Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 54, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1930 — Page 6

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CARNERA HAS j TOUGH BATTLE Philadelphia, Mar. -I (U.R) Prlmo Camera's circus iroupc i looked ni the world through roso. colored glasses today. The amid-! lug Alp Imd won the eighth start 1 of his American tour and removed all doubt as to his courage and j ability to take punishment. Ptlmo p' rased newspaper accounts of his six round knockout | over Ace Clark, Philadelphia negro, with one eve and grinned widely! as a physician predicted the other! eye swollen to the size of a grape-' fruit would heal Quickly. . The iioiit with ttie 6-foot •'Vk• j inch, 234Vfe-pound Clark provided the vast Camera with the severest! test of his career. Camera took a terrible heating and was hardly able to move around when hi l l caught the rapidly tiring Clark | with a vicious left hook to then body and a right to tiie chin which ended the bout after 2 minutes and , 2S seconds of the sixth round. Clark gave Prfmo a boxing lesson and except for two knockdowns in the fourth had all the better of the fighting until the (knockout. i ue bell savrd him from a knockout in the fourth but he came out fresh for the (iftli and partially j blinded Camera with a hard loop-j n ; right which closed the Italian's left eye. When the sixth round started Camera staggered about witli Idood streaming down liGs face. The referee appeared ready to heed cries to stop the fight. Even the ' Camera s couds were debating the advisability of throwing in the , towel. I Primo sensed the situation and ' took matters in his own hands. < ending the ringside arguments. He ; ‘-book his massive head, snorted Mke an angry hull and rushed. , Claik lud no chance to sidestep and two mighty blows almost glued him to the canvas. After the tolling of thp ten count he was dragged to his corner and revived bv libera, use of smelling salts and water. ('Camera's wounds were salved t>y the realization that he was to eeeive 2<* per cent of the $20,055 veil eh 9.0.27 fans paid to witness the bout The purse brought the Itaiian giant s American ring earn ings to approximately SIOO,OOO. o rli ch his managers get 72' 4 pe cent. o —- G. E. Club Closes Net Season With Kirkland 1), rater Ci. K. Club basketball team will cose its sea on tonight at Decatur high school gymnasium \ hen the Electricians tangle with ■ Kirkland Whippets, county chant- : pionS of independent net teams. 1 The gamp will start promptly at i 3 o'clock. ] The Decatur Merchants team. I captained by Dee Fryback and Felix Maier will meet the (!. E. Motors in the preliminary game. I The doors will open at 6:45 o'clock. ■ — o i #— — 4 i BASEBALL BRIEFS (U.R) ♦ « - Avalon, Catalina Island. Calif, March 4 -(UP)—A forecast of cor, J tbnied unsettled weather kept the Chicago Cubs squad scanning the sky today in fear that rain might again keep them off the training ' field. The pitchers and catchers had only half an hour or throwing yea terda.v because of rain. 1 Paso Robles, Calif., March 4 — ' (UP) —A scheduled first workout of the entire Pittsburgh Pira es squad was expected to be held to * day aft,, rain kept the players ott " field yesterday. Vice-president ! Sam Dreyfuss announced the release of Floyd Young, outfielder. I o Columbia in the South Atlantic '■"'gue. and the release outright of * Tommy Health and Haroid Mctav- ! Un. California rookies. 1 I San Atonio, Tex., March 4 —(UP) —The Veteran Carl Hubbell and the 1 Rookie Leroy Parmalee cooperated - to give the Grays a 7 to 1 victory < over the Whites at the Giant' camp t yesterday. Hubbell and Parmalee < divided the six innings on ttie i mound and allowed only four hits, t Jack Scott signed his contract, cutting the Giant holdout squad '.o | six players-Ed Rouch, Bill Terry, i.arry Benton, Bob O'Farrell, Fred Leach and Fred Llydstrom. San Antonio, Tex., March 4 — iUP) —Cold weathet prevented the ] White Sox from playing their fir»t i •scheduled practice game and yes- < terday’s workout was limited to a bri i; k hatting and fielding drill. > Art Shires, Smead Jolley, Willie ] Kamm and Alex Metzler are the i only absentees and only Shires Is an j acknowledged holdout. Pensacola, Fla., March 4 —(UP) Red Sox outfielder and infielders are scheduled to join the battery man for today's drill.

