Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 253, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1939 — Page 1

\VII. No- 253.

HER JUDGE I. WALTERS |EN BY DEATH m Circuit t’ourt M. Dies After Ex* Knded Illness ■ Juts- C i. WaIKTJ, ■1 Methodlxt lay- §■ ~ leading !<m* Wm, , .-r.il nml financial ■ ,- mninnliy. died a! it* r ••( l*lflli and B,- . i lit" >•< •<* k j ■L in* an extend Halioti* were Klvi-n aaj ■ m In* .1.-ilh He suffer-• <« health In 19_‘9, i<i|. In I lie cast M Hi time In 1937. he was 1 H,I in* Ilium- and III* con . I- i. d scr bills lb H i.-.ai health In rHi. "til •- a tel until a few ».«■ aide In Ill'll after K in < Hum Bln praeijee. lie re-j ■t::-.- until stricken wi'h a in-It reunited in lit. v he it]* a patient ' ■dam* i utility memorial la inc rent tired to hi* I|.> week* ago I Hie to ■ik'-t •'I condition. little ■ . tt.ntli-d fur hi* recot- ■ Walter, tenure of office ■ Aaru.t IS IMS lo Jatui Hbr being made by tip fit by former Governor ■ la -he. following lb - Hdea’lt Ilf luilge (Hire II ■ In the Xi'tfbtr elec Indite Walter* wa* ■llili'.'ii candidal',' for the Kfli' - ■ Bom Near Hare ■ Walter* wait luirn eait Bit. January 10. iv#9. the IVill-.u. and Martha Drum Br.Jter* When a lad he ■ a. bool al Monmouth. Bur to Anaida and Valpar ■ young men lie attended ■a college at ('arlluvl)le. ■nd ret at tied here to teach ■•!.< .iliihil., InBt> —ho*>l at Pleasant ■fe a!*o taught at the lieHbrti school Ilia teaching p the county cciyercd a If eight years br the teaching prof--* I assumed maiiagelg* nt of * department in the “Big here After this store au* Hi by fire be moved with Jly to Midland. Michigan. i he utiidled law by c-orrea- *. while working In a real lift e and after living there * year*, returned to Decarompieting hia study, be •tilled to the bar assorts 4 returned to Decatur lu - thud and waa admit ted" Adam, county liar. •»» an active Wmtier of ■bodin church, having held Ire of church trualee at tha 1 hi* death. He alao aerved hutnlu-r of years as aecreI the Sunday school, then erintendenl. and wa* on# leader# In the teaching of daiMot During the year* t I**7 he served as presiI the North Indiana lay conI of the church and at one I*, named delegate to the I church conference. •everal years he wa* tru»Taylor uitiverally at Up»tt waa forced to resign il» post because of 111 •molly be waa a member b *h Hur lodge, the Knlghta •*•*** the Decatur Blue and t'l.apter, fort Wayne * ladge of Perfection and lory, and the Rluffloh Ms ronncii He was aso a >f of the Itecatur Lions set F b until lllnaaa forced him If** Walter*, as chairman of the f I’m *ctIv* Home league, ■•d here before prohibition i* 4 *ed an Important fight * campaign against the rr, *V*D ON PACIITviVR) READINGS *OCMT thermometer *0 1:00 pm CO '•m «o 100 pm co h H WEATHER •rt'V cloudy, shower* In *"*• aaat portion early to- * *”4 Usht rain c< -nmoncm aatram* northwoot perThuroday afternoon or *: (lightly cooler In north•"o ooo* control pontons r»t; somewhat cooler In •"*0 noethwoo* portion todey.

