Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 4 April 1931 — Page 3

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Saturday Zion Reformed Mission Hand, church parlors, 2:30 p. in. * U. B. Ladies Aid Society Cafeteria Supper, church parlors. 5 to 7 Ip. m. Zion Reformed Easter Egg Sale, Mutachler Meat Market, 9. a. in. Monday Pythian Sister inspection, K. <>r P. Home, o p. m. Art Department study meeting, Mrs. Robert Mills, 7:30 p. m. Research Club, Mrs. (). L. Vance, 2:30 p. m. Tuesday 1 Voting Matron’s Club, Mrs. Frank Crist. 7:30 p. m. Evangelical Dutiful Daughters class. Mrs. Ivan Stucky. Wednesday Zion Lutheran Missionary Socie-y Mrs. C. M. Ellsworth, 2 p tn. The Religious Study Club Miss Edith Ervin. 7:30 p. m. Historical Club*, Mrs. Fred Ahr 2 p. m. M. E. Ever Ready Class, Mrs. Dan Tyndall, 8 p. m. Shakespeare Club, Mrs. Charles’ iTeeple. 2.30 p. m. Thursday Bridge Club, Margaret Haley, 8 p. m. Archer, John Schenck. Clair Carver. Mr. and Mrs. Ben McCullough and children Dora Mae and Buddy, Mr. and Mrs. John Tinkham and children Vera. Dennison, Agnes, Ethyl, Doris, Thelma, and the honored guest, Miss Florence Tinkham. Miss Tinkham received a number of gifts from her friends in remembrance of her birthday. The annual inspection of the local Pythian Sister lodge will be held in the Knights.of Pythias home on Third street, Monday night. A supper for fifty cents will he served to all members of the Pythian Sisters : at six o’clock, by the members of the Knights of Pythias, and the inspection to he conducted by Mrs. Daisy Brown of Kokomo, will follow. The Missionary Society of the Zion-Lutheran Church will meet with. Mrs. C. M. Ellsworth at her home on Winchester street. Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock. HONORS SISTER WITH CARD PARTY Miss Evangeline Steele entertain-; ed with a card party at her home in | Pleasant Mills, Friday evening, honoring her sister, Miss Mary Steele. Several games of pinochle and rhum were played after which the small tables were decorated wi‘h Easter appointments, and a t iree course luncheon was served. Those present were the Misses Veda Smith, Jaurtita Evans, Martella Carver, Margaret Daniels, Zelma Eckels, Helen Daniels, Mary Ada Johnson, Maxine Dellinger, Amy Schenck. Mary Steele, Evangeline Steele, and the Messrs. Lawrence Ehrsam, Clair Carver, Roy Smith, Emery Whittredge, Wilbur Riley, Brice Daniels, Merle Foor, Hubert Ehrsam, Bill Davis, Austin Merriman. Clyde Troutner, Franklin Halberstadt. and Eldred Shifferly. ENTERTAINS ZIONS LADIES AID Mrs. Melvin Diehl entertained at her home Thursday for the members of the Zion Ladies Aid Sotiety. The day was spent in quilting, and devotional services were lesl by tie Rev. J. Smith. At the norm hour a pot-luck dinner was served to tho e (present, including Rev. and Mrs. J. Smith and children Ruth, and Johan Jean, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fugate and daughter Blanche, Mi. and Mrs. William Yager, Mrs. Joe Wolf. Hibbard High, Mrs. Roe Wynn, J. (). Parrish, Crist Hehncrick. Herman Sautbine and son Billie, Mrs. George Reber and son Virgil, Mrs. Joe Baumgartner and son Don. Mrs. Lucy Johnson and son Mrs. Lawrence Noll and son, Mrs. Sours and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Diehl. —iMiss Margaret Haley will entertain her bridge club, Thursday even- 1 ing at eight o'clock. ‘ o. i Personal Morality A great many people nuste time < tallclng about codes, stnndiirds and j scruples, when In reality they t mean Inhibitions. Instincts and de i sires. The finest excuse for per , ! sonal morality is that In the end I It lustlfles Itself through Increased 1 satisfaction with Hvlnr -I.ee Car- ■ ! pen ter. 1 1 Blame Put on Rats A number of German explorers who have just returned to Cape- j town from the Ngand lake district . In Africa report that Luke Ngiunl ( was formerly a deep lake 20 miles long and 1 t miles wide. Today It is very shallow and almost dry. because, according to the natives, ruts had stopped n number of rlv- i era from flowing Into It.

OECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATI’RDAY, APRIL I. 1931.

SURVEY SHOWS IMPROVEMENT Employment Gains Are Made; Business is Holding Own Washington, April 4 - (U.R) Belief that business is holding its ‘ own ami employment Is gaining is expressed in an American Federation of Labor survey for the first quarter of 1931 made public] here. "The first quarter ends with a tinner convhjtlon that business lias reached the bottom of depression," the survey says, but adds the additional activity of industry I and Hade "lias not Isen more than seasonal." "As yet there is no conclusive ■viilcnee sustained recovery has | begun. The months just passed have lr-en chara Periled by uneven trends, some industries movng upward, some still downward. Such a pet iod usually comes at the j nd of a business depression, Immediately Itefore revival. "Competent l usiness forecasters I seem to agree that the business leullne is probably at an end and that i> return to last fall's condi- 1 Hons is unlikely. In the fall we may look forward to a more definite climb upward toward prosjierity." Emp'oygncnt gains reported by | the federation survey were “slight" in Marcli but a graph representing the first quarter showed iinprove- ■ inent from January to March I ’eons'dernbly greater this year thnfl last”. Key factors to which business looks for indications qf fundamental changes were not particularly favorable except in building and home construction for which contracts in the first three weeks of Marcli increased 40 per cent compare'! with 25 per cent which would be the normal seasonal increase. Demand for automobiles, the federation continued. has not I reached expected proportions lie- | cause of "low incomes, particular- | ly among workers.” Steel mill operations which increased in Fanuary and February “were checked in the third week of March" because of subnormal de- : mands from the automobile and railroad industries. Trousers Become Torch Sisters. Ore., April 3. —<U.R> —Ray Stewart' spilled gasoline on his trousers. Later he struck a match to light a lantern and his trousers burst into flames. Quick work on the part of W. J. Crawford and | Charles Prusick saved him from ( serious burns. 0 . CONVICTION OF BROTHERS SEEN AS GREAT STEP iCUiVTFNC. r> 'TOV PAGF ON9B 'xmis Piquette near the witness •liifr while the verdict waa read. He stood for a minute, silently ii! b ! ng his chin, after the word ‘guilty” echoed through the -rov.’ded room. "Let's duck.” he whispered to a bailiff when lie no longer could stand the silence, broken only by Ids sweetheart's sobs. “I want to be alone." ho told rbo'ographers later when they •ried to take pictures of him in Ids coll. Henry C. Rathbun, member of 'he board of strategy which arrested Brothers secretly after 10 months ot investigation, was one •I the first to move in the courts -oom after the verdict was read. He rushed to congratulate C. Way'and Brooks, the' minister's son who led the attack in a trial that -as one of the most peculiar on record because the state made no attempt to prove a motive and •he 'ofepso din'not try to prove hi a'ild Brooks admitted he was disappointed that the penalty bad not been fixed at death but said it was a fair ’ inlict." Despite h's youth, he has gained much fame j us a “hanging prosecutor" having obtained the death penalty in dl CUH'S he has prosecuted. Attorney Piquette, also young, inked immediately for a new trial. \ hearing on his request was set or April 24. Chicago April 4— (UP) — Philip Hagerman, one of the jurors wno convicted Leo V. Brothers of Hie murder of Alfred J. Lingle, told tne United Press today that “I came over for conviction to get out of that jury room where the food was terrible.” Hagerman said he believed the ‘•terrible food" had “some influence” on the verdict, which was returned after 27 hours of continued deliberation. "If we had stayed in there (the jury room) in that stifling atmosphere 10 hours longer we would l ave all been dead," Hagerman said He said the jurors stood 11 to 1 for conviction and that he was the "holdout” but changed his vote to one for conviction because the bailiff said they might be "in there for 70 hours” or until Monday. While the trial was going on, Hagerman said "The food was excellent as good as any hotel’s in town.”

