Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 1938 — Page 1

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11(1 MRS II SEW® iwfca t h o 1 i c rthToMark Centennial Sunday construct i>’B ,hP plat ’ M the east corner «W 3 <’ a,holiC thU ’ |S i <1 Sunday. August Rev Fathannounced. t'eUo .he '" Most Rev. Bi sh °P John ‘X Wayne, will say □u, in the morning at the Huntington. Father Lil be celebrant of solemn Noll will atfbeseated on the bishops L ws and members of 1 degree of the Knights Hibus will form a guard or 7\be morning services, -cession of clergy. Bishop Lr Seimetz and officers mss will proceed from the m south on Fourth street X,‘street, then west to a B point to the school lot and lie slur. sorld-bmous Paulist Chorcf Chicago, directed by Rev. c p O'Malley. 0.5. P.. will be mass. About 100 young umpose the choir. ,y*ther Thomas J. Travers, 'd St. Mary s church. And,s former assistant at the prish many years ago. will f the sermon. irtr men ordained to the pd will be officers of the Ist evening a short service fc of Benediction of the dJatrament will be held in pci at 7 o'clock. At eight la program and reception It Hi in the auditorium of kfeh high school. ■hro! Sisters, those who BtTO ON PAGE THREE) IULAWSON IB ARREST Creek Township B Held At Wapakoneta, Ohio p Lawson, young Blue Creek ii? farmer, is again in the Its of the law. it was revealby Lawson was arrested in kviieta. Ohio, on charges of j is charged with forging iin Mercer county, Ohio, (checks were allegedly forgi Adams county man, who fared several times in local riff Dallas Brown of Adams 'ws instrumental in his •Wion and aided Ohio authiA questioning him. He is Iteged to have forged checks I twnty. Ittsent. Lawson is out under •of issuing a fraudulent Pleading not guilty to Jfing and .petit larceny, were entered in the AdW court. He was recently m the penal farm, where •’«! a sentence for fraud, Wost him in Wells circuit 0®inent Democrat ’ es At \al paraiso O '. ln(i -' Au K- 15—(UP)— • 'ices for Frank W. Mor. mn of the Porter county HhJ entral commi «ee, who •tad T. Cy ;' Mpital Saturday, ta ■ Uesda,} '- He was 43. 61Mted chair ’nan of B, nrt ‘ llr tentra! committee i£ ‘‘“ceeded in electing it., . “" atlc count ' officers - Cuuniy-s history. hcense bureau manager estate business. PEf| ATURE READINGS * OCRAT THe RMOMETER H.tn 70 •tn..' 2:oo p.m 87 1 84 3: 00 Pan 88 «caii? EATH£R .’a ‘ hunderß howers cooler- in U " day l some--1 height and n ° rthWest ” or ’ and

Queen Mary Breaks Ocean Crossing Mark Southampton, England, Aug. 15 j (UR) Th-- Cunard White Star liner queen Mary docked ill 2:51 A. M. today, completing a record breaking eastward crossing of the Atlantic. Docking arrangements were up-; ge t by the liner's speedy run. The j Queen Mary had been expected this 1 afternoon. She passed Bishop's Rock, off the southwest corner of Lands End,' Englands at 1:42 P- M. Sunday, I making the crossing in three days, 20 hours and 42 minutes from Ambrose light, outside the New York harbor. The average speed was 31..69 knots. HOLDVICTIMS’ RITES TUESDAY Four Victims Os Friday Morning Crash To Be Buried Tuesday The last chapter in Adams county's worst traffic disaster will be written Tuesday morning when funeral services will be held for the four who gave up their lives in the crash. The four who died in the wreck will be buried Tuesday, two in this city, one in Angola and one in lowa City, lowa. The first of the services will be held at the St. Mary's Catholic church in this city for Monica Colchin, Decatur, who was killed almost instantly. The rites will be held at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning with the Rev. Joseph J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be made in the St. Joseph cemetery. The services for Jerome Gase, driver of the Decatur car, who died in the local hospital shortly after the accident, will follow at 10:30 o’clock at St. Mary’s church with the Rev. Edward Roswog of South Bend officiating. Interment will be made in the same cemetery. Services in lowa At the same hour of the Gase funeral here, rites will be held in lowa City. lowa, for Detlef Petersen, Fort Wayne United Press bureau manager and occupant of the other car involved in the crash. Burial will be made in Miles, lowa, the birthplace of Petersen. On Tuesday afternoon services will be held for Linda Niehaus, of Angola, whose life was the fourth to be claimed by the wreck. Services for Miss Niehaus, who died Saturday morning in the local hospital, will be held at 1:30 (CST) o’clock at the First Christian church in that city. The Rev. James J. Whitehouse will officiate and burial will be made in the Circle Hill cemetery there. Inquest This Week Meanwhile in this city, authorities are continuing their investigation into circumstances surroundig the crash tn an effort to learn the cause of the accidet, which injured four others. Coroner Robert Zwick stated this morning that a formal inquest will be conducted before the end of the week. A reported improvement in the condition of Joseph Gaskill, of