Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1931 — Page 3

Inial made hl EMBASSY lIIQtIOR USED Inpetent Witnesses Say lublic (Jets Little EmI bassy Liquor IaXSPORTATION is ■t('HEI) too close I By Cecil Owen. ■ fP. staff Correspondent Ishington, J* lll - 29. 'U.Rk Kps made on Hie senate floor King Washingtonians as slakKheir thirst with embassy liqKn* hold unfounded in fact by Ktent witnesses. Ke amount of embassy liquor K reaches the public in Washis not a drop in the bucket Kareil to the Now of synthetic Kg gin ami whisky here." th? Kd Press was informed in a Ky of the caphal's liquor situE autions are talc n by all emKs and legations to guard K liquor supply, and nearly al! ■ missions destroy the bottles ■burn the cases when they are ■lied. This is to prevent boot-

|on't wait until it is too late / IT r I —to ccrrec t } a rundown ( ■ ;< '/ ) condition ? B / | fact you should not overlook ■re red-cells in the blood! Good of experience has proved its use■dth and resistance to infection fulness in building red-cells in ■1 disease, depend on that! Loss the blood. Take it before meals. ■ appetite, underweight, slug- Millions of people have found it ■hness, a weakened condition, the easiest and surest way to repimples and boils are store their red-blood-cells. The often seen, of a de- appetite picks up, the whole body ■ency of red-cells in the blood, is invigorated. Get S.S.S. —take ■* lowered red-cell count is al- it and possess a wonderful power to continue, ANEMIA of new life and vitality. Ask for results. S.S.S. should be the large slue. A-t •..! drug stores. , A hundred years ©s.s.s. co. I Decatur Community Sale ■ DECATUR. INDIANA I SATURDAY, JANUARY 31. 1931 H I Commencing at 12 noon. Bitad of Good Native Work Horses — 35 Head of Cattle ■ 10 Brood Sows — 125 Shoats, as all sizes. ■ u Sheep. Poultry, etc. ■KM MACHINERY — Grain drill; 20th Century Manure ■rader; 16 ft. Hay Rack; International Gas Engine. 1 ’4 hp. Wagon; many articles too numerous to mention. bushel Mnchu Soy Beans, cleaned for seed. ■ tiAll hogs must be cholera immune. If your hogs are ■nune bring Certificate from your veterinarian; if not, h* vaccinated before leaving sale barn. ■ TERMS— CASH. I DECATUR COMMUNITY SALES K Roy Johnson, auctioneer ■ S / ' I • I Pay all yowr bills I at wuce I We Will Lend You the Money I P a y ment of bills gives you a good credit standing. I ,° n 1 let your bills accumulate. Pay them off with a loan ■ can'll 115 an<^repay us a eac b wee k or month. You ■ suit ° rr ° W Up to S3OO and arrange repayment terms to S terpJ° Ur convenience - You pay us only the lawful in--81 you n ra ( C ° n actua l un Paid balance of your loan. If ■ i m° ne y, you can get it here in a convenient, conS "fcnhal, business-like way. I Franklin Security Co. I I Phone 237 V<?r c^a^er Hardware Store S Decatur, Ind.

I’ggers from refilling the bottlea nnd selling their stuff uh ", mbassy i liquor." Transportation of the embassy’s supply of liquor provides a problem.' Iho treasury has ruled that all embassy liquor shipments mu.it arrive at the nearest port, which is Baltimore. The law prohibits transporting such liquors in a common carrier. This makts it n >cessary for an embassy attache to accompany a truck conveying the liquors here from Baltimore. There is no limit on the amount any embassy may import, but each requisition must lie signed by the chief of th? mission and approv d . by the secretary of state and treas- , ury department. Tills acts us a check 1 on abuse of the diplomatic piivilege by younger members of tile corps. Most embassy's stoi th ir liquor in the heme of the ambassador, although some keep it in storage warehouses. Usually some mem her of the embassy staff is placed in charge of the cache. At all embassy functions, a bowl of "prohibition punch" is supplied ! for those Americans who may wish j to obey their country's laws even |on foreign soil. Embassies report, I however, that seldom i,s it new si sary to repl nish this bowl. ' Prohibition was said by one embassy attach’ to have had the es- ! feet of causing diplomats to change from a wine to a hard liquor beverI age diet. This is because all their American visitors pref' r spirits to

