Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 193, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 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. Holthouse. Sec y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single copies $ .02 One week, by carrier 10 I One year, by carrier 5.00 1 One month, by mail 35 I Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and ' second zones. Elsewhere $3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Advertising Representative SCHEERER. inc. 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 415 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The mdiana League of Home Dailies Jack the Peeper must he keeping under cover these days. Governor Leslie must have seen ill the points of interest in Indiana for he has gone to Canada to spend : his vacation. After all, Eddie Cantor solved the depression with his live year ■ plan about as well as the statesmen who have been working on the matter. ________ The new 1932 auto license plates j will have a green background with white letters and assurance has been given that the paint will not i wear off. The Lindbergh’s are figuring on continuing their trip after they get ! to Tokio by going around the' world. They call it a vacation, but I to us it would be an adventure. A month from today the Decatur, Free Street Fair opens. H's going to be a big week with plenty of > free attractions, good exhibits and I something doing every minute. Mayor Jimmy Walker tak"s off to Germany for his vacation and Fraulein Haller comes to NewYork to see the handsome mayor. What does Jimmy mean? 1 1 I— 11-■— We may pay dearly for all the ’ wheat, cotton and other crops we favor wasting now. The old say- 1 ing is, "what you waste todav you will wish you had tomorrow." There are a lot of fellows who would like to buy a newspaper and I run it like Mr. Doherty is trying to do with the Kansas City Post. ‘ but them the utility magnate does not care about the profit end of the business. County school superintendent : Striker has announced the list of books required by pupils in the I rural schols next month and if that ’ doesn’t remind you that summer is about over, you’ll know it when you are dunned for the books. A humble bumblebee got inside the shirt of a young man driving an automobile near Indianapolis yesterday and you can imagine that he jumped around enough to cause a wreck with his car. The driver was thrown out of the car and the bee escaped.

x That Shiny Nose completely subdued. No more constant ineffective powdering. Just one little extra touch and you have not only eliminated “Skin Shine” but have given your complexion an entrancing, smooth, soft, pearly appearance of exquisite beauty. GOURAUO’S Whit*, t'lMh «nd R»ch«l Shades

The state tax board has set Tuesday, August 25 as the day on which it will hear remonstrances against the proposed building of the Hocker and Reusser roads. The hearings will be held at the court house and the findings of the board j will determine if the two roads shall be improved this year. The American aviators who flew i over Japan and took pictures as they went will be fined and the case dropped. Japan law forbids . the taking of pictures of military posts and it took some wire pulling from Washington to settle the mati ter. What pictures we have seen !of the country would not be worth the price of fighting over. Decatur has been selected as one of two Indiana tow-ns and the Daily Democrat chosen as the advertising medium to try out a nationallyadvertised product. Decatur was selected because the manufacturer was convinced that it "was a good town" and paid us the compliment that "he knew our paper covered .the local field.’’ Sure it makes us i feel good and we might add that with a daily circulation of more than 32000 the "Home Paper” reaches the buyers in the finest | territory in the country. I The Federal prohibition officers ' are back in Fort Wayne and as this is written 19 arrests have ali eady been made, including the i i ound-up of one man said to be a : henchman of the Capone crowd in I Chicago. It looks like the prohibition men mean business and are i not to be scared away because two i of their force were murdered there recently. The boys who are operlating saloons and speakeasies had better get unTier cover, go to the lakes or otherwise close shop for a while. If the nation's fire bill for 1930 were paid by a per capita tax, the I cost to every person in the United ' States would be $4.16. The estimated property loss announced for the year was $499,739,172. This figure is $36,126,410 above the preliminary estimate made last Jan- ■ nary on the basis of reports by insurance companies and $32,234,716 more than for 1929. It has been i estimated that 6 churches or chapels suffer from fire loss every twen- ■ ty-four hours; that fire causes dami age to 12 public buildings (includI ing hospital, schools and institui tions) and 1,115 dwellings, or an average of one every minute and a half; that in a day and a night I here are 132 farm and 155 mercan- , tile building fires. MONROE NEWS Miss Francile Oliver i» visiting . relatives a. Indianapolis for a few ( days. Mrs. L. A. Graham spent Wed1 nesday in Monroe with relatives. Mrs. Alfred Hahner and son i George and Mrs. H. E. Forrar went , on the excursion to Toledo, Ohio, ion Wednesday. • 1 Mrs. R. J. Meyers spent Wednesi 'day in Decatur. . I Mr. Fred Foster spent Thursday in Decatur. ) ' Mr. and Mrs. James A. Helifl dricks, Mrs. I. R. Haynes and Wil- ■ | Ham Pittinger motored to Fort Wayne on Thursday afternoon and called on Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hen- ‘ dricks and family. Mr. Fred Foster spent Thursday in Fort Wayne. Robert Oliver and Miss Dorothy Flick of Kalamazoo, Mich., visited Mr. and Mrs. Everett Rice and Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hendricks on Thursday. Mr and Mrs. F. H. Tabler spent 'Thursday afternoon in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Russel Haines and daughter Rosella and Helen Ruth returned on Thursday from a week’s visit with relatives at Grand Rapids, Mich. HOSPITAL NOTES Miss Alice Roth, 710 Walnut I street, submitted to a minor operation at the Adams County Memorial Hospital this morning. Kenneth Beard 242 West Madison street, is a medical patient at the Adams County Memorial Hospital. ——— —o — - —- - — Fuotllk Hi-Hamer 111-humor, wrote Goethe, Is nothing more than un Inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which Is al ways united with an envy that fool | Ish vanity excites.