Managi r Wagner sent the pitchers through a snappy workout yes teiduy despite the cold weather. Brail titan, Fla, M March 4-(UBi Vie Orsutti, Younger brother of itie Cardinals outfield ace, was the fielding slur of the St. Louis Cards opening spiing workout yesterday Oisn tl, whose experience has been limited to the movie lots at Hollywood. is trying for an infield position. — » lliloxl, Miss., March 4—(UP) — The Washington Senators' workout yesterday was confined to hatting jnd pitching practice. Mns: of tie* regulars are now hete. St. Petersburg, Fla., March 4 — | (UP) —Manager Bill Mckechnle is i-onsidering asking waivers on Gene Itveej Ison, former .N’lMe Y.o'V Y..m tee third baseman, who Is five days jverdue at the Braves camp. Boston secured Robertson on waivers las! Fall. Clearwater, Fla.. March 4 —(UP) [lat vey Hendricks and Jim Fulkner | lave signed 1920 contracts with the [lrooklyn Robins, cutting the holdnit squad to three players—Babe Herman. Ray Moss anil Eddie (loote. Hendrick worked out after dgning his contract yesterday and Fulkner is expected to arrive WedlehUdV. PURDUE TRIES FORNEWRECORO Chicago, Mar. 4. — (U.R) —Already taving clinched both the football > ind basketball western conference •hampionships, Purdue university oday was determined to set a big en record by producing an iindeeated team on the court as well is on the gridiron Never beaten during th“ football ieason. tiie Boilermakers have hut me game between them and a perect hu.-kethull record. They will vital up the r season against Chi■go. which has to its credit only me conference victory. Last night the Purdue team, led ly Harneson. Murphy and Wooden —perhaps as great an offense as 1 he conference ever has had—won ts ninth game when it defeated Michigan. 44 to 28. The victory lirched the conference iiusketoall ilie. The Boilermakers won the game n the first 15 m mites of play. So treat was the Purdue offense that Michigan was trailing 12 to 27 at h° half. The Wolverines played letter in the second period and M *tio Po ! 'e-makers down hat i he damage had been done. Doubtless, Purdue owes a great I os. of its sucres? to "Strptch” j ' Murphy. the tall center who always •an he relied umn for the tip off ind the pivot play from the foul | ine. Stretch is as good as they! : ■ome at handling the ball on the i > vot and passing to a teammate i i rom the foul line to a spot under 1 he goal. Combine that with the ability of j Tarneson and Wooden to get him he ball and you have a real ofense. All s<"ason. Purdue played : iffensive basketball and a glance I >t Hie scoring records of Murphy. 1 la meson and Wooden reveals the ieason. FORMER MAYOR IS SENTENCED CON’TWUEdT'ROM 4 AGE ONE) ; >ond. Others sentenced were: Sanfoid Overall and Eld ridge j A'hite, negro, four* months and , >IOO fine. I , Tom Thomas, Joseph Deangelo , ind Enrique Orta, six months and i 1500 fine. ' I John Antonion and Tony Zale-ki • t year and a day and SI,OOO fine. Bertha Popp, six months and 11,000 fine. Mrs. Popp, ZaJeski and Thomas ilso were sentenced to serve a •ear and a day on charges of vio- ! ( ating tiie prohibition law, their t erms to run concurrently. I < Hale, who started his second I erm as mayor of East Chicago on s fan. 6 resigned soon after he was I •onvicted. Regan and Zarkovicn ! tlso resigned fro m their police : ! iffices. Ramey was not a member if the police force when he went >n trial. CITIES PLAN TO STOP RIOTS J [CONTINUED FROMJ’AGE ONE) ’ nent or there is other activity * rolice consider a breach of the 1 >eace, the detective chief declar- ! id. Stege said be had got hold of drrulars purporting to come from lussla in which marchers were irged to carry knives and blacltacks. j I Old Custom Survive* , It Is still the custom in England \ to burn the effigy of Guy Fawkes j t on the fifth o\ November, Guy j Fawkes day.

