Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 131, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1941 — Page 1

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Bar/es E. Hughes jDuits As Justice ■)f Supreme Court

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BILLTODRAFT PROPERTY FACES BITTERBATTLES ConrresNmen Voice Bitter Opposition To New Measure Washington, Juns J— (UP)— Speaker Sam Rayburn said today after a conference with President Roosevelt that he felt the administration's “draft property” bill should be revised to limit the length of time that the government could hold property requisitioned. Washington. June 3 <U.R> -The administration’s request for power i to draft personal property “of any i kind or character" brought charges ’ from President Roosevelt’s congresalonal opponents today that he \ was heading toward "complete and : total dictatorship." “Communistic . , . socialistic” were the terms used by the admin- I Ist rat lon's most violent critic* to. describe the request. Even ad- i ministration supporters were sur-1 prised, although most of them declined comment. The hill was introduced in the * senate without comment yesterday ’ by chairman K. It Reynolds. I)., N. (CONTINI KII ON _ PAOR aIX) Suspect Sahotaße In Bomber Crash San Diego, Cal., June 3 (U.R> Lewis M McCannon, airplane mechanic, died In a hospital today a few hours aft.jr agents of the PHI had questioned him about the crash of the four-motored 1250.000 Itomber. bnlit by Consolidated Aircraft Corp., for Great Britain. PHI agents were Investigating the theory of Consolidated officials that sabotage caused the crash. | McCannon was the only one of the crew of flve that lived long enough to tell anything about what led to the tragedy. The FBI refused to 1 reveal what McCannon told th>m but they planned to inspect the wreckage of the plane an SOOR as 111 had been raised from the bottom . ot San Diego bay. DEATH CLAIMS MARTHABEERY Lifelong Resident Os Adams County Dies Today At Hospital Mrs. Martha E. Beery, 80, a lifelong resident of in and near Decatur. died at 8:45 o'clock thia morning ut the Adams coumy memorial hospital. She suffered a etroke Saturday i while visiting in this city with her sister. Mrs. Elisabeth Johnston, and was taken to the hospital. I She wm born In Adams county September 22. l*«0. the daughter of John and Anna Dlarmen Burk heud She was married to Christian Beery, and he died in 1925. Survivors Include a daughter, Mrs. Hansel Krelgh. of Tocsin, with whom she made her home; a son. Fred D. Beery of Monroe-1 vllle; one brother. Frank Burkhead of Ixm Angeles. Cal.; three sisters, Mrs. Fred Miller of lam Angeles. Mrs. Eliaalieth Johnston of Decatur and Mrs. Mary Burr of Grand Rapids. Mich.; and four grandchildren Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. (CDT) Thursday at the, Beery Men non te church. Rev Charles Moore of Craigvllle offl elating. Burial will be In the, church cemetery. The body was taken to the Ekey « Sons' funoral home at Ossian and will be removed to the Krelgh residence In Tocsin this evening. DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 3:00 a- m. M 10:00 a. m. «2 Noon M 2:00 p. m. M 3:00 p. m M WEATHER Light rain tonight, becoming partly cloudy Wednesday; slightly cooler In southwest and extreme south portion tonight.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Hoist Hull of Navy’s 25-ton Sky Giant From Bay I r JNMj I H •; C@L ! .w.idO dw « -- * -* -—•■ .4*aMaßwMsdh». - — ■ ■■■ ■ Salvage experts lift the wing sheared hull of the M-ton coiisolldaterl bombing plane which crashed in Ban Diego. Cal.. Bay while on a routine test flight prior tofts delivery to England. Four members of the five man crew were killed.

