Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1931 — Page 5

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’ti ■ The Van Wert 1 County Fair S Will Celebrate Its ■ Diamond Jubilee Anniversary ■ Sept. 7, 8,9, 10 and 11 9 1931 Special features have been arranged for both day and night mth full race programs on Monday (Labor Day), Wednesday. Thursday and Friday. Team pulling co.vests with dynamometer Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. Free grandstand at time of these contests. High class free attractions throughout the week. The climax of activities will be reached on Thursday at 12 o'clock noon when the Grand Parade of livestock will be staged, augmei'xd with five bands and an array of prize contesting floats depicting the 75 years of the fair's progress. At night the assembled bands of more than 200 pieces will entertain with a concert which will be followed by the historical pageant, “The Capture of Major Andre.” Every department promises bigger than ever before. AH soacr in the livestock buildings was assigned three weeks before the opening dateYou are never disappointed in the exhibits at the Van Wert County Fair. Ask the man who has been here. M J. H. GUNSETT, Pres. W. A. MARKER, Secy. B> ' ■ ' School B Opens September 8 t. v,- 4 I School Book I NOTICE H IH Eto ihe fact that School Books are sold on an | ■ exceptionally small margin of profit, and the dealer M is compelled to pay cash immediately upon delivery, I Pupils Buying School ißooks-MUST PAY CASH I as '* * s impossible to extend credit to any one under the circumstances. This policy has been observed for several years and we kindly ask your cooperation again this year. I he Drug stores will remain open all day Monday, Labor Day. to accommodate School Book Patrons. Callow & Kohne B. J. Smith Drug Co. Holthouse Drug Co.

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, tertained for (tinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bloeniker and , daughter Irene, Miss Minnie Bloemker. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jaberg and daughter Donna Ruth, Mr. and Mrs. Erod Bloeniker, and Miss Emma Hilgeman. Rev. and Mrs. Otto Scherry and family left Saturday for their home , at New Bavaria, Ohio after spend- . ing a couple weeks on their veation visiting relatives. Mr and Mrs. G. T. Keil and fa-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1931.

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Two imposing sights, the giant German Dornier 1 DOX flying boat in the foreground and the towering Empire State Building In the background, make | this an unusual picture of two of the greatest ' things of their kind in the world. The DO-X is the largest craft in the universe, the Empire State

mily of Van Wert Ohio, Mr. and I Mrs. Charles Dettinger were guests! ; Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Alton HowI er at Garrett. I Daniel Scherry and daughters ’ Marie and Marcella were dinner . guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. WorthI man Jr. and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fruchte and ' daughter Amanda. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Fruchte and family were i dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fruchte of Fort Wayne Sunday. Miss Doris Johnson of Peterson I visited with Misses Marie and Helen Hildebrand Sunday afternoon. PETERSON NEWS i Mrs. James Ernst called in DecaI tur, Tuesday afternoon. Miss Doris Johnson spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Marie and Helen Hildebrand. Miss Velma Spade spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Velma And-! , rows in Preble. Mr. and Mrs Burton Aungst of Fort Wayne spent Sunday with Mr. land Mrs. Grant Ball. Charles Hauck of Muncie spent ( I last Saturday with Roll Houck and 1 daughter Jean and son Max. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Heller, ! Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kelly of DeI catur, Mrs. Bess Andrews and ' daughter Velma spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Frank i Spade. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Straub and | family of Decatur called on Mr. and I Mrs. All Straub Sunday. Merlan Ernst of Craigville ca’l|ed on Mr. and Mrs. James Ernst | Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Hansel Foley who i has been spending the summer in I Peterson has returned to their. i home in Connersville where he will | I teach school. I Mrs. Mae Shaffer of Lafayette' i is visiting iter sister Mrs. George i Bright. i Mrs. Eva Allen of Gary spent the 1 I week-end with Mr. and Mrs. W. B. I Weldy. I Mrs. Cha: les Andrews returned home from the hospital Monday af-' ternoon. Mrs. Role Houck is recovering I ' front a .goiter operation at the 1 Adams County Memorial Hospital' I Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Ptiul Graham called I | on Mr. and Mrs Bill Bryan Tuesday i evening. I Milton Hoffman called on Mr. an I I : Mrs Ralph Straub. Tuesday even | i inz. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Dilling called I on Mr. and Mrs. Frank Spade Tues- | day evening. Mis Win. Bryan spent Tuosday I with Mrs. Etty Tayler in Pennville. TEACHERS ARE NAMED;START WORK MONDAY (CUNTINUED FROM PAGE ONEi St. Marys Township Henry Snyder. Principal; High' school, Agnes Yager, Helen Mann, I Velma Fortney (Part time teach-1 er). Grades: Mattie Stevens, I Myrtle Clements, Win. Noll, W. G. Teeple. Bobo school: Ho Johnson, Evangeline Steele. French Township | District 1. Myron Lehman; dis- * trict 2. R. D. Lefavour; district.

T reaches higher than any building on the globe. The DO-X, in landing at New York, completed an aerial I voyage to America started in November, 1930, from | Lake Constance, Switzerland. Thousands roared I their welcome to the huge German airplane as it | circled the metropolis and landed on the waters of upper New York bay.

