Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1938 — Page 1

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'ft ATTENDS ?®TON RALLY JfalAY NIGHT R° <),n LilM To (l ° sinK Meeting - - '■' ,l by 1 j V;hl E’ra”k I'nit|L - —. !r ’'•■''•■ Frida y fIEeL Hi- i! ~ Democratic ”ie > , 11 Cttlne pin “'!' '' as °P t>liel * *’■' LL ■ ! ; u li.Voss. D.-m<>- ■ i "’ u '' ."’ ,' 1 "' of New Deal - |. W ■rail (-11 l-Tl!i'< of th- "■ ■ ■' ,, ''!"'" lt '‘' lt <llll ‘ thrill < ( mi Mrs. Mary -■ ■ °f ■''* SHSflgrl introduced ■o Adams and Wells iiurodmed Congresswh• -I'ok- briefly in appro- • a bun by v 11. . f th- ' in - “ : b<-r in the distrb government, but i had been pleased to help than $1,000,000 for the SL olthe farmers and an equally for the help of city Kta B W>r A II Holthouse, the next B said he had felt deeply to head what he considK[tlalast four years. He pledgI should he be re-elected his I would be service and Hi?;!’- uitild enter office without Er hpdmnce of a single promise BBof support in exchange for He pointed out the extens!||>rovements in the munici-, nt. the schools, churches siness houses made during t four years, the one-third >n of the light and power nd the improved financial m of the city, all done with--1 increase of taxes. He out that the construction homes and the lack of n of the city government to the support of the citiDecatur in the present ad-1 ition. or Minton devoted the first his address to a resume of vities of Congressman FarCongress for the last six He said Congressman FarI obtained benefits to the mere in this area fropt the y of agriculture and had early and late in the inof the fourth district, lid Congressman Farley is ier of one of the most imcommittees, the banking irrency committee, from iriginated the first law for efit of the aged, the blind, ppled and the dependent i. Congressman Farley is; a who supported the New -icliiding the ” " ial ■"■'iirity and who 3HK*'" ’’behind th- baikf ■ “W® voters, will increase WI’A security payments and ®l®ase taxes. Whatever needs for the unfortunate and U ! done, he will do. the sens Congressman Farley obtain support of his disB| better than a critic of the Deal, he said. JBelling on Senator Van Nuys, “tttor Minton aid. “Van Nuys for every New Deal law' on ■pooka.” his own behalf, Senator 88 11 invited Republican critics out one specific New Deal tB"' ,J ' wou 'd repeal. He said was near revolution »ea r s ago, with farmers threat(COH’TIU ! , , x ( .-|VE,

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Tells of Nazi Plan L'b'” I ‘ f 1. $‘ \ 4|j ■ ' v ~ I Mrs. Kate Moog Busch I Testifying at the New York spy trial as a government witness, i Mrs. Kate Moog Busch charged that two high officials of the German war ministry proposed in ! 1937 that she establish a “propaganda" salon in Washington. D.C. , to entertain senators, congress- | men and other leading politicians. Mrs. Busch, a naturalized Ger-man-American who came to the U. S. in 1926, has been under constant guard by federal agents since the spy case broke last February. CITES MVMLL GAIN IN STATE Gov. Townsend Points To Increased Employment And Payroll Warsaw. Ind.. Oct. 29.— (U.R> — Employment and payrolls in Indiana gained more last month than in any month for the past three i years, Gov. M. Cliord Townsend reported here today. j He asserted that the gains will create a stronger domestic demand for agricultural products because more money is being placed in circulation. “When the working people have money to spend, they spend about all of It in the channels of retail i trade, and the farmer gets a large I share. Indiana, as a large producer of food supplies, will be greatly benefltted by the increase in mass purchasing power.” Praising the government's latest recovery program. Townsend maintained that “every cent that govi ernment has spent has been returned many-fold to agriculture, labor and business.” i He attacked Rep. Charles Halleck. Indiana’s only Republican i member of congress, for voting I against the recovery bill, claiming it was a vote “against increased payrolls, more employment and a greater domestic demand for the products raised by the farmers of this district.” Speaking at Indianapolis last night. Townsend called for the election of a Democratic legislature “to assure the continuation of - our security program and the improvement of measures now on the statute books.” “We want to continue our job of making life more secure for the common people, and we cannot do it if the Republicans gain control iof the legislature.” he said. “We know from past experience that the opposition to liberal measures, such as old age pensions, has come from the Republican membership.” Indiana Miner Is Medal Recipient Switz City, Ind.. Oct. 29 —<U.R) I Frank Justus. Jr., 35-year-old i miner, today was the recipient of , a bronze medal and S3O a month I disablement benefit from the Carnegie hero award commission ! for saving a fellow miner from death at the cost of losing a leg and hand. Justus’ act of heroism was petformed near Dugger, Ind., November 20, 1937. He was the only Indiana citizen i ecognized among 30 awards announced at Pittsburgh last night —o — TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a.m 40 11:00 a.m 56 10:00 a.m 49 WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Sunday; not so cool in southwest and cooler in extreme northwest potrlon tonight.

