Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1939 — Page 1

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IITLER SHIFTS STRENGTH TO WEST

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

“Killed in Action” <K ■ 1 j -——- • Cot. Gen. Werner ven Fritsch Rrlillant strpteglat and former cotumaiider-ln-chirf of the Get man army. Col -Gen. Werner von Fritsch waa willed In action on the Warsaw front, aci-ording b> Natl dispatches j Von Fritsch, at odd* with Hitler, waa purged from army in IMS. but when war broken ont waa placed tn charge of an army In the Maat. with Hitler In supreme command While other Nasi command* pushed ahead, hr waa halted by Warsaw's heroic defense . ROTARY LEADER HERE THURSDAY District Rotan Governor To Pay Official Visit Here O. K Murray of Rensselaer, who Is gweeruor of thia dMrict of Rotary International, will he In Decatur Thursday evening at <:3O I on hi* official visit to the Rotary club of thia city. Mr. Murray is a merchant in Rensselaer, a member of the Rotary ctab there, and waa elected governor of the lS4th district at Rotary's 30th annual convention in Cleveland last June President Ernest W Busche and secretary James Murphy. Jr., of the Decatur Rotary club and the other members of the club will confer with Rotary Governor Murray on matters of club administration and activities. The Rotary club of Decatur was organised in I*l< and now meets weekly at the Rice Hotel. Rotary Governor Murray was one of the nearly MW men who were elected to serve Rotary's 5.000 clubs and 110.000 Rotarians in *0 countries and geographical divisions of the world. Chairmen o." the various permanent committees of the club are requested to meet with Mr. Murray at the hotel at < o'clock Thursday evening,— Marion Man Is Named Local Store Manager Robert Jackson b the now manager of the local Mlller-JouM shoo store here. Mr. Jackson ba* been transferred to the local st >re from Marlon. He succeeds Larr Hutchinson a* manager. MEMBER DRIVE OPENS TUESDAY use emmsmMwmsM* Moose Lodge To Open Annual Membership Drive Tuesday The annual membership campaign of Adams lodge 1311. Ixtyal Order of Moose, will be officially opened Tuesday night. Gerald Cole, lodge governor, announced today, All plana have been completed for the opening of the drive, which I* to be known among Moose members as the "I Will" campaign. The business meeting, at which the campaign will be opened. Will start at A o'clock Following the business meeting, an entertainment will he staged in the lodge rooms, with a number of stars from radio fetation WOWO in Fort Wayne appealing on the program. John Hackett, well known comMnentator and radio performer from that station, will act as mast- | er of ceremonies for the entertainment 1 AU member* are urged io attend.

FURIOUS GALES TAKE TOLL OF LIVES IN WEST At lx*ast Seven Lives Lost, Many Missing On West Coast l-os Angele*. Sept 2S. — Rfjty Navy destroyers and coast guard cutters steamed to the aid of scores of battered pleasure and Ashing , boats early today as furious gales lashed the Southern California rout and took a toll of at least seven Ilves Several craft and scores of persons were missing. A hfly mile an hour gale which had stranded Ashing and pleasure parties <m a boiling sea late yesterday had just begun to dlmlsh when * new storm formed So miles off shore and swept shoreward Craft at sea were capsized snd heavy comber* pounding against beach resorts demolished cottages, pieres and moored vessels. Moat serious casualty of the gale was the So-foot Ashing boat Spray. Os the 2« persona aboard it only two were accounted for. The other 21 or their bodies were expected to be found on a jetty reaching into the surf from Point Magu 75 miles north of here. A coast guard rescue party had waited throughout the night for the gale to abate More attempttag to reach the >Mty A week of record-breaking heat bad sent thousands of southern Catifornlau to the beaches and on Ashing and pleasure cruise* Many craft were caught in the gales and were unable to make shore. Heavy rain squalls accompanied the | winds Four navy destroyers and four emwrt guard cutter* patrotad the shoreline Investigating all distress 1 calls Two of the coast guard ’ cutter* had been ordered to the (CUNTINCKII ON PAG» FIVEt LEGION LEADER CAUTIONS PEACE l I National Commander Chadwick Speaks At Convention Opening Chicago. Rept 35 -dJJO- Nat total Commander Stephen 8. Chadwick told the American Legion In ' convention today "thut it* mo*t i solemn mission today la to retaic i for America Its peace" Ao the 21st annual convent lon began under the shadow of a >ww European war. Chadwick said !n ■ hl* report he was confident that the I'nltad State* can be kef-t from Involvment in the conflict and might aome day remain th* one ' nation which would vulde the world out of chaos He appealed to the legion to keep the I'nlted State* neutral but * to prepare for the defense of the ' nation and train youth* for that 1 defeng*. 1 “I have confidence that if the 1 need be." Chadwick »ald. "America ’ can walk It* way In this tioubled world alone I have confidence that If the nations of the old world see fit tn exhaust themselves hi war. we American* can yet preserve the foundstlon store of the only civilisation that can mean a world living together in ordered and reaaoned peace Our most solemn mission today I* to retain for America Its peace' The convention will be mor* serious than *ny of It* predecessor* The legion bad gone on record for "strict neutrality." but It had made no statement regarding Its views on the arm* embargo. Resolutions Were expected to Set tCONTINVED nN WAGR FIVBI a*Bms Scouts And Fathers To Banquet Monday Decatur Roy Scout* tnd their father* will *«end the fatherson' banquet at the Juniorsenior high echool building next Monday veenlng at 6:30 o'clock. The banquet will be prepared and served by the home economic* student* under the direction of Mia* Mildred Worthman. At the conclusion of the banquet, s court of honor will be Laid and moving picture* of the recent trip of 'he scout* to northern Michigan will be shown All father* o’ Scout* j I aie urged to be preeent.

