Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 1 September 1938 — Page 1

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

New Wilson Stamp UNITED STATES POSTAGE !★ * I , MJ a ■ crw*<i I ♦ >9<3-t?2i yr I IB —— — This is a facsimile of the $1 Woodrow Wilson stamp, new issue ' in the presidential series, now on .[sale throughout the V. S. ALLEN COUNTY MAN ARRESTED Police Car Damaged After Chase For Reckless Driver — i An auto trash on North Second I street last night involving the city police car resulted in the arrest of an Allen county resident on a : charge of reckless driving. Ernie Kitzemann. of Fort Wayne, route four, was allegedly driving north on Second street about 12:30 I o’clock this morning in a reckless manner, running the red light at Five Points and weaving in and out 'of traffic at a fast rate of speed when noticed by the night police. Coffee at Wheel Officers Adrian Coffee and Roy Chilcote gave chase, with Officer Coffee at the wheel. According to the officers, Kitiemann allegedly suddenly stopped in the 700 block on North Second < street in an effort to avoid arrest iby ducking down an alley to the left. Unable to turn around the stopped car due to oncoming traffic and parked cars, the officers drove the . police car into the other vehicle Kitzeman was taken to the Adams county jail. The officers stated (that charges of reckless driving will >e filed against him today. Both Cars Damaged Both of the vehicles were damaged. The front of the city police I car, the bumpers, headlights, axel land frame were damaged. The other I ear was damaged in the rear and in the front from contact with a telephone pole. Officers and residents of the neighborhood attested to the fact that the siren of the police car was blowing and the red light on the . front was lit. The officers and Kitzeman all eseecaped injury. Fined sl, Costs Kitzeman was fined fl and costs when he plead guilty to the charge 'CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o CYO Play Announced By President Omlor “The Absent-Minded Bridegroom’’ is the name of the three-act play to . be given Sunday, October 9 by the : Decatur CYO. it was announced today by Charles Omlor, Jr., presi- ’ dent of the organization. The play will be given in the De- ■ catur Catholic high school auditorium on that date, starting at 8 • o’clock. Tickets may be secured • from members of the Catholic youth ■ organization. ’ 0 HARRY LAWSON GRANTED TIME ' Alleged Forger Also Has Petit Larceny Charges Pending ! Harry Lawson. 22, of Blue Creek . township, who recently confessed to a series of forgeries in the county, started in 1935, was granted more time to enter a pleh when brought I before Judge Huber M. DeVose in Adams circuit court this morning. Lawson,’ who is charged specifically with writing a check for SB4 on the Bank of Geneva and forging the name of Ottls Burk, is to bo returned to court Saturday. Two charges of petit larceny are also pending against Lawson in circuit court. He is out on bond after pleading not guilty to both cnarges. Lawson was arrested Tuesday afternoon by Sheriff Dallas Brown when he was released from the Wapakoneta, Ohio jail after serving a I term for issuing a fraudulent check.

