Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1938 — Page 1

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Erect Platform And Altar For Service Workmen today began erection ■ of the platform and the altar for I the outdoor service Sunday morning south of the St. Mary’s Catholic, ■church, where the 100th anniversary services of the church are to be held. One large platform Is to seat the C 5 members of the Paulist Choris- ! tors. The altar is to be ereetr-d near |the choir’s platform. A 40-foot drape will serve as a back ground for the I altar. — o JUDGING TEAMS TO STATE FAIR Dairy Cattle Judging Team To Represent County At Fair Members of the Adams county 4 H club dairy cattle judging team, which will represent the county at the state fair, were announced today by Sanford Frazee, county cow tester. The two original teams were coached by Mr. Frazee. Harve Inigei and Joel Habegger. The winning individual, will stay a week in the state fair camp and will compete against 60 or 70 other teams. The winners were chosen from the two county teams and were based on average scores made in the four of five contests in which they competed. The boys and their scores are: Chester Schwartz. Monroe township. average 204 points in four contests; Franklin Steury, Monroe township. 198 point average in five contests: David Moser. Jefferson township. 199 point average in four '■ontests, and Leßoy Schwartz. Monroe township, alternate, 194 points in four contests. Chester Schwartz. Franklin Steury and Leßoy Schwartz have Holstein herds at home and David Mosser has a Jersey herd. The highest possible score would have been 250 points. If the members of the teams should equal their average score at the state fair, their team total would be higher than that required to win most of the state open contests held this year. This week, the two Adams counity teams won second and 16th 'place in a Holstein dairy cattle ! judging contest held at Muncie. : There were 28 competing teams composed of 94 boys representing 13 counties. The winning team scored 600 out of a maximum of 750 points. This team w-as from Jay county and was coached by Paul Macklin, vocational teacher n that county. The team coached by Chris Iniger of Adams county won second by scoring 567 points. The individual scoring was: Stanley Arnold, 194 points; David Moser. 183 points and Chester Schwartz, 190 points. The team coached by Sanford Frazee of Adams county won 16th place by scoring 509 points as follows: Franklin Steury, 173 points; Alvin Nussbaum. 137 points and LeRoy Schwartz, 199 points. o Public Library To Close On Saturday Ilue to the death of Herman Ehinger, who was a member of the library board, the Decatur public library will be closed all day Saturday. BACK INJURED INFALLTOOAT Thomas McCarthy Is Injured In Fall From Barn Roof This Afternoon Thomas “Tommy” McCarthy, 62, an itinerant from New York, who has been employed at the L. A. Holthouse farm east o fthe city, fell from the barn roof shortly after noon today and sustained a severe back injury. McCarthy, who was engaged in re-roofing the buiding. was brought to the Adams county memorial hospital in the Zwlck and Son ambulance. The attendin physician stated that the back injury appeared serious, but that his condition prevented taking of X-rays to determine the extent of the injury late today. He was given a sedative and was reported resting easily late this afternoon. Scores of cars attracted by the ambulance siren and reports of an accident that were prevalent about town, made the trip east ou federal road 224 looking for an auto accident.

