Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 232, Decatur, Adams County, 1 October 1938 — Page 1

XXXVI. No. 232.

|[N CANVASS i ■ftilemill » MONDAY K n ch Monday fi Tyndall Plant Ktun "f r.buiKHnK Kv and uniploy-; "i !11 *‘ s,, "‘" i ' lg fi ~r e ready "> Btal t th " i ■; Monday for the s*.ooo fi T v, ,|.,il I K, n , ri ..|.nildinil drive. | ■ turned fi , h „ volunta.T workers! fi th , «]ogan. ■U s vvpJt I fiw..- an INXEST ; Kj. n , vein- voinmuiiity. and fi th al ’ idea i" " lin<l ,he fi,„ c teams will try to sell fi., ■„ individual firm and , r-buildinr of 'he tile far-1 fi. "yed by fire ■ fin,.; will e.a.l an expend!-1 of JloO.Ow' llll ' buildings. I fiisery and clay soil beds It fi;.' employment fi'.mu.-rs re<|Uested a slo,ooo' fiion from the community in to assure the rebuilding of I fi.j.e,y Os this amount, the . fi . donate : fi jn th,, way of services, the > fiu;v being authorized to de-1 fione day s pay every two j fi Central Soya company and I industries donated SSOOI r. d i. inn the amount! firaised in the drive to $7,500 ’ finnan L. Comer will act as; fiant financial secretary durfithr campaign and will have j fiesk at the First State Bank, fie the solicitors will report, fil ccntributions will also ire filed from factory employes not listed in the prqcoanil Indusof the city. finder? G .:<■ < liai: man of commit lee. Jouii L., ■k president of the Chamfi)( Commerce which is sponfig the drive, and Rev. Ralph ■Graham. publi.i'y chairman, fined confidence in the sue■of the campaign. They exfi the drive to end within a fi although i.mtributors will fit" days to pay their cj.itri■h in full. fi o—fights Os Pythias F Take First Match e Knights of Pythias pinochle i defeated the Masonic team 10 in the first of a series of it games between experts of wo lodges. The game was held fy night at the K. of P. home, les Knapp is captain of the hte of Pythias team and I. stein of the Masonic team. — o kard Funeral Services Monday ivate funeral services will be for Mrs. John Rickard, who Friday after an extended Hist the Rickard residence on Adams street Monday morn>t 10 o’clock. The Rev. James b of the United Brethren th will officiate and burial will 1 the Decatur cemetery. e body will be returned from Black funeral home Sunday ting and may be viewed by •« and relatives after 1 o'clock >y afternoon. — ■ o »tence Suspended On Forgery Charge bliss Ross, who has been held ht ' Adams county jail for sevdays on a fraudulent check "* e ‘ guilty this morning tn Judge Huber M. DeVoss in n( lams circuit court and was ■ ?n ced to one to 10 years. The sate was suspended and he released. °’s. on August 19, is alleged given a check for SSBB on talon Trust Company, of In“Pells, to the Decatur Rivert bales for payment of cattle. s found he had no funds in iu" After a long hunt he G< ated and returned to DecaEmpe ” ATU re READINGS ,Em OCRAT THERMOMETER m 54 11:00 a.m 62 weather I, ' oni 9ht and Sunday, |ltan fle in temperature.

