Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 210, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1940 — Page 1

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Trurk h Demolished In Accident Tucsda\ lUlph A Weaver. 87. of Fort Wayne, narrowly escaped aerlr.ua injury last evening when bi« tru< k rolled over several lime* aftei striking a passenger car. The ar t Ident occurred five miles north of llecatur on federal road 27. Henry C Berning. *6 of north of llecatur. was the driver of the auto involved in the act iden*. An investigation of the accident d,.rioted that Berning had signalled for a left turn As he started to turn the car into his farm lane, the truck started around. The auto was not badly damaged The truth, which rolled over several times as. ter nltting thr car was practb ally demoli*hed It ia owned by the White Crowe Supply company, a beauty supply manufacturing concern. Iteputy Sheriff la-o tlillig Investigated. REDUCTION IN COUNTY'S TAX LEVY IS SEEN County Council Expected To Complete Action I .ate Today Prunings made by the county u.unell on estimates in the county budget for IMI will bring a redur - tlon In the county's tas levy. It was predicted late this afternoon The count II was still in session at 3 o'clock and their work was not yet completed. Consideration was being given to the general budget the welfare, and highway budgets. Ilegardless of what action Is taken on the highway budget, a reduction In the appropriations would not decieas*- the levy, as all funds for this department rotne from the state gasoline tag. no |<><al levy being made Based on a total budget of |l6«. 71«. the county would require |»J.40l for operating expenses A lucent levy on each llou of taxable property would raise the amount For every 12 f.oo the council prunes from the eatimates the levy can be reduced one cent. The bond levy will not be changed Next year the rate will be only two cents on each lino. It being necessary to raise only IS.ns. The highway budget as filed, based on the estimate of gas lax to he received It. IS4I, is _■<>•• The council resumed work this morning on the I*4! budget and members stated that they would complete the job iate thia afternoon. The councilmen ratified their action of yesterday by signing the ordinance for the additional appropriations and transfer of funds totaling S3S.HIS7. The additional appropriations t ome out of the l»40 budget and the transfer of funds is made to permit the county auditor to make the proper bookkeeping entries. With the transfer of fun'ds. the final entry of the charge off of public funds lost In closed banks will be made From the pruning given the estimates tiled by the various county officials, a reduction will result sufficient to lop off several cents from the county general levy, filed at 3* cents. This morning the councilmen took up the welfare budget Klmer Baumgartner of Berne and I H. P. Schmitt of this city mgin-(CONTINt-’Clt ON l-AOK MIX* ro HOLD DANCE HERETHDRSDAY Young Democratic Club To Hold Dance Thursday Night A floor show will be one of the features of the informal dance to lie held at the Decatur Country club Thursday night by the Young Democratic club of Adam* county, as one of the opening phases of the fall program for the organisation. To be featured on the floor show will be the Geels family and other entertainment. Harriet Fruchte Is chairman of the entertalnm<Ait committee. Other members are Agnes Nelson. Mrs. Lsta Aschleman. Mrs. Rose Gase. Vlrglnlh Boms and Father sehlagAdmission to the dance will be 26 cents a person. Tickets may be bought from members of the club or at the door the night of the dance. Invitations to attend the dance , have been extended other young ; Democratic clubs In the fourth district and representatives from all I other counties are expected. 11