MAKE CLOTHING FOR SUFFERERS Decatur Women Spend Many Hours To Aid War Sufferers Scarfs, sweaters, shawls, socks and "beanies" will soon be on their , way from Adams county to the sufferers of war-torn Europe — clothing that represents no lex* than 1.877 hours work on the part of sympathetic local ladles. The clothing wax knitted by nearly two score of Deralur ladles under the supervision of Mrs. Herman Ehtngee. production chntr man of the Adams county chapter. American Red Cross. Mrs Frederic Schafer lx seerriary of the I group and Mrs. Dan Schafer, her assistant. Upon completion the finished ari tide*, neatly packed In assorted bundles, ars turn»*l over to Miss | Annie Winnes. secretary of the Adams county Ri«d Crox* chapter j - who in turn ship* them to the eastern c.iaat, where they Join the other "bundles for Britain." These ladles have been working each Monday at the hradquartars In the American Legion home In addition to the "home work" hours. Eltlest of the group lx Mrs. Mallnda Dnrwachler,’who, despite her more than four score years, put In 44 hours on the project. Regular supervised work at the la-glon home will continue ax usual on Mondays and those who wish may return on Tuesday under the supervision of Mra. J. L. Koclior. Other ladies who have contributed to the work and the hours of each: Mrs. J. B. Anderson. 343; Mrs. Roy Archltold. 207; Mtp William Bowers. #»: Mrs Dean Byer ly. 19; Mrs. Ward Cailand. 39; Mrs. Clayson Carroll, 10, Mrs. John Heller. 162; Mrs. James Kocher. 127; Mrs. William Linn, (CONTINUEft GN PAGE RIX) TWO PUCES TO REGISTER YOUTH Register At Decatur Or Berne On Second Draft Day July 1 Registrant! for the new draft will register at two places In Adams county. It was announced today by the local draft board. After conferring on the matter of preparing for the new registration on July 1, the board decided to set up registration sites at both Decatur and Berne. The registration sites in these eltles will be announced later. It is considered likely that the registration here will be conducted in the draft board offices. Youths will be permitted to register at either of the two places, the board stated. All youths who have reached their 21st birthday alnce October IS. 1940—day of the flrst registration—are required by taw to register on July 1. It has been estimated that from 150 to 200 youths will be required to register In Adams county. Registrars' names will be announced later.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, June 3, 1911.

Edward Schafer Dies At Home In Florida C. Schafer received a telegram today telling of the death Monday of his uncle. Edward Schafer, at his home in Miami. Florida. Funeral services will be held a< South Bend Friday afternoon. Mr. Schaller was reared here and was a brother •if the late Frederick and Jacob Schafer He and Froderick Schafer sold the farm where the county inflrvnary is now located to the county and he was formerly interested In the Schafer store. He resided at Bouth Bend many years, where be -was engaged in the Insurance business until about 10 years ago when they moved to MAumi. He was isleiut 82 years old. the youngest and the last tn tauter of the origins! Echafer family. The widow survives. COUNTY BOARD LETS CONTRACT Adams County Commissioners Award Contracts Monday Contracts for coal, gasoline for rhe highway diqiartinent and painting In the court hooxo-were awarded late Monday by the county board of cimimlssloners. The Frythack Coal company wax awarded the contract for furnishing five carloads of coal on a bid <f 36 45 per ton. Other bid/ were: Haugk Coal Co.. 35.46 per ton; Burk Elevator. 36.55 per ton and Frank Krick Coal Co.. |6.55. John Dallolt iwaa wwa-ded the contract for -painting In the court iiouse on hl* bid of 3244 for laJnir, 'the only bld submitted. The contract Includes washing walls and varnishing in the auditor's office, the clerk's office and the record* er's office. Work will likely be started next week. The contract for furnishing gasoline for the highway department was awarded to Harry Knapp's Phillips «<’• station on his guaranteed bid of 14.6 cents. No guarantee was made on all other bids. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

