Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1939 — Page 1

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■BIBLES ■IM DISRUPT I industry Inal 1 *’ r, ' VS Etdown 01 Three I plants 9 F eb UR> |r.‘~ ; „ H,.. l i.U.d \uH>m..l.ile E IWI. r«-s P . ns.'.!.- v-s-E ar shutdown ul tin ■ plants, cuntmur.l t<. disEduction v» >'"■ •■sseutbly ■ Munufo' coinK y a ,k Avenue plant, i loxed HLy aftfrlKH'li. i••siini><i I' 1 "' jT f lir two hours today but Ed to ’I”" i|, ' wu • lgai " ■pirntonth division m < hry ■corporation was unable to ■.the bodies it produces. Six nten on the day shift at Etcre again mad* idle anil Kpoteipected til' T..' l " 1 1,11 KL)i shift woulil S' l to work K n Hggth resumed pnidmtion Kof jta two assembly lines ■ Vnoffieial estimates wore ■ approximately hall ul Plyn <,eo« day work-rs »ere Kr jobs. Ethe Dodge P lanl ' '' hp ' p Lppt is manufactured for Eti officials said a majorElbe 1,709 employes made Ksterday were working. Kgth officials said piodm - continue a! its present Kbroagbuiit the day I Invalidate Contract Liigton. Feb. 23 (U.R) - Esui laiair relations board Ki invalidating an American ■lion of labor closed shop ■Kt spurn-d federation lead■gar in their drive to amend ■aper act. ■ invalidating conn act mV-1 ■ approximately 1 employes ■ Mt. Vernon car indnnfac- ■ company. Mt. Vernon. 111. ■hard ordered the company ■jatetrse its employes for AFL ■ Mtit-d from their pay s and to grant sole harkA rights for all production naiuieuaiice employes to the igtna'-d Association of Iron. I and Tin Workers of North fa. an affiliate of the conId industrial organizations. ) board also ordered that the ■nXVEf) ON PAGE FIVE) Mt DECfiTUR .191 IS DEAD • Eural Rose Dies Wednesday Night At Sanitarium 15 Lulu Rose. 26. well known «r young lady, died Wedneswening at 4:50 o'clock at the ( Byron sanatorium near Wayne * deceased was the wife of I G. Rose, head bookkeeper “ Central Soya company in uiy ’ Rose was born in Three ■ i Michigan. January 18, 1912 taghter of Mr. and Mrs’ P LaForge, who now live in Wayne. J»w married to Mr. Rose ' *>ary 23. 1931. She was aI 1 °f the First Methodist “to this city. She and her ’«"><> to this city about ago. when Mr. Rose 1 Woyed in the offices of the) ■ wapany. been in m health for f and had been consanatorium since! of this year. ? are the parents, the fl / W ° chlldre »- Betty ’ hree |’ Xand Ja “et Irene. » N W ' Wh A « h °™ Homew St 6 Jea “ U ’ k tort Wayne, also snrtar‘ • e,vlc «” will be held 81 10 °' ClOCk al k v h u? dlßt ctlu, ch here I’totoi wm ? ham offlcia '- Ly * nl ** In the Decatur; * sir^ a h VleWed at the !tte «erv|c eß h U “ UI t,tne READINGS ° CRat The RMOMETER *a.m. - 8 Don 13 *p.tn bo - 21 . weather ~ 22 ’ Orally * a| cloudy in n most|ht '"d Frid^ th P ° rtion tO- - ana in ay ' Warm *r to•lFrid,y e ’ etand ‘°uthpor. I

