Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 229, Decatur, Adams County, 28 September 1938 — Page 1

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.„■ ..I. - I Scouts Pay Honor B I French Quinn, prominent Decatur historian and attorney, will be signally honored October 9 when the Boy Scout camp site at Han- 1 na-Nuttman park will he dedicat- 1 ed as “Camp Quinn " SCOUTS HONOR FRENCH QUINN 1 “Camp Quinn" At HannaNuttman Park To Be Dedicated Oct. 9 French Quinn, Decatur attorney, historian and outdoor lover, is to receive a signal honor Sunday , afternoon. October 9, when the camp site now occupied by the Boy ■ Scouts in Hanna-Nuttman City park j will be dedicated ‘Camp Quinn.” Mr. Quinn’s long services in arousing public interest in the park and finally succeeding in assisting In the negotiations which resulted in the deeding of the 40-acre park | to the city by Oliver Hanna, of Fort Wayne, son-in-law of J. D. Nuttman, pioneer resident of Decatur, will be memorialized by the dedication program. Only that part of the park used by the Scouts will be included in “Camp Quinn.” The decision to dedicate the camp in honor of Mr. Quinn was made 'by the Adams County Boy Scout Council which directs Scout- 1 I ing Ln Decatur, Berne and Geneva. ' I The resolution adopted by the coun- < | cil is in part: “Be it resolved that in the opin- ' I ion of the Scout executives of the ! Adams County Boy Scout council. : tiiat the area in Hanna-Nuttman I Park, reserved for the Boy Scouts lof America and affiliated organiza- , ticns, be named Camp Quinn in I honor of our fellow citizen and coI tounder of this beautiful park of : 45 acres, known as Hanna-Nuttman city park, French Quinn.” Preparations are being made and committees will be named immediately to work on the program of dedicating the area. Members of the county Scout committee are: Lloyd A. Cowens. ; chairman; Sylvester Everhar., county commissioner; Roy Price, I chairman of the education and organization committee; Dr. Eugene , P Fields, chairman of the activ - i (ties committee; Bryce Thomas. I chairman of the troop committee, i Dr. Harold Zwick. chairman of the i health and first aid cotnmittee , Carl Pumphrey and E. W. Lanken au, area executives. Mr. Pumphrey has been named chairman of the program committee 1 for the dedication. — Ed Ellsworth Buys Burl Johnson F arm The Burl Johnson 80-acre farm. located on the Washington - St. Mary's township line, was p chased Tuesday by Ed Ellsworth. Mr Ellsworth stated he was buy mg the farm as an investment.

F. 0. R. MAKES BLUNT APPEAL TO HALT WAR Challenges Hitler Contention Choice Lies With Czechs Washington. Sept. 28. — (U.R> — Challenging the contention of Chancellor Adolf Hitler that the | choice of war lies with Czechoslovakia, President Roosevelt today appealed again for peace — his final word, it is believed —and suggested an immediate conference to settle the Sudeten question. There was no suggestion of American participation In any conference. To Hitler's statement that the war choice lies with his small neighbor, Mr. Roosevelt replied that negotiations still stand open, and: “They can be continued if you will give the word.” This appeal was sent only to Hitler. Mr. Roosevelt's first message of Monday was addressed to Hitler and President Edouard Benes of Czechoslovakia, and advisory copies were sent through regular diplomatic channels to the prime ministers of Great Britain and France. The president acted after a day of abrupt developments. Two American naval vessels steameg eastward over the Atlantic for British ports. The state department advised Americans to avoid Europe unless they had essential business there. Passenger - carrying limitations on American commercial vessels were lifted by the commerce department to facilitate homeward movement of citizens. There were spontaneous statements of approval from South America of Mr. Roosevelt's peace efforts—“dividends on the new deal good neighbor policy." The fuehrer replied to Mr. Roosevelt's first plea by reciting wrongs done German minorities in Czechoslovakia. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, of Great Britain, in an international broadcast, revealed that between his (CONTINUED on PAGE FIVE) DR. BLACK TO SPEAK TONIGHT Dr.GuyH.Black To Speak At M. E. Church This Evening Dr. Guy H. Black, a member of the northwest Indiana conference of the M. E. church, will speak at a special meeting of the First M. E. church in thfe city tonight at 7:30 o’clock. Tonights meeting will be the first of a series of training conferences for the Centennial church loyalty campaign. Every member of the church board, including trustees, stewards and unit leaders is urged to attend and all others are invited to attend. Dr. Black has shown unusual ability in directing visitation campaigns and because of this ability has been called to give his entire time to this work. Every member of the church will be visited by workers within the next tew days and pledged to a new loyalty to the church and its proiprogram. A responsibility Jist is being prepared and workers will call later to enlist new disciples for Christ and membership in the church. A second training conference will be held Sunday at 4:30 p. m. at the church, with Dr. '.Black speaking. — o Arm Is Fractured In Fall Tuesday Mary Lou Robinson, 10, who resides with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Roy S. Johnson of 310 North Tenth street, fell while on her way home from school Tuesday afternoon and fractured her right arm She was taken to the hospital for treatment and later returned home. She was reported as testing well this morning and expects to return to school in a few days.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 28,1938.

