Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 23 January 1940 — Page 1

I XXXVIII. No. 20.

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♦ ♦ Fires Three Shots Into Head, Insists He Can’t Feel It Now York. Jan 23 (U.P) I Twice. Snlvalori. Uorrlone pm a revolver tn hU head and pulled the trhegar. He heard eiploahma hut nothlna happened an he Mfulnl- ' -d Inin th. rnUMle tn aeo If anything wna wrong Nothing wua. an he put the gun In hla head and fired a third time, Then he threw the gun away In dlagnat. He wa« In the basement of an apartment building where lie worked as janitor He walked up to his second floor apottment Ilia family saw blood on his head and called an ambulance. At the hospital. X-rays showed ail three bullets in his skull. One had struck the- brain and lodged at the base of the brain. Two were lodg'-d bat k of the right eye. All three had penetrated the region of tic- ear and temple Morrlone's akPtl was frio tit red he had a con .-uaaion and a hemorrhage. Inn he I Instated he still "didn't feel a thing" He was calm as he explained that hr- had two children, earned only a dollar a day. wasl ' tired of living and had found the gun In the biisement I’olbe charged him with Sullivan law violalion and had him pm in lhe prison ward FINNS DAMAGE RUSSIAN SHIPS Report Airplanes Damage Russian Battleship And Cruiser Stockholm. Sweden. Jan 2S <U-W — A Helsinki dispat.h to the Copenhagen newspaper Rerllngske Tidende reported today that Finn ish airplanes In a raid Sunday on Httssia'a great naval base st Kronsladl severely damaged a battle, ship and a crnlaer Diplomatic quarters were given an authority for the report The battleship damaged, accord in* to the dispatch, was the 21.«N ton Marat, built In l»ti and < arrytng II 11-inch guns The cruiser was the new ISM trm Kirwv.’ mounting all “ I inch cans A dispatch to the newspaper Tldningen from Helsinki said that M foreign volunteer aviators conducted the raid and that they reported they found all ships at Kronstadt immobilised in heavy pack Ice. so that they did severe damage Press reports, unconfirmed, were that numerous trains laden with food were going to Russia from Kathontn. Latvia and Uthuania. A dispatch to the Copenhagen National Tidende from Helsinki re- ■ ported that American volunteers al- ' ready had taken part In lively j fighting at the front Authorities here began to com' strart air raid shelters In parka and open squares today The shelters were simitar Io those at Helsinki, i whk h were need as models bees use they had proved effective. It was arranged to hold a test air alarm period nest Tuesday to . teach the people the "alarm” and "aU clear" signals Taik-ah drivers at (tao, Norway, <CXWVTIMVKt> ON PA«;H TWO) Committee Keeps I’p Economy Work Washington. Jan 21 — IUR> The house appropriations committee today kept Its economy rororda intact by reporting a |l 022.1M.<12 treasury post office supply bill 111, 01.000 below President Roosevelt's budgel eatlmale The savings inn up the committee's economy total so far this year to about 1112.000,000 — the amount which appropriations committees , have cut below budget flgnres. ANNUAL I. DEC. BAZAARFEB. 5 Annual Bazaar At K. Os C. Hall h Announced For February 5 The annual Knights of Columbus hasaar will he held Monday Feta ruary I a tthe K of C. hall. Il was announced today hy members of the committee In chatge The event will he opened at 7 o'clock with games, entertainment I and recreation. I Following the baaaar a dance I *lll be staged, starting at about t •:M o'clock. Tickets are being sold I by members of lhe orgaultatlon ' for M coats The affair la open to the public, t It *as also announced that the I bi-weekly dance of the organisation I wll bo held Thursday night In the I K. of C bail, starting at * o'clock I

