Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 213, Decatur, Adams County, 9 September 1941 — Page 1

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HITLER MAY CARRY WAR TO U.S. NAVY

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

CHAVEZ PLACED IN $2,000 BOND Mexican Pleads Nnt Gull* ty When Arraigned Monday •■aUMMMB A hint of the dlfflculllea Io be I ea|*ei-l»d 111 the trial of JeMK t'ha veg on a charge of aaaaull with Intent to kill waa given late yesterday In Adama circuit court when t'haveg waa arraigned on the count t'havet. with the aid of an Interpreter. entered a plea of not guilty to the charge Ilia attorney. Hubert It Mct'lenahan. waa unable to be preaent. Antonio Caatro. a Ixuilalana bor* Meghan youth, served a* Inter prefer for t'haveg. Proaeciitor Harry T. Gru Ire read both the uffl davit and the alatute governing the charge In Mnglb.lt They were then read by Caatro in Spanish and egplained In Mpanlah After hearing them read. Chavet Indicated to Judge J Fred Frnchie that he underahaid both edapletely. Cpon Chavez' plea of not gull ty. Judge Fruchte %el hla teeognlz an*-e Innid at In getting the bond. Judge Frucnte cited the fact that the charge, waa a aerh.ua one Chavez | was remanded to Jail In the custody of Sheriff M .Miller until hla bond i la furnished or hla trial conddcted. < No trial date waa set Court reporter Aeacbllman recorded the entire proceedings ' Caatro carried a Spanish Kngllsli J dictionary and referred to It once during the translation of Jhe law for Cha veg. Jeans Velez whom Chavez al legedly shot during a brawl at Cur ryvlll... la still In the hospital suffering from the bullet wound. -0 " — Wahash Township Farmer Is Serious William la-liman, prominent Wabash township farmer, la reported seriously 111 at the Lutheran hospi tai in Fort Wayne, -where he waa taken Friday for observation. —• HULLED TO ARMY SERVICE 15 Adams County Youths Training September 19 Fifteen more draftees will leave Adama county on the morning of Friday, September lit for Fort Benjamin Harrison to start selective service training The call for the io yoUthi has been received by the county draft ' boa id and orders sent to the young men to report at that time They will leave hy ABC hua from the draft hoard ofh-ea In the library building at #ls a. m and have been ordered to report al . It a. m. The Induction of the 15. if all are successful In pawing the egamln at lon at ratnp. will bring the total Inducted from Adama county to 1«, Thia la the first group to lie sent frotu Adama county, since July 11 when 10 boys were called Into service. One of the youths. Haniel Kdward McAfee. Is a volunteer Following la a Hat of the youths with the order numbers preceding the names: i 1255-V Daniel bhlward McAfee 1075—Reuben Jacob Rlngger 1101—John Henry Johnson I 1110—Gordon John Fog 1141-Charles Hdgar Fog. Jr. 1151--Philip Gee Greene lll»—Xystus Charles Meyer li<{ Forest Arden Kenworthy 1M» V’irgll Jesse Uhrlck 1201 Mark David Colchin 121* John Lynn Grile 1 1172-James William Tutweller - ... II II ■ _ _ '- tcowTtivnwn nw pann thr«»> mill 11 Q — Adam* County Farmer Seeks Naturalization I - Steps toward the naturalization i of William Goals, 52. Adama county • farmer, were furthered this mornI Ing when a representative of the federal government called at the i county clerk’ office. The court l hearing was no held because Judge • J. Fred Frucht* was out of town. I Mr. Goels. a iatlve of Affollerbach. Germany, c .me to the Cnlted I Stales on Snptew «T. on - « B Kaiser Wllh hn M. He first r declared his Intern ions of becoming a cltlgcn an June M, 1P36-

Where Britinh Invade Norway ’h Arctic PoMCMfon yxsw we ■ ' ■ — -- n*i « t j According to an official British war office announcement. British and Norwegian forces under Canadian command have Invaded Norway, landing at Spitsbergen, lhe Arctic ocean Archipellgo half way between Norway and the North Pole. "The main purpose of the landing,” said the ahnoun* eineni was to prevent the enemy from utilizing for war pur|s>ses Spitsbergen' with Its rich coal mines.” This picture shows one of the leading coal corporations on the Islands.