As Hitler Spoke to World y 1T ! -W ■ r BF® W I J W' ti A 1 e J Hitler speaking in the Berlin Sportpalast This radiophoto of Fuehrer Adolf Hiller speaking to the world or the Czech situation in Sportpalast was radioed from Berlir to New York and Cleveland

SAYS GERMAN BUND ACTIVE < Metcalfe Charges Organization Active In Unit- ' ed States Washington, Sept. 28 — (U.R) — ■ John C. Metcalfe, agent for the j house committee investigating un- , American activities, charged to- ' day that Nazi adherents have obtained possession of secret con- ‘ struction plans for U. S. battleships. Metcalfe, former Chicago newspaperman who became a committee agent, disclosed activities of German-American Bund members, charging: 1. The bund already is adver-: tfsing an Oct. 2 celebration of Adolf Hitler's acquisition of the ; Sudetenland. although the Suae- | tenlands have not yet been acquired. 2. The bund members consider themselves the same type of mi- ; nority as the Germans inhabiting j Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland. 3. Nazi agents have acquired secret battleship plans and even have been assigned to go on trial runs of the latest type battleships of the U. S. Navy. 4. That the German-American Bun can muster 5,000 storm troop(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o NATION'S DEATH TOLL IS LOWER National Safety Council Predicts 8,500 Smaller Death Toll Chicago Sept. 28 —(UP)— The United States is on the way to saving approximately 8,500 lives this year, the National safety council reported today. The saving, the report said, would be made in the reduction of automobile accident fatalities during ; 1938 as against 1937. The prediction was made in conjunction with announcement that for the tenth consecutive month—during August— the Nation's traffic toll has been less than the corresponding month of the year before. ‘ “It the last four months of this year bring reductions equal to those In the first eight months,” the council said. “The fatality total for the year will be approximately 34. POO —6,500 less than the 1937 total.” The report listed 2,900. traffic deaths in the United States during August, a saving of 860 lives as iQWiIUiUJ® Pii PAGE IHRfiEj. ,

John L. Fetters Taken By Death John L. Fetters. 67. lifelong resident of Mercer county, Ohio, died at ins home m Celina Tuvsd»j after an extended illness. He is survived by the following children: Mrs. George Howell and Mrs. Jeff Howell of near Celina; Mrs. Neil Evens, Mrs. Walter Potts and Mrs. Orland Meyer of Lima, O.; Norval Fetters of Willshire, Ohio.; Dale Fetters of New Corydon, Ind.; Mrs. W. A. Shirk and Mrs. Norbert Ellis of Celina and Mildred and John. Jr., at home. Funeral services will be held at the Mt, Carmel Church of God at 2:30 p. m. (EST) Thursday. VOLUNTEERS TO MEET THURSDAV Final Plans For Fund Solicitation To Be Made Thursday A meeting of the volunteers who will solicit donations for the KrickTyndall tile factory re-employment -re-building fund, will be held Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the First State bank. Lists containing the names of the individuals and firms to be seen will be distributed to the workers and the details of the drive explained. The campaign to raise the balance of $7,500 of the SIO,OOO reemployment, re-building fund will open Monday, October 3, and a complete canvass of the merchants, professional men, firms and industries will be made. With SIO,OOO contributed by the local community, of which $2,000 will be donated by former employes in the way of services and SSOO already received from the Central Sugar company and McMillen industries, the rebuilding of the tile factory is assured. Leo Childs, chairman of the board of the company informed the Chamber of Commerce. The company and stock holders are providing the additional $90,000 capital neces sary to rebuild and operate the plant through their own funds and an RFC loan. ' The general committee, compoe(CONTINUED on PAGE FIVE) — o — Report Local Man Is Seriously 11l Robert Fritzinger who is an employe of the Central Sugar company. is seriously ill at his home at 1316 West Monroe street. Mr. Fritzinger, who has been suffering from complications for the past 12 days, was reported as being no better this morning.

