Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 230, Decatur, Adams County, 29 September 1938 — Page 1

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!«re Than Score As Storm *| Hits Charleston

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1 Kerne School i To November 1 [instruction of the new 1 [building will be' rei office of E. M. Webb, intendent, until 10 a. m. vember 1. o $ MILLER IEM STAFF hool Yearbook is Announced Today Os the 1938-39 Ravelannounced today at high school. The staff s annual year-book for >ach spring. Her, a senior, will be 'f with Lewis Koldeitant editor-in-chief. 'ess manager will be '• with Dixie Miller as isiness manager and as sophomore assistmanager. the staff are: Photor. Ralph Scott, assistaphy editor , Robert s sport editor, John assistant boys sports ert Stapleton; girls Katherine Knapp; as>W.. J.„ ‘<litor, William Spahr; ‘Pshot editor. Richard write-up-editors, Marne and Barbara Burk: Sigurd Anderson Worthman

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

| To Speak Here _________________ 1 te W or 1 k H Sherman Minion, junior United 1 States senator from Indiana, will ’be the principal speaker at a I democratic party rally in this city ! Friday. October 28. HOLD SERVICES SATURDAY FOR SLAIN COUPLE Murder-Suicide Victims To Be Buried Saturday Afternoon Funeral services will be held Saturday for the victims of the I county's first murder victim in marty years and her suiciu.-i.iay-, er. Mrs Florence Neadstine. 43.. and Mrtward Neadstine. 48, it was i decided today. They were the ‘ ’ parents of seven children. The services will be held Jn the Blue Creek township home, two and a half miles east and a mile ; and a half south of Monroe Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock and at 2 o'clock at the Pleasant Valley church, east of Monroe. Burial will be made in the Spring Hill cemetery, east of Berne. The Rev. Grant White-1 nech. of Portland, will officiate at j the services. Adams County Coroner Robert j Zwick, Wednesday night conducted a post mortem at the S. E Black funeral home, which confirmed his earlier statement Wed-1 nesday that Mrs. Neadstine had been murdered by her husband'. and that he (Mr. Neadstine) had then committed suicide. Coroner Zwick will return a verdict oi murder as the cause of. death of Mrs. Neadstine and sui- j cide as the cause of death of Mr. Neadstine. The time of death | will be placed at between 8 and ! 8:30 o'clock Wednesday morning The cause of death is believed I ny authorities to lie the filing of i the divorce suit by Mrs. Nead-| stine as the culmination of do-, mestic troubles extending over a iong period of time. No note was found from Mr. Neadstine. but a summons ordering him to appear in the Adams circuit court. October 10, to make an answer in the divorce case in which he was the ] defendant, was found on the dining room table between the two 1 bodies. The summons had been j served by Adams County Sheriff. Dallas Brown. Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Neadstine was born in this 1 county. June 22, 1895. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kessler, who survive and now live in! Sturgis, Michigan. She is survjv-i ed also by the se,ven children, i three brothers and one sister. Mr. Neadstine was also born in 1 Adams county. He was the son | of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Neadstine. of this city. Surviving besides the parents and seven children are two brothers and two sisters. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O — James Roosevelt To Leave Hospital Today i Rochester, Minn., Sept. 29.— (U.R) —James Roosevelt, eldest son and secretary to President Roosevelt, announced today he will leave the hospital here where he has been convalescing from an operation for a gastric ulcer, at 3 p. in. He said he will go directly to the home of "a friend" and remain until next Wednesday. He planned to leave here Wednesday for Chicago, and then to San Francisco.

