Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1939 — Page 1

XXXVII. No. 165.

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Delay Completion Os Street Improvement O. I). Baker, district maintenance huparvlaor tor the Indiana atato | highway commlaalon. stated today th.it rnsnpietlon of the re-surfacing of .Monroe street would be delayed until after the Decatur fair. Completion of the work, arhlch , will take approximately )o days, will be started shortly after the fair cloaea, which will be Aug-iat 6. LITTLE RELIEF SEEN IN STATE Only Slight Relief Is Forecast From Soaring Temperature (By United Press) One Hoosier was dead today from the second Indiana mid summer heat wave and weather observers foresaw only slight relief from temperatures which soared I .to record-breaking heights yesterday. Many others were suffering from acute discomfort from the heat and several persona were prostrated. Dead was Frank Stevens, 58. of Rockland, who collapsed while pumping up a tire on his car at Franklin. Hla death was caused by beat and overexertion, it was reported. An all-time high of 95 was set at Laporte yesterday while the temperature of 98 at Indianapolis set a threeyear high. Ijist summer's high mark at Indianapolis was 98. The mercury crawled to 100 at Crawfordsville and Logansport; 90 at Kokomo and Fort Wayne; 98 at Washington, and 95 at Anderson. No excessive trouble with roads and highways was reported, although at Indianapolis state highway crews were called out when a 35 foot square blister developed on U. 8. highway 40. The blister was pushed down and traffic routed around It. Weather observers predlr ted a slight temperature drop today but anticipated another climb tomorrow. 30 Deaths By United Press The second severe heat wave of , 1939 gripped the south and west today while cooling breesea trougbt relief to midwestern states counting nearly two score of death's attributable to three days of extreme tr mperatures. U. S. forecaster 1. R. >.loyd- st Chicago said the h»at belt extended today across the country, slipping only the northern Atlantis and Grvat latkes areas, and saw little chnnge In temperatures during the next 24 hours. . At leant 38 deaths, front beat prostrations and drownings, were attrh •jilted to the heat wave which swept over the country after only a brief tv«plte from temperatures vrhtcj began soaring over the Fourth of July week end. Illinois, where temperatures yesterday ranged from M to 101. led the states with six prostration deaths. Ono was Fdmund Jackson, t-n, carnival clown, who succumbed as he trudged homeward to Parkuroburg. W. Va.. after completing a showing at Benld. Police found a nickel in his pocket. SEASON HIGH TEMPERATURE Thermometer Soars To New Hitch Mark For Season Thursday Despite a warm sun today, residents of the city snd c immunity were "cooling off" after Thursday—the hottest day In two years. Thursday afternoon the Democrat theemometer Boomed to an even three figure mark. At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the thermometer . ecordvd a temperature of 100 degrees. While the thermometer Is exposed to the sun. It is thought that but little difference was caused by this fact. Readings of 94. 94 and 98 were reported In nearby communl'les. The previous high mark for the season was 97 above, set last week during the heat wave. The mark also surpassed any similar mark since the summer or 198" when a prolonged heat wave Ueid the city tn Its trip. This morning at 8 o'clock the Democrat thermometer registered 74 above. 11 degrees below Thursday's mark for the same hour and ! at noon maintained the same margin.

