Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 111, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1941 — Page 1

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S, MERCHANT IPS TO SAIL INTO RED SEA VfMtlx Too Carry SupDespite Threats From Axis 1., hm ft on, May # ' t .„irn V S merchant »hlp* .hrtlt l» he ,n, ° ,h * Hwl 4., »»l« threat* lo "Ink „ „ 4 « learned loilay, coL, «|th s n*» German protest !>•' »M|i -elsures here mid an|7,W,ln. ' address nr«ln* «*• r development* In national j.rornpanled by lilt tor 0, retarding tho tOH- alory «f jlh ihlppinf losse*. •» •PP*«f | 1111,1 arcurale figures on sink- ! |„, r n< >i been revealed to Ihe ),)„• renalafl—. ('ongres* ,! as* suggesting Kirrat Britain or someone la the Tart a from the u, of th#* lulled Slate# while In •imti'.iam-ottalf for more m nr assistance. tthlp* flying tho Amerl flit and manned by American m ire eipected to begin carry air material* Into the Red for Brltlxh u»e within the neit i~ki The I'nited Pree# wa* rm wi that seven vessel* have j i teniatl*"ly aaalined to that lire and that 20 more are belnf whled for similar duty under lend lease program. rotM-tlon of the ship* and Amer rrewi (ti reported under conration by the state and navy , irtmrnta. Organisation of the dtion* service to the Red Sea la i me maritime commission. j fdeat Roosevelt last month retd the proclamation which had id the Red Sea to American pint aa a war zone, he Red Sea flotilla will avoid little of the Atlantic by operI across the Pacific, around • and into the Red Sea, It waa L Uartdenmtly the maritime comdon made 25 additional vessels liWe to the Rrltfsh In accord- 1 t with Mr Roosevelt's request aae-mhly of a 2 ono.ooo ton ship , I pool to help move supplies to l British The commission spied the charter of 25 veaaela by Alroa Steamship Co., to Cana Intereata under an agreement ' the cost of their operation I be borne by Canadian funds not by the tend-leaae approlion The vessel*, perhapn ax j tstlnz 2(*u*ftO tons, will lie used , rlpslly for hauling bauxite, ir and oil well equipment beau South American port* and hda Plans to make 50 tankers j Mlately available to the British ' adjr are well advanced That' r-e-nis Swi.oou tanker tona. V new German proteat was dl-; W *C*lns! pending legislation' tathorlze Mr. Roosevelt to seize I foreign ships In American kWTIIIUK ON PA«»lt rtVBI Bulletins London. May 9.—'RJl—The * raported tonight •’*» • record breaking air at-hck-vnoMcitny estimated to “»• b«*n made by between 88 *»d 400 bomber*—on Ger“•f a great northern porta “* sent pillars of "’oka rising 10.000 foot above "" "8 Hamburg and Bremen. •♦tween NO and 1.000 tona hl ßb eaptoaivea ware dropp- *" Baal objectives last 'W. it was estimated, In add)r" *® of theueande of Landoa, May #,—tj||JS'—' Tho H”"' force of Iraq haa T" v,r,u * l, y deetroyod. tha . said today after "Hiaaure that British Imper- ' ad aatandad their control , * Krt of Baaca and occuha strategic plateau everJUJJ ,h * "AS baaa at Habhj^.alr m, " l, * r r Mid that mbing attacks had bacn IT* *" T bur*day at landing ni, ” '•» ,r M which “probf eempictag destruction of *, fevee." The land«ro north of Bagh)lMoc RAT THCBMOMITKR • :0 ° »• m." ’ u >0:qo . _ «• d« Bam WIATH BB tonight and httb •"• h tly cooler with M "•"t freete tonight.

