Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1940 — Page 1

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■iTELAWTO 111 DREDGING ■ ISHELOVALIB a imke IjhlhiHl ality DI Law ■ j. 'ii> ■ ■■ ,u ' III!, Ml . . ■ ■• “U ‘it .. . ■-'■■■ ■ ■ gM,, • >' 1 H® • ■ *" *'* *lm K* * jUB ii IK* '■' ' i '' l " -• 1 TIi. . . • ■• .1. -i K.< i ■■! ■ "i i|H> ,'ui i' • ■ - . - . ... . n»» <ni now continue io ■ - ■ - • • the ■i>* A Clash ■ A. • ’ iwinds ■ >,..».- ‘he ■ ■ ■: . -h- > Iw ■ .A iv.r i w.>> KTGROWERS IWEL TONIGHT B* Than 700 Expected B* Attend Meeting ■ Here Tonight Rhh • nine .1 grower* ■•■ t »iii ■M Mrs tonight ■ • in.i y (oBjj '’ h ' h '”' '""" Willshire ■*’’ '' * ' Van Wert BBT ‘' <l Hop- s, |l |h>lr "* township* in 1 ■ <‘VH—I Ki this MJ* I' >• . |,.<l (tn,, ,„„„. • l» |. ... .in »h.n the “ '* llwl le. al ‘ JO ’• 'he .-...„ .rnini high SS4fl,nta m law-linn have already ‘ iff *' "'""•"""" Monroe- ■ “•I I'-lUtfl.,! h, Mn ,| g , M* iMpho. an,l Van Wert. ‘.itmal. report the ml “ 41 ’ , ' ai ** m *’* < r,,w ' M*’*** In t» larger | hi|n „ Vt . r K «w than 2 Im. farmer* Mj ' ’'" 1 “ 1 Bk ”" ! ' ' ’l*'"il that the M* *'► toniihi together with ■ ‘ 'o I- held at Roanoke "' ,4 ' nntht and at An- ■,, '*" Tuesday msht will BiL’ I ''' '« well • „( larMt rHurni . ■ "Ma. Inmt , rop ror )>4# , K* » r’«pon»||.|e for lhe I iiiK-rr.i umons K, ' ,r -« " Wa. fearnd ■* *’ »**' yh ld. of the |, a ,| Hl. '*“***l hy unfavorable Kb “ n,,w ■«*•" that th, tn MlKitt p rh . rt| OH p A „ K J B** l *ATure RtADINGt I — —W F 0 * 7 T Hf"MOMETER Ki: -• 30 ; Bta •— 10 Kl' ' I “ M ■ *•* — i ■ho, WtAT Mtn - I d * c ‘ t**** cb»ne»

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

LINER QUEEN ELIZABETH WHIC H MADE PERILOUS (M’EAN VOYAGE I i ' • 1 I ’ I .A.,- i' • j I f S ~r 6f- \ ■ Bfcn BNr • yr* M‘ <***? > ■WBg, ■ >r a Here l» ih>- IJR.TMimmi liritlah litter Queen Kllcabeih. lartt>>at »hip Hnelaml The run wan kepi secret until the Hit* i neared N>-» aflirnt. which made a daring t-roaalni of the north Ailaiith from York It l» shown arriving at New York

PRESENT RURAL PLAYS TONIGHT Final Prenentation Os Rural School One-Act Play* ToniKht The w<in<l and last presentation of the one-act play* by the seven rural high schools of Adamo county will he given tonight at the Geneva and Monmouth »< -bools The schools from the north half. Pleasant Mills. Monmouth. Kirkland and Montoe will go tn Geneva tonight to present the plays. They gave the plays at Monmouth Thursday night. The schools from the south half. Geneva. Jefferson and Hartford will present their plays at Monmouth tonight. The plays by these schools were given at Geneva las' night A cordial Invitation was extended the general public to witness the plays and an entertaining program was promised Admission to the playa is lo cent.. One tic het entitles the holder to witness all plays given that night. Those who saw the plays last night acclaimed them as the finest In the history of the schools and stated that they furnished fast and interesting action throughout. Public speaking teachers of the respective schools are directing the playa, which are under the general supervision of C K Ntrtker. county ■school superintendent. FILE NOTICES OF CANBIDACf Today In Opening Day For Filin# Declaration Os Candidacy Mrs Huth Hollingsworth. Incumbent. and candidate for the Democratic nomination to the office of county recorder In the May prim ary. was the first to file h*r declaration of candidacy tn the offices of Clyde O. Troutner. count'/ clerk, today. Mrs. Hollingsworth's candidacy was filed early this morning on the first day In which the declarations may he posted with the cle-k Declarations may he filed until April C. In days before the primary on Tuesday. May 7. Hiner April 7.' the final day according to the election law. falls on Monday, the last , day will Ire regarded as Saturday. April «. Other declarations followed short- ■ ly after Mrs. Hollingsworths Those filled up to a late hour today Mrs Huth Hollingsworth Democratic candidate for county recorder Fred Hsncher. Democratic candidate for precinct committeeman. Decatur f-< Ell Dubach. Democratic candidate for county eommissinnci, third tUON-HNUMIToIt PAUW riV*»

