Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1941 — Page 1

<VXIX, No.

in REFER [HOVER 2R SURER TODAY Meagre .Ikfer Men <her2M From Service !* hideferring from mllK-ry [X.« thi. J«iy '• « ™ deferment bill •*• Lfctxrday Home time toLsrrtdeM •»• eXP «'•*•» i tl extending 'be term of ■" l " h * Thi * *”“**’.!* * lU(f WMl<i PI 'M" ' h, ‘ __„( to bold eelrtlees, natlpKd«es Wd reservists In „ , total o! !4 X rtr *- F,,r * It SoSld ®e"' * * WI " attead to iMi* 7** r *- MX Miul deferment of men (KM* » 4ari»« future years. Ivt la* al* o provides f®* of war to dismiss ggyirt aelecteea •h's rea< bed rar Wore July 1. 1941. The mb *ay ‘W'y ,or h ,ll ’ waMltbe BBCNttry to requlrit 4owt« 'hem "at soon as and when not In conwh the iaterewta of national afJiH IM. there were 112.Mwt"« tn service who were l« Wore July I. 1941, The Muted that It proposes to ■rp HHt of the«e, although gsrwlio • ill be held In seri U a aatter of practical opBa. the discharges will be ipaiially. bKt does not provide for dis(t far nee tn service who beIP Mier July I. 1941 or any MMtdate. toadtedaraed under term* of tn sped today will be transit b a reserve component of n? tor a period of lu years, tfl to Hable tor future service, to vtoa it become* necessary, to art art also contain* a "pubto* ttoaae, rsgiirinz local draft tot to post, m a "conspicuous to* tto names and classlficabdataon oa their roll. Bai Chy Im Heavily Attacked w. laa. 11-Hl'P) British !■ st the fleet air arm. in a itotode attack on Syracuse in * Karted an intense blaze. 1 that rose Joo fem.! jjlW the entire harbor area, •*•>« oaptosioiis. a royal air' •■toausiqu,- reported late to- * Fir End Os Indiana Drought ii - iupi - T! "** W1 the northern today and cloud. ■"«« rirtully the entire ■pes Wm , r(iuil . wl th-1 j ™*<ht would come to an | i^r*’ r,ed in ,he '«■'»» torthem sections ,>< eivr .tn* ? f lllth 01 raln ear| r b.,»- "** ‘■nntinuinit to “ “•*,nd•towaoli h "**“ ** rß: I Im.. /b . tn inch: Uh. H , ,!r ■!"' F<irt *’*ma« to &L ' Hbfion. ,w; htfieid 14 R '* h **" , ‘*r 22; hmedis Ws COLLIDE l>ersenoiiH Injury P * riwn ' L” *• SEm’ 1 W^ ,n< M,u,h "f S •toiler - “• ! ?* < the ttoc-n-l Jr " ‘he O0 »'« M* d,r ,n fl fHi( w?' 1 bT F ° r ' ***« tn*. in -* ur *<2- ° tir » for . CbUrttbuMo

