Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1938 — Page 1

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Beat Britain’s ■ prune Minister I Defends Policy

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Heads Conference jjjjgte .jjjgyyr I Rev. Paul L. Dannenfeldt, pastor of Zion Lutheran church. Fort , i Wayne, is chairman of the north I ern Indiana pastoral conference. ' which will open at the Zion Luth- | eran church in this city Tuesday ' morning. COLT SHOW AT BERNE OCT. 8 Annual Suckling Colt Show To Be Held At Berne Saturday — The annual Berne suckling colt show will be held at Berne Satur--1 day. « The following classes have been arranged for the show. Purebred i studs foaled January 1 to May 15. t purwbvmt mares f.mieu January I 1 to May 15. Grade studs foaled Jan- ' uary 1 to May 15. Grade mares ' foaled January 1 to May 15. purebred studs foaled after May 15. purebred mares foaled after May 15. and the get-of-sire class. The colt owners will receive $1 per head for each and every colt shown regardless of placings. The placings will be designated by ribbons to the fifth place. Members of the Indiana Livestock Breeders Association, that is, colt owners who have weighed up colts in the Gold Medal colt project, have already paid fifty I cents as a membership fee, will * not be required to pay an entry fee for showing their colts. Nonmembers will be asked to pay fifty cents regardless of number of colts shown. The following people have enrolled 140 colts in the Gold Medal ! project this year: Tillman Aolder. ’ Nets Alspaugh, Earnest Anderson. Zack Archbold, Henry Aschleman. Daniel Augsburger, Noah Augsburger. Palmer M. Augsburger. Chas. Bailey, Marion Baker. Wilbert Baker, Roy Balsinger. Ivan V. Barkley. Silvan Bauman, Cloice Beam. Arthur Beeler, W. A. Biery, Fred Bilderback, Ben Bixler, Ed. Bollenbacher, L. A. Braun, Adolph i(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O AUTO ACCIDENT INJURY FATAL Mrs. Mary Waltz Os Near Geneva Dies At Portland Hospital Mrs. Mary Waltz, 60, of near Geneva, died Saturday at the Jay county hospital in Portland of ini juries received Friday in an auto I accident near Pennville. The car driven by Mrs. Waltz and another auto driven by Roy L. Glines of Fiat collided head-on on state road 1 near that town. Mrs. Waltz died in the hospital several hours later. She suffered a fractured skull, a fractured right arm and internal injuries. Glines sustained a possible skull fracture, a right arm I fracture, three broken ribs and chest injuries. Mrs. Waltz is survived by an adopted son, Kenneth of Miami. Florida and a step-brother, Fred i Drury of Lima, Ohio. Funeral services will be held at | the Zion Lutheran church at Portland Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, with Rev. H. T. Neve officiating. Burial will be at Vincennes Wednesday,

