Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 28 January 1939 — Page 1

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leltroops E[P UP DRIVE ■ON LOYALISTS lenb Batl ' H nc i)i Loyal' 4 I’’’- ■ sense Broken EJwaiii ■ ■■ ■ In lan - ,v UK ’ ■. nationalist «b<»ek troops. IK, path »!' lh ” Hunt in-I'".'" "" ,l K ut-t'-l h a tlohacle I'" 1 ”)’ ■ ■ . ,>f th" .M"io<<mi ■ - unit. K •>"»:< ' !■"' -i'an'"‘ mil"" Ba "' ■ "‘•m- V It ui I’.’--" lilu Up,., ii.y.iiist- It "1 >"'• • firsi ii"’ th ot ’lt" g| ' fust soh-i i. tl as til" 54 - frontier. ■, dispttt. h"S th" I"’ 1 ’- Hti.". tit., .nt’."Ont ■■”1"”’ U- . - Sr.tit.'i ot.vu'tH that ■liunian *1 tlt.y ■to t-oftut.l.t" tll.il fsistMM They tr’K’-r t"'l stall a ■ human task Madrid. do it here to tak" ul.ey of v - |K) rea< ■ >' 'I ■ttenlay ■ the coastal toad, running fleas' they passed i’adlona. 2 ' Mas’’."” !'■ Mar. ■ It- M,.: . ..ttpofaui Mataro. ■ tiPy start-d ..ft '"day they 'he eti'skuis of ( alde’as whici: a ■ ■o have beet! aitr hored ■ leads to Gerona SB the O.ail ie.utn.e I 11U ard Granollers and Vith to ■ i.t ■ ■on town of Mullet. They ■ |.r'..-ed:f.a tis Gran- ■ road the H.-sos river, ■parallels ‘t. ■ Mt. ■end.ently consider- ■ - .... p- ■ > •■ loyalists no rest. "" a: ‘ '‘'at ■" ran comof the Moroccan corps. K ®- today: ■ advance through Cata- ■ to the French frontier is ■ a military parad" The ■ appears to be completely ■uiaed." ■was not in the coastal area ■. along the two great high ■. that the loyalists were important nation Hist army ■Wiling its way eastward. because of the rough conn- ■•« irresistibly, toward the Jr 10118 ’ Granoll.-rs - Puigcerda lI P which the Moroccans ■«d hi the Solsona sector, ■W had reached th.- village. ■ r!M . and this, moving along ■«lieut secondary road, was' ■ k miles west of tli.- highway. ■" guards took over the pa- "■ Barcelona as a regular ■* force. ■ city continued almost ■ quiet. ■* Dati °nalists hoped to dis- ■? todas ' tells <>f thousands ■ ■*, M of bread, baked by army yesterday. K" y j“ , ? orl,iea - after a check ■ Mteria l captured here, said , Jiwv> yahßt9 had left 80 field ■" machine guns. 4,000.ons of gasoline. 8,000,000 j „ ‘ „, Patkets ' an <l 2,000,000 'is of drugs. o EMp ERATURfc READINGS M °CRAT thermometer : w». m ~ :00 a. “ ■” 29 r 3 4 WEATHER •X tO t" l#ht and Bl,nda >' d north? 0 ‘ n ° W in Cent|, a! ‘urn portions; slightly itp Orti " *° uth s,nd extreme nh Port?? to "' Bht: co| der In a, on Sunday and by night In south por y

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Droege Funeral Service Monday Funeral sorvieeM for Mrs. Sophia Droege, sister of Mrs Fred Bulte meier, who died at the Lutheran , hospital In Fort Wayne Thursday night, will he held Monday. 1 Services will be held at the home. 1016 Cottage avenue, Fort Wayne, at 1:30 o’clock Monday ' afternoon and at 2 p m. at the Emmaus Lutheran church. STATE SOLONS PLAY POLITICS Partisan Politics Feature Os Indiana General Assembly T’ldianapois, Ind.. Jan. 28 —(UP) — I'artisan politics, with all eyes so- ; cased on the 1940 election, has been I the dominant note of the Slat gen- ’ i eral asembly which today complet- ’ ed its third full week without having passed a single piece of ma jo- 1 legislation. Political jockeying during the 1 -past week on such issues as election 1 reform, nepotism and revision of the McNutt governmental reorgan- . Ixation act. drove home the fact that 'both parties are using the legis- ( lature as a springboard for their < 1940 political ambitions. ( Republican legislators, particullarly in the house where they hold a two-vote majority, are doing their best to harry Gov. M. Clifford Town- . -■■tit's administration by introducing bills attacking the reogranizat!on Act, Liquor control, the Democratic “two percent” club, the selection of textbooks, nepotism and other subjects which they believe may ; b» vulnerable. Democrats in the main have