Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1939 — Page 5

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Paa-AmaHcan neutrality conference prepare* to receive Vnltsd States propoesla for "safety bend" around western hemisphere: delegate* meet tn executive seaslou* to deal with economic and commercial prob tarn* Involved m effort* to a*■ere neutrality. BUCHAREST: Rumania. denying foreign reporta of apprvbenaitni over activltie* of Russian*. aaoert that SovietRumanian relation* are normal With German army in South Poland: Vntted Pre** war correspondent with German troop* report* populace undertake* reconstruction now that tide of war haa paarM German element* welcome conquerors; Pole* bitter but dlaplay no outright hoatiltty. WASHINGTON: Senate Democrats ask executive department* to keep hand* off" in neutrality fight and express confidence congress will repeal arm* embargo and give preaident a victory. EX-KLAN HEAD SEEKS FREEDOM _ • I). C. Stephenson In Seventh Effort For Prison Freedom Noblesville Ind. Sept. 28 — U.R) — D C. Stephenson. former grand dragon of the ku klux klan tn Indiana and prominent Hoosier politician, today war held in the women* department of the Hamilton county jail awaiting ano'her move tn hi* eeventb attempt to win freedom from the *tate prUon at Michigan City. He was brought here last night for conference* with attorney* before he appear* in Hamilton circuit court on a writ of error filed by E E doe of Noblesville. hi* chief counsel Hi* Iransler from the prison waa obtained on a tub poena Issued by Judge Cassius M Gentry before whom he will appear Oct- t. Stephenson wa* convicted of the murder of Madge Oheiholtaer >«f Indianapolis tn 1525 and ae'itemed to life imprisonment Since hi* conviction he ha* utlliaed nearly every legal method to attempt to gain hi* freedom. Th.. sww..» M * 1—

The present attempt, started by floe In March, met with strung Blati- objections The •’»•<.- asked for a change of venue and waa refused. hut floe shortly sftriuard withdrew hie object lona and the hearlnc wss scheduled. Cloe alleged in the pe'itiot. that Stephenson was afraid to testify in his own defense when he was first tried because us threats of violence which had been made against him. The former dragon, lent and alert, arrived at the jail last night with Sheriff Joseph Newby and two companions He was dressed tn a dark prison salt of rough quality, but friends said he appeared only slightly gieyed and entirely healthy. lie refused to make any statement until he had conferred with allotneya and would not permit any pic tores to he taken until ne noticed a newspaper photograph-r whom he bad known during i.m years as a political power. “Don t quote me ou anything.” was his only comment as Sher iff N-why escorted him into lbs lail. Cloe was called to liayton. 0.. yesterday and was not at the jail when Stephenson arrived It was Indirated that he would confer with the former dragon tomorrow but it was believed Alban M. Smith of Ual’orte. another attorney. would see Stephenson * this aft er n< Kin Stephenson was Indicted In f.’i for the slaying of Miss Obci holtger after a statement signed by the gill btfore her death charged that she committed sukld’ because he had attacked her on a trip to Hammond The defense contended that Ml«s Oberholiscr killed herself and that uo murder had been committed, , but Judge Will M. Sparks -h... d 1 the jury to decide whether a vir tuous woman bolds virtue dearer than Ilia. He said be beikvd . minder could be committed tndiI rceUy and that suicide lu soma rases amounted tn murder. The jury found the grand dragon gailiy after five hours dclibe? atlon. Stephenson bus made repeated alii'tupkS to obtain freedom sitiro, »ch HUM h» han chai ged that th-’ ku klu* klan was respotiallde for his conviction and durlnr. his last attempt charged the kUn "spread propaganda by spent h mid publication, characteristug him as a villian and urging that hr.- be convicted.” MEDALS GIVEN <CtJMTISUBD FKOM rang UNW> at dairy sbtrw at tbn Golden Gats Exposition in Man Krancisco. Oct CU4. The eight top toains -Iwo trom euli extrusion section—w.|| divido l'.’,guo in college M-holarsjips and be invited to Holly wood to appear ' on tbs Kraft Music Hall prugraui

DECATUB DAILY DEMOCHAT TUESDAY. SEPTF.MBE It 28, 1939.

