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-JmSSGAIN ItN ATHLETICS azel w 1 ’ w >un. York. 3—(U.R)—The !•■■ may have con- , .n.ia League pen-■ ,;, : ,.ul. Iphia Athletics, K \ ami his Wash- ■ Seiiaiois have not yet reworld series. ' Ivvo-thit<ls com.'UK tin' Senators are ten full ■g. biliiml Athletics, but ill chance to nose a ami they are Jem k- ep tip the fight until erl d"'iniiely eliminated. '"■■ s L.ivi- played chambail tlnoughout the seasier inniia.' of their first 100 fl)| average and even ■ Ilia Athletics to honors. lead was cut to > yesterday when the tlmir second conseKaiflk game front the leaders, 10 Abia Crowder was the hero Ks I vi'lory, holding the Athin check for the final eight after they had pounded Jones for four runs in the d with an assault on Hank r ' and added four more the second inning to y, the . pkn M Yanke- s jgl a with I’.oston. winning tile .second. 1 1 pitched the ' opener but ■ nightcap. Each allowed only three hits I’ipvras losing when Catcher BBt “ ni > dropped a throw to cut - winning run at the in the eighth inning. ‘tid Indians strengthtie hold on fourth place by i^Bti: m- >' Louis, 9to 4 and 11 " I'< i rell held the Browns m 1 ■k .a tin. first game and and Harder outlasted Kini' y in the second d-i'eatod Chicago. 8 t.v I € '!i': American League Art Herring holding the Sox to 9 scattered hits !1H mates pounded Thomas Caraway for 12. : League competition mati.red by the New York ft to second place, oreii- missed the Chicago m oring a double victory l and 6 to dropping a - vet ; to the league leadSt. Louis Cardinals. -coring his 13th victory ' tory was ■SB”-'' dir ''m Cards with Jimmy BW I "'' 'rookie first baseman, ankle. The injury will keep Collins out for balaiti of the season. ft' B 1 '•"'" strengthened its hold •gg ! ''cue by breaking even 1 idelphia. losing tile first ■ and winning the •nidi defeated Cincinnati. - IB'" liutout victory, with Erv- | holding tlte Reds to 5

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Sunday School Excursion WALBRIDGE PARK Wednesday, August 12 via NICKEL PLATE ROAD $1.50“ ( hi Id re n 5 to 12 years, 75c. Train with Commissary Car will leave Decatur 6:00 a.m. mI, °P eratin 9 direct to Walbridge Park, stopping at Pleasant 1 s. Willshire, Ohio City and Delphos, leaving Delphos 7:10 a.m. mug Specl.il Tii'ln will leave Walbridge Park 5:00 . (LT.) Train will not operate to or from Toledo Union station. lir'in 1 M K ' Church Sunday School of Decatur invites you to inn lour picnic Baskets and enjoy the day with us, seeing ne w rights and the wonderful Zoo and Birds. GET TICKETS AT NICKEL PLATE STATION. COMMITTEE

hits. I Yesterday's Hero—Wiley Moore, who pitched the Boston Red Sox to a 1 to 0 victory over the New Yotk Yankees. Moore allowed his former teammates only three hits. o Major League Leaders Following averages compiled by the United Press include games played Sunday, August 2nd: Leading Hitters G AB R H Pct. Ruth. Yankees 92 341 93 130 .381 Simmons. Ath. 103 416 86 158 .380 Webb. Red Sox 98 383 70 140 .366 Morgan, Indians 88 311 54 111 .357 Goslln, Browns 95 372 77 131 .352 Home Runs Gehrig. Yankees 30 Ruth. Yankees 28 Klein. Phillies 23 Averill, Indians 20 Foxx. Athletics 20 o PERRY STARTS LIFE SENTENCE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Hackett's body was found last Oct. 1 on Lac du Flambeau Indian reservation, near where they had spent their honeymoon in July. The couple were last seen together on July 6 when they started through the woods hunting. After leaving Wisconsin. Perry began a trip to California and mar-1 ried five women in rapid success-! ion. He was living with his eighth wife when his arrest in California early this summer climaxed a nat-j ion-wide search. He continued to proclaim his innocence of the murder charge as he prepared to leave for prison. During the trial he said Mrs. Hackett left him after their walk in the woods of July 6. when he confessed he had been married before. He said she might have been killed by an Indian. 0 RURAL SCHOOLS OF COUNTY TO OPEN SEPT. 7 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ial Hospital board at its next regular meeting. The petition asks that the minimum charge ton township patients be reduced, and was signed by the twelve trustees. The petition is as follows: “Board of County Memorial Hospital. MemSJers: We. the township trustees of the various townships of Adams county, Indiana, respectfully ask that you reduce the minimum charge for township patients. We make this request because we feel that the present charge exceeds the actual cost. Signed: Phil L. Schieferstein, David D. Habegger, A. F. Baker, Ernest J. Worthman, Edwin Beer,. T. R. Noll, Ed Stahly, Arthur Blakey, Charles C. Abnet, Daniel Scherry, O. S. Fortney, Noah Rich." STOLEN AUTO IS RECOVERED (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) the police department of the Chicago Motor Club, Sheriff Johnson learned that they had stolen the car from the Hamlin-Madison garfige, Chicago. Upon questioning they confessed to tlte crime and told Sheriff Johnson that they had taken it Saturday afternoon, just after the owner got out of the car. In the accident the youths received slight injuries. The ear was badly damaged, it turned over several times and rolled about 75 feet from the road way. One man was thrown clear from the car and the other escaped without serious injury. o Get the Habit—Trade at Home.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1931.