Imprisoned by Mistake ? His Face His Misfortune * * * * * * Owing to His Facial Resemblance to the Notorious “Two-Gun” Crowley, Patrick O’Brien Is Serving 20-Year Sentence for Crime He Claims Former Committed. f, B « ■I f UMrs. He&en O’&rien And Daughter. Eileent Picked out of the spectator* in a court where he had gone to see the trial of a former school chum and charged with holding up a drug store, Patrick O’Brien, of New York, was sentenced to twenty year* in prison, despite the protests of his mother that h* was ill in bed with pleurisy when the crime was committed. Now Gerald Weed, former crimepartner of the notorious "Two-Gun” Crowley, who is awaiting execution for the murder of a policeman, ha* confessed that he and Crowley committed the crime for which O’Brien was sentenced. O’Brien bears a striking resemblance to the killer and, with his mother, is pleading for a reopening of hi* case on the ground* that he is the innocent victim of mistaken identity.

New York—Somebody with a t gift for seeing things as they really are once remarked that the law is ' like a cobweb, it catches the comparatively harmless fly, but the vicious wasp and hornet esn easly break through it. Never a day passes but the truth of the assertion is made evident. The other day we had the case of a young New York girl lieing fingerprinted and sent to jail for the heinous offense of letting the strap of her bathing suit slip while in the sacred precincts of Coney Island, while the gunmen, who shot five children in New York's "Little Italy” were roaming the country *ree as air. Right on top of this comes the case of Patrick O’Brien, who i« now in Sing Sing prison serving a ' twenty-year sentence. According i to O’Brien and his mother, the only ’ offense of which he is guilty is a remarkable resemblance to the no-| torious “Two-Gun” Crowley, con- i victed killer of a Nassau County policeman, and there seems reason to support their contention that a grave miscarriage of justice has been perpetrated on a boy who may be innocent. The manner of O’Brien's conviction for a crime which he avers he did not commit throws an interesting light upon the manner in which the law put the indelible brand of felony upon its victim on what, his supporters say, was flimsy circumstantial evidence. One day last Spring, O’Brien, who is now 19, read that a boy with whom he had gone to school had been arrested. Interested, he visited the court where his school chum was on trial and sat among a hundred or so sp< ctators. Now, it happened that the police had placed a number of hold-up suspects in different parts of the court room so that they could be picked out and identified by their victims, so young O'Brien had inadvertant-

