Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 111, Decatur, Adams County, 10 May 1926 — Page 6

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Preparations Completed For The Annual 500Mile Speedway Race i Indianapolis, Ind., May ID-Wlth tho robins already laying eggs, the grass cut, the fem es whitewashed, the grandstands painted und six of tlio automobiles entered already quartered in speedway's gasoline alley, prep-| orations for the Fourteenth International 500-mile race to be held ut the Indianapolis M< tor Speedway, Monday, May 31, have entered the final lap. Two Junior Eights, entered by Cliff Durant, multi millionaire sportsman who already has spent approximately 31,000.000 in a valiant but vain attempt to see his colors ride across the finish wire a winner in an Indianapolis race, are already being worked oat by liar.an Fengler, bey speed wonder who is coming from a two years retirement resulting from an accident while preparing for the Indianapolis 1924 race. It was Durant who opened money coffers to Fongler. a born mechanical genius, who designed and built the cars. Fongler will exercise Durant's tiny creations untill Cliff arrives, fresh from a long training period in the salt air of southern seas. Then they will flip for mounts and go into the rate with a determined plan to win. Durant, with his millions, has been able to purchase every want and to gratify every eccentric whira-except victory at Indianapolis, and those who know him best maintain that is the one honor he wants more than anything else in the world. A daring driver, who does more physical training for the event than any other pilot, Durant led one race in the winning laps at Indianapolis, only to encounter mechanical trouble. The best his entries have ever finished is second. Phil “Red" Schafer, the Texas cowboy who gave up bucking horses for speedy race cars, also is here manning the Miller Special Peter Do Pa- ( 010, last year’s Indianapolis race win- , ner and 1925 Three A Champion, has entered. ' Schafer was the first one on the ( track with the new mount and ho reports the track as favorable as'if was last year when he romped home in third place. Jean Marcenac. French mechanic who came hero with the Ballot team several years ago and has remained in American racing camps ever since, is 'n charge of the two cars Harry Haitz has sent here to compose his j team They are Millers and will be in tip-top shape for the arrival of the , new world s record holder for 300-mi-les. when he gets here May 15. , The natty Dcnioerut —Your Home I’iipe.yours .*v IB be shapely/ “T DO NOT want to be thin! I just I want to be my right weight! I want these hollows filled out. I just want enough firm, plump flesh on my bones to fill out my figure.” Os course you do. You want a figure that you can drape your clothes on—not just hang them on! What's the use of having pretty clothes, if they just hang on you? And what would you say if you were told you could have the figure you want? A graceful, well rounded body—firm, solid flesh—just enough—just your right weight? You’d he mighty happy, wouldn't you? Well, then, be happy—because you can have it! Put plenty of red cells in your blood and watch your weight go up to where you want it! That’s what's the matter with you! Your blood is impoverished. Yon need more rich, red blood. S. S. S. is the thing to put red blood in your system. S. S. S. helps Nature build red blood cells by the millions. Ton just try S. S. S. and watch how quickly you begin to fill out your clothes. Notice f ' your skin clear of un-[ ) sightly blemishes —your\JZ> / appetite increase— \ strength come to flabby X. / muscles and vim and vigor fill your whole system. It’s red blood that does it. And S. S. S. surely helps Nature build that red blood. S. S. S. is sold by ail drug stores. The larger bottle is more economical.

