Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 20 November 1939 — Page 1

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Divine Service * It. >. M- . it. : • ~ , w ,|| i alve her inlrai uh>n« heallnc egperlenee at ih.- ( hiir.h ..I ih.. Naaareno at fl 5 tonight Mlaa Olaon will tell how ()<hl divinely | healed her from a life of a hel|e lean cripple Al the concliialon of the aervlce there will Im* a divine healhiK aerviee The Hev Paul llrandyberry cordially jnvltea the i ptililh* lii iho n«>rvi<*p, CENSUS HEADS ARE APPOINTED Census Bureau Announces Appointment Os 150 Key Officials Waahlngton, Nov 20 <U.R) The cenana hnrean announced yeaterday appointment of l&o key offlclala who will direct the army of enumerator* In the decennial cenaua neit year. The appointees include men and women who will serve a* area manager* or HMlatant area man. agera. at aalarlea ranging from 1175 to 115't a month About 50 additional aaalstant area managers are to lie named Those will be traln.-d locally by thoae selected yesterday. All but 35 of the appointees wers brought to Washington for an Intensive six weeks training In the complex work of nationwide nose counting The remaining 35 are regular employes of the census bureau who have h.M*n assign-j ed to the larger metropolitan areas and Io "open spots" direct from Washington The training course provided schooling In the new questions to lie asked in the census queries ■ concent Ing an estimated 132.1MH),1 Odo people, 33.000.000 dwellings. | 7.000.000 farms and 2.000,000 business concerns. The "graduates" will open 105 census area offices early In De- ! cumber and call In candidates for district supervisor and aaalstant district supervisor for a course <d study and examinations. Each (CONTINttED ON PAO» flVB) 0 legion To Conduct Foughty Service# All legionnaires asked to be al the legion home Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock to assist in conducting military funeral services for William II Foughty. Spanish-American war veteran, who died suddenly Saturday morning Services will be held at the home m IJM o'clock and at 2 u'cl.K’k at the First I’nited Brethren tdtur.h. DEATH CLAIMS EDWARD CASS Native Os Adam# County Died Saturday At Home Near Fort Wayne Edward William Oaas. 6i>. died Saturday at hl* home on Liberty Mill road. Abollte townahlp. near Fort Wayne. He had been suffer t ins from a long Illness. Born February 14. MU. In Adams coun ty, Mr Gas* was a member of Ht. Patrick’s Catholic ehnreb at Arcola He Is survived by his widow Katharine, four sons. Joseph of Sparta. Mleb.l Herbert and Leo, both of Abollte township, and Charles of Tort Wayne, a slater. Mrs William Hammer of Masall t lon. 0.. and nine grandchildren The Irndy was removed to th" koonts funeral home at Roanoke and was returned to the residence Sunday. Funeral service* will be held Tuesday at 1:15 a. m. at the residence and at • a. m. at St. Patrick’s Catholic church at Arcola with Rev. J. A. Bick, pastor, officiating. Burial will be In the Arcola Catholic temetery Mr* E. F. Oaas. Mrs Dan < and Robert Gaea will attend the | service*. I ‘

