Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 250, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1941 — Page 1

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NEUTRALITY ACT REPEAL IS DEMANDED

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Will Leave City r* I Oeorge Thoma, auditor for th>-' past ten years In th>- Ifei atur oßh >- i of f'loveileuf Creamerlea, Inc., will I move to (*raw foidavllle to l»-< <>m> . | manuKer of the llydlrade Dairy Products. Im-. plant, recently put chased an a subsidiary of the local ' Industry Mr. Thoms also resigned I imlay as president of the Decatur' Chamber of Commerce ami w ill !<•• I nucci-eded by Robert Helm PLANS DINNER | FOR GOVERNOR Democratic Women To Entertain Gov. Schricker November 12 The dinner honoriiiK Governor Henry S< hrlcker. who will visit 1 Decatur November 12. und* r the 'auspices of the Women’s Demo-1 cratli Z Uub. wIR be held at the j Amerli an la-aion home in this city | ' ft was announced today by Mrs ' Heh n Reiisser of Rente, president | of the organization | Reservations must be made not i later than November In anil coin I miltecs have already been named ■ ; to further the sale of the tickets, I which are priced at fin cents eai h | I The dinner will be served at 6:30 o'clock. I Governor S< hrlcker will make a I I short talk at the dinner meeting i Plans are being made for a public | meeting later in the evening, the place to be announced later. The committee also announced I the menu forth. governor's dinner. as follows: baked chicken. | mashed potatoes, gravy, carrots . peas, pumpkin pie. COtfee. Mrs. Clara Anderson of Geneva. Is chairman of the program Thfollowing committees were named for Decatur. Berne, and Geneva, to advance the sale of tickets: Decatur: Mrs. Charles l-ose. general chairman; Mrs. Ruth llollinga- ’ worth. Mrs. Dorothy Kh'her. Mrs. IC. M Ellsworth. Mrs. G. Remy I llietly. Miss Rose Ncsswald. Mrs. ‘ Alice Christen. Berne: Mrs Gas Dubach, chairman; Mrs. Grover Netietisi ha.ind- ' " <C<»!»TIStrKD ON PAOB riV»> SPEED TYPIST PERFORMS HERE Cortez Peters Gives Exhibition To’ School Student* Cortex Peters, claimant to the world's champion speed typist title, presr-nted a novelty exhibition at the Decatur junior senior high school this morning Ntudents of the Decatur Cath.vHe. Berne and various township schools were in attendance at the program. R. E. Heidrich, representative of the Royal typewriter company, arranged the program and M- Guy Brown, school principal was in charge. In addition to the speed testy Peters presented a number of novelty typing acta, including typing while blindfolded and wearing a pair of flannel mittens, and a tap dance on the typewriter. In the speed tests he reached a speed of H 3 words with an ordin ary machine und a speed of 11J words per minute on a portable machine. Peters will appear Saturday night on the radio "Hobby Lobby program.

AID OFFICIALS SEE VAST NEED OF RED FORCES Lend-Lease Officials View Russian Situation With Alarm Washington. Oct. 22 - (PPI High l<-nd lease officials rgpressed ! fear today that If the Soviet I'nlon | i goe, down the Democracies will I lose the last possible European, ' fcMitliold from which to launch an , I offensive against Hitler. They have agreed with President , Roosevelt on a steep Increase in : I aid to the Russians to rpead immediate and "very substantial" deI liveries of airplanes, tanks, guns. ' and ammunition. The President is | i •'gpectnd to make an announcement on aid to Russia this week. W. Averell Harriman, leud-leaae expediter and head of the I'niled States mission to Moscow, has re--1 ported to Mr. Roosevelt that Soviet | . union requests were "reasonable" imt were for substantial quantities ■ of munitions and raw materials Others here Insisted, however, that practically everything going to the Soviet union would Ire a finished i product Shipments are ex per ted to move from Boston across the Atlan tin to Archangel on the White Sea. The situation frankly Is viewed I .i critical Emphasis here on the Im- ! portame of keeping the Russians in the fight coupled with the British government's firm refusal to undertake landing operations in the west indicated a hope in both Washington and larndon that the full force of Democratic attack ultl-. | mutely could be hurled at Germany < I from the east. Ikiubt that Great Britain would ! risk a "diversion'* landing operation against Germany in the west for many months more Increased with announcement In larndon that YCONTINI.’EK ON PA<Ht FIVICr GERMAN MAJOR FRENCH VICTIM Army Major Is Latest Victim Os French Nation’s I n rest Vichy, Oct 22 — (UP) — German authorities tonight announced the arrest of 100 hostages at Bordeaux where a German army major was shot to death last night 36 hours after a slaying at Nantes for which 50 hostages were executed and W more mav be put to _____ Vichy. France. Oct. 22. il'Pi A German army major wax allot dead al Bordeaux last night 36 hours after th. killing of a colonel at Nantes which caused the Germans to execute 50 French hostages and to threaten the execution of 60 more, it wan dlscliisr-d today It wax announced thet the Germans Immediately had arrested W Frenchmen In Bordeaux to hold as hostages and execute If the killers were not caught. Alarmed by the new assassination. chief of state Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and admiral Jean Francois Darlan, his vice premier In the Vichy government, made emergency arrangements for a daylong series of broadcasts to the nation, appealing for cessation of attacks. Darlan, In the first ot two ep< h* ex he made a< Paris, where he is negotiating with the Germans. said: "We believe that this terrorism (CONTINUED ON PAGE THKEIC) i O ——— Schools To Close For Institutes Public schools of the city will close tomorrow while members of the teaching staffs attend the annual teachers' institutes. A few of tho teachers will go to Indlattapollx to attend the state teachers Institute. while the larger percent will attend the sessions of the annual Northeastern Indiana teachers conference at Fort Wayne. The institute sessions will be held Thursday and Friday. All teachers are rwiuired to attend. Rural schools will also close to permit teachers to attend the institute.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Dcratur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 22, 1911.

