Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 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. V R Holthouse—4 Bus Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-Preoldent Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies * ,03 One week, by carrier— ,10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mall .35 Three months, by mail 100 Six months, by mall 1.75 One year, by mall— 3.00 One year, at office—3.oo (Prices quoted are wlihln first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Rate*: Made known by Application. Scheerer, Inc.. 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue. New York. MUNICIPAL EXTRAVAGANCE: Many calamity prophets, without injecting the time element, have forecast dire results from the orgy of | spending which overcame our munici-1 pal governments since the war, says the Biddle Bulletin. High income surtaxes, cheap money and tax-exempt securities developed a combination that made borrowing easy, the bulletin continues. Chickens have already come home to roost in several little towns where the bonded indebtedness has required such a tax burden that industries have pulled up stakes and departed and owners of boom residential sections have abandoned their properties. It looks as though New Bedford, Massachusetts (the state of the national disciple of economy) will be the first honest-to-goodness firstclass city that will come face to face with the issue. New Bedford, like many other in- ' dustrial cities, laid the burden on her ■ industries more heavily than upon |; her residential properties to pay for. good roads, more schools, greater illumination, higher pay for employes, and infinitum. Municipal Paid by Expenditures Cotton Mills 1916 >2,733,285 $ 960,000 1926 6,185,197 2.334,000 New Bedford’s industries are principally textile mills which have found a diminishing return from operations with the increasing low-cost production of southern mills. Now her overburdened tax paying corporations are unitedly litigating their tax assessments seeking relief. If they win it will but transfer the tax. of which they are relieved, to the property owners and as very many of the local people are stockholders of the mills, it resolves itself into the question from which pocket the taxes will be paid. New Bedford probably can. and will weather the storm and, like smaller municipalities, will determine upon' a policy of economy. After the horse is stolen we generally lock the barn. Government statistics show many cities with a vastly larger per capita tax levy than New Bedford. As years roll on, each is Tlestined to face the economic issue. The heedless expenditures of other municipalities will ultimately result in many cases of such taxation abuse that the value of real property, as well as the securities of such overtaxed municipalities, will show a decline in value when their day of reckoning comes. Now a lot of folks are inclined to make a hero of George Remus, wife murderer and ex-king of the bootleggers. His big achievement was to

buy the cheapest kind of liquor at about five dollars a gallon, water it four times and then retail it at flftCc n dollars a quart as pre-war goods and find the suckers to buy it. Strange as it may seem he had so many customers he could be independent about it. He declares now he will prove Ills sanity and go on the lecture platform which game he will find considerably more difficult to cunterfeit.

Mr. Erank Ball, Muncie millionaire, who is being boomed for the republican nomination for governor is no z f doubt a very fine man with many splendid qualities,'but will be seriously handicapped by the' tactics of Senator Watson who is wielding the "big stick” from Washington just now. This is not a good season for the old-1 fashioned ffblitical boss and consequently not «o good for those candidates who are being "daddled” by them. While the funeral services were being conducted for Miss Fannie Broyles of Luray, Virginia, a brother noticed one of her eyelids twitch. The services ended aud a physician soon

had her talking. She had heard everything but was unable to move or speak. She should always feel unusually friendly to that eyelid. Virgil Jordan, chief economist of the National Industrial conference board says that general business conditions the next year will far exceetP | those of the past three years, which is mighty good news for Christmas time when most of us have stretched j our bank accounts to the point of saturation. Do you remember a time when there were ‘no many terrible happenings and crimes? Perhaps its only our imagination but it seems to us that the events of the past few weeks have been the most startling ever recorded by the press of this coun- — White crosses designating spots near railroad crossings where fatal ■ accidents have occurred will be put up by the city, to call attention of ' tourists and others to the dangers which lurk at these places. In states where this is done, the results have been good it is said. Tenth street is to have ornamental lights, adding to the miles which now make this the best lighted city of its size in Indiana. Thats the kind of progress we like to see. < Don't forget the Christmas tree lighting at the court house corner to-| morrow afternoon at four o’clock bring the kiddies. Its for them. 0 t *«¥¥****¥*¥¥*< * BIG FEATURES * * OF RADIO * ;;¥¥¥¥¥¥-¥¥¥¥¥>: THURSDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WJZ—Hookup (18 stations) 9:30 rm. 1 Chicago Civic opera. WJZ—Hookup (20 stations) 8:00 pm. Maxwell hour with Wanda Lon.dowska harpischordist. WOR—Newark (422) 7:30 pm — New 1 York Philaharmonic orchestra, Bela Bartok, crmpcscr-pianist. • WCAE —Pittsburgh (461) — 9:30 pm. WCAE —revels, Burt McMurtrie, ] master of ceremonies. WRVA —Richmond (254) 9 pm. Christmas contata. FRIDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES j WEAK —Hookup 7:00 pm. Citj.cs ??r- , vice Hour. WJZ—Hookup—8:00 pm —Wrigley Rei view. i WGY—Schenectady (380) and WMAK Buffalo (545) 7:00 pm.— Charles G. Spross, Composer-Pianist. WEAF—Hookup 9:00 pm Apollo Club Concert WQAM —Miami, Fla. 11 A. M. American Legion Program, "Preminiecences of the Paris Convention,” by the Miami Drum and Bugle Corps, winner of first prize in national convention contest at Paris. o *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥* * THE GREAT WAR * * 10 YEARS AGO * *«¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥* The Krupps quadruple their pl mt, near Kiel to make up for submarine losses. Col. 1. N. Lewis, inventor of the Lewis Machine gun, tells the Senate: Military Affairs Committee that Pershing's equipment is "an outrage and a disgrace." All heavy artillery used by the A. E. F.. he says, “is borrowed from poor, stripped France." o

