Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1941 — Page 1

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RITAIN SEVERS TIES WITH RUMANIA

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Get* Quick Sentence K w ifi^Fl S V >• I ' ‘ After deliberating only *! minutes. a jury at Teaarkana. Ark., convk-ted Jeese William Miller, above, of kidnaping his It-year-old ■tep-daughter and forcing her to work agalnat her will for el* months on a Tetaa cotton farm Miller was convicted under the Lindbergh kidnap law which carrlea a possible death penalty. GOP EDITORS BACK PROGRAM Indiana Editors Support Party’s Decentralization Progrsm Indianapolis. Feb. Id — tuft — Indiana Republican editors today ■tuod solidly behind the party * decent ralitat lon program In the iewlshsture and In opposition to the lend lease bill In congress. They also were supporting the Republican investigation of the gdbern tiorlal race in which Clover nor Sehrlcker. the only Democrat to win election, defeated (lien R. Hillis by the narrow margin of l.«?B votes. Their resolution adopted Sntnrday night at the annual winter meeting of the Republican Editorial association also recommended “the elimination of sil useless and unnecessary board* and commissioners" Mpeaking of the Sehrlcker contest. the editors said: "In the light of recent dlsclos urea of wholesale voting of aliens In Lake county and other election Irregularities In Lake and other counties, we approve the Investigation now being conducted by a committee of the Indiana leglalalure and urge It to continue to the end that the rightful holder of the otice of governor may be determined and to provide safe guards against similar occurrences In future elections." The editors favored a national defense program “that -will Insure tbil hemisphere against aggression by any foreign power or any possible combination of foreign pow ere." “Because of the tremendous cost of such defense program we hold It to be Imperative that non-defense expenditures of government be reduced to an absolute minimum " U. 8 Senator Haymond E Willis. a member of the association. (COMTIMttKD OM PACK F|VR> BRIEF COLD IS SNAPPED HERE Moderating Weather Sunday And Today Follows Near Blizzard Moderate winter weather was In prevalence In the city today tor the second successive day. following Saturday night s near bllssard The temperature at I a. m today reglatered 24 degree* above sero on the Daily Democrat therm >m eter. At noon, the mercury had risen to 2« above The mercury started Its rise Hunday morning, after dropping io as low a* eight to 10 degrees above during Saturday night. tt was generally conceded among local resident* that Saturday night’s siege was one of the worst of the year While the tempera tore dropped to one of Its lowest mark*, a coM wind, accompanied by snow flurries, further added to the discwmfhure of Dseaturitos.

