Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1940 — Page 1

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CCC TWINING AID TO TOOTH Over I,(MIO Indiana Enrollees Quit ('('(' Eor Private Employment “Aa the eonnty welfare deftarl-, merit la making preparation, for ’he April civilian conaervatlon rorpa enrollment, word hn. come from Wa.hlnglon which han eonvlnced welfare workern ’hat the CCC I. performing a valuable .erVice for the youth of the atntc.” Mr. Faye Smith Knapp. Adam, county welfare director aaid today. Tabulation of la.t yearn* activities showed that 1.117 Indiana CCC •iirollee. had iH-en r ant’-d honorable diHrburge. In order to accept private employment. “Thl. record I. particularly Impressive when it i* known that the big majority of youths who enroll in the corps pave never before had a job of any kind." the director polhted out. ' W ithout the joh e.perieni e and tralnlns which these young men reteived In the camp. It I. probable that most of them would .’III be looking for employment, .he ■aid "Since no flcures are available as to how many got jobs at the end of their term of enrollment, it Is prc.bahle that the actual number of Imys anil young men who have fotnid their way into private industry as a result of the CCC i. min h larger than 1.117.” the director added Work of the . un*>-i vatioii imps in pre|iaring young men fur jobs Is considered one of the niosi valuable aspects of the program Many industries and loi- m-sses arc now finding that there i. an (CnXTlNt’Vni (IN PAGK TIIHEKI o Mussolini Orders • Salary Increases Rome. March '• (UP) The Italian tentrai corptn 'tl*e <ominlttee. with Premier Benito Mu-« ollnl presiding, det reed today that effective March 25 all salaries in Italy will bi- increased I<* or 15 per cent. The committee decreed that the |uu« of bread, spuebeiii. rice. ml. , sugar, coffee, soap and gasoline will not Im- ’hanged between now and July 31 The prices of government nn mop lies .net as toba< co and salt also will remain unchanged 1.000 FARMERS ATTEND PARTY More Than 1,000 Persons .Attend fleet (.rowers Meeting Here More than 1.009 persona attended the beet growers meeting held In the Oecatur jttnlor.enior high school building last night and listened to talks pointing out the prole ability of Increased returns to sugar licet growers in I Oto K. W Rusch.- of Monroe, who la president of the Ceniral Beet Growers association, spoke on "Why We should grow sugar beets in IMO." Mr Bit-’ to | ttcwl farmer end beet grower him , self. He la one of Indiana's master farmers, and he staled that he not only had grown sugar beets profitably on hl. ZR'acre farm in Adams county every year since the Ibcatnr factory was Imllt in 1012. but cons Men-d it one of the besf crops a fanner could grow on good land The speaker called attention to several factors which, he aaid. cm phaalie the Importance of planting a full acreage of beets In the Becatur district In Ikfo He statist that the prb-e of sugar beets Is not subject, unde, the present controlled program to the wide fluctuation In price so frequently em-ountered In marketing other farm crop. It was pointed out that the beet grower not only shares IM9 with the processor In the returns from the sale of sugsr,. pulp and molasse, procesned from hl. beet trop. but also, under the sugar act of IM7. receives a lietiefit payment of approximately fl 75 • ton on all beets produced on his farm t'nder the present beet growing program the grower tan feel snre of a minimum return ”< around f7 50 a lon on all the beets he grows, while an increase of one cent a pound in the price of sugar would raise his returns Io neatly I* a ton. As a crop Insurance feature deficiency payments are mad’- to the growers In cases where the yields ars Issa than M percent of a normal yield for the land Also, an abandonment payments Is paid on one-third of a normal crop when the growet falls to get hl. beet crop started aa the result of 1 Tct’ivritti' hd oTrao« tuiikm7

First Picture of Byrd Camp at South Pole _ . St 1 ' L MF. e- » X TT W i If - — 4

Il- ie is the- first Picture to re.-ich the- I’nited Slules of th. South Pol .arnp of Rear Admiral Richard