GREAT BRITAIN WORRIED OVER WAR PROBLEMS Potential Dangers In Two Areas Worry British Leaders Ixmdon, Aug. 18. — <U.R> —Potential dangers in the Czechoslovak ( minorities and Spanish civil war problems increasingly worried British leaders today. I Reports on negotiations between the Czechoslovak government and 1 its German minority leaders, and . on the Spanish nationalist reply ’ to a proposal to withdraw foreign troops from the civil war, were awaited anxiously. In negotiations at Prague yesterday German delegates all but rejected completely, government proposals for a minorities statute, i It was believed certain that the Spanish nationalist reply on volunteers was a rejection in fact though not in letter. It appeared increasingly probable that the Czecholovak situation would become acute again in a fewweeks. October was mentioned as a likely crisis month as regards Czechoslovakia — after Viscount Runciman. British mediator, had; returned to London. As regards volunteers there was a feeling approaching conviction that none could be evacuated from Spain before late next winter at the earliest. British relations with Germany ■ were a part of the Czechoslovak problem. British and French rei lations with Italy were a part of ■ the Spanish problem. In each I i case, trouble loomed for Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s i “realistic” foreign policy, based on i seeking friendship with European dictators. Opposition opinion in- ■ dined increasingly to the opinion , that surrender was the price of I friendship. Rumors circulating aboard that i there was dissension between ! Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax, foreign secretary, as the result of ’I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o RURAL CHURCH PLANS SERVICE Salem M. E. Church Plans Homecoming And Dedication The revised program for the ! homecoming and dedication services at the Salem M. E. church in 1 Blue Cree4< townhisp, to be held Sunday, was announced today. The program will open at 9 o'clock in the morning with the regular Sunday school service, followed at 10 o’clock by the morning worship hour. The complete program follows: Prelude Prayer—Unison. Quartette —Pleasant Mills. Pastoral Prayer—Rev. John Penchon. Song—Congregation. Trio —Class No. 6 Ten Minute Recognition Service. Sermon—Dr. Fremont Frlbley. Offering. Benedition. Music will be furnished at the dinner hour, with a basket dinner ’ in the church basement, followed by the afternoon service at 1:30 o’clock, ae follows:, Prelude. Song. Prayer —Rev. Albert Burk. Scripture Reading — Rev. Ralph Davison. S On g—Male Quartette, Berne. 1 Sermon —Dr. P. B. Smith, Rich- > mond. Song—Rev. and Mrs. Spurgeon . Hendrix. Offering—Dr. Frlbley. , Closing Song — Congregation. Benediction—Rev. Spurgeon Hen-, i drix. Evening serivce, starting at 7:30 ( ■ o’clock, follows: Song—Congregation. Scripture Reading and Prayer. I Song and Accordion Solo — Mr. , . and Mrs. Earl Chase. • Instrumental — Don Burke and • Chester Lautzenheiser. i Song—Rev. and Mrs. E. S. Morford. * i Duet —.Phyllis and Virginia Tayi lor. Offering. i iSong —Berne Male Quartette. : Piano Solo—‘Bonnie Lou Kreigh. . Song—Mattox Trio. I Song—Union. ' Zuercher Accordion Band. Benediction, __ ■

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 18, 1938.

Seize Kidnapers in Minnesota W Hl U 7 Otis James Meredith John Couch Death penalties will lie asked by the prosecution when Otis James Meredith, left and John Couch, right, ex-convicts, go on trial for the kidnaping of Peggy Cross and Daniel Fahey, soclally prominent St. Lous lesidents. The two criminals were captured near Effie, Minn., after a gun battle with deputies.

PARISH PICNIC PLANNED HERE Basket Picnic To Be Held Monday For Visiting Sisters A basket parish picnic will be held next Monday at Sun Set Park, southeast of Decatur, following a tour of the city of relatives and friends of the Catholic Sisters who will be here to attend the St. Mary's Centenary celebration Sunday. ■lt is proposed to have the automobiles meet at the Catholic school 1 on Fourth street. H. P. Schmitt, laychairman of the Centennial program Announced, about 9 o'clock Monday I 'morning. The families of the visit-1 ing Sisters, accompanied by friends, will make a tour of the city and surrounding community. The tour will . terminate at Sun Set park, where ithe parish members and friends will enjoy a picnic dinner and reunion. It was announced ty the committee that coffee and ice cream would , be served free at the picnic. An invitation was extended to the friends of the visiting nuns to meet them at the parish reunion. A number of Sisters are expected there from all parts of the country. Several have already arrived at their paternal homes and will remain for the Sunday services. o Former Decatur Resident Dies Word was received here today that John Franklin Eddington, a former Decatur resident residing at Columbia City had died at Hicksvile, Ohio Wednesday. The widow, a brother, Clark of Columbia City and Mrs. Donna Paraah of Fort Wayne survive. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the Luginbill funeral home in j Columbia City and the body will be brought to the Decatur cemetery for burial. LARGE CROWDS AT MEETINGS Adams County Holiness Association Meeting At Monroe — Large crowds have been attend-, ing the camp meetings being held by the Adams county holiness association in the Monroe Tabernacle. Dr. Nathan Beskin, noted evangelist who will be on the program, is one of the most outstanding I speakers ever to be in the county. | A decendent of Aaron and of a direct line of Aaronic priesthood, I he also is the son of the president:; of the world’s leading theological j ! seminary. Dr. Beskin was a schoolmate of I Joseph Stalin, now head of the Russian government and has been asso- 1 ciated with Leon Trostky. He is to give the story of his life. He was born in Russia, educated in Germany and trained as a Jewish 1 Rabbi. Converted in America, he! has been an evangeist for 20 years.! Subjects upon which he has spok-; i en are: “Christ,” “The Battle ofi Armageddon.” “The Return of the Jews” and “The End of the World.” ; .When giving his life story he will dress in high priest’s robes explaning the meaning and use of each; article as he 'puts them on. '