10 I'. S. Merchant Ships Lost To Date In Present Conflict * * Washington Oct 22 H'P) lb • Is the Hat i,f Am 111 .111 I.pi t ated merchant ships ha t so far in this war: City of Rayville, Tanker Charles Pratt. H H Robin Moor. S H. Sesxg. S H Bleed Seafarer. H H Montana, H S Pink Star. Tinker I (' White. S X Bold Venture. H M. la-hlgh STATE PLOWING CONTEST HERE ON NOVEMBER 6 Contest To Br Held On Central Sugar Co. Farm Near Monroe Adding Impetus to the campaign | for elimination of the European* I corn luirer from Indiana, the first | i annual WOWO Hoosier state plow | Ing contest will Im- held Nov 6 on | the Central Sugar company farm I southeast of Monroe. Iw-glnnlng at |o:3o a. m . according to announce meat z<i J It Conley, manager of' the radio station. The contest will be conducted , In cooperation with the Purdue | university agricultural extension division. I. E. Archbold ot Adams’ county will be the host county I agent, and entries have already 1 . been received from lo contestants the number one and two prize winners from each of five Indiana counties which already have held county plowing competitions, i These counties are Adams. Allen, | Grant. Vermilion ami Wells. Two broadcasts direct from the field have been arranged by j WoWo with Jim Conley. WoWo farm program director, and Tom' Wheeler. WOWO farm commentat I or. on hand to describe the activl | Illes ami to Interview 'he contest-! ants. The first pickup will b> ; from 10:20 to It a. m mid the I I second from 12:45 to 1 p. in. The WOWO Hoosier state plow ] I Ing context will be goverm-d by the same rules which pertain in the various county competitions. The purposes of the context are listed ax follows: To stimulate Interest in the art . of giHid plowing ax a contribution ' to better farm practices, such as: ' Holl Improvement by plowing, under surface trash. Destroying the corn borer and other Insects by dean plowing Controlling weeds by dean plow Illg. Ib-iter send bed preparation. More efficient operation of farm | tCONTINCED ON EAGE THHEKi PETITION FOR CIH AIRPORT Movement Launched Before Council For Decatur Airport A group of aviation-minded De- < aturltes appeared before the dty council last night to launch a movement for the establishment of a municipal airport. Th,- group asked careful consideration of a preliminary plan for a landing field, located at the southwestern edge of the dty. embracing 35 acres. Dr F. L. Grandetaff. who acted as first spokesman for the group, stated that the Ivetich landing Ib id could he used as a nucleus for establishing the 3M-acre airport which would also include KRing and Krick Tyndall property. All land needed could be leased, they stated. Dr Grandxtaff stated that more flying would be done here If the dty had a suitable place for planes to take off and land Such a field would also attract transient plunex, he stated. The physician pointed out that many small towns In this area. Including Van Wert. Rockford, and Coldwater. Ohio; Auburn. Angola, and others have landing fields at preaent. Dowell Singer, who also spoke (CUNTINURU UN I'AUE rUUHj

