Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1939 — Page 1

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TEST CASE IS NEARING JURY Defense Rests This Morninf In “Bank Night" Test Case At 3 o’clock thia afternoon only the final argument of Pro**cutor Vogiewede and Judge Fruchte'e instruction* were to be heard before the jury was to receive the bona night cate for deliberations. Defense Attorney Sam Jackson wound up the deI . tense case before recess with a ringing denunciation of the methods employed by the law enforcement agencies m what he termed "persecution" of the Kai- . vers. necatur'a much-diecuMed *'lmnk ■ night" caee waa e«p«*< t»d to go io ihn Jury about i o'clock this after-1 noon, apprvilmatrly four day* I after it had bwn started In Adaasa | circuit court before Judge J Fred - Fruchte and a special venire of I the February petit Jury Attorney Sam Ja< kson waa to 1 conclude the final atgumenta fori I the defense this afternoon upot.' I resumption of the <-aao after th.-1 I noon recess, and Prosecutor Ar-1 I tbur F Voglewde was to wind uji the trial with the state's ciooing ■ arguments immediately following j I After instructions from the court. ‘ the Jury was to receive the case for deliberation The defense pulled somewhat of a surprise move this morning when court re-convened, by announcing that they rested, although more witnesses had been I expected to be called. Neither' Roy nor Isadora Kalver. defendants In the case. In which the state I charfsa they were operating a j lottery with their "bank night”! drawing, toot the stand in de. ’ sense Assails Drawing Deputy Attorney Glen S Steck-■ ley opened the final arguementa thia morning by leading the Indictment. reviewing the state's TcONTINI'KD ON PAGE 81 Xi QUINN SPEAKS TO VETERANS Local legion Post Celebrates Twentieth Anniversary Calling the American lx*gion the "bulwark of the nation's defense," From h Quinn epoke to the members of Adams Pout No 43 and the auxiliary here last night during the local celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Legion The speaker paid tribute to all •oldlera who had offered their lives in defense of the nation and made special commendntlon of the G. A. R Ha called upon the legionnaires to defend and protect the constitution. to form a stonewall defense against all invading "isms" and to tranamlt their experience and advice to the youth of the nation Commander V. J Borman cut the huge birthday cake, which was presented by Mrs. Dallas Brown, president of the auxiliary. Short addresses were also delivered by i Past Commander Lloyd Raker who I spoke In behalf of the navy. Past Commander Tlltnan Gehrig. Com- ■ mender Kennedy of Fort Wayne I Post No. 47. several other visiting Legionnaires and Mrs. Bormann, i past president of the auxiliary The banquet was served by th* members of the auxiliary. Ed Bauer, membership chalrmsn, urged that all ex-service men Join the local Legion post and aid In providing help for disabled veterans - and families of deceased or disabled vets. Soldiers were also requested to have their discharges recorded at the county recorder's office In the courthouse, even If they have been i recorded in some other county. Holiness Group To Meet Sunday 1 i The monthly mooting of the AdI .ims county holiness association will i be held at the Missionary church at ■ Berne Sunday afternoon st 2 o-j * clock. Rev. Joshua Stauffer of i Westfield will be the speaker. Spe- -. cial music will be provided. The | public is Invited to attena. 1

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SLANDER SUIT FILED AGAINST WILLIS. OTHERS Former WPA Supervisor In Vigo County Files SIOO,OOO Suit * Terre Haute. Ind.. Maa«h.l7.»l U.f* Raymond E Willis, defeated Republican nominee for the U. 8 I senate In the laat election; Arch N Bobbitt. state Republican chairman, and Charles Van Camp were sued for 8100.000 for slander today In a complaint filed in the Vigo circuit court by a former WPA supervisor. The suit was filed on behalf of Hosea L. Vice of Terre Haute, the ex-aupervlsot. by John Riddle, deputy prosecuting attorney for Vigo county. It charged that Willis. Bobbitt and Van Camp circulated false defamatory statements concerning Vice which all three of the men knew were false Specifically the suit grew out of an investigation by Republicans of charges that the Democrats manipulated ballots in Vigo county and in Indiana to accomplish tn • ) re-elactlon of Sen. Frederick Van I Nnys and the defeat of Willis. Vice said that they circulated a story to the effect he collected - contributions from relief workers I tn Vigo county with which he pur- ■ chased beer and whisky for a I Democratic rally in Riley. Ind., j during the I*3B campaign Vice claimed that the remarks fotced him to leave hia work, move to another neighborhood and seek new work. TALK ON RATON GIVEN TO CLUB Oscar Lankenau Speaks To Decatur Rotarians Thursday Oscar Lankenau. well known dry goods merchant of this city, gave an Interesting and instructive talk on the manufacture of rayon, before members of the Rotary club last evening Rayon is now third in the field ! of cloth materials, exceeded only Iby cotton and wool. It Is tnsnufactored from spruce wood pulp and there are large mills tn the United States which process the material. The discovery came from the fact that the sik worm of Japan fed on the leaves of trees, and chemists and scientists worked out the process of taking the spruce 1 tree and jnaking the material out of It. eliminating the silk worm. In recent years Its sale in this country exceeded silk. Mr. Lankensu had a chart which Illustrated the two processes of manufactnre. as used by one of the leading manufacturers in the ' making of rayon.

