Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 115, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1939 — Page 1

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Reported Victim * <M Auto Accident .Only Straw ••Dummy” A thoroughly fri K i, . „ . ’ 'P"‘ '"i ""» In •’ H...,,.,, ~, , ’ 1 hr and (>ff|,,. r Hl .y Chilcote that a man. apparently badly Injured wh ,. u • bit by an auto. was lying along th.j highway .lwt> mil*** nortU. H* was making a desperat.. effort to crawl off the highway, they xal.l Sheriff Miller and Officer Chileoto Itnmedlatsly went to the Beetle and found the “man.” The "man" waa juat a atraw dnm- • my. packed tightly. The authoritiea e Mom**onr» of D!iyitiK a • ptactical joke and that they puiiod I Um dummy aero** the rnad bv mean* of a wire to further the illu- ' anti that he moved. No aign of the ‘ Jokeatera could be found however. SERVICES HELD BY LUTHERANS I | , 3,00(1 Attend Services Marking Centennial Jubilee Sunday Approximately 3.000 [M-raoti* at 1 tended the special services at the junior-senior high M-hcad auditor- ’ ium in thia <lly Sunday held by • th.’ ftecatiir Lutheran conference 1 The *pe< ial services were held ‘ tn commemorate the immigrant • pioneer forefathers of |im year* ago who founded the Missouri ‘ synod. 1 Itev. T. W Stricter of Kvan*- • rille, vice-president of the central ' district of the Lutheran church and Rev F. Niedner of St t'hailea. Mo., were tlie speakers at the ’ morning service. Rev*. I* W ' Schultt. M J Frosch and W 1 ‘ Moeller conducted the liturgical '(services in the morning. I A large audience attended the ■ sacred concert presented by the t'ont-ordin college a capella choir 1 Sunday evening. Prof Ottomar Krueger, president of Concordia college, sjxike during the tuicrutuoMuic oi tlu- eva- > ning concert, dem-tibing the le auty 1 of spiritual song* and that it is 1 the privilege and duty of Chris- . tian people to sing unto the Lord. Rev Stricter'* address. In part ■ follow*: "Contend for the faith which Was once delivered unto the Mint*," Rev. Stricter admonished in hl* addr.-«>< Th.- itloriou* Power of Our Church — A Militant Confess lonallsm," Present tendetul.'S to "compromise, to evade, and to agree to disagree In matters of religion" were scored by him. I Rev. Stricter told his audience. “While it I* true that the essence I of the church's message i* pence and pardon through the Savior's death, nevertheless it is also true that the church ha* always had 1 to fight to preserve and protect 1 ; this message from attack* on every side " Duty To Contend Defining the faith which was I delivered to the- saint* a* "the whole leuly of scriptural doctrine," he said, “the entire message of salvation is atill tlod's property entrusted to us merely as unto steward*. It I* not our duty to redefine this message Rather it I* our duty to contend for It. to proclaim It. and to contradict ll* ' adversaries “ Among the doctrine* for which the church must continue to con- • tend. Rev. gtrletor mentioned j "th* doctrine nt an Inerrant. Godbreathed scripture: the doctrine (CONTiNVCI* ON PAQK gIXI DEATH CLAIMS FINLEY KELLY Geneva Man Dies At Adams County Memorial Hospital Today Finley Kelley. «#. of Geneva died shortly after noon today at the Adam* county memorial hospital | following an extended Illness. Death wt* attributed to carcinr.ma and lompllcntlons. The deceased was bom In Geneva June 30. lk?2. the son of Isaac B. and Isabelle Ramsey-Kelly. He was II painter and decorator. He was never married. He had been confined at the hospital for the past six weeks Surviving are two brothers: Alfred Kelly of Klkhart and Usac B. Kelly of Allen county; a sister. Mr*. Jennie Coons of Dunkirk and a half-brother. John T. Kelly, local justice of peace. A brother, Marvin, died about a year ago. Funeral services had not been cian pie ted late this afternoon.

