Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 119, Decatur, Adams County, 19 May 1941 — Page 1

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FEAR 200 AMERICANS LOST AT SEA

Iff FASCIST lIIONGHOLDIN IIIFRICA TAKEN Fth<°l , ' a ** Near Collapse May !'• 'U.PJ iiHrx'" ' , " l,a Al “ gl ' lh, ‘ fj., ->i..tiKhol<l In Ethl , the surrender' , t,.|, 1,.,-h . ,>llllll.lll'l iK,,' u ,. , I! was announced fIE ~ 'hat the British who hid advanced from .. .ilonK th.* Asmara- • \ chaay to surround * .ul<| take Amba Atari • h> day and make the Itaiirtny prisoners. -^■ r . p.> I. xh fommand said |K. ~ t ! -. n had been ordered -. ~nd that the Duke of . t Ethiopia and cod* «■ • h ' 'or Emmanuel. Was ) .- irri«on wan estimat .om. ahai more than 7.(Mhi treat of them Italian* ax ,,f native troops had de oid joined the British ern and Ethiopian armies. I .irengholds r* main dal I't northwestern Ethl and ihe lake region south of Ababa But it was estimated there were only 700 Italian and a tew thousand unroll natlie. in the Gondar area. <he most important unconposition remaining. Kstithat 22 000 white Italians 'K> rerioii were believed here to oenied to be collapsing Was bell. Ved here that thous |Ml> "f li t i*h empire troops and Mhi'„l> ~f ,oplanes would be re Hrsi *«,n to reinforce the armies ■■PVejtjse Iraq and Egypt link' of Aasta. viceroy of pi. nw PAUS nvfci ■aCCALAUREATE I SERVICE HELD Mev. ( an y Moser Speaks |B“ Decatur High School ■ Graduates in our generation has been a period of greater op ■>”young people of unsel motlies and sacrificial devo!o themselves for the wel | of men everywhere." Rev. r Moser, pastor of the Raptint church. told the BK'of the graduating class m ,| ‘" Iteeatur junior senior high last night. gW* l ” Moser Spoke to the students gM'ti" baccalaureate services held Ml -'bool gymnasium-auditor m*"*' “f us older ones know f'U must yet learn; that our l« cruel and ruthless, filled HV h Perils and must )>e faced ■gT Ptrpose and decision. It is a ■k M bent on self destruction, a fili.-d with many conflicting of men. You will great wisdom and faith for '“»« ahead. flK’Wires are crumbling and Mb •'•lplessly about you. the gWt'ruition is wanton and tragic. BF 4 ’’•’•owned landmarks are de without mercy and human M • of little value. I want to call your atten- * higher calling — that of m itn *tlon. so greatly needed 111 BMC* " >llr Life holds analogies to r 'hlng, hm f || kf) to think of Glorious Building ." he said mKhui **' ,hl * ’heme of "The HK Glorious" around which HW* **rmon was formed, using 1 ™*'"‘hUns 3 # 23 „ the text. he termed the foundajS' 1 '‘’ T!S ' , 'Kt> on pacin Siva. B 6eM ° CRAT TH,!:RMOMETER m — m ■ hm!’ "" M IS ’• m -— m WtATHIR p.i S vw* * on, ® ht