TODAYS WAR MOVES

(By UNITED PRESS) Conquest of Syria would present a difficult problem for Hitler-mor* difficult than the spectacular victory in Crete —If Britain decides to make a fight for it. Hitler'* problem la to get troop* and mechanised equipment into Syria. Syria la approximately Soo mllea from Crete, which would be Hitler** nearest strong base after be ha* It mopped up and the airfield* put back In ahape. The ■canty bases in the Italian Dodecanese Island* are about 400 miles away. The distance make* an air borne invasion difficult, if not Impossible. The British fleet stands In the way of an attack by *ea, even more so than in the case of Crete, because of the longer distance. Even over the abort haul between Greece and Crete. Hitler was unable to use the ■ea. It could be possible, as reported, that some Asia troop carriers, hugging the coast of Asia Minor,

CHARGES ARMY OUTMODED IN DEFENSE PLAN Congressman Says Army Not Keeping Up To Date On Methods Washington. June 3 - (UP! — A ■Sharp and adversely critical analysis of the ability of the army to do Its part in national defense hit the war department today and awaits the administration's auewcr. Hop. Ro*x A. Collin*. D, Miss, a member -for nearly 20 years of the house xtttKonMnlttee on army xppropriations. fired the salvo and demanded 'hat the department "revise defense plans at once." lie said a separate air service with Its <swn cabinet dtqrartmeiit was urgently needed. 'lt lx a foregone conclusion that the department will -be cleared entirely on some if Collins* charges 'because the faults of which be complains lie either -with congress or past admlnixt rat ions rather than with President Roosevelt er the departsnent, itself. Hut Collins Is a powerful figure. His charges are serious. He made thorn in the current "Reader's Dl■Kent." asserting tha-t whereas Germany had "diwarded old weapons, old men and old ideas." the war dopartnient has been too slow Io adopt modern techniques and n<rw lias “our young men in huge cantoimeutx learning bow to fight yesterday's wars.'* Collins said 150.000 mechanized -Panzer and air borne — German troops smashed the French mass army of 5,000,000 <M) troops but that the war department for our national defense is "building another old style mass army." He complained that the training program of 12 months for selectees based on a departmental plan which makes lifuntry and field artillery the bulk and basic arms never will produce a real or an (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

crept Into Syria. But that Is a long and exposed haul and It Is not likely that any largo scale movement could be effected by that route. An alternative would bo to move overland through Turkey. That would Imply Turkey’* ftmsent and union with the Axis, which does not at present seem likely, or a costly and probably long campaign. Turkey has a large army—at least 500.000 and perhaps 1.000.000 a fleet stronger than anything the Axis Is likely to be able to get into the Dardanelle*, and formidable outer defenses. Hence the conquest of Sypru* may have to be Hitler's next move. It should be harder so take even than Crete. The distance from Crete. >4O mllea, increases the difficulties of an air borne Invasion. Cyprus is only 120 miles from Palestine, putting within range of British fighting planes from 'be (UUNXIB L'lftJ uNi'AUETWO)

