Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 294, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1939 — Page 1

XVII. No. 291.

■tional Survey H/iotos Decatur Is ■ Superior Market

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

MONROE PHONES TO BE CHANGED Residents At Monroe To Have Modern Service Available The final atep toward* eompleHon of the three year program of rehabilitation of The Citizen* Telephone Co. e*i haute wa* taken hint week when an order tra* pitied with the Str<«nlH.rad'arl*iin TeJ. ■Mfa Co of llm healer. X. V. for a new rnhersal. lamp ended drop awitchhoard for the Monroe ex change, < harle feiiiiger. ... retart and geneial ioanager. announced today that conimanioitlon with the Stromberg factory had plaietl tinwlilppittg dal for the order tuime time during the tteiond week In February. I'M" The inatallatlon of the n<«w awitchlmard. In conjtinetlon with the new underground cable and central offic- equipment now >iein« Installed at the Monroe plant will mean that Monroe puron* can lie given tlte same type of rommtui battery city service now offered to the patron* of the Decatur and Berne exchange*. Mr Khlnger Mated that thf* doe* not mean thaj all patron* of the Monroe exchange mtml use thl* nervtce. Patron* who wish to continue with th., older type magneto nervier can do »'>. The cut-over from the old luttrd to the new i* ««hednled for the second week m March. IM" Thi» i* to li.- ai'-rttiplished by installing the new t>|"- telephone* In the home* at the name time that the correnponding cable pair In the exchange in cut over to the new hoard. Mr. Khittger Mated that thin cut-over Hine la expected to take alimit one day. Since the new type of service will nece*»flate new namhera for approximately so percent of the patron*. new directory iiages for Monroe will lie printed and inserted In the Monroe directories on the date of the cut-over. o Some Local Stores Now Open Evenings Repceaentottvea of three men'* clothing store*. Hie two five and ten cent stores and three of the dry goods Store* requested the Decatur Democrat to announce they are 'o begin remaining open evening* until Christmas, tonight The three Jewelry store* have been open evening* for several da's. No atatmnent was brought Io thia office today a* to the plana of «th»r store* in Decatur. ...———.l o— —— - - # — -—« Hood Fellows Club ♦ * Previous Total 1117 .17 Woman's club Jessie W'tnnea Decatur Mons Club 15. M (Jood Fellow 05 |ICt <2 ■ o- —— MINTON POINTS . DEFENSE NEED Indiana Senator Points To Vulnerability Os Canal Zone Sew Albany. Ind D<" U ( UW — Sen Htierman Minton. D. of New Aliiaiiy. »»ld today that stircesnftil i nlted States defense of the Panama canal none depended upon the degree of cooperation of nearby Central American repub- »•« . . Minton reonily i*HHH**d nom •• 12 000 mil* air tour of the Vnlted Staten military defenses a* a member of the senate military affalra commit tei He said he helleyed the canal gone could be attacked try a land Ing force or by »*■ ««••* •"M* 4 ' hi ” an aggressor could “make It mighty lough for ti»" by attacking thia "Jugular vein." Minton ’“l’i ’b"’ bought large areas of land In Guatemala and Indicated he believed the land could be turnad In o ban** He said however, that all Central American nations were friendly to the *' ** J , Minto said the rolled State* greatly tir'd* Increased antiait craft defense* and COOM defense*

