Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 21 August 1940 — Page 1

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BELIEVE IBMf TRANSPORT 1$ OUTOFOANGER I’. S. Official Believe Am* erican Legion Out Os .Mine Area Washington. Aug 21—U.P>— Official advicoo indicated that the U. S- army transport Amorican Legion, carrying I*7 war refugees from northern Europe to the United ttatOA had paooed the moot dangerous sone of European waters today. Washington. Aug 21 <U F> Offl-. rials liellevi-d today that the army I transport. American Melon, with tl s*7 war refugees, had passed safely In throueh the mine Infested waters off the north coast ot Kentland d The slate department said tt had I had no word The wat and na»y departments declined to glte Information, but It was believed that one or the other was in communlcalion with the boat Vuofflcial calculations Indicated that the American Mglon bound ‘ for New York from I’etaamo. Kinland. had passed Cap*- Wrath. Scotland, yesterday Her plight resulted from the mine fields of the belligerents which now blanket the North At- * i lantlc from Iceland to Bcdtland <1 On her special voyage to Pet sumo to pick up Americans stranded in I the Hcandlnavian countries, she c had skirted the British mine fields a Both Great Britain and Germany e i had given her a safe condu. t After she had passed, the British I’ I eitended their mine fields several n hundred miles farther south and • notified all countries This left a 1 k small strip of water off Cape Wrath. Scotland, the only "hole” k through the mine field and the o American Legion a homeward ’> course was charted accordingly •' — o ---■ — • LULLREPORTED . IN AIR RAIDS f ~~~~ k Britain Believes Hitler ft Preparing New, Fierce ’’ Blitzkrieg n Mndon. Aug 21- IfP'- -German airplane fleets were reported at ~ tacking persistently It: the midland* | ( and southeastern Kngland early t< this afternoon after many hours of „ unusual quiet. a Bombs were dropped In a crowd- t; ed outer area of the midlands town, tl Shops and homes were damaged and there were casualties hut It was II reported that they were light. tl Raids over southeastern England t< covered a wide area, it was report- - ed. Increasingly confident that they . could take whatever Germany of- I fers and go on to win the war. Brit- ' gns awaited a much greater and more fierce phase of the brltakrleg. The fact that for many hours starting at 10 o'clock last night the skies had been almost clear of raiding planes was taken to mean only ) that the Germans were organising for the nett attack, one which would be a new high In frightfulness — the schrechlichhelt which was the equivalent of the blltskrieg In the last war Buch lulls before, in attacks on •' Britain and other countries, had al- " ways meant that the Nasis were *' preparing a greater attack. This time, however, Britons be- 11 lleved that heavy losses the Ger- ” mans had suffered in planes and crack aviators in attacks last week ' - "t ICONTINITKI) ON PAOB NIX) pX w Young Democrats To c< Meet Next Tuesday ’’ A called meeting of the Adams County Young Democratic club for " all former members and those Interested in joining has been an- ll! nounced by Severin Schurger. pre- c< •Ident. for Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock In the Adams county court K room. *' At the meeting, plans will be dis- 1,1 cussed for a district rally and party for the Young Democratic clubs, to ’ ' b« held here Thursday evening. 0 September S. ( \

British Bomber Ealh In Flumes Over lx? Havre f T ; Lfi 1 warsawy’

After l**-lug slru* k by anti-aircraft fir*- during a raid on the German-held port of Havre. Fran* *- a Btlfixh Blenheim iMimliei fall* In flamM. Upper left, according Io th*- censored caption on this radiophoto from Ib'tlln Although the <a pt 101 l did not ezplaln the large doml of smoke, tight. It may have been *au»e*l by a xititli dropped from the raiding plane before it was brought down

