Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 66, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1929 — Page 6

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Chattahoochee River Floods West Point B| % ** fcV ®BW TV. •■ •*■ ‘ »•’•* . *" O *, .... zgr? fSw&O - Hh’i gssgai BIBi B .; ' /* 4 JB ■ -J* / f 4,f. .£ <t ** Bf*. BWMf -jS*H iew of W<-s'. Point, Ga . which is one of lhe southern cities under water as the result of recent floods through ~. region Th. Chattahooche River can be seen at the left of the pi<-tnr-•. and is still its banks. Fond du Lac Streets Flooded G~- >•** j r-ff if- ,/‘\ ' W 4>¥ - 1 rv 'J3jf' AtLZ I <Ww r/ - \ li-f> / f \ Idje - awia W'Wi < saw ■%&-- *wWm ■■L Ha :/WBMI * B«JL 'HS-Mfr ** - ♦X. t I ‘ ~ Wy I r. i |H 11l a -••? Sg;; , IfeZX - ' --~ ■ - . *... ' «**r - T< -j:- • -' ,«$< .. .7X. < ’fc.* i'J • reels h. F nd du Wfe., took on the appearance of rivers when nutting snow caused the Fond du Lac to overrun its banks. The scene shows automobiles navigat ng in the manner of boats.

, Olvany Resign:. » » - .aWofe I S t " A ■ ik gpg| jl Mg Announcement that George W. Olvany, Chief Sachem of Tammanv Hall, had resigned came as a bombshell to the organization. The only reason given was ill health, but close triends are inclined to Irelieve that pressure of business caused his action. S¥¥ ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ S * NEWS FROM PREBLE * S¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥K Mrs. Milton Hoffman, who has been spending several days visiting Mr. and Mrs. Milton Kidd, of Plymouth, returned home Monday. Mr and Mrs. Victor Bultemier and family spent Thursday evening visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Bultemier

Get a Lindy ThriP # ’ * r \ ■ Ur- B h V V WwgM e W V / / *•*l Vk \J; J ’ a Gt l ! " i Al l 'vol 0 Ji ; f -< JtW k I w 11 f ij - i » S ~ J i Al * - • 1 K a The thrill of a lifetime came to ? Mrs. Frederick W. Broatch as she sat c in her hotel at Brownsville, realizing t that she had flown with “Lindy" from c Mexico City to the Texas border I town, one of the two passengers to E be with the Flying Colonel when lie made the first airmail trip. ’ — f and daughters. v Mr. and Mrs. John Brown of Grand < Rapids, Michigan, spent last week .vi-3- J iting. Mr. and Mrs. Orval Heller and I family and other relatives. Mrs. Charles Sulivan and daughter < Mis. Henry Decker spent Tuesday at t Geneva, Mis. E- Liechtensteiger and sons' I spent last week visiting Mr. and Mrs. Albert Welling and daughters. Mrs. Fred Ranssier and’Mrs. Henry Kirchner were shoppers in Decatur, Tuesday afternoon Mrs. F. Malloney spent last week visiting Mi. and Mrs. Douglas Elzey. Mr. and Mrs D. Elzey of Decatur spent Thursday visiting Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Elzey.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, MARCH IS, 1929.

COFFIN AWARD WINNERS NAMED Everette Gearhart, a stock-keeper in the Fort Wayne Works, is cne of the twenty-eight out of 78.000 employes of the General Electric Company to be honored with the Charles A. Coffin award “for the most signal contributions by employes of the General Electric Co., toward the increase of its efficiency r progress in the electrical art. Mr. Gearhart went outside his routine work to* offer a profitable suggestion to the company's engineer. His duties are to receive and keep recot d of raw materials used in manufacture, stow them away in their proper bins, issue them as needed, ami keep a record of the requisitions. He had learned that the engineers were striving to simplify the gear in a certain type of meter register and had not been aide tn solve the problem. He had become familiar in his work with the construction of meter registers, and it occurred to him that the gear in a certain type could he adapt to the type in question. He suggested this, and it proved to be the case. The dilemma was overcome, thereby reducing maniifacturing difficulties and rejections, as well as improving the projections as well as imsaving in cost. The twenty-eight awards this year were divided among seven engineers, five firemen, four commercial employfive fi emen, f ur commercial employes, an artist and one administrative employee. This is the sixth successive year in which awards have been made by tiie Chalies A. Coffin Foundation which is a perpetual memorial of Charles A. Coffin, first president of the company. o —— Varietiei of Waterfowl The term “waterfowl" Includes ducks, geese, swans, gulls, pellcuns. etc. There are 350 different kinds of birds found in Oregon .and Washington, about half of which would be water birds. They are found along the coasts and In tiie marshes of rivers and lakes.

