Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 6 September 1939 — Page 1

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ERMAN PLANES FAIL IN ENGLISH RAID; rOLAND IS MAKING DESPERATE STAND

,11. ORDERS mlbysea Andair force — I’atroU OrderPreserve I . S. Neutrality *V i-.i- in 1 ’h-‘ IK ,■ '!"" w ' ■!< - ■• ■" "i a Hi- . TH I » I ■ 11IV » 4 :d ' * . . h over l«ba<l« ' •* » UHna» ■ IB*'' ' ■ ■' v ~f M K. ' 1 : i: "'' ' * ,! 4 ' u ’ ■ k !■ > ' with: |,r.-» -nt Mr I v:i: THIiEKr BVar Flashes ■ u-;:- Se;« 4 - _ te-Gre.t • Mt not fMd th* UnitRut, a f rant* and tMt th* t denouncing '••* = »» '-t~»nt treat.et bmittd th* tit* of war K* •** gun caiibr*, lt was officially today ■ Northern Ireland. K* •— UP>— Thomat Gibaon »Mtr»or ataerted today In W’* 41 '" that de U* '"’ o,w »t O" from a num B** 1 loureet W at being conto th* German minister W t rt “ Out 1 1” «nd trangmltto Germany, Cra.gavon, the replied to By , r *"’ I*4l th* government ■. ***** < h » miniater't K 1 Ktiyitiea. B. ' ««nu*nce Os that K ’ooteeday and immediatetwnmumcated with authorB**' Wootmmater (London) • ttit to It at early at Crtigavon Mid. Es**». Portugal, »,pt. KIT ™ ’’•wtpap*r Diano Ct 1 , ’’ported today that y air hnar Yankee K r " M ple * M “p «t jp. r'WO’Pty an Got from the EL. iteamer Royal Sceptre Em ;.T 8 * d * 1- *•*•«»• it Kt* •orposaad. The ■ aaid the uaaaai'e J °* PAGE THKBeT READINGS p °CPAT THKRMOMffTER | M flgZt !! ■«* L" « 3:00p.m. M Lu..., WB *TMtR F'«" in X ~lr • M,r, "’P Muth Pftel't.a In! * PPrt'Of’P tanlght Pr * babl * •“**•*•« * .nd to-1 ThulL *"***• POutheaat In northwest partian, i

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY N EWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Senice Club* Plan For Joint Meetinx Final plana were mad* laef nhtht nt th* mrrtlnp of th* Lion. < li»b tor th* Joint m**tln< of th* Uona au l ' Rotary rluba nett Tneaday night. A 1 demonatratlon of telephone an 1 ' teleelalon will b* given, with al - tr-ickload of equipment to br , uronght here tor nee In the demonstration. The general public will h* invit-i ed to th* drtnonatratiOu. which will' | be held in the Knlshta o» Pythias home on Third atrert. R,, Admiaaion will b* charged No program wa* I held in connection with Tueadar 1 . night * meeting of the club. A round I table bualneaa aeaaion wa* held in- ., .tend. COUNCILWORKS ON 1940 BUDGET Indications Point To County Tax Levy Os 62 Cents At 3 o'clock thl* afternoon lb* county conncll had practically completed the pruning ot th* approprla Hon* In the l»«o county budget. ' I It wa* indicated that the total county levy, payable In IP4O. in eluding th* general rate, bond and welfare would b* around kJ cent* 1 on the 3100 of tasabl* valuation. Th* SS-cent rate would la an ingreaa* of 13 cent* over the I»3S ‘ t Ate. The council announced that th* i count) welfare levy would be cut, I Trom Id cenia ta M eent* on the I I 3180. Thia rate ta included in tho ' county rat*. When the welfare budget w-u , compiled, a levy of Id cent* wa* asked, an increase of fir* cent* over the it3h rate. A voluntary reduction of one rant In the rate wa* ■ aabed by th* department, when it waa adviced that It would receive I enproiimately |34<>-> mor* than wa* J eMlmat*d in the original draft o’ 1 budget. i Increaae tn the county levy fo- | IMo ia due to the fact ’hat the' .county general fund muat b* rebuilt. 'Un July 31. the county <uad atood at only 337 non. Advancement of ;*a»h to Waahlngtjn township and other townahlp* for poor leiief de- . pleted the total below an adequate ' working balance. It wa* estimated that the working balance ehould be increaaed by 114. red. This amount alone enta l* a an ' I cent levy, baaed on the eoanty * asMUMd valuation of 3>4.«.’.h76. The egpense ot the primary and general election* In I»4<i alao make* an additional appropriation neceerary. Th* *lectlon co»t I* around J' cmq. which will take about a two and one half cent levy. These increaaea. together with the three cent increase in th* welttea department make up the differ'CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE> ALFRED FARRAR TAKEN BI DEATH Well Known Geneva Resident Die*; Funeral Thursday Funeral service* will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 oclock at the Vailed Brethren churcu In Geneva for Rev. Alfred Farrar s<. who <t:od Monday evening at • o'clock at bi* horn* In Geneva Re*. Farrar had been 111 for some time with olabet** and last year both hl* leg* were Amputated In an effort to prolong hlg life. Th* deceased wa* a native of Fnglanu. He waa a mlniatu in the Methodht and Christian, thurche* for many year*. Fur the pact few year* he was an Insurance i-.alesmar. In ISM he wa* a Democratic candt■tota for the nomination lor congremOMn. I He I* anrvlved by bl* widow, one i ton. Walter ot Geneva and one daughter. Mr*. Charlo* Vernier of Fort Wayne. \ Funeral aervice* will be bell I Thursday at 3 p. m. in the Vnlted I Brethren church In Geneva, with I burial In Rlveraide c*a«i*ry.

