Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1940 — Page 1

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Post Office To Close I hiring Three Hours Postmaster Klrach annountetl today that the post offhe would lie closed from IS to J o'rloch toI tiioriow afternoon in observance of Good Friday, and to make It po*nlhle for empkryes to attend the church services A delivery of mall will Im made after .1 o'clock to the hnslnes houses In the uptown district. I‘os' master Kirsch stated TWO WOMEN ARE HURT IN WRECK I'ort Wayne Women Injured As Auto Overturns Last Night Two women were hurt, one seriously. In an auto crash last night, which resulted In the arrest of the driver, also of Fort Wayne Miss Minnie .Me t ague. .T t. of !W>7 Parkview street Fort Wayne, was the more Koriously Injured. She suf feted a broken back, the attending physician stated Het condition is not critical, however, the dm tm stated Miss Father Falla. 31. also of Mu? Parkview. Fort Wayne sufferstd a deep laceration on the light leg m addition to numerous scalp and fa rial cuts and bruises. Itoth of the women were admltt ed to the Adams county memorial hospital, following the crash on federal road 27. one mile north of the city alscut lip tn The women were brought to the hospital by Cal Magley and Vernon Ki hnepp passersby at the Wteck Siene Fined 311 Malcom W Kapp. 2«. of Fort Wayne, route sis driver of the car. was arrested by Sheriff K'l .Miller at the accident scene on a charge of reckless driving When arraigned Imfore Mayor Forrest Kiley In city court ibis afternoon Kapp pleaded guilty and was fined II and costa, amounting to 111 He was held in jail overnight until his arraignment this afternoon when his wife called to pay the fine authorities stated He was uninjured, ey. ept for minor cuts and bruises f- t»tce fourth oerwpnnr nt the ear whom Sheriff Mlllri dec la red to he i Harry Beekman 2027 Webster street. Fort Wayne, left the scene, according to authorities. Sheriff Miller and other authoi itles searched nearby fields for him hut were unable to loc ate him When other occupants of lice ear denied knowledge’ of his identity Sheriff Miller found a candidates 'petition, signed by Mr and Mrs. iHarry Beckman, in the pocket of Kapp Police in Fort Wayne early this morning confirmed his identity after a telephone call by the sheriff ; Mince he was not driving, charges i cannot lie placed against him for leaving the scene, the sheriff stated. i Hackman was not injured, eacept for cuts and bruises, the sheriff stated after communicating with Fort Wayne atuhoiities The auto was almost completely destroyed It left the road on the right side in rounding the curve at Miller's Bend and turned over several times, the sheriff stated Two Candidates Kile For Committeemen Candidates to file dec laratlons at the C’lerk'a office late Wednesday and today were • Rolla R Merrls. Democtatlc dldate for precinct committeeman. North'Blue Creek. Ralph H Koltei. Henim ratic can didate for precinct committeeman. • North Kirkland * RURAL SCHOOLS ARE INSPECTED — State School Oftieial InxpertM All Os Rural Schools Inspection of flie rural schools sysiem was completed last Wednes day after a three-day tour by a representative of the state department of public Inatru' tioe ‘ V. R. Mullins, state sebcud inspec - tor. made the tom accompanied by C. K Htrlker county school superintendent. For the flrat time in the history of the school system, each of the high schools and eleme tary schools tn the county system was visited and inspec ted Fttrty-three school* »»re inspect ed by Mr Mullins. Inc luding the 33 one-room school*, the three tworoom schools and the seven rural high schools A report of the inspection is to be made by Mr Mullins and a copy returned to the offices of Mt iMlrlkcw.

