart might 1 then have quailed had it not been ’ for the reassurance of a unified par- ' i ty structure. Within the iparty struci ture these Women's Democratic i I ‘ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) 15 Delegates To State Convention ■ j Fifteen delegates from the Adams county Young Democratic club will go to Terre Haute Friday 1 to attend the two-day convemtoin of Yqung Democrats of Indiana.

LENTEN MEDITATION (Rev. C. M. Prugh) (Zion Reformed Church) “HIS LOVE TOWARD US” "God commendeth His love toward us. in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8. Looking upon Calvary and the great transaction there, numerous solemn impressions come to our minds. We see the deadly earnestness of Jesus. His unwillingness to compromise His message, carried to the point of martyrdom. We see the blackness and awfulness of sin, see how it thwarts and spoils God's fair creation. We see in the crucifixion of Jesus the ultimate working out of the spirit of selfishness, and realize that it is the same selfishness that dominates the world today. But St. Paul reminds us of another great lesson which is not so apparent to our unseeing eyes. We are to see in the Cross a revelation of God’s redeeming love For, to re-state the words of the text, it is there on the Cross that this great love commends itself to us in most dramatic fashion. There we see God at work reconciling the world unto Himself. There we see to what lengths God’s infinite love will go to save us from sin. This Cross is heaven’s last, supreme effort to curt mankind of sin. If the contemplation of the love displayed on Calvary does not break our hearts and make us repent, then God has no further means of bringing us to salvation.

Another Victim Os Dok Poisoner The latest of the victims of a dog | poisoner, which has resulted in the ■ death ot more than a score of dogs ' in the north part of the city, was ; reported today by Mrs. Fra,tk Jennings of 325 North Fourth street. ' Their dog died this morning from effects of the same poisoning given I other dogs in that section ot the ' city. Authorities here re-doubled their efforts to find the poisoner and pro-mised-prosecution if he is found. o TWO DAYS LEFT TO SEEK OFFICE Additional Candidates File Declarations As Deadline Ne?rs With only two more days to file the parade of candidates continued ' today in the office of the county clerk, filing declarations and peti- i tions before the deadline, April 2. In a previous Issue it was errouneously stated that Eli Augsburger was a candidate for the advisory board of Wabash township on the Republican ticket. This should hate read Democratic ticket. Those who filed today or late yesterday were: Martin Bieberich, Democratic candidate for advisory board of Preble township. A. W. Gulick, Democratic candiMary’s township. Frank P. Heimann, Democrat id candidate for precinct committeeman. North Washington. Frank C. Baker, Democratic candidate for precinct committeeman. South Washington. Daniel C. Wagoner. Republican candidate for trustee, Wabash township. J. H. Hahnret, Republican candidate for precinct committeeman. North Blue Creek. Rolla Raudenbush, Republican j (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Five Are Killed In Mine Explosion Edmonton. Alta.. March 31—(U.R) —A terrific explosion and resultant fire at Hinton Collieries, 200 miles west of Edmonton in sparse-ly-settled territory, killed five miners and injured five others, according to reports received at Edmonton today. The explosion occurred last night. Doctors and nurses came from Edson, 52 miles east, to the mine.

Tornado Takes Heavy Toll Os Lives And Property Damage In Five States; 32 Are Killed