ONLY DAILY N EWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana. Monday. September 25, 1939.

Road 124 May Be Closed All Winter Approximately five alate road do-' ; 'our* will tie required during the winter on project* where construe'i tton can not be completed until Ifeto Among these are: paving on Itond 20. eaat of Michigan City; raving on Road Sf, southeast of Michigan City; grading and pavlus on Road 67 between Ma-tin*vllle and Brooklyn; surfacfhg Iwad 121 went of Orland, and surfacing Road. 124. eaat from Road 27. Bt.>le road, 121 run* eaat through Monroe. Ii I* possible tha. some of these sections of hlgkwsy can be openqd | to traffic during the winter month*, i depending upon progress made before bad weather halt* operations.’ LIST OFFICERS OF TWO GROUPS Two Catholic School Organizations Select Officers The list of officer* for two student organisations of the Catholic ' schools of Decatur was announced i today by the Rev Alvin Jaslrskl , Arthur Rraun was elected presi-' dent of the Children of St. Mary'* ' Sodality, according to the announcement. Other officer* are: Joseph Wolpert, vice president and Phillip I Terv»er. secretory The Children | of St. Mery's Sodality la a student organisation of the St Josenh grade school. Officers for the Student* Spiritual Council, an organisation of the ' Decatur Catholic high school were also announced today The offl< ent are: John Terveer. | , prefect; Joan Neerlng. vice-pre-fer I; James Bogan, secretory, and Germaine Faurote. treasurer. 11 e--State Police Drill In Chicago Parade Officer* Russell Trior of Decatur and Truman Blerle of Bluffton are among the half a hundred member* of the Indiana state pol'ce force who will partlvlpste Tuesday in a motorcycle drill four, at ion aa a part of the parade at the national Atari lean Legion eonvr-ntton at Chicago , I Officer* Prior anu Blerle left early (hi* morning and will return sl'ver late Tuesday night or early WvJneaday morning. The officer* were to me-’ in Chicago this mornini; to rehearte their drill work on the motorcy-’es. Recreation Open House Tonight The general public is invited to attend the open house of tha WPA recreation department tonlgb’, starting at 4:30 o'clock. In the’ rooms in the Lincoln school. The craft shop and game roomi will be open, and there will also be a band rehearsal. The executive committee of th* dcpartmnnt will meet at the office of the chairman. Walter J. Krick, ■t 7:20 tonight and all committee member* are asked to be present MONROE HOLDS DISTRICT MEET Methodist Woman’s Society To Meet At Monroe Wednesday The annual convention of the Fort Wayne district of the Metho dlst woman's foreign missionary society will be held at the Monroe Methodist church Wednesday, with morning and afteinoon session* Mrs. It A. Btnckey of this city. I district president, will preside over the meeting Mrs. Delton Passwater of this city is one of the group leaders, and Mr* C. L. Wai-1 ters I* recording secretary. Mlaa Ruth' Thoma*. Methodist missionary at Inhambane. Portugueae East Africa, will be the principal apesker. giving the afternoon address. Mr*. Walter Werk- ' Ing, of Anderson, north Indiana ’ conference secretary, will speak at the morning session, which open* at 8:45 o'clock. Special music will be presented at the morning session by Rev. and Mr* R W Graham of Decai tur. Mrs. Delton Pssswster of thia city will have charge of the .memorial at the afternoon meettag.