ADVERTISERS MOST PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS Five Per Cent Cause All Troubles In Selling Products New York, Sept. I.—(Special)— If nationally advertised products are to continue to hold the confidence of the American public, manufacturers must not only defend themselves publicly against unfair and vicious attacks made :by some interests, but must also educate the public as to the true value of advertising as well as the private enterprise system of which I it is an important part. This is the opinion of Mason Britton, vice-chairman of the McGraw Hill Publishing company and chairman of the Board of the Advertising Federation of America, commenting on the national “Who's A Guinea Pig” campaign sponsored by American Druggist. The movement is aimed at speeding recovery by promoting the inI creased sale of nationally advertis- . ed products and defending nation- ■ al manufacturers against unfair attacks on their products and will be carried out through a combined editorial campaign in American Druggist and Cosmopolitan. “Over 95 per cetrt of the advertising published in America is : honest and truthful and the critics of advertising take their examples from the remaining five per cent and through so-called consumer organizations, books and speeches, attack the profession as a whole. Cleaning Up “Advertising organizations,” continued Mr. Britton, “are doing everything they can to clean up the five per cent and through the efforts of such organizations as the Advertising Federation of America are succeeding.” The publisher pointed out that total retail sales in the United States are approximately 33 billion dollars annually and the total amount of advertising sold is $467,000,000. “Thus,” he declared, "the nation's advertising budget is (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) 0 STATE BUREAU LEADERS NAMED Omer Jackson Announces Opening Os Democratic Campaign Indianapolis. Ind., Sept. I—(UP)1 —(UP) —Directors for six bureaus that will operate during the state Demo- ! cratic campaign this fall were announced today by Omer Stokes Jackson, state chairman, their offices were opened today in a down- ; town hotel. The bureaus and the d’rectors are: Farm division: Charles Apple farmer of Sweetser active in farm organization for several years. Veteran's bureau. Thomas Mo 1 Connell of Fowler Benton county ’ chairman and director of the bureau in the last campaign. Speakers’ bureau: James Pennman of Brazil secretary to Senator Sherman Minton. ’ Colored division: Henry Fleming, Indianapolis, reappointed. Labor division: Thomaa R- Hut- ! son, head of the state labor division Publicity division: Trisram Coffin Indianapolis, publicity director for Gov. M. Clifford Townsend. Forrest Ross To Be Transferred Tuesday Forrest Ross, manager of the 1 Miller-Jones Shoe store here is to be ' transferred to the Muncie store next Tuesday it was announced today. Mr. and Mrs. Ross will move to : Muncie on Tuesday. Larr Hutchin- > son who eerved part time at the local store during the illness of Mr. i Rose will be transferred here from ; the Kokomo store of the company. 1 -— ♦ I—LAST SOFTBALL TONIGHT l I Softball fans of the county | ' will have their last chance to | witness their favorite sport to- | ' night at the South Ward diam- | ’ ond when the Decatur Castings | ' I and Berne Dunbars meet for | • I the county softball title. | The championship title will | i | start at 7 o'clock followed by I ■ j the Castings-Kuhner packer | ■, j game an hour later. [♦ ♦

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 1, 1938.

California Winner, Wife •vV - 11 \ « 1 L i Sheridan Downey and wife Political career of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California received a stunning blow when Sheridan Downey of Atherton, S3O-a---week pension advocate, emerged triumphant in the Democratic senatorial primary. Downey was far ahead of McAdoo, supported by the I president. Downey and his wife are shown as they cast their vote.

51 ARE CAUGHT IN LANDSLIDE Canadian Apartment House Buried Early This Morning Four Dead Quebec, Que.. Sept. I—(U.R)~A1 —(U.R)~A landslide precipitated by storms and floodwaters which took eight lives elsewhere in Quebec province early today struck an eightfamily apartment house at St. Gregoire, killing four persons and injuring 20. The victims were identified as Rosa Mrs. Patrick Delisle. 33, and her small child. . and Mrs. C. O'Dette. 22. Rose's mother. Mrs. M. LaChance, was taken unconscious I from the wreckage and reported j dead. She regained conscious-: ness later, however, and was taken to a hospital, where attendants 1 doubted that she would recover. ‘ The body of Miss LaChance i was lying over a living child in a | manner indicating that she died ■ while trying to protect the child.] A fragment of flying wreckage apparently had broken her neck. The child was little the worse for being trapped six hours in the! i wreckage. St. Gregoire, Que., Sept. 1. —'(U.R> —A land-slide buried an eight-fam-ily apartment house early today. Police estimated that 51 persons (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) RALLY PLANNED AT BERNE PARK Farley, DeVoss, Thompson To Address County Democrats A picnic meeting and rally of | the Adams county women's Democratic club will be held at Lehman park in Berne on Thursday. , September 15, it was announced i today by Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp, club president. , Congressman James I. Farley ’ of Auburn, will deliver the main I address at the meeting. Judge I Huber M. DeVoss. Democratic | ' I nominee for the appellate bench and Frank G. Thompson, Democratic nominee for state auditor, | ■ will also speak. , The meeting is open to the public, men of the county and members of the Adams county young | Democratic club are especially urged to attend. Each person is asked to bring a covered dish and table service for j the picnic dinner. In event of inclement weather I the event will be held in the . Berne auditorium. Mrs. Knapp will announce at an early date ■ the appointment of committees to | arrange for transportation and entertainment features. The meeting will open at 6| ’ o'clock in the evening. j

