Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1938 — Page 1

No. 141.

M OWE ■BSE JEW S ■is INCREASED ___ — ■ ' land' Wrested As jtin Nazis Increase H Jewish Purge J June 1' (U.R) Tired. M ' , |. « back to th. ir ■■’".i... '".ts while then■W" "I. many of their ISV'' i. d. and scores ot Mr'.;..,.' wiih nonaiyanizatioa. , holms dame- ... th;" Nazis s. MMr"-- tors in civilian ' w ,. take them |^K |h ,.y ...aid find thrnn toved SmWL !)„. anidows of Jewish MT...? ~ d painting W.m in wave spread to ' third lying districts indi s.-v.-ral thousand J-ws H d in B-rlin alm,. that more than Ir .. to jail. that Ute exact figure be .: .nested were r -< I,'--- - I of qm-stioiiinv Mg... " be Id for further , Soil others, against there particular „ u.k.-n Io th.- I!m hen H . . near W.-imat H’. ... trail.m . .imp Thuringia. panic the Jewish .... eased along with the terrorism. Last night and H hoars of the morning K-j( .I Jews felt tllC effe<tS Nazi anti-.lewish whip. -hops were raid, u K- midnight a group of Strolled up to the show ..f a pretentious Jewish tlte corner of MarkussI,ml Crosse Erankfm terH <1 no rhodically sni.xlie Se. heavy clubs. wiiul. a of a nearby Jewish store was painted: ■iMir. good bedbugs." "Itaceget out of Germany!" shire Hl the vicinity ear sign on its window: and mice live here.” minutes before the I'nited sp,,ndont arrived, the of a baggage store and shop were smashed surveying the damage tin attackers ran away jMl'f suitcases ami a quantity survey of Jewish cases rethe situation. One large usually crowded. reported a of six customers for the en■htdews in several large shops Kof-iiigstrasse. aero..- tin■fl from the Berlin city hall.. so covered with painted that it was almost imto see into them. The included: by the people." "Who is a traitor.” ®*«te window was this jingle: and women here and now t<> buy from this Jew sow i|.., Frankfurt. : s' of small boys ranging in ®!ront eight to 13 — roughly at the age of Nazi pre-11 it let organization members Mksd along the rows of shops in the painting. The Matures in one instance showed gallows from which was HBg the body of a Jew. of the diplomatic corps •®e apprehensive as the terror increased. Foreign consul B*reported a huge increase in Ballons for visas. They rethat the situation was great■®mplicaled because many Jews. equipped with visas, were B“ e to get their passports which ■Jbeen confiscated by the Reich jy” B the past several months. B ' ■ —o Police Car I Back In Service B™ 6 city police car was put back B’" 1 today after being reconditionB’nd partly re-finished. Fenders car were painted white to It more efficient use in traffic. TEm PERATURE readings “EMOCRAT THERMOMETER |!^ am 63 11:00 a.m 70 — — WEATHER air and warmer in central ’ forth, showers in extreme . uth portion tonight; Sunday * cr( asing cloudiness and rnie r In north, showers in *“ th Portion.

