Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1939 — Page 1

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* SPECIAL FEATURE The preaent Indiana dairy alt nation, aa analyied hy Pur due unlverally dairy apectallata, la to begin aa a regular weekly feature on the farm page to | day. I The llluatrated articles are I the moat authoritative available and are the result of surveys taken on Indiana farms and at Purdue by Purdue experts. aa well aa a compilation of Investigations made by govI eminent experts. I Today's article discusses the , | relationship of production of milk to net income of the dairy- | i I man. ' — ——— ASKS AID IN SAFETY DRIVE , Safety Council Director Aska Cooperation Os Farmers Judge J. Fred Fruchte, as director of the Adams county traffic safety council. Issued a request today to farmers of the county to cisiperate In the program of safety being set up by the council Speaking In behalf of the council. he urged farmers to lessen hazards at county road Interaec- ’ tlons by removing live obstacles which Impair vision for drivers spproachlng these Intersections. The request from the council and director was made today following an accident three and onehalf miles southeast of Berne in which Domino Lopei. a Mexican, suffered a severe head laceration In an auto collision. The car driven by Lopes and a Bluffton milk condenaery truck collided at the Intersection In- . vestlgatfng officials said the vision I of the drivers was obstructed by a cornfield at the corner. Judge Fruchte. apes king in behalf of the program outlined by the council, urged farmers to i “top” corn above the ears in a field at a corner, to remove high weeds and other live growth which would effect visibility al the intersections of county roads. "Topping of the com and the removal of live growth such aa this could be done at only a nomin'd expense and might mean the saving of life, limb and property a-OXTINUED ON PAOU~ HREKt' 1 o Missing Local Man Is Located Friday Sheriff Ed Miller received word late Friday afternoon from the sheriff of Blackford county that Charles Fletcher, local man missing since Thursday noon, had been I located there. Hla family appealed to local authorities earlier In the day when he failed to come home. - '0" Wells County Youth Is Given Sentence < Bluffton. Ind.. Aug Iff—Judge J. F. Decker of the Wells circuit court late yeterday sentenced Woodrow ' **rry, 2S. to one to lu years In the state reformatory after he pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery with intent to commit a feli my Perry was arrested about a ml'e . from here In the company of a five-year-old girl whom off! -era said was hysterical when they found her. She told authorities Perry slapped her. An examination by doctors i revealed she was not otherwise lurmed. * CHET MCINTOSH TO HEAD CLUB Cheater Mclntosh Elected President Os Decatur G. E. Cluh Chester Mclntosh, veteran factory employe, will head the Decatur General Electric club during the coming year. Mclntosh was elected president of the club Friday, a tabulation of the votes revealed. Hol Lord and Roma Breiner were the other candidates nominated tor the position. Lloyd Ahr mid Jerry Coffee were the candidates for vice-president, with Mr. Ahr winning the election. Mary Jane Fritsinger was elected secretary of the organisation with Oren Schults and Ayleen Porter the other candidates for that i post. Ethel Cook was named to the , board of directora of the club for a three-year period. Other candidates for the directorship were Helen Beery, and Anna Werst.