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By HARRISON CARROLL. < CwvrtfM itsi Pt»mi»f Bvndinte In* HOLLYWOOD, Cal., March 00. — Roused by the criticism of Elissa Landi's first story, "Body ■nd Soul,” Fox is exerting itself to find proper vehicles for its New White Hope.* Promising indeed is the news that Adela Rogers Hyland has 1 been commissioned to write an original prison story for the Austrian actress. Adela is now visit,ing San Quentin, famous California Bastille, to ge t material. Miss Landi, to make an inevitable comparison, is the Greta Garbo of the Fox lot. She was born in Venice, of Austrian parentage, and war reared in England. She is married to an English barrister •nd has written two novels. After a glamorous hit on Broadway in "A Farewell to Arms," the actress was signed by Fox. Her reception in Hollywood was disheartening, nobody paid much attention to her. Eventually, however, the studio woke up and broadcast a strong publicity campaign. “Body and Soul," her first picture, came in for critical condemnation, but the actress scored a personal hit. She isn't a conventional screen beauty, but has that disturbing something A second picture. "Always Goodbye," is awaiting release. LATEST GOSSIP. The real low-dawn on the Ann Harding - Path* negotiations is that the star hasn’t signed any new contract of any sort She

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still has a year and a half to go under her old agreements, however. In the meanwhile Pathe has not given up hope of getting her to sign for a longer term... after a lover’s •pat that lasted ten days, Gerole Lombard and William Powell are cooing

again. Incidentally, Bill is sick with flu.. Count Alam de la Falaise, brother of the Marquis, is now with us. He will adapt foreign versions and assist < Frere Henri at R. K. 0.. . According to a new edict of the Hays office, the word "sin” cannot appear in any more titles. Oh well, the possibilities were about exhausted, anyway... After years of retirement. Kathlyn Williams, heroine of that famous old serial, “The Adventures of Kathlyn,” will return to the screen in Fox’s “Daddy lx>ng Legs.’’. . Peacefully occupy ing the same office at Paramount are two publicity men who are handling Theodore Dreiser’s "An American Tragedy" and Sinclair Lewis’ “Let’s Play King.” ... Incidentally, Dreiser is said to have reached an accord with Joseph von Sternberg on "An American Trag-, edy.”. . .One of the week’s smart-’

But after deliberations started, he j said, "We onl ygot sandwiches and warm coffee until yesterday noon i when we were served fish we could- i not eat." The other jurors offered no comment on Hagerman’s charges. Defense attorneys were expected , to use hagerman’s charges as part of their arguments for a new trial SERVICES AT ALL CHURCHES ARE ANNOUNCED C( NTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Easter" 7 p. m. First Methodist Church — Holy Communion at •’ o’clock. ’Wnin,' and evening sei vice. • Presbyterian — Special servicer, morning and evening. Christian En deavor will hold an Easter breakfast at the church a: (i a. m. United Brethren Church Sunrise . prayer meeting 6 a. m. Cantata and Pageant “PalniH of Victory” at evening service. 7 p. m. Zion Reformed Church - Evening program 7 p. m. Will present play entitled “The Way of the Cross". ( With the children the Easter B’tn i ny will make them glad with his annual visit to the homes and filling their baskets with goodies for the day. Washington April 4-(UP) Will) lair weather forecast for Easter, the national capitol will celebrate the holiday tomorrow in a manner which in ceratin respects will shatter precedent. The White House gate, thrown open yesterday, for the first tin.o

THE CORT SUNDAY - MONDAY - TUESDAY MATINEE SUNDAY 2 P. M.—loc-35c FIRST EVENING SHOW 6:30—15c-40c “THE CRIMINAL CODE” A Drama of Prison Life, featuring WALTER HUSTON, PHILLIPS HOLMES, and MARY DORAN. An unforgettable drama Mighty epic of love and redemption. AIso—"RADIO KIISSES” talking Comedy: Movietone News; Cartoon. TONIGHT—“NOT EXACTLY GENTLEMEN,” a Western drama with Victor McLaglen and others. Also 6th Chapter “FINGER PRINTo and Cartoon. 15c 35c

♦est strokes of business was executed by Fox when it signed George E. Stone on a long-term contract. Georgie is one of the best character actors in Hollywood .. Now that Jack Warner has gone to New York. Graham Baker says he is devoting more time to the Bobby Jones golf senea. WAYNE FAILS TO GAIN. In the terms of his old football career. John Wayne has been slopped without gain at Fox. After making three pictures in the last year, the former U. S. C. gridiron man has finished up. and is preparing to Start upon a freelance career. Incidentally. First

