Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1939 — Page 1

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MILO WINTER Tl ■ Hot heater, Ind. lh-< r, ( y pFulton county school bun driver. M-anio d a f<-w wooly wwrina ■ j he plt-kt-d up hi hl« w.H.dlot and U predicted that th.- uppraut-hltiK 1 winter will l»- th,, ntlldett in Indiana In 22 year* He aaid that the worm* were Haiti < olori-d and had no dark 1 rtaci Dark rinj Im meant cold weather The worm*, lie elaitne.l hud enalib-d him to predict the winter weather , accurately for the part ten years. • i 1 GLEE CLUBS TO , GIVE CONCERT ■ Hijfh School Glee Clubs [ To Present Concert Thursday • I The glrla’ jn<l hoys' glee < lube j of the [tecatnr high echmd Willi pre-‘ f went a concert in the Junlor-wmior hitch * hool audliirlinn Thursday , evening at N o'clis k The com <rt , is under the direction of Mian Helen , Huuhfdd. aupervlaor of music In the schisds. mid Miss Marjorie Mil- . ler w ill be the a< < <>ni|ianist. , This attractive form of enter- , tainmetit feattirlOK th.- talent of , the high tu-hool boys and girls has | been offered to the pnhllc ea< h i year for the past several years. • No < barge of admission is made and the public Is invited to attend The complete program follow* Hreak Forth. O lleante«.ns Heavenly Light J S. Bach The laird Is a Mighty God Mendelssohn Ml led Chorus Drowsily Conte the sheep Proctor Love Is the Wind Mitchell Girls’ Glee Chib Pong of th.- Marching Men Prolheroe The Hunter's Ixrnd Halloo O'Hara Hoys' Glee Chib Harp Solos Believe Me. If All Those Endearing Young Charms Arr. hy Creshlre laillaby Van Beachton Bogers Mighty talk' a Hose Nevin Kalhrvti Hteroyer While Shepherds Watched Their Sheep Arr by Jnngst Lullaby on Christmas Eve F Melius Christian«. n Carol of the Hells I'kralniati Carol Zion’s Children (Jubilee Timet Arr. by la'y Donkey Serenade from “The Firefly” Frlml Mixed Chorus Members of the girls' glee duh are: Marilyn Ronlfas. Anna Brandy-; berry. Betty Brown. Peggy Gaunt, j j ,r*nvw.vi-vn VW PsrtS* FlVltl Michaud Estate I Schedule Filed A schedule wras filed Monday In the Adams circuit court In the «s ■ gate of Anthony Michaud, wlm ms . shot and killed during a lioldup las* j . August, to determine the Inherit-1 . an<e tat. which wis referred to the i . county assessor Th« schedule lists under r«l eg , fate: two properties tn Borne, one . valueil at lI.BW and the other at . , |1.87G for a total real estate value , of |J4W. It also Hats |s*> In caah A total of s2*s was listed in fun cal . effpettaes. to be deducted , A will, bequeathing all property after the payment of eap-nae*. to j the widow. Neva, was filed previousi «rSCntITRANOIIET HERETOMORRDW .Adams And Jav County Scout Executives To Meet Here Sylvester Everhart. Adams couni ty Boy Sfci* commissioner, today , that a Boy Scout meeting and Iranf quet wUt be held at the K of P , home In this city Wednesday even- . Ing at o’clock. , The banquet, a joint meeting of j Adams and Jar counties, will tie for Scout leaders and executives These meetings are held every two months . to discuss various scouting prnb hvns mid future plans Eighteen ac Hit laudcrs of Decatur Including refiroaenatlveu of the three troops, sponsored by the Rotary club. IJons club and American legion, win be present. Also In attendance will he 12 from Portland five from Berne and two from FVirt Waynw The principal topic for discussion Wednesday night will be the fir»' aid contest, the next major project Cor Boy Scouts of Adams and Jay counties Tlie dinner will be served by the Pythian Miaitrs.

