Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 13 September 1938 — Page 5

BHOTEL V fob revenge 19 „ , lufinir Murder JH) Miii l‘ lCin) * .. . K iref s Accuse hat n « Other mHI ... ([•[•) Tw.) Hz v ! v ii \ ■ ».« W K ■ . « r ;, iv "‘ ■. m center. B 1 J S.i ■ 1 ■■ •*' " 110 . v l’n< '■' t: plotted , . ■ ~w Wm, i k i!i "• a* - ,,..... |H '* “ ■Hue tocfeseioii. |H. H ;■■■ !'■ >! ' K - K ; , u. ::: >'•*»•• 'l |H. ■ : was the one who §H • ■ ; ’ . .. fire to the ruse " H, ■ ■ I •'•o fair. |Bj:..,> if their story is valid. |H. ; - r>•!••!• " and v.i will indit tmt nt s.” ■ two killed in '■ ' K‘."M P A r, E ON R) • I a position s : n br siding ■ : ' hail -i"'K. i of tuk■)ts own life. ■ ». §■"- »•"t.u’:' Imily that would foul play. I ilia' Mrs. l.t' Voy •■) th- top of the stairthe report "f shot that S*-r fall h.e kwards and Baahtuu’t-n 1 .1- im L. T.iy. ■ win- indicated that V > iff- ■• d t fra: 'lire of ■s' shoaidei and a possible Htn Beck. Hn ,:.z v -v. who was the Hd woman's third husband, told Hkortties 'ha - his wife had been Hi him 20 mintres before she eaid he disclosed H'c s > :■ had pu k>-d her elothts H«i.< about to leave the SO-acra Hi but that this was not uni'll because she had left thrice Hiousiy. On one occasion police Hed Le Voy his wife had stayed Hr Bine months. ■ School Pupils I Unhurt In Wreck Buford Ind., Sept. 13 —(UP) — ■ftytour pupils of the Shawswick ■»i,p sriiool narrowly escaped ■ r y yesterday when tho school ■ in which they were riding cot■d head-on with a car driven by Bt. Hajsdale. The accident occur■on a curve five miles east of 9' ■Hie bus stopped on the brink oT ■Jieep embankment, from where fctls were transferred to another ■ o—liishvilie Woman Is Fatally Burned SaahviUe, Ind.. Sept. 13—(UP) Weral arrangement* were made “>• for Mrs. Ora Beckner SO, who a * **er home near Arlington burns received when her ' cau Sht fire while she was hitng trash. **‘3 ißeckner with her clothes Wdertng and in terrific pain, * lo the telephone In her * Jnii called a neighbor who ■ttted her. BOARD repeals —l iTlnued from rang one) bcloTw' 10 the va,ious counties a, lho Proceedings, the »dV«° f th ° l)enefits 1» fixed *.T44 4 K,,H,ed *' *‘76,491.36 or lo»n m eltceßß °f the amount tu^J 4 ”® 0 f nd order of the ifconstL^ 1 the estimated c°st fellows lon of the drain as if H an . COntract Price. $87759.I where no remonwhere 3 filed ' * 3525; rlam ' lied, ig remonstrances were WS‘ Coßt * of B «rveyNay (el 8 Coß ' - sß ' so °i atI4t0 : „ allowed by court. Ht d'<ri„T Peiiseß of superintendfcaui T J .D.^ WtrUCtioU aud iactpenses - tucludmg attor-