FIRST EFFORT TO RAISESUR IS A FAILURE Partly Raised Sub Squalur Hungen Back To Bottom Os Sea Portamouth. N. H.. July 14 —(U.R) -Navy salvage engineers began all over again today the task of raising the sunken submarine Squalua. with the bodies of 26 of her crew, from the ocean floor off the Isle of Bhoals The partly raised submarine shot to the surface yesterday afternoon. ! narrowly missing two whale boats - carrying 21 divers, snapped the cables bolding her to four pontoons and plunged back to the bottom. Fifty-two days of salvage work had been virtually wasted. Divers were sent down at dawn today to determine how much of their previous work must be repeated. They will attempt to learn whether air pressure In the subI marine's bow blew out a torpedo tube, allowing water to rush Into the dry compartments from which 33 members of her crew were rescued In a diving bell two months ■s<> Three pontoons were carried to the bottom. Naval officials hoped thst they had not been damaged and could K- used In the second attempt to salvage the Squalua. A 50-foot pontoon first broke the surface of the ocean yesterday and two boatloads of divers, under the command of Lieut. Charles B. Momsen. started toward it to straighten the cables holding it to the submarine. Then diver James H. Macdonald turned and shouted, "get out of the way. the bow's coming up." As the whale boats' engines were reversed, the forward portion of the Squalua' great black hull swirled up from the water. 25 feet into the air. teetered at a 45-de-gree angle for 30 seconds, and then fell 245 feet to the ocean floor, ripping away Itnes and cables. A geyser of water shot 35 feet Into the air and a pontoon which had remained on the surface spun around, narrowly miasing the two 24-foot boats which had been flooded by the boiling sea. Four of the pontoons, which had been sunk and then pumped full of air to provide the buoyancy necessary to raise the submarine, were left on the aurafce, one badly damaged. Salvage engineers, who had hop'CONTINUED ON PAGE THHEE) BROWN REPORTS ON CONVENTION 11 W. Guy Brown Gives Re- i port On Rotary International Convention W. Guy Brown, principal of the Decatur high school, and pest pres I- 1 , dent of the Rotary club, gave a report of the recent Rotary interna-, •tonal convention at Cleveland. , Oh'o. which he attended as official delegate of the Decatur club. Mr. Brown, who retired as club president last week, presented the | club with a scrapbook of articles ■ ' and photographs which he had clip- 1 ped from Cleveland newspapers • uurlng the days of the convention. I -elating the entire proceedings of I th* convention. The International convention ttteased world peace and the duty of Rotary to youth. Mr. Brrwn stat- 1 cd. Particularly, he said, waa empn- I asle placed on the service club's aid ' to crippled children. A total of 10.000 Rotar'ana, repI recosting 47 different nations, a<-' ‘i traded the International convention ’ this year. Mr. Brown stated. Announcesnent waa made of the tirat game of the three-game soft- ', ball series between the Rotary anl i -I (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO! » " — I - - - - A• • RSPORT FALSE — A rumor that a little child had drowned In one of the city | 1 : p»x>ls shortly before noon today • ; kept police and the Dally Demo- | erst force busy for a few min- j I ' I utee—but the story proved to be only a rumor and nothing more. I • The first report staled that | t a child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles ' I , Eyanson. of Mercer avenue had i ' drowned In the Legion Mernor | ial park pool. A check by po- ; lice chief James Borders and i | the Democrat discredited thia 1 story and another In which a | 1 youth wan reported to have : I ' | drowned In the city pool. . i

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 14, 1939.

Thriller Ih Itooked For Fair * .7. 43 BEvsi BLW TCCTrc W |mi xXiWff I j»'S w] The Hollywood Thrill girls. Jackie and Jennie Teeter, will provide, the feature act at the Decatur Free Rtreet Fair and Agricultural Show. July 31 to August 5. Their double race for life, the climax of the act. la deacrllM-d as the moat thrilling of its type ever presented This act will be located at the east end of Madison street

EXCURSION TO START SUNDAY Moose Lodxe To Conduct 1 Excursion To Mooseheart Home Approximately 125 persona are , expected to leave here early Sunday morning on the Erie excursion to the Mooseheart home In Mooseheart. Illinois. All persons who purchase tickets are asked to be at the Erie station by 4 o'clock Sunday morning This will permit 28 minutes before train time for changing to train tickets, as all must be changed. Upon arrival In Chicago, the excursion will be greeted by a number of busses which will conduct them on a sightseeing tour of thst city, snd will then proceed to Mooseheart where a sightseeing tour will also be conducted. The cafeteria at Moofee heart will be kept open and the noon meal will be served there. Two trains may be choaen on the (CONTINUED ON PAGg~TWoF" 0 ! - Suit For Divorce Is Filed In Court Ella Ruse of Grant street has fl*, od suit for divorce in AJ.ims circuit court from Amos Ruse charging cruel and Inhuman tieatment. The couple was ma Tied on October 22. 1938 and separated July 11, 1939. n' cording to the complaint. The complainant avers that the defendant was guilty of fraud, in that he claimed he the owner ot a large farm previous to their marriage and that he threatened to kill her and hlmsqlt. A restraining order was submitted and sustained. September 4 la the return data.

