Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 20 April 1928 — Page 5

CHICAGO CLAIMS future airport CENTER OF NATION By Francis L. Armstrong INS Staff Correspondent Chicago. — Already handling more than twhe the volume of air mail cleared by any other city in the world, Chicago will be the air transport cent,r of the nation, according to a survey just isued by the Chicago Association of Commerce. Seventeen permanent airports nave Keen established here, according to the report, headed by Municipal Airport, conceded to be one of the finest I,lds in existence. » Geographical advantages were given as Ute chief reason for the ternitndous strides of aViation here durjn t the it few years. Mail from all parts <>f the country clears through Chicago air routes and the greatest transcontinental air lines have established terminals here. Nine Factories Nine manufacturers of airplanes now are situated in Chicago, and a move is under way, backed by prominent financiers here, to bring additional factories to this city. The Laird airplane and the Health •parasol" are among the types now jeing produced here. , Land values of airports here are tremendous, according to the survey. Municipal Field is occupying a ipace valued at $10,000,000 and additions are expected to be made shortly. Improvements costing $250,000 have been made at this field. A bond issue providing more money will be placed before the people of Chicago this spring. Air taxi and sightseeing services here now number twenty-one and nine eoroorations use airplanes in their daily business transactions. Planes, the survey showed are coming into favor with large manufacturers and distributors here to a means of offering quick access to distant branches for executives. In place of a drawn out series of letters, or of a barage of telegrams, Chicago executives are availing themselves of the plane and going to branch offices personally. This use of airplanes, is was indicated by the report, will be an important factor in development of landing fields and the other facilities here. Business Men F*y "Many Chicago business men are considering purchase of airplanes," the report says. “They realize the necessity for rapid travel, and find the airplane is a dependable and practical means. “A five pasesnger plane, fully loaded, can be operated for less than ten cents per passenger mile." The report, the most complete ever compiled here, gives full information on air and passenger services, with a schedule of arrivals and departures on all regular lines. An industrial district in Chicago devoted exclusively to airplane manufacturing is seen by members of the Association of Commerce, This district Would be able to tumult! every need of commercial aviation. and would manufacture all its own materials,' according to the report.

KEARNS-DEMPSEY TRIAL IS STARTED By George Kirksey 11’ Staff Correspondent. New York, April 20. — With both sides prepared for a fight to the finish. the legal battle between Jack Kearns and Jack Dempsey actually Kot under way in federal Judge John < Knox’s courtroom here today. The jury was selected in less than thirty minutes late yesterday. in his charge to the jury Judge Knox said: “This case is to be tried fairly, cleanly and without prejudice •o either side.’’ Before the jury was impaneled Judge Knox made certain that none of the prospective jurors held a grudge against either of the Participants despite the large amount of money they had made out of the Prize fighting business. The opposing counsels estimated that tlie trial would require about four days. Kerns is suing for $7014)26.60, bash>g his action on a contract lie Is B aid to have held as Dempsey's manager and govering the latter services from August, 1923, to August, 1926. Kearns hopes to collect his one-third from the Wills fight which never took place and also from the first DempseyTunney fight. 0 Crocodile Tear a Madagascar's surplus crocodiles are io he skinned for bookbinding and ’hoe leather. Their fat Is to be used In the treatment of rheumatism and other diseases. ——o — Drafts on Posterity The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not Always be honored as soon as they ai 'e due, are sure to be paid with coinPound interest in the end.—Colton.

Chief Executive Saw Point of Good Jolts One of the tirst thing* Washington learned of Millard Fillmore when lie ascended to the Presidency upon lite dentil of Znchary Taylor, lit 1850, was that Fillmore possessed a keen sense of humor. Shortly after taking the oath of office it became necessary that the President purchase a new coach. Because of the dignity of his position, Fillmore thought the coach should be somewhat out of the ordinary, and sent an old White House servant, Edward Moran by name, to shop about. Moran eventually Learned that a wealthy citizen of Washington was about to leave the city and wished to dispose of his elegant equipage, which 1 seemed to hlni quite the thing he was seeking. The President viewed the coach and liked it Immensely, but "How will it do for a President of the United States to be riding around In a second-hand carriage?" he asked Moran.

