Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 248, Decatur, Adams County, 20 October 1938 — Page 1

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MEI'S FOB ioEE KISTER KfJIt'SI WRIT — KLh Dredge Case gHdi’e •■' i > ihls ~iKh » Court U rit f„r . m i„, '■> gK, „ on ilmi - Hl'- Adi in ||K ■■ |^K s .>>t lias is- : .' i:: ’ 1 !,i 1 S <!••»>■!- |K' •■ should he |M.. i s - 1 ”, } ?- •«>.! action al|K i al judge in |K„ ». . ■■-: '■ il in in' f<» - '-dial all od.llllU vldod statute. snthat the special dine re- ... ■ work i< . mull and ... • attorneys said. , . con'.let ions ■ |K n.ii !>p made permanent.” |,r was fill d by Roscoe to.as for Judge KiaPROGRAM KIVEH PRAISE Townsend Lauds M’roKram As Aid To ■ Employment - ~ Hv Clifford Townsend today Kb nil ami state construeas "an important the solution of the unemt>r..i.i. tti in the construeallied industries." in tlm heart of Indii.::.. mmi. the goverhas stimulated and ena building boom. mpr iiuildim: Imoin is long overhe said. "New construction Hk-. : ,V.I yw here, and with under way the workthe quarries should have employment than they had since 1929." Ms sol that Indiana's congress- ■ and state officials have besalesmen for Indiana limeand not only are attempting markets for the product on building projects but are it to private builders. speech last night at Jasper. urged Indiana voters to agriculture in the hands of and not turn it back Political party which is domiby big business interests." to this local and farmof farm programs are |H groups. One is the business which make their money the farmer. The secarr the politicians who try to support of the farmers and Hr betray them to speculators." E Foreign Markets ■arion. Ind.. Oct. 20.—(U.P.)—The reciprocal trade agreeox PAGE SEVEN) PARO METER I rßick-tyndal co. I DRI V E I (Noon Reports) ■fT A 9 l' $10,000.00 K- 21 Kt 2 !} $8,178.00 Kt . $7,813.00 E p }® $7,510.00 Kt $6,781.0(1 Kt if $6,626.00 SCT in $6,334.00 ■ f T $6,224.00 ■ C t 2 $5,472.00 ■qt “ $4,860.00 Kt' q $4307.00 Kt" 1 $3300.00 K_ $2500.00

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G. E. Foremen Hold Annual Meet Here An unausually large crowd attended the annual foremen's meeting at the G. E. club last night for the foremen of the ''’ort Wayne and Ixx'atur plants of the General Elec-1 trie company. An estimated 187 men attended the event, filling the dining room i of the recreation club to capacity i for the dinner. Roy Johnson, local auctioneer i and real estate salesman, was prln- ’ clpal speaker of the event. Other . short addresses were made by factory leaders. Vocal and instrumental entertainment, bowling and pool furnished amusement for those in , attendance following the dinner. Hurt Gage, of the Decatur plant, . was in charge of the affair. CYCLE EVENTS WELL RECEIVED B Bicycle Parade, Racing Events Attract Large Crowd Decatur's first bicycle safety carnival, held Wednesday, proved a splendid success, with a large crowd witnessing the bicycle parade and racing events last night, as a climax to the day's program. The carnival, cosponsored by the WPA* recretation department and the B. P. O. Elks lodge, open- ■ ed in the schools of the city, with ■ two members of the state police force stressing bicycle safety in discussions held at each of the various public and parochial schools in the city. Winners in the essay and post- , er contests, which were conducted with the cooperation of th® English and art departments of the schools, will be announced within the next few days. Posters are to be judged Saturday, and the essays the first of the week. The parade through the business district last night was led by two state motorcycle policemen, followed by the state police safety and exhibit ear. The Decatur direct- j ' ed by Albert Sellemeyer. followed j the police car. and boys and girls,. many of them in costume, rode their bicycles behind the band. Parade prizes were awarded as i follows: Best decorated bicycle and rider, I first prize of $2 to Billy Bolinger; . [ second prize of 11 to Esther Smith. Most attractive tricycle and rider, Don Marvin Smith, sl. Most comical bicycle and rider, Gene Metz, $2. Results of Races Winners of the various race events follow: Senior boys—4oo-yard race, Joe Hazelwood, Robert Egly and Louis Koeneman; 200-yard race. Louis i Koeneman and William Archbold. ■ slow race, Louis Koeneman and Robert Baxter; mile race, Joe Hazelwood, Richard Colter and Robert Egly. ’ I Junior boys— 300-yard race, Don Lobsiger, Dick Mills and Dick I Schnitz; 200-yard under crossbar, Kenneth Beery and Richard Colter, tied for first, Robert Morris; slow I race, Irvin