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POLICE WARNING * | Decatur police authorities I have received numerous com- I | plaints from residents of the . west part of tl. > city regarding i | the theft of money and tickets ; | from milk bottles placed on | their porches. Theft of a num- | ber of bottles of milk has also | been reported. Offenders are | warned to detsist from the prac- I | tice or prosecution will follow ’ ♦ MORE TRACTORS AND AUTOS HERE Autos, Tractors Increase In County; Fewer Horses, Mules Automobiles and tractors are on the increase and horses and mules on the decrease, according to the I annual report ot County Assessor 1 Ernest Worthman on the number |of assessable articles in Adams | county. The number of head of all livestock showed decreases, probab-' ly due to the price of feed in early 1937. This report is a tabulation of the reports of the 12 township assess-, ments now being checked by the ■Adams county'board of review. ; Assessor Worthman compared the 1 [1938 totals with the 1937 totals., | Both are as of March 1 in the respective years. The number of automobiles increased in Root, Kirkland, WashingI ton, Blue Creek, French, Hartford, Wabash and Jefferson townships and Monroe, Berne and Decatur corporations. They decreased in Geneva and the remaining townships. The total increase was 4,988 | to 5,377. Horsee increased only in Union j township, where the number jumpled from 328 to 359. The biggest drop I was in Root township where the I number dropped from 529 to 375. The total decreases was 4,662, to 4.I 419. Mules increased in number in only Washington, Hartford and Wa- ■ bash townships and the total dej crease in the county was 178 to 137. Tractors showed decreases in on'ly Preble, St. Mary’s and French I townships. The total increase was I 799 to 943. During the year the number of gas stations decreased from 56 to 41. In the county the number of arI tides of farming equipment increas- ' cd from 1.649 to 1,659. Milk cows decreased from 10,179 ' to 10,124. Increases were shown in | Hartford, Union, Root, Kirkland,, Blue Creek, French, townships and ! I Monroe, Berne. The report showed that one milk cow was kept in De-[ catur in 1937 and none in 1938. It shows that nine milk cows were kept, in Monroe in 1937 and 12 in 1938; 69 milk cows in Berne in 1937 and 71 in 1938; 32 milk cows in Geneva I in 1937 and 23 in 1938. I Beef and other cattle dropped i from 6.387 in 1937 to 6,020 in 1938. The number of sows showed decreases in every township but Blue Creek,’Hartford and French and the total dropped from 4,121 to 4,009. Other classes of hogs dropped from 19,520 to 18,164. The number of hogs I kept in Monroe increased from four : ! to nine, the number in Berne dropped from four to two and the number j j„ Geneva increased from 20 to .8 , The total for poultry, dropped I from 14.097 dozen to 12,504 dozen. ! Sheet? decreased in all townships I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) —o— NEW STRIiOURE IS MOVING DP Building Os Third Floor Started On New Jun-ior-Senior High •i u thp shell of the thii •! i auduXlSthequarter-millionl : dollar junior-senior high school has' i be ßricklSe"rs began Thursday the' I work of laying the exterior walls I 'Z tSe th rd floor which is to top ’ t height even the steel structurof the Z;Tas EXuSI aud inside W S t h h a e V flo b o e r e below rte the space is '•si b ’°“g for the cret f of the huge, new seatll ' g J Pipe workers are also > BtlU on first and second floors comand sewage Hubs.

CORONER CALLS DEATH SUICIDE ( oroner Zwick Pronounces Homer Noble Death A Suicide Coroner Robert J. Zwick this , I morning returned a verdict of sui- : cide in the death of Homer Noble, . 29. young farmer of near Berne, I whose dead body was found on the front porch of his farm home. Coroner Zwick stated this morn-, ing that traces of an abundance of strychnine had been found in the i stomach of the dead man. His stomach had beep removed in an autopsy and sent to Fort | Wayne for laboratory inspection. l While the exact amount was not ‘ learned, the laboratory expert stat-; led that "there was more than' enough to kill a man." Funeral services for the victim were held Friday afternoon in; Bluffton. Burial was made near i there. After a preliminary examination Coroner Zwick last Wednesday indicated that death was apparently i self-inflicted. No trace of the poison bottle, the purchase of i which had been definitely estab- 1 lished, could be found. In view of this fact and since 1 no one was with him at the time | of death, Coroner Zwick asked for lan analysis of the dead man's . stomach. Noble, according to his relatives. had been drinking heavily for weeks and had become morose and sullen, threatening to kill members of the family. Sheriff Dallas Brown and Deputy Leo Gillig were en route to the Noble home to apprehend him, to await his committment to the Easthaven insane asylum, but upon arrival learned that he was dead. His body had been found by a Berne. j physician. --o - Holy Name Society Meets Sunday Night j The Holy Name Society will meet Sunday evening at the K. of jC. hall at 7:30 o'clock. From ! there they will go in a body to the home of Herman Uleman, departed member. o BRUCE BURTON IS KEYNOTER Prominent Author To Speak At G.O.P. State Convention Indianapolis, June 18. — |(U.R> — I Bruce Barton, author and adveri tising executive and representative to congress from New' lork, will deliver the keynote address at the Indiana Republican nominating I convention to be held here June ' 28 and 29. it was announced today. Other details of the convention were to be worked out later today, Arch N. Bobbitt, state chairman, I said. Barton will be introduced by Charles A. Halleck, second district congressman and Indiana’s only Republican member ot' the conveni tion. , , , The keynoter was elected last year from a New York city district by a majority of 3,600. A ' native of Robbins. Tenn., he has ! been an author and advertising man since 1907. One of his best known books is “The Man Nobody Knows," a story of the life of Christ. He has written numerous books and many magazine articles. He served tor many years as chairman of the board of the advertising agency of Button Barton, Durstine & Osborn in New York Formerly he was managing editor of the Home Herald, Chicago, The House Keeper, Chicago, and Every "convention details were is . c " S ®‘ P d at a conference of Dobbitt, Clarence H-Wms of Kokmno.t.m iJZation. and representatives of ' three other senatorial candidates. X er Bossert for Walter Bossert. I lames Ingles for James E. Watson, “a Noel C. Neal tor Raymond i illis . Bobbitt said that Oliver si“'r was not represented although he had been invited to te ’n ih f( f said a meeting place; probably would be announced to-j day. * Moose Members To Meet Sunday Night Ail local Moose lodge will meet Sunday evening at 6 45 o'clock at the lodge, from there they will go in a body to the home of Herman Uleman, departed mem ber.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 18, 1938.