followed a policy of fighting these measures as fiercely as possible, attempting to refute the G. O. P. < harges and defending the Townsend administration as one of good government utilizing fully parliamentary rules of procedure, the Demdtrats have stalled some ot the bills momentarily when they were reported to the house they divided hy committees iu Impea that a Republican representative or two would break ranks and vote with them. But the G. O. P. lines have held fast on all major roll calls thus far. House Democrats could, if they desired, remain silent and permit the G. O. P. majority to pass the measures without trouble, serene m the knowledge they could be killed with the greatest of ease by the huge Democratic senate majority. But the house minority has elected to fight against odds in an effort to vindicate the Townsend Administration even though defeat Is almost certain. Events of the past week indicate , that fewer bills of great importance pvill be passed this session than at any one of recent years. There will have to be compromises between the two houses and to date, neither party has exhibited any outstanding disposition to compromise. With the session one-third finished, the only major bill to pass either house was one to provide for , , a central counting or primary elec- . ’.lon (ballots which the senate apI proved. The house has not yet started on any of the important issues except for the committee reports. House Republicans probably will, cucceed in jaming through several reorganization bills desibned to remove the governor’s appointive power. But they are expected to be i killed in the senate. DISTRICT MEET HERE THURSDAY National Council of Catholic Women To Meet Here Plans have been completed for the Decatur district meeting of the national council of Catholic women to bo held here Thursday night, February 2. The meeting will 'be held in the local Knights of Columbus lodge hall, starting at 8 p. m. Rev. Joseph J. Seimetz local pastor, will speak, telling of his recent trip to New Orleans and the Eucharistic congress. Mrs. L. A. Holthouse, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. William Gass, will present several vocal selections. Southern melodies will be presented by a group ot members. vMrs. Charles Lose, Decatur district president, will preside over the meeting. All membora of the NCCW have ibeen invited to attend.

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PETE REYNOLDS PRESIDENT OF DECATUR 0.0. Newspaperman Heads Business Group; 11. Kruckeberg Sec’y. Pete Reynolds, city editor of the Daily Democrat, was elected president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce at the annual organization meeting of the board of directors Friday night. Mr. Reynolds succeeds John L. DeVoss, local attorney, who has served as president for the past year. Herman 11. Kruckeberg, assistant cashier of the First State Bank, was elected secretary-treas-urer. succeeding Mr. Reynolds, who served the past year. Members of the board of directors, in addition to Mr. Reynolds. Mr. Kruckeberg, and Mr. DeVoss, are J. Ward Calland, vice-president and field manager of the Central Sugar Company; R. E. Glendening, cashier of the First State Bank; Walter Gard, Pennsylvania i railroad agent; W. S. Bowers, of the Lee Hardware company; Robert Helm, of the Holthouse-Schulte clothing store, and George Thoms, office manager of the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc. The board of directors, following the election of officers, set the date for the annual Free Street Fair and Agricultural show for the first full week in August, Monday. August 7. to Saturday, August 12, inclusive. The fair has ben sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce for the past four years and has become recognized in this short time as one of the outstanaing shows of its type in northeastern Indiana. The directors will meet