Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1939 — Page 1

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jjOOAITEND |(|t HEARING ■INCOME W l t ., rar' ll "' I, lie- 'I State- ■ hoii''' Hearing L>>'< |,M 1 n sc h lalan.- today th- ■ 2, evidence ptes.-nt-d ala fteenng <-f 1 """" yesterday- I ■?, band and * illi:ing ' AH Here-- a deleV, a | WUI 7,at)O farmer* iron) E Jtions of the state ■«: the statehouse yester-tim-e the hill Which they , ■fjnuld result in in< teased Ethe'rowd awaited the he- ( E O f proceedings, as-ls apE tentative of the rehaslily ' Ed and began to haiangue , of the rate reduction E' |p. was whistled and K to silence. E',. lOll trast to 'his prelim■Lustration, the immense : Etremained oiderly throughEtoithe official hearing. A Etburst of supporters of the Ksubdued by Sen. Frederick Kn. Gary Democrat, chairK the meeting. : ■ off tor projionents of K. alr-ady approved by the ■ p Wray Deprez. ShelbyEercbant. called upon lite K sense of -ordinary jusEtd pleaded that a tax which K heavily on one class of Kais was unfair. ■ 1935." Deprez said, "retail- ■ Indiana paid 6S percent of K income in taxes, exclus■licenses and permits.” ■ Elsner. Seymour, former ■senator, pointed out that as Ih of the tax burden upon re--1 “tssny have been driven [fattiness, and if this law is (gulled there w*!*be a great »nn. driven out of business." m Thomas, director of t?" ttnxrEli ON PAGE FOt'R) o ,500 DAMAGE SUIT IS VENDED ins County Suit Venfl From Wells County To Huntington e 12.500 damage suit of les Wehr- agai.tst V. J. P~rl both of this city, whicn to have been tried today in s circuit court at Bluffton,! venued to Huntington coun--cas learned here. lorney D. Burdette Custer 'impanelled the jury yester-!, shile his co-counsel. H. R. Wiehan was completing a • here. ler hlg arrival in Bluffton. 1 attaches reported, he asked I continuance because a wit- 1 ns in Ohio. #|| ig this, plaintiff's cou l “ k "' ! ,or a change of venue. "c case was sent to HuntingWnty, where it is to be tried, amse from an accident Ba-1936. Weber was riding " r riven by Bormann, when ad east of Decatur on fed--224. ’•Sealing Vessels Reported Sinking *)»rk. Feb. 24 - (U.R) - Two , American Scantic line . kt'v,“’ ln . g throi 'Rh heavy seas 1“ hAllantic today toward • egian sealing vessels retit nt Sinking about 3M ap s Far ewell, Greenland. ton h^ 0 interce P ted a messU] eS -S. Scanpenn. bound fa S ' < ‘ ngerS from New York “ d m Sweden ' k be. p he S ' s - Morntacsun. 1{ Copenhagen for Boston, eedinSt °' Var<athe EMp ERATURE READINGS !MOCR AT THERMOMETER a. m. ™ ton : «UnC -■■■ 22 ■«"p.tn„ ' leather. 26 today Colder tonight; ,h ri -" tem 1,9 eloudl "«* tno w tem Perature, rain *' south UthWMt ’" ld ex ’ ou,h Portions.

