Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 184, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1939 — Page 1

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6TREET FAIR TO END TONIGHT

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

PLAN COUNCIL TO AID SAFETY Adams County Safety Council To Be Organ* ized August 15 The organisation of an Adame County Safety Council was given impetua today by Proaecutor Arthur K. Voglewede who Invited representatlvea of all local government agenciea. dealing with traffic. to attend an organisation, meeting Augnat l& The council will he organised In an effort to reduce the number of traffic accidents that occur on the i-ounty'a highways and to make the highways as safe as science can possibly make them The aims of the council will include aiding in the solving of the county's major traffic problems and acting In an official advisory ca|>aclty In gaining these ends. Sergeant George Doherty of the traffic division of the Indiana state police force will address the council In its first meeting and will emphasise the needs for Its functions He will also explain the “County Safety Contest.'' promoted by the safety committee of Governor M Clifford Townsend and Don Stiver, superintendent of Indiana state police. The committee will be comprised of Judge J Fred Fruchte of the < Adams circuit court. Walter II I Gtlllom. county surveyor and road 1 superintendent: C. E Striker, county -ndent of schools; I’ Sheriff IDd I* Millar. J Jerome Yager, county coroner; L K Archbold. county agent; Phil Strahm. Frank Liniger and Moses Augs burger. county commissioners; Robert II Heller and Robert W Shraluka. of the Decatur Dally Itentocrat. Barh of the shove named men was selected as representatives of s pgfticular form of government or organisation, who. liecauae of their duties, possess information concerning traffic which would lie of interest to the council. Resolutions and a plan of action are to he drawn up by the committee at Its first meeting, which will be held Tuesday. August 15 al 1:15 o'clock iu the county court house. In calling the organisation meeting of the council here. Prose cutor Voglewede cited the fact that similar councils are now acj five in many of the larger cities ' of the nation. He also recalled the fact that (CONTINVKI) ON PAGE SiX~ ASKS SERVICE BE ABANDONED Nickel Plate Railroad Seeks To Abandon Passenger Service Authoritative sources today con* 'lrmad the report that attorneys of the Nickel Plate railroad are piano* •ng to file a petition before the public service commissi t.v asking for the abandoning of the passenger service on the Cloverleaf division between Toledo. Ohio and Frankfort. The Cloverleaf division line Includes this city. Passenger trains now leave thia city westbound at ; p. m. and easkbonnd at 4:03 a. m. It la understood that the officials <>f the rail road will seek to abandon the aervice on the grounds that s cost of shout |50.00n per year 'a involved, which does not return a proNt. • •Mayor Forrest Elaey of thin city had been Informed <sf the Intentions •»f the railroad attorneys. The ; change. If made, would have no effect on the present freight service of the railroad. — C"’-' Proposed Tour Here Monday Is Cancelled Word wan received here late thin norning that the proposed •’Hoosier tour." from the world's poultry conurese at Cleveland. 0.. to Decatur and other points of Interest, has been cancelled. The tour was to have visited the McMillen industries Monday aftetnoon. No explanation for cancellation of the tour was made in the telegram received by the Dally i Democrat today.

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Colorado National Guard tro«>pers and non-strik-*rs who guarded the Green Mountain dam following a sudden outbreak of labor warfare, are pictured above When seven were wounded in rioting

TWO PRIESTS ARE KIDNAPED Japanese Authorities Seize Two Catholic University Priests Shanghai. Aug. £—(UP) — Plain clothe* operative* of the Japanese dominated provisional governmeiit have seised two priests of the American Catholic university of Peiping. a Vnlted Pre** dispatch disclosed today. First they seised the Rev. Father John Ful. Chinese professor of philosophy. Wednesday. Then the/ -cited the Rev. Father Henry Kroes Netherlands, director of studies and registrar. Thursday. Father Kroes, telephoning the University yesterday, said that be was being held In a hot, dirty ceil but hoped to be released soon. He said that the plain clothe* men who seised him and Father Fa we-r seeking the names of student* intending to go to Southern China. New* of the selxuree was dlsclo*ed only today. Dispatches said that University officials, not desiring to prejudice the University In the present situation In north Chine, promised the Japanese emhe*«> not to make It public. Father Kroe* left the University to accompany plain clothes men to a police station to Investigate the previous selxure of Father Fu. Dispatches said that the plain clothe* men walked only a few step* with Father Kroes b-tcre they attempted to push him Into a waitIng automobile. Father Kroe*. a sit-footor, knocked down hl* assailant*, dispatches raid, and ran toward the Un.veralty. Hr was wearing a long gywn and tripped and fell. One assailant tired a revolver at him but wa* not Iclleved, In view of yesterday's telephone call, to have wounded him. Hearing the revolver shot, the Rev. Father Rudolph Rahmann, rector and professor of sociology and ethnology, ran outside to Father Kroes’ aid. An armed assailant forced him inside the building while several confederate* carried oft Father Kroe*. the dispatches Mid. The University, known In China s* the Fu Jen University ha* it* .offices in Chicago where the Rev. Father Ralph Thyken I* national director. As news of the Peiping leisure*, -ame. Chinese dispatches asserted that Japanese troop* at Yo.-how had forced American and British Millenaries to evacuate a church and then demolished the buildi ig. The dispatches, of which there wa* no otflcial confirmation here, said Japanese troop* and Chinese mercenaries operating vlth them burned down a Drltlsh Mission hoi (CONTINUKD OK PAUR FOUR). ,