MM II I «IH — *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥* * TWENTY YEARS AGO * ¥ ¥ ¥ From the Daily Democrat File ¥ ¥ Twenty Years Ago Today ¥ *«*¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥* December 23, 1907, was Sunday. o - G. E. Employees To Get SIOO,OOO In Dividends Schenectady, Dec. 22—Insurance dividends of approximately 9100,000, to

l>e given employees of the General Electric Company who carry additional insurance under the group plan inaugurated by the'Company two years ' ago. was announced today by Gerard Swope, president. This dividend will lie distributed in the form of suspended premiums on the policies for two months, January and February.among employes who have carried the additional insurance tor at least 12 months. 55,000 or approximately 82 per cent of the employes eligible for additional insurance, will benefit under the suspended premiums. Since the plan of additional insurance was inaugurated in November, 1925. approximately $1,421,000 has been paid to the' families of 652 employes. $744,000 of this was under the free insurance policy of the company and $677,000 was additional insurance paid for by the employes. —....———u k Get the Habit—Trade at Heme, it Payt

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1 — Heroic Rescue: j , * ■ ... ■.* r ■ ■ -Q, I H I Owtk /IMS? •4i. - .iv... j C'_ - Thomas Eadie (upper), who first I reached the sunken 8-4, and W. J. Carr (lower), who determined that some of the crew still lived, are putting every ounce of effort IntOj raising the 8-4. • . UnternaUaael Newsreel) $20,000 In Purses In California Golf Los Angeles, — (VP) —California's program of open golf tournaments thP winter carries purses totalling >20,000. The first of these tournaments, held at Sacremento, Dec. 1-4, carried prizes of >2,500, The next tournamept will be at San Diego Dec. 17-18 with 8 purse of >2,500. The big rusney event will be held at the Wilshire Country Club. Los Angeles. Jan 6-8. The purse totals >IO,OOO. California's coming tournaments follow : Dec. 17-18 —San Diego Open >2.500 Dec. 28 —San Gabriel Amateur-Pro —>Boo. Dec. 29-31—Palos Verdes Open, >2.500. Jan. 6-B—Los Angeles Open, >IO.OOO. Jan. 14-15 —Long Beach Open, >2,500. KANSAS CITY BEGINS CONVENTION PLANS Kansas City, Mo. —(VP) —Plans to put Kansas City in the best possible condition to play host to the Republican national convention next June followed announcement of prizes to those proposing the best means of working such improvements. Streets will be put in good repair and every effort will be put forth by the municipal government to make the city as attractive as possible for visiting delegates, said H. F. McElroy, city manager, in discussing plans for the convention. McElroy said he appreciates the advertising possibilities offered Kansas City in the Republican convention and declared there will be nothing left uudone that might work for a better impression 3n minds s os visitors from over the entire Vnited States. Missouri's well known hospitality will be reflected in the entertainment afforded delegates in Kansas City, officials promised. Preliminary measures directed at making the city more presentable will include elimination ! of many unsightly bill boards. Parkings on boulevards in the city will be put to work at once over the entire city planing to put the city In I the best' possible shape. "Having landed the convention,” Walter H. Negbaur, president of the Business Distiict League, declared, I "it is now up to us to send all the j delegates, home as missionaries for

