Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1939 — Page 1

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'SHY TERM Ilf HURT OPENS n^^Bplar Term Os Adams Court Opens This Morning F fM ‘ r * °Pen>-J this morn ins' court rooms of ;hp Adams courthouse. term opened after a two vacation between the NovM and February terms, with m Frtd Kn » hte on the (bench. entries were made in cases today ant! plans made opening of more important are e X p ei . ted to be HUm . |H° ililo the courtroom Tuesday docket wil probably be A i ; lural>er of cases that liave interest are expected M ® e: !or 'rial during the Febterm. attorneys were present .^■torulng. pIP? _ -o- — IBjjis Schmitt Is ■ Ta ken From Hospital m nK ■ chmin ' WP 'l known D?H ' B,dem ' wl '° sustained a fractup m a fall at his home a S a^o, Was dismissed from county memorial hospi- ■ VEmp - Ra tur E readings B Mocr at THERMOMETER k:::: 37 2:00 P . m 39 B: a m - 38 3:00 p.m 38 Wea ther ■L*!," * nd co, <*«r tonight; , er y Stnerally f , l? a „ d i i

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Judffe Subpoenaed ■ IHJH '&■ v %»' 4 Federal Judge Edwin S. Thomas, for twenty-five years on the U. S. District Court bench Jn Connecticut, sailed for South America half hour before subpoena was issued for his appearance before a Federal Grand Jury. Investigating affairs of Judge Mantou, in New York, the Grand Jury asked that Thomas be taken from ship at the Canal Zone.

COURT TO HEAR GARWOOD PLEAS Two Confessed Thieves Enter Fleas Late This Afternoon Ivan and DeLoyd Garwood were to appear bemore Judge J. Fred Frtichte' in circuit court this afternoon to answer to charges of grand larceny. The Garwood brothers were ; brought before the court Saturday afternoon and asked for more time before entering their pleas. Judge Fruchte granted the coni iinaunce and they were returned , to jail. The young men. 32 and 21 years *of affe. respectively, were arrested Thursday by county, city and state police authorities on the charge. With their arrests, authorities feel that they have “cleared up" much of the thievery prevalent in this community during the past several months. The Garwoods signed confessions now in the possession pf Sheriff Ed Miller, in which they admitted . stealing sheep in this county and ! Mercer county, Ohio; soya beans, | a battery, tires and other items. Both DeLoyd and Ivan Garwood : pleaded guilty to charges of grand larceny when arraigned before Judge J. Fred Fruchte late this afternoon. They were remanded to the jail by the court until Wednesday afternoon, when sentence is tc :be passed. o Two Persons Killed As Autos Collide Eldorado, 111., Feb. « — (UP) — Miss Iva Jean Turner, 24-year-old j Evansville, Lnd„ nurse, and Harry ; W. Franks, 28, of Philadelphia, died here last night a lew hours after an automobile accident. Paul Kott lowski, Indianapolis, driver of the car in which Miss Turner was rid- ! iag. escaped with minor injuries. The accident occurred when Frank’s car skidded broadside across the highway and was struck by Kottlowski's car. ASSESSORS TO HOLD MEETING County Workers To Get Instructions On February 14 Here A county assessor’s meeting will be held in this city on Tuesday, February 14. County Assessor Ernest Worthman announced today. The meeting will either be held In the court rooms or the city hall, depending upon which place is available, he stated. All township trustees, assessors end deputies will be required to be present at this meeting, he stated. Paul G. Weber, of tit* state tax beard will be in attendance, ami with Mr. Worthman will lead th9 discussions. Assessors will be given instructions and information on tht annual work of assessing at the meeting. A definite site for the meet will be announced shortly before the meeting, Assessor Worthman static