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To Speak Here ( —V. „ r . *■ * iSSfe Rev. A. P. Teter, pastor of the Simpson Methodist church of Fort Wayne, will preach at the vesper service at the Decatur Methodist church Sunday afternoon at 4:3u o’clock. The Simpson choir will present a program of sacred music during the service. KUHN CHEVROLET AGENCYIS SOLD Saylors Bros. Purchase Agency, Also Runyon Garage The purchase of the Paul K. Kuhn Chevrolet 'agency and the Runyon Garage was announced here today by Saylors Bros., local auto dealers. The Chevrolet auto agency was purchased from Paul H. Kuhn, who has operated Jhe local business on Third street for the past few years. The garage was purchased from Roy N. Runyon, veteran Decatur garageman. Leo Saylors, of SayI lors Bros., announced today that ' the agency would be transferred from the Haugk building on Third street to the Runyon building. In addition to the dealer's agency there, a garage and repair shop will be conducted. Mr. Runyon will be retained at the garage. Part of the personnel from the Chevrolet asenev. as maintained by Mr. Kuhn will be kept at the new location. Mr. Saylors stated. The new firm will operate under the name of Saylrfts Chevrolet Sales. The change is effective at once and equipment is now being moved. Saylors Bros, is composed of Leo. Clifford and Leonard Saylors, all of this city. The Buick agency and garage on South Second stree.t owned by the Saylors, will continue to operate as usual. Mr. Kuhn stated that he was undecided as to futurep lans after undecided as to future plans after agency here. Treasurer Reports Tax Receipts Ready County treasurer Jeff Liechty announced today that the tax receipts for Decatur, Berne. Monroe and Geneva are now ready. The receipts for the 12 townships were made up a few weeks ago. Tax pavers who wish to pay the 1938 taxes, payable this year, can do so by calling ax the treasurer's office. More than 10,000 receipts for the spring and fall installments are necessary in this county. The last day to pay the installment without a penalty being added Is Monday, May I. 0 FORMER LOCAL TEACHER DIES I Rose Dunathan Dies Wednesday At Home In Van Wert '-Miss Rose Dunathan, former Decatur school teacher and principal, died Wednesday at the home of Mrs. C. E. Redrup. in Van Wert. Ohio, where she had been staying. Miss Dunathan, who served nine consecutive years in the Decatur school system as a member of the faculty from 1903, and also returned for a one-year term in 1921, was retired at the time of her death. She had retired at Huntington 1 after 35 years. She was born in Van Wert, Ohio, the daughter of Capt. and Mrs. D. P. Dunathan. She also taught at Van Wert and Lima, Ohio and Huntington. Her only immediate survivor is a sister, Mrs. W. D. Redrup of Huntington. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 12:30 ojplock (CST) at the First M. E. church in Van Wert with Rev. John W. Danford officiating. Burial will be in Van Wert.