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RUSSIA ADMITS ORECENTER AND PORTCAPTURED Moscow InshtN, However, “Scorched Earth’’ Policy Ik Followed Moscow. Auk I* <U> German I armored columns have captured ’ the bIK port of Nikolaev ahd the ' great Iron ore center of Krivoi 1 Ilog. i>ui lied army forces, retreating slowly In the Ukraine, were reI ported today to to* carrying .rat Josef Stalin's •■aeorchwl earth" ' iMtlicy on a large male A communl.iue reported that heavy fighting raged along the en tire I tUMt-mlle eastern front, but the weight of the German onslaught api>eare.l to lie aimed at the I'kraine with Its rich agrlrithunil. Industrial and mineral prigs*. Reports on the t'hratne fighting indicated that the armies of marshal Semyon Hudenny were resisting strongly and leaving the ad vancing tierman and other axis forces only scorched crops and the burned and twisted wreckage of industrial plants and shipyards. The Russian lllack Rea fleet was {reported to have sunk two large Itumanian transports, presumably Intended to land axis forces al '! tklessa or Nikolaev. Frontier dispatches reported that a Red division, split by the Germans two weeks ago. attacked at two ends of the Nazi trap and with the aid of guerillas broke through .the encirclement to rejoin the ' main Russian forces after Inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. Russians at home did everything to Increase the output of armaments and provisions for the fighting forces. Keveral million youths pasa«-d up rest day- to remain at work and I.SOO.tHMi turn and women In the Moscow district gathered scrap metal. A big German artillery dump. 20 miles west of Smolensk, was reported blown up by Soviet patrols opersting behind Nazi fmt lines All dispatches from the front In-, ‘ dlcated. however, that the Hus- , skins were restating strongly on the Tkranlan and all other fronts and todays first war commtinbpie \ (.yONTINItIX) ON PACK TWO! I I Q MONROE BUDGET IS SUBMITTED 40-€ent Levy Im Proposed For Town Os Monroe In 194*2 I A levy of 40 cents for the town of Monroe has been proposed In the budget for IMS as submitted by the town board. Based on a total valuation of 5190.27 N. the levy would raise 17M.11. In comparison. 173A.63 was collected In 193 f». J 44« 36 In !»«*» and 57M.63 In l»4l. The budget totals 1811.11. broken down as follows: salary of trustees. 1150; salary of clerk-treasur-er. 1100; salary of town marshal. 160; compensation of town attorney, 335; compensation of firemen. 3125; other compensation. 110. Heat, light, power and water. 320; printing and advertising. |W: repairs. 335; office supplies. |5; other materials. 375-39; current charges, $210.72. All are Included In the general fund claselflcatlon. Necessary expenditures to be made from appropriations unex- . pended July 31 total $406.71. which added to the budget estimate shows a total fund required of 31.316 82. The budget shows an actual balalnce of 3493.93 on hand July 31 and 3371.13 to be collected this year, totalling 3865.06. The budget shows 3451.76 to be raised for expensea to December 31 and an operating balance of >309.35. o George Ade Honored At Garden Festival Wabash. Ind., Aug. 18 — <UP>— ’ George Ade Day. honoring the cele•brated Hoosier ht*m<*-is<. and a reunion of the Indiana society of Cbl- ( cago marked the closing teremonles of the elght-day Indiana Garden festival at the Mark C. Honeywell estate here yesterday. Ade spoke briefly at a lunch- . eon for members of the society and •broadcast a welcome to the more ! than 5,000 visitors assembled in the - • 0 <cre gardens. Honeywell announced that bei cause of the state-wide Interest shown In the Hoosier Salon, the 64 • Paintings on display throughout the ( i. festival period would Ito shown for Jan additional week.

Scouts, Scoutcrs On Trip To lake Superior Jll « rlAx eJi fl r 5 ■X/’ m Ji jcPOj 1 Pictured above are the 27 Boy Hcouta and eight Mcmitera who left Munday on a nlne-day fishing trip to Ih-aver Itasin on Uikv Superior. Each of the Scouts qualified for the trip by advanciitg lit rank, attending both county and area camporees. Iwlng recognized as an "honor camper." doing work on Im-al Scout projects and working in the concession stand at Worihinan Field, the revenue of which flnames the trip In the picture: first row. left to right Bob Myers. Gene Moser. Hill Freeby. Max la-on.trd»oii. Joe Itauiel». Dale Smitley. Dick Gehrig and Don Eictoar. Necond row Jerry Lichteiisteiger. Ted Hill. Carl Colter, l«eo liorne. I.elgh Nelson. Junior Sihmltt. and Tom Lutea Third row Bill Porter. Dick Knapp, Don l.lliy. Roger Knapp. Hill Bolinger. IMck Linn. Jack Hunter. Jim Korleiilier and Koger Staley. Back row Steve Everhart, Arthur Hooten. Dr, Hen Duke. D Burdette Custer. Rev. Charles M Prugh. Harry T Grwbe. W F. Heery and latwell Smith

