Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1939 — Page 1

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Double Slaying Howard Romig Forced by his father to surrender In connection with the slayings of Dorothy Buskirk. 24. and her daughter. Mary, 15 months. Howard Romig. 22. is shown outside police headquarters at Easton, Pa. Police said the girl had been acting as Romig's housekeeper. The victims had been shot twice in the head. SUCK ACTS ON 3E VIOLATORS U. S. Judge Imposes Sentences And Fines On Guilty Pleas Fort Wayne. Feb. 9—<U.R> -U.S Judge Thomas W. Slick today recorded sentences and fines of 36 federal law violators who appeared in district court here yesterday. Most of the sentences and fines imposed on the alleged law-break-ers were on charges of violation of lite internal revenue law and postal regulations. Included among the cases was the sentencing of Carl C. Grimm, former postal clerk at Garrett. Ind., to a year and a day for embezzlement of post office funds. George P. Marshall, former postmaster at the soldiers' home, Marion, Ind., was given a suspended sentence of a year and a day for embezzlement of (244.57 in post office ree-ipts. Authorities stated that federal jails in the northern Indiana district were practically cleared of confessed violators. Each of the 36 prisoners sentenced yesterday had entered guilty pleas previously. o Eighth St. U. B. Planning Revival Evangelistic services will start at 7:30 o'clock SundjrV night at the Eighth St. U. B. church. Rev. Ruth Foltz, of Van Wert. Ohio, will "be in charge of the preaching each night, starting Monday. Cottage prayer meetings have been held nightly for the past two weeks in preparation for the revival. The public is invited to attend these services. o— VOTE FUND TO DIES INQUIRY House Votes SIOO,OOO To Keep Up Dies Committee Probe Washington. Feb. 9—(U.R) -The house today voted SIOO,OOO to continue for one year the Dies investigation of un-American activities. By voice vote the house adopted a resoltition brought in by Chairman Lindsay Warren. D.. N. C., of the house accounts committee. Not a single voice was raised in dissent. The house approved continuation of the inquiry itself last Friday and today's action provided the money. The SIOO,OOO is four times the amount—s2s.ooo —with which the inquiry was started last year. Warren said the committee headed by Rep. Martin Dies. D, Tex., will earn the gratitude of the country if it will “hew to the line, march straight ahead, turn neither to the rigfct nor the left, and not listen to the blandishments of any group or yield to the itch of publicity." Any attempt at an “iuquislation,” he said, would result in loss of public confidence.

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CONDITION OF POPE PIUS IS TERMED GRAVE Deep Anxiety Reported In Vatican For Life Os Pope Vatican City, Feb. 9. — (U.R) — Pope Pius took a grave turn for the worse today. A semi-official statement described his condition as "grave" and said deep anxiety was felt. A semi-official Vatican source said at 5 p. m.. that the Pope had suffered a new attack of cardiac asthma lasting 40 minutes. The attack was so alarming, the source said, that intimate Vatican circles fear for the life of the Pontiff. ’ A general weakening was announced with rising fever. Authoritative Vatican circles I emphatically denied that the Pope was suffering from bronchial pneumonia. as earlier reported, but emphasized the gravity of his condition, due to the strain on his heart caused by Influenza. His eardiacal asthma condition also caused anxiety. The semiofficial announcement Os his condition came after a visit by Dr. Giovanni Rocchi, his hpsyician, who arrived at the bedside shortly after lunch and was still there at 5:30 p. in. After the new attack of cardiac asthma, the Pope’s physicians administered what was described as a radical treatment. Thereafter, it was said, the Pope rested more easily. Before the treatment became effective, it was understood, the Pope fainted several times during the cardiac attack. Those spells of unconsciousness caused greatest concern at the Vatican. Two physicians and two male nurses were constantly at the bedside of the Pope. It was under(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o — SEVERAL CASES SET FOR TRIAL Judge Fruchte Sets Civil Cases For Trial In Circuit Court Several cases were set for trial by Judge J. Fred Fruchte Wednesday for the February term of the Adams circuit court. Following are the dates and the cases already set for trial. Civil cases start next mouth, with crim- ! inal casses taking up the greater portion of the balance ot this month. March 2—Suit on note of the Peoples State Bank of Fort Recovery, Ohio against N. E. Grile and others. March 3—Foreclosure