Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1939 — Page 1

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lose’je/f Makes Ipfea To Italian I King Aid Peace

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

PACKING UNION CALLS STRIKES Call Strikes In Two Plants; Brief Work StoppaKC At Armour Chl< »KO. Aug. 24 <U.R> Work In • >vrrai departmfnt* of Armour and c.mrpany'a main ptant halted for ttta more than an hour today in what leader* of the packinichourt. worker* organltinn comtnlttco KlOl *ald w»« a protea' aaalna*. •jtced-up “ of production ilnea. W S. Renfro, plant unperintenden'. •aid worker* demanded employment of additional help. The >t<>ppaKe ItcKan In the bog killing department and apiead to 11 other department*. Work wa* reaumed after one hour. Armour refu»ed to re<*ognite th* I’WOC a* aole 4>argalnlng agent fothe plant'* g.fHio employe* yerterday nn the ground that recognition could not be granted while the company and the amalgamated mea* cutter* end butcher, workmen of Amerlc* tAH.I were challenging th* national labor relation* board'* certification of the ('DO union Henry Johnson. PWCC assistant national director, simultaneously announced the union h.i| called ttrfke* against Armour at Fargo. N It. and John Morrell ynd Company at Ottumwa, jo. * Johnson said th< Fargo strike (OOXTIS'L'ED OM PAOK KtGHTI — o —- ('arl Dick Freed After Making Promise To Pay Carl (tick who r-as arrested ea*lier in the week by Sheriff Ed -Miller on a charge of failure to proride. ha* been released by Judge J Fred Fruchte after pr.>m'.*Hw to pay »-t per week for the support of 'tia minor children. Dick entered a plea of guilty when arraigned before Judge Fred Fruchte and waa released on his own recognisance after being given the order by the conrt. BOY SCOUTS TO CAMP TONIGHT 26 Decatur Scouts. Seven Adults To Michigan For Outing Twenty-six Decatur Boy Scout*, sccomimnled by seven aduit*. will leave at « o'clock this evening for a week''* outing in northein -MienIgan. north of the Straits The scouts will enjoy a full week of activities, such as fishing, tamting and all types ot scout work, ditectly under (he supervial n of experienced leaders. Sunday they will attend church at Sault ste. Marie, where a special service has 4>een planned by Rev. ROM Stoake*. pastor of the .Metho, diat church and u former pantor of tne Decatur Methodist church. The camper* will return home rext Thursday. -Scout* who earned the trip ih’nugh scout activities are a* follows: Rotary troop «1; IMck Schnitr. I flon Idhy. <’a) Burnette, Ivan IfowI «rd. Roy Frledley. Jim Hunter. Bob Hunter, Hob Yoat, Roger Rtaley and Bick Chronister. > Lion* troop *2: Eddie BokMCbt. Bale Von Ounten. Jack Graham Brice Briner. Jimmy Cochran Doug la* Neldlgh and Norman Ritury. Atnerlcan lasgion troop M: Jtob ’ August. IMck Mchtenateiger, Paul f I.'rd, tlk'k Gehrig. Howard Gehrig. 1 Jnck Hunter. Dick Linn. Fred Hix- ' ler and Bob Foreman. Adult* making the trip art: Sylvester Everhart, campmaster: Dr. '• Harold Zwlt-k. physician; Severin “ Schurger. chef; and Lowell Smith, * Dr. K. I’. Fields. Walter Gladfeiter * and Burdette Custer. — ’ temperature reading# » DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER t atmnm . s« 2no p m t 10:00 am... 69 3:00 pm. ..So Noon so * < WEATHER s Partly cloudy tonight and * Friday; somewhat warmer Frli- day and In aouth portion tonight * - . —.. *m* m.