ACT PROVIDES FOR PENALTIES 1939 legislature Passed Act RexardinK Public Assistance Public oflclals. in answer to numerous Inquiries, today cited an act passed by the 1»39 legialature which makes It an offense for any person to make any misrepresentation of facta for the purpose of obtaining certain public- assistance 1 or failing to report any material change in Income while receiving such assistance, and providing a penalty therefore. In chapter 123 of the 1»39 acta, i page (41, the statute 1a quoted aa k follows: , "Whoever being an applicant for poor relief, or direct relief, or any form of assistance for free care, attention, hospitalisation or other services, which Is rendered free In whole or In part, and which is furnished by any governmental agency, unit or Institutions from public funds, and who knowingly ' misrepresents any facta in the application therefore or makes any ’ false statements in connection therewith, or who. after having accepted such relief, or any form of assistance, care, attention, hospi--1 tallxatlon. or other service, and whose financial condition and abll- ' Ity to pay have materially chang- ' ed after filing of the original application. or who receives unemploy--1 ment compensation and continues ' to accept such relief, assistance, care, attention, hospitalisation or 1 other service and fails to report - such material change to the per--1 son or persons from whom help is being received, shall upon coavic--1 lion be guilty of a misdemeanor." The act fixes the penalty at a tine of not more than SIOO or Im--1 prlsonment in the county Jail tor ' not more than six months, or both. RELIEF LEVIES ARE COMPILED Tentative Poor Relief Levies For 12 Townships Announced _____ The tentative poor relief levies for the 12 townships, payable In 1940. have been compiled In the office of Victor Eicher, county auditor, and released for publication. There will be levies in all of the , townships next year, based on these estimates, whereas five townships did not have a poor relief levy thia year In these townships the balances carried over from the year before are exhausted and it , is necessary under the law that the auditor submit a levy to balance the funds. The following levies have been proposed, together with the levies now In effect: 1939 1940 Unit rate rate ' Union ..™~-— .09 .03 Root .07 .IS 1 Preble .03 .01 1 Kirkland 00 -IS ' Washington .32 .04 St Mary's 19 -IS ' Blue Creek 04 .04 ' Monroe .00 .01 • French .0< .10 • Hartford «0 01 • Wabash -«0 .02 > Jefferson 00 .02 i i The Increase In Kirkland township is Hated as a contingency In the event the township has to pay a medical and hospitalisation bill for victims of an auto-train accident which occurred there thia year. Railroad Officials Visit In Decatur Pennsylvania railroad officials I visited Dwcautr Friday to Inspect j progress being made In rearrangemant and extension of yard tracks In connection with new conatruc- , tton work at the Central Soya com-1 piny and McMillen Feed Mills plants, and also to confer with local [ Pennsylvania officials. Officials present .were A. W, Duke, division engineer. Cincinnati. Ohio: J. N. Sagester, track supervisor. Richmond; R. H. Pinkham, I engineer maintenance of way, Indianapolis. '' -o— —■■■ Philadelphia Mayor Dies This Morning Philadelphia. Pa., Aug. 19-IUP) —Samuel Davis Wilson. 68. who retired as mayor of Philadelphia a week ago because of poor health, died today. Members of his family were at hie bedside when he passed away at 7:30 a. m. EDST.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 19, 1939.

Raise Squalus Once More i ■.7 * «* C ■ ■ ’ > • ■ • * ■ This alrvlew of salvage operations on the submarine Hqualus which sank to the bottom of the Atlantic off Portsmouth. Jf. H . with a loss of 2C Ilves, shows pontoons breaking surface, thus signifying the stern , of the sub again had been raised.

CHRIS SCHAEKEL BIES SUDDENLY Prominent Preble Township Farmer Dies This Morning Christian Schaekel. 72. well known Preble township native and farmer, died suddenly this morning - at 9:30 o'clock of a stroke of paralysis. He was found In the bam yard after suffering the stroke Mr. Schaekel wan bom In Preble township. January 31. IM7, the son of Wilhelm and Christina tk-haekell. He was married to Clara Kiefer, who survives Mr. Schaekel was a member of the St. Paul's Lutheran church Surviving besides the widow, are two daughters. Mrs. Otto I Hartman, of Preble township, and Mrs. Elmer Meyer, at home; a brother. William Schaekel, of | Preble township; a slater. Mrs. I Hanna Hoppe, of Fort Wayne and two grandchildren. A daughter and two alstera are deceased ' | Funeral services are to be held ,at the home Tuesday at 1 p. m . , and at the St Paul's Lutheran I church at 1 30 p. m tCBT.) The Rev. W. 11. Moeller, pastor of the church. Is to officiate Burial will be In the church cemetery. The l>6dy will be removed from the Zwick funeral home before the funeral and may be viewed at the home. Merit Examinations Announced Today Indianapolis, Aug. 19.—Merit examinations for the position of child welfare consultant In the state department of public welfare ’were announced today by the Indiana bureau of personnel. Examination la open to any cltiien of the United Statea who has been a resident' of Indiana for at least one year prior to the dale of application and who tills necessary prerequisites of training and experience. Application blanks, which may be secured from the bureau of personnel!. 141 South Meridian street, Indianapolis, must be returned not later than noon Saturday. August M. SIX UNHURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Six Persons Escape Injury As Autos Collide Friday Night Six persona escaped Injury last night shortly after 11 o'clock In ai sideswipe auto collision near Millar's Bend, north of Decatur on federal road 27. Four colored persons from Gary, enroute to Hamilton. Ohio were | the occupants of the one car. Lee Bogner and William Blythe of thia city were occupants of the other auto. The local man was enroute north while the colored people were going south. They told offl-1 cere that they were going to Ham- ■ II ton to the bedside of a dying relative of one of the ladles. The cars careened Info opposite ditches from the Impact of the collision. Both were damaged. Officers Roy Chilcote and Adrian Coffee of the city police force investigated the crash Bogner was held In jail overnight and this morning while the crash was being Investigated. The occupants of the other car charged that Bogner was on the wrong aide of the road at the time of the accident. r

