Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 293, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1926 — Page 3

II IT S OffiCe ShOWS || Deficit For Year, Says i | New In Annual Report ■ By Joseph S. Wasney, K (V. I’. Staff Correspondent) K Xew York. Dec. 13. (United Press) 9 9 ( — postmaster General New r<9 t e J to President Coolidge today 9 Tat while his department closed the ■ last fiscal year with a deficit of $37,9 JOO 000. the post office hoped by good ■ administration and economy to but--9 jnce revenues and expenditures in tie--9 osar future. ■ jn his anual report, New pointed 9 at that the revenues of the postal 9 Trvlce totaled $659,819,801.08 for th--9 vear ended June 30, 1926, with expen-1 9 L amounting to $679,704,053.25. This 9 made a cash deficit of $19,972,379.42 9 but unpaid obligations carried over 9 from the previous year increased the 9 operating deficit more than $18,090,9 000. ■ ..paring the fiscal year there was 9 paid out approximately $65,000,000 on H account of increases in salaries." 9 New said. "If this had not become 9 necessary the cash deficit would have 9 been eliminated and there would have 9- been a surplus." ■ General New pointed out the chief ■ accomplishments of the postal service 9 during 'he last government year as ■ follows: ■ j— The Trans-continental air mail 9 service flew 2,256,137 miles, carried 9 mail weighing 353,6|4 pounds and 9 collected revenues of $861,864. ■ »_Established 129 new rural mail 9 routes making the total 45.318 routes. 9 supplying more than 30,000,000 in- ■ dividual*. ■ 3_ placed in operation nine new 9 commercial air mail routes, connect--9 ing 33 important cities. ■ 4—Mails were carried over 229,250 ■ ' miles of railroads at a cost of $106.9 656,000. ■ s—Postal savings deposits during 9 the year mounted to $138,033,326. ■ 6.—Fraud orders were isued against 9 296 concerns which used the mails 9 w defraud the public. B General New made 21 recommenda 9 tions for legislation to improve the 9 postal service. He urged that con--9 gress pass a law forbidding the send--9 >ng ot fire-arms through the mails I and to provide heavier penalties for mail bandits. Other laws asked included redue- [ tion of from two ty one cent postage for private and picture post-cards, authorization for payment of a differ ential, for night work, and authority to issue receipts to senders of ordin- ! ary mail of any character upon payI ment of a fee. o Canada Has Almost As Many Telephones As U. S. Montreal, P. Q„—(United Press.) — Canada is catching up to the United States in the per capita ownership of telephones. The dominion has an average of one phone to every 5.4 ■ people, while America has 1 to every ■ 7.3. according to P A McFariane, H president of the Telephone Associaa tion of Canada, in an address here beB fore the association's annual convenB bun. , ■ o I Soft Feminine Curves I Are Coming Back Again _______ • By Hedda Hoyt (United Press Fashion Editor) Washington, D. C. Dec. 13. —(United —Soft feminine curves are coming back again! Boyish figures and bedslat lines are gradually passing into the discard. We notice the trend toward the feminine figure when viewing the new musical shows on Broadway for there it is that ‘what’s what in feminine figure begins. No longer are the chorines flat-chested and slabsided. EEL-like silhouettes have been replaced by silhouettes have been replaced by shilhouettes with decided curves. Curves here, there and everywhere, it. would appear. Statuesque girls of Other seasons who weighed in at 115 pounds are looking for jobs. The new chorine boasts of a 34 to 36 inch bust-meas-ure and she has a waistline which can easily be distinguished from her hip-measure. We are not going back to the wise old days ot the Beef Trust chorine but 140 pounders have their hats thrown in the ring. Among the black and white effects seen this week is a sleeveless dinner Bown of white velvet with rounded beckline and Ijip-length bodice. A deep border of black silk fringe extends from low waistline to the hem and a wide crushed sash of white velvet drapes about the hips and ties at the centerfront of the waistline in a large soft bow with streamer ends. The choker necklace which has proved unbecoming to most women, is being discarded in favor of 16-inch length necklaces. No longer need the bride wear the conventional all-white wedding gear. Recent brides have appeared in blondbned wedding veils which are far ®ore flattering than the white veil. Rs astonishing how well the blond