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, Augunt 5,193 H.

Fred W. Conrad Is Enlisted In Army Sgt Roy E Quiiiin. army re- | cruitlng officer. r<M>m 320 Federal building. Fort Wayne, announces the enlistment of Fred W. Conrad., I Jr . grandson of Mrs. Anna L Spade. 1023 North Second street, i , Decatur, for infantry Hawaiian. Islands Conrad will travel about StMM) miles before he Arrives at hi* destination He will go from Fort l Benjamiii Harrison to New York > He will sail from New York either t August 15 or September 12 through the Panama Canal to San Francisco then on to Hawaii, arriving at Hawaii either Septemlter 14 or October 11. Setgeatit Quillin states that he * will enlist a limited number of men each month, for coast artllr lery, field artillery and infantry.: ‘ for Panama and Hawaiian Islands ' 1 A- limited number of men are also being enlisted each montn for the ■ mechanical division of the army ‘ sir corps I Q AUCTION SCHOOL ' OPENS MONDAY ■asMwasMMMß Reppert School Os Auctioneering To Open Here Monday >, —- i The first of the students of th* 38th semi-annual term of the Fred i Reppert School of Auctioneering, r which opens here Monday, were . arriv.ug today. Three students from the east were the first to arrive, coming to . the city Friday afternoon. They ! are: Jerry Boyce of Wallkill. New York; Joseph E Mount. Jr., of j Cranbury. New Jersey and II L. . Lanning, of Hightstown. New Jar- , «y ! Classes in th* school will open . Monday morning at the Belmont park, aud will be held each week day until the completion of the school three weeks later. The first of the public auction ‘ sales Will be held next Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock on a down- : town street corner. They will be 1 held each week day night there--1 after until th* school closes. Col. Fred Reppert and a staff of Instructors will open classes Moni day. One of the largest enrolli menta In the history of the school • la expected. I —

; OFFICIAL PROGRAM I Saturday Afternoon I I:oo—Butterfly Act, First * Monroe I:lo—Whirling Wonders. Third A Monroe 4:3o—Valdare, First A Monroe 8:00—Hollywood Thrill Girls. First A Madison Saturday Evening i 7:00— Whirling Wonders. Third A Monroe i 7:30 -Butterfly Act. First A Monroe . i 0:00— Berghoff Magic Show, North Second 0:30— Valdare, First A Monroe I 10:00 -Hollywood Thrill Girls, First A Madison

between strikers and members of a l>a<kto-work movement the state troops moved into the trouble tone with machine guns and tanks and restored st least temporary order.

LINCOLN SCHOOL OFFICIAL TITLE Former High School Building To Be Named Lincoln School The old Decntur high school building, corner Fifth and Adams street, is to be known as "The Lincoln School.” Walter J. Krick, city school superintendent, announced today. The name was submitted to the city board of education in the meeting thia week and official approval given at that time. Previous to the closing of school laat fall pupils of the building and members of th* Parent-Teat hers' association were given the opportunity of naming their choice of names. The name of “The Lincoln School” was accorded a huge majority in the vote. Mr. Krick stated The name was then given to th* board this week for its approval I’ntll th* opening of school laat fall, the building had housed the high school students of the city. I With the construction of the new quarter-million dollar junior-senjor high structure on Jefferson street, high school student* were transferred Into th* new building The old building now houses a majority of the grad* students who formerly attended th* North Ward, th* West Ward and the smith Ward. During the laat school term It was known as th* Central school. The name was carried over from the old building, which was torn down to mak* way for the new junior-senior high school building. The name Lincoln for the new building, of course, was selected out of reaprect to Ahrahan Lincoln. Th* popularity of the famed president was amply shown by th* huge vote among the students. Mr Krick stated. — ft Conservation League Meets Monday Night The Adams county fish and game conservation league will meet Monday evening at 7:30 at the Moose hnm*. At this time plans will he discussed for the annual picnic which Is to be held later in the month. Members are urged to t>e present.