TWO TEACHING STAFFS LISTED St Mary’s, Washington Township Faculties Announced The teaching In St. Mary's and Washington townships were announced today by Hen Mcf’ullough »>>d John M Doan, trustees. Olen Marsh has Iteen reappointed principal of the Pleasant Milla high achiHd At the Hobo school. also In St. Mary's township. Elmer Ehraam. will act aw principal. tni«tee McCullough announced. The Pleaaant Milla ataff follows: Mr. Marsh, principal. Aleraid Villard. coach and history Instructor; Mrs. Agnes Yager, home economics, i mathematics; Mrs. Velma Fortney, music, art; John Mowery physics, [commerce; Dale Rosa, librarian, English, biology. Grade leachera: Harry Johnson, fifth and sixth; Miss Edith Stoltz, third and fourth; Mias Evangeline Steele, first and second. Bobo school: Mr. Ehrsatn. fifth, siath. seventh, eighth grades; Mias Myrtle Clements, first, second. | third, fourth grades. Trustee McCullough stated he expected an increased enrollment lof about 25 in the high school. Washington Township The fidlowing teachers will serve i In the three schools In Washington township, trustee Doan announced. Brandy berry school, Miss .Madeline Spahr, first to eighth grades. , Debolt school: Miss Margaret I’o(<W>NTINI'RI» <>N PAGE TWO| _ q Lions Club Not To Meet Here Tuesday No meeting of the Lions club will lire held this week, it wax announced today f’anceltalion of the regular Tuesday meeting was made I since a large number of members are on vacation. —S. ■ IW" ' 1 ll " 1 " 11 —• MRS. HANN IS OFFICE CLERK County Superintendent s Wife To Be Clerk In Office Mrs. Lyman L. Haan. Is the new I clerk in the office of her husband, who Saturday assumed the duties ' of county school superintendent. Mrs. Hann began her work In the office this morning. Fbe succeeds Mrs. Margaret Myers, who served in that capacity for a number of years under the superlntendency of C. E Striker. Mr. Hann took over the office Saturday afternoon, as provided by ' the state school law. Today he furthered plans for the opening of the rural schools the latter part of the month and the annual teacher's Institute, preceding the opening. A complete program for the Institute. which is to be attended by all I teachers, will tbe announced soon, he stated. The Inatitute is to be held here Thursday. August 2» The preliminary school opening follows 1 on August Mi and classes begin on I September 2.

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Board To Study Appropriations The advisory larard and trustee of Washington township will consider special appropriations at a meeting in the office of John M. I Doan, trustee. Sept. 2 at 8 p. m. The appropriations, all from the special school fund, are >3(W for transportation. >75 for fuel, and 3225 for repair of buildings. CHARGE CHAVEZ WITH ASSAULT Assault With Intent Filed Against Velez’s Assailant Charges of assault with Intent to kill were filed today by Prosecutor Vincent Kelley against Jesus Chavez. 41. who allegedly shot and seriously wounded Jeans Velez, 78, during an argument at Curryville Friday morning Should Velez, who is In a (Tilleal condition at the Adams county memorial hospital, die from the wounds, the prosecutor stated that he would call a special session of the grand Jury and ask that first degree murder charges he placed against Chavez. Velez's condition was reported as unchanged at the hospital today The aged Mexican was reported slightly improved Saturday morning. hut no change has taken place since that time. His condition is still described as critics). Prosecutor Kelley pointed out that should Velez die any time within a year and a day as a direct cause of the wounds, murder charges could he preferred against his allegwl assailant, as provided hy statute. Until today Chavez had been held In the county jail by Sheriff Ed Miller on an open charge pending the return of Prosecutor Kelley from a meeting at French Lick. The whoothig allegedly took place in front of the Chavez shack In Curryville ss result of an argument Imtween the two Mezlcsna over rent, crops and the purported killing of a goat. Chavez came Into Decatur shortly after the shooting and surrendered to authorities. His wife and seven children, six of whom are stepchildren, were moved into the home of a neighbor after Chavez's arrest. The effect Velez's recovery would have on the severity of the penalty to he suffered by Chavez if convicted was seen in a check of the statutes. Conviction on a charge of assault with Intent to kill carries a sentence of I to 10 years, while a murder charge could mean capital punishment or life Imprisonment. — o— ■ Truck Driver Fined A« Reckless Driver Calvin Faib. of this city, was fined 31 and costs -hy Mayor Forrest Elzey in city court this afternoon on a charge of reckless driving. FaUb. a driver for the Hon-E-Krust baking company, entered a plea of builty to the count, which followed a twotruck crash at the corner of Third and Marshall streets. The condition of Robert Welker, occupant of the other truck, who was injured in the accident. Is reported steadily Improving.

