Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 66, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1939 — Page 1

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LENTEN meditation By Rev, Hemer J. Aspy ♦ First Baptist Church) “CONFIDENCE” **ln * aur P*t>sncs poeeeee ye your souls." Luke 21:19. •*®f a’h'n/. 1 ?* ***lch many have Men, the artist pictures the In•’anew a * window through which can lie seen in the •H» Mw a., n . ,nd th * *ky A* talked to Hie followW the t.-rii),?,' 0 ?', ** m Ml" death, the destruction of Jerusalem. **H*MH« . ,r “*• and temptation* proceeding the end of the , There w *’ v *‘ ,n , h ,, ’n the content of Hitt whole mind. ” h«l4 l»fnr« ‘""tty things that the church was not to know but •"Un* "gain m for “’"urance and hope the fact of His Hl» Njljfl jk. Mray fr?' J l,ll . on would rise against nation, that friend * the in, *"■* false teachers would proclaim false cutes ana * orl d. and that those who followed Him would , to the He then gave them the secret of success; ’’’•W do w e ii , pwu ‘*' of the soul — patience, a grace which we ell t 0 »«9Ulr e in Ums days.

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MODEL CLUB TO HAVE DISPLAYS Airplane Cluh To Have IHtplaya In Store' \\ erk Os March 17 wnaMMMama The Airplane model club, directrd by the WPA recreation department. will aponaor two bi< flylnc model dlaplava the week of Mon day. Marrh (7. to Saturday. Apnl I. Three display* Will be on exhibition in the ahow windows of the l>-e Hardware Co. and the Schafer store. Airplane modeling la rapidly becoming one of the oiitstandhiK rn rest lon activities, from both a hobby and an educational standpoint. It has become a part of the curriculum in some achools and colleges At the present time, there are about 75 boys and young men in the Decatur model club. The public is invited to visit these two stores any time during the week of March ST and inspec t the work of the young Decatur m<"d«l“r«. Three-Year-Old Boy In Scalded To Death Shelbyville, Ind.. March IS—(VP) -Loren D Weaver, age three, died here last night after he tumbled Into a tub of scalding water. The child's mother had gone to the well to get cold water to mix vith the hot water She left the tub of hot water on the floor. When she site found Loren's I ody. tag Is Fractured While Pulling Lo«s Lewis Nwoveland. of near Willshire. Ohio, waa admitted to the Adams county memorial hospital this morning suffering from two fractures of bones above the ankle in the right leg. Swoveland had been pulling logs at his home near the Ohio town, when a crooked log flipped to one aide end struck him on the ankle. The attending physician sta'ed that he is Improri"* satisfactorily despite the painful injury. WRECKAGE OF PLANE FOUND / 111 — Find Plane Which Crashed February 12; Five Are Killed . Juneau. Alaska. Mar IS — (U.B — . The wreckage of a Marine Airways ! plane containing five bodies was found where It crashed In a storm February 12 opposite tlrand island in Stephens passage r A woodsman. Charles Ashby, piloted a skiff across dangerous Taku inlet, to meet a gasbout and come to Juneau to report the plane ' demolished in Doty's cove. Ashby 1 said he found the plane four days 1 ago but war unable to come here sooner because of bad weather. 1 The plane, on a flight from Ketchikan 276 miles south of here, was piloted by Akmto <Lon) Cope. ' veteran flyer noted for his rescue flights. The passngers were John ' Chappel. 40, Juneau Insurance exeI cutive: Earl Clifford. 45; Ernest ' E. Ek. St. Juneau, and Ueorge . | Chamberlain, 41, Anchorage, all salesmen Cope's last radio messugc was ' that he was being forced down by ■ Ice and a northwest gale. Stocks Decline For Fourth Straight Day • New York. March IS —(UP)--1 Stocks declined for the fourth con- ' (■•cutive day after ft fairly active ' I opening. Bonds continued tn decline mid cotton futures were down sevi < n to 13 points.

