Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 236, Decatur, Adams County, 5 October 1939 — Page 1

XXXVII. No. 236.

PEARSON BLANKS REDS WITH TWO HITS

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Red Men Plan For Weiner Roast Friday The membert of the Red Mea !odge. the Pocahontna lodge, and their famlllea will hold a walner and mamhmallow roaat at the W. K. Brown farm, one mfle mat of the Oopt achool house Friday evening. Those not having a meant of tranaportatlon are naked to be ati the Red Men lodge at 4:M o'clock and away will be provided GERMANS DENY RUMOR BELGIUM IS THREATENED Nazis Deny Neutrality Os Belgium Is In Any Danger By Jon Alae Morris (United Prsaa Foreign Newn Editor) Turkey and Belgium were Europe’s Immediafe danger apo tv today as belligerent powers awaited Adolf Hitler's speech on Friday to the Reichstag - In Brussels, the sem'-offictal apence telegraphlquc Beige rlrcula*ed a report from Berlin that the Nasis might consider their pledge to respect Belgian neutrality as void If Belgium proved unable to prevent allied air fleets from croMing the neutral belt. -Confirmation of the report was 'Peking but It was described as causing some concern in Brussels wh. re newspapers speculated on whether (lersn .nv was seeking a pretest to escape her pledges and unJettake a repetition of the l»ll thrust through Belgium The French hare persistently rumored such act.on was likely but Berlin has retx aiedly denounced the rumors as a He. ( The Be:Un prupnanada ministry spokesman denounced the Belgian ;eport as an Invention and aaid “war guarantee to Belgium has uo| conditions attached. Ike left no I back door through which we could: slip out. We stand by <>u ■ guarantee." Both the Allied powers and Soviet Russia wooed the Turks—with the threat of a blackjack in the background in an effort to influence control of the vital Ba-danellea straita dividing Europe end the sea- east. Both were meeting with difficulties that left the outcome In doubt. In Umdon. It was reported that (CON'TtNVKty ON PACK EIGHT?* W" " O Adams County Youth Dies This Morning Joseph A. Monnirr. 19. died this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had beet a patient since July 31. Drath was a used by sgreoma. The decease! was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E Monnler of route «. Decatur. He is survived by hie pa-ents. six brothers and four slaters. Funeral services wIU be held at the Catholic church but arrangeniet.ts had not been completed thia afternoon. Further announcement will be made tomorrow. APPOINT STAFF FOR YEARBOOK 'Louis M. Koldewey Named Editor-In-Chief Os Raveling* Louis M Koldrway. senior In the Decatur junior-senior high school has been named editor-in-chief of the Decatur high school “Raveling*." annual yearbook publication of the school, It was announced today. Annis Ms.- Merriman has been named assistant editor-in-chief, and Dials Miller business manager of the publication. Karl Hrotner and Vaughn l.lnlger have been named assistants Io the buslneaa manager. Robert Gentis was named photography editor and Richard Gerber assistant, Richard Hammond Is the snapshot editor and Richard McClanahan hla assistant. The athletic editor la Robert Stapleton, with Robert Hunter his 1 aMlatant. The girls athletic edl- 1 tor is Jean Zimmerman and the assistant girls athletic editor Is < Martha Macy. Arnold Martin and Richard tkbulti are copy editors.