Report Os Quintuplets Born In Mexico Found To Be False 9

Mexico City, July 14—<U.p>-It seems that Julian Carbonell, a newspaper man. In the isolated southern Mexican town of Front* era. went to Villa Hermosa. cap! tai of Taliaaco alate, yesterday and told a friend, half proudly and half ruefully: "My wife had a baby Monday. That makea five." A few hours later, newt waa flashed to Mexico City that Senora Pollta Alvarado l> Carbonnel, the wife, had alven birth to quintuples. Next came the flash that the bablea were three boys and two girls. It waa added that the bablea were flourishing but that the mother wax ill. The news, as an unconfirmed report. went out all over the world. Excitement and pride spread throughout Mexico. ' We have outdone the Dionnes,"

To Hold Hearing On Appropriations The state tax boxtd will conduct 3 bearing July 18 In the oftfl-es of ecunty auditor Victor H. Eicher on the additional appropriations sought by the city of Decatur. Tb-» hearing lon the appropriations, which tni elude a {3.000 amount for the purchase of right of ways to.- federal road 27 by pass, will be neld at 1 p. m on that date. ADAMS COUNTY NATIVE DIES John T. Kenney Dies Thursday At Madison, Wisconsin John T Kenney. 75. prominent Madison, Wisconsin attorney, died at his home yesterday morning, according to word received by | relatives here. Mr. Kenney was a former resident ot Jefferson township. Adams county, and a brother of the late Jamea Kenney. He had been 111 for the past several weeks. The deceased was a pioneer resident of Adams county and prior to inovlns to Wisconsin, taught school in Jefferson township and In Mercer county. Ohio and for a time resided In Celina, where he practiced law He Is survived by the widow and five children. A brother. P. K. Kenney of Celina. Ohio also survives. The Misses Helen. Agnes and Grace Kenney, nieces of the deceased. left today to attend the funeral services, which will be held Saturday morning at 9 o'clock In Madison.

l people said. "They had only girls; t we have boys, too I Before long the Mexican long * distance telephone exchange wax Inundated with calls from the 1 United States. Cable wires were t busy. There Is no ordinary telephone l ' service either to Frontera or to| Villa Hermosa. A United Press correspondent managed to get a ‘ call through by radio telephone tn ‘ Villa Hermosa after four hours The news was "confirmed." ( All available seats for yeaterday , and today on commercial airplanes which could go to the area were , bookid quickly. News agencies. , newspapers, news photo and news reel agencies hurried to charter special planes Minister of public aid Silvestro I Ouerrero sent a government air plane to Villa Hermosa with two tCQNTLNUKD UN PAUJfi FOUR) *|