GROUP MEETING IS HELD FRIDAY 125 Persons Attend Group Pocahontas Meeting Held Here A total of 125 persons attended a group m<-<*ting of the lodge last night with Majella coun-c cil No 72. |b-< .itur as host I.mlb.Five- hedges tn tnls district were represented at th.- meeting They were Ro. kford. Ohio; Convoy,' Ohio, two Fort Wayne lodges and , lhe hmm order Mrs Waller Lister, aa l'<M-ahon- 1 las. the ruling officer in the host organization, was In < harge of the meeting. Visiting notable. Included Mrs Eva Craggs. of Franklin great Pocahontas of the stale order, Mrs, Flora Gutopel. of Rushville, great keeper of records: Ed Mason. Dunkirk great senior sagamore; J M Hrclner. Decatar. member of the board of appeals. Mrs James Bain. De. atur. past great f'oeahont.s and Mrs Mklm-I Sidenbender. member of the Orphan Board of Ohio. F.a. h of the- visiting officers was Introduced and addressed th.- meet- i tng briefly Following the business session, a chit ken dinner was served by members of ihe Decatur council and a scM ial session was held In the c lull rooms ot the Red Met hall ■—- - -a - Summers Is Given Army Advancement R Thomas Summer*, who recent, ly enlisted let the regular I'nited jjtates army and has been assign, d to the 21st field artillery, has been named assislirnl battery <le,k He has also Iw-en promoted to private. . first c lass MEET SERIES TO CONTINUE Country ('ooperttive Association Meetings Continue Tuesday A series of meeting, sponsored I by the Adam* county cooperative HMcM'iatlon I* to be continued next week, atariing with a meeting at 730 o'c loc k Tuesday night at Pleasant Mill* Thursday night t Monroe. Ansen Thompson, head <d the tax and legislative department from the Indiana farm hu-eati wa* the •peak, t He discussed recent legislation which affected the farmers In the state. The meetings are held at 7 30 o'clock each night and both Information and Instruction are given | those attending Refreshments are served (lien Worklnger. Iceland Ripley and Ralph S Myers are <m lhe social and publicity committee, which Is making arrangement* for the events Tha schedule lor th* five remaining meeting* I* Plea*ant Mill* high »<hool M*rch 1»; Monmouch high school March 11. Kirkland high school March U; Jeffer*on high school. March I* and Hart-' (ord high sc ItcHcl March 20.

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Decalur. Indiana. Saturday, March 9, 19111.

Yager’s Condition Reported Improved A telephone message from St Joseph hospital at Fort Wayne , was received at the Yager home this morning, saying that Herman J Yager, who has been a patient there the- past several weeks spent his best night in some time and showed Improvement this morning I Relative* and friends are encouraged over his progress the past ' day or two REUBEN STEURY HEADS BREEDERS Elected P r e * i d e n t Os County Jersey Breeder* AnMOciation Reuben Stc-ury was elected president of the Adams county Jersey breeder* asscM ialion at the annual organization meeting of th-- assoi iation Friday evening Roy Price was elected secretarytreasurer, and J (' Korte and Sol Mosser were named to the- board of directors The assoc iation voted to show exhibit* at the annual Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show, which will Im- held from July 21 to August 3. inc lusive The Jersey assoc iation will also Invite herds from Northeastern Indiana which will meet rigid health requirement* adopted hy the IcM-al assoc iation The- two major health requirements which all herds must meet in order to show at the fair are 1 Clean herd certificate 2 Two clean tests while in prcH-ess of obtaining . lean h.-nl certificate Red Men To Meet At Bluffton Wednesday The next meeting of lhe northeastern association of Red Mem will be held al Bluffton Wednesday night. March 13 This will be an open meeting

LENTEN MEDITATION (By Rev G T riosM-lot. First I'nited Brethren Church) “SONS OF GOD” "Beloved, now are we the son* of God. .. ** 1 John 3:2.

and liecomc son* of God we must accept Jesus Christ a* our Savlot . Our world need* this son ship God I* pure- and goc.l and He I* laive All who become sons ot God are brother* In a great fam Ily built on perfect love Ixive can do no 111 to another He tli.e lovoth hl* brother abideth In th* light, and there I* none occasion of (tumbling in him But he that hateth hi* brother I* In dark nee*, and walketh in darknees snd knoweth not whither he go*th because that d*rkn*ss hath blinded hi* eyv* ' Our world I* ■ place of much hate and consequent darknesMett stumble and know no* whither they go Our only hope l. to believe on lhe Lord Jesus Christ and through Him become sons of God and members ot a great brotherhood wherein love giN.lwill mid peace reign