Annua/ Free Street Fair And Agricultural Show Will Close Promptly A t Midnight Tonight

FIVE KILLED IN TUNNEL CAVEIN Five Reported Dead In Cavein Os New Highway Tunnel Somerset. Pa. Aug 5- (U.R) —' Five men were reported killed today In a cavein of tons of rock at the Mun-) Hill tunnel on Pennaylvania'a new ICS.iMMt.tMH) "dream highway" now under construction between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. One of the victims died in an ambulance en route to Somerset hospital. Charles Hauger. ambulance driver, said the man was from Roswell, and reportedly had been “cut" from under a pile of rock by fellow workers but died from shock and loss of blood as one of his limbs was amputated The other four were reported to have been killed outright as a crew of eight worked on the tunnel. The crew was reported to have been working MOO feet Inside the tunnel when a section of roof let go. spilling eight tons of debris on the men. . It was not immediately established whether other workers might have been cut off from the outside by the cavein Hill tunnel Is the first underground passageway on the "dream highway" In traveling east from Pittsburgh. It is located 14 miles went of Somerset and 15 miles east of Mt. Pleasant. The tunnel when completed will be <-5 of a mile long aMMmseeMssmawMsaßMseeMdW*eawssMNnMMaawasssiaaansw Michigan Man Fined l or Reckless Driving August L. Bettiuger. of Goldwater. Michigan, was giren a fine amounting to |940 by John T. Kelly, justice of peace, Friday afternoon when he pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless driving Bettiuger was arrested the previous day by Officer Earl Warnock of the Indiana state police force, HARVE SMITH DIES FRIDAY Native Os Decatur Dies Unexpectedly At Paulding. Ohio llarve Smith. 57. brother of Fred Smith of thin city and superintendent of the Paulding Telephone company, died at his home in Paulding. Ohio, at about 9'30 o'clock last night of a heart ailment. j Although stricken with the heart disease several weeks ago. Mr Smith's condition wan not considered critical. His son. David It . Smith of New York City, visited ' him thia week and had left for hla home just a few hours before his father's death. Mr. Smith was a native of Decatur. Hr was the non of Mr and Mrs. William R Smith and was born in thia city. November 7, 1891. He was employed by the Citlxena Telephone company for a number of yearn an lineman and foreman of Ita construction department. In 1921. Mr. Smith and J. D Dailey, also of thia city, purchased the Paulding Telephone company and wan the former superintend •«nt of the system. Besides hl* widow, who before her marriage wan Mias Goldie Stroller of thia city, his mother. I Mrs. Will R. Smith of Cincinnati, two children. David R and Mrs. j Catherine Stewart of Paulding, survive. Brothers and sisters who survive are: Fred, of this city; Frank of LaGrange: Mrs Albert Lachnit) of Indianapolis: Mrs Don Vandl. Cincinnati; Don K and Robert J Smith, of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held at (CONTINUMD ON PAQI BIX) |

