Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1939 — Page 1

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Sorority Head Mias Rosalie Irwin, of Frankfort. council president, will pre •ide over the 25th convention „f the Kappa Kappa Kappa sorority “ }.** •J!*."*' 1 *-•“«*« ‘n Indiana|><dia Friday and Saturday

S. GALBREATH IS SENTENCED Man Who Confessed Local Break-Ins Given 5-30 Years Stanley Galbreath. 38. of St Mary's, Ohio, who has confessed burglarising a number of Ihs-utu-tesidences. this monting was sentenced at Celina. Ohio, to five to W» years In the Ohio stat.* penltenGary. The sentence was pronounced by Judge R A Younger in the Sier cer county common pleas court. Gal-l-reath had pleaded guilty to an indictment charging burglary and larceny on an inhabited dwelling last Tuesday in the Celina court and sentence was delayed until today. Galbreath was Indicted by a grand jury in the Mercer county court several weeks ago Galbreath following his arrest in Janaray. reportedly confessed to 1 rnrwr irmt tob’dnr more than l.twto hones In eastern Indiana and weei tern Ohio. JThe confessed bu-glar war taken on a tour ot Decatur sow time ago by Sheriff Kd P. Miller and he • pointed out a number of homes ( which he robbed Some of the stolen articles have been recovered. .Anniversary History Copies Are Received Dorua Stalter, WPA first aid supervisor and an Instructor at the Bluffton CCC camp, presented th* Decatur Democrat with two copies ot the anniversary history of the Bluffton camp today. The book edited and printed by 1 members of the camp, gives a com- | plate history and survey of the < amp and its activities. o ■■ — . Regular Meeting At Elks Wednesday The regular semi-monthly meeting of the R. p. o. Elks lodga will be held at the home on No'th Secend street Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. All members are requesteo to be present, as Important busI teas will be transacted. SET DATES FOR |. COURT TRIALS Number Os Civil Cases Set For Trial In Circuit Court Reveral civil cases were set for trial In the Adsms circuit court by Judge J. Fred Fruchte late Monday afternoon. Among the cases which were set I and the dates: May 18—Contract suit ot Vtllit les Engineering Institute against Clifton Amstutz. May ll—First State Bank of Decatur against William Murphy, u * note suit. May 31—Note suit and complain io set aside fradulent conveyance lof the First State Rank of Decatur against Charles E. Magley. Esther C. Hutton. Wayne Burger. Several cases had been previously set by the court and still more ara expected to be placsd as the April term progresses. Court action was In full swing Monday and today as the April term entered Its second week. The court docket was called Monday and numerous cases are expected i to be set al an early date.

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PLOW SHOW IS PLANNED HERE County Agent Announces I wo Demonstrations For April 27 Two demonstrations of tbs Purdue plow trash shield and proper plow adjustments will b<> held on Thursday. April 27, .i t h„ follow •ng local lona, From io to 12 A. M. ths demon-t-tratlon will be held on the Winfred Gerke farm 6 miles s'orth ot Decatur or I mile West of Feuling s hutheran Church, and from I to J P- m on the Butler Woodruf farm ’* “>'• ">»' and H mile North <<f New Croydon according to an a mouticement aiMw today by L. E. Archbold. County Agricultural Agent. The demonstration la to show the 'armers and others interested In WH-uring dean plowing how these thrash ahieids and proper plow adjustments will aid in securing comcomplete coverage of corn stalks, large weeds, sweet clover (etc.) The shields are constructed ot sheet metal Shaped to form a hooi over the top side of the furrow slice as It la being turned over, t'hey are hinged at the lower front • ori.ers and consequently are free to rise and allow any obstruction to pass under them. Corn stalks or trash which is to.be plowed under is held down by the shields and placed in the bottom of the open furrow insnediately in front ot the turning furrow slice. The stalks and trash are not merely covered •rut are buried deep enough so that little trouble is experienc'd from ■tr igging the trash to th* surface during tilling operations. These shields can be adapted to end used on any wheeled plow. Farmers, implement dealers, and i ethers Interested in better plowing are urged to taky advantage of Ute opportnity to see the plows equipp'd with these shields walking in corn stalks, sweet clover or a heavy growth ot weeds. The demonstration will be put on by members of the Agricultural Kogtnecriag Department of Purdue I'niverslty cooperating with the (ounty Agricultural Agent. WILL DISCUSS RIGHT OF WAY State, City Officials To Discuss Road 27 Riuht Os M ay State highway offlciala will meet with city officials and members of the council thia evening for the purpose of discussing the purchase of the right ot way for the proposed routing of U. 8. Road 27 over Thirteenth street. W. E Hoffman, supervisor of the I right of way department of the state highway commission and Roy Beiberstine. district supervisor, with offices in Fort Wayne, will meet with the city officials at the city hall. The Indiana law provides that where state roads pass through cities of more than 3.500 population that the right ot way must ; be provided by the city. The state highway commission notified Mayor Forrest Elzey 10 ■ days ago of its intention to change the routing of V. 8. road 27 from I Second to Thirteenth and then north long the west side of th" Pennsylvania railroad to a point north of Monmouth. The right of way from the intersection of the Kiting road on Thirteenth street, north to Washington, is within the city limits. The widest right of way asked Ilea between the Kiting road and the Nickel Plate railroad. The state is asking 100 feet, the original street right of way being only 50 feet. This would necessitate 25 additional feet on each side of the street. Over much of the territory the right of way asked Is 50 feet, coming within the street dimensions. No purchase of additional frontage would be necessary along these points. o David IL Hokk To Be Convention Speaker David H. Hogg, (ormer Fort Wayne congressmsn of this district wil bp the speaker at the Monroe township Bunday School convention to be held Sunday. April 30. at 7:30 p. m. The convention wll Ibe he'd at the Cross Reformed church In Berne. C. H. Museitnan and Menno Burkhalter. both of Berne, are lu charge ■ of the event. Special music will be > furnished during the even*..