idams coum MAN KILLED Bf TRAIN SDNDAV Clarence Miller, Leonard Schnepp Killed Near Van Wert — Two men, one a life-long resi-1 dent of Adams county and the other well known here, were instantly Killed Sunday afternoon when the car In which they were tiding was struck by a fast Pennsylvania passenger train near Van Wert. Ohio. The dead: Clarence Miller, 52. well known Adams county farmer, living on federal road 224, one mile west of the Indiana-Ohio i state Hite. Leonard Schnepp, (13, of Union township. Van Wert county, a relative of several local people' and also well known here. The terrific force of the collision mutilated the bodies of both I men beyond recognition. The i bodies were carried and hurled ! i 300 feet from the point of collisI ton. The auto, which was totally I j wrecked, was partly carried on I I the front of the engine for a (list-1 . ance Os one-half mile and consid I ; erable difficulty was experienced in removing the debris. Sheriff R. B. Stevens, of Van Wert county. Ohio, who investigated, stated that Miller, the driv--1 er. had apparently driven onto 1 the tracks directly into the path of the oncoming train. The men were enroute to a 1 : baseball game at Van Wert when ' the tragedy occurred. The body of Miller was first taken to the iAte chapel in Van Wert and later I i returned to the Zwick & Son : tuneral home in this city. The i body of Schnepp was taken to the Gamble & Alspacrf chapel in Van Wert. Funerals Tuesday Funeral services for both men will be held Tuesday Services for Miller will be held Tuesday . (CONTINUED on PAGE FIVE) TO DEDICATE ‘ CAMP SUNDAY Camp Quinn To Be Formally Dedicated Sunday Afternoon Final plans are being completed today and will be announced soon for the dedication of Camp Quinn, the area in the Hanna-Nuttman city park, used by the Boy Scouts, next Sunday afternoon. Carl C. Pumphrey is chairman of the committee, which is working with service clubs and other groups interested in the camp, . which is to be named in honor of French Quinn, local attorney and nature lover, who was largely re- . sponsible for the establishment of ; the park, as the gift of Oliver .Han-j na, of Fort Wayne, son-in-law of J. D. Nuttman. pioneer Decatur citizen. Three cabins are now located in the camp area and are occupied by the Lions, Rotary and American legion Boy Scout troops. The cabins have been remodeled and presented to the troops for headquarters and meeting places 1 for overnight and week end hikes. During the last two years, the camp has enjoyed a good reputai tiou in Anthony Wayne Area Boy ' Scout circles. In 1937 it was the scene of the area Camporee, attended by 400 Boy Scouts and officials ! from Northeastern Indiana. This year, the first annual Adams county Camporee Was held by the five troops in the county. At the program Sunday afternoon, all Scout organizations, service clubs and social organizations are expected to be represented. Christian Church Conference Here A conference of the C'nristian churches of Wells and Adams counties will be held at the Decatur ; Christian church Thursday. The meeting will continue all day and evening. An interesting program has been planned with Dr. Kershner of Butler University. Mr. Hen sey, a missionary of Africa, and Rev. W. C. Aschanhbrt as the prln-i icipal speakers. Dinner will be served in the church basement to all visitors. A good representation of each church is desired and all interested in Christian work are welcome. Rev. Kenneth Timmons, pastor of the local church, will have charge of I the program and conduct the devo-| | tional meeting. __ _

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 3, 1938.

Present Concert Tuesday ■■ Hr ■ JeR J ’ JSStejE Miss Helen Limbert Clare L. Edwards Miss Helen Limbert. soprano, and Clare L. Edwards, organist, I both of Fort Wayne, will present a sacred concert at the Zion Lutheran church Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock as a special feature of the pastoral conference. The public is invited to attend this concert.

COUNTY BOARD OPENS MEETING Commissioners Meet ; Name Attorneys To Defend Action The Adams county commissioners opened their regular monthly meeting today. The morning was devoted to the allowing of claims , against the county for the month of September. This afternoon the commissioners employed Nathan C. Nelson of I this city and W. H. Eichorn. of Bluffton, to represent them Tues- ■ day, when they are to appear before Special Judge Henry F. Kister, of Fortland, as defendants to a petition seeking the signing of bonds in the Wabash dredge case Because of discrepancies, which the commissioners reported they found in the amounts of bonds and the amounts needed, the commissioners recently adopted an ord- ! inance repealing a former ordi- ■ tjtjj’ce. which had called for file issuance of the bonds. The commissioner, County Auditor John W. Tyndall and County ! Treasurer Jeff Liechty. were then named defendants in a petition seeking to compel the commissioners to issue the bonds. They were ordered to appear in court Tuesday. Thieme Funeral Rites Held This Afternoon Funeral services were to be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock for a ' still-born boy, born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Max Thieme, of I Union township. Surviving, besides the parents, are the following sisters and brothers: Lester, Hilbert, Thekla. Edmund, Reuben and Gretchen; tTie grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Thieme of Decatur and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Boenker of Hoagland. Services were held at the Im anuel Lutheran church in Union township with the Rev. M. J. Frosch officiating. Burial was in , the church cemetery. EIGHT FIXTURES DEING PLACED Installation Os Light Fixtures At New School Is Started Installation of lighting fixtures in the new junior-senior hign school lias been started giving further evi- 1 dence that the building ie rapidly ■ nearing completion. This and other examples of the progress made throughout the building corroborate the assertion of construction leaders that the 'building will be completed some time this month and ready for occupancy shortly after construction completion date. The fixtures, which have been ' installed mainly on the top floor, are of the latest indirect modernistic type and lend added beauty; to the interior of the structure. Huge decorated wooden doors have been set up at all entrances and the bulding is now kept locked after working hours. In the gymnasium-auditorium, I workmen are engaged in trimming the stage with wooden decorations. Work in the gym has been practically completed with Ihe exception of sanding and finishing the hardwood floors and other painting. Modernistic ventilators, a part of the ventilating system, are also | being installed in each of ine class ( rooms and offices.