NATIONS SEND DELEGATES TO SOVIET RUSSIA Great Britain And France Seek Joint Plans For Protection London. Aug. r> <U.R) —British and French military missions sailed for Russia today to work out with Russian staff officers plana for Joint land, air and sea operations if the three powers are engaged in war under the proposed three-power defensive alliance. Ivan Maisky. Soviet ambassador, saw the delegations off as the chartered steamer City of Exeter left Tilbury docks in London. The ship is expected to reach Leningrad next Wednesday ft was understood the officers, all expert technicians of the British and French armed forces, will remain in Russia through September. even if a joint plan of antiaggression operations is completed < sexmer. It was semi-officially confirmed today that William Strang, chief of the central European division <>f the British foreign office, is returning to lamdon from Moscow next week Strang and Sir William Seeds. British ambassador to Moscow, have been conducting the political negotiations with the Russian government. Strang's return, it was stated, is devoid of political significance. ' since Seed* has all the essential documenta and instructions and the necessary preliminary spade work has been completed. Only one or two points are outstanding. It was understood The present plan, it was understood. was the officers to remain at Moscow during the next two months, regarded as the moat dangerous ones, potentially, in European politics. In Moscow, they will be in contact with the Russian general staff at all times, ready for any development which might arise. Confirmation of the decision to keep the missions at Moscow would explain the reason why Britain and France did not send their highest officers. Such men as Gen. Viscount Gort. chief of the tCONTINI'ED ON PAGE HIX) Sunday School Plans Annual Picnic Aug. 9 The Sunday school of the St, Paul's Evangelical and Refonned Ihurch will hold ita annual picnic M ednesday- August 9. In the J. D. Geisseler grove six miles south of Convoy, Ohio, or six miles northeast Wren. Ohio. Rev. D. Grether of Msgiey will be the speaker on the afternoon program. The Silver star Hawaiian! of Decatur will be featur-.d on th« evening program. Spepcial numbers *lll be given by Sunday school classes and the men's chorus. The Wren school band will furnish inn music. o— ■ — Ex-Uonvict Caught After Eight Years Richmond. Ind.. Aug. 5 <U.R> Joe Border. 42. who escaped from the Indiana atat*> farm eight years ago. was returned to prison yesterday. He was arrested on a farm near Centerville where he was employed as a laborer. Border had been convicted In Fayette circuit court of carrying a deadly weapon. TCMPKRATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 am ..70 10:00 am... 74 11:00 am... 77 WEATHER Fair and slightly warmer tonight; Sunday partly cloudy.

Price Two Cents.

Week Os Great Crowds To Close Tonight; Ideal Weather Has Prevailed Entire Week. STOP AT MIDNIGHT Kenneth Beer'a Team won the heavyweight horse pulling contest this morning, pulling 5.500 pounds nine feet, seven inches. Glen Myers second. 6.500 pounds nine feet, one inch; Louis Haines third, 6.300 pounds eight feet, eight inches. The Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show will come to a close promptly at midnight tonight after an evening of amuse, ment and frolic. The closing hour will mark the end of a week almost ideal from a weather standpoint, rain Wednes- - day afternoon having been the only mar on clear, warm days and cool evenings. Another banner crowd was in town Friday night, pacing the mldI way, taking In the shows and rides and playing the concessions until -a late hour. I With Saturday designated as Carnival Day. another great, frdI icsom crowd is expected on the I streets to make the 1939 fair one i of the finest and beat attended of • any of the events since being .■ sponsored by the Chamber of • Commerce. > The only special feature on tot day's program was the heavy- > weight horse pulling contest, held thia morning on the Schmitt field. i Another large crowd packed the . field aronnd the contest grounds, I again proving these contests to I be among the moat popular attrao > tlon of the entire fair. Work on tearing down concession stands, shows and rides will be started promptly at the dos- ■ ing gong of midnight tonight. By early morning, practically > all vestiges of the week's celebration will he removed from th* Streets and the citlxena of Decatur (CONTINCRIt ON PAGE FIX) 0 Fair Sidelights ■■l'll I ■ The fate of "fair sidelights” was almost prematurely sealed last I night. Through the higenious conniving and trickery of the “rld« boys" on the Caterpillar and fair police, the heaviest contributor to this column was "initiated" with an extra long, extra fast, and extra bumpy rid* laat night to the amusei ment of all the plotters. Now th* writer ha* a vivid conception of the combined feelings of a pan- ‘ cake as it hits the griddle and Jen--1 nie Teeters as she twirls by her > teeth on the high aerial act — . thanks to those afore-mentioned t persons. I —O—O— Ed Klotx. of Fort Wayne, I reported to police that he had i lost a valuable cameo laat I night during the fair proceedi Ings. > -O-O-l Darwin Lefts suffered painful i rope burns and lacerations on his , neck laat night when he ran into a rope. He was knocked to the gound unconscious. First aid was given at the Red Cross tent where his Injuries work treated. i —0—0““ Officers Truman Bierle, Russell Prior and Commissioner i Bill Bell were culled to u ball i game after midnight taut night when the lady operator and a Pleasant Mills player started • I a fisticuffs encounter. The arrival of the ofHcera broke up the bout, with lady reportedly i j landing the last telling blow, i —O—O— The microphone paged Elmer Potts of New Haven for more than an hour last night as his sister-in-law lay seriously ill In the Red Cross tent with an attack of gallstones. "HI” Johnson, the tall man from the ten-in-one show, and Scout Bob Kohne finally located him. Mrs Olive Krelgh was called off the midway laat night by , (CONTINUBV UN FAGS SIX)