Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1938 — Page 1

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WAR DECLARED ON TRANSIENTS Authorities Determined To Keep Hoboes Out Os Decatur Decatur has declared war on all tramps, hoboes and transients. Police officers and the county I sheriff's department announced this I morning that they had officially started a movement to rid the city of the annual summer flow or hoboes. A fight in the “jungles" Sunday morning, In which one of the hoboes was badly cut up, was the direct cause of the war against the transients, although police have been making a determined effort to keep the idlers out of the city. Sunday morning about 3:45 o’clock Officers Adrian Coffee and Roy Chilcote arrested a transient, known only as “Slim”. Slim, badly lacerated in a fight at the "jungles” in the rear of the old foundry on Elm street, was accroding to the officers, publicly intoxicated. The officers stated that he reeked of bay rum. the favorite alcoholic bev- > crage of many hoboes. When the officers returned to the “jungles” they were unable to locate the other participant in the fight. They did. however, locate more tramps loitering about the place, and immediately ordered them to move on. The threat of a possible penal farm sentence seems to afford the best results in keeping the tansients , moving, police assert. Night policemen make the rounds early every morning to keep them moving. A stop at the jungles usual- , ly results in the finding of five or ! six hoboes each night. If none are I about, empty beer cans, vanilla exItact bottles, bay rum bottles, canned i heat cans, and bags of dried food I attest to their former presence. These fellows, he officers state, | live on money snitched from milk I bottles, “panhandling” on the streets and "mooching” at back doors. Houses are “marked,” according to police. If one or two ot the hoboes get good results at a place, they in some unknown way, mark I the home for the next bum, they, .CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) REGULATIONS ON FIPEWORKS No Fireworks Are Allowed To Be Sold Before July 1 Rules and regulations regarding the sale and display of fireworks were listed today by Fire C hies Charles Robenold. Fireworkers are to be sold by retailers only on the dates of July 1 2. 3 and 4. No fireworks shall be displayed before June 20. Fire-1 works shall not be sold to chilI dren under 12 years of age, and not on any street, sidewalk, alley j I or public park, nor in a filling staI tian, garage, or other place whete inflammable liquids are handled or stored. They are not to be dis--1 charged near a filling station. If the fireworks are removed from containers before June -0, I they are to be placed in non-com-bustlble containers. Large quantities are not to be put on display , on counters, or otherwise made ac- j cessible to the public. I Fireworks articles banned by the order of the state fire marshal department include: the flash salutes: Globe, Marble, ( Cherry. Radio, 0. K., Silver Blas , National, Super Bull Dog, al sal utes above three inches all flash, salutes above three inches, aut ■ nrotectors. auto-alarms, burglat alarms, auto wheel joker, “Bango auto fire joke bomb, auto skunk; whistling tornado whls “ l " g | clone, whistling whizzer, whistl ng X'.n king, spit devil | gun ” devil-on-walk, all sizes whiie poisonous snakes, hot an paper balloons. —oExtra Work . Sweeping Os btreeis Due to the extra work required mentß J h :he stX Mghway commission was ""able to sweep the mawria 1 on the Mercer avetme finprovetnent a istructlon work. 8 5 the first of th e * ear ’ thß Since the nrsl t highway «v«; "I 1,, routes pass have oee the state highway crew.

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In the receiving line following the marriage of ■ John Roosevelt to Anne Lindsay Clark at Nahant, I Mass.; Mis. I-’. Haven Clark, the 111 id-.'s mutlu-r; I