CHURCH PLANS FINAL SERVICE SUNDAY NIGHT M. E. Church To Close Centennial Observance Sunday The closing services In the special month of celebration of Jhe Centennial of the Decatur M. Fl '•hun h -ire to be held Sunday with Dr. F. E. Fribley. superintendent of the M. E. church. Fort Wayne district, and Floyd ITrlttson, as speakers. In recognition of the Centennial. the Decatur Daily Democrat, on page three today, is publishing some historical sketches of the church. Due to a loss of early records, this could not be carried through chronologically. Where credit is not given on signed articles, the material is due to research work done by Rev. Herman R. Carson, former pastor of the church, during the Centennial celebration of Decatur in 1936. The pastor of the Decatur church. Rev. R. W. Graham, arranged a month's program, with spe rial Sunday speakers and a personal evangelism campaign carried out during one week under the direction of T. H. Black. Dr. Fribley is to speak Sunday morning during the regular morning services at 9:30 o’clock and a large crowd is expected. Sunday evening at 7 o'clock Jit. Brittson will talk on his recent trip to the Holy Land and will exhibit pictures taken during his visit. These are colored moving pictures. Mr. Brittson was formerly superlntendent of schools in Decatur, during 1896-97-98. He was in the hardware business here for a number of years before leaving for Dallas. Texas, his present home. He has always been interested in religion and culture and had this background, when he took the movies. The pictures are clear and good and have been shown all over the country. Mr. Brittson is now visiting with James Rice of this city. Dr. Fribley is well known in Decatur, having talked here on a number of occasions. o MISSION ENDS SUNDAY NIGHT St. Mary’s Catholic Church Mission To Close Sunday The solemn close of the two weeks' Mission will take place Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock at St. Mary’s church. Rev. Father Joseph J. Seimetz, pastor, announced today. Thirteen Hours’ devotion will mark the closing day observance of the mission. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will begin at the 7 o’clock mass Sunday morning and continue until the closing service in the evening. The regular Forty Hour's Devotion will not be held this year, due to the mission. In connection with the closing of the mission the church will celebrate the feast of Christ the King. Masses on Sunday will be at 6, 7, 8:30 and 9:45. The latter wTil be a solemn high mass. A prayer hour will be held in the afternoon from 2:30 to 3:30 o’clock. The evening services will consist of chanting of the litany of all Saints, a sermon by Rev. Cyril Ernst, Precious Blood missionary, procession and benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The mission opened two weeks ago. The first week was for the married people and this week it. was for the young people of the parish. The services have been well attended — -oI— Madie Auten Rites Monday Afternoon Funeral services for Miss Madie Auten, former school teacher in this city and Fort Wayne, will be held at 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Klaehn funeral home, Fort Wayne. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery and the funeral party is expected here between 2:30 and 3 o’clock. The casket will be opened at the grave. Miss Auten taught school in this city from 1894 to 1902, when she went to Fort Wayne and was a teacher there until 1936, when she retired.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 29, 1938.