Portland Youth (■iven Sentence Walter Bond. Jr. IN. of Portland who confessed to robbing Walter Summers, attendant at the Fort Wayne filling station at the point ' of a' 12-guagc- shotgun was sentenced to serve 1 to lo years In priisou yesu-iday by Judas ilauy HU , gc-mann in Allen circuit court Hummers, the attendant. Is a for i met lu-< atur young man and has Iceen employed at the Fort Wayne • station for some timeC. C. APPROVES POOL PROJECT Chamber Os Commerce Board Favors Municipal Swimming Pool The hoard of directors of the- De cafur Cimls-r of Commerce. In session Thursday night adopted a resolution favoring a municipal swimming pool stressing construepion of the pool In a new location, rather than In ordered Improvements in the present pool al the city plant The stale board of health has ordered improvements, estimated to I coat fI&.MO. to the present muniidpal pool or the stale will not permit the < Ity to open the pool this season George Auer, direr lor. was named to represent the business organization in any matter which might arise regal ding a proposed i swimming pool project The iMMSrd of directors also discussed plans for the annual Decatur ■ Free Hirret Fair and Agricultural Show which Is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce- Features of the fair, the cattle and horse exhibits. and the horse pulling contests. ■ will le- maintained at the samehigh standard as In past years, the tCOMTIin'KIt ON PAGE SIX I Attraction Caused By Runaway Hone* An anachronism of the first I water occurred this morning when a run-away team attracted a crowd on Jederaou street between Hrccutd and First streets The team Was Stationed at the i corner of Jrßrnton and First streets where- the driver, Waller Harrod, was loading a wagon with ashes and tin cans Home Icoya passed by and yelled "glddj ap" ahd the team starlwl Walter saw hla horses leave and ran after I them, catching the reins, hut not before Ihe tram had become thoroughly frightened and was tunning j away at full speed In fremt m the Decatur Dumber company one of the hoi sea fell and I skidded or was dragged by the I other horse at least W f»*t until the team came to a stop In front of an • automobile parked on the Al D Hchmitt Motor sales lot Thej horses and the driver were not hurt hut the wagon was damaged I slightly by its wild ride

Decatur, Indiana. Friday, March H, 1010.

C.E. MEETING IS ANNOUNCED 1 1 ~ (<»unty-\Vide Annual Contention At Berne March Ifi And 17 i. The annual county wide spring t '(Christian Endeavor convvntion will | , be held Saturday evening and Hun-| day afternoon. March IS and 17 ac-, 'cording to an announcement made • today by Earl Chase Adam* coun-t ty C E union president ’ Both aervlces will lie held al the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church In Berne A splendid program I* le-lng ar-. ( ranged and all C E. members and j societies are urged to cooperate i and attend these service* The large (' E mono*tarn, now held by the senior C E society of . the First I'nited Brethren church , of Decautr, will lie presented Io th- , . society having the large*' perteii-' I tage of memlier* present at the . evening session Saturday Officer* | for the ensuing year will Iw- ele, ted at te Saturday session Members of , the nominating committee are- , Frieda le-hman of Berne, chair- , man. Glen Gifford, of Be ne. and i Frank Bohnke. of Decatm Rev William l-ee Jack'' Spratt. icitNTfNtigiD nN PAOIt MIX) — , > Decatur Man Held For Intoxication Herb l-osche. of this city was arrested thix morning Ity officer Roy: Chili ote on a charge of ptiblli Intoxication He was arrested on Houth Winchester street lawwhe will likely Iw- arraigned liefore Justice of Peace John T Kelly Officer Chili ote stated