JURY INDICTS 18 PERSONS IN NAZI SPY RING Indictment Names Germany As Sponsor Os Spy Activities New York, June 20—(UP) —The federal grand jury investigating a German spy ring returned three indictments today against IS persons, including two German war minis- ! try officers. The officers named were lieutenant commanders Udo Vonßonin and Herman Menzel. Both were said by the government to be in the right defense ministry’s counter espionage deipartment. The indictment named Germany officially as the country sponsoring the wide espionage network directed at American defense secrets. The 18 persons were accused of conspiring to obtain and transmit to Germany plane, specifications and codes dealing with aircraft, vessels and coastal armaments of the United States. j Three of those indicted were charged with transmitting a restricted code used by American military aircraft and their stations with | ‘‘the intent that it be used to the advantage of Germany." These three already are under I arrest under world war spy ing staj tutes. They are Johanna Hofmann, a hairdresser of the German liner (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) —o DEATH CLAIMS MRS. SCHIR AGK Mrs. Chas. Schirack Dies At Toledo As Brother Buried Here Mrs. Charles Schirack, 47. of Toledo, Ohio died this morning shortly after 9 o'clock at her home in that city, while funeral services were being conducted here for her brother. Herman Uleman. Notification of the death was received by the family a few minutes after the services. The deceased had been in ill health for some time, but had been alble to come to Decatur Sunday. She suffered a stroke of paralysis Sunday after returning home and death followed this morning. She was born in Bryant Feb'""s'm'v'iving'” besides the husband, are three children: Noah, LaVera Anna Mae. all at home; the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Sylvester Remaklus of .ns o Oklahoma; Mrs. L. A. Boy, o o Wayne; Mrs. Peter Loshe, ot De a Mrs. Joe Spangler and Mis. Herman Meyers of this city, Noa of Toledo. Edward and Ce.este at at home. Funeral arrangements were not made known in the communication to relatives.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, June 20, 1938.

Former Local Man’s Sons Are Graduates J. Charles Brock of this city has received word of the graduation ot his two nephews, Rdbert Parnin Brock from the Ilirsch high school, | Chicago, and John Edison Brock from Purdue university. Robert, who received athletic recognition , when he was declared the junior 40yard swimming champion of Chicago, won a special merit scholarship to Purdue and will enter the university this fall. John was also a merit scholarship holder at Purdue, was managing editor of the Purdue Exponent and ' editor-in-chief of the Scrivener. He received a B. S. M. E. degree. Both are sons of Edison Brock, of Chicago. and formerly of this city. FIFTY ENROLL iN CORN CLUB Fifty A d a m s County Farmers Enroll In 5Acre Corn Club i Five-Acre Corn club enrollment . closed June 15 with 50 farmers signed -the largest enrollment in the history of Adams County ’; The enrollees are: Homer W. Arnold, Henry Aschleman, Jacob Bark- ’ ley, Victor Bleeke. Henry Dehner, ' P. H. Drum, John Philip Eicher, ': Menno P. Eicher, Paul Fuelling, Herman Geiger, Benjamin Gerke, Winfred Gerke, Lee Graber, Martin ' J. Graber, Dan Habegger, David D. ’ Habegger, Sylvan Habegger. Henry Heimann, John Heimann, Robert 11. Heller, James Hendricks, Otto Hoile Harve Ineichen, Chris Inniger, Rufus Inniger, Peter B. Lehman. Fred Marbach, Ben Mazelin, Ralph S. Myers, Robert Myers, William Neadstine, Leon Neuenschwander, Alvin Nussbaum, Jacob D. Nussbaum, William Patterson, Fred B. Rines, 'Leland A. Ripley, Henry Rumple, Adolph Schamerloh, Hubert Schmitt, Eli Schwartz, Milland Schwartz, Palmer Schwartz. Reuben Schwartz, Otis Sprunger, Da- ’ vid P. Steury, Walter Thieme, Del(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Net Proceeds Os Picnic Reported It was announced Sunday that ■ the net proceeds from the annual 1 St. Mary's parish picnic amounted 1 to $1889.21. This is a little under ■ the net profit made a year ago, but ■ higher than first expected. Father ' Joseph J. Seimetz, pastor, expressed : his appreciation to the workers and ■ to the public for the splendid pat- ' ronage. o temperature readings , democrat thermometer 8 :>3'o a. 68 10.00 a. m. rl R 2 ' Noon ’ 2:00 p. i 3:00 p. m. •® 2 WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday; moderate temperature.