SENATE BEATS ECONOMY BLOC ON FARM BILL Boosts Farm Funds; Committee ( racks Down On Labor Board Washington. Marc h2l <U.R) I The senate wiped out most of the | previous saving bi the 1941 Irndget estimates today when II approval !a 1923.000.00ci agriculture depart ment appropriation t>ni carrying 1213 iKMi.ooo in parity payments for farmers and at least I v,’. ihmi.cMio for conilniiani e of the surplus com- ' totalities progtam The major farm bill Issue purity payments was settled late yesterday when the farm bloc deserted the economy drive to add } th- nnbtidgeled 3212.M0.n00 to the I hill ity a vote of S 3 to 19 Th* only remaining major Issue before a final vote Is a provision l,y Sen Robert M LuFollette. I’. Wls. to increase the surplus com modifies fund to 3113.000.(hhi His fito|H>-al was halted temporarily yesterday on a point of order raised l,y Sen 111. h eld I! Russell It Ga , who contended that the fund conld not -Ice raised on the floor 10-c aiise sot plus payments are to Ice made out of the agtlcul total hind 'ousts!lng of 3o pcu’c-ent of all c ustoms receipts Criticize Board Washington. .Mutch 21 <U.R) The bouse appropriations committee* today i-rat ked down on the* nstlonal labor relation* Iwsiid and the wag* hour division, cutting funds for th*- agencies and crltl i Izittg their activities Th*- committee cut S'l.lilt funds by |:’.l7 cam to 3Z,*4.I,UHi fur the 1941 fiscal year .and trimmed wage hour fund* 31,330.107 to f&.IOS.OOu The action would affect the board's operation regardless of outcome of the current fight over the amendment of the Wagner act The appropriations committee nr tlon included 1 Advised the XI.HB to eliminate Its division of ei-onouiic reamtrrb hewdad by ISrvCO-James Su|hhhi The division had been under fire of the files committee .md the special house NLRB In.(VCNTINFKn c»s PAGE HGVENI MANY IDEAS ON SWIMMING POOL Numerous Suggestion* Received By City On Proponed Pool Although no definite decision has Iwett made, city officials an receiving a numtier of suggestion*, loth pro and con. relative to the mw • wimmtng pcad idea for Decatur tine engineer, who ha* supervised the construction of similar pools has sent to Mayor Forrest KlC4*y. pic ture* and desi ription of a pool whic h Is built on lop of the ground The pool i* built on the older of a modern college football stadium , the (cool lietnr Inside of the wall* which surround it. It Is similar to the old amphitheater style of construction. leathers climbing steps to get the surface level of the water. The building around the pool is -used for bathhouse fac'llitie*. the appearance resembling the stadclum style of construction To obtain depth for the pdol, th* w ill necessarily is from id to 12 feet high, the pictures show Estimate* on it new pool run from 336.M0 to 345M4. the city's square being estimated from 313.ouo to 321.M8 providing the project can b<* constructed with the aid o' Wi'A The problem of financing a new pool is one of the stumbling blocks In the set-up A* yet the council or city official* have not decided what plan to pursue If a satisfactory deal can lie made , ccNJNTINUKtY ON PA<HS HKVENi —■ O"- 1 •**“ Adam* County Student (liven Extra Credit* Ijifayette Ind . March 21— tt'l'i — Henry I* Marshall of Decatur, route 2, a freshman at Purdue University. ha* recevled estra credit* because of proficiency In English, accotding to an announcement byj th* department of English at Purdue lacst Heptemlcer Marshall was assigned, on the basis of high grade* in the orientation teed*, to English 32. an advanced course in frbesman composition On the satisfactory completion of this course at the end of the first '.emestei. he was awarded sis hours of cradl* In English. Instead of the usual three Thi* *tudent‘e precollegw training was received at the Kirk- i laud high »< hool

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 21. 1910.

Physician Promises Quintuplets .. • am 11 inlß' F'.aW'*/ / k K r" IB ] Photo show* Mr* Emory Callahan of Miami. Florida who. according to a physh iun whose name I* undisclosed I* expected to give- birth to qulntupl-t* within two month* The doctor** fovc.ist Is ba, -d on X ray disc losure* Inset I* (leorge Callahan, her bttsnhand a furnlAire factory worker

