Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1938 — Page 1

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Jhamberlain And Kjitler Confer On « Czech Partition

Am: l/erh Hinet Quits. ’KPOLISH ACT IHIB Bv v,llr '' „ v. 211W |wl SK® • ■ ■ 11||IM K ■ nnuy W t Mt ■£.,>. will! «:--e Wilhelm a "'* hote | on the banks of i-.'iii" |,v river, where he is B^K l 4 p >n lit m CSTi almost at ■H,- met gH. ■■>,.. r, ,:■ the s.-eond lime. |Hc ?'.:•!:: t.'lilit the high ... tO ft’ l ' .. ti..r ■'■•l Hitler week. ..... I. frc.tn l.omlom mossed ' .on his hot■ I ■alo'.e 'll" bank of to the Dreesen. |Mni in ii.iiirast to H“i->"'« ■ ..ant arrival a few hours Crowds lining the io«J.m. • Mdw.ty Wele tilsilent as he H 1 * 1 - of the I pie had been on ■ nr hours. as the three pass.'i I alight even a of Chamberlain. Only group ah ng the road “hell ” looked tired, ■ id gray as he entered the his arrival a great many officers, some of whom apwere couriers om elsein Germany, .. noticed and going at th s hotel. were understood to have dispatches for Gen. Wil- ■_ Keitel, chief of the high of the armed forces, ■is a member of the Fuehrer's E Cabinet Resigna ■lie. Sept. 22 — (U.R) —The ■et of Premier Milan Hodza Bed today and Jan Cerny, mor of Moravia, began tiadons for formation of a I toalition government includmny leaders. wident Edouard Benes dii Cerny to attempt to form w cabinet after the Hodza OkTI.VUED ON PAGE FIVE) IAMS COUNTY HAN IS KILLED orse Reynolds Is KillIn Accident Near Chattanooga K - Reynolds, 65, of Gene-' as killed late Wednesday at- ?° n *ben the truck he was 8 collided with a school bus ohlo terßeCliOn n<?ar Chßttano °-| accident occurred at 1:SO K as the truck pulled onto s| ate road 49. The driver and I 111 the bus were unhurt exa severe shaking up. The! owh enrout ® *o Fort Recovery t ln' e 'g tlle pupils were to bake sbratiou N ° rthwest Territory nshL UP u Were all from Dublin sh« iL M ® rcer county, Ohio. | Seville' toT ldS W “ lak6n rial ’ be P r ®Pared for •two ~. 8 Burviv ed by the wid>j c Btei * an<l a brother. ’ coaniv bbonß ' coronel ' of MerWeut y ’ lnV6s,lg at®d the fatal