STATE SENATE I PASSES THREE RIPPER BILLS MpaNureN Would Strip Gov. Schricker Os Patronage Power Indianapolis. Ind. Feb lg-<l’F) —il’Pi Putting on prrmure a* the second half of the Sind session started. Indiana's senate today ' passed three major "ripper bills”— I one of them the keystone decentra-' lltatlon measure — and returned i them to the house of represents- ; fives for concurrence in amendment*. The house, which abeady ha* j passed the bills was es pec ted to approve the senate amendments . speedily and send the measure to the governor, where a prompt veto awaited them Then, a Republican majority was ready to repass them immediately. The bill*, which would (trip the Democratic governor of hi* vast patronage powers, were passed over the vigorous protests of the ' Democratic minority. Democratic leader* charged the measure* were unconstitutional. Each bill was passed by a t straight party line vote of SO to 15. The bills would: 1. Place the various boards, commis lons, bureaus and divisions of the state government under the jurisdiction of four major departments department of state, department of audit and control, department of treasury and department of public work* and commerce. 2. Abolish the presebt highway commission and create a new four member bipartisan commission to I be appointed by the governor, lieu- ' tewaai-governor and treasure. 1. Termiaato the tenures of the [ (COXTIMUBD ON PSOK THHKK) BERNELAOYIS TAKEN Bf DEATH Mr*. William Wittwer Dies Saturday Evening At Home In Berne Mrs. Halome Wittwer. 77. wife of William Wittwer, died at I: It p m. Bstuaday at her home in Berne after an Illness of 10 days of complications. Bhe was born In Linn Grove December 1. IMJ. the daughter of John and Anna Steiner-Htauger. Bbe married Joseph Bauder in IMA and he died In ll»5. She married William Wittwer November 1«. lAM. Rhe was a member of the First Missionary church of Berne. Surviving beside* the husband are a son. Palmer Wittwer of Columbus O.; three daughter. Mrs David J. Schwart* of Monroe township. Mrs. David Gerig of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Gerald Timmons of Berne; two slaters. Mrs. Peter Stuckey of Berne and Mrs. Joseph I Stuckey of Van Nuys. Cal. One eon, three brothers and four sister* are deceased. Funeral service* will be held at 1:16 p m. Tuesday at the home and 2 o'clock at the church. Burial will be In the M. R. E. cemetery at Berne. ■ o — Holy Name Society Will Meet Tonight The regular monthly meeting of the Holy Name society will be held thl* evening at 8 o'clock at the Knight* of Columba* hall. Frank Hogan, prominent Fort Wayne attorney. will be the speaker. Re fresbmenla and a social session will follow the meeting. Winant Appointment Confirmed By Senate Washington. Feb. (UP)—Tbo senate today confirmed the nomination of John C Wlant a* ambassador to Great Britain. Regular Legion Meeting Tonight The regular meeting of Adams post number 42. American Legion, will be held at th* home. First and Madison *tr**ts. tonight at I o’clock. All members are urged to attend.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 10, 1941.

Two Calls Answered By Decatur Firemen Firemen an«w«-red two alarm* o»er the weekend The flr*t occurred Haturday evening about 2:M o'clock when they were called to the Wesley Borg residence on | North Fifth street The alarm was •ounded when some hot ashes dumped in th* garage began smok- | Ing. The second call came about 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon when a car. owned bt/ Jeaae Ksseg of Mon roe. caught lire from a short circuit In the wirltg. The car was parked on Thirteenth street near Adam* Little damage resulted. COMMITTEES TO SELL TICKETS AsNiMtsntN Are Named To Sell Tickets For Farmers’ Banquet Simon Schwarts, chairman of the ticket committee for the 17th annual Adams county farmer*' banquet. today announced member* of the committee for sale of the Ue- ' beta. The banquet will he held at the community auditorium in Berne Tuesday evening. March 11. Titj ket* are priced at 85 cents each Th.- ticket committee, as named by Mr Schwarts, follows: prebletownshlp. C. J. Korte. Root township Martin H. Suite- • meter. Union township. Adolph S. hami erloh. Kirkland township. Homer Arn- ; old Washington township. Joseph : Koor* I St. Mary's township. Groce Tope i Berne. 8 M Schwarts. First , Bank of Berne. Berne Witness and Berne Hardware. Stanley Arnold Blue Creek township. L. A. Ripley. Monroe township. C. W R | Schwarts and Dan H. Habegger French township. Henry Aschle- < man. Wabash township. Leon NeuenI schwander. Jefferson township. Carl Am sluts. Hartford township. Leßoy Field*. Geneva. Kenneth Shoemaker. Adam Egly and Ell Stuckey Monroe Ervin Stucky and Sim Burk William R. Barr Is Lincoln Day Speaker William R Barr, of Bluffton, who is well known In this city, will be tbo principal speaker at the Lincoln day banquet to be held in this city Wednesday evening at 8:20 o'clock Io the Zion Evangelical and Refoimed church. The meeting la sponsored by the Adams county Republican central commltto*. Mr. Barr Is a former governor of th* Indiana district of Rotary. Ticket* for the banquet may he obtained from Cal E. Peterson or Vincent Kelley. SPECIAL JUDGE HERRING CASE Judge Decker Hearing Case Os Receiver Against Manns Judge John Decker of Bluffton was sitting ao special judge In the Adam* circuit court today hearing the case of Ed Berllng. as receiver, and Everett Singlaton against Har--10. Clifford and Wilson Mann. The suit aver* that the receiver, after being duly appointed, leased certain land northwest of the city to Everett Singleton and that the reciever and Singleton were owner* of one-half Interest In the crop* harvested during *« farm year 182M0. The suit charges that the defendants wrongfully and unlawfully entered the premises, unlawfully and wrongfully harvested 14 acres of clover and converted It to their own use. The complaint asks damages in the sum of 2500. John L. DoVos* and John T. Kelly are representing the defendants. D. Burdette Custer and Harry T. Grub* are plaintiffs counsel. It was considered possible that the case might be concluded late this afternoon.

