Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1938 — Page 1

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■ESS MAY .■adjourned rl THIS WEEK , ■ Mii'f BilN Await ■cliiu’i'.t Before ■.Adjournment - k“> ' HUH k ■H'. ' miegh' among ■■.... in « .h-aI.TK for HKj i'• i ,ai| ySsK may a<i ~ . m y :i|.pi o|H i <■ ’ • ’ i '■• ; ip|.i..pi i.it i«m. w . . h'.l'l' rs will hold session with fIH today. But i.-gular .Monday .I"hn N. Garner. Juul Bankhead. Ma\ili"U W. Barkley. and Sain p. the house, program had been planI that adjournment may be by Friday or Saturday, te over wage-hour legiSlaig jeopardizes weekend ad-I nt plans. Congress is anx-1 quit and go home because in the house and one-third ‘ in the senate are at stake | election year. «s depression moving now , tenth consecutive month ties is piling up new unlent problems. Congress Kp.-os of voting an overcouncils divided *|^K-1 dealers becomes daily. of conservative sen|^K, 11.cs been struggling |M tie lo'.ikes on government and to further cooper|'iy curbing some of Mr. tween government and bush's more aggressive tax, < utilities and related poli-l ut there is no appreciable 1 'INUED ON PAGE FIVE) NSERVICE ffIFLAG DAY ). Elks To Hold AnI Services Tuesday tening, June 14 ■—— ecatur lodge of the B. P. O. i 1 conduct annual Flag Day | s here on Flag Day, Tuesie 14, officers of the lodge ed today. entices, held jointly each h the assistance of Adams über 13 of the American i will be held on the lawn mb home on North Second 7:30 p. m, usual feature of this year’s i y observance, will be the . ice of former exalted rul-' he Decatur lodge in the c work. n L. Center, exalted ruler wal lodge when it was a charter in 1905, will con ritualistic work and occuHUED ON PAGE THREE) mics Meetings e Scheduled Today Ilss Mildred Worthman, home ■»i ice instructor, listed today ■hedule for home economic Btogs at the Decatur high j F l ' Wents of first year clothing j I :to meet at the school, pay afternoon at 1:30 o’clock; ! I ll ' l and third year clothing at 1 I o’clock Thursday; baking, I and fourth year clothing at I Friday. pMPERATURE READINGS FCATUR theremometer P Oa m 63 2:00 p.rn 84 [ o(,a i n 67 3:00 p.m 82 |° n WEATHER Thundershowers this after°°n or tonight in northwest Or,i on and east and south por- °" 8 tonight and probably Uts day morning, becoming fair 1 c 'ntral and north portions ue, day; Cooler Tuesday and 1 nothwest portion tonight.

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Berne Youth Fined; Pal To Be Arrested Lawrence Stacy Smith, Berne young man, who was arrested Friday night following a wild ride through the city, was fined 515 and costs amounting to 126 when he plead guilty to reckless driving in city court late Saturday. Smith was arested by Chief of Police Sephus Melchi, after he had allegedly driven his car through fields, over curbings and lawns and had narrowly missed hitting several i persons. Chief Melchi stated that charges of public intoxication would be placed against his companion in the ride, Henry Schug, also of Berne. MAKE PROPOSAL FOR CHANGE IN WAGE MEASURE New Compromise Offered In Effort To Assure Bill’s Passage Washington, June 6.—XU,R>Conferees on the controversial wageI hour bill narrowed their disagree- ' ment today and southern spokesmen agreed to discuss a proposed | compromise with Sen. Pat HarriI son, leader of a tight for southern wage differentials. The compromise was offered by l Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, D., Utah, I chairman of the senate conference ' group in an effort to appease south--1 ern insistence on flexible wage i standards and a strong stand by house conferees that minimums be fixed by statute. The Thomas compromise provided : 1. Flat minimum of 25 cents I an hour with no exemption. 2. Flat increase of 2% cents each year for two years to a 30 cents minimum, with no exempI tlon. 3. Establishment —when the 30 cent minimum is reached —of in-, dustries board which would recommend further increases on the basis of individual industries con- j ditions. Recommendations would i be considered by the labor depart- : ment in fixing higher wage standards. 4. Five years after 30 cents j minimum is reached, a flat 40 cent minimum. without exemptions, ! would be imposed. While the Thomas compromise j received tentative approval of the ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ■ -0 j County Board In Monthly Meeting The county .board of commission- ' jers met this morning in their regu-j iar monthly session. Claims were ■ J allowed. Thus afternoon officials of | , the Wabash ditch case were sched-j ' uled to appear before the board on , matters, which were not disclosed ! in advance. Tuesday, the commissioners will i receive bids on the repainting of ( the county court house exterior wood work, including the tower. | o— Ed Krueckeberg In Critical Condition | Word received here today from i Chicago stated that the condition of Ed Krueckeberg, of Union townI ship, is very critical. Mr. Krueckej berg was admitted to the Hines hospital there several weeks ago. Anton Thieme, Mrs. Krueckeberg and Mrs. Ed Steele left immediately ' for the Chicago hospital. MERLE ABBETT TO BE SPEAKER Fort Wayne School Head To Speak At Annual Grade Commencement - Merle J. Abbett, superintendent of the Fort Wayne city school system, will be the speaker at the annual county eighth grade commencement exercises, C. E. NtriKer, county school superintendent, announced today. Mr. Abbett will speak to the graduates next Saturday at the Decatur high school during the annual exercises. The commencement will open at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Scholastic leaders among the graduates will carry the respective township banners at the event. The student having the highest scholastic rating of the graduates will carry the county banner. Ttiege leaders have not been selected to date.

