Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1940 — Page 1

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DRAFTEESLATE BEING CALLED Probably Will Not (Jet Into (’amps Before Mid November Washington. Auk 11 UR) rnisirects are that the first trainees draft*-*! under the Onrke Wadsworth hill, if it finally beeomea law. will not reach army camps until mld-Nosentlter. Wh«-n the i|uest|on of conscription »»* fir*’ raised, plans id the war department were to indue' the first group of Ti.PWt on October I. and to continue taking them until nearly f'Mi.mHi were enrolled hy In-remlo-r li No change In those plans has yet been announced, hut the time aihedule has been upset by the lengthy senate consideration of the measure. Original plana allowed sit weeks to get the aelectlye serylce system In operation Heme, If the compul miry serylce bill became law tiel.ry. It would Im* mid-OctolM-r. ar cording to that schedule, Irefore the first trainees were enlisted Each week that the honse debates the measure presumably would ad sailer that date by an additional week Army officials hare estimated that two weeks should Im- allowed aftvr the training bill be.miir- law to set up the machinery to register the men for service. Thirty days more would Io- rerpllr ed tn question, esamlne and - !.«• Ify them and to Induct the first group into service o Neuenschw ander Tw im* Art* W eek Old Today Chloe Ellen and Omega Ann are the names given to the twin girls Irorn to Mr. and Mrs Orval Neuenschwander at their horn.- w.- t of Herne. Chloe Ellen was born first She weighed four and three-quarters pounds. Omega Ann weighed five and three-quarter* pounds The mother was formerly Ml** I'ollyauna Lehman, daughter of Mr. and Mr* Peter It la hman. of route four The mother and both balM-s are reported doing fine They will lie a week old this eveninr. OCHS EVENTS ARE LISTED School Calendar Embracing IKO Day» Is Announced Today The school calendar of the Decatur Catholic high and St Joseph's grade a< hool* was announced today. Children who will be ail years of age by Janua.y I. IMI. may bto admitted to the school Tuesday morning, when the fall semester begins. The school calendar Is Issued by , T E Dillion. dim esan aupurtetan dent, with the approval of th;- Most Rev. John F. Noll, bishop of Fort Wayne. The schedule follows: Hept. J Opening of school. Nov. I—All Halms Day holiday days. (Thanksgiving will Im* observNov. ZH3S Thanksgiving hotted In Indiana Nov. 21 22 and in all | probability the holidays will be observed them. Dec. 24-€hri*tmas holidays begin at noon. Jan. S. IMI Classes resume Jan. 31. 22. 21 Examinations. Jan. 24- Holiday. Jan. 27 Second semester begins. April »-14 Easter holidays May 22 -Feast of Ascension — Holiday. May 27-21-29- Examinations May SO Decoration day — Holiday June •—School closes. A note Is printed on the card. "This calendar embraces I*o school days. Where a school is dependent on a public school bus for the majority of Its pupils, the ptihlic school calendar should be followed." The enrollment in the grades and high school will exceed 400 this year, school oflclala stated. o TCMFKRATURI REAOINOS OKMOCRAT THIRMOMKTKR •:00 a. m. M 10:00 a. m. 43 - 11:00 a. m. <7 WEATHER Generally fair In north and central portions, partly cloudy with local thundershowers In extreme south tonight, tundsy and Monday; little change In temperature

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PLANE STALLS; 8 JUMP SAf ELY Ship Spins 6.000 I’cct To \\ recked Heap In Wellington Kalama. Wash Aug 11 UP) - The right occupants of .1 twin engltied army Isuubing plane para chuted to safety today when its motors failed Th.-y landed over a wide area as the ship spun fi.'ss' feet Into a 1 wrecked heap on the western edge of the Cascade mountains I® miles northeast of Kalama I'litll all the mi-ii reported, i' was feared that some of them might have been killed liei ause residents of the are 1 ( saw only three or four parachutes bloom against th*- sky. The ship was attached to the ZJrdl field. Taiotua. and was up a rout j Ine flight It was a Douglas II I* A bombardment squadron at McCbord craft. Identical to one which crash id and eupioded near Denver In a storm eight days ago. killing nine army men Those who balled out were: Lieut Jack II Imnohue pilot. M«-x |. o Mo Lieut Ih-iiiy I’ King, co pilot Can Mateus Tex Herat II A Davies. Tacoma. Wash Hergt D T Iti-iainx. Independence