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the milder wines and the dlplo-i mnts drink what Is ordered by their guests, - __ — ♦ — - 0 Kirkland IL S. News On February 5, there will lie a Farmer's Institute at Kirkland high school auditorium. A good program has been arranged by the [committee in charge. There will I a Iso boa program in the evening [giv n by tiie Kirkland high school, .and a play by the Ladies club. Most lof the students are planning to' ,bi Inga sample for the various exIlibitS. I The annual Junior class play | will bo given at the Kirkland H. :S.. auditorium on Feb. 6 and77l. 1 The, name of the play is, “One I Minute Os Twelve," a comedy in | three acts. The cast is working jkard each evening. They premise the play will be full of laughs and j i h rills. 1 'e Kangaroos varsity basket(lull team will compete in the county tournament at B me, Sat]ui day. Coach Bill Bryan is workii g his sqtia I hard in prepa-ation [for the approaching tourney. I The Whippets «ill r present I Kirkland township at the Indogeni i.ent tourney at Berne, February fi. The Whippets have been going good tliis season They hav ■ never | been defeated on their home floor.| Many Kirkland liigli school stu-l Identk are attending the revival 1 in eting at Hondurous (better! known as Henp ck) each evening. The revival will end Wednesday. ; A number of Kirkland basket-1 ball players motored to Fort | Wayne to witness the Decatur and Central gam . Congratulations the victor.". Yellow Jackets. —o RESCUER DESCRIBES MINE AS A “FLAMIN CYCLONE” CON'HNUf.D FROM PAGE ONki we neared the seat of the explos- i ion we could see bodies all around on the mine floor. "They were mangled and torn I and most of them were burned badly. As we approached to within a few feet of them, our lights Hashed the dang.-r sign and we could do nothing more than retreat, 1 without touching the bodies. We came to the surface and made plans for restoring the ventilation sys-“ tern. This work proceeded slowly | and it was several hours before we l could reach the first bodies, al- i though we could distinctly see I them. We were sure they were i dead, so we stacked them in piles | to clear the way. and proceeded > deeper into the mine. "It was necessary several times! to jerk back and get pretty tough : witli some of the younger members of the crew, who tried to forge ahead. They were anxious to reach" the buddies and did not seem to ' rare about the danger of the deadly after damp. "When we had stayed in the mine two hours our heads throbbed and it was hard to breathe. We had no masks, so we went back to the surface and another willing crew took up the work.

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By ALICE ALDEN i San Antonio. Texas, Jan 29 — t Tiie ■Siamese twins are asking for i their freedom. But it is not from < I each other that beautiful Daisy i ! and Violet Hilton desire to lie i j free, but from Mr. and Mrs. Myer i 1 Rothbaum, the couple who for 21 . I years have been thought to be the i aunt and uncle of the Hiltons. Behind the prosaic court action j i instituted by the girls who ask not j ■ only their freedom from the Rothbautne. but a court order for a receiver of their property and a i judgment against the couple is an amazing story. It is a drama of I | greed, of exploitation, of povertv, i a drama that has about it some- ! thing of a Dickensian flavor. And I appropriately enough the story of j the Hiltons begins in one of the j poor districts of London, where | . the twins were born on February 5, WOB. It does not require an excess of ■ imagination to picture the grief and despair of their mother, a i poor woman, when she discovered : j »hat the twin daughters born to ; ■ her were joined together by a ligature which connected the two tiny bodies at the base of tiie spine. , Convinced that it would be difficult to care for them properly even had they been normal the mother knew that to look after them and bring them up under existing conditions, was virtually! impossible. And so, according to i the story told by the twins, their mother sold them to the nurse who looked after her, when the babies ‘‘When I came out I saw Mrs. 1 I Letote standing near the shaft en- ' trance. She hurried over, clutched ] my arm, and asked if I had seen ' her two sons. I had. They were both down there, stretched in the i mud, but I couldn't tell her. I brought out two other sons of hers a few years ago, when an explosion like this occurred in Sullivan, Ind. Her husband got out alive i this time.” Andy relaxed in his chair, drew , a deep inhale from his strong pipe, | and continued reflectively. i ■ ‘ You know we think the struct- j ural steel workers have a dangerous job because we always see their danger, but those who sit down beside a warm fire give no thought to the lisks we run to get tiie coal to the heat for them. Those charred men piled up down there 200 feet underground and a mile from th? nearest exit, are real j soldiers. But all the danger doesn't

