Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1939 — Page 1

IDLAND’S ARMIES BATTLE NAZIS IN lIERCE FIGHTING TO SAVE COUNTRY

It MAKES ■ls 10 CALL ■WSSMEET I .ill I I’ l ' " k ; H da Formally l>«- ■ dares War - ■Hfp •■ : !i "■ !,: * ■K, -•!•■! ' ■■ t’rlntx UK ■ • >»- ■ ■■ K,. ■ mrj of treasury. and Mrs g The President left Me rt x. V. estate tact night. I rtotire sources Mid. call! ■dal session. possibly Oct. I I to oot before th* end cf L dr Pirk M*. Roosevelt anp ted streamlined his own tint “the nation .night not bt auware" and to aid in mentions of the rovernnt rtesse t ad been authorMurv«« under the Preaiiwfuiution plan number same effective this morn*r with thia reorgaatea•sseenent a White Hout* nd that tl>e Brsia Trust. I u 'those creatures of the iaa." was “out the winIr Roosevelt poi .ted out sit assistant presidents. ■Wly begin theft worh thl«i ted no au'hority over any St. osevelt has declared that I summon congress before >f the year to rewrite the rlaw. He w*nts ths mandiirgo oa shipments of arms, on and implement 4 of war tents replaced by a 'cash "* policy. I. e.. any helltgerbay anything In tbe Amwket If he pays cash sad sway in his own ships. «■ oame to the American yesterday with Canada s srlaratton. Within a few ’ Preeid»ni issued a pre-roclamatio-i through ths xtii> on page aixj FAWNS TO AD PASTORS Methodist Minist* Heads County Association M Pawns, pastor of the ehnnh st Geneva, was resident of the Adams Material association, al u •rganiiatlon meeting •« *t the Zinn Reformed A Schmid, paster of the “■“••'l church at Berne. *! vlce-prealent. ind Rev. '•p Os the Geneva United retch, was named werertd Grethsr. pastor of the formed church, and retlrconducted this Rev. c. M <* ths Zion Reformed •“’•M . mez-age on "•'•r and Community . ?’T" n < ° r ,h « assoctaE ’ ,n ”" w ‘ *ATURB RIAOIMQB UT THXRMOMmg 'M JiOOp.m 75 ;;; »*« n WUTMM Ti2sZ" d M COOI KX' po “' bly ’ r * m * "odhweot per-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT - - ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT Special Meeting To Consider Five-Year Power Contract The city council will meet tonight for the purpose of < oiisM* ring a five year contract u fur niah electric power from the city plant to the Central Roya and Cm tral Sugar companies of thia city, i Mayor Forreat Elzey announced 'j today An agreement has been prepared and tentatively signed by of|. dais of the two Decatur Indus'-lea. providing for a sliding scale power rate next year and the following I four years The rates and terms I in the contract will be submitted |to the council tonight and if approved then filed with the Indicia I public service commission for approval Vincent Kelley, city attorney . Mated thia afternoon that In view. 1 of war conditions and the proMbillty that labor costa and prhe of coal might go up beyond today's |>ase he would advise a special war clause tn the contract. Last year the average net rale paid by the Industries was «1011, or a little more than one cent per KWH Due to the increased power consumption this year, the ra e 1 is averaging about nine and out half mills, or a little under un< cent per KWH Rngtneer F. H. Froehlich and assistant superintendent Hershel Saab haw been Woriung oh the rate schedule They conferred with the Central Soya company executives last Friday and obtain ed an agreement from them as to 1 the schedule The proposed rebuilding of the ! city light and power plant will in' all probability come up tonight. I following disposition of the rat* contract Engineer Froehlich has recom(CONTINUED ON PAGE BIX) MAKING PLANS FOR COLT SHOW Annual Berne Suckling Colt Show To Be Held October 7 The Gold Medal Colt Club comml'.tee met in the county agent '* office on Saturday evening to lay plana tor the eighth annual Berne suckling colt show, which will be held Saturday. October ?. at Berne The classes set up are as follows. pur«lbred stud colls dropped from January 1 to May IS. purafe-rd mar - col's January I to May IS. purebred atud colts May Id until showpurebred mare rolta Ma; Id >o show, sweepstakes for purebred. For grades the classes are aa fol'ows: Grade mud colts January I to May 16. grade mare rolta Jaruary lat to May 16. grade slud colls May 14 and on. grade msM colts May 16 and on, sweepstakes for grades. A get-of-slie class will be shown and a group will consist of ‘.'tree animals any age. Ribbons will be given to the fifth place for each class and th' BernChamber of Commerce will pay |1 per head for each colt shown They will alsc supply a lent for shelte.-. he Id Ing and Water. Owners having colta eu-olled in the Gold Medal Colt Club will pay no entry fee but non-membera will pay W cents regardless of the numher of colta shown. ... p ■