I Mr. and Mrs. John Roosevelt, and President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Thousands tried to break through police lines.

THREE CHICAGO BROKERS GIVEN PRISON TERMS — President And Two Other Officers Enter Guilty I Pleas > ■ — ; Chicago, June 20 (U.R) The I- president of the defunct Hoagland ! i & Allum Brokerage firm, whose l ‘officers were accused of bilking ’• customers of $750,000 while leading | j them on with rosy tales of a fortune in munitions "deals." plead guilty today to embezzlement and conspiracy charges. George F. Allum drew sentences of 1 to 10 years in the state peni-. I : tentiary on the first charge and i 111 to 5 years on the second. Two other officers. Olaf Larson, vice-president, and Henry Engel. 1 ’ secretary-treasurer, plead guilty to I the conspiracy charges and were I sentenced to 1 to 5 years each, i Embezzlement charges against ' them were nolle pressed. I The charges were contained in i indictments voted by a Cook county J grand jury and the three previously had plead not guilty to them. All three also are under federal ; grand jury indictments charging ! violation of the securities and ex- ’ change laws and using the mails ' to defraud. ’; Sentences imposed on Allum by ’I Criminal Judge Francis Allegretti 1 '■ will run concurrently. • i Because the defendants also are (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ■ ——o CLUB TO NAME ■ NEW OFFICERS Democratic Woman s Club To Elect New Officers Monday ; The final meeting of the season of the Adams county Democratic women’s club, will be held in the B. P. O. Elks home Monday night, June 27, Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp, [ president of the organization announced today. t Most important of the business I matters to be transacted will be the [ election of officers for the coming • year. At the last meeting, Mrs. Dick Boch, Mrs. Mary Myers. Miss J Betty Macklin, Mrs. Mary Briggs i [ and Mrs. Florence Schindler were [: appointed as the nominating com-1 . mittee. The affair is to be primarily a social meeting with a short program. Members of the program commit- ; tee are Miss Mary McKean and Mrs. ■ I Charles Brodbeok. Members of the invitation comI mittee are: Mrs. Alice Christen, j Mrs. Arthur Holthouse, Mrs. A. R. Ashbaucher, Mrs. Rose Schurget, Mrs. Mary Briggs. Mrs. J. A. Long and Mrs. O. M .Smith. Tlie refreshments committee will consist of Mrs. Leigh ®owen. Mrs. T. J. Dunkin and Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth

Montana Railroad Disaster Death Toll May Mount To 60; One Os The Worst In History