Thureday. October N. The purpose of the confatt. conducted In cooperatien With the *Xtension service, |* to provide val--table training and experience for da ry club*tera. and focu* attention of dairyman on better producing oietbodtf. """ I 0-' Bal* me GERMAN ATTAC K "viNTtinncn ritom faus <>nb> to the western from at 110 dlvlaiotia, perhap* 1.8(0.000 men a* compared lo 210 dlvlakm* or 3.•Sb,ooo men In the world wai. Officer Siam London. Sept 28 - su.Rj — The Warsaw radio announcer quoted German prisoner* today that Col. Gen. Werner von Fritsch former commander In chief of the German army, wa* aaaaiatnated by Xaaf •rcret police and that many of hl* fellow officer* on the Warsaw front had been arrested iwcause of their outspoken Indignation The prisoners w> re twld to have reported that Von Fritach could not pcMlbty have "died a anldmr a death on the battlefield" becau*e they had »rvn him laat Ttuirnday enter a car at Grod Zl»k. 20 iniie* from Waraaw. and drive away in a nouthweaterly direction, away from the front. (The only official detail of Von Fritach* death wa* a atatement by Col. Gen Walther vou BranchHack, army commander-ln-chief. that he had died leading an artillery regiment on patrol I The Waraaw brondcaiter aald prisoner*, taken yeaterday morning by Polish lancer* in a aortie on the general line* surrounding Waraaw. had made deposition* aaaerting that Fritach wa* “cowardly aaaaaainated by the Gear*po" The Warsaw station was jammed immediately after the reference to Von Fritach. Pro-German broadcast*, presumably originaling from some station inside the German line* In Poland, frequently have encroached upon the W’ar•aw wave length.

PLAN BICYCLE (Coxtinved rttux paob <m«r For. Wayne, district recreation supervisor. Open house was held at the craft »hop conducted by the department la the Lincoln school bstldlag Monde v evening, and a large nmnber of interested persons inspected the w>rk wing done in the craft shop and the various activities m the u»me rooms.

War Flashes Faris. Sept. 28.—(U£) — Th* council el mmistsr* today dissolved ths communist party and all related organisations. Dissolution of ths communist party was decided upon as result of th* development* at th* start of the war, when French newspapers charged th* Soviet union with batraying the allied powers and Poland by making a last minute pact with Germany. Amsterdam, Sept 2*.— (UR) —A Douglas airliner of th* KLM-Royal Dutch airline* arrived her* from Coponhapsn today with it* tail riddled by machinegun bullets, and it was reported that on* of the passengers had been killedThe report was. not confirm, ed, said that the passenger, Gustav Robert Lamm of Sweden. was killed by bullets bred from a foreign airplane near Esbjerg. Denmark Th* plans was believed to hav* been German. Bucharest. Sept 2S.—<U-P>— A lawyer named Hergh*l*glu. former Iron guard leader in th* Piatra Neamte district, wa* arrested and esecutad In Bucharest laM night on th* grounds that h* was th* ringleader of the plot which last w**k resulted in assassination as Premier Armand Catmascu, th* government announced tr Bsy Part*. Sept. 28.— (U.W — Th* council of ministers, with President Albert Lebrun presiding, met *t the Ely*** palace st 8 p- m. (10 a. m. CST) today and heard Pr*ml*r Edouard Daiadlsr repart that the military situation on the western front we* "meet eetiefectory* Berlin, Sept. 28- — lU.R) — Fuehrer Adolf Hitler end Foreign MlniMer Joachim Van Ribbentrop arrived in Berlin by airplane today. They landed at Tempelhaf airdrome from the eaMern front at 8:20 P m. end proceeded immediately to the chancellery. , i Qw. si n * DAY 3 COMMON LfROIt Do not put Indirect quotations | tn quotation marks, a*. He said 1 be was going to bed. »■ -4