The Sport Parade o By Henry McLemore, UP Staff Correspondent. New York, Aug. 3—(U.R)—It will be a downright shame if Maxie Rosenbloom loses to Jimmy Slattery in their 15-round bout in Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, Wednesday night for the Harlem clown, as Maxie is sometimes called, is boxing s one colorful champion. hat is more, Maxie’s defeat . would come as a severe blow to those folks whose conscience bothers them on the morning after the night before. We have been told by several of “those folks” that few things are as comforting in such a dark hour as to turn the sports pages and read where Maxie taxied' directly from a night club, and I then hopped blightl into the ring! to knock some opponent’s head off. We have been told that such' reading is doubly comforting when Maxie's opponent happens to be some earnest young man who had trained for a month on nothing more stimulating than milk and who thought a night club was something policemen tapped tax payers on the head with. Os course, Maxie's color is not of the type that makes him in great demand as a speaker of a Boy Scout's rally or a university club, i but then who wants their fighters | to know the points of the compass lor three pounds overwheight bei cause their head is filled with J Shakespeare and carefully mentorI ized quotations from the lake i poets’ Maxie's color is not confined to I his night club life and ability to ■train on the dance floor while float, ■ ing through a stately polka or i stomping the latest craze with a I blue-eyed, baby-faced blonde. A • large share of the color comes from his antics once he gets inside those ropes. Here he is at one and the same time a silly, laughing clown and a highly efficient piecejyf iight- | ing machinery. He throws gloves ' from any and all angles and apparjently, is tireless, no matter how fast the pace or long the route. His firsts never are at rest and their very activity forms a Well-night perfect defense. Wedensday night's bout will mark the seventh time Maxie and Slattery have met. Some of the boys are betting that before they call it quits Maxie and Jimmy will have j surpassed the record run of Abie's Irish Rose. EDISON GAINS IN STRENGTH (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) be out of danger, according to Dr. Howe. Nevertheless it is entirely probmany of the world's important inable the genius who produced so ventions of the last century will improve so he may visit his laboratory again to learn what progress is being made in his latest effort —»he production of rubber from goldenrod. Edison himself is confident he will be able to return to work, his | son, Charles Edison, said. The ; electrical wizard's strength of will, which often kept him at work 20 hours out of the 24 when he was on the verge of new scientific discoveries. helped him pull through a seige of pneumonia two years ago, even though he disre- . garded his nurse's instructions duri ing convalescence and smoked some of his black cigars. Edison's illness was made known more than a week ago when the United Press was informed he had visited his laboratory only once since his return from Ft. Myers. Fla.. June 16. J Saturday afternoon, as the inventor was about to take an automobile ride, be collapsed. Dr. : Howe, who was playing golf at I Port Wasjiington. on the north shore of Long Island, was summoned by telephone and flew immediately to West Orange. Members of the family gathered i at the home. After treating Edison, Dr. Howe revealed the inventor had been j suffering from diabetes for several years, and that he also had ulcers of the stomach. The collapse might have been brought on, he Lsaid, by the fact that Edison has observed a self-imposed milk diet I for several years which has left him under-nourished. He took two glasses of milk every two hours but recently cut it down to only one glass. Sunday the Edison residence iu i Llewelyn Park received many I messages inquiring about the ini ventor's condition. Two of these j were from Edison's old friends, i Henry Ford and Hatry Firestone. Together the three have formed a