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WOULD ABOLISH WPA AND SLASH RELIEF FUNDS Economy Bloc Leader Woodrum Launches Vigorous Drive Washington, Feb. 6 — (U.R) Rep. Cliffton Woodrum, I)., an influential house member, began campaigning to abolish the WPA and to slash relief expenditures in half Woodrum. house leader of the I economy bloc which wishes to cu* . $150,000,000 off WPA in defiance of White House objections, introduced a bill that will probably bring a definite congressional showdown on WPA. Wood rum's bill stated: I 1. $1,120,000 for relief In 1940 fiscal year, approximately onehalf that provided for the present 1939 fiscal year. 2. Abolition of WPA and the substitution of an “unemployment relief administration.” 3. Congressional ear-markings of relief advocates. This would restrict types of projects provided by the relief fund. o Admit 21 Robberies In Seven Counties Irafayette. Ind., Feb. 6 —(UP) — ISsco W. Neal, 18. and Harry S, Moore. 25. Imth of Lafayette, who are reported to have confessed 21 , robberies in seven counties, were lobberies in seven counties, were to to he reported to have confessed 21 arraigned today at Monticello. Second degree burglary charges will be placed against them, state detective Wayne Timmons said. The burglaries were in White. Tippecanoe. Clinton. Benton, Pulaski. Warren and Fountain counties. DISTRICT SHOW SET MARCH 14 Fort Wayne District Spring Stallion Show Date Is Set Archie Stnitley and Ed Neutralise!', county directors from Adams county on the Fort Wayne district spring stallion show, have announced that the 1939 spring stallion show will be held Tuesday, March 14, at the Fort Wayne : Speedway, the same place this show was held last year. They further state that all stallions j having sired colts must have one or more foals entered in the cur- : rent Gold Medal colt club. Entry fee for each stallion will ! be the same as last year—s2.oo The following classes for 1939 in the Fort Wayne district spring stallion show are as follows: 1. Veterans class — over ten years of age. 2. Aged class — five to ten years, inclusive. 3. Four year old class. 4. Three year old class. 5. Two year old class. 6. Yearling class (only Gold Medal colts eligible.) 7. Senior champion and re-j serve champion out of classes 1, 2. 3. 4. 8. Junior champion and reserve champion out of classes 5, G. 9. Grand champion and reserve l champion out of classes 7, 8. 10. Get-of-sire —two animals by 1 one sire. 11. County group of five stallions (ages of all stallions taken ; as of January 1). Bowman Rites At Sturgis Tuesday Funeral services for Earl Bowfi.an, former Decatur resident, who died at Sturgis, Michigan Saturday, will be held in that city Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock (CST), at the First Methodist church. Burial will be made there. Threatens To Revoke Charters Os Unions Detroit, Feb. 6—(UP)—A threat to revoke the charters of all local sending delegates to a United Alt toniobile workers union convention here March 4 was ignored today hy Homer Martin, one of two "presidents” of the embattled UAW. Wyndham Mortimer, UAW vice president, said in New York last night that the Union’s executive board would revoke the charters of locals which send delegates to the convention called my Martin. ( ]

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Former Local Man Is Robbery Suspect Kenneth McNeal, who was arrest-i id in Milwaukee and returned to Fort Wayne as a suspect in the Angola bunk robbery case, is a for- j tier resident of this city. McNeul attended the Central : grade school while living in this city and moved to Fort Wayne before entering high school. He is remembered by many lo- ! cal people. McNeal is being held under SIO,OOO bond He was arrested as a suspect in a counterfeiting case several months ago, but released later. MARTIN REITER BABLY INJURED Left Leg Crushed When Caught Between Log And Tree Martin Reiter, 44, of north of Decatur. sustained a crushed left leg .about noon today when he was pinned between a sliding log and and a tree. The accident occurred at the Reiter farm on federal road 27, B 3 Reiter was engaged in dragging logs with a neighbor, Robert Marhenke. He had just passed a large tree, when the log started sliding, pinning him between the two.. -Because of the great pain, he was unable to be moved until an ambulance arrived. He was forced to lie in the rain for sometime until Marhenke and i brother-in-law, Herman Mailand. summoned help. The injury occurred about the knee on the left leg. The seriousness of the injury had not been determined late this afternoon. Fever Outbreak In College 'On Wane East Lansing. Mich., Feb. 6 — (UP)—An alarming undeulent fever outbreak which killed one student and affected 45 others at Michigan state college was believed by health authorities to be subsiding i today. Three more of 21 students receir-; ing treatment were discharged and no new cases were reported. The souce of the unusual malay has not been discovered, however. Sixty cases since last June have been traced, but still there was no 1 word on how the fever struck the students, most of whom worked in the laboratory building, but not in the basement with Dr. I. E. Huddleson. bacteriology professor and authority on the disease. —o Blame Jealousy For Murder And Suicide Louisville. Ky- Feb. 6--(UP) — Police said today that jealousy apparently had -been the motive that led John H. Hooper. 34. unemployed to kill his 17-year-old bride then take his own life by lying in front of a train. The couple had been married only a month and the bride, Irene, had returned to her mother’s home last w »ek. Yesterday Hooper went to the home, shot his bride with a : shotgun and wounded her sister slightly. Then he went to the railtoad yards, stretched out on the tracks and was killed by a Chesapeake and Ohio freight train. CLUB BANQUET FEBRUARY 20 Annual Teen And Twenties Banquet To Be Held In New High Plans are ibeing made for the Teens and Twenties Club banquet to be held on Monday evening, February 20th at 6:30 o’clock at the new Decatur High School, and the ticket sale is now under way. Tickets sell for 50 cents each and may Ite secured from the following persons: Betty Tricker, Mary Koos, Robert Brown, Everett Johnson. Elmer Nussbaum, Hnlda Steury, Alice P.einking. and the County Agent's Office. This banquet is an annual affair of the Teens and Twenties Club and a good program is being arranged. Music will be furnished by members of the Grice conservatory of music. Russell G. East, agricultural agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad, will be the speaker and his topic will be, “The Geography of the Diaper Table.” R. J. Mann will give a number of readings. The general public is invited to attend.

