Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1941 — Page 1

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WOLF HITLER DEFIES WHOLE WORLD

■osevelt Seeks ■Religion Rights ■ In Soviet Union

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

FURTHER PLANS OF DEDICATION Moose Lodjcc Continues Plans For New Home Dedication Further plana for the dedication of the new Ilti.iHHt home of Adam, lodge 1311. Loyal Order of Moow, were announc. d today by Governor Helter Fea.el. The date of the Initiatory rite, ha. been thanxed from Sunday. October N to Friday Bight, Otto her M. Mr F>ii»el atated. The formal opening of the new home will be staged, a. originally .theduled on Sandy. Oetobor in and the general public I. cordially Invited to In.p tt the building, corner Flrwt and Jackum streets. The dedlcstlon ceremonies are planend for the following Saturday. October 25. which I* to be precedetl by a big parade down town. Moose notable, in regional, district and .tate’ofliter. have been Invited to attetyl A dedh ation .peaker I. yet to be named. Kscept for a few minor detail., the building is practically completed. Mr. Fea.el etatiul. and everything will be In readiness on the day of the formal opening He also announced that the Fort Wayne degree team would confer the Initiatory work on the class of candidate, October 24. aided hy the Itecatur patrol. Several from here are planning to attend the la-glen of the Moose frolic to be held Saturday evening. October 4 at Huntington. 15 TOOTHS TO LEAVE MONDAT Adams County Youths To Ix’ave Monday For Army Service Fifteen more Adam* county youth* will leave here Monday mo.-ning for .elective service training. The lads will leave from draft board headquarter. In the public library building on Third street at 8:15 a. m. by AW bm* for Fort Benjamin Harrison. There they will undergo camp esamtnations and if successful in passing the < lams will he inducted Into training. The youth, have been ordered to report at draft board headquarters at 8 g. m. In the contingent of 15 will be the first of th. youth. In the ee. ond registration. These were the lad. who became 21 this summer and were required to register. Following Is a list of the men. with the order numbers preceding the Mmes. The letter S denotes second registration: 347. Mark Kugetie Whurger; 750. Ned iMnlel Moser; 8 947. Norkan Ferdinand Bultemeler; 8 960. Richard bee Borne; 8998. Marvin K. Hill; 8 1038. John Zelno Drake; 8-1051. Dwight Russell Arnold; (CONtTniTkl' ON PAOB HIXt Newspaperhoys To Be Given Theater Party Saturday Newspaperboys of the Decatur Dally Democrat, through the cooperation of the newspaper and Mes.r. I. A. and Roy Kalver of the local theater*, will be “treated to a theater party at the Adams Saturday night a. a part of the observance of National Newspaperboy. Day. “Manpower" Is the title of the picture, in which Edward <« Robinson, George Rest and Marlene Deltrlch are starred. The picture la reportedly an ac-tion-packed show oFlinemen working on high tension wire, and a. for the newapaperboys should hi“right up their alley."

Attack on Ex-Governor of Georgia a Mystery Mrs. Thor. Bikie «• 0. River. Hor.ee Bikie Motive for the attack on former GOT E D River, of Georgia hy Horace W lllkle of Pittsburgh, who then committed sol' Ide in a trailer camp near th.- Rivers' home at Valdosta, ti.i. pussies authorities. Riv is and hl* Wife were .mly -lightly Injured hi a sniffle wlih.- Bikie, a former »<hmd teacher, when they ad mltted him to their home late al night. A note found later indicated the man had a fanatical hatred of IHdllh laii* and may have been planning to kidnap the e« governor, now a radio .lallon "«i"T >"* York Mrs Thor.i Bikie, widow of the attacker, was grief-stricken and l.ewllder.-d Mr* lllkle mid author- ' ill.-, that her huslwnd had come to New York I'e. ause he was Inien-sled In the , A "" rl ' a li 1 ’ h .".'l''" 7' , Sh.- said that her husband had gone south four week* ago “in the Interests of the committee ttffhi.il* of . the A- F. <’ said they never even heard of Bikie.