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USE BULLET SCIENCE IN SEEKING GUNMEN L Decatur, 111—(UP)—It Frank Shinn, recovering in a Detroit heepital from a gunshot wound received there following a robbery, is brought to Decatur to bu tried for the shooting cf Assistant Chief of Police Robert Pound, the state will base its entire case on the findings of a Detroit criminologist who will show photos of a bullet fired from Shinn's gun in Detrcit and the bullet which struck Pound. These pictures, the result of a new branch of criminal science known as Forensic Ballistics, shown conclusively that the bullet which felled Puond was fired from the gun Shinn had In his possession when captured iu Detroit, police experts there declared In establishing this, a police lieutenant photographed the two lead missiles. One was the bullet removed from Pound's shoulder. The other was a test bulelt Hied from Shinn's gun. The first film was too small to furnish anything more than the outline of the two lead slugs. So the film was enlarged and re-enlarged. In the resultant picture, showing the two bullets side by side, each showed definite lines, clear ridges, small depressions, thd mai kings made by the ■isling of the pistol barrel and scratches made by the type cf the cartridge. And the buiipts showed themselves exactly similar, alike to every hair-line mark and every minute hill and valley those who saw the photograph said. According to Charles S. Whiteman, president of the American Barr Association, "There can be no question as o the accuracy of the result.” o Give a Parker Fountain Pen for Christmas. Callow & Aohnc.ls-16-19-20-21-22 I NOSECLOGGED FROM A COLD OR CATARRH I ‘ Apply Cream in Nostrils To i Open Up Air Passages. Ah! What reLef! Your clogged nostrils open right up, the air passages of your head are clear and you can breathe freely. No more hawking, snuffling, mucous discharge, headache, dryness—no struggling for breath at night, your cold or catarrh Is gone. Don’t stay stuffed up! Get a small bottle of Ely’s Cream Balm from your druggist now. Apply a little of this fragrant, antiseptic cream in your nostrils, let it penetrate through every air passage of the head: soothe and heal the swollen, inflamed mucous membrane, giving you instant re let. Ely’s Cream Balm is just ■vhat every cold an l catarrh sufferer has been seeking. It’s just splendid.

ifi £ I - | Start a Savings SAVINGS s | account for the i ’ * Children this ' * I Christmas sfi T K ■ ’ fIE r z -zao | gS All happiness is not built on money but ffl much happiness is built on savings. While not ln a ,ew ' eara lheir Bavin,[ * wi " a ‘ noa " l *° K $ depriving the children of actual needs toys or something - provide a college fund or the g amusements, it is possible to teach them how to nutrias of a business investment. Over a period g • ME save of years savings will amount to the following: jl » * I? 3 » Weekly || "iS Deposits 1 Year 2 Year* | 3 Year* i 4 Years I 5 Year*. 6 Year* 7 Years j 8 Year* | 9 Years | 10 Years |! SI.OO $53.05 $108.24 $165,651 $225.38 $287.53 $352.19 $419.46 $489.45 $562.27 $638.04 ft; Lg 2.00 106.09 216.46 331.30 F 450.78 575.49 704.41 838.96 978.95 1,124.59 1,276.11 J 3.00 159.13 324.69 496.94 676.15 862.50 1,056.481 1,258.30! 1,468.27 1,686.73; 1.914.00 afl LE 1.00 212.18 432.931 662.60 901.55 1,150.15 1,408.79 1,677.89 1,957.86' ’2,249.14 2,552.18 S 5.00 265.23 541.17 827.26 1,123.89 1,432.50 1,753.58 2,087.63: 2,435.17 2,796.75 3,182.94 1 ag 6.00 318.27 649.40 993.91 1,352.34 1.725.25, 2,113.22 2,496.46 2,915.59 3,351.65 3,805.32 £ !n 7.00 371.32 757.64! 1,159.56 1,577.52| 2,012.771 2,465.41 2,936.33! 3,426.28 3,936.02 4,466.35 ffi LCj 9.00 477.41 974.11 1,490.87 2,028.51 2,587.87 3,169.83 3,775.30 4,405.23 5,060.60 5,742.45 $ 10.00 530.45 14)82.33 1,656.51! 2,253.88 2,875.39 • 3,522.01 4,194.75| 4,894.66) 5,622.85' 6,380.47 pjjj We are anxious to help you save. A savings account for the Children will continue to grow. S | 4% Interest On Time Deposits i; I Old Adams County Bank • |i - SPECIAL SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. |

FORT WAYNE—(UP)—Mrs. Frieda Perri obtained a divorce from Angelo Perri utter only 20 days of marriage. She charged desertion. She married JO'.in F. Byers, local policeman the

t King You! YOU live better than any of the kings of old. Where you switch on the electric light, he had a smoky torch. You go to bed on springs—his couch rested on planks. A few overworked minstrels were the best he could get together when he wanted music. You turn a dial and a great symphony fills the room. And today, a thin copper wire carries more power than his scepter ever boasted. YOU have a thousand kingly comforts that the emperors of distant days never knew. To what magic power should you offer thanks? Turn the pages of this paper to the advertisements’ ADVERTISING tells you about each new invention, every improved product that comes on the market. It describes what these new products will do, where to get them, and just how much you should pay for each one. It helps you purchase wisely and economically. Through it you hear — far sooner than the fastest courier of ancient times — what’s new! Read the advertisements. They are couriers of comfort and economy. —.r — .n’xmw Decatur Daily Democrat

i following day, hut Byer# being the , father of eight children was ordered by the court to pay >125 of his >l5O ’ monthly salary for his children’s sup--1 port. j Elkhart —(UP) —Kaolin Leonard 14

trapped a badger at ht. lhe elty limit, here. Th. i■ rare In this section or th. ’ ar ‘ Hi Portland-.UP, Fe llx B pie, suffered severe lnhi“ ' &crl > B fell after a crutch slipped hen fiH