Rev. Worthman To Be Speaker At Congress The Rev. Mathew Worthman, pastor of the First Evangelical and Re. j formed church in Bluffton, will be I the principal epeaker at the men's congress of the Fort Wayne classis of the church which is to be held in Berne on September 18, it was announced today. Hiram Liechty of Ferne. vice-pre-sident of the congress ia in charge of arrangements forth? event, which will be held in the Cress Reformed church at Berne. o CHARLES BRYAN IS DEAD TODAY — Kirkland Township Retired Farmer To Be Buried Saturday Charles S. Bryan. 81, resident ■ of- Kirkland township and prominent Adams county retired farmer.] died this morning at 12:35 o'clock at his home. Death was attribut- ■ ed to heart complications. The deceased was born in Decatur county, Indiana. March 4, 1 1857, the son of Mr. and Mrs. ; Peter Bryan. He was a member of the Pleasant Dale Brethren church. Sur- ] viving. besides the widow, Mary Barger-Bryan, are five children: Elmer H, of Fort Wayne: Mrs. : Lloyd Clowser, Craigville. R. R : Mrs. Roy Doty, of Roanoke; Will of Pierceton, and Lloyd of Fort Wayne. Ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren also survive. Three brothers, one half brother and one sister preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held : Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Pleasant Dale church with i burial in the church cemetery, i The Rev. Russell Weller, pastor of the church, will officiate. The body will be returned to ■ the home this evening from the Jahn funeral home in Bluffton, and may be viewed at the Kirkland township residence until the time of the funeral. o — Aged Adams County Man Is Apprehended According to reports from th§ I police bureau at Fort Wayne, Ani drew Grabill aged resident of this | city was arrested in that city Wedi needay on a charge of loitering, I after he had allegedly refused to ' stay at the Adams county infirmary. I Grabill was fined SIOO and costs and remanded back to the county institution here. o State Highway Marks Streets In Decatur Members of the state highway department crew were in the city today marking parking and restricted areas on city streets that form a part of the state hihway system. Bright yellow lines were painted to [denote restricted parking areas.