REPORT TROOPS ARE WITHDRAWN' IN SPAIN WAR Important Developments Reported From Civil War Front Paris, Sept. 29- (U.R) —Reports from Rome, Barcelona, and the j Franco-Spanish border told today . lof developments in the Spanish | civil war of (he utmost importj ance. From Rome, the United Press | , was informed on what was be-' I Sieved to be unimpeachable uuth- ' ority that Premier Benito Musso- ‘ I iini had decided to stop aiding the Spanish nationalists and had, i issued orders to withdraw his , ‘volunteers." From Barcelona, the United' : Press correspondent reported that the Spanish loyalist government ' i had started dissolving its international brigades with a view of demobilizing them entirely. From the border, a news dis-1 I patch unconfirmed from any i other source, said that 500 Italian ! airmen already had left national- ’ ist Spain. These developments, if they I continue to full realization, would have profound influence on the i I fierce war that has been raging I ; tor two years in Spain, and. in I that way, on the future peace and, security of Europe. Involving i i nations and nationalities other | 1 than Spain and Spaniards, that war had threatened to set off a general European war almostl i from its inception. Particularly,' it had caused hard feelings bei tween Italy and Great Britain. The withdrawal of the Italian i “volunteers" would permit Brit--1 ain and Italy to put into effect I ; the already negotiated treaty ' settling all their outstanding dis-l | ferences. The correspondent of the Loi (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) PLAN BANQUET MONDAY NIGHT Woman’s Club Banquet Monday Night To Open Fall Season Miss Jeanne Welty of Lima. Ohio will be the speaker at the Woman s ' Club banquet to be held at the Zion Reformed ehurch Monday evening lat 6:30 o’clock. The banquet and < vening of entertainment will mark , i the opening of the fall and winter activities of the club. An unusual opportunity to see the finest in dramatic entertainment will be offered the audience I when Miss Welty presents her his- ! torical monodrania. "Catherine, the Magnlficant Medici.” Miss Welty is a niece of ThurI man Gottschalk of Berne and her mother was formerly Miss Cora Gottschalk of that city. The monodrama as presented by Miss Welty is an incorporation of i the best features of the dramatic monologue together with the action and brilliant costuming of the le- ' fitimate stage. Miss Welty has just returned ! from the summer season at the Max Reinhardt Workshop in Hollywood, California, where she played the leading role of the Madonna in Dr. Reinhardt's first California present- , ation of the renowned play- "The Miracle.” Miss W'elty's programs are comI pletely and authentically costumed , and many of her costumes have been designed especially for her by Vogue magazine. With two exceptions she has personally authored her monodramas, thus becoming au-, thor-actress-producer. Each mono- ! drama represents months of intense research into the lives of these ! famous and interesting women that have become the central characters of Mise Welty’s productions. “Catherine, the Magnificient Medici,” is a monodrama concerning (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) | Dewey Is Nominated By New York G. O. P. Saratoga Springs, N. Y„ Sept. 29 — (U.R) —Thomas E. Dewey, 36- ' year-old “racket busting" district attorney of New York county, was nominated today as the Republican candidate for governor of New ; York. The Republican state convention nominated the youthful prosecutor with utmost confidence that he would be elected in November and return politically important New York to the Republican fold.

Decatur, Indiana, Thur sday, September 29, 1938.

Murder And Suicide Victims KJII Funeral services will bo held Saturday for Edward Neadstine, Blue ( reek township farmer, and his wife, Florence, pictured above, whose, lifeless bodies were found in their home Wednesday. Mr. Neadstine! killed his wife and then committed suicide, presumably as the after-, math of a divorce suit, sought by Mrs. Neadstine. _ ————— —— ——

SEN. MINTON TO SPEAK AT RALLY Indiana Senator Will Speak At Rally In This City October 28 Democrat county chairman Nathan Nelson announced today that !U. S. Senator Sherman Minton would be the principal Speaker at a Democrat rally in this city. Friday, . October 28, Arrangements for the meeting 1 are not yet complete. Chairman Nelson stated. Notification of Senator Minton’s visit here during the ! campaign was received by the county chairman and preliminary plans , are 'being made to make it one of • the outstanding political meetings i this fall. Next Wednesday a Fourth district rally will be held in Fort Wayne, at which Senator Fredrick ■ Van Nuys and Senator Minton will i speak. A number of Democrats from this city and county are plaiiii- ' :ng to attend. Chairman Nelson will confer with :he committeemen and Democratic leaders relative to the Minton meeting and hopes to have complete plans ready in a short time. Senator Minton is one of the best speakers on the political platform | and his presence is much in demand throughout the state. The senator visited Decatur four years ago in the 1934 campaign. —oNorth Manchester Man Is Fatally Injured Huntington. Ind.. Sept. 29 —(UP) —Charles Wright, 74, of North ManI Chester, former postmaster, township trustee and county auditor, was killed today when an automobile driven by his son Harold. 4G, skidded off a road and struck a pole. Harold Wright is in a hospital with a severe brain concussion. BACKS LETTER WRITING WEEK October 2 To 8 To Be National Letter Writing Week Mrs. Lola Macklin, acting Dej catur posffnaster. today issued a new statement urging the patrons of the local post office to take advantage of national VV rite-A-Let-ter-Week.” Next, week, from October 2 to 8, has been set as the time on which letter writing will be encouraged. Mrs. KStklin’a statement today was: “Now is the ideal time to renew, by letter, the social, family and business contacts that you have allowed to grow dim. “ 'Should auld acquaintances be forgot?’ opportunities be lost, friendships allowed to wane, loved ones be left to wait and wonder—- ! all because you neglect to write a iletter? "Somewhere, someone is waiting for your letter—waiting to say ‘I love you, too' or ‘Yes, we have a job for you.’ Write a letter . . . Keep on writing letters . . . Write to give pleasure to others ... To bring success nearer to you . . . To increase sales. It's a habit well worth cultivating, for every letter j that you write, is ‘Very Truly Yours! “It is the sincere wish of the local postmaster that all patrons of this office co-operate in this i campaign as far as possible. Your I letters will be appreciated.”