famous vacation triumvirate — meeting in the south every winter, and a decade or so ago it was their habit to go camping in the summer. Ford’s telephone call came just us Edison was about to eat some' tapioca. The automobile manufacturer' ordered a fleet of cars placed at : the disposal of the family. Shortly before, Charles Edison had visited his father’s sickroom and wrote on a piece of paper: "You look 100 per cent better." “I'm 105 per cent better," Edison replied cheerfully. Edison is not confined to bed entirely. He sits up in an easy chair for short periods. All the childred of the inventor, with the exception of one daughter, were at the home yesterday. Mrs. Marion Ofer, of Danbury, Conn., was the only one absent. LABOR LEADER ASKS OPINION IN WAGE WAR (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) level of prices so as to play the old game of 'both ends against the middle,' with the workers holding the sack and manufacturers and merchants holding their breath until it is squeezed out of them in the bankruptcy courts. "Sooner or later industry and commerce will free themselves from the banking control . . that seems concerned only in making profit on its international and domestic investments without regard to the social well-being of our people. “It is unfortunate that the Colorado Fuel and Iron company should have succumbed to a like error and should have been concerned alone with reducing wage costs. With so many giant public benefactions to the credit of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., it is almost unbelievable and certainly most regrettable that his influence has not been brought to bear to stop the wage reduction policy put into effect by this company. ‘ I appeal to him to let his influence lie felt now.” Woll praised President Hoover's -reiteration of his stand against wage reduction. WICKERSHAM GROUP PRAISES FEDERAL PLAN .CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) tern between prosecution and defendants was found in the fact that 95 per cent of those who pleaded not guilty when arraigned before ■the U. S. commissioner changed I their pleas to guilty in court. Such a pre-trial agreement between the government and Al Capone was denounced by Federal Judge Wilkerson in Chicago last week. The Connecticut data was contained in a “progress report" on the commission study of federal courts in 13 representative districts of the country. No data has yet been tabulated for the other districts. Chairman Wickersham in trans- ] misting the report to President | Hoover said $25,000 was needed to complete the survey. The commission's federal appropriations expired July 1. The survey of the courts is to be completed by the American Law Institute, to which the Rockefeller Foundation has contributed $25,000. An equal amount must be secured "from other sources," Wickersham said. He added the commission found it "inexpedient" to ask congress tor this money. Summing up results of the Connecticut survey, the commission ! made the following tentative coni elusions regarding yiminal proIceedings: “1. There is a complete absence i of procedural delays and difficulties which commonly are throughout to be inherent in and peculiar to the system. "2. Contested cases and jury trials are negligible. “3. The role of the court in general is the imposition of small sentences for minor offenses. "4. Fint s scarcely ever are beyond the ability of the defendants to pay.” • —— o Calls Jury Probe Princeton, Aug 3 —(UP) — A grand jury investigation of the disorder at the Liberty coal mine June 8, which resulted in deatli of Milbui n Little, was ordered today by Judge Claude Smith. The jury will convene tomorrow. Judge Smith called upon the Grand Jury to make a complete and definite report of the assault on workmen, calling their utt./ ion to the death of Littell, and serious injuries to two other men. 0 — Belated Degree Received COLUMBUS, O. (U.R)—James A. McKee, an agricultural extension agent in Vermont, who was a student in the college of agriculture at Ohio State University in 1909, received the degree of bachelor of [ scienco in agriculture at the unii versity’s annual commencement this month. The degree, held up : by a technicality, was granted by 1 special action of the Ohio State ! faculty.