Mo.; ami Privates T II Htltt. Pipestone, Minn. W L Huntley. Riverbanks. Calif II W Dili; user Hatt Ferna do. Calif, and A W James The privates were listed a* passengers. —■ o Methodist Youths To Withdraw From (Jroup Winona. Aug 31 ll’Pt The national council of Methodist youths today voted to withdraw from the American youth congress lie; aim"lts ethics have proved so flagrantly in opposition to It* highest ideals " The council, meeting here this week tn connection with the Conference of American Youths, declared pollr-y of the AAC "ha* been Inconsistent and changed at times when external conditions did no' warrant such changes " The nature ami direction of these changes were dangerous to the cause which the congress proposed to sever." the council said. _ ... ...„Q Fort Wayne Man Is Accidentally Shot Bob Vandervort. of lt>2« Swinney avenue. Fort Wayne, was admitted to the Adams county memorial hospital this morning after he was accidentally shot in the left leg while on a hunting trip near Decatur. Shortly before noon he submitted to an operation It I* reported that the leg may have to be amputated. Hl* companion on the trip. Harry Hltxman. was carrying the gun. He reported the accident to Sheriff Ed Miller. Combined Band Meets On Monday Afternoon The combined Decatur band will meet at the high school Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock for the l-e---glon parade The girls band will meet Hunday afternoon at the same hour for the concert to lie given later at the Moose home. ..... o — 1 NO PAPER MONDAY In accordance with annual custom no edition of the Decatur Dally Democrat will be published Mondsy. September 2 in obeervsnee of the Labor Day holiday.

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Accident Victim Im Reported Improved Th- <ondltion of (' H Clark of Chi-ago, who was -• rio-nly hurt Friday morning when hi* cat overturned near Willshire Obki. was reported slightly Improved today ||<- I* confined at the Adam* county memorial hospital here The driver of the car. Mis* Augusta E Meyer, hl* secretary, was only slightly hurt. Clark sustained a severe head l’.ijury. STATE FUR IS IN SECOND DAT BifficeM Crowd In History • In Expected At NKth Annual Event Indtan-rfwll’ Anc If. «UR> -liana's **th annual state fair climbs to top speed today with of hiiala ix|x--iing perhaps the largest .Saturday crowd In history Paid attendance yesterday, the opening day was !t.3ls. with children ttmli-r 12 admitted free and i not counted in lite official rtttend !am •• figures. Admission* today were expel ted to soar over the 21.i MH reported last year on Satutday The fairground* hospital got its first two patients, kicked by farm . animals Walter Misrn of Noblesville was hurt in the cheek a* he griHimed a saddle horse A calf kl< ked I* year-old Ronald Evan* of Waveland in the forehead. I A six day harness horse program will In-gin this afternoon with a 2:23 pan-. 2 21 trot and 2 I'l pace for half mile track horses. The National Harn Dame show from radio station WLS In Chi- .Igo will be given In the coliseum from t> to 11 p tn. This Im lude* a nationwide INBCI broad-ast from * Ito 9 The star is Ale* Templeton. I blind pianist ami impersonator. First-place winners in the Four- ! H girls' room Improvement (Inter- . lor decorating! contest included Catherine Dickerson of Cass county. Melba Ice of Howard, laiuise Boggs of Delaware Mary K Gingrich of Tippecanoe. MarI jorie Cress of Care and M iry C. Jones of Fountain — q Rally Ticket (Jroup Ik Partially Given A partial list of the ticket committee for the Young D-mocratic Club rally to be held at the Decatur Country club Thursday night wa* announced today by Heverln Hchurger. president of the dub Mis* Bernice Dubach, secretary, s chairman of the ticket committee. Other members named to date are: Jack Fenstermaker. Geneva’. Mrs. . Paul Bahner. Monroe; Marcia Martin Dick Macklin Mrs Ruth Debolt. Decatur; Robert Brown and Dorothy Hoffman, Kirkland 'ownshlp. and Helen Heuer. Root township. I 0 — Mexicans Plan For Annual Celebration Preliminary plan* are underway here for the celebration of Mexico's Independanco Day by local Mexicans. The celebration Is to he held a’ the Decatur County Club on September 15. The event has been a gala affair egeb year with Mexican resident* In this community in charge of the program. The complete program for the celebration is expected to Im- announced soon.