WILL DESERVE THANKSGIVING I HERETHURSDAY 1 nion Service Thursday Morning, Business To Be Suspended Plans for the observance of Thanksgiving, which will be mark- 1 ed here Thursday. November 23. have been completed. The union Thanksgiving service, sponsored each year by the Decatur ministerial association, will be held Thursday morning at l:#0 o’clock at the First Mthodlst church, with the Rev. R. W Gra ham In charge. Hev. George H Loafer, parlor of the First Evangelical church will deliver the Thanksgiving sermon. Practically all bualueac will be suspended In Oecatur on that day, the day having been proclaimed by Governor M. Clifford Townsend, in accordance with the presidents’ pnelarnation. as Thanksgiving Day. The bank, the library and all' public office* will be closed The [Mist offfee will be closed and only j special delverles will be made. The Daily Democrat will not publish on that day in accordance with annual custom. Schools will be closed Wednesday afternoon for the balance of the week In observance of the <i»y Prior to the closing of schol, special programs will lie held to mark the holiday Rev. It W. Graham will speak at the Dectur junior-senior high school. Rev. O. O. Walton at the Lincoln school and Rev. G. T. Rosselot at the South Ward These addresses will be made at 1 o'clock LEAHLOCHNER DIES SUNDAY Mrs. Samuel Lochner Dies Sunday At Home Os Her Daughter Mrs. I,eah Ixichner. 71. widow of the Ute Samuel Lichner. died at 2 30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Kreutzman. two and onehalf miles north of Preble after a sig weeks' Illness of paralysis Mrs Lochner was born in Adams county April >O. INBN. the daughter of t'lrlch and Elizabeth Hteffen-N'euenschwander. Hhe married Samuel Lorbner In Decatur May 12. IMk. and he died October 12. 1»2« She was a member of the St.' Mike's Evangelical and Reformed 1 church Surviving besides the daughter are a son. Irvin Ixxrhner, Decatur rural route 4. (out brothers. Petr, Fred and Joel Neuenar hwandar. all of Hluffton rural routes, and Sol. of Fort Wayne; and six grandchildren. One daughter. Mrs. Sylvia Sprunger. and three brothers are deceased. Funeral services will lie held at the Kruetzman home at 12 noon Wednesday and at 12 30 o'clock ■ at the Salem Reformed church at Magl'-y. Rev. H. II Mecksttuth and Hev David Grether officiating HiirUl will be In the cemetery at Ixmi The body Will In* taken to the Kruetzman residence this evening from the Jahn funeral home al Bluffton. . o — Asks Dog Owners To W atch Killers A plea to dog owners to watch their dogs to determine whether they are destroying sheep or other livestock was made today by EM Zwiok. Preble township trustee. He said that In the nearb five year* he has been In office he ha* had to pay <1.179 in damage* to fa mi era who have ioat livsmiuuk from dogs. It has l>een his experience, he said, that the heavfat loaa comes In the winter and late fall During hla term of office he said hla township ha* been at times In the "red" on more than one occaa slon In the dog ,und At the present there Is a balance, which probably will be sufficient unless there la an unusual heavy loss --O 1 ■ Moose Members To Pay Final Respects All members of the Moose lodge are asked to meet at the Moose home at 7:46 o'clock Gils evening, from where they will go to the bone of the late William H. rough- i ty. who died Saturday. Mr. Fuughly I was a prominent member of the Moose lodge. 11

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 20, 1930.

Didn't ImpreKN the Czechn *'r s - I * /A __ JjW ' i 'MW® Reign of terror reported In Prague as Nazis spur purge of dissident Czechs Is said to have already caused loss of many Ilves, with lO.oott [ticked troops on constant guard. This recent picture shows Baron , Constantin von Neurath. left. German "protector" of Bohemia, saluting hl* troops during one of the many parades designed as "shows of force" Io Impress the Czechs

ARMOUR HEAD TO GIVE TALK Warren H. Sapp To Speak To Cost Accountants Tuesday Wurren H Sapp general manager of Armour and (xrtipaiiy, Chicago will address the Fori Waytu- chapter of the national association of cost accountant* after the monthly dinner of the association. which will he held at the Chamber of Commerce in Fort Wayne Tuesday. Decatur member* expected to attend the meeting are H. A, Maddox and J. P. Cairns, of the Ontral Sugar company, and K. V McCann, of tha Central Soy* company, 11. W McMillen and J W. Calland of, the sugar company *lll attend a* guest* of the local member* Mr. Sarp !s personal friend of Roy Hall.' president of the Central Soya company Mr. Sapp ha* chosen a* hl* subpect "The accountant's relationship to management.” Hl* wide marketing. distribution, and managerial experience ba* made him an out-' standing authority on managerial: problems. The packing plant executive ba*' been an employe of the Armour company for tnaoy year*, first Joining the organisation a* a plant laborer at Fort Worth. Ho ha* been general manager of the Chicago plant since IftH —■ o Former Ixical Woman Suing For Divorce Mrs. Maude Loßran, of South Whitley, ha* filed suit for divorce from her husband. Jesse IxsHrun The plaintiff oharge* cruel and inhuman treatment and asks 13.0 M alimony Mr. and Mrs. Ix-Brun are former Decatur residents, having operated the Cort theater here for a, number of year*. POSTAL SERVICE IS SUSPENDED Parcel Post Service To Several European Countries Suspended Parcel post service to Cxecho■lovakla. Danzig, Germany and Poland ba* been suspended. It was stated today by Mra. l-ola P. Macklin, acting Decatur postmaster. In quoting from a bulletin regarding the trans-Atlantic pa tcel post holiday shipmen'* In addition to thl* fact she called attention to the wrapping ot package*. which Decaturltea and patrons of th* Incal post office are desirous of sending abroad The packages should be wrapped In canvas of waterproof material and if breakable should be boxed In wood. It was stated Kxcelslor or similar material should be used as a cushion Attention was also called to the ICONTJWVBM ON PADS «IX» Adams Post Plans Fish Fry Dec. 1 Adams poet number 4.1 of the American legion will stage a stag flab fry at the legion horn* Friday even ' Ing. December 1. The public is Invited to attend. I «

