Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 90, Decatur, Adams County, 15 April 1929 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. I. H. Heller.,..^....Pres and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Sec'y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies * .02 One week, by carrier —— .10 Ono year, by carriers — 6.00 One month, by mall —...... .35 Three months, by mail —— 1.00 Six Months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mu 11........................... 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 on Application National Advertising Representatives Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York Charter Member The Indiana leuigui' of Home Dallies. An Indiana man found a million dollar check in New York a few days ago and returned it. Now he is getting due praise. Wonder what he would have done if it had been in good old fashioned greenbacks. It is fitting that due respect be paid to the memory of the late Myron T. Herrick, one of the greatest ambassadors representing this country and the tributes from both France and America are genuine. He was loved most by those who knew him best, which is about the finest thing that can be said of any one. A soup house lias been arranged in the congressional building, not because the members and the lobbyists can't buy a meal but so they won't lose any more time than is necessary. Thats great. Now we can expect the session to close within six or eight months. Marion Talley, renowned singer, with a bank account of a million or so, announces she will quit the stage and live on a farm somewhere in the middle west. She may not pile up big earnings but she will be happier and after all thats more important, especially when you have plenty of cash to pay the bills. Roy Toombs, who as president of the International Life Insurance company wrecked it with a loss of several million dollars has been sentenced to prison for three years and fined $3,000 by a St. Louis judge and many of those who tost as a result of his plunge will not think it a bit too severe. The banquet of business men tonight promises to be one of the most interesting held here in some time. Several matters of importance will come up including a vote op the proposed daylight saving proposition, if you are interested in that or other matters concerning this community, better grab your hat and hustle up to the K. of C. hall where the dinner will be served at 6:15 o'clock. Joseph Bailey fell dead in a hotel at Sherman, Texas, Saturday and a great lawyer and political leader passed out. A couple of decades ago he was a recognized leader in the United States senate, quitting that body to become a corporation lawyer. His career was meteoric 'out there are still many who believe he was in his time the brainiest politician on the grea,.t American stage. There were a lot of interesting things said at the famous Gridiron Club dinner in Washington Saturday night but thats mostly secret. Somehow or other the motion of Senator Watson that the meeting stand adjourned for thirty minutes because one of the embassy liquor trucks had been "pinched" out in front, did leak through but the senator is used to being the "goat.” Walker liimaq got a divorce from his wife, daughter of a Kokomo minister. as a result of the long trial at Reno, Nevada. The evidence was spicy and if even partially true, was sufficient to shock most folks. Mrs. Inman denies most of the charges but evidently didn't convince the jury. She will receive $15,000 a year for her

TODAY’S CHUCKLE Salem. Maee. ~(UD- For Injuries received when she slipped on a pork chop and tumbled down stairs, Mrs. Ella Reynolds was awarded S4OO damages by a jury in court here.

support, tuat being arranged by contract between the two. Almost within reach of the acreage required to assure the operation of the beet factory here next fall, it would be just too bad to fail now. There is no reason why we should it we all help a little. Indications for a good season were never brighter at this time of the year and with an increased rate in the contract you can make a fine return on your investment, Mr. Farmer, if you will put in a few acres of beets. Its one of the very best crops you can rotate. James M. Burk, popular Decatur lad, is one of ten Boy Scouts chosen from the Fort Wayne area to attend the International Scout Jamboree to be held at Burkenhead, England, this summer. The trip will also include tours of interest in Canada, eastern United States and Europe, a wonderful opportunity for education and experience. It is both an honor and a privilege aud the Decatur Scouts will be well represented for Jimmy is a fine, upstanding lad, with a personality and the eagerness and enthusiasm which will make him see, enjoy and retain many excellent lessons. We congratulate him upon this fine achievement. The American public is rather difficult. Now they are turning on Colonel Lindbergh, the young man who a few months ago was the greatest hero in the world and the most popular. Naturally reticent and modest, he avoided publicity. For a time that made a hit but now since lie has grown in importance his silence is not a feature and numerous newspapers have undertaken to make him see the light. The average Washington reporter who stood seven years of Coolidge silence is decidedly fed up and is in no humor to be told even by Lindy that “its none of his business." The young man has probably passed the peak of fame for once they start after a man in this country he becomes subject to recurrence of attacks at any provocation.

