Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1940 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

VIII. No. 132.

LANES BOMB PARIS; AMBASSADOR ULLITT NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH

CUTIN ENSES TO IDDEFENSE it Plan* Rrducf 10 Percent In pral Expenses on. Jun. 3 — 'UP) - R<K.sevell today beganl program to reduce gen■men: eipendltures hr | ae.i apply the saving to j defense fund )ul<-d a conference with ,d<>r Harold Smith on Upounding part of th<ymprlatlon for the var |lte department a |Mae secretary Stephen )ld the preaident bellev Percent la the proper cut b made Mr Roosevelt he aald that some la cannot glee up their pna and may even Incur I Thia would be par ue for the atate departtided It lon of general aalary laa not come under conEarly aald. He added Imlnlaftatlon hopea 'hat p-sense einendltures will considerable re-employ ►■rmlt a reduction In reUturea luted oat that frequently pal conditions. a certain budgeted appropriation! and returned to ’the k-h rear. For the flseal such savings amounted L«M. he aald. In flacal li >-nda June M. a total :.<utn should be returned ild that II la honed the rlnga for flacal I*4l led thia 31*4.000900 lie howerer. that no figure rt at thia time. H- 0 — skinners In Monthly Session Pty commlaalonera were at the court house thia nd afternoon Bills were h morning and computamary election! coala waa Io be completed this as- i mmhalonera will meet | (day. receiving bid* for imi at the Infirmary In M. and taking bids for s» at the Infirmary and Ms well Pi coal blda In IICTMEET ETHURSDKY i Os Moose To District Conferice Thursday Uriel conference of th* t the Moose will be held ndge home In Decatur , with registration com- •• 19 o'clock, according (cement made thia mornra. Bart Malay senior regeneral chairman of the Be regent of the college *. Mrs. Anna HH! of In I. will he a gneat at the e and will give an ad lhe evening. Mr*. Emma I Hartford City la to be trtce leader. Mtlng will last all day .evening session opening Mt. An address of welI be given by Heber Feaa*or of the Decatur chap- » Loyal Order of Mooae. ■dtirewea by Mr. Feaeel HUI. a claaa of candidates NHiated by the Hartford Mr. with other chapter* Tkoee taking part In Ifton. Hartford City, Mar Hund. Wabash and Deca*•11 be furnlahed by the iheetra and the women of chapter will furnish rela at the conclusion of the 1 entertainment.

K. Os C. To Elect Officer* Toninht Officer! of Decatur council. Knight! of CMnabua. will be elected tuul*:.l daring the regular meetire of lhe mdrr In the K. of C. hall A numlier of contest* appear for the various ruling pontn In the or|i»er Following the meeting a social [session will lie held The meeting I will open at 3:39 p. rn. ICDTi. BEAMANS ADMIT OIFFICULTYIN DUNKIRK ARE I Flooded Areas Hamper Advance: Claim 330.000 Prisoners Berlin. June 3 <UJ!> German operation! In the Dunkirk area where air and land force* were cloning In on the Allied rear guard were admitted hy the high command today to be encountering difficulty because of lhe terrain, but It claimed that 330.000 British and French prisoner* had been taken In the "battle nf annihilation In Flanders and Ariola " A communique Issued from Adolf Hiller's field headquarter! claimed that Hermann cloning In on Dunkirk from three sides. weal, mm th and eant, were making gradual progrean It claimed German capture of the fortified town of Bergueg. aouih nt Dunkirk and juat natal of Calais Hat If admitted that In the Dunkirk area “lhe difficult terrain, marked by numeroua gul Ilea and flooded areaa. render* operation* difficult “ 'The official German new? agency. D. X. B. reporting additional detail* on the German capture last week of Casarl, between Dunkirk and Lille, aald that the Brltiah and French there lent 3.500 and 7*9 dead The agency claimed that 50 arm- ! ored car* were taken when Allied headquarter! at Cassel were taken Describing the Caaael action i icnvTivrir.nv p*nw vrvwt I ~o ADAMS COUNTY NATIVE DIES Jacob Klopfenstein Dies Sunday At Home in Burr Oak. Mich. Jacob Klopfenstein. 79. a native of Adam* county, died Sunday al lhe home of hi* non. Otto Klopfeni stein at Burr Oak. Michigan, according to word received here I The deceased wa» bortf In French i township. the turn of Mr. and Mr*. I Pete Klopfenstein and moved to I Burr Oak In I*ll. Hi* wife preceded him in death nine year* ago. Surviving are two non*. Otto and Emil; four sister*. Mr*. Mart Beuher of Arvllla. Mr*. John Rich. Mra. ‘ Ferdinand Stauffer and Mr*. Fred Mathyi. all of Berne and two broth- ’ era. Haumel of Howe and Pete, of weal of Manroe. ___ ' Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at Burr Oak and burial will also Ite in that city — Q ... • * Red Cro«« Fund For War Sufferer* < • previously reported 1 Junior Brown "" Mr* W P Robinson r Ruth Wlnnes * w I Jtr and Mra. G H Sho*enberg ‘ w - ibeeatur Uundry * Dry . Cleaning - - R. M. Ream - * " I James Kochei. Jr • ’ s Ira Bodie i Cbariea Cook * ™ ■ Friend* — ! , Decatur l.pholuter Shop - John Kirchner - r Mr. and Mr*. 0. L. Schlichman ... - , „ i Loo*e change Ir boae* * • f Saylor* Motor Sal*! » Mr*. E. B Foreman 1 Total »»«•«