Central Sugar Company To Open Sugar Beet Campaign Earliest In History Here

CORN BORER IS CAUSING HEAVY FIELD DAMAGE Second Generation Brood Causes Fear Os 1939 Injuries The heaviest corn borer infestation —complete—ever seen by two corn borer experts was discovered in Adams county Wednesday. A brief survey of the county I was made by E. W. Fitch, in I charge of the corn borer control i station at Auburn, and R. L. WileI man, agricultural extension engiI peer of Purdue university. In a number of the fields they i discovered infestation running : from 80 to 90 per cent. The i Menno Eicher farm, seven acre i plot with 100 per cent infestation, had the greatest commercial dam- : age Mr. Fitch had ever seen in the state. This farm is located two miles east and half mile north of Berne in the muck. Mr. Eicher plans to put part of the corn in the silo and handshred the balance. Plans are being made for a 1 demonstration to be held on the Harvey Inichen farm two and a I half miles east of Geneva on the | Geneva pike, September 23. This demonstration will be of low cutting and trash shield plowing. Those who are interested will be accompanied through the Eicher farm, where they will inspect the corn borer damage. A second brood infestation is being reported in the county, whicli may cause considerable damage to the ears of late sweet , corn. The greatest danger of this second generation is a build-up of i the com borer for next year. Corn Crop Reduced By Severe Draught Chicago Sept. I—(Ut*1 —(Ut*) — Severe 1 heat and draught weet of the Mis-j , stssippi river have reduced the pros--1 pective corn crop by 120 million j bushels in the past month, James E.. 1 Bennett and Co., reported today. The report estimated the probably yield at 2.406,000,000 bushels compared with the government August 1 forecast of 2,566.000,000. C. Lindbergh Lands In Czechoslovakia I Prague. Czechslovakia, Sept. I—|1 —| (UP) —Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, , flying with Mrs. Lindbergh from Cluj. Roumania. landed today at Oelmutz, Czechslovakia. because of fatigue. He planned to resume his flight ’ in the morning, probably to prague .After leaving Cluj. Lindbergh made an intermediate landing at Cracow, Poland presumably because of poor weather. OUILT IS BEST CLUE IN CRIMES ■ Cleveland Officers Continue Long Hunt For Torso Killer Columbus. O . Sept. 1 — (U.R) — Mrs. Irone Young of Columbus today identified a quilt wrapped about the body of Cleveland’s 13th “torso murder" victim as one she had given to a Cleveland barber. The barber. Charles Damyn, previously had identified the quilt 1 as that he gave to a junk dealer ' about six weeks before it was 1 found with the body of the latest ■ victim of the "mad butcher of Kingsbury Run.” I i Mrs. Young said she was cer- . | tain the qliilt was the one she II gave Damyn four years ago when ■ she was operating a rooming house in Cleveland where he was a roomer. The clue was described by poI lice as one of the most important 'I uncovered in the four-year search j for the killer who dissects the ■ bodies of his victims and then ■ throws them away. So far the • murders have been “perfect" i crimes. . i According to authorities, the , junk dealer, Elmer Cummings, 1 LCONTINUWJ on EAGB FIVE),

SCHOOLS OPEN NEXT TUESDAY Rural Pupils Will Register, Receive Book Lists Friday The preliminary opening of the rural schools of Adams county will b? held Friday with students of tho various echools registering for the 1938-29 term. After receiving books lists and 1 registering the students will return home. The official ppening of the rural schools will be held on Tues- i day, September 6. City schools will also open Tuesday morning, with registration for | the Decatur high school being completed Saturday afternoon. Final plans have been made for opening the schools and officials are expetcing a large enrollment in both the county and city. Book lists for both the city and county schools have been published and parents of students are urged to make purchases before the end of the week. o Flower Garden Club To Inspect Gardens A committee from the Decatur Flower Garden club will inspect the gardens of the grade children Friday. The club distributed «eeds among the children of the three ’ wards. Central and the Catholic grades last spring. Those who will inspect the gar-, dens are the Mesdames N. A. Bixler. W. E. Smith. Ed Warren, Richard McConnell, Charles Beineke, Sam Butler George Buckley Delton Paeswater, Floyd Arnold and Lawrenca Green. ASK STRIKE Os RAILROAD MEN Votes To Be Counted In About Three Weeks From Today Chicago, Sept. 1. -i(U,R>-Commit-teemen of 19 railroad brotherhoods distributed ballots today to 928.-, 000 railroad employes for a vote ' to determine whether they should I call a nation-wide strike in pro--1 test afiainst a proposed 15 per 'cent wage cut — approximating $250,000,000 a year. Such a strike would paralyze 142 class I railroads, virtually all of the major lines in the nation s railroad network. However, be- ’ before the dispute reaches a showdown, there will be months of ad-j ditional investigations and negotiations and it is unlikely that the controversy will reac hthe stage of an actual strike. Orders for the vote were issued last night in conferences of 1,0001 general chairmen, representing 18 brotherhoods in the railway laboi executives’ association, and repre- i sentatives of the Brotherhood of I Railway Trainmen which is acting I independently in the controversy. The action followed by less than three hours an announcement that the national mediation board, ! which has been meeting with the groups since Aug. 11, had tailed! in its efforts for a settlement. It was expected both groups would announce results of their i votes simultaneously, in about! three weeks. Providing a strike date is announced formally, the mediation board—Dr. William M. Leiserson, l (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) * CAN'T DIE — i South Bend, Ind., Sept. I.—■ I <U.R>—-It’s slightly exasperating. | | Louis Kalska, 51, of the Old | [ Soldiers’ Home in Sanducky. | | 0., said today, when a man can’t j | commit suicide without “gol- | darned fishermen pulling you | i out of the river." | Kalska leaped off a bridge | j over the St. Joseph river in- | | tending, he said later, to end j | his life, but Martin Hoffer, fish- | I ing nearby with a bamboo pole | | and an 18-pound test line, felt | I a tremendous tug and pulled | I Kalska ashore. t *