BATTLE FLARES IN HOUSE ON 1 LIQUOR LAWS Defeat Move To Name Joint Committee To Draft New Act Indianapolis, Feb. 6 — (U.R) — A liquor law battle flared on the floor of the house today over a proposal to name a joint senate j and house committee to draft a new liquor act for passage at this session. The move was defeated by x - | voice vote and left the question : of liquor law revision as badly tangled as ever. Rep. George Wolf. Peru Democrat, Introduced a resolution toduy calling for the appointment of 12 members of the house, one from each congressional district and equally divided between both parties, to meet with a like committee from the senate to draft an entirely new liquor law. It would replace the Republican-sponsored measure now on second reading in the house which has been attacked by both Republicans and Democrats. Wolf said in defense of his proposal that “it is time to lay politics aside and write an act that will satisfy a majority of the people.” This brought a clamor from the Republican benches led by Rep. Herbert Evans of Newcastle. G. O. P. floor leader. “This morning," said Evans. “I i introduced a bill to enact the only regulatory law Indiana ever had —the Nicholson act. If we appointed this committee (Wolf'sl about half of them would come ont maimed and crippled. “If we keep monkeying around ! with this subject, in two years i Indiana will lie as dry as the i Sahara desert. This is a hot subCCONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) COUNTY BOARD HOLDS MEETING 1 County Commissioners Meet In Regular Monthly Session The board of county commissioners met in regular session this morning, it being the February meeting. The morning was devoted to the j checking and allowing of claims. The allowances for highway main--1 tenance were heavier than usual, ! due to the fact that no claims have been paid since December 19 and that January included five weeks pay period. The appointment of a county attorney will be made at this session. It is expected that Henry B. Heller will be reappointed. Tuesday the commissioners will go either to Huntington or Portland to inspect the new WPA plat records which have been installed in those counties. A similar project may ibe opened here, the WPA furnishing the labor and tne coun ty providing the materials. Henry Dehner of the county council will accompany the commissioners. Commissioners Moses Augsbur-1 ger, Frank Liniger and Phil Strahm and county surveyor Walter Gilliom attended the annual road school at Purdue last week. They report an enthusiastic meeting. Much information relative to road construc- , tinn and proposed legislation concerning the gasoline tax was obtained at the meeting. Several ditch matters are to be taken up by the commissioners at this session. o ■ Former Local Man Gets Appointment J. Charles Brock of this city has received word of the government appointment of his brother, Edison Brock to the position of mechanical i engineer for the Chicago subways, now under construction. For the past five years Mr. Brock has held a similar position with the Chicago sanitary district projects. o Railroad Official To Speak To Lions Earl W. Fisher, of Chicago, general freight agent for the Pennsylvania railroad, will be the speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Lions club Tuesday evening at the Rice hotel. He will be accompanied to this city by F. G. Schoettler, of Fort Wayne, division freight : superintendent.