IL DUCE SAYS DANGER OF WAR CAN BE HALTED I Mussolini Asserts Problems Can Be Solved Peacefully By United Preaa Europe listeiuM closely to Pretn--1 ler Benito Mussolini's word* to i Korth Italians today In an effort I to guess how far ho may awing the totalitarian powery toward peace In general the Fascist , put the emphasis on peace hut 111 was significant that in a second speech today he stipulated that • <*ertaln European problems — presumably including Italy's demands against France In the Mediterranean — must be solved before tho danger of war can be eliminated The second speech, made to automobile workers at Turin, re- | peatetf the declaration made on Munday that there are no European problem* of such magnitude that they cannot be solved peacefully. Then 41s if he might have gone too far along the toad to conciliation to suit his ax'* partner. Adolf Hitler, the Fascist premier declared: “But peace Is only possible If' certain problem* are solved Wore they reach the chronic stage" Nail* were not pleased by Mussolini's speech on Sunday inasmuch as It wus taken to mean that Italy did not l>a< k up any German move that might cat'ae war over the free city of Duiixig The Italian premier's attitude helped to lessen the tension generally in Europe and especially Itetwoen Germany and Poland, where It had been feared that Naxl demonstrations in Danxig mirhi lie a forerunner of an attempted , foreefnl selxnre of the city. Rut d«-splte the an 1 isf act ion with which lautdon and Paris receiv.ul the peace gesture. It was uncertain , whether It would lead immediate- , ly to iie*oUatious for a settlement of the Suer canal, the Djibouti ! ! port or the Tunisian minority problems with France. Rome and Paris have Iteeit Insisting that the other make the IKUSTIX'I'EH ON PACK SIX) FOUR FINED ON INTOXICATION Fined By Mayor And Justice Os Peace: One Jail Sentence One man was given a fine and JO’dav jail sentence and two other* were meted out fines In etty court thia afternoon on public intoxication charges. Roy Mcf'lure, an old offender, wa* given a fine of sr. and costs and sentenc'd to serve 30 days in jail when he pleaded guilty to the charge. McClure, when questioned, admitted that he had appeared In court "six or seven times" on a like charge. Recalling the fact that he could have Imposed a penal farm term, the mayor warned "don't come up again—lt gets worse every time." John ''Hub'' Evans, also of this city, and Steve Novak. 11 transient from Toledo. Ohio, were both given tines of *1 and costs when they pleaded guilty. The plea of Novak's to "give me a chance and I'll leave town, you honor." went unheeded by tho court. As both were unable to pay the fine, they were committed to jail. Jim Worden, who was arrested last Friday night on a similar 1 charge, wa* fined |1 and costa In John T. Kelly's justice of ponce court Saturday and went to jail when unable to pay. All of tho arrest* were made by members of the city police force. Circuit Court Jury To Hear Dam age Suit The petit jury of tho Adutns circuit court will ho called fcr duty Friday to hear n damage suit. Judge J. Fred Fruchte revealed todvy. The jury Is to hear the suit of George Appelman against Peter I ost'he. which arose out of an auftt i.ccldent on Monroe street several month* ago. A car driven by Bill Coffee and owned hy Mr. Appelman. “it Involved In file collision with the Losche auto. The demand Is 1600. The Jury trial of Charles Fuhrman against the Echo Tornado Insurance company, which was to have been opened In circuit court I tills morning wa* continued.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, May 15, 1939.

Roper Takes Over New Job •> Daniel C. Roper llefll, former *ecretary of commemt 1. . . . , Prim.- Minister Ma. k-nxi.- King. .1 «* F over new job as I'. S Minister to Canada H- hi demiala directly to King George VI. Present his <-re-

EHLER TU HEAD CHURCH PICNIC J. L. Ehler Chairman Os St. Mary’s Parish Picnic June 11 J. L. Ehler will be general chairman of the sixth annual St. Mary's I pariah picnic, whic h will be held Sunday. June 11 at Sun Set. south of Decatnr. Announcement of the various committees was made Sunday at the masses at St. Mary's Catholic church. J. C. Laurent will act aa treasurer. The members of the committee*, lagether with the chairmen of each dlvishin. follow: Dinner ticket*: Charles Miller, chairman: William U>*e. Jr.. Francis Wertaberger, Ralph Reed. Trucks: Herman Heims*, chairman: William Coffee. Poier Loshe, ' Richard Hess Help dinhtg room: Alex Tanva*. chairman; Harold Tester. Edward Noonan. Coffw: Fred Colchin. Pop: William Schumacher, chairman; Jame* Murphy. Ed Geimer,. Walter Raker. Ice cream: Anselm Hackman,' chairman; Umla Kelly. Amusement. No. 1: Herman Miller. chairman: Cornelius Geimer. Anthony Murphy. Charles Omlor. Jr., Jerry Gage, Fred Raker. Jr., i Leo Faurote, Herb MFontaine. ■ Robert Eitlng, Jerome Keller. Amusementa. No. 2: Art Miller. ' chairman; John Sehurger, Joseph Murphy. Fred Schulte, Don Gage. Ralph Roop, daronce Durkin. Edward Wait. Amusement*. No. 3: latwrem-e Becktneyer. chairman; Cyril Helman. John la-ngerich. Games and contents: George Laurent ' o • Celebrate Feast Os Ascension Thursday The feast of the Ascension of Christ into Heaven will be eelnbrat-1 ••d Thursday at St. Mary's Catholic I cnurch. It ia a holy day of obiiga-' tlon and masses will be said at 6. 7 ' and 9 o'clock: i