LENTEN MEDITATION tßy Rev Paul Rrandytw-rry. Church of the Nazart-m i “CHRIST OR NOTHING” "Nultter is thsrs salvation in any otbar. for thara I* none other name under Heaven given men. whereby we mutt be saved" (Act* 4:12)

These word* were spoken by the Inspired apostle Paul at a time when tUe world was , hostile toward the teachings of Christ When the Clippie was healed al the temple the Jewish world roused Itself In earnwsi and "Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them. Ye ruler* of the people, ami eldei* of Israel. If we this day tie examined of the good d >ed done to the Impotent man by what means he la made whole; Be It known unto you all. and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazarmh whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by Him doth this man stand hen- before you whole ' The modern hospital Is a byproduct of Christianity It Is the ever present ftplrll of Chris' that I* guiding the skilled hand of the physician His teachings. His

lore. Hie uneeen but Itlrlne Hplrlt li the true aotirce of the Immi Inaplratlona flair a I lon ineana her* the aavlng from moral ruin and death of the eeparate ton Ia of m»n Therefore ealratlon In Ita deeper' senae |g the rearming of "Ingle «<>nl« from p roe ent aln and future mlaery It la only the Lord Jerne Chrlet who can Mve men and women, boya and glrle ftotu the very depthe of lnlqnlty Illa blood la a covering for all eln of a guilty peat II la the lowly Natarene who ghee new deelrea new alma, new hopea. new euflmalaania II la Chrlet or nothing'

Britain Speeds I p Mobilization Plans larmlon. March * tl'Pi Great i Britain -uddenly and litiexpei tedly *pee<|,-d up mobilization of armed J man power today by calling 23 year old reserve* to the color* The call was issued just prior to I the arrival of ffumnor 'AeLL*. I idled Slate* under secretary of late, {and a! a time when the allied pewters were in a quandary over .Scandinavian efforts to end the Rus*ianFfnnlsh war RESEARCH MAN TALKS TO CLUB — Tobacco Industry In DincuNNed At Rotary Club Meeting Albert Link of the research department of th* Philip Morris w Co. Ltd. delivered an Interesting i and instructive address on Tie I liacco. from Weed to Industry." a* the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thurnday evening ' at the Rice hotel Mr Link traced briefly the hisi tory of tobacco from the early day* to the present time, when the industry has Iw-come one of the leader* in the nation The tobacco Industry, the speukler said, ian Iw ronsidered a* prli tnarily an American industry, a* | tobacco was unknown to the civllizI ed world until the dist ovary of AmI erica in 1192 Starting slowly, the tobacco Industrv •-«" .ncreased remarkably. Mr. Link said with the manufacture of cigarettes in the lead Approximately 712.'m0 tutti uno cigarettes ilMN'riNI El> on PAGE MIX)

Finland Prepares To Fight To Finish Rather Than To Accept Peace Terms Dictated By Russ