Indiana Streams Spilling Over Lowlands Following Heavy Rains; High Winds Cause Damage. CLOSE HIGHWAYS By United Press Indiana streams and rivers were rising today and spilled over lowlands in many sections following heavy rains last night over the entire state. Roads were flooded, rail traffic halted and farm buildings damaged by high winds accompanying the deluge. Near Jamestown, a Big Four freight train struck a washout and 14 cars were derailed. One hundred feet of track had been washed out by the heavy rain. No one was injured The cars were loaded with elecl trie washing machines, soybean oil and refrigerators. The engine and i cars containing whisky and live- | stock passed safely over the tracks I before they collapsed. A west bound passenger train | from Indianapolis waited at JamesI town for the freight train to arrive j or a major disaster might have ocI curred. Two wrecking crews were j clearing the tracks today. The rains, accompanied by high winds, lightning and thunder, amounted to at least one inch in aimost every section and Anderson was flooded with a deluge of 3.14 inches. * Heaviest rainfall was in a belt extending from Sullivan and Vigo counties in southwestern Indiana diagonally across the state to Adams and Wells counties. The precipitation ranged between two and three inches in this area. ' Skies were clearing this morning and the weather bureau predicted fair and colder weather tonight and tomorrow. Danger of floods in the Wabash and White river basins loomed today, especially along the smaller streams. Cessation of the downpours was expected to relieve the situation, however. Roads Closed Indianapolis, March 31 — (U.R) — Rising waters are covering numerous Indiana main highways, forcing the closing of some and slowing traffic to a cautious pace on others, the state highway department announced today. Roads hardest hit by last night's torrential rains over central Indiana were listed by the highway department as follows: Road 40 —Closed west of Terre Haute. Road 59—Will be closed by noon (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) 0 Local Man Unhurt In Auto Accident Rawleigh Richards, local G. E. employe, sustained only minor injuries* in an auto accident near Richmond last night, it was learned here today. Details of the crash were not learned, but it was reported that Richards was not severely hurt. Members of the family went to Richmond after him today. Before leaving they stated he was not confined in the hosipital, according to the word they had received. The report stated that the car wae badly demolished. Rawleigh was injured [ twice in auto accidents here within the past several months. VERNON AURAND IS CANDIDATE Seeks Republican Nomination As City ClerkTreasurer H. Vernon Aurand, local insurance solicitor, that he would be a candidate for city clerk-treasurer on the Republican ticket in the approaching May primary. Mr. Aurand is married and ha« one child. The Aurands reside at I Homestead No. 47. He has been a resident in and near the city his entire life. He is a member of the American Legion Post here, having served in the United States Navy during the World War. He is also a member of the local Masonic lodge. He attended Decatur high school and International business college in Fort Wayne. Mr. Aurand filed his declaration this morning in the county clerk's office.

MERCHANTS TO AID SALE DAY Senior Student Day Sale Will Be Held In This City Saturday The list of cooperating merchants in the annual student day sale next Saturday was announced today by the senior class of the Decatur high school, which sponsors the event. Most of the business houses are employing student salesmen Saturday, but some, which will be unable to accomodate the ealesmen for a day, have cooperated by making cash donations. Tty list of cooperating business houses, as well as students who will be employed. Is published today on page five of the Decatur Daily Democrat. Because of the support given the class this year in the sale it has been impossible to fill all of the vacancies with members of the senior class and underclassmen have volunteered to donate their services. In adition to increased business I during the sale last year, class officials stated many of the students found temporary or permanent part time employment, which afterwards led to full time jobs, when the members of the class were graduated last June. Many of the merchants are offering special features Saturday during the sale. Asks Book Donations Be In By Saturday Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp, director of the Adams county welfare department. today requested that all organizations and individuals planning to donate books for the state institutions bring these books to the welfare office not late than Saturday. This week is being observed as “prison library week.” and books are being solicited throughout the state. o DEATH CLAIMS AUSTIN BROWN Lifelong Resident Os Adams County Dies Wednesday Night Austin Theophilus Brown. 69, native and resident of Decatur for ; many years and a well known cement worker, died Wednesday night at 6 o’clock of complications. He had been ill about a week Mr. Brown was a native and lifelong resident ot Adams county. For the last 20 years he had lived at 344 North Tenth street. He was a member of the Decatur M. E. Church. He was married to Mied Ida Ellen Springer, who survives. Others surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Roy Moser, 331 North Eleventh street and a son Elmer Brown. 710 Jackson street, Fort Wayne; I a brother, James Brown of northwest of Monroe; two sisters, Mrs. Eliza McGill, of Decatur; and Mrs. Leah Lenhart of Jackson, Michigan, two half-sisters Mrs. Jesse Diehl, of Decatur; and Mrs. Mart Miller, of Gary, and a half brother, John I Brown, of Bay City, Michigan. Two brothers, two sisters and a half-bro-|ther are deceased. Funeral services will be held at the home on Tenth street at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon and at 2:30 o’clock in the M. E. church. The Rev. Ralph Waldo Graham, pastor of the church, will officiate. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be removed from the Black funeral home this evening and may be viewed from 7 o'clock tonight until the time of the funeral. Inspection Bureau Crew In Decatur Six members of the Indianapolis office of the Indiana inspection bureau are in Decatur this week, revising fire insurance rates in the city. The crew is under the direction of P. L. Sprecher, who stated that Decatur ie one of the few cities of its size rated in sixth class on fire insurance rates, an unusual record.