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FRITZ KUHN IS SENTENCED TO PRISONTERM Bund Leader Sentenced As “Small Time Former And Thief" New Vork. Dec 5 <U.P> — General session judge James G. Wallace today sentenced German. 1 American bund leader Frit* Kuhn to two and one-half to five yearn in prison, not as "a rubble rouser or a hate dispenser” but as "an ordinary small time forge- ana thief In pronouncing judgment against Kuhn, convicted of stealing f 1.217 from his German-American bund. Wallace said he lielleved lhe leader and several of the defense" wit- i nesses committed perjury during th.- trial and called on district attorney Thomas E. Dewey to lake ac-flon — J Kuhn paled but kept his shoulders squared and head erect as th.- judge- heaped denunciation upon him. Wallace recommended specifically that Dewey take- grand jury evidence of the" testimony of James Wheeler Hill, national secretary of the bund and Willie Luedtke, treasurer of the affiliated German American business league The judge Mid their testimony was greatly at variance with what they told the grand jury which Indicted Kuhn The maximum sentence, which could have lieen Impose-d on the 42-yemr-old bund leader, who was convicted on five counts of gram) lar.e-tty and forgery would have Ih' U i!> to .HI years. General sessions Judge Wallace, however.' sentenced htin on only three counts, suspending sentence on the others The sentence was two and one half to five years on each count but the Jtidg.' ruled that the terms should Ih- served concurrently Th.* three counts on which Kuhn were sentenced were one of grand (CONTtMtfBD <>N I'SOK VllUßt BARBER SUIT IS CONTINUED Suit To Prevent Fixing Os Hours. Prices, Is Continued The barber suit, which was to have been heard before Judge J. Fred Frmhte In Adams circuit I court today, was indefinitely conI tinued Defense attorneys appeared yes terday to tile a demurrer to the complaint and were given the continuance. The suit was brought hy Gordon : Rlesen. Francla Ricssen. Herschel Johnson. George Mclntoeh and J E Clark, all barbers of Adams county, against the state barber isaoclatlon ofllces seeking to enjoin them from fixing barber prices and hours. A demurrer to the complaint, fil'd by the defendants, statmi that aa grounds for the demurrer, the complaint does not show sufficient facts to constitute a cause The memorandum states that no fgeta are set out showing that lhe IMS act deprives the plaintiffs of constitutional rights; no facts In the complaint show He regulations are not reasonable and proper exercise of the state's police power; the complaint falls to show plaintiffs will be deprived of liberty or property; It falls to show statute cannot lie enforced without violating plahitlffs' constitutional rights. It further sets out that the validity of such a statute la determined by the answer Io the question of whether In enacting It the general assembly Indulged In a valid ezerciae of Its police powers slid that the complaint falls to state any specific constitutional guaranty that Is alleged Io be Invaded The memorandum cites several cases and la signed by timer Htokea Jackson, attorney general Rexall A Hoyd and Thomae Ixutgfellow deputy attorney generals in MpWWS— Small Wheat Crop la Forecast By Expert* Chicago. Dec I—(trPl--PrlvaXe crop experts today predicted an average !»♦’ winter whest ertm of 3U9.tFWt.tmo bushds, the smallest since IM3 and with that exception the smallMt harvest since IM7. The experts said thas conditions of the crop on Decssnber 1 was the lowest on record owing to sn unprecedented drought t>! the peat four months which Ims parched the hirart of He- nation's wheat produc lug arsa in tbs southwvst.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuenday, December 5., 1939.

Will RuNHia Widen Circle? n ■ bJd bfU Bk B i Nasi Germany Is believed to have made her pad with Russia to avoid encirclement The map shows bow Fuehrer Adolf Hiller may have leaped out of the frying pan into the fire If reportml present plans at Moscow are brought to fruition. For then Germany will be encircled as never before Movlet's attack on Finland Is viewed by Mime as the lieglntilng of a campaign that ultimately Is aimed at taking in all of Reandinavta In the north and the Balkans In lhe southeast