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, April IN. 1939.

Broadcast Wednesday Os Rotarian Interest Officers of the Decatur Rotary jrlub have received word that a ra*l din bru«d< ast of special interest to Itolariazia will be presented by (aim and Abtiet. famous radio c.wnedlan* on their regular broadcast Wedn*«- | day The presentation will be mads at 8:15 p. m. Wednesday. (CBT) from Hollywood MAY 1 FINAL DATE TO SIGN Set As Deadline For Participation In 1939 AAA Program | Adams county farmers have until May 1 to express their 'n.entions to participate in the IM* AAA program by completing and signing in- , dividual farm plana, announces Winfred Gerke. chairman of the , county AAA committee. Farmers cannot reqneat inspection for determining perfotsnance and obtain- , Ing payments in this year's proI g-am unless they sign farm plans . by that date. Information received thia week from L. M. Vogler, chairman of the ( Indiana state AAA committee with headquarters at Purdue University. dl.'4-loeed that through March 31 a . ’otal of 1.396.126 farmers in the I 10 north central states had Indi- , rated their intentions to participate , l:i the program this year hy signi ing farm plana. These farmers repI tesent 62.7 per cent of all fanners Jin the north central region, and i about 250.0u<> more than tne total > number of farmers who participated in the 1938 AAA program Corn belt > farmers began signing their farm plans in February A majority of I of those already signed were com- [ pleted in March, and indications aro . that a large number of additional . t.'ahs will l.e signed tn the region i during April. A total of 131.301 far- ’ n.ers in Indiana have signed plans wnich covers about 57 per cent ot ) all farmers in the state. Mr. Gerke urges all farm<rs who > |>' ia to paiticipale in the 1939 farm > program to see their l.vca' AAA committeemen and complete a farm plan as soon as possible. The plan shows the aerroge allotments, the soil-building goal, and maximum naymsnts for the farm, and It has i a map to use In working out the farming systrsn which the producer considers beat so rthe farm in 1939. No farm inspection for the pur pose of determining performance 1 and payments will be made on farms for which tarni plans are not made out by May 1. except where landlords request such inspection by letter to the county committee. Kit her the completion of the farm plan for participation or a letter from the landlord, indicating his intention to participate in the 1939 • program, received by th-s county committee by May 1. will assure inspection of a farm for tho purpose » of determining performance It will be Impossible to obtisn payment on farms for which no performance Inspection is so requested by May I ASSAILS ICKES PRESS ATTACKS Woman Publisher Assails Secretary For “Dis- t crediting Press” Washington. April 18 — (U.RJ — Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, publisher of the Washington Tltnva-Herald, accused secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes last night of leading a new deal campaign to “discredit the press of the United States as a purveyor of truth ot what goes on in Washington." Mrs. Patterson spoke over the network of thn Mutual Broadcasting system in reply to Ickes' speech on "Columnists and Cal- ' umnlsta" before the New York Newspaper Guild last Tuesday. She said Ickes had been chosen as the "administration's vial of wrath" in a drive to discredit the press ds s revealer of new deal "errors and accidents." She said he had attempted to ' "lay down an advance barrage of, poison gas" against the newspapers in anticipation of their crltl- - clam of President Roosevelt's “if we don’t have a war" remark at Warm Springs and hie address to the Pan-American Union on Friday. "The president, already at Warm Springs had made a most alarming and provocative Inference that this country 1s going to join in any war that happens." she said "He was x x x preparing ICONTINUKD UN PAGE gIA) ,

