Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1939 — Page 1

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SCHOOL PARTY IS HELD HERE Annual High School Party For Students Held Friday Night The annual high arhool party for the students of the Decatur • junlorwenlor high school was held last night in the new auditorium i Sigurd Anderson, faculty mem* her. was in charge of the program and Mias Mildred Northman was In charge of the eats and refreshments committee. The following program was presented. with Bill Spahr as master of ceremonies: Sungs Alice Blinking. Piano solo Lydia Fnuu b. Plano solo- Betty Zinamaster. Songs Fred 8. hamerlob Wedding of Lil Abner tSait) Ml Abner- Bub Baxter. Daisy Mae Bob Stalter. Mammy Yokum James Kitchen Lucifer Vokum-Dhk Schniti Daisy Mae's Paw Ne<| Johnson. Bridesmaid—Ethel Worthman. Best man-James Highland Marry'n Sam — William Archbold Dog Patch Kin- Kathryn Tag- • er. Betty Fuhrman. Mary Steele. M.ijy J Beery. Harriet Gilson. Don larhsiger. John McConnell, Bob Stapleton. Genii Darwin Mitt. The Blue Creek Revelers. <-omposed of Bolt Chamberlain. Paul Lautgenheiner, Bob Kenworthy. Bill Hoffman, and Leonard McCoy, furnished the music for main acta of the show. Grace Flattgh and her Hawaiian guitar music and Inm Lobaiger m a tap dance were features of the show The •hit" of the show was the square dance , for the Dog Patch natives, called i by Harold Feaael and Kay Girod, i James christen was the stage manager The refreshment committee wax composed of Elva Jane Martin. Virginia Shoaf. Faye Mauller. Betty Drake. Mary Worthman. all under ' the direr'ion of Miws Worrtwna'i The rest of the evening wax spent in dancing, with Hal Teeters furnishing the music. JURY TO HEAR TRIAL MONDAY First Jury Trial Os April Term Is Scheduled Monday The damage suit which was scheduled to be tried before a jury in Adams circuit court starting Monday morning has been continued, court records revealed this mornmg. The first jury trial of the April term In the Adams circuit court is scheduled to be tried here Monday The suit Is that Alvin Wade of ' Fort Wayne against the Indiana Service corporation, in which he asks 115" for property damage and 11.500 for personal injuries. The suit arose as result of an auto-street car collision in downi town Fort Wayne. The jury has been summoned to report Monday morning to healths trial. Anthony Bruggeman of Fort Wayne and John L. DeVosx of thia city will represent the defendant in the suit and Fay Mas. also of Fort Wayne, will represent (CONTINt'EP ON PAGE HIX) 0 '■ - ■ ■ District Democrats To Hear Fred Bays Fort Wayne, Ind., April 22—<UP> Fred Bays, Sullivan, newly elected Indiana Democratic chairman, will address a luncheon meeting of party leaders from the eight counties of •die fourth distric t here April <K, Virgil M. Simmons, district cbalrsnan announced today. O'Large Fish Caught By Local Resident Albert Aeschllmiin of tnlx city lays claim to fishing honors for tho ; season itx local waters. Mr' Aexchliman caught a catfish In the stone quarry near the north bridge Friday. which he asserts weighs a little more than 12 pounds. The fish wax kept alive I:, a tub I for a time to prove his story to any d’sbeliever. Similar stories regard'ng th» prowess of local enthusiasts of th" Isaak Walton sport are .Topping up in various spots since the adi vent of more favorable fishing weaI ther.