Moran could not resist the opportunity. ‘'Sure," he replied, “you’re only a second-hand President.” Fillmore thought this remark was one of the wittiest he had ever heard, and told it on himself so often that be became .known among his friends as the "second-hand President." Incidentally, he bought the coach and used It during his three-year tenure of office.—Brooklyn Eagle. Good Friday Beliefs in Parts of England How Good Friday got Its name is a matter that is often discussed. The word Friday is really the strangest part of the name of so solemn a dale in the Christian calendar. Few realize that in saying Friday they are commemorating a pagan deity, Freya, the Scandinavian Venus. In France Good Friday Is called Passion Friday; in Germany, Quiet Friday; and in Italy, the Blessed Friday. • Good Friday in former days enabled the careful citizen to save his fire insurance policy, for it was believed that an egg laid on that day would extinguish any fire on which it was thrown. Bread baked on Good Friday was supposed to have its protective value, for it was believed that three loaves put in a heap of corn would prevent the latter from being devoured by rats and mice. An infant born on Good Friday was supposed to possess tbe power of curing fevers. There are some things to be avoided on Good Friday. West-country people consider it a sin to wash any clothes on that day. They declare that should you do so you are likely to lose your most valued possession before the y&ir is out.—London Answers. We Are All Bores An outstanding fact in life is that we bore each other: the habits and notions of many worthy people drive other fairly worthy people to distraction. Most books, most plays, most events public and private, bore us. Popularity Is to •be fairly agreeable to a few, and unknown to the many. The old are tiresome to the young. I doubt if they realize it, hut the young are tiresome to the oid. The time men and women do not devote to denouncing each other, they devote to seeking and boring each other. Always remember that whatever you do, and wherever you go, you are a pest to many. Therefore behave" as well as possible.—E. W. Howe’s Monthly. An Old Map The family was enjoying a delicious pineapple dessert for dinner. A younger member of the circle inquired of his wise father where most o f tbe pineapple came from. The father explained that most of it came from the Hawaiian islands in the "Atlantic” ocean. An older daughter told her father lie was mistaken about their location. After a heated argument an old geography was found In the attic. The daughter soon found the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific ocean. “Now, daddy, what you got to say? Who was right?” said the counterpart of father. "That's an old geography. We’ll have to buy us a new map,” replied the invincible father. Believe It or Not! After a great deal of patient effort the rooster rolled an ostrich egg into the chicken run. Coughing slightly and throwing his head back in the manner of a man about to -utter a platitude, he said: “Hens! Far be it from me to reproach you or to cast aspersions on any one of you. But, In the interests of the country generally and our own little community in particular, I should like to show yqu what can be done in other parts of the world by enterprising birds imbued with the true spirit of unselfish loyalty." Phrase Long in Use "Full as a tick” refers to the habits of the creatures called ticks, which are biologically degraded species of the same family as spiders. They attach themselves to persons and animals to stick blood; when they are full they drop off. The phrase has no reference to a bed tick, as often erroneously supposed. “Full as a ti<-k" Is 'ery old in the English language. Just when it originated and undei what circumstances are not kuuwp.— I’utWtader Mjigazloe.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1928.

TRAINING SEASON AUGURS PENNANT \ A- * S i / ••/ "■ i '" ■ 1 ~i'» ■ r j —_i j * If you ask Joe McCarthy (left) manager, and Charlie Grim, captain, of the Chicago “Cubs,” what chance of success they have for the 1928 flag, they will tel! you their snappy period warming up in tli£ South means a runaway with the pennant.