Outlining Further TV A Probe | r Mi ■ Ji I • A H . *j® ' i lj|yYr ■ W-" x" □BJJi . z t>JU < < Senator Vic Donahey and Thomas A. Panter Following appointment of Thomas A. Panter. expert who superin- 1 I (ended construction of the Los Angeles aqueduct, as chief engineer for the congressional committee Investigating the TVA, Senator Vic Donahey, committee chairman, left, conferred with him in Washington, above, on continuing the probe through the summer.

ROOSEVELT SON I MARRIED TODAY John Roosevelt Weds Anne Lindsay Clark At Noon Today Nahant, Mass., June 18 —(U.R) — , John, last bachelor in the White I House family of Roosevelts, marI ries Anne Lindsay Clark, blonde j Boston debutante, at noon today . in the little, century-old Nahant | Union church, while the president i watches in the front pew. Dozens of the Roosevelt clan of four generations were gathered for the incidental parties, rehearsals, i reception and afternoon wedding | breakfast in this Republican stronghold frequented by the tra-l ditional Lowells. Cabots and Lodges. The front pew on the right center aisle in which the President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt sit has the name Lowell on the in- j j scription plate. It belongs to Mrs. | John Lowell, neighbor of Mrs. ' [ Franklin Haven Clark, the bride’s i mother. i John, the president’s youngest I son, is 22, six feet, four inches tall, boyish of face and mannerism, a j graduate of Harvard University, his bride is a year younger, al- ■; most a foot shorter, member ot a family of social distinction. Her; . ; father, F. Haven Clark, a Boston i j broker, died in 1936. ; | The Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody. ■ headmaster of Groton School, will . ' perform the ceremony. Thirty- . i three years ago he married the ; President and his cousin. Eleanor j Roosevelt, when the dynamic Theo- ! dore (T. R.) Roosevelt, gave the . 1 bride away. That was on St. Patrick's day. 1905. .: Dr. Peabody also officiated at ) the wedding of the bride’s parents, ' and christened her. Hours before the hand-pumped ■j (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BIBLE SCHOOL EXEOCISEHELD Closing Os Bible School Is Marked By Graduation Exercises Graduation and promotion exercises were held in the Decatui high school auditorium for the 148 boys and girls who attended the Decatur Daily Vacation Bible school this year. Special recognition was paid the boys and girls who had perfect attendance through the term, by presenting them with gold stars on their promotion cards. Those who had missed only two or less days I were given silver stars on their ■ cards. The program, which was enjoyed by a large crowd, was in the I form ot samples of the kind of [ ' work given each of the classes during the Bible school. It was opened with devotionals under the | supervision of the sixth grade. I Examples of kindergarten work , were given by the beginning class. I The second grade presented a play. “The Good Samaritan.” Bible memory work, recitations, songs and poems were given by other of the students. During the term there were 148 > ICONTINUISP. ON PAGE THREE), j

