Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 143, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1931 — Page 5

iAt outweighs I® POPULATION .ms — :11 - J ” no ApP ,,,,l|ds <>i |EiML' Probably gr<-ai-r ■EbB .'light of the ontiro pop '' sli,nttte< L W f BKf, -otis per square mile cm h ~Kj|3L ' ••nlil'R to H. 11. Mellor, bureau <>t smoke ni'ii rage of 157 poumN of Pittsburgh, ■ the exceeding the total Er»m ,1 "‘ population of about charts show a ileal,ou t 50 per cent in the I the downtown district II Um tfy 'igbt years whic h w is |KttWt' ■ io use of central heat■in< >1 instead of a large num Ker < individual furnaces. ■that .!■ soot fell than in 1923-24 lb l ' previous survey was 9 but there still was more | WftaMi 1912-13. > \G LEY N EWS * m ,cW- S,lsil ' Reppert of Decatur . of Mr. and Mrs. .laberg and daughter ■w ■ )£ and Mrs. Losier Eekrote ■spew week-ened at Linn Grove . ■ ]& I'jlna Horine who is attomi ) Teac hers College at on i it. "''KhOl Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jaednesday evening. ■ Mr Franklin Ifruehte and chiidBregillai' and Joyce visited w‘th ' 1 al! ' icilK-jf, , Mrs . j.' re( | Bloemker .Mr. . William Worthman Mr. and daughter «, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis

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i Manns and family Sunday > Mr. and Mrs. William Worthman I lL V?™ harleS Reppert motored to Fort Wayne Sunday afternoon and visited Rev. and Mrs. Ralph i Worthman and family. | Mr and Mrs. William Kruetzman |and family and Otto Kruetzman entmtamed for dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Martin Reppert and son I of J reble, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Conrad Mr. and Mrs. Walter Conrad and son Ric hard, Mr. and Mrs Wai- , ter Kruetzman and son Richard. Miami Mrs. Walter Reppert and son Bobby and daughter June Eileen and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Peters MF. and Mrs Walter Peck and Misses Irene and Leona Peck w<>re i dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schlickman of Decatur Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. J Miller and family visited George Miller and daughter, Olive and Emma Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Jr. Worthman and family entertained at a i 6 o clock supper Tuesday evening, Rev and Mrs. Edward Worthman and family of Krel Wisconsin, Rev. and Mrs. Matthew Worthman and daughter Franclle of Folan Ind. I Mr. and Mrs. Martin Worthman and family of Decatur, Mr and Mrs. John Hilgeman and family, Mr. and ' Mrs. Milton Scherry and family, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Ernst 'Worthman and I family. Miss Omanda Worthman and Lewis Worthman Sr. Mr. and Mrs. John Helmrich and I family attended the picnic of the | ■ Lutheran Sunday School at Preble | i Sunday afternoon. Mrs. James Hower who is at the I home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kol-| I ter showed some improvement the I i first of the week. Many friends and I relatives visited her the past week. Mr. and Jlrs. Franklin Fruchte ' and family and Edward Scherry entertained for dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fruchte of Fort I Wayne and Daniel Scherry and , daughters Marie and Marcella. Miss Helen Hildebrand spent Fri- ! day with Miss Marie Scherry. tf And That's AU Generally speaking, the man who started life with a shoestring still ■ leas it. o Swiss Citizenship Outsiders are rnrely admitted to citizenship in Swiss communes, this being regarded as a very vain able possession, as some of the com mimes are weajthy and able to ns | sist their citizens in time of need

Decatur Community Sale SATURDAY, JUNE 20th HORSES. CATTLE, HOGS, FARM MACHINERY, Etc. 5 Outstanding Holstein Cows from Mr. W. B. Cummin's herd at Ossian in this sale; 20 Fresh and Springer Cows; 2 good Roan Bulls, yearlings. Bring in your property. We will get the High Dollar for you. DECATUR COMMUNITY SALES Roy Johnson, auct. Leo Ehinger, clerk.

Newberry’s GIGANTIC Stock Reducing SALE Starts Saturday JUNE 19 Newberry’s Low Prices are Going Lower For 14 Days hundreds of Newberry’s values ’ , will be cut from 10 to 50 per cent. DON'T MISS IT!

DECATDR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1931

MORTGAGE FIRMS PLANTO WORK OKLAHOMA LAND Rehabilitate Farms F o r Cooperative Method During Depression Oklahoma City, June 17 —<U.R>Oklahoma investment companies holding scores of eastern Oklahoma farms surrendered through foreclosure during the acute agricultural depression have started a program of rehabilitation along cooperative farming methods. In informal business meetings officials of various investment and mortgage companies have outlined plans and engaged expert supervisors. Tlie method was described to the I'nited Press by Lester B. Gum, Oklahoma City investment company official. Farm Supervisors “Each farm is being closely supervised. Buildings are being placed in comfortable living condition. Thousands of acres are being terraced and considerable fertilizer be- ! ing applied to the depleted soil," I Gum said. j “The first objective Is to attract . desirable tenants. These tenants | would be placed under a supervisor who will act as 4he agent of the corporate investor in farming the lands for the greatest profit pending disposition of the lands when real estate prices become normal ami the depression is over.” Gum said that tenants would be paid a certain percentage of revenue so that initiative would be challenged. He distinguished between his proposed plan and that of corporation farming. Corporation Farming “Corporation farming, organized and operated for continual operation and profit, should not be.considered in tlie, same light as farming a large number of farms by a corporate investor who has acquired these lands under foreclosure of a mortgage and is desirous only of i farming these lands until such time as tliey may be disposed of