Price Two Cents

15,000 Beet Acres Will Be Harvested As Long Run Is Anticipated ;No Wage Decrease To Employees Announced. HARVEST MONDAY Farmers will begin harvesting sugar beets next Monday as the Central Sugar company of this city makes plans for the earliest and longest processing campaign ' in its history. j The receiving yards at the plant 1 will be opened Tuesday noon at the sugar company, and, dependent upon weather conditions, the slic- | ing of the first beets will be on September 10, 11 or 12. The first of the 1938 Sparkling Crystal White sugar will be available shortly after the opening of the campaign. The decision to begin the harvesting was made after a meeting of fieldmen of the company here Wednesday. These men reported ' that a combination of early planting, good weather conditions and other favorable factors had enabled the beets to mature to such a state they can be harvested earliest in the history of the plant. Largest Acreage Approximately 15,000 acres of beets will be harvested this year —the largest harvested acreage in the history of the sugar beet industry in this area. This has been attributed to good prices and government crop insurance features. The growers this year cooperated Sgain on 50-50 contracts. They | will share equally with the company in the proceeds of the sale of the beet sugar, and its by-pro-ducts beet pulp and molasses. j At least a normal yield is ex- ' pected, but this can not be determined exactly until harvesting of - beets begin. If the normal yield is i obtained this will cause the longi est run in the history of the con- | test, it is expected. Factory officials today stated that approximately 300 persons will be employed in the processing of ' the beets, when full operations are begun. These men will work on eight-hour shifts again. No Wage Decrease Officials of the company said today in spite of general poor business conditions and an exceptionally low price for sugar, the same wages paid last year would be in effect during the 1938 campaign. In addition 200 truckers will be employed by the farmers for about SIOO,OOO. The 1,200 persons working about three months in the field as laborers for the farmers rei ceive another SIOO,OOO. Th daily production of the sugar plant has been increased from 1.000 tons, when the McMillen interests acquired it to 1,400 tons anticipated during the 1938 season. This is a definite advantage to the growers as the plant is able to process the beets earlier, eliminating much of the loss from freezi ing either in the yards or in the farms. I The same system as in effect in recent years will be followed to assure a steady stream of beets i into the yard and to eliminate spoilage. Tickets, giving harvesting rates and tons, will be distributed among the farmers by the fieldmen. A crew has been maintained by 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) O YOUTH INHALES GASOLINE FUMES Gasoline Syphoning Is Nearly Fatal To John P. Eicher John Phillip Eicher. 13-year-old I son of Mr. and Mrs. Menno Eicher, I of northeast of Berne, is recoverI ing from a narrow escape front I death earlier in the week when ho I swallowed gasoline and inhaled I fumes from the liquid. Young Eicher was syphoning ga* 1 from his father's truck, standing i in the Eicher barnyard by sucking I on a tubes to start the vacuum. He was found unconscious by his parents, lying on the ground. His stomach was pumped and | he was given medical treatment to | counteract the effects of the fumes | taken into his lungs and is report--1 ed recovering.