Report Girl Five Years Old Gives Birth To Son In Peru

Lima. Peru. May 15-(U.R> Med-I cal authorities today Investigated the case of Lina Medina, an Indian girl aald by physicians at the ma ternlty hospital to have given birth to a non at the age of five. The child, born Sunday, weighed 6% pounds Doctors aald both the mother and the child are doing well. Lina Uvea at the coastal town of Pisco, where her father took her to a doctor laat month for treatment. He aald that the girl waa , suffering from a ttnnor which hr attributed to "the evil water springs." Natives of the vicinity have it superstition that the aprlng affects women who paaa near It. The father Inalated that the girl waa bom on August 23. 1H34. but physicians at the hoapltal today aald merely that ahe appeared to be "leva than six yearn old." The phyaiciana aald ahe wan atlll cutting her aecond net of teeth. Before the birth Lina weighed flfl pottnda. Rhe la a little lean than SMi feet tall. The baby waa , delivered by a Caesarian oper-

Holy Name Observance Held In Fort Wayne Nearly ino Decatur people attend «d the Holy Name Eucharistic day « hservsnce | n Fort Wayne Sunday ■ as rrnoon. About 4 'Httt person* joined the parade which marched to St. \ incent's villa, north of Fort Wayne .-imm|iatiled by the clergy, band* jnd Roy Scouts. Thirty-eicht par- ■ Ishea were represented. Most Rev. Bishop John F. Noll. I (shop of Fort Wayne, spoke to the gathering at the villa. Principal lav talks were made hy Byron 41*y(w and Joseph Crowley of Tort Wayne. TO FACE TRIAL FOR TRESPASS Three Men To Face Trial Thursday In Justice Court The trial of Karlo Mann. Clifford Mann and Wilson Mann, all charged j with trespass. |* to he tried in jusfee of peace court Thursdar. May IS. Justice John T. Kelly «||| pretid" over the trial. The three are charge with treseas* hy the atate of Indiana on an affidavit signed by Everett SingleI toil. All of the parties live northwest of the city. I When arraign,*| before Justice Kelly this morning the three entered •deas of not guilty and were released under bond of Him set to Insure their appearance. The affidavit arose out of a dispute over the ownership tvf some had. northwest of the cltv. authorities stated. Recreation Committee Meeting Is Postponed The monthly meeting of tho eg"cutive committee of the Decatur reci I eat inn program, ac.wduled for this ' veiling, ha* been postponed Indefinitely because of conflicting on- ' gagements of several c.mmitte,i members.

ation. Dr. Hlpollto latrrabttre. director of the maternity hospital, an Id: **Llna and the bahy are well. She withstood the operation excellently. The girl, who became pregnant when she was four yearn and 11 months old. han menstrual-, ed ever since she waa eight months old. "According to her baptismal certificate. she waa horn on Rept. 23. ' H»33. Despite the conflicting data about the age. we are assured by the girls conformation that she la not more than six years of age. making thia truly an aatout ding cane." The child mother lay bewildered In the hospital today, apparently with little understanding of what had happened Rhe la a ahy. uncommunicative child, one of a family of nine living in a hut. Rhe waa brought to Lima from Pisco laat Thursday Her pregnancy last 3% months Dr. l-arrabure showed thia correa-. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) j