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DECAT UR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Decatur Teacher* Club Holds Meet A meeting of the Decatur teacher* dab wan held at the Lincoln school Tuesday nlrht. On the proicrasn was a talk by slate representative Dob Hdler on the "problem* •if a legislator” Phina were marie for attendance at the annual leathern institute* this week, and a reorganisation meeting for the club waa act for Tneettey night after school. SUIT FILED TO ! HALT DELIVERY | OF CITY BONDS Chicago Firm Seeks To Enjoin Sale Os Utility Revenue Bunds An Injunction suit wa* filed in ' Adam* circuit court this morning asking for a court order which would perma lily enjoin the city iof Decatur from delivering $35",non in utility revenue bond* to the r'ltle* Beiuritie* Co. of Indlnnap- ' otic in accordance with the .ale of the bond. a. made lute M.unlay eveting i,y elerk-Heasurer II Vernon Aurand The suit sras llled by Mullaney Ross A Company Wheelock Cummings A Company and la-wts, William. it Company, bond companies, whose comlilncd Iml on tn-- Isolds to, lie Used In fliianetng the half million dollar Improvement at the city light plaltit. wa* the highest snbmlticd Monday during the sale of the bond. t Although the complaint show* the name a*. "CStle* . Securities C 0.." the firm name I* the "Cliy Securities Corporation"! Their bid wa* not considered by , the clerk-treasurer, because In bis . opinion g clause In Iheir hid wa* , a condition In wiiii h it was stipulated that the bonds "are to be delivered by November 16; after which date the right is reserved to I terminate this contract." The award wa* then made to the | Cities Securities Co. of Indlanap- . .oUa. The complaint seta out that the • plaintiff's bid ottered to pilKbase ; the bond* at a rale of three per i cent Interest and at 'a premium »f i IUH; that the next nesreet bid wa* made by the Cities Securities I I Co., of Indaiunpolf*. to purchase , the said bonds at a rate of three | peirent Interest and for a prem- , lum of that the plaintiff a bid made by the plaintiff* through . their agent. R Davis, wa* In prop- 1 I er form and wholly consistent anil i In compliance with the terma of . the bond tale notice as published I in the Decatur Daily Demin rat. in , which It waa staled that “subject to a satisfactory showing aa to, , financial responsibility, the award 1 4 will b«* mad** to th»* bidder routptyiha with the term* of the aale [ and offering to pur< haae said bonds I at the lowest rate gif interest. If , two or more bidder* offer the *ame I rroVTfNCKO ON PAON KIV«» ■ —....- o I Van Wert Man Is Fined Here For Intoxication i —— Harl Brown, of Van Wert. Ohio, who was arrested Monday by Offl< - i er Sephus Meh-bt on a charge of t public intoxication, waa fined II and coats by Mayor Forrest Kliey ' In city court late Tuesday. Cnalrie ■ to pay the fine be wa. remanded to 1 JsV l ‘ g JOHN F. EVERETT RITES THURSDAY Blue Ureek Township Resident Dies After } | l,ong Illness i Funeral service* for John Franki lin Kverett. 6». Bfe-lona resident of • Adams county, wfco dbd Tuesday at hi* horn# In Blue Creek township, will be hold Thursday. The annrlce# win be held at tha Lobenatrin funeral home In Monroe at 3 p. m Thursday. Burial will be In the Trtrker cemetery, naar Salem The dm-eaaed wa* never married. He waa born In IMu- Crnek township September 7, l»*>, the ami of Harney and Mary Kverett. Death wa* attributed to carcinoma, following an lllnaaa of 10 year*. Surviving am three brother*. Joseph C., and Pater of Blue Craek township. Orover C„ of Ohio; three aistars Mr* Kmma R Rtrlckler of WtUohlre. Ohio. Mra. Anna L. Urn genlx-rgei of Pleasant Mills and Mm Pearl DelUngar of Blue Creek township J Three brother* are deceased.