DEAL REPORTED BETWEEN NAZIS AND JAPANESE Report Asserts Germany May Be Given Concessions By Japan London, June 6 —(U.R) —Germany, a partner with Japan in a front against communism, may be given an important share in the economic exploitation of North China after the close of the Chinese-Japanese war. it was reported reliably today. I Tile deal, of course, would depend I upon a Japanese victory. Japan's price for carrying out I this agreement, it was reported. | was withdrawal of all German aid 1 to the Chinese, including the recall ] of German advisers to the Chinese i armies. (China has intimated that i she might not break the contracts I of her German advisers, believing that they might join the Japanese, according to recent Chinese dispatches.—Ed.) Information reaching Chinese authorities here asserted that Germany and Italy, in connection with Adolf Hitler’s visit with Benito Mussolini last month, concluding a secret understanding to pursue the same policies in the far east. Great Britain was said to be aware of the so-called agreement, to be skeptical but unwilling to rule out the possibility of its authenticity. i It was said that United States officials were more or less inclined I to believe the story that Hitler I and Mussolini agreed upon a com-, mon policy in the far east —favor-1 able to Japan in the present war. United Press informants said ’ that Hitler’s recall of the German military advisers from China was the first move toward meeting Japan's wishes, but that Tokyo also demanded that Germany halt the huge flow of war materials to China. (More than 100 German advisers were said to have disregarded Berlin’s orders and are remaining with the Chinese. —Ed.) Reliable quarters here asserted . that so far there has been no i noticeable halt in the supply of . Germa nequipment and munitions to China. In fact, it was said that German manufacturers, bankers. 1 traders and shippers who need I foreign currency were bitterly opposing any interference with Ger- | man arms traffic to China. o F. 0. KLEINHENZ DIES SUDDENLY Well Known Decatur Man Drops Dead At Noon Saturday — Frank O. Kleinhenz, 59, well; j known cigar maker of Decatur . • dropped dead shortly after noon | Saturday at the corner of Adams and Line streets, while enroute to I his home at 317 Line street. i His death was entirely unexpected as he had been in good health, I and had talked to his sister, Miss I Rose Kleinhenz, only about half a block from the point where he fell ' dead. j Death was caused by angina pec-1 I toris and was practically instantaneous. The cause of death was pronounced by Robert Zwick, cor-1 oner of Adams county. The deceased was born in Dei catur July 2, 1878, the son of John !W . and Mary Martin-Kleinhenz, pioneer Decatur residents. He had never married. He was employed for many years as a cigar maker at .Huntington and Fort Wayne, returning to this city about three years ago. For some time, he had been employed at the 11. A. Colchin cigar factory in this I city ’ n Mr. Kleinhenz was a member of the St. Mary’s Catholic church of I this city. Surviving are the following | brothers and sisters: Mrs. George M Krick, Miss Rose Kleinhenz, ! Lawrence and Arthur B. Kleinhenz, l all of Decatur. He made his home with Rose and Arthur Kleinhenz. Funeral services will be held at the St. Mary’s Catholic church Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock, with Rev. J. J. Selmetz officiating. Burial will be made at the Catholic cemetery. o —-— All Boy Scouts Meet Wednesday All Boy Scouts of the city are asked to be present Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Scout cabins in Hanna-Nuttman park. Sylvester Everhart, county Scout commissioner, stated that plans would be made at that time for the summer activities and recreation.