Nazi Leader Calls Conference Os Four European Powers For Tomorrow; March Is Averted

Italian Sources Assert Mussolini Has Ordered) Troops Withdrawn From Spanish War. PEACE BASIS Rome, Sept. 28.—<U.PJ —A hint] that broaffer European problems than the Czech crisis would be considered at the Munich four-power I conference was given today when authoritative sources reported that I Italian volunteers had been ordered withdrawn from the Spanish civil war. It was said on reliable authority as Premier Benito Mussolini left for Munich that he had ordered immediate withdrawal of Italian forces fighting with the nationalist army in Spain. The presence of the Italians on Spanish soil has been the chief obstacle to ptßting into effect the British-Italian friendship treaty—a keystone of Britain's program for consolidating the peace of Europe. Reliable circles said further that evacuation of the Italians already had started. Mussolini was said to have reached a Ift-cision to withdraw the Italians after announcement that nationalist Spain intended to remain I neutral in any possible Europea I conflict and after announcement by I the Spanish loyalist government ) that foreign volunteers were being I withdrawn from its army. Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano was reported to have informed Great Britain of the decision this morning, adding that it apparently | removed the last obstacle in making effective the Italian-British treaty. As a result, if the Munich meeting should fail, Spain would be removed as a world war theater and the theory that Italy, in event of war, would Increase the number of volunteers in Epain to threaten the French border would be abandoned. Mussolini and Ciano left for Munich by train at 6p .tn. A new surge of hope that war had ben averted arose when the Munich conference was called. Settlement Basis Berlin, Sept. 28. — (U.R) — Nazi circles indicated belief today that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler would accept a “token withdrawal" of Czech troops from Sudetenland by Saturday as a basis for peaceful settlement of the central European crisis. Coincident with disclosure of arrangements for a four-power peace conference at Munich tomorrow, it > was said that if the Czechs con- • sented before the October 1 dead(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) POLAND SEEKS CZECH BARGAIN Poland Studies Czech Offer To Cede 20-Mile Strip Os Land Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 28 —<U.R) — Poland was driving a hurried bargain with Czechoslovakia to- ' day in their prolonged territorial dispute. It appeared that a solution might be reached taht would elimniate Poland as a potential ■ ally of Germany in any war over Czechoslovak minorities. A messenger flew to Prague bearing a letter from President Ignacy Moscicki replying to . Czechoslovakia’s offer to cede to Poland a 20-mile strip of Silesia Inhabited by 82.000 CzechoslovakPoles. Dr. Casimir Pagee, Polish minister, handed the note to , i President Edouard Benes at Prague this morning. Its con- • tents were secret. The Silesian Poles constituted , the smallest of the minority races in Czechoslovakia, of which the • 3,500,000 Sudeten Germans were ; the largest. Nevertheless. Po- , land’s demands for custody of this ON PAGE THREE).

