Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 8 February 1941 — Page 1

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67 CUSS Id MEN ANNOUNCED Draft Board Lhts H7 Men Am Available For Military Training The •* men In etaM I A. alnca the new quota ha« i»een aewemhled. were Hated today by Dorie Nelmm. Adame county draft board clerk The H«t did contain (7 men Ml« of these have been called to aer vk*. however, for February 2S and three at the top of the Hat will leave February H •• replacements for the three who were rejected recently when J« men were called as the county's second quota The three who will leave Feb Hl ary II are: Richard thile Fuhrman. Paul Ronald Elliott and Ira Geome Inelchen The all who will leave February 2<t are Paul Gllpen Neldlgh. Charles Russell Wagner. Marlon Bryan Burke. James Theodore ftchell Leonard K. Roth. Robert Maa Mtrlikler The men who are now In class l-A. Including the first al*, who have been designated as replacements. In event any of thorn- who already have received orders are (ejected, follow, with eaoh name preceded by the county order number. The letter “V" designates a volunteer ISM-V John Anderson Jones Hi -V Heverln Herbert fk-hnrger m V Wendell Hmlth Hheehan M« V James Anthony M< Hride V Paul George Krick 2U V Jerome Anthony Grothanse 110 Cedric Jacob Cohhln 15f Junior Drake IST Rnliert Henry Meyers Itt Llmsr Usual Frans IU Edgar Christian Fuelling l<7 Norbert Henry Bultemeler HI Raymond Leroy Btnlth 171 Cornelius Lawrence Rchirack IBS Byron Jeus Trlcker l»5 IfOUls Arthur Rleeke 207 John Francis fhhurger 21< Tillman Oacar Biller ’ls Nell Warren Highland 23< Lawrence Luther Yager 246 Glen Dolphua Adler 2C4 ohn Kills Eaplch 2<3 Robert Meshberger JOO Clarence George Kruse 106 Harvey Elroy Gerber 315 Carlton Clyde Rtelner 1-AO 317 Howard Little 324 Richard Sherman Johnson 332 Vernon Edrlngton 234 Leater Lowell Drake 140 Paul Irven Taylor 367 Willard Albert l.xtiman lAO 36S Glenford Zehr Belfler 1-AO 3<7 John George Hoffman 37P Wilbur looter Burkhart 3M Sherwood Stanley Sprunger 1 AO 3M*a Melvin Ferdinand Bultemeler 3M Vernon William Affolder 401 Donald Little 401 Ambrose Joseph Spangler 132 Luther Ambrose Bovine 467 Man-el Noah Brandr 406 Alfred John Rumachlag 441 John Affolder 476 Raymond Mwla Levy 1-AO 471 Elmer Henry Kramer 3*4 Glen Gerald Woodruff 612 Richard William Andrews 512 Edward Louie Rummers 611 Monroe Reck Fuhrman 523 Alvin Macke 541 Fred Albert Achelman 646 Hugh Richard Beider 341 Homer Robert Reineck 1-AO 6*6 Lwwtmw* Earl Anspatigh 5*6 Paul Edward Burkhart 5*6 Russell Lewis Stump 670 Howard Elmc Habegger 676 Isadore Anthony Kaluga 576 Charles William Busse 666 Vernon Jerome Huffman 566 Maurice Maiwell Smith *OO Robert Levi Long *O3 Herbert Ehlerding (22 Harold Fred Fuelling *27 Everett Woodrow Gehtel 1-AO *6O Francis John Wertiberger Dairy Management School At Bluffton A dairy management school will be held at the Bluffton community building, Wednesday afternoon, begin n lag at 1:00 o’clock. Well* county agent M 8. Smith, announced. Important problems of the dairyman will be discussed In detail, by E. A. Gannon, eitension dnlryman of Purdue. Such matter* as tbs dairy feed budget, pasture program, feeding and raising young stock, sir* selections and breeding, the production of quality dairy product*. and dairy marketing problem* will be Included In the afternooa program.