RAF SPREADING DEATH THROUGH WEST GERMANY British Bombers Rain Dent ruction Over Widespread Area Ixmdon. Sept. > tl’PI British long range bombing plane* spread destruction and death through western Germany during ihe night after their great Hunday night raid on Berlin. Nearly I’M* plane* b-mle-d Caaael. in want central Germany. alone. It was sad authoritatively. It wan added that the great majority of plane* reached their objective and that not a single plane was lost. At Kassel. the British plane* centered on the great Henschel locomotive workshop* which, an Informant said. "are of particular Importance no win vi«w of the Ru* •lan campaign'* and the necessity for long-haul *ui»ply router Briton*, to whom newa of the Berlin raid had been one of the big event* of the war. awaited eagerly detail* of the newest raid. Second in what it was indicated would lie a winter-long campaign of taking the air war to Germany with Increasing force. British bombing operation* within the last 24 hour*, in addition to the Berlin raid and last night'* raid on western industrial Ger* many, had elteaded from Norway OONTINIIKIr ON Pal IB THKBBt FARMERS ARE GUESTS HERE More Than 450 Farmers On Farm Management Tour Today More than 460 Indiana farmer* -were guests In Decatur today at the conclusion of the eighth annual state farm management tour. Jointly sponsored by the Purdue university farm management department and the Indiana farm management association. The farm tourist* were gueat* Os the Middilleii industries of thia city at a noon luncheon, served by the Adam* county home economic* chorus, southeast of the city Speakers on the brief program were Roy Hall, president of the Central «oya company and McMillen Feed Mills, and Dr. F. L. Thomsen. federal agricultural economist, who spoke on farm price* Following the program, the visitor* were taken on a toar of the soy bean processing plant, the feed mill, and the Central Huger company The tour opened with a banquet ' uiUMTINUMQ OH PAOI4 TURK*)

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuen day, September 9,1911.

First Solo Flights Made By Local Men Two Decatur men recently com- ' Ipleted their first solo airplane! flight* at Hmlth Municipal field! 1 in Fort Wayne, it ha* been learned here. The two are l.yle Malionee. I local service station worker and ! I Chester Marta, of route ala. , Dr F I. Grandstaff, another of the city's aviation enthusiasts, ha* purchased a Taylorcn-ft plane and Is keeping the craft at the Ivetlch hangar on road 27 bypc.**. KRICK KILLED WHILE ON DUTY Details Os Fatal Accident I To Pvt. Herman Krick Are Received A letter, received yesterday by Mr and Mrs. Winfred Krick, of this city, from army headquarters ■ al Fresno, California, gave detail* • of the motorcycle accident which ' a week ago Saturday claimed the life of their son. Pvt Herman Wil- . lard Krick The letter verified what had been learned here in part regarding the crash It said that he and three others had been proceeding under orders to Han Francisco to deliver motorcycles to the quartermaster depot there. Since these cycles were urgently needed to catch the sailing of an army transport. It was necessary to dispatch them on a Saturday, with the highways ’ crowded by tabor IMy holiday traffic. Pvt. Krick waa suddenly cut off by another vehicle making a left hand turn In front of him. He swerved to avoid a collision, but another rar forced him to turn back and strike the first vehicle. He was thrown from the motor- , cycle and his skull was fractured. He was unconscious when two accompanying soldiers reached his I side and waa rushed to the San I Jose hospital In an auto The let ter said that he did not regain 'tCONMNUBD ON PAON SIVN. 0 * Weather Prophet Predicts An Early And Severe Winter • « French Lick, Ind.. Sept. » <l)P> An assortment of chipmunks. ' squirrels, geese. sumac tree* and Sam Ryan. French Lick’s oldest native combined today to predict an 1 early and severe winter. Ryan, a famed weather prophet who has predicted correctly the a** ' proilmate date of winter's arrival ’ for the last 10 year*, said today the ' rpproaching winter will be one of - the most sever* in history. Tame chipmunks and squirrels In ' Spa garden* here are busily bury- ' Ing nuts for winter, even though 1 September I* not yet half gone—- ’ a sure sign. Ryan believe*. Ryan forecast the cold wave of 1 IM7 when the temperature dropp ’ ed to 2d degrees 'below *ero