Decatur, Indiana. Fri day, March 17. 1939,

I for Adolf Hitler's program of German expansion In Central Europe The first aid station is an old bus »-<|uip(>ed with folding *i<b-s that open to form "hospital" wings when necessity arises

Berne Cyclist Is Injured In Crash Robert Lehman. I*, aon of Mr and Mrs. Chris Lehman, of Berne is recovering frosn injuries sustain--4 when he drove his bicycle into the rear of a large truck. The accident occurred in Berne. Lehman suffered two fractured fingers on h'* left hand, cuts and bruises. DEATH CLAIMS HENRY SEELIG Father Os Local Woman Dies l4ist Night At Fort Wayne Henry Seelig. 81, retired Fort Wayne grocer and tatber of Mrs O. L. Kirsch, of this city. d:*d las’ uight at * o'clock at his home in that city. The deceased waa born in Germany, coming to this country when two years old. He was a m-vnber of the Salem Evangelical and Reformid church and served as an elder foi 30 years. Survivors, besides the daughter here, are the widow. Mary; two other daughters. Mrs. Walter Robinaon and Mrs. Ed Geiser, both of Fort Wayne, seven grandchildren, 'wo great grandchildren, a brother Conrad and a sister. Miss Elisabeth Seeling, also of Fort Wayne, Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Klaebn funeral home in Fort Wayne and burial will be In th.it city. The body may be viewed at the funeral home until time for the service*. o — • Sons Os Legion To Meet Monday The Sons of the Legion will meet at the Legton home. First and Madison streets. Monday evening at 7 o'clock. All members are urged to be present.

LENTEN MEDITATION By Rev. R. W. Graham (First Methodist Church* How Far Away is “The Kingdom?” Mark 12:34 “Thou art not far from tho Kingdom." Varfoua explanation* of what Jeau* meant when He apoke of the Kingdom at God have been given to the world. One moaning which has to do with it* present and Immediate aspect is such on which all Christians can agree, namely, that Jesus taught that the Kingdom la already here whenever God's will la being done and sinner* are turning to Him and evil la being overthrown. It la inner and spiritual, personal and present. Our Lord pointed out that such would be accomplished as one came Into 11 relation of devout love to God and to hia fellow man To love the Lord God with all thy heart, all thy understanding, all thy strength of activity la good, hut not good enough. Love to God I* Incomplete and thu* valueless without It* natural expression In love to man. ones neighbor. When we com" to understand the Inclusiveness in the term neighbor as Jesus Interpreted It. we can see that there Is no place for narrowness In this conception of love. To the learned scribe who came to quia Jesus, but who said with seriousness that he agreed with Jeau*. that we should love God with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength and thy neighbor as thy self. Jesus replied, "Thou art not far from the Kingdom." How far are you from the Kingdom?