NEUTRALITY OF U.S.DECREED TO THE WORLD I Sales Os Arms And Ammunition To Belligerents Forbidden Washington. Sept k - (U.R> - Th* Vnlted State* I* officially neutral today and th* aal* of arm*, ammunition and Implement* of i war to belligerent* I* forbidden President Roosevelt. In two proclamation*, established neutral ity under International law and Invoked th* neutrality law designed to safeguard thia country against involvement Th* two proclamation* were issued sepanitely and several hours apart yesterday First Mr. Rooa»v*lt announced to the world that the Vnlted State* intended to remain neutral Thia, he aald. would be accom pllshed under the term* and stipulation* of International law and numerous treaties Vnder thl* edict h* laid down il< specific prohibition* upon American dtlien* and alien* temporarily or permanently resident*. A few hour* later the president i formally invoked th* neutrality act which made It mandatory on him to impose an embargo on Ml* , or shipment of arms, munition or implements of war to all warring power*. i la both proclamation*, the pr*si dent named the belligerent* a* "France, Germany. Poland, and the -united kingdom t Britain l. India. Australia and New Zealand " He did not Include Canada and South Africa. Later. In executive order* Ito th* governmental agencies which will enforce the neutrality law*. Mr. Roosevelt Mid Canada and Routh Africa were exempt be cause they have not entered th* (CONTINUED ON PAGE? FIVE) CITY COUNCIL HOLDS SESSION City Council Conducts Routine Business Tuesday Th* city council met in regal tri session at th* city hall last nlglu] to conduct routine business The council empowered the board of public work* and safety Ito purchase an automatic billing machine for use In the *l<y clerkj treasurer's office for ma king light and water bill* The machine automatically make* the bill* mid ; posts a ledger It will be purchased from the Burroughs office equipment company at a pdc* of 31.143 A petition for a light In the alley between Eighth and Ninth street In the rear of the P. D. grocery waa referred to the light totnmlltee. The council adopted a resolutlm vacating the dead end of Bowers afreet, as requested In a recent petition by the McMillen F*"d Milla Resolution* transferring utility fund* a* provided for In a reccut ■ ordinance In making up the budget I were adapted and placed on record. The resolutions transferred 31.300 from the water department to the general fund. 3H.000 from the light department to the genet al fund and 3140 34 from th* sinking fund to the general fund. Fred Froehlich of Froehlich A Emery Engineering company of Toledo. Ohio met with the council and discussed his findings in a survey of the city light plant. 4) Summer Kitchen Is Destroyed By Fire The Berne fir* department made • run to tba Joel Sprunger home, one mile north of Bern*, early thl* I uiorning when a throe-room summer kitchen and wash-house ca ight fir* tram a range. The outbuilding waa destroyed, but firemen succeeded in saving the home nearby.

