Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 10 October 1929 — Page 6

SOUL. AFRICAN WEED PROBLEM TO AUTHORITIES “Dagga” Smoking Leads to. Insanity; Responsible For Many Crimes By Wiliam C. Fone (United Press Special Correspondent) Cape Town, S. Africa. Oct 10 - (UP) In the luggage department of Cape town station a small wooden trunk was left to be tailed for. it nad arrived from a backveld districe in the north. It was addressed to native and might have contained the 101 oddments which African native counts as his sole worldly possessions. After a few days a native arrived and claimed the trunk. He was asked to explain what it contained and hesitated to do so. The man who asked him disclosed himself as police officer. The trunk was opened. It was filled with what looked like —and in fact was —dried weeds. But the weeds had been put there for a definite purpose. The police officer seemed satisfied that he had found what he was looking for. He whistled to tAo men waiting outside. They entered and with the fewest possible words the native was handcuffed and taken away. Next day he appeared in court on a charge of being in possession of “dagga" and the officer said the trunk contained enough deadly herb to realise nearl 500 pounds when sold in sitiling packets weighing a tew pennyweights to addicts of the drug. A Hardy Plant Now '‘dagga" is in reality Indian hemp. It grows easily, is very hardy and when an inch or two high can easily be mistaken for tomato plants. It is grown in many of the small places in the backveld and sent to the larger towns where among the natives it is almost as great a curse as opium is in China. It is sometimes smoked in an ordinary pipe but the real dagga pipe consistes of a bowl of soft sandstone or clay buried in a hole in the ground with a length of bamboo connecting the bowl to a bullock's horn which contains water. The water deadens the burning sensation in the smoker's mouth. The dagga smoker is responsible for nearly all the crimes of violence committed in this part of Africa. For the most part the weed is smoked by natives but Dr. J A. Mitchell, Secretary for the Public Health, startled the country recently by disclosing that it is smoked also by many European i youths and even schoolboys in some of the large towns. The effect of dagga smoking is at first to produce a sense of exhilaration and its continuation leads to itement and eventually to madness. \ nan diunk with dagga smoking t.-> a danger to himself and to everyone in his immediate neighborhood. ■ How grave a national danger the t habit may become is disclosed by Dr. Mitchell who has stated that in acer- ' tain barracks practically every one of the European inmates ranging from 18 1 to 30 years of age was a dagga smoker and that in certain quarters of one I city and in certain schools groups of 1 lads between the ages of 10 and 16 ' years daily smoked three or more cigarettes containing dagga. Those ' lads showed early mental and moral ' degeneration becoming untruthful and unreliable. 1 Poor White Problem (There is little doubt that dagga 1 smoking has an important bearing on one of South Africa's greatest problems —the poor white, for it is among ' people of this class that the habit is most pi evalent. excluding of course the native. Close investigaion has revealed that these whites have acquired the habit in boyhood while associating with natives in herding cattle or in similar occupations. So far no really drastic action has been taken to combat the evil—the magnitude of which can be gathered from the tact that last year throughout South Africa there were 4,143 dagga prosecutions and 2,995 convictions. Os the convictions 2.997 were natives. Steps have been taken, however, in co-operation with the Customs Department to prohibit the importation of dagga should be proclaimed a “noxious weed" and farmers requiring to eradicate it from their land. o OBITUARY It was in the early morning hours of the sth day of October, 1929, that the death Angel came and took from us our beloved wife and mother. She had lived almost 65 years and rejoiced with her friends in their joy and wept with them in their sorrows and i grief. Rebecca Anna Kelly, was born near'

