Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1939 — Page 1

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LOCAL RESIDENT HANGS SELF IN GARAGE SUNDAY • — (’•sper Dilling Commit* Suicide Here Sunday Afternoon ('•■par IMlling, il. vete-an ter. ploye of th* Erie railroad, comthltt■4 anlclde Sunday afternoon in th* garage at the rear of the William Werllng realdenre. nj North Tentn afreet where he wan a roomer. The Werllng family left thetr I ome shortly after noon Sunday an 1 on their return al «:M found IMIIInga llfelewa body hanging In the g«-ag* Pilling had looped a rope ower a rafter In the garage, tied a nnoao atound hia nerk and then rtepp. d off a crate. J. Jerome Yager, ot feme. Adam a county corner, re turned arerdict of culclde. atattng that death apparently occured ahor.t S o'clock. The victim waa reported to hare been In poor health tor home time and It la believed deapondeacy over II! health, and tear of loav of hia jfh for that reaaon, prompted hia act. He had been mnployed as a aecnon hand on the railroad for the pant 21 year*. DUling waa born in Preble township September !•_ ISB7. ard waa a lifelong realdent ot Adam* county. He reaided in and near Preble until two years ago. when be moved to Decatur. He had never married. Surviving are the father and ptaf aßOther, Mr. and Mra. David JoFnaon Dilllag of Fort Wayne; one elater. Suale Dilling of Cincinnati. Ohio; and three brothers. Ixtu'e A. Dilling ot Fort Wayne. Dacar Dilling of Laketon and Otto Dilling ot Griffith Hia mother died in MU. Funeral aervicee will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 airlock at Ibe Zwick funeral home and burlll will be in the Decatur cemetery. Aged Woman Is Killed In Crash Attica. Ind . Mar 27.—(U.8 -A 7*lyear-old grandmother waa dead today aa the reault of a three-car collialon near here yeaterday She waa Mra Mary Levina Faye, fatally Injured when a car driven by Jamea Faye, her grandson, waa 'at ruck by a machine driven by I John Crawford, ot Kvanavllle. after th* Crawford vehicle had aide■wiped ■ third automobile driven by Mra. Heaee Merrill ot Attica. Mra. Merrill and her two chll- ' ren eacaped uninjured, although their car rolled over Into the ditch. Crawford waa held pending an tnveatlgation by Fountain county I coroner A. J. Deveniah. DOUGLAS NAME IS APPROVED Senate Committee Votes Unanimous Approval For Justice W’aahington. March 27—(UP!— The aenat* judiciary committee today quickly approved th* nomination ot William O. Douglaa aa aaaoelate juatice of the aupreme court and aent It to the aenate. wher* confirmation la expected tomorrow. The committee vote In approving Douglaa waa unanlmoua. The nomination 'of Douglaa. year-old chairman ot the aecurltl* and exchange commiaalon. waa approved Friday by • judiciary tubcommittee which apent loaa than 2U mlnutea conalderlng hia appointment. Douglaa will aucceed retired juatice Louia Dembit ■ Brandeia The committee alao reported t« rorably the nomnntlon of Harry K Kalodn*r to be a federal judge ft th* eaatern dlatriot ot Pennayl rania. but tome committee member* reaerved the right to oppoae ‘he nomination In the aenate. Chairman Henry F. Aahurat. D., Aria., told reporter* that "aome Senator* are not quite aatiafled with aome of the judge'* action* Ho (CONTINUED on PAUB FIVSA ,