Kendallville, who was badly hurt, will undoubtedly permit him to be questioned regarding the accident. The conditions of James Wemhoff, Joan Colchin, and Vincent Tanvas, the other victims, were also reported improved, so they will be questioned also. Deputy Coroner Robert Freeby, who aided in the investigation at the time of the wreck and helped bring in the victims, will work with the coroner. Mr. Zwick stated that (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Q • DITCH REPAIR JOBS AWARDED Phil Sauer Is Awarded Repair Jobs On Two Ditches Repair jobs on two ditches in Adams county have been awarded by Walter H. Gilliom, county surveyor, it was announced today. Phil Sauer, local contractor, was awarded the work on the Andrew Miller ditch in Washington township on a bid of $75. The bid includes the labor and furnishing of additional tile as follows: 27-inch. $2.27 per foot; 22-inch, $1.96 per foot. Mr. Sauer was also awarded the headwall on the Gephart ditch in St. Mary's township on a bid of $389. Replacing of more than 400 feet of 24-inch tile was awarded to Adams Rltenour of Portland at $1.50 per foot. Work on the ditches will start in about. 10 days, as soon as the tile is received.

CZECHS WORRY OVER GERMAN WAR MANEUVERS Acute Anxiety Over Nazi Army Maneuvers Expressed Today Prague. Czechoslovakia, Aug. 15 —<U.R) Acute anxiety over Germany's gigantic army maneuvers' was plainly apparent today. It was reflected In a stiffening of the gov-! ernment’s attitude on the minorities problem and by forecasts that : important decisions would be taken I at a meeting of the national defense ' council tomorrow. There was a disposition In most ! other capitals to minimize the sig-j nificance of the war games which started at dawn today. But not here. For one thing, the opinion was expressed that the maneuvers might strengthen the Sudeten German minority party in its demands . for concessions and particularly that they might induce Viscount Runcitnan. British “adviser” In the i minorities problem, to urge further i concessions by the government, i For another, people did not weli come the presence of large bodies of troops near Czechoslovakia. Quarters close to the ministry of I interior intimated that Premier Milan Hodza was prepared to stand firm if the Sudeten German party I attempted to utilize Germany's [I "show.of strength" to obtain maximum concessions in the minority I 1 . I problem. Leaders of the six coalition par- ' ties on which the government de- | pends for support were emphatic I in their demands that the cabinet ', resist any pressure from any I source. Executives of the Sudeten Ger- ! man party told the United Press ‘ i they did not intend to link any i happenings in Germany with the , j time they said they would not con-1 1 minority negotiations. At the same ! sent to negotiate with members of' the government coalition parties 1 and they would insist on negotiating with the government alone. “We axe nut going tu allow negotiations to be delayed by political “ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) BROADER TAX , BASE NEEDED Pat Harrison Warns Income Tax Base May Be Broadened — Washington. Aug. 15 — (UP) — ' Chairman Pat Harrison of the senate finance committee warned today that congress will have to consider I broadening the income tax base unless business conditions improve by . the first of the year. Harrison, who led the congres i j sional rebellion against President _ Roosevelt’s tax policies at the last L session, served notice he will oppose [ any effort to re-enact high rates .i of the old undistributed profits tax ,'at the next session. ) iHis announcement presaged reI I newal of the embittered fight over federal taxing policies when the 1 next session meets in January. Sen- | ate revision of the 1938 revenue bill I ! including drastic changes in the tax \ on undistributed profits and on I capital gains, resulted in President 1 Roosevelt’s allowing the act to be-1 t come law withou this signature. Harrison, reviewing the fiscal prospects for the next session predicted that a new tax bill will be necessary. Harrison also looked for continuance on nuisance taxes due to exI! pire June 30, 1939, which raised approximately $400,000,000 (M) to 1 $500,000,000 (M) a year. j He said that if tax collections | next March 15 indicate tht congress has removed the inequities of the old undistributed profits tax, the | present modified principle of the tax proibabiy would be retained . I j He added, however, that it is iml! possible to predict what the final ■ reaction of the country will be. because no collections Have yet been I I made. ... ' Harrison opposed the uno-tribut--1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) t ° I Opens Bids Tuesday On Highway Work ©ids will be opened Tuesday morn- ! ing, August 16 by the state high- ’ way ommlssio no nthe construction , of the surfacing of the stretch of road between Geneva and the Ad-ams-Wells county line. The. local 1 construction work is one of 26 for 1 which bids will be received by the department.