. DON'T WANT WAR * | i Richmond. Ind., Sept U.-XUJD —Another re«ult of the Euro pean war wan diacovered today by county clerk Rueaell Rob bine. He blamed It for a eudden increaae In marriage licensee, and Mid hie office wan running Bo per cent above nori tnal for September. "Some of them admitted they were getting married eo they would not be Bret to go In caae America enters," he eald Fifty licensee were ieeued lent I, week.

Westerplatte’s “Suicide Squad”—Prisoners • A rd

j The heroic hand of Polish soldiers who garrisoned (the fortrrae ot Westerplatte in Itanxig Harbor, is ' * bown surrender, guarded hy their German

SEVEN BUDGETS ABE APPROVED I County Tax Adjustment Board Approves Seven Levies Seven budget* and tax levies had been approved by the Adam* county tax adjustment board which convened thia morning at ’he au<|i!or'a office in the court hone.No changea have no far been made In any of the budget* or levlea and very little whittling la anticipated on the appropriations in the varioua governmental budget* It la likely that all the budgets and levies will be approved by the board and if changes are made that it will be up to the state tax board The final decision rests I with the state board and the coun- | ty tax board feel* that the budgets i as made up by the various taxing I bodies reflect the actual needs lu those corporation* Budget* and leviea approved up i to noon today include the Adam* ■county budget, which also embrace* the welfare department, the i county hond fund and highway departmenta, total rate S 3 cent* The city of Decatur budget. In- ' eluding an appropriation of I&.000 1 ; for WPA projects next year The , city ha* filed an application for! ; WPA work relief projects for , 194’t The city"* rate for 1940 is 45 cent*. The budget* of Root and Vnion town*hip* were approved. The budget* of the Decatur school city, a* prepared by SuperIntendent Walter Krick, the town of Berne and the Berne library board, were also approved without change Only four of the taxing units are i under the statutory limit* ot SI 60 In the township* and 12 00 In Incorporated towns and elite*, exclusive of bond and welfare levies. With these leviea eliminated the total rate* tn the four unit* are: Vnion township. 1113; Root, 11.17; Monroe town, *1 44; Monroe corporation. II 24 on the li’Mi Byerly la Chairman Dean Byerly, a member of the (CONTINUKD ON PAWB TWO) —Oi II- I Fourth Degree Knights Meet Tuesday Night The regular meeting of the Fourth degree of the nights ot Coluntbu* will be held Tuesday evening at the K. of C. Hall at I o'clock. Th* Holy Name aoclnty and Knlghta of Columbus will meet thia evening at the K of C. hall. The monthly Communion Sunday wu observed yesterday by the member* of the Holy Name society, the member* attending the 7 o'clock mas* at 1 St. Mary's church In a bod/.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 11. 1959.

captors They held the fort for right days under constant bombardment by the air. sea and land forces of Germany.