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Map Search for Kidnaped Child ■BHb 11 / fl ■ & ' v b' I I ■ j i r b./ t i * U■ V ■ w! | ■Jr — H’**'; * * ■HI. 4wii ■ * ■ ; - • Posse heads plan hunt Here are two leaders of posse groups searching for James Bailey ! Cash, Jr., 5, of Princeton. Fla., and his kidnapers, as they study a map Ito determine further directions for the huge manhunt. More than 3,000 i men were mobilized for the search when the abductors failed to return I the boy after his parents had paid SIO,OOO for his release.

VARIETY SHOW HERE TUESDAY Show, Dance Tuesday Night Sponsored Under Recreation Program The complete program for the variety show, conducted under the Decatur recreation program, was 1 announced today by George F. Laarent, recreation supervisor. The variety show will be held at the Catholic school auditoium Tues- • day evening at 8 o’clock, and will i be followed by a dance. Admission to the show and dance i will be 15 cents, with all proceeds Ito be used in conducting junior | baseball leagues Ln Decatur during the summer. A splendid program has been arranged for tomorrow night’s show, The second to be sponeored under tne recreation Headlining the show will be an orchestra of local musicians, which recently was formed and will be making its first public appearance i Tuesday. j James Harklees will act as mas- | ter of ceremonies and will also present several vocal selections, accompanied by the orchestra. Another feature of the show will be the apeparance of Gal Stopher, Fort Wayne, in a special magical act. A number of local persons will also be included in the show. Music for the dance, which will ’ start immediately after the variety ! show, will 'be provided by the same 'orchestra which appears in the show. The program is as follows: Orchestra— trumpet speciality, with Mr. Harkless singing. Dancing act — Donald Lobsiger (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

Star War Correspondent Tells Views On Czechoslovak Crisis

(Editor’s note: Following is an authoritative estimate of the European diplomatic situation, made by Webb Miller, star United Press war J correspondent after a two-week round of Visits to European capitals during which he covered the Czechoslovak crisis.) (United Press, New York) By Webb Miller, (Copyright 1938 by UP.) London, June 6.— J (U.R> The outstanding factor in the Czechoslovak minority crisis, and one which is likely to be the decisive element in its eventual settlement one way or the other, is that Great Britain will not go to war in any circum- | stances which can be foreseen, to I prevent the dismemberment of I Czechoslovakia. After a fortnight spent in London, Berlin and Paris talking to government officials, foreign diploI mates and correspondents, and two visits to Prague within the last year, I have reached a humber of definite conclusions. Among them

Receive Complaints Concerning Cyclists Due to the popularity ot bicycles and the number ot children who ride them, complaints have been rei eeived by city police about the ridI ing of the bicycles in the uptown business districts. Chief of police Seph Melchi issued a warning to children today not to ride their bicycles on the sidewalks in the uptown district. An old ordinance, passed a number of years ago, for- ' bids the riding of the bicycles in the uptown district and the police, in the interest of public safety request the children to comply with the law. o TRUSTEES PLAN ANNUAL PICNIC •I Township Trustees Plan Annual Picnic At Berne I' June 23 ■ The annual township trustees’ picnic will be held at Lehman park ' in Berne, Thursday, June 23, it was ’ announced today. The date of the annual event was set this morning by the trustees in 1 their meeting at the offices of the > county school superintendent In the ' court house. 1 The affair will be opened with a dinner at the noon hour and a 1 program will follow. The complete ' program will be announced later. 1 All trustees, their wives and fa--1 milies will be invited to the affair The trustees at the meeting this morning also launched the annual ’ cleaning campaign, which will be conducted through the rural schools ‘ I during the vacation months The work is to be done by WPA labor.

are the following: Britain will not fight to prevent Germany’s absorption of the Sudeten German minority area into the nazi reich. Britain will use every means in her power to prevail upon France to abstain from military action in aid of her ally, Czechoslovakia in the event that Germany invades Czechoslovakia. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government would favor a plebiscite by which the Sudeten Germans could secede from Czechoslovakia and join Adolf Hitler if the Czechs agreed, which is most unlikely. The Czechs will fight if their country Is invaded, even if they are not confident that their allies, France and Russia, will fulfill their engagements to aid her. Although the French government emphatically repeats its determination to fulfill Its pledge to aid the Czechs in event of attack, British pressure and the perils forbseen In the possibility of a general European war might deter her (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Japanese War Planes Massacre Hundreds Os Chinese Civilians In Hours Os Raiding At Canton

