Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 20 May 1938 — Page 2

THE POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938.

i “What this country needs now more than anything else is fewer hills: passed and more bills paid.”

The average golf player buys eighteen balls a year.

In 1937 the total cost of all forms of relief in this country amounted to $4,322,000,000, nearly three-fourths of which was paid by the Federal government.

Out of 1,255 trees planted on the New York World’s Fair site, only four have died.

If an accident occurs while an automobile is traveling faster than 40 miles per hour there is one chance in 19 that some one will be killed. Colorado has the most liberal old-age pension plan. Colorado pays $45 per month to those past the age of sixty providing they have lived in the state for 35 years and the same amount to those who have lived five out of the last nine years in that state and have passed their sixty-fifth birthday. Then if there is any money left iu the pension fund at the end of the year that is hlso divided among the pensioners. This maximum amount is paid to the pensioners there regardless of need.

The tax budget of Boston provides for $19.70 for the support of two cats at that city’s public library.

Experiments are being made in bkseball with a new yellow ball. The yellow ball is easier to follow. It makes the game easier for the batter and umpire but due to the fact that the yellow ball is easier for the batter to hit makes the game more difficult for the pitcher.

Secretary of Interior Ickes is holding up a big shipment of helium gas which has been sold to Germany because he has not been satisfied with Germany’s promise regarding the probable use of the gas. However to convince Mr. Ickes of her peaceful intentions Germany is sending Dr. Hugo Eckher to this country to make a special plea for the release of the helium shipment.

Down in Africa an eleven foot eagle attacked a flying airplane arid damaged it considerably.

Among the many presents received by Adolf Hitler for his 49th birthday were 10,000 pairs of handknitted socks, a three-foot birthday cake and a lion cub.

Henry Ford was recently awarded the James Watt International $edal. This is awarded every two years by The British Institute of IVlefchanical Engineers and is one of the highest honors that may be extended for engineering. An eight-ygar-old 200-pound tigress broke from her cage while Ringling Brothers Circus was showing in New York City. Several were injured in the scramble before the tigress was recaptured but not by the tigress.

In her new home in France the former Wallis Warfield (Simpson) will have access to a golden (20carat) bath tub. The rent on this place is costing the Duke of Windsor about $16,000 per year.

There are nearly eighty companies engaged in aircraft manufacture in this country. These include: Boeing, Consolidated, Cur-tiss-Wright, Douglas, Lockheed, Martin, and United Aircraft.

The telephone company at Palo Alto, California, found that their pay-telephones had been damaged and nothing substantial collected from a number of students who had been paying for talking home or to their sweethearts by depositing ice nickles, frozen in models to fit the slot. “Others sneer and turn aside. Mother welcomes us with pride; Over-boastful of us too, Glorying in all we do. First to praise and last to blame, Love that always stays the same, Following Us where’er we stray— That is ever Mother’s way.” There are now about 12,000,000 npemployed in the United States. Fourteen out of every one hundred heed relief. instrument locateFradium

London—A special radium-detec-ting instrument has located eight milligrams of radium, valued at $1,000, which was accidentally thrown away in the grounds of the Newcastle Royal Infirmary more than eight years ago. The instrument emits a clucking noise when in the presence of radium. —*-0—i—— Ne^ Zealand is shipping certified hand-picked seed potatoes to South America.

THAT THIRD PARTY

The official decision to launch a third party—called the National Progressive Party, and headed by Governor Phillip La Follette of Wisconsin—is of major political importance. The chief significance of the move lies in its possible effect on the existing parties, and on future elections. The history of third party movements in this country has been generally a history of practically complete failure, oO far as the parties themselves were concerned. Today who remembers the Locofocos, the Free Soilers, the North Americans, the Blue Light Federalists, the Anti-Masons—all important third party movements in their time? The last third party drive that got anywhere at all was that of 1924, when the senior La Follette ran for president with Senator Wheeler as his team-mate and polled a total of 5,000,000 votes out of 30,000.000 cast. But the ticket received the electoral vote of only one state, Wisconsin. Occasionally, however, a third party bolt has been the decisive factor in a national election, and has so made an important contribution to the course of government. This was the case in 1912, when Theodore Roosevelt, having split with Taft and the regular Republicans, led the “Bull Moose” revolt. The Rough Rider did not get elected, in spite of the advantage that he had been President, and enjoyed an immense popularity—but he took enough of the Republican vote to elect Wilson, and leV e Taft the worst beaten incumbent in American history. And the wounds that the split caused in the Republican ranks took a long time to heal, and are generally believed to have been a major factor in the re-election of Wilson in 1916, when he beat Hughes by the narrowest

of margins.