Decatur, Indiana. Wednesday. September 6, ISJW.

In Britain's War Cabinet Now ' ..." " ■’ J.' a v y al^B^p . 4 k z <vh w - x s i SI * |B B * vy T'tl ■ " el Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden History repeats itself for Winston Churchill. British first lord of th* admiralty during th* World War. For ('bun-hill ha* l»*en named first i lord of the admiralty. Churchill is shown In thia new picture walking ■ with Anthony Eden, who has been named minister of colonies. r 1 ■ 1 —- ■ - .....I

{COUNTY BOARD ’ ENDS SESSION > Commissioners Conclude Monthly Session Tuesday Evening • The hoard of county commission er* concluded It* *e*«ion iset evening. having dt*po«ed of routine detail* and meeting with the coun.y council relative to the county budget. I*he hoard ordered the Indiana I Public Service corporation to remove a guy wire In front of the Aut- , t'n Acker garage in Pleenni Milks. ' Mr. Acker tiled a rtateanent with 11 ’he comml*»loner* showing that a ; wire had been atre’ched In front of ‘ hl-- garage entrance. An entry wa* made in rslallon to i 'he Emory U Bhlrk drain, better ' I known a* the Lob drain In Wabash I township, to the effect that If the | isseaamenta In th' Imp'ovement were not paid by November |5. that • they would be Included In the bond :, issue. I.and owner* have until that date to pay the aaaename'i** without having the amount* certified fur ' bond collecion. ■ a—- — Board Member At Meeting Thursday A meeting of the taxpayer* lu the county will be held at the court h iuae Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock. A member at the state tax hoard -will be present at the meeting to discuss the reduction In the valuation of the county utilities recently mad* by the board.

I - . ■ IISW— European War In Brief By t'liltmi Press LONDON—Brit lab warships wage war against German submarines In North Bea: Britons tighten economic warfare against Germany; British. Canadians and Americana cooperale to establish definite Athenla casualties with latest figures showing 1.220 known survivors and 188 unaccounted for WARSAW— PoIish troops rally for defense of Warsaw while government ea.abllshes provisional capital; artillery fire heralds approach of Germans; Pole* aspect major battle at junction of Vistula and Bug rivers PARIS- -France assured of ample fiard for long war; air defense arrangements Increase as new alarms put populace In underground caves; censorship blankets operations on western front. BERLIN Victorious German trixrps threatening Warsaw and consolidating grip on Polish communications and Industrial centers; admit Polish guerillas are grave problem. Germany Insists all quiet on western front ROME— ltalian business lemma, encouraged by increasing Indications government la serious in Ils neutrality policy; Pop<- * presses tor humanity In warfare while continuing to explore peace possibilities MOSCOW— Wide speculation caused by Indications of Import- • ant military conference In Soviet capital; security of frontiers believed under discussion WASHINGTON — President Roosevelt develops extensive emergency defensive program, leaves little to congress except new neutrality legislation as U. S. enforces arms embargo and presidential neutrality proclamation.

Church Session To He Held Tonight The elder* of the local PresbyterI tan church will meet tonight In reg- ' .'lar session at the manse. The app (Intment of a delegate to the fall meeting of the Fori Waynj Prewby- , tery will be In order. Plans will al- ) »o be made forth» program of the | iocal church. The meeting is called for 7:30 o’clock. ATHENIA DEATH TOLLMOUNTIND 125 Still Missing; Americans Beg To Leave War Zones London. Sept 9 — <UJO — Five thousand American*, including survivors of the liner Athenla. begged the American embassy today to get them out of the war tone Winston Churchill, head of (be admiralty, told commons today i that the death toll frpm the Athenla disaster prnliably would be larger than wa* first thought. There are 134 person* still ini**-, Ing. hr said. U. R Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. It was learned, has urged Washington to act. In tha interests of the 5 (Hhi stranded Americans but there I* no chance that enough American ship* can be sent here immediately to handle that number. Every American and neutral ship la solidly booked until mld-Octo-ber. Thousand* of Americana ra«V>NTINUED W"page FIVE) -

British Anti-Aircraft And I Air Forces Halt Raid; Nazi Troops Near Poland Capital