Decatur Man Held, Threatened Family Police were summoned about 1 o'clock this morning when a resident of West Madison stre-t reportedly went berserk and threatened •ll* kill the members of h'» family. Members of the family reported to police that the man shot a hole through the floor with a shotgn.t snd threatened to shoot them. He is being held In jail while I authorities investigate the incident. I Officials said they were withholding ; his name until the man's mental condition waa established or i charges were filed against hhn. STATE LEGION MEETING OPENS — Annual Indiana American legion Convention At Bloomington I Bloomington. Ind . Aug. Iff.—(UP The annual luduua Americau Legion convention begun here this ’ morning with an estimated 26.000 legionnaires and their families ex- ' pected to attend the four-day ' meeting. Convention highlights Include an address tomorrow morning by Paul ' V. McNutt, 1940 Democratic preal- ‘ dential candidate, federal aecurity ' administrator and former national commander of the Legion: a threehour parade Monday, and the drum ' and bugle corps contests tomorrow > afternoon and night. Registration and committee meetings will occupy most of today.! with the 40 aud 8 group parade and an outdoor wrestling match between Coach Billy Thom of Indiana University and “Lord" Lansdowne scheduled for tonight. Political maneuvers of candidates for the office of state depart- . .ment commander, and of dt-lega-i tlons from cities bidding for the 1940 convention will also get under way today Announced candidates for the state office are George Hulsh. East Chicago publisher, and Ray Townsley. Danville businessman Gary. Fort Wayne, and possibly Anderson delegations are expected to bld for next year's convention. Tomorrow morning the ia-gton-naires will be welcomed by Presl--CONTIMUED ON PACIK THHEBI ■■ - O ! Camp lA*adcrs Will Meet Monday Night All adult leaders who are planning to accompany Decatur Boy , Scouts on tbelr outing next week in ; northern Michigan are asked to meet at the home of Sylvester Everhart Monday evening at 7:30 o‘-‘ clock. Committee chairmen are asked to have their reports rtady for submission. Indianapolis Youth Burned In Explosion Indianapolis. Aug. 19. — (U P) — > Thirteen-year-old George Stewart waa recovering today from burns suffered when a container of shellac exploded at the Oak Hill playground yesterday, Officials blamed the accident on > playground vandalism with which ‘they have contended for several days, they said. They indicated j that the Stewart boy was an Innocent bystander aa several other youths poured out some shellac they reportedly had taken from a park shelter house and set tire to It. The- flames spread quickly to the i container which exploded, burning Stewart a face and hands and setting fire to a sweater he was wearing. Dick Owens. 20. playground instructor, extinguished the flaming garment.