, Modern "Weary Willies” Quite Fussy Individuals One hut day a wandering "labor?r" In a fuzzy cap and ragged clothes asked ut the Andrews farm near Spender for fund without mentioning work. As It was Just dinner time the Andrews Invited him In fur the meal. lie looked at Ids chair nt the table for some time, and Mr. Andrews, thinking lie was diffident, urged him to sit down and make himself at iiouie. He took out it cloth and -Justed the chair first! When night fell Ihe stranger wanted to sleep In the house, but he hud acted so peculiarly that Mrs, Andrews told him If lie wished to spend the night there be must sleep In tiie wood liitt. lie took nut all the wood, swept the plnoe and put In a cot lied front the house. "I want two clean sheets." tie demanded belligerently, and then went on to call for a nig to step on In the morning, and n < hair to place by his bedside, and a mirror At dinner tie had eaten eleven plates of a meat soup and five dishes of chocolate hlnne t.-uinge. Ir the morotmr he wanted .-> button to match those on his coat -ind lie obtained it. Then lie offered to saw a little weed. “He sawed about ten lirtlp sticks In a lackadaisical manner,” relate,l Mrs. Andrews, “and then said be would have to go. "I think rst cents would be about right for what you owe me,” lie asserted."—New YorkWorld. Buttons in Early Times Looked On as a Luxury P.v (lie “History of English Dress.” the button Is traced to IIV It was coninionlv worn in the time of Edward I, and figures in a poem that dates from about this time and certainly not Inter that, 12‘H). This refers to a robe, the sleeves of which were decorated with blue buttons front tiie elbow to ilie band. When points and laces were introduced In the Fifteenth century, buttons fell out of favor, hilt returned as a luxury in the following century, and were so highly ap predated ns to he bequeathed In wills. A testator In a will tinted 1572 left to one John Wnodzyle “my doublet of frnlte-eanvas. and my hose with frier.i breeches Also, unto Strowde. tnv frieze jerkin willsilk buttons Also. to'Kynionde P.isshoppe, the smith, toy oilier frieze jerkin with stone buttons" Gascoigne sung of “a bonnet loir toned with gold."—Kansas <’iiy Times. CherrVs Vait Property Tiie Trinity church tract, in New York city, contained about 52 m-re> mid was variously known as Tlie Kina’s farm, the bake's farm and the Oueen's farm. Van Twitter, the Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, sold the tract 111 1 "’.O to Roelnf Jans, nt'-l bv ids w'll it I ee ime tin property oi' l-is w fe. \r-e’; >. Sbe i’l-vI in ICfft. leaving edit children, all of whom loir one. Cornelius Dogardus, in March. 1(170. executed an Instrument known as a "trun*porl" conveying the property to Col I rends l.nveb'oe, l!:en governor ol New York. Trinity dinrcn was In corpora tod by royal charter In May. If»'7. Tti 1"0”. Oneen Ann" formally presented the tract to the Trinity t bill'd!. Th* Lap'* A woman of lntel'eefmtl tastes found it d'drult to colk-ct all tbe facts slip wished to remember. She therefore secured tiie services of a memory system expert. Scarcely hail the expert taken Ids departure, after a siicres-fiil fits! lesson, than a loud double-knock was beard nt the from door. “Who yvns that, Mary?" the woman inquired of her maid when tiie latter returned from answering the knock. “Oh. if you please, ma'am.” said Mary, "it was tlie mem-try man; he forgot Ids umbrella.” . Humanity Facing Change* An eastern doctor is greatly alarmed lest tiie use of automobiles do away eventually with tiie legs of the human race. The prospect Is quite terrifying. And t hen. too. there is the vacuum cleaner, th it has rendered the beating of carpets and rugs no longer necessary, and this may in time do away with the arms of Hip human race It seems more than likely that we shall hardly recognizp ourselves 50.000 or lio,000 years from now.—Exchange. 1 Say* Powdered Glass Safe Exploding the stories that the Borgius and other notorious poisoners of history mixed finely powdered glass In food and drinks for their victims. Dr. Roche Lynch recently demonstrated to tiie MedicoLegal society of London that this supposedly deadly material usually passes through the hitman digestive system without causing death or doing serious damage. Danger lurk* in larger pieces of glass with sharp edges, he added. Sleep What’s on your mind when you go to bed nt night? Worry is probably the greatest cause of sleeplessness. Laugh at your troubles. Ridicule them. Don’t exaggerate small worries until they become the bugbear of vour existence. The more good sound sleep you get. tiie less imposing your troubles will appear. —Kansas City Star. , “Home, Sweet Hciusi” The Library of Congress hns In Its possession a manuscript of more than ordinary Interest—a <Mpy of “Home. Sweet Home” !n tbe bandwriting of John Howard Bayne, with two hitherto unpublished quatrains. *

DECATUR DaILY DEMOCRAT Tll-SDAY, MARCH 4, 1930.