Old Reese School Sold By Trustee Ed Zwlok. Preble township trustee. reported today that the old Rees* school In Prdble towndhlp was sold recently to Ernest Hcheutnati for *ls IS. Mr. Schenman plan* to tear down the tuiildlng and use I the lumber. It wa« sold to the hlghI -un bidder and several person* were present at the rale. The school ha* not been used for , nearly 5o years for any purpose . School ha* not been held in the [ building for more than 50 years. ri - ■" -e- — COURT TERM IS : OPENED TODAY ’ November Term Os Adams Circuit Court Opens Today ’| The November term of the Adam* I circuit court opened today at the Adams county court house, with ' Judge J. Fruchte presiding. The term will continue for a nine week*' period, alter a two weeks '! vacation between the Keptemlier ' and November court term*. , Numerous entries were made to--1 day In a number of cases which 'i were scheduled for act ton on th« opening date. Judge Fruchte is expected to notify attorneys and call the docket ' for tlie November term a' an early date iin calling the docket a number of cases that nave attracted public attention are expected to be set. Thl* number Include* both criminal and civil action*. Action was taken by attorneys in several case* today with heavy court business expected by attache* during the next few days, as well as the entire term. Annual Cookie Sale , By Girl Scouts The Tri Kappa girl scout troop : lias completed taking order* for Its 1 annual cookie sale with a total of I cookies sold Members of the i troop slated today they great I) appreciated the support given the project. The cookies are to be delivered Wednesday afternoon and tha scoot* ar* requested to meet at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of that day to form route* for delivery. William D. Barrune Dies At Fort Wayne — William D. Barrone. M. Adam* county farmer, died Sunday at a Fort Wayne hospital after a short Illness. Only near survivor* era Mrs. Hadi* Rchnepp of Michigan Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. Tuesday at the D. O. McComb and t Hons' funeral home In Fort Wayne. Rev. P. L. Dnnnenfeldt officiating. Burial will be In the Blakey cameterv. — ll o—, ■■■■ TEMPERATURE READING* DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER t win. .13 100 pm w 10:00 a.m. .14 3:00 p.m. 3* Noon Ji WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday: rain In ostromo Moth; rain, sleet or snow In •ontral or narth portion to- , I 1 night snd possibly In th* east portion Tuososy a. m.; Ilttlo change in temperature.