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Decker Is Named As Special Judge Judge John Becker of BluMton has been named as special judge In the note suit of Faye Mntschler Kendedy against the American Legion post Judge J Fred Fruchte named Byron Jenkins of Portland. Harry Hllgetnann of Fort Wayne and Decker as avaHdble judges, when a motion for a change of venue from Judge was filed. The plaintiff struck the name of Judge Jenkins and the defendant that of llllgematin STATE APPROVES KIRKLAND BID FOR ADDITION School Improvement Approved If WPA Grant In Obtained The state hoard of tax comvnlssinners today approved the appropriation of 147.0 M for the building of class -rooms and a new auditor-ium-gymnasium to the Kirkland township high school, contingent on the township obtaining a WTA grant toward financing the proposed 176.000 project Formal notice of the atate lioard’s order was received here by Earl Martin, trustee of the township. The order denied the appeal of the remonstrators and then authorised the appr<d>rlatlons of funds. 126.000 from the civil and 121.000 from the school township, to help finance the remodeling and building program. Hearing on the appeal o’ the remonetrators was held in this city last Tuesday by I-ee lllghlsa. clal representative <«f the state board At that time a standing vote taken during the sessions showed that 66 persons present favored and 12 opposed the approval of the appropriations. Attorney D. Burdette (Ulster, who represents the trustee and advisory board, said this afternoon that the first step to be taken would be to obtain the government grant. The order of the state board hinges on the WPA furnishing part of the labor and material, as the estimated cost of the addition is between 165.000 and |7«.M®The proposed improvement ini eludes four large class rooms, about half a doxen auxiliary rooms and the large gymnasium With the building of the addition. the township proposes to con- ' (CONTINUED ON PAOK THRRBi — Newly-Born Twins Are Brought To Hospital • iMrs. I<®wrence Sorg and her • newly horn twin daughters were ' admitted to the Adams county meI mortal .hospital Sunday morning. shortly after birth. The twins were ' bom at the borne, MonroevlMe 1 route 2. The one girl weighs five pounds and three ounces, the other, four ' pounds and 16 ounces. Neither has r been named. I o FALLFATALTO JASON ARCHBOLD 1 » ’ Former Decatur Man ratally Injured In Fall I At Fort Wayne • Funeral arrangements for Jason f C. ArcWboM 61. of Fort Wayne, a ‘ former Decatur resident, whose » death occurred Sunday at the Luthf eran hospital In Fort Wayne, fol- • lowing Injuries received in a fall • from the roof of his borne, had not » been completed late this afternoon. 1 Relatives in this city said the services would be held Wednesday. • depending on the arrival of two ’ daughters, from Oallfornia. Burial will be In the Decatur cemetery. Among the relatives in this city are Mrs. Peter Anspaugh and Mrw Malinda Dsrwschter. Mr. Archbold lived in this city for a number of years H« was employed on the old Fort Wayne-De-catur tiwctlon line, prior to moving to Fort Wayne. He suffered a fractured skull when he fell Saturday from the root of bls home to the concrete walk.

BENEFITS OF U.S.WAYOF LIFE EXTOLLED Hiffh Officials Warn Os War’s Dangers to Democratic Principles Washington. May It. fIJJO High government officials extolled the beneflta of American cltisenshlp yesti-rday at celebrations of “I am an American day.” warned of the dangers to the democratic principles created by the war. and promised to help destroy “savage and blood-thirsty dicators everywhere." The spokesmen. In Washington. New York. Chicago and other major cities, assured their audiences of the confidence this government has in the ultimate triumph of Orvwt Britain ov«jr Germany and called for national unity to assure full war aid to the British. The celebration coincided with a nationwide roundup of aliens to determine their status in thia country. Attorney-General Robert J. Jackson assured law-abiding foreigners they had nothing to fear; that the checkup was aimed at those Illegally in the United States. Jackson, in a broadcast, called all newly naturalised citliens to resist foreign pressure on them and to be "ambassadors of Americanism" to non-clllxens in a counter attack against a ‘-silent non-mili-tary Invasion in a war of Ideas." Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes spoke at the largest "1 am an American day meeting" — an estimated 750.000 persons gathered in New York City’s Central Park. He promised them that the United States "not only will fight for democracy. but will make It worth fighting (or." "We must give the British everything we have," he said. "And by everything — I mean everything needed to beat the life out of our common enemy." DEATH CLAIMS CHAS. NIEZER Prominent Fort M ayne Industrialist Is Taken By Death Funeral aervices for Charles M. Nf?ker. 64. prominent banker. Industrialist and civic leader of Fort Wayne, whose death occurred Sunday will be held Wednesday morn Ing from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Mr. Nieier's death followed an extended Illness and was attributed to cario-renal disease. He had been a patient at St. Joseph s hospital. returning recently from Florida. The deceased was born in Monroeville. a son of John Bernard and Sarah N lexer. Mr Niexer was widely known throughout the state and In midwest banking and Industrial circles. He was a former president of the First and Trl-State National Bank and Trust Co., of Fort Wayne. Identified with several of Fort Wayne s leading industries, he was a former chairman of the board of Capebart Corp., and of the Tokhelm Oil Tank and Pump Co. He served as a member of the Indiana university board of trustees from his election In July of IPIP until I»S6. He also served as a trustee for the Gibault Home for Boys at Terre Haute, established and maintained by the Knights of Columbus. A former star athlete at the University of Notre Dame. Indiana university and Columbia university, Mr. Niexer remained with many of bls industrial and business interests despite falling health. He had been a member of the legal profession for about 40 years. The body was removed to the Gets and Cahill funeral home and (CONTJNUMD ON FAGB FIVB> —-W— ' — Feast Os Ascension Will Be Observed Msmss at St. Mary's Catholic church next Thursday in observance of Feast at the Assefision of our Lord Into heaven, will be held g> 5 7, and » o'clock h Is a holy day of obligation, commr’is.oratiug (Wrist's Ascension into heaven 40 days Otter Hie Resurrection.