GREATBRITAIN SEIZES NORWAV GOAL REGIONS Occupies Spitsbergen To Prevent Germany Obtaining Coal London. Sept S — <l'l’l — British occupation forces are remaining In the Arctic Islanrs of Hpitgbergen * i it was Indicated officially today In I comment on a swift raid that eliin I inated the possibility of Germany receiving coal from the strategic . Islands 'I Indications that some of the occupation forces. Including Canadians and Norwegians, were remaining was given In an official statement which said the allied front now i stretche*'ln an immense creso-nt ! from Spitsbergen to the North African coastal base of Tobruk The i statement was not clarified. In sending an -vpedltlonary force to the Spitsbergen group, comprising tom main Island* and several small one*, the British were , assumed to have concentrated on , west Spitsbergen, the largest Island of the group, which Is a valuable source of coal for Norway, which owns the Islands and for Germany , which occupies Norway For a time or for the duration of the war. the British had shown Interest In an Island group which, while froten for months In the year, occupies a strategically Im poriant post ion about equidistant icoNTINI'BH ON PAOI THKKNt REGISTER FOR NIGHT CLASSES I Training School To Be Conducted Under Defense Program Registration of men employed in local defense Industries for night classes In engineering will be held in the Junior-senior high school building. Monday evening. Hept. IS. J. i’aul Fisher, district representative of the engineering, science and management defense training program. announced today, following the opening of a district office at Fort Wayne. During the past several weeks representatives of Purdue university. which Is sponsoring the pro gram, have been contacting local defense plants, acquainting them with the purpose and span of the program Designed to alleviate the short age of trained engineer*, physicist*, chemists and production supervisor*. classes will he offered In engineering. science and management. The speciallied courses now being offered here will give those now employed or who are seeking em.CUN I INUkb ON FACIE TOKEN)

Churchill Says Germany May Be Forced To Challenge Navy To Stop Flow Os War Supplies