* FAUSE RUMOR Accident-conscious Decatur to-| | day. fresh with the memory of 11 i a series of fatal traffic acci- 11 dents, started an unfounded I ' rumor that required repeated | i j denials. Rumors floating around among | I Decatur citizens stated that || Richard Deininger, deputy cor- | i , oner surveyor, had been either I' | seriously hurt or killed in an 11 auto accident this morning. A checkup revealed Mr. Dein- | tnger, hale and hearty, although | ' somewhat fatigued from ans- j | I wering telephone calls and per- I | sonal inquiries, refuting the '! stories. » ' ' I LOCAL LAWYER IN HOSPITAL Hubert R. McClenehan Is Suffering From Fractured Jaw The condition of Hubert R. McClenehan, Decatur attorney, who was hurt in an auto accident in ; Tort Wayne, wae reported unchanged today. Mr. McClenehan. who sustained a, fractured jaw in an accident in downtown Fort Wayne last week, is confined in the Lutheran hospital. He was taken to the St. Joseph hospital following the crash and was removed this week to the Lutheran hospital for further treatment. His jaw was thought to have been fractured whe nhe struck the steering wheel from the impact of the collision. Complications have prevented hospital attaches and the attending physician from setting the fractured member. No one else was hurt in the collision. o 1 Indianapolis Plans Corrigan Welcome — Indianapolis, Aug. 18. — KU.R> —' Mayor Walter C. Boetcher today urged the entire state of Indiana to join with Indianapolis in giving Douglas (east is west) Corrigan; a rousing Hoosier welcome when; he comes here tomorrow in his j New York-todreland crate.” Office workers in Indianapolis; were invited to take time off from their duties tomorrow afternoon j to shower the smiling young Irishman with ticker tape and paper when he is paraded through downtown streets. —o Fort Wayne Lawyer Files For Divorce Charging among other things! that his wife and mother-in-law conspired and connived to live beyond the means he could afford, Kermit Calloway, Fort Wayne attorney, has filed suit for divorce in Adams circuit court. The complaint states that at the lime of their marriage the couple decided upon a $4 room, but that the wife and mother, unknown to him, rented a more expensive place, bought Venitian blinds, a |lot)’ rug, both got money from him by argument and persuasion, and otherwise lived beyond his financial abilities. The complaint also charges that the mother-in-law. Mrs. Glock, loaned him money toward buying a home and then declared she had an interest in the property and expected a share of the profits.