NEW OFFICERS NAME DEPUTIES Treasurer And ClerkElect Announce Name# Os Deputies Two county offkiala-eled today announced their deputies who wilt assume office with them on January 1, IMO. County tfoaaurer-elect John W. Riadte' has appointed Miss Alice l<entwrt of this city as deputy in I the trei'tirer's office Mias lx-nhart I la an eaperlenced assistant and has served as deputy under county treasurer Jeff IJechty. Clyde Troutner. county clerkelect. announced that Mrs. Marie . Itellolt oC thia city, formerly employed at the A J. Smith lattnlter company office, would he bls chief deputy. Mrs. Cleo Werllng-Arnold iwill he an assistant In the office. The two county official* will take office on January 1- They were elected In November IB3A. although their terms do not Iwagln until nest year. I’nder the law deputies are now named by the elected officials and they have the privileges of duly ap~(CONTINCED ON PAGK FtVEt —o Recreation Committee Will Meet Wednesday The executive committee of the Decatur recreation depirtment will meet in the Office of Walter J. Krick, chairman. Wednesday eventag at 7 SO o'clock. All committee , members are requested to be present. ACTION IN BANK USE CONTINUED Judge Fruchte To Hear Argument# In Cane On December 12 Action In the cases, which were ’ opened Monday In Adams circuit court before Judge J. Fred Fruchte I over the ownership of land in HartI ford township, will be con'lnued on , December 12. The cases involved Mrs. Rachel (llendening. Ra’tert Glendenlng and I the Federal Und Bank of Ixiuve- . vllle. Entries made by Judge Fruchte In the cases disclosed that: In the quiet title suit of the bank against Mrs. Olendening. an answer In general denial was filed by the defendant to each paragraph of the amend I ed compkiHit and a request was made toy the defendant for special » findings of facta and conclusion of i law thereon f In the Injunction suit of Mrs I (Mendenlng against the btnk. a re i ply In general denial was filed by th* plaintiff to the second paraI graph of the answer In the suit of » the bank against Robert (MendenIng In ejectment, a request was also ( made tor special findings on fads > and law. Arguments are to be heard by Judegc Fruchte on December 12.

Democratic Rally At Bluffton Tonight A large crowd frtan Adams county is eipe<a<-d to attend th- district | Democratic rally at Bluffton tonight lat 7:3® o'clock In the Embassy Hall on Main street. The rally Is being -sponsored by the Wells County i Young Democratic dub The party I* to begin at 73» with 2» games to 4-e played and prize* to be given The dance will follow with Steve Clark’s orchestra of Fort Wayne furnishing the mush- The udiniMion price la 23 cents a person for the evening's entertainment. YBLEPARTY TO BE CIVEN BOYS Lions Club To Entertain Underprivileged Boy# December 19 Plana will be mad<- tonight at the regular meeting of the Mona dub in the Rice hotel for the annual Christmas party for underprivileged hoys, it was announced by John M Do-in. dub publicity chairman The annual event will he held Tuesday night. December IN. at the regular tn«*tlngof the duh Approal mutely So less fortunate boys ot the city will be gu»sts of the club members on that night Further plans are to be made tonight also for the Mons dub circus, to be held December 12. Ticket committee sre naked to report at tonight's meeting iHarTy Knapp will have charge of the program tonight Talking pictures will be shown All members are urged to attend, na an Interesting program I* promised , --o —— Fort Wayne Printing I Company (Jain# Contract The Fort Wayne Printing <om !pan> of Fort Wayne, waa awarded ’ the contract for books and pt supplies used by Adams county, by the county commissioners today The Fort Wayne concern was the low bidder of three submitted. It ’ was the only bidder on all five ; classes of printing. The other bldd ' era were Wayne IMper Boa th Print ' Ing Corp. cUsa one; Mulbaupi 1 Printing Co. daw- two. four and five The contract Is effective Junviry 1 I. 1M« The FoM Wayne Printing ' Company had the county contract thia ymr t _ o > , « Buy# Health Bond The General Electric Co hat voted purchase of a |2f> hesltl . " of *b* Chrlstma< seal drive, an - nounced today Proceeds from h< ! ' h ’* l,h * Mmd ,lln ‘ f J |v, vwj ; are used to aid it . < . the light again* > < ‘ .AxZ Or* 1 tuberculosis ant « tvTwwvwi to provide mill ffs/p to Frntocf »«r tindernotirlah r Ys.r News 1'0" • 'NMren. fstotiv/am