WOMAN IS HELD IN MAN'S DEATH Says Husband Attacked Her With Knife And She .Killed Him Frankfort, Aug. 3. — (U.R) —Mrs. Minnie Fudge was being held in jail today while an investigation was made of the knife killing of her husband, William Fudge, 62, a farmer. Fudge was stabbed to death during an altercation at his home, .police said. Dan Powers, sheriff, reported that Mrs. Fudge had said that her husband came to the home intoxicated as she was preparing a meal. She charged that he seized a butcher knife and threatened to kill her, according to Powers, and that she was unable to remember what transpired after she attempted to take the knife from him. When neighbors whom Mrs. Fudge summoned arrived, they found her holding the body of her husband. No charges have been filed against Mrs. Fudge. o The W. M A. of the United Brethien church will meet with Mrs. Josephine Robinaid Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. MISS RUTH BURNAU WEDDED SATURDAY The wedding of Miss Ruth Burnau, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Purl Burnau of Markle and Roscie Banter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Evert Banter, of Linn Grove were quietly married Saturday evening at the parsonage of the Church of Christ at Markle, with the Rev. M. R. Scott officiating. For the occasion, the bride wore a pretty sleeveless gown of white chiffon fashioned with an ankle length skirt with accessories to match. The groom was dressed in conventiontai blue. The couple was attended by Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Runyon of Linn Grove. The bride attended school at Union Center in Wells county, and the groefin was graduated from the Hartford high school. The bride has been employed at the Quality Bakery at Markle for the past three months. The couple will reside at Linn Grove where Mr. Banter is employed by the Meshberger Brothers Stone Company. o World Fliers Rest Khabarovsk, Aug. 3. —(U.R) —Clyde E. Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., landed from Chita on their round-the-world flight at 5:30 p. m., local time (3:30 a. m. EST) today. They expected to remain only a short time and to push on for Nome within a few hours. Fliers Attempt Trip Fairbanks, Alaska, Aug. 3. —(U.R) —Two adventurous Texans seeking $25,000 prize money and a thrill rode their monoplane Fort Worth ;on fog bound airways somewhere over southern Alaska or Norton Sound today on their second daring attempt to fly from Seattle, to Tokio, Japan, without a /op. The Texans, Reginald Robbins and Harold Jones, the former a “barnstorming'' pilot who once set an enudrance record in a second|hand ship and the latter a millionaire oil man seeking a thrill, took off from Seattle on their perilous flight at 7 n. m. Sunday. « Civil War Vet Dies Williamsport, Aug. 3 — (UP) — Thomas L. Brown. 91. a veteran of the civil war, died here at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Elmer I'nrnell o JUDGE ERWIN PRESENTS PLAN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) 'he working day is completed he is returned to jail. If he attempts to escape the penalty is the same as If he attempted to escape from jail. Judge Erwin stated that he believed the men could be put to work in this county ami that it would save for the county, which usually has to teed the prisoner and also care for the family while no work is done by the incarcerated man. Judge Erwin said that he would like to see the plan tried in Adams county, provided it did not necessitate the organization ot a new department The commissioners received the plan with favorable com meat. 0 Women's Qualities 'Tis beauty doth oft make women proud; 'tis virtue that doth make them most admired; 'tis modesty that makes them seem divine.— Shakespeare.

Violence Claims Lives Indianapolis, Aug. 3—<U.R>—Nineteen lives were lost in Indiana over the week-end, bringing the violence death toll to the highest point in several months. Auto accidents took the heaviest toll, seven persons losing their lives in crashes. Three of these died at a railroad crossing. Drowning claimed five lives as the heat forced thousands to pools and beaches. The heat itself was blamed for three deaths and one person was struck by a train. Two negro children in an Indianapolis family died of poisoned food. o AUCTIONEERS REGISTER FOR SUMMER TERM (CONTINUED FROM FAGS ONE) H. L. Willits, 328 N. Cherry St., Bryan, Ohio. Albert U Fischer, Augusta, Wis. Iru Cook, Ord, Nebraska. Glenn L. Cook, Ord, Nebraska. A. M. Florea, Midland, Ohio Howard H. Durham, R. R. No. 3, Cisne, 111. Ed Luther, Wisner, Nebraska. W. M. Stem, Greenville, Tenn. Leman Jennings,' Casselton, N.D. Elmer Middendorf, R. R. No. 6, Jacksonville, 111. Reed L. Logan, 209 E. Arnold St., Bluffton, Ind. Homer B. Ross, 199 Ft. Wayne Ave., Richmond, Ind. J. D. Laird, Rockwell City, lowa. R. iS. Brookie, R. R. No. 16, Box 45 E. Indianapolis. Ind. — o Security Office Robbed Columbia City, Aug. 3—(UP)— Two meh entered a branch of the Franklin security company here today, held up Miss Marjorie Cusick 20, Cashier, and escaped with between S4OO and SSOO. Miss Cusick was bound to a chair by the bandits. She broke the bonds within five minutes, she said, and reported the robbery. The company, located on the second floor of an office building is a branch o fthe Franklin Security company, Haitford City. o Treva Dailey Injured August 3—(Special)-Miss Treva Dailey, 15 —year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Dailey of Jefferson township was slightly injured when a car driven by her father collided with another automobile, a mile southeast of here at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon Miss Dailey suffered a broken finger on her left hand and a fractured rib. None of the other occupants of either car were injured but both cars were badly damaged. —— o Mrs. Gertrude Barbier of Fort Wayne visited in Decatur, Sunday.