AFL UNIONISTS ORDERED TO GO BACK TO WORK AFL Responds To Appeal From Defense Mediation Board By I'nAted Press The American federation ot labor responded to an appeal nf the national defense mediation board today sir! ordered menibces of 17 craß unions back to work at the Bethlehem shipbuilding plant. The action, taken by the Ray Cities Metal Trades Council at Sun Francisco, provided the first major break In the dispute which' haw hampered jw.elu<u lon at 11 bay area shipyards since May 10. It did not. however, affect the strike of 1.700 AFL and CIO machinists whose walkout caused, the work stoppage Developments came rapidly after’ secretary of labor Frances Perkins' certified the Bethlehem dispute to the mediation Immihl yesterday. The laawd asked the AFL unions to resume work trending negotiations and the council met a few hours later. Bethlehem, which holds more than half the |500,000.000 In defense contracts among the 11 plants, was the only major shipbuilder to reject a const wide lalmr agreement. Ila refusal wna said to iw one cause of the machinists*, strike. AFL leaders who denounced the machinists strike as unauthoilted had exempted Bethlehem from the back to work movement which they fostere<l among the 17 allied unions. The machinists have denled they were parties to the master agreement. Machinists affiliated with the AFL vote tomorrow night on a| senate committee request to resume work pending arbitration of their dispute. CIO machinists already have rejected the proposal The busy mediation board tackled two other disputes today, attempting to settle one strike and to avert another The hoard hoped to persuade the International Woodworkers of America <CIO) to send IJ.tmo striking loggers and millhand* hack to work In Washington state. The union rejected a board formula for settlement and reacted unfavorably to an appeal for reconsideration An NDMH panel opened hearings today on the strike threat of the United Automobile Workets (CIO) against the North American Aviation Corp, plant at Ingleside. Calif. The company employs 11.100 workers and has defense (t’ONTINI'EH ON PAGE FOUR) CHURCH PLANS ANNUAL PICNIC Annual St. Mary’s Catholic Church Picnic Here Sunday An organization meeting of the committees for the eighth annual St. Mary's pariah picnic to be held next Bunday, nt SnnSet park, will l»e held thin evening In the Catholic school building nt eight o’clock. Ralph J. Ho<><> of North Tenth street, well known General Electric employe, has been named general chairman Joseph faiurent will again act as treasurer. The feature of the picnic is the serving of the chicken dinner at noon. Arrangements are Itelng made to serve all who come, beginning at 11:30 o'clock. Games and other forms of entertainment will Ire provided during the afternoon. The public Is Invited to attend. Following to the list of commIt(CONTINUED ON PAOB HIX) <» Sugar Bill Passed By Senate Today Washington. June 3—(UP) The senate. 46 -to M. today passed the controversisl Adams-O'Mahnney sugar trill to distribute the anticipated deficit In the Philippine sugar quota among d'mewtlc sugar pro,ducera. H W. Me Millen, president of the I Central Sugar company In this city, when Informed of the passage of the bill. Mated he did not believe It would atfect either the acreage ' or sugar marketing quotas of the local territory to any great extent. -Due to the shortage of ships, all the sugar from the Philippines and ('Uba cannot be moved, so the deficit In those island quotas is being pro-rated among domestic ter--1 rltorles.

Warfare In Syria Looms; RAF Lashes German Objectives

Ends Court Career I k"" * \ . ■■■■■■■saß—(Charles Evans Hughes. 79. (above) chief Justice of the Uuiled States (supreme court since 1930. announces his retirement from the 1 high court to be effective July Ist. i thus ending the career of one of I the nation's moot illueii ioua Jur,lsis. QUESTIONNAIRES SENT DRAFTEES Additional 50 Questionnaires Are Mailed By Draft Board Fifty mor« queailonnalrrwi were sent out today by the Adams county draft Ixiard. registrants with ' numbers from 2.201 to 3,260 receiving the queries. Following Is a list of those to whom the quest bmnairvs were , sent: 2201 —Daniel Victor Bertsch 2202 Denver Joshua Yoder 2203 Holmes McCauley. Jr 2204 —Robert C. Dro 2205 Robert Kenneth Snutbino 220#— Ira Arlun ls-hman 2207 -Jack Kmart Teeple 2208 Harry Wilbur McDermott 2209 Erman Herald Fogle 2210 Adams Roland Baller 2211 Haymond Sanford Johnson 2212 Wayne Deryl Hinchman 2213 Homer Russel Springer 2214 Herbert David Lyons 2216 Ralph Edward McClain 2217 Jerome Benjamin Kohne 2218 Reuben E Bchwurtz 2219 Harold August Hirahey 222<) • Herbert Martin Hobrock 2221 Harvey vott Gunten 2222 Cleo Arthur Hartman 2223 -Glennes Eugene Bteffen 2221 Harry Grant Augsbitrger 2225--Gerald ILiy Nelson 2226 Lawrence Edison Korund 2227 Alfnsl Kenneth Beavera

(CONTINUE!* ON PAGE FOUR! ..._d Leo Saylors Building Fine Residence Here One Os the fine new houses being constructed In the city is that of Mr. and Mrs lx»o Baylors on North Fifth street. A two story, frame, eight room. Colonial type house will be constructed. (with full basement and a two car garage annex. The house will have a frontage (f 42 feet on Fifth street and extend east 36 feet, exclusive <f the garage. The living room, which will be located on the souTh side Will he 36 feet In length. It will have two fireplaces. The site is Ideally suited to the style <f architecture selected, the lot being 99 feet by 132 feet The Saylors recently purchased it fnan the I) D. Heller heirs and removed the old residence. They hope to ocotrpy their new home by early fall.

