Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 3 February 1927 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. H01th0u5e....... Sec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies * .02 One week, by carrier— .10' One year, by carrier 5.00 j One month, by jnail .35 Three months, by mail 100 Six months, by mall-—™. 1-75 Due year, by mail —3.00 •One year, at office 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scbeerer, Inc., 85 East Welker Drive. Chicago vno Fifth Avenue. New York. A Florida man uuder arrest for bigamy admits he has seven wives. And Easter approaches, what a nerve. Well, its settled again, you can keep on your red flannels until St. Patrick's day in the marniu’, it the groundhog knows his stuff. Isn't it funny that since Clyde Walb, republican state chairman, washed his hands ot the primary repeal law, it has been making some headway? Who remembers the time when almost every one you met boasted of how many Florida lots he owned? How times do change. Henry Ford has refused a billion dollars for his plant, according to testimony offered in the Couzen's tax appeal case.which conclusively shows that Hen is not as hard up as some folks thought he was. Th e absent voters law seems doomed. The house voted yesterday 75 to 19 to repeal it because of abuses. If they repeal every law that is abused . We won't have many to keep posted on. Numerous arrests are being made in various cities of Indiana, the victims being those who have failed to Aecure their 1927 license plates. V e just can't understand why any body would be so foolish as to attempt to drive with the old numbers for they should know the result will be a flue. ft ; L - — to - ~v , ■■■ eft’set '.'i Deea>ur ;R---water plant owned and operated by the city is earning a real profit, after paying for betterments, allowing depreciation and meeting all expenses. Ilsa fine thing to own municipal plants when they operate at a profit, as they do in Decatur. Uuder a bill which passed the house of representatives yesterday, an act is to be enacted which makes it’ mandatory for judges ,to sentence! drunken automobile drivers thirty to I sixty days in jail which seems little enough for those who thus endanger the lives of others. At that the bill had some opposition, nineteen votes being cast against it. I > We are more anxious that you can 4>O: sibly think, to dose our subscription campaign, conclude our contracts timi plan for the year. W e agree to furnish you all the news of the county and state, features and entertainment, tiarkets and court news, seriels and serious items, social events ami, sports, congress and legislature and all the matters of greatest interestfur three dollars by mail. Wish you would help us out by a renewal tills month. Some eight or ten bills have beAn introduced in the Indiana senate to control appointment of members to the public service commission and to regulate their actions. While it is doubtful that any ot them will pass and almost certain that the commission will not be abolished, there is not the least doubt but that the people of Indiana are awake to the fact that public utilities have had too much advantage under the present commission and that they will insist upon a change of the peraonel. One of the suggestions which seems most popular is that of Senator Nedjl for

1 the right ot appeal from the commission to circuit or superior courts. Utility men themselves are aware that some compromise which would adjust the matter and quiet the feelings ot the citizens would lie better than a continuation of the battle. It is very greatly to the Interest of every citizen in the county that we secure the improvement of state road number twenty ■ seven, north and 'south and the east and west road through the county and through this city. It means the saving of a lot of money in upkeep and it means the saving ot the other roads in the county. We urge your support of the efforts now being made in that direction. Lets keep Adams county the best in the middle west and one sure way to do that Is to see that we get first-class roads. The wider street movement so prevalent in the larger cities these days has struck Decatur, a petition having been filed to widen Third street between Monroe and Madison, five feet on each side. With the increasing automobile traffic comes neede for wider streets in the business sections and in many cities this is being done at a cost of millions of dollars. Its always an expensive and difficult job but often times is worth it. As to the problem here it is deserving cf careful consideration and study, by the councilmanic committee to which it has been referred by Mayor Krick. “I have a very dear friend, an associate in some law matters, who went to the Naval hospital a couple of weeks ago to have the doctors cut him open and sew him up again.'' saj s W. D. Jamieson in The Window Seat. "He's coming on fine. I go down to fee him occasionally. On each trip 1 see a heart-breaking sight—a young soldier boy suffering from one of the prohibited diseases of vice; a sore broke out on his leg, he got some of the poison on his fingers and then into one eye, it infected the other and destroyed both; the bus' is fearfully crippled, and because of his mistake is dishonorably discharged from the army. There he is. blind, on crutches, an army outcast, and when the hospital patches him up a little he will be thrown out helpless on a world that is sometimes pretty cruel to such a boy. I hope every boy and girl who reads this will avoid such an experience, and will realize again that — boy out any. God pity him! Aye, that's the idea; that’s the fine thing about God: He does pity him, no matter how far down he may tumble into the gutter. Two will stand by , that boy, no matter what happens to him—God and his mother.” o ♦+++++++ + ♦♦ + ** * * * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY 4 ♦ * From the Daily Democrat File 4 4> Twenty Years Ago This Day. + ’♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ February 3, was Sunday. — —o — ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* * BIG FEATURES * OF RADIO * +♦♦+♦++♦++++♦♦** Friday's Five Best Radio Features (Copyright, 1»27, by United Press) Central Standard Time Throughout. WJZ. New York, 454 M, and 6 station hookup, 8 p. m. —John Charles Thomas, baritone, and Albert Spalding., violinist. WEAF. New York, 492 M, 7 p. m.— Budy Jones and Ernest Hare. WLN, Chicago. 345 M. p p. m.—Chicago Little Symphony Orchestra. KDKA, Pittsburgh, 309 M. 5:15 p. m. —KDKA String Ensemble. WEAF, New York, 492 M, and 14 station hookup. 9 p.m.—Katzmans Concert Orchestra. o , Business Conference To Be Heid In Chicago Chicago (United Press)—Hand to ’ mouth buying in Its relation to rttil- • roads, the automobile, steel and other i industries is to be the subject of a comference ot business leaders to be t held here February 17. The Metropolitan Life insurance Company has called D "" . the meeting. t| 0 t WANTED—A good man to e' drive truck and haul coal. t Steady job year around if you can do work. Carroll Coal and ‘.Coke Co., phone 770. 2bt2