NAZIS AGREE TO AID EXPANSION Os BOSS NAVY London Reports Germany To Aid In Expansion Os Soviet Navy l/ondnn. Oct. 25 tUJO Oermany has agreed lo aid In the expansion of the IliiesUm navy, information reaching lemdon Indicated today, j The reports came a* the American embassies ai Berlin ami Moscow investigated the stilus of the American freighter i'lly of Film, which a Kaxi prize crew sailed to Itii.sla’a Kola lt»y. According to the report*, tier-! many would aid Russia In building Up it* myolerlou* fleet in compete sal ion for raw inateriuia and other siippllc* which Kusaia ha* promised :o «end to (Jermany. Russia announced Sunday that I’ P Cevos.yan. Russian shipbuilding comnilsnar. would leave for Berlin sikiii a! the head of an economic mission. Karlv this year, according to information here. Russia negotiated with companies In the Cnited States for a supply of special mi ; chlnery neerled in building up its navy, these negotiations failed Russia had been buying machinery of this ty|H- from flreat Brit ain Britain had a considerable quantity of thl* machinery on hand for Russia at the beginning of the war. It was understood Because of hostilities, anil possibly, because of Russia'* alignment with (iermany. It was withheld A somewhat Ironic situation was seen here In the Idea of flermany aiding Russia to build up its fleet Russia's fleet is bottled In the Kiltie effectively now by the Hi-rmim blockade. Including <b use mine field* Hnlfli lent (ierman aid In l building up the Russian flee'. It i«visrivi-vi- ov venie rivsii STATE ACTION CUTS PAYMENTS Slash In Uounly I*evv Rp* durps Rates In All Taxing Units I The action of the atate hoaM of 1 1 tax commissioners In reducing the , Adam* county general fund rate two cents on the lion, from 4fi to ; 44 cents, automatlcally reduced the levies In all the taxing units In the ronniy. for 1940 Tn the city of Decatur, the rate payable next year was reduced '♦from IS 11. aa approved hy the Adams connlv tax adjustment hoard to 13 Id on the lino of taxable valuation, da" to th» two-cent rnt , In the conntv rate and a nine-rent cut In the Decatur school board's rate. The total rate payable In Decatnr this year !* 12 . The Decatnr school hoard rate wa* reduced fire rent* In the special school fnnd and four rents In the million fund The approved rates as prepared • hy county auditor A'lrtor Richer, • applying all the cut* ordered hy I the slate tyiard. payable In 1940, I and compared with those In effect r this ye*r follow: » Tsxlng 1»*» 1»«« i f’nlt Rate Rate Blue freek *1 «! II «? Frcv. h tJ» Mil Hartford 1"* *- n Jefferson t 47 SlO Kirkland 1»0 1114 l Monroe 144 149 Preble . 101 l» Hoot !0O 174 81 Mary’s MS 111 t’nlon I*6 140 I Wabash I ,s • Washington I** * rtS Berne **3s *«• Decglnr-Root 75* 242 Decatur Washington 709 310 f imvTiWTrti on poor eix> t ——• — “Trunk Murdereus" EffcapeH Hospital ‘ Phoenix. Arlxona. Oct 26 <UJ9 1 — Winnie nuth Jndd the “irnnk r murderess" escaped from the slate hospital for the Insane Dst ’ night. It was announced at Ike ’ governor's office today r The blond Mr* Judd, who killed ( 1 her two friends lledwlg Hsnm.-I ' son and Agnes Ann lo>Role. Phoenix nurse*, and ahlpped (heir bodies In a trunk lo Loa Angeles.' [ had been gone hours before her • absence waa noted. f Hospital officials said It waa - not known that she had escaped I until a routine rheck on Inmate* i i was made this morning. No other, details were Immediately avail j | able.

ONLY DAILY NEWS PAPAR IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 25, 1939.

Neutral Ship Rocked by Mine War on (he sea < .uiilnui-s al ail Increased pace, causing destruction of many neutral 9s well a* belligerent ships Here's one innocent victim of Ihe sea warfare, the iHitcli mine sweeper. Van fielder, which bad Its bow turn apart when striking a mine at T'-rst helling, kill!' * several crew member*.