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'♦ — p Stunned In Wreck, Fort Wayne Kenident Think* He * Hitler !♦- —4 folumblu Pity. Ind . May * <UJL I — Hhcrlff John W Mallard followed | a trail of dlscurdol clothing through m field near here today to | find a man who was stunned Into . thinking he was "Hitler " Mallard anld he received the call , from a farmer reporting a man dressed only In hla shoe*, pants , and undershirt had wrapped on hla i door about dawn today to proclaim: "By Mod I'm Hiller” i Mallard said the man was IdentlI fled by card* aa William J. Kline. 51. ynrt Wayne. He said Kline was , j driving west on lloud SO when hla auto plunged 4<m feet into a field. Htuniied and shocked by the ac- , jcldent. Kline apparently wandered . through the Meld to the farmhouse I tossing off miscellaneous items of clothing aa he went, the sheriff ' said. Among the discarded articles i the sheriff recovered from the field . i was a pocket book containing |7u. ,! —o — CITY TO MARK MOTHER'S DAY Mother’s I)ay To lie Observed Throughout Nation Sunday "Mother will come Into her own” 1 j next Sunday here, as well aa all over the rest of the nation when ' "Mother’s liay" Is commemorated. High tribute will In- paid her and she will lie showered with gifts. Including candy. Mowers, clothing. ! "Mother's lti«y" card*, telegrams, j letter*, etc. Most highly appreciated 'present' | of all. Insofar as she is concerned, i will be the return of her children to the Huuday dinner and an all day visit. On the second Sunday in May. 1907. a Philadelphia spinster. Anna Jarvis, mourned the first anniversary of her mother's death and prevailed upon a Philadelphia church to hold a special service to j honor beloved mothers everywhere This Sunday, most Iterator churches will carry a Mother's Day 1 theme In their service*. , After that first special *serr!ce' j the Idea spread to other churches ! to so many that the governor of Florida issued a Mother’s Day pro- 1 rlatnatlon. and In 1914 congress passed an act. designating tho second Sunday In May as Mother's Day and requested that the Mag he displayed on all government build [ lugs that day. During the Intervening years the t observance of Mother's Day has grown to gigantic proportions. And I now a new significance for the oc- 1 i caalon Is urged In a Joint statement | signed by President Roosevelt, i Katherine F. Lenroot, chief of the | federal children’s bureau, and more i than 25 outstanding maternal , health authorities, parent educat- [ i ors. child welfare officials and prominent American mothers. “It was started In 1914.” says one of these leaders, “as a purely sentimental observance. In many homes It has caused children for a day at least to stop and think of mother j aa a person with rights and feel--1 Inga of her own. who merits a very j special aort of devotion." "But Mother's Day has grown far 1 beyond such personal and sentimental consideration. It now haa a broader, deeper significance. Mother’s Day Is no longer symbolized by the sweet, white haired, resigned Whistler's Mother. The iPONTINIIKn Of* PAOM SIV»» VENUE MOTION IS SUSTAINED Judge SußtainH Change Os Venue Motion In $15,000 Damage Suit A motion for a change of venue In the $15,000 damage suit of Clifford Ross against the Meshberger Bro«. Hioiw Corp.. wan fllfcd before Judge J. Fred Fruchte in Adama circuit court Thursday. Judge Fruchte sustained the motion and Haled Wells. Jay and Allen aa available countlea for the change. Th eauit Is one of two now pending as result of an auto-truck crash on August 20. 19S8 In which Mrs. Mabel Rosa, wife of the plalntfff, was family hurt. Rosa la bringing Hie suit for the loss of hla wife. A suit of Clifford Everett, by hla next friend and father, Jamea R. Everett, for per sonal Injurlea sustained In the same accident, la the other caae pending. The accident occurred near Bobo when tlUf Meahberger truck, driven , by Elr# Staulfer, collided with the auto, operated by Rosa. 1