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, FEBRUARA 3, 1927.

by EdgarA. THE CALL UNHEARD

I called to her, but she didn't hear So busy was she at pfay. She laughed w'th tno children romping near And galloped with them away. 1 called her name, but she raced along To the sands of the stuuu.er sett And my voice was lost in the south wind’s song And she paid nj heed to me. And I thought as I watched her dancing there How happy she is today! Tis better to give her an hour so fair

ALGER UNMOVED BY CONVICTION College Youth Faces 2-21 Year Sentence For Killing Policeman Danville. Ind.. Feb. 3. —(United Press)—Unmoved by his conviction on a manslaughter charge, Gene Alger, 18-year-old college youth, today faced imprisonment for two to twenty-one years for the killing of John Buchanan. Indianapolis Negro policeman. The jury in Hendricks county court; which heard Alger's trial returned a' manslaughter verdict at B:3e o’clock l last night after deliberating the case for ten hours. The state had asked conviction on, i first degree murder charge and the deiense made a dramatic appeal for acquittal of the youth. Alger heard the jury's verdict without outward signs of erflbtion. his father and Aunt were in court with aim but his mother worn by the strain of the trial, had returned to her home in Indianapolis. Alger killed Buchanan last July afer being arrested on a charge of attempting to steal an auto. He claimed j he shot tile Negro officer in self defense after Buchanan fired at him I through the door of a hotel closet in which he was hiding. CONGRESS TODAY (By United Press) Senate: Considers bill regulating importation cf milk from Canada. Privileges and elections committee •onsldcrs Smith and Gould cases. Judiciary sub-committee considers continuous investigation of nomina-, tion of A. V. McLane as U. S. attor-1 0.... ee resumes tarriti commission investigation House: Considers District of Columbia appropriation bill. Insular affairs committee holds hearing on Phillipine Islands. Ways and means committee drafts new liquor law'. Patents committee considers copyright bill. Q Victims Os Joke Marriage Get Last And Best Chuckle Laporte, Ind., Feb. 3. — (United Press.) — Allen Dickerson and Mary Elizabeth Dittmer. University of Wisconsin sweethearts, chuckled today ove rthe plight of Dorland Smith of Hudson Lake, living near Laporte, and Irene Stuart of Portland, Ore. Smith and Miss Stuart, former Wisconsin students, were wed by a parson at Rolling Prairie last summer under the names of Dickerson and "Dittmer just tt> send newspaper I clippings to them as a joke. But Dickerson and Miss Dittmer

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Thau summon her In from play. Time was that 1 called for our Marjorie And wept that I called in vain, But I think of her now by the golden sea Happy and free from pain. Ami I think of Iter playing with angels fair From the day dawn to its close. And my I neliness 1 have learned to bew For the happier life she knows.

got the last laugh. Under the laws of Indiana Smith and the Portland girl discovered they were man and wife. - ' Each wishing to marry the choice of their heart, Smith filed suit in a | court here to annul the joke marriage. 0 Billion Dollars Offered For Ford Automobile Plant Py Joseph Wasney, (U. I’. Staff Correspondent) Washington. D. C. Feb. 3.—(United Press.) —An offer of $1,000,000,000 for the Ford plant was made within the. past 3o days by Hornblower & Weeks. New York, according to John W. Prentiss of the concern, testifying today in the $36,000,000 Couzens tax appeal I case h\re. , Prentiss revealed his company had, I bought four times since 1916 to acI quire the mammoth auto works.' lu | 1916 Ford .was.offered $500,000(000; | in 1924. 1925 and 1927 the offer was increased to $1,000,000,000, but each time was rejected. o Indiana Not To Fight For Return Os Ralph Lee Indianapolis, Ind , Feb. 3. — (United Press) —Marion county authorities • will not contest the right of the state of Tennessee to Ralph Lee, i gunman and alleged killer, it was .learned today. Lee, now wounded in a Florida hospital, is wanted in Tennessee to Complete an unfinished prison term for robbery and is wanted here for ; murder in connection with the slaying of Abner Peek, grocer. | According to attaches of the prosecutor's office, the charges against ' Lee here will be pushed when he leaves Tennessee. Lee escaped from jail at Franklin, Ind., on New Year's eve while await- . ing trial for murder. 0 . .......... KAH -. ... We wish in this manner to express our appreciation for the many acts of kindness and assistance extended to us by our neighbors and friends during the lillness ami death of our beloved wife and mother. Oliver Hellet and daughter. o No Rheumatic Sufferer Can Afford to Miss This Hundreds of Bottles Being Sold Declares The Holthouse Drug Co., Who Guarantee It and Are Dispensing It To. Many Sufferers Here. It does not matter whether you are disabled with cursed rheumatism or have only occasional twinges, . A’lenrhu will ease the agony, do av.-ay with the gnawing pains and , often reduce the swollen joints. Allenrhu is no laggard; it starts ■ right in at once searching out the poisonous deposits and in two days starts to drive the concentrated impurities that often cause rheumatism, out of the body through the ' natural channels. I “The blessed relief this' marvelous . preparation quickly gives has made for it thousands of friends,” says the Holthouse Drug Co., who have been r Appointed agent in your city.

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