Household Scrapbook 8y ROBERTA LEE The Alarm Clock Wrap a rubber band around the bell of the alarm dock if it is so loud that it is startling. This will greatly lessen the noise. Failing Hair Rub salt into the scalp. Then massage until the scalp tingles. Also add salt to the water when washing the hair. Shortcake When making shortcake put half the dough in a pan, spread melted butter over it, and then place on the remaining dough. When baked the cake can be opened easily. 0 „ ***•**»«*•••• • TWENTY YEARS AGO • • From th* Dally Democrat Fit* • • Twenty Year* Ago Today • April 15—Julius Haugh's men begin work of macadamizing Mercer avenue and Adams street. Traction company is paving between tracks of Second and Winchester streets. Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Edwards, of Leipsic, Ohio, visit here before leaving on trip to Europe. Austin btraub and H. F. Majors, operators of Cloverleaf station are transferred to Frankfort. Decatur offered berth in Northern Indiana baseball league. Elks giving first annual ball. Committee in charge is J. S. Peterson, J. J. Helm and True Frtstoe. Decatur Horse Sale company has sold 2,000 head of horses since January 1. Official board of M. E. church at Richmond adopts resolutions that women must remove hats in church as hats this spring are so expansive that view of the minister is cut off to audience. Decatur Steam Laundry has a new smoke stack. —. o Mrs. Maud Acker and daughters Iris and Mary, and A. L. Roop of Fort Wayne, visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Acker on North Second street. .

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University Athletes in Crash '.’l \ ’vl tl ' John Hines Jr. (left!, James Cusack (standing), fonner captain of the University of Chicago track team, and Virgil Gist, captain of the basketball team of the same school are shown as they gave their version of the automo blie :»<•< ident in which their companion, Joseph Gubbins, (inset) former captain of the U. of C. baseball team lost his foot.

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New York, April 13—(UP)— Skippy < who leads his gang “with his hands open for friends and his fists closed for enemies,'' is now the hero of a novel. Five years have elapsed since Percy Crsby, the cartoonist, first succumbed to the temptation to write a book about the lovable boy who has made so many friends among comic strip readers. Time after time the author tonup entire chapters — convinced that skippy could only be created by the brush and not by the typewriter. But the novel —to be published tomorrow by Putnam's—takes rank as I the work of a true humorist. What adult can fail to sympathize with that boy who, overcome with love, bursts out: “(lee, it's so very beeyoutiful. I'd like to give some body a sock in the jaw.’ - ’ Skippy himself must share honors with Sooky, his ill-clad friend. The chapters preceding the death of Soot y are simply choked with pathos and indeed, thrughout the volume, a laugh is never very far from a tear. For Crosby has a very real though unobtrusive theme in his novel— the dissolution ot a small town adolescent group through the realtor influence that makes subdivisions out of base Ira H diamonds, Jim Lovering, the milkman, is Crosby's Greek chorus—it is he tvjio P uts iuto homely words the hatred of "progress" that the boys themselves can only feel. Poor misanthropic Jim. who observes to Skippy—- “ Did you ever notice how a wasp is built? Just like a woman, ‘n’ anything built like a woman can sting so’s ya'll never forget!” Skippy is never genuine boy in the sense that Tom Sawyer and Penrod are thus the book will find its principal appeal with grown-ups. For Skippy in prose is as exaggerated as in Crosby's fluid drawings — but also as entertaining. Perhaps you have never heard that Crosby owes his artistic start to a Chinese laundryman. Thousands of dollars have accrued from Percy’s talent but nothing can dim the luster of that first evidence of appreciation of his art—the time he traced off the lady on a Saturday Evening Post cover, filled it in and sold it to an enthusiastic Orential tor ten cents. Edgar Wallace, who did not write Ben Hur, not long ago found himself facing an idle hour or so. The result “People,” (Doubleday-Doran) is an autobiography of the Henry Ford of literature. Wallace, in case you do not know, writes a detective story a week or thereabouts. But the American public, not yet educated to the British taste absorbs but one a month. Thus on this side of the Atlantic we have only now read “The Four Just Men” ana “The Three Just Men,” whereas our English step-cousins hiave no doubt finished "The Three Just Men in the Artic.” ‘"rtte Two Just Men Aboard the Lugger” and “The Just Man on the Mississippi.” Wallace not only writes books but is a prodigious playwrite. He also reviews plays, directs theatres, paints scenery, writes a racing column and owns a stable. His autobiography, although not always in the best possible taste, tells an interesting success story of fopmliirig who overcame pov-

erty and attained his ambition. More or less personal: . . .Richard Hughes (“The Innocent Voyage") lives in an old stone cottage in Wales for which he pays a rental of $25 a year. . . Clarence Mulford, who writes Western stories, prepares his manuscrips in red and blue ink— red for characterization and blue for plot. His | first drafts resemble an American flag . . . Hugo Wast (“Peach Blossom") is in reality Dr. Gustavo Martinez Zuviria, an attorney. The pen name is ■ fashioned as an anagram from "Gustavo.” . . . Fannie Hurst has a menagerie consisting of a monkey, a yellow Persian eat and four dogs. A sailor recently presented her with another monkey but the animal bit her hand. As a sailor plus monkey went out the door the gob muttered, "You bit yourself out of a fine home, you did, you damn fool. ’ . . , This correspondent was in the stateroom of the lie de Fiance at the time it was raided during Simon and Schuster's party for Joan Lowell ("Cradle ot the Deep") Fame is a fragile thing, however. . - . Sidney Yenz plays bridge better than he dances. o MODERN ETIQUETTE By ROBERTA LEE Q. If any guests are late for dinner how long should the hostess wait? A. Twenty minutes. y. What should be done with the napkin when finished dining at a hotel? A. Place it unfolded at the right of the finger bowl. Q. What colors in dress should all women wear? A. The color that emphasizes or intensities the color of the eyes. o Lancaster Sound Lancaster sound, a channel con aecting Baffin bay and Barrow strait, between North Devon and Cockburn island, is the only part of the Northwest passage that is navigable every year. 11 - . j 1- - O 11 Women Startled By New Powder A wonderful discovery is the new French process which gives MELLOGLO Face Powder its unparalleled smoothness and makes it stay on longer. The purest powder made —its color is tested. Never gives a pasty or flaky look! Will not irritate or clog the pores! Its youthful bloom stays on longer. Remember the name—MEL-LO-GLO. The Holthouse Drug Co. MMMW————l W II ■ I WT-