suit of th? Farmers & Merchants' State Bank of Bluffton against Eiias McDonald. March 6 —Divorce suit of Harold Eley against Vauneda Eley. March 7 —Secure judgment on legacy suit of John Miller Mary Koline and Elizabeth Eiting against i Casper Miller. March B—Account8 —Account suit ot the Brown Brockemeyer Company, Inc., against General Ice Machines Company and Dick Burdg. trading as the General Ice Machines Company. March 9— Damage suit of George Appelman against Peter Losche. March 16—Account suit of American Medical Business Bureau against S. E. Haggard. March 11 —Mechanics lien suit 'of Homer Pontius Oil Company against Joseph Glendening, Jonas Abrams, Kenneth O. Reit Ralph Tracy, a partnership ding business is Hartford Oil Co. The damage suit of Marie Hower. Joseph Hower, which had been pending against the Nickel Plate railroad company since December li>3o was dismissed for lack of prosecution and ordered left off the docket at the plaintiff’s cost. Negro Attackers Beaten By Whites Goldsboro. N. C.. Feb. 9—(U.R> ~ Five white men took two negroes from the city jail at gunpoint today, spirited them to the outskirts of the city and flogged them into I semi-consciousness The negroes, Kirby Baldwin.. 29. and Floyd Edwards. 30. were awaiting trial on charges of attacking Mayor J. H. Hill of Qold’boro on a downtown street. | Deputy Sheriff R. W. Percise said the negroes were “in pretty bad shape" but probably will re-j | cover. i

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Decatur Man Fined At Celina, Ohio U'Wis Bucher, 24. of Decatur, was Hued SIOO and costs when he pleaded guilty to driving while In toxlcated before Judge Raymond A. Younger in Mercer county common pleas court at Celina, Ohio. Bucher was also sentenced to three days in the Mercer county county jail and his driver’s license was suspended for a period of six . months. o TO HOLD C. E. MEETING HERE County Christian Endeavor Meets Here Saturday, Sunday Plahs have been completed for the Adams county Christian Endeavor convention to be held at the First U. B. church in this city Saturday and Sunday, it was announced today. A carry-in supper will be held at 6:30 p. m. Saturday to open the convention. The complete program follows: Saturday 6:00 —“Carry-In Supper" in church basement. (Each person is to bring his own table service.) 7:00 —Program in church baseinent. Robert Augaburger, toastmaster. Chorus singing—By everybody. Introduction of and remarks by district and state C. E. officers. Special music —Girls chorus. Reformed Church, Berne, Ind. 7:30 — Service in church auditorium. Song service. Devotionals — Evangelical church. Decatur. Special music — Girls chorus. Reformed church. Berne. Talk—Norwood Booker, Porter distrist C. E. president. ; Talk—Maxine Mendell. state publicity chairman. Business—Awarding of Shield. Report of nominating committee and election of officers. Installation of officers by Rev. J. A. Weber. Offering. Panel discussion —“Christian Endeavor." led by Frieda Lehman. Benediction —Rev. C. A. Schtnid. Sunday I:4s—Services in auditorium. Decatur U. B. Church. (New officers in charge). Special musk. —Decatur U. B. orchestra. Song service. Special music — Ladies quartet — (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR! o Alleged Murderess To Be Tried Feb. 20 Marion. Ind., Feb. 9 —(UP) — A trial will be held Feb. 20 —tor Mrs. Rilla Harrell 47 a wife charged with murdering Paul Bartholomew one armed Largo hign school pirncipal and Athletic coach. She pleaded innocent at her arraignment yesterday. The victim was shot five times last Nov. 11 at the Harrell home. Mrs. Harrell declared the shooting was accidental. SCOUT LEADERS GIVEN AWARDS Sylvester Everhart And Lowell Smith Are Given Honors Sylvester Everhart and Lowell Smith, local Scout leaders and enthusiasts. have ibeen awarded gold emblem keys in recognition of their work and leadership, it was .earned here today. The awards were made by the officials of the Anthony Wayne area of the Boy Scouts. The award is made after a Scoutmaster lias completed two specialization courses, two courses in first aid. both standard and advanced; has finished a course in introduction to Scoutmastership and principles in Scoutmastership. Five years of service as a iScou. leader is also necessary to secure the award. The two men are the only two to hold the awatd in the county. Both are members of the faculty at the Decatur junior-senior high school. The Lions Troop No. 62 of , this city, Berne Troops No. 67 and 68 of Berne have been awarded an A rating in Scouting, it was also announced. Plans for the annual Scout banquet here February 23 are 'to be i furthered tonight In a meeting of | Scout leaders and Scoutmasters. I The banquet is to be held in the, I new auditorium-gymnasium.