next Thursday evening, February 2, to begin work on detailed plans in connection with the fair. Permanent Chamber of Commerce committees will also be announced within a few days by the new officers. — —o REFUGEES FLEE BEFORE REDELS Thousands Os Spanish Refugees Flee Into France Tertaus, French —Spanish Fron- ( tier. Jan. 28—(UP)—Thousands of loyalists and refugees fled into France today before the army of the Spanish insurgents. Several demobilized loyalist regiments rushed across the border to Prats De Molo. The number ran into thousands, according to reports from Perpignan, and it included some officers. They were interned immediately pending action by French government. The government opened several points on t!ie southern frontier to the thousands of wounded soldiers and homeless half-starved refugees. At least 40,000 were permitted to cross the border since midnight. Most of them were wrapped iu blankets to keep out the bitter cold ot the Pyrenees and carrying or leading whimpering children and bearing what few (belongings they had picked up in their flight. Some estimates ran as high as 200.000 refugees still to cross the vorders. o ————— ■■ Damage Suit Tests Teacher Tenure Act Wabash. Ind.. Jan. 28—(U.R>~A damage suit testing the teacher tenure law was on file in the Wabash circuit court today. Mra. Celia Moyer Quinn, a former teacher, is seeking $?.000 damages from Pleasant township. In her bill, the plaintiff said she was granted a life license to teach elementary subjects on May 13, 1931. She said she had been under contract to teach these subjects from June 23. 1927 until she was released in 1937. She claims she was replaced by a non-tenure teacher in violation of her contract. Since that time she said she has been unemployed. —o- —— Drops Spectacles In Pond, Caught On Hook Gardiner, Me.. Jan. 28 (U.R) William Field was fishing through the ice at Pleasant Pond. His spectacles fell into the hole and s&nk. But when he hauled in his line, the glasses were on the hook. j

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Chamber Os Commerce Heads I* ® ■■wabßl Pete Reynolds Herman Kruckeberg Pete Reynolds, city editor of the Daily Democrat, was elected president of the Decatur Chamlter of Commerce at the annual organization meeting of the board ot directors Friday night. Herman Kruckeberg, assistant cashier of the First State Bank, was elected secretarjMreasurt-r.

BIRTHDAYBALL HERE TONIGHT Annual President’s Ball; March Os Dimes Drive Ends The “March of Dimes'' movement here to aid in securing funds for combatting infantile paralysis in connection with the President’s Birthday Ball, closed at noon today. Harry Grube, chairman of the movement reported that approximately $73 will be netted from the movement. Mr. Grube stated that the movement grossed $89.12 and that expenses would amount to about sl6. The expense list will include the purchase of the “March of Dimes’’ containers, placards and buttons. Mr. Grube expressed his appreciation to the pubiic and Catholic schools for their support in contributing to the movement. He also expressed his thanks to P. Bryce Thomas, Dr. E. P. Fields, Fred Smith, the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and others who aided in staging the event. Half of the proceeds will go to the national foundation and half will remain here for use in treating infantile paralysis. The annual Birthday Ball will be held tonight at the Decatur Country Club with Frankie Schenk and his orchestra playing. Tickets are selling for sl. o Housing Authority May Be Continued Fort ’Wayne, Jan. 28. —(U.R)— The Fort Wayne housing authority will decide within a week or ten days whether it will continue to function. J. Stanley Young, architect for the authority said today. Forty of the fifty pre-fabricated houses planned under the original project have been completed and twenty of these are rented. Young said. “However, we