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Deny Influence By Young Roosevelt Washington, Aug. 15 —(UP) —The department of justice denied today that James Roosevelt had influenced the department in making Its decision to drop indictments against Sinclair Refining company The denial was inspired by a statement of magazine writer Alva _ Johnston which the department said i carried the inference that such influence had been used. The controversy had its inception in a Saturday Evening Post artcicle on the insurance company! i earning of Jimmy Roosevelt, son' and secretary to President Roosei velt. This was written by Johnston and was answered last week in an 'authorized article in Collier*. TO SEEK ADDED WHEATEXPORTS — Secretary Wallace Seeks World Ever-Normal Granary Washington, Aug. 15— (U.R) — Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace is negotiating for a world ever-normal granary to provide a “fair distribution” of wheat exports. an official close to Wallace said today. "We hope for an amicable agree- 1 ment which would provide the I United States with a fair share of j the world wheat market," the official iaid. “Negotiations have been under way for some time.” Coincidentally, department of agriculture trade experts were in-1 structed by Wallace to study the possibility of an export subsidy on | wheat, to be used only as a last i resort in holding American wheat export markets. The official said discussion of export subsidies has been "very ' general" and that no specific ' plans have been drawn. ■ Wallace told a meeting of state farm leaders here last week that he * could “envision” a situation under which it might be worth while to have a limited export subsidy on ■ wheat. We really want the cooperation of the other nations so that they, 1 will have an ever-normal granary ! and we will have a stable interna- ( I tional wheat situation year after. I year,” Wallace said. The most recent development in 1 negotiations for sharing of world 1 i wheat markets came in a discussion 11 last week between Wallace and Sir I Earle Page, secretary of commerce | I for Australia. Page is here discuss-i | ing a possible Australian-American ; trade agreement paralelling that: being negotiated with Great Brit- 1 ain. Page said he and Wallace dis- . cussed international cooperation of . world wheat exports in an effort . to “stabilize prices and increase' . consumption.” He added that they were "not far apart.” Dr. A. G. Black, chief of the bureau of agricultural economics, instructions from Wallaces, propos- : (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ——o — Feast Os Assumption Is Celebrated Today The feast of the Assumption of ' the Blessed Virgin Mary was celebrated in St. Mary’s church to-1 1 day. It is a holy day of ouligation. ! Three masses were celebrated this 1 i morning. ADAMS COUNIT NATIVE DIES Charles Bevington Is Buried This Afternoon At Fort Wayne Funeral services were held this afternoon in Fort Wayne for Char- ' les Bevington, 50. retired Pennsyl- j I vania railroad fireman, former Adams county resident, who died at his home in that city Saturday. The deceased was born in Blue Creek township, Adams county and had resided in Fort Wayne for the past 18 years. He had been an employe of the Pennsylvania since moving to Fort Wayne. Surviving, besides the widow, Blanche, are three sons: Eugene and Adrian; two daughters. Lois and Rowena; a brother, Jess, all of Fort Wayne; a half-brother. Howard Bevington of Adams county; a half-sister, Frances Bevington, also of Adams county and a granddaughter, Sharon Ann. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, of which he was a member, conducted the services at the! home this afternoon and burial was made in the Greenlawn memorial cemetery there. |