GLASS ASSAILS PRESIDENT FOR HIS NOMINEES Virginia Senator Attacks Roosevelt On Two Nominations Washington. Feb. 9 — (U.P) — j Sen. Carter Glass, D., Va., today charged President Roosevelt with projecting the "purge" of conservative Democrats into the 1940; ; election campaign. With that public accusation the rapidly developing battle for con-, trol of the Democratic party and power to designate the 1940 presidential candidate became acutely alarming to some highly placed party men. The uproar may reach the senate when it meets. Pending also was critical discussion of 1 Roosevelt foreign policy. Glass shot at the White House a statement that Virginia senators’ recommendations for judicial appointment "have been rejected l»y the appointive power merely through a desire to "purge” the junior senator next year and the senior senator of Virginia later should he live longer than the intriguers hope.” Sen. Harry F. Byrd. D., Va.. with whom Glass consulted before issuing his statement, comes up for reelection in 1940. Glass' term expires in 1943. He is 81 years old, a fiery veteran of the political and journalistic wars. “I do not give a tinker's dam about patronage," Glass said. But the dispute is shot with 1 politics on both sides and Washington is excitedly aware of it. The extent to which party fab ric is ripped was indicated by recalling that Mr. Roosevelt invited Glass to be secretary of the treasury in his first administration and long before he was nominated favored Byrd to succeed John J. Raskob as chairman of the Demo (CONTINUED ON PAGE FJVE) O MRS. FLEMING DIES SUDDENLY Mrs. R. K. Fleming Dies Suddenly Wednesday Night Mrs. Mary J. Fleming. 63. wife ot R. K. Fleming of Root township, died suddenly at 9:30 o'clock last evening at her home of a stroke of apoplexy. Mrs. Fleming had been in ill health for two months, but her death was unexpected. Born in Allen county, March 7, 1875, a daughter of William and Rebecca Brown, Mrs. Fleming lived for 32 years on the Fleming farm in Root township, four miles north of Decatur. Besides the husband, three child-r-_n. Esta J. Fleming, at home; Mrs. Florence Myers of Bobo and Lee Fleming of Decatur, survive Five brothers also survive: J. M. Brown, Reno. Nev.; L. D. Brown. Porterville, Cal.; T. M. Brown. Van Nuys, Cal., Ross Brown, la>s Angeles; Russell D. Brown, Marshalltown, lowa. Two sisters and one brouter are deceased. The body was removed from the Gllig and Doan funeral parlor to the home this afternoon, w’here it may be viewed until time of the funeral Funeral services will be held at the Evangelical church in this city, Rev. George Lozier, officiating, the I time and date depending on word irom relatives in California. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. London Jittery Over Two More Explosions London, Feb. 9—(UP)—Two more explosions continued to keep London Jittery over bomb outrages today but police did not immediately link the blasts to a reputed Irish Republican army plot. The bombs, apparently home made, started a small blaze in a timber yard in the Paddington district an dcaused excitement but no damage iu the London Northeastern railway yards. o Slight Cold Keeps Rooseyelt At Home Washington, Feb. 9 —(UP) — A Roosevelt away from the executive offices today. On the advice of Dr. Ross Mclntyre, White House physician, Mr. Roosevelt remained in his study on the second floor of the mansion. o

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BILL TO REVISE REORGANIZATION LAW ADVANCED House Republicans Beat Attempts Os Democrats To Kill Bill Indianapolis. Feb. 9 — (U.R) — i Amid cries of “dictatorship" house Republicans today beat off strenous attempts by Democrats to kill a G. O. P. bill to revise the McNutt reorganization act by restoring appointive powers to elective officials and advanced it to the passage stage. The vote was 51 to 47 on strict party lines after bitter debate. The Republicans also by a voice vote defeated the amendment by Rep. George Wolf which would have made the bill effective Jan. 1, 1941, instead of immediately. The bill under consideration today—one of a series by Republicans —would restore to the lieu-tenant-governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer and superintendent of public instruction authorization to appoint their staffs. Under the McNutt law. | these elective officers can name only their chief deputies and all other personnel is under control of the governor. The Republican-sponsored liquor reform bill reached the passage stage in the house of representatives today after the stormiest session of the 1939 legislature. It was advanced to third reading late yesterday and is expected to come up for passage within a few days. Then it will go to the senate to face