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1 HEAD OF ARMY ' AIR CORPS IS CRASH VICTIM i Maj. Gen. Oscar Westover Is Killed In Plane Crash , Burbank, Cal.. Sept. 22 (U.R) t An official army board of inquiry . convened today to investigate the airplane crash in which Maj. Gen. , Oscar Westover, 55 year old chief . of the army air corps, and his mechanic wore killed. Col. Harvey S. Burwell came here from March Field to . charge of the investigation. Headquarters were established in the' . offices of the Lockheed Aircraft i plant which Westover was on his I way to visit yesterday afternoon when his small Northrop mono- . plane crashed in the lawn of a Burbank home , The motor appeared to be in I perfect order until the crash, i Maj. Joseph L. Stromme, one of, i Westover's aides, believed that the plane might have been caught' in a “thermal air current" which often prevails on exceptionally warm days. The throttle was open, indicat-! iug that the pilot, probably Westover. was making a desperate effort to level the ship off. Instead. the plane went into a power dive and at the impact was traveling at a speed of 150 miles per hour or more. The ignition had been turned off. Although i the plane developed motor trou-, ble and was forced down at Denver a week ago. it was repaired and no trouble had been experienced rrrrmtiy Authorities said it was impossible to determine definitely (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) DEATH CLAIMS MRS. WERLING Mrs. Albert Werling Dies This Morning At Home In Preble Mrs Rosy Scherry-Werling, 60, wife of Albert Werling, prominent Preble resident, died this morning at 5:15 o'clock at her home following an extended illness. The deceased had been ailing for two years and was bedfast two weeks prior to her death. She was born in Kirkland township May 6. 1878, the daughter of Daniel and Margaret Fuhrman-Scherry. She was a member of the Decatur Zion Reformed church and had lived in the county her entire life. I Surviving, besides the husband, are the following children: Mrs. Paul Snarr of Phoenix. Arizona; Milton C. Werling of Preble, former Adams county clefk; Mrs. Elias Liechtensteiger of Decatur; Mrs. Glen Baumgartner of Preble; Mrs. Richard Arnold of Fort Wayne, and Miss Iverna Werling of Evansville. Four sons are deceased. Two sisters. Mrs. William Wesson of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Jess Cloud of Kalamazoo, Michigan, also survive. I Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:15 o'clock at the home and at 2 o'clock at | the Zion Reformed church here ' with the Rev. Charles M. Prugh ! officiating. Burial will be made in I the Decatur cemetery. The body will be returned to the home from the Zwick & Son funeral home Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock and may be viewed there until time for the funeral. | Local Man Returns From Prison Term Charles Caron, aged umbrella mender, has returned to the city after serving approximately five years of a 1-10 year sentence imposed by Judge Huber M. DeVoss in September, 1933, when he was I found guilty of second degree rape by an Adams circuit court jury. Caron woe arrested on June 23, 1923 and charged with criminally assaulting a 12-year-old Decatur girl. Sentence was passed on September 27, 1933. Caron was 7-t years . [old when he entered prison.

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Hero is the tragic result of a crash between two sister trains of the Southern Pacific railroad near Niland. Cal., in which 11 persons were killed and

DITCH HEARING ! DATEOCT. 4 County Officials Ordered To Appear Before .Judge Kister County officials have been ordered to appear before Special Judge Henry F. Kister of Princeton to de-1 fend themselves against a petition filed seeking to compel the county to issue bonds, in the Wabash ditch case. Recently the board of commissioners adopted an ordinance repealing a fonder ordinance calling for the issuance of bonds in the sum of about $133,000. In refusing to issue the bonds, the commissioners refused to bind the county for possible non payment of interest i and principal by property owners jon the bonds. A number of other reasons were given as causes for their refusal to issue the bonds. The commissioners had been informed by attorneys for the petitioners, that the county would not be bound for the issue. The new petition was filed by Elmer Gibson, William M. Martin, Alonzo Long. Homer Teeters, as I commission of construction, and the P. Morgan company, who hold the contract for the dredging of the river. Summons were asked issued for Phil Sauer, Frank LirtTger, Moses Attgsburger, as commissioners, John W. Tyndall, as auditor, and Jeff Liechty, as treasurer, that might appear in court to defend the actio nos the county in refusing to issue the bonds, which had been ordered by Special Judge Kister. Judge Kister set the date of hearing as October 4. Before leaving a three-day session here, Judge Kister approved the expenditure of SSO for pyament of Morton C. Embree, an attorney (CONTINUED ON PAGE THHEE) 0 TAKE YOUTH 10 STATE SCHOOL One Os Two Youths Who Stole Auto At Berne Is Committed One of the two Richmond youths who stole an auto belonging to John Rinaker of Berne on September 9 has been committed to the state boys’ school, it hat been learned here. The first of the two apprehended, who was unable to read or write, was placed on a four-yoar proba-, tion. The stolen car has not been 5 recovered, but the second youth to be captured revealed that they; had abandoned the auto near Mar-1 shall, Michigan, and authorities expect to locate it soon. Sentencing of the two winds up a series of car thefts, freight-hopp-ing the hitch-hiking expeditions. | which culminated with the apprehension of the pair in Portland. The lads stole at least three cars in their trip north from Richmond, through Decatur and on north to Michigan, riding back to Portland lon a freight. _

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 22, 1938.