E Byrd mid his party The- picture shows the party tttiloiidinc a Condor plane at the- west base

J FORM DISTRICT DRAINAGE GROUP Eastern Indiana Association Formed To Discuss Legislation Farmers and officials from six I Indiana conntie* met in th.- auditorium of the court house- at PortI land Thursday In a drainage meeti ing which resulted In the formation of the- Eastern Indiana draini agt d < • i:-'t”- aoatatlva -( om . the various counties ntiml.er.-d as county seven Well, county seven. , Adams county four, Blackford county one. and Ih-laware county one The morning session was devoted to a discussion of the problems of public drainage. L E Husted. M S Smith and C A laingstou. county agents fit Randolph. Wells and Jay countie, respectively. w.-r<- present A B Purdy W A Brown W H Gllliom R. A Half ley. and W T Cororln were the i-otmty surveyors who attended, and they came from Randolph. Blac kford. Adams Wells and Jay counties respectively The farmers attending numbered thirty-three Harry G Edwards and Vai Silkett of the soil conservation service contributed to the discussion in the* morning as did Dave Harker, extension specialist In drainage from Purdue I'nlversity Many of the farmers .-elated thc-lr personal experiences with drainage problems and all were enthusiastic ahost the organization of the drain age assoc iation The new association will automatically become a member organization of the Indiana Drainage- Association formed about a year ago which Is com posed of six other dlslrl. t assoc la tlon* <’ A lacngston ac ted a* temporary .hairman for the afternoon | meeting and the election of off! c-er* Clyde Shultz of t'nlon f’ity was elected president of the association W A Brown, county surveyor at Hartford City was named t vie e president and Feclnlls Wagner. ' .< ..N'TIN'CKI. ON- I-A.sc I IIKIIITt'

Bona of God* A most wonderful relation ship Man has no greater privilege By creation all are the- sons of God t ut that relation ship ha* been broket, hy gin which alienates us from God and makes us slaves to what Is low mean and base God Is pure and slnl.-ss and can mH look upon our sins Gut only way to become sons of God Is Ity redemption whbh Jesus, the gift ot God's love, has provided for us through Hl* dram and resurrection This glorious relationship come* then through acceptance of Je*us Christ and com pletc- faith In Him as our Havlot "Whoccoc-v.-r bellevelh that J.-sus is the Christ Is horn of God and to be born of God makes us sons of God He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son hath not life " To live

Finns Will Accept Peace Only \on Honorable Terms Or Fight To Finish Against Invaders

WOMAN'S CLUB PLANS JUBILEE Pageant To Feature Event Monday Night At Junior-Senior High Th<- Decatur Woman’s club will li-ntertaln at a jubilee party Mon day evening In the juntor-senlor auditorium at 7 15 o’i 10, k A pageant In 12 episode, will be presented depleting the history of ' iln- Woman's i lub movement An appropriate Betting, costume, and music have been arranged Special guests will be Mrs. ' George Jaqua. stale president of the Woman's clubs and Mrs John Jaqua. district president, both of Win, heater. Follow big ’ln pageant, a reeepi tlon will In- held with past presidents and th’- executive leiard presiding. Also partieiputing in thievent will be members of the l.ad ie. Shakespeare club, the Decatur Flower Garden i lull and the Ad am. county federation as federated < hibs I Th. local Woman's Clab la participating in the event hi cooperation with the national organization, which has declared thia year a season of festivity In honor of the leleloation <’t ’lie '.”’h all’ll’. I s ary of the General Federathni of Women's club. I A i haln of birthday parties ex tends from the Atlantic to the I’ai ifi< from North to South, with every club in .very town in the I'nited States ask.-d to cooperate tn honoring the mother organization. The purpose of these parties is to pay tribute ftt the woman'a club 1 ntovemimt. It. founders, its pro--1 Jeds and also to Instill gr. at.-r i n thtisiasm for its future activltk « All members of each group named are reminded that they have the privilege of bringing a guest gratis DEATHS TERMED AS ACCIDENTS Lloyd Biberstinc Os Berne Absolved Os Blame For Fatalities The death of two women in an auto accident south of Fort Wayne. In which Lloyd llile rslitu- of Berne was involved have l»-en de< lan-d accidental Dr A I* Kattendorf. Allen county coronet returned a verdn t of ai i-ldental death after Investigating the accident He said it” evidence of negligence could be found and attributed the accident largely to the sltp|»-ry condition of the pavement. Bilieretilie. 35 driver of the northlmund <ar In the crash, said the other vehicle was in tl.e wrong lan*- of traffic as it approached and that Io- first swung off the pavement in an effort to avoid the collision His machine then skidded and swung across to th,- other side- of road. Io Im- .truck In the middle* by j Ihe southliouiid cat lb- was serl:ously hurt al>out the head in the accident. The women killed In the crash were: Mrs. Llnnie II Bussert. SN. of Mouth Bend, driver ot the cur. and her mother. Mr. Minnie Wine-. ■I. of Dayton Ohio ■ • — Q. Passion Play To Be Shown Sunday "Eternal Life," the pas.icm play. ( will be presented In a sound pic - ture at the Decatur Catholic high school auditorium Sunday night at ■ o'clock by the Decatur Catholic youth organization Adml.alon wilt he 25 cents TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 1:00 a. m. 2# 10:00 a. m. 27 11:00 a. m. 2* WEATHER Partly cloudy in north, mostly cloudy in south tonight snd Sunday, occasional ram and snow m rstremr couth portion Sunday; not much change In tsmperatur*.