FEDERAL LABOR CONCILIATOR IN MINE DISPUTE James F. Dewey Takes Initiative In Effort To End Dispute Now York. April is — (UP) — James F. Dewejr. federal lator conI cliutor. announced today he wan "inking the initiative" In wage-hout regutlattons of the Appalachian soft < oal industry In an effort to end a ■on tract deadlock which has kept ■3».e*» miners and «.s*i mines Mie I since April 1. Dewey conferred jointly and separately with representatives of the United Mine workers of America and of 2.ihhi bituminous operators in the eight-state area. At the con--1 < lusfon of the morning conference st salon he said that both aides had voluntarily accepted him as a "mediator" of their dispute. The negotiators have b»cn dead'ocked over conflicting union recognition proposals to be inco.-porate! in a two-year renewal of the 1937contract which expired March i *'? Dewey spent about 15 minutes ir the joint conference. Then lie tauten with the miners for 2a minutes c.nd later conferred with the operators for 5» minutes. He said be "reviewed Uie dispute" with both sides and would meet with them In veparate conferences during the afternoon. Dewey was a-do-d if he had "tprn.ally entered the negotiations." "Yes. sir." he replied. “1 am tak mg the initiative and have been accepted as the mediator by botu sides." Asked if he had presented any formal compromise proposal to break the deadlock, and it he expected the settlement in the near future, Dewey replied. ‘no comment." The miners demanded elimination ol gstctnatM* strike penalty clauses which have ben part of a'l local contracts based on the apptt'-ochiau ■ CONTISt'ED ON PAGE FIVKi STUCKEY NAMED TO BAYS PLACE On Service Commission; James Beattey Is Appointed Indianapolis, April 18 — (U.R) —; Gov. M. Clifford Townsend an nounced today that he wilt appoint William Stuckey of Indlanspo is to succeed Fred Bays as a member Ct the statu public service commission when Bays, the ms Democratic stat-- chairman, presents his formal resignation. At the same time, Townsend announced James Beatty of Indianapolis. whose resignation nr I secretary of Democratic state i committee becomes effective May I. will become director of mot< r vehicle division, a post Stuckey recently held Stuckey, who Is a new comer to politics. Is a native of Owen county, but has lived in Indlsn i spoils tor several yeura. He worked for Gov. Townsend during the 1935 election campsign and also ! served as an aide tu Townaetid'a office during the 1937 session of I the legislature Stuckey Is a lawyer and aerved , :>s an attorney for the governor's farm debt comniisslon during McNutt's iidmlnistratlon. Attend Funeral Os Father In Michigan Mr. and Mrs. Richard Andrews. Russell and tarence Andrews have 'eturned from Dearborn Michigan, where they aztended Ute funeral services for their father R.isaeli Andrews. former resident of this city, o-■ — — Released On Pledge To Abide By Order Orval Roop was released by IJL Fred Fruchte late Monday after- ' roon uppti bls pledge to provide fohis children and comply with a restraining order, the court withhold Ing sentence on the violation. He had been called Into court to answer to charges of violating LU<> restraining order and la'l Ing to comply with the providing erder ot the court. He Is to report every Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock until further order of the court. Roop appeared In court In custody of Sheriff Ed | Miller.