have only scratched the surface for the need or demand for this type of home. The big problem, if we continue, is whether to make use of the sl,500,000 in United States housing authority funds earmarked for Fort Wayne, or to operate as we noware, with WPA labor and financed by local capital,” he said. SCOUT TROOPS GIVEN HONORS Three Adams County Troops Are Given Class A Ratings Three Adam county Scout troops i have ibeen honored with class A ratings in the annual achievement index compiled by R. L. Van Horn, area executive, in the Anthony Wayne area, according to word received from Fort Wayne. One troop from Decatur and two from Berne comprise the Adams county Class A. troopsl Troop No. 62 was the Decatur winner, while Troops No. 67 and 68 were the ones ■ from 'Berne. Lowell Smith is Scoutmaster of the Decatur troop. Dr. M. L. Habegger and Ralph McClain are the Scoutmasters of the two Berne entries. The certificates awarded for such performances will be presented at the annual Anthony Wayne area Scout banquet, to be held Thursday night at the Catholic. i Community Center in Fort Wayne, j

Charles A. Burdg Dies In California Funeral services for Charles A. Burdg. former resident of this city, who died Monday in a San Francisco hospital, were held there this week. according to word received here. The deceased, a relative to the local Burdg family, was a World War veteran. He also lived in Portland and Geneva for a time, being employed as a barber. Surviving are three brothers, including Nate Burdg of Portland and a sister. Burial was in San Francisco. HIRE ENGINEER TO AID SDRVEY Fort Wayne Engineer To Assist In Survey Os Sewage System Howard H. Harbson. Fort Wayne engineer, has been employed by the city of Decatur to make a survey and prepare plans and specifications for the city’s proposed new storm sewer. Harbson was employed last tiightfi followinga special meeting of the city council. The council voted power to the board of works to employ the engineer. He will aid Dick Tonnelier, city engineer, in drawing up the survey, which is to cover the sewage system of the entire city. A temporary snag had been encountered by the city, when Engineer Tonnelier informed the council of the huge task such a survey would call for and the length ot’ time which would be needed by his office, if he were not given assistance. He had informed the council that the balance of the winter and most of the summer would be required by his office to draw up the specifications. Although nothing definite has been learned from WPA iu regard to securing aid in building the proposed sewer, it was decided to go ahead with the survey. It was cited that the survey could, in event the sewer was not built, still be used if the city ever constructed a sewage disposal plant. The board hopes for the completion ot the survey at an early date, so that it may be submitted to and approved by WPA before the local WPA labor situation becomes acute. Wendell Macklin, local WPA foreman, had previously advised the council that only enough funds are available to keep WPA labor going here until March. A. E. Quackenbush, district supervisor for WPA. attended the | meeting and discussed the situation. It was also reported at last night’s meeting that no word had been received from WPA regarding the proposed aid in constructing a cooling tower at the city plant. The city had made application for aid. but it is feared that the grant will not be forthcoming. Federal Agents Ask White Slaver Return San Francisco, Jan. 28 —(U.R> — j U. S. Commissioner Ernest E. Williams set today for hearing a request of federal agnets that Carl La Roche, 48, be returned to Hammond, Ind., to face white ' slavery charges. La Roche and Miss Betty Stevens, 24, h id as a material witness, were held Ln $5,000 ball each. Federal officers said that Roche : had jumped bail in Florida after | an Indictment in Hammond.

