Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 267, Decatur, Adams County, 11 November 1941 — Page 1

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ME DUTY TO FIRST WAR DEAD - F.D.R.

Id Front Is Irmed For Threat I In Pacific Ocean

■ l.inc* II" 1 ’ 1 1 P \\MHow* ■long l ■showdown ■y Ini'.-'l kkl the I'nlted ■n,...! I •«:id nonl for ■ , tlir.'.tts In 'he ■),. "ltd aimlver- « I W.ll Armistice 11 from Hus- .. • 11 >■ iiiiiimi .... Ik,'. W I'll*'.>o'l ■ Mi»»* \ n . hi relations ■„ ..».■<! by I."ii ■> |L , -••anil ■4, ■„ • .k. 11 in •v. nt Tokyo isalnst a new Il <* K. in far I ih.ii preparaK, :,. i.,l io have been ■ the I'niied Staten and action hl event of a ■ attempt to rut the Bur ■ eii'i'ly to Chino by dritr- - - - I I <|i.ilir«e move ■kaiuml Km pr.in. minister Win Krrhlll - • P''i-ch .inner'lna Km Would Join ImmediateKu'.il State* 111 event of I Ke I’.u nil Ill'll British : ■rin ran now Io- sent to ■ eaat. dispatches from Kd'ce'l .hi ..ily <Oll fl 1.1 ■ that chin.l .uni the Dutch Ke* were part of the al Kublli.h.il front against ■ Ufrraaion ■be< from Australia also ■ idlaaw of that Kit to fight In the united ■ sei.-«-.ii) The Bangkok n heard broadcasting a ■Uk nation to be prepared ■r emergency. ■ there preparations for a Bl brought from Tokyo the ■ that Churchill wan at- ■ to drag the I’nlted States ■war byway of the Pacific ■• •unrestions that Wash■after all. was the "ring ■r world disturbances. ■ i|eiki-m.'ii charged that ■ed Stales was trying to ■U Japan and that Church-1 ■ch was an "absolute scanB> the viewpoint of InterB las because he wan tryBkici> ox page mve» ■” o — Hurt In (ra-h Near Here ■ was hurt Monday afterBn a Yus- 8r0... truck, drlv■eodore Baker of llecatur. •* and a . ar, operated by ■oure <>f llecatur collided ■« aouth of the city on fed- ■ 27. Tin- accident occurred ■ latter was attempting to l ri « h ' turn. Sheriff Ed Mil■BM

pier Teacher Will Meet Gou. Schricker At Banquet

well known I h.T of niu,.' '* who taught (J >v|^V'" ’ Sl tir >< kfi as II boy in grades 111 •' Jll'hoil «< hiHilH, will |„. |K 4 ’ Itamiupf here Weil »"•' 'mg I.tna's *M hl« wife. K alsmt IMH When Mis. |K North Judson. |K ‘"'">■‘l years of t.-a. hlng and county. One of , »•» a bright, wiry unusually a p t | U |K/’ who even h)M /' ,V " ‘ 'ldelice <,f leader|Kl "^ ll ‘«*hce. Th.- boy Hcbrhker. Al Christw n»n the schools had P | ' ,,n »’tlon.. mi„ Young ,ha ' l, "'"y Hchrlck u 1,1,0 hl * h IMho ° l ’ he " I,| PP*d a grade. ,’'T r " "*yinn to the class. Hn>rh ' n "'‘ nry for * ou 11 Ky" “P *l'h him." X's . 'hat ’J rl ‘k*r wa» coming to Km. s ,r| P >“»' K- it ‘is “ ,ltket ,or ,h " H American Legion