* PREBLE NEWS * s — < Mrs. John Kirchner and daughters Lorine, and Mrs. June Shackley and son Darrell Eugene, and Mis. Louis Stetter of Fort Wayne, spent Thursday at Adams Lake, from there they motored to Michigan where they will spend several weeks visit-i ing relatives at Sturgis, Centerville and Marcellus Michigan. Saturday' they will be poined by Miss Paula - Stetter and Bob Marshall at Klin- i ger Lake. Mrs. Eli Goldner is spending several days visiting Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wei’.ing and son ot Fort Wayne Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hoffman and son Donald and daughter Miriam spent a few days visiting Mr and Mrs. Milton Kidd of Rochester. Rev. Otto Linnemier and daughter Sylvia and son George are vlsl’ing Rev. Linnemiers mother and broIther Mrs. Kathrlne Linnemier and Rudolph Linnemier. Mr. and Mrs. Delma Elzey of

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lly stepped right into an impromptu ' lineup. The boy's feelings can better be imagined than described when a man halted before him and exclaimed: "That's the fellow that robed my drug store—he and two others.” O'Brien was arrested and indicted. At his trial his mother, Mrs. Nellie O'Brien, testified that her son had been at home in bed with pleurisy at the time that the robbery was committed, January 10, but she could produce no witnesses to corroborate her testimony. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. with a recommendation for leniency, but the judge sentenced the lad to twenty years in prison. Now comes a confession by a for--1 mer partner of "Two-Gun” Crowpry, Gerald Weed, also in Sing Sing I paying his debt to society, that he i and Crowley were responsible for the crime for which O’Brien is in jail. It was only on Weed's confession that O'Brien's unfortunate likeness to the notorious gunman was noted. A movement is on foot to reopen I the case now, but if the law says, | "so sorry, I've made a mistake" | it will be poor consolation for those lof us who had the misfortune to ,be ushered into the world bearing a resemblance to a "public enemy.” Crowley, who is in the death house awaiting execution, refused . eithe rto affirm or deny the statei ments of his former associate, | Weed, dismissing the subject with i nonchalant observation that he took part in so many hold-ups that lA could not recollect any specific one. However there is one cheering ; aspect of the unfortunate business. I Young O’Brien may consider himI self lucky that he was not also sad died with the crime for which Crowley is now toeing the line that I marks the starting point for his . final parade on earth—The last ■, mile.

Decatur spent a few days vts.Vng Mr and Mrs. Douglas Elzey. John Francis Grandstaff is spending several weeks visiting his grand parents Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Grandstaff Clarence Reppert of Magley called on Mr. Jacob Bloemker Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fuhrman land larnlly visited the latter’s mother Mrs Tumhleson of Decatur SatI urday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Llnnemier, and Mr and Mrs. Hoemier of Fort Wayne were the guests of Mrs. Katherine Llnnemier and Rudolph Llnnemier Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Bultemier daughters spent Tuesday visiting Mr. and Mrs. Victor Bultemier and family Misses Dorothy and Berenita Hoffman and Harriet Straub, motored to Fort Wayne Wednesday evening, where the Misses Gertrude Hoffman. Agnes Rupert and Nell ' Brightmier of Fort Wayne Joined them, and they enjoyed' a picnic. ’ outing at Trier's Park.