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EIGHT KILLED IN CRASH OF PLANE SUNDAY Motor Failure, Poor Visibility Are Blamed For Crash ——— Oklahoma City. March 27- <UJ9 —A preliminary Inveatlgatlon indicated today that the takeoff craah ot a Branlft air liner which khled eight peraona end injured four other* early yeaterday waa caueed by motor failure and vialblllty "100 baty" to allow a aucceaatul emergent y landing (Yo-PUot Malcolm Wallace, who. with Pilot Claude Seaton and two paaaengera managed to crawl from the wrecked plane owiy a moment before it • -xplotted, aald the left motor “failed immediately after the taheoff" from munlclpal airport at 2: <2 a. m Sunday When the motor faded, be aald. both b* and Seaton knew they would have to land and ao adviaed the paaoenger* by flaahlug an electric *lgn In the cabin ordering adjnatment ot aafety belt* "If the weather had been clearer." Wallace aald. “we might have gotten down safely But a light hate made it difficult to judge dia tance.‘' Bert laon. civil aeronautics authority Inspector who flew here to direct the Investigation, aald the No. « cylinder of the left motor apparently failed a few mlnutea after the takeoff. He had already sent a preliminary report to Washington and said a formal statement would be leaned when hi* Investigation was completed. Wallace waa unable to explain the origin of a fire which licked up through the floor behind the cockpit when the plane, after bounding several hundred feet in a field a mile from the airport. < raahed into a fence. The ignition and gaaoilne lines had been cut (CONTtNCRD ON PAOM FOVKi RURAL CANTATA FRIDAY. APRIL 7 Rural Hiish Schools Os County To Give Cantata At Berne The tentative program for the annual Easter cantata to be pre■anted Friday night. April 7 at 7:30 o’clock at the Berne MennonIte church by th* aev«n rural high school* of Adam* county, wa* anaounced today by C. E. Striker, county school superintendent. Student* and faculty member* of the aeven school* will take part in the annual event. The program follows: Organ Prelude. Invocation. Eaater Angela Baritone aolo, "Angel Guard*"— Glen D. Shoemaker. Hartford. Choru* of women voice*. Contralto aolo. “Angel* at Gethsemane" —Mildred Shifferly, Pleasant Milla. The Wondering Angela at Calvary. Chorus Soprano Solo —frene Foanaugh. Kirkland. Soprano aolo — Esther Barr. Pleasant Milla. Alto and baritone duet, “Rock of Age* "— Doria Moser and Norman Augaburger. Hartford. Soprano aolo, ‘'Angel* of th* Resurrection" -Lila Sprmiger. Geneva. Chorus. Baritone solo, “The Victory la . Won'—Glen D. Shoemaker. Hart- . ford. Choru*. Baritone »010, “Thou Art Gone up on High ’—Floyd Wlndmlller. Geneva. ' Choru*. Trio. "Joy in the" Mansion* of Light —Bernice Nussbaum. Violet Ealy. Julia Lehman. Monroe. ' Soprano »010. "The Angel*' Ad- ' oration"—Lila Sprunger, Geneva. Cliorua. Director, Mra. Helen Ehraam; i planla. Mra. Velma Fortney; organi*t. Mra. Glady* Chrisman. Offertory. Solo—Mia* Dorothy Baker. Redemption'* Song A new aong Choru* Soprano obligato — Miriam Greene, Geneva; Eileen Brewster. Jefferson; Irene Foanaugh, Kirkland: Ruth Llechty. Monroe; E*th- ' er Barr. Pleasant Mill*. Ride on in Majecty — Unison ' men*' voice*. Ensemble. "Midnight In the Garden" — Miriam Hoffman. Irene Foanaugh. Ruth Ann Hlrsrhy. i tCONTINL’BD ON FADE FOUR)

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 27. IN9.

Home Guarded After Threats aW Kir iK.■ /' h-.'. Police guard waa placed around home in New York of the noted mural tminter. Griffith H. Coale. shown with wife, after an alleged kidnap attempt on their tbree-year-oM daughter. Betsy, who la granddaughter of Bishop William Manning Colored butler said two men offered him 21.U0U to aid them get the little girl

CITY REPORTS I ALL APPROVED State Field Examiners Approve City Report For 1937-38 Field examiners J. H. O'Neafl and G. H See of the department of inspwtlon and supervision of public office*, in their audit and inspection of the electric and water utilities of the city of Decatur for 1»37 and IMg. report all fund* in balance, all entries approved and all recorda properly kept for the period covered by their examination The profit and loaa statement* complied by the Mate examluers, agree to the penny with the totals In the report* made by local department employe* to the council and the mayor No criticism of any entry, allowance. voucher payment, or record kept at the city hall, waa made by the examiner*. Only one ior two recommendations wr-e ' made by the examiners In their certified report to E. P. lirennau. chief of the state leiard of account*. These recommendations concern the continuance ot impolicy to collect past due accounts, the filing ot necessary action to collect ornamental street lighting > assessments and the charging off of the fund* remaining in closed banks, following the final distribution from the Old Adam* Couu-| ty Bank and the people* Loan A | Trust company. As in the profit and loaa statement* made by the audit depart i{ inent for the year* 1»37 and I»3*. the field examiners' report shows i profit for the electric and water utilities for the two year* a* fol- : Iowa: Electric Department 1R37 net Income .. |7J. 114 7» l»8tt net Income .. H1.57S 5C Water Department 1837 net income ... 28 880 87 1838 net Income ■... 58..878 <3 The 1838 income account of the electric utility ahowa total foot - Ing* of 8228.(88.07. Operating expensea. 8180.8(0.78. Groaa income. 271.38128. from which la deduct- - ed (8.704.44 for street lighting donated to city: (300 Intereat on old bond iaaue; (801 28 for materials, leaving a net balance of (M1.(7((6 The water utility showed grA* operating revenue of |3(.*781(; operating expenaea. 818.808 18; ' other income of (441.28; groaa income 117.412.28. from which la deducted (10.432 <(. including (8.1(0 for waiving fire hydrant rent--1 ala. leaving net Income of ((.- 878 <3. The reports contain a complete examination of the two departments. the 183* electric utility re- ' ■ (CONTINUED ON FAOE FOUR)