K. of C. Meeting Regular meeting Monday, April 15th, 8 p. m., after Industrial Dinner. Special program. Talks by representative of Decatur’s industries, “Know Your Own Industries.” G. K.

NEW TIRE STORE TO OPEN APRIL 30 Formal opening of the new McDuffee Tire Service store at 110 North Third street has been announced for Saturday, April SO, under direction of R. A McDuffee, the proportion Mr. and Mrs. McDuffee recently moved to Decatur from Kankakee, 111., and have occupied a residence at lot* South Second street. Plans for the formal opening of this new auto tire store include distribution of favors to all visiting-automo-bile owners and their families, with colored balloons for the kiddes and ice-cream cones for all. There will also be several attendance prizes awarded during the day, such as a Goodyear balloon tire, a Goodyear balloon inner tube and a Schrader tire guage. Attendants will conduct inspections of the new store, stocks and equipment. Mr. McDuffee has installed new electric and steam vulcanizing equipment, which is rated the most modern outfit for the vulcanizing department. The tire stock includes a complete line of Goodyear tires, tubes 1 ■ •• varies. •—ed that Mr. McDuffee was sc, -'-present the Goodyear Rubber < >:■ in Decatur la-cause of his thoro-. a lodge of the auto tire business and its service requirements. Previous to coming to Decatur, Mr McDuffee had been associated with an auto tire firm in Kankakee, 111., which has specialized with the Goodyear line the last sixteen years. He bears recommenodations as a practical rubber tire man, especially trained in service requirements. In inaugurating the new Goodyear store in Decatur, Mr. McDuffee plans to stress utmost service to motorists, with a free road service for all tire emergencies in Decatur and vicinity. "I accepted this opportunity to locate in Decatur after a careful inventory of the residence and business isissibil'ities of this city and Adams county. I have established my home and business connections here because I like the good people of this community, and have faith in the business possibilities of Adams county and vicinity. We hope you will accept us graciously, and that nobody will be isappointed," sai dr. McM ETAOINce disappointed," said Mr. McDuffee today. "Watch the paper for details of our opening party," concluded Mr. McDuffee. — o Purchasers Os Piano Factory Get Damages Bluffton. April 15—Word was received he.e from Chicago to the effect that the receiver for the 11. C. Bay Company had settled with Henry C. Rieck and other Chicago men, purchasers of the factory here, for damages done to the factory before the Eats Big Steak And Fried Onions--No Gas "Every time I ate I had terrible stomach gas. Now, thanks to Adlerika, I eat steak and fried onions and feel fine.”—Mrs. J. Julian. Just ONE spoonful Adlerika relieves gas and that bloated feeling so that you can eat arid sleep well. Acts on BOTH upper and lower bowel and removes old waste matter you never thought was there. No matter what you have tried for your stomach and Adlerika will surprise you. Smith, Yager &. Falk, druggists.

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purchaser could take possession. Mr. Rieck and his associates, in the settlement agreed upon, are to receive a reduction of $16,125 on the purohaee price of the building which was $85,000 and on which amount they had paid a deposit of $15,000. The purchasers took possession of the factory building here on March 1 and were planning on starting their National Chest and Cabinet Company in operation as soon as possible. They discovered, however, that pipes hi the building had bursted from freezing and that floors of the building had been damaged through negligence in removing old machinery. o_ Cet the Habit—lreae at Home. It Pays

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Employment Bureau Find. Work For 326 Stude” Bloomington, Ind., April 15-hjk. The employment bureau of th e univeraity Y, M C. A. found », irk , 326 atud'ftU attending th.. aemester, according to | tH re The work, ranging from ( . Hitch a. washing wlndowa and tablea to permanent positions a , Ing furnaces and s U ||| llg merrhut aided the student, in “aylt' " * exptmres. Jn| Thia was 40 less than th c for which employment w ag foiind year, the report stated. The bwM. said it had on file „ aint . B (ls . 1 e ’« seeking work. M1