NEWS WEEK IS CLUB PROGR JM — National Newspaper Week Observed At Rotary Meeting The second annual observance of National Newspaper W-ck wa* . rhe theme of the weekly meeting , of the Decatur Rotary dub Thur*- , day evening at ’he K or F bwmw. with Arthur II Holthouse. ’tualnea* manager of the Uecatu* Ihcily ' Democrat). a* chuinnm of ths program. Mr Holthouse spoke br'efly on' the great value to the American people of the freedom of the pre**, which enable* reader* of the i'nlted State* newsjiapers to receive i detailed report* of Important new* event* throughout the world with-1 out fear or favor. th moat of the world, he stated, the pre** I* under direct control of • the governments, and al! new* article* are rigidly cen*ored ICditorhl comment In sue h paper* la the direct Opinion of the country*' ruler* and not that of the editor , A* a ftwture of the program. the MGM sound film. "The U'ory THat (’oundn't He Printed." wa* ehown [ to rhe eiuii metnlier* and gueet*. . Thia film depict* the sto / of pre Revolutionary war day* In thia i country, when the editor of a small newspaper in the caret wa» ac- , quited by a jury after hi* arrest for i revealing corruption in colonial . governmental affair*. Thl* wa* in 1734 and definitely established free- ' KO.NTINUICD ON PAON THKKKA GRANDJURYTO PROBE KILLING Call Expected Next Week To Investigate Mexican Shooting I — The grand jury likely will not be called upon to act In the fatal ■hooting of Jean* VeleX. aged Mexican who died Wednesday night, until *oine time next week, it wa* disclosed today. k Pro»ecutor Harry T. Grube »tated yesterday following Telex'* death that he would a»k Judge J Fred Fruchte to issue a venire for the panel and that he would call > upon the Jury to return a first de ■ gree murder Indictment against . Velez's alleged anallant, Jean* | Chaves, 41. f With the probability of an early trial looming In the cane, the matI ter of securing an Interpreter for Chavez wa* discussed today by Prosecutor (irube and Judge Fruchte. Since Chavez la unable either to underitand or apeak the English ’ language to any great extent, it will be necessary to secure an Interpreter for him In a trial. Funeral To Be Here Funeral services are to Ire held ‘ in thia city Saturday morning at 9 ~CONfIN'IISD ON PAOB THH«W>

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, October 3, 1911.

' ' 111,1 " Game Postponed Brooklyn, N. Y.. Oct. (UP) —Uommiasioner K. M. Landis called off the third game of the world series today because of rain. The rain Iregan about !• a. m. anti although it slacked off some it never stop|M*d entirely. .Judge lamdis ins|>ected the playing surface at Ebbets field before deciding to call it off. The third game will Im* played at Ebbets field tomorrow. SUGAR MAKINS RUN UNDERWAY Central Sugar Company Opens Annual Campaign Today Hundred* of ton* of sugar beet* w«-re going through Indiana'* only refinery today In the process of | extracting the sugar content and making the sparkling crystal* which will till many a bowl on the American table, as the ninth annual campaign of the Central Sugar company In this city got underway at « o’clock this morning. By noon Saturday, sugar will be packed and ready for the market, H. W. Mr .Millen, president of the company, stated. The life of a beet Isn't long once It ent< r» the factory from the outside sluice. It would never recognize W'lf In the form of liny, eweet. shiny grains, the transformation taking less than 24 hours j after full operation* get underway In the mill. With the toot of the- whistle as | the signal for "more beets.” the mill opened and during the day 350 person* will find jobs In th.- huge refinery. The mill opened two hours earlier today, compared to the regular schedule which will begin Saturday. The shift* will be from N a. m. to 4 p. m.. 4 p. tn. to 12. midnight to X a. m. The Important post of sugar boiler is filled this year by three men. expert In their trade One of the men I* a Decaturlte, who has been employed at the factory for many years and continuously elnce the Mc Millen Interest* purchased the plant In 1933. He Is 11. P. Pat" McGill. The other boiler* are A 11. Roma of North Carolina and George I. Brown of Ohio. About 3.600 ton* of beet* were in the yard* thl* morning and a continuous line of truck* arrived at the welghlng-in-platfortn during fCONTIWUBD ON PACIg BIX) o Back Is Injured As Truck Upsets Warren ’Rod" Wilkinson, of this city, suffered a strained bark and minor bruises late yesterday when a D. F. Tec-pie truck he was driving upset near here. He was admitted to the hospital tor treat ment and later released.