Panamanian Ship Is Sunk By Submarine Southwest Os Iceland; Only Three Os Crew Saved. 21 ARE LOST Washington. Sept » tl’Fi The state department today announced the sinking of th*- Panamanian ship Hessa. southwest of Iceland, coincident with warnings from laindoii that Germany would force naval warfare on the I'nlted Htates and a statement here that Britain had been promised further naval American aid The Heasa waa tor|*e<|oed August 17 with a loss of 24 persona including one American, of her complement of 27. Three survivors were pu ked up Heptember ti by an American naval veaael. Secretary of atate Cordell Hull said at hla press conference that the Heaaa. while flying the flag of Panama, was <>wn*-d and operated by American Interests. In resixHise to Inquiry, he said he thought there waa Ito i|ileatlon about th*- author of the attack on the Resaa but that he preferred to not diai-uas that phase of the situation until more complete facts were available The Heaaa announcement follow *-d by about 12 hours announcement that the American freighter Steel Heafarer had l*een sunk at 11'30 p tn. Hxpieml*er 5 at th*entrance to the gulf of Hues In the K--d H*-a <*Hpt J It Halliday and the crew of 35 from the Hleel Heafarer escaped In life hosts after their vessel was hit by bombs from an unidentified airplane First reports Z< iINTINI'EIt «*N PAGE THKKK) PASTORS HOLD REGULAR MEET Committee* Are Appointed For Decatur Ministerial Association The Decatur ministerial aaaiM-l-atlon held its regular meeting this morning In the First State Bank Dr. C. M Prugh had charge of the devotion period, using as hla theme. "Authority of God as seen in the T*-n Commandment*.” The group also adopted a motion, proposed by Dr Prugh. expressing gratitude on the return of Kev. G. T. Bosselot. president of th*- association. to the pastorate of lhe First I'nlted Brethren church. Bev. Bosselot announced permanent committees for the year. These are as follows: Evangelistic Dr. R. W. Graham, chairman; Bev. Glen Marshall and Bev <l. O. Walton Christian education Dr C M | i Prugh. chairman; Rev. G. T Rosselot and Rev. Paul Brandyberry. Clvlce welfare- Rev. George B. larzler. Rev Paul Brandyberry and I Rev. Carey R Moser. Themes anil speakers of future meetings of the association are as i follows: • |*MT: October -“The church's responsibility in time of national crises." Rev. G. (). Walton. December -"Pastoral visitations, counsel and ministry to sick.'' Dr. iCON iiNVBD os p*a» thrbb* Follow* Her Hunband’* Advice, Jump* In Bay San Francisco. Hept ft fl’Pi Mrs Lucille McDonald. 37. an obedient wife, took her husband literally when he told h -r to "go Jump in the bay.” Two longshoremen pulled her out and revived her. O Defense Savings Staff To Meet This Evening The Adams county defense savings stsff will bold the organiza tlon meeting in room 206 of the Decatur junior-senior high school at a o’clock this afternoon AB members of the staff are urged to be present.

AMERICAN SHIP SUNK Rf PLANE IN RED SEA Freighter Is Sunk By Aerial Bomb; All Aboard Rescued Washington. Hept » tl'Pt President Roosevelt was egpected today to denounce sinking of the American freighter Hteel Heafarer In the Red sea by an aerial iKimh as a violation of this country's rights to freedom of the seas He holds that he Is required by law to protect American flag vessels wherever they- may be outside combat gone Destruction of the ship by an unidentified plane on Hunday and rescue of the crew waa announced last night by the state department without further details. The 5.71# ton. 424 foot vessel owned by the Isthmian Hteamshlp Co.. New York, was built in l#2l and car rled approximately 2o officers and. men. Airnouncement of the sinking was made here about the time Mr. Roosevelt would have lieeti delivering ’o the world the radio broadcast scheduled suddenly after last week's encounter between th* IT. H. destroyer Greer and a German submarine. The broadcast was postponed until Thursday because of th*- death of th*- president's mother. Mr«. Hara Delano Roosevelt. The Hteel Sefarcr was sunk in | an area closed to American flag j vessels on June 11. 1»40. but re I opened to them on April 11 of this year when Mr. Roosevelt concluded that the war between Great Britain and Italy In that part of the world had *ease*l to Im- actual war after defeat of Italian forces in north eastern Africa The order of April II opened the Red sea to American flag vessels to th*- eastern end of the Hues canal. Three days before the Hteel Seafarer went down the Greer reported to the navy department that sinhad Iw-en attaiked by an unidentified submarine and had counterattacked with depth charges Mat Saturday Berlin acknowledged that the submarine was German but insisted that lhe Greer had attacked first. Mr. Roosevelt told his press conference laat Friday that the submarine Inexcusably at talked first He said the Atlantic fleet had l*een order*-*! to ''eliminate" the Httncker If possible. Although the state department did not atetmpt to identify the airplane which sank the Hteel Heafarer, It was recalled that there , i ■ sa—as— —ITT— ——- ■■ o-oNTINttBD OS FAOB WIVBI COMPROMISE IN SUIT APPROVED Court Approves Settlement For Death From Accident A compromise settlement of |l,« 000 in Hi*- death of Mrs Alvlrda Mclntosh from injuries suffered In an auto accident has been approved by Judge J. Fred Fruchte In Adams circuit court. The administrator. Lohnas McIntosh, showed to the court that her fatal Injuries were caused by being wtruck by an auto driven by Henry Luegers, an agent of the Producers Creamery and Cold Storage company of Celina. Ohio, while the decedent was riding with her husband. George Mclntosh. He further showed that the accident occurred on October 7. I!>4<l. near A'an Wert, Ohio, and as a result of the Injuries the decedent died on October 17. The administrator was authorlz ed to release the company from any and all claims arlalng from the death us bis mother af'er acceptance of lhe sum of fl.uoo as settle ment In full.