' Suicide Victim Is Buried Wednesday Charles Rooms, 55-year-old Bel- ' gian beet worker, who committed . suicide last Saturday night, was l buried in the Westlawn cemetery i at Geneva Wednesday afternoon. Rooms’ body was found Monday ! by neighbors, his head nearly torn 1 torn off by the discharge of a shot- [ gun. A note in the dead man’s pockets gave financial troubles as the cause for taking his own life. Contact with his sister in ChiI cago revealed that he had also I written her a note, saying that he ; would take his own life. CHURCHPLANS FOR FESTIVAL Zion Lutheran Church To Hold Mission Festival Sunday Arrangements have been completed for the celebration of the annual mission festival of the Zion Lutheran church, to be held at the 1 church Sunday. The first and early service will begin at 8:30 a. m. and the main service at 10:30 a. m. Speaker for both services will | be the Rev. G. Christian Barth, | former president of Concordia college, Milwaukee, Wis., and nowfirst pastor of Concordia Lutheran church. Cincinnati; Ohio, and directing member of the Missouri, Synod Lutheran church. Rev. Barth is an orator of note and one of the outstanding Lutheran pastors of America. It is customary at the Lutheran church for the members to raise a substantial sum of money on this festival day by means of special collection envelopes, which sum is used for missionary expansion work. The pastor of the church, the Rev. Paul W. Schultz, has only words of commendation for the past performance of his members in tfiis respective field of missionary setvice. The public is invited to attend these services. Rev. Morris Coers To Speak Here Tonight The Rev. Morris Coers of the First Baptist ehurch of Bluffton will speak at the local Baptist church this evening at 7:30 o'clock. Rev. Coers will lecture on his trip to the Holy Land and will accompany his lecture with slides. This meeting is open to the public and a large attendance is desired. Tffie meeting also will take the place of the regular missionary society meeting, which was to have been held this afternoon. . —O' * — French Cabinet Members Resign Paris, Sept. 22—-(UP)— Three members of Premier Edouard Dalacier’s cabinet put their resignations in his hands today in protest over the partition of Czechoelovaka, but j acceptance of the resignations was ; delayed. Letters of resignation were left ■ with Daladler by George Mandel. | Minister of Colonies; Paul Raynaud, justice; and August, Cham-j pt tier de Ribes, Pensions. f

I more than 100 injured. Railroad officials blamed the sudden unexplainable decision of a brakeman in throwing a siding switch for the wreck

DECLARES WAR ON GAMBLING State Police To Step In If Local Enforcement Fails Indianapolis, Sept. 22. •— <U.R) — Actions of local law enforcement officers in regards to closing gambling places were watched closely by Indiana state police today to determine whether it would be necessary for them to step in and enforce the state’s anti-gambling laws. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend announced in a letter to local lawenforcement officials that state police would be ordered to raid I gambling establishments if local authorities do not take immediate steps to close them. His decision was made after ; numerous complaints had reached ; the office during the past several weeks. They came principally from civic, church and ministerial organizations. The past policy has ben for state police to aid in local en-1 forcement only when invited bylocal authorities. But Townsend warned this policy would be abanj doned it’ necessary. Addressed “to all law enforcing I agents and circuit judges of Indiana," the letter said that Townsend has received numerous re-1 ports "that coin machines are be- ■ ; ing operated openly lin some counties" and that open gambling houses are being operated." “I feel that if the local authorities of any locality cannot or will not enforce the anti-gambling laws, it will be necessary for the state jto take a hand in thematter,” Townsend wrote. “I am calling this to your atten- ——— (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) LOCAL WOMAN HEADS GROUP Mrs. R. A. Stucky President Os District Society Mrs. R. A. Stucky, of this city, was elected president of the Fort Wayne district of the women’s foreign missionary society, Methodist Episcopal church, at the dose of the annual convention, held Wednesday in the Simpson M.E. church, Fort Wayne. Mrs. Stucky succeeds Mrs. George Crane, formerly of Fort Wayne. The Monroe M. E. church was selacted as the site of the 1939 convention. Other Adams county ladies were honored by the convention, being named to various offices and commlttees. Mrs. C. L. Walters of Decatur was named recording secretary of the distrit organization. Mrs. John j Floyd of Monroe was elected extension secretary, and Mrs. Delton Passwater, of this city, was named I the group leader. The officers were installed at the ! close of the morning session by Dr. i Fremont E. Fribley, Fort Wayne [m. E. district superintendent.