Catholic Mission To Open On October 16 The first week of the Catholic mission will open, Sunday. The second week beginning October 23, will be for the young people of the parish. Rev. Father Joseph J. Seimetz, pastor, announced today that Rev. Cyril Ernst. C. PP. S., and Rev. Alfred Meyer, C. PP. S„ missionaries, would conduct the services. The solemn opening of 'he mission will take place at the 9:451 o’clock high mass on Sunday, Octo- j her 16. Masses will be held on week I days every morning at 6 and 7:30 p. m. FARM MEETINGS PLANNED FRIDAY Two Outstanding Farm Meetings Planned In County On October 14 two outstanding i agronomy meetings will he held in Adams county. At 9 o’clock in the morning of the above date, Keller Beeson of the Purdue soils and crops' department will assist Coun- , ty Agent Archbold in holding a ' meeting at the John Steffen farm in south Kirkland township. There a soy bean variety plot will be inspected. a corn variety plot where hybrid corn will be compared to open pollinated corn. This corn will be husked the ! day previous to the meeting and | yields calculated. Those present will be able to compare the yields ■ of the various hybrids, of the open pollinated, and to compare habits of growth. The Steffens have also put out a fertilizer demonstration. This corn will he husked and weighed and comparison of yields and quality of corn can be made. In the afternoon, a soy bean and sugar beet field day meeting will he held on the Krick-Tyndall farm on the south edge of Decatur. For the past four years the Purdue University experiment station, in cooperation with the Central Sugar and the Central Soya Companies, have been conducting fertilizer test plots on sugar beets and I inspection of these plots will be made, together with the results of the past four years in differences in yields, depending upon the kinds and amount of fertilizer used. Soy bean varieties have been planted side by side and a discussion on the different varieties and their management will be made at these plots. o Mrs. Fred Fuelling Is Given Award Mrs. Fred E. Fuelling, of Decatur route three, was awarded an inner spring mattress Saturday night at the Schafsr store. The store was filled at the time. Arrangements were under the town marshal. He was assisted by direction of David Dubach, Berne Robert McAlhaney. of Decatur,. Another award is planned for the future. —o Mylott Rites Are Held This Morning Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Mylott. mother of Martin J. Mylott of this city,, were held at nine o’clock this morning from St. Mary's Catholic church. The requiem high mass was read by Rev. Father Joseph Seir.ietz, pastor. Burial was made in St. Joseph’s Catholic cemetery. Mrs. Mylott died Friday evening at her home in Chicago and the body was brought to the home of the son here Sunday afternoon. She, , was 89 years old. |