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Eleanore Whitney Married Last Nijfht I New York. Feb. 24. (U.R) EleunOre Whitney, 20 year-old tap-dam - Ing red-head of stage and screen, und Frederick Hacker, 29. for assistant V 8. attorney, were mar-1 ried al the Berkshire Hotel last : night by Rabbi Jonah H. Wise [tucker, a brother of city councilman George Backer, resigned yesterday from government service and will enter private business. LOUIS MILLER IS GIVEN FINE Former Local Man Fined On Drunk Driving Count; License Taken Louis Miller, of Fort Wayne, formerly of this city, who plead guilty to a charge of drunken driving last week when arraigned in circuit court late this afternoon was fined $25 and costs by Judge J. Fred Fruehte this afternoon. Miller’s drivers’ license was also revoked by the court for a period el six months. Miller was arrested late last fall when he allegedly drove his car down the Erie track off Third street and held up a freight train tor approximately half an hour. Miller first entered a plea of not guilty, but later returned to court and plead guilty. He was released on his own recognizance, while punishment was taken under advisement by the court. o ANOTHER SLASH BY COMMITTEE House Committee Reduces Funds In Treas-ury-Post Office Bill Washington, Feb. 24 — (U.R) — The House appropriations committee cut slightly into President Roosevelt's budget requests tor the fifth consecutive time today in re-; porting a 31.700.471,354 tß> treas-ury-post office bill. That was 327,926,138 (Ml less than the budget recommendation. It was the fifth major appropriation bill'to reach the floor of the' 76th congress. In all five bills the committee has trimmed Mr. Roosevelt’s figures, although in this case 'he reduction was less than two per cent. The appropriation will finance op- < rations of the treasury and post office during the fiscal year beginning next July 1. Despite the cut, spending of the two departments under the bill will be 3197.029,280 more than for the i current fiscal year. The appropriation apportioned $909.626.671) to the treasury department and 1790,844,684 to the post office. Other appropriations for the treasury department provided for in permanent law — over which the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) > ' o — JURY VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT Ornell Stauffer Is Acquitted Os Drunken Driving Charge After deliberating more than 10 hours, an Adams circuit court jury this morning found Ornell Stauffer, 23-year-old Berne young man not guilty of a charge of drunk driving. The jury returned with a sealed verdict under orders of Judge J. Fred Fruehte at 4:45 this morning, 10 hours and 15 minutes after they had been given the case last evening at 6:30 o’clock. This morning the verdict was I read in open court by Judge Fruehte. The defendant, his father and fiancee. Mary Eichenberger, were present. Climax of the trial, which ed itself in the latter stages into a tense word-duel between Prosecutor Arthur E. Voglewede and Defense Counsel H. R. McClanahan,.' came a split second after Judge ; Fruehte pronounced the words “not guilty.” A hoarse, loud cry of “hot dog” burst from the lips of the defendant’s father, David Stauffer. Tears came into the eyes of both Stauff- ' er and his finances. This was the i only demonstration after the ver- - diet. The trial came to a close last evening after the jury heard clos- , , (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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PRESIDENT OF LOYALISTS TO END REPUBLIC Prepare To Announce End Os Third Spanish Republic By Richard D. McMillan (Copyright 1939 by United Press) Paris, Feb. 24 — (U.R) —Manuel Azana, president of loyalist Spain ■ and other leaders who refused to ; continue the civil war. were completing arrangements today to announce the end of the third Spanish republic. Records were being packed and other documents were being burned at the Spanish embassy here. I where Spain's chief refugee took asyb'm after the fall of Barcelona. Azana held a final irxii'erence to- ; day to decide on procedure for relinquishing the presidency. The announcement awaits the official notification by Great Brit- 1 ain and France that they recognize the government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Azana then will hand his resignation to Diego Barrio Martinez, president of the loyalist parliament. Barrio will summon members of parliament who are in exile in Paris to a secret meeting. He will announce Azana's resignation and say there is no successor because he. Barrio, next in line of succession, refuses to take over the office. The presidency thus will be extinct. Azana will thereby carry out his threat to abandon Premier Juan Negrin and foreign Minister Julio Del Vayo. who went to central Spain to reorganize and continue resistance against th° nationalists. Negrin and Del Vayo announced they would fight until they obtained terms from Franco guaranteeing the independence of Spain and the promise of a plebiscite. They also asked assurances there would be no reprisals. Britain and France failed to' obtain written guarantees from 1 Franco covering these points. As (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) YOUTH HELD ON PETIT LARCENY Decatur Young Man Taken Into Custody For Stealing Check Ralph Fugate, 22. of this city, was arrested and lodged in the Adams county jail today by Officer Roy Chilcote and Sheriff Ed Miller on a charge of petit larceny. Fugate is charged specifically with stealing a check for $lO and cashing the instrument at the First Slate Bank in this city. Fugate, it is charged, stole the cneck from his uncle, Ed Fugate of near Monroe. The check was made 1 payable to Ed Fugate and endorsed by him. Fugate is to be arraigned in circuit court to answer to the charge. Meanwhile he is being held in jail. ' pending arraignment before Judge J. Fred Fruehte. Warsaw Ex-Policeman Sues For Back Pay Warsaw. Ind- Feb. 24 — (U.R) Ivan C. Ginn, a former member of the Warsaw police department who resigned recently, today had filed a suit in Kosciusko circuit court asking 3960 back pay. Ginn allegedly resigned after charges had been preferred against him by city authorities for conduct unbecoming an officer. Ginn seeks back pay on the basis of a salary cut which he claims was not authorized by city ordinance. He seeks 350 a month for 32 months. ■ South Whitley Doctor Indicted For Fraud South Whitley, ind., Feb. 24 — (U.R) Dr. Charles Frederick. Kaadt, arrested here y'esterday on i federal I grand jury indictment charging fraudulent misrepresentation through the mails, today had posted a 32,500 cash bond. Deputy U. S. Marshall C. W. Pandt served the indictment on the country physician and president of the Kaadt Diabetic Institute. Dr. Kaadt will either appear in South Bend next week or in Fort Wayne district court in April. In either case he will face U. S. district judge Thomas W. Slick.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, February 24, 1939.