I Slight Improvement In Gilliom Condition Attending physicians today held hopes for the recovery ot Leo Gilliom, 32, brother of Walter Gil-1 Hom, Adams county surveyor, who ’ was critically hurt Wednesday in an auto accident near Fort Wayne. Gilliom, a resident of Fort Wayne, sustained a crushed chest, 10 fractured ribs and a severe scalp laceration. Physicians at first though he could not recover. Although his condition was but | little improved today, it is thought ;he will recover. He is confined at I the St. Joseph hospital in Fort I Wayne. NAZARENESTO HOLD REVIVAL District-Wide Revival Services Will Be Held During Fall Rev. Joseph T. Trueax, pastor of the Fort Wayne East Side church was elected president of the northern Indiana Nazarene young peoples society at the organization meeti ing of the group, held this week at the Winchester Nazarene church. .; Rev. Trtteaz succeeds Rev. Fred i J. Hawk of Churubusco. Other offici ers are: Rev. C. Wesley Brough, ; Bluffton, first vice-president; Miss Mary Scott, Hammond, second vicepresident; Rev. Rose Stevens, Marion, third vice-president; Miss Louise Eaton, Frankfort, secretary; Rev. J. O. McKinley, Whiting, trea- ! surer. Next year's convention will be held at Huntington. Rev. J. W. Montgomery, Fort Wayne, district superintendent, announced during the convention plans for the district wide Nazarene revival this fall, for which the motto will be "Revival Tide, District Wide.” Churches throughout the district will hold revivals during a 90-day period. Special speakers for the revivals v>ill be the four following general snuperintendents: Dr. J. W. Goodwin, Dr. R. T. Williams, Dr. J. B. Chapman and Dr. J. G. Warren Jones, general missionary secretary and editor of the missionary paper; and Mrs. S. N. Fitkin general missionary president. — —0 Former Decatur Man Held For Violation C. A. Bell, former operator of Bell’s grocery in Decatur, has been arrested in Fort Wayne on a charge of violating a city zoning ordinance. The charge alleges that Bell was guilty of the violation when he set iup a fruit stand on Clinton street within a restricted area. He was ' placed under S2OO bond. Tha ciby is ■ also seeking S3OO damages. Bell recently set up the fruit stand at the corner of Clinton and] Williams streets, after leaving this city. oAsk Legionnaires To Attend Funeral All Legionnaires have asked to meet at the Legton home Monday morning at 8 o’clock and attend the funeral of Herman Uleman in a |lbody. I