Price Two Cento.

Great Britain. Germany Appear Verginx Toward Race For Syria As Site Os Summer Warfare, BERLIN BOMBED By UnHed Prows Great Britain and Germany today appeared to be verging toward a race for Syria which may determine the outcome of summer warfare In the middle oust. The two great powers w«-H» Jockeying for (MMltiim wish an overt movn likely at any time by either side. The Syrian crisis boll* •it up as the royal air force roared Into action against Berlin and other German objectives in the first extrusive attack In many •lays. Indicating the gravity with which France regard* the threat to her mandwte In Syria, marshal Henri Philippe Petain conferred at Irngth wMh Gen. Maximo WeyKami. French commander In Africa and ex|>rrt on Syrian strsti-gy. The IMaln-Weygund conference wax followed by a Vichy cabinet me»alng said to deal with Syria I and the threat to other French colonlea In view of rising tension between France and Britain. lamdon feared that unless the British anted swiftly In Syria the axis would Inwist that France call upon Germany and Italy to *'nroteot" Syria, thus giving an ostensible reason for entry of axis trisipx Into the area. The British la-1 loved that this plan wax among those discussed at the Brenner Pass «mfrrrnce of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, citing unofficial reports from the middle east that German pressure nn Syria la Increasing, ths* some German troops nlrtswly have landed. that communication* la*ween Egypt and Syria have heen severed, that Nazis are In occnnaHon of Syrian airdromes and have moved important forces to the nearest Italian DiMlecamsu* Islands for offensive action. The Fnmch countered these reports whh a denial. Issued at Beirut by the high commissioner, Gen. Henri Dentz that any Nazi tr<M>ps have arrived In Syria. French officials at Syria charged that the British were deliberately circulating false rumors of German troop landings In Syria to provide a pretext for Invasion. They asserted that Syria would defend herself with all her forces against Invasion from any quarter. At Berlin it was said that the Hitler-Mnssollnl conference Indicated that the axis will strike Its next blow In the eastern Mediterranean and that the campaign will open at any moment. In that connection It wax n.iied that the axis forces have stepped up (heir air-attack «>n the British garrison nt besieged Tobruk tnd today reported Intensification of artillery fire In the Solium area. These may lie Indications that the longstalled axis troops on the Libyan Egyptian frontier are getting ready to develop their threat. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)’” JOSEPH MURPHY HEADS K. OF C. Re-Elected Grand Knight Os Decatur Knights Os Columbus Joseph Murphy was rvselectetf grand knight of Decatur council, Knights of Colnmbtts last night during the election of officers hel4 ax n part of the regular meetlnr. Other elected officers are' demt* fy grand knight. Joseph Koors. Sr.;’ recording xmretary. Ralph Heed; treasurer. William Ixjse. Jr ; chancellor. Jared Reed; advocate. Fred Baker. Sr.; warden. John O'-Shiuighm-seey; Inner guard. Cletua Miller; outer guard. Walter Hol* mann. and lnt»l«s». Holier) Gag*. Appointed officers are: financial secretary. Dick Wertzberger: chaplain. Bev. Alvin Jasinski: lecturer, Jerry Gage. A first degree Initiation will Ih* held Monday night June 9 at S o'clock, with the local degree team in charge. Second and third degree-* will lie conferred on Sunday afternoon, June 15 here with the Fort Wayne degree team In charge. Plans for these Initiations werq opeuvd nt the meeting last night.