Main Construction To Start November 4 Work on the construction of water mains on Grant street, Fifteenth stieet and several other streets will begin November 4, A. E. Quackenbush. WPA supervisor notified Mayor A. R. Holthouse today. 'rte men who have been employ-1 cd on sewer work will be transferred to the water main project. The first stretch of main will be laid on Grant street and then Fifteenth street will be improved. The cisy is furnishing the pipe and labor will be provided by the WPA. COMMITTEE TO REPORT TODAY ■ .. 1 Rail Commission To File Report With President Today Waehington, Oct. 29 — (U.R) President Roosevelt’s emergency ‘ fact-finding commission reports its recommendations today for averting a strike of more than 960.000 railroad workers. The report on the managementlabor dispute over a 15 per cent wage cut demand by railroads will ■ be delivered personally to the ■ president at 12:30 p. m„ by the j three-man board composed of Chi°f Justice Walter P. Stacy of [ North Carolina, Dean James M. Landis of the Harvard laiwl school, and Dr. Harry A. Millls of the University of Chicago. It was understood that the report, about 50.000 words long, would be made public as soon as it is handed to Mr. Roosevelt. The board has debated the issues in secret since public hearings ended Oct. 17. There was no indication of what it would report. ' Spokesmen for railroad man-1 agement said privately, however, j that they did not expect the I board to recommend the full 15 per cent reduction, which they estimate would cut annual operating exp°nses $250,000,000. j Labor spokesmen made no pre- ■ ■ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) | | Says Dayton School Problem Local One Dayton. 0., Oct. 29—<U.R)-G<>v. Martin L. Davey today looked upon the closing of Dayton’s public schools as “a local problem" and withheld until after the November election a statement on whether! he would call the legislature into: special session to deal with the school problems. A committee of Dayton business men and citizens called upon the governor to ask him to summon the legislature into special ses- j sion to consider school financing., The governor pointed out that in some respects "Dayton had fallen down by failure of its voters in the past to enact special tax levies for school purposes.” Spanish Warships Engage In Battle London, Oct. 29—(UP)—Government and nationalist warships ■fought a 40-minute naval battle oft Eastern coast of Spain early today, according to the Valencia correspondent of the Daily Telegram. Results of the battle were not known. The bursting shells could be 1 heard and the flash of guns seen in I Valencia. 12 miles away, it was k-cported. The insurgent cruiser Canarias was said to have participated. JAMES MURPHY IS RE-ELECTED Named Secretary Os Fort W ayne CYO Deanery Council James J. Murphy. Jr., of this city, was re-elected secretary of the Fort Wayne deanery council of the CYO in a special meeting held in Fort Wayne, according to word received here. Mr. Murphy, former president of the Decatur council. held> the post during the past year. The deanery comprises four districts, with headquarters in Fort Wryne, Decatur. Huntington . and Garrett. Robert E. Bangert, St. Paul’s, i Fort Wayne, was re-elected president of the organization. Miss Irene Parker, Kendallville, was named vice-president and Miss Anna Mary Holland, Huntington, was elected treasurer. The Rev. Joseph J. Hennes, deanery director of the CYO. was the main speaker at the meeting, attended by representatives from each district.

RESUME SCHOOL CLASS MONDAY Students Back To School After Vacation For Institute Schools of the city and county Will re-open Monday morning following a four-day vacation, sioned by the teachers’ institute, which closed in Fort Wayne Friday evening. Classes here will return to tho same schools, where they last held classes on Wednesday afternoon. The change from the present high school to the new Junior-senior high school will be launched Monday. Moving into the new building will be continued until all students of the four high school grades and the seventh and eighth grades are in the new building; the West and North Ward four grades and the fourth grade at South Ward are in the present high school, which will probably be known as Central school. A force of more than lialf a dozen janitors was expected to complete the preparatory cleaning of the new school shortly after noon today. Some equipment has been moved into the building, the public address system has been installed and practically all is in readiness for the change. o Library To Close For Parade Monday The Decatur public library will close Monday evening at 6 o’clock because of the Calithumpian parade it was announced today by the librarian. ——o Halloween Celebrants Destroy* Mail Boxes Residents of the Archbold road, near Decatur, reported this morning that several mail boxes were torn down in that vicinity, probably : by pre-Halloween celebrants. Pranksters have been warned by I city and county police authorities i that no vandalism will be tolerated 1 and arests will follow' the destruction of any property. THREE HILLED ATFT.WAYNE Three Are Killed Instantly In Auto Crash Today Fort Wayne, Oct. 29. — (U.R) — Three persons were killed and two were injured, one seriously, in an automobile crash here early this morning. The dead are Albert Jones, Ledta M. Jones, his wife, and James Pondek. George Lee. 45, was taken to the St. Joseph hospital where attendants said he was not expected to live. His wife received minor head lacerations, but her condition was reported as not serious. All are from Fort Wayne. According to police, Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Lee, and Pondek were returning from New Haven, Ind., when their car was struck by another driven by Harry Jenney, 27, of Fort Wayne. The' Lee car overturned. Jones died immediately as the result of a skull fracture. Pondek | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Pope Pius Ends Annual Vacation Vatican City, Oct. 29 — (UP) — Pope Pius returned to the Vatican today, ending his annual summer vacation at Castel Gandolfo. I Vatican attaches were surprised i by the aged pontiff’s agility. He Stood alone for a few minutes under the Portico of San Damasus. then, unassisted, climbed the three steps loading into the palace and walked to the elevator which took him to the third floor. Continued Rise In Business Foreseen Indianapolis, Oct. 29— (U.R) Martin F. Carpenter, director of the Indiana state employment service, today looked forward to a , continued rise in business during November. “Definite improvements in employment started in August and continued through September and October.” Carpenter said. “There is nothing in view at this time to change the outlook for a corresponding improvement in November.