MAN ARRESTED I ON EXTORTION CHARGE TODAY FBI Announcru Attempted Extortion In De Tristan t'ase Washington. Feb. * 'XJ.FI Director J. Mnr Hoover of the federsl burrs 11 of Investigation, today announced the arrest of Rsym<md Psrher. 62. sn ••g convict, on a charge of attempted r* tort lon of lio.ntm from th» countess Marc Dr Tristan, under the threat of violence to her three-year-old son. Parker 1s being held at Stockton. dal. Hoover said that Parker, who escaped from <l-m«-n and Ranta Rosa police December 2<». had confessed In writing to his preparation of eitortlon note* when confronted with evidence of hl* participation prepared by the technical lalnralory of the FBI This wa* the eecond Incident Involving the De Trlitan child He waa kidnaped Hept 20. IS4« and held for lioo.tton ransom His kid naper. Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenhrolch. was captured by two woodsmen and the child retnrned to hl* parent* without the ransom being paid. Then on November 16. 1640, Court tea* De Tristan received the first of three extortion letters. Hoover said A second letter wa* received Sept 4 !•»♦<> which demanded that (IS.ae* lw placed in a cigar Im>* and delivered to an Intermediary of the egtortlonl»t. No contact wa* made with the extortionist and on December 14. I*4o. a third letter wa* received which contained payoff Instructions. The FBI and local police arranged to Irap the extortionist but he slipped through their net at that time. Adams County Youth Has Ankle Broken Willard Wulllman. 16. son of Mr. and Mr*. Menassen WuIIHWan of north of Berne. I* suffering from a fractured right angle, sustained when b* fell on the lew in front of hi* home Wulllman I* a member of an independent tmakethail team In Berne. SUGAR BENEFIT : FUNDS HIGHER Growers In Decatur To Receive About $2.05 Per Ton As Benefits Sugar beet grower* in the Decatur area will receive approximately 12*6 per ton of beet* from I*4* government benefit payment*. L. E Archbold, county agent. *uted today. The payment I* made to grower* through the Central Sugar company's compliance with the AAA program A processing tax of M cents par hundred pound* of raw sugar manufactured Is assessed by the government and then distributed among the growers. Due to the high sugar content obtained from last year's crop of beets, the benefit payment Is higher per ton. In I*3* the payment per ton was 11.74. i The gross payment announced by th* Washington AAA offices I* 12 07 per ton In the Decatur area. From this Is deducted one percent for clerical help and work connected with the local soil conservation office, netting the grower approximately |2 *6. This may vary in a few cases. Mr. Archbold, depending on *he former yield and other considerations which are lavolved la th* administration of the program. Th* augar company ha 4 already paid growers 56.60 per ton for lieets. The first advance payment in th* contract is only 55 per ton. but th* payment was inc sasod 60 cents. With th* government payment of (2.06 and the company’s advance of *6 6* beet grower* will have already received 17 55 per ton for their b*et». with another payment from the company about March 16. o - Decatur Flier is Given Solo License Walter J Bockman, local insnranc* agent, Is anotbsr Decaturite who has become an ardent enthusiast in the art of flying, according to reports. Mr. Bockman ha* been doing considerable flying at Paul Baer field In Fort Wayne since j receiving hie solo license.

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Decatur. Indiana, Saturday, February K, 1911.

Troops Parade For New Jap Envoy .9 n /jRSii 1 nL a k i "t 1 4 Wi n 8" - Admiral Klchlsahurg Nomura. Japan's new amltassador '<> the United States, who ohas-nrra iw-llcv,- will do much to better relations IwtWveti I this country and Japan, la plctiti'd reviewing troops of the joth Infan- , try In Hau Francisco Left to rlgti’ are I Kawnsak. acting coitsul In Han Francisco. Admiral Nomura. General DeWitt, commander ol the I U. M 4th army ____

