Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1938 — Page 1

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IllW® ON PAGE THREE) Illi JURY TO lEET THURSDAY lams Coun|ty Grand jury Ordered To Meet This Week Huber M. DeVoss has or-; F County Clerk G. Remy Bierly fcue his venire for the SeptemIterm of the grand jury to meet, fcber 6. lumbers of the grand jury are: f SI Ehlerding, Preble township; f US Stahly, Hartford township; F Heller, French township; Allßeer, French township; Florf Smitley, Jefferson townMnd Albert Harlow, Hartford pip. I >s not known whether Prosep Attorney Arthur E. VogleP wtll present any criminal mat- ! Krand jury for investip The grand jury has the aufl!J to collect its own informaA without the recommendation Prosecuting attorney, it it ires. | ;J**’ 11 is required that the Jury meet at least once a • hot having met in either the ' ruar y or April terms of the /’ ft is necessary that it meet r during the present Septeme >ni or the November term. „’ of the annual duties of the Jury is the inspection of the y all an d the county ——-o—r EMPERATURE READINGS em °crat THERMOMETER 1:00 a - m. co oon ■?» p. m. ■ - J! ■ 3:ef) P-n' ZZ I Part. WEATH ER ■W ed y Cloudy tonight and Kin. d ? : 80rnewh at warm- ■ > oni a ht"'“ and sou th portions |J’ ht ’ ’’•’’ewh.t cooler in ■"tsday‘ na WMt P orti °hs Wed-

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Guest Speaker Rev. L. W. Stolte, Dayton, Ohio. . will speak at morning and even ! ing services during the annual I 1 mission festival at the Zion Ite--1 formed church here Sunday Rev Stolte was pastor of the local ’ church from 1915 to 1920. ASK STATE TO REPAIR ROADS I — i Commissioners Report Damage Caused To Highway 27 Detour The Adams county commissioners have notified the state high way department of the condition , of the detour around U. S. highway : 27 between Decatur and Monroe ' and asked that it be repaired. I The state law provides the state ‘highway department must repair ; damages done to county roads by : their use as detours. Through traffic is generally much heavier and faster than ordinary county traffic and considerable damage is usually done. The commissioners were inform-I ed by Roy Biberstine superintend- | ei/t of the Fort Wayne district of i i the state highway department. 1 that engineers would be sent to ,i the county to inspect the damage and determine what improvements will be made to the detour. Lack of Funds A petition that a road near Linn I Grove connecting with the Bluff- ' ton road be dust-proofed was tabl- . ed for the present by the coinmis- ' sioners due to a lack of funds. Walter Gilliom. highway engini eer, reported that black top itni provement being made on the XX inChester or back river road to Fort I Wayne, is nearly complete. The road is being black topped ! about half the way to the Allen county line, a distance of about five miles north of Decatur. The county is furnishing the material and the WPA, the labor. Due to a probable shortage in WPA material funds for the county next year, it is not'known whether the road will be completed in 1939. No ap- | propriation was made by the coun- | ty for material for the WPA in I 1939. Appropriation Asked The commissioners have not yet been informed as to whether the special $25,000 appropriation made by the county to buy right of ways will be approved by the state tax board. The right of ways for the road between the termination of the Bluffton road at the XVells coun t.y line and Geneva have been purchased. Construction on this ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ■ o LOCAL LEAGUE WILL BE HOST Epworth League To Entertain District Meet November 15 The members of the Epworth League of the First Methodist church of this city will ba hosts to an Epworth league rally here Tuesday night. November 15, it has been announced by Dr. Fremont E. Fribley, district M. E. superintendent. Representatives from M. E. churches in Adams and Wells counties and group B. Fort Wayne will be in attendance at the local rally. The program will start with a ' dinner and will 'be featured by prominent speakers. ; The deans of the mid-year Epiworth Forest institute will also award certificates to the leaguers, who have completed the training • course. A similar rally will be held Nov- ' em’ber 8 at the Garrett M. E. church I for the churches in the north-end of I the district. |