Scandinavian Nations Seek To Strengthen Forces In An Effort To Stay Out Os War

FINLAND FEARS GAS ATTACK BY SOVIET PLANES Rumor* Persint Finnish Capital To Suffer Ruthless Attack - - < Helsinki t Helsingfors*. Dec. T. *U.P> — Men. women and children. ; tense and fearful, watched the s< lidding Iron gray storm clouds over Helsinki today, and listened for lhe drone of airplane motors. In the belief that Russia might at any hour launch a ruthies* pola-Mt gas attack on the city. Despite assertions In authorised Russian mediums that only mill tary objectives would be attacked by red planes, the rumor spread through the capital during the night that a gas attack from the air. first In world history on such a city as Helsinki. Impend.-d British consular officials were so alarmed al the rumor that they used the telephone to warn all British subjects to leave lhe city , at once fc . Less than 7<U»o* people remained of the city's normal Sihi.imhiodd Those who were left, including Americans and other foreigners, found It difficult to get transport ! All trucks and many private motor : vehicles had lieen requisitioned for use of the men at the front, stubbornly holding back the Hus 1 siati war machine ’ (Htockholm newspaper reports 1 said evacuation wardens In Hel--1 sink! spent the entire night going ' from house to house, warning that ’, the capital might be subjected to 'I a poison gas raid* The snow, which had blanketed the country and impeded the Rus- ' stall Invaders, was now but Intermittent. The heavy clouds apparently j hud been too low to permit the i Russians to operate In safely * They had made II dlffnult for the plain.* to find objectives and return to the safety of their fields * In the ixmlngrad area But the menace was felt constantly At the fronts, from the Karelian peninsula on the Gulf of Finland to the I’etaamo area on the Arctic '* Ses. Finnish troops and untrained *’ volunteers, many of them fighting 1 on skils, were reported to In- hold 1 Ing back the Russian hordes and scoring amaxlng successes Report Fighting 1 Svanvlk .Norway. Dec 5 'UP! *‘ — Hovlet warships were imported ' In the p.-tsamo fjord today and '■ messages said there was heavy '• cannonading In the PetsamoLiinahamarl sector on the Arctic h coast *• Soviet airplanes also were ac- >• tire along the coast and as far ’• west as the Finn-Norwegian frontier. Where two nickel centers 1 were reported bombed without „ ~iiNTINt ED ON PAOB FOUR* NO WORD FROM * BERNE SLAYING »• k Local Authorities Await y H ord From Chicago Police On Slaying ' laical authorities late today had I not received word from Chicago poIke coniernlng Niter development a ’ tn the Unklnu of two Chicago aU>-g ( . nd pobce-klllera with the holdup stuyln* «* Anthony Michaud at Herm- laat August. Chh-ago police agreed to contact ~ Adams county autborltl«< ind Ind isna state police ester Mrs Hani Schindler of Berne Id'-ntifl.il Jerry Mangano. of Chicago as th>- one who entered the Morand fruit market and filling st-it lon and slew Mich- ® and '• The Chicago police are to make *’ teals to compare the guns In the y poss salon of the Italian youths at ” the time they were apprehended for >• the Chkago murder, with .imMeta »• taken from the Ihh|> of Michaud y. They ar also to grill Mangano in in an attempt to wring a confeeaton id from him and to question Itslo Re In gwtii. In an effort to name him as st Mangwno's awienplke <1 Authorities here believe that <-om Ik plliutlona might hav • ari«*-< h- that have temporarily poMptmetl ifurther Invesflgathm In lhe lkrn« t emir

BOARD TO HOLD SPECIAL MEETS Commissioners To Hold Special Meetings Late This Month Two special meetings will Im- held tlsls month by the board of county commissioners The board will meet on December 21 anti 22 to receive blds and allow 1 bills for th-.- close of the year. Persons and firms who have claims 1 against the county were urged to file ’hem with the county auditor by Decmnbor 17. At 9:®!! A. M on December 21. the commissioners will receive blds for groceries, tobacco, bread and clover seed to Ih- fumlabed the counti Infirmary. At I<* o’clook the commissioners will receive bids on highway material, Including 25.000 tons of crushed stom-. screenings, gravel, sand. ilk. corrugated Iron pipe, cement, lumber ami bridge materials, for uae of lhe county highway d>-|iartmetii On December 22. beginning at I o'clock In the afternoon th*- Ixmrd will receive bids on oth.-r Items for the highway deportment. Including truck and tractor tires, gasoline, oil*, rtqialrs for trucks, accessortea and other supplies It was deceldcd today to divide the road material l-ld from the truck and gasoline blds. In order to make it possible to award the separate contracts on th>- day sole rnitted and to uccomodate the large number of bidders exported The rnnalnlng bllds for December will tn- allowed on the morning of Decemfter 22. FIRE MARSHAL ORDER STUDIED Innlallation Os Fire Enrapes To Be Brought Before Council The recomnnmdaitions of the Indiana state fire marshal to Install fin- escapes and make other safety Improvements at the Adams county 1 memornl howpltal and the county ’ Infirmavv will be taken up with the Adams county council, the commls--1 sinners announced t.nlay John R .'Tults, lue-iuent and Earl t'oller. representing the l-oard of * trustees lhe hospital, met with 1 the com miss inner this morning and ' discussed the renommendatlotts The desire of th« two boards Is to comply with the r« immeiidsttons. but funds must lie provided iMfore bld» can tie received on th" msterlals and equl|«*irt't. No appropriation exists for the payment of the material 1 The fit* esc apes are costly, ba«»-d 1 on the estimates received, and neither the hospital trustees nor the lomtnlsslon-rs hive an appropriation In the budget for such purposes An additional appropriation .<-.iSTINi:KI> ON PAtJK I-'IVK* I Increase In Milk Prices Protested I Indianapolis, ind . I*ec 5 <l'l’l—Indianapolis civic groups *oday threatened to oil! a nation wide one day a week milk strike unless *he mate milk control board reaclnds its 1 tentative one-cent a hottie price Increase ' LMders of the trr*'up appeared today ala hairing before the board , to protest the price ilse 1 O I School Children Inspect Democrat y Twenty-six hoys and girls from '• sthotd distrlrt No ». Monroe town 1 ship first to fourth grades, visit d the lh~w'ur Dally Democrat offke this afternoon They were undrt the » direction of their teacher. Miss Dru ** sills liurkhivid t - TKMMRATURC READING* DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER „ it N;On a. m 32 200 p m. 37 10;M am 34 3tm p m 3* a Noon ... 36 i. WEATHER WEATHER d Partly cloudy tonight and r* Wodnooday; slightly warmer central portion tonight.