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Post Commander V" 1 Iff »• Charles Wei..- . commander of Adams Post 43 of the American la-glon. Is general chairman of the Armistice day observance In this city. First vice-commander James Staley will act as chairman of the program to be held this evening at the Legion home COURT OPINION MM AID STATE Indiana Expected To Col-j lect Large Sum In Defense Taxes Indianapolis. Nov 11 - tl'PI — Indiana probably will collect taxes amounting to some 1125.000.000 because of a V. S supreme court opinion yesterday that a state may impose tales on defense projects supplies purchas.-d l»y government contractors operating on cost plus-fll-ed-fee agreements, Gilbert K. HeW; IL director of the Indiana gross Income division, said today. However. Hewitt Indicated tlsat Indiana litigation now pending to secure defense tale- would not be dropped. Whether Indiana wil: go ahead with the court suits depends on the offl.-e of the attorney general of the V. 8. and whether th., high court's decision applies to us.” Hewitt said "We would probably win the litigation if It were carried through.” Yesterday's opinion by lh«» supreme court was given on test suits brought by Alabama 10 coll -ct sales and use taxes on national defens" projects. Hewitt said that Indiana already had received a large check from a major defense contractor In the state, but that the U. 8. attorney ,l*ONTINI'l?l» "S’ PAGE TWm

J a * jUKK $< BF. ” Mine Mattia Young home and will lie given an honored place during the evening’s program. which includes an address by the governor at the junior-sen-lor high school auditorium.

COMMITTEEMEN DEFER ACTION ON NEW TAXES Reject PreMident’x Rcquest. Warning Os Inflation Washington. Nov. II il’P* Imm.-dlate consideration by the house ways and means committee Hos new lax legislation appeared virtually foreclosed today despite .1 warning by President Roosevelt I that the alternative may lie uncontrollable Inflation. The White House revealed last night that ways and means chairman Robert L Doughton. I*. N.C.. had politely but nonetheless firmly rejected a request from Mr. il.Hisevelt for Immediate action on new taxes designed to curb swift-ly-rising living costs and prices generally. Houghton assured Mr Roosevelt of his cooperation but pointed out that committee members would be devoting their full attention to the administration’s price control bill scheduled for house debate this week and that they already have voted to defer temporarily any action on new taxes. That decision came last week after secretary of the treasury Henry Morgenthau. Jr.. Informally presented a HJtM.uW.AM revenue program embracing a new at-the-•ource Income tax. and urged its Immediate consideration. Ways and means members — who. like all other house members. come up for re-election next year—privately feared the political potentialities of enacting such a I st iff program on lop of the |3.-

.'pm.ttoo.o**’ revenue bill approved only two month* ado. Tito Koussi ve It Duughluu byvlay I wa* disclosed when the While I House unexpectedly made public I !a«t night an exchange of letter* — one from the preaident to Houghton da'ed last Katurduy. mid a reply from Houghton dated yesterday. That wa* only a few hour* after Morgenthau conferred with Houghton and Sen. Harry F Hyrd. D., Va., about possible nondefense government economies. Morgenthau I* to present detailed recommendation* when he testifies Friday before the joint congressional economy committee, of whleii Byrd I* chairman and Houghton I* a member. He told a pre** conference that hi* economy recommendation* related chiefly to "function* of government." but that he had not totaled up the waving* they would effect He described the meeting a* a "trial run" for hl* proposals. Hyrd announced that in addition to .Morgenthau. hi* committee also would hear budget director Harold l> Smith on Friday Morgenthau and Smith luith are member* of the committee. .Mr. Roosevelt noted In hi* letter to Houghton that .Morgenthau had '(CONTiNItICn'oN PAtl»! twoi RECEIVES HIGH RANK IN NAVY Richard E. Myers Os Geneva Promoted To Lieut.C'ommander In Navy Indianapolis. .y<>v. II I Special f —Seven Indiana men. officer* in the United State* Navy, have been recommended for promotion from the rank of Lieutenant to that of Lieutenant-Commander and the recommendation ha* been approved by the Fre»ident of the United State*, the navy department annoutu'ed today. The eeven Hoosiers are among Iflt men to receive like promotion*. Lieutenant Richard E. Myer*. U. H. N.. a resident of Geneva. Ind., ha* received a promotion to lieu-tenant-commander. Commander Myer* I* a brother of Mr*. Milo Black of thia city. He I* a brother of Ralph Myer* of Hartford township. Charles Myer* and Mr*. Cecil Short both of Genneva. • He wa* graduated from the Hartford township high school In 1923 and obtained appointment 'o Annapoll* Naval Academy, from which place he wa* graduated and commissioned In 1927.

(> NL Y DAILY NEWS PA P E R IN ADAMS (’ OUN T Y

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 11, 1911.