NEW WAR MOVES DEEMED LIKELY War In Mediterranean Area May Hinge On Vichy Developments By United Press The war tn the Mediterranean reached a turning point t >day where manned new moves by (treat Britain or Germany seemed likely. . possibly conditioned by developmenu at Vichy. The British. victors at Ib-nghatl , and < onquereors of all eastern Libya. faced a major declaim! on Strategy The question waa whether to , press on to Tripoli attempting to destroy the remnant a of Italian atrength In North Africa and make contacts with Gen. Maxime Weygand'a French army in Tunlaia. or quickly ahlft the bulk of the imperial army of the Nile to new fronts. | Germany faced a strategic qttesI tion of equal importance. It waa whether to make a laat minute attempt to aid the Itallana in North Africa poaalbly by a move on Tunisia or to bring pressure on the British further eaat, In the Balkana There waa reason to believe 1 that the answer to troth strategic questions might be found at Vichy Vichy waa enmeshed In critical negotiations with Marshal Henry Petain and Pierre laival. ousted vlie premier and Berlin's favorite among French statesmen Admiral Fraticolse Darlan returned -to Vichy with Laval's latest cow i twiirn nw rang rung*, c Take Parole Violator Hack To Reformatory Herschel Booth by, who Is being held in the Adams county Jail on a charge of petit larceny, will be returned to the Pendleton reformatory early next week as a parole violator. Sheriff Rd Miller stated thia morn lag Boothby had been at liberty sot about seven months after serving more than a year of a MO year I sentence imposed here for breaking and entertlng. I Ebinger. local parole officer, will return Boothby to the Instltu- ‘ tion. the sheriff stated. ■■■" ins — ■ Friendly Argument Rexulbi In Injury ''Face injur|ea sustained in a fall on the ice." These are his own words on the pad In the city police office which purportedly describe the Injuries suffered last night by Fred "Butch” ftchelmann. after hospital attaches bad called officers I to the institntlon. A friendly disagreement over the pngiliatic prowess of Schelmann and Jack Mahan, Monmouth one-| time Golden Gioves entrant, was | the real reason for the former's ' confinement, they learned, how-I ever. While sitting in a local business house each wagered 11 that he was the better man. It was reported, and they obliged each other by stepping on tilde to culminate the bet. police learned Result -Mahan is reportedly 11 richer today, and .Bchelmann has a very sore nose.

Geneva Man Hurt By Falling Tree Charles Watson, of Genevi. Is suffering from pneumonia and complications which resulted from injuries sustained earlier in the week I when he waa struck by a falling tree. Watson and Dennis Walers were cutting the tree when it started to break above the cutting point Wat- i son crawled up on a stump and I I started to cut the tree above the break, when It fel lon him He was forced to lie oq the ground for some time while Waters secured help. POPULATION IN 12 TOWNSHIPS Total Population Os Adams County Is Reported At 21,251 The population of the 12 towni ships in Adams county as taken in the census was announced toi day by the department of commerce In th. totals given below, the town of Monroe is Included in Monroe township; Preble In Preble > township. Pleasant Mills In St. Mary a olwnship. Geneva In Wabash township and Decatur comprises part of the population In Root and Washington townships. Following are the totals I Blue ('reek I French Hartford Jefferson Kirkland - I Monroe 3 119 Preble Boot 1.3 M St. Marys - - I-® l -''. i Union , Wabash - - 3 -®*2 Washington *.953 Totals Adams County 21.254 Decatur's population Is 5.Mt; Berne's 2075; Geneva's 96« and Monroe's 405. Prehle and Pleasant Milla are unincorporated towns and populai tion figures for those centers have I not yet been announced. Revival Service At Monroe Church Revival meetings will be held at the Monroe Friends church. Febi ruary 10 to 23. with John J. Main. lof Marion as evangelist Homer Habegger of Berne will be the song leader. Hervlces will be started each evening at 7:15 o'clock, except Huni day night when they will begin at | 7 o'clock. Approve Continuance Os Die# investigation Washington. Feb. k—(UP)—The bouse rules committee loday ap- , proved a resolution continuing until April I 1942, the Dies committee Investigating unAmerclan activities. A committee sent the resolution, sponsored by Rep. Joe Starnes. D Ala., a member of the committee, to the house floor for one hour debate.' perhaps next week Htarnes plans to ask 1150.000 to finance the extension of the Injury.,