KRICK-TYNDALL FUND CANVASS OPENED TODAY First Committees To Report Say Enthusiasm Is Shown — At noon today, SBOO had been ! paid or pledged in the “Invest in ! Decatur" campaign, being sponsored by civic leaders and the Deca- ! tur Chamber of Commerce to raise the community’s share of the proposed reconstruction fund ! for the Krick & Tyndall Tile Mill, ■ destroyed by fire April 6. This leaves a balance of $6,700 . of the SIO,OOO which the commun- ! | ity is raising. Herman Confer, assistant finan-1 rial secretary for the drive, was , very optimistic this morning over : i the prospects of an early and sue- ; ! cessful completion of the cam-' , paign. The first two teams to reI port to him at his desk in the First State Bank, stated they had been i received very well and that the sentiment of she people was neari ly unanimous hi favor of the project. They had seen about half of | the persons on their lists. He will keep his office open in the bank throughout the drive for the receiving of volunteer contributions from those not on the list to he seen by the teams. Doubles Payment It was reported Today from an- ■ other team which has not yet filed its record, that the first concern it contacted doubled its suggested payment. The teams, which are in the, field are: team one: Roy Kai ver ; and A. R. Ashbaucher: team two. Charles Ehinger and Harold Niblick: team three. Paul Kuhn and i Herman Krueckeberg: team four. I Felix Maier and Walter Bockman (this team reported this morning); I i team five, Clarence Beavers and | Roy Price. Team six. R. A. Stuckey and | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O Sudduth Infant To Be Buried Tuesday Funeral services for Har v ey David Sudduth, still-born baly born Sunday afternoon to Harvey and Marcella Gilbert-Sudduth, will be i held Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock :at the home .of South Twelfth | street. Burial will be made in the i Decatur cemetery. Surviving besides the parents are ‘the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Gilbert. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sudduth, all of Decatur. A brother land sister are deceased. The body will be taken home this evening from the S. E. Black funeral home, o Father, Son Communion Next Sunday Morning The annual father and son Communion Sunday will be observed at St. Mary’s Catholic church, Sunday, October 9. The fathers and sons will meet at the schoo 1 house and march in a body to the church to attend the 7 o’clock mass and I receive Holy Communion. o TATTLER STAFF ' IS ANNOUNCED Catholic High School Yearbook Staff Is Announced — The staff of “The Tattler,” annual yearbook publication of the Decatur Catholic high scaool was announced today. Miss Bernadine Faurote, school senior, has been named editor-in-chief of the 1938-39 edition of the Tattler, and Miss Laurine Lengerich is to be her assistant. Ambrose Geimer will act as business manager, with Richard Teeple as his assistant. Miss Alta Klepper is the photography editor with Majorie Kintz and Marie Mayers as school notes editors. Arthur Baker, Robert Hess and Robert Bollinger will edit the sports sections of the yearbook. Mary Spangler, Frances Brite and Ambrose Geimer are the copy editors. Other members of the staff are: Carl Schultz, circulation manager and Carl Braun, assistant, Vera Braun. Kathleen Heimartn. mem|bers of the circulation committee; Leo Alberdlng. advertising manager and Bette Young, assistant; Robert Ulman. Joan Parent and Betty 'Schulte, members of the advertising committee. _ |

Triumphal Entry Into Sudeten Is Made By Germans

PASTORS MEET IN THIS CITY — Lutheran Pastoral Conference To Open Tuesday Morning The Northern Indiana pastoral conference of the Missouri Synod ■ Lutheran church, convening for [ three days this week at the local I Zion Lutheran church, will begin I its sessions Tuesday morning. The I Rev. Paul W. Schultz, pastor of ' the home church, will open the I conference with a devotional seri vice at 10:00 o’clock. Over a hundred pastors, representing Lutheran churches in the area of northern Indiana and parts of western Ohio, are expected to attend the conclave. Among those registered are also representatives »professors from Concordia Coll‘ege, Ft. Wayne, and from Valparaiso University. Valparaiso, both Lutheran education institutions. Chairman and secretary respectively of the conference are the Rev. Paul L. Dannenfeldt. pastor of Zion Lutheran church. Ft. Wayne, and the Rev. Julius Acker of the St. John s Lutheran church, Sherwood, Ohio. Extensive preparations have been made by the local parish members to make the stay of the ' representative pastors a pleasant ■ one. A vocal and organ concert of i quality has been arranged for tol morrow evening to lie presented I by Miss Helen Limbert, soprano I soloist, and Clare L. Edwards, org- ' anist. The complete conference proi gram for the various sessions will he found on page 3. O OBSERVANCE AT CHURCH OPENED Decatur M. E. Church Opens Observance Os Centennial ! A crowd which filled the church I to capacity, attended the opening program, Sunday morning, of tile month’s centennial observance at the Decatur M. E. church. The pastor, the Rev. Ralph Walod Graham, spoke at both the morning and the evening services.. The morning service was in the form of a rally day. I Sunday evening the Epworth I league had charge of a program in which its naw officers were installed. These are: Gladys Miller. president; Jean Zimmerman, president of the first departmem; Peggy Gaunt, president of ‘he I second department; Annis XL)' Merriman, president of the thn:l department; Robert Bumgardner. i president of Hie fourth department ; Martha Ellen Hower, secletary; Wendell Smith, treasurer; , Jack Graham, pianist, and Kay j Yager, assistant pianist. The pastor spoke on the duties 1 of the various departments and then Installed the new officers, i Tuesday night Dr. Guy H. Black J of Kokomo, is to address the conterence of volunteer evangelis. workers on personal evangelism. Dr. Black devotes all of his time I in the Northwest M. E. confer-1 i ence to this method of evangelism ■ ! and is considered one of the oesi | workers in the country Next Sunday morning, the Rev. Charles Tinkhatn, a former pas tor, is to be the speaker. (r— “ David 1). Habegger Is Named Guardian David D. Habegger, of Blue Creek township, was named guar-1 dian today of the seven orphan j children o$ the late Mr. and Mrs. I Edward Neadstine of Blue Creek I township. Mr. Neadstine shot and killed' his wife and then committed suicide Wednesday morning. Funeral services for the couple were held Saturday. The children, all of whom are minors are: Arthur, 20; Eldon, 19; Gene, 16; Phylis, 13; Cnarlene, nine; Bonita, seven and Jerry, four. Bond in the sum of $3,000 was filed by Mr. Habegger and was. approved. D. Burdette Custer ! represented the guardianship. Per-. sonal property of the heirs was' listed at $1,500. No real estate was I I owned by them. |