ORDER SHERIFF TO SEEL FARM Sale Os I arm September 25 To Be Firwt In Nearly Two Years Could Wendell L. Winkle's replance of the Republican prowlilwitial nomination responsible? For almost two years under Democratic admltiist rat ions in rounty. state and nation, no Ad tms county farm* have orderrd told at sheriff * sale — And this followed “hard timet” i In the Hoover days of 1932 when no less than 23 farms were ordered sold by the court to satisfy mortraae foreclosures Then today four days after Wlllkle accepted the nomination in an oratorical masterpiece that denounced the Democratic adminls (ration—an advertisement ot a sheriff's sale appears in the coliitnns of the Dally Democrat. The Hanna Tlnkham farm, southwest of Salem In Blue Creek town- I •hip. Is to be sold September 2'l by Sheriff Ed Miller upon order of . (he court. The demoralising effect of Winkle's nomination may be a little I far-fetched but the fact still re- j mains that during the past seven years of Roosevelt's reign the llnanclal setup of farms In Adams county has rapidly Improved Better farmins conditions, the establishment of national farm loan associations with a lower In- I tereat rale, have ban largely re • sponsible. It can easily be seen by a survey ot the farms In the county that have taken advantage of the opportunities offered A list compiled by Deputy Sheriff Leo Glllig shows that no less | than 23 farms were ordered sold Io satisfy mortgages In 1932 last | on page EIGHT) ! WALSH TALKS TO K. OFC. MEETINC « W . 11. Massachusetts Senator Opposes Warship Sale To Britain Indianapolis. Ind . Aug. 21—-fl PI New supreme council members ire elected today at business ses■lons of the Knights of Columbus tupreme convention. The delegates listened to a telephonic address last night by Sen. la vid I. Walsh. R. Mass., who itrenuously opposed the sale of any American warships to Britain as an act of war." Hen. Walsh, an Isolationist leader ran scheduled to appear before the -ouventlon In person but was deallied In Washington by the press if legislative business. • Why gamble with the United lutes fleet.” Sen. Walsh asked. The navy is the only fore- we have oday. however Inadequate, against ■ontlngencles of every kind.” America's first and foremost obllration, he said. Is "to avoid Invol•ement In all the wars originating n Europe. Asia and Africa." “It Is of the utmost Importance hat we should not become victims >f war hysteria." he declared. "We .CONTINUED ON PAUN THRKUI

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Decatur, Indiana, W<*dne»dav, AuguM 21, 1910.

Methodist Bistrict Head Here Sunday Rev II Brooks Hhake. supt-rin- 1 tendeiil of the Fort Wayne district I of the .Methodist church. »ill de-1 liver the sermon at the morning. service at the First Methodist • church in this city Hunday Rev Hhake was fottn-rly past ir of the Trinity Methodist church at Elkhart, and was elected district superintendent at the last annual conference This will tie his first official visit to the Decatur church OHLER AWARDED CITY CONTRACT Will Ohler Is Awarded Garbage Contract By City Council Will Ohler. of near Decatur, was i awarded the city garbage disposal I contract last night by the city council lit session at the < Ity hall. Ohlers bid was second low< st of i the eight submitted llf« figure i was |sihi The lowest proposal. | I one of 3*oo, was submitted by Ed Newport Other bidders and the proposed i figures John H< helmann. HSU. J O Trlcker. 8995. George Brown, i 31.030; Harte Butler. 8I."W; Fred. Braun. 31 2»o, Harley Koop and Ernest Tope, 813"" The contract becomes effective , September I and covers a one year I period The contract now held by , John Feasel expires on the above ] date Annexation Delayed The annexation petition of the; De. atur Country Club was again continued It Is understood that the city engineer Is revising a description of the property to per- ' mlt the submission of an annexa- - tlon application for only three or I four acres. Instead of the original i 20 acres The new petition. It Isl ; underst<N>d. wll task for the an-1 I negation only of the grounds on ' which stands the Country Club and those Immediately surrounding It. Sell Equipment A resolution for the sale of an I exciter for B’s and a motor for 810 Ito V. M Nussbaum was adopted I and approved by the council The | equipment to lie sold la outmoded and not in use. It was pointed out. A petition by E V McCann asking for the removal of a fire hydrant from In front of his new home on North Fifth street to a corner location, was referred to the water committee with power to act. A communication from Auditor Victor H. Eicher calling attention to the fact that Rt.M8.83 Is to tie deducted from the city's reserve in making up the budget due to the deposits In closed banks, was read and placed on record TEMPfRATURS READINQE DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER ■:00 a. m. 52 10:00 a. m. 59 Noon *3 2:00 p. m. 74 3:00 p. m. 78 WEATHER Fair, warmer In north portion tonight; Thursday generally fair In south; partly cloudy in north; showers In extreme north; warmer.