SUGAR COMPANY OPENS CAMPAIGN Annual Sugar Making Campaign In Started This Morning Sugar made by the Central! Sugar company of thia eity. Indii ana's only beet sugar refinery, will j be r-edy for the market by Tuesday afternoon, official* of the company staled this morning, a few hour* after the big mill started in operation on Ito *eventh annual : sugar making run. Beets were started through the mill at S o'clock this morning and within 24 hours the first supply of sugar will be available. J Ward Calland. vlce-pre*ldent and field manager for the company stated , Vp uutil thia morning about 4JM I ton* of beet* hsd been delivered > to the local plant. About 350 peraona will he em- ■ ployed during the sugar making | campaign There will be three shift* of eight hours each, the regular schedule starting Tu< sday I i morning at 8 o'clock ( Beet* continued to arrive at the mill today and growers are busy 1 'harvesting the crop More than' 200 truck* are engaged in transporting the beet* to Decatur. More than 2.000.0u0 sack* of I sugar will lie processed at the local i mill, if the beet tonnage comes up to expectations The largest pack-1 ing of sugar will be in the fivepound paper packs, orders having' 'been placed for feSO.OOO sacks The! next largest used package will be ' 10 pound paper packs, a total of 550.000 tags Irelng alloted to this i popular else. Sparkling Crystal Whit- Sugar, the brand name of the enpar produced here, will also be parked in ' 100 and 25-pound paper sacks snd . In 100 pound doth bag*, th* latter ' being uaed largely by wholesaler* ' and manufacturers The heavy paper sacks which tCONTINUBn ON PAOM FIVk7~ HONOR CATHOLIC j HIGH YEARBOOK 1939 Tattler Is Given First Class Honor Rating Word haa been received by the Decatur Catholic high school that the IS3J "Tatler." school yearbook, haa received a first class honor rating from the National Scholastic Press association, it was an- ( nouneed today The yearbook was entered In competition with over *<x* other ' annual* from all part* of tha I'nlted States. Favorable comments wera passed. particularly upon general apj pearance, organisation, ac'ivitle*. i content*, and educative value In according the rating ' Officials of the school stateii ' that the Institution was justly proud of the attainment of such 1 an honor rating from one of the country's foremost schools nt journalism Rra M. Rosemary and M. Agnes ! Terese were faculty advisor* on' i the Tattler staff. Bernice Faurote was editor-in-chief and Laurine Lengerich, her aaalatant. Other members of the stuff were: Alto Ruth Klepper. photographer. Art Baker. 801 l Hess and Bob Bolinger. sports writer*. Mary C. Bpangb-r and Franco* Bril*, ropy editors; Ambrose Gelmer. business manager and Richard Teepl». assistant; Mar Jorl* Ktats and Marl* Meyer, school not** editor*; Leo Alberding, advertising manager and Hette V ’tiug, assistant with Robert , I'lman. Joan Parent and Betty Nchulte. advertising commltt -e member*. Ctrl Hchullx. circulation manager and Carl Brau.t. i assistant, with Vera Braun and Kathleen Heimann, member* of the circulation committee I I Hl*— TRMPKRATURB RKADINQB OIMOCRAT THCRMOMITCR 8:00a.m. <8 2:00 p.m 80 10:00a.m. 77 8:00p.m. 20 > Noon - 82 WKATHRR — Partly cloudy ♦* cloudy tonight and Tuesday; much 000 - j or tonight and In south end extreme cast portion* Tuesday.