Hoffman and Brice ' Briner; 600-yard race, Don Lobsiger, Irvin Hoffman and Dick Schnitz. , Midget boys—2oo-yard race, Jer-' ry Leitz. Richard Gehrig and Billy . |_2 — i 1 I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) > f —oMISSION HERE : WELL ATTENDED Mission For Young PeoU pie Os Parish Opens Sunday The subject of the sermon to be given this evening at the mission services at St. Mary's church will be, "The education of children: ■ and home life.” The discourse will be delivered by the missionary i! priest. Last evening an instructive ser- ! mon was given on Death and the I final judgment. I Short instructions on the Ten commandments are given eat.t | morning following the masses. The I services are well attended. CongreI gational singing of hymns takes p’ace at the evening services and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament is given foTowing the seimon. The mission for the young people will open next Sunday. This week the mission has been for the married people of the parisn. The, solemn close of the mission will take place a week from Sunday. Rev Cyril Ernest and Rev. Alfred Meyer. Precious Blood missionaries, . are conducting the services.

UTILE POWERS STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE Small Powers’ Struggle For Life May Be In Vain By Joe Alex Morris (Copyright 193 Bby United Press) Europe’s little powers struggled today — apparently in vain —to bolster their safeguards against future upheavals endangering their territory or independence. From Lithuania on the Baltic to Bulgaria on the Black Sea stretches a bloc of secondary states that has shuddered under every blow at Europe’s political structure since the four major powers met at Munich to dismember Czechoslovakia in the interests of peace. Poland, probably the most influential member of the bloc, peri sistently has sought to assume leadership in whipping the secI ondary powers into line, estabj lishing a common neutral front and setting up a ’’buffer” between the trouble-packed maneuvers of Germany, France, Italy and Great Britain on the west and Soviet Russia on the east. Today, Josef Beck, the Polish foreign minister and dominant figure among the little powers, returned to Warsaw from a visit with King Carol of Roumatiia. Beck sought to bring the Roumanian ruler into line in connection with a middle European settlement — and apparently he | failed. The chief immediate issue is ; the further partitioning of Czechoslovakia. Hungary and Poland decided during the Sudetenland crisis that the Hungarian government should be ceded the Czech province of Ruthenia in order to create a common Hungarian-Pol-(OONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) FUND CAMPAIGN IS OVER SB,OOO — Total Funds Subscribed To Mill Rebuilding Over SB,OOO The Krick Tyndall Tile Mill campaign passed the SB,OOO mark at noon today as cash and pledges of 4364.50 brought the total to $8,178 - 50. The general committee stated today it was greatly pleased with the work of two special teams in the last, two days. The last of the prospects are being seen by these j teams. The committee in a statement satd today that now that more than four -fifths of the total of SIO,OOO pledged by the committee nas been raised, it will not stop until the campaign is successfully completed. The committee pointed out only about 1.800 remains to be collected in the effort being made to hold for Decatur a $200,000 industry. The community pledged itself to raisj 10 per cent o fthe estimated SIOO,-, 000 reconstruction cost. This means the re-employment of, 100 men and the addition to the community of a SIOO,OOO annual pay roll. o Denies Offers To Settle War Debts Washington, Oct. 20— retary of the Treasury Morgenthaa said today that he had received no offer to settle war debsts. Commenting on reports from both , Paris and London that settlement! would be undertaken shortly, Morgenthau said he had received no word on any impending negotiadons. “Nobody’s made me any kind or an offer,” he said. o— — Two Men Killed As Building Collapses Maysville, Mo.. Oct. 20 —(UP)— Two men were killed today when a tower of the Old DeKalb county courthouse collapsed while the building was being razed. They were buried under tons of debris. The bodies of Robert Orr 40, and Ray Edmondson, 42, were recovered an hour after the accident. Ches- ! ter Phelps, who was working with Orr and Edmonson, was hit on the head by a falling brick but he was not seriously hurt. Robert Jones, another of the workers, saw that, the tower was falling and escaped.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 20, 1938.