HOLY HOUR AT CHURCH TONIGHT St.Mary’sCathtilic Church To Hold Holy Hour Thin Evening A holy hour will be held al St. Mary's Catholic church this evening from 7 to * o'cloc k and confession* will he heard up until s 3o p m The observance of Holy Thursday started this morning at « o'.clock with the distribution of Holy Communion, folluwc-d by a hig'i mass at 7 ;(« o'clock During, the day adoration of the llle**c-d Hac ra ment took place, many of the congregation visiting the church for private devotions The mass of the Presnnctified will be held at 7:30 o'clock Friday morning and the Three* Hours observance will be held from 12 to 3 o'cloc k During the devotion*, there will Im- public and private dr-votions and the Way of the Cross at 12 43 and I 43 o'clock Blessing with a relic of the true cross will take place at 2 30 o'c 10, k In the afternoon arid following the sermon in the evening No Im-lls will be sound-d in the church until the Gloria of the mas* on Saturday morning at 7 30 o’clock the lasi Imlls Irnlng rung al the 7 30 ma*s this morning n — Eight Englishmen Die In Explosion Ixmdon March 31 H'Pt Eight men were killed and four seriously Injured today in an explosion at a c cial mine at Stoke on Trent. BERNE MAN IS UNDER ARREST Lloyd Biherstine Is Held At Bluffton On l-ar-ceny Charge Lloyd Biherstine. 31. of Berne, is being held In the Weil* county jail at Bluffton awaiting arraignment on a charge of petit larceny Biherstine wa* arrested last night by state policeman Russell Prior at Berne and turned over to state policeman Truman Blerie and Wells county authorities al Bluffton. Biherstine I* specifically charged I Willi stealing a generator from the Ford garage at Bluffton <)fflce> s. allege he also stole a number of other items from the garage Wells county authorities slated today that Biherstine denies the accuaailon and Indicated that he would enter a not guilty plea The accused ha* a police record and served a sentence on a larceny charge previously, the officers stated Recently be was Involved In an auto crash near Fort Wsyne. whh h killed two women

Income Tax Receipts Higher Than In 1939 Washington. March 21 it'P' I Him retary of treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr . annoumwl today thu' imom*- tax collections In 2<> days | of March were 312 porce.it ahead of last year, but warned that reI Venues would not cover the ,-xlru 4 tuo 'ion oiw, emergen< y national defense cost In the period March 1 to 20 excluI sive. Morgenthau r«-|>oi led ln< mne tax coller tion totaled 3*?l aeoomt <compared with |473.0m,un0 in th'1 same period last year. YOUTH DIES ON 26TH BIRTHDAY Richard Melching Drops Dead At Home In Fort Wayne Richard Melching. 2A well known Fort Wayne man drop|w-d dead at . hl* home in that city Wednesday afternoon shortly after finishing a > dinner In honor of his 2<lh birthday The young man an employe of (the City Light and Water utilities, fell to the fliaii In the luilhioom and was dead before an ambulance niuld Im- sinnmonetl He wa* well known in Decatur and Preble and vicinity, having numerous relatives in Adam* county and having visited here frequently. Meli hing was a son of Mr and Mrs William Melching His father is employment manager of th" Fort Wayne works of the General 1 Electric company. Hurvlvor* include the patents a brother. Albert F Melching of lx>« Angeles. Cal., and a sister. Miss Mary E Melching a st'ident at Purdue university. Special Service* At I’renbyterian Church Continuing the special services being held ear h night thi* week at 'the local Presbyterian church the pastor. R'-v George <> Walton will bring a message tonight on 'The Hmltten Shepherd *' These services have been well attended special music Is given each nigh' Tomorrow night th*- Communion of The laird's Hupper will be observed These services commence at 7 3d p. m. Easter Bunday morning an Easter breakfast will be given for all the young ladle* of the < hurch ■ W College Profeaaor Killed In Wreck . Dehanon. Ind March 21 il'Pi | Dr Paul D Parker. 41. piofe»sor of me* hanl<al engineering at North western university, was killed and Howard P Hall. 24. an Instructor In (he university. Injured seriously near here last night when their car crashed into a utility pole and overturned after a tire blew out Police said that the car apparently had hurtled 230 feet down th< left ' side of the road (M-forr striking the (Mile

Germany Asserts Nine Ships Destroyed; Bitter Nazi Foe Heads New Cabinet Os France

HUGE BRITISH TOWNSEND AND LINER LEAVES McNUTT CONFER NEW YORK PORT p «ui v. mcnuu |n Indiana To Meet W ith Queen .Mary Is Believed ’ °!**’ c * anß