TWO SUSPECTS ARE RELEASED IN KIDNAPING W. F. Braxton And Son Are Released This Afternoon By G-Men Princeton, Fla., June 6 —(U.R) M. IF. Braxton and his son. Pedro, I who were picked up by G-men last Thursday for questioning in the Cash kidnaping, were released today. The Braxton’s stopped here briefI ly on their return from Miami and continued to Florida City where Pedro lives. The wives of the Braxtons made an unsuccessful attempt to see I their husbands when they went to I the headquarters of the federal bureau of investigation at Miami earlier today. G-men waited alertly today for the appearance of some of the $19,000 ransom money paid to the kidnapers. They expected the first “break" in the case to come, as it did in the Lindliergh baby kidnaping, when someone notifies them that one of the five, 10, 20 or 50 dollar bills had been intercepted. Awaiting that word, they main- ; tallied field headquarters in an j abandoned packing house that had s been removed for them here, sift(i ing the last of the discouraging clues available to them in eight . ■ days of search. Numbers of the ransom bills . i have been circulated throughout J the country. G-men have offered i to redeem them at twice the face I value and they were ready to re- : spond to the call, day or night, any’l where that necessity or greed ’ I Would induce the kidnapers to I I part with an item of their loot. ■ i Search for the baby, who was ‘ snatched from his bed on the night • of May 28, was left today to the federal agents and to 12 volunteers I whom they selected from the army of 2,500 that undertook the task | last week. There was only the slightest . hope that the kidnapers had let the ; baby live this long. Mrs. James 11 Cash, the mother, retained that l hope. She told neighbors that she I would leave a light burning in a I window every night until the boy is found, alive or dead. Clue Blasted South Bend, Ind.. June 6—(U.R) — Possibility that four men held here might have been involved in the ’ Florida kidnaping of five-year-old < Jimmy Cash, Jr., dissolved today 3 when approximately $3,000 taken from them did not show any of the 3 serial numbers of the Cash ransom ! money. e All four are held, however, for , the robbery of Felix Beluso, Filipino houseboy in the home of Vinx cent Bendix, wealthy manufacturer, last week. j The men detained are Frank B I Bennett, 39, of Minneapolis; Rayi mond Hofilena. 28, of Chicago; j Frank Militante, 36, of Tampa, r : Fla., and Andy Otes, 30, of Miami, s : Fla. I, Otes had a Chevrolet sedan beara ' J I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) REVIEW BOARD ; OPENS SESSION k — County Board Os Review Opens Annual Meeting This Morning ’ The Adams county board of rer view for 1938 convened this morning in the county assessor's office, r opening a 30-day period of reviewing assessments and hearing objec- ' tions. 5 The board is composed of Ed ' Stahly of Geneva; Cal E. Peterson ’ of Decatur; Jeff Liechty, county * treasurer; John W. Tyndall, coun--1 ty auditor and Ernest Worthman, ’ county assessor. The latter three are members by virtue of their ofr flees. r Mr. Stahly and Mrs. Peterson J were recently appointed by Judge Huber M. DeVoss to serve on the board. The board opened work by starting a review of the assessment ’ records. Later, definite dates will ' be set for hearing assessment objections. They stated that dates for hearr ing the objections will be set within a few days.

ADAMS COUNTY PATROLS WIN Adams County Boy Scouts Win In Contests At Area Camporee Boy Scout patrols from Adams county carried away a lion’s share of the honors in the annual Anthony Wayne area Scout camporee held at Foster park in Fort Wayne Saturday and Sunday, a checkup revealed today. Two county patrols won blue ribbons, the highest award given for a rating of 900 to 1,000 points and contests and judging. They were: Wolf patrol of Lions troop 62. Decatur and Flying Eagle patrol of Mother Club troop 67, Berne. Five patrols won red ribbons for garnering from 800-900 points, the second highest classification. They were: Wolf patrol, Rotary troop 61. Decatur; Wolf patrol, Mothers club troopu 67, Berne; Eagle patrol, Chamber of Commerce troop 68, Berne; Wolf patrol, Chamber of Commerce patrol 68, Berne and Black Bear patrol, Legion troop 63, Decatur. A total of 107 patrols, 712 boys, including seven patrols from Adams county made the camporee the largest in history. The camporee was run off under a new system. The event was divided into sections with each section holding its respective contests and judging, climaxed by a huge campfire. Sylvester Everhart, Adams county Scout commissioner, was one of the six section chiefs. The Scoutmasters of the county troops and their assistants: Berne 67, Dr. M. L. Habegger and George i Neaderhouser, assistant; Berne 68, Ralph McClain and J. Jerome Yag- ( er, assistant; Rotary 61, Harry Grube and Harry Daily, assistant; Lions 62, Lowell Smith and Dr. Joe . | Morris, assistant; Legion 63, Walt Gladfelter and Joe Linn, assistant. LAUNCH PROBE OF MILL FIRE State Fire Investigator Starts Probe Os Last Week’s Fire The tracing down of two important ' possibilities, which might have been the direct cause of intentionally , setting fire to the Decatur Cooperage company here last Thusday night, resulting in a $30,000 loss, ■ was to be opened this afternoon. William E. Hindel, deputy state firemarshall and expert arson in- ■ vestigator, opened the investigation this morning. After a preliminary investigation, Mr. Hindel definitely discarded the theory that the fire might have been set by the owner or anyone ' exipecting financial gain, he stated. The investigation is to center on the possibility that the site was started with revenge as a motive, or that a "firebug” or pyromaniac had started the blaze merely to satiate his own insane desires of watching a roaring blaze. To Question Employes Mr. Hindel, who was called here at the request of C. O. Porter, mill owner, and Fire Chief Charles Rob- ' enold, stated that a personal investigation of all employes would be started late this afternoon. A thorough search of the ruins for clues, which up to this time have ' oeen sadly lacking, will be made, he stated. Probe Other Fire Mr. Hindel stated that he was to to have arrived in the city shortly to conduct an investigation into the Krick-Tyndall fire of two . months ago, which resulted In a $209,000 loss. The Investigation was to have been made at the request of the state department, he stated. The two investigations, as well (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Injured In Fall From Motorcycle Miss MadellneCrider, daughter of i Mr, and Mrs. Earl Crider, suffered . minor injuries Saturday when she was thrown from a motorcycle, driv- • en by Dean Fletcher. Fletcher was unhurt when the cycle upset on tenth street at Nuttman avenue.