Some Warlike Females Who Fought Own Battles Many married men suspect the truth of the legend of the Amnzons, a race of warlike women who once overrun Europe, ventured as far as India and Africa and founded colohiea in Asin Minor. Fairly authentic history records that In 1540 an explorer, Francesco de Orellana, milking ills "tty from Peru to the Atlantic through the Brazils, was told of a tribe of warrior women who lived apart from the men. He proceeded on ids journey and approached tiie neighborhood at the Junction of the Mudera and Maranon rivers, and suddenly found himself Opposed by a group of warlike women who were gathered on the banks and were leading the men in what might have been a battle, had the explorer given them any excuse for It. Being convinced that he had fallen on the renowned Amazons, Orellana cross examined some of the 'natives, who confirmed Ids belief. The women appeared to be very tall, robust, fair of complexion, with long hair twisted over their heads and skins of wild, beasts wound around their loins. '1 hey carried bws and arrows with which they succeeded In killing many of Hitexplorer’s party. It Is said to have been for these fair but ferocious enemies that Orellana named the river Amazon.

Figures Are Valuable Only When Accurate Statistics are like knives; they can be used for good or evil, observes Dr. Thurman B. Klee In Hygeia. The commonest sentence heard in debates usually begins: “Statistics prove that—” But Doctor Bice warns that statistics prove nothing except when they have been accurately collected, compiled, interpreted and applied. In the hands of some devotee of a faddish project a given set of figures may prove or disprove anything. When one hears a speaker quote figures from memory or without giving the source of liis information it is time to go home, says Doctor Rice. It is easy to forget whether a certain death rate was 14 per thousand or 14 per hundred thousand. The unscientific man uses figures to prove what lie started out to prove, while the scientist uses them to lead Idm to the truth.

The Rapacioua Pike Tiie pike’s reputation for cruelty and voraciousness is sucli that it lias been popularly dubbed tiie "water wolf.” It is probable, however, that many species of sea fish are equally, if not a great deal more, rapacious. Large dogfish, congers, pollack, cod and bass are especially ferocious, wlille halibut will very often seize and kill other large fish. An English angler was “playing” n large conger when a huge halibut swam up to and savagely bit at ft—a proceeding that cost the halibut its life, for on it making for the foundered conger a second time the boatman contrived to guff and haul It aboard. There have been many examples of pike being found dead, choked by their own species, and these fish not infrequently attack another pike that lias been hooked by a fisherman.

Big Bertha “Big Bertha" liad a firing distance of 75 miles. Tiie principle on which tliis long-distance gun was operated is Hint if a shell Is fired upward at an angle of 55 degrees to tiie horizontal, and at a high velocity, so that tiie shell will rise above tiie dense atmosphere close to the earth's surface and rapidly reach tfte thin air which exists at a height of ten miles above tiie earth, then its flight will lie practically unimpeded and ft will travel a great distance before It falls again. During its flight from the “Big Bertha” the German shell rose to a height of 24 miles, and traveled more than 50 miles of its course In a very thin atmosphere. Variety in London Odd conditions are frequently brought to light in connection witli tiie I orouglis in London. Often opposite sides of streets are in different boroughs. One pavement will be illuminated by incandescent gas; across tiie road electric light is used. Tiie dustbins of the “odds” are more frequently emptied than those of the “evens." A child living at No. 41 may attend a school from which No. 42’s infants are debarred. And in certain districts it is quite common to see, at the closing hour of a public house on one side of the road, little groups crossing the> street to where an extra half-hour's license permits of "Just another!” “Corn” or “Maize” An English writer says: “What a pity It is that we cannot come to some agreement with North America about ’corn' and ‘maize.’ Corn witli us means wheat Across the Atlantic It means maize. So when 1 read, as I have done just now, that paper has been successfully made from ‘corn stalks,’ I don’t know what Is meant. On this paper a daily journal has been printed In the state of Kansas. This looks like being a discovery of far-reaching consequence.” Patiently Waiting Mrs. Nexdore—lsn’t your husband doing anything to cure his deafness? Mrs. Nayber—Not now. but lie will ns soon as your daughter has finished her singing lessons.—Pathfinder.