Conrad Gillig Rites Held This Morning Funeral service* for Conrad Oil I lid. pioneer citlten of Decatur, who , wu* fatally Injured when struck by an automobile in Celina. Ohio. Friday evening, were held thia morning at 9 o'clock from St. Mary's Catholic church.- Rev. Father oJseph J. Seimetx. was celebrant of the mas*. The services were at--1 tended by a large number of ■ friend* and relatives of the decea* ed. including several from Ohio and Pittsburgh. Pa. Burial was made In St. Joseph's Catholic cemetery. Mr. Gillig was 92 years old and made his home in thia city and at Celina, where two of hl* daughter* live. NEW PASTOR IS ASSIGNED HERE Rev. G. T. Rosselot Assigned To United Brethren Church Rev. G. T. Roselot. former missionary to Africa, ha* be«o assignad a* pastor of the First Called Brethren church In thia city It was announced Sunday. i The appointment was made with the announcement of pastoral »*• 1 slsnment* at the closing session of the St. Joseph conference of the | I’nlted Brethren ehnrch at Winona i Lake. Rev Rosselot succeed* Rev. James A. Weber, who resigned the lo’al pastorate to take th* chair of Biole education at Indian* Central college at Indianapolis. The newly-assigned pastor returned only a few months ago from Africa. where he hau spent nearly 20'year* as a missionary. He has been making his heme wlto rela--1 ’lves at Kokomo since his return and I* expected to move here immediately. Rev. Rosselot Is ma'tied and Its* one son *nd one daughter. Rev. Stacy F. Shaw will return a* pjstor of the Vnion Chapel U. B. church, east of Decatur; Rev. C. W. Moore Is returned to the Cratgvllle (CONTINUED ON PAOB PtX) OFormer Decatur Man Dies In Canton. O. Funeral services were to have been held thio afternoon at Can ton, Ohio for Charles Rice. 6V nephew of B. J. Rice of this city and a former resident here, who died Friday night In thst city. Death was attributed to paralysis and complication* He was 1 born near this city, a son of Mr. 1 and Mrs Joseph Rice. Two children at Canton, a broth--1 er. Frank of Fort Wayne and a ■ elater. Mrs William Beck of Bluff ' ton, formerly of this city, also survive Hl* wife preceded him in | death.

WILL RECEIVE BRIDGE BIDS ' Highway Commission To Receive Bridge Bids October 3 Bld* for the construction of ‘ bridge* on the new U. 8. road 27 '> by-pas* north of fh-<-atur will be received by the Hate highway 1 commission on October 3. up until 10 a. m On the same day the highway commission will also receive proposal* for a «.*» foot steel beam structure over Blue Creek ditch on I state road 124. 4.3 mile* ea*t of | Monroe The three bridge* on V 8. 27 byi pas* north of Decatnr are described a* follows: One span over St Mary's river, one-half mile north of Decatur. 175 feet; 2* foot roadway. One span. 50 feet, 29 foot roadway over Rt. Mary's river over- . flow, one mile north of Decatur. One span over 17 mile creek. I one and one-half miles north of i Decatur. 45 feet. 39 foot roadway. Minimum wage* tn he paid by i contractor are 75 cents. M cents . and 5o cent* per hour t The main bridge will span the • St. Mary'* river just north nf the i.Cenjral Sugar factory and west of | the Pennsylvania railroad track* J All of the structure* are west of , j the railroad f Work on grading In th- impoundI Ing ba*ln of the Central Sugar company, through which the by- . pas* goes, will commence Tues- . day. Roy Rlherstlne. of Fort ..Wayne, superintendent of conpStructlon of the state highway . commission announced The I Mohr Construction company of . Kokomo ha* the general contract I Work on the underpass on Smith i Thirteenth street to the Krick- ( Tyndall tile factory and revamping of the sewer system on the ' i street from Monroe street, south JI to the Kiting road, will follow the . grading project north of th<- city. Duer Funeral Rites Are Held Sunday Afternoon , Funeral service* were held *t Geneva Sunday for John Frederick Duer. 48. who died Friday at the Dayton. Ohio veterans hosnitsl. Mil- , Itury services were conducted by Adsm* Post No. 43 of the American Lerion. i Death followed an operation. The services were held et the homo of the mother. Mr* William Erickson, and burial was made In the Kiss- , ler cemetery near Chaitenooga. Onio. Surviving besides the mother are a brother. Charles of Geneva i rnd a slater in Ohio. He was never married.