Riley School Patrons Meet Friday Afternoon Patrons of the Riley school are Invited to spend a few hours with the teachers and each other at the school Fi May afternoon at 2:30 /clock. Mrs. Gertrude Myers of Fort Wayne will be present and give one of her interesting talks, after which a social hour will Le enjoy- , ed. CHECK FOREST FIRE AFTER 5 DIE. 40 HURT Wind Blows ‘Fire Break,’ Trapping Fire Fighters Sinnamahoning, Pa., Oct. 20 — (UP) — A forest fire which killed five men and injured 20 wa.i extinguished today. More than 300 men had fought for two days a fire which had burned 50 square miles of the "sportsman's paradise” in Cameron county. A heavy rain deluged the area, checking the flames, and they were able to put it out. The dead were trapped by a sudden wind last night after they had ignited a back fire as a fire break. The wind encircled them in flames and escape was impossible. Four were C. C. C. enrollees; the other was Gilbert Mohney, 38, Ridgeway, I Pa., an employe of the United States ! department of forests. After the circle of flames had diminished somewhat. Harry Stem ton, one of the volunteers, fought his way through and found Mohney unconscious on a road along which he had tried to escape. Stention held him in his arms and bathed his face with cold water Mohney revived, saw the fire advancing toward them. “Go on and leave me,” he said. “I’ll have to give' in." He died in Stenton’s arms. The other dead were: Basil Bo- ■ gosh, 18, Collemaugffi, Pa.; Andrew I Stenzanich, 117, twin Rocks, Pa.: I John Boring, 18, Rohnston, Pa.; ! Howard May, 18. Erie. Pa. Four of the 20 injured—all CCC enrolees —-were burned seriously. They were taken to hospitals in Renovo and St. Marys and the others were carried to CCC camp 132, six miles from Emporium. o Rites Held For Fuhrman Infant Services were held at the Black funeral home this afternoon at 2 o'clock for Dorothy Louise Fuhrman. infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burl Fuhrman. Rev. George Lozier was in charge of the services and burial was in the Decatur cemetery. The infant was born at 1 o’clock this morning and lived only until 2:55. Surviving besides the parents, Burl and Charlene Barnhouse Fuhrman, are two brothers. Charles Francis and Paul Eugene; the grandparents, Mr. and Mis Francis Fhurman and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barnhouse. CHURCH SUPPER FRIDAY NIGHT — Ladies Os M. E. Church To Entertain Men Friday The men of the First M. E. church of this city will be served a supper by the ladies of the coni gregatiou Friday evening at 6:15 I o’clock in the church parlors. This is another in a series of fellowship meetings in recognition of 100 years of service of Methodism in the community. A program of unusual interest will be given following the supper. Lee Van is to be the toastmaster and Rev. Charles M. Prugh, pastor of the Zion Reformed church, will I give the message. Music will be furnished by a I stringed trio composed of Norman, I Vera and Annamarte Steury. and the German band from the Decatur boys’ band. Men desiring tickets have been requested to call Mrs. W. P. Robinson. Sunday morning at the regular 9:30 o’clock services, a special membership program will be held under the direction of the pastor. The sacrament of communion will be given and new members taken into the church. Every member of the congregation has been requested to attend.

