Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1941 — Page 1

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Louse Balks At I Attempt To Kill S4O Pension Plan

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

ELKS SPONSOR ESSAY CONTEST Lodge Will (live ISO To High School Students In Local Contest The Decatur lodge of Elk. will award I&*' in three privet to Adam* roomy high school atudent* for the three brat rttayt aubmiltrd ia lhe local <<>mm<ttre in the Klka National DefrUM* con teat, which carries prite* of |l.»<». |W« and S2&o to national winner* Full cooperatb>n of lhe school authorities will be given In announcing the contest to high school student* and distribution of rule* and entrance blank* C. E Striker, county superintendent of school* K M Webb, superintendent of the Herne schmil*. W. Guy Hrown. principal of th.- Decatur high school and Re». Joseph J Helmet*, superintendent of the Catholic sc hool* have Informed the local contest committee of their cooperation. Any high school student I* eligible to atihmlt an essay There are only two rules governing the national writing contest on the subject of "What I'ncle gam Mean* to Me." Each contestant must list the H person* or thing* shown in a composite picture of I’ncle Ham This picture drawn by C C Beall, not ed artist, ia reproduced on poater* and la printed on the front corer of the March Isaue of Elk's maga tine After the 14 point* are listed, a* seen from the picture the contestant ia aahed to writ* an essay of not let* than 300 word*, nor more trxtNTINt'KD <>.N PAtIH MVKNi DEATHCLAIMS JOSEPH JOHNS • * • a*» aw Pneumonia Follow ing An Operation Cauae# Death Os G. E. Worker Joseph H John*. SI. well known Decatur General Klee trie worker and World War veteran, died thl* morning at 1 4S o'clock at the Adam* county memorial hospital, following a major operation. Mr. John* had undergone an operation Monday morning and while the operation wa* *acce**ful. pneumonia developed and caused hl* death.

He wws horn In Decptur June 11, 1183. the son of Fred and Sophia Walter John* He was a member of th* Ht. Mdry'a Catholic church and fraternally was affiliated with the B. P. O Klka'* and Adam* Post No. i 43 of the American Melon He enlisted for army service on July 13. 1313 nnd served for 16 I month* during the World War. Ifo had been enrployed a* a toolmaker al tbe local General Electric plant for the past 18 year*. Huririvlng are a bpother. Will and a (talar. Bertha, both st home. He .CSiNTINI'MW ON PAOB SX» f Schricker Election Content Finally In To Be Dropped 0 - — ■ — • Indianapolis. March 4 — |l'P> — ■. The legialsture wa* < xpecled to re- [ calve today a report recommending that an investigation of a petition contesting the election of Governor Hchricker be dropped because of lack of funds, time and evidence. In ita final mealing last night. 1 the special 14-member legialattlve committee investigating evidence 1 in connection with tbe petition drew up auch a report. The petition was filed by VlngH E. Whltakerer. Hammond attorney, and alleged that- Illegal voting oc- i cured in Lake county and elsewhere and that Glen R. IltlUn. defeated GOP candidate, wa* elected i Instead of Scbrtcker. Hlllla met with the committee i yesterday to Issue a statement for inooivoraHon In the report. Hr was I understood to have approved dropping the Investigation. According to a committee mem 1 her. tbe report will state that fraud i “undoubtedly exiatad'' in the latke county election and that II will rec- ' ommend election law be made more I striaffML

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Turkish torpedo boat* are pictured patrolling the Hosphoiu*. which, whh the sea of Marmora and the Dardanelle*. I* the waterway from the Black