DECLARES AID TO BRITAIN A STEP TO WAR New York Economy Council Head Testifies At Hearing Washington. Feb 10 — <U.P> ■ Merwin K Hart. Mow York, told the senate foreign relation* «*mmine* today that passage ni the British aid bill probably would lead the United State* Into the war and eventually result in establish ment of a Fascist or Communistic form of govern meat here Hart, president of the New York state economic council testified “It would be a blow to our world If Britain were to fall, although her fail wculd not mean our fall, for I believe that we. a* the greatest Industrial nation on earth, can certainly organlge for our own protection I think we should continue to *end Britain wha* *he can buy. But I think the adequate defense of the United Htate* I* even more important than the defense of Britain. Hart appeared for the opposition as the committee went into It* last two day* of hearing* on the British aid hill. The supporters of the bill will end hearings tomorrow with testimony by Wendell I. Wlllkle and James B Conant, president of Harvard university Senate administration leaders meantime r-onsldered making concession* to the opponent* In an effort to insure a large majority for passage of the bill within three Week*. A* Jar as the committee la concerned, the administration la assured of a 18 to !• majority and the administration leader* are eipectlng to convert Senator Wallace H White. Jr.. R . Maine. Opponent* of the bill conclude tmwTiNcsn CN want-: four) DEATH CLAIMS FRANK HELLER Prominent Hartford Township Farmer Dies Early This Morning Frank Heller. 81. prominent Hartford township farmer died at 1:19 o'clock this morning al hi* home live and one-half mile* southwest ot Berne after an illness of only two days. He was bom April 8. 1872. on the same farm where he died Hla parents were George and Eliia Gen-tls-Heller. He married Pauline Gilgln April 23. 1882 He was a member of the Linn Grove Evangelical church. Surviving besides the widow are a daughter. Miss Olga Heller, at home; two son*. Walter Heller of Bluffton and Volney Heller of Montpelier; two sisters. Mrs M*ry Meshberger of Geneva and Mrs. Emma Graham of Bluffton; four grandchildren and one great grand~tCONTlNtJffD ON FAGR THRU I O Men’s Brotherhood Will Meet Tuesday The Baptist men’s brotherhood will hold the monthly supper and social hour at the church Tuesday evening at I M o'clock. Every man of the church la urged to attend and bring a friend. '■ o Upholds Injunction Against Picketing Washington. Feb. 10 — (UP) —• The supreme court today held that state court Injunctions against picketing are valid when violence by a union is associated with picketing. The ruling was the Brel by the supreme court limiting the right of labor to picket. It came in a decision upholding an Injunction, against the Chicago AFL milk wagon drive r* union In a dispute with Meadowmoor Dairies. Inc. - —o - County Hospital In Still Overcrowded Hospital attaches reported 38 patients confined at the institution today. Despite a "letup” in the prevalence of illness several days ago. the institution -a 30 bed hospital —l* still overcrowded.