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II U | Chinese City Bombed For Hours Again Today In i Defiance Os Protests By Other Nations. STRIKE HOSPITAL (Copyright 1938 by United Press) Canton, China, June 6 — (U.R) Japanese war planes raided Canion for hours today causing another Great massacre of civilians despite the protests of foreign powers. By flares and the glare of flaming buildings, rescue workers tonight dug hundreds of corpses of men, women and children from ruins in this teeming southern port. The dead could not be counted tonight. Tlte United Press correspondents saw hundreds of dead around the Tiger Balm building and the French hospital. Both structures were hit directly, although the latter displayed the French flag. One of the city's main power plants on the Canton Bund went up in flames. Current in the central part of the city was disrupted. The important Pearl River bridge was open and It was impossible to close it because of lack of power. The Japanese airplanes swept along the Bund and bombed the waterfront, which was streaming with refugees. Authorities claimed there were no military objectives within a half mile of the Bund. A. T. Hull. Hampton. Va„ newsreel cameraman for Pathe and Paramount, was stunned by an explosion and knocked into the river. “I filmed the bombing of a Red Cross truck and also got films of the planes machine gunning rescue workers,” Hull told the United Press. The cries of wounded persons, who had been buried alive, were audible throughout the night. ’ Weary rescue corps, risking the machine guns of, the planes, still were confronted by great piles of debris from which cries came. Frightful scenes were enacted in every section of the city. In one section of the populous Tafpiug Road section the United Press correspondent counted 54 shattered bodies still lying In the streets. They apparently had been trapped by demolition bombs. Many of the bodies were horribly mangled. One bomb fell within 300 yards of the American Y. M. C. A. Another which dropped at the water's edge nearby wiped out hundreds of sampans on the river front and apparently those who dwelled in them. Edward H. Lockwood. Peru, Ind., secretary of the Y. M. C. A., bitterly condemned the raiders as he carried a 16-year-old boy from a build(CONTI.NUED ON PAGE FIVE) o — , Council Will Elect School Board Member The election of a member of the Decatur school board will be held : t his month. The member is elected , by the city council. The term of ( Joseph Hunter, who has served the past three years expires and it was ! understood that Mr. Hunter was , a candidate to succeed himself. The election can be held at any meeting ’ of the council in June. The new term begins in August. , o CRASH VICTIM IS IMPROVING H. S. Robinson Is Hurt In ' Auto Accident Near Van Wert, Ohio H. S. Robinson, former superin* i tendent of the soya bean company ' here, who was at first thought ser- > iously injured in an auto crash late • Saturday near Van Wert, Ohio, was i expected to be reutrned to this city t late today. Mr. Robinson, now employed by al . Toledo, Ohio beet sugar company, I suffered eight fractured ribs and ■ other injuries in the accident Saturday at the junction of federal highways 127 and 224, northeast ot Van Wert, Ohio. ! Four occupants of the other car, driven by Lewis Gardner of Middles point, Ohio, escaped nnlnjued. I The local ntan was taken to the ) Van Wert hospital, where it was ■ discovered that his lungs were not ’ punctured. His recovery is expected, i Relatives here stated that he was to be brought home late today.