FASCIST COUP IS THWARTED IN RUMANIA Iron Guard Attempt To Overthrow (Government Is Defeated Ru< barest. Rumania. Hep* 4 — UP) King Carol charged Gen Victor Antonescu, a ixipular army figure and a warm friend of profascist iron guardlst leaders, with formation of a new government today after failure of a *en«at|onal Iron guard attempt to overthrow the throne Antone*) u was called in to succeed rx*igiie<l premier lon Glgurtu after swift action by |H>llee and soldiers that frustrated an iron guard attempt to destroy <<>mninni rations and stage an uprising in Bucharest Constanta Brasov, Binala. Arad, t'luj .uni Grades .Mare during the night ttffnlals said that the government was in control of the situa tion everywhere In Bucharest Iron guardlsts dressed as soldiers and police cut telephone cables, attempted io seixe the radio stat ion and fired shots near the king's palace Extent of iron guard ai ts elsewhere was uncertain There weie many artests and search was started for Horla Hitna Iron guard leader but it was reported that at least four generals had tracked the attempted coup All peraons attempting to enter or leave the city were stopped and searched Folice headquarters reported that two Iron guard mem here en route to the ,-jty in a truck carrying 12 machine guns and a supply of ammunition, had been killed Inside the city, hundreds of heavily armed policemen searched for leaders of the latest iron guard coup d'etat, which police described as a miserable failure According to police rscords. the outbreak ended with this net re suit: One policeman given a black eye. Oue guard at the royal palace shot in the buttocks. Seven young men. ages 2<) to 23. U-OXTIXI'KI* ox f A<IK FOUR) COUNCIL WILL RECEIVE BIOS Bids To Ik Received October K On Plant Improvements Bids representing approximately 172 *5" in contracts as another step : Jn the half million dollar Improve ment at the municipal light and power plant are to be received by the city council at 2 o'clock tCSTt October 1. The date for receiving the blds was set last night by the council after the Ixtdy approved the plans and specifications presented by R K Marker of the engineering firm of Froelich * Emery, consulting engineers Five contracts In all are to lobld on October X These Include contract 11. for piping, contract 12. Insulation; contract 13. generator cooling air duct; contract 14. automatic combustion control 'equipment, contract 15. boiler plant instruments Mr. Marker estimated that the contracts would total approximately *72.750, composed of the followI ing estimates: contract 11. 380.000; contract 12. 38.000; contract 13. 3750; contracts 14 and 15, 36000. He pointed out that while the latter two contracts were combined in making an estimate, separate proposals could be submitted Up To 3445,000 With the awarding of these contracts approximately 3443.000 of the half million dollars In Improve ments will have been contracted for. It is estimated To date contracts have been let on more than 3372.000 The only remaining contracts yet to lie awarded are the wiring contracts. It was estimated that these would toal about 325.000. which with engineers' fees. etc., would bring the total to approximately 3500.000 Immediately upon approval of the plans and specifications by the “7coNTfNU«D on PAOffi FIVN> o Rev. Rosselot At Annual Conference Rev. G T Rosselot, pastor of the First United Brethren church. Is attending the annual U. B conference at l.akv Winona this week. Mrs. R. O Wynn, official delegate. , Is also attending the conference. Howard Wisehaupt. of this city, is speaking at each night session.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday. September I, 1940.

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JAILBREAK IS IVERTEDHERE L<»n<* Inmate Os County Jail Attempt.** Break By Starting Fire An attempted jailbreak ami a serious fire were averted at an early hour this morning at the county jail when Sheriff Ed Miller and members of hi* family were awakened by the smoke Investigation of the blaze, which was extinguished before atiy definite damage was done by Sheriff Mill) r and firemen, it is believed definitely plated the blame tor the origin on the jail's lone inmate, Hiram McCollum, of Geneva, who I* awaiting coininittement to the Muscatatuek colony at Butlerville Rouemary Miller the sheriff* daughter, was first to be awakened shortly before 2 a in. Sheriff and Mrs Miller and another daughter. Ethel, were aroused soon after to find almost the entire Jail and the sheriff'* living quarters filled with smoke The sheriff attempted to locate the blaze while other memlter* of the family