FRENCH DRIVE ON COMMUNISTS IN GOVERNMENT — 1 Adjourn Parliament To Oust Communist* From Control Paris. Oct b- (U.R) The gov err.meut adjourned parliament today to strip 43 communist deputies of Immunity from arrest, and dissolved the govenvmenta of 67 municipalities in which communists were in control. Twenty-seven of the municipalities were In the Inner Seine department. constituting the "red ring" suburbs of Parla; 34 In t|iv outlying Seine and Oise depart menta and ail in Pas De Calais, the northern mining region. It was reported that raids had been made on communist quarters | during the night and that warranta : had been Issued for the arrest of j two cminunlat deputies, but this was not confirmed officially. France had undertaken a hur- | rled campaign to drive <-dmmun * Inta from public office and throttle their agitation for She acceptance 'of Adolf Hitler's peace terms. A decree adjourning the special , session of parliament, signed by President Albert Leßrun. Premier; Edouard Ikaiadler and minister of j interior Albert Serraut. became effective on publication In the offlcUl journal It permitted the ministry of justice to act at once, if It were deemed necessary. I against the 43 deputies who formed the workers and peasants party when their communist party was dissolved Military authorities were ready :to prosecute So "defestist propsj gandista" Indicted yesterday when i their signatures were found on I pamphlets urging "immediate’ I peace " The pamphrets were efrI > ulaied in the chamber of deputies and throughout the country The signatories included Victor .Marguerltle. novelist; Alain I pen name of Emile Auguste Chartier I philosopher and eaaayist; Georges Pinch and Jean Glouo. writers; tCONTINURD ON PAOV FIVB) CHURCH PLANS FOR FESTIVAL Mission Festival At Zion Reformed Church Here Sunday The annual mission festival to be observed at the Zion Reformed church on Sunday marka the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Evangelical and Reformed church. The afternoon service, to be addressed by Dr. L. W. Goebel. Chicago, the president of the church, will be lii keeping with this anniversary It was at Cleveland. Ohio, In 1*34. that the new denomination was formed by a merger of the former Evangelical Synod of North America with the Reformed church In the United States. The Reformed church, the older of the two bodies, dates back to 1735. when German settlers in eastern Pennsylvania formed congregations and established churches. The Evangelical Synod traces its history in thia country to the vicinity of St. Louis. Mo. wh.-re about the year 1840 a group of ministers formed the Evangelical Union of the west. The union of these two bodies was one of eleven such mergers of protestant denominations effected In America within the past two decades. Through this union the Evan gelical and Reformed church takes It* placn among the first ten of ' (CONTINUED ON PAOK THRKK) —O-- ■" " Wayne Coy Vnderjfoes Second Operation Pat (more. Md . Oct. S —(UP)— Assistant federal security administrator Wayne Coy underwent a second operation today for * serious kidney ailment, after falling to recu.wrate from an operation performed eight week* ago Doctors at the Marine hospital declined to make a f'ognoti* except to say that Coy was "very slck.“ Although It was originally feared a kidney would have to be removed because of continued infections, sutgeona decided today only to drain il.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 5, 1939.

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Senator* Key Pittman and William C. Borah leader* of the fight for and gainst repeal of <h»» arma **ml»arico proviaiona of the ex Im Ing neutrality act are shown following a heavy day's dehate in Washington. They are Senators Key Pittman of Nevada.

FARMERS NAME COMMITTEEMEN AAA lieaders Are Being Named By Adams County Farmers Adams county farmers this week are voting for community committeemen who will represent the respective township in administering ■ •tbe sgricultural conservation proffraui. , Results of elections so far reported are aa follows: Union Township Delegate to county couveuiiuu. j Victor Bleeke; alternate delegate. Adolph Schamerloh; chairman. Adolph Bchamerloh; vice-chairman. Victor Bleeke; third member. Victor L. Ulman; first alternate. Herman Gelmer; aecond alternate, Walter Thieme French Township Delegate to county convention. George Ringger: alternate deleI gate. Daniel V. Bertach; chairman. George Ringger* vice-chairman. Daniel V. Bertach; third member. August Slickman: flrat alternate. Wm. ITeodorf; second alternate. Barthold A. Seeaenguth. Blue Crock Township Delegate to county convention. Leland A. Ripley; alternate delegate. Hiram Wittwer; chairman. Leland A. Ripley; vice-chairman. (CONTINURD ON PAGR THRKK) O ■ — Pleads Not Guilty To Intoxication Hubert R. McCl'aahen waived arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty this morning when arraigned before justice of peace John T. Kelly to answer to a charge of public intoxication. McClenahan was relet*-d on a recognlaance bond. He was arrested last night about 11 o'clock ty officer* Roy Chllcote ar.d ttephu* Meichi-