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GREAT BRITAIN. FRANCE AGREED ON RECOGNITION R e p o r t Unconditional Legal Recognition To Be Given Franco London, Feb. 23 —(UP) — Great Britain and France have reached a final agreement to accord uncondi- ' tional legal recognition to the Spanish .Nationalist government, it was understood today. The Daily Express reported that H the British government might make its announcement of recognition in the house of commons today or tomorrow. by announcing the name of its first ambassador to the Nationalists. The cabinet, at its regular meeting yesterday.- was understood to have given Prime Minister Neville | ! Chamberlain a free hand to aui nounce recognition at any time. Apparently, as it was working in cooperation with France, the gov- ' ernment awaited a report from Paris that the French special en- . voy to tlie Nationalists Senator [.eon Bernard. Had concluded final conversations with Francisco Gomez Jordana. the Nationalist foreign minister. Berard was at Burgos, the Nationalist seat of government. awaiting Jordana's return from Barcelona where he took part in the triumphal entry of Generalissimo Francisco Franco and reported to Franco on previous talks with Retard. However, reports from Paris indicated that Berard’s new talks with Jordana would be a mere- formality and that France, as well as Britain, was reconciled to granting full de joure or legal recognition to the Nationalists as the government ct Spain. The British government decided last week that it was vain to try to hinge recognition on Specific assurances by the Nationalists against severe vengence ct, the Loyalists. FranctMContinued to seek assurance and failed. | Todav’s reports from Paris were) that Berard was authorise’’ »’■> advise the Nationalists that France tCONTINVED ON PAGE THREE) SIMPSON CHOIR PLANS SERVICE Ft. Wayne Choir To Give Concert Here Sunday Afternoon The choir of the Simpson Metho- ; dist church of Fort Wayne will present a program of sacred music at thb vesper service at the First Methodist church in this city Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Rev. Alvin P. Teter, pastor of the Simpson church, will deliver the vesper sermon. The Simpson Epworth league will also be present and join with the local league , for a devotional service at 6:30. p. tn. The general public is invited to attend the vesper service. The program follows: Organ prelude —“Chant d Amout Mrs. Stephen J. Miles Hymn . Prayer and response by choir. A “Hear My Cry, O Lord’’ Wooler B, "O Holy Father” Marchetti C. “Still, Still with Thee”. Speaks Choir Soprano solo, "The Ninety and Nine” Campion Mrs. Ruth Mallahan “Open Our Eyes”... .McFarlane . “The Lord is My Shepherd" 1 , Ashford . Choir Offertory. “Berceuse”.... Garnefelt , Mrs. Miles Duet. “How Long Wilt Thou l ( Forget Me?" Pfleuger , Marcia Rarick and Howard Hall Sermon. “The Romance of Life"— Rev. A. P. Teter. Baritone solo. “The Lord is My Light” Allitsen Harold Pilcher "Jesus Only" - Rotoli “Lift Up Your Heads" Ashford Choir Benediction and organ response. Postlude, “Festivity" Guilmant Mrs. Miles. —o Two Cars Damaged In Collision Here » Two cars were damaged this morning when an auto operated by Mrs. M. E. Hower skidded on the Icy street at Madison and Third and struck a parked car, telonglng to Henry Gerber. Officer Sephus Melchi Investigated. The accident I occurred about 9: 20 a, m, j

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 23, 1939.

Pal Held in Death K E J ■ *' r a LI Abner Nelson Elvln Wood, Illinois farmer, was held in Joliet by police following his alleged epnfession to kidnap- . ing and murdering his life-long I friend and lodge brother. Abner Nelson, wealthy Morris. 111., farm- . er. The confession, police said, admitted Wood hoped to collect a ransom from Nelson's relatives. DRUNK DRIVING CASE NEAR JURY Ornell Stauffer Case Nears Completion This Afternoon A possibility that the drunken driving trial of the state against Ornell Stauffer. 23, of Betne. would be given to the jury late this after- ' noon was seen when Stauffer took ! the stand in fits own defense shortly before 2 o'clock. Stauffer was called to the stand after Lester Mabelin, also of Berne | had been called as the first defense witness. Stauffer was questioned at I length by H. R. McClenahatt, de- ! fonse counsel, regarding his activi- ' ties on the day in question, on ' which day it is alleged he drove his utito In’.-:- another while under the influence of toxicating liquor. Cross-examination of Stauffer ! by Prosecutor Arthur E. Voglewede , was to follow bis direct examination. Prosecutor Arthur E. Voglewede rested the state’s case this morning about 10:10 o'clock after‘ presenting an array of witnesses who had seen Stauffer at or about ■ 1 the time of the crash. Sherman Liechty. Lester Habegi ger and Lawrence Morand. companions of Stauffer, were all call!ed by the state. When asked if I in his opinion Stauffer was under the influence of intoxicating liq-; nor at the time of the crash. [ Liechty said “No,” Morand said |“I guess so" and Habegger said "I don’t know." : Martin Aumann, farmer living near the scene, testified that in his opinion Stauffer was under the influence. Former Sheriff Dallas Brown also testified similarly when questioned by Prosecutor Voglewede and maintained the same answer when cross-ex-amined by H. R. McClenehan. defense counsel. John Dierkes, who aided former Sheriff Brown at the accident investigation, testified likewise and Raymond Shackley, another (CONTINVED ON PAGE THREE) Former G. E. Employes Called Back To Work The General Electric plant in this city is employing a number of its former employes, E. W. Lankenau. superintendent, stated today About 30 of the former employes will be rehired, Mr. Lankenau announced. This will bring the total employment roster up to about 300. The plant will then operate on a 40 hour week, running five days.