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ICCC Boys To Tour Central Sugar Co. I Dorus Stalter. first aid instructor in Decatur iund assigned to the teaching staff of the CCC camp in Wells county, is bringing a group of the CCC boys to this city Monday, when they will tour the Cen--1 tral Sugar Company's mill. O. V. Kessler, camp director, will accompany the boys. CALLITHUMPIAN PARADE TO BE ! HELD OCT. 31 Chamber Os Commerce Plans Annual Party; Bowers Chairman Decatur's most colorful celebra- ■ tlon, the annual Callithumpian ( ; parade, will be held on the streets I of this city Monday night, Octo- ' ber 31. This announcement was made I formally today by officials of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, I sponsoring organization. William S. Bowers has been appointed general chairman of the ' Halloween party. Started several years ago by ' the Chamber of Commerce, the I Callithumpian parade has drawn' i hundreds of merrymaking paradcrs and thousands of spectators | to this city each year since its ! Inception. Approximately $l5O in prizes I has been presented each year for the best costumed paraders, in j ! several different divisions. Mr. Bowers, as general chair- ; man. has appointed the following ! men as members of the general i committee; John L. De Voss, Pete . Reynolds, James Elberton, Dee, Fryback. Dr. Harold DeVor. Rob-, ert Helm and Walter Gard. The board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce will also assist with arrangements for the parade. All members of the general i comiuiitev and the C. of C direrI torts are asked to meet at the j office of Mr. DeVoss Thursday , evening, October 6, at 7:30 o'clock jto make further plans for the i Halloween event. Officials are planning new departures from the usual Halloween features and hope to make the 1938 Callithumpian parade the best ever held in the city. NO OBJECT IONS FILED TO DATE No Remonstrances Filed To Date To Proposed Hospital Addition No objections or remonstrances to the proposed Adams county memorial hospital addition for a nurses home and additional facilities have yet been received, it was . learned today by County Auditor , John W. Tyndall. These are to be filed before , Thursday October 13. when a spe- . dal session of the Adams county council has been called to hear ’ possible objections or remonstranI ces and in their absence to adopt an ordinance calling for the appropriation of $60,363 for the proposed . addition. , In the notice of the meeting, it was set out the council will be asked to appropriate $35,000 of the j cost, which will be the county's share, as well as $25,363, which has been offered by the govern- ! ment in the form of a PWA grant. If the appropriations are approved by the council, they will be sub- ! mitted to the state tax board, which will conduct a further hear- ; ing. The county commissioners, act- , ing in behalf of the board of trus- , tees for the Adams county mernor- , ial hospital, are advertising for bids on the proposed new strucI ture. , The bids are to be opened in the . office of John W. Tyndall, county . auditor, November 4. Copies of the plans and specifi- , cations are on file at the office of . John W. Tyndall, county auditor, . and at the office of A. M. Strauss, architect, in Fort Wayne. x I Fire Call Answered, No Damage Is Caused At 6:30 o’lock Friday evening the fire department answered a call at the Clarence Stapleton home on North Seventh street. The house was filled with smoke due to a clogged up furnace. No damage was i done.

To Attend Lutheran Pastoral Conference Rev. Walter Llchstlnn Rev Frank Lankenau Prof. Ottomar Krueger Three Lutheran leaders who will attencLthe pastoral conference, opening at the Zion Lutheran church j in this city Tuesday, are: Rev. Walter LiCTistinn, president of the Central district of the Lutheran , church; Rev Frank Lankenau, first vice-president of the Missouri Lutheran synod; Prof. Ottomar I Krueger, of Concordia College, Fort Wayne. 1