FREY ASSERTS COMMUNISTS IN CHARGE OF CIO AFL Leader Says Maytag Strike Fomented By Communists Washington, Aug. 15 — <U.R) — John P. Frey of the American fed- j eration of labor charged before the , house committee investigating tin- ( American activities today that the recent CIO Maytag strike at New-! ton, la., was directed by a cotnmun- j ist party organizer. Broadening and making more specific his charges that the CIO is ; dominated by communists. Frey charged the Maytag strike was directed by William Sentner, whom he said is a communist organizer. I Frey put in the record evidence ! he claimed is proof that Sentner is ’ a communist party organizer for’ district no. 21. and has been a mem-. ber of the communist party for “a I number of years.” He said Sentner formerly was St.; Louis section organizer for the party, and had a “long police record” as a result of his communist activities. Frey added that Sentner had recently been relieved of command of 1 the strike and had been replaced by James Lustig, “another known communist." He placed in the record what he said was a list of members of the | current central committee of the communist party. His list included I Wyndham Mortimer, recently deposed as vice president of the ClO’s f United Automobile Workers of A-, l merica for alleged communist activities. “You will note,” Frey said, “that Mortimer was a member of the committee at the same time he was a vice president of the United Auto-1 mobile Workers." Frey read a letter signed by Anthony Ucello, dated October 11. 1937, addressed to the Magazine' i National Republic. It explained the writer s reasons for resigning the I presidency of local 232 of the ClO’s i American hardware corporation at j (CONTINUED <>N PAGE FIVE) O NINE KILLED AS PLANE CRASHES German Air Liner Crashes At Rio De Janeiro Today II Rio de Janeiro. Aug. 15 — (U.PJ —| i The German Condor air liner An-' kanga, crashed in Guanabara Bay today killing five passengers, one \, a woman, and four members of the l crew. The liner struck one of the treacherous currents which swirl over the mountain-rimmed harbor. The plane went out of control at 1,500 feet. As the pilot attempted a bank, the big ship went into a dive I and crashed into the water. The plane was piloted by Joao Unpukina. Brazilian law requires a | Brazilian crew over this part of the air line which runs from Germ- ! any, south across the Atlantic, j j through Brazil and Argentina to j Chile. The ship had just taken off northi bound for Victoria, Brazil. As the i pilot attempted to gain altitude it ■ went out of control. It crashed near I Covernador Island in the bay dirI ectly opposite the main docks of Rio de Janeiro. I Passenger casualties were: MilI ton Silva, Alberto Schnelle, Maria ! Ferraz. Anysio Cunharego and Car- ' los Prado. Other members of the . crew killed besides the pilot were: i Luis Cotelli. mechanic; Jao PosciI ni, radio operator and Miguel StumI tnacher, steward. Convoy Man Is Given Penal Farm Sentence Walter Reldenbaugh, of Convoy. Ohio, was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to serve 60 days in the state penal farm at Putnamville | when he plead guilty to a charge of' public intoxication late Saturday | afternoon before Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse in city court. Reldenbaugh was arrested by city police Thursday on the streets of Decatur. He is being held in the county jail until his admittance to the state farm. o Scouts To Meet Tuesday Evening Scouts who are planning to take the vacation trip to Turkey Run are urged to meet Tuesday night at 6:15 o'clock at the concession stand of the South Ward softball | field.

