Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 7 February 1931 — Page 4

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. «• DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT published Every Evenlug Except - „ Sunday by TBB DEC ATI'R OJIM O CHAT CO. I. H. Heller Pro*. and Qen. Mgr. X. H. Holthouee. Sec'y A Hue. Mgr. Dick D. Heller ...Vlce-Preeldent Entered at the Pbetofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter Subscription Rates single copies 9 .02 One week,' by carrier .10 One yeal*,'"by carrier — 6.00 One month, by mall .36 Three months, by mall 1.00 •tlx months, by mall 1.76 One year, by mall tine 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 BCHEERRE, INC. 36 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 416 Lexington Avenue, New Tork Charter Member The Indiana League of Home Dailies They say we are to have a third political party and that Just when so many to think we have about' two too many now. You say we are no longer original? Yet twenty-five thousand bills are now up before the legislatures of about half the states. Of-eourse one difficulty is that the averse person favors a system of taxation that will tax whatever he hasn't got. u... J J They might at least return to us the larger currency which was reduced a few years ago to save space in our pockets. We never did need yie change but most of us need it less now. Step right up and put a dollar or two or-as much as you feel you can stand In one of the Red Cross boxes. Thats a good cause and the good Lord helps those who helps him to help others. The community chest drive in Fort Wayne is fifteen thousand dollars short. They wanted SBO,OOO and got about $65,000. Perhaps by careful management they can make that reach. Some wise guy has figured out that it costs every taxpayer fiftyfive dollars a year for prohibition and we are wondering if that includes the damage to the tables and rugs"* I ißSfotatwres in sixteen other siatVs are considering an income taxjlaw to relieve the burden on real estate and this form of taxation has already been adopted In fourteen states. We may not like St but we may have to swallow the dose any way. A' several day rain will be wel- 1 conled for there are hundreds of 4 towels and cities over the country actually in need of water. As a I remit many disastrous fires are f occurring and unless relief comes • . soon, tue damage may be great in various ways. The poll tax bill which would have made every man and woman between the ages of twenty-one ami fifty pay a $2.50 fee for the right of living has been killed, so these who have been worrying about that hardship may breath t bights of relief. * f ... ... . ljj Schmelling, th° big bruiser, win} won the world championship frofti Sharkey on a foul, is guilty of j smashing a nineteen-year-old boy who tried to serve him with I a summons and whom lie then i threw down fifteen steps at the Hotel Commodore in New York, he< should certainly be checked off the iigljt cards in this country. Such an [act, if he committed it, was cowardly and unwarranted. The trend is from the city to the country and every indication is that we have readied the bottom on Improved farm lauds. There* is likely to he a gradual though per- \ haps rather slow upgrade move-1 inept. If you anticipate buying an I

Adams county piece, wc advise you to hop to It for the time will soon be over when you can grab one off for less than the improvements would cost. • The Beckett-Huff bill, designed t to place a limit on tax budgets was , advanced In the senate to third reading. That sounds encouraging , lmt (lie original twenty per cent i ] reduction was changed to ten per 1 cent and we are Just a little afraid j i that before it gets to the Governor, 1 If it ever does. It will have somo more knocked off so it won't help much. Seems as though most of the law makers are either afraid to act or don't actually know just wliat should he done. Tlie Decatur Chamber of Commerce has elected A. R. Ashbaucher as president, a wise selection for he is a go-getter who standß high in this community and who always makes good. However that does not 'mean that we have any right to sit back now and expect ; Fred to do it alone. No one can j do that in community affairs. With j this man to lead the forces there j is no reason why we shouldn’t j make some real progress this year j and we will if every one gets into! the harness and works half as hard as he will. For a good many years at each session of the legislature there has been an Increase In the appropriations. No one expected any thing else for there was a constant boost in every tiling else. Now it should be different for we are going through a period when every individual and every business has been pulling up their belts. The budget committee has knocked eight millions off the requests and Hie assembly ought to be just as good sports and take off that much more, if more money is spent hy this legislature than the last one the boys are going to hear plenty when they get home and if they think that's any kind of a joke they can verify it by a little inquiry now. * « ! Lessons In English | * « Words often misused: Do not say "Can I see you tomorrow,” if asking permission. Say “May I see you? Often mispronounced: Bryn Mawr (Pa.l Pronounce brin-mar, i as in "in," a as in "arm",. accent last syllable. Often misspelled: Winnipeg; oh serve the two n's. Synonyms: Forcible, strong, mighty, energetic, powerful. Word study: "Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary hy masteiing one word each day. Today’s word: Gratuitous; given without, recompense or pay; free. "We mistake the gratuitous blessings of Heaven for the fruits of our own j industry." —L’Estrange. • — #| ! Household Scrapbook j | By ROBERTA LEE | • « Starche i Garments When starched garments must be ironed immediately, sprinkle, roll in a damp cloth or paper hag, and place in a warm oven for a few minutes to steam. They will then iron nicely. Indelible Ink Stains Moisten the spot with lactic acid, applied with a small brush. Place i in the sun. Repeat several times it j necessary. ~resh Butter To keep bu'ter fresh, wrap each piece of butter in a piece of clean muslin and tie securely. Then pack Hie pieces in a crock of brine that | will float an egg. Weight down with a clean stone, being sure that tho butter is well covored with brine. o * w Modern Etiquette i 3y 1 ROBERTA LEE * ,!U>j « Q. Is it proper to use initials on the visiting cards? , A. No; tho complete name should be spelled out. Q. What rule governs tho holding of the knife? A. It must be held In the right hand. Q. What is one of the beet ways to cultivate taste in the choice of words and the phrasing of expressions? A. The reading of good books of established literary standing is the very best method of acquiring a choice and pleasing voeabulary. I Miss Clara Mcßride and Harold | Heller were, unions the Decatur fans at the Bluffton game.