Bitter Battles Reported As Poles Fight, Determined To Keep Up War On Two Fronts

French Claim Troops Have Smashed CounterAttacks On The Maai-not-Westwall Front. HAND TO HAND Paris Sept. 11 — (VPI-- French troops have wnashod German counter attacka In the overnig.it battl* on the Maglnot-weotwail frontier. !t was reported today. Dispatches said French and German troops met hand to hand <n ■ open farmlands along th- SierraSai.rburg road In German territory, and the Germans were thrust hack at bayonet point. It was asserted that German counter-attacks w-re repaired completely In the end and that the Ftench were left with the important ! gains they bad made in their constantly developing advance toward ■ fl-e main wesswall. The German counter-attacks centered on a 13 mile front between Mertxlg and the Moselle river on I th- French left flank near the Lux- . evnbourg frontier, at the base of a ' v. <» d«-d triangle formed by the Saar rod Moselle rivers and the frontier. The French were now ho ding pons in the neighborhood of Huschsdorf. inside Germany on thnt part of the front. Farther east. French Maginot line I artillery opened np a big scale shell[‘lag on railroads and highways at > i tbe Important communications JuneJ lion of Zweibruecken. Id m.tes east , ; of Saarbruken. I Continuing ita reticent at'itude to- ' ward the French operation, the hig l , {command in Ita war communique . No. 15 aid merely: J "Morning of Sept. U: There >s ! general calm. Our troops made 1 r local advance." Other advices said 'hat the French, now operating in divisional strength, had widened the'r operators un the German front and had made further deep gains toward th-< ma.n line of the Naxi wes'.wall. ’ Heavy French aerial bombari menta at German concentration i pclnts in the Saar valley b ‘hind the i German westwall were reported to have slowed German action and tc ■ have tended to disorganise troops 1 fetid supply movements toward the ' I (CUNTINfRD ON PAGE HIM UD NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH David Kohne Narrowly Escapes Death By Drowning Sunday David Kohne. two-year cld son of Mr. and Mrs. I .eon Kohne. of Winchester street, narrowly escared death by drowing Sunday afternoon. when he presumably tell Into a private swimming pool. The tot had strolled a stay from his home to the swimming pool, owned by Dr. E. P. Fields, less than half a block away I The saving of his life wax attributed to the quick action of James Hogan. 1». who resides al the Kohne : home He was looking for David and his three-year-old alst«r Marilyn. when be found the tot tn the 1 peol i Quickly pulling young Dr id from : out of ehotit five feet of water. h» > applied artificial respiration for • s.tme thus and the child r.-’garln-il ' i.'*>ns<'lousness. i Marilyn was also In the water, stindlng In the shallow end of the > pool apparently unaware of her fl younger brother's yrediesment. After Hogan and Mr Kohoe re- • viewed the child, he wax returned . home for medical treatment and - was apparently none the worse for i his experience. A bruise on bls head • attested to the fact that he had falhn Into the pool at the deeper part?