FORMER CZECH HEAD PROTESTS GERMAN ACTION I I I Ex-President Benes Assails “Great International Crime" Chicago. March 17— <UJB —i»r : Edouard Benes today addressed a j telegraphic "solemn protest" to | President Roosevelt. Foreign Min-' 1 later Maxim Litvonov of Russia.! Premier Edouard Daladler of France and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain against the "great International crime” of abandoning Czechoslo- : vakia to Germany. “Before the conscience of the world and before history." Benes 1 wrote. "I am obliged to proclaim that the Cxechs and Slovaks will - j never accept this unitearable Im--1 position on their sacred rights and I will never cease their struggle ■ until these rights are reinstated ■ for their beloved country." He entreated me leaders of the •' great non-fasciat power* to "re- . fuae to recognise thia crime and . to assume the consequences which f today's tragic situation in Europe and in the world urgently re- . quires" .| Distraught but defiant, Hene* bad labored over the wording of ' his message most of the night In ! I his hotel near the campus of the ( University of Chicago, where he ( is a visiting professor lecturing on "democracy." For days, as he saw ihe republic * which he and the late Thomas G. Masaryk tailored to build ua an Island of democracy among totalitarian neighbor* slowly crumbling 1 under the power of Naxi diplomacy. he had refused to make any , statement which might further [ enrage the Germans His associatea explained that he did not , want to provoke "further Naxi (CONrLNUKD ON PAGE TYIREKI

United States Hits Strongly At Nazi Crushing Os Czechs; Britain Recalls Ambassador

Great Britain Recalls Her Ambassador From Germany To Report On Nazi March. REBUKE SEIZURE ixmdon. March 17 <U.R*-Great Britain took the lead in democracy's "stop Hitler" drive today by recalling her ambassador from Germany to report on the Natl "march to the east” through een- i tral Europe, With the swift expansion of Naxl-Faa< Ist power alarming every European capita), the government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. following the example of the Vnited States, ordered Sir Nevile Henderson, its ambassador at Berlin, to return to London. It waa believed likely that Hitler also would recall his ambassador. Dr. Herbert Von Dirkaen. for a "report." Diplomatic circles believed Franca would later take similar action. although authoritative sources in Paris were uncertain of the next move there. Joseph P Kennedy. Vnited States ambassador, conferred with Viscount Halifax, foreign secre- - tary. on the central European situation thia afternoon. Kennedy arrived from Rome only today and went Immediately to the foreign office, where he had a long discussion with land Hall tax. Great Britain's action waa view-' rd as a rebuke to the Nasi de j ist ruction of Cxe« hoalovakla and I seixure of Ctc-hia and Slovakia . i as protectorates The French cabinet of Premier i <«\>S'TINl'E!» ON PAGE «EVEN» STORM SEWER ACTION NEARS City Council May Take Definite Action Next Tuesday Definite action on Decatur's pro--1 posed stotvn sewer construction is ' expected to be taken next Tuesdav night in the regular semi-monthly meeting of the body. ' The council met In a special informal session Thursday night at ' the city hall to discuss the propos- , ,d building of the ewer. Howard Harbison. Fort Wayne engineer, who was employed by the . council to survey the sewage ays'.ent of the city, reported that his j rurvey had been completed. WPA aid Is being sought in the - construction of the system, which would be one of the largest undertakings of recent years. Rev. Graham Named District Chairman Rev. R. W. Graham, pastor of the First Methodist church In thia city. I wns elected district religious education chairman during the annual M. E. church. F. V. Mills, layman of the focal church, wns named to the resolutions committee selected | during the conference. Rev. Homer Studebaker nf Geneva was among the pastors to be Issued a renewed license. W. O. Little of Decatur was also issued a renewal. The pastors voted to approve a plan to raise the minimum salary of pastors from |I.OW to Sl.loo annually. Old Railroad Tram To Be Here SundayAn ancient railroad train. 78 yearn old. will stop briefly at the Erie station In this city Sunday morning from 8 to 8: IS o’clock. The train is enroute to New York, wher- it will be displayed at tho world's fair. The train Is composed of an engine , an original wood burner, and two coaches. The engine wheels contain wooden spokes.