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JUROR CHANGES ARE ANNOUNCED Five New Persons Are Drawn Fridav For • | Petit Jury Service Five new member* were named to the Adam* circuit court petit jury for the April term by the jury commissioners in *e«aion late | Friday. The new member* were select- | ed to fill the vacancies created by I the excusing of four per*on* and ‘ the discovery that another was a non-resident. I The non-reMdent I* Arthur O. i Fuelling and those who were ex-1 cus,-d are Mr* Ethel Jone*. Mr*. Lillian A. Young, William Bower* and Menno Schindler. • The new member* are Charles Morgan of Decatur. Harry Edgell, of St. Mary'* township. Mr*. Hannah Buck of Preble township. Herman L. Lankenau of Decatur and Fred Geimer. The court ordered the new member* to be summoned to appear with the other* for jury duty Monday morning to hear a damage suit. - o Col. Lindbergh On Tour Os Country Washington. April 22 - (U.K) - Col. Lindbergh, piloting a new army purault plane, left Washing ton to begin field work on hl* assignment to develop the greatest aerial fighting force in America'* history. Hl* first stop was at Dayton. Ohio Linditergh waa recalled to active duty to study American aviation research facilities and makrecommendation* for improving them. This was deemed vital In connection with the extensive program to build army air force tip to g.tHHt first line fighting planes to match the aerial power of other nation*. - —o r .■■ MOTION FILED FOR NEW TRIAL John L. King Files Motion For New Trial In Mandate Suit A motion for a new trial was 1 filed Friday afternoon by John L. i King, plaintiff In the mandate suit against William H. Patterson, as ’ trustee of Blue Creek township. Judge J Fred Fruchte recently returned a ruling In favor the the defendant In the suit, hy which King sought to mandate the trustee to build a line fence in Blue Creek township. The motion set* out three reasons, a* follows: That the verdict or decision Is not sustained by sufficient evidence or Is contrary to law. That there is newly discovered evidence. That purported notice was given to one Hoadley Dellinger, adjoining land owner, instance of the plaintiff: that pursuant to the notice Dellinger purchased fence and delivered It to lhe farm; that before the same was erected another person, unknown to the plaintiff, erected a fence on the line making it impossible for Dellinger to com j | ply with the terms of the notice. [ ♦

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| powers, has virtually affirmed aid to the axis countries in a crisis. Map above shows proliable I new alignment of European nations with ‘Yngo I alavia and Hungary as members of the axis gioup I compared with the democratic powers

Free Bird Caught In Court House Deputy Sheriff l.eo Gillis and V.| :E. strMer county school supermteMtoat, turned humanitarians this I tiu-rnlng to free a red-he«ded sap sncker that was stranded !n the <-u-1 rol* in front of the court house. j The bird was unable to fly away' , when its leg* became entangled In | cobweb* and horsehair*. After it-1 ‘ t>erat ion It was too weak to fly. aol .the bird was taken downstairs and i placed in a tree. CAPONE LOSES COURT APPEAL Federal Judge Rules Ext Gangster Must Serve Full Time Los Angeles. April 22.- (UP) A |wt it lon seeking to free Al ('apone from the Termhtal Island federal jail within 2S days waa denied late 1 Friday by Federal Judge Harry A. Hollier who held the Chicago rue-1 ket king must serve his full term. Judge Hollier dismissed Capone's petition for it write of habeas cor- , pus. The court ruled that the time he spent in the Cook county jail while awaiting disposition of his appeal from a prison sentence should not be allowed him as time served Under the ruling, the former gungland leader must remain in the Terminal Island jail until November 4. when his term expires. Capone, through his attorney. Abraham Teifelbattm of Chicago, argued that he was entitled to a good behavior allowance during the months he was waiting for his appeal to be decided. Judge Hollier, citing numerous court decision*. held that a person sentenced to prison was not entitled to such credit because the prisoner him self caused the delay in being committed to prison. "Carried to It* logical conclua-1 1 Ion." the court ruled. "Capone's contention would lead to the result that a person upon whom a penitentiary sentence had been Im-. posed could evade serving any part j of that sentence through the proteas of securing supersedeas and I remaining in the county jail foi the period of the sentence, less the time which he was entitled to credit provided he hud In fact served the sentence in prison in- ’ stead of the county jail." "*O" «■ ■-■■■■■■- iii Lost Dog Returned Through Want Ad Mr. and Mr*. Jack Neerlng. of this city, lost their prised Boston Full terrier Friday and after soarnhing In vain for the animal resorted | to the want a<l columns of I'te DemI ocrat. One hour after last night's Issue of the paper was published Mr*. Neerlng says, the finder of lhe dog ieturned him to his rightful owner. ’ ’ "It pays to advertise, I'll tell you", Mr*. Neerlng said. 0-' Hospital Crowded, Cooperation Asked Due to the crowded condition at the A (Jams county memorial hospital so that placing of patient* in the first floor corridor I* necessary. ■ the co-operation of the public Is asked to eliminate all visiting of pa-i [tlents in lhe corridor. •