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FREAK STORMS SWEEPING EAST Nebraska And lowa Are Struck By Severe Blizzards (By United Press) A freakish storm of snow, sleet and freexlng rain swept into the middh-west today and pressed eastward toward the Ohio river, already at lliKHi levels from heavy ' spring rains. The storm originate tn the Ro< ky Mountains yesterday. whipped snow Into deep drifts in Colorado and Wyoming, reached blizzard proportions in western Nebraska and northern lowa, coaled north central Wisconsin with ice. and loosed hai) and heavy rahis over Illinois. Humholdt. la., reported i Its worst blizzard of the year. Government meteorologists ex-1 pected the storm to bring showers I today to the Wabash river valley I in Indiana and the central Ohio i vulley in Indiana. Illinois. Ohio. and Kentucky where an estimated 2.<MMi persona have been forced to evacuate lowland homes. The storm and ItiHxls cost at least live lives which, in addition to 40 deaths in tornadoes throughout southern and central states during the past three days, brought the total for the nation near 5o Several persona were injured ser-1 iously in the tornadoes and the . death total was expected to b<- j higher. One death was reported In the: Colorado snowstorm Two per- ‘ sons drowned lu flood waters in I Indiana, one in Ohio and out- hi' West Virginia. The last of a set-1 ies of tornadoes that swept across ' Texas. Oklahoma. Ixtuisiana. Ar- i kansas. Alabama. Mississippi and I Tennessee, struck near Boligee. Ala., yesterday, killing one woman and injuring 2ft other persons Fore<aaters predicted mattered ( showers and lower temperatures today in moat central wtatea | Temperatures dropped below frees ing in sections of lowa last night 1 Predictions of rain and strong gales for Chicago threatened post | ponement of the opening game of she Cubs baseball season Rtln has forced cancellation of exhibition games for three days Meteorologists believed that the showers expected In the central Ohio valley would not Increase i of serious flmais. bower temperatures, expected today, would help alleviate flood conditions. The Ohio was still rising steadily. however, and was expected to crest in the lower valley late this week. A crest of 34 feet -two feet below flood stage was expected at Parkersburg. W Va.. tonight The Little Kanawha river, which (CONTINUED <»N PAGE TWO) fl AIN FURTHER SWELLS RIVER Lowlands Os County Are Flooded After Continued Rainfall Rain today for the sixth consecutive day was expected further to heighten the already swollen Hl ( Msry's river. Wanaahi river and ' other smaller streams ot thn coun •yOvertaxed by the amount ot pretipltation that has fallen from the skies during lhe past few days, thu St. Mary's river here has broken Its luinks and Is working Its way into lowlands. No threat of heavy loss from Hood walers is seen Immediately., however, although farmers have ; been handicapped by being unable tn get Into the soft, wet flmda. Unusually high waters ate reported lu the lowlands of the Wabash river In southern Adams county. | Wa'.i-1 I Gladfetter, river and precipitation observer reported thia morning that yesterday's precipitation added another. 13 of an Inch ot rain fail. Mild temperatures itavo accompanied the showers of the past few duvs. with the temperature remaining well above the freezing mark, at least the past two or three days. This morning at 8 o'clock the Democrat thermometet* recorded 46 degrees above zero. Cloudy and cold weather has been predicted by i the weatherman. j

Dies Suddenly Mrs. Hallie Bortz Schah-r. wife . of Chalmer C. Schafer, prominent Decatur businessman, died unexpectedly Monday evening at Mayo Brothers clinic In Rochester, : Minn MRS. SCHAFER DIES SUDDENLY Mrs. Chalmer C. Schafer Dies Monday Evening At Hospital Mrs Hallie Horn Schafer, wife of Chalmer C Schafer founder of i The SchaTer Co., of this city, died I at 5 3o o'clcM-k Monday evening at i Kahler hospital. Rochester, Minn.. ■ following an operation Mrs Schafer went to the Mayo , Brothers’ Clinic about six weeks I ago for obaervation An operation was performed a month ago at St. Mary's hospital, in Rih heater. , Word of her unexpected death ’ was received here by relatives last evening. The laidy will I* taken to War- ’ saw from Rochester. Funeral ser-1 ■ vices will be held ut the Koliert ! Kelley funeral home In Warsaw , The date or time of (he funeral) had not been determined this atternoon. Burial will be in the cemetery at Leesburg, former home of Mrs. Schafer. Mrs Schafer was horn in Leeoburg. November 18. 1882. a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bortz Following her high sch<H>l graduation she attended De Pauw uni-1 versify and Brenau College. I Gainesville, Ga. She taught school in Warsaw for a number of years. She was married to Mr. Schafer on January 2. 1933. Her father died a numlH-r of years ago and her mother. Mrs Nettle Bortz, died last? January at the Schafer home A talented and gracious woman. Mrs Schafer was prominent in MM-lal and sorority circles. She was a past state president of Tri Kappa sorority, past province I president of Alpha Chi Omega paororlty. and was a*’member of the Alumnae organisation of Alpha I Chi Omega sorority. j In Fort Wayne, where Mr and I I Mrs. Schafer resided nt 2313 For-! eat Bark boulevard, she was a (CONTINUKD ON PAGE HIX) Large Crow d Attends Rural Music Festival A good sized crowd witnessed the presentation of the annual rural school music festival at the new junior-senior high school auditorium ' last night. Students from Monmouth. I‘leasatH Mills. Kirkland. Geneva. Hartford. Monroe and Jefteraon participated. ————— r-T-ll Error Reported In Name Os Graduate Among the list ot students who t're to graduate from Monmouth I high school this month, the name ' of William Selklng was erroneously i given recently. The num-' should! have been listed ns Wilbur Hoiking. "" o —— Cal Magley Suffers Foot Injury Monday Cal Magley, Decatur young man. suffered a painful Injury to his left toot last evening when th" dropped ' r piece of windshield glass on It. 1 lhe attending physician sflited that four tendons were cut. He was .taken to the hospital and after j treatment was released.