DISTRICT MEET IS HELD HERE District Moose Meeting Is Held Here Saturday Night About 200 members of the Moose | I lodges in Northeastern Indiana attended a district meeting here Saturday night at the Moose Home. Featured on the program was a talk by Jimmy Miller, of Fort Wayne, a 1938 graduate of Mooseheart, who spoke on tlie life of the boys and girls in the institution maintained by the lodge in Illinois. He said he entered the school with his brother and sisters in 1928. His mother accompanied him. After completing the grammar school courses he entered high school and was given special prevocational courses during the first two years. In his final years he made a selection of hisl ife vocation, which is cement finishing, and was given special training to permit him to begin life as a skilled workman. He also told of the social life and other phases of the school's extracurricular activity designed • to prepare the graduates to become well rounded and informed I citizens. Special music during the evening | was furnished by a male quartet I composed of Ernest and Lewis H. | Worthman, John Hilgeinan and j William Kruetzmari. A concert i and specialities were given by the j Geels and Gright children. Preceding the social meeting. ! Fort Wayne was voted as the site j of the next district monthly meet- | ing at which time the incoming ■ supreme dictator will be the speaki er. Prominent state Moose offiI cials will also attend. The evening was closed with I tlie serving of sandwiches and refreshments in the dining room. EDITORS PLAN .1 ANNUAL OUTING Indiana Democratic Editors Will Meet At French Lick Indianapolis. June 20 (U.R) The Indiana Democratic Editorial Asso- ! ciation will hold its summer outing I at the French Lick Springs hotel i on August 2(1 and 27. I The Democratic nominee for United States senator is scheduled tentatively to deliver the principal address. A committee on arrangements , I headed by Alvin Hall of Danville was named to perfect details ol : the meeting. Members besides | Hall are George W. Purcell of l Bloomington. Frank Finney ol Martinsville and Allen Bailey of I Delphi. Dean L. Barnhart of Goshen, I president of the association, named I other committees as follows: Resolutions — Walter S. Chambers of Newcastle, chairman; Ray- ' mond C. Sohl, Hammond: John II i Heller, Decatur; Bernard McCann. ' Lawrenceburg. Business session Paul L. Feltus, Bloomington. chairman; Harry Diehl. Brazil; Robert C. Averltt, Michigan City; Nelson Townsend. Hartford City. Entertainment Ray E. Smith, Indianapolis, chairman; E. < Gorrell, Winamac; William Kunkel, Fort Wayne. Entertainment for women Mrs. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O Uleman Funeral Is Held This Morning | Funeral services were held at the jSt. Mary's Catholic church this i morning for Herman S. Ulman, prominent Decatur man, who died at | the Adams county memorial hosplj tai Friday morning. I Full military rites were conducted by Adams post number 43 of the American Legion. Surviving are the I widow, Frances, two daughters, Leona and Dorothy, at home; two brothers, Noah. Walbridge, Ohio; Edward of Bryant; six sisters, Mrs. Joseiph Spangler, and Mrs. Peter Loshe, of Decatur; Celesta Ulman of Bryant, Mrs. L. A. Roy, Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Slyvester Remaglus, Bristow, Okla.

GREAT BRITAIN RENEWS EFFORT j TO SEEK PEACE Prime Minister Continues Campaign To Halt W ar Danger By Joe Alex Morris (United Press Staff Correspondent) Great Britain today intensified her struggle to break through a maze of diplomatic and military conflict barring the way to consolidation of Europe's peace. Although the Spanish civil war and other facts provide the immediate problem, the major aim of the campaign directed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is alleviation of war danger created by expansion of Nazi Germany against the weakened post-war political and economic structure. Every move that Chamlierlain makes or fails to make may be traced directly or indirectly to that goal; to preparation for negotiations with Fuehrer Adolf Hitler in an effort to fix a price for Nazi co-operation in a revised peace. Chamberlain's route to tlie goal has been slow, roundabout and difficult. The war in Spain provides the immediate obstacle, not because German and Italian support for the rebels is a threat to Britain's power (Chamberlain has chosen to Ignore that for the present) but because it is preventing inaugeration of the new AngloItalian friendship treaty. Thus in London today authoritative sources put up the latest of several trial balloons in search for a means of putting the pact into operation despite tlie fact that it calls for withdrawal of Italian volunteers from Spain and that Italy does not intend to withdraw them until the insurgents win the war. Faced with prolonged delay in the general European appeasement program because the friendship pact is inoperative. Chamberlain and' Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini previously had considered ignoring the question of withdrawing volunteers. But that proposal met hostile British public opinion. The latest plan was for Musso- ■ lini to use b.is. influence with rebel generalissimo Francisco Franco to secure an early armistice in the Spanish conflict. Such action, if successful, would put the treaty ' into effect, clear the way for resumption of Italian negotiations for a similar pact with France and point toward the admittedly difficult task of appeasing the Nazis and bringing them into the general program. Main trouble with the new trial balloon is that neither faction in 1 Spain is likely to bo interested unless put under tremendous pressure or faced with a sudden change 1 in the present warfare. The problem. however, has become so pressing that it was generally believed (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ROSS JOHNSON DIES SATURDAY Adams County Native. Three Times Mayor Os Gary, Dies Saturday Roswell B. Johnson, 66, former mayor of Gary and a native of Adams county, died Saturday night at 9 o'clock at his home in that city. Death was attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage. The deceased was born in Monroe, April 23, 1872, the son of . Joseph and Emily Johnson, pioneer Adams county residents. He was elected mayor of Gary for three terms. Surviving besides 1 the widow, are two sons, Roswell B. Johnson, Jr., and Richard, both of Gary. A sister. Mrs. Charles E. Hocker of Decatur and two brothers, ' E. W. Johnson of this city and C. 1 L. Johnson, of Gary, also survive. ' Funeral services will be held • Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock in ► Gary and the body will be returned to Kendallville for burial and • may be viewed there at 4 o’clock. ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hocker, Mr. i and Mrs. Carroll Cole, Mr. and '■ Mrs. E. W. Johnson and daughter, • Marjorie, of this city, will attend the funeral