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Italy’s Sea Power Awaiting the Word “Go!” • ' • -i ' I ' *2x6* i 11. '> • /*»'*<J* ‘ ifLnr Ze Ml H ■* EBES j I to *" Vr Furlouily building warahlpi. Italy now hai a modern, fait fleet under conatant maneuvera taa ahown at left » In event of Italian participation in the war. thia fleet would Immediately attempt to emaah the Allied warahlpa now concentrated at varlou* itrateglr point* In lhe Mediterranean Top. right, the Gorilla, one of the moat powerful of Italy'* bigger ihlpa Bottom, right, aeon under a big gun. the fleet plow* inajeatb-ally through the awa termed by Muaaollni Mare Noatrum." or "Our Rea”

INSTALL POST HERE JUNE 9 LimberloKt Trail Pont Os VFW Installation Next Sunday Institution of Llmberlost Trail Post No. 1106. Veterans of Foreign Wars, will lie held neit Sunday. June ». Instead of last Bunday, a* was previously announced. The Institution ceremonies will be held at the Knights of Pythias lodge home on Third street, with prolmldy several hundred officials and members of other posts in attrndanre Newly elected offl<er« of the recently organlred post will also be Install'tl at that rime, with Otto Case taking over the office a* po'.t commander. The meeting will start at 1:30 o'clock If'DTt. with 4 complele program of entertainment, in addition to the business session. The hand, drum corps and ritual t«a» of Jim Ehy Post al Fort Wayne will furnish the entertainment. A buffet luncheon will be served at noon. The regular meeting of lhe local post will he held this Wednesday evening at N o’clock H’DTi ut the council chr.mbers of the city hall littlldlng. CIMFOREETO OPENTUESDAf Adam* County Boy Scout Camporec Here Tuesday, Wednesday The annual* Adams county Boy Scout camporee wjll be opened Tuesday m«rni"g at t’arnp Oulnn In Hanna-Nuttman park. All plans for lhe event bsve been completed Camp will be set up Tuesday morning with personal Inspection at 10 a. m a* the opening event of the two day program In addition Io the program previously outlined. It was announced today that the scout board of review would be held TUhsday evening at 8 o'clock, with the court of honor following at 6:30 p. m Hrout leaders and Scoutmaster* have arranged a fwH program for the hoy*. The camporee will be closed Wednesday The Scouts will stay all night Tuesday in the shelter and tent*. T. C. Smith, a* campmaster, will be in general charge of the camporee with othpr committee leaders supervising the varlou* phase* of lhe camp.

Decatur, Indiana, M onday, June 3, 1910.