World Attention Focused on These Three Men B_ j_’*^■IMSB1MSB ~ jdl ■ w < 1 iKI I kJI l-rupold 111 Germany shin* Europe with aniiouik - > non aggrroalon accord wnh Soviet Russia At the same time l.»>|><ild the Bel- • iiintnon* the min later* ~f six other small, neutral nation* to h>in Ib-lgian In a plea M for (ware In Kumpe The Nail- ■Fjj.W Soviet pa, i i« viewer! by observers F. a* a master stroke by Adolf Hit- ’ lei Ai til.- same time, neutral - i.. ' ' ,ll ' i‘t<' ••-• s • Y.y' ' - Soil.- I- ft to obtain the last |H,**|ble ■ pisillott ill Europe's ' war of ■ ' " ■ AMt aMtur nerves ''

JAPAN CHARGES TRUST BETRAYAL Jap Newspapers Charge Germany With Defrayal Os Trust Tokyo. Auk. 24 —(UP) — Emper-I 'or Hirohito Intends to summon an Imnerial council meeting to coraider Japans'a foreign policy Ini View of a diplomatic emergency precipitated by Germany’s pact -with. Russia. It was reported today. For a moment, preponderant government opinion waa that Japan should seek improved relaiiona wi.h the Vnlted States and Great Britain because they consider Germany had forfeited their confidence It was learned that the Empero" wan shortening his stay at Hayamv. his summer residence, and return mg to Tokyo. It was believed that upon arrival here he would summon a meeting of his Imperial council to consider the complete orientation of Japan's foreign policy necessitated by Germany's reversal of position. Considerable anti-Germsn feel In a already was egident. A par.ial boycott wan imposed on German restauranta. and omatiieutal Natl Bwa , stikas disappeared from th' streets. Newspapers outspokenly charged : that Germany had‘betrayed a trust, A decision to improve relations vith the Democracies would be calculated to bring an Imme-l'ate softening of Chinese policy as regards foreign powers. In anticipation ot immediate developments. srti Robert C'jigle retit -ned from Nikko, where he had oeen taking a ’•rest" during a troubled period in Japanese-British tieaot latlons 4 navy spokesman said today, in discussing the new ait nation, that Jap-an must now depend only upon herself. DAIRY FARMERS SETTLE STRIKE Nino-Day Milk Strike In New York City I* Ended Today Now York. Aug. 24 lUP) Milk I ( distributors und producers worked I 'oday to normalise the supply to the metropolitan area af'er settle- ’ ment of a nlne-day strike that cut New York deliveries 54 per cent J The dairy farmers union voted. IRS-14. at Utica la'e yesterday toi ' accept a compromise agreement,; and last night more than 9" per cent ' of distributors supplying milk to the city presented signed contracts at City Hall. The new price schedule, drawn tin at ii conference culled Tuesday by Mayor F. H. Laguardla. provide, producers *2.15 per hundredweight (47 quartsl and average of five cents a quart, for all grades of milk until Nov. 1. At that time, new prices -become effective under the r’deral state marketing order. The union, which claims a membership of 15 000 in New York state and parts of Pennsylvania and Vermont originally demanded *2 35 per handi redweight. »• •

Deratur, Indiana. Thu May, August 21, 1939.

Rev. O. O. Lozier To Preach Sunday Night The union service of the churches of Decatur will be held tn the Zion Reformed church Sunday eveI nhlg The preacher will be the . I Rev. <). O. Loder, pastor of the ' Firm t'ongregattonal church at \V.-st W.irwiik. Rhode Island He • is a brother of the Rev. George S. , Isotler. pastor of the First Evsn- | gellcal church of this city He will . . lie the guest of his brother while ■ in the city. The public is Invited 1 i to the service. FRANCE CALLS UP RESERVISTS Threat Os War Causes France To Start Fast Mobilization Paris. Aung. 24—< CP)—Mor* reservists were ordered called up today at such a rapid pace that many believed the government was in es- . feet proceeding with general mobilisation as far as it was compatible with transport facilities. It was pointed out that a general order mobilising France’s g.tast.mm trained men would create an un•'•arable traffic problem Nevertheless, the calling of rest rves was proceeding at progressively rapid stages and the present method appeared to be a smooth precautionary effort which may be isimpleted before Sunday. The council of ministers unanlm otisly ratified the government's extraordinary military preparations. Two classes of reserves called I out last night, and notified by posters on town hall bulletin boards, 'throughout France, were lie ng shutth <1 eastward «n special trains. Another proclamation made all motor vehicles subject to requisition as ' of last midnight. tin Paris alone, ?on busses were 'requisitioned during the night an I > held at th* edge of the city in read- ' iness for hauling troops. The strategy was reminiscent of that of 1911 when a taxicab army was recruited I over night on the Paris streets and I moved up to reinforce the Marne.' It was reported that French North African troops also were reinforcing vital passes in th* mounI ninons French-Italian frontier. — - 0 "■ —in Decatur Man Fined On Speeding Charge • Harold Feaael of this city was fined 4i and coat amounting to *lO.lO by justice of peace John T. Kelly - today when he pleaded guilty to a ■ ■ -barge of speeding through Deca--1 tur on road .33. Feasel was arrested Wednesday night on the charge of officer Rus- ' sell Prior <»f the Indiana state po--1 lice force. o Order* Fort Wayne Man Pay Support • Wayne K. Bailey of Fo-t Wayne F was ordered to pay *lO per week (or 'the support of his minor children » hy Judge J. Fred Frucht* this as- • .er noon In Adams circuit court. The > erder was made In the suit for diI vorce brought against Bailey by his I wife. Treace, also of For* Wayne. . The suit was venued here from Allen county. I