SEN.COPELAND OF NEW YORK IS TAKEN BY DEATH Doctor - Senator Dies Shortly After Congress Adjourns Washington, June 18 (U.R) -The l body of Royal 8. Copeland, senior ’ senator from New York mid only physician in the senate, will be I i taken to the family home in Suff-1 ; ern, N. Y., today for burial next | Tuesday. He died in his apartment in the Shoreham Hotel at 7:45 p. m., last night after a short illness caused by overwork at the 75th congress. He was 69. Death came less than 24 hours after congress had adjourned. Although doctors gave the immediate cause of death as a “circulatory collapse," a combination of heart and kidney disease, they agreed that exhaustion, as a result ot intensive work during the closing days of congress, had precipitated his death. He had suffered from a kidney ailment for some time, however. Less than a year ago, while paying tribute to the late majority leader, Joseph T. Robinson after his death. Copeland had warned his colleagues against over-exertion lest there be more deaths among them. Exactly 11 months later his death was attributed largely to disregard of his own warning. I A life-long Democrat, but a bitter opponent of President Roosevelt and new deal policies, he was popular among all members of congress and official Washington. Federal and New York state officials, led by Mr. Roosevelt and Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of NewYork, expressed regret at the passing of Senator Copeland. But prominent members of the medical profession and the many friends he had acquired throughout the country as a result of his syndicated newspaper columns on health mourned the death of Dr. Copeland. As senior senator from New York I he had held many important committee assignments and during the ' last few weeks of the last session j of congress had served on eight ' conference committees seeking to I reconcile differences between senate and house versions of legislation. Much of his effort had been I devoted to obtaining passage of the I Copeland-Lea pure food and drug law which he had advocated for ’ five years. At the time of his deatli lie was planning to begin a special committee investigation into subversive and un-American activities in the merchant marine. Col. Chesley W. Jurney, sergeant i at arms of the senate, completed arrangements for Copeland's body to be taken to New York. He an- ' nounced that the senator’s wife, ' Mrs. Frances Spalding Copeland, and his only son, Royal S.. Jr., ' would accompany the body. Vice-president John Nance Gar- | tier and house speaker William B. ' I Bankhead will name a congression- ■ al committee to attend the funeral ’ I services. Garner, who left the cap- | ital Thursday, will select the dele- : j gatlon at his Uvalde, Tex., home. -I Copeland was the second memJ ber of the 75th congress to die ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) CLEAR DEBRIS AT HOOP MILL Former Employes Volunteer Services To Clean Up Debris A crew of laborers, former employes of the company, are working almost daily in clearing away the debris of the burned Decatur Cooperage company. Evidently hopeful that the factory will be rebuilt and afford the employment of which they were robbed on the night of June 2, when a disastrous fire wormed its way through the entire mill, the men voluntarily started a clean up program. The former employes of the comi pany volunteered to work without | pay it» clearing away the burned metal and lumber. Meanwhile, nothing definite has been settled regarding the rebuildling of the plant. Boilers, healing equipment, kilns and storage room are thought to be In fairly good condition. Approximately 50 men, including lumbermen and outside agents, depended upon the factory work as maaiis of a livelihood. No insuri ance was carried on the building or stock loss which Mr. Porter estimated amounted to $30,000.

Hopes For Early End To Spanish, China Wars Fade

REGISTRATION RULES CITED I Not To Remove Names Because Os Failure To Vote In Primary In answer to a number of queries. County Clerk G. Remy Uierly stated this morni' g that no names of vot- ! ers will be taken from the registration list because they did not vote . in tlie primary. The law elates that anyone who ■ has voted within the past two years ■ is eligible to vote in the fell election. In January the list will be ■ purged of all who did not vote ■ within the specified time, he statI ed. ■ Persons who have moved in the meantime, however, are required to ■ transfer. Registration is now open in the county clerk's office and will con- ' Untie until Monday October 10, 29 ' days before election, a« specified by law. Several persons have called at the office to register. Anyone becoming of age before November 8, election day, is eligible to register i and vote this fall. o Robert Mann Hurt ( While Loading Hay Robert Mann, of neai Monroe, ! sustained a painful injury late FriI day when he caught hie right hand , in a pulley, while loading hay The fourth finger and part of 1 the fifth finger were amputated, i and the hand badly mangled. He was brought to the Adams county t j memorial hospital, where he is re--1 ported imiproving. 3 I (j 1 ' GIVE PROGRAM : SUNDAY NIGHT Children’s Day Program j To Be Given At Eighth Street U. B. 1 The children’s day program of the Eighth Street U. B. Church * will be given Sunday evening at * 7:30. The program follows: f Song — "Little Children Love ’ Him" — Primary and Junior. Scripture. Prayer. Recitation "I Had A Welcome” — Sharon Marti . Song “Hark To The Voice Os ! The River” — Faithful Workers. Recitation “No Unemployment” 1 — Clair Reynolds. Recitation "Welcome” — Gloria Vian. Flag Drill — Four boys and six \ girls. Recitation "Your Gift — Mona Lee Martin. Collection. Recitation “A Thank You” CathIryn Slusher. Recitation “A Lamp of Gratitude” — Phyllis McClure. Pageant "Who Bids" — Life — Clara Klemz, Child — * I Donna Johnston, Church — Evelyn j Klemz, Pleasure — Betty Brews- - ter. Fame — Wanda Vian, Wealth —Jene Elzey, Christian Service — Bertha Fry. Musical Messengers— Phyllis McClure, Mona Lee Martin, Jean Slusher. lx>ls Ann Trout- ■ ner, Cathryn Vian, Doris Klemz, * Clair Reynolds, Doyle Klemz. f Heralds ot Use — Sharon Marr tin, Betty Harrod. Gloria Viau, Joan Habegger. Happy Moments — June Harrod, ’ Donald Foor, Joan Andrews, Geor- ’ gia Harrod. Duan Martin. . Greenbacks — Vilas Elzey, Par--3 is Hakes. Richard Harrod, War- ’ ren .Harrod, Herbert Johnston. 1 Winged Messengers — Betty Sudduth. Ruby Klemz, Melvin ’ Klemz, Roger Reynolds, Frances *■: Harrod, Cathryn Slusher. 1 Three Attendants — Hary Habegger. Ruth Klemz, Patsy Gaffer, j _o Hold Annual G. E. Club Picnic Today The annual G. E. club picnic will r be held this afternoon at Sun Set - park. All plans for the affair have s been completed. Dancing and a- ■- musoments will comprise the after- » noon entertainment. A luncheon In ,- the evening will be followed 'by dancing and a party.