CHY PREPARED FOR HALLOWEEN PARADEMONDAY Annual Callithumpian Parade, Free Dance Monday Night The Callithumpian pla*s are completed. ’ The ghosts and goblins have pulled their weird regalias from the furthest corners of dark closets, the straggly-haired witches have tuned up old riding booms and al) is in preparedness for the annual parade Monday night. Promptly at 7:30 o’clock an array of hair-raising spectres, such as never before has been seen on Decatur streets, is expected to start Its I trek from the county jail past the throngs of Halloween eelebrantr. I A total of $l5O in cash awards are jto be presented by the Chamber of ■ commerce, sponsors of the annual ’! event, to the unusual paraders. ■ Members of the committee have ' been diligently working daily to I I complete plans and insure the sueI cess of the event. The following j committees are in charge: 1 Judges stand— George Flanders, chairman; Robert Helm and Walter ’ Gard; selecting judges—John DeVoss, chairman; Dr. Harold V. DeVor and James Elberson; publicity —Pete Reynolds, chairman; Mau- ’ rice Kindler and Herman F. Krueckeberg; red fire, order and law , I Dee Fryback, chairman; George : Laurent and Felix Maier. The top prize will be $25. given s to the best masked band in the parade. A S2O prize will be given the second place band and $lO will be awarded third place winner. All masked paraders are to as- ’ semble at the jail and be ready for parading at 17:30 o’clock Monday ’ night. The winners of the various diviI sions will be presented their awards j at the Decatur Catholic high school auditorium, following the parade and preceding the free dance there. ’ Line of Parade The parade will move west to ’ Second street on Adams from the i jail, north on Second to Marshall, I east on Marshall to First south on First to Monroe, West on Moniiae back to Second and south on I Second to Jefferson, where it will i i disband. i List of Prizes • Following are the other awards to be made to participants in the parade: The best masked German band will be awarded $5. Other prize awards will be as follows: Best impersonation of comic strip > characters. $5. i Most comical group of three or II more SB. I Tallest man or woman, seven feet , or more, $4. I Fat man, $4. , Fat woman, $4. Most comical group of two or 1 more, $5. Most comical family group of five I or more. $lO. I I Most comical decorated bicycle $6. Best animal impersonation, $5. 1 Most comical decorated bicycle 1 and rider (boy or girl) $4. r Most elaborately decorated bicyj f (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) y, —— — —n — Two Children Are Trapped By Sand ViVncennes, Ind., Oct. 29—Two children trapped beneath 400 pounds of sand while they were digging in a cave in a bank near 1 their homes in Bruceville were in serious condition at Good Samarratan hospital today. 1 Screams of other children brought r a swift rescue of Gordon Sartor, 6, and James Lemme, 6. when the 1 sand caved in. They were uncon- ’ scious when dug out but were par- ” tlally revived by artificial respira- ’ tion and brought to the hospital ; o Bogus Travelers’ Check Ring Smashed ( Chincinnati, Ohio Oct. 29 —(UP) 1 j —The arrest of Bernard Anderson, 47, of South (Bend, Ind., Today climaxed a six-month investigation by 1 Indiana police into the activities j' of a nationwide ring which alleged- , ly passed more than SIIO,OOO in bo- ’ I gus travelers’ checks throughout . the United States. 1 He was taken into custody with 1 his wife after a raid on their aparti ment where police said they found > $7,850 in bogus checks of the same - typo which flooded Indiana, Illi- -' nois and Cincinnati. Mrs. Anderson I was released.