O'MAHONEY IS RUNNING AHEAD - - Bemticratic Incumbent Leading For Wyominx Senatorship Cheyenne. Wyo. Aug 21 «U.R> I'. H Sen Joseph C O'Mahoney. I Democratic foe us President Roose velt's supreme court reorganisation . plan, and Rep Frank O Horton. ( Wyoming's Republican dud- ranch- , • . Dtlj ■ assured today of renomlna'lon | Mounting returns from Wyorni Ing's statewide primary election 'yesterday gave both legislators a I commanding lead over their oppon * cuts In both parties O'Mahoney, who came to Wyoming by airplane to cast his vote, was seeking a second sis year term ’ Hmton sought n second term as i the state's lone representative Incomplete and unofficial returns gave Milward Rimpson. Cody attorney. a safe lead over tour rivals for the Republican nomination to oppose the Winner of the Contes' between <1 Mahoney and Cecil W , Clark of Newcastle Dr. John J Mclntyre. Douglas. 1 hold a slight lead In the contest I for the Democratic congressional nomination Unofficial returns gave Democratic senatorial ran- • t'-t of total of Til pie<ln-(s> OMa honey. 17.235 Clark. 1.715 Republican senatorial tace il?l precincts' Hlmpsoli. 9."2l State Sen Harry Henderson. Cheyenne, 8.191 C E Winter. Casper. 4."*5 former state Hen. I W Dinsmore. Rawlins. 2,385 and stale Rep It It Crow. Saratoga I '9l Democratic congressional race 147" precincts! Mclntyre. S.3ti In J C McHenry, Gillette. 5.57'; "TviNTlNl ED ON PAGE HKVEN) GOV. TOWNSEND TO CALL BOARD State Election Board To Give Ruling On Separate Ballots Indianapolis. Ind.. Aug. 31 (VP) -Gov. M Clifford Townsend said today that he would call a meeting of the board of election commissioners for next week Io decide whether Hoosier voters shall mark one or two ballots In thw November general election for state and national offices. Attorney general Samuel D. Jackgoo. In response to a request by the governor, yesterday Issued an opinion that the names of candidates for president and vice president must appear on a separate ballot. Gov. Townsend Indicated that the board would follow Jackson’s opinion Such a decision would mean that most voters would have to mark three ballots, one for national offices, one for state offices and one for local offices Jackson’s opinion was that a 1937 legislative act eliminating the names of presidential electors from the ballot and replacing them with the actual candidates did not repeal a 193.3 ar t providing for a separate presidential ballot.