HALIFAX ASKS ! ;| JOINT ACTION II laord Halifax Declare* Joint Action Nece**ary On Sea* r i Minneapolis. May 9 <UJ!> I-oril the Hrltiah ambassador, i said today "joint action of (he Cnit-! rd State# and Mteat Britain" Is necessary to ensure safely of the Atlantic sea lanea. “vital link between production and combat." i Assistance of U. 8. naval patrols i Is making possible concentration of British ea power In "most dangerous areas" threatening the Row of I Amerltan aid. the ambassador told members of the Minneapolis Ro- ' tary club. ’’ The base of the conflict, Halifax . said, rested upon the production facilities and th,- raw materials of this country and of England. Halifax said three “trump cards In the hands of freedom" were control of a preponderant portion of : the world's oil. copper and rubber supplies by nation* opposing a nail triumph or 'corruption and cruelty." lie said 70 percent of the world's oil supply. 95 percent of available 1 copper and 90 percent of the crtfllrubber output “la still beyond Hit-1 ler's reach." "These are the trump cards In the hands of freedom." he said "These are hard and simple facts which constitute a challenge to those doubting minds which cannot see certain assurance of the ulllmale collapse and defeat of Hitler." Halifax said the answer to the question "can Hitler be defeated?" , lies "partially" in American millsshipbuilding plants, and factories, "partially through our unfalterlug devotion to our cauae." "If with your aid we can win the battles of production and transportation we In Hrltam are confldenl j . . . That we can win the last hat-; tie of all which will rid the world of this evil thing.” Halifax said. The ambassador aald a Hitler victory means "the triumph not only of corruption and cruelty worse than the human race haa yet ex-j perlenced, but also the triumph of j a ruthless Industrial system that no nation that values free enterprise could survive." I He charged (lermany with practising "cold, colisciodi. deliberate savagery not seen In the world since the days of Denghia Khan." Halifax said naxl occupation of Poland had taken a toll of 40.000 Polish Uvea "within the last few (CONTINUED OM FAOM F1V«» INQUIRIES ON WORK RECEIVED ' Firms Seek Plant* Able To Do Jiff, Tool And Machine Work Reveral Inquiries have been re-1 celved by the Chamber of Commerce from mid-west Industrial concerns necking plants where i national defense orders for Jig. tool and machine work can be turned out. A preliminary survey made by the C. of C.'a Industrial committee. | ( ■hows Decatur does not have a tool or machine plant. The survey also., showed that there were no Idle tool', or machine worker* In the city. One company wished lo place an | Immediate order with any concern | equipped to turn out tool and Jig j work. Another manufacturing j 1 plant stated that it had sufficient defense orders to "farm out" pro- 1 vldlng for at least 50.000 man-hours of work per month. The only defense contract held | i by a local concern la that of The i Schafer company, wholesale hard-1 ware, harneai and glove manufacturing. It haa an order for 30,000 pairs of regulation army gloves. Investigation of any Inquiry, with the Idea of bringing business and employment to the city, will be j made by the Chamber of Com- ( tnerce, (Jeorge Thoma. president. i stated and plants equipped to take lon work In the various defense ! lines, are asked to file their requlrej ments with the secretary, Olen Hill. ( I or the committee. . ~ j Franklin Colleffe , Head Here Sunday t i Dr. W. « Spencer, president of t Franklin college nationally known < educator and lecturer, twill deliver I a special MoKher'n day address at the Flrat Baptlat church In tfcis city I at the morning zervlca Sunday at < 10:30 o’clock. Dr. Sponcer will be accompanied ' to this city by the college male i quartet, ‘which will present several I selections The public la invited to ( i this service, I

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 9, 1941.

Michigan RloaHom Queen 4 wil. \ 4r - * f’faSh jgM IF WiHK ‘fiPMPBiIWMWMr Jean Mueke Michigan's Blossom Queen. Jean Muske. 2n. rules over the 19th annual festival to he held In Menton Harbor and 81. Joseph, the heart of the fruit belt. May 10 Miss Muske Is Ihe daughter of a Boulh Haven. Michigan, fruit grower.

RAIDING NAZI PLANESDOWNED British Fiffhter Plane* Shoot Down 11 German Bomber* i London. May 9. - <U.» — British 1 qiooullglil fighters blasted II more 1 German bomber* ou' of the sky 1 last night, bringing the Gt-rman air j force losses to 117 planes and ap- ; proxlmatcly 400 highly trained men already this month. The air ministry said total enemy aircraft destroyed during the night wa* 12. but did not state how the j 12th craft was brought down. The Germans slightly reduced the size of their raiding force last night In the face of these losses, hut they made heavy attacks on the number <HullN area, two districts In the north midlands and many other potnta In England and i North Ireland. In one battle between mass forj mat lon* of Brltiah and German , planes over East Angelica, six German planes were brought down In flumes In 45 minute*, according to ail air ministry statement. “A squadron of (Mritlshl night lighter*, patroling an area of the east coast, ran Into a wave of enemy bomber# coming In from the sea." Ihe statement said. "One after another of the night fighters picked out a raider and closed lit lo attack . . . "The squadron leader saw three enemy bomber# within a few minute*. The first was In flames and was being chased by a fighter. The second he downed himself. The "Tcdntinued on paox fi van HEARING DATE ISSETMONDAV Tax Board To Hold Hearinff Here On Kirkland Addition A state tax board hearing on the proposed issuance of $47,000 In bonds for the financing of an addition to the Kirkland township high school building has tbeen set for Monday. May 12 at 10 a. in. Word of tho hearing wa# received today by auditor Victor H. Eleiier from the tax (board. Necessary patpers, Including the petition for the proposed Issuance of bonds, certification <rf the trustee aud resolution* of the advisory board, a* well as a copy of the remonstrance filed In the auditor’s office, are In the hand* of the state tax iboard. The hearlug will be conducted In the vammisatoner * room at the county court house. Auditor Etcher has also received word that the state tax board will conduct it hearing on the same day. beginning at 9:45 a m. on the speclal spprupi tattoo* recently ap proved by the city council.