REPORT TRACE IS FOUND OF THREE FLIERS Rescuers Seek To Reach Three Russian Women Aviators Moscow. Oct. 4—<U.P> —Rescue narties sent out by air. land and water today to search for Rus-1 sia’s three ace women aviators,' believed to have been located In* bleak fur eastern Siberia after being missing for nine days on a ■ Moscow Far East flight. Fifty airplanes and thousands; lof people in land parties had | sought them over an area of | | about 500,000 square miles since I they disappeared Sept 25 some-: . where east of latke Baidal. One of the aviators yesterday j . saw a two motored plane, with j two persons near it signaling! with a white cloth, far up in : ! coastal Siberia, southwest of Lake Amutkit and about 75 miles northwest of Komsomolsk. Authorities at once organized parachute parties, horseback par-1 ties, reindeer parties and motorboat parties to make for the spot in the confident belief that thev would find two. and possibly all three of the women alive. Valentina Grizodubova, a mem-[ her of the supreme soviet or parliament: Capt. Polina Ossipenko and Senior Lieut. Marina Raskova, the three foremost women pilots of the soviet union, took off, from .Moscow Sept. 24 on a nonstop flight to the far eastern coast [ in the two motored plane, Rodina. Some of the highest officials in (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o CONFERENCE IS OPENED TODAY Lutheran Pastoral Conference Is Opened This Morning The Northern Indiana Pastoral I conference, convening at the Zion ! Lutheran church, began its session ' this morning with a devotional service conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Paul XV. Schultz. Nearly one hundred ministers j from Lutheran parishes in northern Indiana and western Ohio had registered when sessions began this morning. The conference will be in session until Thursday. The Rev. Paul L. Dannenfeld of Fort Wayne, chairman, will have charge of the meetings each day. The secretary of the conference is the Rev. Julius Acker, pastor of the St. John's Lutheran church, Sherwood. Ohio. Tonight a sacred vocal and organ concert will be given at the 'church, beginning at 7:30 o'clock, to which the conference brethren, members and friends of the local congregation, and the public is cordially invited. The concert will be presented by Miss Helen Limbert and Clare Edwards of Fort Wayne, who are highly admired by many for their musical abilities. Wednesday evening a special divine service will be held at the local church with the celebration i of holy communion. A confessional service proceeding will begin at 7:00 o'clock, with the Rev. Martin Frosch, pastor of Immanuel Luth- ' eran church, Decatur, presenting the special address. The main set -, vice will begin at 7:30 o'clock. Speaker for this service will be! i (he Rev. Karl Henrichs of Valpar-; I aiso University, Valparaiso, Ind-, iana. The altar services will be: j conducted by Rev. Paul Schultz. I This service will be open to the I public. —o — British Steamships Bombed By Planes Barcelona, Oct. 4 —(UP) Two British steamships, Thorpebay and Gothic, were damaged today when Nationalist airplanes twice bombed the Port Zone. The planes were met with heavy antiaircraft gun fire and it was believed that one was hurt. —tx °. - i Sons Os Legion Meet Wednesday — A special meeting of the Sons of (he American Legion will be held Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the local Legion home. The sponsors of the Sons of Legion are especially urged to attend. Members and Sons of Legion urged to be present.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 1, 1938.

Attend Pastoral Conference —- - 1 " 1 ■—— — • Mr * R te i k i Rev. Julius Acker Rev. Karl Henricha Rev. Julius Acker of Sherwood. Ohio, is secretary of the northern . ' Indiana pastoral conference, which opened a three-day session at the Zion Lutheran church in this city this morning. Rev Karl Henrichs! lot Valparaiso university will be the principal speaker at the Wednes-1 . day night meeting.