NEW DIRECTORS OF HOMESTEADS Five Directors Are Elected At Annual Meeting Monday Five directors were elected to Ike ooard of lhe Decatnr Home--1 stKipjs Association. Ini at the annual meeting of tenants and home purchasers at the Lincoln school building last evening. I The directors are: E. W nau. superintendent of the General Electric Company; W. L. Unn. Gordon Acheson and John Filer, who i reside at the Homestead, and Miss Marlon Neprud regional supervisor of the resetttlement administration. representing the federal government. Miss Neprud aucn-eda L. I! Whitney of Indianapolis, who is an official In the resettlement administration office In that city The directors will meet Thursday. February I, to elect officers. George Hinkley, who will retire as president of the board, presided at last night s meeting Reports were made hy Mr. lainkeuati, treasurer, and Feed L. Litterer. manager of the federal housing development .Mr. iaihkenaii’s ' report showed that the treasurer had more than fll.'HMi on hand, more than of which Mr. Litterer explained, represented the first year's payments of principal and Interest and other charges Included In the monthly rental-pufchaae payments. The government let the first year's payments stand as a working balance for the local operating corporation Mr Lllterer Informed the group that all of the is houses wi re rented and that nearly every tenant was keeping up lhe monthly payments. The payments, based on a Ib-year payment plan, run from 121.10 to 121 57 a month, including liquidation of lhe principal. Interest. taxes, e and other charges The jiaymrnts this year are approximately 40 cents |>er month higher, dur to an Increase In Decatur*! tax rate. Mr Litterer stated today that so fat no one of the 4* purchasers of homes Lad changed to the Myear plan, which Is optional Monthly payments to the govern;ment total 2541A4 he Stated An payments have been met and the financial condition of the corporation la considered excellent The 4* houses were built In IM2 and 1*34 by the government. The project has been one of the most iCONTINUED ON PAUK THRKtcT LEWIS ASSAILS McNlin RECORD CIO Chief Denounce* Presidential Ambition* Os Paul V. McNutt Columbus, 0.. Jan 2.1 (U.K) - President John L of lhe I'nlted Mine Workers of America today denounced the presidential ambition of federal security administrator Paul V. McNutt, terming, him "a political adventurer" who had used troc.ps against labor Mwla said that M< Nutt, former' governor of Indiana, "likes to pretend he was a soldier, accompun led hy a motley crew of two per cent Icagmen who he hoped would Ice able to buy enough votes to, make him president of the Cnited Ntatea so hr would have metre sol dlers to play with, and Io- able* to protect strangers who were taking the jolts of men whose children were hungry and wives HI ' The "two percent lug men", phrase was believed to refer to Indiana a famous Itemoeratlc “two percent club" which purportedly collects money from etale employes for political activities ItOWis linked McNutt with N<-n. A. H "Happy" Chandler forme r Kentucky governor, comparing them with "ancient kings of England" who sent troops to protect strangers in lath century mine an Ikes More than 2,i*tio delegates to lh> I'. M W s Golden Jubilee cccnven lion roared with laughter at lewis' reference to McNutt. The dele(CONTINVKD ON PAGE «IIX> British, Norwegian Ship* Are Destroyed Ixrndon, Jan. 22 —(fP)~ The British steamer Italianalia 1.52-1 tons, and the Norwegian ship Pluto I 5»» tons Both struck mines and sank oft the northeapt roast of England today The crews of the vessels were saved. Twenty-seven meta bars of the < crew of the Baltanglta and 21 moo from the Pluto escaped from the mined vessels in their own life- 1 haste and landed safely at a fish lag village on the northeast coast-11

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Decat or, Indiana, Tuesday, January 23, 1910.

At Final Rites for Borah I ( IFj Mt? > I j|9 I ' tlo K M "♦WbJb ■—. :;r _ — r.. Following .1 stale funeral in Washington, lhe body of Renator William E Rorah dean of the upper house, was to Ice relumed to Rotor. Idaho, for services there Washington's highest officials attended the capital services. Picture shows th,- Icwly of Senator Itorah teeing borne into the capitol building