Hurricane Takes Terrific Death Toll On New England Coast; Millions In Damage

Floods, Tidal Waves Add To New England’s Death Toll After Hurricane Late Wednesday TOLL NOW 250 Boston, Sept. 22 —(U.R)— Belated reports from hard hit Rhode Island late today increased to 261 New England's death toll from i a hurricane, flood and tidal wave. I Another 35 were added in New' York, New Jersey and Quebec, making the total 296. Losses in five states hardest hit by both wind and flood were estimated at $100,000,000 to $125,000,000. As reports from Vermont indicated that flood waters were subsiding. New England communities came through with the first reports of its own disaster. At Providence, the capitol, citizens watched flood waters rise three feet above building marks designating the flood levels of the great floods of 1815. From other cities and villages of the state came reports of mounting death tolls and widespread destruction of property. River Flooded Hartford, Conn., Sept. 22—(U.R) — The Connecticut river poured over its banks into the central and east side business districts of Hartford today forcing hundreds who had just gone through a hurricane, to evacuate. Twenty-six were known dead in the state as result of the huri ricane which hit late yesterday and heavily damaged the state i Hundreds of families were being evacuated in taxicabs, trucks, buses, and any other conveyances at hand. The Park river, which runs 1 through the center of the city, .'backed up and began flooding Principal business houses The telephone building put bar(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) AFL TO ADOPT RESOLUTIONS Set Os 50 Resolutions To Be Studied In State Convention Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 22—(UP) i—A set of 50 resolutions was to be adopted today at the 54th annual . convention of the Indiana State 1 federation of labor. Part of the proposals were draftled by President Carl Mullen of ' Hammond and the executive board. These would return th j direct primary for nomination of governor and other state officials; Revice the unemployment compensation law; create a state wage and hour and workmen’s compensation law; eliminate industrial home ! work and the marketing of prison ' made goods, bring local guarantees I of collective bargaining rights and i provide free school books in public j schools. Resolutions introduced on the floor of the convention recommendied that prevailing wages be paid on all WPA projects, condemned Muncie officials for action they took in a machinists’ strike; asked that all women be refused jobs in taverns: and opposed any state law that would license unions. Mullen told the delegates that the Indiana Federation membership has increased rapidly during the past year until there are now’ 10.000 more members than a year ago. The federation held a symposium l on education, preparatory to the establishment of an eduaction department. Headlining the symposium speakers were Spencer Miller, director of i the workers’ education bureau of the American Federation of Labor: and Robert J. Watt, director of the AFL’S social security division. o Roland Grote Barn Destroyed By Fire A barn on the Roland Grote farm in Union township, northeast of the city, was burned to the ground this morning. The local fire department was called about 5:30 o’clock and succeeded in preventing the [spread of the flames.

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B 8 Rev. G. Christian Barth, of Cinf cinnati. Ohio, will be the speaker 1 at the mission festival, to lie held b at the Zion Lutheran church in j this city Sunday.

.SOME FAMILIES : MADE HOMELESS s 1 Mississippi River Forces lowa Residents From r Homes .. Rock Island. 111.. Sept. 22. —HJ.R) i, —The flood crest of the rampags ing Mississippi river today swept southward toward the tri-city area s as relief officials warned all low- . land residents to leave their homes g and “not wait for last minute aid.” The flood crest centered around ' • Clinton. la., today where a high mark of 18.5 feet was expected. However, a sharp drop in the rate of rise led weather bureau officials to believe the crest might not exceed 18 feet. On the lowa side, the Clinton I county Red Cross unit and the . county emergency relief office were ' prepared to assist those forced to leave their homes. Officials of I both organizations reported no ser- ’ ions trouble other than the inconvenience suffered by flood victims who had to remove themselves and their possessions to higher grounds. j Miss Gertrude Nott. Clinton coun- , 1 ty relief director, issued a request I for vacant buildings to accominoJ date the refugees, although she j said a majority of the homeless I had found shelter with relatives, t’ The flood was expected to hit Davenport. Ta., Moline and Rock t Island with full force tonight or .. tomorrow. Flood stage of 15 feet . at Davenport already was exceed- . ed by several inches with the I swirling waters steadily inching up j to the predicted high mark of 17 9 feet1| The Salvation Army and other s welfare agencies late yesterday 1 helped 30 familial evacuate their ; lowland homes. Farmers living between Davenport and Muscatine in ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 1 ‘ BANDITS LOOT l ' FRENCH TRAIN t Ten Bandits Rob Train ; Os Near Tw o Million r In Gold Bars J Marseilles. France, Sept. 22. — » (U.PJ—Ten bandits robbed a train ~ of 168 gold bars valued at $1,890,- | 000 today. J TJhe bandits attacked the Mar- £ seilles-Avignon freight train near t St. Bathelemy and held the crew . at revolver point. An express agent attempted to draw his gun and was wounded. The bandits then unloaded the gold, contained in express packages, from a car into their waiting 1 trucks and escaped. -1 An accomplice aboard the train I apparently stopped it by pulling 1 the emergency cord at the point ■t whc<e his confederates were walt--1 ing. ■■ All highways were blocked but it no trace was found of the bandits. 0 The gold was en route to Bel- | gium from the African Congo.