Signs Increase Os Crisis In Balkans; British Shell Great Italian Port Os Genoa Sunday

Italy’s GreatcNt Port h Shelled Heavily In Daring Naval Raid By Briti*h Forces. TONS OF SHELLS London. Feb 10 <UJ9 Britain by a daring naval bombardment of Genoa, at the top of the Italian peninsula. 870 mile* from the French frontier, ha* »erved tacit warning to Italy and Germany that It controls not only the Mediterranean proper but the tnaine line of communication between France and Africa, naval eiperts said today. The British fleet which at daw* yesterday hurled more than 870.000 pound* of shell* mto the greatest port In Italy, while royal air force plane* were bombing Leg horn and Pisa on the other side of the Npesia naval base, bad steamed through waters which Italy might well have considered Its own to give one of It* moat Impressive demonstration* of British sea power. Genoa Iles in the Inner corner j of the Ligurian Hea It Is 5001 miles above the Hlcily channel through the Mediterranean and to reach It the British fleet showed its command of the sea between Italy [ and the lane* between France and . Africa Four big naval unit* and an undisclosed number of lighter craft conducted the bombardment - the battleship Malaya, the battle cruiser Renown, the aircraft carrier Ark Royal and the cruiser Nheflleld Germany and Italy have several limes claimed to have sunk thr Ark Royal. Eight 15-inch gun* of Malaya, six of Renown; 24 8-lncb. eight 4.5 Inch and 12 4 Inch gun* ot Malaya. Renown and Nheflleld combined, and gun* of the lighter craft Bred mAre than 300 British tons of 2.24» pound* each at their targets, plain as sitting birds — power plants, dock* and dry dock*, oil plants, electric and boiler works. Miippiy ship* warehouse* and a main freight yard while Ark Royal'a go-odd aircraft flew down the coast to bomb an oil refinery at Leghorn and an airdrome and a railroad junction at Pisa. The great Npesia naval base, from which Italian warships might have been exepected to emerge to challenge the British fleet, lie* midway between Genoa and Leghorn. Some of the biggest of Italy's shipyards are at Genoa and the crack Transalantlc liner Rex was last reported there, being outfltted as a sea raider or troop transport The objectives bombed, especially the e)ec4rlc and boiler plants and drydocks, are among the moat .CONTINUEU ON PAGN THKC«> WILLKIE URGES AID TO BRITAIN Back From Enidand, Says Withholding Aid Likely To Mean War New York. Feb 10 — (UP.) — Wendell L. Wlllkle goes to Washington tonight to tell the senate foreign relations committee about "the most stimulating experience In my life.” He returned yesterday from a whirlwind inspection tour of Great Britain. Wlllkle told Interviewers that he is firmly convinced that for the United State* to give aid to Great Britain would l»e likely to keep this country out of war. while to withhold aid would probably involve us In war. He heard In Great Britain ‘‘no talk at all suggesting, expecting or anticipating that the United State* should become an active | participant In the war. “What the British desire from ns I* not men. but materials and equipment " Wlllkle revealed that he had spent between eight and It* hours discussing all phase* of Britain's (CONTINUKD ON PAGE TWO)

Twice a Slayer \. A A. L. Tipton A. L Tipton. 18. Is shown In Texarkana. Ark., jail after police say be confessed killing John Dal<- Hilliard. 15. his schoolmate, with a lasttle during a fight Only last year young Tipton was paroled In I' the fatal etootlng of a man when he was twelve years old GOP REVAMPS LIQUOR PLANS ('hanxm Plans Under Pressure; County Council To Appoint Indianapolis. Feb. 10—<UM The Republican steering committer today announced It had yielded to pressure and was revamping the party's liquor bill to make county liquor boards appointive by thr county council rather than the circuit court judge Thr Drat plan was to make the judge reaponaiblu for appointing the three member county boards but wet* and drya alike joined in protesting such a provision would make the election of every Judge a wet and a dry Issue. The local board* will have authority to make a county “bone dry" by refusing to Issue or renew license* The liquor bill was expected to be introduced within the next day or two Sales Ta* Pressure Indianapolis. Feb. 10 <UP> A matter of growing concern In legislative circle* today was the po»sible role whl< h sales tax proposal* may come to play In Indiana's grave budget situation A Illi! .titr.xlu. ,-<R HI !(.. bond) last week, calling for a 3 percent sale* tax on all tangible good* ex cept groceries, motor fuel and Item* subject to excise tax. assumed major Importance as the house way* and means committee opened a series of budget meetings. The picture which confronted the committee, a* It pondered the chances of raising more than 810,000.000 without new taxe* l<M>kcd something like this: Biennial recommendations of the budget committee call for a general fund appropriation of around 88<i.tMMt.O<*0. The state has statutory obligations which the budget committee says will bring the total to well over 2M.00d.0f10 Careful check of probable Income during the two-year period from July 1. 1841 to July 1. 1843 Indicated the state would have approxfmately 83JM0.080 leas than nothcon i twt'iCD ot* r»tir thhxsi o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8 00 a. m. - —— 24 10.00 a. m. 25 Noon 26 2:00 p. m. 27 2:00 p. m. 27 WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday: somewhat warmer in extreme north and eouth portion* tonight and in south and east portions Tuesday.