TEXT OF PACT BY COUNTRIES Soviet Government Publishes Text Os Part With Germanv — Moscow. Aug. 24.— <U.P> The ‘ text of the German Russian non. i aggression pact, as made public by I the soviet government, follows; The government of the union ot > socialist Soviet republics and the , government of Germany, led by a desire to consolidate the case of I peace between the V. S 8. R and Germany and proceeding from the | basic provisions of the treaty on . neutrality concluded between the I' 8. 8. R. and Germany in April. I 1924. arrived at the followinK agree men t: Clause 1. The two contracting ■turtles undertake to refrain from any violence and from any aggiesslve action and any attack against each other, either individually or jointly with other powers Clause 2, In the event that either of the contracting parties should lie subject to military action on the part of a third power, the other contracting party will not lend that power support in any form. Clause .1. The governments of the two contracting parties will In future maintain contact for consultation In order to Inform each other on matters affecting their common mteresis Caluse 4. Neither of the contractlnK parties will participate in any grouping of (towers which ei'her directly or indirectly is aimed against the other contracting (tarty. Clause 5. In the event of disputes or conflicts arisiiiK between the contracting parties on mutters of one or another kind, the two • CIIM IXl'Kit ON PAGE SUV F..NI CLERK REPORTS ON LICENSES 221 Marriage Licenses Issued Here Since First Os January A total ot 221 marriage licenses has been Issued to date In the license bureau of the county clerk’s office. It was shown today by a survey of the records since January 1. More licenses were issued In July, the records show, despite the fact that June Is generally termed "the month of brides." A total of 45 licenses was issued in July. June following with 35. With a total nf 21 licenses Issued to date In August, this month also blds to be one of the busiest. The number Issued In other months follows: May, 34; April, I 29; March, 20; February, 20 und January Di. A larger number of licenses la expected to be issued during the latter part of 1939 and early in ' 1940. previous to the time when 1 the new statute becomes effective regulating the securing of the per- ' mlts. The law, passed by the recent i legislature, which will require ap- • pllcants for marriage license to - submit to a physical examination, becomes effective March 1, 1940,

Europe Tensely Prepares For War Peril; Pope Pius XII In World Broadcast Seeks Peace