SCOUTS TO AID IN FUND DRIVE Boy And Girl Scout* To ' Aid In .March Os Dimes Drive Saturday The annual "March of Dimes."' h.-ld In connection with the president's birthday observance here, will be staged in downtown Decatar on Saturday, It waa anno.ni.ed today Members of the local Boy Scout trooiHi will canvas the business I house* and Girl Scout* will sell | the March of Dime button* on the i street* The drive will laat only one day in the selling of buttons on the at reel a. The March of Dime containers will he plated in the schools and factories and remain there throughout neat week The buttons will be sold for the first time tonight at the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet The general cooperation of the 'imiHTtUin <Nf PAOB nix»‘~| 0 Frank Canton Die* Suddenly In lowa J H Carson, of near Monroe, hue received word of the death of his son. Frank Carson. 51, of Littleport lowi. who died of a heart attack while at work as a rotinly road maintainer near that city, lie lived near Monroe during his early life. Funeral service* and Intrial were held at Littleport MRS. KING IS HEART VICTIM Mrs. Isaac King Dies Suddenly Thia Morning Os Heart Attack Mrs. Pearl King. fin. widow of the late Isaac King, died suddenly at C o'clock this morning at her home in Van Wert county. Ohio. Death waa attributed to heart trouble. The deceased was bom In Mercer county. Ohio. Decernl*r 11. 117*. the daughter of John and Mary Ann Karns-Dellinger She married Isaac King in IMtti He died three years ago Hurvlving are the following children: Mra. Jesse King. Celina. < Ohio; Mrs Glen 3chaadt, Will- ; shire. Ohio; John King Decatur rural route; Mine lx>ls King, at | home, one slater. Mra Hyla Bleut ( and one brother. John Dellinger, both of Willshire. Ohio One i daughter Is deceased. Funeral services will be held at . 2 p. m. EST Thursday at the Wilt . shire. Ohio, Methodist church. * Rev E E Hragg sEkiallug i Burial will be st Rockford. Ohio J

Exraped Prisoner* Are Given Sentences Hi. htnond. Vs . Jan 23 i(J P> ! Seven youthful federal prisoners who twice escaped from government custody and were recap--11 Hired, today faced prison srnteu* | ces of 20 years each after pleading | guilty to indh tmwHte tor escape. ' violation of the national motor vehicle theft act and stealing govern- ' inent properly Th.- sentences were pronoun, “d by Judge Robert N Pollard tn V. S district court here late* yesterday The prisoner* Included Robert Walker. 20 of Elwood. Indiana DONATIONS ARE MADE TO FUND 172.50 Contributed To Date To “Fight Infantile Paralysis" Drive Donation* totaling |72M have been pledged to the fund to fight ' Infantile paralysis here In < ouncei t!on with the observance of the ■ president's birthday celebration. Harry T Grube city . hairman. un,flounced today Donation* are being received from local organisations as a mean* of .resting the fund rather than the staging of a president's birthday ball, us was customary All donations or pledges ate to be sent to Mr. Grube, a* city chairman At the completion of the observance the fund* will be used in the county to fight the disease. Following are the donations as Hated by the chairman Eta Tau Sigma sorority | ttf) Professions! Women's Club 7.50 , Mulachler Packing Co 1000 Rotary Club 10 00 Chamber of Commerce loot* Psi lota Xi sorority Moose latdge 10 t)0 Holy Name society 500 Knights of Columbus Koo Total 172 50 Mr. Grube also reported that 17 »S ls egpected to be cleared in las' night's benefit basketball game Thia money will be added io the fund Appellate Court Upholds Ruling Indianapolis. Ind. Jan 2.1 <UPI — The Indiana appellate court today had upheld a Posey circuit ' court ruling against Mabel Rehanas, . a teacher who hsd sued Robinson township for one year's salary on | grounds that she waa assigned to I a school other than the one at I which she had been told she would I serve 1| The ruling meant that teachers t contracted to a township must accept any school assigned them < The court held that teachers could t not refuse a school to obtain a I judgement lor salatj. j