LEON TROTSKY , IS NEAR DEATH AFTER ATTACK Exiled Bolshevik Leader In Critically Wounded By .Ammllant . Baltimore. Md. Aug. 21— fUffi—Or. Walter Dandy, famous brain surgeon and professor of neural surgery at John Hopbine hospital, will leave by plane St midnight ton.ght for Mesico City to treat Leon Trotsky. Melico (Tty. Aug. /I — 'UP) Negotiations haw been started In I hop*- of bringing an eminent brain I spe< lalist either from New York or I lais Angeles by airplane to save I the life of Lean Trotsky mt. etlled I bolshevik war bird. It was learned I today I Trotsky lay in a hospital here I with a ou<- in Hi chance for gqrvlv- I lug an assassination attempt by a I trusted assiH late whom his entourage now aiis|»-< t of bring an operative of the Russian secret police. I Representatives of Trotsky in < both New York atid la>s Angeles 1 Were iin*lersto*w| to be negotiating to bring a spei lalist here, though ( admittedly Trotsky's condition was .1. .p. so r.- WM lit'h"l'*’ for his lite ] An indomitable fighter since his l*oyh*sHi. and almost always against the constituted authority even after the establishment of the bolshevik regime, the usually ruddy <onipleiioto-d Trotsky lay suphnin a darkened room, his head propped up slightly his face mask |tk«- only his famous goatee still defiant A corps of bodyguards sat outside th*- room. I’olit r guarded th* hospital Mrs Trotsky has hard ] ly left the room since her husband arrived from their suburban villa last night Two surgeons and three nurses remained fn attendance Trotsky * mystery man assailant lay In a room nearby and < around th*- corner at the central ' police station police Were question- ' lug in connection with th*- case a glamorous blonde Nurgeima who performed an operation on Trotsky for a skull fracture at the Green Cross emergency I iVfVTIM'EIt ON FA'iK Ht.VKNI DEMAND WEALTH BE CONSCRIPTED *■ ~ I Sen. Lee Offer* Amend’ ment Tn Draft Wealth As Well As Men Washington. Aug 21 UP) f Th*- senate refu-*-<l today to *on , slder an amendment to th*- < >n scription hill t>* draft wealth as ( well as men j The amendment offered by Hen | Josh Lee. I). Okla was thrown , out on a point of order by Hen Allen J Ellendei It, La., who <.m | tended that It Was designed to raise | revenue and therefor should oi ig , Inate in the house The pidnt was sustained by a vote of SI to 2T In an angry dispute before the s.-n Bennett Champ Clark t D. Mo. amus.-d 'in- senate Os being ’ ready to vote to conscript the I “blood and brawn' of the country's youth, bitt to "let th* l wealfh of I the country go scot free " "The senate may dodge this today'' he shouted, ''hut there will he .i bill I 'in •*- ( measurei over here from the house soon and senators who dodge today will he put on record then " ('lark’s statement angered In-m ocratlc leader Allien W Barkley who s-*ld all senators ought to ’ realize that revenue legislation 1 constitutionally must originate In 1 i 1 (CONTINI'KII JIN PAGK HIX) | Boy Scouta Return From Finhinx Trip ' Eleven Decatur Boy Scouts. a< - * i-ompanied by eight adults, return- J ed early this morning from a week’s 1 outing at Beaver Island In Lake 1 Michigan They report a fine time. 1 with fishing egcellent most of the 1 time they spent at the summer re- ‘ sort. ' - 1 - 1 B — Studler Funeral Service Friday i . -i Funeral services for Mrs. Fanny ' Studler. who died Tuekday tnorn- ' Ing. will be held at the home of u I von. I tan ltd. one-half mile west of I Linn Grove. Friday afternoon at 1 2 o'clock (CST). Burial will be lit i i the Greenwood cemetery.

Britain Bolsters Defenses Against New Nazi Attacks

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John A Watkins. Bloomfield newspapet publisher was elected commander of th*- Indiana department of lit*- Ainerlmn Legion at th*- closing s*-sslou of the atiitual convention Tuesday afternoon at

WATKINS HEADS STATE LEGION Bloomfield Newspaper Publisher Elected State Commander Gary. Aug 21 Th>- Indiana department of the American legion at the final session of Its twenty se<<md annual convention Tuesday e|e< ted John A Watkins BloomHeld newspaper publisher as commander and voted to meet next year In Mouth Bend The delegates with little discussion adopted a resolution approv Ing selective service "as the democratic and effective way of provld Ing adequately trained man power for national defense The resolution said world conditions have shown the necessity for prompt and adequate national defense and added that suffb lent military preparedness would do much to keep this country at peace Another resolution pointed out that the Legion for several years had sought enactment of a universal servlie plan and renewed the la-glonnalres' demand for sin h legislation.. Htill another resolution urged ■ operation between federal and stat*- governments in construction < of hard surface highway designed for use as emergency airplane land- ■ mg fields Watkins was unop|sised for the ■ post of commander Dr. •• T Turf- | linger of Bloomington who had been mentioned for the office, with- 1 drew In-fore the balloting Mrs laiulse Young of Crown Point Was elected president of the la-glon auxiliary She al«o was unopposed tithe! la-gioll oflirers elected Homer McDaniel of Dunkirk. CON INI RD ON PAOB i HHEI- l WILLKIESTILL WANTS DERATE GOP Nominee Reiterate* ( hallenKe To Roosevelt Eor Bebates Rushville. Ind Aug 21 *U.R) Wendell I, Wlllkle charged today that the Roosevelt administration's defense program was hopelessly Inadequate, delayed and Im properly organised." and challenged President Roosevelt to debate this subject at the scene of some great national defense work The Republican presidential i andldate renewed the challenge for Joint debates despite Mr RooseVeit's Hyde Park. N V press conference statement yesterday that his position as president and the pressure of domestic and foreign events precluded an active campaign which would result from acceptance of Wlllkb-'s challenge. Wlllkle said the third term Isauo and the challenge of the totalitarian forces to the Democratic processes made It essential that Mr Roosevelt engage in public discussion of the campaign questions. He said he offered the suggestion for a defense debate at the scene of a presidential national defense Inspection so it would not "waste any of his time"