Headed For Duty As Troop Transport New Vork, March 21 HJ.Pj The Ml.mm-ton British liner Queen Mary, second largest ship In the world, sailed from New Vork harl»or today In the wake- of her smaller sister ship, the 35.0«M1 ton Mauretania presumably embarked on a new career as mi allied troop transport a The armed Mauretania, which the tlermaii* have- promisc*d to sink on sight ns an auxiliary naval vessel, was th" first to slip away She was rased Into the Hudson river and headed south toward the Narrow* and the danger fraught Atlantic during a thunder storm nt * o’clock last night It was reported that Itoth ships their last -minute sailing pr para tions and instruction* shrouded in secrecy, had la-en assigned to transport troop* between Australia and the Near East where Great Britain and Franca' ate massing a great army already estimated at l.OOti.mm men The Queen Mary cast lootve the lines, which had held her to the Cunard White Star line's pier *lnce Sept 4 at *22 a m and tug* pushed her Into the river and turned her prow toward the bay to an accompaniment ot lias* blasts from the liner's whistles Sp'< illation at th,- pier wa* that the Queen would follow the Mauretania's suit and drop anchor off Ambrose light after she clears the harbor and there open sealed ord er* containing detailed instructions for proceeding to her destination For 12 hour* l.efm.- th" <|ii'en Mary sailed th" pier had le-e|i a scene of Intense activity The Wack gang" in the liner'* engine room had received orders at !<• p m yesterday to have steam up by 1 « m today Shortly liefore midnight Commodore K II Irving commander of the Queen Mary, followed his officers ainiard A man who accompanied him to the gangplank "book hl* hand kissed .CXINIINI'ED ON PAGE THREKJ ■**— ■—-—— Manslaughter Trial Delayed By lllnewi Crawfordsville. Ind March 21 ll’l’c Trial of Edison W Bratton of Crawfordsville on a manslaughter charge filed in connection with the fatal shooting of his neighbor. Harlow Ford la-t year today had la-en postponed due to th ■ Illness of Arthui McGaughey, an assistant prosecutor. The hearing originally wa* scheduled to start Monday, but wa* moved to June 21. Bratton was charged with "hooting Fold when he caught the latter in the Bratton corn field where he- allegedly had Iwen stealing corn DONALD GAGE TO HEAD ELKS Gage Elected Exalted Ruler Os Ih-catur B. P. O. Elk* Donald Gage, an employe of the General Electric company, was elected exalted ruler of the I tec a jur B I’ <> Elks at the annual election held Wednesday night at the lodge home on North Hecond street. Other officer* chosen to serve for the ensuing year are John I. Ih-Vo**, esteemed leading knight. Robert Gas*, esteemed loyal knight. Herman Keller, esteemed lecturing knight. L E ll"*l. »••< te(ary. R. C. Ehlnger. treasurer; Harve Rlc-aen. trustee for three year*. Ben Knapke. tiler; Walter Brunegraff. representative to the grand IcMtge. Beit Gage, atlornate representative The new offle er* will be formally insailed at the next meeting of the lodge Wednesday night. April 3 A class ot candidate* was initiated last night, with the degree team nf the local lodge exemplify lug the ritualistic work.

Indianapolis. Marc h 21 'U.Pj Iceinoccntic politics dormant for month*, explode into a climax this Week-end when federal security administrator Paul V .McNutt arrives for a Serb’s of conferences which may settle- a serious split in the Democratic party and determine the makeup ot the Mate tic ket forth" I94<> campaign McNutt will come here from speaking engagements In Ohio He ' will step into the middle of a controversy In the party over the 1 nomination for governor of either ' Lieut -Gov Henry F Sc-hricker or Il Earl Peters, federal housing ' administrator for Indiana At th" same time, there may be considerable dlscusshm whether the party should tetlre Nenator Bherman Minton for hl* vociferous opposition to the Hatch "clean politics" act amendments, which In th<* opinion of many politicians seriously eml,massed Indiana Dem 1 ocrats The foremost critic of Minton's attitude is reported to be Gov M Clifford Townsend who within the last ten days has made remarks to friends and political aasoeiates ' indicating that h- thought Minton had been IndlMreet. to put U mildly 1 Townsend and McNutt are 1 scheduled to confer tonight at an undisclosed meeting place Me 1 Nutt also is scheduled to meet hi* own aides dining hi* week-end Indiana stay From these discussions may emanate an agreemetit ’ on who the party will support foe governor In th,- state convention Hchrtckei anuouni-ed his catcdl "•oNTINI Efv ON PAGE SEVEN) MONROE PLANS UNION SERVICE M<»nroe Churchc* T<> Hold Service Good Friday Afternoon The two c httre he* ot Monroe, the Methodist church and the Friends church, will unite In union service* Friday afternoon from 1 to 2 ■>< o’clcm k at the- Methodist church The two churches will al«o have Ea*ter sunrise services at 5 30 o'clock Hunday morning at th" M-thodi*t c hurch No program will be- givc-n at the early mottling meeting hut all persons arc invited to attend Following is the progtam sot the Friday afternoon service* Piano preludeHymn Old Rugged Cross.'" I’rayer. Rev Vernon Kiley of the Friends c hurc h Special mush- M'-thcccllst church Hermon subject. "The Rejected Havlor, Rev It F Hart. Methodist c hurch Musical interlude Hymn. "Lead Me to Calvary (CONTINUED ON PAGE HIX) o Decatur Elks Plan Annual Sprint; Dance The annual spring dance of the Decatur B P O Elka will he held at the home on North Hecond street Haturday night. April « Ad mission to the dance which will be for member* only, will be f.o tent* per couple —- o - St« k Rehearing On Abandoning Service Columbus. O March 21 tVl’i Several communities, labor organization* and civic group* applied to the state utilities commiaslon today for a rehearing on Its order of March 13 authorizing the Nc w Vork Central and Ht lann* railroad to abandon passenger service April 1 on the Toledo-Frankfort. Indiana division The c ommlsslon exlendod the effee live date of the- order to permit disposition of tb* motion for ■ rehearing and perfection of an »p---|mal In event * rehe*rin< 1* denied. The applicant* hsv* go day* aft«r March 13 In which to appeal If the rehearing I* refused . . _e —