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were but twenty days old. The!] nurse, whose name was Mary Hilton, had promised the mother that | ( she would rear and care for them tenderly and kindly. And so, a ' deed to the two girls was exe- 1 cuted and recorded in England. ] And Mary Hilton became sole!' guardian of her strange charges. I The Siamese twins say that ' they have no memories of real ■ childhood. As soon as it was pos-p sible to do so, they were taken top circuses and exhibited as curiosi-| 1 ties. Even while the babes played: with their toys, they were already! being exploited. When the sisters were eight | years of age, their foster mother, Mrs. Hilton, died. But some three i years prior to her death, she had made a will seeking to transfer her title to the twins, to her daugh-! ter, Edith Emily Rothbaum —the ; Mrs. Rothbaum named in the pres-, enf’Hilton suit. This will was duly probated. And then, say the Hiltons. they were taken to the United i States. Here they were exhibited and became famous. The twins say that they have earned as high as $3,500 a week, but allege that the Rothbaums have invested these earnings in their iwn name, and provided the twins merely with the necessities of life. Violet and Daisy were not permit-1 ed to associate with other children p or to attend school, they say. But as they believed Mrs. Rothbaum! was their aunt, and that Mrs. Hil-' ton had been their grandmother, | they obeyed the Rothbaums irnbother us. We'll be back tomorrow!' at werk just the same, so we can | help the families those poor fellows , left behind them." TWO INDIANA MEN SENTENCED .CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE, I, C. Hill. 26, former Indianapolis' polic man, charged with the nnird- 1 er of Charles Zeller. Indianapolis. I lottery operator, according to Pros ; ecutor Herbert E. Wilson, of Ham-p ilton Circuit court. Wilson said ararngements have! 1 'been made that Hill will plead]' iguilty to a first degree murd r. 1 charge tomorrow. If the prisoner had elected to I stand strial, the prosecution said, death would have been sought. Hill purportedly has confessed', to shooting Zelbr in a holdup!, March 12, 1930. Harold Lester, 26,1, Indinapolis, is awaiting trial ini, Marion criminal court here on a! charge of conspiracy in connection witn the minder. Police And Bandits Fight Pistol Battle Chicago, Jan. 29—(UP)— Police |and two negro bandits fought a pis tol battle today at Wabash. Wacker and Michigan Avenues, in the down ]!own district. Four pedestrians were wounded | seriously in the firing, crowds cross|ing Michigan Avenue Link bridgj I were thrown into a panic and both 'negroes were captu v.',, • ne being ! run down purposely by ? nyi.Jekl thinking truck driver. I The battle began when the two j negroes, Clarence Hughes and Isa dore Walkins, both 19, held up a Basin clothing store at 333 North Michigan avenue and fled with $l5O after terrorizing six emp’oyes and two customers. —o See the “Mischieveous Nigger”—Friday, P. M. H. S.