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Famed Skoda Arms Works Now in Hitler Grasp A- griM Hitler, inset Skoda munitions plant

The Skoda munitions works, one of the world's i greatest and most important arms manufactories, i situated in Pilsen. Bohemia, comes under control i of Germany with Chancellor Adolf Hitler taking | that former Czechoslovakian province, along with '

FARMERS SEEK PHONE SERVICE Farmers Petition Company For Improved Telephone Service Several petition* seeking rural telephone* service similar to that given in Deeatur and hied recently by groups of farmer* with the Citizen* Telephone company here were diactiaaed at a taiard meeting of the company Friday night. It was reported that Hw» farmer* asked that the new type city telephones be purchased by the company for the rural patrons seeking the new service. It was also said that the farmer* asked for equipment giving selective or private ringing in order that neighbor* would be unable to tell when patron* were called by phone. Those farmer* stated tha’ under the preesnt “code" ringing, Io or 12 phone* ring each time one of the patron* I* called The petition* also a*ke«i that the city-type phones be installed tn rural district* and billed at “rates of not more than those In effect in Decatur*" Officials of the Citizen* Telephene company today would release no statement as to the action to be taken on the petitions. They did point out. however, that In the past a few rural telephone lilies had been granted the newer type of quipment on petition* of farmers on those lines. The officials said that In view CONTINUEO ON PAGE THREE! Former Linn Grove Pastor Buried Today Funeral service* will be held at Rochester this afternoon for Rev. F. W. I-auner 57, former pastor of the Linn Grove Evangelical church, who died this week after an illness of several years. Rev. Launcr served a* pastor at Linn Grove for three year*, leaving that charge 14 years ago He I* survived by the widow and two daugiiBANQUET HELD FRIDAY NIGHT Annual Banquet Os Rural School Teachers Held At Monroe A large crowd attended the annual banquet of the rural teachers of Adam* county held last night at the Monroe M. E. church. Crowds also visited the school exhibits which were shown In the Monroe high school building. "Education and Its advantages" was the subject of the speaker. Joseph Artman. Chicago journalist. A musical program was presented by member of the faculty of the county school system and Raul Kunze of Huntington. The banquet wns served by the • Indie* aid of the Monroe church. C. E. Striker, county school superintendent. was In charge of the j event.

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i Moravia and Slovakia, under Nazi "protection" Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia moat ot Skoda's prcducts were absorbed by Czechoslovakian and allied military establishments Germany. I most likely, will now become chief customer

Employment Service Director Resigns , Indianapolis. Ind.. March 18 — | <UPI—J. Bradley Haight of Indiati.ipolis today took over the Indiana employment service as acting dir -ctor, succeeding Martin F. Carpen- ‘ ter. dlr-ctor for almost six year* • v. ho resigned to accept a post as regional head of the federal railroad retirement board. Haight had been carpenter's assistant for almost three years. A permanent appointment will be made by the state unemployment compensation board, which has Jurisdiction over the » mployment ser,|tkue. at It* next meeting. SOUTH AFRICA MOBILIZES MEN All Police Reserve* Mobilized After Protest From Germany Pretoria. South Africa. March 1* •—(l'P*— Urgent orders have been Issued mobilising all South Africa i police reserve*. Including European*. Asiatic* and African*, it was learned today. The South African government t was believed to have taken It* action in connection with a German protest against restriction of Ge.--1 man imnilgratlon In Southwest Africa. a mandated territory which was German before the world waF. Gen. J. B. M. Herzog. Prime Minister of South Africa, disclosed before the assembly at Cape tewn yesterday that the German government had made representations asking a more "sympathetic” admintstra 1 l lion of immigration laws under the . Alien act. Germany alleged that th j f act was being applied to southwest Africa In detriment to German nuI tlonals. Herzog said that he would not : reply to the representations until t further details, which he had re- • quested, were provided. J. H. Hofmeyr. who resign**! a* minister of education In September. said In a luncheon speech yesterday I that the dictator state* of Europe regarded South Africa as within the orbit of this activities. • “Recently there have been people in South Africa who flirted with Nazism" he said. I hope tnat the fact the leaders of Chechoslovakia. I who sought friendship with Nasi Germany, fared as badly as did those who opposed Germany will I now lessen the number of flirters In South Africa. "South Africa must play her part i In resisting the onslaught of tho authoritarian states.” ■ - -o- — TEMPERATURE READINGS 1 _______ DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m —. 20 10:00 a. m. ..... 20 11:00 a. m .. ....... 20 WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday; not so cold in northwsst portion tonight; rising temperature SunI day.