LENTEN MED[TATION <Rev. C. M. Prugh, Zion Reformed Church) "And last of all He sent unto them Hia Son.” St Matt. 21:3?. Thua with a parnble Jesus Illustrated several Important facta concerning God's dealings with men. The conduct of the wicked husbandmen, mistreating and killing the servants of the owner of the vineyard, was no worse than that of Israel and of mankind In general In the treatment accorded the Prophets, who were the divine messengers of the Almighty, "fn sundry times and In divers i manners'' the Prophets were sent to reaaon with men about their waywardness and sin These all met a similar fate—some were Imprisoned, others stoned, still others were "sawn asunder.” "And last of all he sent unto them His Ron ” The owner was about at the end of bls patience, this was hla final effort to bring the rebellious tenants to their senses. When God sent Hla own 1 beloved Son Into the world. He wan Issuing an ultimatum to mankind. "As though God did beseech you by us." says St. Paul, "be > ye reconciled to God.” ■ God has nothing further to say to men than Ho has said in and through Jesus Christ. No more offers of reconciliation will be , forthcoming, before the Owner comes, to deal with men according I to their just deserts.

Adams County Native Dies In Montana Friends and relative* have recelv- , rd word of th* aeath March 15 in {Glacier Park. Mont, of Mlaa Ada j Davis. 87. a native of Adame county ' and for many years resident of Blue Creek township. She had lived in Glacier Park the past three years with a nephew. Robert ‘Jefferson. Fhe had never married. Funeral service* were held In Montana, with imritil in Cut Bank. Mont. THREE HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Three Confined To Hospital After Car Crashes Into Pole Three of the four person! Injured Sunday afternoon when the car •n which (bey were ridtmt caasa*>d out of control west of here, were still confined to the Adam* county memorial hospital today. Mrs. Walter H. Harris. wUe of The driver, la confined in the hoapl•al suffering from several fectured riba. Ransom Harris. North Manchester. father of the driver, la aiitferlnq from severe head bruises. The attending physician atated thl* morning that additional X-ray* were to , be taken, but that he did not thin< the injuries serious. Robert Reed, of Silver Lake, father of Mrs. Harris suffered a dislocation of the right hip. Hia injuries are not thought to 4>e serious. Harris, a local factory employe, waa dismissed from the hospital last night after treatment. State Policeman Russell Prior Investigated the accident. He Mated that the car had apparently careened out of control on the soft berm and crashed Into a telephone pole. The accident occurred on federal r>a*d 224 In Wells county, about one mile east of state road 1. Escape Serious Injury In Wreck Two peraona eacaped sarlona injury Sunday afternoon when th* cur In which they were riding upset on federal road 224. west of thia city. Julius I’t It*, of 800 Shawnee Avenue. Lafayette, escaped injury and hia wife suffered sltrht lacerations on the forehead. After treatment at the hoapltal. she waa released State Police Officer Ruaaell Prior and Commissioner William Bell Investigated. They reported the car had overturned when the driver loot control.