The potential importance of the National Progressive Party thus lies in the possibility that it may have some effect on the current political set-up. SHAVE IN 8.2 SECONDS El Centro, Cal.—Joe Ryba, barber, may have broken the wmrld’s record by a hair’s breadth w r hen he shaved Louis Kneitz in an 8.2 second performance.

A. A. A. SEEKS OUTLAWING OF REPOSSESSION RACKET

Suggestion that the automobile industry outlaw the “repossession racket” and the practice of selling mechanically unsafe vehicles was advanced by representatives of the American Automobile Association at the trade practice conference of the automotive industry held recently in Detroit, Michigan, Todd Stoops was advised today. “The trade practice conference for the automotive industry,” Mr. Stoops explained, “was held under the auspices of the Federal Trade Commission, which has assisted in the formulation of trade practice rules for some two hundred industries. “Among the rules suggested are a number which, if adopted, should prove very beneficial to the consuming public. Many of the rules would prohibit misrepresentation of all types; one would outlaw tampering with the speedometer, while another would prohibit the ‘packing’ of finance charges. “Pointing out that repossession of used cars has grown into a substantial racket, the A. A. A. urged adoption of a rule which would condemn the exercise of deficiency judgments unless actual fraud or dishonesty were involved and which would give the honest debtor every opportuunty to clear up his debt. The rule proposed by the national motoring body also would clear up many other abuses that have grown up in the automobile financing business, such as ‘kiting of finance papers from one company to another so that the debtor does not know where or to whom to make his payments and is literally forced into default. “Another rule proposed by the A. A. A. would condemn the sale of mechanically unsafe vehicles— that is, vehicles whose safety features such as brakes, lights, steering, and so on, are in such a state of disrepair as to constitute a menace to life, limb and property on the streets and highways. This rule is aimed primarily at the junk cars that are sold for a song, usually to financially irresponsible drivers. o THE BASIS OF DEMOCRACY

Democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power, or sovereignty, is retained by the people. A republic is a democracy governed by representatives elected by the people and responsible to th^m. Indiana is guaranteed a republican form of government by the federal constitution (Art. 4, sec. 4), which itself was ordained and established by “We, the People of the United States.” Government by the PEOPLE is the very root and essence of our American system of government. All other rules and principles are subordinate to this. This is not abstract theory, to be learned at school and promptly forgotten. Various public and private groups are constantly striving to seize the sovereignty from the people and rule for the selfish benefit of their own classes. This struggle is at the core, in one form or another, of most public disputes today. Not the least of these groups seeking to w^rest the supreme power from the people are found among the organized public officials. In too instances officials seek ways gnd ipeaps to flaunt

and evade the checks and balances with which their lust for power is

restrained.

But these checks and balances, courts of appeal, rights of remonstrance, administrative boards, etc., are tka weapons w r ith w r hich the people preserve their liberty and sovereignty, and these weapons must be kept shining and un-

limbered.

. —o BEAVER DAM LAKE OPEN TO ANGLERS IN CLOSED SEASON

The closed season on the taking of bass, bluegills and other game fish (except trout) from Indiana waters, does not apply to Beaver Dam Lake in Kosciusko county where a special survey is being conducted by the Department of Conservation, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner, pointed out today. Suspension of the closed season as it applies to this one lake, was authorized by the General Assembly for the years of 1937 and 1938 to permit the collection of data on the results of fishing during the spawning season with the spawning beds protected. Beaver Dam lake Was selected for the experiment due to its known good fishing and the desire of conservationists in that vicinity to have the survey made there. In order to fish in this lake during the closed season, anglers must secure from a supervisor representing the Department of Conservation, a special report card which is to be carried on the fisherman’s person. Any fisherman on the lake Without such a card is subject to arrest under the regulations establihed by the legislature. Before leaving the lake, the angler must fill in the card showing the number of fish and the species taken, filing the report with the supervisor. No fishing is permitted over or within 50 feet of areas marked as spawning beds or between the beds and the shore is prohibited and no fishing is permitted from sunset to sunrise. Through the data collected in the survey, an attempt will be made to determine whether the posting of spawning neds and fishing outside such areas during the normal closed season affords sufficient protection to the fish during the spawning season and has any harmful effect on fishing in the lake. o FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN PRINCIPLE