> Wounded War Victims Helped by Antiseptics Important ns was the discovery ofiuiestheslM.il was of Infinitely less moment I linn Hie aseptic technique which came to us through Hie work of Lister and Pasteur, Frederick A. Pottle writes, in the Outlook and Independent. ' When we remember ttint the stirgenus of the Civil war knew noth- , lug about bacteria and the nature ! of Infection, we should marvel | that they did as well hs they did. j ' For Hie nui.iorlty of men who die of wounds In war are not killed - outright, nor do they die from tiie 1 extent of their injuries. They die In hospitals of Infection. I Our percentage of death from gunshot wounds in the «'lvll war w.is 10.05; In the World war, 8.12. This gain In efficiency (nothing less | 1 thrill Ilie saving of a few more .jiicn ' out of every 100) was almost 1 wholly due to the development of aseptic and antiseptic technique. 1 And It was a greater guilt than at first appears, fur without It the percentage of deaths front Infec- ; tvoivs in ibis -war W’c.-kM he-ve beep higher titan In the C ivil war, because the wounds were generally j more dangerously Infected, and were of a type more favorable to the development of Infection. City Grafters S!cil!cd in Makeup and AcMng The woman bus lived in New York for a long time and Is hardened to tbe sight and plea of beggars. When a timid, middle-aged woman, neatly dressed, neons?el her at Times Square station. sh u knew llwtl here was no ordinary case. | The older woman hesitated and when she spoke her voice was refined hat nervous. Sbe had lost , her way. Sbe wanted to go uptown and found herself on tbe downtown platform. Would the woman direct her? The woman did. but tiie inquirer held bet attention for another moment. She wanted to say something and did not seem to have tin* i-our I age. Finally sbe summoned it She had spent her small change j I traveling on wrong trains and did j not want to break a hill. Might she borrow n dime? The woman cave tier a dime and ; started toward the stairway Slip ; looked back once to see If the j stranger was going In tbe rigid di rection. The middle-aged woman bad stopped and was conversing with ft man He bad bis band in his pocket alii) lie was nodding sym- ‘ pathetically.—New York Sun. Cr'gin of “He»d T»x” In days gone hy in British Jils- , Tory head tax was really a tax on ! the head In the middle of tile i • Eighteenth century the wig ceased to head Hip poll, and the." Mar . cart inis" wore hair-powder Instead Then. In 1705. Pitt fram -d a new tax. and everv person spatting the i I powder was forced to invest in an hiiiiui'l certificate costing a guinea. l In 17'Mi Hip tar yielded £2'o Bid. but ' the “ milieu pics" soon refused to j face powder Tbe tax elningert tliei fashion The fimv.les-pcff the ppw i dor knife, and tbe powder mask disappeared, eurl -d and oped wills kers. and ‘■hurt cropped heads crept In for tiie masters and the powder fel' on the beads of the*, manservants — Mont real Herald. i ! Boomerang A railroad man was ready to j make bis usual run. His wife In , ' strneted hint to get Iter some fur key e-gs to set In passing tlivoc-Tli a small town a dirty country lad nnpronohed the engineer and asked him : “Don’t von want to , buy some haz.zard eges?" Seeing nn opportunity to play a joke upon his w ife, lie gave, the lad a nickel for them. About a month later tip asked his wife; “How are your turkeys getting along?” "Oh. I decided it was getting too late for turkeys, so 1 put them In your lunch.” —Forbes Magazine. I , . , - ...... - Quitting at the Start IV. II i 'rime, beloved actor, used to tell the story of a day's fishing participated in by President t'levelnnd. Joseph Jefferson and himself. They fished all day and caught nothing. About six o’clock Cleveland got a little trout, and Jefferson, who was ready to drop, suggested: "Now that we’ve got a fish, let’s go home." “You’re Hie strangest man,” re- | tnrted Cleveland "Here we’ve been i fishing [ill day. and just as they begin to bite, yon want to go home!"