U. S. Senator Minton Visits In Decatur , United States Senator Sherman! Minton visited briefly in the city this afternoon on his way to Portland. Senator Minton stated he has | been making an extensive tour of I the state, and from all indications he found huge support for all Detn-, ocratic tickets. He said he was very I optimistic about the chances for .mother Democratic landslide next November. The Senator remarked aoout the ! statement made late Tuesday night by President Franklin Delano. Roosevelt in an effort to find a peaceful meane through a confer- 1 ence of the leaders in the present European crisis. He said it was “One of the finest things I have ever heard.” o WELFARE BOARD APPEALS SLASH . County Welfare Department Failes Appeal From SIB,OOO Cut 11 The Adams county welfare department has filed an appeal with 1 County Auditor John W. Tyndall I to have the appropriation out of I ’ SIIB,OOO in its budget restored. 1 The appeal is to be trasmitted to ■ ; the state tax board. Grounds for the appeal are taken ! from the law which provides that in casee where budgets are reduced to a figure below which either the county department or the state department of welfare believes ade- • quate for the coming year, an ap- • peal may be taken to the state tax i commission which will conduct a ' hearing. In taking the appeal, the county . welfare department did not ask that . the one cent cut in the levy be restored, so it will have no effect on the total county tax rate for 1938, payable in 1939. The department had asked for a levy of 15 cents, but the county council reduced it to 14 cents. If the appeal is granted the $lB,-1 JOrt will be taken from the working balance of the department. The j majority of the SIB,OOO is sought ! for old age assistance, crippled children and dependent children. ; When the reduction was made, it! saved the county $3,000, the re-! rtainder of the SIB,OOO, $15,000 would have been paid by the state ' and national governments. Last year, a reduction was made l:i both the appropriation and in the ' levy, which was cut two cents. Th° appropriation was raised, but the levy reduction of two cents was not restored. The levy last year was . 110 cents, as finally approved. o Initiatory Work At K. P. Tonight Second rank initiatory work is to , be given at the Knights of Pythias home this evening during tKe regu- ' lar weekly meeting beginning at . 7:30 o’clock. All members are re- ! quested to be present. oErrol Flynn Winning Fight Against Disease , Hollywood. Sept. 29—(UP)—Errol Flynn, the adventurous movie star, was past the crisis today at ■ Good Samaritan hospital in a fight • against a streptocccccus infection and recurrence of Malaria. Movie colony friends offered i blood for transfusions but Dr. T. i M. Hearn said none was necessary. Flynn probahly will return home in a week, |

German Spokesman Says Four Powers Agreed On Essentials Os Program In Czech Crisis