CLUB OPENING HELD MONDAY Decatur Woman’s Club Holds Formal Opening Monday Night One hundred and ninety-three members of the Decatur Woman's Club attended the formal opening 'at the Zion Reformed church Monday evening and witnessed I Miss Jeanne XX’elty's inimitable presentation of "Catharine, the Magnificent Medici." Miss Welty's entertainment was one of the most outstanding and interesting ever to be offered an audience ; here and her appropriate and beautiful costumes added much to the attractiveness of the monodrama. Miss XVelty first appeared as a girl of 14 in a simple black convent dross with a virginal white collar In the second scene, fourteen years later, her costume a gorgeous royal blue satin and , In the final scene her queen's ' gown of black velvet with a wide white ruche carried all the dignity and impressiveness befitting royalty. All costumes were authentically designed. Preceding the program, a dinner was served to the club memi bers, at the close of which Miss Eloise Lewton. president of the club for 1938 and 1939, made a splendid talk to the members on the club's theme for the year “Be Maintainers of Good Works.” Mjss Lewton stressed the scripI ture “In all things showing thy(CONTINUED on PAGE FIVE) Rev. Seimetz To Attend Eucharistic Congress Rev. Father Joseph J. Semietz, I pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic church will leave October 13 for Neyv Orleans, La., to attend the annual Eucharistic Congress. Father Seimetz and Rev. John Bapst of Fort Wayne and probably one other Fort Wayne priest will motor to NewOrleans. The Eucharistic congress opens Sunday, October 16. Father Seimetz plans to be gone about a week. CHURCH PLANS FOR FESTIVAL Annual Mission Festival Services At Zion Reformed Church Annual mission festival services, i to be held next Sunday at the Zion Reformed church, were announced today by the pastor, Rev. Charles M. Prugh. This is an annual event, and a large crowd is anticipated, both from Decatur and from Reformed churches in the surrounding territory. The guest speaker for the day will be Rev. L. XV. Stolte, D. D. pastor of the Second Reformed Church, Dayton, Ohio. Rev. Stolte ! was pastor of the local church I from 1915 to 1920. He will speak at the morning service, beginning at 10 o'clock, and at the evening service, at 7:30 P. M. Music will i be furnished by the vested choirs [of the church for these services. The afternoon service, beginning i at 2:30 (/clock will consist of numerous musical features contributed by the various churches, and an address by Rev. O. L. Flesher, pastor of the Antioch M. B. C. church. All offerings of the day will be designated for the missionary and benevolent work of the denomination.

Yom Kipper Will Be Observed Wednesday ' The least of Yom Kipper, known as the day of Atonement, principal feast observed by those of the Jewish faith, will be .cele- ( brated Wednesday. Special services will bo held at Achduth Vesholom Temple. Fort Wayne, and Decatur people will attend. Those who are planning . i to observe the feast are, Mr. and , Mrs. Felix Maier. Mr. and Mrs. I. • A. Kalver. Mr. and Mrs. Roy J Kalver, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Brooks. The services begin at 10 o’clock , in Mie morning and continue . throughout the day. A strict fast . is observed by the faithful. I o _ TREESURGERY > PROJECT HERE Trees Os City To Be Treated Under WPA i Project 8 ’ i A tree surgery project, employr ing at least 10 WPA men and a non-relief supervisor will be opened in the city on October 19, Ralph Roop, civil works commissioner, informed Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse f ! today. , The mayor made application toj , the WPA for the tree program last ! January and approval was obtained , several months ago. Wqrk could • not be started 'hen, due to sap - j running in the trees and on advice -1 of tree surgeons the project was held up until fall. Deni Baltzell. well known farmer j living in St. Mary's township and j former employee of the Davey Tree ’ I Surgery company, Kent, Ohio, has been employed by the XVPA to sup- ’ ervise the work. 1 The trees will be trimmed and ' treated where necessary free of charge to property owners. City trucks will be employed to haul C away the leaves and branches. The proposal as approved by ' WPA shows that the XVPA will con- • tribute $7,210 in labor, while the ' city’s share is estimated at $1,960, 1 a total of $9,170, over a six months period. Mr. Roop will take up the mat- ( ter of trimming the trees along the state roads in the city with the state highway department and perfect an arranement with the state to permit the work along the routes. ' It is planned to continue the tree curgery project again next year. I 7 0 7 — Clarence Miller Rites Are Held This Morning Funeral services for Clarence i Miller of Adams county, who was I Killed Sunday afternoon when the t auto which he was driving was , struck by a passenger train near . Van Wert, Ohio were held this - morning at the Calvary chu: a - and burial made in the Decatur cemetery. - The funeral procession, which passed through the city enroute I to the local cemetery, was dti scribed as one of the largest in i recent times. Services for LeonL ard Schnepp of Van Wert county. - Ohio, who was killed in the same ! crash, were held this afternoon. I Burial was also made in the Dei eatur cemetery. Elks Lodge Will Meet Wednesday i The regular semi-monthly raeet- . ing iff the Decatur lodge of the • ! B. P. O. Elks will be held at the I home on North Second street Wed--1 nesday evening at 8 o’clock. All [members are urged to be present.'