HOUSE ACTION ON FARM AID BILL DELAYED Question Os Economy, Business Appeasement Hinge On Vote Washington. March 27 - <UJO - ' Vital questions of economy and buaineaa appeasement depend on tomorrow'* house vote whether farmer* shall be given an unbudgeted (250,000.000 in benefit pay menta. House approval would pass the question to <he senate where th< farm bloc la strong and the econ- L omy bloc comparatively weak. The question bear* directly on the appropriation of ao large an business appeasements because unbudgeted *um would Increase difficulties In repealing so-called buaineaa deterrent taxes. Tlte argument against repeal now I* primarily that it would be diffii cult to find compensating revenue in other corporation tax brackets If farm benefit payment* are swollen by (250.iH)0.0n0 the treasury's need for revenue will he increased by that much and the argument against sacrificing a single penny of tax sources w'll have hern considerably strengthened An easy way out for congress would be to appease fsrtn era with substantial benefit check' and appease business by postponing scheduled social security pay roll tax Increases which are to liecome effective next year. Mr. Roosevelt la reconciled to postponement of the social security tax increases and business welc<»me* the prospect Routine District of Columbia bills forced revision of administration plana to resume deliatr ' today on the agriculture depart ment bill which carries the ex-' trabudgetary (3(0.(8)0.000 for parity payments. House majority leader Sam Rayburn said the bill will be taken up tomorrow, and predicted the house would take . final action on It then. >| Raylmrn planned to begin deI bale Tluusday uu. lb<- relief deficiency bill if the appropriation*, committee, deadlocked on President Roosevelt's request for (150.- , 000.(88) .reports a measure by that time From (220.000.000 to, (230.000 000 of annual revenue I* raised by the so-called bueineas deter"ents. including the corporation surplus tax which aa recently as last April .Mr R<M>aevelt defended aa fundamental to our democratic system. He insists that repeal of those levies be accompanied by other corporation tax Increases to provide compensating revenue Congressional economisers in general agree with him that compensating revenue is essential. Some observers suspect that Mr. Roosevelt's failure publicly io condemn the farm benefit prop aiai at thia time is because also pending before a house committee is his request for an additional (1(0.000,(881 for unemployed relief. A strong economy atate(CONTINUEK <»N PAGE FOUR) KIDNAP REPORT PROVES FALSE Reported Kidnaping Os Child Proves Mistaken Identity The aid of local night police waa asked Saturday night by frantic grandparents in a reported kidnaping. which later proved to be but a rumor. George Strickler, of near Monroe. drove Into Decatur about 10:30 o'clock Saturday nixht and reported that his grandson, child of Mr and Mrs. Luther Singleton, had been kidnaped. Mr. Strickler stated that the attendant at the Strickler filling station near the reaidence had reported a car driving back and forth in front of the home several times. Mr. Strickler stated that as he arrived at his home, two cars left the driveway. In the latter car wax hl* aon-ln-law. Luther Singleton, who motioned toward the other car and gave chase. He told Officer Roy Chllcote and Adrian Coffee that five men were In the car. which he thought carried the "kidnaped" child, and asked their old. The sheriff - * office was notified and an Investigation opened Im mediately. Upon hia return home, Mr. Strickler found the Infant safe and sound and learned that when his son-in-law motioned, he meant that he was going to follow the ! other car and not that he was giv- ’ iUK chase.

"swteiß—————— mmmiwi France And Italy Weigh Prospects To End Quarrel

JACK BENNY TO PLEAD GUILTY i TO SMUGGLING Radio Comedian States Likely Intention To Plead Guilty Hollywood Cal. March 2t—(UF) Jack Benny, rado and screen comedian. said today be probably would (lead jit her nolo contendere or guilty to a smuggling cbargs when bl* case I* called in New York Centra) court next week. "However." he aald, "any final determination will not be made until I have conferred with my attorney when I arrive in New York. When indicted jointly with Albert N. Chaperau on January ia Benny pleaded not guilty and said be would fight Gm* charge, which aocosed him of purchasing atruggled jewelry from Chaperau. on th« the ground* that the did not know It wa* smuggled. He is charged with buying between (1.200 and (2-188) worth of jewels from Chaperau for j which no duty bad been paid. Benny indicted that hia chief New York counsel. William J. Donovan would ask the court permission to withdraw the not gnilty plea and* e iter one of nolo contendere, which | without admitting guilt, subjects one to conviction. Falling this, he would ask permission to change the plea to guilty, ft was understood. SCHOOLS GIVE ANNUAL PLAYS Rural High Schools Give One-Act Plays Thursday And Friday The annual presentation of onenet clays by the rural high school* of Adam* county will be made ou 1 March 30 and 31. C. E. Bulker, county school superintendent, announced today. On March 30. one-act plays will be presented at Monmouth hirh school auditorium by the *chool* in the north half and at Jefferson high school by those in the south I half. On the next night, the schools in I the south halt will come to Monmouth and those In the north half will go to Jefferson to give the playa, under the direction ot tne public speaking teacher* of the rea-1 pcctlve schools. Admission to the auditoriums will be 10 cents per person and the purchase of one ticket will entitle tbo purchaser to witness all plays given on that night. Proceeds will be used to purchase ccbool books and supplies. The participating schools in the north halt - r.re Monmouth. Pleasant Mills. Kirkland and Monroe. Those In the south half are Geneva. Ilaritord and Jefferson. Casta for five of the plays were listed todsy by the school superintendent. Kirkland and PleaMnt Mill* have not sent in their casts as yet. Following are the schools, the play and the members of the casta: Geneva; “The Great Joanne," with Patricia Schlagenhauf, Ven Egley. Helen Moaer. Jean Stanley. Betty Smith. Donald Windmiller. Robert Shoemaker and Charles Votaw, Hartford. “A Perfect Brick," with Mary Habegger. Glen Dubach. Marjorie Reynolds. Ivsn Zeigler. Rarbaraneil Grandllenard. Delbert Kaufman, Ruth Grandllenard. Merle Affolder. Jean Tlnkham. Roger Dustman. Joephlne Meshberger and Leon Fennlg. Jefferson. "In Doubt About (CONTINUED ON PACK FIVE) Relaying Bricks On Liberty Way The brick on Liberty Way was being relald edgewise today Th" bricks were turned and laid flat and due to an obpection filed that part which was relaid wa* torn up today and laid edgewise. About half of the Improvement was completed. It la proposed to flush the pavement { with a filler following the relaying |of the bricks.