CENTRAL SUGAR COMPANY MAKES FIRST PAYMENT Initial Payment Os $5 Per Ton To Be Mailed Grower* Thursday Choeka for an initial payment of 15 per ton for sugar beets dellvered to the mill this year will be mailed Thursday by the Central Sugar lompany of this city to 1.605 growers. II W McMillen, president of the company, announrwi today The payment la for 101,315 tons of beet*, and represents' a total of |fiO6.t7&. "lie of the largest crop payments in the history of >he company. Complete figure* of the I»3| sugar making campaign of the Central Sugar company were made available today to official* of the company by Harry Maddox auditor The milt operated 79 day* this year and a total of 37.400.1 MU) pound* of Nilgai wa* manufactured. bagged and packed More than fto percent of the sugar was packed In the small five and ten pound packs which the company first placed on the market last year. The output of sugar was equivalent to 27.400 bags of 100 pounds each. The records show that 16.767 truck load* of lieets were received during the campaign. Dry beet pulp produced totaled 4mm ton*. More than I&M.ihhi wa* paid to beet laborer*, field men, plant and office employe* In planting harvesting and priaeashlg the 1939 sugar beet crop It I* estimated that trucker* alum- received about llimiihmi from grower* in delivering the beet* to the mill During the growing and har- .. Vesting season alaint 1,400 la-et laborer* were employed In the field* and while the mill operated more than 4<m person* were em- . ployed In the manufacture of sugar. The lieet acreage quota under > the AAA was set at 14.22* acre* thia year. A total of 14.220 acre* , was planted and of this amount. 13 4<M) acres were harvested Sugar Is Air-cond'tionrd Along with the many and imalli'riX riKCRtI ON PAOB THKKKI LIGHTS ARE OFF FOR SHORT TIME - — — Failure Os Circulating Pump Stops Lights On Two Circuits As thoroughly a* If a squad roti 1 of enemy laimbers had been looming oveihead prejiatory to attack, certain sector* of the city staged their own "blackout'' this morning when a circulating pump at the •municipal light and power plant failed. i Hersihel Nash, assistant superintendent of city light and power, explained that a circulating pump on the 2.0 M kilowatt lurbhie failed and turbines had to tie changed He stated that two circuits In th" city were without light*. The disruption in service lasted for about minute* from 9: Ji to ~TcoNTINI'ED on PAGE SIX) l*argc Crowd Attends l*ast Circus Showing A large crowd witnessed the second performance of the Halted Indoor Clrcua. staged Tuesday nigh' at the Decatur Junlorsietilor high , srhool g>mna*lum ainlitorluni The circa* Was well presented 1 and enjoted by those In tttendance. It w»* sponsored by the Decatur Mona flub, with proceed* derived from the event to be used In the club'* charitable program* .Score* of kiddle* attended th" afternoon performance. Mage.) Tuesday In a special matinee. 0 -0 Buys Health Bond p — »i ..ii. -— d * The Decatur Mon* duh has voted purchase of a 15 health

bond. W. Guy Hrown. chairman of the Chrlatmaa aeal drive, an. nounced today. Proceeda from the health bund fund > in uaed to aid In the fight agalnat tiilterculoala and to carry on work and program of. the luberculoala aaacclation.

CHRISTMAS SEALS SPW3SS Httf fe tear Hama **««• I

ONLY DAILY N EWSPAPER IN A DAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana. Wednesday, December 13,19.39

At NLRB Quiz x. \ V \ ■ 2 I TBs I S* 44 Dr. W M. Lelaeraon , House committee Investlgalion of , the National letbor Kelatlons Board gets under way In Washington with Dr. William M la-lsirsoti. newest iHiurd menilier. as one of ! the "star" witnesses although defemliug the rm-ord of the board as a whole, indicated I there was Internal dlanension among the leiurd * members LIBRARY TO BE : GIVEN PICTURES Camera Club To Donate Pictures Os Interest i To Library All historic buildings and objects of civic Interest of today are to be photographed and plctiircs ' given to the Decatur public library free of charge, it was decided by the Decatur Camera Club at Ils regular meeting Tuesday night The project, which Is believed to lie the first of It* kind In thl* community, is to lie done to preserve for future generations a photographic record of Decatur. It was also planned at the club to hold a public exhibition of the i picture* before they are placed in the album and donated lo the i library. Member* of the dub are being assigned different pictures to ’ photograph by the president. James Border*, and a special committee composed of Misses Betty Hopkins and Huth Winnes The first series at pictures are to lie turned I I Into the club by the members at the next meeting. Tuesday. Decerntier 26 The club I* now compiling a list of interesting objects that will be photographed. The meeting last night was In the form of a pot-luck sdpper. followed by a discussion of the new project and an exhibition of prints. ■ e —o Score* Os Home* Are Destroyed By Fire Llngayen. P I . Dec. 13 (UJ»> Fire started from a bakery oven spread through this town In Pangaslnan province, destroying scores of houses. More than l.itho persons were left homeless

Give To Good Fellows Club, Christmas Spirit Is Sharing

tKdltor'a note — Following la another In the aerlea of apeclal art Plea prepared by the Good Fellowa club for the Dally Democrat) Chii.-'maa la for children, no matter wha: you grown-tipa think about it. Even the flrat Chrlatmaa waa the birth of the Chriat-child, with the wiae men traveling for milea to bring Him gifta. Os cmirae. there are thoae who maintain f'hrlatmaa la only Otollah went Intent. Jitai another day on the calendar. They acoff at the hurry and ruah of ahoppera and the er cltement In general. Perhapa they hang a holly wreath on the door becauae it looka pretty and aend a few duty bound greeting carda. but yeara after year do not Inter Into the aplrlt. Chrlatmaa tnay become more or leaa commerclallted but the true dealre to apread joy to othera nevjer will become a bore It la all mummed up very almply In one I word — abating

APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS GUILT IN FRAUD CASE ______ Action h Taken By U. S. Court In Winchester Fraud Case Chicago. Dec. 13 <UJ!> Tin- V. 8. circuit court of appeals today affirmed mall fraud conviction of John W. Moore. Sr., and his son. John Junior, and reversed conviction of Russel) R. Wise, all under prison sentence In connection with operation of the Continental Cred It Corp, of Winchester, Ind. The trio., with two others, wa* accused of obtaining more than 11.200.000 through distribution of fraudulent warehouse certificates among more than 200 mid western banks and individuals which included former Indiana Governor James floodrich and George A Ball. Muncie. Ind, multi million alre. The reversal exonerated Wise, who served for four week* a* bankruptcy receiver for the corporation when the fraud collapsed, f Ki-tim-in P Kimball, president of i Kim-Murphy Co., lunialng. Mich, and Ralph H. Phillips, treasurer of th" Mineral Felt Co . convicted ’ with th" trio In the V. S district ’ court at Indianapolis did not up- ! peal. In exonerating Wise, the circuit court of appeal* reprlmsndi-d the trial court for not Hettlng ankle the Jury verdict against him a* contrary In the evidence and ruled: "Our conclusion Is that altlmtiKh Wise had information concerning 1 1 Moore's kiting checks and the Con- : tlnental Hines*, he never learned until May. 1937, about four week* 1 before receivership proceedings were Instituted and when he became manager, that then- wa* any criminal conduct on the part of those who brought II into exist- ' cnee and use It a* an Instrument 1 to defraud i "When he became manager of ■ Continental In May. 1937, he did , not know there was or had heeti ( any scheme to defraud and therefore could not have been a party I to it. Ills activities would not be ICONTINVKD ON PAOK THRBKt . - 0-- — DEATH CLAIMS JESS MARTIN > Native Os Decatur Diet ; Last Night At County Infirmary I Jess Martin. S7. an Inmate of the Adam* county Infirmary, died Tues- . day night al 9 o'clock following an extended Illness The deceased was horn In Deca- , tur August R. HMK.*. the son ol J-inte* C. and Permelia Rosenbaum-Mat-i tin. and resided In Decatur and . Adam* county most of hl* life He enter-d the infirmary January f 1.193 d with hl* brothei William, who survive* Surviving alm e* a cousin. Jam"* Myer of Willshire. Ohio He was a member of the Zion Ritformed church I Funeral ttervice* will lie held Fiddly afternoon at 1:30 o'clock al the Infirmary, with the Rev Charles M. Prugh officiating, ami Imrlal will be in the Rast Sulttm ewnetery. The i ihody may be vlowed at the Zwlck i funeral home from Thursday noon until Frida 1 noon

Children are an Important factor all year, hut at Chrlatmaa every one wanta to plena*' them Grownupa try to catch the aplrlt of youth from the young If you do not have any of your own. why not apread > a little pleasure Io boya and glrla ; of parent* who would like no well i to give to them and are unable to , do ao. A recent article on apreadlng cheer at Chrlatmaa waa about a i woman who had loat her aon. no i to relieve her lonellneaa. ahe etarti ed Inviting komeleaa boya to her 1 houae for Chrlatmaa dinner. Now • ahe haa ao many ahe renta a hotel dining room Her heart la Indeed ■ an large aa her pocketbook i Another atory wan about a bean* 1 ty parlor giving permanent wavea ' to orphan children It Improved the poor little waif glrla ao much that they were Immediately adopt- - ed Into good famlllea Good Hatnarltanlani doea not confine Itaelf to any one form Giving - or helping In any way will bring I the name aallafactlnn

Expulsion Os Russia From The League Os Nations Urged; Aid To Finland Asked By Nations