START WORK ON SHELTER HOUSE ('ontitruction Started On Shelter House At Han-na-Nuttman Park Work on the construction iff the ti'-wr shelter house at f’gtnp Quinn tn lilamia-Nutlman park was bi be started son let inn* today. Jack Brunton, local NVA leader In charge of the project, announced. Surveying and preliminary eg. mvatlng and Hearing work were to start preliminary steps toward conj struct lon The building Is lo be mad" of "nlgg'-r head'' atones and will Ire 24 by 54 feet in *i*e A large asaemtdy room, a small kitchen and a storage room, will comprise the floor space of the new shelter Then completed. I Mr, Bruti'on estimated that construction of the house Would re quire about eight iron;ln. Boys working on the project, under NVA requirement*, are permitted to work only 6" hours per month. Boy* on NVA. between the ag'-s of IH to 24 are eligible and will he used on the project. Mr. Krunton estimated that about 15 boys wtli be 1 used. o Famous Humorist Is Reported Near Death Chicago, Oct. 25 — (U.P) Ople Read. M. humorist, philosopher and author, the last of a group that Included Murk Twain. Kusme Field and Josh Billings, wa* near deaib today. A nurse al hi* home said he ha* been sinking rapidly since complications due to his age developed several days ago Hl* condition today was described as "very crltI Irai.” He became famous more than 5o years ago through hi* work. “The Arkansas Traveler." During the past year he had been working on his biography. SECOND DAMAGE SUIT IS FILED Fort Wayne Woman Asks $5,000 Damages In Suit Venucd Here A second suit waa venued to the Adams circuit court Tuesday from the Allen circuit court M which damage* are sought for slleged Injuries nuffered by Mrs. Jessie Mnrthor*! of Fort Wayne, when ■he stepped onto a hinged door aet In a sidewalk on Calhoun • street la that city The suit filed yesterday name# 'Mr* Morthoist as the plaintiff, seeking damages of *5.004 against the Hallway Kxpreaa company. W, T Orant Company and Robert I Koch. Her complaint alleges carelessness and negligence on the part of tbe defendant* when a door Into the cellar of the (Irani company was pushed up as she stepped n It, throwing her lo the pavement. A anil waa ignued here Monday In which her huabsiid asked 16.000 for logs of services of his wife and ' medical bill*, lie alleged the same carelessness and negligence on the part of the defendants. Tb complaint Hats her injuries, which were allegedly suffered In I tbe Incident, and states that she baa been permanently disabled D. ! H. Dnnlan. of Fort Wayne, la plain tlff a attorney.