NEW CLUES IN TORSO DEATHS AT CLEVELAND Clues Lead Police Search To Area Around Large Central Market Cleveland, Aug. 18.—(tU.R>— Police ! j closed in today on a sorbid downtown area they believe contahis , the torso "laboratory” of the "mad butcher of Kingsbury Rijn.” Clues drawn from the finding of 1 his two latest victims led the search for his habitat to a neighborhood around the large central market. Both a fish box and a biscuit. box. into which body portions of victim number 12 —a woman — ! were stuffed, were traced to stalls in the market. Fingerprints showed, meanwhile, I that 11 of 60 tramps arrested in raids on Lake Erie waterfront shanties last night had criminal records. Decapitation victims 12 and 13. were found Tuesday afternoon and ; night on a lonely stretch near the waterfront "jungle” huts. Safety director Elliot Ness, for-1 ! iner G-man, who led the raids personally, said the waterfront, transients would be ordered front' I Cleveland and their shacks burned >to remove human "bait” upon which the maddened killer might prey. ’ A new systery elenftmt entered the torso saga today with revelation of the finding of a mass of woman’s hair and clothing on the east side. The hair, a woman’s,, was 15 inches long and of the same light brown color as that of the last woman victim. It was found a week ago in a field by Edward Bruhn, who thought nothing oF it until the two new torso discoveries. The hair contained a hair pin and a clasp and was uncombed and snarled. I Detectives reasoned that if the ! hair had been cut by a barber it j would have been combed and the . pins removed. j | Police ballistics expert D. L. ! Cowles examined the strands . microscopically. The clothing —a stained , dress,! slip, hose and underwear — was found Aug. 11 at another east-side address. The stains were tested as possible blood. Search began for possibly still another victim when a man told police that on Suday night he had seen a motorist stop beside lonely ; Kingsbury Run and throw a bundle , into the ravine. The spot was found to be on a ! road near “Jackass hill,” where Edward Andrassy and a nameless i companion, both headless, were found in 1935. Police raided a home today and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Holy Name Society, K. C. Meet Friday The members of the Holy Name society and the Knights of Columbus will meet Friday evening at 8 o’clock at the local K. of C. hall, from where they will go to the home I of the late Herman F. Ehiner to re-, cite the rosary. CLOSE AUCTION SCHOOL FRIDAY ■ Commencement Banquet, Exercises Here Friday Evening The commencement banquet for the 52 members of the 35th semiannual term of the Reppert School of Auctioneering will be held Friday evening at 6 o'clock at the Knights of Pythias lodge home on Third street. A banquet for the graduates and instructors will precede the commencement exercises. Col. Fred Reppert, founder of the school; Col. Roy Johnson, Col. Earl Gartin, Col. Roy Hiatt. Col. Jack Brunton and the Rev. Harry W. Thompson will be among the instructors present. Col. Gartin will be the commencement speaker and deliver the main address of the event. Each student will also deliver a short address. The instructors have proclaimed this as one of the finest classes in the school’s history. Each of the students has become proficient in “the art of auctioneering during the three weeks’ school, they stated. The 52 graduates represent 52 states in the Union, ranging from Louisiana to New York,

Funeral Services Are Arranged For Accident Victims

TELLS ACTIVITY OF COMMUNISTS Miss Kerr Testifies To Communistic Activity In CIO Washington, Aug. 18 —(UP) — i Margaret A. Kerr of the Los AngeI Ice better America federation test!- , fied today that she has seen a communist party membership card which she understood attested party membership of Harry Brides. Mise Kerr testified before the ! house committee investlating unamerlcan activities, hearing charges ' that federal officials advised and | protected Bridges when the west I Coast CIO leader faced deportation las an alleged communist. Bridges I has denied the communist charges. She appeared as the labor department surrendered its full file on ' Bridges to the committee amid reI iwrts that committee witnesses i have been threatened with violence. In turning over its files, the labor department requested the contents be kept confidential, warning that discloseur might result in violence for persone involved. Miss Kerr is executive secretary of the Los Angeles federation. She is th "mystery witness” upon whoee ! testimony committee chairman Martin Dies.O., Tex., expected to ' decide whether to bring the investigation of Bridges into open hear- ! ings. She said Bridges’ asserted comImunist membership card was shown her by a member of the party, whom she identified as Irvin 1. Markheitn. Markheim’s party name, -the testified, was john Burton. The card displayed by Markheim, she testified, was signed by “Harry (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o POLICY RACKET IS DESCRIBED Witness Says Schultz (Jang Cheated Employes Os Profits New York, Aug. 18 —(U.R) — The j Dutch Schultz policy racket, which ! Tammany leader James J. Hines is | accused of protecting, cheated its i employes of promised profits, Wil- ■ fred Blunder, negro lottery banker, j testified today at Hines conspiracy i trial. Brunder was recalled to the stand I today in District Attorney Thomas ; E. Dewey’s effort to break the pol- ! icy racket and put Hines in prison ! for his alleged bribing of public officials to prevent prosecution of the racketeers. j Brunder, a native of British West ! Indies, yesterday described policy j operations from 1923 up to the time ! Dutch Schultz decided to organize 1 a racket monopoly in 1931. After the business became more ■ or less consolidated, Brunder was ■ promised one-third of the profits | from the particular bank with i which he was associated, he testii fied. He estimated his share for the ! last quarter of 1932 at $6,000. He tried several times to collect, Brunder said, but J. Richard (Dixie) Davis admonished him for "always fussing and fighting.” Davis was the gang’s lawyer and has turned state's evidence. When he complained that “the business was making money,” Brunder said, Davis snapped “that's what you think." “Did you ever get your money?” Dew’ey asked. “Not yet,” the witness said. Brunder testified that he was I first approached on the subject of joining the gang by Joseph (Big ' Joe) M. Ison, a racket banker. The ' meeting took place after Brunder's release, August 19, 1932, from a (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O Auto Damaged By Hit-Run Driver Mrs. W. O. Little, of this city, reported to local police last night that i a hit-and-run driver struck her car ; on federal road 27 in Allen county, as she was returning to this city ; from Fort Wayne. Mrs. Little stated that her car was considerably damaged from the ! wreck, caused when the other drivi er endeavored to pass her auto while stil lanother was approaching.