DOUG FAIRBANKS RITES PRIVATE ;< — - Film World Mourns Un- ' expected Death Os , Dashing Screen Star Santa Monica. Cal . Dec. 13 < <U.P> Douglas Fairbank*. Sr . will , make no curtain call In death for f thb world that thrilled to his dash , Ing career on and off the screen , Hi* sudden death by heart at- . taik early yesterday placed hl* r beautiful widow, the former l.idy Sylvia Ashley, under the care of a . physician and until *he recover* funeral arrangement* will remain tentative , However, hi* business manager. Clarence Rrlckaon. indicated that unlike the service* for Will Hog er*. Jean Harlow and other film notable* whose mounting public ' gathered by the thousands. Fairl banks' servcle* will be quiet and ! private. It seemed likely that only chute friends of the screen’s Don Juan would lx- admitted to service* In ■ the Wee Kirk O' Heather In Forest l.uwn memorial park The funeral probably will be tomorrow ‘ or Friday with Interment tn a crypt at Forest latwn. If wa* at Forest latwn that a i disorderly crowd disrupted the : Jean Harlow service*. Mr* Fairbank* took with stiff I lipped alienee the first shixk of > tier husband's unexpected death In i their seaside mansion early ye* - terday Then she collapoed The embalmed body of the ac- / tor. debonair even In death, lay ■ on a huge carved lied In the home I overlook lint the Pacific. Il was in j this room that he quietly asked a r nurse for a window to lie opened I "so I can lotik at the ocean " then II turned over and died Friends said hl* death occurred a* ho i would have wished II ‘ “It was Doug's last jump." one friend said Fairbank* death shocked the film colony, especially those "Immortals" of the silent picture days I Charles Chaplin, hl* friend for I 25 years, went to the home when I he learned of the death and left so overcome with grief that he I (CGNTINCKI' ON PAGE F>Vt:i —, — —.<> — BULLETIN Washington. Dec. 13 — <UP> —Joseph E. Davie*, ambassador to Belgium, after reporti ing to President Ftoosevert. asserted today that America 1s in grave jeopardy because of i the war and that therefore a third term for Mr. Roosevelt I is imperative. *'l think America is in jeopardy as It hat not been certainly in our generation, and prob i ably not since its institution.*' Dav,* told repo ter* without i elaborating on precise nature of the danger. ORDER MANDATE SUIY ANSWERED Further Action h Taken In Monroe School House Fight I Judge J Fred Frucht" 111 Ad-lins circuit court today entered an absolute rule against the defendants to answer on or before Decemhei 23 In the mandate suit against the advisory board of Monroe township for a new srhool addition The original complaint was filed on Oetobei 6. ill which Noah Rich. Wllmei Roudebush and John Halt i sell, as taxpayers and Glen Neueiischwander. as township Itustei : asked the court to command the advisory board to Issue Imiikl* and i make an appropriation of approximately |4O'HUI The complaint cited an alleged • inerg'-nt need for the addition and named Alfred Ryf. Jonas Hprunger ami Noah Netieuschwatider. members of the Imard as d>" fendants Following the filing of the com plaint the defendants filed a demurrer and on November 3» an amended complaint was filed by the plaintiffs The ordei to answer to the amunded complaint by December 2.1, made today. Is the latest de j Velopmelil

TWO SENTENCES ; ARE COMMUTED • Berne Service Station Robbers Have Sentences Commuted The state clemency lommission I today commuted the reformatory sentence* of Edwin Walker and f'harles Carrey, both of .Marlon, from 10 years Io seven years and two months. • Walker and Carrey, with Oral Bragg, also of Marlon, robbed two ' Berne service slsHons on October 1 2. 1936, wtnle armed with revol i vers. All three were arrested soon after by former sheriff Dallas Brown. .Marion police and Indiana Hlale |*ilh e officers t Carrey and Walker wore given to 25 year sentences In the Pendleton reformatory by former I Judge Hubei M DeVo** when they pleaded guilty to charge* of auto • liandllry. Bragg, who wa* charged i with giand larceny lireause he i mayed in the car and did not wield a gun In the nilileile*. wa* sent- • enced lo serve I io 10 years upon 'll* guilty plea ' Bragg has since Iteen paroled. On Meplember 29. 1939 In accordt anci with mi executive order from ■ the offhe of Governor M Clifford Townsend, the sentences of Walker and Carrey were commuted to l a flat 10 year* by Judge J. Fred i Fruchte of the circuit court here. While the trio held up two service stations they were ihnrged • spei lfb ally with robbing Grover ’ Neitenachwander of the Shell fill • Ing station In Berne They also t held up a Sinclair station there t o Aged Antwerp Man Is I Killed In Areident , ..... Fort Wayne, Ind. Dec 13 <U.P> • Frank Lamb. 97, Antwerp. Ohio, was killed lam night when the . automobile in which lie was riding . crashed into a culvert near here. EARL HAMRICK IS DISMISSED Youth Injured In AutoWagon (‘rash Freed From Hospital Earl Hamrick. 3‘. of Jefferson township wa* dismissed t 4oday from the Adam* county memorial hosplt'il. where he had Iteen confined since November I when he was critically hurl in an auto wagon crash Hamrick suffered Interna! Injurles when the car he wae driving crashed into the rear id a wagon, loadetl with cotn. oil federal road 33. southeast of Ploiaatit Mills For some tmie attending physicians and hospital attaches held tittle Itope for hl* recovery Hl* condition wa* detailed critical tor more (han three week* after the aci ldent. His coitdHhni wa* enough Improed today, however, to permit him ' to I-I'tut n to lo hMU ' II" Jefferson township «< hool. It was reported that th" force I of the collision was so greit that corn wa* inilted<b*<l Imo tissue* of the lad s Ixvly Robert Ray, 19. of St Mary's township, driver of the team, was ' only slightly Iniurnl Nazis Report Third Serious Rail Wreck Berlin, Dec 13 )U.J»> Seven 1 teen persons were killed and 41 injured. 14 of them seriously, when two pasaenger trains collided today at Hagen. In Westphalia This Is the third serious railroad 1 , accident In Germany recently TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER i X <u) n m 44 2 00 p m 33 10 <oi am 4" Itmpin 33 Noon 35 WEATHER Fair tom|M and Thursday racspt cloudy In *xtr*m« north portion; colder sscnpt along Lak* Michigan tonight; rising temperature Thursday afternoon In extreme northwest portion.