OBSERVANCE TO BEGIN SUNDAY Decatur M. E. Church To Open Centennial Ob- . servance Sunday The official beginning of the cele-' bration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Decatur M. E. church will begin Sunday morning and continue throughout tho month , of October. „ I The first class of the Methodist rlpiscopal church was organized in Decatur at one of the home of the first settlers in the year 1838. Because part of the early records have been destroyed, the details of ! the founding of the church are not 1 known. Tonight at 6 o’clock at a carryin supper meeting of the church school board and their families, final plans for the Rally day Sunday will be discussed. Further plans Lor the October-December quarter ; * the will ne mane. Every member of the church school board is urged to be present. An attendance goal of 300 persons is being sought at the rally day service Sunday morning at 9:30. Enworth league will be at 6 o'clock and the regular evening worship at 7 o’clock. Tuesday, volunteer workers will begin a personal evangelism campaign. meeting at the church at 7:45 o'clock in the evening. Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock the young people’s choir w'J: meet. The Bible hour will be at 7:30 o'clock with the men’s class in charge and O. L. Vance, as speaker. At 8:30 o’clock the same evening the chorus choir will meet. Spiritual Retreat Thursday, the woman s spiritual retreat will be held in the home of Mrs. E. N. Wicks at 7:30 o’clock. Dr. Black will talk on “training for personal evangelism’’ at 8 o'clock. Friday will be devoted to the Wesley class regular meeting with carry-in supper. The personal evan(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O LANDON SMITH RITES TODAY Body Os Former Resident To Be Buried Here This Afternoon The body of Landon D. Smith, of New York, who died last June, is being moved to Decatur for burial this afternoon. It will arrive at 3:19 o’clock and interment will be made in the Decatur cemetery. There will be no services. Mr. Smith formerly lived here. On September 2, Glen D. Smith, ■ cf Chloride, Arizona, wrote Mayor A. R. Holthouse, in an effort to locate his father. Landon D. Smith, and other relatives. The letter wits published in the Decatur Daily Democrat, telling his story of running away from home when he was 12 years old. shortly after his mother had died and his father remarried and moved to Ardmore, near Chicago. The published letter brought scores of replies and resulted in I the location of an aunt, Mrs. Murray Scherer, formerly of Decatur ' and now of Fort Wayne, and several other relatives in this area. : However, the boy learned his 1 18 years of silence had been two 1 months too long, for his father ! had died in New York. His fathi er's last words were reported to i, have beem: “If only I could have i heard from Glen.”

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Decatur, Indaina, Saturday, October 1, 1938.

Decatur Department Answers Two Calls A small roof fire at the Charles Burke home on 338 Line street did only a few dollars damage before it was extinguished by the city fire department. It is probable the fire was caused by a spark from the chimney. Fxiday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock, the fire department was called to extinguish a bonfire behind the Miller-Jones Shoe store and next to the rear annex of the Brook store. The fire was spreading dangerously near an exterior wooden stairway leading to the second floor above the Miller Jones Store. No damage was done. —o TEN MILLIONS PAID WORKERS Above Figure Paid Under Unemployment Compensation Benefit r i I Indianapolis, Oct. 1 — Ten million dollars in benefits has begn paid to workers insured under the Indiana unemployment compensation law who have been totally or partially unemployed at some time during the six months that this phase of the national social secur- ■ ity program has been operating in the state, Clarence A. Jackson, director of the Indiana unemployment compensation division announced today. i “Unemployment compensation . will be six months old in Indiana on October 1, and in this time has provided $10,000,000 of earned in- ■ coine for insured workers who beI came either partially or totally tinI Mr. Jackson said. “Benefits are now being paid at the rate of about $700,000 per week. “Indiana workers have already had six months of protection against loss of regular earnings, while those in 21 other states must wait until next January or later for their job insurance plans to become effective. The only adjoin ing state paying benefits is Michi- ' gan, which started three months later than Indiana, and still does not pay benefits for partial unem,l ployment. ■'lndiana benefit payments have I been kept on a current basis at all times, while several states are weeks and even months behind. ; This has been made possible by ; the fine cooperation we have received from both benefit applicants and employers. i “While payment of total unem- ■! ployment benefits has been the • major factor in the program, partial benefits have played an important role in maintaining out-of-work income close to the sls per ' week benefit maximum. About one ’ third of all claims tiled in the 1 state have come from persons who were employed but whose earn- ' ings had been reduced below their weekly benefit amount. Still oth- ' ers separated entirely from their normal payrolls, have had intermittent earnings which have supplemented their compensation and ' thereby prolonged the payment of ' benefits or conserved them against I (CONTINtIWD ON PAGE THREE) i — - o Ed Kaough Is Reported In Critical Condition Ed Kaough, a newphew of Miss Esther Bowers of this city, is in a critical condition at the St. Joe ; hospital in Fort Wayne as the re- ,! suit of injuries sustained Thursday ■ -vhen a carbon dioxide tank exploded at ths I. M. Kaough Co. plant, > where he is employed. The injured < | man is well known in this city, havl ing visited here numerous times.