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MONROE NEWS The Ladies Aid Society of tho Monroe Methodist church met at the home of Mrs. William Keller Thursday afternocn. Mrs. Hattlp Mills of Decatur Is visiting her daughter Mrs. Grover Oliver and family. Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Tabler attended to business in Fort Wayne Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Beals of Portland, visited Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Farrar. Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hendricks called on Mrs. Maud Dorwin at the Adams County Memorial hospital at Decatur Wednesday evening. Virgil Lalsure is improving slowly from his recent illness. Mr. and Mrs. William McKean spent Thursday in Decatur as guest of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Lake. Howard Hahnert and Miss Aleta Hahnert returned Thursday from a week's visit with relatives at

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By HARRISON CARROLL. fi CbvrriUht. 1931. Premier Syndicate. Inc. HOLLYWOOD, CaL, . .- j ' Unless Jack Warner says so, Rich-! ' ard Barthelhiess’ proposed air pic- j j ture will be “the single lady,’’ by; I John Monk Saunders. i r

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The story has been running in a national week- . ly magazine, and now is to be had in book | form. Barthel- ' mess has read I it and is en- | thusiastic. j A final okay awaits the return of Warner, | who has been kept away from the studio by a

I minor illness. Edward Everett 1 Saunders was Horton. I Dick’s best film in some time. He also wrote the first of the air picj tures, “Wings.” Currently, Dick I is at work on a newspaper story, | “The Mob.” Later this title will j be changed. ( ONLY COINCIDENCE. , It is significant, perhaps, that i i the news of Ruth Chatterton's de- i section from Paramount broke when she was making a picture i called “Unfaithful?” Furthermore. 1 a song used in the film is titled 1 “Mama’s in the Doghouse Now.” i LATEST GOSSIP. The Sam Coslows (composer of ( ; “Sing, You Sinners”) have an 1 i eight-pound baby boy. Only three i months ago, a hit-and-run driver fatally injured their other baby i son in front of the family resi- < dence...Fifi Dorsay’s impromptu i voyage assumes a certain air of t mystery. She went down to have . tea on a boat at 5 p. m. in the 1 afternoon and the next day the atudio got a radiogram announcing - *he had sailed. Fox says she thought she could get off at San ' Diego, only to discover that the i vessels first stop was Cristobal, i Earlier reports had her headed for . Europe. Everyone agrees she’ll disem- j bark very soon. In the meanwhile, ; | the gay Fiji becomes a Canadian ■ subject with a French accent on a Dutch boat in Mexican waters, headed for Panama. . . . One . Koiiywood studio has a new regulation that scenario writer* are not allowed to make outside calls from their offices, and that they cannot bring magazines or books to work Periodicals addressed to them at 1

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, Harrod Ohio. Mrs. E. W. Busche. Mrs. John Flovfc and Mrs. Otto Longenberge? attended the Farmers Institute £' Kirkland Thursday. Mrs James A. Hendricks and son Gail visited Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hendricks at Fort Wayne Thursday. Lawrence Lobenstein of For’ Wayne visited his father L. F. Loi.enstien Tuesday. Mr. Ira Wagoner and Mrs. Ida Bollinger visited relatives in Bluffton Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Rola Longenberger spent Monday in Fort Wayne with Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Shirk. Miss Lizzie Christ of Decatur is, visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Floyd. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Coppess of Peterson called on relatives in Monroe Thursday evening. Sat'ara Bonders ot' Morrow. Ohio, Is visiting his family for a few days. Mrs. Jennie Rainer and Mrs. Agnes Andrews of Decatur spent Friday with Mr. ami Mrs. Forest Andrews. • o Get the Habiv—Trade at Home