plic'tly. As they grew older, they began to ask questions about themselves and their parentage and also demanded to be allowed to handle some of the money they had been instrumental in earning. This line of conduct, they allege, made the Rothlaums guard them even more closely. When they became too insistent in their questions and demands. they were frightened with tin eats of being placed in an asylum. It was in 1927 that Rothbaum had each girl sign a contract to work for him for SSOO a week. It is this contract that the girls are seeking to have voided. And as ths girls are now 21 years old, they claim that they are entitled to hold property in their own naiqes and rights. Therefore, they are asking for their money, which they allege in their petition, has been invested by Rothbaum in his name. Whatever is the outcome of this -tranee case, which moves graphically from the slums of London to the palatial home in San Antonio, Texas, where the twins now live, one thing is certain. It is that there is no such thing as the willing of one human being to another. and that under tiie terms of such a document the twins are ‘in bondage." They are as united in their demands for justice -■ s they have always been in all matters affecting their happiness and welfare. “Honest Ahe” His Competitor Lawrenceville, 111.. Jan.' 29—(UP) With the celebration of his 101st birthday, Henry Michies, one of the few centenarians in the state, admitted he was getting old. "1 didn't go hunting this year,’ he said. "Last year I fell ’nto a briar patch and that’s a sure sign I'in getting old." When a young man Mickles lived in Charleston, ill.. He made a living splitting rails and hauling them into town for firewood. Michies had [but one real competitor. That was ■ a young man of about bis own age named Abraham Lincoln. "He was tiie only teller that could holler ‘wood ’ as loud as I could,” Mickles said. He is proud of his war record. He served the Union for three and |a half years. Mil kies was party to l tiie guerilla warfare practised ia the 'civil War period, arcompanied General Sherman in his historic march to the sea, foughu at Winchester, and was wounded at Gettysburg. Michies smokes and chews, his taste running largely to cigars, however. He attributes his long life to his naturally rugged constitution. |Ax Murderer Will Be Indicted Soon Terre Haute, lnd„ Jan. 29—(UP) —Members of the family of Mildred Johnson. 16, slain by her 22-year old husband. Lawrence Johnson, here Monday night, were expected to be called before the county grand jury today to give testimony upon which a first degree murder indict ■.< ~?• against the husband will be Johnson made a full confession tb Coroner John O. Carrigus late yesterday in which he said he hit his wife on the head with an ax a number o'2 times “to prevent her suffering birth of a child", expected within a few months. He also revealed that he had planned to commit suicide before the body was found.

WARM WEATHER CONTINUES , (CONTINUED FROM PACE ONE) , ward, but even hi N w York, where | jit was said to be "normally cold,’! i he maximum temperature on Wed ! 1 nesday was 43. At Chicago, tic- | maximum was 42. i In the southern Illinois coal ! j fields, the situation was serious, [ I not only because there was slight ' d mand for coal and miners were I out of work, but also because dur- I ing the warm wave ther lias been ! neither rain nor snow and the | country was suffering for want of j moist uro. In one town, water was I so si arce it was sold at 60 cents a tank and buyers wer? plentiful. | Benton, Harrisburg and West j Frankfoit wer" faced with the I problem of having to import water ! within a week unless it rains. Five trucks are being used daily to hall , water from Eldorado, I!) . to the j Carti r Mills schools and homes.

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Peach, trees bloomed lit some putts of Missouri ttnd It wns fuirI et| the entire year's fruit crop ’ : would lie ruined when the inevli- » I able winter lieglijs. At Memphis, Tenn., the FJty ■ council announced that if the ’hoi' '» jWeathfr continued much longer the' j‘ I city swimming pool would be onhn- • led. The maximum there Wednes- * j day wns 6G. —« | Some other maximum temperatut'es Wednesday were: St. Paul, 146; Boston, 36; Clevi land, 36; Kansas City, 60; Oklahoma City, | 68; Little Rock, 68; St. Louis, 58; i Denver, 58; Helena, 56; Boise, 46; and Peoria, 48. - - - o ——— Paris Adds 1000 Cops * ' Paris. Jan. 29 (UP) One thouIrand new policemen have been mided to Paris force. The increase is I due to new traffic laws requiring ; m ire tra.fic cops. All members of [the force must be over 20 and under 30, on joining, and must have stif ved their military service.