FBI DIRECTOR TO ASSIST IN MURDER PROBE J. Eilxar Hoover To Aid • Probe Os Murder Rinjj In East Philadelphia. May 16- 'UP) — J. Edgar Hoover, director of the federal bureau of Investigation, will rome tu Philadelphia this w.*ek with G-men to aid in the mass murder for Insurance case Investigation. Il waa learned today. The G-men will i>p.-rato on case.. Involving two or more state*, it waa said at the office of district attorney Charles F. Kelley Although local homh Ide squad detective* and other police offi- | clals have lieen praiaed for th.-lr work •■> far In the grrateat mas* murder case In American criminal atinal*. Kelley said that coopetation of tedeial authoritiea would le- welcmed. "This la too big a case for per■onal JealiHlsie* to enter into." Kelley sahl "It is the biggest ever known We welconi.’ the aid of the federal bureau of Investigation." Hoover said last week that the • FBI laboratory ami ..ih.-i fa. ilitie* were at the disposal of Philadel phla authorities if a formal re- ’ quest w.-re made. Kelley suid he , had accepted the offer. It waa agderstood that ll.sner would arrive here at mid-week to oenfer with K.-lley and other In- ■ vestigators regarding the Investii gallon that ha* remitted in 24 ar- - rest*, with two others undergoing questioning. More than deaths . have Is-en blamed on the syndl- . cate. Meantime I* wa* learned that , one of the prime purposes of a mysterious visit by Capt Jam.-* Kelly and aides In the homicide squad waa to Bate* papers at the Brooklyn home and dellcatesse-i of Morris tlx.uis the Rabbi) Hollier charged with murder and deI s.-r Rs-d us one of the key t- | ( In the men hauls of death syndi cate. Bother, who did a lucrative bust* | ness as a faith-healer and “ph>l<hiHlri*t" among the immigrant popnlutlon on which the death rig preyed, moved to Hr.s.klyn from Philadelphia alumt two year* I ago i Hoover will not remain in Phil-' . adelphia any length of lime. It was , under Mood, but will come hero to get hi* men "started." They will concentrate on Interstate case* growing out of the maaa murder i ring Investigation, particularly In the search for .Mr*. Rose Carina, dem-rlls-d a* the "woman with the ' kiss of death" who at one time wan ItollH-r * secretary. Arson and terrori*m a> luive le-er ’ added to the mounting list of crimes charged to the interstate death corporation. While authoritiea sought to' piece together the frenzied tirades of accusation the 34 prisoners al-, ready taken haw hurled against one another, atill another man was arrested and questioned about the activities of an arson-ltomhin; ring which, authorities believed, wa* the “violence w|uad" of the syndicate. BRITAIN RDLER NEARS CANADA Ice Fields Delay Arrival Os Kini< And Queen Os Enxland Quebec, May 16.- <U.R>—Canadian official* hoped today that the king and queen of the British Empire would fulfill all their American engagements though they will not arrive until Wednesday morning. two days late. The liner Empress of Australia, hearing George VI and his queen. Elizabeth, finally cleared the North Atlantic ice field yesterday afternoon and today waa steaming toward Cape Race, Newfoundland, their first landfall, which they should reach today. The Empress then will have over KOO mile* of the Ht. Lawrence river navigate before dis king here. Her master radioed that he hope* to arrive Tuesday midnight. In Ottawa, members of the in-ter-departmental committee In charge of the royal tour, studied t’te engagement* In Canada and the United States and may announce today how the two days lopped off the tour will be absorbed. There was hope that His Majesty would delay his return to England two days, thereby permitting the schedule to ntand. If not. the I (CONTINUED ON~PAGE FIVE) .

National Guards In Harlan County As Mines Re-Open

ESCAPES DEATH IN AUTO CRASH 1 Truck Driver Injured, Narrowly Escapes Death Bv Im i Walter Patterson, 3S. of Modoc. 1 suffered painful injuries and prole ably narrowly Mcaped burning to death early Sunday morning In 1 an auto crash south of Gene**. The driver apparently fell asleep at the wheel of a gas truck, 1 carrying about 3.6in> gallons of gas I The truck careened out of con- ' trul and mowed down almost 30 I yards of steel cable fence and fence posts which form a guard ; rail along the highway The cah of the truck cuucht on fire and waa almost completely I gutted liefore the flames wee* extinguished. Some of the gasoline which a ism ted from a burst tank “ did not ignite. 1 Patterson was taken to the office of n Geneva physician. ' whore his injuries were treated He suffered a fractured arm and several broken rib*. State iMillceman Russell I’rlor ' was to make an investigation of the wreck late this afternoon after returning from the Pendleton barracks. —— . , j Injured Man Taken From Hospital Today Martin Reiter, well known Root township farmer, who s uta,ned a fractured leg in February was reeased front the Adams ccunty memorial hospital today. j Mr. Reiter was taken to the hos- ! pital on February f when * mr-i be was pulling fell against him and , crushed his leg. He had been con-' fined there since the accident. I NAME DANIELS AS CHAIRMAN Bryce Daniels Named Chairman Os St. Mary’s Convention Bryce Daniels was elected chair- , man of the st. Mary's township Sunday School convention during the Sunday afternoon session held at the Pleasant Mill* M. E. church. Herbert Everett waa named vice. ( chairman; Mary Koo*, secretary; Mrs. Harry Crownover, young peoples' department chairman: Otis Shlfferly. adult department chair- ' man. and Mr*. Hazel Chronister, primary department chuinuan. Good-sized crowds attended both the afternoon and evening aesaion*. i Rev. Homer J. Aspy. pastor of the First Baptist church, and Char- ; lea Teeple delivered the main ad(CONTINUED ON PAQE RIX) O Mrs. Emma Burk Is Taken From Hospital Mr*. Emma Burk prominent Decatur lady and junlires* at th-< Decatur public library, who sustain- ' <-d fractures of both legs la*t week i In a fall, was taken to her homo today from the Adam* county memorial hospital, where she hud been confined since the accidenL Curiosity Brings Trip To Hospital Sunday evening John Stahley. 2?. of Geneva route two. and a group of companion'' were joy-riding In "t> auto belonging to Dr. O. 8. Camp'tell of Geneva and driven by hl* sen. The doctor'* medicine k't ar ousel the curosity of the lad* and an urge on the part of Stahley to sum- ■ plo » harmless htoklng concoction proved Irremlble. Result—Stahley needed the services of a doctor and had to spend reveral hour* in tho Adams county ■iiivnoi'liil hospital for treatment, o Rogation Days Being Observed Rogation day* are being observed today. Tuesday and Wedneaday at St. Mary's Catholic chttrcb Prayers are offered for God's blessing on the crops. Tho Rogation day* are , observed every spring and tall.