OVER 27,000 INVOLVED IN LABOR FIGHTS Production Delayed In 20 Plant* Holding Army. Navy Order* ißy Vnlted Prraal laibor dispute* In defenae Induatrie* Involved more than ZT.Otm workers today, delaying completion o’, army and navy project* and disrupting production at 30 plant* holding contract* tor necessary material*. Recomtmmdatlon* for establishment of some *ort of defense labor mediation machinery were esjeected noon from PrMildeut Roosevelt who conferred yesterday with Phillip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial Organlia turns, and whh directot William H. Knudsen of the o®ce of production management. ' The president bad noted earlier thl* week that •trike* had affected only a small fraction of lhe defense Industries but said mediation machinery wa* being c onsidered. Pur'her action al*o was expected from the war department on the strike of 400 AFL building tradesmen at the Dayton. 0.. Wright Field army air corps testing center construction project. The AFD against employment of four CTO worker*, went on strike in protest electrical worker*. The war department already ha* Instructed the contractor employing the CIO workmen to continue working and an officer of the till Vnlted Construction Worker*' union offered to supply worker* for every Job on the 3t.SW.oiio project. Commander E. If Perry supervisor of nsvy projects in Tesas. apltealed for prompt settlement of a flvr-day strike of AFL shopmen at the Consolidated Hteel Corp. plant which has caused a shortage <CC»NTINt El> ON PAGE? HffVKNJ CALL FIELDS INTO SERVICE Local Dentist To Uave April 1 For Medical Corp* Training Dr. Kugene P. Fields, local dentist. and a member of the medical corps of the Vnlted Htates army, has leeeivad orders to report for one year's training. Dr Fields will report for duty at Fort Benjamin Harrison near IhJle.nwpoll* on April 1. In accord aace with tbs order. After eumlnatlon there, he Is to report to Camp Croft at Spsrtan* burg. South Carolina, according to the communication which he received. Dr Fields Is a member of the 106th hospital corp* of the nrmy and at present hold* the rank of first llru'.enant In the medical reserve He was (raduated from Indiana university school at dentistry in 1336 and came to Decatur to practice sonfTafter graduation. To date he ha* made no plan* for his office after entering military Mrvice. Dr. Fields I* married and has one child. He has not decided whether bls family will accompany him to the army camp.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADA.MS COUNTY

Itecatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 6,1941.

Boy Escapes Injury i H hen Hit By Truck I Johnny Girard. 7. son of Mr and I Mrs. Adrian Girard, of *2A Dirrkes street, escaped Injury shortly after , • 4 o'clock last evening when be was ; strut k by a trot k while crossing i the street at the < orndr of Fourth | and Monroe streets. The boy was on bls way home from th,- Ht Joseph school. D D. Robinson, of Fort Wayne. 1 ! was the driver of the truck which , | struch the child. Police Chief James Borders was i summoned and took the boy to the , Adams county memo, lai hospital where It was shown the bid escap- , ed with a shaking up and fright. L He wa* released soon after. U.S.TOCLOSE I 2CONSULATES Action Follows Closing Os Consulates By Italian Government Washington. Mar 6 -4UM—The I'nlted States has asked Italy Io close Its consulstes In Detroit. ' Michigan and Newark N J. "for reasons of national policy.” the., state department revealed today. A statement by the department j said: "For reasons of national policy. I It has been decided- that foreign consulates in certain areas should be closed At the present time the Italian government has been requested to close Its consulate* at 1 Detroit. Michigan and Newark. N J. and to withdraw the personnel." ; The action follows the closing of the American consulate at Naples and Palermo at th.- request of th* Italian government. The fnlted Htates ordered Ils consuls there withdraw as request- i 1 ed by the Italians, explaining that i(rovTivi'Ri* nv Pinr stxi - w — — Girl* Band Concert On Friday Morning The Decatur Girl* Band will give Its annual concert at the chapel i i exercises. Friday morning at 3:16 ! o'clock at the Junto- senior high I ' cchool gymnasium The public Is I Invited 1 1

LENTEN MEDITATION (By Rev. Paul Brandyberry. Church of lhe Nazarene) “Christ Exemplifies True Greatness” "Wheaoever will be great among you. let him ba your mmiotar." ■ Matthew 20 24

BY HELPING OTHERH UP' The sure way of obtaining thia goal la a heart filled with love. "By love serve one another." Oh. how this great principle showed Itself In the life of thr apostle Paul For activity, for self-sacrifice, /or constant devotion to lhe good of other*. be stands unrivaled among tbe son* of men. and what reaaou doe* he give for thia deep devotion? "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I. hut Chrlat llveth In me. and tho life which I now live In the flesh. I live by the faith of the Non of God who loved me and gave Himself for me." To deliver you and tne from sin It was n« < <>s«sry ftp- the Hon of God to become a mar and. after a life of obedience, abnuld submit lo a death of ahame. Here we Bud God rendering tbe highest service tu humanity, and sbowiDff lo us lhe loftiest greatneas

sea to lhe Aegean which lead* Info the Mediterranean Turkey I* In the middle <rf the Balkan crl«l» folios Ina the German Invasion of Bulgaria.