Britain Tells Hitler Os Preparedness To Fight Fuehrer’s Demand For "Free Hand.” POPE APPEALS By Joe Alex Morris 1 tl’nlterl Press foreign new* editor) i Great Britain steeled herself for "the Imminent peril of war" tonight after Adolf Hiller, dashing dramatically back from hl* imniti- . tain top retreat Io Ib-rlln. had I driven Knropo'a war ol nerves to i a momentous climax Two grave charges ol German ' violation* of the Polish frontier were made hy the Polish government In an otf!« inl protest to Berlin. The Poles, rnpidly mohi IHing full war strength, charg.-d ' that German liand* In Rilesla fired on Polish buildings Everywhere throughout Europe artnie* were mobilizing, foreigner* were hurrying home, governments were bending every effort toward the ultimate tn preparedness for any eventuality. So grave were the Riltish fears that a permanent blackout of lamdon. starting tonight, was ordered a* precaution against mffprlae air raid* In the midst of Europe's preparation for war. Pope Pius XII I br<»ad< asi to the world an appeal for peace, urging the ruler* and government* of the great power* to recocnise the world's desire for "bread and work, not steel and war." He urged all men to intensify th«-ir prayers for |>ea<-o "in thia grave houi ” In a tense but powerfully united , Session of parliament. British ! prime minister Neville Chamber- ' lain told the world that hi* gov I ertiment gravely feared destruc , tion of the principles on which i rest “all possibility of peace and , security " And he toht Adolf Hiller directly that Great Britain was prepartsi. ready and determined to fight the Nazi Fuehrer's deniami for a "free tCv'S'TlN'l'El' <»M PAUK HIXi CRISIS AFFECTS WORLD MARKETS Financial Circles Make Preparations To Meet Emergency By Elmer C. Walter I tl’nited Press Financial Editor) World markets moved nervously ! trrday and far-rrachlitg prepare- ! tlotts were made try financial dr- . clea to cope with any emergency , resulting from the European crisis Great Britain took measures tn , I prevent exodus of capital Stoeh , market dealers net minimum , prices on gill edged bonds In , New York many exie-dieiit* were . considered to Rpep markets open In event of war. The Hank of England raised Its discount rate from 2 per cent to 4 |>er cent to prevent outflow of capital The change wan the first | lu 'll. . ■ I-. . III". . "1 Insiti i ' i.«ie. .i ii,. H uni.inn ,i. lowing a sharp rise hy Lloyd* <>f London yesterday. Stock markets tn London. Parts, and Amsterdam declined at their opening* and then encountered some support Trading wa* ac- , five, hut not panicky. In New York. »toek* opened , fractionally lower with V. 8. Steel . nt a new low tor the year. Initial f dealings were moderately active Later trading quieted and price* i sltp|ied back furthei , Dollar* continued In demand In I Umdon although the British equalization fund held spot sterling I steady. In New York. exehangM , | were steady except for a sharp I rl«e In the Netherlands guilder , tlntd was unchanged In I'arls and down In London. Recent r hoarder* sold the metal on rumors , the government* would commnnd. (CONTINUED ON PAO» FIVE) ’ Excavate Basement i Under Local Store 1 - . * Excavation of the baaement tin- '• der the Blue Creek Dairy store, corner Madison and Second streets t was started this morning. Only a ' partial basement I* now under the i> building The work I* part of a i, 1 remodeling progrnm being plan j tied by the store

NAZI IS NAMED LEADEROFFREE CITY OF DANZIG Nazi Leader Forster Is I Drcreed Head Os The Danzig State Diiiizig. Aug 24 <U,R> A decree today pnH-laimed Danzig nazi 1 leader. Albert Forster, head of the Danzig state Forster supplant* Arthur Orel*- 1 er. president of the ruling Danzig senate. The nazi party is politically dominant in Danzig. Forster'* appointment wa* taken to mean a new governmental set-up. It wa* underntiMMl the decree make* Forster the fuehrer and dictator of the free city. Since Veraaille*. Danzig ha* ' been under the tutelage of the la-ague of Nation*, with Poland directing it* foreign affair* The league i* represented hy a high commissioner, who was to settle disputes between Datizlg and Poland The high commissioner, Prof Karl J Httrckhardt. recently visited Berchtesgaden and conferred with Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, who wa* reported to have given him a "lecture" Danzig wa* reported today to have closed It* frontier to Poland. German quarters declared the Pole* were permitting no frontier traffic Denounce Action Wanmw. Aug 24. —>UP> - Political circle* today denounced the elevation of nazi leader Albert Forster to be fuehrer of Danzig as an evident violation of the Danzig statute The la-ague of Nations committee of Britain. France and Swed.-tt representing the league as guarantor of the free city must nowact. it wa* said. Poland presumably will await the committee's action. Foroign Minister Josef Beck again conferred with the British and French ambassador a* the government rushed "very far reaching’’ defense preparation* hy calling more reservist* to duty. The bringing of fistdMluff* tn Warsaw was apeedwd up. Air defense practice waa scheduled to Itegin this afternoon but It wa* |sMt(Mined until tonight, St. Mary’s Budget Provides $1.31 Rate The proposed tax rate for 194't for St. Mary's township is 3134. awarding tn the budget submitted today by trustee lien McCullough The levy is divided as follows: township. 12 cents: special acbool. dr, centa: tuition. 36 cents; tamd. 21 cents A total of 317.96* I* to he raised hy the levy. The levy Is based on *1.341.696 net valnatlm of taxable property with I*o taxable poll*. AUCTION SCHOOL TO ENO FRIDAY Commencement Exercises Will Be Held For Students Tonijiht Commencement exercise* for the YU39 summer term of the F-ed Reppert School of Auctioneering Will be held this evening at 3:30 o'clock tn the Knight* of Pythias hn«ne. Cot, Quetvtln Shaffee. an Instrur- ( tor In th* schnol. who waa graduated In the 193 s fall class, will he the cnmmi’ncement speaker, i Col. Fred Reppert. founder of the school, will prroent the dlploms*. i Other Instructors snd students will ■ also speak The commencement will open with a banquet at 3:30 o'clock In the dinin'! rooms ot the lodge horn••mil will be followed by the pro--1 rratn. Sixty-four students of 'he class will be graduated. On Friday tvoon. , cla*»es will officially dose and student* will return t<« their home*. i Col. Reppert stated that several enrollment* have already been made In the 1939 winter tertn of 'h- school, which opens Decemb.''-