WARNS JAPS TO CHANGE POLICY Grew Tells Japs No Lifting Os Restrictions Likely Now Tokyo. Aug. IN <U.R- American amlmssador Joseph Grew was re--liahly reported tonight to have tobl. foreign minister Teijlro Toyoda! that the United States would not | relax economic restrictions against) iJapan until she fundamentally ah-, tered her far eastern policy. Increased tension was placed on the far eastern situation m-aii-while as result of a protest by the foreign office against the United ( States* state department Insinuation that Americans were Iw-lng held in Japan as "hostages." Grew called on Toyoda. it was learned, following Japanese effort to find some basis on which trade with the United (Hates might be resumed. In :i lengthy conference. Grew was reported to have pointed ou’ that the present economic situation' merely was the result of far eastern ■ political diveiopments and could not be changed under current con-: d it lons. No Satisfaction Washington. Aug 1* ’UPSecretary of stale Cordell Hull said today that Japan has given no satisfactory explanation of its refusal to permit American citizens to leave the country. Hull, who discussed the far eastern situation at length with Presi dent Roosevelt yesterday, declined to go into detail on the latest Japanese move straining this nation's relations with Tokyo to a new pitch. FIREDESTROYS PIER ANU SHIP FBI Probes Sabotage Possibility In Fire At Brooklyn New York. Aug. 18—tUI’i— A fire which spread with explosive speed consumed a 525-fuCt Brooklyn pier today and destroyed a 3, 57<>-ton freighter aboard which scores of longshoremen were working. The pier was one at which cargoes for Greal Britain have been loaded in the past, and it was reported agents of the federal bureau of Investigation were Inquiring Into the cause of the fire. Within an hour after the blaze started, two bodies were found floating in the water and police were searching for more. Fifteen members of the 26 man crew were accounted for hy police two hours after the fire started and It was said that others might be among the injured sent to hospitals. Rumors that *8 longshoremen were trapped In the ships hold were not confirmed. Os the 3<M> longshoremen work inc on the pier of the ship's hold \ some 60 were Injured. 10 seriously.! Four were reported “In a dying I condition." The ship was the Panuco of the New York and Cuba mail line. Tugs ' (CX)NTINUBD ON PAGE 8IX) |