Plight Os French Refugees Is Told In Letter To Local Lady

A- vivid, sympathetic story oft French refugees fleeing from thfl war sone in Alaace-Lorr.lne wm waa described In a letter received hire thia week by Mrs. Veronica Wolpert of 14<>» Monroe street, from a cousin. For obvious reasons the last name of the cousin was withheld by th* WoYpert family. The letter horn the cousin, who wat revealed only a* "Madlen.” tn some manner escaped censorship and came through unmarked. It took 23 days to arrive hero, however, instead of the customary 10. The letter was written only a few short hours before "Mad'en' and her family rare to join :he long line of refugees In their march away from the front lines to safety. The letter tells of their being forced to leave behind unprotected a member of the family, who contracted an lllneaa while at the front. The letter follows: ‘ In great haste 1 write juat a few

Beulah Chapel Church Planning Rally Day Sunday ha* been designated for rally day and home-coming day by , the Beulah Chapel ' Methodist i church, located one-half mile South : of Preble. An all day meeting has been planned with special speaker*. special music, and at noon, a basket dinner. The outstanding service of the day will be the at'ernoon session at 2:00 o’clock. DuVld Hogg, well km.wn in thia section of Indiana, has been secured to speak al that hour. His topic will be timely and Interesting to aH. The general pwolic la Invited to attend any or all sei-vices of thia day EX-KLAN HEAD HEARING TODAY D. C. Stephenson’s Attorneys Demand New Trial Granted Noblesville. Ind . Oct. S—RJJO— D C. Stephenson's conviction of murder 14 yeara ago waa void and "it Is our contention that be has been a prisoner for 14 years awaiting trial." an attorney for the former Ku Klux Klan leader asserted in circuit court today. Opening the argument* on Stephenson's seventh attempt to gain freedom from a life sentence. Attorney Floyd Christian of Noblesville flled a written demand for a new trial on the original Indictment. I Christian asserted that the jury t In Stephenson* trial 14 yeara ago . imposed a second degree murder i penalty on an Indictment which ’ charged flrat degree murtfer. Therefore, he argued, the present status of the caae la a* though II the jury had disagreed and a verdict had not been returned. , Today's hearing occurred In the (COICHNtTD n 77 UAtIR FIX)

t| wotda. Through your papers and 1 adlo you probably know of cur conJ Ji 'ena For ten day* we b*ru been h at war. Wa didn't know until thl* i day what it really meant but w* know now. All along th» border i from Wlaaenbourg-on-the-Rhlne to i here the refugee* thave fled. They j had to leave their home* and poai session* behind, taking but <o 1 pound* of peraonal belonging* with . them. All were given six hour* nbi tlcu to be ready for the march. , I'nmi 10 o'clock ore qlght until 10 o'clock the next night there was an , unbroken line of refugee* marching I through town. The cowa snd old . liotse* were hitched to the wagons j containing belonglnga. Behind the wagon* came the baby carriage* , thn toy wagon*. Yon should have k seen that picture. Ail the people . were weeping and crying and calling good bye to Mend* and rela•iv»* It was a acene beyond descrip- ’ TuONTINUBD UN FAMM FlVflD

Yankee Hurler Holds Reds To Two Hits As Champions Pound Bucky Walters In 4-0 Victory