SAT SHIPS CAN BEINVISIBLE Man Claims He ( an Make Entire Navy, Air Force Invisible New York. Aug 31 (UP) seph Dunnlnger, the wavy halted wand wto-lder. riffled a deck of cards today ami said that ahucks, there really wasn't anything to making the Hrltiah air tone invia Ible. he could make the whole British navy invisible Yes, he said, battleship* could get within a half mile of their targets before the enemy could see them Out of Berlin last night came a report that British plane* bombing Germany were found to be coated with a varnish which made them UnUlble One British plane which ' was shot down according to the reporta, becanre Invisible when automobile headlights were turned on It That's what the Germans said What the British said was that this was a lot of nonsense and the Germans were just trying to make excuses for their bum shooting Dunnlnger said he was convim •. ,-d that Hrltalti I* using a "magical 'principle" invented by him and perfected by hi* friend and colleague, the late Horace Goldin, "one of i the world's greatest magicians " “Gava Device to U. • " Dunnlnger actually announced ■ and demonstrated his gadget, on a small scale model of a battleship, several months before war broke out last Septemlter. On such a Male the trl-k could have been done with mirrows but Dunnlnger insisted that absolutely no mirrors were used and that, at a cost of a 1 few thousand dollars per ship, it could be worked on real battleships, airplanes tanks or even troops in the field "I said at that time that I wa* showing the duvli-e to interested congressman." Dunning recalled ' Hlm e then I have given it to the American government, whl-h will I use it when the time comes" The magician, who prefers to be known as a ' inentalist." since he specializes in mind-reading tricks, refuses to say whether varnish wa* 1 used in the Invisibility devices, as was reported from Berlin. "All I can say is that It is a piece of apparatus, about one-tenth the size of the plane. whl< h can he ap piled practically Instantaneously and render* the plane absolutely Invlalhe at a distance of 59 feet " he asesrted. Professional Illusionist* have long known the fundamental of the principle Involved. Dunnlnger said, but hi* application of It I* entirely new. 0 Willkie Plans Six Or Seven Speeches Rushville. Indiana. Aug 31 -U P) — Republican presidential candid ate Wendell I. Willkie worked today on a series of speeches, which he will deliver In his first extensive 1 stumping tour. He leaves Rushville September H and completes the tour at Detroit Heptember 30. ' after visit* to the mid west, south ■ west. Pacific coaat. north west and east. He plans six or seven major ’ speeches hut has not announced > the subject of any of them, although It was likely that the formal campaign opener at Coffeyville. Kansas Heptember 16 will deal '; with New Deal attitude* towards business and their effect on reiovtry.

LABOR DAT TO BRINGHOLIDAT FOR DECATUR Suspend Practically All BilMineNN*, Legion Event In Feature The city and community will mark a 'wo-day vacation starting tomorrow and carrying over Labor Day on Monday. Practically all business in th* city With th* exception "f drug stores, confeetiouei ie», filling Stg tlon* and a few others, will Ih- suspended. The |mst office will Ih- closed and only special delivery mail will be delivered. All public office* and the public library will Ih- closed. The Dally Democrat will not pule ll«h on Monday, in accordance with annual custom. The feature of the holiday this year will Ih- the dedication ceremonies at the new horn- of Adams post No. 42. Amerl-an la-gion The complete program for l*ith Hun-lay and Monday appeared in Friday's »|h-- ial Issue of the Itaily Deimx rat. Cooler weather here Is expei ted to lessen the number of |b-< aturl'es who will go to lake resorts and take motoring trips over the two day holiday but heavy traffic Is expected nevertheless. Purdue Orientation Starts September 7 Igifayette. Aug 31 Preliminary to the opening of the 67th academic year, incoming freshmen and transfer student* will gather at Purdue University. Saturday morning Hept. 7 for the opening of the annual Oitetitatlon period whlih Is -leslgned to bridge the gap betw--. it high nchiml 4*l i-dlege* While the new students are in the midst ot the Orientation program, which continues through Tuesday, Hept I" upiH-r < la*»men will start on Thursday morning. Sept. 12 Applications for admission from new student* were due by Sept. 1. PLACE ORDERS FOR AIRPLANES War Department (’on* trtacts For 687 Planes, 20,000 Engines Washington Aug 31 'UPJ The wir department Friday gave tu-w Impetus to the defense pile gram liy awaidniK contract* for 6*7 <<>mliat plane* and concluding an agreement with the Wiight aeronautical cor|H>rathin for produitlmi of 20,wm aircraft engines The combat