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Bishop Murray Dead . Rjkv of ... '■ " The Rt. Rev. John Gardner Mur ray, D.D., LL.D., of Baltimore Bishop of Maryland and executive head of the house of bishops of thi Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, who dropped dead a Atlantic City, N. J„ while ruling c a point of order at the session o' bishops in St. James Church. Th is a recent picture of the bishop taken on the Boardwall. International Mewsreel Piqua, in Miami county in the state of Ohio, on the 15th day of October, 1864 and lived to ne 64 years, 11 rhonths and 20 days old, departing this life on the sth day of October, 1929. She was the daughter of Hillman and Julia Thatcher. She was united in marriage to John T. Kelly. November the 4th, 1888, with whom she lived. walked, labored, assisted and encouraged for almost 41 years. To this union was born one daughter. Mrs. Vernon C. Miller, of Jefferson township, Adams county, Indiana. Early in life she gave her heart to God and united with the Christian church at Wabash in Mercer county, Ohio. After her marriage she became a resident of Jefferson township, Adams county, Indiana, where she with her husband united with the Evangelical church of that place and where she worshiped God in the beauty of holiness for several years, later after moving to Decatur, Indiana, she became a member of the United Brethren in Christ church of that place. She always livpd a consistent Christian life, reading her Bible almost daily as long as she was able to read. Often during her long sickness! which she bore without a murmer or complaint) she expressed herself as being read)’ to go and be with Jesus when ever it was the Lords good will to call her to be with him. She was a good woman, loyal to her husband and her God and a loving mother and will" he sadly missed by all those who knew her best. Besides the bereft husband and daughter, both of whom were with her when her soul took its flight to the good God who gave it, she leaves to mourn their loss the son-in-law Vernon C. Miller, three grand children, Raymond. John Henry and Elinor Miller all at home in Jefferson township; two brothers. Gardner ThiUcher of Ft. Recovery, Ohio, and James Thatcher of Frederick, Michigan, two sisters, Eileen Williams of Anderson, Indiana and Elizabeth Buckmaster of Geneva, Indiana, and many other relatives and friends. Father and mother, five sisters and two brothers having gone on before. Her face we can no more see nor can we hear her loving voice, but we mourn not as those without hope, we have an abiding faith that we shall see each other 4 again. She has crossed over the river called death, we can not call her back, but where she is we may go, and in that great day when the Lord shall come to call his ransomed children home, we shall meet again where sickness, disease and death do not come and where parting is no more. Popular Powder of Beautiful Women Beauties who guard their complexions use MELLO-GLO Face Powder only. Famous for purity—its coloring matter is approved by the Government. The skin never looks pasty or flaky. It spreads more smoothly and produces a youthful bloom. Made by a new French process. MELLO-GLO Face Powder stays on longer. oDanger, Mystery, Screams, I Thrills. You’ll Never Forget I “The Mysterious Dr. Fu Mancini.” All-Talking.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1929

FALL STILL IN DOCTOR'S CARE Former Interior SecretaryExamined By Physician On Order From Court BULLETIN Washington, Oct. 10 —(U.R)— The bribery trial of Albert B. Fall, former recretary of interior, was adjourned' today until tomorrow to permit a more conclusive report on his physicial condition. Dr. Thomas A. Craytor, named by’ Judge William Hitz, to examine |

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i Fall after the former cabinet official ; for “personal reason." had declined to permit Dr. Sterling Ruffin, originally named to make the examination ■ reported today Fall was suffering from a lung congestion. WiwhlnKton, Oct. 10. —(UR)—A <loc ilor today temporarily took out of the bands of a Judge and jury the fate of Albert B Fall, former Interior secretary, senator ami lawyer. Fall was examined in his hotel room at 8 a m. today by Dr. Thomae A. I' raytor, selected by Justice William [Hitz for the task after the former cabinet official had refused “for personal reasons" to permit Dr. Sterling I Ruffin, first named by Hitz, to make the examination. Upon the report of Dr. Craytor, [justice Hitz expected to decide

whether Full Is to be tried by a lock-ed-np jury of eight men and four women, on an Indictment charging he was bribed by |IOO,iMM) in cash from E. L. Doheuy tn 1921 to give Doheny's companies the Elk Hills Naval Oil reserVe. Hitz appointed Ruffin and later Crayton to examine Fall after his Illness forced an adjournment of yesterday's session of the trial. Fall’s condition was reported somewhat better after liis day of rest in bed. lie has been ill with bronchitis, and it is feared that the illnese will develop into pneumonia unless he Is kept In bed. His personal physician. Dr. H. T. Safford, and a trained nurse have accompanied him to the first two days of the trial. , I He lias beep so weak that two nii'ii ■ i have lifted hint in and out of his

automobile, and Into the huge green armchair specially provided for him in the courtroom. Prosecutor Owen J. Roberta wIJJ not act to have Indictment dismissed. If the trial is poatiponed because of Fall’s condition, until he confers wltli President Hoover. If this action should lie taken, however. it would probably mean abandonment of the Other two remaining untried indictments in the oil cases—one charging Fall with conspiracy to defraud the government In the Teapot IJome lease given to Sinclair, and the other charging Doheny with giving Fall a bribe. _— o Faces Prison Term i Kokomo. Ind.. Oct. 10 —(U.R) —Wili Ham Day, 25, faces a prison term of

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a™ , h , , lwln , ot Cass county negro farmer Iter. 1928, ’ 111 The guilty plea Was , In Howa.l circuit court lu r. W hV“ ! ' Homer Hale and Ralph ; l "‘- were on trial charged with f b s ?"? gree murder. Day ma „ e a *J* Statement charging his rosier nJ. 1 *’ 1 with being accomplices in , H "“ l ‘ ing. ne *>«l' Ancient Catacombi The catacombs of nre . underground galleries which have « isted certainly for more than 20m years. They have exi-avatlona i n *' tt , sides for tombs, or, in many iedges or niches, in which human bones were stacked or piled.