Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1931 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Hollhouse Sec’y & Hub. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter Subscription Rates Single copies $ .02 One week, by carrier. 10' One year, by carrier 5.00 ■ One month, by mail 35; Three months, by mail 1.001 Six months, by mail 1.751 One ytar, by mail 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 i Price®" quoted are within first and second sones. Elsewhere $3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. — National Advertising Representati! SCREERER. INC. 35 Etist Wacker Drive. Chicago ; *ls Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member The Indiana League of Home Dailies i A lot of folks seem to think that unty difference between the United States treasury and Santa Claus is ' that the treasury has no whiskers. I —A few showers won't hurt a thing I According to the official depart I Rents, we are far below normal in I rainfall and there is danger of drouth. A man at Washington, Indiana, stole some chickens the other day, i pied guilty and was sent to prison ; for a year. That’s either severe or I the Kirkland verdict a little light. ' Have it your own way. * The Chicago school boy who kill- ' ®d.a policeman might take his case : Jh er to Valparaiso where he would . Probably be required to “stay in’’ Tfntil he had writteta the word po- , Hceman over a hundred times. . We can’t have a beautiful city Jiith weeds. They ruin the appear [ Alice of the entire block. The I ’hoard of health has issued an order' that they be cut now ami kept I xiown and that's right so that every I <sne ought to heartily and cheerXully agree. - ‘Governor Ritchie wants a rum [ 4ax to solve the tax problem but i •some of the governors would just ’ leave keep on suffering from the •high taxes as to have to meet al! 41ie difficulties of the o’.d fashioned j jrum era. No chance to get togeth | 4r on that subject it seems. •» Who ever thought it would reefluire a lot of solicitation to get i 2>,000 to eat dinner with the President of the United States durins: I Ml visit to Indiana, especially when ' “ft is announced that its to be chick-I -en and informal which means you «4>ick a drum stick right up and eat -dike you would at home when you .don't bahve company? ’ The sale of the Beerv farm west Ts this city for $l3O per acre shows [ the confidence of people in Adams | •ceunty property and the purchaser •was well acquainted with values. »We insist that the wisest invest-1 jnent that can be made now is a I plarm in this section. Investments ’in stocks and bonds may go haybut a farm will always pro- ■ tltice a handsome living and after "til! that’s about all there is to it. ...Merchants have asked that for-; " ejgn peddlers be prohibited from I “selling their wares here and the ■ 'city council should grant the re-! "...quest, if possible, by adopting an

CHICAGO AND KETURN i <A> S 3-50 Next Sunday Lv. Decatur 2:24 a.m. Ar. Chicago 7:20 a.m. Returning leave Chicago on ail Regular trains to and including No. 8, 10:20 p. m. same Sunday. «•» V I H. N. BLAIR, Ticket Agent j ERIE RAILROAD SYSTEM

ordinance with teeth that will stop tl‘e practise. The home merchant pays rent and taxes, has a large investment, helps to support the • community in numerous ways and it is unfair to permit some one to •‘roll in with a truck of merchandise and take off the cream. Employment of home labor is more important right now than it J has ever been, because that rule i is being rigidly enforced in nearly i every locality, we must provide I work for our own people. To do I that contracts when possible should be let to local contractors for that practically insures home labor. Os course contracts should be let to the low bidder ordinarily but right now if they are at all close, the | heme folks should certainly be . favored. Lets do a little first aid work and fighting if necessary to protect those who live in Adams i county. When Simon Fishman went to I Greeley county, Kansas, in 1920 I little wheat was being grown there, I Fishman began raising wheat on la large scale and when L. M. BaldI win, president of the Missouri Pacific, visited the county soon afterj ward, Fishman told him Greeley i county would some day ship out I 1,000,000 bushels of wheat over the I Misscuri Pacific railroad, in one hear. "When that happens, FishIman,'' said Baldwin, i'll turn my I private car over to you and you and our family can travel anywhere you want over the system." Shipping records show that more •than 11,000,000 bushels of the 1930 crop [ have been shipped out of the county, so Fishman called on President ; Baldwin to make good his promise. ‘ which he did w ithout hesitation. Now the Fishman family is enjoying a tour of the Missouri Pacific railroad system in the president s private car. —Mid-West Magazine. Over the country just now there I is a wide discussion as to whether (or not school children should have .to study at home. It has reached iiire p ihf where President Hoover ; recently named a committee which’ I has been holding conferences in the : \\'hite House and which recently i reported flatly against it thus, acicrding to the Woman’s Home ! Companion. , "Home study should be entirely ’eliminated in the first six grades lin the elementary school and has i little to commend it in the high l school. Supervised study at school I during the school day is more satisi factory. The night is not a good [time to work If home assignI inents are made they should be simple and short —in the nature of 'light reading. Tire elmination of | home study necessitates, in many instances, the lengthening of the I -chcol day, with greater variety in the program, and additional opportunities for study.’’ “Little to commend it” even in the high school. Experts have to be conservative. For our part we have yet to meet anybody with a I sensible reason why any child I should have to study out of school [hours. A longer school day? Yes. Greater variety in the program? i Yes. Additional opportunities for [study in school? Yes. But why, why, why home work? *~ _ TWENTY~IYEARS~ * AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File • • June 4, 1911. was Sunday. o ♦— 4 Household Scrapbook | ' | By ROBERTA LEE ♦- (U.PJ ♦ Tomato Skins Rubbing the back edge of a silver knife over the ripe tomato is an effective way to remove the skin. The method of heating a ripe tomato to remove the skin generally leaves it too soft. To Keep Away Flies Wet a small rag with oil of lavender. Touch it around the table and . the flies will not bother. Apply ker- ■ osene oil to the door and window I screens with a brush. The Motor Hat For convenience on the motor hat try fastening or. an elastic, with iiook and eye. o — Object to Text Books ! Rio De Janeiro, Brazil —(UP) — I Ar., avalanche of protest against the i geographies used in Uruguayan pub- ! lie schools was recently loosened by local newspapers, taking exception; to text books assertions that “the; population of Brazil is made up of i Negroes, Mulattoes and Indians. ’ i f