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Operators Refused To Sign Contract; Mines Are Re • Opened On Non-Union Basis. ONE IS KILLED Harlan. Ky. Muy I*. <U.P> Half a dozen of Harlan county's 42 soft coal mines resumed operations on a non-union Intsla today under the protection of national guardsmen Union pickets cruised the county. But guardsmen, armed with rifle*, bayonets and machine guns, kept them away from moat of the mines that atarted up after l>elng shut down for a month and a half. The I'ni'ed Mine Wmker*' CONtract expired April I. The Harlan county operators refused to sign the 'nnlon shop” contract that a majority of the country** soft coal producers executed with John L Lewis this Week. Brig. Gen. Ellerbe W. Carter, in command of the stale troop*, asked Gov. A It Chandler to send 3<M> more here to augment the 6tu» already on duty. The "ist prevlusly had lieen ordered to stand hy in reserve Arrival of the first guardsmen last evening was followed hy Incidents In whhh one non-nnlon miner was killed and another was wounded. Authorities said the casualties resulted from personal ! brawls that had no connection I with the enmity between union ! and non-union worker*. George 8. Ward, secretary of the Harlan County Coal Operatora association, said mines of these five companies had reopened: Crummies Creek Coal Co, Clover Fork Coal Co.. Bardo Coal Mining Co. Green-Hltver* Coal Co., and I R. L. Tway Coal Co. Ward did not estimate the rmj ployntrnt or compare It with the i normal rate. Union headquarter* said ifrc or M»ven mine* had resumed work I with a total of about 5(M> men. The union said that the Crummies Creek and Clover Fork diggings together hud .15" men back at work out of a normal *OO. The guardsmen blocked many | roads in the county, breaking up I a union caravan of about 4.<mh> men that had started out liefore dawn. The son national guardsmen, armed with machine-gun*. Imyonet* and tear gas. and under the direction of Brig Gen Ellerbe W. Carter gnard>-d all r<«ds leading to the mines Plan* of the Harlan county coal operators association, one of the six group* which withdrew from the joint Appalachian conference in New York and refused to sign a contract embodying the “union shop." were not disclosed. The showdown may not come untjl tomorrow. It was pointed out that considerable “dean tip*’ work waa ner-essury liefore operations could lie resumed I-,.cause the mine* have lieen closed since April 1 Despite the presence of troop*, two instance* of violence and the threat of more, this county with a population of 63.00 hp. r*oii* was (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) THREE RRIDGES WILL RE BUILT Three New Bridges To Be Built In Proposed By-Pass Os 27 A description of the proposed by pass for U. 8. mad 27 over Thirteenth street, then north to a point beyond the Monmouth railroad crossing, lists three bridges to be built along the improvement. The largest bridge will span the* St Mary * river, west of the Contral Sugar factory, near the locution of the railroad water lank. Smaller bridges will be built over culvert* about a mile north and over the creek on the Henry Heller farm. Thc> stretch of road Is measured nt 4.4 mile*. The improvement is listed for grading and paving. Right of way* are being obtain ed through the city from the city limits at the intersection of the Kiting road, north of Washington street Representative* from tho state highway commisalon are assisting tn the work. It is proposed to build the new ] by-pass thin year.