Carries Polar Cross * eW wßrl V mTj j / Bearing a folding altar and a cross made from a tree in the Vatican Garden in Rome, which Father Gianfranceschi (above), chaplain of Nobile's polar dirigible “Italia'' hopes to plant at the top of tile earth, the Italian aerial explorers take on the character of Crusaders of the Middle Ages. i ’ FIGHTING AMONG CHINESE GROWS Nationalist Armies Claim To Have Captured 700,000 Northern Soldiers London, April 20. —<U.R) — The Nattionalist armies in China claim to have captured almost 700.000 prisoners in battles with the northern arm,ies in the past few days along the Tientsin Pukow and the Peking Hankow railways, the Manchester Guardian’s Shanghi correspondent said today. If these reports are true it indicates almost a virtual collapse of the forces protecting the Shantung defense. Twenty thousand Nationalists were reported either to have been killed or injured and hundreds of wounded soldiers are being brought into Shanghai now, the correspondent said. General Chiang Kai Shek, commanding one of the Nationalist armies, reported capture of 30,000 northern prisoners while General Feng -Yun Hsiang reported his army had taken 40,000 I prisoners. The Nationalists also claim to'have taken the towns of Tsining and Yenchowfu in southern Shantung and the towns of Changteng and Tamingfi| on the Penking-Hankow railroad. The Manchester guardian’s correspondent said that Nationalist troops claimed the northern aripies were deserting rapidly to the Nationalist armies. Collapse of tlie northern armies defending Shantung and the pathway tb Peking was considered inexplicable here bbcause they were considered better armed and munitioned than the invading armies from the south. Three companies of Japanese troops from Tien Tsin garrison were reported being dispatched down the Tientsin Pukow railway to Tsininfu immediately. The Japanese dispatch troops, arriving to protect Japanese citizens, surprised the Nationalist leaders who expected only a few murines to lie landed. Order Americans From Shantung Poking, Crinu. April 20.—(U.R)—The American legation today, advised all

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Americans to evacuate Shantung province because of wars now occurring between various Chinese factions. 1 11 — I — ■ The advices from Peking today followed reports that the Nationalists making a drive towards Peking—had captured the city of Yenchowfu and that the Shantung defenses were weakening rapidly. NEW JERSEY FORESTS BURN Barnegat, N. J., April go. — (U.R) — Thirty thousand acres of woods in the central New Jersey pine belt were •iestroyed by a forest fire that swept through the district last night, for a time threatening the city of Barnegat. The fire finally was brought under control shortly before midnight after 1,000 firemen, 150 coast guardsmen and between 3,000 and 4,000 villagers and fishermen had fought the blaze for several hours. The fire started at a place known as Eight Miles and swept rapidly through the timber district, eating down the great pine woods. About half a mile from Barnegat the fire split, one section sweeping into the city and destroying nine houses. Uncle Eben “It’s a man's duty to smile an’ look cheerful.” says Uncle Eben. "But ft you does It when yen’s on yoh way to de dentist office, you’s jes’ a plain prevaricator."—Washington Star. Appropriate Entering tbe music shop, the elderly lady inquired for a piece entitled "The English Summer.” The clerk, after searching in vain for the pieced offered her a manuscript, saying that was the nearest he had. It was entitled, "One Fine Day,”

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NEWS FROM BERNE —byMiss Helen Burkhalter Charles Heare, of Deeatur, ’Mis a business caller here, Wednesday. Mrs. Noah Soldner and son Fredrick. of Pandora, Ohio, spent Wednesday at the home of •their parents and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Sprungef Mr. and Mrs. Christ Egly, of Fort Wayne, were callers here, Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Egly visited at the home of Mrs. Amos Burkhalter, while Mr. Egly attended to business matters Rev. Arthur Rosenberger, of Pandora, Ohio, motored to Berne Wednesday morning to join his wife and two children who have been here since Sunday, on a visit at the home of Mrs. Rosenberger's father, Mr. and Mrs. David Ha bagger and family. They returned to their home Wednesday afternoon.