WOMAN FORGER PLEADS GUILTY Former Adams County Woman Pleads Guilty To Forgery Charge • Thelma Hulmes-Crani. of Kalamaiisi. .Michigan, who was return ■ here tn answer to a charge of forgery, pleaded guilty beta* I Judge J. Fred Fruchte shortly heI fore noon today . Judge Fruchte withheld passing lof sentence, however, upon re ; quest of Prosecutor Arthur E II Voglewede to enable him to conduct a further investigation into the case She was alleged to Ito the ac complice of Harry Lawson, of 1 Blue Creek township, who confessed to a series of forgeries and was sentenced to serve 2 to H year* on the charge. Prosecutor Voglewede stated that questioning of Lawnm and further investigation is expected i to definitely prove whether or not she was Involved. She i* charged with passing a forged check for at the Bunk of Berne tale last year hr has Iteen learned since her arrest that she is married and is now known a* Mrs Thelma Holmes-Cram. Her husband was In court when she entered her plea ■ ■■— ■ o .... i ..I. Fair And Warmer Is Week End Prediction Indianapolis, April 22 — 'UPJ Spring broke over Indiana today in a burst of warm sunshine, end ing several weak* of raw. rainy weather which brought the threat of a major fltstd and provided a health menace with a wave of colds and flu. Weather forecasters predicted today that fair weather would prevail over the week-end. with temperatures rising to spring lev- | e|* tomorrow over most of the I state, LIST PROGRAM OF CONVENTION Monroe Township Sunday School Convention April 30 The complete program forth« | Monroe township Sunday School convention, which will be held Sunday. April 30 at 7:SO o'clock at the Cros* Reformed church In Berne, waa listed today. David H. Hogg, former Fort Wayne congressman, will deliver the main address. The complete program follows: 7: Ik— Instrumental music. Song service — Clyde Rprunger. director. Devotions—Rev C. A. Schmid. Music—Monroe school. Short talk-The Peace We Need —Rev C. H Wlederkehr. Music—Reformed Sunday school Address- "The Gospel of Christ In the Sunday School In Relation to Present Day Problems -David Hogg. Offering. Music — Evangelical Sunday ' school. Remarks—Waldo Lehman, ptesi- ' dent of the county organisation. Benediction—Dr. C. H. Suckau.