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Triumph Os Nationalist Armies In Spain Add To Mussolini Power In Europe. IL DUCE MODERATE By Joe Alex Morris United Press Foreign News Editor The triumph of Nationalist armies In Spain lengthened the shadow of Premier Benito Mussullrl across the Mediterranean today aa France aud Italy weighed prospects for a pe*ceful settlement nt their colonial quarrel. Nationalist troop* of Gen Francisco Franco Im, kod by the power of Fascist Italy, cracked up Spanish republican lines on the Estremadura and Toledo fronts without meeting serious resistance and Franco's iriMtpa prepared to march Into a starved and warweary Madrid Except for cleaning out the centers of extremist resistance, the 32-months-old civil war was all but over and the problem of Spain s future role In the European balance of power was acutely presented to the democratic and dictatorial blocs, especially in the tanae Mediterranean area Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini's speech yesterday encouraged a lessening of general tension liecause his attitude toward France wa* comparatively moderate. He offered to negotiate a settlei ment He spoke of IMhtoati. I French port on the Red Sea that is vital to Italian Ethiopia: of the Sues Canal, which France dominates but to which commerce between Italy and Ethiopia contributes tremendous tolls: and ot Tunisia, the French colony in North Africa which waa long ago grabbed from under the nose of 1 Rome and where Italy's 9(.fßui residents are outnumbered by only I 10.188) by the French. In them* centers at trouble. MusI solini presumably wants concea- ■ slons that will relieve the strain on Italian economy; <-on<-e**lon* that France might gracefully negotiate if a calm approach la undertaken by both sides Only tn Tunisia, where the Fascist* seek greater political rights for the Italian minority, does the conflict get on acutely dangerous ground. Premier Edouard Daladier ot France, now invested with the powers of dictator, indicated that he would be ready Io deal with the quarrel In a manner aa moderate as Mussolini's but against a background of armed strength also aa great as that of the Italian premier. France moved to strengthen her naval forces in the Mediterranean even while expressing Mtlsfaction with Mussolini's I attitude. There la little hope, however. I that Italy and France can suddenly pat each other on the back and call off their controversy Both nations are now under dictatorial regimes. Daladler's role aa strong man In France depends upon protecting every Inch of French soil. Assail Poles Berlin. March 27— <U.R> —Natl government sources assailed Poles for purported antl-German activities today In what appeared (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) PETER D. KIZER DIES SATURDAY Former Linn Grove Postmaster Dies Saturday In Florida Peter D. Kiser. 73. former Linn Grove postmaster, died Saturday POM at a hoapltal In Orlando. Floi Ida. according to word received here. He had been living there since 1937. having spent bls entire life In ■ the county previous to moving to Florida. He was born near Linn Grove February 14. 18(6. the son ot Silas and Lydia Klter. He also served ar. Hartford township assessor for i a time. He was never married. • Surviving are three brothers. I Frank Kizer ot Huntington. Jamea l of Upland and Oha-les of Hartford r township and two sisters. Mrs. Rutb • Rlttkera of Huntington and Mrs. • Ada Humber of Akron. Ohio. t Funeral services are not known E here, but It Is thought that burial will be In Orlando,