NATIONS WAIT HITLER SPEECH TO REICHSTAG Nazi Fuehrer Expected To Deliver “Peace Ultimatum" Friday Berlin. Oct fr-(UP»— Nasis today circulated detailed but unofficial speculation on the plan Adolf Hitler is expected to offer Great' Britain and France tomorrow as si bsaia for peace. The Ideas, circulated without anyeffort to attribute them to official pource*. emphaalxe she "tooltabneas” of a long war which would' cause economic and human suffering everywhere and would ‘’unquestionably" wreck the English ruling class. Among the questions Hitler—now on the western front—la expected tul discuss as a basis for ending the war. according to *nese source*, were: 1. Removal of Internal iOJSI trade 1 restrict lons. 3. Creation of some form of Pol--1 Isn state under German supervision sad readjutsnents of the status of > the Cxechs in the protectorate of I Bohemia and Moravia. I 3. General disarmament such as , I Hitler ha* proposed in the pa*'. li affecting hetvy artillery, various I mechanised categorie* and aviation. 4. ReadjuatmeM U territories t»l I provide the Reich with a chance to develop the colonies. Nasi aources iudi aled belief that' I the Hitler proposal would be to definite and so far reaching that I the allied powers could not afford to turn them down regardless of the British and French announced determination to "end Hi'Jerlsm.* The fuehrer's vlai- to Warsaw to rrvittw troops was announced to the German people by radio at 5 P m do a. m.) (CRT) but It was uncertain whether he had actually gone inside the former Po'lsh capl(CONTINUED ON PAiIE HIX) Jonas Tritch Will Speak Here Sunday Jonaa C. Tritch. pretldert of th* International Business college of Fort Wayne, will speak at the annual rally day service* of the Bep list Sunday school Sunday morning at • s<> o’clock. The tamed Berne quartet will provide special music. Rev. R R. 81m*. of Princeton, will preach at the Bunday morning service. Rev. Sim* I* an applicant for the vacancy In .he local erardh. MAKING PLANS OF CONVENTION Northeastern Indiana Teacher# Meeting October 26-2" Preliminary plan* are belt.g mad* I under the direction of the associa- , tlon president. W. Guy Brown, principal of the Decatur junio.-senior high school, for the annual ronven--1 Hon of the Northeastern Indiana ' teachers' association which will be held In Fort Wayne October 2d and ' i7 ‘ Mr. Brown. In recent meeting of the executive committee, made **v- ' "ral committee appointment* for the convention He named to the • evolutions com- ' mittee; Kelro Whltrsnan. ruperln--1 i< ndrnt of the Allen county school*; W. B. Bturgla of taiilrange and > Charles Park* of Bluffton To (he legislative group ne nsm--1 rd: Henry Chaprll of Fort Wayn- ' Central; «upt K. M. Dixon of Ken--1 daiiville and Adrian Little of Hum- * Ington ' The Keenan hotel mexsanlne floor will be headquarters for th* ' two day convention. The locaM public schools will be closed during th* convention.

RECEIVE RIDS HERE MONDAY Bids For City Plant Improvement To Be Opened At 2 p. m. Bid- for the purchase of the bonds to provide funds for msklng the half-million dollar (mprovemeiti nt the city light and power plant,, will be received until 2 o'clock MonI day afternoon by H. Vernon Aurand. I clerk-treasure, at the city hall The city, through the light and I power utility, will sell roo.ood' i worth of bonds which are a Hen on | the plant only, to the peraoa or firm ( who blda par value and the lowest l Interest rate. In other wo-ds, if a j purchaser agree* to take the bond* I at 'wo and one-half percent Interest, i« lower, ss agslnst three percent interest rate, the former would be , awardd the bond*. The *&oo,u(*i> Impiovement necesi (Hates the selling of BHMMHAO worth' lof I’. 8 government bond-, which; were purchased with surplus cash' fund* by the former city sd-nlnlstra-tmn snd In addition Sloe.ooo of current cash, which the ultlltty win' have by next year. The entire halt million dollar! prefect will be financed with bonds and cash of the Iccal utility. No government or PWA grant will be nade towards the Improv-ment The improvement consists of r> , modeling the boiler room, changing | the old piping in the present build- ,, -as. the metallation of a S.SOe R. W. k) 'urbino. a 4tU> pound, high pressure . *tram boiler, condenser, swltchJ board and other equipment. The unit will h». aenerate of the present ; 3.-*®® K. U turbine capacity and i the four .3*5 pound tow pressure tollers. CHILD IS DORN IN RESPIRATOR Delivery I# One Os Most Succewiful In Mediical History Chicago. Oct S lU.» A baby was born today to a mother In a respirator a tew hours after the mother had been found suffering from Infantile paralysis. The Swedlah breastplate respirator of Fred B Bnlte. Jr., famous Infantile paralysis sufferer, was borrowed for the delivery one of the most unusual In medical hislory. The mother was Mrs. Gertrude Epstein J! Rhe and her baby survived the operation In good condition. Mrs Epstein was at home this morning awaiting arrival of her flrot child when she began detecting the first signs that birth was near Her husband. Jacob, took her to I Mt. Sinai hospital In hl* automo-1 bile There her breathing became labored and physician* diagnosed the complication a* polio myelitis (Infantile paralysis). Rhe was placed Immediately In a large, bar-rel-type Iron lung. Blx doctor* and two nurses •food by meanwhile praying that the baby would not arrive liefore tCONTINURD ON CAGE HIX) A. F. L. Local Will Meet Friday Night Local No. Hl?. A. F. of L.. will meet Friday evening nt ?;M o'clock nt the Ben Hur hall TtMPPRATURg RKAmNGa DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER xooa.m. <l4 >:oopm. 72 10:00 a.m. S7 3:00p.m 72 : Noon. ... "3 WEATHER Partly cloudy, cooler In north and estrsms weet-csntral portions tonight; Friday fair, cooler In esteems north portion.