the critical scrutiny of a huge Democratic majority. The bill would divorce politics from liquor by creating a bi-parti-san state commission of four members, named by the governor from candidates • nominated by state chairmen of the two major political parties. Beer ports of entry would be abolished and all restrictions lifted on the number of wholesale permits granted. Employes of the liquor department would be divided equally between the two political parties. Democrats howled the bill was being "rammed down our throats" as the narrow G. O. P. majority beat down repeated attempts to amend it. most of them offered in a heckling spirit. Prior to house consideration of the 1)111, many Republican membets privately had attacked it and Rep. Herbert Evans of New Castle, G. O. P. floor leader, only Monday introduced a bill to reenact the old Nicholson law which regulated the liquor industry in pre-prohibition days. But the Republican lines held fast when the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O DISCUSS FUTURE OF AUDITORIUM Berne Auditorium StockHolders Re-Elect All Officers The future of the Berne auditorium, now that the town is to have j a large, new school for use in civic and school activities, was the main object of discussion at a meeting ot the stockholders in the Berne Community Association, held this week in that town. The sentiment of all those who attended the meeting indicated, according to reports that an effort will be made to keep the auditorium in good condition and make it available for any use that might arise. Officers and committeemen were elected at the meeting, whose duties it will be to keep the auditorium progressing for the next four years. The officers who were re-elected by the stockholders are: E. J. Schug, president; C. T. Habegger, vice-president F. H. Kambolz, secretary; L. M. Sprunger, treasurer. Oswin Sprunger was renamed custodian of the buiioing. Approximately 200 shareholders own the 237 shares of stock in the association. About 75 were present i at the meeting.

Zoom! I i ■ ■ ■ I ■ Ju) Lieut. Troy Keith Another new power dive speed record is believed to have been ■ made by army flyer Second Lieutenant Troy Keith, pictured, who • flew his plane over Shreveport, La., at an estimated speed of about , 670 miles per hour or 11 miles per I j minute. Although the plane .; buckled one of its wings during ' the dive. Lieutenant Keith landed the ship safely. The pilot lapsed ■ into unconsciousness at an alti- • tude of 28.000 feet, but recovered • sufficiently to regulate it at 9.000 . feet. URGfCHANGEF IN WAGNER ACT J -I Sen. Burke Introduces Amendments To Labor Measure Washington, Feb. 9 —(UP) —(Sen. ,; Edward R. Burke, D., Neb., opponent of the New Deal and a ibitter . critic of the national labor relations ' board, Introduced in the senate to ■ day a series of amendments “to i i make the present one-sided Wagner I labor relations act fair to all citli gens. He proposed to curtail drastically 1 the powers of the board and would J tecreate the board with one reprei sentative each of employes, eni- ’ ■ plover and the public. He charged that the board I “abused its judicial powers” and • that all three present members “are organized labor partisans." In a statement prepared to aci company his amendments, Burke 1 said that his recommended changes ■ seek to correct many of the same ‘ points covered by amendments recently offered by Sen. David..ll. 1 i Walsh. D., Mass., on behalf of the American federation of labor. Additional changes recommended, he said, would make it impossible “for this agency of government (NLRF) ; to be used to build up the certain I type of labor organization w r hich it j favors.” In addition to change in the board ’ membership. Burke’s amendments would: 1. Permit any respondent cited 1 by the board as a violator of the . law to petition for removal of his » hearing directly to the United . States district court. Such a change t he said, would remove from the ; board its judicial function, leaving ’ it in the role of investigator andj j prosecutor. 2. Permit either employes or em-1 > ployers to petition for an election . to determine the collective bargain- ; ing representative; a secret ballot . within 20 days after receipt of the t petition would be mandatory, t 3. Grant to employes the right to i bargain collectively “free from ■ threat, intimidation, restraint or i coercion from any source,” The pre- . sent act prohibits employers from ; engaging in such unfair labor pracI t’.ces. I — o . Civil War Veteran Dies At Syracuse Syracus.e Ind., Feb. 9 — (UP) — Funeral services will be held Satur- » day for George Henry Bailey, 92, i last surviving veteran of the civil : war here, who died at his home I late yesterday.