craft contract* are with the Lockheed Aircraft cotporatlott. Burbank. Cal . for 41" Interceptor pursuit plane* to cost 1*" 274.797 and the Boetlng Aircraft company Seattle, for 277 heavy bomliers to cost |7" 449.955 The contracts brought to 2.6'7 tintotal of army planes ordered under the 194" 41 appropriation act Prior to today, however, only 56 i-ombat ships had been ordered, the rest I being trainers Today’s orders bring the number of combat craft on order tinder tin- new program to ' 740. Describing the Wright engine deal the largest of its kind ever negotiated the army said that together with an arrangement concluded yesterday for the ('lilted Aircraft company to produce 71.009 Pratt and Whitney engine* it should care for requirement of both the army and navy through 1911 and 1942 Order Cots. Clothing. Tents Simultaneously the department announced that the Curtiss Wright corporation has agreed to manufacture 14.<"*" airplane propellers Officials said these orders. Ilk-* Several other recent arrangement for production of defense materials, wern negotiated on the assumption 1 that congress will approve promptly the 35.00n.000.tm0 "total defettMappropriation bill The senate passed the measure yesterday and the house sent it to conference today. -o I. U. Extension To Open September 4 The Fort Wayne Extension Center ot Indiana University will open the tall semester Heptember 4. and following a week of special registration recitations will begin Wednesday. September 11 A faculty of 45 members uvill conduct 91 course* . this fall. The Center's offices located at 1120 South Barr street will be I open from 4:3V a. m. until 6 p. m.

German Air Fleets Are Again Hurled Back By English

LAUDS FEDERAL FARM PROGRAM Schricker Declares Agriculture (JettinK First Real Relief Oxford. Indiana. Aug II -UR) - American agriculture is egper I b-m Ing It* first real relief In hl* lory. Lieutenant governor Henry F S' hrl' ker, candidate for governor on the Ih-miH ratlc ticket, yesterday I told Benton county farmers at the Oxford centennial celebration Citing the Democratic party Hi hricker said "we loaned billions of dollar* to the American farmer; to keep him on his farm and he has paid bl* (axe* and debt* This pro-, grant save-l not only the farmer but Itanking and great Insurance companies '' Fred Bays, state Democratic chairman, told the rally to join un der the leadership of men who had done something real and diffetent We are going to fight until every 1 one of the platform pledges of the party is carried Into law and until; Ine great humanitarian. Franklin D Roosevelt Is returned for four more glorious years. • o Fall -Installment Os Taxes May Be Paid John Blakey, county treasurer, announced today that all receipts and bookkeeping has now been done lit order to receive the fall installment of taxes. Persons wishing to pay their taxes before the deadline may do so at any time now Treasurer Blakey said Eat h year many pay at this time In order to avoid long lines of persons waiting to pay on the last day. --————oWar Bulletins Blast Berlin Berlin, Aug 31 — -UP' ~ British bombers blasted Berlin with high esplosives and mcen. diary bombs in a two hour predawn raid today as the first year of war drew to a close The official news agency sauf In a communique that bomb* had struck public building* and private dwellings in the central city as well as in residential districts and that roof fire* had been started and buildings wrecked. Head For London London. Aug. 31 — 'UP' — German planes flew over a south east town late this afternoon apparently headed for the London area British fighters and anti-aircraft fire engaged tne it.vaders and drove them off One plane was reported shot down in flames by antiaircraft. Several large fires and e«plosions in factories m Berlin occurred as the result of a raid by Royal air force planes last mght the air ministry said today. German Loses Berlin, Aug 31 — ‘UP> — Nazis said today that German army losse* m the first year of the war vnrt 39.000 killed. 143.000 wounded and 24.000 missing —a total of 204.000 casual I tiaa. Hit British Cruiser Rome. Aug 31 tl'l’i A high command communique said today that Italian Plane* bad bombed and hit a British cruiser In the Red Sea and had bombed British mechanized unit* in the Dar El Hambra zone in Egypt. Bucharest. Rumania. Aug 31 — II P) Report* today from Cluj, capital of Translyvania. said ten* of thousand* of Rumanian peasant* had arrived there on foot from all part* of Transylvania and were demonstrating against cession of northern Transylvania to Hungary. No serious incidents were mentioned In first reports, however. 0 .. David D. Mettler Ik Drawn On Petit Jury In the list of petit jurors published recently the name of one Juror should have been David D Mettler iol Berne Instead of David D. Miller.