F. D. R. DEFENDS FARM POLICIES OF NEW DEAL Roosevelt Defends Administration’s Policies To Farmers Washingion M;-<'i-h '• ’UP) | Republicans ’daiin.-d tcMlay an I answer tci Pre.ldem llomw-velt'. defense of new deal faun pedic les in a iiid for lhe farm vote in the NoV’-mlier c-leclions ! .Mr. Roosevelt, secretary ”f agrir culture Henry A Wallace and licislmaster general James A Farley joined last nigh’ in a liniadca.t de.ii-;,<d 'u cindi- . I i..' ” a’tc-mpt. t” solve the problem of . dwindling farm Im nines and rommodliy sm pluses Th.- Republican national < »in inlitc-e lati-i annoitm ed ’hat it. p Clifford It Hop.- R. Kan cl’air man of ’he G <> I' « <ongress.o i.il commi'fee s’udying farm l.s-tes. will reply In a national radio address next Ti|e«|.iy night i Speaking to an estimated 5tt””0” . farmers gathered .it 2rallb-. . throughout the country in obaerv- ' .nice of :he m-w d-al-• firs’ faun <cmfi-rence Mi lloo.i-v.-lt admi’t •■d tha’ the agrhulttiral worker, have y>-t to t.-a.h theft goal of I social and economic justice However, he said hi. admlnl.- . ’ration has enabled th.-m to progress toward that goal Deaplte Mr Roosevelt', conteni tlon tha' his remarks were noni political, most observers felt that . he had acc-epteil the challenge laid down by Republicans In congtess and by pros|H-<llv< itepiildl- . can presidential camßdiUes lu mid we«t<-rn talks He carefully skirted memjon of the fight. <on fining lilmselt to a review of the accomplishments during his administration. "The farmers have had a long hard struggle to get laws and pree grams which give then an oppor- ' (unity to obtain economic and I for 'hem to consetve the k.mhl earih whic li next to our people * and oin naditi’.n of fi.-.slotn la our greatest heritage. he said I am flippy in 'he though’ that American larmer. are part way along that toad, even ’hough they have not reached the goal ! ||<- repeated previous Wa ’lints by administration experts that If , war iroulii’-d world economic con I dl’ions c ause th<- disapp-<n an< <of export markets all agrlcultil’e is bound to suffer ' So it I. more- than ever import- : am so rfarnters to have- a govern mem in Washington ’hat is look . Ing out for their Interests not just by uttering glittering k-tier allties hut Ity specific policies and cone left- a. Hon ' h<- added , Ibcih ’ln president and W.ill.ive called attention to the nonpicrtlami" contiot hv farm*r* of th.- new deal program through .its i INl'lift ON' PAGE THHKWI SENIOR CLASS TO GIVE PLAY Jefferson II ik h School Juniorw To (Jive Flay March 11-15 •'llc’i- Emergency Family" is thsname of a three act comedy to lie given by the senior class of the Jefferson high school at the »< hool auditorium Thursday and Friday. March 11 and 15 at 7 30 p m The cast Is as follows Miss Jane Meek Kate's cousin and unwilling accomplice Edith Habegger Annie. Jam-', housemaid Cleola Btinnc r. Bella. Jane’s colored cnok Roma Whitacre Kate- Rtorm. Inventor of the- emergency family Elsie Haln-gger. Bunny Brown, het best friend Mabel Wolf Corr, her disgruntled admirer Clifford Baker. Ted Bliss her loyal assistant —! Cecil Rollenbacber. Aunt Hannah Btoele, Katie's aunt — Eileen Brewster. Chuck Jones, the baby's father - William Kenney. Henry Black. Bella's young man ( Robert lecultrnbeiMr, (