FIRE WEEK TO BE OBSERVED Fire Prevention Week To Be Observed. Starling: Sunday The city of Decwtur will Join with the nation October 5 to II In the commemoration of fire prevention Week General supervision of the observance here- will Ice under Ed Hurst, chief of th.- Ib-catur fire department. Mr. Hui-t urgc-d local pastor* to call attention to the observanc ein their sermon* at Sunday's I . hurch servic es. On Monday the event will be marked by the distribution of firsprevention literature- and other publicity. If I* planned to prepare a large sign to be placed on the fire truc k to advertine the week On Tuesday. Chief Hurst ha* asked the school* <>f the city to conduct fire drill* and Gordon Scherer, chief Investigator of the | state fire matehal'* office, will I speak lu-fore the member* of the Itec Lions c lub in the evening On Wednesday, resident* have been asked to dean IIP yard*, alley* and street* of all rubbish and waste which c reate a fire hazard. Arrangements have been made with the c ity street department. under Sam Butler, street commissioner, to haul away all of the- waste material gathered. Members of the department will Inspect business places on Thursday and Inspec t any home if call(CcINTtNUKtI ON PAGE THHKXI o NIGHT CLASSES OPEN THURSDAY First Classes Arc Held In Defense Training Program Two dame* in the engineering defense training program were opened last night at the Decatur Junior-senior high school It was reported today by W Guy Brown Approximately .30 men reported for Instruction In the metallurgy ami engineering funckmetital* dame*. A. Ralph end AL. Kronmiller were Inwtructonc in the two da**-*, respectively. There are a total of 12S men enrolled In rtte program Other classm which will meet Monday night for organisation are production supervieion. elementary drawing and electrical engineering Three- classes will meet in room 300 of the wchool. The engineering day claws will meet at X a. m. In room 303. Ixi-st night'* clmses will meet again next Tuesday night. John Dart* and Wayne Tolliver, district supervisor* of the program. were al#o In attendance wt the organization meeting la*ct night, which wa* followed by cl.i*i work.