■the studio will be re-routed. . . . j Blanche Sweet left here Monday | night to start her 40-week vaude- j viile tour. She .'as accompanied i by her grandmother. ... Tom Douglas, who stole honors from Elsie Ferguson in a recent Coast revival of “Fata Morgana, ’ lost | his voice and is being replaced in John Barrymore’s “Svengali" by Bramwell Fletcher. ... The change will necessitate two days of retakes. NEPTUNE IN RED FLANNELS. Edward Everett Horton recalls the predicament of a one- night | stand troupe who were staging a

scene in which ■ three men were I marooned in a I storm - tossed I boat. j Twenty yokels I crouched under I the canvas] ocean simulated | waves by rais- ] ing and lower- | ing their shoul- | ders. At the climactic moment | came a rippling sound and a red-shirted farmer burst I

laiiuci u u I 5 - MtfaMMMMMHiiaua through a wave. Blanche Two of the Sweet actors in the boat were petrified, but the third was more quick-witted. Man overboard,” he shouted lustily. ANOTHER FOR MARJORIE. Having scored in each of her recent performances, Marjorie Rambeau now finds the radio to talkie fame a comparatively easy one. She'll be seen in William Hains’ new picture, now under way but as yet untitled. Another play. ; added to this cast is Hale Hamilton. As hitherto reported, Dorothy Jordan will play opposite the star, j Sam Wood directs. ARLISS PICKS NEXT. The next George Arliss picture i will be “The Devil,” which, it is ! interesting to note, was his first i individual starring vehicle on the stage. To get the Ferenc Molnar play into shape for a picture, Warners have engaged J. Grubb Alexander. His task will be to modernize as well as to adapt the story. Arliss has to complete “The Passion” before he will be available for “The Devil.” DO YOU KNOW That while Buddy Rogers was a student at the University of Kansas he won the inter-fraternity boxing title in his weight?

r — i BIG FEATURES OF RADIO I ! i •— — ♦ Saturday's 6 Best Radio Features Copyright 1931 hy UP. WEAF (NBC network) 5 p. m. CST Black and Gold Room Orchestra. WABC (CBS network) 6 p. m. ! CST Morton Downey. I WEAF (NBC network) 7 p. nr. CST —Weber and Fields. WJZ (NBC network) 8 p. m. CS T—The Campus. WABC (CBS network) 9 p. m. CST—Show Boat. Sunday, Feb. 8, 1931 1160 K, WOWO, Ft. Wayne, 258.5 M ; - IK) —Gospel Messengers B*B0—Old Time Religion 10:15— Melody 10*30 -Watch Tower 10; 46 —Gourde Band 11.45- Lutheran Church Services 12:S<*—Uncle Dick with the Comic 1:00 —Gospel Hour 2:00 —N. Y. Symphony 4:00 —Rev. Barnhouso 4:3(i —Sweethearts of the Air 6:00 —Missionary Hour f>: 30- -Tea Time Orchestra 6:00--Story Hour 6:Bo—Studio T:00 —Eastman Kodal: , 7:16 —U. iS. School of Music 7:30 — Kaltenborne Edits the News 7.15 —R.T.I. Orchestra 8:00 —Percy Robbins, organist 5.3C —Graham Paige Hour 9:oo —Royal’s Poet 9 30 —Be Square Motor Club 10:00 —Bible Drama Monday, Feb. 9, 1931 1160 K, WOWO, Ft. Wayne, 258.5 M B:oo—Three Bakers 8:30 —Evening in Paris. 9:oo—Panatella 9:3o—Memory Teasers 10:00 —Marguerite at the Organ. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1931 1160 K, WOWO, Ft. Wayne, 258.5 M 7:30 —Kaltenborne Edits the 7:45 —Premier Salad Dressers 8:00 —Henry George 8:30 —Symphony Hour 9:oo—Mr. & Mrs. 9:3o—Paramount Publix 10:00 —Musicale Aviators i o # ♦ ' I TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From ihe Daily Democrat File | ♦ • Feb. 7 —T. M. Reid elected president of Post X- T. P. A. and L. C. Waring, vice-president. Dupont Powder Company magazine at Montpelier, lnd., destroyed when 900 quarts of powder explodes shock felt here. Leo Martin writes from Alaska that its 60 below zero. H. A. Fristoe of Geneva will take over a five and ten cent store at Rochester April Ist. Mrs. John Whittenbarger of Dexter, Mo., returns here to make her home. Eighty two have been converted at the south Salem revival. W. A. Sellers and N. VV. Miller, state accountants are here to audit lie city books. Georse Kinzle goes to Chicago to attend telephone meeting. Ferd Peoples and Alva .Nichols assist Herman Gerke on "butchering day. Peter Bryan of Jefferson 'ownship leaves on trip to southwest. DEBATE TO BEGIN ON WRIGHT LAW % _________ (CONTINUED FROM ONE) First of the liquor bills considered will tie that to permit physicians to prescribe whisky, which will come up for debate Tuesday night. Wednesday night the repeal bill, introduced by Fred A. Egan, Democrat, Gary, and Fred S. Galloway, Democrat, Indianapolis, is slated for discussion. Dean said that Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley, president of the Indiana! W. C. T, U., and Ethan A. Miles, attorney for the Indiana AntiSaloon league, will speak against both bills. Notices that the bjll affecting physicians will be up for debate Tuesday night have been sent doctors throughout the state by Thomas Hendricks, secretary of the Indiana State Medical associattion, and Dean expects several hundreds to be* present. Galloway, author of the repeal bill, said that one minister will speak In favor of passage of his measure, and that he has been assured that among the others to urge passage will be Leo M. Rap- ! uport, member of Governor Harry G. Leslie's crime commission. o- - PREBLE NEWS * ♦ Mr. and Mrs. John Kirchner and daughters Erma and Mrs. Junr Shockley and son Daniel Eugeur visited Mrs. Louis Stetter ar,f daughter Paula of Fort Wayne Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hoffman and family had as their gues s for Sunday dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Ernst of Peterson. Mrs. George Sprague of Decatur ami Airs. J. C. Grandstaff visited their mother, Mrs. E. Mann Tuesday afternoon. Milton Hoffman and daughter Era! Straub motored to Corunna Wednesday morning, where they' spent the day visiting Mr. and Mrs. *