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* BIG FEATURES OF RADIO ♦ — ♦ Thursday’s 5 Best Radio Features Copyright 1931 by UP. All C.S.T. WJZ (NBC network) 4:15 p. m. —Saxophone Quartet. WABC (CBS network) 5 p. m. —; Kate Smith. WEAF (NBC network) 6 p. tn.— ' Rudy Vallee. WEAF (NDC network) 7:30 p.m. — Melody Moments. WABC (CBS network) 8:30 p. m. —Singers. o Friday’s 5 Best Radio Features Copyright 1931 by UP All C.S.T. WEAF (NBC network) 4 p.m.World in Music. WABC (CBS network) 5 p. in.— Kate Smith. . WJZ (NBC network) 5:45 p. ni. ; —Ripley. WEAF (NBC network) 6 p. tn. —Cavaliers. . WABC (CBS network) 8:30 p.m. —March of Time. ♦ - • Lessons In English Words often misused: Do not say| When do you mean to go?'’ Say ■ "When do you intend to go?” Often mispronounced: Nicotine; lant i as in "’Tin' - is preferred. | Often misspelled: Tractor; or. I not er. Synocyms: Shameless, brazen, impudent, audacious, unblushing. | Word study: “Use a word three] times and it is yours."' Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering ; one word each day. Today’s word: I Torpid; dull; sluggish; apathetic. ’She was torpid from grief. " TORCH KILLER IS PRISON OUTCAST — I San Quentin Prison, June —(UP) In (he curious aristocracy of Con-' detuned Row Charlie Simpson, San ; Francisco "torch l.tller’’ i.i an out-: i ast.. Simpson's ostracism by fellow I murderers was made known by a . prison guard. It has two causes.! the guard said—the atrocity of his I crime and the belief that it was I committed at a time when the state legislature was considering a bill | to abolish capital punishment and which it later voted down. The other prisoners also are annoyed. it was said, by. Simpson’s constant boasting that he will not I be hanged. With the synicism of; the condemned, they believe not ‘ only he but they as well will die, I and they find his constant cocksure ness unnerving. Simpson beat the aged Mrsk Al [ bina Voorhies into nnseocscious-: ties, then tired her living body after: hr: had satnrated it with coal oil, I in a robbery that netted him 32.1 He is sentenced to die July 10. ♦ — Modem Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE ♦ (U.PJ— ♦ Q. Must every course that is passed be accepted at a formal dinner? A. Yes; whatever is passed is accepted. ami at least a pretense 1 made of eating it.. Q. Should a business woman stand when callers come into the office? A. No; it is unnecessary. Q. If a person is visiting and i there are four or five servants must one tip them all? i A. Y es.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1931.

Poison Ivy Epidemic Corvallis, Ore. —(UP) — “Itch") victims crowd the slat college hospital here. Authorities blame poison | ! oak. ______ Snake Is Bedfellow Le Panto, Ark., —(UP) —When J. J W. Wolf awoke from a nap he found a large water moccasin coiled around his thigh. "I waited until the snake released its coil and then | shook it off,” Wolf said.

THE CORT Last Time Tonight DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS. Jr. and BILLIE DOVE in an underworld melodrama “ONE NIGHT AT SUSIES” He suffered years in jail for her crime. See her shameless sacrifice to repay him ... in full. “KANE MEETS ABEL” talking comedy. News. 10c —25 c Friday ami Saturday “THE SKY RAIDER” a great air story with , Lloyd Hughes and Marceline Day. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday—“KlKl” with Mary Pickford. T T~ IX— - IM ■ IIT’ TT IIMriMriMWMMWW~MnfMi 7T j Sizes S% to Co 11 99 c to $ 2 49 Goodyear Wells $2.49 or t«n ————i —— pumps, straps i , Misses* Sizes ** ox^o^d, • Boys’ ’ hoes for 40 <O 70 play, ‘port or * I*” 7 tO y k ■SHcSfcSH®sik«\ dress- ” ' Goodyear Welts $2.79 Boys’ Shoes 4" .o »2 99 Summertime is playtimeBlack • Play Patent Leather . Leather . Sandals A Straps btieg bixex 1 AH Sues 5*2 to 8 Sixes SLj to 8 Sixes 5 to 2 8’ 2 to 11 HVzto2 to 11 llVitoS , 99 c 899»9»1 w The V T . ai It The M X lenms bhoes / R magic // battery Wbm .. t».«. W'X\ Ki // y/Trlmma Sort owe.. <»« fcUek trtemios. u. rap. V W // // • k»«U»4 WMktf Little Men’s \ / // Youths* \ Boys'and Youths' V, / 49° Boy* 1 m ' V’G.r*/ oqc /» 11l 59 c V »- 'MILLER-JONES CO. ‘ 142 North Second St. •