Murdered or Self-Slain? Diary May Solve Mystery * * * * * * In the Investigation of Starr Faithfull’s Death Conflicting Clues Point to Murder and Others to Suicide. .1 •&' .• >: 4 - BHV 0 j ■ —iF WS®o I | FaITHFUI/L] w ST ■ wNb*— — Tucker Mr $ Mrs Stanly Faithfui/V

New York, June 17.—“1 am bored by my native land. If 1 were a man I would join the Foreign Le-1 gion and forget my past . . . New York seemed like a huge graveyard.” These are excerpts from tlie diary of Starr Faithfull, whose mysterious deatli lias set a puzzling problem for the New York po-i lice. Since the discovery of Miss Faith- : full s body on a shore at Long Beach, L. 1., where it had been east i up by the waves, many theories I have been put to account for her, strange death. At first it was thought that she had been accident-’ ly drowned, but discoveries at the ■ post mortem pointed to the possibility of foul play and started the I authorities dashing hither and yon questioning all who had ever come in contact with the girl. A herculean task, when one considers the huge circle of acquaintances which a girl in Miss Faithfull's social position was sure to have. Prominent in New York and Boston society, Starr s friends were legion, and many were of the fore-; most families of the two cities. If this inquisition of the girl's acquaintances did nothing towards explaining the mystery of her death, it did at least shed a brilliant ray of light on her mode of life and once more brought into the headlines of the press the hackneyed phrase ‘Flaming Youth.” Questioning of the girl's stepfather, Stanley E. Faithfull, elicited the fast that Starr drank. And not only was Mr. Faithful! aware of the fact but he admitted that lie tilled her pocket flask for her every time she went to a party. He accounted for this unparently behavior with the declaration that he didn't want her to drink had liquor.

to some individual farmer. “Corporation farming is a bit faddish and has more or less of an antagonistic appeal to the average American. No one, however, familiar with the difficulties encountered by investors in disposing of farm lands acquired under foreclosure will object to an investor's farming such lands until agricultural conditions improve and a definite market is established for land.” Gum said. LATVIA LEADER NEBRASKA GRAD Lincoln, Neb.. June xC.- —tU.RIt —A scarlet and cream banner bearing the words "University of Nebraska’’ hangs in the office of the Premier ol Latvia, at Riga, Latvia Karl Ullman, premier of the lit,tie republic that was lopped off of Russia at the close of the World War. took lite banner with him when he went back to his native country to lead a peasants’ party ami become head of the government. It was just 22 years ago that

What he gave her was good, he said. It may be explained here that Starr's own father, who is divorced from her mother, is Frank W. Wyman, wealthy Bostonian. He also was subjected to interrogation but without result. Tales of wild parties aboard trans-Atlantic liners, during which ’ liquor was the piece de resistance, have been told by many of those who are aiding* the investigators, jOn one occasion, it is Said, Starr j was put off a liner after she had . sailed and sent back on a tug. Eye- ■ witnesses to the incident declare ! that thq girl was intoxicated or I drugged. But it is to the discovery of Starr’s diary that the police look for the elucidation of the mystery of her death. It contains many enI tries telling of her escapades, her hopes, her despair and her longings, as well as a motley assort- ' ment of names all of which are be- ' ing patiently checked up. There is ‘also material for the | psychologist in the intimate little volume. _ln it Starr wrote the secrets nearest to her heart, without pretence or reticence, forming a parallel with the case of Vivian Gordon, slain Broadway good-time girl. Questioned as the significance of diaries, Dr. A. A. Brill, eminent psycho-analyst, gave as his opinion that women who keep diaries live unsatisfied lives and are in most instances mentally morbid. That may lend color to the suicide theory, but only time will tell whether Starr Faithfull was murdered or whether she willfully removed herself from a world which, she said in her diary, bored her to desperation.

Ullman left the university with a bachelor of science degree earned in agriculture. Ullman went to Texas, lie became a cheese maker in a dairy. Then, as college graduates often do, he dropped out of sight. Not even his closest friends knew where he had gone. The next that was heard of the I young college graduate was years later. A message came: ”1 am now President cf Latvia Karlis L'lmanis.” Friends turned to their revamped geography books. Whore was Latvia? Karl Ullman, one time hard-working college boy. had become a president. Ullman returned to his native country just after the war, so the story goes. He became the country’s first president after he had organized a peasants' party. He has introduced modern dairy and agriculture methods in his country, and has sponsored the building of modern roads. o — Right of Pursuit A court has held that a married man has a legal right to open his wife's letters! Yeah! But be needs something more than a court decree if she happens to catch tip with him.—Shreveport Journal.