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Here la the port of Tripoli. Syria, where. It Is reported, the Naxls are landing tnechan’xed equipment for a drive against the British in Iraq Terminua of the northern branch of the oil pipeline from the Iraq oil fields la near Tripoli.

SEND QUESTION LIST TO FIFTY Additional QueNlionnair* es Are Mailed By Draft Board Fifty questionnaires were mailed out today to Adams county registrants. it was announced by the local draft board clerk. Mlaa Doris Nelson. It is likely that 50 will be mailed out the first five days of each week until all of the reglstranta have received theirs. This is being done by the local Inxird In conformity with a request of Iho national board. Physical examtnattona cannot be given aa rapidly, however. Thus, this part of the classification will not keep pace with other phases. The list of those to whom questionnaires were mailed today, with the order numbers preceding the names: tool Kenneth William Schaefer 1602 Ixiuie Parr 1603 Oliver Kenneth Zerkel 1604 Robert Maxwell Kolter 1605 Gerhard Bultemeler 1606 Benjamin F Kruetamann 1607 -Philip Dailey Baker 1609 Chester Leßoy Beltler 1609- Henry Jacob Wallace (CONTINUED ON PAGE F1VB» 0 Four From County Graduate Thursday Among the 337 students who will graduate from Ball State College at Muncie Thursday will be Miss .Margaret Schenck and Rdliert Worthman trf this city. Mlaa Rose Springer of Berne and Miw Pauline lluple of Geneva.

Axis Nations Cut Jugoslavia Into Bits As Spoils Os War

(Editor's note: Joseph W. Grigg. Jr., manager of the Berlin bureau of tbe United Presa. tella of German rule In Jugoslavia in the following dispatch, written after a tour of the country with other correspondents escorted under auspices of the German propaganda ministry. Grigg also tells of Axis plans to carve up Jugoslavia among Germany. Italy. Bulgaria Hungary and the new state of Croatia.) By Joseph W. Grigg. Jr. Berlin, May 19 —<U.R> The Axis carving knife today was In th* process of removing Jugoslavia from the map of Europe, much like Poland was removed. Germany. Italy. Hungary and Bulgaria and the newly created state of Croatia all have joined In the sharing of Rumania, too, may get a small slice. All that remains to the Serba of the former kingdom of Serba. Croats, and Slovenes is a small area around Belgrade and Nlwh. The fate of this area hex not yet been decided but most

Under Axis Control?

Ask* Bills Against County Filed Early Auditor Victor H. Eicher today issued a request that all bill* against the county, payable June 2, Im* turned into his office not later than 9 a in . Tuesday. May 27. This request was made s'.ne** May 30 is a legal holiday atwl the lexal notice must 4m* run five days prior to she paymentFIVE OF FAMILY ME MURDERED Five Members Os Indiana Farm Family Ruthlessly Slain Indianapolis. May 19—(U.W— State police today returned Virginlus (Oink) Carter. 33-year-old Illiterate held in connection with the murder of five persons near Aurora Friday to the Dearborn county Jaii at Lawrenceburg after subjecting hie story to a lie detector test Aurora. Ind.. May 19 -■ <U.P Dearborn county aherlff William Wlnegard today announced the impending arreat of a auspect in the ruthless murder of five members of the Johnson Agree family near Aurora Friday. Virginlus (Dink) Carter, 26. who married two of Agrees daughtera. wm taken Into custody yesterday end today was driven to Indianapolis for a lie detector test and questioning at slate police headquarters. The brutal slayings unfolded, one by one. after neighbors found (CONTINUED ON PAGE KIXI

neutral observers beßeru thst It will be made into sort of a second government • general, similar to "rump” Poland. Hungary and Bulgaria already have taken military posseaslon of their shares of Jugoslavia and sre setting about making them Hungarian and Bulgarian. Serb shop signa are disappearing as fast as sign painters can work. Serbs who entered ttss areas after 1919 are being ejected on a few days' notice. In Hungarian territory they have been made to leave with only such worldly goods aa could be crammed into two suitcases. , Croatians are working equally aa rspidly to erase signs of their former connections with the Serbs. Already they have created their own army—still dressed in former Jugoslav uniforms with regimental badges removed. Serbs are being expelled. On a tour sponsored by the German propaganda ministry. I ap*between Belgrade and the new (CONTINUBD ON PABB F1TB)