ney fwa and expenses for unseen | contingencies, $15,000, total $126,-1 155.(5. Too Much Money "The ltond ordinance Is liased upon the collection of 90 per cent I of the benefits as finally approv-1 ed by the court, and. If that ; amount Is $167,747.14. then 90 per' cent would produce $150,972 or $22,512.78 In excess of the total estimated cost of the drain." •'lf the total amount of the assessed Iteneflts Is $176,491 36, j then 90 per cent of that amount would produce $158,482.23, or j $30,628 58 In excess of the total eatlmnted cost of construction of the drain, which amount in either I event would bs greatly In excess of the amount necessary for the ( construction of the drain " The commissioners also objected to the form of the bond Issue as presented to them for signing Among the objections were the collection of Interest. Previously, last week, the commissioners had slated they object- j ed to a provision in the bond 1 issue binding the county, which, they said, was contrary to a statement made by the attorneys 1 for the dredging before they agreed to sign the issue. — o SEN. TYDINGS (CONTINUED FROM FACIE ONE) —— I Arthur E. Hu tiger ford, third Democratic contestant, was not a sac- j tor. On the basis of returns from 721 of 1.289 precincts with one j entire district still missing. Tyd-1 jugs had 107,470 votes to 76.58 S for Lewis. The eight state primaries tak-1 ing place today In Arizona. Colo-1 rado, Louisiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, Vermont, Washington and Utah are comparatively unimportant. o ■ — ROOSEVELT HAS (CONTINUED FROM FAGE ONE) longing the president's stay, It was said, was the condition of railroad trackage in Minnesota and Wisconsin where excessive j rains have flooded rights of way , and caused washouts in many places. o Stream Pollution Problem Discussed Paul O. Kleiser of the state de- j partment of health spoke to the; members of the Adams county fish i and game conservation league at the' Decatur high school last night. The | speaker discussed the stream pollu tion ploblem and told of the various cities in which sewage disposal plants were in operation. Members of the country conservation club arrived in a group to attend the meeting held in the gymnasium of the school. Roy Johnson, conservation leader. was iu charge. o Radio Transformer Burned Out Today Firemen wore called to the Joe!' Reynolds home on Seventh etreeti this morning at 11:35 o’clock when: a transformer on the- radio burned out. No damage was done except that; to the radio. Mrs. Reynolds, how-; ever, who has been ill. suffered from shock. Seau-hing for the source of the smoke she returned inside the house, after stepping onto the porch She was found lying on the floor j evidently having temporarily fainted from the shock. She was reported feeling better sometime later. o Homer Martin Still Defies CIO Proposal — Detroit. Sept. 13—(UP)—The embattled united automobile workers union head for a showdown today, with President 'Homer Martin still defiant against a committee for Industrial organization proposal to end the PAW factional warfare. Martin privately has rejected the CiO truce and hoped to make the rejection formal late today when the Union’s international executive I ooard holds a meeting to consider j the proposal. The UAJW president, j with a bloc of 12 supporters on the board against six for the opposition,, was confident the John L. Lewis peace plan would be defeated. TRUCK DRIVERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) haal been ordered. He admitted, however, that all major Hues had advised their customers against shipping by truck after the union liad distributed a 48-hour strike notice to all members of the association affected by the strike. He said the notices had beeu bent from Indianapolis last week after uuton leaders had ratified | the U-etate agreement at a meet ing there. The strike also affects citywide trucking but lines carrying 1 wholesale groceries, fruits and other perishables witblu the city j were permitted to operate The contract covers approxi-

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Man Without a Country! ... '»'■ II ii 1$ K |i m " 'p * - : ’ * Is - ■ - . 1 w _ James Tierney and Jbhn Dolanchuk While Europe trembles in a war scare, a tall, graying man paces the deck of the U. S. liner President Roosevelt at New York with his guard, James Tierney, left, unworried about war scares—for he is a man without a country. He is John Dolanchuk, 43, no home—no home anywhere. He cannot land in France, Germany, the U. S., Great Britain or Canada Dolanchuk is a victim of a technicality arowing out of the Versailles treaty 19 years ago. Born in Hatna, Then part of Austria, he failed to apply for Rumanian citizenship when Hatna was taken over by the Bucharest government. After 1933 he was ineligible to do so. Dolanchuk has made three trips to Eurone and back aboard ship. He was to take another Sent. 14.