Polish Forces Reported In Desperate Stand In Defense; Nazis State Cracow Captured. BERLIN BOMBED Warsaw. Rep! < — iu.P) — Polish force* were reported making a desperate stand west and | north of Warsaw today after their antiaircraft batteries shot down eight enemy planes over the capital. The sound of artillery and ms chine gun fire from the north—--1 heard In Warsaw yesterday had died out and neutral military ex I pert* said It wa* not believed i that German force* could ImmedlI ately break the outlying deb i.M- --| line. The Xatl advanced troop*, teportedly only 30 miles away on the north, apparently had not yet brown up bridge* over the Bug river. ♦ ’ i Moat person* able to leave WarI saw have done ao. Many other* are remaining. A stream of refn- . gee* i* arriving from Lodt An official announcement *a:d 130 Polish planes bombed Berlin t The communiqne said that I “enemy aviators yesterday con- . jtihued their aerial brutality, bonib- . i Ing town*, station* and column, of ,'fleeing refugee* on the road*." I' It said Polish plane* had cffec- . lively bombed German tank column* near Clenchanow. northeast , of Warsaw, and Radomsko In the J southwest. Il admitted that German* were now spread out on a line frem Ciechanow to Plonsk. Tlu-t line Is 33 miles long f'lechanou. the farthest point, la 44 inlier northwest of Warsaw and Pkrnak only I 31 miles away. The bombing of Berlin and the massing of German* on the Vie-chanow-Plonsk line, making a major battle for WarMW imminent. had been reported earlier ay the Polish radio but had been discounted The general staff communique , said there had been no change on the east Prussian front; th«t In the southwest. Pole* were "nold--1 Ing back crushing numbers of the enemy"; that Polish troop* s'lll were holding the port of Gdynia and that 14 German and six Polish ! airplane* had been shot down y<-s-I terday. Capture Cracow Berlin. Sept t> <U.R) The high i _____— I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) • ■ DEATH CLAIMS HENRY KREICH Henry Wilson Kreigh Dies I_ast Night At Home In Tocsin Henry Wilson Krelgh. 71. died al h<* residence In Tocsin Tuesday evening at k:3Q o’clock. Death followed a stroke auftered Ju’y S 3. Mr. Krelgh. a mrnnber ot the Knight* of Pvthla* and the Masonic lodge*, was agent of the Erie ralltoad for 3»>g years, retiring last May 25 The deceased wa* horn in Wells ccunty December 4. I MW. a son o’ Mr. and Mr*. Henry Krelgh H» was married July 1«. HUM) to Ml** Katharine Wsber. who preced“d him In de <th May 11. 1934 He I* (urvlved by two son*. Han »•! and Claude, both of T->c*ln; a slater. Mr*. Charlo* Nlrlter of near Chailan and one grandchild Bonnin l ou Krelgh The body wa* taken ’rotn the lAcey and Son funeral home to the I residence this morning and may ba v'ewed there until the funeral eerv»ces. which wilt be held Thursday aftrnoon at 3 o'clock at th» residence. Rev. C. J. Moore and Rev. A | S. Elxey will officiate, and burial will be In the Tocsin cemetery. '