Election Campaign in Mexico Mr j Open air lunch at Mexico City Here's the ideal way to wage an election campaign. Opponents of the government of President Cardenas of Mexico staged this huge open-air lunch to rally oppositionists in support of the Mexican constitution and to condemn the social innovations introduced by the Cardenas administration. The lunch rally was byway of preparing for the forthcoming presidential election.

ANNUAL SCOUT BANQUET HELD Annual Boy Scout Banquet Is Held Here Thursday Night Tlie annual Boy Scout banquet was held in the auditorium of the new junior-senior high school building Thursday evening, with a good crowd of Scouts. Cubs. Scout leaders and other interested persons in attendance. Rev. William N. Vincent, pastor of the Third Presbyterian church of For* Wayne. w»« Hie principal speaker, delivering an inspiring address on "Shooting At Life.” The speaker pointed out four principal ways, as he termed them, of “shooting at life.” These he defined. first as the easiest way, the lazy way. of doing things in a slipshod manner. Secondly, the arrogant, selfish way. The third way of "shooting at life” Rev. Vincent termed as the deliberate killer, a person who will crush anything opposing his progress Warning against this way. '.he speaker said, “hatred is worse on the mind than cancer is on the body.” The fourth and finest way of “shooting at life" was defined by the speaker as the person, "the greatest of all is the servant of all." R. L. Van Horn. Fort Wayne. Anthony Wayne Area Scout executive, also spoke briefly, stressing the vast differences between this country and dictator-ruled nations. Where the youth of the United States is being trained in such free-dom-building movements as the Boy (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Brvant Man Dies At Local Hospital Jacob Lutes. 75. a retired fanner of Bryant, died at the Adams county memorial hospital at 7: 20 o'clock this morning. He had been confined to the hospital since last Sunday, when he suffered a stroke of apoplexy. He is survived by a brother, Thomas Lutes, of Bluffton, and a sister. Mrs. William Twigg, of Portland. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Wesleyan Methodist church in Bryant. Burial will be in the Gravel Hill cemetery, near Bryant..

.— — LENTEN MEDITATION (Rev. James A. Weber) (First United Brethren) . “The Master is come, and calleth for thee." John 11:28. Mary had not gone to Jesus; her soul was too heavy. Why had Jesus failed to come when called to save Lazarus? How could Jesus be so unconcerned? Then. Martha came running to Mary with the words, “The Master is come, and calleth for thee!" A few words with Jesus lifted the doubts from Mary’s soul. Are you disappointed because Jesus did not immediately answer your prayer? Jesus is calling. Rise up quickly; tell Him your problem; speak to Him about, the worldliness that is choking your hidden life with God, about the spiritual coldness of your heart, about the sinful habits that weaken you. Perhaps Jesus withheld an answer to your prayer that He might reveal to you a greater truth. The Master is come, calling for you. to show you His power over physical and spiritual death, to show you that you need not await until the Resurrection Day to have new life. He is waiting at the church, at the door of your business, by your hearth fire, calling—

Fuhrman Funeral Services Sunday Funeral services for John J. Fuhrman, who died Wednesday night, will be held at the Louis Fuhrman home at 1 o’clock Sunday afternoon and at 1:30 p. m. at the Friedheim Lutheran church, instead of 2 p. m„ as announced Thursday. Rev. W. T r . Weimng will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. 0 Germany Executes Three For Treason Berlin. Felt. 24.—(U.R) The execution for treason of Adolf Erbrich. 35. Bruno Labisch. 25. and Wilhelm Mroczek. 37. was announced today. Metz. France, Feb. 24.—(U.R) —A military tribunal sentenced Bernhard Kunsch, of Luxemberg, to 10 years in pt ison today for espionage in behalf of Germany. SENTENCED FOR MOLESTING GIRL Adams County Youth Is Fined And Sentenced This Afternoon Raymond Kruse, 22. ot south of Decatur, was given fines totalling |26 and costs and a six-months sentence in jail this afternoon on assault and public indecency counts. Kruse was arrested this morning by Officer Adrian Coffee, who was investigating the molesting of several young girls during the past few’ days. Kruse, when arrested by Offi-’er Coffee, reportedly admitted grabbing the young girl on North Third street Tuesday and also confessed ta molesting several other girls m recent days. When arraigned before Mayor Forrest Elzey this afternoon h« pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and was fined 325 and costs. He also pleaded guilty to a public indecency count and was given a fine of 31 and costs and was sentenced to serve six months in jail. The sentence was not suspended. Kruse’s arrest climaxed intensive investigation work on the part of the city and county police force. Prosecutor Arthur E. Voglewede represented the state in the case.

THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS RIOT AGAINST NAZIS Polish Students Stage Bitter Demonstrations Against Nazis Warsaw,, Poland. Feb. 24 — (U.R) — Thousands of Polish students rioted in the streets of Warsaw today’ in the largest antl-German demonstraion since Poland and Germany J signed a non-aggression agreement i five years ago. More than 2,600 students attemptI ej to march on the German embassy after mass meetings at four Warsaw universities and colleges. Speakers bitterly attacked Germany. Police reserves were summoned when the meetings broke up and the students began to march thrown around the embassy. Firethrown around the embaayy. Flramen were summoned and tne stud- ; ents were driven back with fire ' hoses. Police announced they had arrested 17 students. The demonstration started at the Warsaw university technical institute and the Agricultural commercial academy. It was directed primarily at recent Nazi activities in the free city of Danzig, important port on the Baltic. The demonstrators wero indignant because the German student organization at the Danzig institute of technology hung out signs at the iustitute and student gathering places which said: •'Entry is forbidden to dogs and Poles.” The Polish press gave the incident at Danzig great prominence | At the conclusion of the mass I meeting here today the students surged into the streets. At 2 p. m I masses of them jammed both ends of “Pius Xi Street” where the Ger- ■ many embassy is situated. “Down with Germany” — Danzig 1 belongs to Poland." the mobs shout- ' cd. Police struggled with the mobs for half an hour but finally were forced to call for the fire hoses to disperse the rioters. Polish-German relations have been subjected to a severe strain in recent months by such developments as: 1. Germany’s expulsion of thous- ; nnds of Polish Jews in the anti-Jew-ish campaign which followed the slaying of Ernst Von Rath, third i secretary of the German embassy at Paris by a Polish Jew refugee. Polish Jews were forced across the German border into Poland, many of them penniless. 2. Steelement of the boundary disputes after the Czech crisis against ■ Poland and in favor of Czechoslcva- , kia. Germany opposed Poland’s demand for a common frontier with . Hungary. 3. Virtual control of the Free J State of Danzig by the national so- . cialist party led by Albert Forster, . German-born Nazi. Forster repeat- . idly lias said that Danzig's future (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOt'R) O COLD WEATHER ABATING HERE Break In Most Recent Cold Wave Is Exper- ’ ienced Today ’ COLD WEATHER 5 Milder temperatures greeted the . city today after the most recent two j day cold wave, that for a time threatened to become the coldest of the season. Althougli the mercury was high- ' er throughout today tlian it had been on the previous day, it took a sadden tumble during the night. The break in the cold wave came late Thursday evening and by 10 o'clock last night the Democrat thermometer recorded 30 degrees above. From there it started slipping uni til at 8 a. m. today it had reached a I low of 18 degrees. From there it. again started ascending and at noon the reading was 22 above. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Legion And Auxiliary To Meet Monday Night A joint meeting of the Legion post and auxiliary will be held in I the Legion home Monday night. Following the business session, an oyster stew will be held in the dining room. Members of both organ!- ! zations are urged to attend.

