Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1928 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR OEMOCRAT CO. J, If Hel'er Pro*- and Oen. M*r. A K. Holthouee Secy A Bus. Mat. Dick D. Heller Vice President Entered at the Postofflee at Decatur. Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies - ...I -02 One week, by carrier...- —.lO One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mall. " - 36 Three months, by mall 1 00 S x months, by mall 1.73 One year, by mull., 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere, $3.60, one year. Advertising Rates made known by app leutloa. National Adverti ing Representatives Schcerer, Inc., 35 Easi Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York Charter Members The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Times are improving. The bankers of Nebraska have advanced the price for dead bandits from $250 to $5,000. Indiana collected $10,500,000 from gasoline taxes last year, which added to the seven or eight millions collected from the licenses ought to build several miles of talriy good roads. Propaganda is being spread over! the state on behalf of Governor Ed Jackson, the first time such tactics have ever been considered necessary on the eve of a felony trial. Too bad. New York barbels have decided to do away with the usual clothes brushing which has always been the thing in a city shop. Now we presume the customer will be expected to tip the colored boy a dime or quarter for handing him his hat and tie. Mrs. Helen Cooke Wilson of Salinas. California, was granted a divorce f"om her famous hubsand. Harry Leon Wilson, author ami humorist, on the grounds that he had no sense of humor. And no wonder, the court allowed her $86,000 alimony. That would take the fun out of it for most writers. In Belgium a murderer is declared legally dead and Is placed in prison for life. His name is erased and he is never again recognized except by number and ihere can be no pardon granted. A sl ai'er law and then a speed-up on trials would he far better, It seems to us, than the present system. The State bank at Wlldorado, Tex., has been held up and robbed by bandits eight times during the past three years and a general store next door has been touched oven more frequently than that. It has come so often that they have really begun to feel something Is lacking if they don’t get the thrill every so often. Indiana had twenty-one more murders in 1937 than the previous year. There most be a reason and Is but every one has a different one. Fred Schortemeier thinks its the fault of the parents who do not keep as close watch on the youngsters as the oldfashioned one did, but. Fred overlooks the fact that Its more difficult to follow the flivver with the naked eye than it was the old horse and buggy. i More than twenty-Hvo hundred people in Indiana met. accidental deaths last year and the sad part of it is that eighty-five per cent of the number should have avoided it. That tneanu we. are careless and thats always dangerous. Stop, look and listen, not only when crossing the railroad tracks but when crossing the street or -when doing any thing else. A. negro named Gates has just been sentenced lo prison for thirty years for assault and burglary which would be a very severe penalty it there was no chance for a pardon. The same man who Is u negro was sentenced from Hammond several years ago for assaulting a white woman and was pardoned ufter'two years, in a few' months lie was sent up for stealing and within a year was out again. He