ANNDUNCERATE OF PAYMENTS Wheat Farmers In 1910 To Earn 18 To 22 Cents Per Bushel Winfred L. Gerke. chairman of 1 the Adam* county agricultural conservation committee. announc-| ed this week that the rates of payment which wheat farmers ma*! earn In 194® for complying with the AAA farm program will total I between IS and 33 cents a bushel' on the normal yield of their acreage allotment Thl* includes con ' serration and price adjustmen 1 payment*. Definite rates for 1940 cannot I be determined thia early. Mr. I Gerke said, because the division' of available funds among commod-' itle* covered by the program will' not be- made until more complete 1939 production data are available. and the 1940 acreage allotments' can be determined for each state. However. In order that wheat farmers who are making plans now for 194« seedings may know approximately what payments they can earn, a range within which the rate will probably fall has been estimated. Mr. Gerke stated The 1940 wheat payment will be lower than the 2k cents conserva-. thm and price adjustment payment for 1939 This is because the ns-' tlonal acreage allotment ia higher. I Mr. Gerke explained that the larg-! er allotment results In a smaller' amount being apportioned to wheat The 1940 national wheat • CONTINUED ON PAGE TUHF.g) GENEVA WOMAN ! DIES THURSDAY Mrs. Christina Buyer Dies At Home Os Daughter In Geneva Funeral services will be held Friday for Christina Buyer. "4. who died Tuesday at the home of a daughter. Mr*. Eli Stucky In Geneva Death waa attributed tn paralysis The deceased wa* a prominent WCTt' worker In the county She wa* the daughter of John and Mary Bosshardt Her husband, the Rev. G. L. Buyer, preceded her In death Surviving, beside* the daughter In Geneva are the following children: Miss Myrtle, of Berne; Carl, nf Crown Point. Dr Clarence of Geneva: 10 grandchildren, one great grandchild: a brother. Ed Boaahardt of Umisville. Ky ; three sister*. Mrs Mary Kuhn. | alao of Umisvllle; Mr*. Lulu Mathew* of Toronto* Canada and' Mr*. Llssle Stockh*w of Pittsburgh. Pa. Three sons, two brother* and a i slater preceded her In death Funeral services will l>e held I Friday afternoon at I o'clock at the Berne Evangelical church and burial will be in the M R.E. cemetery, Rotarians To Hear Consulting Engineer F H. Froehlich, consulting engineer of Toledo. Ohio, employed b/ the city to compile rate charts and and make a survey of the municipal ! p'ant capacity and proposed Improvements will be the speaker at th» Rotary meeting Thursday even ' mg. Mr. Froehlich has made a defiled graph of plant production and future electric demands at the muqI 'clpal utility. Charles Langston I* • lialrtnan ot the program.

Price Two Cent).

German Airplanes Driven Back In First Effort To Bomb England; No Damage Reported. FRENCH ADVANCE By Webb Miller i (United Pres* staff correspondent) London. Sept C — (u.» _ Nail warplanes struck at England today but turned back before a • blast of anti-aircraft fire and an serial counter attack by royal air force fighting planes The ministry of Information announced that the "enemy aircraft 1... did not penetrate our defenses at sny point and no damage has i been reported." The air raid alarm aent Londoners and thousands of others •currying underground at «-43 am. A* they ran for ahelter the people could see the silver tubes ot London’s balloon barrage defense* hanging against a blue. i windless sky Then gunfire broke out toward th* east and. unofficial report* , from near the Chatham naval dockyards said, a fleet of Natl plane* heading for the naval c.mter was met by a curtain of anteaircraft fire that forced them to turn back. The air raid alarm sounded for South End. at the mouth of the Thames river opposite Chstham. at #4O am hut apparently no enemy raiders were able to cross the Thame* The attacking planes appeared ‘ to have been headed for Chatham, which Ilea about So miles east of Uindon on the south bsnk of the Thsme* Presumably the enemy craft ciosaed a short streten of ■ the North Rea from the direction of Belgium or Holland Gunfire and heavy earth shock* also were reported from the east and west of London, but no Ger- ■ man plane* could be seen from the center of the city where wailing siren* warned the population of danger. Although the air raid alarm conj tinned in effect until 3:02 a. m. (3:02 a m. CRTt. many people came out of the underground shelter* to stand on street corners and scan the sky for plane* that did not come Meanwhile the government started a naval and air war against Natl submarines In the North Reu. the English Channel and along the i Atlantic coast. The ministry of Information announced aeveral at. tacks on U-boat* snd said that official silence did not mesn the attacks had failed The radio announced that the royal airforce had attacked several submarines. Another radio announcement of news dispatches reported a heavy (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIXI BERNE ENROLLS 401 STUDENTS Berne Pupils Now Attending Classes In New School Building A total of 401 students |s enrolled In the Berne school*, it was ra» vealed today by reports from that town an the second day of th* W 394o term wa* opened. The rlasaea at Berne art now b— Ing held In the newly constructed school, located on federal ro*d 27 : junction with Malo street. Os the total. 357 students are enrolled in the grade* and 144 fa tha I high school. The number in each of the grades: flr*t. 34: second. U; third 32; fourth. K; fifth. M ; sixth 43, seventh. 32 and eighth. J# Tho*e In the high school; fre*hmen. 48; aophomort*. 34; juniors, 3< •nd senior*. 33.