TO GIVE LESSON ' IN NUITRITIGN Purdue Representative To Meet With Club leaders Here Tuesday The- first Horne Economics Meeting In nutrition work will Im held nex' Tuesday March ll* in the Domestic Science room of the. Decatur high school building. Ono-third of all the counties in Indiana are carrying on one of the thi'-’ nutrition projects given by the Home Economics Extension Department of Purdue University this year. Last year, 17,000 women were reached by tills work, which wts presented to them by 1,165 leaders In 1.487 meetings. t , Tliis work is carried on by the local leadership plan. Two leaders are elected to represent each organized group and these leaders meet with Miss Aneta Beadle, the nutrition specialist from Purdue University, five times during the year, it is the aim in every j county to have each township repre-1 sealed in this work. Every woman is interested in the welfare of her family and health is one of the m st important items to consider The saying, “We dig our graves witli our teeth.’’ is only too true. Adams county has selected second year nutrition work for this year. Women are urged to get in touch witli the county agent, F. E. Christen, if they are not already enrolled in a Home Economics Club, so they will be aide to start the first tneeiing. which is to be held next Tuesday morning. March 19, at 10 o’clock. o FIRE DESTROYS AUTO ON HIGHWAY Car Belonging To Phillip Kuhn, Os Decatur, Burns East Os City The Studabaker tourng car belonging to Phillip Kulm, of this city, caught tire and was almost completely destroyed early this morning, southeast of this city. A broken gasI oline pipe is said to have been the cause of the fire. Mr. Kuhn was returning to Decatur I an<J evidently the car struck a sharp I rut,' which snapped the gasoline line. • The flames spread to all parts of tlie ' car and left nothing but the frame and the wheels. The wreckage was towed to the K. N. Runyon garage in this city early I this morning. None of the occupants was injured in the fne. _ o ——. FOURTEEN DIE IN PLANE CRASH (CONTINUED PROM PACE ONE) the plane. It was travelling about 100 miles an hour, they said, skimming the marsh reeds and heading for the railroad tracks. Next the towermen, Matthew Torhan and William Murtagh, heard Hie noise of a teniffic impact. Sand in the open freight car sit it into the air; gasoline spurted thirty feet from the planes tanks. Torhan and Murtagh ran to the spot. They found the plane in two pieces, one consisting of the smashed cabin, the other of the wings and pilot’s com- | partment. Foote rose from the wreckage, I swayed and toppled into the freight c-ar. Another man crawled out of the compartment and stood dizzily on the smashed and splintered steel. —o First Artificial Ice The Italians in the Sixteenth century, were the first to manufacture artificial ice for mercantile purposes.

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Clarence Spuller On Honor Roll At Purdue l.afiiyotie. Ind. March 18 ClnrenceL. Spuller Decatur, a senior in the school of Agriculture al Purdue University, was one of 256 persons of the entire student body of more than 4.000 to attain a place on the honor roll for the past semester, accoijllng to a 1 list as announced today by President Edwind C. Elliott. To gain a |da< e on this list, a stndi-nl must have three fourths of his or her grades A or better. which is 9ti per cent or above, ...id none of the other fourth below 85. New Filling Station Is Being Constructed Ahe Schnepp is building a filling! station at the northeast corner of his | farm. Thirteenth street extended and , Winchester street extended, connecting with federal road No. 27. The station will be ready to open next week. Mr. Schnepp will sell Sinclair oil. it was stated that another filling station would lie built directly across from Mr- Schnepp's station, on the southeast corner of tlie Johnson farm. Reports About Mexican Rebellion Are Contiicting By The United i’ress Conflicting reports from the Torreon area—center of the Mexican rebellion military maneuvers —hid lite true situation today as fighting started for possession of the city held by rebels under Gen. J Gonzales Escobar. Government announcements at Mexico City said fedetal troops had defeated rebels at two pointsf had clashed a third and that four columns had been ordered to attack Torreon tod.iy. Rebel leaders claimed sweeping victories at San Pedro—one of the battles which tiie government claimed to have won—and at other points near Torieon, one announcement asserting j that insurgents lhad captured 1,200 I gvernment soldiers. o William Parent Attends Convention At Purdue Wilfam Parent, line foreman of the city light and power department returned from Lafayette. Saturday night after attending the fifth annual con-

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