+ BASE BALL STANDINGS + NATIONAL LEAGUE W. 1,. Pct. Brooklyn 15 7 .682 Cincinnati , 14 ft 609 Chicago 13 8 .619 New York .11 11 .500 Pittsburgh 12 13 .520 Ist. Louis 10 15 .400 I Philadelphia 10 13 .435 Boston 8 15 .348 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. I'd. Washington it; 10 .615 New York 14 9 .609 Cleveland 14 9 .609 Chicago 15 bi .100 Philadelphia 12 12 .500 Detroit 11 12 .478 Boston 7 16 .304 St. Louis 7 18 .280 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION - W. L. Pct. Louisville . 15 9 .625 Kansas City 13 10 .565 St. Paul 13 10 565 Toledo 12 10 .545 Minneapolis 12 13 .520 Indianapolis .... 11 12 .478 Milwaukee 12 13 .4SO Columbus 5 19 .208 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS American League Chicago, 5; Washington, 6. Detroit. 14; New York. 10. No others scheduled. National League Chicago. 8: New York. 7. Brooklyn. 3; St. Louis. 1. Philadelphia, 4; Cincinnati, 1. No others scheduled. American Association Indianapolis, 2; Minneapolis, 2 (5 innings, raint. St. Paul. 4-11; Louisville. 2-3. Toledo, 15; Milwaukee, 5. Kansas City, 11; Columbus, 6. O YESTERDAY’S HOME RUNS Bottomley, Cards, I—s. Cobl), Tigers, 2—4. Heathcote. Cubs, I—2.1 —2. 0 ♦ ++ +< ++ ++ + + + + + 4- + ♦ WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD + +++ +++++ + + + + + * + + Yesterday’s Hero — Hack Wilson, Cub centerfielder, who despite a crippled tight leg which greatly handicapped his running, went in as a pinch hitter in the ninth and doubled to start a rally which gave the Cubs an 8 to 7 victory over the Giants. Bob McGraw of the Robins pitched his fourth victory in as many starts and he let down the Cardinals with five hits in a 3 to 1 encounter. Fifty-two thousand fans watched Ty Cobb knock out two homers in a wild, fiee hitting game in which the Tigers beat the Yankees. 14 to 10. Philadelphia took, the last game of the series from Cincinnati, 4 to 1, witli Dean pitching shut out ball for seven innings. Shortstop Myer's stop and throw in the ninth inning saved a 6 to 5 victory for the Senators over tbe White Sox. 0 ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 4- SPORT TABS + » + + + *4.* + + + + **** TAMPA. Fla. —Washington will see another world's series if Johnson, Bush, Coveleskie and Ruether are able to last through the season, in the opinion of John McGraw, manager of the New York Giants. McGrawsaid the team has enough class and dash to repeat if the pitching did not fail. | MONTGOMERY, Ala—lnfield troubles that have been a heavy burden on Wilbert Robinson, president-man-ager of the Brooklyn Robins were relieved when Milton Stock, veteran third baseman, reported after a holdout seige. Johnny Butler, high priced rootye is expected back from a Baltimore hospital in two weeks. Matlock. Eng.—The man who went on the first ‘‘cook's tour” around the. world is dead. He was Alfred Cl'»y. whose will has just Hen probate! a--3700,000. He bought the first rour.l the-world t'cket iss ■nd by the gr.,,tourist agency. 1 Indianapolis — “I refuse to guess any man into the penitentiary.” said Judge Collins, in dismissing the case against three youths accused of breaking into a house. “There has been tCD much gneiss work testimony in thl,s case." Anderson — Authorities are concerned over the water situation in North Anderson, where the taking of 1.000,000 gallons a day from a deep well has caused private sources to go Evansville — A dish pan of water into which Joe Peters poured a pint of white mule when officers raided his I home, was brought into court against him. The judge is-niffed the pan. failed to detect an odor and dismissed the , case, I

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[HOW ENDLESS CHAIN SELLINC i PLANS ARE USED TO ROB SAVERS W. R. Morehouse Continues His Exposures of Modern “Gold Brick” Schemes —American Bankers Association Official Tells How Life-Time Savings Are Wiped Out. By W. R. MOREHOUSE, Public Relations Commission, American Bankers AasoclatlotL ARTICLE NO. Il I FIRMLY believe that promoters and high-pressure salesmen are becoming more and more crafty. Shrewder ways are being resorted to in order to trap the novice investor. It is _ deplorable that the investor does not profit by experience and is victimized a second time in his r endeavor to recover that which he has already lost. It is the old, old story of trying to recover, s but in the attempt losing. This very hour thoui wMwipr : sands of hard-earned dollars have slipped from & ! the grasp of the calloused hands that earned S 9 ' them into the clutches of unscrupulous skin-game Pf. * jwea artists. Tomorrow the scenes of today will be A -dßlpa re-enacted with a new and larger list of victims. A month from today depositors will still be pouring an ever increasing volume of their savings w. r. MorchouM ,nto the hopper of unwise investments. A year from today the same tragedy will be re-enacted unless our savings bankers come to the rescue and help to stop this nefarious business of defrauding and swindling our savers of the fruits of their labors. Here is a typical case. A group of* ■

men undertook to promote a vending or seif-serving machine. Their plan called for the sale of 337,000,000 worth of leases in the United States. Similar projects previously started throughout the United States had failed. As a matter of fact, the average daily sale of one of these self-service machines was only 33-10, which in itself made It Impossible for a machine to produce sufficient revenue to make it profitable. Servicing the machines was another obstacle which had not been successfully overcome. In three months the promoters were successful In selling over 32,500,000 worth of rights to use these machines. •40,000 in Savings Lost by One Man I know of one man who withdrew 340,000 from a savings bank and invested it in this promotion. He told, me it represented the accumulations of a lifetime. "And now I have lost It all,” he said in a trembling voice. “I haven't a cent left and I am past sixty years of age—too old to work!" he added. Os the more than 32.500.000 Invested by savers, over 31,000,000 was taken by these wiley promoters as commission. Think of making a commission of over 31,000,000 on 32,500,000 of sales in about three months’ time! Think of what this more than 31,000,000 of commission represents,—think of the struggles and the sacrifices of the men and women who saved It! With some it was saved penny by penny over a period of years. Think of the sorrow it caused, —the heartaches, the misery and the disappointment which followed in the wake of the collapse of this promotion. Think of the old man who lost 340,000 —all he had been able to save during his lifetime. Think of the widow’s mite, for she lost it also. All that is left today of the original investment is less than 10 cents on every dollar. Here Is an endless chain scheme which relieved working girls of a portion of their savings. The loss ran into many thousands of dollars. The scheme is to sell silk hose to girls by getting, them to act as selling agents.