EDUCATOR WILL GIVE EVIDENCE TOCOMMITTEEi Dies Committee Calls Educator To Testify In Bund Probe Washington. Aug 19 — 'U.Rj — I The Dies committee will call a well known educator next week to i expose attempts to spread Nasi teachings in American universities and colleges. It was disclosed today The committee la In week-end recess. Chairman Martin Dies. D.. Tex.. . would not reveal the name of the next witness In the committee's Investigation of Nasl-Faaciat ac- ' tlvltles In the United States. He was described aa "a well-known educator whose professional standing and knowledge of the facts la lieyond dispute.” He will testify. It was said, from “first-hand experience" with efforts to Introduce the Natl , ideology In universities. The committee yesterday recelv-1 ed a description of the operation iof the German-Anvrican bund's youth movement from plump Helen Voros. 19. of Brooklyn. Miss Vooroa. a former leader In the youth group who waa sent to Germany to study Nasi culture, said she quit because of the “disgusting Immorality" she had witnessed. She said the bund leaders wouldn't leave her alone At a bund camp on Long Island. : she said, “the boys and girls did things they shouldn't.” She said she complained to Theodore Dinkelacher a leader of the youth movement, about the advances Frederick Vandenberg. South Brooklyn bund official made! to her. Dinkelacher asked: "What's the matter; can't you take It?" Miss Vooroa. a German l»orn cititen. said she wan chosen to go to Germany in 1937 as a member of a party of 15 hoys and 16 girls i for “propaganda training." On the sixth day out. she said. "Din-' kelacher waa found In bed with , one of the leaders, a girl only 17 years old.” Among the things she was taught, she said, waa that "our president President Roosevelt had a streak of Jewish blood in him." and that to bear illegitimate children was an honor provided the j father was German "They held a lecture." she said. 1 “and said this waa pure and noble, that a girl shouldn't be ashamed if she had an Illegitimate child. They said that when we girls grew : up we should produce, that the German people In America should grow " They also were taught the dei tails of sterillxatloti. she said, and told of Germany's future plana. Slight Increase In Monroe Township Levy The 194 u proopaed tax levy In Monroe township is «s cents cantpared whh «5 cents for 'sat year, according to the budget filed by Glen Neuenncbwander, Monroa township trustee. The levy is baaed on a total net valuation of 23.K39.99d. The total to te collected through the levy Is $14,976, compared to 811.957 last GROUP MEETING PLANNED HERE Red Men To Hold Group Meeting Here Next Wednesday —— A group meeting of the Improved Order of Red Men to be held hers Wednesday with Pocotallgo Tribe No. 203. Decatur, aa hosts, was an tounced today by J. M. Breiner ot the local order. At least thirteen tribes. Including Fort Wayne. Monroeville, Bluffton. Huntington. Barter Mills. Marlon, Warren. Mntthows. Muncie, Montpelier, Dunkirk. Millgrove and tlfhost order, are expected to lie represented. More than half a hundred delegates of the various tribes In the district will be here for the meeting, members of the local lodg- believe. A prominnt speaker ant' several ' Red Men lodge notables will be in j itsndance. Mr. Breiner will go to I a trl-state meeting at Addington, 'Ohio tonight to secure the services of an Ohio lodge notable. The meeting Wednesday night will be opened at E o'clock and nil I local members are urged to attend.

Germany Extends Slav Agreement, Occupy Territory

RAIL OFFICERS VISIT PLANTS __ Illinois Central Officials Inspect McMillen Industries The Central Soya company and McMillen Feed Mills were hosts to idflclals of thelillinols Ceotral rail- , t<ad Friday on an Inspection tour of the local plants and tbe Fort Wayne offices. The visit wax made to acquaint the railroad officials with tbe operating methode of the Decatur plant, -at the new plant being erected at Gibson (Tty. 111., will be served Ly j 'he lllnols Central. The visitors included: F. H. Law. vtce-prexldent |.l ebarge of traffic; R. A. Trovllllon, assistant freight traffic manager; H. J. Schwietert. general agricultural agent; T. E. Harris, manager foreign freight traffic; Anderson Pace. Industrial agent; William .Walker, traffic department; Jack Itusaell. traffic department; all ot Chicago; J. L. Downs, superintendent *>f the Illinois dlvistoii; H. C. Hayes, assistant engineer; C. J. Harrington, division engineer, all of champaign. 18. The visitors were conducted on Hila tour by D. W’. McMillen. Jr , and Lyman Peck of Fort Wayne, vnd local plant officials. WORKERS FAVOR CIO AS AGENT Packard Company Employes Favor CIO As Bargaining Agent Detroit, Aug. 19.— (U.PJ —The United Automobile Workers union tCIOt proposed today Immedite negotiations for a new Packa-4 Motor Car company contract on the strength of its signal victory In a bargaining election. Packard employes, voting four to one in favor o fthe UAW-CIO. designated that union over the IUAW-AFL as their bargaining agent. Curt Murdock, president of the Packard UAW-CIO local, announced immediately he would notify the company, under a 30-day suspension clause of an existing contract. of its cancellation. His In(terpretatlon of the contract, which expires Sept. 30. was disputed by C. E. Weiss, Packard's industrial relations director, who believed the agreement would remain In effect until the end of next month. Packard workers, who voted In the Unit major bargaining election conducted since the UAW slit into two camps eight months ago. cast «.000 ballots for the UAWCIO: 1.547 for the UAW-AFL: and 637 for neither union. The eleclion was sought by tbe company and thp UAW-CIO and not opposed by the UAW-AFL. 14-Year-Old Lad Drowns In River Edwardsport, Ind., Aug. 19 — | tU.PJ Funeral arrangements were lielng made today for Virgil Pearce, who was drowned late yesterday while swimming in the White river. A companion who saw the youth I go down ran for aid and the l»ody ' wax recovered about twenty minutes later. Efforts at resuscitation failed. - 11 o ■ Pastor Files Slander Suit Against Father Wabash, Ind., Aug. 19 —(UJD —' Charging that remarks his father. Rev. Noah McCoy, made In the tiresencea of others had caused lum to be removed from two (folpits, Kenneth McCoy of South Whitley today had tiled suit for slander asking 810.000 damage. McCoy said in his suit, tiled In the Wabash circuit court, that ho had been ordained In the United ' Brethren ministery and had serv- > ed two churches near South Whitley. He claimed his father, pastor of the North Manchester United Brethren church, circulated reports hr was addicted to narcotics, was insane, and was a "thoroughly disreputable and bad moral person.”