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MILK CONTROL BILL PASSES HOUSE TODAY Bill To Governor; Labor Forces Score Important Victory Indianapolis, Feb. 24 — (U.R) — The house today passed and sent to the governor a hill extending the state milk control board for two more years, many members reversing their votes of yesterday when the proposal failed by three votes for lack of a constitutional majority. Yesterday many legislators ran for the doors when the milk control bill was up for a vote, having previously passed the senate. : With only 77 to the 100 house! members voting then, the bill lost 48 to 29. Overnight, however, some work evidently had been done in behalf of the bill—which is backed by a large segment of the state’s dairy Industry — and 87 members were counted in the vote today. The bill carried by 65 to 22 and un-1 doubtedly will be signed by Gov. M. Clifford Townsend. Rep. C. Y. Foster. Carmel Republican. called the bill down for action today, and under the house rules it is not debatable again. But Rep. Charles Z. Bond. Fort Wayne Republican, proposed that the bill be made a special order of business for Monday. This was defeated by a voice vote, whereupon Bond moved that the bill be killed. Debate was permissible on the motion. Bond charged that when a] thousand or so farmers demon-; strated in favor of the bill in the | ,—, | .CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) OHIO RESIDENT TAKES OWN LIFE Brother Os Adams County Man Commits Suicide This Morning Chauncey Riffle. 45. of near Chaltanooga, Ohio, a brother of Roy Riffle of Blue Creek township, shot and killed himself this morning about 3:30 o'clock. Riffle, investigating authorities reported, placed the shotgun against his temple and discharged it. No cause for the suicide could be advanced by authorities or (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Auto Factories Back To Normal Operations Detroit, Feb. 24 — (U.R) — Plymouth. Dodge and Briggs automobile ■ manufacturing plants resumed nor- i tnal derations today after a 24-hour , shutdown which both factions of automobile dual unions claimed they had halted. Plymouth, although, because of a four-day week schedule was not running. Officials said they would resume work Monday. Liquor Measure Up In Senate Tonight Indianapolis. Feb. 24 — (U.R) — The senate wound up in the finest debate of its session as it made a special order of business at 8 o’-1 clock for the controversial house liquor bill which the senate has amended thoroughly. The action today was fully unexpected since the liquor bill was reposing in a special committee which, was supposed to work out a compromise with the house so the liquor bill would be sure of enactment. Japanese Assert 50 Planes Damaged Shanghai, Feb. 24. — (U.R) — The Domei (Japanese) news agency said today that 50 Chinese planes had been shot down or damaged on the ground in a Japanese raid on Lanchow yesterday and that most ot' them were Americanmade. The announcement said the dai| aged planes were mainly CurtissHawks; American Severskys, making their first appearance in the Chinese war; and soviet lighters.

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Kidnap-Killer Os Young Florida Boy Protests Innocence Until His Final Moments. MAINTAINS CALM Raiford Prison Farm. Fla., Feb. 24 —(U.R) -Protesting his innocence and declaring he had been betrayed as Christ had been, Franklin Pierce McCall, 21, died in the electric chair today for the kid-nap-slaying of five-year-old Jimmy Cash last May. “Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver,” McCall said, reading in a firm voice from a prepared statement as he sat in the lethal chair. “It would be Interesting subject matter to know' just how much some received who were instrumental in the perpetration of this present day cruelty. “I hope thaf 1 may be excused from drawing a parallel between the Master's death and my own.” McCall added that the “Master died for a cause while 1 am dying for nothing.” McCall was placed in the chair even as be read from the fourpage handwritten statement he had prepared during his last week of imprisonment. A guard rolled up McCall's right trouser leg. He stopped reading momentarily and said: "Put it as high up on the leg as you can." The Rev. Leslie A. Shepherd, prison chaplain, intoned prayers while McCall read. A black leather hood was placed over McCall's head at 10:06 am., CST—the second he finished reading his statement. Then the doomed man began repeating. after Shepherd, from the I 23rd Psalm: “The Lord is my shepherd I I shall not want. He maketh tne i to lie down in green pastures-—’’ A dull hum filled tne room. Sheriff D. C. Coleman of Miami had thrown the switch at 10:08 a. m. and 2.300 volts of electricity jolted McCall's body against the straps that imprisoned him in the big oaken chair. Drs. W. E. Murphy, of the prison staff, and Kenneth Phillips, Miami, pronounced McCall dead at 10:16 a. m. McCall, always the well-groom-ed youth, had entered the rectangular death chamber at 9:59 a m. He was dressed in a checkered suit and wort a hat over his shaved head. He did nat remove the hat until just before the leather mask was placed over his face and head. McCall maintained his calm, stolid composure to the end. He entered the death chamber unassisted, walking behind Shepherd. He held four sheets of paper in his left hand. Prefacing his statement, he said to the witnesses: “I’m sitting down to give you this because an alienist visited me yesterday and drained some fluid from my spine for a sanity test.” (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) HOLD SERVICE SUNDAY NIGHT Thank Offering Service At First U. B. Church Sunday The thank offering service of I the W. M. A. will be held at the First United Brethren church Sunday evening at 7 o’clock. The public is invited to attend. The complete program follows: Organ prelude—Clara E. Mumtna. Hymn. Call to worship. Responsive leading—Choir. Hymn. Prayer. Special music—Choir. Reading—Vivian Hitchcock. Solo —Joan Bodie. Talk —Miss Passwater and Mrs. Tritch. Solo — “In the Secret of His Presence" -Catherine Jackson. Playlet. "The Thank Offering Speaks"—Cast ot characters: Mrs. Thank Offering. Goldie Fisher; Voices of the coins, Marie Wynn; Frances Bohnke. Mrs. Arnold, Mrs. Elzey, Mrs. Butcher, Mrs. Stonerook, Mrs. Light. Offering. Prayer of consecration. • Doxology. Benediction.