I TREE TRIMMING ii PROJECT OPENS i I j ! Twelve Men Bctfin Work t s ; Today On WFA Project In City — The tree trimming WPA project • got underway in the city today, 12 I men being assigned to the job un- ' der the supervision of Dent Balti zell, former employe of the Davey : Tree Surgery company, Kent, Ohio. Work started on West Monroe street at the corporation line. 1 Only trees on the public right of way can be trimmed and treated. The government does not permit work on private property. Work | will also be done in the city parks find dead trees along the sidewalks throughout the city will be removed. The work is being done without cost to the property owners and if the project proves successful. | I Application will be made to re-open the program again next fail. The present project covers a six . months’ period. The trees must be pruned when they are dormant, i Mr. Baltzell explained. The government is contributing $7,210 for labor through the WPA. ’ The city furnishes the saw's and equipment and the trucks to haul ' the branches away. ( ’ The WPA crews resumed work this morning on the Acker sewer, Dierkes street and on sidewalks. ’ They have a six-day work period on the present schedule. The next , work period begins November 4. ■ A sidewalk is being constructed ’ along the Bogner property on Eleventh street today. Tomorrow I work will be resumed on the ’ Dierkes street sidewalks and this L job completed. The Acker sewer is near comI pletion and the street crew is con- ■ structing Dierkes street. The side- ■ walk work will have to be curtail- i ’ ed during cold weather. YOST BROTHERS ; GIVEN CONTRACT Local Contractors To Construct Pleasant Mills Addition l ! Yost Bros., of this city contrac- ■ tors, were awarded the general con-; tract for the construction of the addition to the Pleasant Mills high school in St. Mary’s township, ac- j cording to word received today | I from the PWA offices by Ben MeI I Collough. township trustee. PWA , ordered work be started not later than October 22. 1 Yost Bros., winning bid was $43.5 750, less $3,615 in alternates, brings ing the working figure to $40,135. This bid was the third lowest of the I five submitted. W. O- Chrey of Hunc l tington and Clark & Baldwin of 1 South Bend were the two lower | bids submitted. j Hisey & Bebout of Van Wert and ’ Schinnerer and Truemper of Fort 5 Wayne were the other firms to subI mit bids on the general contracting. The heating, plumbing and ventiI lation contract was awarded to Ti>l>- | Lets Plumbing & Heating of Union City, on a bid of $14,300, less $2,-, 355 in alternates. The electrical contract was award « ed to McKay Electrical company on a bid of $1,689, less $368 in alter-, nates. The total cost of the new addi-' tion has been placed at $61,875. Os this amount a PWA grant of $27,I 000 has been secured. The owners’ J share et $34,875 has already been . raised by bond issue. . | Os the total amount. $53,401 cov--1 ers the actual cost of all contracts. ■ | Equipment and all other overhead 5 costs amount to $60,876. A contin- ) gency fund of $999 is also included, i ' bringing the total cost of construc- • tion to the figure of $61,875. i o— — i Noah Weber Rites Saturday Morning » - Funeral services will be held SatI urday morning for Noah J. Weber, native of Decatur, who died Tues- ) day afternoon at Fort Wayne. Ser- . vices will be held at the PeltierI Ashley funeral home in that city ' at 8:30 a. m. Saturday and at 9 o’clock at the Cathedral of the Im--1 maculate Conception. Burial will ■ be in the Catholic cecetery. o , Thirteen Are Killed In Spanish Bombing 1 Madrid, Oct. 20—(UP)—Thirteen i persons were killed and 30 others • wounded today wh”n two insurgent planes dropped 30 bombs on nearby Alcala De Heuares. J

TESTIFIES TO PHOTOGRAPH OF DEFENSE WORKS Trials Os Alleged Spies Continue In Two Courts Cristobal. Canal Zone, Oct. 20 (U.R) Col. (). L. Spiller, commander of Fort Randolph, testified today that photographs taken in the canal zone by four Germans pictured national defense works and could have been used by a foreign power to the injury of the United Stales. Spiller testified at a hearing for the Germans, who were arrested by a sentry on charges of illegally taking photographs near canal fortifications. The defendants, whom author!1 ties have sought to link with the I Germans on trial In New York on spy charges, are Ingeborg Guttmaun. Hans Schakow, Gisbert Gross and Edward Kuhrig. On Sunday they drove in Kuh- , rig's automobile through the gates into the coast defense area of I Fort Randolph after