Seven More Merchant Ships Are Sunk As Economic War Growing More Intensified

DALLAS LAWYER IS KILLED BY STENOGRAPHER Texas Girl Tells Police Attorney Had Annoyed Her For Weeks Dallas. Texas. Nov. 20 - (U.R) - With a blazing pistol hi each hand, Corinne Maddox, a stenographer, , shot slid killed Brooks Coffman, an attorney, ou a busy sleet today. Police said she told them she had I lieen trying to kill him for weeks. 1 She said Coffman slabbed her ■ during a quarrel last May and had annoyed her several times since. Today he was walking in the downtown aection with qnoiher girl when Mlsa Maddox came up from behind. Five feet from him she took a J 22 calibre gun from her hand bag I and a 3X calibre pistol from a shoulder hosier under her left arm and began firing Coffman crump!ed to the sidewalk and turned and B begged her to stop firing. She kept right on shooting while Coffman staggered to hla feet and croaaed the street, falling mortally wounded on the opposite aide. r "It was awful to have to do such „ a thing." Mla« Maddox told police who arrested her white she walked away from the acene of the shooting. The 26 year-old girl, blond and pretty, said the ah'iutIng was the result of the attack . Coffman made on her. Coffman atabbed the girl while she was sitting in hla auto on a country road. He had met her at a drug Store soda fountain and offered to * lake her home. Rut instead of doing so he drove her to the country, offered to take her with him to California, and slabbed her In the chea' when she refused, she said. * Leaving her In a ditch beside the ' road, Coffman drove to the aher- ■ Iff's office where he surrendered. He was scheduled to go to trial * last month for the stabbing but > Mias Maddox did not appear In (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREKi —O i Sons Os legion To ' Meet This Evening The regular meeting of the Sons 1 of the American legion will be ' held tonight at 7.15 o'clock at the ‘ Adams Post. American la-gion I home, it was announced today by ' Ed Jaberg. ’ All members of the organization are urged Io attend the meeting i aa business of Importance will be ’ transacted Mr. Jaberg also call i ed attention to the fact that basket, i hall practice for the Sona of the lx-glon will lie held each Wednesday night at C. 30 o'clock at the Lincoln s<-hool gymnasium. Instead of Monday night, aa has been customary. JUDGE AWARDS I $3,000 DAMAGE I ' Jack Holthouse Is Awarded $3,00(1 Damages After Accident Judge J. Fred Frucble In Adasns circuit court has awarded Jack Holtbouae. east of the city. *3,000 as , judgment In hla suit against Christy Akom and others. Holthouae. by his next friend and ’ father. Louis A Holthouse, had filed suit some lime sgo seeking <3- . OCO for personal injuries allegedly auatalnd aa result of an auto acci* | dent on federal road 324. east ot Decatur Dwember 26. 1938 ; * lharle* Woods, driver of th* other car involved In Ute craah. DeWitt Cook, a companion, and Akr-.n, owner of the car, were nsm-u aa defendants In the suit. He charged carelessness and negligence on the part of the defendant driver and allez«-d that he suffered Injuries to his bead, back •boulders and forehezd. had saven teeth knocked out. in addition to brulaea The court found for the plaintiff after hearing tha evidence a* submitted by the attorneys. Entry on the docket card of the ruling was mad<- some time ago. but the case waa entered in the clerk's office | today.

FILE DEMURRER TO COMPLAINT Monroe Advisory Board File# Demurrer In Mandate Suit A demurrer to the complaint wan filed this morning by the defendant advisory Imard members of Monr<>e township In the suit brought against them to mandate the Issuance of bonds for the building of a new school in 'hat town. The demurrer sets out four reasons. It first avers that the said complaint does not alleged facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The second reaso navora that no abuse ot discretion on the part of the defendant* la alleged hi their declining Io issue the bonds petitioned for. The third asserts that the complaint discloses that the matter* affect only local Inatlulons and concerns exclusively he township lor which the defendants are the duly elected, qualified and acting members of the advisory board The last reason says that 'ho complaint shows on Its face that the defendants, whose province and duty It is under the law to determine the existence of non-exist-ence of an emergency, found and determined that the emergency alleged In the complaint did not ex"•OXTISI'HIi OX PAGE TWO! o PETER N. MOSER TAKEN BY DEATH Prominent French Township Farmer Dies Sunday Morning Peter N Moser. 73. prominent Adatns county farmer, died early Sunday morning at his home In French township, northwest of Berne. He had been ailing for two years and had been bedfast the past 14 weeks from a series of paralytic strokes He was born In Hartford township May 16. 1866. the son of John and Magdalena Newhauaer-Moaer He married Catherine Stuckey February 15, I*9l and they have lived on the same farm In French township for 44 years. Mr Moser had been deacon of the Defenselesz M'-nnonlte ebun-h for 27 years, wss formerly Sunday school superintendent, chorister. Sunday school teacher and church treasurer Surviving besides the widow are the following children Mrs Icdna Kenslnger. Flanagan. 111., Henry, a missionary In Congo Beige. West Africa. Edwin of French township. Haymond, at home. Cheater and Palmer, of Flanagan. 111. and the following brothers and sisters. Christ Miner, of Battle Creek. Mich Mike Moser, west of Berne; Mrs Katie Fox. Mis. Anna Hlr(CONTINUED ON PAGE THHBKI n War In Brief By Cnttea Press ’ LONDON — Sinking of 14 ships In the last nine day* prompted the British to believe that Germany has started unrestricted sea warfare Dally Herald's Zagreb dlapatches report great atrlfe In 1 Prague last week when Nazi troops fired artillery against workers’ quarters and battled students for two dsys. casualties reported fsr greater than Herim admitted. Brillah file on unidentified plan« over coast town BERLIN — Nazis say tbs' Prague disorders have been curbed and that 12 executions j would discourage further demonstrations; German army high command says "no particular events" In describing situation on western front PARIS — Frenr-h warning that German ships transferred to Russia allll will be regard cd aa enemy craft la aeon as possible new source of conflict on the seas, warning follows Bergen reports that German superllner Bremen has been transferred to Novlet flag, French war office says of western front "Nothing Im- ( portant to report ail nlgbt"