seems to havo a real poll of some kind but there certainly can be no reason for leniency this time. The state of Michigan had more r. than four hundred murders last year. r - which will perhaps exceed that of 1 any other state and is considerably •, higher than New York with all her mixture of population. This of course I will be used by those who favor 2 capital punishment and the trouble is 8 that it seems to indicate that nothing * but the fear of the death penalty will i) lessen the number of murders. i 1 The surest way to make this a good year in Decatur would be to butld fifty or a hundred residences, and we need them. If you haven’t all the money, borrow and build and let the rental pay for the balance. If you don't want to build you should ' at least aid others to do so and you can do that by paying a few dollars a month Into one of the local loan companies. A department house in Decatur - would lie a good investment, according to tho opinion of bankers and realtors to whom we have talked. Wr are sure such quarters could be rented to advantage for there is a con-1 stant demand. During the past few weeks we have been asked several dozen times If flats are available here. Some progressive citizen ought to erect such a building in the downj town district. There seems to be an Inclination of the politicians this year to write party platforms short enough and plain enough that they will be read by the voters and understood. We j have believed ever since we heard I the late Thomas R. Marshall express ! the thought, that if platforms could be printed upon a post card, the} would be more effective thau the long and dense resolutiops usually adoptjed. We hope the suggestions now * being made by parly leaders becomes a reality when the conventions meet. Some of tho smart folks of Chi I cage have finally convinced Mayor Thompson that its present reputation for two or three murders a day and a hundred hold-ups of various kinds, is not a good advertisement for the city and the mayor has started on a drive to stop gambling, booze running and other modes of securing revenue by the gunmen. Conventions and meetings of many kind are going to other cities where there is police protection and plans for a world fair in 1933 were held up because those who are to back it feared the city would not attract a crowd. The awakening is none too soon if half what wo hear is true. —o High School Girls Take Pledge To Wear Only Sane Clothing Everott Mass —(INS)— High school girls of this city have pledged to wear "sane” clothing. If the girl student wishes she may wear the sheerest silk stockings, high heeled shoes and flimsey silk skirts, according to ihinclpal Wilbur Rockwood and Mrs. Dorothy I>eane, dean of girls at the school, but they have been asked to wear clothing that i“sane” from the standpoint of health. A pledge card was placed on the desk of every girl. Most of them singed "It not only is ’saner’ ” declared Principal Rookwood, "but it will make them a much healthier group of girls. Not only will our proposed plan be lens expensive, but it will be of more wholesome effect upon the student body 1 am sure.” ”We . of course, morely make the suggestion,” explained the principal, "and leave it to tho girls to cary out the plan. Thore is nothing of an obiigataiy nature about tho plan, nor is thore any definite action we can contemplate taking against those who do not heed our recommendation.' o— I ALL OVER INDIANA (By United Press) UNION CITY—Don Ward, former ■postmaster here and once a local newspaper publisher, has announced ills candidacy for tho Democratic I nomination for representative in 1 Congress iroin the Eighth Indiana ( district. I HAMMOND—John Oris is recovering his sight in a hospital hero after 1 his wifi; threw lye into his face during a quarrel. A motorist found Oris, j Gary resident, wuudering blinded about the streets- here, picked him up r and took him to the hospitals I — I Dress Making Class 1 lam opening a beginners dress maltg ing course. Will start class Tuesday ~ February 7th. Mrs. L. D. Jacobs, pbon'1772, Borne, Intliaua. * 25-3lx

Left: M. T. Everhart, son-in-law of Albert Fall, who gave further inside revelations ol huge oil with Harry F. Sinclair before the senate inv sligating committee. Upper right: Senator Walsh of Montana (left) questioning E. G. Grab m of the Standard Oil Company, at the prom session. Lower light: Senator Gerald Nye of No ill Dakota, chairman of the special committee now mwarthing sensational tostimoney about th of government oil lands.

“Cold Near Year Os 1864” Being Widely Discussed Throughout State

Indianapolis, Ind. Jan. 30— (UP) — The "Cold New Year of 1864" which has taken Us place in Indiana folk ! lore along with the "Hoo-sier School- , master”, and “On the Banks of the 1 Wabash”, again is arcusing argument in newspapers throughout the State. Following widespread publication of an article originally printed in the Columbia City Commercial Mail, in which the writer vouched for tho assertion that it was 42 degrees below zero for an entire day and night on that date, hundreds of s'milar letters are being submitted to “Contributors Colums’ of newspapers throughout the state. Most of these come from oldtimers who corroborate or enhance the Columbia City story. The "Who Remembers" column of Portland Commercial Review presents | a sample of what the pioneers remembered as real "he-man's weather.” Jesse Powell. 88, remembers the day well. “It was nicer weather until Dec. 30, 1863,” he wrote. “That night it lainod. Next morning it swone dand an icy wind sprang up. My brother and L who had gone from our farm to H store at Portland, were unable to return home and had to stay at a hotel. Everything was frozen the next morning. Even the bread in the dining room had to be thawed out repeatedly. It froze alrncst as fast as it was thawed and had to be shaved off until breakfast was eaten. "The hoots we wore also froze stiff" Powell continued, "so that we had to thaw them in front of a fireplace before they would go on.” The boys ran three blocks to a grocery for their provisions after breakfa*t and arrived with their noses badly frostbitten. They found that besides a big ted hot stove, the grocer had placed iron kettles about his store and was filling them with hot eoalH to combat the cold. Cattle and other livestock which was not under shelter froze to death in great numbers, Powell said. "Four pupils out of an enrollment of 30 reported to the Winters school house on New Year's' day,” wrote Mrs. RoVena E. (Hearn) Handel, of Richmond Ind. “The Teacher held a little gill on her lap all day to keep the child from freezing. The rest of ns sat so close to the stove that our clothing was scorched. “That evening we children went out to help the hierd girl to milk tho cows but tame back from the barn a few minutes later with our noses frozen. Samantha Lloyd, the hierd girl managed to complete the milking but when sho returned to tho house the milk was frozen almost solid, it was so cold that when wo threw a dipper* of water into the air it changed to drops oi ice before it hit tho ground.” The Indianapolis weather bureau, which usually views stories of unusually cold winters with a akeptical eye, is silent about tho Cold New Year. "Our records go back only to 1871" explained J. H. Armiugton, U. S. meteorologist, "so it is impossible for up to check up that long ugo" he insist-