telling the i sentry they did not have a camI era. The sentry later reported he saw them taking photographs I in the Galeta Island area, a key def-mse point. Spiller testified that the pictures, produced in court, were of military works and that if they I fell into the hands of a hostile I foreign power they might be used j in away that would lie of injury to the interests of the United States. Private Paul L. Ezell, the first witness, previously had identified the photographs of guns and emplacements as those taken by the defendants. Army Code Book New York. Oct. 20 — (U.R)‘ — Guenther Gustave Rumrich, confessed German spy, testified in I federal court today that Private | Erich Glaser of the U. S. Army. i who was stationed at Mitchell : Field, gave him part of a secret I army code book for transmission ' to Germany. Glaser is one of three persons ' on trial on spy charges. Rumrich, on the stand for the fourth day, said Glaser guv; him I only two pages of a manual on | radio procedure used in contacting army planes in the air and | that they discussed means of getting the rest of the code from two army men known to have , copies. Finally, Rumrich said, he gave I the two pages to Karl Schleuter, payoff nan for the German spy ' network here, and asked S4O for it. He falsely told Schleuter. he said, that the code was of more military importance than ot really was. Rumrich said Glaser had given him the names of several soldiers and that he planned to induce ■ them to become sources of information for the ring. In furtherance of this scheme he wrote a lei ter under Glaser's signature to a soldier named Gus Schmidt suggesting he had some "very, very interesting things to tell you.’ ’ The name of William Lonkow- ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o PRINT BALLOTS FOR ELECTION Starts Printing Os City, County, Township Ballots Here Printing of the ballots for the November fall election was begun this morning in the job printing department of the Decatur Daily Dem--1 ocrat under the supervision of the Adams county election lioaiu. The election board is composed jot W. P. Robinson, Democratic; Homer D. Lower, Republican and j G. Remy Bierly, county clerk and ex-officio members. Voters in the election this fall will use four ballots. The official county ballot will be divided into four districts. All will be white in color. The township ballots, canary in color, will be different tor each township. The city ballot, white in color, will be the same throughout. The voters will also use the 1 state ballot, which is printed by the ! state. Sample ballots and absent voters’ : ballots will also be printed in the local printing office. As soon as the absent voters’ are printed they will be available in the county clerk’s office. The sample ballots will also I be taken there for distribution.

Japanese Troops Fight Within 20 Miles Os Canton

INSTALL GOALS IN GYMNASIUM ■ — —- Installation Os Basketball Goals Started Wednesday The installation of the goals in the gymnasium-auditorium of the i new quarter-million dollar juniorsenior high school building was ! started Wednesday. With the balance of the general , contracting work completed, John Treumper of the firm of Schinnerer . and Truemper, Fort Wayne, has remained to supervise the installation of the baskets. The goals will be of the latest i type, suspended from the acousti- ' cal ceiling of the structure so that ' they can be pulled up out of the \ way when not in use. Marking of the playing floor for 1 basketball will be done after the instalation of the baskets is com- ' pleted. Mr. Truemper estimated that about one week would require to install the goals. Other than this, the gymnasium 1 is completed. Ventilation workmen are now engaged in putting finishing touches to the heSling and ventilating system on the stage of the auditorium. Footlights have been installed as have those in the gymnasium. In the school proper the cleanup . is under full swing with but little l work remaining before occupancy . of the building is started. Work- . men are also cleaning away the yards surrounding the new structure. — o ————— GRAND JURORS SUBMITREPORT Jail Improvements Recommended; Indictments Returned The Adams county grand jury, which adjourned yesterday recording to its report to the court, recommended two improvements for the , county jail. The body, in its report, stated that the jail needed a new door to the basement entrance and the ex- ■ terior of the building needed palnt- [ ing. The jury reported everything satisfactory at the county infirmary, where