Nazi Submarines Sink Neutral Ships Carrying Supplies For England; Warsaw Still Fights

Polish Defenders, Short Os Ammunition. Battle Back Nazis In Hand To Hand Fighting. CITY IN FLAMES Budapest. Sept 25 <UJ9I Polish defender* of Warsaw, running short of ammunition, were reported tonight to have turned another German assault in hand to hand fighting in - the suburbs, where' Gaming torches were used to ex-1 plode Naxi tanka. Dispatches received after the Warsaw radio had Indicated teri rifle German shelling, said several i Polish regiments In the suborn* | .had saved their ammunlGx i by. ’ waiting until the Nails moved up' ' clooe enough for hand to hand I fighting Then, following tadlca usi-d in Spain, the Pole* were reported to : have set up tank barricade* which lifted the front of attacking tanks and expoeed the under aid-*. Into! ' which flaming oil soaked rags ■ were thrown Soviet troop* were said to lie! . avoiding participation In the attack : on Warsaw. More than 100 separate tire* ! were reported burning tn Wares« \ aa the result of German shelling and two more Naxi air raid* today. I , The defenders had virtually no| | equipment left for fighting the ■ flames j A broadcast from the besieged j city at 9 o'clock laat night said ■ i that halt of Warsaw was hum i : Ing. that the explosion of heavy! > artillery shells was incessant and I that many wounded. Including woI men and children, lay in the open ' streets receiving first aid from Red Cross nurse* Churches. palace*. hospital*. ! railway station*, hotels, hanks and j shops .with art treasures accumu-' lated for centuries, were report -d l ■ in ruins. IAI Paris. Tranacortlnenial > | Press, a Polish agency, rep-u-ted | ' that the German general staff ha-l I derided to hold it* troops back snd shell the city into submission ' The agency said the German* were* firing incendiary shell*. It reported that more than half th* city's* churches had been destroyed and. that only one hoapltal waa standing I tExchange Telegraph dispatches! reaching Ixrndon Sunday noon saM ' that l.noo Warsaw civilians had’ been killed In 24 hours. Including hundred* who braved the artillery > fire to attend church service* yes-1 terday and died In the street* go-1 ing or coming > A broadcast heard here said that an airplane bomb hit one church : during mass and that the priest I interrupted himself only long j enough to urge the worshippers to keep calm. Biddle Reports Paris. Sept. 25 Germany made a shamble* of Poland by ‘ using heavy systematic waves of | (CONTIN'LID ON PAUK SIX) TWO VIOLATORS ARE ARRESTED Sheriff Arrests Two Men For Traffic Violations SaturdayTwo were arrested over the weekend aa the sheriff's department of the county reopened Its drive against traffic violator* In conjunction with state police work R O Wilson of Wren. Ohio was arrested late Naturday night by Sheriff Ed Miller on a charge of failing to atop for a preferential highway The arrest occurred at I the Junction of the Piqua road I with federal road 27. north of DeI cattir Thomas Rennet, of nos;' here, was also arrested Satuiday night i by the sheriff on a charge of pas* ' Inc a car on the brow of a hill on road 27 north of the city. Sheriff Miller slated that the arrest occurred at altnosi exactly , the same location where seven ’persons were hurt the previous I Naturday night In a hen don col I ■ (CONTINUED ON PAUE MIXA