i™" lonkß "Rhthe I One see. a good many gold or silver ' wwf at ° r bereU - dra ’»‘» tams 1 worn at the dinner hour in hXs h an' S i th “ n " ’ uUl “ no . . lffiportant »'« p n for afternoon and evening occasions of seml . I type - *ben metallic turba comes as the consequential accessory Certainly 110 type of evening gown s more suitable to the slender Miss than the naive period gown with it's fitted bodice of normal waistline and . t«i full flowing skirt. Usually the ( bodice is untrimmed save for the outlining of the rounded neckline while the skirt may have % border of con-| . trusting material set on in petal | effect with the petals extending up- . wards on the skirt, or, a hemline of , transparent metallic lace, or, floral or" . lace medallions used throughout the full skirt. - Ohio Man Break’s Own W orld’s Corn Record 1 I Dola. O, Dec. 13.—8 y raising 1,686 ■ 8 bushels of corn on a measured ten i acres ol land—nearly 169 bushels per ' acre Ira Marshall of this place produced a new world's record yield of ’ this crop, bettering by nearly nine ■ bushels his own former record yield of i 160.1 bushels made in 1925. This makes the second consecutive year that MarI shall has gone over the 160-bushel I mark thus establishing a corn-produc-I tion record which, it is believed, may never again be equalled. The methods and practice etnpoly- , ed by Marshall in raising world record • yields are such as might be followed on any farm, he claims. He uses only ■ hand picked and shelf-dried seed corn ■ ot the variety best adapted to his land and climatic conditions, plows • his land as early as possible In the spring and then cultipacks it, follows a good rotation of crops, and uses com- ; mercial fertilizer liberally. Much of the land on his farm is muck soil, high in . nitrogen and organic matter and weU i supplied with moisture. Nevertheless, he finds that it is still profitable to ap- • ply manure, plow under legume sods, ■ and fertilize well. His 160-bushel crop • of 1925 was given a 200-pound broad- ■ cast application of fertilizer before i planting; the 168-bushel crop ot this ■ year received the same brotffleast treatment with an extra side-dressing ■ of fertilizer when the corn was three ■ inches high. Acquitted Os Murder Committed By “Witch” St. Poelten. Austral (United Press) —A court has acquitted Johann Lanegger of the murder of his employer. Marie Muehlberger, upholding his con- ' tention that a “witch" might have committed the chime. On the night of the murder, Uneg- ' ger his body a bruised and bloody mass, staggered into the home of a neighbor and screamed hysterically that a “witch" had beaten him and murdered his mistress. ' The police however, gathered sufficient evidence to prove that Lanegger knew more about the crime than he cared to tell and they arrested him. At the trial Lanegger admitted that he had an altercation with Frau Muehlberger and that several of his wounds had been inflicted by the murdered woman and not the “witch." He stuck to his story, however, that the "hobgoblin" had entered the house during ■ the quarrel and knocked him uncon- ; scious. When he awoke, he said his mistress was dead. , The court acquitted him. because, the judge explained, the evidence indicated that “something or someone” had entered the house unobserved by either of the two combatants and committed the crime. o ■ —’ Minnesota Barbers Must Have Education St. Paul, Minn.. Dec. 13. —(United Press)—Barbers of Minnesota may soon be forced to become combination of Doctor, Masseur, Artist, Phrenologist, Chemist, Bacteriologist and Dyer upon a bill presented by the state Barber examining board. The provisions of the new barber lisence law were revealed in connection with the tabulation of the educational status of the 99 men who took the examination of the board tor Beenses as barbers. It is the first time tne board had applicants give their general educational qualifications. __—. -oCONGRESS TODAY , Senate Debates Muscle Shoals. ' Republican committee on committees meets. ,i Johnson sub-committee begins in--1 QU i r y into United States l.nes sale , Gould investigating committee meets House Considers interior department approPr Aiders interior department appro- ' . "'Appropriations committee considers Army appropriation bill.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, DECEMBER 13,1926.

Napoleon Aids Housing: Problem In England London (United Press) — When! Nupoleon once contemplated a highly militaristic visit to England, be little realized that his hope of an invasion would help relieve the housing situation In England. The War Office has annopneed that one of the ancient coastal defense fortifications, consisting of a small house with wall( six feet thick and with gun emplacements on the top, is for sale. Several similar fortifications dot the coast of southeastern England. I At present their only occupants are knights of the road, who frequently repose in them. Use Os Bicycles Is Increasing In Canada Ottawa (United Press)—The vogue of flivvers has failed to oust bicycles from popularity in Canada. Output | from bicycle factories has doubled ' since 1921, in spite of marked increases In the automobile and motorcycle industries according to figures compiled by the ominion bureau of . statistics. "That the bicycle is far from a back number is shown by the tact that production in the industry amounted in value to $1,445,901 last year compared with $708,805 in 1921,” says a bulletin issued by the bureau. “Output for . 1926 is expected to show further gains. o 12,000 Buffalos In Canadian Herd Edmonton, Atla,, (United Press) —I Buffalo in the govermnemt herd at Wainwright Park Alta, have increased i from 709 to 12,000 head since-1907, according to a report issued by J. B. Markin, commissioner ot Canadian national parks. I "Nineten years ago bison were practically extinct in North America,” says , Mr. Harkin's report. Os the countless! millions that roamejj the plains in pioneer days, only a few hundred remained. These were in the hands of Michael Pablo, half breed Indian of Montana, who sold his herd to the I Canadian government when the Buffalo preserve at Wainwright was estab- ’ l lished in 1907. "Future of the buffalo is now as- ’ sured. The herd is increasing at the I