VILLAGE GRIST MILLS YIELD TO MODERN PLANTS New Methods Cut Into Old Community Grain Elevators Kansas City, Mo. —(UP)—Modern methods have entered the milling rankj and smote heavily the individual grinder of the community's giain and the old mill wheel romanticized in tradition and literature. Some of the delegates to the convention of tlie Association of Operative Millers of the United States, Canada and Mexico, however, saw an economic trend favorable to the smaller mills. But many—or most — of the individual operators have bowed to the modern mills with vast equipment, laboratory experts and sales and advertising managers, it was indicated. The mill in the small city, which draws its raw materials from Hie surrounding territory and finds u large market in the home community, has a saving in freight and overhead, giving it a Areak against competition from big plants in great flour centers, it was pointed out. Despite the fact that the populace still is getting its daily bread, the business conditions have caused a noticeable tailing off in consumption of milling products, the delegates declared. One visitor explained this fact by saying housewives now economize on the food budget, where as they formerly threw stale loaves and "heels” in the garbage can. Another offered tlie suggestion that America was following the advice of a French queen, who on hearing her subjects plead for biead advised them to cat cake. That's what Americans are doing to a greater extent than ever before he declared. Frank C. U'itter, of the Hungarian Flour Mills, Denver, has some 330 mills in the west. He has adopted the policy of multiplying his selling activities by thirty, and the results, he said, were satisfactory.

RATE INCREASE BEING SOUGHT BY RAILROADS (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) industries, is that the revival of industry and commerce should be predicated, for the time being at least, upon the maintenance of existing wage scales." It was concluded that if the wage question must be met with, it must be at a later stage because of the time element. Passenger fares are to be kept at present levels, generally about 3.6 cents a mile, because of heavy inroads into this phase of trans--1 portation in recent years by busses | find private automobiles. As regards truck competition, the petition stated that no program dealing comprehensively with this feature of the situation can be worked out now. “It is very probable that no comprehensive program affecting all traffic competitive with other forms of transportation can be worked out at any one time in the future: and that. ’ on the contrary, particular description of traffic will have to be taken up from time to time”. In their plea for higher freight rates, the railroads set forth various steps leading up to this emergency request filed today. It was decided in 1929 to continue as long as possible a normal program of expenditures. During 1930 cap- ■ ital outlay was approximately I $598,000,000 while revenue was ! declining. “In the latter part of 1930 it became evident that the policy above stated," said the petition, “had failed to accomplish results desired. It became evident that the economic depression was ’ worldwide in extent and was not Ito be of short duration; that the I export traffic of the carriers was greatly diminishing; and that the production of domestic commodities was being drastically curtailed with consequently large diminution of tlie volume of domestic traffic." To overcome loss in revenues, i tlie railroads had to resort to drastic economies resulting in deferred maintenance in their properties “which must be made up.” Steam railway transportation, the petition continued, “has not become a moribund enterprise. It is 'essen--1 tial to the economic welfare of the country and indispensable to the national defense. All that is necessary to maintenance of an ade--1 quate national system of transpor-

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tation is that the country should be willing to pay a reasonable price for it and that railway investors and railway managements should be able to act on that assurance.” In view of these considerations, it was explained, "the carriers propose they be permitted to increase all freight rates and charges, including joint rail and water rates and charges 15 per cent, with such adjustments in the case of coal, coke and certain other commodities as will preserve existing differentials; that as to freight traffic generally, this increase be permitted to become effective by tlie use of percentage

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1c SALE — ON — ROCK SPAR VARNISH R&l a can of varnish, any size, at the regular price and get another can the same size for only Ic. This is strictly a high grade floor varnish that flows on easily. It will protect your floors from the unlimited amount of wear they receive. It is nbt affected bv water and will not scratch white. It is unusually heavy bodied—one coat does the work of two of ordinary varnish. On woodwork, too. this varnish can be used. It can he rubbed and polished. Get your varnish at this special 1c Sale-— don’t delay, it is for a limited time only, t ome in today. Regular Price '/2 pint size can 40c per can 1 pint size can 70c per can 1 quart size can $1.20 per can '4 gallon size can $2.30 per can 1 gallon size can $4.25 per can —and get another can the same size as purchased for ONE cent extra. Schafer Hdw. Co We Save You Money

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supplements; that as to coal, coke and certain other commodities, specific, tariffs complying with ordinary requirements of tariff publication be filed.” Increased revenue from this freight increase is estiniateil to bring annual return on property investment to 4 per cent. The transportation act specifies that railroads be (permitted to earn a "fair return” of 5% per cent. It was pointed out that class one railroads since 1921 have bad earnings $2,575,000,000 below the fair return. o : A. J. Smith attended to business in Fort Wayne Tuesday afternoon.