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Two Nazi Attempts To Reach London Failed; 2(M> Planeu In First Attack. 62 SHOT DOWN Jxmdon. Aug 31 'UP) Two ' iH.w-iful Geiiuuti air fleet*, raring across the southeast coast on their way to London, were thrown back , in disorderly flight on* after th* other today bin gave lamdon Ils fifth and sixth air raid alarms In i 24 hours. There were 2l*' planes In the ' first fleet, which brought lamdon I a rush hour alarm as lamdMier* Were on their way to work The second followed in leas than two hours. Waves of German planes trying to force a path inland caused the seiiind warning There was a ter- * rifle burst ot anti-aircraft and machine gun flte from all along the coaat British fighters swarmed Into the fight and could Ih- wen divi Ing in anil out among the tabling planes. A witness at one point said he i saw several German planes plunge to earth An air ministry i onimunlqui- said that "one enemy bomln-r was shut down last night and three of our fighter* are mi*«lng this morning ’ The ministry claimed that at , legal six German plane* had been shot down today One district In the lamdon area suffered severely from overnight * raids as result of more than a i score of high explosive bombs whii h were diopped in one area A working class apartment I>l<h k was hit but at the time most of th* • tenants were In air raid shelters i Incendiary bomba illuminated th* district and net fire to a house. Bomb* well while firemen were t fighting the tlUse i' Foor German planes In diamond formation led the raiding fleet Behind them came 12 bombers In formations of three Over the bomber* were .Messerschmitt fighters. i Then came a wave of many bomber* escorted by 3" fighters, and , the bulk of the fleet followed The raider* disappeared Inland. An air raid alarm was sounded lit I the Umdoii area at * 27 a. in but Londoners generally saw and heard no planes and there was no anti- : aircraft gun fire The German raider* disappeared Inland from the southeast coast. Half an hour later they disappear* eil streaking for home Their parade had been broken and they i were scattered in disorder all over the sky with British fightei planes swirling and diving around them, machine guns spurting fire people In the streets of town* and villages and farmers in their fields watched the retreat, tracing high flying planes by the white exhaust streaks that swept a. ros* the clear «ky and cheering the British fighter* who hurtled after the Invader* Tile raid alarm hail caught million* of Londoner* on their way to work after a respite of les* than i five hour* alni'e the all dear" at the end of a «lx hour and 4* minute raid had been sounded at 3'44 I a. m It wa* Indicated that the German* had suffered heavy losses iln this vain attempt to break I through to London Coastal watchers saw three Ger- ' man planes, fleeing ha< k toward France, crash at one point and a fourth was believed down In the ; vicinity i Great Britain had claimed a : smashing victory ovet an estimated >SO" German battle plane* hich had bombed the London area II and England generally from mid- , .morning yesterday until dawn to* I <l*y ft was asserted officially that S 3 German plane* had been destroyed in yesterday's raid* on Great Brlt« afn. and unofficial report* ran considerably higher, aside from any German planes which, damaged, might have crashed on the way | home Lohs of 19 Brlthh fighter ! plane* wa* admitted, but pilot* oC ! 10 of them bad landed safe Break Through — Report , Berlin, Aug. 31 HJ.PJ - German bomber and fighter plane* "broke through a BritlMi fighter barrage" this morning to carry out raid* on military objective* In'Hertfordihlre, north of London and "part of them flew over central ’ laindon unhindered." the official news agency asserted today Hangar* and barrack* were de- . stroyed at airdrome* raided in . I Hertfordshire, the agency said, and ' /NMUMUi VN FAWM IMM4CBI