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Relaxation Os Attacks Seen In Britain As Prelude To Fiercer (Jer* man Raids HARASS GERMANY By I'nlted Press Or*-al Hi Hain today bolaterwd her defenses against a German aerial I assault in which it was •■«p*'<-fed I Adolf Hiller Will uae the full poWWT I of the Iteii h air armada Relaxation of mass air attacks I on Britain was Interpteted in London as the lull before the storm * A hint that the storm may not lx* long delayed was seen in news from Vichy, France, that Germans again have seal*-*! the lewder between occupied ami unoccupied France against any travel, whether by rail, motor or foot Every effort was 10-ing made by i th* British to harass German preparations for the iiig attack All German radio stations went silent at 11 o'< lot k last night and even the wireless service of the official I German news agency was suspend led This was taken to indicate i that king range British leimlieis ' were again striking deep into GerI many German newspapers scoffed at the confident address to the house lof commons by Prime Minister 1 N Ml Chuithlll and said his I references to British offensives in I 1941 and 1912 indicated th*- extent I of present British wi-akness. The Germans claimed that i yesterday in a day of small scale air activity devoted to armed reconi nalsance and attacks on picked ole je<-tires Important damage was done to British defense works Bombers. Berlin, said, atai ked a munitions factory at Aldeburgh. a railroad yard at H*mthwold. harbor i works and a warship at Great ' Yarmouth.airdromes at Cambridge, Eastchitrch Mansion and Deal, railroads at laiwestoff and Exeter and sank a 12.000-tott merchant i ship off Ireland Beilin gave the day's air wore lat II British planes downed and three German planes lost Britain reported a quiet night In which few (human planes were | over the country but persistent ; attacks were mad*' after dawn in th*- midlands and southeast areas. British figures claimed 'hat Tilt i German planes had been downed I since Aug. M with a loss of at least I I trained German airmen com* , pared with 192 British planes down* I ed with less than !!*«• airmen mlssM I.! ' I'M I'AOK niXi Cattle Ruwtlers In Steuben County - Believe It or not. Sheriff Ed .Miller today received the following '. ornmuni* ation "Beware Cattle rustlers ar*- working " Re* ailing tlrn day* of the wild west when rustling was in Its prime, the warning from (the Steuben county sheriff listed 2" head of yearling while-faced cattle, 25 head of steers and two heifers I that were stolen In that county I«ome time within the last Iff days. The communication appealed to I th*- local sheriff and residents to i aid in the search for the missing 'cattle and offered fIWi reward for iinformation leading to the arrest of the rustlers or th*- recovery ot the cattle — ——- - "BWar Bulletins London. Aug. 21.— UP) —Germany has estended air warfare to Irish waters and •• launching new submarine at* tacks, it was bslisved today, in an effort to Intensify her a> tempted blockade of Great Britain. With air warfare over Brit* am continuing only at modest pace, increasing rsports have flowed In of German air activity off the Irish coast and in the Irish sea. This has been combined with reports that submarin a are now engaged In more intense activity against shipping to and from Britain. Berlin. Aug. 21—<U.P>—•Blast. Ing at airfields, large industrial plants and shipping, the German airforce today raided the midlands and South England and caused explosions and fires in a motor works vital to the British aviation industry, the official news agency reported. _