Tnconfirmcd Report* In Denmark Say Nations In Direct Negotiation To Mediate Peace. RESIST TROD IS l’<i|a-nhag<ii. Denmark. Man h H 'UP) Finland and Ritaala wore reported today to be in direi i negotiation In an attempt to end their war. Till* report, and other* regard Ing efforts to end the war. la< ked ■ onflrmation Th.- newHpaper Tiding.-n of Oslo reported, as from a moat reliable Mitirce, that direct Finnish-Russian negotiations had been proceeding since last Friday ut Stockholm A Stockholm dispatch to the Hkslraldadet here reported, without confirmation, that J H Krkko, Finnish minister to Sweden, had negotiated personally yesterday with .Mme Alexandria Kollontay. Russian minister to Sweden There was a report here, likewise unconfirmed, that Per Svinhlltild. former president of Finland had arrived at < opel.bageii f.om St.H kholm <>n his way to Berlin to engage In peace talk" According te some re|mrts. Hus sia had given Its peace terms in ultimatum form, demanding a. i.-pt-iii“- by midnight tonight Because of th.- deli. a. y of negotiations. and the a. ttte anxiety of ih<- Scandinavian countries over their relation* with Russia. Germany and the allies, most unusual secrecy attached to reports, and this fact caused the circulation of many rumor* Sweden frankly imposed a < ensorship on outgoing news dispatches. The one fai t whl.h seemed established was that Russia had made , tentative peace advances through the Swedish govellimetll Mme Kollontay. the Russian minister at Stockholm apparently was in full charge of the Russian end of negotiation* Finnish minister Ktkko was reported to have the aid of several prominent Finns. Including former president Svlnhufud and J K I’aasikivi. minister without portfolio in the Finnish < aldnet Resist Passage Sio. kholm Man h * 'U P> The Swedish parliament's foreign affair* committee was reported reliably today to have decided that passage of foreign troops across Sweden to the aid of Finland would lie resisted by all means The committee met in continuous session Tuesday and Wednesday as report* circulated here that iCONTINUKD ON PAOK RIX) O- - Regular Inspection Os Pythian Sisters Mrs Irene Payne of .Marion will conduct inspection of the Pythian Sister* at the K of P home Monday evening A number of other guests will al«o be present Initiation and a pot luck supper at r> o', clock are also on the program for the evening. FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT HELD Charles Foreman Held At Fort Wayne For Series Os Robberies The arrest of two Fort Wayne men. one a former Decatur resident. I* lielleved by police there to have solved nearly a score of robberle* In northeastern Indiana Charles Foreman. <l. a son of lhe late William Foreman, who resided In Decatur until a number of year* ago. and Alfred Boeger. 32. also of Fort Wayne, are the two who police *ay perpetrated the offense* The loot, according tc John Taylor, captain of detective* at Fort Wayne, will run into several thousand dollar*. Burglaries Included those at Grabill Portland. .Mentone. Churubusco. Monroeville, three at Fort Wayne and poaalbly four nt Grover Hill. Ohio They are being held on second degrrw burglaiy charges and their taxes will tie transfvued to the Alien circuit court after a preliminary hearing In city court Foreman Is remem Imretl here by middleuiged Detaturltes and their elder*. Hl* father, a lumber worker, died year* ago and it Is thought that the younger Foreman left here shortly after that time.

WELLES SEEKS DETAIL REPORT ON PEACE TALK Asks Report Os Swedish Efforts Prior To Visiting London Palis. .March * U.P> I'ndci ■•<■ nary of state Summ-r Well, ha* aaked the state department at Washington to cable him a full re|M>rl of Swedish efforts to end the liiisso Finnish wr.r. it was understood today Welles was Interested in the reports that Sweden, at Russia's re<|uest and in cooperation with Germany was seeking to end the war Any news he could obtain regarding negotiation* wax calcnlaied to be of value to him in hl* talks here and In London as President IfiKMtevelt’s special envoy del.gaii-d io survey the slate of the European war and the pros-fn-i tx for peace Particularly. It was tindersuaid Welles sought Io inform himself fully Os peace moves lx fore he l“ft for Ixmdon Sunday so In- could discus* with prime ministei Ne vlll>- Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax foreign secretary, the position of the Scaitdltiavlan governments as regards both the Ruxsrn Finnish and European war* Welle*, after his talks with President Albert Iz-ltiun ami Premier Etlouard Daladler yesterday. began his round of visits today by conferring with Jules Jxaniieney. THyearold radical socialist pn-aident of the senate Then Welles visited Edotlard Herrlo’. president of tin- chamber of deputies whom he had me’ In Washington hi 1S3;l Welles ami Heit ioi drove togethi« HNPKD ON I’vie illi:i:ri TAX BILLS IN COUNTY HIGHER City Taxes $20,01)0 Higher, County Increase h $58,000 The IHJ'I lax bill, payable this year, from taxpayers who own real ••state and Improvements or personal property and poll taxes in De< atur. total* ll '.tJJtoa This Is an Im rease of approximately ,Jo • ihhi over a year ago The abstract of taxable* for I‘tto has been prepared It’ the office of County auditor Victor Eli het showing the total property tax dm- in Adams imm’y ibis year to be f'.l« The ||< linquent tax and penalties amount to l2S.<Mi2 71. which brings the total dm- to mote than 15l3ta«i The net valuation on which the tax rates In the different taxing unit* is figured I* 121.050.23!> The tax bill payable in the county thix year I* approximately IRK,turn higher than a year ago Increase* in many of the lax rate* In the different taxing unit*. Including the boost in the county and welfare levies and in the tale In the city of Decatur, account lor some of the increase In the tax hill The current tax bill In the several taxing units in the county, follows : Inion I 15.002 23 limit 32 11.'. «3 Preble 20.145 2k Kirkland 21 354 70 'CfiX.INt KD ON PACK TIIHEr.i o Vance Funeral Rites Held This Afternoon Funeral servhes were held this afternoon for Oscar L k'ance. prominent Decatur men hunt who died Tuesday night at hl* home In this city Services were held at the home and at th>‘ First Methmlis* church with Rev It W Graham, churt h parstor, offb iiitlng Hut lai was made in the Dei-atm < emetery. Honorary pallbearer* were French Quinn John H. Tyndall George Flanders, C. D. Lewton. Henry Schulte and Fred V. Mills. Ac|lve pallhearem were George Thoms. M A. Frlslnger. Cal F Peterson. Leo Kirsch Wendell Macklin and A D Suttle*