Price Two Cento.

Tfllh House Os Common* IncreaNinx Supplies From U. S. And M ar In RuMb May Force Hand PRAISES PATROL By I'uliMl Frees Prime minister Winston Churchill raised the possibility today that Adolf Hitler faced with certainty of winter war in Russia ' ,*nd an In* reaslng flow of American --Upplies to his enemies will dl redly challenge American control of the waters within lhe I’. H s naval safety patrol tone ('hurchlll. speaking In the house of <-ommons. said that Hitler doubt less would prefer to defer a new challenge to the I'nlted Htafes until and If—the day comes when he has finished with Russia. But, the prime minister said, the Russians have massed a well equipped force of lO.OOtHHMI |o l5.iHm.iHM, against Germany, have already Inflicted possibly 2,wm.tHH* casualties on the Wehrmacht and have made a winter campaign In icy llussla a certainty. Faced with this prospect. ChurI chill said Hitler may well extend the zones of th*- battle of the Atlantic westward Into th*- gone where the I'. H naval patrol Is successfully protecting "immense supplies now streaming across the Atlantic" against attack. Churchill's speech coincided with these developments: A great Russian i-oiinter attack was devetdping on the central eastern front where Moscow said light Nazi divisions have been crushed and a Nazi army virtually surrounded and forced Into disorderly retreat. Th*- German luftwaffe launched what may Im- an all out attack against the defenses of ls*nlngra*l In an effort to fulfill Berlin’s pre dictions that the former Russian capital and Odessa will fall to the Wehrmacht before the snow files. The I'. H. freighter Hteel Heafarer. presumably carrying war supplies to Britain's middle eastern front, waa sunk by Axis air attack in the Red Hea. second Incident Involving C. S ships with Axis air forces within five days Big developments appeared Indicated In Tokyo in Japanese. American. British diplomatic negotiations for at least temporary settlement of far eastern problems Th*- British prim*- minister Indicating Important decisions In Brit-ish-American efforts to prevent future Japanese aggression In the Pacific and to help Russia t.-> keep fighting this winter on the eastern front, said that Hitler now found it necessary to try to halt I'nlted Htafes supplies to Britain. This need might force Hiller to carry the War Into the waters patrolled by the I'nlted Hlates navy and air force in the Atlantic, despite his preference to deal with America after Russia and Britain, Churchill said. In apparent reference to the encounter <*f the V H H. I Greer with a German submarine off Iceland. Churchill said that, while th« I'nlted Htates patrol system had done much to help turn the l!d*» of the hattie of the Atlantic that there should be "no vain talk” about tha battle having been w nt and that he .'could wish” for still greater help on the part of tint I'nlted States In this connection, the priimi minister paid tribute to the effec* tiveness of United Htates patrol 111 helping to turn the tide of the lutiCoNTtmticn *»w warn* **-iv», —o — TIMFERATURE READING DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 72 10:00 a. m. 80 Noon 88 2:00 p. m. M 3:00 p. m. WEATHER Incroasing cloudint** followtd by (howtrs and coolsr in north and esteems wett portion tonight; Wednesday mostly cloudy, shower*, thunderstorm* and cooler.