Eight-Year-Old Lad Critically Injured This Afternoon When Bicycle Is Struck By Auto

FORD COMPANY FIGHTS RULING Company Asks National Labor Board Hearing Overruled Washington. Aug. 15. —<U.R> The Ford Motor Co., asserted today that its constitutional rights had been violated in a national labor relations board hearing at St. Louis. The assertion was made hi a bill of exceptions on the basis of which Ford asked the board to overrule a trial examiner's report holding that the company had violated the labor act. The bill contained 573 exceptions to trial examiner Tilford E. Dudley’s intermediate report and requested another 60 days to prepare a brief and present oral arguments hi the case. Dudley had ordered the Ford company to reinstate 192 workers, 96 of them with back pay, and to place another 57 workers on a preferential employment list at the company’s St. Louis plant. He also ruled that the United Automobile Workers of America, a committee for industrial organization affiliate, had been chosen as bargaining agency by a majority of the Fort St. Louis workers and recommended that the company grant sole bargaining rights to the UAW. In its exceptions, Ford asserted that the UWA local “never was, and is not now the representative designated or selected for the purposes of collective bargaining, by the majority of the employes hi respondent's (Ford's) St. Louis plant, in a unit appropriate for such purpose, and has never been and is not now the exclusive repreI sentative of such employes for any ■ purpose." The company claimed that it ' never had refused to bargain with the UAW “as the representative of its members.” Plan Four Farm Research Labs Washington, Aug 15 —(UP) —SecI retary of agriculture Henry A. Wai- | lace today designated the four major farm produucing areas in each iof which there will be constructed a ' imillion dollar research laboratory: He did not specify in what cities the projects will be situated. Among ' the areas designated was the north- ! ern district including Illinois, Indiana. lowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri Nebraska. North Dakota, Ohio South Dakota. Wisconsin and i Michigan. o — Lupe Velez Wins Second Divorce Hollywood, Aug. 15 —(UP) —Lupe ; Velez, the fiery Mexican actress, today won her second and she hopes I her last divorce from Johnny Weiss- | muller, one time Olympic swimmer turned Tarzan. OYONIS SCHMin FRACTURES LEG Weil Known Decatur Man Fractures Leg In Fall Saturday Dyonis Schmitt, 78 prominent DeI catur resident, is confined in the I Adams county memorial hospital, suffering from a fractured left leg. | sustained Saturday afternoon in a fall. The accident occurred Saturday afternoon about 2 o’clock. Mr. SchI mitt was standing on the top of a ladder, and was trimming a tree, in front of his home. The ladder slipped, throwing him to the ground. It is thought that i the fracture was sustained when his leg struck the rung of the ladder in the fall. lHe was taken to the hospital where an X-ray revealed that the left leg was fractured above the ankle. The bone was broken through and cracked vertically, running u>p toward the knee. >His general condition today was reported as good, despite Jhe seriousness of such an accident to aa elderly person.

EASTON MURDER TRIAL OPENED Trial Os Killer Os Indiana State Patrolman Opens Today Michigan City, Ind., Aug. 15. — (U.R> —A special venire of 1/10 prospective jurors, including 21 women, assembled here today for the start of the trial or Orelle Easton, 25-year-old former North Dakota farm hand indicted for the murder of state policeman Ray Dixon last June near LaPorte. Easton and his 27 year-old brother, Clarence, embarked on a crime career with several robberies in Wisconsin. It halted when Clarence was shot to death by an Illinois posse and Orelle was wounded after they fled the scene where Dixon was murdered. Dixon and a motorist he had arrested for a traffic violation after an accident stopped when they saw an automobile stalled at the roadside. As Dixon alighted there was a blast of gunfire and the trooper fell mortally wounded. In their flight from the scene the Easton's also kidnaped a farmer and a deputy sheriff. After his arrest Orelle denied firing the shots which killed Dixon, claiming that his brother was tha killer. Orelle has been held in the state prison here pending his trial, chiefly to allow medical treatment for his wound and to forestall any attempts at suicide which he has threatened. Judge Russell Smith of the superior court will preside at the trial. Friends and relatives from Valley ' City, N. D., are expected to testify for Easton, principally as character witnesses. TAMMANY HALL HEAD ON TRIAL Thomas Dewey Continues War On Rackets In New York New York, Aug. 15. —<U.R> —Disi trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey ' plunged into the most spectacular fight of his always-sensational war on rackets today with the asser- . tion that from 1931 to 1937 more than a million persons in greater New York were exploite dfor $lO,000.000 to $20,000,0(10 a year by a vast lottery combine. He said the state would try to show that James J. Hines, Tammany hall district leader, supplied legal protection for that gang. His assertions were made in remarks to talesmen called for the selection of a jury to hear the trial of Hines on charges of conspiring with Schultz and his henchmen. Dewey summarized the one conspiracy and 12 felony charges against Hines and said the prosecution hoped to present testimony of about 55 witnesses iri one week. Reading a list of politicians, Tammany district club leaders and small-time policy racketeers, Dewey told the talesmen that acquaintance with any of those on the list would disqualify them for jury service. Lloyd Paul Stryker. Tines' attorney, objected to the remarks, contending that Dewey was going too far afield. Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora cautioned the prosecutor to make his re- ' marks more general. 1 At the outset of the trial today . the case of Martin Weintraub, • “mouthpiece” for small-fry policy i operators jointly indicated with (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Rhodes Infant Is Reported Improved i Cynthia Dianne, three months old ■ daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Orville i Rhodes of Bluffton, who has been i critically ill with spinal Meningitis, was reported as being some improvI ed late this afternoon. The babe ! who has been ill with influenza for > the past month was taken to the t Lutheran hospital last Thursday . after meningitis developed. Mrs. Burt Haley, grandmother of f the stricken child, returned from - Fort Wayne this afternoon. Mrs. i Rhodes was formerly Miss Margaret Ualex of this clt& „

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Battle To Save Life Os Bov Injured Today In II Blue Creek Township Accident. FEARED FATAL Surgeons and hospital attaches were diligently endeavoring late this afternoon to save the life of ■ eight-year-old Leslie Stnanton, of Blue Creek township, and keep the county's traffic toll for the month from rising to six deaths on the highways. Young Stanton was critically injured about 12:30 o'clock this afternoon in front of the Blue Creek township home of Fred Bilderback, his grandfather, when he was struck by an auto, while riding his bicycle. Ivan Byer, 41. also of Blue Creek township, was the driver of the car which struck the lad. He was accompanied l>y Harry Troutner, of the same address. The lad was brought to the local hospital by the two men and Mr. Bilderback. The door handle on the right side of the ißyer car ripped open the lad'e stomarch and nearly disemboweled him. While hospital attaches fear for the lad's life, they stated that should he survive it would be due greatly to the presence of mind i of the grandfather, who. enroute to the hospital, held the lad s intestines and stomach contents within the stomach walls with his hands. The lad suff°red a laceration six inches long that started on his left side and ran toward the front of his stomach. He also sustained a three-inch gash in his stomach that emptied the contents into his bowels, the attending surgeon said. Turned Into Auto Both the driver and Mr. Troutner toid Deputy Sheriff Leo GiTl'.g, who investigated, that the lad turned directly into' the auto’s path. Byer said he was driving only about 20 miles per hour, and that he stopped within 20 feet. Leslie’s sister, Dolores, aged 19, 1 witnessed the accident, as she stood in front of the Bilderback home, awaiting her turn for a ride on the bicycle. William, 13, the eldest brother, and Mr. Bilderback were attracted to the road by the boy's screams and the sound of the . crash. The children have been making their home with the grandparents since the illness of the mother. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Stanton, of Columbia City, were notified by . Sheriff Gillig and were expected to arrive at the hospital this afternoon. The accident occurred on a county road, just inside the Indiana line, about one mile west of Willshire, Ohio. 0 Englishman Killed In Spanish Bombing Valencia. Aug. 15—(UP) —R. A. Farmerly, wirelees operator of tha British ship Hellfern, was killed early today when nationalist planes 'bombed the port of Valencia. Farmerly was on the end of the breakwater with a German observer and > another unnamed observer was wounded. o THIEVES LOOT LOCAL GROCERY Ed J. Miller Grocery Is Broken Into, Looted Over Week End A thief or thieves broke into tha 1 Ed. J. Miller grocery on Adams ' street sometime late Saturday night or early Sunday morning and escaped with loot of money and. merchandise. I Mr. Miller estimated the loss at about S4O or SSO. He said about $35 | worth of cigarettes in cartons were > taken, some candy and gum and a- ( bout sls in nickels and dimes. The theft was not noticed until he opened the store Sunday mom- , ing. He bad closed the night previbus about 11 o’clock, thus placing ( the theft between those hours. ’ Entrance to the store was gained by hoisting a window open on the side and tearing out an iron bar. Police Chief Sephus Melchi and 1 Sheriff Dallas Brown were notified ■ of the theft and are investigating, t It is considered probable that the jheft waa committed by young boys.