Vision The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is "visionary,” not impractically, but in the sense that individually and as a unit it works with vision. r , Work without vision is plodding. Employes of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) work with a will because they work with vision. They realize that their efforts are a small but important part of a great unit. The man who drills an oil well has a vision that goes beyond the drilling of wells. Me knows that he is helping to i supply the people of the Middle West with the petroleum products they need—the best that can be produced. His work is important because it is part of a great service. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) as a unit works with vision. It is not concerned with making so much gasoline to bring in so much money. It works with the vision of serving the people of the Middle West, confident that service is rewarded in proportion to its just deserts. The production of special gasoline and lubricating oil i for aeroplane use is one of the latest evidences of the vision of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana). When the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) foresaw the growth of commercial aviation, it visioned the remote corners of our great country brought close together by the aeroplane. The success of the Air Mail demonstrated how swiftly and surely the aeroplane might serve as a commercial carrier, annihilating distance. I The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) has demonstrated clearly that the use of air mail is true economy. Progressive firms concur in this finding. Today air mail is a recognized business asset. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) realized that the producing and consuming territories of this country will be linked together in time by commercial aviation. For business purposes America will some day be a large, unified whole. The work of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) to cooperate in bringing about this vision was plain. Aeroplanes require special gasoline and lubricating oil. Immediately the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) set to work to meet this new need with all the skill and resources at its command. ' | The development of gasoline and lubricating oil perfectly adapted for aviation uses is the contribution of the Standard Oil Company to America’s air service. This is one example of how the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) works with the vision of serving the thirty million people of the Middle West. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is "visionary,” but this is consistent with its practical business principles, for success is the inevitable reward of service that is sincere. Standard Oil Company (Indiana) General Office : Standard Oil Building 910 S. Michigan Avenue, ■ Chicago • * I*

I rate of i.fioo head a year. Shortage of I pasture near the park due to the rapid I development of farming, has made it | necessary to ship 4,000 young bison north to the wild buffalo preserve on Slave river in the last two years. Wainwright park can normally support 8,000 of these animals. “From time to time a number of bison are slaughtered and commercial utilization made of the meat and hides. Flesh of a young well nourished buffalo is considered by gourmets better flavored than beef. Buffalo hide makes evcellent leather for shoes, golf baks. and articles requiring strength and flexibility." o Goshen—Henry C. Bartel of this city has been awarded a Carnegie Medal for savilg the life of Margaret Hutchinson when she fell in a canal here. Bartell leaped in and rescued the girl despite the fact he had not been in the water for years. Greensburg—Police here are planning a real celebration for New Years. The S4O dollar raise in salary voted the members of the force by the city will go into effect then.

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National Park Director Issues Annual Report i Washington, D. C. Dec. r: -(United i Press.)—The advent of the flivver is reflected In the National Purk directi or's annua) report to the Secretary of Interior, filed today. More than 3,314,000 persons motor . ed through the vast playgrounds set aside as National Parks In 1925. This is a gain of 260,000 over 1925. Within the ten years since the flivi ver became an intimate part of American life, visitors to National Parks I have increased by 182,600 annually. Three new parks were created during the past year, the report reveals. . They are the Shenandoah in Virginia, I — !

I = 11 ■■ ■. Si A Gift of Stationery. Always welcome as a Christmas gift. An unusually fine assortment of Gift Stationery awaits your choosing here. Don't delay—come in today. There’s nothing finer for Christmas. 25c $5.00 The Holthouse Drug Co. UT "x 9 IF/ 01(1 > I A \Adams i /Ttv Savings cr —Account Saves -F—/ fik Twelve Months of " orry i Pleasure of Buying With | Freedom at Christmas lime | Your savings accumulated by the savings 9 account at this bank come in most handy at this 9 Christmas season. It enables you to buy with o freedom and relieves you of a lot of unneces- g| sary worry. S| Plan Now For Next Year | We have several plans whereby you can deposit as much as you like each week or each month and at the end of the year you will have a neat sum. Your savings draw interest while in this bank which all helps to build up the accounts. Let us explain this savings account to you and at the same time increase your savings at the end of the year. r; / Parties having Time Clocks should bring them in and have their savings deposited to their accounts. Old Adams County Bank | *

Grot Stnoky Monntnifi In TennoHßec i und North Carolina and Mammoth L Cuv<> in Kentucky. I Congress, also, has authorized exi pendltnre of $7,500,000 for Improve- ■ ment of roads and trains throughout tlie uatlonal park system. Leaves $6000,000 To liis Illegitimate Son Koine (United Press)—Gaetano lira. cale, a waiter in a hospital here, has ■ Inherited six million dollars from his i father Nullo Hiaeale who twenty years ago emigrated to America, aban- • donlng his common law wlt<» and three . illegitimate children. , Although Gaetano does not well re-

member hl.s father who disappeared when he wax a boy, he neevrtbeless (hows striking afftetlou for the man who left his the 150 million lire. He said that he, always' knew that his father l ived him, and he bad rim off for the sole reason of making money for his beloved son. Get the Habit—Trade at Home, it Pays —— -

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