SENATE TALKS AMENDMENT TO RELIEF BILLS Consider Stitt Penalties To Prevent Politics In WPA Washington. Jan. 28 — (U.R) Triumphant senate conservatives who beat the new deal on relief, spending by a one-vote majority moved today to impose stiff penalties to prevent politics in the works progress administration. A month of varied congressional reltelllon culminated in the 46 to 47 senate vote to cut President Roosevelt’s deficiency relief appropriation from $875.0110,000 to $725,000,000. The vote imt-ked the so-called house “economy bloc” and provided a roll call politically sig niflcant Itecause it foretold new congressional alignments against tlie administration. The senate today considers further amendments to the relief bill 1 passed by the house. They include : 1. A surprise proposal made last night by Sen. Bennett Champ Clark. D., Mo., to prohibit use of relief funds for purchase of or construction of armaments, muni tions or military barracks. 2. A series of amendments offered by Sen. Carl A. Hatch, D., N. M., to prohibit the promise of jobs for political activity, prohibit coercion of persons paid with relief funds or solicitation of relief clients for political funds Hatch has agreed to broaden the amendments to cover persons receiving funds from any congressional appropriation. 3. An amendment to restore the house provision forbidding a WPA wage differential of more than 25 per cent between states or areas. Predictions of a big conservative economy drive as a follow-up to yesterday's vote were received doubtfully. Yesterday’s vote was largely political and a studied rebuff to Mr. Roosevelt. Observers do not believe congress has yet| demonstrated any intention materially to reduce new deal budgets. “I don't th-ink that money will I stay in the treasury long,” remarked Sen. Carter, Glass. D.. Va , of the $150,000,000 which has been shaved from the relief appropriation. Mr. Roosevelt sought the $875,000,000 to pay WPA workers during the remaining five months of this fiscal year. The White House exerted every pressure to obtain that sum. Vice-President John N. Garner, who helped defeat the president on the spending issue, was sitting in cabinet meeting with his chief when the news reached the White House. “Were you the only one to smile," Garner was asked when he returned to the capitol. “You know I have a poker [ face." cracked the vice president.: The so-called "purgees" who were under new deal fire or threatened with administration opposition in last year’s Democratic primaries voted solidly against the president. Twenty-six of the senate’s 69 Democrats joined 2b j Republicans and Sen. Henrik Shipstead. Farmer - Laborite of Minnesota to give the new deal its most significant rebuff since the house rejected Mr. Roosevelt’s government reorganization (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o SENIOR CLASS TO GIVE PLAY Decatur High School Senior Class Play Here February 2 Tickets for “Growing Up." three act play to be presented by \ the senior class of the Decatur high school, are now on sale. The play is to be given in the school auditorium Thursday night. February 2 at 8 p. m. It will be the first entertainment of its type to be given in the new junior-senior high school auditorium. Tickets are 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. They may be secured from members ot the senior class or at the door on the night of the performance. The story of the play is that of two typical American families and their trials and tribulations in raising the children. An inventive but lazy father further complicates the situations that arise in the story. Miss Mildred Worthman, class sponsor, is j directing the play.

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TO SPEAK ON DRUG TRAFFIC Nationally Known Expert To Give Addresses Here Tuesday Earle Albert Rowell, nationally! famous narcotic expert and lectur-, er, will make two appearances ; here next Tuesday, speaking on | the illegal traffic in narcotics and dope. Mr. Rowell will first speak to' the students of the Decatur junior- ' senior high school and the Catholic high school in the new school i auditorium Tuesday afternoon at i 12:45 o'clock. The public has been invited to ' attend this lecture. His second appearance will be made at the Rice hotel Tuesday evening when he will lecture before a combined meeting of the Decatur Rotary and Lions clubs. In his address the speaker will deal with the evils of marihuana, showing it to be a national menace with opium and other drugs. Mr. Rowell’s lectures have been endorsed by service and social clubs, churches, medical societies, schools and educators all over the nation. o Church Reports To Be Given Sunday Copies of the annual financial and statistical report of St. Mary’s Catholic church will be distributed Sunday at the masses. Rev Father Joseph J. Seimetz. pastor, announced today. Reports on the St. Joseph Catholic cemetery will also be distributed. SCDUTDANOUET HERE FED. 23 Annual Boy Scout Banquet To Be Held In This City Next Month Detailed plans for the annual Adams county Boy Scout banquet will be opened next week. Sylvester Everhart, Scout commissioner, announced today. The banquet is to be held Thursday. February 23, as was previously announced. Mr. Everhart i stated that the banquet will ba held in this city. It is considered probable that the annual event will be staged in i the new junior-senior high school auditorium on Third street. Local Scout leaders and enthusiasts. as well as Boy Scouts, are also planning to attend the annual Anthony Wayne area Scout banquet at Fort Wayne next Thurs- ; day night. Complete dietails of the local event will be announced in a few days. The first annual Berne Scout | banquet will be held In that town I Tuesday night. Complete plans have been made for the affair. o— Attorneys Oppose Change In Bar Bill Marion. Ind., Jan. 28. —(U.R)—Opposition loomed today to the “integrated bar” bill Introduced in the state legislature and sponsored by the Indiana Bar Association. Attorneys from Grant, Delaware and Madison counties met here last night to launch the Hoosier Bar Association, which, officers said, would fight the pending bill on the claim it would serve to "regiment” lawyers. The proposed measure would place the state supreme court at the head of the Indiana Bar Association with powers to disbar members. All lawyers would be required to join the group. Through examinations the supreme court admit new members to the bar. o Woman Is Appointed As State Director Indianapolis, Jan. 28. — (U.R) — Miss Mildred Schmitt, former assistant director of the governor's commission on unemployment relief, has been appointed state director of the women's and professional division -of the WPA of Indiana, Stanton W. Bryan, deputy state administrator, announced to-1 (day.