Czechs Today Announce Acceptance Os Great Britain Plan But With Reservations. FEAR SETTLEMENT Prague, Sept. 29 (U.R) The government of Premier Gen. Jan Syrovy announced today accept-1 ance of the general principles of a new British plan for making effective the cession of Sudeteniand to Germany, but reservations were made as to some details The government said its agreement, with the reservations as to detail, had been forwarded to Munich prior to opening of the iour-power conference. The new proposition concerned machinery for making effective the original British-French plan for surrender of the frontier area. Outcome of the Munich talks was [ awaited by officials with misgiv- ' tags in fear that a settlement would be at the expense of ! Czechoslovakia. They feared that Great Britain and France might decide to sacrifice Czechoslovakia’s integrity to avoid a general European war; they believed that prolonging the crisis would serve only to give Germany more time for mobilization and to wear down the public morale of Czechoslovakia. The fact that the conference was giving them a breathing spell in which there was no momentary ' fear of a German invasion, afforded little consolation. They were as prepared for war as they possibly could be, and preferred to fight at once provided they had i the aid of Great Britain. France I and Russia. Poles Bomb Czech i Teachen. Poland. Sept. 29—(U.R) I —A Polish volunteer guard again ! crossed the < zechosiovuk frontier : today and tossed hand grenades ! into the police station in Czech i Teschen. All windows in the police sta- ' tion were smashed. No casual- ; ties were reported. The incident was a repetition of daily raids by I “volunteers" on both sides of the i frontier. Inhabitants of the border region were fleeing to the interior with i the approach of the Saturday I deadline, laid down by the Polish ; government, for evacuation of the Teschen district by the Czechs. The Polish civil administration organized to take over the government of the disputed Czechoslovak portion of Silesia as soon as the Polish army occupies it. Accuse Sabotage Berlin. Sept. 29 — (U.R) — The Nazi press today accused Czecho(CONTINUFID ON PAGE THREE) O MRS.DEBOLT DIES TODAY Mrs. Chauncey Deßolt Os Willshire Dies At Local Hospital Mrs. Bertha Deßolt. 60. wife of Chauncey Deßolt of Willshire, 0., died at the Adams county memori ial hospital at 1 o’clock this morning of complications. She had been a patient at the local hospital for the past month. The deceased was born near Ohio City and had made her home in Willshire since her marriage. ; She was a member of the Wlllj shire M. E. church. Surviving are the husband and i two sons, Thomas of Jackson, Mich., and CWtes. living one and i one-half miles northeast of Willshire. Funeral services will be held at the Willshire M. E. church Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock (EST). Rev. S. E. Brunner will officiate. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. . o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a.m 55 2:00 p.m 80 10:00 a.m 63 3:00 p.m.. 77 Noon 72 WEATHER Fair in northwest portion, more or less cloudiness in east and south portions tonight and Friday; slightly warmer Friday afternoon.

PEACE APPEAL IS BROADCAST BY POPE PIUS Pope Pleads For World Peace In Short Broadcast Today Cartel Gandolso, Italy, Sept. 29— (UP) —Pope Plus addressed a plea for peace to the world today in a radio broadcast from the library of his country villa. “Millions of men live In grief,” he said, “because of the imminent danger of war and human slaughter.” "While mankind is under the fear and strees of war we raise a prayer for peace.” The 81-year-old pope appeared to be under great emotional strain and at times his voice seemed to break. “We offer our most hearty prayers for peace and the welfare of the entirew orld,” he said. “We pray to God for the successful conclusion of negotiations. “We pray that the good God gives us a little more life in which to j see the reestablishment of good will in the world.” The pope concluded his speech in . five minutes and it was immediately I rebroadcast in English, French, German, Czechoslovakian. Polish, Hungarian Dutch and Spanish. o NBA ALLOTMENT HESFREPORTS? Daily Democrat Is Advised Os Approval Os $40,550 Grant The Decatur Daily Democrat today received a telegram from the office of United States Senator ! Frederick' Van Nuys. announcing taat a $40,550 WPA allotment had • been made in Adams county The telegram read: "Happy to advise approval of WPA allotment of $40,: ,0 to construct . low dams in small streams for conservation and recreational facilities : throughout county. Pleasure for Senator Van Nuys to have been of service.” It was signed by Ben Stern, ses- • retary to Senator Van Nuys. Sen. Van Nuys is now* in Indiana. It fe believed that the money is for the continuation of the WPA division which has charge of building artificial dams, for NYA and the recreational program in the county. This fund was nearly exhausted. A WPA crew under the direction of A. W. Tanvas began September 6 to build the artificial lake on the “ Ben Schroyer farm northeast of Decatur. Funds were taken from the appropriation remaining after the I building of the Mosure artificial lake near Vera Cruz. Only a small I amount remained for the continua- > tion of the new artificial lake. It ie also believed that part of the money is to be used by the A and the recreational program. A <COXTINUKD ON PAGE THREE) , — —O Two-Year-Old Boy Is Killed By Train Roachdale. Ind.. Sept. 29—(UP)— | Harlan Murray, two-year-old eon of j Mr. and Mrs. Chester Murray, was killed by a train while he was playing on the Baltimore and Ohio t tracks in front of his home yesterday. Two companions stepped from the train’s path but Harlan remained lying between the rails. ' o ; Young Girl Killed When Hit By Auto Shelbyville, Ind.. Sept. 29.—KU.PJ —Patricia Wainscott, age 5, died late yesterday of injuries received when she walked from behind a truck ’into the path of an automobile driven by Bert Stafford, livestock journal editor. Stafford was not held. This was the second tragedy to strike Mr. and Mrs. Theodore ■ Wainscott, the girl's parents. Two other daughters were burned to death in 1935.