Expect Vote On British Aid Bill By Night; Leadership Opposed To Spending Limit

BRITAIN'S AIR FORCE POUNDS FRENCH COAST British Planes Hurl Bomb* Ahinic French Invasion (‘oaut Urndon. Feb. 6 <UB — Fires Were visible on the French In- 1 vaslon coast through ib-nse rog and heavy rain loday after British planes, diving thiough ilouda into a rain of fire, hrrled bombs for ‘ hours during the night <m targets Itetween Dunkirk and Boulogne In' one of the great attacks of the air. Though the raids ended In (he early hours of the morning, fires cruild still lie Been by daylight The air ministry »»id a “consld ( erable" force of bombers attacked Invasion port* Intituling Boulogne < Calais Ininkirk and Ostend Ibnilogne. one of the two moat I Important Invasion porta, wa* at-! tacked for three hours steadily. - the ministry said, and large fires were started In supply store* and I dock building* "At Dunkirk a num Iter of bursts ! were clearly ol>*erv<-<i on shipping and dock*." the communique said . "Several plane* Item lied d<3'k« at ' Calais anti Ostend." The ministry said all plane* re-, turned. Though weather over northwest i Europe wa* generally unfavorable, the ministry said, viaihilhy wa* good over the English channel where the fog was low though dense Thousand* atom! »peiiimund on the Kentish coast between IhtVer and Dungeness watching the plane* go across the < hannel and the flash of flame and roar of continuous explosion* h was Indicated that there had 1 Iteen no •itch raid on the Invasion coast since Hept ember 15 when the royal air force broke up what appeared Io Im- preparations for an imminent attempt at invasion. Il wa* the second straight night on which the royal air force had ral<l«-<l the Invasion coast heavily The reason for the unusual inten alty of the raids, especially that of last night, was not disclosed It wa* understood that the raid* continued from midevening until the early hours of this morning. The first attack continued for about two hour*, with the Boulogne area taking the punishment. Then for alwMtf 20 minutes the attack wa* generally between Boulogne and Calais After that Boulogne was attacked with renewed vigor For a time the British planes seemed concentrating on a target some distance inland from Cape Gnls Nex. the jumping off place for channel swimmer*, which I* midway between Boulogne and Calais After an hour the English watcher* raw two vivid sheet* of orange flame shot up from a point east of Boulogne, as parachute flares lighted the target area. There was an explosion so violent that It rattled fCONTINUEn ON PAGE rIIKKK) DECATUR MEN AT ARMY SITE Several Decatur Men Are Working On Army Defense Projects Several Decatur men are connected with the army and defense program* at Charlestown and Jeffersonville, while one local man I* conducting a thriving private enterprise near the new power plant at Charlestown. Alex Tanva* has an Important job with the U. R- army depot In Jeffersonville, following bi* old trade of harness maker. Robert Strickler Is also employed In the depot, one of the largest lu the country. George Foo* and Donald Bohnke are employed on the Du Pont powder factory at Charleston. They have good job*. Giles Porter, well known trailer and tire dealer of this city. I* selling trailer* at the powder plant ■lte to workmen who can’t lease houses In the dletrict. Paul Strickler I* stationed there with Mr. Porter and It was reported they have delivered a number of trailer*.

LAVALDEMRHDS PREMIER POST Dangerous Deadlock RemuHm In Franco-Ger-man Relations Vichy. France. Feb. 6. —<u P> - ' Pierre Laval, rejecting a comproml*e ofrr. ha* held to hl* demand 1 that he be made French premier I with a cabinet of hl* own changing which would Im- responsible I only to a national assembly he would pick himself. It was dlsclosj rd today As a result, a dangerous dead--1 lock In French-German relation* ; continued Mval demanded further that he Im- given sole 'control of foreign affair* and thu* of all negotiation* with Germany Returning from hla second visit j to Pari* this morning after an alll night race through France In a one-car apecial train. Admiral I Fratuola Darlan, right hand man of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, t conferred with Gen Charles Huntilger. war minister, and Marcel ! Peyrouton Interior minlater. Then he conferred with Petain : for an hour, informing the aged marshal that his effort to comproI mise with had failed. Petain, through Darlan, had pro--1 posed that l<aval become vlca pre- ! ntler with Darlan a* premier. Officers Elected At Union Institute The Union township farmers' Institute. under the chairmanship of Walter Thieme, had the largest display of agricultural and home economics produeta ever exhibited there A capacity crowd attended the evening program. The morning i and afternoon session* were well ' attended. Officers elected for the coming year are: Water Thieme, chairman: 11. L. Dehner, vice-chairman: Mr*. Forrest Walter*, secretary; Herman Gelmur. treasurer. MAN IS FINED THIS MORNING Dick Bailer Is Fined For leaving Scene Os Accident Friday Dick Bailer. 25. of this city waa fined 41 and cos’s and given a suspended 10-day Jail sentence this morning on a charge of fleeing from the scene of an accident. Bailer waa arreated Friday afternoon after his car atruck an auto. Owned by Fred Byerly, of thia dty. which was parks,l in front of the city hall. The arrest wa* made by Officer Roy Chllcote Officer Chllcote charged that after Baller'* car «truck the Byerly auto, he Immediately turned around and fled wear After Investigation, officer Chllcote waited for Baller to report When he failed to do so. the officer went to his home. There he at first denied beinx up town, the officer reported When arraigned before Mayor Elzey, however, he entered a plea of guilty to a charge of falling to report to the owner of an unattended vehicle after striking It with hla own car. The law provide* that the owner must either be located and notified, or a written notice left In a conspicuous place, giving the driver's name address and clrcnmatances surrounding the collision The fine amounted to 111. Baller made arrangements to pay. Prosecutor Vincent Kelley represented the state at the arraignment. Both the Baller car and the Byerly auto were damaged In th» j collision, which occurred about 3:15 p. m Friday. o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 1 6:00 a. m. 1( 10:00 a. m. Iff 11:00 a. m. 10 WEATHER 1 Partly cloudy, snow flurriea tonight and in extreme north portion Sunday; continued mod?rat*ly cold.