Price Two Centa.

Poland Protegtß Alleged Violations Os Polish Frontier By Germany; Naming Forster. COUNTERCHARGE Warsaw, Aug. 24 <UP) Poland, rapidly completing "very far reach, ing" military pre pa rat ion.i, tonight proteste dto Germany two alleged violatlona of the Polish frontier by armed hand* of German*. An official communique said that tne Polish atiMbassador at Berlin h »4 protested to Germany two alleged ment against violations of the frontier in the Silesia sector last night. Polish political circles decried the elevation of the Nasi lead-r, Albert roister, to be head of the Danzig stvte government, asserting that it wa* an apparent violation ot the Danzig statute. In Danzig Itself, there wa* intensive military preparation in connection with Forester's elevation to the status of Fuehrer of the free city and the Nasis charged new attack* by Poles on German* and Danslgers, Including the shooting sc a German sports plane by Polish baterle* whose ahrtpnel f,!l within 'he free sicty. The Dansiger* also charged Poland had dored its Ttanzig frontier. Thus the latest hammer blow* by Hitler on the Diplomatic front reerberated throughout the world but with greatest danger in Europe itself. In addition to the warning issued ly the V. S Ambassador Josepi* P. Kennedy at London, for American tourists to go home, ths British and French were varning their nationals out ot Germany. Sh.p schedules were changed t o avoid the war zone danger*. In the smaller countries, powerful vtforta being made to keep free of the threatened conflict and —of aensational importance — Rumania reportedly advised Warsaw that she ■vould remain neutral iu event of a Poli«h-German conf'let. Rttmania, which wa* given guarantees by Great Britain and France, (CONTINUED ON PAUK KtVK» Crisis In Brief (By United Pre**) The war crisis in brief: London: Parliament meets in fateful sesaion; king hold* privy council on war; stock exchange raise* bank rate a* war precaution and suspend* trading in gilt-edged securitie*. Pans: France pour* troops into Maginot line as country mobilises for war, Berlin: Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop declares German-Russian antiaggression pact has laid hrm and Immovable foundation for close co-operation between the the two countries, official agency dispatch from Moscow says. Warsaw: Poland mobilizes more troops. German bomber bred on. Washington: President rushes back from fishing cruise to survey possibility of sxerting American influence in crisis: faces question of calling congress: and reviewing neutralI ,ly ' Danzig: Polish-Danzig frontier reported closed; Poles reported to have fired on Danzig sports plane, with ehell fragments falling Into Danzig territory. Moscow: Official newspaper Pravda says friendship will flourish between Russia and Germany. Vatican City: Pope to broadcast message to the world todey. preeumably an urgent appeal for peace. Istanbul: Franz Von Papen. German ambaMador. reported carrying personal message from Adolf Hitler to President lemet Inonu. Brussels: Broadcast by King Leopold Interpreted ae suggestion by neutral powers for world peace conference. Shanghai: Japanese, dismayed by German-Russian pact, reported moderating antl-Brltish 1 campaign. Rome: Newspapers Indicate Italy fears no war but warn Britain and France that iaeua ! would be Danzig rights. ■ Tokyo: Official aourcee beti Have Japan now must depend * on herself In view of the Ger-man-Russian treaty