Volunteer Ambulance Drivers, Missionaries Aboard Egyptian Liner Sunk ‘By Enemy Action’

WICKABDWARNS OF NAZI AIMS AGAINST U. S. Charge Combination Os Nations; Hull Outlines Peace Aims Washington. Muy 1» — <U.P. Secretary of state Cordell Hull’s five point program of post-war ole jectlvea for a more prosperous world was followed abruptly today by another cabinet officer's charge that Germany Is seeking a combination of nations to attack rtie United States Secretary of agriculture Claude R Wlckard uttered that warning in an address prepared for delivery on the farm and home radio hour broadcast from Hutchinson. Kans. He said any dictatorship combination would be answered by "armed might." Hull's peace plans, promising a fair share of raw materials and an equal opportunity to live for all. seemed In some respects to l>e directed at the German people as an alternative to the world domination to which their leaders seem to aspire. But Hall and other speakers In a weekend of extraordinary oratory Insisted that Great Britain must win and that the United States must and will see that our weapons reach the British ill time If was learned that the administration considered Hull's address of great significance on two counts, first liecause of the outline of I peace aims and. second, because of 1 Its emphasis on the idea that we are not helping Great Britain for the sake of the British but to ensure our own security. Wlckard. like Hull, emphasised the self interest of our aid-to-Brlt-aln policy. His speech was design ed to lie a hard headed appeal against midwestern Isolationism. He made no apologies for "past sins of present motives of Britain." but based his plea on the safety of the homes of his listeners. He appealed directly to the prairie states. Without mentioning the word "convoy." he urged again that "we see that the goods get there." He expressed confidence that the people of Texas. Oklahoma. Kansas. Nebraska, and the lAakotas were determined to do what needs to be done "Home people are saying that the ’ odds against us already are too great, that we'd lietter pipe down and keep quiet." Wlckard said. ' "I don't think that there are many of those persons or that they tcnwTfNttwn on fagw nvlii DENIES GIHLT INRAPECASE ’ Youth Held In Jail In $5,000 Bond On Chance Here ' Ora Pyle. 20-year-old Portland youth, was In jail here today under ' 15.000 bond after entering a plea ; of not guilty to a charge of first 1 degree rape Pyle pleaded innocent when ar--1 ralgned before Judge J. Fred Fruchte In Adams circuit court late Saturday afternoon and the court set his bond at that amount The bond figure is one of the highest set in circuit court In recent years. At a late hour today he had l>een unable to furnish the bond and was still In Jail. Pyle Is charged in an affidavit with raping a 26-year old woman In the village of Salem late In 1940. The state contends that the woman . Is feeble-minded. The charge was placed against him by Prosecutor Vincent Kelley after <he woman's father signed the affidavit. Pyle’s arrest by Sheriff Ed Miller at Portland followed. He was brought to Jail here Friday to await arrtgnment.