Storing It Away HL. Y IB ; y »! \X J ■« •! 11 'S good business on the farm to store away enough teed to last well through the winter. It's good business anywhere to store away enough money in the bank to take care of the unexpected expenses that come to all of us. Your money in this hank is safe and busy. It is at work for you, earning a good interest rate and all the time growing. SAVE ENOUGH FOR HIE WINTER AHEAD Old Adams County Bank More than a half century of service.

EXPERTS PLAN NEW METHOD TO MEASUREEARTH French Abbe Reveals Preparations For Experiment By Samuel Dashiell United Press Staff Correspondent Bourges, —(UP) —There is anything new under the sun, French astronomers and geodetic engineers are going to find it out, according to Abbe Moreux, director of the Bourges Observatory. While preparations are going on to make a new measurement of the earth, the famed astronomer-priest agreed to explain some of the more interesting details for the United Press. The question of the exact spherical qualities of the planet; the answer to the German thesis that continents move about on a liquid subratum; and the zagaries of sun attraction and equatroial displacements will all be scientifically established, so that the distance, for example, between Paris and Melbourne can be computed almost to the fraction of an inch Advanced Measurements Abbe Moreux who has succeeded more or less, to the place of Camille Flammarion as the outstanding French astronomer says: “Our savants have conceived a plan of measuring the earth which is an advancement on the methods used heretofore. “Weodetlc operations undertaken so far all have shown that this ellipsoid which they call the planet and which looks like a flattened out ball is neither perfect nor symmetrical. “The plane measurement is not equal for the two hemispheres; the arcs which correspond to the meridians do not all measure the same and the equator is not an exact circumference, but rather resemliels a band deformed Slid divided into three parts"Although the great spherical globe exhibited at the Colonial Exposition appears perfectly balanced it Is true that this planet enters into no measurenumt so far admitted into the standards of geometrical measurements. Gives Example It is for that reason that many astronomers, instead of calling it an ellipsoid, prefer to call it a terrestrial geoid. For example the admitted measurements of Hayford show that the equatorial distance i 6,378,388 meters while the polar extension is 6.357,383 meters. To fix any point on the globe, one must find the degrees, minutes and seconds of latitude and longitude. “What we ignore so far is that in measuring distances on the surface

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we do not realize that the actual distance is quite different from that computed by the longitude and latitude method, which is based and determined on astronomical calcula tions # “ln other words, although I can find exactly the location by latitude and longitude of the observatory ot Peiping from a post ill Paris I cannot exactly calculate the distance on the surface of the planet between those two points. This distance depends on the exact form of the globe, and in calculating such a vast space between Paris and Peiping there is nothing yet precise. Check on Solar Influence “The reason for determing this exact sufrace distance is important for two reasons; We should like to know if the sun relief Varies or changes totally during the course of the centuries; and if this system is one established there will be an absolute check on the solar influence. “There is also an interesting theory proposed by the Gernian Vegener to the effect that the continents move about on a liquid substratum and that it is possible for the European continent to change places with that of North America. “In this hypothesis the ~wireless will be of the utmost help. The hour of Paris can be transmitted to any other point to the hundredth of a second. When coupled with 'the speed of light transmission we,can calculate any distance to the equator within 30 feet. Thus it follows that any observatory determining its local time"exactly through astronomical caluclations can communicate with the observatory of Paris and the distance can be measured to within 30 feet, and this diminished in ratio as the point near either of the poles so that the points in the north temperate or south tfehiperate zones would be quite closely figured This method has already been used between the observatories of Paris and Algiers, Shanghai and Washington. “Improvements on this method are already in progress, and ,jt is anticipated that before long the Paris Observatory wil Register signals to a foreign post to within a thousandth of a second, which, for example, could determine the exact distance between Paris and Melbourne to within 50 centimeters. — o . Gas Tax Makes Gain Indianapolis, Aug. 3—(UP)—Gasoline tax collections in Indiana for July were $73,429.98 greater than for July 1930, aggregating $1,803,635.95, it was announced by Floyd E. Williamson, Auditor of state. —

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