REPORT RIOTS PREVALENT ON CZECH FRONTS Thousands Os Czech* Reported Arrested By Germans Prague. March 17—IVPI—Riots have occurred at numerous frontiepoints as t’xecha and others sought t*» escape the new Orman -Naxi regime, it was reported today. All means of escape were closed ..nd it was understood that persons who sought to cross the frontier hed been turned back by German Natl and military guards. Agents of the secret police, the dreaded Naxi Gestapo, swept down on houses all over Prague In raids such as those in Germany. Austria ■ind Sudetenland in turn had experienced. and persons regarded as enemies of the regime" had their tirst taste of the methods of the Gestapo and of the black uniform "S 3 Naxi bodyguard troops who co- - operate with them. Thousands of persons were under stood to have been arrested, and many apparently had been sent already to Gennany and eottcentr*I tlon camps. , Naxi "38" and SA" troops visit, cd ’he Csech national .’tank yesterday and took away IC-truck-foads of gold, according to witnesses. The bank's assets, which go to Hitter. included about 3X1.500,0<M) it gold and 338,5«0.000 in foreign cur.ency holdings, it was understood. The Natis made their Drat con- ; cession to the bitter Cxecbs today I (CXtNTINt'KD ON PAOK 81X> Local Persons Attend State Recreation Meet Eight persons from Decatur at- 1 - tended the second annual stateI wide recreation lay committee banquet, held at Purdue university in Lafayette Thursday evening The principal speaker was Dr. Frank Lloyd, professor of education at New York university The banquet was attended by more than &00 persons from throughout the state. Decatur persons in attendance were George Laurent.t recreation i supervisor; Walter J. Krick. Pete Reynolds. Rev. Father Alvin and Deane Dorwln, members of the recreation executive coiumitee; and Mrs. Walter J. Krick. Miss , Eleanor Pumphrey and Miss Glennix Elxey CITY COUNCIL TO TAKE BIDS Cooling Tower Bids To Be Taken By Board On April 5 Sealed bids for the construction >f the new cooling tower at tho imunicipal plant will be received by the city council in special session Wednesday. April S. The work is to be constructed according to specifications prepared bv Bevington-Williams. Inc., engineering firm employed by the council to draw up the plans. The blds will be received until 6 o'clock on that evening, at which • Ime the blds will l>e opened and read. Bids are to be submitted in three a'ternates: for all material ami la« i bor required to construct concrete ' work; for all materia! and labor required to install cooling tower | including pipe work; nil materials ■ and labor required to construct and install concrete work and cooling ■ tower. Including pipe work. The regular session of the counljell for April sill be held the pre[ceding night, Tuesday, April 4.

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GovemmrntMake* Formal Statement In Bitter Attack On Seizure Os Czechoslovakia. STRONG STATEMENT Washington. Mar. 17 — <UJO - The Vnited States today condemned Germany's extinguisbedment of Cxechoxlovakia in a formal state, met so strong that the further strength of Germany's diplomatic relations seemed uncertain. Diplomatic observers saw tho possibility of a complete break in relational developments. The condemnation wax contained in a strikingly word"d statement read by under se< reiary of state, Sumner Welles, to newspaper correspondents. It was drafted after consultation with President Roosevelt and bore his sole endorsement. "This government, founded upon and dedicated to the principles of human liberty and of democracy, cannot refrain from making known this country's condemnation of the acts which have resulted In the temporary extinguishment of the liberties of a free and independent people with whom, from the day when the republic of Cxechoafovakia attained Its independence, the people of the United States have maintained especially cfoae and friendly relations. "The position of the government of the United States has been made I consistently clear. It has emphasized the need for respect for the sanctity of treaties and of the pledged word, and for non-inter-vention by any nation in the domestic affairs of other nations: it has on repeated occasions expressed its condemnation of a policy of military aggression. “It is manifest that acta of wan(CONTINUED ON PAGE BtX> RURAL FACULTY MEET TONIGHT Annual Rural Teachers* Banquet At Monroe This Evening The annual Adams county rural teachers' banquet will be held tonight at the Monroe M. E. church, starting at 6:45 o'clock. C, E. Striker, county school superlntendent. Is in charge of rrrangements for the event. The trustees of the county will also he in attendance at the banquet. Joseph M. Artman. Chicago Journalist, will be tho chief speaker, bpecial music will ue furnished. Ihtul Kunze of Huntington Will present a series of vocal x»lections. Mrs. J. J. Yager and Mrs. Dan Spicher of tßeme will present a violin and flute duet number .Miss Dorothy Wells of Geneva will play the xylophone and accordinn and the Monroe faculty, composed of Rolland Sprunger. Floyd Johnso.i. Edna Suckau and Dorothy Baker, will present a musical program. Exhibit At School An exhibit will be shown in th« Monroe high school tonight in connection with the banquet. The exhibit will be open to the general f uhllc, starting at 5:30 o'clock. All rural elementary and high schools of the country will have work In the exhibit, which promises to be unusually Interesting o ■ — 1 1 TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 16 10:00 a. m. - Noon 21 3:o<i | tn N 3:00 p. m 26 WEATHER Generally fair, not qu'ts so cold In northwest end wtst-cen-tral portions tonight; Ssturdsy incressing cloudinass, rising t temperature.