CHEAT BRITAIN TIGHTENS HER POWER AT SEA Britain Tightens Control In Preparation For Long War Londoo. Sept. 11 Great | Britain tightened her control of I th- sea today and dug in for a long The British and French naviea. working in cdose cooperation, were laying mine fields In the North Sea and the English Channel, cloa ing in the blockade on Germany which they hope will bring her •> her knees. The admiralty hastened ita pro parationa to convoy all allied merchant shipping to and from allied ports and to the major porta of the world as German submarines sent four more British ships to tbe bottom The convoy system was expe< ted to lie so effective as to reduce the toll of torpedoes to a tnliiiinuni The Brit lan seemed conditlonel ■nd ready for a long war. determined to withstand any German effort to obtain peace after lu armies have conquered l*oland. On the basis of authoritative state menta over the week-end. there seemed no possibility of peace except on Anglo-French terma- that Germany must evacuate her troops from Poland. An Indication of Britain's determination and of her conviction that the war would not lie over soon, waa the government announcement that farmers could obtain aa much motor fuel and supplies for agricultural product lon aa they needed, and that the government was opening a campaign to ICONTINUXD ON PAGE ElviT” o- ■ War Flashes Paris. Sept. 11.—<U.IP—Polish advices asserted today that the Germane had been thrown back from the suburbs of Warsaw in fierce fighting. Ths fighting occurred on the banks of the Vistula opposite the northern suburb, it was asserted. and several German columns which attempted to force a passage were defeated. " Berlin, Sept. 11(U.R>—The official gazette announced today that bread would be rationed starting September 25. IBy United Press! At least 20 ships of 100.000 gross tonnage have been sunk by torpedoes, mints and shells since the war on the seas began nine days ago. a survey disclosed today. Announcement of the British ministry of Information and reports from rescue ships disclosed that the total, 13 of the vessels sunk were British, four German, two Dutch and one Greek. At least 145 persons were killed or missing. Most of those still missing were aboard the British liner Athenla. the only passenger liner sunk so far. New Vork. Sept. 11.—(U.PV— The United States lines reported today that the freighter American snipper had rescued the crew of the Britloh steamer Bislrlogue which hod been torpedoed In mid Atlantic. Horta. Tho Asoroo. Sept 11.— <U.P>— The British ship Qartavon was shelled and sunk In (CONTINUBD ON PAGB BIX~

Price Two Centa.

Nazi High Command Says Fighting Is Severe As Poles Seek To Avert Fall Os Warsaw. SLOWS ATTACK By Jo<* Alex Morris (United Pr>-»» foreign news editor) Poland's armies joined battle ' with the Nasis today on a bow- , shaped front stretching 250 miles setose the fertile plains of their j homeland. Determined to keep Adolf Hitler's forces fighting on two fronts, the bulk of the Polish troops stood ■ their ground in defense of W’arsaw. fought furiously in the Radom sector 50 miles to the southwest and attempted to stem a German thrust through the south againa* ■ Lwow The Naxi high command reported that fighting had Ivecotne severe after 11 days in which the Polos fell back rapidly toward .be cen- ! tral plains on which they s'oppea the imperial armies of Germany the world war and where they smashed the Bolahevika In IJ2O Whether the Pot 1 <rfl trTwiffpha of past years could be repeated on j the plalna east of the Vistula and San rivers remained to he aeen, but for the lime being the terrlfle momentum of the Nati war machine had been slowed d>.wn art the first major battles of the war were In progress On the west front, the French continued cautious in their preliminary attacks on tho German weatwall (Limes) fortifications but they reported that they had a firm footing in (he Saar sector, turned ■back the first Nazi countir-off-n---sire and forced the German high | command to send reinforcements which might otherwise be used in ■ Poland How long it might be before a major French British attempt is made to crack the German main line waa a matter of IncreaainK speculation and in London the Evening Standard, owned by Lord Beaverbrook, rauatically asked • "what kind of a war la thia*". The newspaper urged Britain la I act more swiftly to aid the Poles. The criticsl tone of ihe London newspaper coincided with repot a I from R»>rlln that Premier Benito Mnaaolinl of Italy, might soon feddress a message tn Britain and j France through the Italian ambus- ! sadnrs. There was Intense diplomatic activity In Berlin, with the Italian I amlmsaadot playing an Important (CONTINUBD ON PAGE nil) * CITY TAX RATE IS HOW $3.21 Rate At Present Is 52 Cents Higher Than In 1939 The tax rate payable on taxable property In Decatur In |»mi now ' totals 33.21 on the 1100, an in- | crease of 52 cents over the 153 M i i»vr. The different levies which go tn I make up the total rate payable In | Decatur are: I Decatur school board ..31 13 Civil city State of Indiana .16 Adams county . .. .. S 3 ■Township poor 54 Township general .04 ' Township roads .11 1 Decatur library o« Total 33 21 Increases Id the levies which sent tbe Decatur rate beyond the three dollar mark Include. 13 rente in the county rate, 32 cents in the Washington township poor relief rate, five cents In the elvH rlt/'g rate and twn cents In ihe township road bond fund