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TWO KILLED BY LONDON MANIAC Seven Others Hurt By Machine Gun Fired From Auto London. Nov li—(UPl—A middle aged man driving a black sedan and firing a submachine gun creat- ! ed a brief reign of terror In west London today, killing two person* and wounding seven other*. Police gelled a suspect found in the wreckage of at< automobile and it wa* understood that charge* would lie preferred against him tomorrow. Dead were Mr* Edith Barringer, a housewife, and Leslie Ludford. a lawyer. FWs women were among the seven wounded. The five hour crime wave apparently ended when a man.| whose name wa* not disclosed, was arrested after police rammed hi*, auto In a bypass. The man, an apparent homicidal maniac, opened . fire at random from hl* automobile at person* passing along the sidewalk. Women who had been shopping peacefully for bargain* on quiet side street* gave police their description of the killer. Some report* said he wac armed with a shotgun in addition to the submachine gun. The maniac wa* driving a black sedan firing through a side win- ' dow a* he drove with hl* other hand. Hi* first victim wa* the lawyer Luwford. He was killed shortly after 8 a. m , *Vbt a* he wa* buy Ing an Armistice day poppy A few minutes later Mr*. Harriett Soil, heard two shot* ring out and felt one smash Into her arm. The car speeded off. Air raid precaution* ambulances were pressed into duty a* report* came In of the wounding of six more person* in west London Police mobilised the largest force of the war for the man hunt, sending reserve* Into the terrorized area. o — TEMPERATURE READING DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 90 10:00 a. m. 30 Noon ......... 31 2:00 p. m. 31 3:00 p. ilk. ..... >2 WEATHER Partly cloudy to fair today through Wednesday; slowly rising temperature today. Warmer Wednesday.

Sehriekcr Considers Plea Os Murderer Indianapolis, Nov. II tlT'i [Governor H< bricker today consld- ■ —red a plea by Milton Hawkins, con- ; vlcted taxi-slayer who I* scheduled to die In the electric chair Friday. I for commutation of the d-ath penalty to life imprisonment. The 25-year-old Owensboro. Ky.. youth was convicted April IM. 1911 by a Floyd circuit Jury for 'he tnurter of Edmund Havl*. Jeffersonville taxi-driver, while attempting to rob him. The state supreme court upheld the Floyd county verdict last week. Attorney* for Hawkin* contend in their plea presentt-d to Governor Schricker yesterday that the youth did not mean to kill Davis when he struck th>< cab-driver with a metal pipe while robbing him. PLAN BUDGET OF HOMESTEADS Officers. Directors Os Corporation Hold Meeting Here A meeting of th- officer* and directors of Decatur Homestead*. Inc., was held last evening in the office of William Linn, president of the organization. The budget for next year wa* discussed with government repr-s---sentatlve*. Miss Marion Neprud. community manager of the housing project at latke County. 111., attended the meeting. Other government representatives included. Edward Sto' «. director of the housing projects, now operated by the Farm Security Ad ministration. Washington H. C, I Lloyd Taylor and Mr. Simon, also of Washington; Dr. L. E. Cramer. Indianapolis, director of state project*; J. C. McDavid. Indianapolis; Fred Hansom, manager of the Granger, HI., federal housing project*. Mr. Linn said that 4H house* were all leased and that the liquiad lion of the payment* wa* proceeding very *atl*fa<'torily. Baer Field Private Takes Own Life Huntington. Nov. 11 —(UPl—Joseph Clifton Brown. 28. Cleveland, 0., a private at Baer field. Fort Wayne, wa* found dead yesterday in a parked car near Warren. A garden hose. coMOctwd to the eghaunt pipe, ran Into the closed machine Coroner Grover M. Nle said his verdict would he suicide.