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Appalling Death Toll Is Taken As Crack Train Plunges Through Bridge Into Creek. MANY INJURED Train wreck scene, Custer Creek, Mont , June 20 (U.R) The tackle of huge wrecking cranes today was made fast around submerged coaches of the Olympian, crack passenger train, which plunged into the flooded Custer Creek, carrying between 40 and 60 persons to death. A closer approximation of the appalling death toll of one of tlie nation's worst railroad disasters will be possible when the shattered coaches are brought to the surface . of tlie rapidly subsiding stream. Railroad officials said that at least 40 had perished. They expected the death toll to be higher. The official casualty list showed 67 injured. Fifteen liodies, several of them not identified, were in the morgue at Miles City, according to Ralph Bray, Custer county coroner. Another body was at Glendive and four other bodies were recovered from the wreckage during the night. “At least .’0 more will be added to the deat 'ist when the workers raise the submerged sleeping car,” Bray said. J. J. Oslle, assistant passenger agent of the Chicago. Milwaukee. SI. Paul & Pacific railroad, which operated the fast passenger train, said that the liodies of 40 men, women and children victims had been located. He flew here from St. Paul to direct rescue operations. When the flooded stream subsided workers made their way to the i submerged coaches and cut into them with acetylene torches At mid-morning tackle of lifting cranes was secured around the sleeping car. A freak cloudburst had sent a flash flood roaring down the creek, transforming it into a torrent. The flood crashed against the railroad trestle and it collapsed when the Olympian, westbound, started across the bridge. That happened early Sunday morning. The locomotive and six cars fell into the swirling waters. Rescue workers said that several bodies had been carried down- , stream. Several days will be required to compile an accurate casualty list. Forty-five survivors were in hospitals at Miles City. Many of them were only slightly injured and will be released today Among those in the hospital at Mlles City was Lewis Williams, a negro porter aboard the Olympian. His heroism was credited with saving many I lives at the risk of his own. To i was bruised but his condition was not serious. Custer Creek is 26 miles east . of Miles City, in eastern Montana. Miles City is 100 miles from the North Dakota line. | Milwaukee trains were running on schedule over Northern Pacific tracks. They were routed over the latter road from Terry to Miles City where they returned to the Milwaukee main line. In addition to pulling wrecked cars from the creek, work crews drove piles over the old trestle site for a temporary structure. Railroad officials said that they expected to have trains running over ’ the temporary bridge by Tuesday. A pall of smoke from the acetylene torches hung over the wreckage when the sun rose this morn(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE). Q I * Authorities Warn Citizens Against Buving Photographs r«- - ♦ Officer Ed P Miller, of the local police force. wartH'd local restr dents today against purchasing 1 photographs from traveling repre* I sentatives. > Officer Miller stated that he had received three calls this morning • from residents who had made a. > purported "down payment," nn d • then becam frightened at tha ■ thought th: they had been duped. I The officers are checking up on 1 the salesmen who made a house- • to-house canvass this morning in 1 the hopes of definitely establishing the unstability or stability of . the firm. I Officers also reported that they , had received several complaints 1 regarding fruit peddlers who had been pestering local citizens.