COMPROMISE ON AID AMENDMENT DECLARED WON Administration Win* Fight Against Fllender Amendment Washington. March <—ilT*> — Administration leaders were report ed today to have won a compromise on the controversial !lriti*h aid bill amendment opposing the use of V. S army and naval forces outside the western hemisphere and American possession*. The compromise reportedly tie changes existing law or presidential power relatnlg to the movement of the army or navy. It was understood that it would lie offered by Hen Allen J Kliender. D. La., as a substitute for hl* original amendmsnt, which administration forces fought vigorously after sex-relary of slate Cordell Hull warned that It might strengthen Japan's aggressive aims In the Orient. Debate on Ellende-'s amendment centered around the president's power a* <-ommander4t»-chi«f 4«» send the srmy and navy any where in she world. It »»* pointed out that although he ha* the power with the regular army and navy, the conscripiion law and tßw national guard Induction act. both passed last year, prohibit sending draftees or guardsmen outside the western hmnlsphere or V. H possessions Opponents of the hili used the restrictive section of the <onscrlptlon and national guard acts as the ba-is for charges that lhe administration now "wants to send American b*»joi across the wate, " Senate Democratic leader Allien W’. Barkley of Kentucky argued that the restrictions on the use of .'Otiscript* (CONTINUED GN "AGE FOUKJ A. F. Os L. Meeting Friday Evening bocal 1217. A F of U will meet Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock In Ben Hur hall. Member* are asked to attend.

Ambition I* as natural a* breathing. Sin has turned ambition into the wrong channel, and as a result we have appallng and deplorable condition* existing today Ambition was implanted in the human mind for a noble purpose. and all progress can be faced to this. Christ Is not saying here that It Is wrong to have ambition, but He Is showing what true Christian people are to be like What la the true motive for greatnesa* There are hardly two people who will agree on this question Home would associate II with power, some with courage some with eloquence, and some, per hap*, with wealth. Christ'* definition for true greatness I* an individual in whom holiness and love form a combination to give life In a Mrvice for other*. Men often rise by pushing others down HKKK THE PRIZE IN WON