NOTED PIANIST CONDEMNS ACT Paderewski Expresses Indignation At Hitler Seizure Chicago, March is—<U.W-Police placed a guard around the 79 year ‘ old pianist and statesman. Ignace Jan Paderewski, today because he had expressed indignation at Germany's seizure of the Czech provinces of Buhetnia and Moravia. t They feared American Nazis , would demonstrate against him Paderewski, first premier of modern Poland which now is in the ;>aih of Germany's "march to th- East,” sent a letter to his perI sonal friend of long standing, former President Edouard Bene* of , the former nation of Czechoslovakia, expressing in strong term* , hi* reaction to the fate of Benes' nation. The police guard was placed ' around the pianist's private railroad car on the order of Mayor i Edward J. Kelly Police said it i was precautionary. that they had i received uo Information that • American Nagis planned a demon stratlon. Paderewski plays In , concert here tomorrow. • "The most sacred rights of a . nation to Independent life have , been stampeded by marching .1 troops.” Paderewski wrote to Benes. "If the world's conscience t Is not yet dead ... all our efforts should go to your nation In order to assist her in her ordeal to strengthen her will of resistance to bring her help In her legitimate striving for the recovery of her full Independence." ‘ Benes, now a visiting professor 'I at the University of Chicago in •elf-exile. received the message in silence. He remained secluded at hi* hotel. Bene* yesterday sent telegrams to th- governments of the United t . I (CONTINUED ON PAGE HIXI COMMENCEMENT DATES LISTED Rural High School Commencement Dates Are Announced t I Commencement dates for the sevI en rural high schools of Adams • county were listed today uy C. E. Striker, county school superintend- ' ent. ! The Hartford seniors will be the first to receive diplomas, getting , their on Friday, April 21 In exercises at the school. Monroe will follow on Saturday.' April 22 and Monmouth will he next I in line on Monday. April 24. followed by Kirkland on Tuesday April 25. , The Jefferson exercise* will be | held Wednesday. April 26. followed I by Geneva on Thursday. April 27 j i.nd Pleasant Mills on Friday. April 28. The speaker for the exercises has ( not been selected as yet. He will j speak at all of the commencements.