— Thank Offerinjc Service* Sunday | Tie- woman's home missionary ( society of the Methodist church will observe Its annual thank offering service Holiday morning at 9:3« I o'clock. \lr* Dun B. Brunnneti of Chicago. natlnoal vice-president of the oiganlxatlon. will be the guest speaker Mrs. Briiumii't i* a speaker of unusual ability and wide expor-. !* tence. ; CALLITHUMPIAN PARADE OCT. 31 M r Annual Halloween Parade To Be Held Here 11 1 II Next Tuesday Nixht * V |o Decalnr's biggest one-night show »•! will In- staged n«xt Tuesday night *■ October 31. when the animal Hal- • htween I’aililhumplati patude will 4 lie held through the »llifts of this o city Final ariniigements In handle f-. the minute details In connection e with the Halloween parly w»re n made ala meeting of the Imard of dire, tor* of the chamber of commerce sponsoring organiza'ioii, Tuesday evening The parade will lie held at 7 In p. m Tuesday and will form In 4 the yard at the county Jail ou South First street The line of e march will proceed west 011 Adr am* street to Second, then north P on Second to Marshall, east on " Marshall to First, south on First r to Monroe, west on Monroe to Second, south on Second to Jeffer- « | son where the parade will dlsI- | band i A total of 1162 In rash prizes » will be awarded to the parader*. 1- with 170 set aside for band*. First prize for the liest bond or 0 drum corps in costume will be t> 125, second prize s£•>. third prize r *l3. and fourth prize fio. a Other prizes will In- awarded a* follows Masked Herman band 15; is-st comic strip character. $5; tallest mail or woman 1* ft.l |5; most | comical group. 3 or more fa; fat II man. 14: fal woman. 44; mos; - I comical family group of five or i more, f lo; most comical animal drawn vehicle. 16: beat animal 1 , Impersonal lon. $5; best decorated* 4 bicycle and rider. 14; most roml- ( | cal lady's costume. |4; most comical men's roOtum*. $4; mirst comb; c&l hoy's costume. |2; most comical gill'* costume. |2, most mini '* cal dressed pet. 62; most elahotli ate dressed pet. 62; beg! clreas fl down impel sons Hon. $5. best '' i drum major leading band, f 3; sec "loud prize 67. third prize It » j o l Loiis Yager Riteo Held Thin Morning I. Funeral service* for Louis P l Yager, prominent resident of this '. city whose death occurred Sunday, t were held this morning at 9 o'clock from HI. Mary'* church. Rev 1 Joseph J. Helmets said the lequiem t high mass Burial was made in 8t u Joseph cemetery. y Pall bearers were member* of it Fourth degree of Knight* of Columbus They were: John W y Barth. Arthuf K. Voglewede. 41. t 0 lb my Bierly, Dsn M Niblick. Ju« A lyse, and A'lgaat Heiman e The Fourth degree of the Knight* e of Columbns. of whi< h Mr Yager waa a memlwr, presented a gold I. bailee to the family, with tbe dr n ceased * name engraved thsreon e | The chalice will be douted to a Catholic mission and used by the i- priest In saying the mass, tbe de- , ceased aharlug in the masses said

Nazis Emphasize Friendship For Americas, Von Ribbentrop Blames Great Britain For War

TAX RATES ARE CUT BY STATE IN NINE UNITS Stale Tax Board Orders Reductions In County Tax Levy The slate Imard of tax comtni*alotier* today ordered reductions in the proposed tax rates payable in 1940 In nine of the taxing mills in the county. The Adams county rale, which applies lo every !*.xing unit in tile county wa* cat two cents on the $10", being reduced from 4*i to 44 cents. The separate units In which p durtlonx were ordered follow r Townships Blue Creek. French. Jefferson. Washington. WaVi-di, j Towns: Berne school. Monroe civil town, Decatur school city. No reduction or change was made in the Decatnr civil city ’ rate, although the I9|u rale will -J be five cents higher on tbe ff I•*** than that paid this year. Included In the city budget is an appropriation for (5.000 to furnish material for WI’A projects m-xt year The projects haven't been 11 K d by the federal government. The reduction in the Adams county rate was made In the working hulalii-e. Tile two cent cut Is equal to approximately f5."00 in Income. The Decatur school city rale was cut nine cents The rale proposed and approved by the Adams , county tax adjustment Imard was (I 13 on the 6100. The stale hoard's action reduces the total to 61.«4. a reduction of five cent* being made lit the sp-clal school fund and four cents In ihe tuition ; fund. The order of the state Imard. which was received this morning by Victor Kicber. county aiidbor. follows: The state Imard of tax rimmissnmers hereby orders that the budgets and rates are approved a* fixed by the recommendations of the local tax adjustment Imard of Adums county, with the follow lug exception*. County unit: County general rate reduced from 4t> to 44 cents by reduction of working balance from 059.0*10 to 64* "*x> ITII- - figure I* an error It should have shown only $53,000 1 Blue Creek township: Tuition fund rate reduiyd from 6 lo 3 cents lu accordance with require merits of Sine 12 of the budget form French township Tuition rale reduced from 15 to 13 cents by application of proper working balance Jefferson township Tuilloh rale reduced from 42 to 32 cent* bv (CONTINCkITTiN FAUI? KIVK) GIVES FIGURES ON TAXES PAID November t» Final Date To I'ay Fall Installment Os Taxe* All hough more than 6T0.0M) of current and delinquent taxes have been collected by Jeff Liochty, county treasurer, for the Novem- < her Installment, about 1145.000 atill remain* to be paid on nr hefore Novem Iter « List May the spring install ' men! totaled 633*.50N JO, which waa a little more than half of the 1934 taxes I'sltig that figure >3 a basis. Mlsa Alice lomhart. deputy treasurer, estimates the aniouni to come In if all taxes are paid, between 6140.000 and 61*5<mo Monday. November t. is the last day 10 pay the fall Installment without a penalty being attached. The collect Uni of taxes since May show the following total* Current tax. 606.41*.29: delinquent 'tale*. $3 990 32. moratorium lax. 6624 09. Insolvent taxes »5 Tbe treasurer's office Is open Km i in Ihe .Horning until 4 In afternoon Treasurer Llecbty I also keep* tbe office open during the noon hour for the convenience of taxpayer* 1 It Is expected that a large ' amount of the November pay mem - will be received through tbe mail . ( wltbin the next 10 4 ays.