Roosevelt, In Special Message To Congress, Asks Passage Os Measure At Once

REPORTS STATE GERMANS LEASE ITALIAN PORT Unconfirmed Report Says Trieste Is leased To Germany By Joe Alex Morris United Press Foreign News Editor. The Inner mechanism of the > Naxl-Fasdst axis—lncluding a report that -Italy had leased the Ad- ' ria tic port of Trieste to Germany -provided new putties today for Europe's security front Both Great Britain and France were forced to take time off from < joint d-inonstratlona of their new military might at Bastille Day ceremonies In Paris to check up on reports that the Nasis had acquired a base for commercial, aerial and possibly naval operations adjacent to the Mediterranean. Trieste was once a busy port of Austria-Hungary but It went to Italy after the world war and grass grew in Its cobblestone streets. • Now. according to reports reaching Paris. Italy has granted Adolf Hitler a 10-yeer lease with rights ' to develop the port as part of the Naxl-Faaclat deal for solving the German minority problem In Italy's Tyrol. The report waa not confirmed from either Rome or Berlin. But talk of such a deal had been current for some time and French and British experts were alert to the possibility that it indicated an increasing Nasi dominance over Italy and that It would give the Nails a possible naval Itaae for operation of submarines through the Adriatic to the Mediterranean in event of future conflict in that Inland aea. , Great Britain, meantime, disclosed that her vast naval, aerial and army preparations will put a revord number of men—more than 500.000 — under arms in August About 130 warships and more than 1,000 airplanea will take part In maneuvers off the south coast early in that so-called "crucial" month. French and British fighting forI ces joined In a march down ths Champs Elysees In Paris today In celebration of the fall of the Bastille In ths French revolution while their aerial forces bummed overhead tn another demonstration of the unity and fighting atrsngth of the two powers. At Feltxtowe, England, an Amerlcan-bullt British bomber arrived safely after a flight of 5.750 miles from California with two stops en route. In the far eaet. the troubles of Great Britain continued to pile up, sparked by an ant (British demon- 1 stratlon before the embassy at (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) t RELIEF CLAIMS 11 ARE ANNOUNCED Deficit Os Nearly SIO,OOO In Washington Township Fund A deficit of 39.874.44 remains In the Washington township poor relief after the June distribution, according to figures obtained at the county auditor's office today. After the June poor relief costa of 32.201.48 had been paid, the,, above deficit waa shown. The June distribution to Washington township for poor relief was 111,326.90 with the above deficit remaining after this distribution. The only other township to show a deficit la French, where a deficit of 3157 14 remains after a dlstrl- , button of 1337.41. The June claim -in that township waa 117.65. The other townships, which showed n balance are Hated, with the township, the amount of the June claims and the balance in order: June Township Claims Balance Union 3165.19 31.143.11 Root 353.32 4596 Prebln ........ 5.02 78506 Kirkland 202.86 612.38 St. Mary's 138.40 939.82 Blue Creek .... 3306 778.35 Monroe ....... 236.87 2.501.53 Hartford 30.31 920.57 Wabash 47.71 2.750.31 | Jefferson 34.51 614.00,

ADAMS MH MAN IS KILLED Jonathan Ryan Is Killed Thursday When Struck By Brick Jonathon Ryan. 74. well known J-'fferaon township farmer, was instantly killed Thursday when struck on the head by a 300-pound slab of • -•rnent which rolled from the top of the Jefferson township hign school. Ryaa sustained a fractured and i rushed skull and a broken neck. Ryan. Rev. Frank Johnson, township trustee, and Sam Fogle also of that township, were engaged in repairing the roof of the building at the time of the accident. Rev. Johnson and Fogle were atop the roof of the structure making the repairs while Ryan was d*leg«(ed to remain below on the ground and keep away all apectat era. One of the slabs had been successfully rolled off the roof onto the ground. Meanwhile Ryan, who was not i»-«"ing well, bad decided to build » temporary seat out of brlcKs, from where he could watch both the roof and the ground. The men snouted io him as they rolled off the second sUb. but it ia thought that be did tr.t hear the warning cry. He was bending over a pile of bricks when the slab struck. His body was taken to a Geneva funeral home. Life-Long Resident The victim was a llfe-'.ong resident of the county. He was born in Adams county. June 24. 1845. Surviving besides the widow, Belle Engle, are the following children. Mrs. C. C. Merry of Bryant Archie. Dewey, A. B. Ryan. Mrs Vests Fnyder. all of*Fort Wayne, and a sister. Mrs. Albert Adams ot Jefferson township. Funeral sarviCM win be held Satt rday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home and 2 o'clock at the Mount Carmel church with burial In the Riverside cemetery st Genets. STOCK SELLING FRAUD CHARGED George B. Shaw Held At Marion For Violation Os State l-aw Msrion. Ind , July 14. — (U.R) — George B Shaw, 42. will be arraigned in Grant superior court today on a charge of violation ot the state securities act by selling stock without a license. He waa charged In an affidavit filed yesterday by Ernest W. Owen. investigator tor the state securities commission. The affidavit charged that Shaw attempted to sell stock In the Glen Arbor Distillery Co.. Inc. The corporation allegedly waa chartered in the state of Dataware to officials ot the greater Marion association. Including Haryd Sellers. Thomas G. Wilson and Ronald Kingsley, president-manager of the association. Kingsley was kilted and Wilson Injured recently In an automobile accident near Peru. Shaw waa arrested st Richmond and returned here to face a charge ot basting a hotel bill, allegedly Incurred when he was trying to Interest Marion residents In stock. The charge was filed Immediately by state securities commission which has been seeking Shaw, also known as William Otto Rudolph Krueger, since April. When Shaw was here previously ha secured options on land and completed other preliminary negotiations preparatory to setting up a distillery. It was reported thnt he waa attempting to interest the association of commerce at Richmond In starting a distillery when he waa arrested. Church Committee To Meet Tonight All members of the central committee of the local Presbyterian Church are requested to be present 'ontght for an Important meeting. Also the board of deacons Is requsstad to be present together with the croup representatlvM of the ladles aid The meeting will commence t 7.30 and will be held at the cflurch.