Price Two Cento.

Finns Look For Aid From Scandinavian Nations And Allies To Hold Off Russian Army. TERMS HARSH Helsinki, March 8 —<U.P> — A war communique today said that Finns held their positions oh the western shore of the Bay of Vitpuri Thursday during furious battle* in which 2.000 Russian* were killed. Helsinki, Finland. March X (UP) Finland is prepared to fight to a finish rather than accept peace term* dictated by Russia, it was Indicated today. Finn* he.ked to their Standhiavlan neighlMirs ami to the allies to give them the aid whith would enable them to hold off the Red army They commented bitterly that lhe term* were harsher than those the rejection of whith last fall brought on the war. The government’s position wax that it had always sought an honorable peace hut that the peace •■offered'* by Russia was not an honorable one. If Russia cared to make propoaals that a free country could accept. It was saltl Finland would welcome them. Report* that Russia had demanded Hango. on *he southwest coa«t; the Karelian Isthmus and the Lake laidoga region were received here from abroad and were declared to be Inacceptabie The cession of Hango. particularly, was saltl to be impossible In a negotiated peace. It is more than 2<te miles from the Russian frontier. To turn it over to Russia, it wax held, would be to make a puppet state of Finland. It wax realized that the Russians i now had the initiative in the war ami that Vllpuri must fall But it i was said that the Finns were holding the Russian* on all fronts t-x---cept the Vlipuri one and that sh« Viipurl offensive was taking a terr, ible toll of Russian Ilves The only official word of thn Russian demands had come in n communique which said ''AccordIng to information in possession of the Finnish government the Soviet ( government Is believed to have planned the presentation* of demand* to Finland mon- far-reach-ing In < haractxr than those presented last autumn. Detail*, howtCONTINt'ED ON PAGE 81X1 o Senate Beats Down Hatch Bill Attack Washington March " <U-Pr - The senate today turned Ituck by IM to 29 an attempt to prevent extension of the ''Haith chan politic* act " to state employes paid from federal fund* The action came when it defeat•*l an amendment by Sen Fram i* T Maloney It t'ontt . whit h wonld have dealt a death blow to the pending bill to extern) the ait to sm It employe* Maloney proposed to Strike out the section of the bill whith would bring federally ■>aid state payroller* tinder the act and also lhe section under whit II the civil service tommission would administer the act LOCAL MAN'S FATHER DIES ( harlrt* Bonifa* Diet* Suddenly Thin Morning At DelphoN, Ohio t'harle* Bonifas H7. rented Delphos. Ohio factory employe and father of la-Roy "Ted' Bonlfa*, of this city died suddenly th.* morning at hi* home Death was attributed to a heart attack He had been in ill health for some time hut his condition was not thout h.' to lie serlou- H« retired fron, active work four months ago Surviving lieside* the mm here, are the widow Josephine; a daughter. Mrs Teresa Rlemen of Fort Waym- three other sous. Pal of Fort Wayne. Albert of lielpho* amt Arthur of Delphos, formerly of Ihltt city. Seven grandchildren also survive. Funeral gervlce* will lie held Monday morning tit 9 o’t lock at thd St. John's Catholic i hurch In Delpho*, with burial In the St. John's cemetery The deceased was an uncle of Phil Bonlfa* Incal restaurant pirn pt telor.