PLANES BATTLE TIMBER WORMS FOR FORESTERS Government Trying Experiment in West Coast Looper War Olympia Wash. —(UP) —Aviation and man’s ingenuity combined in the state’s latest drive to eradicate the ravaging hemlock looper of Pacific County, Washington. The experiment is the first ever attempted in the United States, according to state oficials. The work will cover a 5,400 acre tract of forest lying near the Pacific Ocean and will cost aproximately SIB,OOO Two special airplanes, costing sll, 1 000 each, are being used. Each plane is equipped with special compartments with agitators to force a supply of calcium arsenate through openings in the t’uslage floor. On each trip 1,000 pounds of the powdered poison will be carried. Pilots will fly about 40 feet above the infected areas and dust the : tree tops. The planes are kept unI der perfect control, following close- | ly the timber tops in windrows.” A base of supply and landing field was established on the ocean beach. The work is costing the state and private owners $79 and hour. More than 50 tons of powder will be spread. Slowly but surely the dust will kill the pests, according to state of- ■ ficials. The looper's attack is nearly always confined to uppermost branches of trees. Some of the worms die within a few hours while others may survive the withering blast for several days, depending on weather conditions and uniforI mity of the dust spray. Because the looper confines his attack to the new tender needles through which the trees “breathe," attempts to exterminate it with ground equipment proved futile. The | worms are able to climb out of | range of the deadly acids , it was found. o r REUNION * CALENDAR ♦ — « Sunday, August 16 Eighteenth annual BloemkerLindeman reunion. Legion Memorial Park, Decatur, rain or shine. Dellinger Family Reunion, Sun Set Park, rain or shine. Cline-Boivin reunion, Washington Park, Bluffton. Annual Homecoming picnic, Sal cm M. E. church. Annual Blossom reunion, James O. Blossom home at Ottawa, Ohio. Crist Reunion, Big Lake. Sixteenth annual Limenstoll reunion, Limenstoll farm south of Peterson. Stauffer Reunion, College grounds at Bluffton, Ohio. Pleasant Mills Alumni Picnic at Sun Set Park. Elzey Reunion, Legion Memorial Park, Decatur. Springer-Brandyberry reunion, Legion Memorial Park. Decatur. Seventh annual Brentlinger reunion, James Mankey grove IVi miles north of CurryvilleButler Reunion, Sun Set Park. McGill Family reunion, Sun Set , Park. Smith Reunion, Sun Set Park. Sunday, August 23 i Annual reunion of the Kemmer family Sun Set Park, Decatur, rain ' or shine. i Annual reunion of Hakes Family, l Sun Set Park, Decatur. Stevens reunion. Memorial Park , Fort Wayne. Sunday September 6 Brown family reunion, Sun Set Park, rain or shine. Urich family reunion, Sun Set Park, rain or shine. : Richards family runion, Sun Set Park, rain or shine. Sehnepp and Manley reunion, Sun Set Park, Decatur. i Sept. 7—Labor Day t Lenhart Reunion, Sun Set Park, i Reunion of Millinger Family Sun t Set Park.

Lessons In English j Words often misusedDo not say, 'Next Monday is the seventeenth of August." Say, "will be the seventeenth." Often mispronounced: Chore. Pronounce chor, o as in "ore." Often misspelled: Sneer; not snear. Synonyms: Relate, recount, recite, narrate, tell. Word study: “Use a word three times and It is yours." Let us Increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's wordPerjure; to violate the oath or vow of. "He refused to perjure himself.’ NOTICE—My cider mill will run every Tuesday and Thursday beginning Tuesday, August IX, until further notice. G. Chronister, Bobo. 187-6tx BARGAINS — Bargains tn Hvfng room, dining room suite, mattresses and rugs. St-ckey and Co. Monroe, our Phone number is 44 I -ts

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4 >1 ANSWERS TO TEST QUESTIONS Below are the answers to the teet questions printed on page two . i I. It is slightly flattened at the poles. 3. Government Printing Office. Washington, D. C. 3. One of the wives of Henry VIII. ! 4. A combination or trust of asso-. ciated business concerns. 5. Lieutenant Governor and Act-' ing Governor. 6. Five. 7. Armenia. 8. The Aleutian Islands. 9 Mt. Everest. 10. The Khyber Pass. o » — ♦ Household Scrapbook | I By t ROBERTA LEE • (U.PJ ♦ Clocks To oil the clock try dipping small rag in kerosene and lying it inside the clock. Leave it for several days The oil will loose the dust in the works, oiling them at the same time. Remove perspiration stains from garments by mixing one part of oxalic acid to twenty parts of water and applying with a small brush. i Coffee Cold water may be used ins'ead of boiling water when making coffee. When cold water is used, heat the beverage only until the boiling point js reached. o—————. TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY | From the Daily Democrat File August 15—Elmo Smith and Father Flatety return from Rome City where they caught 72 blue gills and 36 bass. Clarence Holthouse is opening an up-to-date restaurant here. J. M. Atchbold, 70, dies from heart ailment after long illness. J. J. Helm returns from an outing at Oden. Michigan. C. A. Ducan, J. R. McCullough and Charles Weatherhogg leave for a visit at Waring Island in northern Michigan. C. U. Doi win resigns as water works superintendent and Andrew Foos is appointed. Leon Gass wins missing word contest. City council orders 12 foot walks around court house. C. D. Kunkle, secretary Is out after lace horses for the fair here. '' ""