G. E. Employes To Meet Tuesday The General Electric employes' association will meet Tuesday night at 7 o'clock (CDTt in the Ben Hur lodge rooms Officers will ln> elected for the coming year. DEDICATION IS HELDONSUNDAY Remodeled Union Chapel U. B. Church Is Dedirated Sunday "A vision for the future, the faith to go forward, and the generosity of the member* In giving of their poseessiona are the three •seaenilal* neceeeery for a church to go forward In ll* work." Rev S A. Well* of Fort Wayne stated In hl* dedicatory addre** at the t'nion Chapel V. C. church Bunday The address wa* given a* a part of the aervlcea, dedicating lhe newly remodeled church, three mile* northeast of thl* city Report* disclosed that in the remodeling of the church, lhe total amount In donated labor was 1350. with the balance of the cost being about 1650 Os thia amount, all but 122'i had been given by the member* previous to the Bunday service A goal of |3<M) wa* set ICONTINtIRD ON PAGE foillll

European War In Brief RY I NITKD PRESS FRANCE Scouts report more than 600.009 men Ir, German army of north are eiecuilng vast turning movement belween Amlena and coast German* reported tnaaalng tanka, artillery and Infantry for attack on Glee-A lane-Argonne front, eipected within neit two or three 4*y* German* bomb Rhone valley In southern France for second time. French believe It I* pr-lud- to Italy’* entry Into war Anti-aircraft gun* tire aeevieet barrage of war a* French plane* fighl German raider* over Pari* region Bomber* sweep over In successive wave* and atari fire* In ring around capital Anti-aircraft guns fire heaviest barrage of war aa French planes fight German raldera over Part* region. Air raid alarm lasts one hour. GERMANY—German* cloeing in on Dunkirk on three side* hut admit operation* are difficult Germane claim 330.000 British and French prisoner* taken In "battle of annihilation in Plunder* and Ariola" After taking channel port of Nleuport. German* enter fortified town of Bergues, south of Dunkirk GREAT BRlTAlN—Britain tighten* Internal defense at alt possible speed, eapectlng German invasion at any time Henirlea receive shoot-10-kill order* around airdrome* and war factor!**. Britain take* Il for granted Italy will enter war. SWITZERLAND—HwIaa pursuit plan** shoot down third German bomblug plane In IS hour*. Plane believed one of those en route Io southern France. SWEDEN—Antiaircraft gun* shoot down two German plane* over Bvediah ieoltory. ITALY—Fascist prssa still predicting Italy'* *ntry Into war MufKllnl's decision may h* announced at council meeting tomorrojv Hi* paper ridicule* American war attorta. LATIN AMERICA—Various government* atari Intense "fifth column" drive and prepare l*gl*latlon to curb foreign actlvltle*. UNITED BTATEE- Two rescue liners crowded with 2.8N4 Anterleans, an rout* b*ru trom Europe. Many Amu lout* I*ll behind.

REVIEW BOARD | OPENS MEETING Adam* County Board Os Review Open* Month’* Se**ion Today : The Adams county board of re-1 view met today for the first time I in a months' session. The hoard, during f thr n*ll I 'month, will review all assessmentc |ln the county and hear objections and complaint* to assessment*. Mter the Itoai d will set aside definite limes for hearing and ole J*<tlon* of taipayers In lhe respective assessing unit* of lhe couniy The board at present is conducting the work In the assessor s office. but later In the week will move Into the commissioner's room of the court house The board la comprised of two members appointed by Judge I Fred Fruchte, one from each political party, and three ei-offh-io members. They are: Johii II Parrish, Decatur. Democrat; Charles E. Pusey. Hartford township. Republican; auditor Victor H. Kicher, assessor Ernest Worthman. treasurer John W Blakey Mr. Worthman serve* a* chairman of the lioard and Mr Eicher as secretary by virtue of their j offices.