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Nazis Conclude Agreement With Slovakia Giving Troops More Territory To Occupy. NO SURPRISE Berlin. Aug. 19 — (U.R> — Germany has concluded a new military agreement with Slovakia alI 'terlng the sone of Slovakia's west- , ern border which German troops , are entitled to occupy, a foreign . office spokesman announced today A German military mission will be accredited to the Slovak government aa part of the new agreement. the spokesman said. Heavy German troop movements , have been reported eastward toward Slovakia, but it waa unknown whether they meant mere reinforcement of existing garrisons or extension of the protectlvt area on the Slovak frontier. The foreign office spokesman said that the area of the German sone extended not more than 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) along the Polish frontier. He said also that the military mission to he sent to Slovakia was completely unconnected with the administration of Slovak Internal affairs A well informed source at Bratislava. the Slovak capital, said to the United Press by telephone that Genran troops were occupying the defined protective area only. The German army mission to be sent to Bratislava, the informant said, would negotiate with Slovak authorities regarding military and economic questions. The informant added that there had been neither newspaper nor other announcement regarding a •new general agreement between Germany and Slovakia, as report- • ed abroad. When Germany extended a protectorate ever Slovakia upon the breakup of Czechoslovakia last March an agreement authorised Germany to occupy a sone along the western border of Slovakia, extending to the eastern ridges of the little Carpathian mountains. This tone, separating Slovakia and the Czech provinces, extends to the Polish southern border. The foreign office said that the protective zone, later fixed at 10 kilometers in width, had been altered geographically by the new agreement. The new agreement exactly Jelimits the extent of the German zone, the spokesman said. It defines details of German supervision of the zone, he said, and regulates monetary questions and the disposition of real estate tn connection with the German occupation. Inspired Nazi newspapers continued today their campaign against Poland, alleging "terrorism" of the German minority and hinting more strongly that Germany might Intervene The official Nazi news ngency asserted that three German citizens were among those arrested in the minority area of Silesia. It reported that members of the Polish "revolutionaries Mgoetation" had taken over police duties In aeatern upper Silesia liecausa regular police had been drafted i for frontier duty. Poland Prepared Warsaw. Aug. 19 <U.R> A well. Informed source, commenting on the announcement of a German military agreement with Slovakia, said today that the government had not been surprised and that It . had taken precautions to guard j against any attack from the south. Reports of big scale German troop movements along the Poll-U frontier reached Warsaw. Political circles said that them was no tvaaoii for surprise and that no particular significance was attached to the reports in view of the general situation. "We have long known that Slovakia would be a military base for operations agslnat Poland from the south in event of hostilities.'* an Informant said. "We have provided for this con(CONTINUKtV ON PAGE THHKMr 0 . No Sunday School At Presbyterian Church W. P. Schrock, superintendent ol 'he Proabyterlan Sunday school, an tounced today that there would not be any Sunday school tomorrow, due to the tact that the Interior ot Ihe church Is being redecorated. Workmen have been busy all weed painting and decorating the cburclk