Former Court Order In Divorce Modified I Judge J. Fred Fruchte in Adam* circuit court late Thursday modiI fied a former court order In the divorce case of Mildred against i Ivan Garwood, providing that the custody of a child. Ivan. Jr., lie granted lo the defendant front June I to July I aud from Augu*l 1 to September 1. 1941. The dei fendant Is to |ray support during r that time. The plaintiff and de r fendant are to In* privileged to r visit the child when he I* In the - custody of the other. I o DEATH CLANKS ; JOHN STEINER t - Prominent Retired Farm- ‘ er Die* Today At Home i Os Dauffhter i John P Steiner. 60. prominent . retired Adam* county farmer, died , at 7:45 o'clock this morning at the . home of his daughter. Mrs. Murl i Lybarger. of Hoagland. ITT* con- , dttlon had I teen critical alnce suffering a stroke 12 days ago, He was born In Hartford town--1 ship December 31. I*6o. the *on of ' Peter and Fanny Htaiiffer-Htelner. ' He had spent hi* entire life In Ad--1 am* county until the death of hi* ' wife, when he moved to hi* daugli--1 ler'a home. 1 Mr. Steiner wa* a former trustee of French township. 1 Surviving besides the daughter ' are a sou. Fred Steiner of Linn I Grove; one sister. Mra. Jacob Neu 1 hau*er of Berne; and two brothers.! ' David Steiner of Sterling. HI., and 1 ' Amo* Steiner of Riufftou rural route. Funeral services will lie held at 1 p. m ICSTI Sunday at the Vager, funeral home and at 1:30 o'clock , at tho Linn Grove f’hristlan church.: Burial will be In Greenwood cemetery. The body may he viewed at the funeral home after 10 o'clock, Saturday morning. ,o " - Stolen Automobile I* Recovered Here A 1936 Chevrolet, stolen In Peru, wa* recovered in this city last night, police chief Jinnee Border* reported today The car Is to lie re-1 turned to Its owner. — p - • St Mary’* River To Be Surveyed — The 81. Mary's river, which flow* into Adams county from Ohio, is Included a* one of the river* to be surveyed for advisability of navigation Improvement* In a ten ! tatlve draft of the rivers ami har-l hors hill In congress. The river and harbor project I# Rated for consideration following the national defense program. Several years ago a government survey wa* made of the river, but no aclioii haa yet been taken. The survey at that time largely dealt with the water *hed A slate survey was also made a few years *»«•

Huge Fleet Os British Planes Smashes Heavily At Industrial German Ports-Berlin Bombed