Price Two Cent*.

Russia Is Charged With Violation Os league's I Covenant As Troops Increase Drive. BATTLE NEARING Geneva, Dec. 13. — (U.R)—-A tub committee of the League of Nation* Finnish appeal committee tonight drafted recom--1 mendation* to the asaembly calling for expulsion of Rus--1 sia from the league and urging aid for Finland, even from 1 non-member*. including the ’ United State*. The sub committee of 13 drafted ita recommendotlona for the aaoembly after the main Finnish appeal committee had 1 turned over to it for review ita own reaolution that Rusaia be expelled from the league and that league member* aid Finland. By Joe Alex Morris ' <l’. P Foreign News Editor! 1 Soviet Russia struck with new power todsy for a victory on the 1 battlefields of Flnlpnd but appeared to face diplomatic reverses at 1 the league of natlona. With the red army gathering momentum In Ils drive across the narrow middle swtlon of Finland 1 toward the Gulf of Bothnia, the I S|ie< ial committee of the league of nations at Geneva adopted a re> ' port calling for expulsion of the 1 Soviet I'nloti from the league and started the expulsion demand —• originated by Argentina thinugh 1 the machinery that will mean acceptance or rejection by tun assembly and council ' A scathing atlaik on the Rua* slan Invasion of Finland and a threat that Argentina would withdraw from the league If the Soviet [ I'lllon Is not expelled Were made liefore the asaembly by Rodolfo ! Freyre of Argentina He charged Russia with violation of the league covenant and with ruthless aggression against the Finns. Both at Moscow and Genera, there still were Indication* that Rusaia would wlthtftaw from the league If she Is not expelled but the outcome of the International debate over the invasion of Finland still wa* uncertain The little neutral countries are afraid of both the Soviets and Germany and see their Interests (ailing away under the British French > naval bli* kade of German import* and export* The Swedish cabinet of Premier Per Albin Hansson was reorganised today to eliminate foreign minister R J Handler, who had been criticised by the Nails and to try to strengthen Swedish neutrality Sandler. It was said In an official explanation resigned iH-cauxe the gorernrnent failed to agree with his pro|H>sals for protecting the Finnish Aland Islands, which are itti|*ii lant to Sweden !»•< ause they are a strategic naval and aerial base close to the Swedish coast The statement indirectly Indicated that Sandler favored measure* to holster Finnish effort* lo keep the Islsnds out of the hand* of Russia a move that (CONI IM I t, ON PAGK THIUBtt* COOL WEATHER IS FELT HERE Blustery, Raw Wind Adds To Discomfort In Temperature Drop Blustery, wlntery I‘ke weather again deocended upon the c|tv today bringing hopes to local citisen* of mor ■ appropriate Christmas weather Although the decrease In temperature was slow, raw wind further added to the dlarsmifiture of cltls••ns ami Christmas -hoppers who niwb- their way through downtown streets. .Vnow flurries occasionally adde'l to the disagreableness of the wind and temperature*. Till* morning at 9 o’clock thn Drily iMnocrat th'-rraometor registered 44 degree* and at noon tho same tlu-rmometnr recorded a tern, perature of 35 a drop of nine degrees. The possibility of the flttrrlea changing Into a heavy snowfall was <-on*ldere«| alight after the weather I man predicted fair and colder area* ,ther for Thurs«h<y. *