LENTEN MEDITATION “THE EVER-PRESENT CHRIST” (By Glen E. Marshall) (Church of God) “Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.” Luke 18:37. This short, important sentence fell upon the ears of the blind man as he sat by the roadside on the outskirts of the little city of Jericho. For him the door of opportunity stood ajar. He ventured through by faith and Christ healed him of blindness. A marvelous miracle wrought by a compassionate Christ! Christ constantly passes along the road over which we must travel. He Is the ever-present Christ. On earth he was the healer of sicknesses; he forgave the penitent; he carried the burdens and sorrows of suffering humanity on His compassionate heart. Scripture declares. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.” The sins, the burdens, the cares of the human family rest as heavily upon the heart of Christ today as when He was on earth. The ever-present Christ passes long our road today to forgive sins, give grace for the trial and comfort with His gracious presence.

GUAM AIR BASE MEASURE GIVEN SETBACK TODAY Teller Vote In House Eliminates Guam Base Project j Washington, Feb. 23. — (U.R) —• , The house tentatively eliminated ' the $5,000,000 Guam improvement project from the $53,800,000 of the : naval base bill. A teller vote was 193 to 164 against the Guam project. House leaders were expected to ■ order a roll call vote in an effort to overturn the teller vote. All other items in the $53,800,000 bill, authorizing 11 major air bases including a naval air station at Tongvte Point, Ore., were approved yesterday. Formal passage of the bill will nearly complete house action on President Roosevelt's emergency defense program. In the senate preparations were made for consideration early next week of the $358,000,000 army expansion hill. I Approved by the house, it was reported favorably late yesterday by the senate military affairs committee after it had boosted to 6,000 1 the number of planes which the army would be permitted to maintain. The house had authorized 5.500 planes. The bill carries no appropriations. but would merely authorize future appropriations by congress , for the work approved. At Guam, i that would include harbor dredging, and construction of a sea--1 plane ramp and a power plant. Argument over Guam began immediately after Vinson introduced the bill last month. Opponents charged that the administration contemplated fortification of the island. High naval officials subsequently testified at hearings that, although there were no provisions in the present bill for fortification work, future international events might make it necessary to recommend establishment of a major air and naval base there The island is located among the Japanese mandated islands and is ' only 1,400 miles from Japan's main- ' land According to navai officers, a major base there would push the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) MERCURY GOES UPWARD TODAY Break In Cold Wave Seen After Temperatures Drop To 6 Above The therometers were the main objects of interest in Decatur last n’ght and today as the city watched ; with apprehension the latest cold I wave. Late Wednesday afternoon the ’hermometer started falling and in one of the fastest slides of the season the mercury tumbled from 16 above at 3 o’clock. Tuesday afternoon to 6 above at midnight. This morning however, as if in corroboration of the prediction of weather men that the cold wave would be short-lived the mercury again started up. At 8 o’clock this morning the Democrat thermometer registered S degrees above zero and by 9 o’clock it had jumbed two degrees to 10 above. The old “ill wind that blows no good” adage could be appropriately adapted to the cold wave, however at least so rsome. The cold wave, best of all, is thought to have aided in checking i the epidemic of “fhl” that for a time ! threatened to close the schools here. In addition, coal men and garage men reported a land office business, as home-owners stepped up stokers and mo’orists endeavorled to winter-ize their cars.