EXPECT FIRST ORGANIZATION MEASURE SOON Government Reorganization Expected To Start Next Week Washington. April 22 — (VPI — Government reorganization, retarded by years of dispute between Republican and Democratic presidents and congresses, was about to begin t< day. The first of a series of t-otsan ‘ Itltfon orders proliably will go into congress next week. It will become ' effective within go days unless a majority of each house rejects it. Congress specifically protected 21 more or leas independent government agen< ies fremi presidential tcahuffling. These include most of tne major concessions, almlnxtration a and boards. Cabinet departments are protected against aboil'■on although various functions of any may be shifted around. A typical republican comment on the government reorganization bill tuused at this session was that of liep. Everett Dlrtxen. R.. til.: “It is an authorization to rearrange the flowers In tin' governmental vase, but no flowers shall in- removed. ev«n though a bit droopy.” There was opposition protest that r-*organizatiou would not obtain auy •■gnificant econpmy. New Dealers were dissatisfied because the bill as enacted wax hardly more than a shadow of the unlimited reorganization powers sought by the President in his first request in January 1937. The original proposal aroused orotextx against e<i-called "dictatorship*' and in April. 193 X, the house defeated even a modified v-rslon ot It. Put a further modified program vax adopted without great difficulty this year. A f arther reorganization plan is proposed id a bill •ponsored Jty Ben James F Byrnes D.. S C.. to consolidate the works progress administration, public (CUNTINI ED <>N CAGE HIM HOOSIER BOYS STATE PLANNED Local Organizations Will Again Send Boys To Annual (’amp The Hoodler Boys' Rtaie sponsored by the American Legion,' department of Indiana, in cooperation with other civic and patriotic minded organizations, will h«- held at the state fair grounds at Indianapolis June IT to June 21 Five young Itecatur men attended the camp last summer and organizations of thia city are plan-' ninx to send additional luiyx this year The purpose of the camp Is to teuch citizenship to the boys, who run the governments of their own cities, townships, coitnt lea and their own Boys State. In addition to teaching governmental duties and actlvitex tn an intensive manner, athletics, games, sports and music are provided, nil emphasizing sportgnmnahlp and citizenship The laiys name their nwn candidates, elect officials for the various governmental departmenta, hold party caucuses and meetings ,of varioiix governmental Isallex Two organizations of this city have already voted to send boys to the camp in June The Ameri* > can Legion post will send two boys amp the It |», i) Elka will send one Other organizations are expected to send boys to thin camp. Boys of the ages of IS, 17 and IS are eligible for lhe camp Boys from Adams county who attended the 193 k Boys' Htate wore William ttehnepp, David Macklin. Rex Rlegen, .lumen Krl< k and Karl Miller, Gross Income Tax Collections Higher Indianapolis. Apr. 22—State gross | Income tax collections for the first iiuartet of 1939 are running 22 percent ahead of collections for the same period last year according to preliminary tabtilntlonn, of payments. Clarence A. Jackson, director of the tax division, announced today. "The Indications.” Mr. Jackson said, "are twofold: (II that tho general upswing in business conditions evident since April last year Is rapidly gaining momentum, and (21 that tho taxpayers are paying i their tax promptly,”

Hitler Reply To Roosevelt Peace Message Friday

Conducts Revival Rev. O L. Yerty. of Belding | Michigan, will lie the evangelist at i revival services to lie conducted at the Church of God in this city. I beginning Sunday morning. Serv-| ices will Ik- held each evening at FORM COUNCIL FRIDAY NIGHT Community Co-Ordinat-ing Council Is Formed at Meeting A Community Co-ordinating : Council was formed Friday night at a meeting of approximately 25 interested persons, held at the First State Bank. Representatives of 2" different I organizations in the city voted itil favor of formation of such a <out> I cil. with other representatives stat-1 ing it would be necessary for them I to report back to their organiza-1 tiona for final action. The object of the Community Co-ordinating Council la to pro-' mote the study of social welfare! In Adams county and particular- i ly in Decatur; to help interpret the facta and functiona of social 1 welfare In Adams county; to ad-1 vise the responsible agency in I matters pertaining to the council's work in the community so that i the needs of the community may , , t>e dlscoveted: and to promote cooperation and coordination In the | efforts of all constituent members | of the council aud responsible agencies toward meeting the community's needs. The newly formed council in no way will replace existing agencies j hut is Intended to act in more of i an advisory capacity toward bettering conditions of all human re-1 lationships and social welfare In |ie<atur and Adams county. Rev. R. W. Graham, temporary chairman, presided at last night's meeting, with Miss Bernice Nelson. teni|s>rary se«-retary, acting as secretary. A nominating committee of five | persons wax named by those fires-1 ent to select candidates for the offices of president, vice-president and secretary treusiirer of the! j council. Members of the nominating) committee are as follows: Pete Reynolds, chairman: Rev. Father Alvin. Rev It W. Graham, Mrs. Delton Pusxwuter and Mrs. Paul Hancber. This Committee will meet withrti u few weeks to select the candidates. Th« officers will be elected by tho entire council, which will be composed of a representative from each participating organization. The organizations which voted ,to participate in the Community j Co-ordinating Council are ax fol i lows: Chamber of Commerce. Adams j county tuberculosis association, j I city health board, American Le-1 i glon auxiliary, Kaatern Star. I Pythian Hlsterx. Decatur ministerial association. G. E. club, city council, farm security udminlstra(CONTINUED ON PAGE 81X1 Legion And Scouts Supper Here Monday The attention of all Legionnaires has been called to the fact that prior to Monday night's meeting of Adams Post No. 43, a supper will be held at 9:30 o'clock at the Scout cahlns in Hanna-Nutt man park. The Legion will meet with the Legion Scout troop for the supper and will then return to tho Legion , hume for the regular ineetiug.