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British AmbasNador To Rumania Demand* Hi* FaasfOrta; Nazi Troop* Imported In Bulgaria. LAVAL IS “OUT’ — London. Feb 10 <UJO Or«U Britain ha* *evrrrd diplomatic relation* with Rumania because that nation has become a military cache for Germany. It w»« anmnineI ed. a* sign* of an Imminent Balkan crisis grew. Nir Reginald Hoare. British mlnlater to llucharesi. ha* demanded i hl* passport* and will leave Rti ' mania with hi* staff. It was revealI British severance of relations ' with Rnmania was announced less I than 24 hours after prime minister Winston Churchill Indicated In a , radio broadcast that Germany already ha* started to move troop* Into Bulgaria from her garrisons In Rumania. (Report* received In Zurich today from apparently authentic source* said that several thous:i»d Nasi troops have alread> entered Bulgaria In thr garb of civilians t There was no indication of a direct link between thr reported German move Into Bulgaria and the action at Bucharest but It was generally agreed that Naxl offensive plans In thr Balkan* may have 1 been *|H-rded up Icy the whirlwind British advance In Libya and the prospects that Britain shortly will have large Icodies of troops free to deploy In support ot Greece Prime minister Winston Churchill warned In a broadcast speech to the empire yesterday that German troop* might march Into Bulgaria He warned that an invasion attempt might be made soon on the British Isle* a warning that was given emphasis by the persistent royal air force raid* on Invasion port*- He said also, of the British fleet bombardment of Genoa, that the navy had bombarded "the naval base from which perhaps a Natl German expedition might soon have willed to attac k General W<-y---gand In Algeria or Tunis." Lisbon reported today, on the basis of private advices from Madrid. the circulation of unconfirmed reports that Generalissimo Francisco Franco and hi* foreign minister. Ramon Nerrano Nuner. might leave for Vichy and Berlin today British military authorities have never excluded the possibility of a German thrust through Spain at Gibraltar and Icelief was expressed In responsible- quarter* only recently that even If the Npanlard* elected to oppose the passage of German troop* they could hardly do more than haras* the invading forces German insistence on French “collaboration" was believed here to mean that Germany still had hope of obtaining the Blaerte naval base in Tunisia, on the other side of the narrow Sicilian straits from Italy, and perhaps the French (t'GNTINUMD ON PAGB FUURj ARMY DESERTER ARRESTED HERE Charle* Rambo Os Ada, Ohio, To Be Returned To Camp Shelby Charles Rambo 22, of Ada. Ohio, Is being held in the Adam* county jail awaiting return to the United States army, following his arrest In this city. Rambo was arnrated Bunday by police chief James Border* on a charge of desertion. Rambo'* arrest follower! Invest), gallon by the chief of a communication from army offlr-al* at Camp Nhelby, .Mississippi, from which hi- allegedly dwsurted. The communication stated that Rambo was corresponding with a Decatur girl Upon going to th« girl's house In thl* efty, chief Borders found him there. He Is to be returned to Camp Nhelby by the chief ou request of army official*.