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Continue Efforts Seeking Expansion Os Bloc; II Duce To Ignore Message By Roosevelt. FLEETS MASSED Ixmdon. April 18 - <U.R> -Prime Minister Neville ChainlH-rlalu praised 'President |{<H>*eve|i'a peace message today and indicated muliitenamc of the Independence of the Netherlands. Hwltserland and lh-nmark was of greatest liii|m>i 'anve to the new Kttropeati front against aggression. The prime minister told the house of commons that the government is continuing closest conrultation with other powers. Including the Hoviet Union, for formal adherence to the anti-aggres-aiott bloc. He failed, however, to mention Turkey, the gnardian of the strategic Dardanelles. It was underst<M>d that negotiations to bring Turkey into the united front might lie completed thia week. Discussing progress in creation of a lairrler to future aggression in line with military defensive |»l*-dges already given to Greece. | Rumania and Poland. Chamberlain said that the British govern I merit was maintaining "all necesI sary contact In military and other maltera" with the governments Involved. . His statement was in regard to whether actual general staff consultations had liwn Initiated by Britain and France with Poland. Rumania and Greece. Then he declared that, while Britain had made no definite commitments to the Netherlands. Switzerland or Denmark lhe government was deeply interested in the preservation of their independence against aggression It liad I wen understood previous- - ly that Fraa. h and lltttaiu were in complete agreement on military action to Im* taken to oppose any invasion of either Switzerland or the Netherlands as well as Belgium. all of which are of vital dei fensive importance to the two big I powers The prime minister was warmly cheered when he referred to the I "great satisfaction of the govern meat In connection with Mr. RiMtsevelt's peace message hut did not reply to a question whether he would give commons an early - opportunity to express its gratification. To Ignore Appeal Rome. April 18- (U.PJi A high ; fascist source reported today that Premier Benito Mussolini Intended to Ignore Preaidelil Roosevelt's appeal for peace and let Adolf Hitler speak for lhe Berlin- ftome "axis" in his address to his naxi relvhstag April 18. According to the Informant, Mussolini was ''disgusted" at the tone and content of the president's message to him and Hitler, and hud agreed with the nazi fuehrer that the best course was not to I reply to It formally. Fascist quarters said they understood that Hitler told Mussolini (CONTINUED ON PAGE? HVE» TWO CRIMINAL GASES ADE SET Ed Berling Trial May 1; Georjcc Adams Caw On May I Kd J. Borling, local iasurancq agent, Is to be tried May 1 in Adam* circuit court on a charge ot drunken driving Judge J. Fred Fruchte set the case for trial late Monday afternoon. Borling wa* arrested January 3 wnon officers alleged he operated Ills car on federal road 27 worth of Decatur while uuder the Influence of Intoxicating liquor. He was arrested by Sheriff Ed Miller and State Officer Runsell Prior. Pleading not guilty to thu charge, ho wa* ralaaatd tinder 82th» bond. The case of George Adams whn la charged with reckless driving, wa* set by Judge Fruchte for May i. He was arrested August 20. 1938 by Officer Truman Blerlu. Prosecutor Arthur E. Voglewedn will conduct the prosecution lu both i cases Attorney Ferd Litterer will- ' represent Berllng. It is not known who will defend Adams.