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Unofficial Estimates Os Property Damage From Storm Range As High As Two Million. TOWNS STRICKEN By United Press Five states threw their resources today into efforts to aid stricken survivors of a tornado that slashed northeasterly from Oklahoma to Illinois, killing at least 32 and injuring hundreds. Unofficial estimates of the damage were between 11,500,000 and $2,000,000. Gov. Walter A. Huxman of Kansas took personal charge of relief work at Columbus, Kans , where eight were dead and at least 100 injured. Gov. Henry Horner placed the Illinois national guard and state police at the disposal of 16 stricken Illinois towns. The little railtoad town of South Pekin, 111., was in ruins, with seven dead and more than 60 injured. At Heber Springs, Ark., four were dead and 20 others in a hospital. Two were not expected to live. Four more were dead at Neeleyville, Mo. Others were killed at scattered points. Impelled by a low pressure area of terrific intensity, the storm burst upon Avant, Okla., shortly before noon, barreled slantwise across Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri and spent itself in central Illinois six hours later. Sometimes the disturbance was in the form of a roaring black funnel that sped across the horizon with the roar of a freight train, dipping to earth with freakish hops and skips. Sometimes it was merely a cyclonic wind which flattened wooden barns and brick schoolhouses like a battering ram. Several times the storm split and spared great wedges of terrorstricken area, joining later to bear down on another settlement with renewed intensity. Such was the case at South Pekin. Raymond Lahr, United Press staff correspondent, surveyed the devastated town early today and reported it resembled a scene of wartime bombardment. In the eerie glare of flares posted by Red Cross and state police workers, the few undamaged or I slightly damaged houses stood out. Only two of the town's major business structures still stood — the hotel and a store. The Northwestern railroad’s divi- | sion offices were ruined. The raili load roundhouse had been picked up off its foundations and dropped in wreckage. Workmen inside were unharmed. Mrs. Julia Kennedy, chairman of the Peoria Red Cross, quietly directed the rescue squads. She estimated at least 600 of South Pekin's 1300 inhabitants were affected directly by death, injury or loss of home. Townspeople who stood in the streets or near their wrecked homes as if stunned told of freakish twists of the storm: A crippled boy left unharmed when the house was lifted from over his head. A woman stepping from a church, struck by a load of bricks, killed. A telephone post pierced by dozens of straws. Approximately 600 miles and four hours back along the path of (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Q LEGION PLANS PARTY FRIDAY Adams Post To Observe Second Anniversary In New Home Friday Plans have been completed for the anniversary stag party to be held at Adams Post No. 43, American Legion Friday night, starting at 6:30 o’clock. All men of the city and community have been invited to attend. Legionnaires are especially invited to the affair. Games and entertainment have been arranged. Fish and refreshments will be served. A 25-cent registration fee will be charged. Vernon Aurand is In charge of the arrangements for the affair. The party is staged In commemoration of the second anniversary ot the new home. The Legion post moved into its present quarters two years ago April 1,