CONFERENCE TO BE HELD HERE Zion Lutheran Church To Be Host To Pastoral Conference The Zion Lutheran congregation and its pastor, the Rev. Paul W, Schultz, will be host to the Northern-Indiana pastoral confer- ( ence of the Missouri Synod Luth-1 eran church which will begin its! sessions at the local church Tuesday morning. Over one hundred ministerial representatives are expected to be present. Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, and Concordia College, Fort ; Wayne, both Lutheran educational institutions of the conference' district, will be represented by i several officials from each school. Other institutions which will have j representatives at the conference' are Lutheran old people’s home. Kendallville; the Lutheran , Children s Friend society, the Ft. Waypc Lutheran hospital, tho F- • i Wayne iisaoclaiic-n, j the Institutional Missions Conference of Fort Wayne and vicinity. I and the Lutheran Deaconess association. Special represeniatives, who least pan time, are the Rev. will attend the conference at Walter Lichtsiun of Hammond, who is president of the central district of the Lutheran church comprising the states of Indiana.; Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia; the Rev Frank Lankenau. D. D_. Napoleon. Ohio, first vicepresident of the Missouri Lutheran synod; and Prof. Ottomar I Krueger, director of Concordia ; College, Fort Wayne. All sessions of the conference! will be held at the .local Lutheran! church, and meals will be served by the ladies of the church in the church dining hall. As a special feature for the ■ first evening of the conference' Tuesday, the local congregation has arranged a sacred vocal and . organ concert to be presented by CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) URGES VOTERS BE REGISTERED County Clerk Suggests Voters Be Sure Os Proper Registration — A suggestion that all voters in Adams county make sure they are properly registered was issued today by County Clerk G. Remy Bierly. Reasons for a necessity of a change of registration are as follows: 1. Moving since last voting. 2. Having changed name for any reason (marriage, divorce, etc.) 3. Have not voted for two consecutive years. Those who must re-register will be qualified to vote next November if the following conditions are met: 1. Lived in precinct for 30 days ! preceding the eleotion, November i 8. : 2. Lived in the township for 60 days preceding the election. Nov- ; ember 8. 3. Lived in the state six months preceding the election, November . 8. The last day to register in order to be able to vote in the November election is Monday. October 10. 1 Registrations may be made at .; the county clerk's office in DecaJ yCONTINb’ED ON PAGE TWO).