BRITISH POUND ! AT MAIN AXIS AFRICAN BASE British Air And Naval Force* Bomb And Shell Bcnffha/.i Rome. May 9 (U#a - Hrlllsh air and naval forces tiombed and I shelled Benghazi, one of the mailt azl* lia*e- In North Africa. Ihe Italian high command said In a ciimmunli|ue t.slay which aald that Italian torpedo-carrying plane* had caused great destruction In three attack* on a large British convoy In the western Mediterranean. The communique said the attack on the convoy resulted In hits on a battleship, an aircraft carrier, two cruiser*, a destroyer and three large merchant ships. The air and naval attack on Benghazi, which followed last month's great British naval Ikhii* I hardmetit of Tripoli, was said to . have caused "a lew victims and un- .' Important damages.” The communique said that 111 the , attacks on the convoy Italian plane* shot down 13 British hurricane and defiance plane* and tierI mail plane* which ‘lntervened" ahot down three. Five Italian planes i were lost and were damaged, their • crews suffering wound*. •i According to the communique, t Italian planes operating In the * Aegean sea hit with torp«-does two ■ hlg steamers and a cruiser of 7.000 i toils. The vessels were reported I as last seen listing heavily and -1 aflame. (; The high command said Ihe con“lvoy was escorted by two battle- ' ships, one aircraft carrier and a ‘ nunVber of cruisers and destroyers. The first Italian torpedo planes , to attack scored hits on two cruisers. one destroyer and one steamer of heavy tonnage, it said. In a second atlack. In which Italian | bomber* participated with Ihe torpedo planes, a battleship, an airI craft carrier and two large ateumera suffered hits. The third attack, made hy torpedo planes alone, resulted in ani other hit on the aircraft carrier and a hit on a battleship. Tile communique said Italian In- ,! fantry and naval forces had occu- | pled the Greek islands of Samos , and Furnl In the Aegean. Mentone Man Killed A* Train Hit* Truck Warsaw. Ind . May 9 - 'U.R. UiwrciicM Boganwrlght. 47. horsedealer of near Mentone, was killed Instantly today when a westbound passenger train on the Pennsylvania railroad struck his truck at a crossing one mile east of Ktna f Green. Robert Reed. Mentone mortician and farm partner of Boganwrlght. escaped injury when he leaped from the truck before the crash. Two of the three horses in the 1 truck were killed. BOMB IS FOUND ■ IN FORD PLANT FBI !nve*tiffatinff Report Bomb Found In River I I Rouffe Plant Detroit, May 9 — (U.R — The I 1 federal bureau of Investigation to- I day Investigated reports that a < bomb had been found In the tool I und dye building of the Ford Motor | company's huge Hlver Rouge plant. I The FBI refuted to comment he- l I yond confirming, “the company has t 1 called the matter to our attention. 1 We are Investigating " A company spokesman referred I all questions to the FBI office. B tale police, who maintained a • force at the plant to prevent labor violence trtnee the United Autumnj Idle Workers union (CIOi closed j the factory with a 10-day strike ; lasi month, said they had no word 4 that an explosive hud been found. * Detective lieutenant Reuben Orr “ of the Dearborn city police said he 1 Investigated the report and found < what appeared to have been a large 1 firecracker, wrapped In gummed < paper. Orr said the package bad J exploded without a trace of damage s to the concrete where It been t lying. I

LXPORTE PLANT I STRIKERS VOTE Alli*-(’halmcrs Worker* Vote On Plan I)e*iffned To End Strike lßy I'nited Tress» Union employes of the Allls-Chat-mer# company lat Porte, Ind. plant voted today on a settlement plan designed to end a strike blocking work on fs.oOo.ntio worth of antiaircraft gun mounts. The #SO striking members of the CIO Farm Equipment Workers ballot ted on ratification of an agreement asking the national defense mediation Itoard to take the dispute under advisement. If the hoard accepted. It was expected production would resume Monday. The strike was called Wednesday afler a deadlock had developed on union demands for a dosed shop and a wage increase of 15 cents an hour. At Washington the mediation hoard turned Its attention to two new disputes, certified yesterday by Secretary of Isibor Frances Perkins One concerned 50 lumber companies In the Puget Sound area which faced a walkout -scheduled for today of Mono CIO International Woodworkers o( America demanding a closed shop, vacations with pay aud Improved working condition*. The other wa* the four-day-old *trlke of 3,000 CIO Automobile Worker* as three Detroit plant* of the Ex-Cell-O corporation whbh bold* vital defence contract# of $16,000,000. The principal issue to be mediated hy the board was a union demand for general wage boosts. Negotiations conducted by th--board entered their second week on the threatened strike of 1(5.000 General Motors workers. As yet little progre*# lias been reported on a deadlock over IIAW-CIO demands for a dosed shop and a lucent an hour wage Increase. Twenty other strike*, uffecllng approximately It.ooo defense workers. still were unsettled ttalay hilt most of these were of minor Importance. MRS. DEHRIG IS PRESIDENT Mr*. Tillman (Jchriff I* District President Os Auxiliary Mrs. Tillman Gehrig, of this city, la the new fourth di*trlrt president of the American la-glon auxiliary. Mrs. Gehrig, a member of the Adams Post auxiliary, was named to the position Thursday In a district meeting of the auxiliary, held at Churn bunco. Mrs. Gehrig succeeds Mr*. I.lmla Shaughnlss. Ihe present head of the organization. Other officer* are: Mr*. Ruth Hostetler of Ugonler. vice-presi-dent and Mrs Iva Reynolds.a mem-! her of the executive board Installation ceremonies for the] new officers will be held at a dls-j trlcl meeting at the local Legion i home In September. Mra. Louise Young, Crown Point, state president of the auxiliary, was In attendance at the Churuhusro meeting Memorial services for 17 members who have died during the year were held It was decided to hold the next district meeting at Blufftoit 111 July. Ref'eaeiitatlve* of the local Legion auxiliary who attended tha meeting Thursday were: Mrs. flehrig. Mra. Ed Bauer. Mrs. Ralph K. Roop. Mrs. Dallas Brown. Mra. Dallas Gold tier. Mrs. Frank Crlat, Mr*, i H. Vernon Aurand and Ire la Miller, i - o - Two Escape Injury As Autos Collide i Two persons escaped Injury a- i bout 6:30 o'clock last evening when t car* driven by Bern Racquet of i Arcadia and C- G. Egley of Fort Wayne collided one and one-half I tulle* aouth of the city on federal t road 27. Damaae to the car* was I estimated at $126 by deputy sheriff Leo GHIlg. who Investigated The t Arcadia driver Is a stale account- i aut who haa been working in this * city for aavaral month*. *