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Adolph Hitler, In Speech At Eger, Pledges Nazis To Defend Territory As Their Own. — TROOPS ADVANCE Eger, German Sudetenland, Oct. 3 (U.R) ---Adolf Hitler made hin triumphal entry into Sudetenland today and. in a speech to the people of Eger, its unofficial capital, pledged that it should "never again be torn from the Reich.” it was the Nazi Fuehrer's second such triumph in less than seven months. Only last March he had entered Vienna to claim Austria for his third Reich. Addressing the people of Eger in the iniyketplace today, hin words were frequently drowned ty the wildly cheering throng. He spoke with emotion. As he welcomed Sudetenland to the Reich, the cheers were interspersed with roars of: “We thank our Fuehrer!” Hitler had gone to Hos, across, the border in Bavaria, to state his triumphal entry. Troops, occupying this zone No. 3 of the territory to be taken over by tho army under the Munich four power agreement by which Hitler obtained Czechoslovakia’s German minority area, preceded him. Awaiting him here also was his own bodyguard, led by Sepp Dietrich, one of his closest associates since th p early days of the Nazi movement. They were the first Nazis to participate in the occupation, hitherto a strictly army affair. Hitler went first, by motorcar from Hos, to Asch, home of Konrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten party and new reich commissioner of Sudetenland. There, with Henlein as a member of his party, he reviewed parr of the i occupation force. A steady drizzle hampered the I troops but did not diminish the I enthusiasm of the welcomers. Hitler spoke bnt briefly. "I greet not only you but, with ; you. the whole Sudeten country, which in a few days will completely belong to Germany,” he said. “This greeting is at the same time a vow that this region will never again be torn from the Reich. “We must all stand together and never forsake each other. Germany is happy over these days. It is not only you who j are overjoyed The whole nation shares you>' joy. Your happiness is that of 75.000.000 people, just as your sorrow a few days ago was that of us all. “In this hour I want to thank the Almighty for having blessed .is in the past and to pray that He may also bless us in the future. “Over this greater German Reich is laid a German shield protecting it, and a sword defending it. "Germany! Sieg heif!” Thus Hitler symbolically accepting sovereignty over the (CONTINUED on RAGE FIVE) GIVE CONCERT TUESDAY NIGHT Sacred Concert To Be Presented At Zion Lutheran Church A sacred vocal and organ’concert will be presented at the Zion Lutheran church Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock by Miss Helen Lint- ' bert, soprano soloist, and Clare L. Edwards, organist, of Ft. Wayne. | and vocal compositions from MenThe program will feature organ 'and vocal compositions from Menj delssohn, Bach. Handel. Harker and other masters. Miss Limbert j and Mr. Edwards are known to possess-rare musical talent, and ; their appearance here is anticipated to be a real treat to all lovers of music who will come to hear this concert. All those attending this musical presentation are also invited to gather in the basement auditorium after the concert where refreshments will be served at a ' small charge and where the soloj ist and the organist will give several groups of secular selections I for entertainment. | The public is invited to attend,