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Russian Army Continue* Severe Offensive On Viipuri As Rumors Os Mediation Spread. • LOSSES HEAVY lb isinkl, March It ’l'l'l RusMan troops, continuing to attack in the Viipuri sec tor of the Karelian Ixthmutc from, have captured some island, in the Bay of Viipuri and have obtained a foot hold on the northwest shore- of the liay. a Fin--1 riish <otmnuni<|ue announced tcMlay. Russian attacks southeast of Vii- * purl and cm the central and eastern sectors of the Karelian Isthmus were repulsed with heavy losses yesterday, the communique- said. 1 Furious attacks waged all of yesterday In the sector northeast of Ijike lacdoga also were repulsed, the Finns asserted While opposing armies f»ught for possession of Viipuri. Finns d»-< lar-.-d they would fight on against any odds, rather than accept any but an tionoralih- peace. Believing that the fate- of their country might Im- determined by negotiations during this weekend, competent informant, said specifically that Finland would not cede 1 Its port of Hanko ’Hang..) for use--1 as a Russian naval lease There was less Information here 1 tegarding pedee negotiations than in other capitals. Instead, there- was 1 an atmosphere of doubt that negotiations, on the term, so far known could succeed It was indicated that along with the peace- negotiations. Finland -ought to find out exactly what help it could expect from its neighbor, and the Allies If the- war went on So far as could be learned here the war continued in the Karelian ' Isthmus Fighting had -la.kened during the last three days Hut it had slackened tu-foie only to Ice reintensified There was an air raid alarm here ■ rn * 35 A M 112 35 A M CSTL the first in three day- The weather was cold and c lear. gcHMI for flying. No Russian plane, were- seen, however and the ail clear” signal was lINtXnSITIt ON' PAGE THKEKI FEW ARE FILED AS CANDIDATES Two (’andidates For Precinct Committeemen Only One* To File Filing of declarations of cattdldac y it, th. offices of County Clerk Clyde It Troutner slowed down today aftc-t a busy first day of filing Eight candidates filed their declarations Friday a surprisingly large- nmnbet for the first day of filing At an early hour this morning, however the number had Iceen Inc leased very little over Friday's figure Filing <>f declaration, for pree inel committeemen far outnumbered the filing of declaration. for county offices A number of other, either are known to Io- circulating pet It lons or considering running for •--t---ioll. offices bill have not 'lied d>-< laration. aS yet April <; a.. ordnig to state . tlon laws I. the final day to* candidates to file- thelt dec 1.-. -• tlon. The- new declarations Olivet I* Mills Republican ■ indidat.- for pree In. t c ommit’.-.- u. Dec atur 2 B Floyd B A.py. Ih-ptibil. an c andidate sot pi e-elm t e emimllt.'. ’-i.cii, Gene va A o Linn To Continue Operation Os Store The Vance and Linn clothing store re-opened for business this morning, being clobml since Wednesday cm account of the death of O L Vance, co-founder of thev store The store will be ope-ated by Will Lltm. who for the pa.t 29 year, was a partner of Mr Vance a. Mr. Linn will operate the slu-A under tha former partnership namo and aUtsd tbal Mrs Vauce would rotaln her Interest In ths cloibl:>ff firm | Mr. Linn formed a partnership with Mr Vance in 1*29. follow it,q hl. return from the artuy. and h <a c'otitlnuou.ly since that time keen ( c-ng.gc-d in the clothing bu.ln.-ss,