Miss Flora E. Franz, who has been spending a few weeks at the home of her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Franz and family, at ort Wayne, will return to her home here, Thursday evening. Ivan Welty, Lawrence von Gunten and the Misses Edith Sprunger and Clara von Gunten, of Fort Wayne, attended the senior class play "The Charm School” hdre Tuesday evening. Rev. and Mrs. Daniel Tetter and family, of South Bend, spent the weekend with relatives in Berne and community. Rev Teeter is a graduate cf the Berne high school. Miss Gladys Stauffer and her mother Mrs. Daniel Stauffer, were business callers at Fort Wayne, Wednesday. Mrs. Richard Briggs, Miss Esther Hutton and Miss Margaret Houghton, of Geneva, spent Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lester B. Smith here. t Miss Estelle Stucky left Tuesday night for DeKalb, Illinois, where she will have charge of the laboratory in the DeKalb Public Hospital Miss Sylvia Schwartz, who has been employed as seamstress by the Berne Mfg. Co., has accepted a position as office girl at the office of Drs. Jones and Jones. The vacancy was left by Mrs. Andrew Cock, who with her husband will move to Muncie in the near future. Simon Smilack, manager of the Peoples Store, visited friends and relatives at Dunkirk, Wednesday evening. Little Helen Baumgartner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Baumgartner, of Portland, is spending a few days here with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Levi L. Baumgartner. Christian H. Muselman, editor of the Berne Review .was a business caller at Columbia City. Wednesday. Herman Dio, who has been sick for some time, is very low with typhoid fever. Franklin Leichty began his new duties at the Berne Furniture factory, Tuesday. Mt?. Rufus HaWl’., of Rockford, came here I liursfiz-y morning to be at the tedside of n er sister, Mrs. J. M. Ehrsaip. who is ill Mr. and Mrs. John von Gunten, daughters, Marie and Barbara and son Harry John, of Fort Wayne, visited here Wednesday evening witli their son and brother, Howard von Gunten, who is attending Berne high school. Edward Ehrsam, of Chicago arrived home Wednesday evening to be at thj

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bedside of hie mother, Mrs. Moris | Shrsam and also his friend, Herman Dro, who is seriously ill. Paul Dudgeon, of Rockford, Ohio, was a buelnese caller here, Thursday. Clinton H. Sprunger, of Fort vyayne, Is spending a few days here, attending to business matter*. Mr*. Fred Llby, of Linn Grove, was in Berne Thursday, assisting her patents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J Meyers Meyers and her brother Mr. and Mrs. John Meyers and family move their house-

Quality Baby Chicks HAVE SOME SEVERAL DAYS OLD. Come and get your chicks now, or place your order for some of these Quality chicks today at The Decatur Hatchery nfwwwywwtv I vttM t A Here I Am! Now It’s Up To You. I am a baby chick just out of the egg. Nature has filled my little bread basket with enough food to last 72 hours. Then it’s up to you. If you feed me a dirty mash or table scraps, I’ll probably die. ' But if you start me on Purina Chick Startena and feed me according to the Purina Plan, the chances are nine to one that I’ll grow up and make you money. Don’t feed me anything for 72 hours. Then start me on Purina Chick Startena, the dependable starting mash containing buttermilk and cod liver oil. - - <>»!«-J W I 11 The Decatur Hatchery JpuffiiAp 4 . > 1-7 S CHICK ? Decatur, Ind. Phone 497. s’ 2 The Store with r sr A nT|uf l u.’« F (w / the Checkerboard Sign ? ffl®Ss } liiiilfi " A Friend in Need - His Bank Account ■L- w/J < UNEXPECTED adversity taught him his lesson. The friends with whom he once spent freely, were nowhere to be found. He found trying to borrow a dollar the hardest task he ever tackled. BUT, once on his feet again, he SAVED as he earned. He realized a Bank Account is one’s only real “friend in need!” • I Moral: Don’t wait until you're in a similar “tight fix.’’ Save while lhe “saving is easy”—while your eaining capacity is at its best! Open a I', Interest-Earning AtJOtM vviththe Old Adams County Bank

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hold goods into the hou»o recently va, cated by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Davison. Mr. and Mrs. Plersdorf and Mias Louise Hawk, of Rockford, Ohio, and Mrs. Eli Bixler and daughter. Miss Mildred of Salem attended the Senior Class play here, Tuesday evening ■ Or••Free Verse" Verse which does not depend on rhyme or meter Is called free verse, tt does, however, have a certain rhythm. •