Price Two Cento.

President Submits To Congress Statement By Secretary Os State Cordell Hull. 6-POINTI‘ROGRAM Washington, July 14 — iu.P.> —> President Roosevelt sent to conrresa today a message asking for : eutrallty legislation and repeal or the existing provisional arms mu- , Wgo at thia session. Mr. Roosevelt transmitted to contrees a statement by secretary ot state Cordell Hull on p«*ce and neutrality and said It had hie 'whole approval." Mr. Roosevelt declared: "It has been abundantlv clear to me for aosne time." he as Id, 'That for the cause of peace and In tne interest of American neutrality and security. It Is highly advisable that the congress at thia sesaloa should , take certain much needed action. "Tn the light of p-eaent world com <sit lona. I tee no reason to cbanga that opinion." Hull emphasised the necessity for preventing any misinterpretation or misunderstanding concern- ! Ing American foreign policy declare inc that clarification of the United ! States position waa a "juat and legitimate contribution to the preserve. [ tioa of peace." lie epe« Itied as a fundamental of ) such clarfficatlon the same sixi joint program of neutrality action . vhich he previously had presented to congress and on which the Bloom neutrality measure was based. This . is the measure on which action was ! shelved by the senate foreign rein- . tions committee until mid session. . Hull said his program called for elimination of the existing arms , cm bento and comprised: i 1. Prohibition of American ships j from entering combat areas 2. Restriction of travel by U. U cP Isens in combat areas. 3. Requiretneats that goods e»> t ported from United States to being- ( erent nations shall be preceded by I transfer of title to foreign purcbaa- . era. (cash and carry provision) 4. Continuation ot present ban on loans and credK to belligurent na lions. 3. Regulation of solicitation anl contribution to funda for warring nations. 4. Continuance of licensing system for export and Import ot arms, ammunition and implements of war. Hull called for a ban on part leansrup in consideration ot this program. * o ■ ——■- Suit Filed Here To Foreclose Mortgage A suit to forecloae a mortgage has been filed In Adams circuit court by the Federal Farm Mortcage Corporation against Hannan Tinkham and others. Summons were ordered for the deiendsnts, Sadie Tinkham. Roy Lautienbelser, "inma Teagarden. Earl Lautsenhe'ser. the publie welfare department by T. A. Gottschalk and H. R. McClenahan. aa executor ot the «s'ate ot Flora Tinkham. sll returnable September 4. REV. GRAHAM IS INSTITUTE DEAN Decatur Pastor To Head Epworth Forest Institute One Week Rev. R. W. Graham of this city, wss honored this week at the meeting of the Epworth Forest institute commission at Lake Webster. Kev. Grahsm waa nsnmd a member of the commission in charge «r the Institute next year and was also selected to succeed Dr. Fremont E. Frlhley ss dean of the Instttate for the Fort Wayne-Richmond period. Other officers for the Ft. WayneRichmond session include: Rev. R , F. Hart of Monroe as treasurer, Kev. E. 8. McKee of Cambridge • City, registrar; Rev. R. W. Blodgett i ot Markleville, secretary and Rev. Thurman Morris ot Redkey, couu- . uellor. The Fort Wayno-Rlchmond dtsi trlct institute next year w.tl be held i from July 13 to 20. it waa decided upon at the meeting. Dates tor other districts were also asL