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Disclose Germany Has Made Inquiries Os Nations Mentioned As Menaced By Agzression STUDY REPLIES By Vnlted Press Europe today: Berlin: Germany has made Inquiries whether nations mentioned by President Roosevelt In his apI peal for a German-Italian peace , pledge believe themselves to be menaced by Germany, authorized source disci ones; Hitler expected to read replies In speech next Friday. Venice: Italy moves to swing i Jugoslavia to Berlin-Rome "axis'* 'as Foreign Minister Ciano starts , conference with Jugoslav Foreign I Minister Cincar-Markovitch. Belgrade: Italian diplomatic activities make big Im p reason in ! Jugoslavia; inspired newspaper | article says Italian-Jugoslav collaboration is "cemented by historical and geographical needs." lamdon: Government Is reported planning to take over British broadcasting company as new weapon in "peace front" efforts. Gibraltar: Three cruisers join I French patrol in Strait of Gibraltar. Discuss Question Berlin. April 22. <U.R>- Germany I has ' discussed the question broach- | '-d ill President Roosevelt's peace I message” with the nations inen- | tinned by the president in his appeal to Adolf Hitler and Benito i Musaollni for an anti-aggression i pledge. It was made known today. Information was made available | to the foreign press that Germany - has sounded out the 31 nations concerned. It was admitted that I communications had been received jiruiu some us Uu; lu* tiona but it was denied that the semi-official source had knowledge of the contenta of the replies. It had been reported abroad that i Germany had questioned a num- • H-r of powers as to whether: (lj they feared aggression by Germany i and 121 that had advance knowledge of the president's app-al or. by implication, had asked him to l aid them Adolf Hitler was understood to Im- intending to mention the replies in a speech which he is to make to the reichstag next Friday. I replyhlg to the president. Lithuania. Hungary aud Jugo- | slavia were reported abroad to have replied “no” to both quea- ' tiona. Holland was reported to have said that It did not think it was menaced hut could not lie sure that its present sense of security would endure. It was announced 1 .it Berne that the Rwiss federal council hud replied that it placed ; contldence tn Switzerland's neutrality. defended by its own military power and expressly recognized by Germany and other neighhors. Helsingfors announced that Finland, like Lithuania. Hungary and Jugoslavia, had given negti- - live answers to the inquiry. ' The Information made available | here Indicated that Hitler had questioned every nation mentioned | by the president. The president asked Hitler and Muasollnl to give a 10-year pledge, i and if possible a 25 year one, that I they would not attack any of tho following natlona: Finland. Exthonia, Latvia. Lithuania. Sweden, Norway. Denmark. The Netherlands. Belgium. Great Britain and Ireland. France, Portugal. Spain. Switzerland. Liechtenstein. Luxembourg. Polaud. Hungary. Rumania, Jugoslavia. Russia, Bulgaria. Greece, Turkey, Iraq, the Arabian states. Syria. Palestine, Egypt and Iran. Thus the peace pledge would ' have covered Europe mid the Near I East. Mussolini rejected the president's ‘ appeal in a speech at the t'upidoallo world fair grounds at Rome; I Hiller wax to make his own reply next Friday. The source which disclosed the German inquiry held that lhe action was natural "In view of the action of the American president." The same source said that reliable quarters were unable to con (CONTINUED ON PAGE BIX» 0 - TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. .. « 10:00 a. m 47 11:00 a. m Gt WEATHER Generally fair tonight; not so cool tonight; warmer Sunday.