Obligation To “Make World A Place Where Freedom Can Live” Cited By Roosevelt

10Y0UTHST0 |i CAMP THURSDAY County Contingent To Iseave By Bus At M:IS O’clock With Hale Kmmltt Hoffman, of near In-iatur as 110-ir leader. 10 Adams county youths will leave here by AIM' bus early Thursday morning for selective serylce train- ( mg The youths will leave the draft i latard headquarters In the Decatur ' public library building at S:U a m. I i Thursday alter receiving their ere-1 Id* nilal* from the Imaril members. At Fort Benjamin Harrison they will undergo physical examinational ‘ and if smi essful in these exams will be Indui ted into training. This . I Is to be the laat group to Im* sent | to the <amp for examinations. Henceforth, the examinations | I will be conducted at the armory in i | Fort Wayne, with a score or more . reporting on respective days. Thus.! , a youth will know wlv-n he i» sent ! . from here that he will be accepted . ' at Fort Harrison. Hoffman is the only volunteer. I Four of the io are among the m-w I registrants who became 21 since i the first registration. They are I noted by the letter "H” that ap- _ i pi-are before their order numb. rs. ' One Is a < onsetentious objector to J t' ON I'AUKTWOI STEEL LEADER ' PLEDGES AID Steel Industry Pledges Cooperation In Defense Program . I Washington. Nov. II tl’l’t — i President Hugene O Grace, of the) I Bethlehem Steel company, speakr| Ing for the nation's steel Industry, i today pledged cooperation with . President IliHisevelt's appeal that I I labor and management work together to protect America and nations resisting aggression. Grace made th** pledge at a meeting attended'by son steel officials representing 221 niiils and 1 officials of the OPM. maritime 1 commission, army, navy, lend-lease I] administration and the federal loan i agency. The president's request was ! made In n letter to OPM director general Win H. Knudsen who read it to the steel representatives last night

Reading from President Roose I Veit’s appeal for the removal of , "any Individualistic Interest.” > which would Interfere with th«- deicotmvrmi nv pagk twoi * « Marion Man Named . For Berne Banquet M Sprunger of Morion, former Herne resident, has been chosen as toastmaster cf the annual father and son banquet of the town of Herne to he held at the auditori ium there on Tuesday. November I 25, o Dance Will Follow Governor’# Address The Young Democrats club will give a dance at who junior-senior high school Wednmday evening, following Governor Schrlcker’s ad dress. Spec Hobble's orchestra will furnish the music. Harley Khrsam Is chairman of the event and extended an invitation to all to attend. No admission will be charged, the chairman etuted. o BULLETIN Ed Zwick, well known Prebls township farmer, and township trustee, died unexpectedly at 2:15 o'clock thio afternoon at his home.

ARMISTICE DAY OBSERVED HERE IN QUIET WAY Citizens Join In Eleventh Hour Pause; Legion Meet Tonight With World War II raging across | the waters, the city of Decatur join i ed with the rest of the nation to day In iommemorallng the end of l World War I 23 years ago Workers, employers and Idle cltl- ' Zens ull pilned In a brief pallev { shortly before 11 o'cloik this morn Ing to mark the actual signing of I I the armistice at the eleventh hour I of the eleventh day of the i-lev. nth I mouth. I A firing squad salute by mem ' i hers of American Legion Post here. I blowing whistles and rlitgiiig bells ] add' d to the abort ceremony. i A partial suspension of business | also marked the day. with the II . , brary, the First State Bank, the I post oflli e. city hall and courthouse , buildings, as well ar a few others i closed Throughout most of the day , there was little activity on the I strets. Flags waved continuously In trout of the business h"Unes of the i By Tonight the only "oflli lai colebruttou' of the event will be stag I <-d. ' Member* of Adams Post No. 43. i American Legion and the auxiliary I wil gather for a chicken uiuii* i at i I will gather for a chicken dinner at I Major E. L. Olcott, Intelligence I officer of the new Fort Wayne air | base, will be th,- chief speaker at the banquet, whhh will be opened at <'> 3o o'cloi k All ill all the day was a quiet one the celebration unusually mild. es|e-claly in comparteon to that one staged at the time of the ac tuiil ending of the war. Tomorrow, all business will be I I resuim d as usual, with those plai iw i whilh were closed today, reopen-1 ed Body Os Parolee Found By Hunters Michigan City. Nov. II tI Pl Tin* body of John Foster, til yearold Warren farm parolee who dis appeared* from th<* prison farm Sept X While Waiting to return to his Porter county home, was found yesterday ulong a i rei k bank by two Chesterton hunters From the position of the body. | oil. e ill > dicaied that Foster may have lak ell his life He liad l.eell 111 111 Ikml’li ' at the time of his disappearance > polite said.