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Tropical Hurricane Hits Long Island And New England; More Than 260 Are Dead. FIRES RAGING (Copyright 1938 by United Press) Restored communication in storm, lashed New England disclosed today a major disaster resulting form yesterday's unprecededted hurricane and tidal waves. By midafternoon the number of known dead in New England was 261. Another 35 were added in New York, New Jersey and Quebec, making the total 296. Fire followed the storm in several Connecticut cities, and damage throughout the ravished area was estimated at more than SIOO.000.000. The missing at West Hampton, Long Island — where the mansions of the rich, built upon sand dunes, were swept into the sea-—totaled 50, half of whom were children. Al! were feared dead. The toll was certain to mount because a number of New England towns — particularly, NewLondon. Conn., Pawtucket. R. 1., Petersboro. N H. — had been so wrecked that communications still were out and there were no reports, beyond fragmentary ones by short wave radio, from them. Fires were raging in New London and Petersboro. In Massachusetts, Gov. Charles F. Hurley proclaimed “a state of emergency,’’ called out the national guard and appointed food and fuel administrators to act with military powers. In Rhode Island. Gov. Robert E. Quinn took comparable emergency measures, appealed to Massachusetts for serums for the homeless. In Connecticut, police patroled devastated areas enforcing order sternly. The hurricane raged up through the New England states yesterday afternoon and last night and early today it was centered in the New Hampshire hills headed, greatly diminished iti force, toward the St. Lawrence valley where it was expected to blow itself out. Accompanied by torrential rain, it raised the already swollen Merrimac and Connecticut rivers in Connecticut and smaller rivers in Massachusetts which were threatened to leave their hanks, causing disastrous floods. Tremendous tides pounded the const and a tidal wave swept I.OUO feet into Providence, R. I , flooding streets eight to 25 feet deep. Providence is New England's second largest city. Among the missing were the 20 passengers and crew of a ferry boat which plies between Port Jefferson. N. Y. (Long Island and Bridgeport, Conn). It left Bridgeport yesterday afternoon and has not been heard of since. Rescue workers, organized by the national Red Cross and the coast guard, which were in full charge of succoring the survivors, feared that the isolated New England villages and towns would prove to be scenes of great devastation. They were frantically trying to reach them early today. Thousands were crowded iuto refugee camps, many of them ill. Towns were evacuated. The 3,000 residents of Hadley. Mass., imperiled by the rising Connecticut river .were moved to Amherst by national guardsmen. Red Cross workers were innoculating refugees with typhoid serum. Supplies were dwindling fast. Gov. Quinn of Rhode Island appealed to Massachusetts authorities for serum, saying the situation was desperate. The center of the hurricane, with pounding. 90-mile an hour winds, passed inland just 50 milea orfm New York City. It left the beaches strewn with wrecked boats, cottages and trees, tore down power lines and left numer(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVH) TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00a.m 54 2:00 pan 73 l():00a.m 58 3:00 pan 74 Noon 68 WEATHER Unsettled tonight and Friday. Slightly warmer tonight and in south portion Friday.