WOMEN GUESTS OF INDUSTRIES 350 Club Women Vinit McMiilen Hants And ( loverleaf Creamery Despite the raill, about 350 women member* of Ihe Home Kconouiles (lubs representing more than 3.5 counties, made a tour today of tbe Central Hugar factory. Ihe Central Soya company and the Cloverleuf Creameries in ibis city. At noon the women were the guests of the above companies Mrs B. W llnsehc. president of the Adams county Home Kconom ics dab acting as chairman of the meeting. Talks were made by J Ward Callaud. field manager and trice president of the Central Sugar company, and Carl J Klepper, manager of the Huntington plant of Ihe Cloverleaf Creameries The Adams county Home Kconomlcs chorus, recently organized sang during ihe noon hour and special music was provided l>y au orchestra. A similar meeting will lu- lo bl here 011 November I. and on Nir vemlier 4. Ihe uieuilier* of tinAdams comity Home Kconomlc* dllbs will be the guests of Hie Decatur Industrie* whose products come from the farm Mr* Busche expressed her appreciation for Hie large tiiruoiil and escorted u number of cars through the Homesteads division and oilier parts of town on .1 sight seeing lour. LADIES GUESTS OF LIONS CLUB Lions Club Holds Masiiucradc Party For l-adics Tuesday Nijfht V. A Phillip*, of Columbia City, field representative of the slate Welfare department, wa* the speaker at the weekly meeting of the Dcatur I Jons Club, held Tuesday night. Mr. I'hlllip* ■poke regarding tae amendments to .the social security ad. which will become effective January I, 1940 Tile meeting last night wa* held at SntiHet Ink pavilion, rasher than the usual meeting place, th# Rice hotel, A masquerade party fealured tho entertainment planned for tbe evening. with Li'di*. tinrSr »H<-* nr sweetheart* In attendance. A chicken dinner wa# served and a dance followed the masked party. Iloy Price ptesidcl at the banquet talde and John M Doan was in charge of the pmgratu. o — — - New Haven Woman Wanls Husband Free I Richmond. Ind. Orl. 25 <U.F> Jeanette Polliaintis of New Haven today had filed a writ of nabea* In Wayne circuit court questioning whether her husband Robert Polhamus. can lu- held at Ihe slate hospital on grounds of addiction lo liquor. She charged her husband was held Illegally because atate law provide* for commission to the in sane hospital only on grounds of Insanity. (Jovemmenl Resin Case Ajcainst (JMAC South Bend, Ind . O, t 25 — | (U.R) The government suddenly rested Its case today In the trial against General Motor* Corp, three of It* affiliates and 17 Individuals on charge* of violation of the anti-trust act. Only one wituea* testified this morning. II J Neeuseti of (Irani) Itaplds. .Mich, who Identified dealer ronltacts which were eiit. ered lu ihe record. — —— ------ o Airliner Forced Down, All Escape Injury Memphis. Tenn . Oct 16—(CP) — An Kasiern airline* transport piano - made a forced landing 2o mile* east of here today but none of Ike seven pass*-tigers or crew was injured. The plane reportedly caught ft>* after landing but aN a'joard got off t without iujury.