BELIEVED SOS CALLS MERELY GHASTLY JOKE Radio Message Saying Ship Torpedoed Termed A Joke Washington, Feb. 23.— (U.R) —The navy department today advanced a theory that the unidentified ship which sent a wireless yesterday it had been torpedoed in the Atlantic may have actually struck a floating mine. Such a mine was known to have been drifting in that general direction of the Atlantic. New York. Feb. 23 — (U.R) — Evidence accumulated today that someone somewhere in the southeast. Atlantic, southern Europe, of the Azores Islands had played a ghastly joke on a jittery world. The joke, if it was a joke, was this radio message sent from a place and by a person unknown yesterday morning: "SOS . . . SOS . . . torpedoed by unknown submarine. Hole below water line. Sinking. 32 10 north 27.45 west. Ba. m. PECC.” The message was heard by only one ship — the United States freight ship. Tulsa, en route from Hamburg. Germany, to Savannah, Ga.. which was then some 100 miles south and west of the Azores. The position given in the message is some 300 miles south ot tile Azores. • At dusk last night, the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Australia arrived there and found no trace of a ship, no wreckage, no oil slick. The weather was good, visibility was excellent. It searched the entire area, then turned the search over to the Greek freighter. Mount Pelion, which also had responded to the message relayed by the Tulsa. Meanwhile, in Europe and th° United States, marine authorities and experts tried frantically to identify the sending point, then presumed to be a ship in distress, from the call letters PECC. It was found that these letters had been assigned to a tiny Dutch fishing trawier, Flandria too small to have been that far from its home port—Amsterdam. They had been assigned in 1936 to a Dutch freighter of the same name, but. when the freighter was sold to French interests it was renamed and given new call letters. The final theory was that it might have been the British tanker Pecten, en route from Trinidad to Southampton, and, early today, . it appeared that this theory had been exploded. Lloyd's reported in London that me Pecten had been in normai radio communication with the Portis head station this morning. The Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co., her owners, reported that she apparently was 1,000 miles east of the position and that her call letters did not include the letter ‘P.’ The position was too far west — 300 miles due west of the Canary Island—to be within the normal range of operation of Spanish nationalist submarines — and the Tulsa was too tar east of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O DEATH CLAIMS JOHN FUHRMAN Retired Preble Township Farmer Dies Wednesday Night John J. Fuhrman. S 9. retired Preble township farmer, died Wednesday night at 9 o’clock at the home of his son. Louis Fuhrman in that township. Death was attributed to complications. The deceased was born in Adams county April 4. 1849. and I was a resident of the county his entire life. His wife preceded him in death 45 years ago. He was a member of the Friedhelm Luthi eran church. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. '• Charles Young; two sons. Louis of Preble township and Albert of Fort Wayne; a brother. Henry | Fuhrman of Preble township. 17 i grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. A brother and five sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock (CST) at the home and 2 o’clock at the Friedhelm Lutheran church, i burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be returned to the residence from the Zwick funeral . home Friday evening and may be j viewed there until time for the j services.

Election Reform j Bill Is Approved By State Senate

Co-Ed Attacks Vice Miss Bergquist i Miss Laura Bergquist, chairman of the board of student control ot the Maroon, official organ of the University of Chicago, has made startling revelations regarding vice operating near the school. 1 Miss Bergquist’s expose may re-1 suit in a sweeping investigation. MRS. ZEHRIS RECOMMENDED I Senators Recommend ReAppointment As Berne Postmaster , Mrs. Rena Zehr will be recommended for appointment as postmaster at Berne by U. S. Senator! Frederick Van Nuys and Sherman Minton, according to a letter received today by Democratic county I chairman Nathan Nelson. Mrs. Zehr was endorsed by the precinct committeemen and vicecomm itteewomen at a meeting in Berne last Friday. Chairman Nelson notified the Indiana senator? of the committee's action and joined in the request that Mrs. Zehr be reappointed. The reappointment is made under I the new civil service act and the appointment will be for “without term.” Mrs. Zehr was named postmaster at Berne four years ago, receiving the endorsement at former congressman James I. Farley. The letter received by Mr. Nelson today reads: "In compliance with recommendation of committee we have today recommended Mrs. Rena Zehr for reappointment as postmaster at Berne, Ind. ‘Sen. Frederick Van Nuys "Sen. Sherman Minton.” The United States senators recently agreed to recommend those persons for federal appontments in tee seven Republican congressional ; districts after the precinct committees endorsed the candidates. Don Gage Is Injured Wednesday Afternoon Don Gage, local General Electric employe, was painfully injured lata Wednesday afternoon when an emery wheel, which he was using, .jplit and flew into his face. The portion of the wheel struck , young Gage above the right eye with crushing force, shatu-ing his , goggles and bruising his forehead. 1 The attending physician stated to- , day that the injury is not thought i to be serious unless infect'on developes. Innumeable pieces of the 1 broken goggles leus were picked from his eye. the doctor stated. 0 World Day Os Prayer Here Friday Afternoon The World Day of Prayer will be observed with a program at the First Baptist church Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, under the aus-j pices of the missionary organizations in the city. A large representatfon from each organization is desired. Mrs. John Parrish, president, will be in charge of the program. I Mrs. George Thomas is the secre- j ' tary. |;