Breaks Long Silence, Says Germany Able To Defeat All Enemies; Unrest Spreading

Nazi* Launch Merciless Repressive (anipaiijn In Belgium, France As Terror Grow#. KILL HUNDREDS <By t’nlted Prusul Inauguration of a merciless German repressive campaign In lb-l-1 glum and northern France, report. | of a campaign of sabotage In placid Denmark, egeeutlon of the 71sl Freti< hiliati for antl-G-iman a.tlvHies and the condemnation to death of the former mayor of Prague marked today the spread of the vast frotit-b. hind th front formed by the people In German<h-< upied countrb* It was Increasingly Indicated that In almost every country which th- y had overrun, the German army and th,- Nasi secret police were facing hundred, of thousands of Invisible, organized enemies who. operating by night and. in wild ar. as. in Imnd* by day. were continuing act. of eabostage of all kinds. In the Pari* area, there waa a I new outbreak of antl-Jewish terI rorlHin hy French nationalist element* who dynamit'd six synagogues durlttg the early hours of thie morning. Vh hy disclosed that French police had raided the 14th municipal arrondissement of Paris In ih>Montpurnaase section yesterday, blocking off the entire area and ■ disrupting tralfic. while I hey I searched pedestrians and home* for arm* All per*on. found poss< H.lng arms are to be turned over to the German* to be held a* hoa(CONTINUED ON PAOF. St Xi LUTHERJN HOUR RALLY PROGRAM Dr. Maier To Speak At Decatur High School Sunday Afternoon The Lutheran churches of the Decatur conference are nponsors of th.- Lutheran hour rally to be held at the Decatur junior senior high school auditorium Sunday ufteriiooii at 3:30 o’clock, with Dr. Walter A Maier a* speaker. Being a unique radio personality, a gifted orator, and preaching always an evangelistic orthodoxy. Dr. Maier ha, made hosts of admirer, by means <>f his Lutheran hour broadcast*. He I* th.- recipient of more lhan 50.000 personal letters asking for advice on various problems of life People who will meet and greet him in Decatur will find him a most affabb person bubbling I over with zest for action In the i laird’s cause An executive from the Lutheran radio hour offices I* scheduled to appear on the program with In Maier Sunday In Lutheran hour briefs. The local Zion Lutheran church choir will sing. Cadets In full uniform from Concordia college. Fort Wayne, will usher, anil , iadet trumpeter* will accompany the Kinging by the audience. A large attendance Is anticipated and preparations have been made to seat 2.500 people. Th- public is Invited to attend. Following I* the Lutheran hour rally program: Prelude Prof R. M Schuman. Prayer Rev. Paul W Schultz. Hymn "Stand l’p! Stand L’p For Jesim’’—The assembly. Scripture lesson, Th.- Apostles’ Creed Rev. Walter J. Luecke. Decatur choir “Gloria in Excelsls" •- W Mozart. Address Dr. Walter A. Maier, Tccmthnukd on r*or THKMi 0 Merrill Johnson Is Sent To Texas Mernlll E. Johnson, oae of the selective wwrvice trainees sent from here recently has been transferred from Fort Benjamin Harrison to Camp Walters, Texas, according Io word from army headquarters at F.rt llarrhion.

NAZI BOMBERS SMASH HEAVILT AGAINST ISLES First Raid In Months; Red Armies Stage Counter Attacks Ixmdon, Oct. 1 tl’Pt Thousand* of anti-aircraft gun* blazed for hours during the night along a 660-mlle stretch ol th.- eastern and southeastern const, of Scotland England at German plane* which taking advantage >f a brilliant waxing hunter'* moon mad" their greatest raid in nearly five months. Tile Harvest m.H.n last month had passed without Incident Now the Germans had started to attack in force, a* a retort to Winston CburcJiill's •tat.-m.-nt that they had been weakened in th" air or in retaliation for punishing British raids on Germany. Two town* took the brunt of the nllfht'a attack*, on.- in northeastern England (the German* mentioned Newimstlei. the other on the southeast English coast. So daring were individual German raiders that one swept lowover the main Street of the northeast coast town and fired his canI non along it. Over the southeast town they dived Into furious gun fire to trtaet home* and business premises witn Ihxiili* and machine gun*. They dived in relays in three separate raids. All along the coast from the Firth of Fourth to the Strait of Dover and le-yond. the German plaii.-s in groups and individually iM.mbed and machine gunned, uthe guns roared and British flghteplane* went up to challenge them. At least three German plan.-* were alint down. Th.- main offensive activity of the royal air force during - In- night wa* a comparatively light raid on th., docks at Brest, the French Atlantic naval base, when- th.. German Battleships Seharnhorat and GneisHenau and tin- heavy crubo-: Prinz Eugen, already damaged by IsunlM, stall are berthed. Smash Spearhead Moscow. Get. 3 il l’) Dispatches today reported Red army advance* <>n she Leningrad and central front* and said Chat a fierce counter attack by Russians on th.I'kraliieCrimea front had -mashed a German spearhead and eiicircle-l (CONTINUED ON I’ACJE THKEK) RALLT DAT AT CHDRCHSUNDAT Annual Services At First Methodist Church i Here Sunday Annual rally day service* will bo held at the First -Methodist church at 8:30 a # m. Sunday and emphsized at all the services of ’he day. All members and friend, of the church are urged to attend. Th., chancel uhoir, a new musical organization from the sixth, »eveirth and eighth grades, under the direction of Mot. R. W. Graham, will be prosetted at the morning *-rvlce and the young people’s choir will also ting. Adrian Little, superintendent of the Huntington county schools, will apeak on "Jesus' resoun*** as a teacher." A candlelight service. “The proceeaional or resource*." will be cive.i a. follows: "God’s handiwork a. re veal. .1 in nature" .Mr* (A. 0 Baughman; 0010 by Mr* Clyde Butler; "An understanding of human need*." W Guy Brown; "Family life a resource for <*hristtan living.’’ Mrs. H. L. Neil; “What does the community teach," Sylvester Everhart; "The arts a ro(CONTINUED ON A’AUE MIX)

