Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1939 — Page 6

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AQUATIC MEET IS HELD HERE Large ('**owd Attends Water Carnival At Municipal Pool A Israe crowd witnessed the annual aquatic ca 1 nival held last night at the municipal awiniming pool under the direction <>t Marion F*asel. pool supervisor. In addition to the contests, ex hlbltlons In diving and awitaming Wayne aquatic thumpions and Io were given by a group of Fort , cal swimmers The winner* In the various event*: Senior hoys’ 35-yard race Sim my Hain. first; Ed Reynold*. sec- . and and I ton Lobsigrr. third Beginner boys’ race Joe Losciio. ■ fl ret; Sammy Bogner. seeon ■. Swimmer hoy* race H<>l> Gill- j Ig. flrat: Gordon Selling, second and IMck Gehrig, third. Swimmer girls’ rate Jean Mitchell, first, Mary Korlenltet second and Jerry Andrew*, third Junior boys’ race Vila* Elzey, first. John Spahr second and Al rin Richard*, third Match Race, girls' senior and junior diviaion Dorothy Hammond over Martha Ellen Hower. . ■- Senior boy*’ race — Simmy Hain, first; Ed Reynold* second and Don Lobsiger, third Girls' relay race Dorothy Hau- ; mood. Bartiara Kohl*. Norma Bak er. Martha Klien Hower. Katiann Striker t first • and Patty Schmitt,; Irene Brook*. Helen Frank. Catherine Llchtle and Betty Melchl. J second t Junior boy* underwater swim Carl Moser and Bill Beery, tied for first: Carl Rash, third Girls underwater swim - Ba • hara Kohl*, first and Betty Melchl. second Senior hoy* underwater swim

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tEd Reynold*, first; Simmy Hain, I second and John Holihon**. third > Girls champion diver Ba-hara i Kohl*. i Senior boys champion diver i Simmy Hain STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE w. L. Pct. ng. Cincinnati 73 <6 .619 —— St. Louis 68 51 571 I Chicago ti't 56 .MS 7’* Brooklyn 61 57 .517 13 New York 58 58 504 13<* i Pittsburgh 54 84 458 IS I Boston 53 M 445 30»* i Philadelphia 38 7* .331 34 AMERICAN LEAGUE — W. U Pct. G B New York 88 38 .710 —— Boston 74 48 .MS 13‘* Chicago 68 56 .548 !Bl* Cleveland 66 56 .541 31 Detroit 66 58 .533 33 Washington 54 73 .438 341£ Philadelphia 44 78 .358 43 St Loul* 34 87 .381 5tH, I i YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Chicago 6-1. Brooklyn 3-3. 1 Boston 6. Philadelphia •. American League Detroit 14. Boston 10. New York 11. Cleveland 8. Only games scheduled. Jehovah's Witnesses 133 N. Ninth St Watch Tower Bible study Sun- ' day. 7:30 p m, using August11 1 .1838 Watch Tower. Subject "Doom of Religion." tPart 41. Salvation Book study Wednes- ' day. 7:3d p m. CHECK ANGLE IN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ! ——-1 i ' • — . Russell Prior. Detective William Spaneth and other police authorities continued checking other "angle*.” a Greencastle Plant Ba maned By Fire Greencastle, ind.. Sept 2--(l’Pl — 1 Heavy damage was caused *y a fire • hich swept the factory of the American Zinc Products Co., yesterday, c. w. Martin, plant snperi-i'endent, -aid today. The blaze started afte? an Oil heater in the t>u<iding exploded Fire department* from Brazil and | Crawfordsville as* * ted th* loctl j department in lighting the blaze. oSOME OF UNITS — (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) j | Berne .................. 3.83 , 3.45 ' j Decatur-Root 3.83 3 31' : Decatur-Wash 3.30 3.81 , 'Geneva 3.13 3.16 Monroe-Monroe 2 o 5 1,77' M<>nroe-Wa»h. 3 58 2 28 , -■ILOANS $lO to S3OO QBICKLY ANO FMVkTtLY MADE Easy •• «u*lilv..Liberal l»r*«g»e*r caah-To apply-Call er phoaa “DWMi vrtkew) •*!<(*>»•■■ LOCAL LOAN Is. J COMPAMY OrprageMr <>r*r Schaler Sure neratur. IM. Phone }JT Zeoar aMs >• AJswi. Writ, AUra eag