CLAIMS HE WAS CUSTER'S SCOUT Olzmulgee, Okla. —(UP)—Historians have recorded Chat not a white i man escaped alive from Custer’s massacre, but "Billy the Kid’’ conI tends there was at least one —himi self. I As he celebrated his 95th bir'h[day here recently the veteran scout i and pioneer, known in everyday lite as J H. Guntor. related how the I color of his hair saved his scalp when the warring Sioux, led by [Chief Sitting Bull, slew 300 United S ates < aval) ) men on the little Big Horn river in the Dakotas in 1876. "I was wounded 14 times iu that [ affair," he said, “and the Sioux threw me back into the maze of ‘ lead soldiers’ bodies because: they l wi re s« piping only black haired men ! I had died my hair with blood to ' make it red.” Custer's Fate Doubtful , Guntor, or Billy the Kid as he [ said he was known to General Cus- ; ter, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, and j other famous scouts and leaders i was born in Arkansas in 1836. He I left that state in early manhood !to become a "part of the west." J Later he joined Custer s ill-fated ■ band as a scout, he said. As to Custers fate he did not | know. Older historians recorded 1 that Custer died at. the hands of : the Sioux. Recent recorders say 1 Custer died by his own hands ratlfi er than be captqred by the Sioux, i Sitting Bull, so the recent ac- ! counts maintain, ordered his braves I to capture Custer alive, and when the braves closed in on Custer he ! took his own. life. Billy the Kid claims he escaped i the Sioux despite the fact that the i United States government will not I recognize his application for a pension as a scout to Custer because : he has no proof other than his | own word. “Federal officers told me tliat history said every white man died that day and that since I have no dis-

I charge from General Custer they annot recognize me as a member I of the troop,” Guntor said. L a ANSWERS TO TEST QUESTIONS Below are the answers to the test questions printed on page two ♦— 4 ’ 1. Concrete machine gun nests. 2. In Northern Africa. 3. New Orleans. 4. Man is the only one., ' 5. Radio announcer 6. William. 7. Treasury Department. 8. “Upset.” 9. Abyssinia. 10. The nlblKk. ; o Serves Ten-Minute Sentence i Duluth, Minn.— (U.PJ The lightest 1 sentence ever imposed in federal court here was meted out to Mrs. Katrina Evikervich, by Judge B. Sanborn. She served ten minutes iu the custody of a deputy marshal for a liquor law violation. o Stockyard Nears Completion Philadelphia, -(UP)- A new and completely modern stockyard, destim’d to make Philadelphia the meat packing center of the East, uearinc compietievi at 36th street and Grays Ferry avenue on. the Schuylkill river. Tile project, representing the joint efforts of sever-

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al meat packing firms and the Penu-i sylvania railroad will cost $5,000.000 when finished. Wounded at Own Weddning Florence, Italy —(UP) —Just an I old Tuscan custom was being ob-" served by Ernest Scappini at ’ho wedding of Fronanda Passalacqua and Ferraro Lombari when Ernest fired his’ revolver in the air six

THE ADAMS THEjjS TONIGHT -Friday and Saturdav-lifii BIG DOUBLE BILL at NO ADVANCE in GARY COOPER “I || T \ in “CITY STREETS" With Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, With OLSON 4 JOH Wynne Gibson. Maniacs of Mirth A Thrilling Story of the Under- \ ‘ ' i " u * vjSS ■' - stu'id world! Gunmen, Racketeers, sec' ’ Techni i Fighting, l.ivinc. i...y.|ig’ ■"■ ;-ied—a feNfe NOTE: On account of the length of this SHOW will start at 7:00 P, M, D.s.T7 * “KING OF THE WILD" will be shown on Sun. Mon. A Xues—ROBERT MONTGOMERY in Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Jordan, Hoban iin.-wnrth‘

Cut the Weeds I - H THE weeds arc growing rapidly and -fl some of them are already seeding. Bl Now is the time to get the best of then w* ami the city street force began today to cut and keep them down. sIS You are urged to cooperate bv keeping M ! weeds cut in your alleys, vacant lots and around your property and in case you B" fail to do so, the work will have to be K | done bv city employes at your expense. ■ I Dr. J. M. Miller I * Secretary City Board of Heaiiß i M111.W... _l _ ■—J

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