Mrs. George Thomas is the secre-j The meeting will close with the tary. | Scoutmaster’s benediction.

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Would Permit Recounts; Legislators Duck A Record Roll (’all On Milk Control. FAILS TO PASS Indianapolis, Feb. 3tl — (U.R) —- The state senate today passed an election law reform bill to permit recounts in all state office contests except governor and U. S. senator under the jurisdiction of the state supreme court. The vote was 34 to 10. The bill, which goes to the house for action, provides that recount petitions on the basis of any sort of fraud, irregularity or error may be filed with the supreme court, which then may conduct a hearing to determine the merits of the case. if the court decides the recount is valid, it can conduct either on a state wide basis or in any single voting unit where the irregularity or error is alleged to exist. The court also has the authority to ' designate the agency which will ' conduct the actual counting and report, back to the court. This 1)111 recalls the difficulty after the November election when the Republicans sought recounts in seven counties and the supreme court ruled that it was impossible under present Indiana law to conduct a recount in a state election .on anything except a statewide basis. The house sent to third reading two important bills. One would provide the merit system for ail state employes except those in penal, benevolent or educational institutions. The other would establish a I flat auto license fee of $6 a year. The senate passed a liquor bill by Sen Jacob Weiss. Indianapolis Democrat, designed to reform some practices in the liquor business. Under it. gambling in taverns Is forbidden under penalty of license revocation: wholesalers can extend credit to retailers for not more than seven days, and I wholesalers may not sell liquor in quantities less than 2.4 gallons. Lacks Majority Indianapolis. Feb. 23 — (U.R) — As legislators scurried to the doosr to avoid a record roll call, the bill to extend the life of the state milk control board for two years failed to pass in the house today for lack of a constitutions! majority. The vote was 48 for the bill to 29 against. The bill lacked only three votes of being sent to the governor since the senate already had passed it. The measure is not dead for the session, however, and it probably will be brought up again in a few days. Many house members openly avoided voting on this controversial bill after prolonged and stormy debate. Opponents of the milk control board were centered in the Fort Wayne and Elkhart, county delegations. Hearing On Tax Indianapolis. Feb. 23 — (U.R) - Thousands of representatives of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o SCOUT BANQUET HEBE TONIGHT Annual Boy Scout Banquet At New School Building Tonight The annual Boy Scout banquet, will be held at the auditorium of the new junior-senior high school building in this city at 6:30 o’clock this evening. Rev. William N. Vincent, pastor of the Third Presbyterian church of Fort Wayne, will deliver the principal address during the program to follow the banquet. The banquet will be attended by Boy Scouts and their leaders, and members of the Rotary and Lions clubs, who cancelled their regular meetings this week to attend the Scout banquet. R. L. Van Horn. Fort Wayne, Anthony Wayne Area Scout executive, will be in attendance at the meeting and will also speak brief lySpecial numbers and drills will be presented by the Cub Scouts, and the sixth grade chorus will present a brief program. Community singing will be led by Rev. R. W. Graham. The meeting will close with the Scoutmaster’s benediction.