Loyalist Government Flees To France; All Os Catalonia Province Lost To Insurgents

LIST WINNERS IN CLUB WORK Medals To Be Presented Corn Winners At Banquet March 2 Tlie annual Adams county farmj ers’ banquet was originally built I around the 5-acre corn club work | and the achievement in 5-acre work has always accupied a prom- | inent place on the program. In this, the 15th annual farmers’ banquet, to be held at Monmouth I Thursday, March 2, the corn club members continue to occupy the limelight to a considerable extent. Under the chairmanship of Benjamin D. Mazelin, there were 50 members in the 5-acre corn club work, the largest enrollment ever had in the county. Os these fifty, thirty-eight men checked up. This too, is a record number. Medal Winners The loving cup, or the corn club trophy, will be held in 1939 by Victor Bleeke, whose yield of 126.9 bushels topped the county for the past growing season. Gold medals will be awarded to the following men: Henry Aeschlenran, Victor Bleeke. P. H. Drum, Menno Eich- , er. John Phillip Eicher. Benjamin Gerke, Winfred Gerke, John Heinrann, Rufus Inniger, Wm. Neadstine, L. A. Ripley. Adolph Schamerloh. Walter Thieme, and Wilson Welland. To secure a gold medal one must have a yield of 100 bushels or more. j Silver medal winners must have a yield of 85 bushels or more and the following men qualified: Homer W. Arnold, E. W. Busche, Martin J. Graber. Dan Habegger, Sylvan Habegger, Henry Heimann, Otto Holle, Harve ineichen. Christ Inniger, B. D. Mazelin, Alvin Nnssbaum, Eli Schwartz. Millard Schwartz, Reuben Schwartz, and Otis Sprunger. Bronze medaT winners must have secured a yield of 75 bushels or more and the men to be awarded !bronze medals are: Fred Marbach, Ralph Myers, Henry Rumple, Palmer L. Schwartz. The balance of the corn club membership for 1938 was: Jacob Barkley. Henry Dehner, Paul Fuelling, Herman Geiger, Lee Graber. David D. Habegger, Robert H. Heller. James Hendricks. Peter B. Lehman, Robert Myers, Jacob D. Nussbaum, Leon Neuenschwander. j William Patterson, Fred B. Rines, I Hubert Schmitt, David P. Steury, Delmore Wechter and Chas. Burkhart. Alabama Prison Riot Is Curbed Quickly Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 6—(UP) —A riot in Kilby prison was short lived today when guards, highway, city and county officers used tear gas to subdue a band of striking prisoners and locked the entire po-j pulation in their cells. Warden Lin-; dsey said the riot started when pri-j soners wrecked mill looms and then fire broke out in the food house. THIEVES LOOT ; IDEAL DAIRY Small Amount Os Silver, Four Checks Stolen Saturday A thief or thieves broke into the Ideal Dairy Store on North Second street sometime after 10 o'clock Saturday night and escaped with! loot, containing silver and checks. The thieft was not discovered un- , til the following morning. Chief of Police James Borders was notified and an investigation opened immediately. The silver amounted to approximately $9. and the four checks to , tailed about S2O. The following checks were taken by the thief who entered a side window and snatched the coin bag; General Electric Co., to the Ideal Dairy for sl2; Ideal Dairy to Char-1 les Bailey for $2.74; Ideal Dairy to Frank Dellinger for sl.Ol and Ideal I Dairy to C. C. Reinking for $4.42. The latter three checks were numbered 5275, 5282 and 5248, respectively. Anyone locating any of . these checks is asked to notify aui tborlties. |

Own Fear Traps Him Norman Stewart 2d Because he feared fingerprinting. Norman Stewart 2d, left his bartending job in Jacksonville. Fla., where the identification is a hotel rule, and returned to Pittsburgh to confess the 1935 hammer-knife slaying of his wife and 4-year-old , son. according to police.