U. S. Ambassador’s Life Is Saved By Failure Os Bomb To Explode; 155 Planes In Raids

. ■ Raymond Johnson Is Home From Hospital Raymond Johnaon of Tenth atreet. who ha« been «erlou*ly 111 alace hat November and a patient at the Imtheran hoapltal the four weeka. waa able to lie brought to hl* home Saturday Mr. John ’ non * condition I* greatly Improved FRENCH DEPORT GERMANS PLAN NEW ABACAS Expect Attack On New Front In Effort To End Warfare Pari*. June 3—il’Pl - French reconnalanance plane* reported today that the German army of the j north, totalling more than Wuttuto , men. wi eaecuting a gigantic turning movement and it wa« reported . here that the German high com--1 tnund waa maaalng tanka, artillery and Infantry tor an attack on the I Oiite-Alne-Argonne front a* It* ne*t ’ «tep In a deaperate attempt to bring the war to a quick end. French air aquadroa* were »ent , out to lH>ml> road* and troop concentratlon point* Itehind and in the ! path of the German northern army. 1 , Gen. .Mattime Weygand. Allied 1 generall»*imo. waa reported to have made hl* troop Jl*po<ltlon* In readlne** to meet an attack on the i Ol*e-Al*ne-Argonne front within' from IN to 73 hour*. > Poialbly a* the preliminary to an . all-out bombardment. In prvpara- . tlon for ma** attack, the German* . In< rea»ed the tempo of their heavy gun fire between Rethel and Sedan | at the eaatern part of thl" front. In I . tha Argonne hlll« I Two minor German atta<k« of i local nature, against French advanced outpost* In front of the , Maginot line east of the Moaelle were taken for attempt! Io divert attention from the northern army'* turning movement. Germany opened a Jurlou* attack on the 3M transport* and IM warahlpa evacuating the Allied north- ■ ern army from Dunkirk The war ufflcd here refused to dl*clo«e the number of troop* eva--1 mated Mid said that it would make - KTINTINt KD ON PAGE HIXI ,I ' » GIVE PROGRAM FOR EXERCISES Catholic School Commencement Exercises Here Thursday Night The INth annual commencement | of the Decatur Catholic high icbool j will be held Thiimday evening at * j o'clock In the achord auditorium A cla*» of IN young women and. young men will be graduated The commencement addreaa will be de livered by Moat Rev. Bishop J Francla Noll of Fort Wayne Diploma* will be awarded hy Bishop Noll to th* high M-hool and eighth grade graduate* Following I* the program Proceaalonal March Triumphale. Weber. School Orche*tra under direction of Aii»»rt Bellemeyer Senior Cla*! Song With Song* and Gaclanu* Senior ria** Selection. Pandora Overture. Biaenberg. Addreaa to Graduate* Moat (lev Bishop J. Fraud* Noll. Fort Wayne Selection. Tauforau March. Eisenberg Sweet the Angeln* ia Ringing — Smart -Grade N Distribution of Diplomas Bishop Noli. lUmasUm-1, Ironclad Mar*!>- Hull

OMER JACKSON DIES SUDDENLY AT GREENFIELD I Indiana Attorney -General Is Victim Os Heart Attack Indianapolis. June 3 'U.R> Indiana today mourned the death |of It* attorney-general, timer | Ntok> * Jackson. 55. who died suddenly of an heart attack Saturday at hl* home In Greenfield Jackson, supposedly in good health, waa *trlcken while motoring to hl* farm in Hancock county, with hl* »pn ItiMaw Thoma* William* William* returned Io lhe Jackson realdence Immediately but the attorney-general died l>efore a phyaldan could reach the home Funeral aervlcea will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock a! hia home The Rev Herwhel Hee, I pastor of the Greenfield Christian church will officiate JackatM will lie burled at the Park <einetery In Greenfield Having *erv.-<l a* altorn«-y-gener-al *ln<e Jan I. 1937. Jackson wa* the first to receive the office by appolntmenr of the governor He wa* named during the final daya of former Gov Paul V. McNutt'* Tcontini bd <»w pagk p:*» WOMAN FOUND DEAD AT HOME Mm. Rolla Merris Dies Suddenly In Blue Creek Township Funeral *ervlce* will be held I Tuesday afternoon for Mr*. Cora It Merris. 54. of Blue Creek township near Salem, wh > died suddenly Saturday evening alcout 5 o'clock Death wa* attributed to coronary occlusion by comorer J. Jerome Yager, who was summoned after Mr*. Merris' body wa* found on the 1 floor of the kitchen In her home. Her hu-icand. Itoila It Merris. found I lhe tcody. Mr Merris I* fh-mocmtlc precinct committeeman of North Blue Creek. Surviving, heiidea the husband, are her father, George Hutchinson of Lima, ithlo; a brother. Frank ! Hutchinson of Lima; two sister*. Mr*. Ih-tta Archer of Lima and [Mrs. A.ta Wallace of Michigan ; The services will be held at 1:30 1 Ip. nt. (CIKTi Tuesday at the I'nion It. church, southwest of Willsh'ire. Ohio and burial will be at !Calt‘o. Ohio. The le>dy wa* taken i to the Buchanan funeral home- at j Will-hire. War Bulletins Paris. Jun* 3.—iUJB —- Five school* in Pari* and the suburb* wer* (truck by bomb* In th« German air raid and a temporary hospital wa* hit by 15 bomb*. The ministry of education announced that 10 children were killed and 18 wounded when a bomb hit a school In •he Pari* outskirts. Two male nurse* wer* killed in the temporary hospital. London. June 3.—<U.P>—Th* Eachange Telegraph, in a dispatch from Paris, reported today that th* preliminary estimate of casualties in Paris raid* wa* asvsn dead and 20 wounded, but the Het was admitted to be incomplete. A later Eachangs Tel*graph YuMtsSuMiMkH MdMi HiiT-