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Ns 11 o n al alI ready has shown an interest in him. | Wayne played I the hero of I “The Big Trail” E and since then I has made "Girls S Demand ExciteI men t” and I “Thi;ee Girls I Lost." None of ’ these pictures | clicked. With a good deal of justice, he argues that ! he can’t be en- |

he argues that he can’t be en- < tirely to blame for the public’s , stay-away attitude. ( —■“ DID YOU KNOW That Erich von Stroheim once headed the wardrobe department | at Universal? UNEXPECTED OPPOSITION. The only person in Hollywood to stop one of the Marx Brothers is, oddly enough, Little Robert Coogan. Meeting the youngster on the lot, Groucho Marx asked him if he bad seen one of his pictures. Mrs. Coogan answered that he hadn’t. “Well,” said Groucho, "You’d like ‘Animal Crackers."’ “Yeah,” said Master Robert, “with frosting on top.” WHAT EVERY YOUNG MAN SHOULD KNOW. “Honesty is the best policy,” says Arthur Caesar, “providing the other fellow pays the premium.” A HELPING HAND. Hollywood may be a self-cen-tered place, but now and again you run across something that makes you refuse to believe it. For instance, on every school holiday, the R. K. O. studio brings 150 children from the nearby Los Angeles orphanage to a special picture show in one of the company’s large orojection rooms. Such pictures as “Trader Horn" and “Ttm Sawyer” are borrowed from other studios, when there is no R. K. O. film available that would have appeal to children. Things like this warm you U the industry.

in 30 years, will be opened to the public again today, with the president and Mrs. Hoover personally greeting the throng. Sunrise religious services will be held at the tomb o fthe unknown] soldier at Arlington tomorrow for] the first time in history and will he broadcast. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover: plan to attend. The Japanese cherry trees will: not be in bloom, however, and thou-' j sands of out of town visitors will be disappointed. — o Ewes Must Have Quiet Wapinitia, Ore., April 3 —U.R) —. j Ewes must have their quiet. When the state highway department sought to acquire a suitable site for a quarry near here the owner offered to lease it if the department would wait until after lambing time to start blasting. He explained (that tlie noise would bother the ewes during the lambing season. | o Polecat Costs Man $245 The Dalles, Ore., April 3.—4U.R)—| Richard I). Forrest swerved his car to avoid a skunk, slid over an em-j bankment. was unhurt, but sold the | wreck of the car for which he had recently paid $250, for $5. 'I he skunk was not hurt. ! o I Oregon Salons Scan Freak. Bill ( I Salem, Ore., April 3. —iU.R? —Perhaps the freakest cf all freak legislative bills was introduced in tlie Oregon legislature by Senator Binnett, Portland butcher. It provided that the state issue $50,000,000 in ! currency to be loaned on real property in amounts not to exceed $5.000.

Bob Hill visited wlt'i friends in ' Fori Wayne Friday evening. Miss Dorothy Haley and Harold Esh<‘x visited with friends in Fort Wayne Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Spahr of Markel are visiting with Mrs. ( Spahr's parents, Mr. anil Mrs. Perle Riker. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Fry and H daughter Wanda spent the day l visiting in Portland. Miss Magdeline Miller, a Htudent ( at Internationa) College in Fort | Wayne, is spending the week-end in this city with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Miller. t Mr. and Mrs. Roy G. Jahn and son Junior of South Whitley, and ! Mr. and Mrs. John J. Johnson of i Fort Wayne are visiting with Mr. I and Mis. J. W. Johnson and family. ( Mrs. Bryce Thomas and Miss Helen Haubold spent Thursday in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Agnes Andrews anti Mm. i Jennie Rainier spent Friday in Mon-' roe visiting with Mr. and Mrs. For ' rest Andrews. Mr. and Mrs. Miles Baker of Foit . Wayne will spend Easter with Mrs. j Baker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James I Gattshall. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Krick and , daughter Patsy of Van Wert, Ohio, i arrived in this city today to visit over Easter with Mrs. Agnes An j drews and Mrs. ('. T. Rainier. Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Hyland of Roa-' noke visited with Rev. and Mrs. R. ' E. Vance who will spend Easter in I Roanoke. Mrs. Lloyd Youse and baby Eileen