LEGION PARADE IS HELD TODAY Parade Features National American l/egion Con* tion Today < hlcago. Sept. M— (U.RJ -The men who marched the weatem front In war 21 year* ago In muddy khaki pulled raincoat* over snappy American l.egton nnlfntma In their parade of peace today A drilling rain wa* tailing aa buglea tailed the doughboy* of 1917-1 I Into line for the parade of the American Legion'* flat annual convention But. rain or shine, the march went on the *am* a* it did two detadwo ago over the battiefleld* when- war cannon once more an lumbllng. The legion devoted It* entire d»y to the parade of peace hut the qnratlon of American neutrality and the stand the ex-soldiera will take on the arm* embargo Issue mtupled the minda of all The Ivgton will vote It* policy be I for* the close of the convention I Thursday Legionnaire*, their auxiliary.' gold Mar mother*, and aon* and daughters of the legionnaire* participated in the line of march nearly two mile* down Michigan | boulevard to the reviewing Mind In soldier field. A detachment of Chicago polite preceded Lieut. Gen. Stanley H Ford, grand marshal of the parade I Next in line came unite of the regular V. 8 soldiers, aailot* ard marines clad in regulation aervicr j raincoat*. Their gun* aud aircraft; detector* were awatched tn tar- i paulin* Th* champion legton drum and bugle corp* of Marlboro. Ma*a and th** champion of Zane Irwin I post San Franciaco. Calif, struck ‘ up a martial air a* they moved i into line Retiring national cot.imande--Stephen F. Chadwick led the group of past national commandera. Misaiasippi, with a record of the ' greatest percentage ol new nu-m her* during the laat year, led the state units The rain halted wph the parade 1 little more than hall an hour 1 under way and skies wcro clear mg a* Chadwick reached the re i viewing stand Cessation of rain | also increased the crowd* shiver-' Ing in the lake-front wind along the line of march Wisconsin units, seeking the 1911 convention for Milwaukee. I extended three and one-half mile* 1 as they marched right abreast behind Gov. Julius P Heil In an open automobile. It took them nearly an hour to pass the reviewing stand The stale of Washington presented a baud In red costa, blue' tronaer* and green helmets cupped with evergreen plnmrs The Missouri contingent marshal paraded astride a Missouri mule and called attention to Kansas, City’s bid for the 1911 convrr.tinn Gov. Lloyd D Stark was in the reviewing stand There were few women in early units and they carried umhiellas Spectators appeared along the 1 ade route in blankets, overcoat.' and even earmuff* The t ’miterature waa 5S degrees. Month l>« km a was repretented by an ancient stagecoach and Florida by a streamlined 10 et Si mobile hospital of Voltnre 2**2 Orlando, Fla., and • Ft Laudeidale band with acruliatic drum majors, one of them s bare-leg*>-.J i girl. Acrobatic drum majors wore few because the cold made lutltHi. twirling difficult. Indiana presented the secon'i largest uult tn the first three of the eight pai*4<- divisions. Paul V McNutt, past national command-j er and former Indiana governor.! accompanied hla unit. Bands and * drum cotps from Fori Wayne. Hammond. Indianapolis. Gary. Whltlun, and Itecstur, wen- union*, the units. TELLS OF TRIP ICGRTIWVWD ow rxor *IX> enforced ordinance* regulating our < Ity and i oudmied our own elec- i tiou*. Wo hud our own police (orve. our own court* and administered justice, In Hoys’ BtaU> the boy had a chance to be a man • and to learn for himself that his *ov< rnment become* just what he makes It. Amidst all thia talk I toncernlng the fault of the Amer-' l< an form of government, wo had a < hatice to le*m for ourselves' wh*t our responsibilities will be when we become men and how we. oursetvea. arc the ones who make our government conform to our need* —ln other words, we were taught that we are the gov- 1 rmmetji. We took part In stimulated. nnn-partlsen political c*mitalgus. p*rty caucuses, election, and then wr handl' d for our own need* the affairs of our city, t-oun-' ly and state- learning as uo other | method can provide, just bow our I goveroment affects our lltu, Utterly aud happiness. “Ho that th«* cftUen may lie pro's peed to assume the responsibilities, 'of rltUcnshtp. It is necessary that’ the cltUcu uuderilaud U>u strut-

Tins WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND MOVES OF NATIONS IN EUROPEAN WAR “ Z C -a. 17 Ul/- 1 ! •'V-' HWLWIBgCTM a? / V ,1 i T- * ? r'M -5-TS2S&-aTF \ j jt*' zwraErfir < v\ • \.U® %X 9

I turv of hi* government; that he know about Its separation of pow i era: that he be familiar with the various political *ub-dlvisions; and that he know the many office*, duties, power*, and limitation* of these offleen In order to encour age and develop aa interest in the study of these problems beyond what we studied in civic and hisi tory courses in high s< hool we citizens of Boys' State were given an opportunity to associate and live with other boys from iNffer|ent part* of the state and had an opportunity to have a lot of fuu

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but at the same time learn for ouraelvee that our government become* just what we. ourselves, make It. "I wish to say to you member* of the Amermu-an Legion that you should lie proud that an organisation of which you are a member I* *pun*orlng such a splendid program of youth hi»tru«tiou in the affair* of thl*. our government of I the t inted State*. Aud I might add that it was the moat enjoyable week that I have ever spent. And I wish at this time to thank you. the American Legion Post 13 of

Adams county, for allowing me to lie your representative at at Hoosier Boys’ State IMS And I wish to assure that your time and money was not spent in vatn, and that when I become of voting age and take an active ’part in the governmental affairs of this etty of De<atur? thta“Xtate of Indiana, and thia nation of Vnited States, that I will remember the things that I was taught at Hoosier Hoys’ State and that I will do my best to bet- | ter this government and to vote and o run the offi<-es wisely aud o th«- beet of my ability. Once

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again I wish to thank you and my oniy regret is that I will not be able to go and to participate in Hoosier Hoys’ State of 1»W. I thank you." Other boys who attended the Boys’ State and were prexent at the meeting: Robert Lord, sponsored by the Moose lodge; Ned Johnurn. by the Elks ; Howard Gehrtg by the Legkm auxiliary; Robert 1 G-ntis. by the Lions: Bill Brown ■ by the Rotary and Benjamin Jones ’ by the Legiuu. H Vernon Aurand, I Legion |K»st - hairman of the Boys' ■ State activities, was tn charge.