FRENCH CREDIT F.D.R. APPEAL AS PEACE AID Roosevelt’s Pleas Credited With Important Bearing Paris, Sept. 28. — (U.R)—Premier ! Edouard Daladier arranged today to fly 'to the four-power peace con- | ference at Munich and it was uni derstood that further French mobi ilization would be postponed. French officials credited President Roosevelt's two peace messi ages with an important part in bringing about the Munich confer- . ence at an hour when war seemed . so certain that many thousands had left Paris and French art treasures had been protected against aerial bombardment. Only a few experts will accompany Daladier. He revised a radio . speech he will deliver tonight. A communique by minority members . I of the chamber of deputies urged I Daladier not to order general . i mobilization without parliament's consent, but the premier replied that mobilization was the govem- ; ment’s prerogative. All morning, Daladier, who is I both premier and war minister, had I been in telephone consultation with foreign statesmen and with French j ; political leaders. It was believed ‘ ' that among others he had consult'i ed with Czechoslovak leaders in an ] I effort to find a conciliatory soluI tion to the crisis. ' Here the situation seemed to be growing more tense and war preparations were accelerated The ■, finance ministry published a de- ' cree permitting delays in certain 1 categories of commercial debts. — (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ' o DEATH CLAIMS FLOYD MYERS Adams County Farmer Dies Tuesday After Extended Illness Floyd Myers. 54. well known Ad-; lams countv farmer and cattle breedI I . er, died at his home four miles north of Willshire, Ohio. Tuesday I evening at 4:45 o’clock. He had been in poor health for five years of carcinoma. The deceased was born in Van Wert county, Ohio. April 8. 1884 i and had lived in Adams county for I the past 29 years. He was a memI ber of the Pleasant View Baptist church, near Wren, Ohio. He was married to Sue M. Burk-1 ett, who survives, with two adopt-1 ed children and the following brothers: John H. and Daniel, of; Wren; Charles William, north of Wren; Frank and Oscar, both Adi ams county; Fred east of Wren; I Alfred, two miles north of Wren; . and Phillip, of Van Wert, O. I Funeral services will be held at ■ the church at 2 o’clock (EST) I Thursday, with Rev. Floyd W. Dudi ley, Columbus, O, and Rev. O. I. ' Forrester officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Tabor cemetery. ! O ’ Humorist, Poet ’ Speaks To Lions j E. A. Richardson, of Evansville, , better known as “Big Rich,” was t the speaker at the weekly meeting -of the Decatur Lions club Tuesday evening. Mr. Richardson, well 1 known Hoosier poet and humorist, t read a number of his own poems. ‘ of which three volumes have been ’ published. The club members will entertain ’ their wives and sweethearts at next week's meeting October 4.

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Call Is Issued Shortly Before Troops Were Scheduled To March To Sudetenland. BREATHING SPELL By Webb Miller (Copyright 1938 by United Press) London Sept. 28 —(U.R) —Fuehrer Adolf Hitler called a four-pow-er conference on the Czechoslovak crisis today, at almost exactly the hour which he had set for marching his army into the Sude. tenland. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain informed the British house of commons that Hitler had set 2 p. m. today (7 a. m. CST) for the march, but agreed to postpone it for 24 hours pending a talk by himself, Chamberlain, Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy and Premier Edouard Daladier of France tomorrow at Munich. Hitler's ultimatum that Czechoslovakia must yield the Sudetenland to Germany by Saturday was not mentioned in the four-power I invitation, but it was believed in Berlin that he would accept “a token withdrawal” of Czech troops from Sudetenland. During the breathing spell thus granted. Chamberlain. Mussolini and Daladier will go to Munich to talk with the fuehrer on new plans for averting war in Europe. The inurMui by which an immediate explosion was averted was narrow. Chamberlain was making his I speech in the house of commons, i revealing that the four-power proposal had been made. He did not know it had been accepted. Hitler’s invitation arrived at the last moment, during his closing remarks. I sat in the gallery immediately behind Viscount Halifax, foreign minister. Stanley Baldwin and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and had a clear view of what happened. Toward the end of the historic speech a message was handed to Lord Halifax. Halifax read the message, showed it to Baldwin, jumped up and departed. In a moment he appeared on the floor of the chamber and went to the government bench. The message with its momentous portent was passed from hand to hand. The government members stirred with excitement. Just as Chamberlain neared the end of the speech, the message was handed to him. He immediately announced it to the house. "I have now been informed by Chancellor Hitler." Chamberlain said in a voice vibrant with emotion, “that he invites me to Munich tomorrow morning and that he also has invited Premier Mussolini and Premier Daladier. “Signor Mussolini accepted. There is no doubt that M. Daladier also accepts. I need not say what my answer will be.” As Chamberlain sat down amidst the tumult, tears streamed down his cheeks. Sir John Simon, chancellor of the exchequer, leaned over and patted him on. the back. A scene seldom matched in commons ensued. Members leaped to their feet, cheered and waved their papers. It was the climax of a chain of events which the British foreign office revealed was started last night when President Roosevelt sent his message to Hitler, suggesting a European confer(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00a.m 58 2:00p.m 82 10:00 a.m 65 3:00 p.m 80 Noon 73 WEATHER Fair tonight and Thursday; not quite so cool tonight in central and northeast portions, cooler Thursday in north portion.