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Fury Os European Death J StruKKle Intensifies On z Sea; Death Toll Is Near 200. HEAVY CASUALTIES By Joe Alex .Morris (U. P. Foreign News Kdltorl The sinking of aeven more merchant ships over th'- weekend with loss of close to 2M Ilves emphasized today the fury of Europe's economic deoiL stntgg!**. A total nf 14 ships have gone to the iMittom In the last nlnn days and about 121 have been lost In leas than three months of war. with casualties far exceeding the dead In land or air conflict. Os these vessels, the allies have lost 69 or 316.000 tons: the Ger* mans eight or 36,000 tons and neutral countries 44 or 131.000 tons. The figures as contrasted to negligible losses on the western front (excluding the Polish cam* palgn- Illustrated vividly the kind of war being waged In Europe. Primarily II la a recognition of the lack of profit In direct military thrusts against the vast land defenses on both aides and an attempt to take a short cut to the fundamental means of victory In any hlg modem war — economie strangulation Thus, the allies have held back the hundreds of thousands of sol* dlera who might have been expected to spill their blood agalnat the forts of the Siegfried line In* atead. they have methodically undertaken a campaign of block* :ide such a* destroyed imperial Germany a quarter of a century ago after millions of soldiers had vainly died In seeking that objective And on the other side, the Nazis hav« chosen U> tight back with the same weapons Instead of battering out their strength against the French Maginot line, which Webb Miller, in a dispatch from the western front, describes today aa an Impregnable burled fortress with the biggest guns he had seen In 2'J years as a war correspondent The first German weapon In counter-attack waa th* U-boat, but now the British naval authorities charge that failure of submarine warfare has reaulted In Nazi violation of International law through floating of mines that accounted for most of the losses off the British Isles and In th* North Hen In the last nine days. The Nazis strongly denied tha (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE! O' — - John Doan Named On Important Committee Dr (Mel Archer of Clinton, president of the Indiana township trustees association, and Charles M. Dawson, secretary. Indianapolis, have annoumed the selection of Important comsnittees for the annual convention to Ih- le-ld st Indianapolis. Ibaemliei’ g. 7, and 6tll. John Doan of Decatur, has b**E selected to serve on the legislative ciimmitlee which will meet the day before ihe convention convenes to have a r- [win ready for lh« ranvention. NEW COMPLAINT FILED IN CASE Three New Complaint** Filed A* Result Os Fatal Accident Three new complaint* have been filed tn th“ Well* ctreuft court In the damage aulta against the city of Decatur and the Erie railroad aa result of a crash In which two persona lost their Ilves when an auto hit the cement flasher signal base at the Mercer avenue crossing of the Erie. Vincent Kelley, Decatur city attorney, stated today that th* new complaint* had been filed at Bluffton The suits total <42.000 and were filed by Catherine Rison and John (>'Bhaugnh*«aey tor the I deaths of their husband and son. ' respectively. The suit* ware nrlglnally filed her* but were venuad to the Well* circuit court. Mr Kelley stated that lb* suits had been sot for trial by Judge John F. Dusker for January 29.