summoned the fire de Itartmeui lie found the fire in the east end ot the basement A large pile of kindling wood wa* biasing high With the aid of a lire eztlnguisher kept at the jail and a tub of water, he controlled the blaze until the fire department arrived The only damage resulting wa* the small loss of the burned kindling and the fact that the jail was considerably smoked. The sheriff, upon Investigation, found the cover of a paper pat k of matches and other waste paper lying near the burning kindling It was evidenced that the inmate had dropped the matches or burning paper through a hole in the floor onto the kindling. The hole wa* left when plumbing pipes were changed Kcreening had also been torn from (CONTINUBD ON PAGE FIVE) WILLKIE AGAIN CRITICIZES FDR No Objection To Dentroyer Deal But .Akkrilk Methods Used Rushville, Ind. Sept. 4 <U Wendell L Wlllkle renewed hl* criticism of President Roosevelt today for failure to take the U K. public Into hl* confidence on foreign policy, but did not object to the latest U. K-Brltlbh deal for exchange of 50 overage U. 8. destroyer* for American naval and air bases In British possessions He said ft wa* "regrettable—-that the president did not deem it necessary In connection with tbls pro posal to secure the approval of congress or permit public discussion prior to adoption " “The country will undoubtedly approve of the program to add to our naval and air liases and assistance given to Great Britain.’* he Mid. "The people have a right to know of such Important commitment* prior to and not after made We must be extremely careful In these tCONTLNUBD ON PAUN FIVMJ'

Declares Intention To Become Citizen ' Imelaration of Intention In be* oml> naturalized I’niled State- Citizen 1 has been fIM In clrcklt court bwrw by peter J Hale-gger. 424 Clark ’ street, Berne. The palters «tafe that Mr Halteg begger. now fix years old came to tin- United States April 11. I*7B from bis birthplace at Kottboz i Berne. Switzerland He is married i and has eight children . — o ANNEXATION OF GROUND LIKELY Another Delay h Met In Annexation Os Country Club To City I The annexation *of the De<-alur 1 <ountry dub by the city of Decatur , appeared probable today although • the matter received another temp--1 orary delay at the meeting of the city council last night j In a roll call vote on the annexation taken al the council meet- • ig last night, three councilmen voted in favor of the annexation, one 1 against and one passed r Thi* prohibited a suspension of 1 the rules and the taking of a set • I ond and third vote, a* is custoin--1 ary in the unanimous approval of ' an ordinance. , Those voting In favor of the an- ’ negation were: toundlmen Kenneth Arnold. t*harle* Langston and Morris Plngry Andrew Appelman ' passed and Russell Owens voted ' against the ordinance A majority roll call vote must ' now be given at two more meeting* I before the ordinance <an In- adopted. 1 ! A petition for the annexation of ' 2o acres of ground, on which rest* the dub. wa* presented to the council some time ago It was pointed out at that time that the annexation would give the city more taxable property, while affording the dub with fire protection and enabling it to apply for an alcoholic beverage permit under the usual retailer'* setup, rath- [ er than a dub license, on whiih it was twice turned down by the state beverage commission, when a • group of local mlnisier* and citi- i Zens appeared as objector*. The petillon ha* »lnce been amended to take In only the ground occupied by the cluh house and that immediately surrounding it. 0. K. Budget Ordinance The council also approved the budget ordinance, totalling 35*.02281. recently proposed which would set the tax rate for the city at 45 cent*, subject to the approvsl of the tax boards. The levy ordinance also set the poll tax rate in the city at 31- This budget is about 310.000 higher than that In 1940 The 45-cent rate is now In effect. Petitions Presented A petition for • rural light line (CONTINUED ON PAOM PtVßt o Shelbyville Man Is Killed By Auto Indianapolis. Ind. Sept 4—<l'P) —Frank 8. Kirk. 45. of Shelbyville, wa* killed yesterday when hit by an automobile driven by Nathan Bitner. 22. of New Bethel, near here.