Communities considering the illstarred “Green River” ordinance will do well to study the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Griffin, Georgia handbill case. The high court held unanimously that the right to distribute printed matter from house-to-house was an exercise of the “freedom of the press.” Chief Justice Hughes especially stressed the matter of distribution, holding that circulation was a necessary adjunct to publication. The Green River ordinance brands any call by an uninvited salesman a nuisance. Soliciting subscriptions, and other forms of direct-selling are therefore banned in cities and towns having this ordinance. Now comes the highest judicial tribunal in the land to declare it is the inalienable right of men and women to go from home to home with printed matter. And there is no qualification as to what this printed material shall be so long as it is not obscene or offensive to public morals. The inV plication is plain. While not directed at the “Green River” measure, it draws the teeth of that law when it maintains that persons with printed matter to distribute cannot be forbidden the premises. The Supreme Court of Florida declared the “Green River” ordinance uncostitutional. Similar action has been taken by the high courts of Maryland and South Caorlina. o - LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Form No. 109. Notice is hereby given that the Local Alcoholic Beverage Board of Delaware County, Indiana, will, at 9:00 A. M. on the 6th day of June, 1938, at the Clerk’s Office, Court House, in the City (or town) of Muncie, in said County, begin investigation of the application of the following named person, requesting the issue to the applicant at the location hereinafter set out. of the Alcoholic Beverage Permit of the class hereinafter designated and will, at said time and place, receive information concerning the fitness of said applicant, and the propriety of issuing the Permit applied for to such applicant at the premises named: Arthur Reser, 37282, (Moonlight Gardens), 1401 Macedonia Ave., Muncie—Beer, Wine Retailer. Said investigation will be open to the public, and public participation is requested. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION OF INDIANA. By: JOHN F. NOONAN Secretary HUGH A. BARNHART Excise Administrator. May 20 & 27 -o— NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Sealed proposals will be received until 9:00 a. m. on the last day of June, 1938. by the Board of Public Works and Safety, of the City of Muncie, at its office in the City Hall, in said City, for the following materials to be delivered in the City of Muncie, after the acceptance of bid by the Board of Public Work® and Safety, to*wit: Concrete sewer pipe for proposed Ruck Creek Ijjterceptor,

, New'Auto Sleeper • >

Numbered among the most interesting automobile vacation features of the year is the sleeping car arrangement which is being displayed by Nash dealers throughout the country. The photo above shows how the full-length double bed extends from the rear passenger section of the car into the trunk compartment. At the left, access to the bed is gained through the rear doors, windows of which can be fitted with specially designed insect screens. The automobile bed this year has been improved to such a point that it can be made up in less than ten minutes, say dealers.'

sizes aod specifications for same to be. in accordance with the plans and specifications for said sewer on file at the office of the City Engineer, and amounts to be one thousand (1,000) feet, more or less, all concrete pipe shall be delivered at location along the line of the proposed sewer as directed. by the City Engineer. All bids shall be on forms furnished by the Board, said bids to be accompanied by a certified check for tw r o per cent (2%) of the total bid together with an affidavit of non collusion as required by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. L. L. BRACKEN HUBERT L. PARKINSON ARTHFR K. MEEKER Board of^Public Works and Safety. Attest: Celia Null, Clerk of the Board. May 20 & 27 NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS & PERSONS WHOSE RESIDENCES ARE UNKNOWN

State of Indiana, County of Delaware SS: In the Delaware Circuit Court, April Term, 1938. No. 12339. Roland C. Streeter, Margaret Edna Stieeter and Sylvia M. Norton, Plaintiffs vs. Christopher R. S. Howell, Abigail White, Asa White, Nathanial Fuller Howell, the children, descendants and heirs, the unknown husband and wife of each of the persons last above named who may be living, the widow or widower, as the case may be, the creditors, administrators of the estates, devisees, trustees and executors of the last Will and Testament of any of the above named defendants who are dead, and all of the wminen once known by any of the names above stated who may have changed their names and who are now known by some other name, the names of all of whom are unknown to plaintiffs, and all persons, corporations w r ho assert or might assert any title, claim or interest in or lien upon the real estate described herein, the names of all of whom are unknown to the plaintiffs. Notice is hereby given the said defendants above named and all persons claiming under or through them and all persons whomsoever that the plaintiffs have filed their complaint herein to quiet their title in and to the following described real estate in Delaware County, state of Indiana, to-wit: All that part of the southwest quarter of section 3. township 20 north of range 10 east that lies north of Hackleys Reserve, containing 129.72 acres, and described as follows: ^ !.• Beginning at a point where the center line of Streeter Avenue intersects the east line of the right-of-v'ay of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, and running thence east along and with said center line of Streeter Avenue, 905.7 feet; thence south' parallel to the west line of said quarter section 400.5 feet: thence running west parallel to said center line of said a^fcnue 701.5 feet to the east right-of-way line of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company; and running northwesterly along and with the east line of said right-of-way of said Railway Company 449.75 feet to the place of beginning, containing 7.386 acres, more or less. 2. Beginning at a point in the center line of Streeter Avenue, 905.7-feet-east of .the point of in-