Price Two Cento.

Nations Take Steps To Keep Out Os Warfare As Russians Reject Finn Overtures. ADVANCE SLOWED Ry Joe Alex Morris <U. I’. Foreign News Editor) Scandinavia strengthened her armed defenses today against the dangers of wars in western Europe and In Finland Following Soviet Russia's rejection of new Finnish attempts to negotiate a settlement. Sweden ordered partial moblllxation of military reserves totalling more than 600.000 men and prepared to send reinforcements to the Finnish frontier. Stockholm was ready for evacuation of the civilian population If necessary. Norway called the foreign ministers of I*enmark and Sweden to a meeting at Oalo In preparation for dlscusalon of Finland's charge of aggression against Russia at the league of nations, from which the Soviets Indirectly threatened to withdraw Denmark, closest to the Ettne peat* conflict as a neighbor of Germany, re-empbaaiged through her foreign minister the determination of her government to remain neutral In "the present unhappy conditions " For the moment, the red army march into Finland appeared to lw making unexpectedly slow progress On the Finnish Arctic coast, fighting continued without any defhitte Indication of the trend Moscow reported that a reinforced red army expedition In lhe Petsamo area had driven the Finns south from that port and was pursuing them. Soviet airplanes were seen over the town of Salmijarvl. a nickel industry cenly near the Norwegian frontier, and they apparently dropped a few bombs without doing much damage Neither the Russians nor the Finns want to destroy the valuable nickel works, hut the Finns said they have mined them for deatruetkm if necessary rather than permit the Soviets to seixe them Refugee* continued to arrive at the Norwegian frontier with atorles of severe fighting and reports that tne Finnish troops reinforced by many volunteers and now numbering about 20,<W0. were holding off the Russian attack* courageously Rut communication* were no diarupted that It waa difficult even for Finnish officials to determine what was happening In the war north In the taike l-adoga region of southeastern Finland and at Helsinki. heavy snow storms and a darkly-clouded sky continued to aid the defender* Soviet communique* and pie** report* Indicated little actual prograaa through a heavlly-mlned ~fCONTtNt’KTI nN PAttl? fflVM* o Younr Child Swallows Coal Oil By Mistake Iluv'.d, 16-montha -old sou of Mr. and Mrs Lest ar Cowan of Decatur route !. was brought to th,- Adam* county memorial hospital aft*r swallowing a quint II; of coal oil. | Th.- child's conditkrt wa» reported fair this afternoor. ANNUAL BABBIT SUPPER IS HELD I. — Annual K. Os ('. Rabhit Supper I* Held Monday Niicht More than 2f>V persons attended the annual rabbit supper at the K. of C Ihxll ta»t evening, the lodge I being hoat to members, their Wive* , and sweethearts Following the dlnn.r. Rev. Joseph Hennes. << Fort Wayne. dlocM*n director of the CYO and former assistant pastor at St Mary’s church, gave the principal talk of the evening Other sprakers were Rev Joseph J. Selmetx. pastor; Rev. Alvin Js- ’ alnskl, assHUnt sod Rev. Theodore t Fettig, pastor of St Rose church, Monros* ills- Arthur E. Voglewsda acted as toastmaster Later In ths evening game* and dancing were enjoyed It was announced that the regular meeting of the council would be held Friday 'evening st I;30 o'clock al the balL