—Kansas City Star. Record Leaf Growth? A giant-leaved wate lily of Japan and Chinn probably holds j the world’s record for speed In leaf-growing, according to a note In the British scientific journal Nature. Tills plant, n relative of the ■ Victoria regia of South America, expands its four-foot flouting leaves in less titan nine days. Increasing their diameter at a rate of nearly a half-inch an hour. At that rate of growth they produce hetween 15 to 25 square inches of leaf in GO minutes. A Ware I. ■ "Se*” The,term “sea” and “seas” has a variety of uses. A sailor never , says “wave” or "waves," lie speaks . of ‘‘seas.’’ A sea may he rolling , toward you—that Is a “head sea.” \ j One at the side is a “beam sea": 1 - then the ship rolls. And a sea com- j , Ing up astern is a “following sea"; , thofl your ship tosses, and It la a point of debate among sea-sick j travelers which of the two sorts of ! | motion—rolling or pitching—ls less [ , agonizing.—Front “Sea-Lore,” by | j Stanley Rogers. ,

, Snarirtfr of Song Birds Popular Italian “Sport" The "sport” of shooting and snaring song birds Is very popular nil over Italy, especially In Tuscany. Perhaps It Is not quite so prevalent ms It was In the old days when every villa had ls« "Herein- , tolo" or little thicket to which birds ! were lured h,v the call of tame caged birds trained for the pur* ' pose. They were either >Jiot or. | more frequently, captured alive j on twigs smeared with bird lime, artfully concealed milting tbe trees, and dispatched hy having tilelr necks wrung, Yer. so long as thrushes, lurk* and their klmi, roasted on a skewer with sage leave*, continue to h*> a favorite winter dish, so long will the little victims for the banquet I continue to be snared, and the bird fair at Porta Rotmtnn. held from lime Immemorial on September 28 j provides Hie wherewithal. The f nlr start* early. Long he- | fore daylight country bird train ! ers begin to arrive from far and | near, with hosts of tiny wicker | vviges F-aeb -ciiitffsiti'ng « snttgJiln! 1 The variety l< Infinite. Chaffinches ! and thrushes fetch tiie highest | price.- -London Mall. Youth's First Earnings Usually Go for Food When a hoy closes Ids first ad- j venture In finance with money in i his pockets, earned hy Ids own efforts. his first Impulse is to buy something to eat. “We have no more important customer." said Ilie proprietor of a city lunch counter, “than the boy j who lias earned his first dollar. Now. you don’t often find a boy whose clothing Indicates financial straits at a soda counter In a drug store. Ilis needs lire for some- ! thing more satisfying, and he comes to ns. He looks over the menu with an eye to quantity rather than quality. Corned beef and cabbage have a greater appeal to Idm than artichokes, and having eaten he puts a small tip beside ids place with a nonchalance that is amusing." The hoy may have a few cents left. If there is no urgent need for his com l ibation to (lie fain il.v budget he stops at a store on tiie wav hot it> and buys Ids mother something she does not need. Thus, very early, lie begins exnressiitg bis love In tbe stereotyped masculine way. Hi* Little Lapse T.lMl" Reggie was difling out for the fir- 1 time In bis life. His moth er bad given him a few hints beforehand on good manners, and so far Reggie had fulfilled all her ex pectaMons of Idm. “Will you have a little more pud jin" Reegie?" asked Ids hostes* toward the end of the meal. “No. thank you." replied Reggie to Ids mother’s gratification. "Oh. come on now." urged his ho* - css ; "do have a little." "No. thank you." said Reggie again. The "nod