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Courtesy Bluffton News-Banner Above are pictured two Views of the Leader department store, at Bluifton. which was totally destroyed by fire early Thursday morning. The total loss suffered by the blaze i« estimated at SIOO,OOO. The lire was still smoldering Friday night and the Bluffton lire department was i> nnn in«v mionl trx flirt hpr nuihupnk nf the flames.

keeping guard to prevent further <> Robert Sherlock. Miss D-rothy Hos: man will spend several r’ tys visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Sherlock. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Holbrook spent Sunday visiting relatives in Fort Wayne. ' Mr and Mrs. D. M. Rice of Decatur. called on Misses Irene and Lorine Kirchner Sunday afternoon Air. and Mrs. Edgar Zimmerman

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outureaK 01 tne names. and daughter called on Mr. and - Mrs. Richard Bogner of Decatur, Tuesday evening. ; Mr. and Mrs. Orville lieller, Mrs. t J. C. Grandstaff and Miss Mary Steel attended the Farmers Insti- ■ itute held at the Kirkland High l! School Thursday. | - 0 i Get the Habit —Trade at Home.

COURT HOUSE Real Estate Tran Bferi 8 f eri W. D. Gross, et ux.. i n u. J ! Qenevu * 1° Opal Blanch M os . ‘ 1 I $50.00. B, * r <1 Two Cases Filed Kenneth Wilkerson vs Th«~. Witte damage suit. Rose Wilkerson v» th Witte damage suit. PlalntlM 4 * botlT cases allege InJurSJfj accident with defendant eight south of Fort Wayne on mate r 1 27 on April 20. 1980. ro * Divorce Granted Augusta Hunt was granted a * vorce from Kenneth Hunt in Art.! circuit court. The plaintiff * awarded restoration of her mai ? name, Augusta Farlow. 8,1 Assumes Jurisdiction Judge John H. Aiken, of y. Wayne, assumed Jurisdiction i n 1 Atkins vs Pawlich ami ( ranter « Pawlich suits, a hearing on mo ti « for a new trial will be held Marc 2. Plaintiff Wins Divorce j Frank Stump was awarded m vorce from Cora Stump j n drc#] I court this morning. The custody, itwo children, William, u, an 4 - kard, 18, was awarded to the p |„. tiff. The defendant may visit tl children on alternate Staurdin The defendant also was ord«n to pay court costs of the case. Course For Famous Race May Be Changed I London,’Feb. 7—(lT)—The hij I torlc Putney to Mortlake course ol the Oxford and Cambridge Univer- | sities' boatrace may be ( hanged for jthis year’s contest. For many years the classic hat [been lowed between Putney Stone about a hundred yards above Put! ney Bridge, and Mortlake Brewery. A new Chiswick bridge is now being built and it Is feared that tjie crews, if tired, may not be able to backwater in time to avoid colliding with the piles. (Officials are considering starting the race from Putney Bridge itself and fixing the winning post Look Before Leap Sometimei The old advice to look before you leap may he as good as ever. But if compelled to jump from eg alrplnne we should he strongly tempted to ignore It.—Lowell lire- , ning Lender. — -I ~ U ... I M I ..