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Nations In Struggle For Strategic Position As Loyalist Heads Debate Continuing War. PURSUE PREMIER London, Feb. 9 — (U.R) — The great powers of Europe embarked on a titanic struggle for position today as Spanish loyalist leaders debated whether to surrender to the nationalists or keep up their fight however hopeless the odds against them. It was a struggle into which each government brought every resource at its disposal—promises, threats, bluffs, persuasion. Army and navy leaders, premiers, foreign ministers, ambassadors, men of high influence in private life, intelligence agents and plain spies, all played their parts. The British cruiser Devonshire was on a dramatic secret mission In the Balearic Islands, hoping to negotiate the surrender of the great loyalist base on Minorca Island to the nationalists in hope that this would provide a diplomatic lever for ending the ent’ro war. In Paris, the French senate entered the second day of a secret mission on national defense, the second such session since the world war. In Rome, the supreme defense counsil held its third recent meeting and it was asserted on reliable authority that Premier Benito Mussolini was calling specialists of three, and perhaps four, army classes to the colors. In Germany, notices had been posted calling 1 up reservists of the 1906 and 1907 classes for three months’ training—a routine matter but one that was not ignored. These classes, made up of men | born in 1906 aud 1907, hud not received the new two year military ! course as they were above recruit I age when Germany denounced the I military clauses of the Versailles treaty. Russia sought to protect her position by negotiating a Black Sea security pact. Great Britain and France, together, after watching the civil war from the sidelines for two and a half years while Italy and Germany were giving material aid to the nationalists, were acting at last —vigorously and with evident hope that they might win a great diplomatic triumph. A special French envoy had visited the nationalists and returned j to Paris with apparently definite . pledges that Germany and Italy would be made to take their solliers hon, ? after the war and that they would be given no dominance ' over Spanish affairs. Seek Premier Perpignan. French - Spanish f Frontier. Feb. 9 — (U.R) — A fast column of nationalist troops dashed toward the Spanish coastal j town of Port Bou today in an j effort to seize republican Premier Juan Negrin before he can depart for central Spain to carry on the , civil war. Negrin left the French frontier town of Le Perthus for Port Bou —apparently headed for Valencia (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o SCOUT CONTEST HERE TUESDAY County First Aid Contest To Be Held Tuesday Night Tha annual county Boy Scout first aid contest will be held here Tuesday night, Sylvester Everhart, county scout commissioner, an- . rouned today. Troops No. 61. 62 and 63. all of Decatur, and Troops No. 67 and 68 of Berne, will be entered in the county elimination event. The winners of the event here will go to Fort Wayne later to represent this county in the district first aid contest. The contest will be held in the Central school gymnasium. The troops in Decatur are sponsored ■by the Lions, Rotary and American I Legion organizations, while those •'in Berne are sponsored by the • Mothers’ Club and the 'Berne Chamber of Commerce. Scout officials will be in charge of the contest, with a competent 1 judge selecting the winner.