MEICHI TAKES TENNIS TITLE Bill Melchi Defeats Rich Walters For Boy# Tennis Title Bill Melchl copped the city l*iy»’ sillMle* tennis title this week When he toppled Rich Walter* In straight Set*. I ,Melchl dropped Wallers 6 4 6-3. 6 3 In the final* after howling over Don Bolltike 63. 43 and Diet, Mills, 6-3 6(t in hl* march to the title. Walters had gained hl* way to' the finals with a 6-4. 3-6 6-3 win over Boh Kuhnle and a forfeit from Bob Stapleton Melchl then paired with hi* fin-| allst opponent. Walter*. In the single* to grab off the men's' I double* title In straight sets over II la n< her and Huttgk Melchl and Walter* had little I I trouble winning the first two seta. I j 6-3 and 4-4 and then aftet a hard-1 fought few minute*, won the match I with nn 8-6 victory for the match I and the double* title MICHAUD FIRST j (CCNTINUEW FROM PAGE ON El death of four person* who ilh-qed |ly ate poisoned food at a hot--ll | here Rnssell Premer. Vienna »l t-r > er. Mr* Myrtle Reed and Role-rt { | Kalver died and a number of rib i ers liecame seriously 111 The <•■>*> I I never cam<» to tria however, lie-1 i-atlae of insufficient evidence In 1830 Boyd Booher was four.l I tug guilty of a murder chant ; j when charged with having giv< n ' ! Arch Beerbower a poisoned drink ‘ tin 1828 Well remembered, 100, |* the j ' iwse of Joseph Everett, who wa« (charged In 1831 with slaying Ikirla* Werlltig at Pleasant Mill* Ever-j elt wn* convicted by a jury *ml j given a life sentence Rvtttmmfl i from prison, he again stood trial I I and was acquitted In Sept.-mlier of 1838. Ed Neal ! I stinv killed hl* wife and then <■ -, M .J | mined sulcidw with a shot tuu so! one of the most aptmlltng crime* 1 | in the county’s history ALL EUROPE WAITS CONTINUED FROM rAUK ONE) 'German aggression.)** Da ladier” as Herriot. reviewed the fate of j Austria. Cxechoslovakfa and Pol- ' and "It is Hitler'* act* that count.' not his words.” Daladier said '“Poland Is the victim of most nn ju«t aggression. France and Brit- ! ain cannot renounce intervention” j Partiament Meet* London. Sept. g. — <uj>> — The ’ house of common*, faced with the j fateful problem of deciding wheth i ,er Britain shall go to war with | i Germany over the invasion of Pol- ' and. met today under condition* I ■ which may mark a vital hour in i ■ Europe'* history. The house did not immediately ' take up the peace or war question, i Instead. Ernest Brown, minister of ' labor, introduced a sweeping nat- I ional service bill, empowering the I government to call ont meu be- ; tween the ages of 18 and 41 fori 'emergency war time duty. Brown . i • xplained that men needed for vlt-! |al industries would not be affected 1 Prime Minister Neville Chamber- |' lain was scheduled to make an Im- i; portant announcement, but Sir | John Simon, chancellor of the ex- ' chequer, announced that he would i' speak later in the day. (No reason for the delay was announced hi Ixindon but it was j believed the government might lie j allowing a ||tt|e more time for a ' n ply by Adolf Hitler to It* demand —an untimed ultimatum—that mill- ■ tary activity against Poland cease . ed.l • | I' was announced that th-' bouse ; would meet again al noon tomor i jrow (A Sunday meeting of parlia-| m*nt I* almost unprecedented). | The house of lords also met this ' afternoon, but after * brief session until 6 p. tn. (While common* was In session, the French chamber of deputies

New Manager Os G. E. Works Named Neil Currie, Jr. Manl.y g. Lord Manley E. Uird of Schnectady he. been appointed manager of the Kort Wayne and flecatur work* of the General Electric company, effective Immediately He succeeds Nell Carrie Jr who will i». come aaalatant to the vice-president in charge of manufacturing.