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German Airplanes Attack British Convoy; Nine Warships And Merchant Vessels Claimed Sunk. REYNAUD PREMIER Berlin. March 21. <UR) German airplanes, tn an attack on a British convoy protected by cruisers. destroyer*, airplane* and an artne-d merchantman, sank nine warship* and merchantmen totaling about 40.004) ton* and seriously .damaged two merchantmen totaling about 11,000 ton*, th'- blgll command asserted today. The attack, 24 hours after the* British raid on Hylt Island, took place "toward evening" yesterday off Sc apa Flow, British fleet base In the Orkney Islands above Scotland. tin- high command assertc-d. One of the attacking Getman pldr.es I* missing. It wa* said, and pne British plane wa* downed It was not established, the high command said, that three British planes were destroyed In the Hylt raid News of the swift Nazi retaliation for the British attack on the Sy!' Island airplane base which had been hi retaliation for the Hcapa Flow raid came as political quarters watc heel the- French cabinet situation and said that the selection of Faul R'-ynaud or any other man to lead it would not alter the war picture fundamentally. Reynaud. however was regarded a* one of Germany's blfterest enemies among French Itaders. The newspaper National Zeitung of Essen, organ of Field Marshal Hermann Goering, called him Frames counterpart ot Winston Churchill, first lord of the British admiralty who is regarded as the archenemy of Nazism "There is not the slightest doubt that Reynaud is the mini Anglophile statesman tn Paris pollUca,'* the National Zeitung said Better Nazi Foe Paris, Mari h 21 <U.R) — Paul Reynaud formed a new c abinet today to carry out hl* pccllcy of ac - tive and iinc-ompioinishig war against Nazism The- hard hitting new premier and his ministeis in-hiding former Premier Edouard Daladler a* minister of national defense were formally presented to President Albert la-brin-. at Elysee palace and prepared to seek a vote- of confldenee in parliament The new government wa* diawn largely from center and left political factions Reynaud who also took the post of foreign minister, was expected to create a "seven man Inner war cabinet" for a mobile and aggressive- leadership in the wa. Demands Recall Washington. March 21 <U.P) - Rep George Holden Tinkham R , Mas* , suggested today thai congress "seriously consider the Impeachment" of Jame* II II Cromwell. C. H minister to Canada If he I* not recalled at once Tfnkhatn made public a letter to Secretary of State Cordell Hull asserting that any discipline short of Cromwell's Immediate recall will l»e Insufficient Io meet the .CWTINCED ON PAGE HKVKNc GIVE CANTATAS FRIDAY NIGHT Rural Hiifh Schools To Present Easter Cantatas At Berne The- annual presentation of tho F.asfc- cantatas by*tne rural high schools of Adams county will ten made atv the Flrat Mennonllo church In Berne Friday night, starting at 7:34) p in. No admission will he charged for the event, which is open to tho puMle Monroe. Geneva. Jefferson Monmouth. Kirkland, Hartford am| Pleasant Mills school student* will participate- In the annual presents* Hon. "Christ Victorious" I* the natnd of the first caatlts to he presented that night and ‘’Redemption Song" I* the title of the second The cautata Is being directed I'F 'the mush teachers nf the various schools, nndet the direction of (', E Striker, county school superln* ■ tendent. f