President Roosevelt Calls Congressional Leaders For Conference On War Policy

BRITISH SPEED ACTION TO AID SOVIET RUSSIA Conclude 10 Million Credit Agreement With Soviet Union By Untied Press Prime minister Wlnsion Churchill assumed |»eraonal < ommaitd today of Great Britain's collaluira-' i lion with the United States and * ; the Soviet union to halt the Ger- • man offensive Into the Ukraine. che< kinate Japanese aid to the axis and siwed construction of a vast ' war machine to smash Hitlerism. ; The return of the prime minister to England after his conferences at sea with President Roosevelt coincided with news that Nazi armed forces had taken the Russian naval base of Nikolaev in a hard drive to mop up all of the Ukraine west of the Dnieper river and that Ja--1 pan. charging that Britain. America and Russia were plotting against her, had required all for-1 eigners to Obtain permission to I leave the country ('hurchill was ex per ted to report ' in a radio xp<-ech. probably Tuesday. on his talks with the United I States president and to send for- , eign secretary .Anthony Eden to Moscow tft participate in conferI ' elites with Josef V. Stalill and high I American representatives. Britain alreaoy had concluded a lo.mHt.msi credit agreement to facilitate Russian purchases of needed supplies, some of which are en route, and had joined with Mos--1 cow In attempting to Imlstcr the near eastern front against Germany ' by warning Iran to oust most of absHtt 4.mm Nazi technicians. Tlte warning to Iran was a thin- ' ly veiled ultimaturn to get rid oif i iCONTINUED ON FAUE TWO» NAZIS PURSUE RUSSIAN ARMY Push Through Ukraine; Reveal M inter Stalemate Feared Berlin, Aug. 18.—IUPl—German armies, sparked by powerful liiftwaffe (tombing raids, today were reported imrsuing the main Rtiesian forces southeastward through the Ukraine toward the lower Dnieper river seaports and industrial areas which the Nazis apparently are anxious to secure before a possible winter stalemate. (This was the first mention in a Berlin dispatch of a possible winter stalemate.) The Immediate German objective, it was stated in informed sources, is not only to secure all of the Ukraine west of the Dnieper but to prevent th<- depleed and battered forces of Marshal Bemyon Budenny j from <stablishing a new defense line mi the east bank of the river ' to proect the main Russian IndusI tries hi the Donetz basin. The bulk of Budenny's forces are retreaing southeastward toward the j Dnieper estuary, in the Kherson sector. It was stated, instead of eastward toward the big Dnepropetrovsk Industrial section, which Is now “more or less" directly menaced by the Germans. (The main Russian Industrial center begins about 100 miles east of the Dnieper river, although there are Important industries at Dnepropetrovsk and on the lower Dnieer. <CONTINUED ON PAOB TWO) “YOUNG AT 70" To prove, as he asserted, that ' j "life is still worth living at j 70." Jesse Gilbert, who Bunday ! | marked his 70th birthday, went | through a recreation routine II that would have tried a much younger man. The Decatur man went to Lehman park at Berne where he rode the merry-go-round, tried several of the swings, played a game of shuffleboard with his son, George and finished with | 1 a walk to town and back. Another bike after he came back to Decatur completed the day's | fun. |

Called To z\rmy _— — ..j JFi I Vincent Kelley, prosecuting attorI uey for the 26th judicial circuit has been culled Into army service as a i M-<ond lieutenant in th«- reserve ; corps. Hr is to report on or about August 28. PRUSECUTURTO ARMY SERVICE I Vincent F. Kelley Is Called As Reserve Army Officer Vincent F. Kelley, prosecuting attorney for the 26th judit lai circuit, has been ordered into service hi the reserve corps of the United States arniy. Prosecutor Kelley has been notified that he will have to report to Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis on or about August 28. if successful In passing the physical examination hr will be sent to | (’amp Shelby. Mississippi, the of-1 tidal army communication stated Prosecutor Kelley holds a second li< utetiant's commiwloti in the quartermaster division of the reserve corps. The notification was awaiting the prosecutor when he returned Sun- 1 day night from a two-day meeting 1 of prosecuting attorneys at French ' Lick, called by Attorney General George Beamer. Prosecutor Kelley, a Republican, ( was elected last November and aa- , sinned the office on January 1. 1941. , His term expires Itecember 31, ( 1942. Previous to assuming the of- ( flcr of prosecutor, he served as Decatur city attorney, having been appointed to that capacity by May- , or Forrest Elzey. He is a native of Geneva. He i and hie wife have resided In this , dty since 193Y1. Mr Kelley did not indicate the procedure of filling the | vacancy. t o . Sons Os l-<‘|{ion T« Meet ToniKht 1 I The Sons of Legion will meet at ( X o'clock ntoight at the American ‘ la-gion home All memtiers are urg- * ed to be present. TWO UNHURT IN : TRAFFIC CRASH i a „ I Truck, Auto Sideswipe On Federal Road *27, I I North Os Berne ———l Two persons escaped serious In- 1 Jury shortly after midnight last night when a fruit truck and a passenger car sideswiped on federal road 27, tme-half mile north of , Berne. Martin Hill, 21, of this city, was ‘ operating the passenger car and Arthur Moore. 26, a colored youth from Dayton, Ohio, was driving the loaded truck, owned by Abe Linden of Dayton, Ohio. Both the car and the truck rolled over after the crash and blocked traffic on the highway. The car was completely demolished and the truck was badly damaged. Sheriff Ed Miller was called to the scene and directed traffic for several hours while workmen unloaded the melons, peaches and other fruits on the truck so it could be righted by a wrecker. The colored lad escaped without a scratch. Hill suffered a minor head injury.