TAKE SALESMAN INTO CUSTODY Magazine Salesman Arrested On False Pretense Charge Sheriff Ed Miller returned Sunday night from Lake Wawasee in Kosciusko county where he arrested C. A. Nussel. Nussel, a magazine salesman, was returned here in the custody of ' Sheriff Miller to answer to charges ! cf gaining money under false pre--1 tenses. Nussel, according to the affldaI vit. duped Rolland Sprunger out i ol S2O, by asserting that Sprunger, principal of Monroe high school, ! would receive a special magazine offer in repayment. Nussel is thought to be the same salesman who doped numerous other school teachers In the county t with magazine offers. He was to be arraigned in cir- ' cuit court before Judge J, Fred Fruchte late this afternoon Upon conviction the charge carries a sentence up to seven years and a fine not exceeding SI,OOO. Nussle entered a plea of guilty before Judge J. Fred Fruchte this afternoon to a charge of Obtaining money under false pretenses. Nussel was ordered returned to the | jail by the court, who took the senj tence under advisement. -o Arrest Jeff Addy For Intoxication Jeff Addy. who was arrested Saturday by Police Chief James Bor-; decs and Officer Sephus Me’,chi was granted a continuance in city court this morning when arraigned before Mayor Forrest Elzey on a charge of public intoxication. ——o j Berne Man Gored By Bull Saturday — Joel Neuenschwander, an employe | lot the Brady Bros, stockyards at; 1 Berne, was painfully injured Satur-, day afternoon when gored by a 1 large bull which he was helping to | load. He suffered fractured ribs I and severe bruises but this condition is not serious. o— K. Os P. Members To Bluffton Tuesday All members of the K. of P lodge j who are planning to go to Bluffton for the district meeting Tuesday night are asked to meet at the local lodge at 6:30 p. m. Transportation will be furnished. o —- Cemetery Association Members Are Elected Dick Boch, Lawrence Beckmeyer and Adrian Wemhoff were elected members of the St. Joseph’s Catholic cemetery association, at the auI nual meeting held Sunday.

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i Spanish Loyalist Troops Flee To Freneh Border As Insurgent Forces Continue Drive. SEEKING PEACE Perpignan. French-Spanish frontier, Feb. 6— (U.PJ —The Spanish loyalist defeat in Catalonia became a debacle today. The rich province was lost. The government had fled to the safety of France and the main body of the army began a mass retreat over the frontier, surrendering Us arms to French troops. Fleets of loyalist fighting planes landed at French airports. Long columns of artillery, tanks and munitions trains jostled retreating troops and civilian refugees on the crowded highways at the frontier. There were persistent reports that the republican government sought an armistice. From nationalist territory came back word I that unconditional surrender alone would be accepted. A consultation by loyalist Premier Juan Negrin with members of his cabinet resulted in a definite split on peace or war. Only Negrin and Julio Alvarez Del Vayo wanted the cabinet to risk flying to Valencia and continue the war in central Spain with the meager facilities available to Gen. Jose Miaja, defender of Madrid. President Manuel Azana; Luis Companys, president of Catalonia, and Jose Antonio De Aguirre, president of the basque republic, 1 favored peace on the best possible terms. Thousands of French troops along the frontier were on war footing. They mounted field guns and machine guns at commanding • points in the Pyrenees, ready to 1 repel any nationalist eucroacli- ■ ment. French anti-aircraft guns already had gone into action : against poaching airplanes which : flew over French territory, i President Manuel Azana of the . loyalist government was expected in Paris today after crossing the . frontier afoot yesterday. President Luis Companys of the Catalonian autonomous republic entered France with all members ol his government, and it was announced that for Catalonia the civil war was over. Jose Antonio De Aguiree, president of the basque autonomous republic likewise arrived in France. At dawn today, with the jubilant nationalists marching to the frontier and hardly 10 miles away at some points, French authorities Invited the iirst 42,000 of some 140,000 loyalist troops waiting in the frontier area to enter tha country and surrender their arms. Three thousand motor cars crossed the border during the night at La Perthus alone, with men, women and children refugees. Nine thousand soldiers who had retreated all the way from Barcelona. Including 1,000 cavalrymen with their horses, crossed in the early hours of the morning and were sent to one of the new concentration camps at Angeles. As the village of La Menere 1,360 men entered and were disarmed. Three hundred loyalists who tried to cross at Las Illas refused (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) K. C. DISTRICT MEET AT WAYNE ___. Local Members To Attend District Session February 16 Members of the Decatur lodge Knights of Columbus, will attend a district meeting of the lodge at Fort Wayne K. of C. home Thursday evening, February 16 Fred D. Shoppnran. Fort Wayne attorney, and district deputy, will ’ preside over the meeting, which will have William G. Duggan, of Chicago as the main speaker. Mr. Duggan, representative of the supreme council of the Knights of Columbus will discuss “The Knights of Columbus Crusade to" Christian Justice.” In addition to Decatur members • and the hosts, representatives from ; Huntington and Garrett councils, publicity and insurance committees • of the Catholic Action will be in | attendance.