ladv smiled “Well, dear." she asked, “what will you have?" Then Reggie’* politeness broke down. “A please!" he shrilled. j Witty Amer'ean Preacher Dr Mat'hew Pyles, a hrencher and famed for his wit. w-i's arrest ed in New York In 177 G as a "per nil-tons" Tory. He was subsequently tried, convicted and sentenced to confinement on hoard a guard r'dn. and to lie sent to England with his family In 40 days, f.nter rtie sentence was changed to confinement in Ids own house A guard was placed over Idm nrd then removed. tlmn replaced and again removed. whereupon' the doctor exclaimed that lie had been guard ed. regarded and disregarded. He > called Ids sentry his observe-a-Tory. Divorce E«*y for Dyak* Ttie Slang Dvak country of Dutch ! Borneo is a p-'radise for divorced j husbands, as alimony Is not known | there and freedom can b” pnr- I chased for a song. John H. Brov- ! Inse. University of Uldcago anthro- i nologlst with the All-American j Lyric anthropological and radio m* search expedition reported. * Divorce Is practiced freely among Hie Dyaks and marital ties are easily severed. As In tills country, crueltv. Infidelity and desertion are grounds for divorce. With, the payment of a trifling pennlr.v the freed husband'* responsibility | ceases. Fatigue Help* Thought Ir Is interesting to note that criticism of authors who wile away their daylight hours and do not settle down to work until the normal lied hour has been overcome. Science hns ascertained that the mind functions -.veil when fatigued Through experiments conducted at it well-known university It was j found that the hrain Is too restless j In the morning and afternoon for | complete concentration. Fatigue j furnishes the thinking apparatus j with a drug that acts like opium, j producing alerlness without “fligiitittess.” Founder of Homeopathy Siimudl Christian Hahnemann was the founder of the hotneo- : pathlc'system. This German pity- I sicinli was horn at Meissen, Germany, April 10, 1755, and died at Paris. July 2, 1843. In 1775 he went to Leipzig and studied medicine. At h later period he went to Vienna. After some yenrs he returned and completed his studies at Erlangen. He afterward practiced medicine nt different places. He remained at Hofrnth until 1833, when he pro- 1 ceeded to Barts.

Fourteen Indicted in Alleged Lodge Fraud Anderson, Inti., Mar. 4. U.R) Fourteen persons stand charged, after a two weeks Investigation. 1 with being implicated I nsp'r-j acy to defraud tile Modern Wooden of Ameriea in payment of death j 1 benefits front Woodne li Insurance j policies. Four of Hie 15 who have been arrested are Mrs. Emma Self undj Hoyt Self. Clarksville, Ark., now in Jail; Uowden Smith. Alexander, and ('. W. Georg--, lodge officials, released under bonds. Jesse Douglass, former deputy, now is In the Indiana reformatory serving a-entence on a burglary conviction. Those who are fngiti s are Thomas Muncle, A. L. Scott, llerschel Hudson, ib-n Gladden, Douglass, Seal, (’. 11. Morrow, William Oakes.

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\ McMillan, nil deputies, and Penny Hudson, m-m-ti.-mry, GROUP NAMED ’ FOR hook SALE IcoNTINURD ON page TWO) I phone, only residents being called and asked tn cooperate, •]| story and Rhyme* of Ihe Lost | Battalion" has been more widely ! circulated than any other hook of war verse written hy un American. At the present upward* of a mll-i I ijnn copies are to he found in lu.ni s and libraries from roust to] - coast. Ps author, L. C. ( "Hack Private") McCollum Is a survivor of lie* famous "Lost Battalion’ which gave American boys and girls a new history lesson when it fought it out on a cliff in the Argonne. | : hemmed ill hy the Germans undj with enemy planes soaring over-| h■ ad like hnzzards : __^__^ j>j^^|

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