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! • Fannie Wins Divorce I i ar/ Bl JKr / Fannie Brice This is the way Fannie (BabySnooks) Brice, radio, stage and screen entertainer, posed for the camera in Los Angeles after being granted interlocutory divorce decree from husband, Billy Rose. . tho producer frequently linked ; with the former Olympic swim- ' mer, Eleanor Holm. Rose entered no contest. The divorce will not become final for a year. FORDCOMPANY TO COOPERATE Reported As Aiding Plan To Standardize Work Conditions Detroit. Oct. 29 — (U.R) — The United Auto Workers plan for standardizing wages, hours and ' working condition in plants which i supply automotive parts, provides for cooperation from the Ford Motor company, it was reliably learned today. The proposed standardization is being drafted by a special UAW committee and is expected to be presented to the union executive board at its Nov. 1 meeting. Pres. Homer Martin disclosed Less than two weeks ago Mart-1 in met Henry Ford for the first time. The meeting was during a i I surprise visit Martin made to the j Ford plant to talk with Harry | Bennett, personnel director. It was reported unofficially. I that representatives of Ford and i the UAW have met since the | Martin-Ford conference. In as | i much as the Ford plant is thej oniy major one in the industry . not organized by the UAW the i /ord-Martin meeting was regard-! ed as significant and consequently I . additional significance was attachI d to the fact that the UAW j standardization program provides for cooperation from the Ford i company. Discussions which union and I company representatives are re- ( ported *o have had are believed i to have centered the correction of conditions in parts plants with _ Ford as peace maker. o i • Fort Wayne Teacher , Is Named Secretary Indianapolis. Ind., Oct. 29—(UP) ’ Robert H. Wyatt of Fort Wayne today asusmed the office of executivesecretary of the Indiana state teach- ? ers association after his election over a field of five other candidates K. V. Ammerman, Indianapolis was elected president, Mrs. Anita ! Oldham. Knightstown, vice-presid-I i ent, and E. B. Wetherow, Laporte, i treasurer. The latter two were nam- ) ed to their posts without opposition. o . King, Queen Given I Bid To Washington i- London, Oct. 29 —(UP) — The t Daily Herald reported today that I President Roosevelt had sent a per--1 sonal invitation to King George and .- Queen Elizabeth to visit Washing--1 ton and stay at the White House a a few days during their visit al- broadi Mr. Roosevelt’s letter began I "Dear Friend,” it was reported.

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Polish Jews Apparently Are Unwanted Either By Germany Or Poland Nations. PASSPORT ROM’ By United Press Hundreds of Polish Jews were omeless todav and tbn-t-R-’d- nf others, unwanted by either Poland >r Germany, faced a similar prospect. All 150,000 Poles in Germany had until midnight to get their mssports validated under a new citizenship law. Os this number 50,000 were Jews and many of chain h<>ld no hope of getting their papers in order. Hence, without proper passports, they would lose their Polish citizenhip and become Nazi charges. While Polish and German diplomats negotiated on their status, train loads of them were en route to the border under German deportation orders. In Warsaw, government quarters insisted that the new citizenship law was not aimed at Jews. They said that the German authorities, thinking that Jews would be deprived of citizenship, were under a misapprehension. This, is was said, caused the German deportation order. The refugees did not know where tn turn. A United Press staff correspondent who went in a lefugce train to the border reported tliat many Jews had gathered up their few belongings and boarded the train without knowing where they were being sent. When the first trainloads of refugees arrived at the border some were permitted to enter; others were turnd back. in Warsaw, however, circles close to the foreign office expressed the opinion Poland probI ably would be forced to accept the departees since Germany apparently would not permit them .to return to their German homes, 'some Polish quarters believed that Poland probably would bo forced to absorb about 7,000 Jews. In Germany and in Austria, Nazi police rounded up thousands of Jews. Some of them went to ths Polish authorities to have their pissports put in order; others were thrown into jail. In Berlin the Polish consulate was besieged by hundreds of Jews, aom? seeking tile necessary special stamps of their passports and others anxiously Inquiring for news of relations and friends already sent to deportation trains. In London the newspaper Daily Mirror asserted that the Jewish oundup was the result of the discovery of a plot to assassinate I Adolf Hitler and some of his i chief aids. The newspaper gave no source I for its dispatch. o Young Woman Killed By Interurban Car Indianapois. Ind., Oct. 29—(UP) ! —Jean Coler, 22-year-old social worker, was killed last night when an interurban electric car wrecked her automobile as she drove from ; a side road onto the tracks near i Plainfield. She had been attending a steak fry. o 19 DEAD AFTER I FIRE IN FRANCE 58 Missing After Horrifying Fire In Marseilles Marseilles, France, Oct. 29.—(U.RY —The official count of casualties in a fire which destroyed buildings in two city blocks, including three hotels and a department store, stood today at 19 dead and 56 , missing. Officials believed many deal ! may have been trapped in the I store elevators when the current was cut, catching cars between floors. ’ In addition. 14 persons were injured seriously and 15, including five firemen, suffered less serious injuries. The fire was out only this morning after troops, using 37 millimetre (1.16 inch) cannon, razed menacing walls. Damaged w'as estimated at more I than 5U,UD0,000 francs ($1,335,000.)