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Uonfrrs With leaders On Foreign Policies And Results of Confab With Winston Churchill. STUDY FAR EAST Washington. Aug. 11.—(UP) —President Roosevelt today gave congressional leaders a detailed report of hie meeting with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and informed them that “within a few weeks" he will request additional leaselend funds to finance a bigger flow of material aid to Britain and her allies. Washington. Aug 1< •U.P< President Roosevelt called senate and bouse leaders to the White House today to give them an "accounting" on foreign policy dej velopmenta of the last two weeks. Including details of his conference at sea with prime minister Winston Churchill. The group in< liid<*d vice-president Henry A. Wallace, senate lb mocratic leader Albeit W Barkley of KejHurky. chairman Turn Connally, D. Texas, of the senate foreign relations committee; chairman Walter George. D Ga of the senato finance committee; acting speaker Clifton WotMlrum D Virginia. and chairman Hol Bloom. D. New York, of the bouse foreign affairs committee. White House secretary Stephen T E. ,y said the conference was called primarily to deal with foreign affairs. Anxious to cat< h up on paper work which had accumulated during nis two Weeks absence at sea, Mr Roosevelt scheduled no engagements except for th>- conference. Rut it was Itelieved that he would hold an unscheduled luncheon conference with lend lease administrator Harry Hopkins, who yesterday opened conversations with la»rd I Beaverbrook, the British minister of supply, on means of speeding up U. 8. aid for Britain and Russia. Mr Risisevelt and tils aides were prepared to translate into action his agreement to step up the flow of American supply to Britain and her allies as a means of stiffening resistance to axis aggression. First moves by the chief executive upon his return to the capital from his historic sea meeting with f’htirchlll emphasized that he was most attentive to the strained relations with Japan and tlie need for expediting shipments of war supplies to Russia despite apparent Japanese distaste for them. Secretary of slate Cordell Hull met Mr. Roosevelt at the station yesterday and returned with him to the White House, where the)* conferred for two and a half hours. The discussion was reported to have gone far beyond Japan'a action in holding Dm) American citizens as virtual hostages. They were ri-porled to have canvassed the entire far eastern situation In the light of Mr. Roosevelt's earlier statement that his talk- with Churchill had brought complete Anglo-American accord regarding developments on every continent. Hany Hopkins, administering the lend lease program for the president, conferred In another room of the White House with Lord Heaverhrook. Hritlsh supply minister. presumably ou methods of obtaining and transporting supplies which the Red army needs. Some observers speculated on the possibility that the government may be making a deliberate test of Japanese reaction to Rttssian-ald shipments via the Pacific In its disclosure that tankers carrying aviation gasoline already ate enroute. These matters awaited Roosevelt’s immediate attention: 1. Refusal of Japan to permit the liner S. 8. President Co.di lgtX to pick up more than lrt> Am rlcans who had been stranded In (CONTINUMn ns psgp sig) — o TEMPERATURE READING DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 60 10:00 a. m. 61 Noon 63 2:00 p. m. 70 3:00 p. m. 72 WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Tuesday: scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and In east and south portions Tuesday, becoming cooler Tuesday.