United States Makes Strong Protests On Activities Os British On American Ships

SOVIET TROOPS LAUNCH ATTACK AGAINST FINNS Rutwian Troops Start Offensive Alona .Mans nerheim lane illy Welch Miller) Helsinki. Jan. 21 - (U.R) Fresh I waves of Russian troop* were I thrown against the Mannerheim defense today In what the Finns believed the Russians Intended to make a decisive battle. lanid speakers In the Ru*«ian line* blared out the challenge that the Russians would take Vlipuri. , Important seaport 2<t tqjle* within the Finnish line, within two days Il was believed here, however, that lhe main Russian attack would come at the opposite <-nd of , the line Finns forecast that the big Russian attack. If any. would come from northeast of lack#- l-adoga. Intended to crumple the Finnish left flank on the lake and make the Mannerheim line untenable The Russian* attacked at two unspecified points of the line today. In each attack they sent troop* against several Individual sector* The attack*, first at one point, then another, were believed to be intended both to test lhe Finnish strength and to keep the Finns active and confused until massed troops could make a real attempt to break through Attacks at different points also might keep the Finns from sending reinforcements to the take area The Finns. I understand, have 1 been prepared for a Russian attack of the sort they now await. They believe that the nature of the country, woods and lakes, favors the defense- and nullifies the Russian superiority In mechanized equipment, such as tanks The roada are narrow and the woods dense Once the Finns knock out a rmtple of tanks, a road in blocked. Prisoner* taken by the- Finn* are quoted as tutymg that a numleer of Russian officer* have been punished for failing to make heller progress "I was awakened twice at my hotei d'lring the night by heavy explosions aomewhere outside of town The first explosion was at i three a in, the second at six a. ' m No Information was available but It was believed possible thllt coastal batteries were firing An official statement said that Russian airplane* dropped <<*> cCONTfWUEn ON PAGE BIX) 4) — Holy Name Society Tt» Recite Ronary All members of the Holy Name society are requested to meet at the Knights of Columbus hall at 7 .io p. M Wednesday to march in a tcody to the home of Anthony Kohne. Dic-tkes street, to recite the- rosary. URGES CAUTION THAWING PIPES Fire Chief Warn* Against Use Os Blow Torches After Fire Fire Chief Ed Hurst today urged local citizen* to exercise caulion In thawing out frozen pipes with blow torches and other fire The fire chief also urged aL iceraons reporting a fire to call the chief operator and give her the correct name and address, a* is customary The general alarm will then be sounded The caul loti from the fire chief followed a small fire at the Raymond Johnston resident-■ on Houih Tenth street last night about lit o'clock. Mr Johnson was thawing ou* a pipe underneath a sink when the fire occurred Before- going to bed he started to pull out the blow- > torch from under the sink It exploded. throwing him to the fl-tor; and Igniting the wall Mr Johneon was unhurt and only small damage was done The general alarm was not sounded. Mr. Hurst stated, but lhe call was given to the department direct. |

YOUNGCOUPLE MUST SEPARATE I Judge Rules Young Married Couple Brother And Sister Indianapolis. Jan. 23 'U.P) An orphan l»oy and girl who were married two weeks ago only to find that they are brother and sister. will lie icermaiieiiily Heparated despite their love professed In 1 open court. Juvenile court judge Wilfred Bradshaw told them tfe 1 day 1 The judge said he will make * thi* tilling final Thursday afternoon after spending the morning 1 untangling as strange a case of mixed record* a* court attache* - could retail 1 Another complicating circumstance is the fact that the girl is ■ expecting u child The principals ' In this strange drama are la-Roy 1 Williamson. 20. anti hi* wife mid sister. Virginia. I*. ' Through the testimony »»f witnesses i-ulay they wet-- convinced - that they ate probably full brother 1 and slstet and at Jeaat half b-oth- ' er and sister. Moat of the missing links in 1 their history were supplied liy .Mrs ■ Crystal Ctalr Harker of I'rbana. 1 111 who said she Is the sit.ei of 1 the mother of Isith and Virginia Mrs Harker nervously ' told the following story as so Roy and Virginia held hand* In front ‘ of her: Helen W|Htamson. Mrs. Harker's sister, gave hlrth Io a sou 111 i IRIS in Indianapolis She was tin- - married al the time arl du- sou lived with her until 1924. when she died Then he fier-amr- a ward of - the juvenile <omi a ii<| lived in . various Indiana o: pliaiuige* Thai child is laßoy Mrs Harker said In April. 1921. Helen Willimn son hore a daughter at het home. ' after which hoth were taken to the city hospital There, Mis Harker said, her sister signed a petition which makes this child a ward of 1 CONTI Nt-EtlON PAOBSI vbi~ DEATH CUIUS ANTHONY KOHNE Retired Farmer Die* Monday Evening At Home In Thi* City Anthony Kohne, fil a retired farmer. died Monday evening at fi 30 o'clock at hl* home. 921 Dierke* street, of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered several day* ago He was horn In Adams county March 21. lA7I. the *on of Henry and Anna Kohne and was a lifelong resident of the county He was married to Margaret Miller. Mr Kohne wa* a member of th« St Mary's Catholic church and the Holy Name society Surviving lie*ides tlie widow are two sisters. Mr Peter Hess and Mrs. Fred Baker I>oth of Decatur; three brothers. I*o and Julius Kohne of Decatur and Beniamin Kohne of Fort Wayne Two sons. Anthony and Charles, died in Infancy. Funeral services will Ire held at the St. Mary's Catholic church Thursday morulng at 9 o'clock Rev. J. J. Helmetx officiating Burial will Ire Ip the Ht Joseph cemetery. The body will Ire returned to the residence from the Glllig and Doan funeral home late this afternoon | and may Ire viewed until time of the funeral. County Officials At Annual Road School ( ■ County officials and road super- ( visors left today for Ihtidue Cnlversify to attend the annual road school. County commlsioner* F nnk , l-inlger. Albert Htrahm and Mt tea Augslrurger. and John Augslrur* <r. | one of the four district rtrad sup *• visors, left In one cur for ti t | school. Walter A. Gllllom. county suivey- , or and superintendent of roads, together with Otto Fuelling. Ralph Martin and Elmer Heer, the aistrict rood supervisor*, made the trip in a second car. TYte school will be in aeealon all week and subject* of Interest in road thuJdtng and main tenance will be discussed by the < speakers. h