Czechs Capitulate To Polish Ultimatum To Ward Off War Threat; Germans To Sudeten

Latest War Threat Ended At Zero Hour As Czechs Agree To Cede Areas To Poland. PLAN PLEBISCITE — By Junius B. Wood (Copyright 1938 by United Press) Teschen. Polish-Czechoslovakia Border. Oct. I—(U.R)-The threat of war was lifted at the zero hour 1 today when Czechoslovakia capit- | ula ted to a Polish ultimatum. The main force of Poland’s j army of 500,000 men was massed ■ here and had expected to march ; to war at noon <5 a. tn. (’ST.) The Polish government had given ; Czechoslovakia until that hour to make a satisfactory reply to its demand for the 500 square miles of lower Silesia, seized by Czechoslovakia in 1919 while Poland was at war with Russia. A few hours before the zero hour, President Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain and King Carol of Rumonia had sent urgent telegrams to' President Mozcicki. pleading with' him to negotiate with the Czechs i peacefully. Czechoslovakia’s reply was first ' handed to Casimir Papee, Polish minister at Prague. He tele- ' phoned the news to Warsaw. The I cabinet studied it hurriedly and ! found it satisfactory. The deadline arrived and the ' army was poised tensely. A tew : minutes later the government an- ' nounced in Warsaw that the i Czechs had surrendered. The cabinet was in session at Warsaw at the moment, with . President Moscicki presiding and i the decision of peace or war in 1 the balance. As the deadline approached, the i * .-ahinet was informed that the | i Czech council of ministers had been in session at Prague since 10 a. m. (3 a. m. CST.) The Czech capitulation was (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) DEATH CLAIMS MRS. MYLOTT Mrs. Margaret Mylott Dies At Chicago; Funeral Here Mrs. Margaret Mylott, 88, former well known Decatur lady, and mother of M. J. Mylott and sister of Mrs. Kate Place, of this city, j died Friday afternoon in Chicago, of complications following a fall three weeks ago in which she fractured her leg. Mrs. Mylott had been in fairly good health until the fall. She was born May 19, 1850, in Belfast. Ireland, the daughter of John and Catherine Niblock. At the age of two she was brought to ! i this country by her parents. She married Thomas Mylott in Youngstown, Ohio. Shortly after the marriage the I couple moved to this city, where for many years, Mr. Mylott operated a flaz seed mill. Later he worked for the Erie Railroad. He died in ' 1918. Mrs. Mylott was a member i of the St. Mary’s Catholic church j ’ and of the St. Mary’s Society, of this city. For the last 15 years, Mrs. Mylott had lived with her children in Chicago, coming here frequently to visit. Surviving are two brothers, Andrew Niblock, of, Warren. Ohio, 1 and James Niblock, of Middleton, Ohio, and two sisters, Mrs. C. W. Hammond, of Huntington and Mrs. j Kate Place, of this city; and seven children: M. F. Mylott, of this i I city; Mary Mylott, of Chicago; | Mrs. H. W. Thompson, of Pasadena California; Andrew Mylott of Chicago; Mrs. Horace Snow of Chi'Cago; Mrs. Josephine Anderson, of Chicago, and Celestia M. Mylott of Chicago. There are eight grandchildren surviving. Three children are deceased. The body will be returned to I this city for burial. Funeral ser- ; vices will be held Monday morning i at 9 o’clock at the St. Mary’s Catholic church and burial will be made in the St. Joseph's cemetery. The Rev. J. J. Seimetz, pastor of the j church, will officiate. The body | ' may be viewed at the M. F. Mylott I home here all day Sunday and Monday until the time of the i | funeral.

SAFE CYCLING CARNIVAL HERE ON OCTOBER 19 Recreation Department, Elks To Co-Sponsor Safety Event George F. Laurent, supervisor of Decatur’s recreation program, this morning announced plans for a bicycle safety carnival, to be held on the streets of Decatur Wednesday evening, October 19. The carnival will be co-sponsor-ed by the Decatur lodge of the B. P. O. Elks and the WPA recreation department. The Decatur safety council. Walter Gard, chairman, will cooperate in the event, as will city and county police authorities. Similar carnivals have been conducted throughout the state and nation and have proven of tgreat benefit irf impressing safety measures on young bicyclists. The general committee in charge of the carnival, as appointed by Burt Gage, exalted ruler of ' the Elks, is composed of T. J. Metzler. John L. DeVoss. Richard C. Ehinger. Hany Fritzinger and loseph Krick. The committee selected Mr. Metzler as general chairman. Plan Contests Through cooperation of the public and parochial schools, essay and poster contests will be conducted by the English departments of the schools prior to the carnival. The essay contest will be divided into three divisions, chil- , dren. 10-12 years of age: juniors. ■ 13-15; seniors. 16 and over. The poster contest will be conducted by the art departments of the schools and will be open to all boys and gills in school. Prizes will be awarded by the Ekls lodge in both of these contests. One of the features of the October 19 carnival will be a huge parade of all bicycle riders, tricycle riders and floats. Prizes to be awarded by the Elks include: Most attractive float; funniest rider and bicycle: most -attractive tricycle float; floats of damaged bicycles; safety signs on rules of safe bicycling. Following the parade, a series of bicycle events and races will be staged. Detailed plans for the carnival will be announced within a lev days. Geneva Woman Badly Injured In Accident Portland, Ind., Oct. 1. — (U.R) — Mrs. Mary Waltz. Geneva, and Roy Clines, Pennville, are in serious j condition in the hospital here to- | day as the result of a head-on crash betweeh their cars last night. Mrs. Waltz, the more critically injured of the two, suffered compound fracture of the right arm. [ skull fracture, and serious internal injuries. Both automobiles were demolished. Pleads Not Guilty To Trespass Charge Henry Wilson, of Ossian, charged with malicious trespass, was arraigned in the Adams circuit court today 'before Judge Huber M. Dejvoss and plead not guilty. Bond ; was set at SIOO and he was remand|ed back to jail. He was arrested i Wednesday evening at the Bluffton Street Fair by Sheriff Dallas Brown. Wilson, with Everett Frauhiger 'and Ralph Gilliom. also free on SIOO bonds, is charged with breaking into the Elmer Beer home several weeks ago and causing some property damage. Adolf Hitler To Give Amnesty To Prisoners Berlin. Oct. I.— <U.R> - Fuehrer Adolf Hitler will grant amnesty to numerous prisoners in concentration camps, including the Rev. Martin Niemoeller, leader of the Evangelical church movement, it | was understood today. j The amnesty, it was said would be granted as a sign of Hitler's | satisfaction over the Sudeten setI tlemeut.