German Air Raiders Repulsed By British Fighters; Hitler Says Britain To Be Smashed

NEW THREAT BY JAPAN IS SEEN IN INOO-CHINA Chinene Sources Indicate* Japan May Invade* Indo-China By United Press A new thteat of Japanese Invasion of French Indot'hlna and a pro Fascial outbreak In Rumania today followed dis. Insure of the United Stales trade of 5o destroy ers sot British air and naval Itase rights guarding Lite western hemisphere. The aerial war went on with deadly monotony In Europe with German planes again bombing tYie British Isles and royal air force bombers striking at Natl bases on the French COWBt, but events of potential importance in the trend of warfare came from distant parts of the world In the war east. Chinese and other sources reported that the war between Japan and China might l>e extended to Indot'hlna this week end as a result of alleged Japanese plans to move into the Frent h < olotty and Chlne-e plan* for a count er attack Japan ha* Iteen seeking, without complete success the right to establish liases In IndoChina and the Chinese have ma*>*d troops near the frontier » lAuing that they would atta< k If the Japanese In vaded the French colony Whether the French forces would resist or whether Adolf Hitler or Josef V Statin would intervene was highly ! uncertain, but there were many i . Indications that the Japanese were determined to act Tokyo officials would not comment In Home and Berlin, the United State* trade of over-age destroyer* for eight Important Atlantic de fe||*e outpost* was det ided as "the break up of the British Empire and as an act that "involve*’’ the Cuited State* in the European conflict Although Nazi* viewed the trade chiefly a* a sign of British weak ness, Virginia Gayda rhe Fascist mouthpiece said that It brought the Washington government "increasingly" into the war Britain hailed the ext hange as an Important factor in strengthening the empire's battle against the axis powers and indicated that British sailors *oon would take over the traded destroyers The moral effect of the trade not only on the British people but on neutral nations was not emphasized l>y lamdon but was believed likely to l>e as Important a* the addition of 50 destniyers to the British fleet. In Washington, where controversy over the deal appeared likely to be of secondary Importance, the leasing of buses over a I.IHMi-ntile Atlantic mean was regarded a* a safeguard against aerial or naval attack from Emope * well an CONTINCKII ON PAGE THHKVI SUELZER NAMED DISTRICT HEAD — Joseph G. Suelzer Named j < Fourth District Democratic Chairman Albion. Ind. Kept. 4. — 'UP) — Joseph G Huelzer. Fort Wayne. Allen county Democratic chairman since 1936. late yesterday was elected chairman of the fourth district at a meeting of party chairman and vice-chairmen here. Suelzer succeeds Virgil M 81mmon*. Bluffton, head of the state department of publie work* who resigned because of the limitation* of the Hatch act. Shortly after hi* election. Suelzer announced he would resign a* county party head effective next Monday. The meeting here wax presided over by state chairman Fred Bay*. Adam* county was repreaented at the meeting by G. Remy Bierly, Democratic county chairman, and Mr*. J. A. Long, prominent Democratic leader, wbo attended on the proxy of Mr*. Margaret Rhode*. Democratic county vice-chairman. They reported au enthusiastic and harmonious meeting.

SCHORLS LIST ENROLLMENTS Inrreasr Shown At Monmouth. Decrease Reported At lk*rnc An Increase al Monmouth and a decrease at Berne were re|M*rted today In enndlment figures releaned by the head* of the two school*. Lymann Hann, principal of the Monmouth school, reported a total of 18* siudenls at the InslHution. an Increase of about l<> The enrollment by grades follow* senior. 19 junior. Is. sophomore S 3, freshman. 29. eighth, grade, 23. fifth, sixth and seventh ( grades, 29. first, second, third and fourth grades. 26. totals, high school. Including the eighth grade. ' j 114 and grade* 55 385 At Berne E M Webb. Berne *< hool supet Intendent, repotted an enrollment! of 395 there This Is a de< rrase of - six from last year. The grades loialled 245 in , otnparison with, 257 lasi year, while the high »< bool I reported 150 In comparison with 144 last year The enrollment by grade* first. , •7> second, 24: third 27 fourth., 32; fifth 32. sixth. 27. seventh. 43 and i lkli'fi fteshman U; I sophomore, 4': junior 36 and »en-| lor. 33 o Church Board M ill Meet This Evening: The offlt ial board of the First Methodist < hurch will meet this evening in the church parlor* An . Important business meeting will be i , conducted o CAPTURE ENDS FUGITIVE HDNT — Six Convicts. Escaped From Arkansas Prison, Are Nabbed Columbia. l-‘ Sept 4 U.PJ A search for six desperate fugitive* ' from an Arkansas prison tamp ended today In th»- surrender of 1 three the capture of two and the death of the sixth In a gun battle at the Mississippi rivet bridge at Vicksburg. Mis* Vicksburg police- shoi and killed Bruce Fowler. 