PLAN 10 MOVE TO NEW SCHOOL IN SHORT TIME Change To New School Will Be Started October 19 The task of moving equipment and students into the new 245,000 Decatur junior-senior high school un Jefferson street from the present high school building will be started within two weeks. XValter J. Krick, city school superintendent stated today. Mr. Krick stated that preliminary moving of equipment will be started on October 19, two weolm I from Wednesday. October 18, the day previous, is j final inspection date as set by the j terms of the PWA grant. Moving of the equipment will be conducted daily from that time until the change has been completed and the students of the four high school grades as well as the seventh and eight grades, constituting the junior high, have been transferred. Several hundred students will be transferred from the present high school to the new structure. The present high school on Adame and Fifth street will be occupied by students from the West and North Ward and the fourth grade at South Ward after the transfer has 'been | completed. Mr. Krick stated that onlv painting and final work of installing the stokers need be done before the i transfer can be started. While considerable work will remain before the building is completed, the change can be made with--1 out inconvenience, school leaders believe. School and civic leaders expect I to open plans for a forma! dedication of the new building within a ‘ short time. A dedication and opening proigiam is to be planned since no forj ma! ceremony was held at the time ; the eornestone of the new building ' vas laid. With the completion of the new structure, the city is expected to have one of the most modern school buildings in the state. r- » Rev. Prugh Attends Meeting Os Classis Rev. C. M. Prugh is attending the meeting of Fort Wayne Classis ot the Evangelical and Reformed Church, being held at Fulton. Mich, today and tomorrow. He will conduct a conference Wednesday morning. giving a report of the Kingdom service conference, held recently in Chicago, which he attended. ——o Decatur Couple Is Fined At Bluffton Two Decatur persons were among the 13 arraigned in Bluffton city court Monday as an aftermath ot the annual free street fair there. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Patesei ot this city were fined $1 and costs each on charges of public intoxication. The fines amounted to sll 'each. URGE SPEED IN OBTAINING FUND Hope To End Drive For Krick-Tyndall Fund This Week An urgent plea that every effort be made to end the drive this week was made today by the leaders in the “Invest in Decatur” campaign. which open'd Monday for the purpose of re turning 100 men to work by ?o | operating with the reconstruction; plans of the Krick & Tyndall Tile Mill destroyed by ftre April 6. , With the help of a $2,000 donation by the employees of the destroyed factory in the form of free days of work, and a SSOO pledge from the Central Soya company and the McMillen industries, the drive neared the half way mark today. The sum of $4,307 has been paid in cash or pledged of the SIO,OOO which the community has agreed to raise. The $10,900 l represents 10 per cent of the estimated SIOO,OOO to be required to restore the factory. This means that by 2 o'clock of the second day of the drive, the additional sum of $1,807 over the original pledge of $2,500 has been (CONTINUED ON TAGS TWO).

Temporary Writ By State Court In Dredge Case

Evangelists I The Rev. and Mrs. V. H. Lewis, of Kansas City, Mo., will lead revival services at the Church of the Nazarene in this city, beginning tonight. The services will continue daily, closing on October 16. COMMITTEES TO DEDICATE GAMP Committees Are Named For Camp Quinn Dedication Sunday The committees were announced today for the dedication ceremonies of Camp Quinn Sunday afternoon as final preparations were rushed to have the camp in readiness for the large crowd expected. Camp Quinn is to be dedicated in honor of French Quinn. Decatur attorney and nature lover, who was largely responsible for the location of (lie Hanna-Nuttman city park west of Decatur. The Cflsnp Is occupied by the Boy Scouts and is at the east entrance of the park. The committees, which have been selected by Carl C. Pumphrey, general chairman, are: Arrangements: Sylvester Everhart, chairman; Roy Price, Ralph; Roop and Robert Zwick. Traffic and safety: Dallas Brown chairman; XVilliam Bell, Robert White and Leland Franks. Publicity and invitations: Dr. Eugene Fields, chairman; Tillman Gehrig, Vincent Borman. W. Guy Brown. E. W. Lankenau, Dr. N. A. Bixler and D. Burdette Custer. The program for Sunday afternoon is to be announced Wednesday by Mr. Pumphrey. It probably will begin about 2:30 o’clock. To Have Inspection It is planned to have the cabins open for public inspection from 1:30 o’clock until the time of the program. Among the recent improvements made at the camp are the equipment of all the calffns with dishes, the gift of the Decatur Woman's club. A new flag pole has been erected with cement base in which the inscription “Camp Quinn" has been engraved. A rustic fence, the project of the Scouts during the past summer, is nearly complete. It has a large rustic archway from which a sign j will be hung containing the name of the camp. The names of the sponsoring organizations, the Lions and Rotary clubs and the American Legion, are to be cut into each of the re-1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE TXX'O) ! 0 Mexican Fined For Reckless Driving Lorenco Moneuo, Mexican, was fined $1 and costs, amounting to $10.25, by Justice of Peace John I T. Kelly late Monday afternoon on ! charges of reckless driving. Moneno was arrested early Sunday morning by Officers Roy Chilcote and Adrian Coffee. • 0 Democratic Women To Meet October 12 The October meeting of the Adams county Democratic women's club will be a dinner on the 12th of the month at the K. of F. home at 6:30 o’clock. The general committee Incldues Mrs. A. K Holthou t ’e. chairman, Mrs. Mi>y Briggs of Geneva and Mrs. C. H Muselman of Berne. More committees will n-> ap pointed to assist with the meeting and these, together with the complete program, will be announced later.