~ THE ADAMS THEATRE Delightfully COOL and COMFORTABLE Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 15c -35 c FOUR SMASHING DAYS MARIE DRESSLER and POLLY MORAN in “POLITICS” ' ROSCO ATES (The Stuttering Comedian) ’ \\ HA I THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS A LOT OF 1 \1 GHS' XXhiit I his Country (lets is a Million of ’em in this Comctlv by the Screens Funniest Pair! Marie runs for Mayor . ,’. i and How She (.leans I p the Town! ADDED—Two Featurettes. t TIME Tonh-ht —BIG DOUBLE FEATURE BILIz— WINNIE LIGHTNER in “THE LIFE OF THE PARTY - “ LADIES ’ MAN” with CAROLE E ?MBARD and Ka ' FrHn O* Story bv RUPERT HUGHES. 15c 35c f

I Mrs. Jennie Furman of Marion, i visits here en route to Chicago to , attend the aviation meeting. — o if Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE | 4 (U.K) ♦ Q. Should two persons who are | divorced meet each other in frieudI liness? I A. Etiquette demands that they ' meet as strangers, for unless there had been some good reason for makjing friendliness impossible they I would not be divorced. Q. When are flowers sent for a funeral ? A. Shortly before the services. Q. What ts the order of procedure tor men and women when entering a lestaurant? A. The women follow the head waiter, and the men follow the women. Q i rWorld’s Loudest Drum Owned in Colorado Wiggins, Colo., —(UP) —William Heard, a rancher, who lives here believes he has tl|e oldest, and certainly one of the loudest drums in the world. Back in 1870 James Denny a Civil War veteran, and, a cabinetmaker by trade, who incidentally was Beard's grandfa'her, set about to . make himself a drum. He fashioned the shell from cherry wood, and tanned sheep skins for the head. From solid pieces of wood he turned the sticks and over the end of each wrapped deer skinn. The drum was made in Indiana. It has descended through the fa- | mily until it now- is the possession of Beard. Thirty-six inches in diaI meter across the top. anil 'wo feet ’ deep, it has a sonorous and impressive tone. — THE CORT — Sunday, Monday. Tuesday Matinee Sunday 2:30—10c-35c' Evening Show 7:00—15c-40c . The immortal “Cim” and “Skippy” I | Richard Dix and Jackie Cooper I I in > “YOUNG DONOVAN’S KID" Immortalizing America’s boyhood and its Ifg brother. ' Also—Comedy and News Reel. TONIGHT — HOOT GIBSON in “CLEARING THE RANGE,” a J! Western. ALSO-Comedy and I Cartoon. 15c-35c . I I ■■■*■■■■■■■■

WORLD BRIDGI i TOURNEY To| HELD IN 11 Eiy Cuibeitson \ nn M cs Plan While iE Paris 9 P'-esnlent „t Association, plans for Ai| lhe auspu .-s ■ \ Assoeiatnei whi. . will globe. The , i .„ Yotk <>n _ < ry competinv ■ that lie _\< Ute first hand - . . 1:01 A. M. Jan. W to . to . various pails ot be , night o' the op. ■ , The . Oiitestaii' , . Vg set hands ami the New York after the Acting as cial leaders in ai; U world will talc p ; ... . the tournament Culbertson ha- , time on lec.ii-. . .. book ami . ~ phases and the . He believes that - , contest will do .. tuitions together teres'ing comp,'P,. . Mrs. Wesley Hoffman Chicago, today -;-:ni days.

10'1 discoun! ON YUUR I ; electric! LIGHT I BILLS I I BY PAYING OH . OR BEFORE I ■ Aug. 211 power! BILLS I ARE ALSO DO —AND— I MUST BE PAID! —BY— I a TWENTIETH OF| MONTH AT I i CITY HAU]