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AT HIS PEAK . - - By Jack Sord* • * i / \ ■ Z v 1 J '■ AAieeew ' fit 1 otrnrieupeßj z “ XB BliL*oeuA4iA mCTiCS, ' ""* esUoi'Mcr *ls ftsfiesr , JrT-tr« >N TdE 4M£R.C4«J «•- r* »«■-« M •*» W faP 1«4 rimtgßS What Will He Do Next? ' m miii. it' i ‘ fI y —lnternational Illustrated News Radiophoto Prims Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, ths peace* maker again in the European war scare. Is shown in this rmliophoto acknowledging cheers cl a crowd as he leaves his residence at Na. 10 Downing street, London, for an emergency cabinet session.

ws* meeting across the channel Premer Edouard Duladiea fold th* deputies that “even at this late stage France is ready to try conciliation if fighting stop*"—a further invitation to Germany to retreat before it Is too late. I Britain began the formation of, a “war cabinet" to Include member* of the opposition and probably Winston Churchill, dissident conservative who is a staunch advocate of the thesis that German i aggregation must be stopped by i force if necessary. Youth Is Killed In Truck-Train Crash Millville, Ind. Hept 3 <UJ*> - Arnold Anderson. 19. of New Castle, was killed late yesterday

' when a Pennsylvania railroad 11 train crashed Into a vegetable ; truck he was driving at a cross- ; Ing here. Valparaiso. Ind . Sept • .(j-R) Cormier Carl M Davis today had I ruled that a heart attach caused . the death of Anton Piezeworskl. 53. whose autoniobll** crashed j through a fence near Cheaterton ' last week ,1 o — I* TODAY'® COMMON ERROR * Do nnt say. "He is strong In body and also mentally;" say. I 'strong physically and mentally." or, “atrong In body and In mind." > _4

Arrest Fort Wayne Man After Fatal Accident Fort Wsyn*. 'lnd, Hept. J—IVP) >*ted L Ylnglng, 30. was free to-, da* under Mmt bond while polic« 1 imcstiiniivd «n accident night id which one person was killed an I i another critically Injured. Yingling was chargml with reckless .lomh-lde 1 the first case here under the law i passed by th* 18-38 legistlature. Ib-ud was t'onmd Guette, 78. Docj tors held lltle Inm* of sav ng tint f I'tc of Karl Winkler, 81. Both tn<-n ‘ friMd* of 50 year* *tanding. wers >-truck by Yingling's automobile *4 ' ihey started across a street. Report Beating Back Four German Attacks lamdon. Sept. 2—iFPt—An ex- : change telegraph Zurich dispatch <1 toted a Wanusw short-wa,.- radio statement a* saying today that Pol- , iah soldiers had lieaten luick four I tierman attacks on the Westerplatte •and pit at the entrance to Datwlg I Hartwr. Th<* dispatch quoted th* statetnont as saying that Marshal Ed- : ward Smgily-Rydz, comm.inder in I chief of th* ihilish arm'**, pro-'tl-ilnted to hl* men: 'Armies of Po'iind! Si'ute the heroic garrison of Westi nilatte. Poland expects that they wilt hoi it I the fort to the las'.” ALL EL ROPE W AITS . (ODNTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) on* enemy airplanes in attack* on Polish airdrome*, the coinuitiiilqu - said It was announced that German j iroopa had occupied Teschen. in ' the same area. Klohnck. north* -s iof Cz»"sto<-hovo. 12 mile* Inside IXilaud; Wteruszow. east of Ken ten. and Schlldherg. Nazi* said jubilantly that Ger man troops were attaining all ob-: jectives In their drive into Poland and that they were willing to fight against Great Britain for Io years If she elected to go Io Poland’s aid North of Teschen. a German army communique said. Mlesian inaips were advancing over a line between Pless and Nikolai Klobnck. northwest of Cgestochowa. as well as Wieruszow. east of Kentra. and the town of Schild- ’ lierg. tell into German hands In the Polish corridor, tile Ger- i man command announc*!. the rail- ; r<*sd between Bromtierc and the. new Polish port of Gd/nla. was reached at a point west <>t Cui tn , Dirschau. 2« mile* suuiaeast of' ! Dantig, was occupied b/ German' tHMips early this morning It is a- - large industrial center and Includes ; foundries, sugar refineries and plants for the manufacture of agri- , cultural implement*. “In the course of September 1 as well a* during the night German lruo|M continued to advance de I spite em-niy resistance." the com j munlque said “Set objective* eV- | erywhere were attained and were j partly exceeded “ ‘ Newspaper* blazoned big troop and indicated that the .• - -4- H j X

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