Price Two Cents

Indiana Supreme Court Issues A Restraining Order Against Judge Henry Kister. HEARING OCT. 13 Indianapolis, Oct. 4 — (U.R) A temporary writ prohibiting Special Judge Henry Kister from ruling on a petition to force the Adams county board of commission-, ers to issue bonds for financing the Wabash river drainage system was issued today by the rtate supreme court. The writ set Oct. 13 as the time tor Kister to show cause why it should not be made permanent. The Adams county commissioners, treasurer and auditor applied for the writ of prohibition on grounds Kister was exceeding his jurisdiction. Kister was appointed special judge several years aga when William Fennig and others were attempting to establish the Wabash river drainage in Adams county. Kister’ upheld Fennig and he was sustained by the supreme court. On Aug. 2. 1938, the Adams county board of commissioners passed an ordinance providing for the issuance of bonds but on Sept. 9. 1938 reversed themselves and repealed the ordinance. Following this action, on Sept. 20, 1938. a group of interested parties -Elmer Gibson, William M. Martin and Alonzo Long. landowners. Homer F. Teeters, commissioner of construction and the. F. C. Morgan Co., claiming to he a contractor for construction of the system — filed the petition with Kister asking that the board be mandated to issue lionds. Kister had issued summonses to the county officials for Oct. 4 when today's origins! action was filed with the supreme court. The commissioners maintained Kister has no jurisdiction to act in the latest action because it “is a separate and independent proceeding i of which the Adams county cir- | cuit court has sole jurisdiction.” They pointed out that Huber M. DeX’oss is judge of the Adams court and that no change of venue has been taken from him. Kister has no right or authority to act, they said, and he would be usurping the office of the regular judga and the power and authority vested solely in him. Repealed Ordinance The county commissioners several days ago repealed an ordinance calling for the issuance ot the bonds. It was charged in the repealing ordinance that about $30,000 too much was being raised, and number of other discrepancies in the bonds. Immediately after this. Judge Kister appeared in the Adams circuit court and received a petition from property owners along the Wabash river asking that the commissioners be compelled to issue the $133,000 in bonds. Judge Kister asked Adams County Attorney Henry B. Heller to appear for the commissioners, but Mr. Heller refused, thereby necessitating giving of notice to the commissioners, the county auditor and the county treasurer ro appear in court today. The summons required 10 days (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O OPEN REVIVAL THIS EVENING Church Os Nazarene To Open Revival Services Tonight Plans for a revival campaign at the Church of the Nazarene, which opens here this evening, were announced today as completed, by Rev. Paul Brandyberry, church pastor. The revival meetings will ha held each night, October 4 to October 16, inclusive, with Rev. and. Mrs. V. H. Lewis, evangelists of Kansas City, Mo., conducting th<i services. A children’s meeting will also be held each afternoon at 4 o’clock with Mrs. Lewis in charge, beginning Wednesday afternoon. The meeting will start each evening at 7:30 o’clock. Rev. Brandyberry will be in charge of the services. The public has been extended a cordial invitation to aUe&d the revival.