BURD FLIGHT TO f POLE COMPLETE!! — I I Plane Flies Over Top of I The World and Returns j In 15 Hours ' Oslo, Norway, May 10—(United.' Press)—Lieutenant Commander Rich- 1 ard N. Byrd, U. S. N., and his pilot.' Floyd Bennett, were hailed today as new conquerors of the north pole. The atrmen returned to King’s Bay,. Spitzbergen yesterday afternoon and reported that they had flown over the north pole in the Byrd expedition’s airplane, according to advices from King’s Bay. Byrd and Bennett took the air on their flight toward the pole at 1:55. a. tn., yesterday, returning at 5 p. m., after an absence of 15 hours. Commander Byrd declared that no land was visible at the pole, dispatches said. He discovered a large strip of water, such as Amundsen. saw. . The newspaper Tidenstegn de-; calred editorially today that there was no reason to doubt that Com-, tnander Byrd reached the neighborhood of the pole and praises his 1 speed; cleverness and luck with ' weather I o JOLIET PRISON PARDON PROBE OPENED TODAY | _(CONTI%» El> FHOM PAGE ONE) i William F. Queshe, president of the Chicago Flat Janitors’ Union and

A hosiery company rents offices in the shopping districL Soon an attractive offer is made through the local newspapers by cleverly worded advertisements in which it would appear that any young lady can secure five pairs of hose worth 32 a pair for only 3L In other words, 310 worth of silk stockings for only 31! Without stopping to analyze the proposition or to consider how impossible it is for any concern to stay in business and sell 310 worth of silk hose for 31, thousands of young women instantly fall for the scheme. How Endless Chain Catches Victims Here is how it catches its victims. Each victim pays 34 and receives three one dollar coupons which she must sell to her friends, and the friends must come in and pay down 34 each, get three coupons each which they must sell to three friends and then these friends must perpetuate the scheme by selling coupons to their friends and so on Indefinitely. Here is where the promoters make a clean-up. One of the conditions which must be met before the young woman who purchased the first coupons receives her 310 worth of hose for 31 is that all three to whom she sold her three coupons must come in, pay down J 4 each for three more coupons and then go out and sell them. Before the three have done this, one or perhaps all three get “cold feet” on the proposition and, rather than go out and “soak” three of their friends 31 each, they simply give up the jab and charge their loss to experience. But in doing so they also block the girl who purchased the first coupons from completing her contract, and of course she, too, loses the money she invested in the scheme. At a glance the loss appears to be small, but the truth is the scheme is capable of such great expansion that it soon takes in hundreds and thousands of victims. This is but one of many endless chain schemes In use today in the United States. (Article 111 will deal with land swindles and loan shark plans lor robbing people ot their savings.)

nine of his associates who were sentenced to prison for bombings. It was revealed in Chicago that many janitors were stockholders in the engineering corporation. It is just possible today that Nathan Leopold, youthful millionaire slayer of Bobby Franks, will appear as a witness before the grand jury. He was in the "solitary” at the time of the escape of seven convicts last week and charges have been made that he knew a great deal concerning the plans for the escape. o —■ SECOND COUNTY EXAM, MAY 15 < CONTINUED CHUM PAGE ONR» Wabash township. Geneva high school, in charge of J. F. Felty. Jefferson township, Jefferson high I school, in charge of J. M. Bollenbacher. o Terre Haute — The adventure of ‘six Terre Haute boys who started for Alaska was nipped in thd bud. They were pulled ingloriously from a freight train at Danville, 111., where officers were watching for them. Martinsville — A conference of Democratic workers of the second congressional district will be held, at the Colonial hotel here tomorrow. Peter Schloet, of Linton district chairman will preside at the conference. Michigan City.—Health authorities are combatting an epidemic of a mild form of flu. Nearly 500 cases of the disease have been reported to physicians. Hartford City — A postcard received by Mrs. George Rapp, Jr., here, and mailed in 1918 By Miss Anna Yeager from Norway was carried by Roald Amundsen in his polar flight, according to a statement printed on it.

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