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I More Complete Reports Indicate Tuesday’s Earthquake One Os Worst Disasters. OVER 30,099 — By William Horsey (Copyright 1939 by United Press) Santiago, Chile, Jan. 28 4U.R) Starvation threatened today the | survivors of Tuesday night's i earthquake which took, it was I indicated as more and more reI ports arrived from isolated com- ' munities, more than 30,000 lives, I making it one of the worst single ' disasters in history. The first survivors reaching the I outside world from the leveled town of Cauquenes—where 2,500 I persons were killed and 2.500 in- | jured—reported that hundreds of I children were starving and that 1 the situation was "desperate.'' 1 Cauquenes’ population was 10,000. Not one building was left intact. The United Press radio technician Rodrigues Johnson returned to Santiago from Concepcion, one of the large towns hard hit by the quake, and reported the food situation so acute that Armando Cosani. United Press staff correspondent, ami his assistants, had had nothing to eat in two days, and that only minute amounts of drinking water were available. Reports by private and military short wave radio brought reports of acute shortages, not only of food and water for the survivors, i but of essential medical mater- , ials with which to treat the injured ,and of serums and vaccines to fight the danger of epidemic. Thousands of bodies still remained under the debris of ruined buildings. A hot summer sun hastened natural decomposition, adding immeasurably to the threat of epidemic. The stench pervaded everywhere. The government ordered all survivors removed from the ruined cities and towns of south cen- : tral Chile as quickly as possible, i A constant stream of planes and ' trucks were moving out of here, 1 loaded with food, water, and medical supplies. The entire region was under strict military law. Looters were summarily shot. Food supplies were expropriated for government distribution. Wells and other sources of fresh water were taken over by troops. Troops were digging new wells. President Pedro Aguirre Cerdo reached Valparaiso last night on his tour of the region and ordered troops to commander the automobiles of sight-seers who had rushed into the area. He said they were using vitally needed gasoline. oil. and water. He announced that any foreigner who exploited the situation by raising prices of prime necessities would be expelled and that any Chilean guilty of the same offense would be severely punished. The British cruiser Exeter, which was in Chilean waters when | the disaster fell, arrived in Val- ! paraiso last night loaded with I refugees from the quake zone, and immediately loaded Chilean soldiers and 80(» tons of gasoline (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) JUDGEFDUCHTE TU HEAR SUIT Named Special Judge In Contempt Citation Suit Judge J. Fred Fruchte of tha Adams circuit court will assume jurisdiction of a contempt citation ' suit in the Huntington county circuit court involving Fort Wayne milk concerns, it has been learned here. The suit is that of the Sunshine Dairy of Fort Wayne against Uservo, Inc., Fort Wayne milk hottie supply company. Attorneys in the case agreed upon Judge Fruchte after Judge F.L. Bodenhager of Kendallville declined jurisdiction. It is considered possible by interested parties that another I change of venue may be necessary to choose a special court to preside over Uservo’s suit asking equitable relief from an Injunction decree. A definite date for the hearing | has not been set.