inately 250,000 highway truck drivers in 11 mid western states. It was cigued by a committee representing 17 of the major highway operators and officials of the teamsters uuton. It will be effective Oct. 1. It provides for a maximum work week of 60 hours, for minimum runs of 150 miles round trip — 75 miles in each direction —two and three-quarter cents a mile base pay and 60 cents an hour for loading and unloading during road trips. The present scale in Omaha is a maximum work week of 64 hours, two and one-quarter cents a mile base pay and 45 cents an hour for loading and unloading during trips. Company representatives and union officials had hailed the contract as the solution to disputes which they have been attempting to settle for several months. Nearly every town and city throughout the area covered by the contract has had different standards. o SUDETEN GERMANS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) herlain drafted plans for the three cabinet ministers of the heads of British military naval and air forces. The meeting was so urgent that Sir Kingsley Wood, air secretary, who was absent from

Mattress Worth $70,000 to Him t ■-x* 4 «■> Peteet showing how he found will Because an old mattresx was tom up, a $70,000 estate will go to the M. A. Peteet family of Tulsa, Okla. Samuel Waller, octogenarian oil operator, who died a year ago apparently without leavingheirs or will, had made his home with the Peteets for 20 years. The question of inheritance remained open for months until the state attorney general's office went to court in Tulsa, claiming the estate for the state of Oklahoma on the grounds there were no heirs. Peteet tore up the mattrees recently and found the will which left the estate to the Peteets,

London, was summoned back by

airplane from Coventry. German Viewpoint Berlin. Sept. 13—(U.R) —A Sudeten German complaint that Sudeten Germans had been killed in Czechoslovakia swept through Germany today as Field Marshal Hermann Goering’s own news-! pqpor organ announced that Germany was prepared to take up arms if necessary to aid the German minority, A semi-official source on Ger-! many's ettitude said: ‘ Inasmuch as the Fuehrer has \ said he will not tolerate further maltreatment of Sudetens, and 1 inasmuhe as Sudetens have been killed and beaten, the German j standpoint must be clear to any-: one." The afternoon papers devoted big headlines to the killing of the j Sudetens but had not yet had j time to react to the proclamation of martial law. Information made available to the foreign press included the following statement: “The echo from Czechoslovakia to the Fuehrer's speech has made a very unfavorable impression in local political circles. For exam-; pie, the neswpaper Prager Presse, which is close to the Prague foreign office, observed straightaway that Czechoslovakia is not oppressing anyone and never had. “After all that has happened

SIX KILLED IN BUS ACCIDENT ■ —» Thirteen Others Injured As Bus And Truck Collide Charlton, Mass., Sept. 13—(UP) — Six passengers were killed and 13 other persons were Injured, two critically, early today when a new York-to-Boston bus and a truck collided on the rain-swept Springfield Winchester highway. Three pasengers died almost instantly. Three hours later, their bodies still were pinned in the twisted wreckage. They were not identified immediately. Two other passengers died at Harrington memorial hospital tn Southbridge and the third, at Worrhester ity hospital. They were:, Albert Roseoe. 62, Medford, manager of the Massachusetts Bible society. Mrs. Margaret Hogan, 63, Boston. An unidentified woman. Those critically injured Included Henry Koehler, Alberta, A’a.. who suffered a skull fracture. Mrs. Eudolie Connor, 48, and her son. Lewie, 29, New Orleans, La., were hospitalized both with chest injuries. thus far, this flagrant untruth evidences lack of good will to really improve the situation. • "One professes here to see In the Prager Presse dispatch — despite all warnings and despite the Fuehrer’s speech yesterday — the intention of the Prague government to continue its old methods in the treatment of the Sude-, ten German question, the results , of which are apparent in the present political situation.” It was announced that an anti-' ( air raid dress rehearsal will he held iu Berlin, including an all night blackout. There will be no advance warning of the exact date, which will be announced by radio on the same day it is to occur. Sirens will herald the actual beginning. The population was warned to comply strictly with air raid provisions throughout the capital. < o j, Annual Hobo Dance. Wednesday. Free Soup. Sunset.