LABOR FIGHTS ARE ASSAILED Bf OPM HEADS Term Strikes, Slowdowns By Labor Direct Aid To AKRressors Washington. Oct. 22 (t’Pl The office of production management | said today that the Interruption of defense prodiK'tioti by strike .>r lalmr slowdowns "Is the great' «t help ih» agxiessors can <«*t 111 these day* when material on the battlefield is everything.** The Ol’M statement of labor poi Icy wax prepared by M’M codlrer tors William S Knudsen and Hid ney Htllm i'i. • e'ary o< n.ny Frank Knox and secretary of war Henry L. Htlmsun It was 'he pro nouncement which Prealdmit RooxeVelt said ia-l Week the <>l*M would make One Strike Ended By United Press The Hhenango Furnace Co . walk I out in I’etinsylvania. one of seven | xtrlfce* listed by the office of pro- ■ duct ion matiagemen' as most “sigI nlficant" in their effect on defense production, ended today. About 1.500 of s "«" striking em ployes returned to work at a subsidiary plant of the strlkediound I Gn-ut Lakes steel corp Ecorse. I Mich, also on 'he Ol’M "irltka!' list. The company makes high ten ■ xlle steel. The Hanna Furnace Corp, sub ' sldiary plant of Great Lakes, was | opened on the day shift, but the 1 parent plant and the Mbhigan steel plant, another subsidiary, remained iloswl. and tli't" workers Still were idle. Those returning to work at Great i latkes had voted action last night j after leaders of the steel workers I organizing committee (CIOi warn 'CONTINUED «>N PAGE EIVU LIONS REGIONAL MEETING HELD 183 Attend Meeting Ot Lions Clubs Here Tuesday Nifht One hundred and eighty three 'persons attend'd the regional I meeting of Lions i-lulm of region I four, held at the han U-glon home In this city T in -day evening. ‘ with the Decatur dub as ho". Charles M Dawson, lieutenant i governor of the state of Indiana. I wax the prindpal speaker. Otherwho -poke briefly were George E i Johnson. Mishawaka. Lions dis i trlct governor; George Bennett I district organizer ot Fort Wayne; and Glenn Hill. Decatur, deputy I district governor, who Introduced Mr. Dawson other Lions offidala in attend ance Inchided J I*. Vogel. N< w Haven, zone chairman; Everett Fleck. Columbia city, zone chair man; and Dale Waterhouse Hamilton. deputy district governor of region five. Tom Warrllow Gary, f.ions state song leader, sang several solos, accompanied by Al Greene. al«o of Gary, slate pianist. The dinner was served by the members of the Legion auxiliary in the dining room of the home, which wax profusely decorated In the Halloween motif. Wives and sweethearts of the dub members were -pedal guests at the meeting. During the dinner. Gerald Zimmerman's orchestra provided special music. Mr. Dawson spoke on the theme of “Citizenship." Duties of citizenship. the stale official said, wax best summed up by George WashfCCINTINUED ON PAGE THHRBA - - - -O- "" TEMPERATURE READING DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 800 a. m. 56 10:00 a. m. ...» 61 Noon .... 68 2:00 p. m. . .. 3:00 p. m 73 WEATHER Increasing cloudiness tonight, followed by showers and thunderstorms Thursday and Thursday night, beginning in northwest portion tonight or Thursday; warmer tonight; much warmer in extreme north portion.

Sinking Os Two More Merchant Ships Brings Demand; Report All Aboard Lehigh Are Saved