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Accuse Government With Discriminating Against American Ships; Detain At Gibraltar. BRITISH DENIAL 1 . Washington. Jan. 23 <U.P) - Culled States' official protests it British activities on the high took a stronger, even an angry pitch, today. The British govi-in-ment was accused of dtaetlmlnrtIng against American ships This government protested 'hnt American ships were lieing detained liy British <<>niral>and control officials nt Gibraltar thi>-c tlines as long -is Italian ships carrying similar cargoes and thal. in some caaoa. American ships were being forced, contrary to the American neutrality law. to proceed to Ite'ligoreni |h»i is. It demandod "immediate correction" of the situation and ii*<|iiH*t>-d a reply from Great Britain Io that effect. The prolc-si was reminiscent of lhe controversies of 1915 and 191 U over similar British activities before the Cnited State** etitei-d the world war I’ntil recent weeks most of this government's diplomatic Holes have- heen direcle,! to the totiil!tartan powers now at war with Britain and Fi ance I hiring 'he nasi month. American official Impatience has la-eii increasing over what 1s considered hlgh-haniled Bi Itlsh interference* with Ainetie uh ships, cargoes and mail on the high sens The new protest was handed to British ambassador laerd l-othtan Saturday ley assistant secretary of state Adolph A. Berle in the feiim of an aide tnemeiire a written nieinorandtiin to trmind the ambassador of what he had leeen told orally In a conference in the stalo department. Kerles memorandum said 1. This governmee: i was “seriously concerned" over the treatment meted emt to American shipping in the Mediterranean at.-a, and pen tlctitatly at Gibraltar 2. The American government previously had stateel its objee Ilona to British interference with cargoes moving front one nett it al country to another 3. British interference with American ships going to and from the Medltetranean area had reached such a point that It appeura definitely discriminatory 4 Ample time has el,ip*ed since the British authorities *et up their control system to make It difficult for th'* British govern, ment any longer to blame delays "to the confusion attendant o-t early organizational difficulties 5 The contraband control omhorltles appeal to have- held Atue-e---lean ships on an average of more than thr**e time* as long as they detained Ital.-n ships passing tblOUgh the same areas « Cargoes on Italian veaaefo received more favorable emtsid-r---atlon than similar cargoes on American vessels 7 American ships in some cases are forced, contrary to American law, to proceed to belligerent port* to unload cargne* retied a* contraband "Thi* government mnat expect." the note concluded, "that the Briti»h government will at leaat take «iiliable and prompt measures to < CONTI Nt • ten net Vacir i-t vr] ~ YOUNG PEOPLE TO GIVE PLAY Comedy To Be Presented At Fuelling Church For Two Night* "Amy from Arizona" la the nan>« of the three act < omedy to be pio ■e-nted hy the young people's clasß of the Ht Peter's Fuelling chur< h Jsruary <7 and 23 The complete cast of chararlerg follow* l-ester Hemingway — Donald Hoile Dick Morrow — Richard Fuelb Ing Sidney Squeers — Wilfred Se h*-t* ar. Hoskins —■ Hobart Fusillug. Laurstt* — JCllen Fusillag Amy Ctaytaa — Adal« Fuelling. Mrs Hquears —- Lorlne FuelHmt, Oartie Malfoy - Allee Holla. Cora — Vera Franz. The ptay will start at 7 M nV clock on each night It ta to bu pro sauted.