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Six Wave* Os I*lane« Bomb Pari*; Fimt Raid Os War On Any Ikllix•rent Capital. I FIRES STARTED ■y Percy Noel Parte. June 3 <ua> PH wave* ,of German bcimbere swept over Pari* today, dropping a acorr of Icomba on lhe opsm western secHon of the city and narrowly mt**Ing t'nlted Blate* Amliae-wdor William C Bullitt Bullitt's life waa saved because a lacmb that fell within a few feet of him failed to esplodcA bomb fell through the cc Hing of a building where minister of air ’ lucurent Eynac wa* giving a formal luneheon The bomb tnisaed Bullitt, one of the guest* by les* than in feet. It waa reported He wa* not Injured The- atnl>a**ador. who had lx*tc drinking sherry with other quest* when the air raid !»eg.*n, ' I the damage, visited of/er point* ; where bomb* fell and then return--1 ed to the embassy 1 The raid was is/Tied out by alurat 155 German bombing plane*. InI eluding l>om : aer* that used * new "siren hotv.n” which made a weird whistling noise ' French airplanes and antl-alr- ' j craft guns vigorously countersit- • inched the German planes, some of •{them fighting air Icattles over the I I city. The German bomlcers. apparently aiming at air fields and other military objectives around Pari*, dropped moat of their bomb* In the western part of the city, far from any military objective officials said that cssualHe* 1 I were uncertain but that a number ' had been reported Two were killed when one bomb hit a sev.-n story I apartment house in an aristocratic section. A huge column of smoke rose from a factory In th., suburb* and I saw four other fires started by Icomba I The iHcmber*. in five waves of i 26 each plus one wave of 30 • plaice*, were forced to keep at a • high altitude —around 30.000 feet - . and it proved Impoaslble for them ■ to aim Icomba accurately at mill- • tary objective* Irocn that height r Whenever the plane* came lower » they were fiercely attacked by . French fighter* (Here 12 word* I censored * Destruction wa* reported from . 12 widely scattered places aa a re- , suit nt the poor alm of the Germane The raid on Parle was the first t agalnat any belligerent capital, alt though German plane* previously bad approached cloa« to the city I The lunrheoii given by EytisC and interrupted by the craate of a i German bomb through thr celling , waa resumed al another place when the raid ended Bullitt dei dined to comment. The ambasaa- , dor and others at the- luncheon I were aheewered with flying glass ta every window In the there two word* censoredc wa* shattered I saw *ll iMcmb* fall near the capital and start at leaal four fires j The flrat sir raid "alert" was sounded at 1 1* p m IN is a m. <HTi and the (Jorrnan plane* were greeted Ity the heaviest anti-air-i craft barrage nt thr war. after which French fighter squadron* fought the invading craft above the doud* A second wav* of bombers swept ICONTINt'ED ON PAOX POUHA " TEMPERATURE RKAOINGB DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. n*. 68 10:00 a. m. — 70 Noon TO 2.00 p. m, M—. •>«« 86 3:00 p. m. _ M WEATHER * Fair, slightly warmer to- t night; Tuesday Increasing cloudin'** with *h*w*r* and thunderstorms In northwest • portion by night; continued _Wt, - -