All II Seamen Aboard I’. S. Freighter Lehiuh Are Rescued; Panama Ship Other Victim. • SEA PIRATESWashington. Ihl 22 d'l’t The m.irltime ' iimmixsl'in .iiimiui" ; I rd 'hat 22 missing seamen from ' the torpedoed America" freighter la'hlzh had 10-en land' d safely at i Freetown. British West Africa I i All II men who weir alutard the I ship now are known to have 10-en i , res, ued The Lehigh wax torpedoed Hun I I day night off West Africa while j enroute from Bilbao. Spain to an i African port, where the ship was i | scheduled to pick up a caig-t for return to the I S It wax announced yesterday that ' I 22 men had lw-n lauded at Rath i urxt. British Gambi.i Today th* j 1 commlxxlou wa- notified that 2 ‘ | others, including five xtow.iw.iy- , | had been land'd .itely at Free ; town. Two of th** men were in i | jured. This brought the toll of Amer I ' h ail ope» ited ship* lost In this wai l to I" half the numb, r sunk he I fore the I'nltcd Htat.-x etlt'-led the i World W.u Twenty American ship- w-re | sunk lietwi-eu Jan .ft. 1815. and' | April « IUI7. When we declared i I war on G'-im.iny The ninth .ind lenih -Inkingx of Ameihanopei.it 'ed - - Hi* »■ Sept 1 w. !. i announc' d yesterday the la*hlch an Uii'-rican flag ship, and the j Bold Vi-nnir. flying the I’anamer | I lean flag The Lehigh and Ikdd Venture xlnkiiigx brought demands from, I adniitilxli.ition souk • - for quick ■ i retaliation again-' G*-tmany who-'-| submarine- the .idmini-lra'l »n I Indicat'd, had tnrp'-doed th" two boats "Two -hips for '-very \merlcan ' ship lost." demand'd Hen Claude I I’eppe D Fl i "An aimed ship lias .1 chance; | an unaimed ship has mine " x.ild I chairman Tom Connaly. D T'-t.i i of th'- • foreign tal i’ com f mlttee which I- i im-id'-t inc II" I armed ship prop-i-al The LehU-lt and Bold Ven'll!' ! sinkings were announeed at about ! the same time that member of the senate committee - ud chief of I naval operations Harold It H'ark | had revealed that th*- I H de ! 1 stroyer Kearny wa >.colling a I convoy when It wa- forped<>ed rnd badly damaged last we.-k There * wa-. sol"*- speciilalK'K that the j I Bold Venturi- might have been In I that convoy. President Roo. evelt announced ;CON i INI.'KD ON FAOr THKXSi Gin COUNCIL APPROVES PLAT Plat In Homewood Addition Approved After 12 Years Th- city council last night approved a plat of 14# lots in the Homewood addition to clear abstracts for the lot* City Attorney Ferd L. Lltterer pointed out to the council that tinaction had evidently be. n taken on March 2!'. 192!*. but that no record wax made of the proceedings in the council minute*. The petl lion wax filed by John and Martha Melbers for the Meibera addition, now known as Homewood. A petition for a light n' the corner of Adams and Sixteenth street, signed by Raymond T. Eyanuon and seven others, wax referred to tlie board of public works and safety. A report of the street and sewer committee. In which it recommended the purchase ot a truck to replace the three-ton truck now In use by the dty street department, wax approved. A report liy Martin J. Mylott, city light superintendent, staling that Un- alley light between Fourth • and Fifth streets, asked by Ixoretta Lange and others had been Installed, was also approved.

1 New ('. of (’. Head Holwit Ih-hft wvl! known <1 »sh i I h»r, today l»« < .un» pn nUh nt of ih« ilfeu.itm t’h.Hhboi of Uoiiiiimu 4- ' fillhig tlh* mi* term of <O’4»l|t4 TholllM. Who M sltftM 'l to j tii4BV4* to < ’r*< w fontfib- Th«* « , h , <* ! I lion of Mr lit Im who h.m be. n M<*titiffed with tho <'h.iinb. of I Common •* .ind othmr < ivb out.»nl ‘ at i «|o < taf moHlriK »f th<* board of dir. . t<»i- H. will . rv. until I | not! January, wlo tt th« annual I I fiL. tltiK 4»f th.* body will Im* h«*b| I PLANT BOUGHT BY CLOVERLEAF (ieo. Th.tms To Manage Creaincn Subsidiary At Crawfordsville Annoim- <■ in.-ni was made today ! by W A Kleppof. general mau.i.’ |.r of t lon rl'a' Ck.ilii- •< ln< ( j of the puli h.ixe by the company of I'he plant of the HyGrade Dany, I’rodml". Inc. at Crawford-viile i and the ap|xHntm<-nt of Georg' | Thmnx, auditor In the local office. ' ax manage of the n- w subsidiary to the D'-.i’u induxiry Mi Thom* who also i president ' of tin- Iteratui ' liaml" i of Com I ' ni'-rce. und famllty will move ti> Crawfordsville imniediaiely ax-um-Illg 111- ii w dlltlc about \ iv.-mbe" j 1. Mr Thoms has tendered bl-K-xlgnation ax president of tli> . I hamln-r of Commen e and at " special meeting of the board of' <*«"■< io-, Rob.-rt Helm, well known | clothier, wa- elected to fill un ! I* expired term wlih h run* until al •er the litxl of tin yea The HyGrade Dairy Product--I company wax own-d and operated - by Forrest A Ward of Crawfords f Ville, who Will continue his em I ploymeiit with tin- company. Tin I plant employr about :*" persons and j 1 in addition io mai.':ia< tin mg !< • , crialil. I lleexe and powder->1 milk ' operatcH a dairy line in the city Mr Tlioinx has been with Cl.ivet leaf Creatneri-s for 2" years. 11lJ la»l ten b'-in.- a- in il auditor of I the Dcallll ofii'e lie Ila been; I active in chl< and business affairs • and Illi"- y> a ago was -- - ted a ! director of th'- Chanilu t o'. Coin j I men e Lu-' Jantlaiy he wa toad' [president atid wa genetal - hair-| man of tile l!l|| free -ire t lair I and agrii ultural show, staged here i last August Announcement was also made of the sale of hlx residence on North inwriNinn on pagw eivbj O First Aid Classes Open This Evening The Red Cross first aid . lass, for both men and women will moot this evening at 7 o'clock In the assembly hall of the Lincoln school for organization and regular classes. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Goodman of Fort Wayne will be present to in struct the classes, and emphasis i« placed on the fact that men ar.-1 eligible as w.-li a women. At completion of tin (-.nir-r members Will become regular regh- f tered nurses ax-istants Tin- only fee for the entire course Is a •>" j cent charge for a book of Instructions. ■