Hitler Asks Turkey For Closer Cooperation Talk; Weygand-Petain Confer

CALLTROCEIN LOCAL STRIKE Maintenance,Office Workers Permitted Entrance For 5-Day Period Pending final *ettlement of Issues Involved In lhe strike at the Central Hoy* company and M< Millen Feed Mill*, an agreement was reached at the Fort Way tie confer once yesterday, whereby the local management, office worker*, maintenance crews sod superintendents were allowed to enter the mills, while the plant remained <>n a nonoperating basis. Th*- case was taken to Indianapolis today before Robert I. Cowdrill, regional director of the national labor relations b*»rd. The company management and nnlon representatives attended In yesterday's agreement, referred to a* a flee day truce, th- management agrees not to attempt the operation of the plants and the union permits Ingress and egress to the office and mills by George Thomas, local manager, the labor* lory and research director* and asslHtant*. office workers, maintenance crews and to Wesley Lehman, superintendent The crew of men that remained In the plant when the walk out was called Monday evening at I 45. was permitted Io leave the building unmolested About 17 men remained Inaide the buildings, protecting the properties and salvaging feed materials The name* of the perrons Included In the several group* named • Imre were furnished to the union and all cbecked-ln through the (CONTINUED WN PAGE SEVEN* PUSH BILL FOR DEFENSE FUNDS Houm* Group Recommend* 193 Million Dollar Deficiency Bill Waahington. Mar. 5. <Ug> The house appropriations committee today recommended a 3133.313.0*3 ti* dellclency bill carrying fund* for numerous government activities, about 30 percent of which affect national defense. The federal bureau of investigation was given 5375.000 to provide for 700 additional and <O3 other new employes to carry out It* new anti-espionage and antl-sabotag-dutlea. Among funds for defense activities wa* 5175.000 for Increasing the output of helium gas at the government'* Amarillo. Texas, plant. Other major Items approved Included: National Youth Administration. 623.5tMi.iMm National defense rivers and harbors project 623.332.000 plus a contract authorization of 55.734 000. Panama Canal. for speeding Instalbi’ion of special devises for protecting the canal. Grand Coulee dam, 37 500.000; Boulder dam. 81.000.000 Agriculture department*. S 2 000.O(M> for control of Insect pests. Coast guard. 83.618,200 for converting vessels for national detCGNTINtIED ON PAGE HIXi Richard Parrinh To Enter Navy July 1 Richard K Parrish, son <rf Mr and Mrs Frank Parrish of this city." who ia completing seven years of college work and will he graduated June 2. from the Indiana University flehaol of Medicine, has enlisted in the United State* navy and will report for duty July 1. Dick ha* taken the wxamination at Waukegan. Illinois and wa* notified that he pa»sed auccasafully and ha* been appointed **al*tant surgeon with the rank of lieutenant. His enlistment is for a year and a half and hla experience will take the place us the intemesbip required after medical student* complete their courau of study. At the conclusion of bla enlisted period be may continue In the service or retire to begin practice a* he decide*. He ha* made an excellent record In col lege and hi* many friend* here are very proud <<f him.

STRIKE CONFAB MOVES SLOWLY BEFORE NLBR Negotiation* Seem Deadlocked A* Federal Board Hear* Local Caae Indianapolis. March ti - <U P> N'-gotlatlon* to end the strike at the Central Soya Company and M< Millen Feed Mill* at Decatur appeared deadlocked today a* company and union representative*, federal and state conciliator* report'd they had not been able to reach an agreement thus far. Robert H. Cowdrlll. chairman of i the National la,ten Relation* Board I In Indianapolis said the Issue of I reinstating of the 13 men who allegedly were discharged for union activities was the principal controversy He said union recognition I and collective bargaining agent* I were being di*« u**ed Cowdrlll Indicated negotiation* I would continue 'his afternoon and I tonight. | Col. C Sawyer, attorney of the NLRB pri-sided at tiMlay'a conference. Present were Harold l.ane. union representative; Marl Keisker. company attorney; Charles Wilron and Louis Melnel. state labor conciliators, and three members of the UGAPWA union. 0 A. C. Butcher In Stricken At Work A. C. Butcher, local justice of peace. Is confined in the Adams county memoxlal hospital after becoming 111 late laat evening while at work in bl* oflke. Mr Butcher > was found unconscious In a rhair rin the offices which he and John j T. Kelly occupy on South Second ! afreet. He was taken to the hos II pltal in the Gtlllg * Doan ambulance He ia reportedly suffering from a stomach aliment. - —0" — File Bastardy Case Against Geneva Man — Justice of Peace A C Butcher set an appearance Isnid for Howaid I-ong of Geneva at B*<M' in Justice of peace court late Wednesday afternoon. after Long had been arraigned on bastardy proceedings, filed against him by Jeanette Beery of this city, l-ong was at rested by Constable Jack Meiber* Firemen Called To Eugene Durkin Home The local Ere departmen' made a run to the Eugene Durkin residence on Mercer avenue thl* afternoon to extinguish an attic fire. The Bremen were called after 7 o’clock. The cause wa* not known at a late hour. Little damase wa* believed to have been done. O■ — — CAROL.LUPESCU INTO PORTUGAL Reported Guests Os Capitalist After Escape During Auto Ride Lisbon. Portugal. Mar. * <U.P> Former King Carol of Rumania and Mme Magda Lupescu. who escaped across the Portuguese border from Spain when permitted to leave their Seville hotel for an automobile ride Tuesday afternoon. we<e reported to be guest* here of Joao l-opes Joly. Portugue»e capitalist, and his wife, a Spanish machlonesa. Joly was believed to have had advance knowledge of the escape He went to the Npaniah border In an automobile Tuesday evening and returned with Carol and Mme Lupescu. who had been permitted to walk across the border but not to drive their car aero**. The former king and hl* redhaired companion left their servant*. much of their luggage and their two automobiles In Spain Reports from Seville said police bad sealed their former hotel rooms and had found the Americanmade Chrysler In which they outdistanced the police keeping them (CUNTINUKD ON PAGE SEVEN!