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Speaks For First Time In 103 Days In AsserlinK (Jcrmany’s Ability To Down All Enemies. REFERS TO U. S. Berlin. Oct- 3 IfP> — A'b'lf Hitler claimed Imlay that Ru*»la already I* destroyed "to a great extent” and asserted Germany'* ability to defeat "all po»»H>le .-noml,-*" regardle. of 'how many billions they are going to .pend’’ to fight the Axis Hitler's reference appeared tn bo directed plainly at the I'nlted Btates. Hitler broke hl. lolday silence since the outbreak of th.- GermanRussian war at a great wittier relief rally at the Ib rlln Sport palace. He declared: I. Vast operations have been launched on the eastern front In the last 4* hours "which will help to destroy our enemies In the east." 2 Russia already “to a groat extent Is destroyed" , 3. Germany ha* the transport, th.- productbm and the ammunition to “beat all possible enemies" , no matter h"W vast their plan, or "how many billion* they arc going to spend " I Th.- war may last “a long time" and II Is a struggle of "life and death” for the Reich In which “the greatest battles ot all limos" arc being fought 5 lluasfan troops massing,, de- ► mand* for a free hand In Finland 1 and Rumania, for control of th" Dardanelles and the right to send ' - troops Into Bulgaria rejected by . Germany before outbreak of the - ■ war made the conflict Inevitable ’ j Hitler gave this tabulation of • Russia: ’ Prisoners * S«m» d«h»; cannon, more than 22,o<Wi; armored vehicles. more than 18.000; planes 14,Soft all destroyed or raptured. Hitler said It had been iinpos- ’ slble "to sin England to friendship" and “it was lietter to have i them as enemies, and ’here was i no other way left hut to fight " “Von do not hear that Etiglaml ' promises Ils help but that It ask* for help everywhere Th.- war has r to def.-at a conspiracy of world Jewry and Democriits and free Masons," Hitler add* d . o Today’s Rainfall h Boon To Citizens The rain whh h fell upon the I city and community last night and today waa colislder.-d a boon by many residents. Farmers report that the rain was e*|»-i tally w Icoined for whear and fruit crops, a> well a* gruiM A contlnuam.- of the showers ' I would Id coils derably in replenI ishing rapidly 'll'iilnlsliing cistern wah- supplies Herman M.-y- r. IoI cal precipitation observer, report- , j ed that only .19 of an inch of precipitation had fallen by 7 a. m. However, at 11 45 a m. the fall had been booated to .9H of an Im h, — o— Auto Agency Plan# Parade Saturday A “Watch the Fords Go By’’ ’ parade Is to In- staged here Saturday afternoon at 2:.'10 o'clo. k by 1 the la-e Wiley Ford ag.-ncy. The parade will show Fords from tin- Model T to the new 1942 ■ model The city police ear Is to ■ lead the parade through town, i o TEMPERATURE READING DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. .. 58 10:00 a. m. 63 Noon .. 67 2:00 p. m. 70 3:00 p. m. 72 WEATHER Light .howors tonight, becoming fair Saturday. Cooler Saturday and in west and north portions tonight; probably ram Sunday.