ADOLF HITLER ‘ ENROUTE HOME FROM TRIUMPH leaves Vienna To Receive Plaudits Os German Nazis Vienna. Mar. IX. — (U.PI — Adolf Hitler left for Berlin today to re-<-eivn the plaudits of his Nulla tor his Ctechoslovak triumph. Oflli iala quarters said Hitler left by special train with his entourage at in a m (4 A. M. CSTi Before he left, he waa under-1 stood to have completed plana, in consultation with his confidential advisers, for the government of the t.ermun-aeiied provinces of the former Cxechoslovak republic. Hitler and hia aides were understood to have considered: 1) the final details for Incorporating Ciech areas in Bohemia and Moravia; 2) details of the establishment of a protectorate over Sice vakia; and 3) tlermany'a future policy toward Hungary on the question of Carpatho-Vkrainla. third and last of the three parts of Czechoslovakia. Ferdinand Durcunsky, foreign minister in the new Slovak government. and Nano Mach, chief of propaganda, left Bratislava last night for Vienna to consult Hitler and receive his orders. The official newspaper Slovenska Swoboda of Bratislava announced today the appointment of Prof. Mattua Cernak as minister to Berlin; Dr. Josef Zvrakovec as minister to Rome. Dr. Karol Kltnovsky as minister to Warsaw and Dr. Ivan Milex as minister to Budapest. Negotiations regarding Slovakia were reported to be due to the reticence of Monsignor Josef Tino, president-premier of Slovakia, to iccept too firm a Nazi protectorate over his devoutly Catholic homeland. Already, at Bratislava, it was reported that some Catholics as well as Pan-Slav Ist ic leaders and Slovaks generally were beginning to fear that they had been trapped into surrendering their freedom MAN IS SLAIN BY CUSTOMER Dissatisfied Customer Slays Chicago Heating Contractor Chicago March 18—(UP»— Robert W. Hall. 44. a heating coatractor died of three bullet wounds today after gasping out to police the nam“ of a dissatisfied customer as his i-ssallant. Police established a guard at the borne of the man he named. The shoooting occurred last night at Hall's home. The gunman fired ' without a word of warning, liall fell •vith bullets in his chest, arm and - c-ieek. His wife and daughter. Roh-<..-ta. 18. University of tllionis am* ' dent, heard the gunman run from ' the door. Hall was taken to Jackson Park hospital. A physician told him be • ■as dying and asked him to tell (CONTINt'RD ON PAGE TiIRBKi 0 ; Central Sugar Co. Receives Payment Washington. March 18— The Cent"al Sugar company of Decatur. Ind. received 818.887 Inbemdlt payments for participating in production and marketing control under the sugar act of 1937. the agriculture department announced today. The Indiana company was one of 52 producers of sugar beets in seven states to whom the department made benefit payments. Slight Improvement In Garwood Condition Continued slight Improvement ' was reported today in the condition ' of Walter Oarwood, young Decatur man. who reportedly drank a quantity of poison late Monday even- ’ Ing in a suicide attempt. Hie condlf tlon has been critical since he was ttrken to the Adams county metnors ial hospital shortly after taking tho ' poison. "■ O ■"■■■' ■ — i C. Os C. Directors Meet Monday Night » - I The board of directors of the DeI entur Chamber of Commerce will i meet at the office of John L. Da Voss Monday evening at 7:30 o' i clock. Further plans for the annual 1 f.ee street, fair and agricultural . - show will be made at this meeting.

Nations Protest Nazi Absorption Os Czech Areas

WELFARE HEAD GIVES REPORT Statistical Report Os ( oiint} Welfare Department Announced ■ '■■■ ■ ll An Instructive statistical report of Adams county's public welfare | department, which includes old age assistance, dependent chil dren and the blind, for 193*. has l>een prepareil by Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp Th* lowering of the age Until for old age pensions in July. 1938. i Increased the old age .yssistanoroll from 222 In January. 1938. to' 288 in December of the same year J Total expenditures for old age 1 assistance, lutaetl on average monthly payments of 814 g<> amounted to 847,873 50. of which Adams county paid 2" percent, or < 8* 574 70. From July 1938 to December 31., 1938, the pension roll increased from 231 to 288. The financial assistance render ed dependent children amounted to 822.528.00. for the year, the av-' erage number of children on the roster being 164. with a high of. 172 in December. The numle-r of, families represented totaled 74 in | December, the average per family, being 827 26 per month and the average payment per child. 811.43 per mouth. Adams county contributed |5.856 76 or 26 percent of the total' for aid to dependent children. The report shown that in De-' cember 1938, 8 persons In the county were receiving blind assistance Ihiring tb“ year 81.316.00? waa paid to them, an average of 816 per month. The state and federal governments pay the entire cost of blind assistance. Financial Report The financial report shows an increase of cash on hand al the \ close of 1938 The department started the year with a balance <>f 818,249 12 and closed the year with 821.327.03. The cost of conducting the department, including old age penaiona. dependent children assistance and operating costa waa 820.84664. Tho report of receipts and expendltures for 1938 follows: Receipts Reimbursements from state and federal funds: Old age assistance ....138.690 85 Old age burial 386 4»>| Assistance crippled children 45 50, Dependent children with relatives ... .... 16.457 60 Administration—Children 308.89 Personal services 1.814.96 Other receipts: Recoveries from recipients or estates .. 1.58696 Warrants returned .... 97 00 Tax receipts: June distribution 12.702.01 December distribution.. 11.8*2 92 Balance on hand at the begining of the year.. 18.249.12 Total .... 8102.222.21 Disbursements ' Disbursements on which Adams county received reimbursement: Old age assistance .....847.873.50 Old age burial 1*6.00 Assistance crippled children 734.50 Dependent children with relatives 22.526 00 Personal services 3.860.00 Dlsbursemtnes on which Adatns county received no reimbursement ; Child welfare services 77.00 (CONTINUED ON PAGE HIX!