tersection of the east right-of-way line of said Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company with the said center line of said Avenue, and running thence south parallel to the west line of said quarter section 400.5 feet; thence east parallel to the center line of said avenue 233.57 feet; thence north parallel to the west line of said quarter section 400.5 feet to the said center line of said Avenue; thence west with the said center line of said Avenue to the place of beginning, containing 2.148 acres. 3. Beginning at a point 400.5 feet directly south of a point in •the said center line of said Avenue, that is 905.7 feet east of the intersection of said center line of said Avenue and the east line of the right-of-way of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company; thence west parallel to said center line of said Avenue, 681.96 feet to the east right-of-way line of said Railway Company; thence in a southeasterly direction on the said east line of said Right-of-way line of said Railway Company 441.46 feet; thence east parallel to said center line of said Avenue 481.08 feet; thence north on a line parallel with the west line of said quarter section 393.11 feet to the place of beginning, containing 5.248' acres,' more or less. 4. Beginning at a point 400.5 feet south of the center line of Streeter Avenue, and 681.96 feet east of the east right-of-way line of Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, thence east parallel with the center line of said Avenue, 984.9 feet to the west line of the right-of-way of the Indiana Railway Company, formerly known as the Union Traction Company of Indiana; thence in a southwesterly direction on and with said west right-of-way line 456.20 feet; thence west on a line parallel to the said center line of said Avenue, 753.42 feet; thence north on a line parallel to the west line of said quarter section, 393.11 feet to the place of beginning, containing 7.844 acres, against the claims of any and all of said defendants and all persons claiming through them, together with an affidavit that said defendants above named are not residents of the State of Indiana, and that their true names and places of residences are unknown to the plaintiffs and cannot be learned on diligent inquiry, and that unless they be and appear in the Delaware Circuit Court of said County and State on Friday, the 1st day of July, 1938, the 77th day of the ,present Term of said Court, which was begun on the 4th day of April, 1938, at the Court House in the City of Muncie in said County and State, that said cause will be heard and determined in their absence. Witness the Clerk and the Seal of Court affixed at the city of Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, this the 29th day of April, 1938. ARTHUR J. BECKNER, Clerk. Elmer E. Botkin, Attorney for Plaintiffs. May 6, 13 and 20 NOTICE TO NON-KESIDENTS

State of Indiana. Delaware County, SS: Bynum P. Smith, Administrator of Estate of Riley M. Garrard. Deceased vs. Emily Jane Harris, Letitia Anne Garrard, Marie Garrard—Et al. In the Delaware Circuit C ourt,

April Term, 1938. Complaint: Petition to Sell Real Estate. No. 12338. Notice is hereby given the said defendants, Letitia Anne Garrard and Marie Garrard that the plaintiff has filed a petition herein to sell Real Estate together with an affidavit that the said defendants are not residents of the State of Indiana, and that unless they be and appear on Friday, the 1st day of July, 1938, the 77th day the April term of said Court, to be holden on the First Monday in April, A. D., 1938, at the Court House in the City of Muncie, in said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined in their\absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie, Ind., this 29th day of April, A. D„ 1938. ARTHUR J. BECKNER, Clerk. Ward Marshall, Plaintiff’s Attorney. May 6, 13 and 20 NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS AND SPECIAL MEETING OF DELAWARE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Notice is hereby given the taxpayers of Delaware County, Indi-' ana, and to the members of the Delaware County Council that the proper legal officers of safd municipality at their regular meeting place, on the 24th day of May, 1938, at the hour of 10 o’clock A. M. will consider the following additional appropriations which said officers consider necessary to meet the extroardinary emergency existing at this time; also to consider and act on the request of the County Highway Superintendent of said County for additional appropriations, the amount of said additional appropriations being as

follows:

County Highway 700—Emergency (Fred Ken-

nedy case) 2100.00

County Surveyor

420—New Ditches 5000.00

Taxpayers appearing at such meeting shall hcve a right to be heard thereon. The additional appropriations as finally made will be automatically referred to the State Board of Tax Commissioners which Board - will hold a further hearing within 15 days at the County Auditor’s Office of Delaware County, Indiana, or at such other place as may be designated. At such hearing, taxpayers objecting to any of such additional appropriations may be heard and interested taxpayers may inquire of the County Auditor when and where such hearing will be held. GUS AUGUST MEYERS, Auditor Delaware County, Indiana. May 13 & 20 o

NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that Mark D. Miltenbevger, receiver under appointment of the Delaware Superior Court of Delaware County, Indiana, in cause number 1714-S now pending in said court ,has filed his final report as such receiver and that said report and all matters pertaining thereto will be heard and determined in said court on June 16, 1938, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon. Within thirty days from the date of the filing of such report, any creditor, shareholder or other interested party may file objections or exceptions in writing to such report and any objections or exceptions not filed within said period of thirty days shall be for all purposes forever barred. Dated at Muncie, Indiana this day of May, 1938. ARTHUR J. BECKNER. Clerk of Delaware Superior Court. (SEAL) Mark D. Miltenberger, Receiver. Bracken, Gray & DeFur, Attorneys for the Receiver.

NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that Clyde A. Retherford, receiver under appointment of the Delaware Superior Court of Delaware County, Indiana, in cause number 1810-S now pending in said court, has filed his final report as such receiver and that said report and all matters pertaining thereto will be heard and determined by said court on June 18, 1938, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon. Within thirty days from the date of the filing of. such report, any creditor, shareholder or other interested party may file objections or exceptions in writing to such report and any objections or exceptions not filed within said period of thirty days shall be foi all purposes forever barred. Dated at Muncie, Indiana, this 11th day of May, 1938. ARTHUR J. BECKNER, Clerk of Delaware Superior Court. (SEAL) Clyde A. Retherford. Receiver. Bracken, Gray & DeFur, Attorneys for the Receiver. o NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that Mark D. Miltenberger, receiver under appointment of the Delaware Superior Court of Delavrare County, Indiana, in cause number 9915 now pending in said court, has filed his final report as such receiver and that said report and all matters pertaining thereto will be heard and determined by said court on June 17, 1938, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon. Within thirty days from the date of the filing of such report, any creditor, shareholder or other interested party may file objections or exceptions in writing to such report and any objections j or exceptions not filed within said

period of thirty days shall be for all purposes forever barred. Dated at Muncie, Indiana this day of May, 1938. ARTHUR J. BECKNER, Clerk of Delaware Superior Court. (SEAL) Mark D. Miltenberger, Receiver. Bracken, Gray & DeFur, Attorneys for the Receiver. ■ o NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Mark D. Miltenberger, receiver under appointment of the Delaware Superior Court of Delaware County, Indiana, in cause number 9801 now pending in said court, has filpd his final report as such receiver and that said report and all matters pertaining thereto will be heard and determined by said court on June 17, 1938, or as soon thereafter as counsel can he heard thereon. Within thirty days from the date of the filing of such report, any creditor, shareholder or other interested party may file objections or exceptions in writing to such report and any oTojections or exceptions not filed within said period of thirty days shall be for all purposes forever barred. Dated at Muncie, Indiana, this 11th day of May, 1938. ARTHUR J. BECKNER, Clerk of Delaware Superior Court. (SEAL) Mark D. Miltenberger, Receiver, Bracken, Gray & DeFur, Attorneys for the Receiver. — o NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Clyde A. Retherford, receiver un-

der appointment of the Delaware Superior Court of Delaware County, Indiana, in cause number 2078-S now pending in said court, has filed his final report as such receiver and that said report and all matters pertaining thereto will be heard and determined by said court on June 15, 1938, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon. Within thirty days from the date of the filing of such report, any creditor, shareholder or other interested party may file objections or exceptions in writing to such report and any objections or exceptions not filed within said period of thirty days shall be for all purposes forever barred. Dated at Muncie, Indiana, this day of May, 1938. ARTHUR J. BECKNER, Clerk of Delaware Superior Court. (SEAL) Clyde A. Retherford, Receiver. Bracken, Gray & DeFur, Attorneys for the Receiver.

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