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Official Says Technical Difficulties Remaining Outstanding; Atmosphere Optimistic. IN CONFERENCE Munich. Sept. 29— (U.R) - Tho four-power conference on (hn Czechoslovakian crisis has agreed on the main essentials of a program and only technical difficulties remain outstanding, an official German spokesman said tonight. The spokesman said one of the difficulties was delivering details of the plan, including the area to be evacuated, to Prague soon enough to enable the Czechs to carry it out by Saturday, Hitler's deadline, if they accept. The spokesman said maps and aetails probably would be handed to Czech ministers in London and Berlin for transmission to Prague. The atmosphere is one of greatest optimism, the spokesman said, and he is convinced the plan must be accepted. Saturday Deadline By Webb Miller (Copyright 1938 by United Press) Munich, Sept. 29 —(U.R)—Fuehrer Adolf Hitler opened the "war or peace" conference of Europe's four chief statesmen today with the declaration that Saturday is the inflexible deadline for the entry of German troops into Czechoslovakia. The conference is all ready, informed French circles believed, to make German occupation of the Eger district on Saturday the price of peace . The French favor having the troops in peace time I instead of war time kit. German circles also suggested that much of the sting would lie taken from the occupation for the I Czechs if the troops inarch iti ! forage caps and light equipment ! iiistead of steel helmets and war I equipment. The representatives of Britain, France, Germany and Italy met in Munich's fuehrer haus and plunged without the waste of a moment into their efforts to solve the Czechoslovak minority crisis without war. Informed German sources confirmed earlier suggestions that a “token" withdrawal of Czechoslovak troops from the Eger district might satisfy Germany, by permitting the entry of Nazi troops into part of the Sudeten region, as a symbolic triumph for Germany. Hitler, it was believed, would be content with Czech evacuation of the Eger district at the northwestern tip of Czechoslovakia, bordering the Reich German troops would immediately filter in and gradually expand the sphere of their occupation In ensuing days as the Czechs withdraw farther. Hitler. Neville Chamberlain. Britain's prime minister; Benito Mussolini, the 11 Duce of Italy, and Premier Edouard Daladier of Fiance attended the opening ses(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o DEATH CLAIMS MARIA MOSER Aged Woman Dies Late Wednesday At Home Os Daughter Mrs. Marie Moser, 81. died lato Wednesday afternoon at the homo of a daughter, Mrs. Albert Liechty, northwest of Berne. Mrs. Moser fell five weeks ago and fractured a hip. She later suffered a stroke of paralysis and had been critically ill for the past 10 days. The deceased was born near Vera Cruz November 16. 1856. the daughter of Peter and Verena Ma singerBaumgartner. She married David Moser December 12, 1880. Mr. Mosed died in 1903. Surviving ere three children, Mrs. Albert Liechty. Mrs. Osia Von Gunten and Grover C. Moeer; and j one brother, John Baumgartner, of Fort Wayne. Three children, five brothers and three sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held at the Albert Liechty home at 1:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon and at 2 o’clock at the Berne Mennonite church. Burial will be in the M, R. E. cemetery.