County Welfare Report Two year comparison ot old age assistance In Adams County 1937 1938 Average number mt roll . .... 209 Average number on roll 240 Highest one month 222 Highest one month 288 Lowest one month 194 Lowest one month 221 Average monthly pay 9 15.50 Average monthly pay $ 18.80 Total payments 39.708.00 Total payments 47.873.50 Adams county's share 7.941.60 Adams county's share 9.574.70 Indiana's share 11.912 40 | Indiana s share .14,363.05 1 Federal government . . 19.854.00 Federal government 23.936.75 Two year comparison dependent children assistance • 1937 It 1938 Average number on roll ........ 147 J Average number on roll 164 Highest one month 1711 Highest one month „... 172 Lowest one month . 118 Lowest one month 161 Average monthly pay I 980 Average monthly pay 8 11.43 ■ Total payments. 17.357 00 Total payments 22,526.00 Adams county's share 4.639.75 Adams county's share 5,856.76 • Indiana's share 10.41420 Indiana's share 13,51560 I Federal government 2,303.05 Federal government 3.153 64 > Blind Assistance For Two Years In 1937 an average ot 6 persons, the highest 7. received financial I assistance. In 1938, the average number was 7. the highest 8. Payments averaged 315.76 a month in 1937 and 316 a month in 1938. Total. 1937, 71,150, Total. 1938. 61.316.00. The state and federal governments pay • j the entire cost ot blind assistance.

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| United States, England And France Formally Protest Nazi Seizure Os Czechoslovakia. NO RECOGNITION Washington, March II- <Uft - i The state department announced that the United State* will a<>nd Germany an official note which Is expected to reassert abhorence ot Nazi absorption of Czechoslovakia. The diplomatic message Is expected to slate In plain and direct language the official statement of > the United States that It does not I recognize legality of German action* in taking of the Czechtmlovaklan nation. The announcement will be dispatched by under secretary of state. Sumner Welles. The note is expected to re-em-phasize Welles' declaration of yesterday In which the United Statea condemned as "wanton lawlessness" the latest coup of Adolf Hitler, | The American note will Im> dispatched to German officials in reply <o a communication from Berlin giving official notification ot Nazi abaorptlon of Bohemia and Moravia Welles' announcement emphasized the swift consolodatfon of . United States' action In protest agsinst the Caechoslovakian sitnnJ tlon This came after the treasury rejected the trade treaty from the former Czech area and imposed the official German tariff on i the region the highest duty paid ' on goods imported into the United States. Formal Protest* London. Marrh 18 (UJV- Gr<*at Britain and France sent formal protests to Berlin today againat . Hitler's Cgech conquest and are understood to have joined the | United State* and Russia in refusing recognition. liespite denial* In Berlin, reliable source* here insist that Hitler has made strong economical demands and that Rumania ha* rejected them Rumania officially informed Britain of demand* and asked how far Britain is prepared to go in supporting Rumanian rejection of them. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlin called an emergency cabinet meeting for late today and was said to have done so after receiving the appeal from th" I Rumanian minister The Evening Standard said ] King Carol conveyed to Britain i his fear that Rumania is in grave danger and his determination to fight instead of submitting to any loss ot territory. Carol, the Standard said, suggested if Britain. France and Rus- , sia backed him he can rely on Poland. Bulgaria. Greece. Turkey and Jugoslavia to rally to hia support. The Evening Standard said the Rumanian minister Informed Brit(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE! Douglas Store Is Re-Opened Today I w ■ I The C. A. Douglas store ro-opened i this morning tor the first since Monday night when stock In the • store was damaged Ity smoke dur- ' in* the fire in the Knights of Columbus building. Large crowds were expected during the day. as the Dougins store * opened it* sale of goods damaged hy the smoke.