Mae, of Hoagland, are visiting with Mrs. Yose's mother, Mrs. Mae Andrews in this city. Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Vegas and Mrs. Henry Thomas motored to Dayton, Ohio today where they will visit over Easter .with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Bittner and baby Frederick Clarence, residing on rural route 3. were visitors in this city today. F. W. Scott of Wren, Ohio was a business visitor in Decatur today. Miss Eileen Corbett of Fort Wayne is spending Easter with the Fred Fullenkamp family. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Daniels and family motored to Fort Wayne this evening where they will spend Easter visiting with relatives Mrs. Freeman Schnepp who underwent an operation at the Adams County Memorial Hospital on Friday. Marcli 27, is improving. Miss Mary Poling a student at Taylor University, Upland, is spend ing Easter visiting relatives in this city. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lose and daughters Mary Ann and Margaret, will spend Easter with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Murray in Fort Wayne. They will be accompanied to Fort Wayne by Billy Murray who has spent several days visiting here. o Not in Homeland The largest Spanish speaking city in the world is not hi Spain, hut In South America—Buenos Aires.

WATCH FOR IT! WAIT FOR IT! Ford Truck Caravan Consisting of a group of 15 different body styles will visit Decatur Monday, April 6 8 till 11 o’clock a. tn. This wonderful display of New Ford Trucks will be a show in itself. Never before anything like it. The various body styles to be exhibited will include Stake Body — Grain Body — Stock Back — Three Coal Body Trucks—Stone Dump Body—Express Body — Service Body— De Luxe Panel Body—Special Dry Cleaners Panel Body. Both Short and Long Wheel Base Models will he in this caravan which are the latest developments in Ford Bodies. YOU ARE INVITED TO INSPECT THIS DISPLAY. Decatur Sales & Service, Inc. 8. SECOND ST. DECATUR

WALKER FACES RIGID PROBE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and the sudden divorce has started that talk. It was inevitable. '"People cannot help talking of a woman ho beautiful as Betty Compton, and cannot help wondering about her marriage and her divorce, cannot help speculating on her future.” (Hetty Compton, who made a hit in Hie revue "Fifty Million Frenchmen" in New York, was married secretly here February Isl to Edward D. Dowling, a nioti«i picture dialogue director. They went to Havana for a brief honeymoon, and It was reported they disagreed. Miss Compton obtained a Mexican divorce March 21). "People cannot help wondering how Jimmy feels about this—for they know thut Jimmy and Betty went to prize fights together, to first nights, to night clubs, and that they were guests at various parties . . . "Jimmy comes back from California to answer various charges made against his administration as mayor. And he comes with his grin as wide as ever, his tongue as smooth, his courage as superb. “ ‘Will you resign when you get home?’ Jack Miley of the News asked Jimmy Friday . . . “‘You are wasting your time,’

SAVE A V vrariE EVER IT took that reliable, straight-thinking philosopher. Will Rogers to explode the myth that indiscriminate spending would bring back prosperity. Real prosperity is built on the twin solid rocks of normal spending and normal saving. Buy normally. But remember to save normally, too. $1 opens an Account Old Adams County Bank

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Jimmy said finally. ’There’s only • one man I’ll answer on this political nttmttlon His mime is Franklin Delano Roosdvelt (Demoeratlc governor of New York state» and whnl I’ll tell him will bo plenty.’" (Roosevelt has been asked remove Walker from office for alleged misfeasance. The charges were brought by the city affairs committee, it reform group. Roosevelt has asked Walker sot a reply to the. charges. At the same time the stall' legislature has ordered a wido , Investigation of city affairs.) "Much depends on how Roosevelt handles the investigation of Knlker. If he handles it skilfully an I honestly and thoroughly ho may be the next president of the United States. If the Investigation flops,’ Jimmy Walker wllk emerge a greater figure ami Ro sevelCs aura may , dim. "And things are so shaping In the world that the next president ol this republic may have the fate of the world In his hands. "There have been a lot of investigations so far. Bitter, terrible, slimy things have crawh-djut i the light. A history of modern civilization is being written. . . . "The Seabury and Kresel investigations (of vice conditions) have unearthed some of them. The< Walker Investlgaticn may or may not disclose others. "It will determine how this city has been administered during the years Mayor Walker has been in charge. It will determine whether Tammany controls the city, or whether the city controls Tam- , many. It will determine which iwthe stronver, Tammany or Roosevelt. “Tammany is on trial, as well as Walker ...” —