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Herman F. Ehinger Rites Will Be Held Saturday Morning; Hugh D. Hite Rites Friday. INJURED HOME Funeral arrangements were complcted today for Herman F. Ehinger, 44. general manager of the Citizens Telephone company, and Hugh D. Hite, 56, of Detroit, who were fatally injured in a collision of the Ehinger automobile and a truck near Anderson late Tuesday afternoon. Services for Mr. Ehinger will be held at the St. Mary's Catholic church Saturday morning at 9 o'clock, with burial in the Catholic cemetery. Rev. Father Joseph J. Seimetz, pastor of the church, will be celebrant of the solemn requiem high mass. Rev. Father Ambrose Kohne of Goodiand. a native of Decatur, will act as deacon of the service, and Rev. Father Alvin, assistant pastor of the local church, will be sub-deacon. The body was removed from the Zwlck & Sons funeral home late Wednesday night to the residence, 609 West Madison street, where it may be viewed until the hour of the funeral. Active pallbearers, all intimate friends of the deceased, will bo Arthur R. Holthouse, Hubert P. Schmitt. William A. Klepper, Arthur E. Voglewede. Chalmer C. Schafer, all of Decatur, and Dr. Harry O. Jones of Berne. Honorary pallbearers will be S. E. Hite, C. E. Bell, Leo Yager, Theodore Gra 11 ke r and Al D. Schmitt, all of Decatur, and Hans Mueller of Fort Wayne. Chamber of Commerce officials today requested all business houses and offices in the city to close from 9 to 10 o’clock Saturday morning, during the time of the uneral. Mayor A. R. Holthouse announced that the city hall will b« closed durng the hour. The public library will be closed all day Saturday. Mr. Ehinger was secretary of the library board. Injured Brought Home Mrs. Ehinger and son James, who were injured in the wreck, were released from the Anderson hospital this morning, and returned to their home shortly before noon today. Improvement in their conditions made it possible to take them directly to their home instead of the Adams county memorial hospital as first planned. The attending physician stated today that their injuries are noC serious. Mrs. Ehinger suffered a. brain concussion, and was badly bruised and cut. James sustained a severely wrenched neck, with probably some torn cartilages and was also bruised about the body. Hite Funeral Friday Final services for Hugh D. Hits will be held at the Hite residence, 323 Winchester street, Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Rev. Kenneth Shafer, of Cincinnati. Ohio, a nephew of the accident victim, will officiate. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. The body was removed from tho S. E. Black funeral home to the Hite residence late this afternoon and may be viewed until time fin' the funeral. o YOUTH PLEADS GUILTY TODAY. Sherman Liechty Pleads Guilty To Malicious Trespass Sherman Liechty, 18, of Monrod township, pleaded guilty to a charge of malicious tresspass when arranged in circuit court before Judge Huber M. DeVoss this morning. Affixation of the pnniehment was continued until 10:30 o'clock Friday, morning, when Liechty will be returned to the court. Liechty is charged with entering the No. 6 district school in Monron township, destroying property, an I throwing ink and paint about th'4 room. He was arrested Wednesday by Sheriff Dallas Brown and State Patrolman Truman Bierie. After intensive gruelling. Liechty confessed. but failed to implicate others.. The charge against him was signed, by Edwin H. Gilliom,, Monron township trustee. The affidavit esti» mated the damage at $75,