CALL SIX FOR ABMY SERVICE Six Adams County Men To June 2 For Year’s Training A surprise call for six men to tie Inducted Into selective service training on June 2 has been received by the Adams county draft board. A call for a large numlier of men had been expected. Whether more will ba called during June la not definitely known. Since the county has yet to furnish 6# men to make up the estimated quota of IMS for the first year. It is believed probable that one or more other calls will be received here. The six who will leave are: ISSO-V Calvin Peterson .Magley; 234 Roman Joseph Brito; 242. Charles Omer Miller; <47. Max fhiane Grandllenard; (12. Ralph l-ee Rutledge and M 57. Frank Seymour Magley recently volunteered for service and after suciessfuly partsng his examination was placed at the top of the list. Bright and Grandlienurd bad apprsils for a different <-la«M>lfication denied, while Miller was given a deferment thus their low numbers The six are to leave June 2. at 9:25 a m. by AH<' bus for Fort Benjamin Harrison. A list of 1-A men is rapidly being formed In event a large call does come through. More than half a hundred are now in the l-A lists and more are being placed In this < lass each week. PREBLE FARMER DIES SATURDAY Theodore Ewell Dies Saturday Nijcht After Extended Illnetiß Theodore Ewell. 72. prominent Preble township farmer, died Saturday night at 9 o'clock at his home, following an illness of two year*. He had been bedfast three months. The deceased was born In Preble township February 2. 1569. the son of Carl and Hannah NahrwoldEwell He was married on March 30. 1491 to Elixabeth Kipp who survives. He was a member of the St. Paul's Luthern church. Surviving, besides the widow, are the following children: Mrs. Herman Stoppenhagen o( Allen county. Mrs. Martin Kuhlman of Dillsboro. Mrs. Henry Macke of Preble township. Mrs. Edwin Thh-me of Union township, Theodore. Jr., at home and Mrs. William Tennyson jf Fort Wayne. One daughter is deceased. Two brother*. Charles and Otto, both of Prehle township, also survive. Three sTsters and a brother are deceased Twenty four grandchildren and two great grandchildren also survive. Funeral services will be held coNTtMMtn on panic thrksi ■ —— —o Four Army Fliers Killed In Crash Rains. S. C.. May 19 — (U.» — Four army fliers were killed today when two army planes being flown In formation of six from Savannah. Ga„ to l<angley Field. Va.. collided In midair and crashed near here. o BULLETIN New York, May 19—<U.R>— John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America (CIO) today ordered 100.000 hard coal miners to return to work Tuesday, ending a one day work stoppage. A tentative agreement providing an Immediate 7*/t percent wage Increase Is expectad to be signed tonight by the union and the anthracite operators. The old agreement expired May 1. The new contract will be retroactive to that date.

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Little Hope Expressed For Safety Os Any Os Americans Aboard Ship Carrying 323. NOTED FAMILIES New York. May 19—<U.PJ— Dr. Emery Roes, general secretary of the foreign missions conference of North America, said today that the loot liner Zamxam carried almost 200 Americans, most of them missionaries. New York. May 19 <UJt The loss of 323 Ilves, including those of upward of I nn American*. wa« feared today with word that the Egyptian passenger liner Zamxam. had been »unk "due to enemy action" in the South Atlantic. The old. 9.299 ton atermrr carried 203 paaHrngera and a crew of 120 when It sailed from New York March 20 for Alexandria. Egypt, by way of Recife, Brarll. and (’apetown. South Africa. Os these. 24 were Americans, of prominent families, who had volunteered as member* of the BritishAmerican ambulance corps to serve a* ambulance drlvvrx with the British forces In the middle east, and 36 were American missionaries of the Roman Catholic and Seven Day Adventist faiths, bound for Africa New York maritime circles understood there had been 45 other Americans altoard. though this could not be definitely ascertained beesusw no passenger list was available. The British American ambulance corps indicated that it had no hop.* for its members "This is a terrible blow." said William V C Ruxton, president of tha corps Sketchy and fragmentary reports seemed to leave no doubt that the ship had been lost There was no word of the fate of her passengers andm crew which comprised 11<* Egyptian* and to British officers, including captain William Gray Smith, her master A brief dispatch came through the censorship from Ixmdon that "some members, a: least" of the party of American ambulance drivers had been lost, and that the ship was sunk "by enemy action” In the South Atlantic. The British American ambulance corps announced that the ship had reached Recife safely, had sailed from there soon after April to. Irnund for Capetown, and never had reached Capetown where It had been due April 21. The Insurance underwriter*. It said, had made an effort to locate the ship or survivor* without avail. "We believed we had taken every possible rafi-guard for tho protection of these men.” Ruxton said. "They were in transit to Mombassa (chief port of Kenya. British East African colonyi where they were to travel overland to the Like Chad region to Im billeted with the Free French force* of Gen Charles Degaulle. Ttio .<*T»NTINItm> fit* PAGR THREBI DISTRICTMEET HERE TONIGHT Holy Name Society To Hold District Meeting This Evening A district meeting of the H »ly Name society and the regular meeting of the Knight* of Colunvims lodge will l»e held tonight at the K. of C hall. The meeting of the K of C order will begin at 7:30 o'clock. Officers tfor the new year will he nominated at this meeting Following the K of C. meeting the Holy Name session will <>;>en at 8:30 o'clock, with representatives of Bluffton. Besancon, Mod*roevllle and the host order In attendance. Robert Arthur, l-oganxport lawyer. wIH be the chief speaker at the meeting, which will be followed by a social sescion and free lunceon. Member* are urged to attend.