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Pearson Holds Reds Without Hit Until Eighth; Yanks Bunch Hits To flood Effect In Third. — DAHLGREN HOMERS Score by innings: RHE Reds 000 000 000—0 2 0 : Yankees 003 100 0 *—4 • 0 Today's Lineups Yankees Reds Croaettl. as Werber. 3b 1 Rolfe. 3b Frey. 2b i Keller, rs Go odman, rs DiMaggio, cf McCormick, lb Dkkey c Lombardi, c ' Selkirk. If Craft, cf i flordon. 2b Berger. If Dahlgren, lb Myers, as Pearson, p Waltera. p i Umpires: Ptnelli and Reardon, ■ Nations! league; McGowan aM i Summers, American league, [j - i Yankee Stadium. New York. Oct. 5 — (Special) — Monle Pearson, plagued all season by Illness and Injury, look (he mound for (he . world champion New York Yan- , kees thia afternoon In the second , game of the I*3* world aeries > against the Cincinnati Reda and hurled one of the finest games . ever tossed In a world's title t event, holding the Red* to two . hits and winning a 4-0 triumph. Bucky Waltera. the other hajf ,1 (with Patil Derrtngbri of the Reda’ . hurling staff, was Pearson's vic. , tim. the Yanka bunching five hits , j in th* third frame for three runs, pand Dahisien punching out a , homer In (he fourth for the final acore For aeven Innings and one-third. Pearson pitched near perfect ball, the only man to reach base having been Werber, who walked to open the fourth but was doubled at second as Frey fanned But with one out In the eighth, Lombardi drove a clean hit to center to break Pearson's spell. Th<v next two men were easy victims. Two men were retired In the ninth when W’erher singled to left fop the Reds' second and last hit. Doubles by Dahlgren and Keller, coupled with singles by Rolfe. Dt Maggio and Dickey accounted for three tallies for the Yanka In the third Friday will he an off day for travel, with the serie* resuming In the Cincinnati park Ra'urday. Flrat Inning Reds- Werber popped to Gordon. Frey Ried to DI Maggio. Goodman fouled out to Rolfe. No runs, no hits, no errors Yankees Croaettl singled to left field Rolfe forced Crosettl at second. Waltera to Myers Keller forced Rolfe at second. Frey unassisted IH Maggio filed d<-ep to Berger. No runs, one hit. no er(CONTtNUKn ON PAtIK KKVBN) CHURCHES HOLD MEETING HERE Christian Churches Os Wells And Adams Counties Meet Today Officers for the ensuing year were in be elected late thia afternoon al the Adams and Wells county Christian church convention tn session at the Christian I church In thia city. Mrs. J. K Anderson, a* Adams county president, was to preaide over the meeting. A good sited crowd attended the morning session of the convention, which was In charge of W. C. Ashencrnft, slate evangellat Committee appointments were also to be announced thia afternoon. following a basket dinner, nerved In the church at the does of the morning session. Frederick L. Rowe. African missionary. was the principal speaker at the morning session and wan also to lecture this afternoon on his experiences and relate the history of missionary work.