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, White House, Department Os State I rue Repeal Os Act To Safeguard American Shipping. OPEN PORTS Washington. Oct 22 tl'l’t The White Hou " and ule department • uggest'-d today that contltiU'-d -inking of Ant'-rhan merchant • hips make- I' desirable Ic change •he neutrality ... t now -> 'hat the** ships may uil anywhere under protection of tli'-;r own flag and | guns. This r.-a 'lon. lending support to i b parti-an move In the senate to | repeal sections two and three as w. ll a« tlon six of th- neutraity act. followed within one day the i disclosure of sinking of two more ; Am- i- M ■■win d -'i.p- That brought th< toll of this war to 10. Section 'Wo and three of the n<-u-I irallty ad forbid American flaghips to enter coml«t Zones or lielligerent port* Section six forbids arming 'hem. Opposition wltne-xes appeared before the senate foreign relation* committee on the hou*e approved resolution to repeal section six. I The fii -t oppox ng wltne-s. former I senator Dtzvid A Read. It l*a . said I tha' It was “unwise' to ln»ist on I freedom of th.' M-as now It I nd that he believed Wendell I. Willkie and 'he 100 Repub--1 li<.ins who Issii'-d a statement for repeal of the neutrality act are I “completely wrong: "'ha! they do i not represent" a large Republican I *M*nt ** Early Speakers Washington Oct 27 tl'P) Pre- ; -id- nt Roosevelt's White House -jMik'-xman. Stephen T. Early i today virtually invited congress to ‘ repeal immediately *<•( Hot two of i the neutrality .nt along with section six to peimit Atnerlian m<-r I < hant vessels to go anywhere on ; the seven sea- under protection of 1 their own gun* and their iwn flags. Barly spoke to icporii-r* a day I if er announc. m' itt of the n nth . and tenth sink.n-'- of <*.m«-i'can | operated -hip* during thtx war. half a- many as were -unk before the I nit.'l Htal'-s entered h. World j AA'ar. Adopting the strategy of placing i enipha-is on certain portion* of Mr. Roosevelt'- neU'iality lev-,-ion recot by reading them at a pri -s ■ onferen.Early monte I I out tha' in bi Octol message j to congress Air Rmi-.-veh 1 Called for rep.-al of section six : If the .11- “with all spe'-d" to peri init gun- to Ik placed on Am -- .can I ni'-ri hant men | 2 Asked that congress give "earnest an I early at , el|l,.>li" to s.-'-tion two. rep.al of »hi' i would open I belligerent ports to AllierkaU tilerEa ly explaini-d that he merely I wa - clarifying Ah'. Kooseveß'a posttion by ■ ad tig 'lie mes'-agc. But his ai thin ■ une at a moment when CON fVHKD ON PAGE TH KBit l~ BICYCLE CRASH LEADS TO S’JIT Damage* Suit Filed As Af* termath Os Auto*Bicycle Crash A suit was filed in Adams . in ult court yesterday for llmt damages, arising out of an auto-bicycle i rash, ea*t of here on April !'■ Th" suit was fil'-d by Eva AA’hlttenbarger as the next friend of Earl Hunter, lit. who wa- riding th" bicycle, and names Dwight Jone* driver of the ear. ax the defendant. The suit < barge- (•iireh-s-ne-s anil negligence on the part of th" defendant It avers that the lad suffered severe shock among other Injuries In the n- uitant cru-h. The accident occurred about ona and one half miles cr»l on federal ' road 224 ax the bb y. !■ -.tarled into Il the Ahr service station. Harry T Giub< I.- plaintiff' attorney.