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German Army Marches To Sudetenland Exactly At Zero Hour Earlier Announced. ■ .1 ■ IN AGREEMENT By Webb Miller, (Copyright 1938 by UP.) With the German Army in the Field, Oct. I.—«J.R>—The German army entered Czechoslovak Sudetenland at the zero hour of 2 p. m. today" (7 a. m. CST). The army of occupation crossed the frontier exactly at the zero hour between Helfenberg and Finsterau. Col.-Gen. Wilhelm Joseph Franz Ritter von Leeb was in command. The German war machine has triumphed without the firing of a shot but it had been prepared for action. Efficiency such as astounded the world when the imperial army went into action in 1914 marked the preparations for this march. Since dawn the troops had been poised ready for the order to advance. They moved up during the night, under cover of darkness. Four hours before the zero hour came the order to grand headquarters that the advance into zone No. 1 of the occupation was to start at 2 p. m. The general staff planned to occupy only a part of area No. 1 today — perhaps as little as onethird. There was no hury now. The Czechs, bitter as must have been their resentment, were graceful in defeat. An informal agreement was reached between the German and Czech commands that a no-man's land of 1,500 metres about 1 mile) should be established between the advance line of the German troops ■ and the retiring Czechs. The German general staff had organized the march to the frontier, in readiness for the zero hour signal, with most careful attention to detail. Throughout the night, from headquarters at Linz. Regensburg. Passau, and other cities in the zone of operations, general staff officers had directed the advance It was a cold and dismal morning. rainy and foggy. Along the roads that wound upward through the Bavarian forest to the mountain frontier, a steady column of transport, mostly requisitioned private cars, pressed forward, drivers cursing. Along the roads in the advance j zone stood grinning, joking German soldiers with flowers stuck in their steel helmets and their belts. Across the frontier they could see dimly the nazi swastika flags which jubilant Sudeten Germans had raised as soon as the Zzechs ' got out. Friendship Pact 'Berlin. Oct. I—(UP) —A GermanFrench friendship agreement and negotiations for a general limitation of armaments are expected to (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) 'ENROLLMENT IN RURAL SCHOOLS Grade School Enrollment Lower, High School , Increased t Enrollment in the rural public J grade schools decreased this year, I while the enrollment in the rural public high schools increased, figures compiled by County Superintendent of Schools Clifton E. 1 , Striker, revealed today. ’ I The total rural grade school enI rollment this vear is 1,909, as r compared to 1,941 last year. The 1 rural high school enrollment in- - creased from 649 to 655. Mr. • Striker’s figures show there are J 265 enrolled in rural parochial schools in the county. The rural grade school enrollment this year is: Union, 73; , Root, 130; Preble, 66; Kirkland. ’ 147; Washington. 96; St. Mary's. 171; Blue Creek. 137: Monroe, r 344; French. 146; Hartford, 142; 1 Wabash, 361; Jefferson, 96, and ’ total, 1.909. The rural high school enroll- ? rnent is: Root. 78; Kirkland. 100; • St. Mary's. 77; Monroe. 132; Hartford, 88; Wabash. 129: Jeffer--1 son, 51, and total, 655. s The total parochial enrollment • is: Union, 43; Root, 22; Preble, 200, and total, 265.