Price Two Cents.

Nazi Foreign Minister Charges Britain With Deliberately Fomenting War Oil (iermany. TO RELEASE CREW By Joe Alex Morris fU. P. Foreign New* Kdltort 1 lermany ctnidiasizcd Nazi friendship far the American* tie day as Hie fulled States senate neared a vote on the neutrality act revislone. tn Berlin. It was disclosed that the Herman government I* negotiating with Soviet Russia for release of Ihe crew of the American freighter City of Flint, captured as a prize hy a Herman warship In the Atlantic hut taken to tho Soviet's Kola Bay Iterause of tho allied North Hea blockade. The Polled Slate* had indicated that a request would he made to Hussia for release of the freighter because R was In a neutral port and development* Indicated that the Nazi* would liol oppose kiicli action A similarly friendly position had been taken by Nazi foreign minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop In IH* speech at Punzlg. when he charged the British government with deliberately fomenting war aqd asserted that Ihe French people were opposed lo ihe conflict, Kilibeulrop had emphasized that a quarrel lie 1 ween Ihe United States and Oermany wa* "impossible." Both British and French reaction to the foreign minister's speech wa* that It was a rrude and futile at tempi to cause dissent In allied ranks, but British royal air force planes were reported to have taken a more direct method of showing disapproval by making reconnalsance raid* deep into Germany during tho speech Many thousands of persons were reported by British sources to have slopped listening lo Hie foreign minister’s radio address to mu for the air raid shelter*. The British flier* penetrated more deeply than lief ore In Hermany, flying over the Krupp armament plant at Macdehurg itibbentrop'a speech* nevertheless, appeared to have ended any Immediate possibility of a new peace move in Kurope Germany wa* renorted in lamdon tn be d<~ V'ftliig all energies toward assuring a steady supply of raw materials from Hoviel Russia and to have agreed to help build up th« Soviet navy in return. Hitch au agreement, providing Russia with needl'd meehatUcal aid. would a part of the prico being paid by Adolf Hitler for friendship wMh Moscow as hia only hope of frustrating the allied blockade But It aizo would bold Hut prospect of Hovlet supremacy 10. the Baltic Hea which wa* once considered by Nazi* as a Herman take but whose shores are now being drawn under Hovlrt prolection With the three haltlc state* already signed up and red troop* occupying Kslhotiia as the Herman minority returns home, tho Ho*lets biggest trouble al Ihn ((•ONTINUEB ON PAO» KIVgl FORTY HOURS OPENS FRIDAY Forty Hours Devotion Opens Friday At St. Mary s Church Th* achsslule rtf s-rvlcs# for For. ly Hour* Devotion at 81. Mary’d church In this city has been prepared The devotion* will open Friday morning and continue to flandsy evening, when the solemn clone will be held at 7:30 o'clock The masses on Friday and Saturday will be at 6:46; 7 and 6 o'i be k On Sunday the masoe* will be al C. 7. 4:30 and 9:95 o'clock <'onfe**lon* will be heard Thursday. Friday and Saturday after, noon from 2:30 to 6:00 o'clock. Holy hoar wtU bo Jbaerved on Friday. Saturday and Sundsy afternoon between 2:30 and 2:10 o'clock. The evening sorvlcoa will be bald at 7:30 o’clock. Rev. Thomas Brandon, of tha < "rosier order, wIM be In charge of 'he devotion* and deliver tbe sermon at tb morning masses and *1 tho tvtnmg sonusa,