9. Gary, Indiana and t aplured Floyd Boyce, alia* la-li >y | Boyd 29. Tills.), Okla . aftei three of their companions who had spent : the night in a 70,imm» acre swamp near here surrendered with their hostage* Percy Lostin, 25 ringleader of the band which escaped from the Cummins prison farm at Gould. Arkansas on l.alior Ihty. and engaged In a gun battle with police near Garden City. Ark . wa» taken near Ark ihe last to lie captured They were the last remaining members of the group of 35 which had terrorized Northern Louisiana and Southern Arkansas with kidI naplng* following their esc ape Fowler and Boyte broke away from their fellow fugitives and kidnaped I. Hinton, a Columbian cotton ginner later released near | Monroe Then at Tallulah, they seized another automobile Two Men Are Burned Here This Afternoon 0 Donald Krick, of Decatur, and Merlin Gromeaux, of Monroeville, sustained first and second degree burns to their hands and arms this afternoon when psint thinner caught fire while they were working in the bean storage elevator at the Central Soya company They were treated by a local physician and Gromeaux was taken to the Adam* county memorial hosipial. Brazil Teacher Ik Accident Victim Brazil, Ind. Sept. 4—UJ.Bf Tlip body of William Terrill. 22. a Brazil school teacher, who was killed In an auto accident near Manhattan, Kan., was brought here today Terrill was to have opened hl* school year today, hut left suddenly without explanation beyond saying he was going to California

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Raiders Are Repulsed In Disorder In Effort To Bomh London; Chancellor Hitler Speaks SEES VICTORY Ixmdcn, Sept. 4 tl'Pi—flerman plane*, attempting to follow up a ferocious pre-dawn attack on a northwest England town with a new raid on latndon. were repulsed in disorder today in a dramatic battle with British fighter plane* high over the southeast coast. An air raid alarm indicating a second attack on lamdon was sounded at 1:45 p m. A big force of raiding plane* came over the coast hardly visible lln a light haze. A* they came in from the sun. a squadron of British I fighter plane* dived down from the sky and there was a dramatic (tattle at 15. mm feet. Two of Ihe raiding plane* crashed within a few minute* and the remainder, scattering, streaked for France, routed. It wa* estimated unofficially that | six German plane* were shot down during the morning air raid. The first air raid alarm on l»n---don just missed the peak of the morning rush hour. Alarm* sounded iat 9: IM a. m. and the "all clear'' I wa* sounded half an hour later at 9:48 Earlier a big fleet of raiding plane* had crossed the southeast I coast at great height. The planes •met terrific anti-aircraft gun fire, and. after flying over i coastal town tried to force away up the Thame*, only to meet a new blast of fire which forced them to turn back. German planes had lu-en active along the southeast coast since dawn Early formation* consisted of a few plane* eat h. flying at great height It appeared that the planes were seeking to reach Inland ob< fjective*. probably Ixtndon. Irecauao ! they did not drop Itotubs in the 1 i- the morning ad1 vanced their activities became almost incessant. Hundreds of high explosive and incendiary bombs had Iteen dropped on a northwest England town early today Most of them landed in suburbs where they wrecked home* tnd >au»ed numerous casualties. Bombs fell on a church, a convent, ami a nursing home A communique of the air and home security tnlnlsterie* on thss night s activities said: "Enemy attacks on thi* country during the night were not on an extensive stale amt were inainly directed at the northwest, and the area of the Bristol Channel. In both | these area* town* were attacked with high explosive and incendiary Itotnbs. Fire* whiih were started were quickly dealt with but a numleer of dwelling house* were damaged some «enously. "Botnlt* dropped on a residential district in a town on the northeast coast wreiked two bouses and damaged others. "In the northwest and northeast casualties were not numerous. "In the Bristol < hannel area some casualties were caused a small number of whi< It were fatal "A few high explosive and many incendiary bomb* were reported tCDNTINUBD ON FAUK HIXI — o - THOMAS SPEAKS TO LIONS CLUB School Principal Discusses Preparedness Program Tuesday Bryt e Thomas. Lincoln school principal and a major in the reserva army of the United States, was th* speaker at the Tuesday night meet* Ing of the Lion* club In the Rica hotel. Maj. Thomas discussed the preparedness program now underway In the nation and the international situation. He quoted * high army official a* saying that “it was known Germany had planned to attack tltq United States or its possessions within nine mon fits after conquering Great Britain." Major Thomas also discussed In detail the recent army maneuvers in Wisconsin, where he served as 4 major in directing the activities. Glenn Hill presided over the meeting and Walter J. Krick acted as chairman of the program.