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I RAF Send* MO To 100 Bomber* To Heaviest Attack Os War Affainst (German Base*. DAMAGE HEAVY London. May # (UP- Between 300 and 4imi British bombing planes. Including the latest type from Ihe l ulled State*, rained Itombs on Germany'* great port* aud industrial renter* during the night, and paid Inddetilal attention to Berlin, It wa* Britain'* higgi-*t air raid of the war. Hamburg and Bremen. Germany’s great port* on the North Sea. were the chief target* In an aerial oftenalve roii*tltullng a retort lo the 10-avy German "starvation” raid* on Britain Hamburg had In-en raided Tuesday night and Bremen Wednesday night. Emdeii a hlg North Sea naval base ami. Ilk-- Hamburg and Bremen. also a submarine base, waa I...min'd heavily also and mime bombs were dropped on the German capital. It wa* understood that the royal air force u*<-d nearly twice a* many (tombing plane* a* it had ever u««-4 before. In It* *nia*tilng attack on some of the most important targets In Germany. lit the previous record raid, several week* ago. It wa* understood that lietwecii 150 and 2<nt plain-* Ininilied Hainhnrg Briton*, heartened hy the news of last night * great raid, hoped the royal air force, which had husbanded It* resources through as grim autumn and winter, might now. reinforced hy American planes, lie ready to unleash a merciless offensive on Germany. In fulfillment of promise* hy prime minister Winston Churchill and Bir Archibald Sinclair, air minister, that when the time came Britain would pay Germany hack three or four bomb* for one. In striking hardest at Hamburg and Bremen, easily the most heavily bombed dtle* of Germany, tho raid wa* linked with the vital battle of the Atlantic. Both port* have most extenalra shipyard* In which Germany I* believed to he speeding construction of submarine* to tighten It* count-er-hlockade and seek to Impede the growing flow of American war materials to Britain. Hamburg. In addition, ha* chemical factories, oil plants, a largo ga* work* and other Important target*, and Bremen I* the «!fe of the Forke Wulff airplane factory, where Atlantic raider* are turne-d out. and oil refineries. Last night'* attack was the 61th • CONTINUED ON PAftK NIVEI (V— Donald Brock Die* Os Accident Injury Portland. Ind . May # (U P- — Donald Chester Brock. I#, died today at Glhlnm* hospital. Cell tin. Ohio, from Injuries received In an automobile accident near Fort Recovery. Ohio, last Sunday. Previously Bonnie Jean Miller, 15. Portland, died of Injuries received In the same wreck SCHOOL BANDS PLAN TAG DAT Annual Tass Day For Decatur School Band* Here Tomorrow The annual fag day of the |Vc:i* tur hand organization* will be liebl on the street* of the city Minor* raw, Saturday. May 10 It was announced today. Member* of the four band*, tho Decatur Girl*, the Decatur high echool. the Decatur Cutholla school, and the combined hands, will sell the tag*. The event Is sponsored hy tho Decatur Chamber of Commerce, with proceeds going direct to tho band* The money will he used first to finance the trip of the hand to the Van Wert. Ohio peony festival. It will also he used lit flnaneinff trips to other fair* and event*, lit which the organization la Invited to take part. Persons contribtiHng will be glv* en a lag to wear, signifying their cooperation. Albert Hellemeyer. ad director of the bauds, will he it| charge of the sale.