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ed, however, that winters in Indiana generally were about the same as they had been since the weather bureau was established, and that the Cold New Year of 1864 was the exceyption which comes once, perhaps in a century. o“Black Gold” King In Marriage Suit Borger, Tex, (United Press)—Two years ago Jim past the 70 nnrk, was trying frdntcally to keep his little ranch and tumbled down shack from the mortgage companies. He pursued a lonely way never dream i ing that riches and adventure were just around the corner, j On April 23, in the E ghty-fourth district court at Stinnett, he will sit with the best legal taleut in North Texas, to ■ 1 try to escape the biggest breach of promice suit ever filed in Texas—an action for $1,000,000 brught by his frmer nurse and heusekeeper. i former nurse an dheusekeeper. j berg has grown so wealthy that he ; has no idea of the extent of his riches. His ranch, in the heart of the Hut- , chlnson county oil field of the Pan- i handle, has become a mine of “black ! gold” and his dry burned planes and - slopes have yielded him at least $60,00,000. Jim has changed little lie »till 1 lives in the utmost frugality. His once : lowly shack is now a modest wooden 1 home but there is nothing pretentious about it. He is still the bearded, rugged figuro of the old days cf struggle. Mrs. Donia Vandever lived at Eicc)ra, a now oil town outside of Borger She became employed as a waitress in I - Joe Whitteuberg's hotel at riemons Later she became nurse and housei keeper fer Jim. In her suit, Mrs. Vandever charges that Jim proposed marriage tc her but when, after purchasng a bridal'ward.obe, she returned for tho ceremony, he had changed his mind. Whlttenberg has no comment to mike. He was served with the papers it a Roswell, N. M., hotel and promptly engaged the best legal help availi able to fight the charge.

IV.VM AL REPORT bcrsCuaTt 1 ,na “ CC * ° f ,hc To,T,, " f Monroe, for the Vrnr Ending Dccrmt, i , Receipt* Balance on hand January 1, 1027. ... ...... Corporation Tax * oii'JS Electric Light Plant . . ;! M -®» repository Interest Received from all other sources ‘"•®* state Gasoline Tax - ... .. ’ Total 163. . . DtMlHirAemrntA Salary Town Officials Including Attorney t '■fidtm Repair of Buildings * Salary of Marshall TvJen Electric Current Bought and operating . xpenses ’ i Ins? Street Labor, Oillag Etc. Si Election 5 *H» Rand JJ-®J All Other Disbursement* Balam-e on hand December liL R-27 . -'A'. ". ' 3;51|.0s ■/.. V. LEWKLLEN, Clerk :*.‘.>50.11 Jan. :;o NEW WAY TO SHAVE! NO MORE razor blades to buy! Amazing new invention, KRISS-KROSS Super-stropper, makes one blade iast for months! Gives you smooth, cool shaves. Strops on lhe diagonal just like a master barber. But with unerring, I mechanical precision. Automatic pressure regulator, strops tro mheavy to light. Gives the keenest cutting cdjre that steel can take. • CALLOW & KOHNE

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Opportunity is coming Your way INDICATIONS arc that 1928 ■v' ill bring it. Perhaps, at an unexpected time . . . perhaps, when you anticipate it. BUT--supposing it’s an Opportunity that requires money? Will you be ready to embrace it? Look Ahead Now And Save. Open A Saving Account —in this Bank and feel free to challenge 1928 to “come ahead and bring on your Opportunities!” # 0 . Old Adams County Bank The Bank of Service

I rets. On'y one man waa klllas • , blast, which shook the count !> | although reports carried by , 114 association other than th * Pres* at first placed the L,! 111 * us high as 60 men. Fred chemist, who was working on , *•' j tanlP No. 15. was blown to bit, blast. His body had not been * ered today. tcw - Property loss will exceed % it was announced,