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i Hope For Stabilization Os European Peace Is Fading As Warfare Is Unabated. FLOODS SPREAD (By United Press) Hope for an early end to the China and Spanish wars faded today and weakened the prospects for stabilization ot European peace. Desperate loyalist resistance on the Spanish Mediterranean front ! blunted tlte insurgent offensive against Valencia in a series of attacks and counter attacks around Vallieral. Rebels claimed to be pressing ahead slowly but fighting was Intense and the outcome unde- ' termim-d. Loyalists were making one of their greatest defensive ' stands. i From the military viewpoint, a final victory for the German and ! Italian supported insurgents, con- - tinues almost certain but even i Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini has ceased to count on a quick triumph. Mussolini has recognized the probability of a long struggle by tentatively suggesting to Great Britain that their new friendship treaty be put into effect without awaiting outcome of the Spanish war. In China, the still spreading flood waters of the Yellow River and the rising waters of the Yangtse continue to mire the Japanese military machine on all lines of ’ attacks on Hankow. It was estimated 50,000,000 persons would be made homeless by the flood. Re- , lief prospects wefe negligible. But despite the Japanese setback ■ as a result of the northern floods, 1 the Chinese military position was greatly weakened. Various drastic ’ moves such is flooding the Nanking valley a id Hankow were discussed as measures to wreck the Japanese conquest but unless some such factors intervened, the fall of Hankow to the invaders' naval, land and air attacks up the Yang'j tse was only a matter of time. Two Pennsylvania Men Are Arrested Jack Ross and Edward Doyle, of Pennsylvania, were arrested at 7 o’clock Friday night north of Decatur by Sheriff Dallas Brown and 1 State Patrolman Thurman Bierie when they were ‘parked in an automdbile in the center of the road. They were brought to the Adams county jail and it was stated they probably will be held on public . intoxication charges. Thev were riot seen driving by authorities. A , Cincinnati man and a girl were not arrested by the officers. Each was . fined $1 and costs, amounting to sll, when arraigned before Justice j of Peace Kelly late this morning. Q, Frog Leg Dinner At Elks Next Friday I The Decatur B. P. O. Elks will hold a frog leg dinner at the home ’ on North Second street next Friday evening, June 24. The dinner will be for members, their wives or sweethearts and invited guests. Tickets for the dinner are on sale at 60 cents per plate. Persons plann- ' ing to attend are asked to make reservations by Wednesday. Serv- ‘ ing of the dinner will start at 5:30 o’clock. Container Stolen From Court House Will Schumacher, custodian at - the court house, is still looking for the culprit who snitched an empty . five gallon container late Friday • when bls back was turned. Some time was spent in cleaning - the container, which had caulking ■ material as Its contents. After cleaning the can and getting ic ’ ready for use, Mr. tStchumacher 1 placed it in the corridors. Later ha ’ returned and found it missing. Local Girls’ Choir Will Give Concert The girls’ choir of the First M. E. r church of this city will present a 7:30 o’clock at the First M. E, 1 church in Fot Wayne. t The Rev. Ralph Waldo Graham, s pastor of the local church, will - preach the sermon. Mrs. Dau Tyn- • dall will direct the choir. Mrs. Avon t Burk will be the pianist and Mrs. r Graham will ipreseut a series of violin selections.