they dined Wednesday noon. The jail inspection was conducted Tuesday. The jury also returned seven criminal indictments. Four ot these indictments, the report stated, were : for misdemeanors and three for | felonies. The names on the indictments I will not be published until after the arrests are made. The jury first met on Thursday. October 6 and adjourned October , 19 after spending eight days in official session. Young Lima Child Killed In Accident Lima. 0.. Oct. 20— (UP)— Mary ■ i Ellen Quinlan, 3, daughter of Dr.! I and Mrs. C. D. Quinlan ot Lima, was killed today when thrown from : an automobile driven by her moth--1 er when it collided with one operat- ’ I ed by H. R. Bonnewltz of Van Wert. ■ >. ! ' ° ~ I Damage Is Caused In Sewer Cave-In 1 A cave-in at the outlet of the Jes--1 ( ferson street sewer into St. Mary's river occurred today. Considerable 1 damage was done, Ralph Roop, civil I works commissioner reported. The ’ sewer will be repaired as rapidly ! , as possible. o ' TEMPERATURE READINGS ' DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER * 8:00a.m 42 2:00 p.m 50 5 10:00 a.m.. 44 3:00 p.m 50 Noon 46 WEATHER 5 l Fair tonight and Friday; not ’ so cool in northwest portion ’ tonight, somewhat warmer Friday.

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Japanese Claim Rapid Advance On Great Commercial City Os South China. TO CREATE SPLIT Shanghai, Oct. 20 —<(J.R)—Japanese troops reported today they had fought their way to within 20 miles of the groat commercial city of Canton in South China. The dispatches said that tho Japanese fighting forces had captured Chengkangshu after beating back the reinforced Chinese defenders. Chinese reinforcements had been reported moving into the area around Canton but Japanese seizure of Changkangshu. 20 miles from the sty. would indicate that their lines had been deeply penetrated. Japanese advices earlier said that two of China’s leading generals on the southern front had appealed to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek to assume personal direction of the defenses in South China. According to the dispatches, which quoted Chinese sources at Hong Kong. Gen. Li Tsung-Jen and Gen. Pai Chung-Hui, two of the "big three" generals of southwest China, made the appeal. They asked Chiang, it was said, to abandon his duties at Hankow and take command of the South China front. It was noted here that this appeal followed a message by Eugene Chen, former Chinese foreign minister, to Cantonese leaders at Hankow, complaining that Chiang had decided that the defense of Hankow was more important than the defense of Canton and that he had taken from the Cantonese their airplanes and their best troops. Three days ago. Japanese sources here asserted that they had I received information that Chiang i had moved his headquarters to a ■ point between Hankow and CanI ton, so that he could command both the central and southern campaigns. It was asserted that this move Han-Mow, government pacificawas due to an appeal by Gen Yu tion commissioner for Kwantung province, through which Japanese troops are fighting their way toward Canton. The coincidence of reported ‘appeals’’ from three Chinese sources revived interest in Japanese efforts to create a split between national and southern leaders of China and make a sep(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o Obtain Confessions To Jewelry Theft Indianapolis. Ind., Oct. 20—(UP) —Police today held two men whom they said have confessed to the theft of $8,700 worth of diamond rings from a downtown jewelry store. The men are John Eder, 34, an employe of the store, and Fred Murphy, 38, of Brownsburg. Who is alleged to have disposed of the gems which were taken from his employer. None of the loot has been recovered. o TO HOLD BERNE RALLY TONIGHT R. Earl Peters, Democratic Candidates To Speak At Berne A capacity crowd is expected tonight at tlie Berne auditorium, II where R. Earl Peters FHA state adi. ministrator, will head the list ot l speakers at the Democratic rally. > Included on the speakers' list will ' be Congressman James I. Farley, of Auburn, candidate for re-election; Judge Huber M. DeVoss, of this city, candidate for the appellate court bench; Frank G. Thompson, of Bluffton, candidate for state auditor. Candidates for the county posts on the Democratic ticket here will also be intorduced. C. H. Muselman, of Be’ lie. Democratic town chairman, will be In charge of the meeting and preside over the rally. Berne Democrats will assist in staging the event and handling the crowds.