Rotary Governor i ; * Ki G E .Murray of Rensselaer, gov-, I ernor of this district of Rotary I I International, will pay his official: i visit to the Decatur Rotary club ' Thursday evening at the weekly meeting of the club at the Rice 1 i hotel. ONE ARREST IN AUTO COLLISIONS Only One Person Injured In Headon Collisions Here Two person* were Injured and one was arrested aa the result ofi i auto collisions over the weekend j j ne*r thia city, with none seriously j | hurt A headon collision Saturday night about 10 o'clock resulted in | the arrest of James Sumner, col- : ored. of Fort Wayne, and a aevere ' leg injury to hi* companion. John i Walker, also colored. Fort Wayne The car driven by Sumner crashed headon with an auto driv- ; en by Kirby Baker, of Fort Wayue. I accompanied by hi* wife and daughter and Charles M Shearer, j also of that city, on federal road 27 one mile north of Monmouth. I All escaped injury but Wa'ke- I , He was admitted to the hospital for treatment of hie leg InjuryOfficer Ruaaell Prior of the In-1 diana state police force arrest-si! 'Sumner on a charge of driving while under the influence nt IntoxiI eating liquor and he was nlsced • in Jail to await arraignment some j i lime today. Officer Prior and' | sheriff s deputy. Leo Glllig. inves- i ' tlgated the crash. Girl I* Hurt Evelyn Thurston. 18. of Bluffton i suffered shock and bruises Sunday j afternoon at 8:80 o'clock when the car she was driving collided headon with an auto driven by Ambrose j Leo Case, of this city, on a curve, on federal road 27 just south of the city. Case and a companion. Annu- i tCONTTNt'En GN PAUK FIVE) o_ . War Flashes LONDON. Sept 25.—<U.PITH* French collier Phryn, of 2.400 ton*, was torpedoed by a German submarine off the east coast of England ysstsrday, It was announcsd tonight. WASHINGTON. Sept 2S.— (U.RI —The Die* investigating committs* today votsd to turn ovsr to the juetice and stat* departmsnts evidence allegedly showing that th* U. 8. communist party* and the Ger-man-American bund are violating federal law relative to espionage and registration of foreign agent*. Th* action cam* on motion of Rsp. J. Parnell Thoma*. R.. N. J- who charged that “there can be no doubt" that both organisations ar* violating federal law according to testimony thut far presented to th* committee. OSLO. Norway. Sept. 26.— <U.R)—Heavy gunfire was heard off Bergen on the Norwegian (CONTINUED ON FAUE FIVE!

Price Two Cent*.

Great Britain Reports Sinking More Than A Half Dozen Os German Submarines. AERIAL ATTACKS <Uy Joe Alex Morri*. (VP. Foreign News Editor! Adolf Hitler shifted lighting strength to the war in Iho west today, with the flrat big Naxi < ounter-offenaive directed against Great Britain's sea power." While German artillery pounded a still deflant Warsaw to pieces a* the laat big operation in Poland. Nasi V-boata opened a new phase of war on the seas by sinking neutral ships carrying supplies to England. One British destroyer, one Swedish ship and two Finnish merchant men were sunk, the high command announced at , Berlin. Reminiscent of the unrestricted submarine warfare directed by Admiral Von Tirpltx during the World War. the German V-boata were believed to be attempting to carry out on a large scale the promise of Hitler to retaliate in kind against the British blockade. The next step. It waa believed In Berlin, would he massed Naxi aerial attack* on British ports and industrial centers. “Good success" in the submarine counter offensive against Britain was announced by the Nail high command, despite the tact that British warship* and royal air force plane*, aided by sensitive modern detection Instruments, have reported the sinking of morn than half a doien submarines Two other significant developments accompanied the u-boat -ainpalgn In Panama City, the American republic were considering the possibility of establishing a neutral gone-possibly 100 miles wide around the Americas as a means of enforcing their neutrality. Il was proposed that all belligerent ships be kept from warlike operations In this patrolled Sone And In the Baltic states, tlto Soviet navy was reported to have dosed the river Neva to Finland * shipping The river la a route foe ■ shipping from southern Finland to British and other porta. So far. the position of the Russian government in eastern EurI ope has consistently aided the Nasi operations, although the ultimate purposes of Moscow remain oh- , scure. Th* Red atjny waa pushing up •<> the eastern suburbs of Warsaw, ; where the Nails have vainly beI sieged the Polish capita) for three I weeks. Today, the city was reported In Games In many districts. < big Naxi guns were pounding it , ita ancient buildings, a thousan I persons were reported killed In 2 A hour* and the defending troop* I were said to be fighting on i* fur--CONTINt'ED ON PAGE THREKI' ■» —O— III I I-*— FIVE ACRES OF TIMBER BURNED Five AcreN Os Timber Destroyed By Fire Sunday EveninK Approximately five acres of tlm* bar were destroyed southwest of Berne Sunday by tire of an unknown origin, according to reporti from that community. The fire started about 4 o'clock Sunday evening and raged for more 'ban four hours before It was brought tinder control. Members of the Berne volunteer f.rr department and albout <0 or R'l civilian volunteers aided In the woik of fighting the ftre on lht» land owned by Peter Mosaer. The fire waa finally checked when a tractor and plow waa nsed to dig furrows around the blase. Thr volunteer* werked for morn 'han three hours battling the flames. The farm on which th* fire oc. curred Is tenanted by Jeff Rauch. No one was able to establish the cause of the fire, according to reports.