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Aged Woman Dies In Truck-Auto Collision Plymouth, Ind., Sept. 13. —)(U.R>- — Mm. Jacob Ruby, 70, was killed and two companions were seriously Injured last night when their automobile collided with a truck driven by Frank Olllls, Chicago, east of here on road 30. Injured wore Mrs. Grover Miller, daughter of Mrs. Ruby, and her son-in-law Grover Miller. GUlts was held pending an Investigation. o Livestock Cause Os Two Bad Accidents Rochester, Ind., Sept. 13 —(UP) — Livestock caused two bad automobile accidents near here yesterday. C. R. Lousenberry. Indianapolis, struck a bull and suffered bruise* about the face and body. The bull received a broken leg anil later was killed. James Karas, Fort Wayne, struck a hog while driving west of here, upsetting bis confectionery truck into a ditch. He suffered painful injuries to bis head. o Girl Scouts To Meet Wednesday Troop No. 1 of the girl scouts will entertain with an Italian party in the Decatur high school gymnasium Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Ail girls wishing to join th3 troop are requested to meet first in room 100. o ——— Fort Wayne Given Large WPA Grant Fort Wayne, ind.. Sept. 13—(UP) —A WPA grant of $423,532 has been approved for a city-wide s.reet project. it was announced by Congressman James I. Farley. The grant is expected to provide employment for 500 men for at least a year. 0 NEW OFFICERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) by Commander Bormann: Ben Lange, chaplain; Raymond Kohne, service officer; Albert Miller, Americanism; H. Vernon Aurand, boys' state chairman; Dr. Ben Duke, post membership chairman; C. E. Strik- | er, child welfare; Ollie Schuepp, 'Sons of the Legion; Leo E. Ehing-

Here They Come DOWN OUR STREET Remember the thrill when the six-foot drum-major twTried his gold baton and turned the big parade right down your street? Some of the world’s importance, some of the world’s most exciting business was coming right by your door! There’s another parade of exciting business that comes down your street every day — comes right into your home. It’s the newspaper you are reading now. On the newspaper’s pages march rank after rank of pictures and word-pictures of what the world is making today— from new breakfast foods to overcoats, from jew r elry to overshoes. Lots of them are things that you want and need — and you have a grand-stand seat to watch them all march by. Just sit hack in your easy chair and take your choice — the newspaper advertisements tell you all about them and even where you can get them. Make it a point to read the advertisements —they bring the world right down your street!

Wins Acrobatic Talent Trophy I % IHf . j Gloria Smyley Adjudged the winner in a talent contest held in conjunction with the "Miss America” contest at Atlantic City, N. J., pretty Gloria Smyley of Jacksonville, Fla., does an acrobatic pose for the camera. She won her trophy after a perfect exhibition of acrobatic dancing.

er, grave registration; Joseph C. ’ Laurent, hib'torian; David Adams,publicity; Adrian Baker, employment officer; Ott Gase, Poppy chair-j man; James K. Staley, C. M. T. C. i i chairman. Appointments made by district ■ commpnder Fred Lynch: H. Vern- ■ on Aurand. district safety chairman: Edwin H. Bauer, Adams coun ■ ty membership chairman. , 1 Dent O. Baltzell was appointed ■ 1 to the state aeronautics commit- 1

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tee and Ralph E. Itoop to the com- , mittee for the education of World j W’ar orphans. Installation services were in i charge of Carl H. Graham, north- | eru vice-commander, assisted by i Ed Ernest, fourth district memberI ship chairman. Mr. Graham, Matt Leach, former captain of state police, and Ed ! Ernest delivered addresses. Foli lowing the meeting lunch and re- ! freshments were served.