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Democrat l,eaderM l ight Any Spending Ceiling In IseaMC-Lend Bill To Aid Britain. — ONE AMENDMENT Washington. Feb. 6. 'U.R> Tha lioua,- began an unusual Saturday sesaattm today to pass the British aid bill. There wa* an all day light over propose,! aiiKiulment* yesterday, but only one change waa made Th.- Itemocratlc leadership. cun« fldent the bill could Im- borught to a vote by night still faced Its biggest fight -one over proposed amendment* tu limit spending under the program. Suggested limitations range from |2 iMHt.tHHi.tMMt to |7.<mh> Administration leader* would prefer to have none A close vote was expected on an amendment proposed by Rep. James M Wadsworth. It. N. that would limit spending to (7.ihh> tasjiHHi. Rep Charles Eaton. R. N. J . proposes a |2 000.0M.ffM limit. The senate foreign relations committee, hearing completion of ll* hearing* on the bill, hear* Alt M LaadOU. former Republican governor of Kansas and presidential candidate, laindon I* an opponent The administration plan* to rebut with Mayor Fiorello IL LaGuardia of New York and Quentin Reynold*, magazine writer, but there was doubt whether they would be heard An executive session of the senite committee broke up in a row late yesterday. Home of Its members wanted the public hearinga continued long enough to hear at least a dozen more opposition wit■lease* Th> healings now are *< h>-diil*-d to end Monday with Wendell L Willkie. IMS G. O. I*, presidential isndldate and President James II Conant of Harvard university, testifying for the bill. Hen. Hennett C Clark. D.. Mo., threatened to hold "tump" aeaaiona of the committee minority io hear witnevaes of iheir own choowing. Il<- raid he would not relinquish any of the opposition * time to hear either laiGuaidia oi Reynold*. This week had been reaervad for the opposition. The change in the bill adopted by the house yesterday plac c-d a limit of about 11 Jmt taiO.iMm on the value of army. navy, or marine equipment the president may lend, lease or give away to foreign nation* from army, navy or inarluo stock*, including existing equipment and equipment on order. The amendment, adopted by a vole e vote, was offered by chairman Hol Bloom. D. N. Y- of tho house foreign affair* committee as a substitute tot a proposal by Rep. John Taber. IL, X Y . which would have limited the value to 2600.000,000. Hl,Hirn's substitute provide* that th.- value of "on hand or on order" equipment which may be transferred abroad, "hall not exceed IS percent of the current fiscal year's defense appropriations which aggregate approximately 512.000.M0,' Mff. It would not apply to future transactions employing funda specifically appropriated to tarry out the- bill Similarly. It would not apply to equipment purchased with the 610.611.000.0tui which the* president ha* asked congress to approve for defense In the next fis< al year. Speaker Sam Rayburn said it wa* believed the (1300.000.0 mi worth of e<|Ulpment which could include warship*, tanks, planes, gun* or any other weapon—wa* more than would be needed befora other appropriation* are voted. Ila said the amendment should meet the Republican charge that the bill, as originally dratted, would permit the president Io ‘'give awujr the entire navy " The houae adopted one othee amendment—previous! yagreed oa by the Democratic majority whh ti provided that nothing in the act could be construed a* authorizing the sending of American vessels ln> to combat zones as defined by th* president under the neutrality act. An amendment by Rep llatnll. ton Utah. It. N Y that would hav» prohibited the president selling op transferring any vessel of tha navy without the consent of con« grea. wa* defeated IX4 to 122. The senate committee yesterday heard Al William*, retired army air corp* major, declare that tha CONTINL'KV ON