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Hitler Denies Threat To Dardanelle* And Turkey In Four Point Statement. NAZIS MASSING — Ankara. Turkey. Mar < >'U3> ■ Diplomat*- s,«irce« said xelay that Adolf Hiller ha* Invited Turkey to -end a high statesman to Germany or alternatively Io allow a high Nail offl. lal io come to Turkey to discuss "cloarr cooperstlmt." This projMMM,! It was underato 4. was i<mtalin-d In Hiller’s m»-»age to President Ismet Inollll ln< reaabig German troop concestrathMi In Thrace were reported and Britain and Jewish realdenla ' in Istanbul were said io have start- > -d a ru»h to banks to withdraw j their money I The 4lltler note was said to have contained fimr points. These were: I A slatement of Germany'* i desire for "cloaer cooperation" and : ~ proposal ihal a high Nazi statesi man come to Ankara to discuss this i prospect or a Turkish statesman come to Germany. 2 A denial that Germany enterI tains any threat to the Dardanelles. 3 A promise that Germany entertain* no aggressive ambitions against Turkey. 4 A lengthy exposition of historical events since Versailles, emphasizing the German theses that Britain has consistently misused small nations and particularly Turkey Gen. Msxlme Weygand. com-m*nderln-<hiet of France's far flung African empire, conferred under unusual circumstances today with Marshal Heuri I’hillppe ■ Petain. This Item of news which Vichy dispatches failed to ampi'fy may portend derelopmenfs in the c'ithal African-near eastern war ' theater as Important as those vow I under way In the Balkans In the Balkans thousands of Geri man troops are massing on ths j Greek and Turkish frontiers. Brl'aln and Greece have reaffl l 'nied their determination to fight on together and Jugoslavia I* expecied shortly to lie gathered Into A jolt Hitler's Nagi family The Weygand visit — hl* first since he took over lhe pro-consul’s post In Africa after the Franck collapse raised these posslbllll’es I A German demand for Fr -itch "collaboration" in a major drlv> against the British in 4-lbya. p - slhly coordinated with a slmult ineou* near eastern attack toward the oil fields of Iraq and the Nnez canal. 2—An axis or an anglo-Turkish threat against Syria. 3 Possible German demand* if a comprehensive nature which require consultation between Weygaud and Petain on defense* In | North Africa The British have reported evl- ‘ deuce of all increase In the number of German technician* and uniforin,ed German mlhlary forces In French North Africa Gen ('harles Ib'gatille of the Free French movement charged that such activity alro wa* being extended tn Syria. Whether this might be preliminary Io major German move* in the French possession* wa* not clear but Berlin and Rome communique* of the past Id day* have stressed the extent of Nazi military nld • Im,th by land force* and air squadron* now lielng given Italy hi weitarn Libya A large-scale German cam|ulgn In North Africa would lie grtarly facilitated by u»e of ba«os In French Tttniila which lie* Juac aero** the narrow Mediterranean channel from Hlclly where Nazi dive-bomber bases are estaldtaherl. At the same time Syria haa enmo back Into the picture liecauae of concentration both by Germany and Britain on moves centering around (be Balkan front and Turkey Balkan rntnors have auggeaterl that Britain might lie talking with Turkey regarding plan* to tako over Syria to prevent it from being Used by the axl* In ait near east* ern drive. So far as la known both Petain and Weygand have taken a firm <CONTtNt'ED ov >'AC.e u,x» ’ ■ 0WEATHER Light to locally modarata snow In north and central portion* and light rain or snow in •■trama south portion tonight and Friday; not much change In tamparatura.