tl--— — . — — Red Cross Workers Start Drive For 4,500 Members

A little army of approximately 160 workers started out today to canvas the entire city and county I In the annual roll call drive of the Adatns county chapter. American Red Cross. Before the close of the drive on Thanksgiving Day. November 20, the workers hope to have enrolled in the Red Cross thio year no less than 4.500 members, "At least one member In every home" Is to be the slogan of th>- 1 chapter as it opened i's yearly roundup of members. The spark for the drive was given last night in the yearly Red Cross dinner that launches the campaign. The dinner was held in the dining room of the new Moose home with more than IUL Rod Cross leaders and Interested pet sons in attendance. Officers of the Adams county I chapter were in charge of the program for the event, which Included speaking and the showing of a > movie. Miss Margaret Vesey, of the Allen county chapter. American Red Cross, was the principal speaker.

Price Two Cent*.

Victim** Os First War Did Not Div In Vain. President Declares In Address. “FACE IT A(iAIN” By Herriman Smith. d'P Staff Correspondent > Washington. Nov il it Pi ' Presld'nt Roosevelt said today that ; America owed a duty to Its dead I of th'- best World War to make in i IMI “the world a plaie where freei dom can live and grow into the ; ages," The chief executive apoke at i Armistice Day ' xerclses ill the I amphitheater near th.- I'nknown , Soldier's tomb in Arlington nation* i al cemetery. Mr. Roosevelt stiessed the fact ! that the victims of the first World War di*d not In vain, but to make Washington. Nov. il tl'Pf i'nder secretaiy of atato Sumner Welles Mid today that the i'nitiil States must l«e prepared to help form a new world order baaed on Justice, when the war 1s end'd Speaking at Woodrow \\ il* 1 son’- tomb, Welles cr’.ticif'd the isoiationlats who had block ed Wilson's plan for America's 1 participation in the league of nations a generation ago He said the present conflict would have been avoided in all probability If Wilson's plans had bel li followed j the world “safe for dweiicy and ' self rtwpect." "And if. by some fault of ours ' who lived beyond the war. its safeI ty lias again been threaientd then ‘ the obligation and duty are ours.'' I the President said. "This duty we owe. not to ourselves alone, but t» the many dead j who died to gain our freedom for ne to make Hie world a place where freedoni can live and grow i into the ages." Mi It. H.-. velt said this country had tin- same < harg. that it had after the Civil Wai. "to see to II ' 'that these dead shall not have j died 111 vain.' " Quotes Sgt York | He quoted Hgt Alvin York. h> ro ! of tin- first World War. who spoke i tlius of cynli* and doubters of the teal purposes behhid the sacriOcea j in l!*17 and ittlv “The thing they forget is Hint ! liberty and freedom and detnocrai y | lire so very pracious that you do not tight to win them once and stop. Liberty and freedom and ( demo, racy an- prize* awarded only Io those peopb * who tight to Will I them and then keep fighting eternI ally to hold them " Then the Prmildelit added his I own comm* nt to the statement of 1 .ii'Vt ISi'gli ov «**G« rtVK,

’ She related the urgent need of a , large membership In the Red Cross to meet the addl'ktnal burdens ■ heaped upon the organization She pointed out the necessity of cooperation with the Red Cross in aiding the nation's soldiers l:i camp here, in addition to furnishing Hos to the sufferers of war-torn Europe. A new service of the Red Cross was discussed by Miss Vesey, in I which she disclosed the channels , used by the organization in verifying the Illness of a soldier's parent or loved one to permit him to secure a leave of absence Miss Annie Wmnes. chapter secretary. gave a report of the activities and program of the chapter during the past year and detailed the program expected of the organl- ; zatlon during the coming year. An unusually Interesting movie, J shown by Owen Forsythe, of th» ; Allen county chapter showing tha work of the Red Cross in Fort Wayne and Allen county, was p reset ed during the program Avon Burk, acting chairman of *(C«>NTINUBD ON FAUB siVB,