■3, Vera Owens; district 4. Mari cella Robin; disrict 5. Louise Neusbaum; district 6, Elizabeth Cramer. Monroe Township Virgil Wagner, Principal. High school: Roland Sprunger, Vesta Rich, Lavina Christner. Grades: Ruth Gilbert. Lloyd Bryan. Mardelle Hocker. District! 2, Floyd Johnson; district 3. j Francille Oliver: district 5. Margaret Price; district 6, Ruth Martz; district 7. Ray Duff; dis-: trict 8, Ezra Snyder; district 9, ; Harry Johnson. Blue Creek Township District 1, James Fravel, dis- i trict 4. Estella Campbell; district 5. Chalmer Edwards; district 6, Eldon Sprunfeer. Hartford Township Russell Steiner. Principal, high* school: Lester Kerr. Mary Sulli-! van. Dorothy Sprunger, Maryann I I’usey. Grades: Edna Glendening, Marcella Michaud. Linn Grove: Lester Reynolds, Mary Schlagenhauf. Wabash Township R. O. Hunt, Principal, high school. P. W. Vitz, Nell Pyle. I Blanche Aspy, Mary Brennan, Ruth Pusey. Magdalena Hlrschy, Andrew Cook, Catherine Fravel, Goldine Butcher. District 1, Harold Long; district 2, Mary Wheat; district 2, Gladys Long. Jefferson Township Olen Marsh. Principal. high school; Morrill Tharp, Dorcas' Petty. Lea Robertson. Grades: Helen Kenny, Madeline Robin. Osie Hiestaud. (.blorofornied Bi Willette Kershaw (above), wellknown American actress, was chloroformed and robbed of a large sum of money in Paris when a band of robbers broke into her apartment, overcame her and left ; her unconscious. While Miss Ker- : shaw’s jewels were not taken* i three days’ receipts of the theatre ' at which she is appearing were stolen. 0 Oil Field Reins Tightened Henderson, Tex.—(U.R)- East Texas oil fields are not as lenient a ! past booms. The first pool hall opened here as a ■‘membership" affair lasted only five hours witli the 'operator being thrown in jail.

BOOTLEGGERS ! OF GASOLINE MAKE PROFIT Rich Illegal Business Operating In Several Middlewest States ILLINOIS IS HARDEST HIT Chicago, Sept. 2 —(U.R) SmugI glers of gasoline are reaping mil- ' lions by a brazen and illicit game : of hop scotch across boundaries of half a dozen states. The people are the losers. Money which should go into stale coffers for road building finds its way into the pockets of bootleg gas barons. And bootlegging gasoline hys [roved a richer “racket" than th? early day smugglers who eased sloops into seacoast coves by night even dreamed of. a survey l-y the United Press today revealed. The motor fuel smugglers have the advantage of operating hot It by land and water and their commodity is one which every man., woman, boy or girl who drives an 1 automobile needs and purchases plmost daily. The survey records violations of motor fuel tax laws from Michigan to Texas and from | Pennsylvania to Nebraska. it describes conditions in Illinois, | where federal, state, county, city I and industrial agencies have uniti ed in a war against the bootleg- ! gers. IT. S. District Attorney George I E. Q. Johnson of Chicago said: "It appears that a condition’ is j b»ing created similar to that of I bootlegging in the liquor consplr- ■ pcies, inevitably breeding gangs and lawlessness.” Governor Emmerson. Mayor I Cermak. Attorney General CarlI strom and the secret six of the | Chicago Association of Commerce I are among individuals and groups : aligned against tlie gasolin* i smuggler. Meanwhile, day and night, cara- i : vans of trucks filled witli bootlag I i gasoline rumble over the state lino from Indiarb. Some fleets I make four round trips in 24 hours. I j There is no tax on gasoline sent j outside Indiana for sale, although' j the state taxes that sold within I its own borders. Fly-by-night companies wf t h . dummy dirccorates grow rich from J the three cents a gallon they i pocket instead of paying as tax. When official scrutiny is turned their way, they change (he name;; i i of (heir firms, repaint their trucks ■ another color and the illicit traf- ! tie rumbles on. Few thrills befall drivers. One' > questioned at Danville. 111., said: "It's as tame as deliveriirc a ! load of coal, only cleaner. I know. | I go to Hammond, Ind., and get a : load every night." Illinois loses at least U.OOfi.OOOI monthly to gasoline bootleggers, l i accbrdlng to semi-official estiI mates. I I In Pennsylvania, armed land and

water forces are waging war on gasoline bootleggers on a 1,200mile front. A special unit of state highway patrolmen guards the land boundaries. An armed cutter cruises waters of the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. Results of the drive already are apparent, said A. P. Delahunt, commissioner of tho Pennsylvania Liquid fuels tax bureau. "Gasoline bootleggers stole tax on 10.000,000 gallons yearly until this drive started,” lie said. "They robbed the state of millions of dollars. Now collections are increasing at the rate of approximately $500,000 a month." Nebraska’s problem is different. | Grain, growers and large scale farmers attempted to obtain gasoline for their tractors tax free ; under terms of the original package law. This interstate regulation prohibits taxing gasoline shipped into a state if delivered in the "original package” and used liy tlie purchaser. To prevent this enormous leak I ini state revenues, the legislature placed a four-cent excise tax on (ill gasoline. Texas, witli a tax of four eents I a gallon, 'also has felt the greed of the tax evader. Six inspectors are now touring the state searching for evaders. Their task was simplified when a law was passed applying the tax at the refineries. Approximately 200 suits have been filed by the attorney general of Texas for recovery of tax. It 1 is estimated that the new law ‘ will save about $2,000,000 a year for the state. A secret investigation of gasoline tax evasion is under way in I Michigan. It is known that dilu-' tion and bootlegging of gasoline .ue practiced. Violations are the exception in I Indiana, according to state Auditor Floyd E. Williamson. State police keep eyes open for trucks delivering gasoline on which tax i lias not been paid to points with-! in the state. Wisconsin. lowa, Minnesota and Ohio reported little o> no gasoline bootlegging. INVESTIGATION OF ACTIVITIES WILL CONTINUE CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) found. The original owner report-, ed seeing a man who he said I closely res-’mlited Powers about j the place frequently at night. Failure of a “detector" to indicate presence of any other bodies in the [dot in which is located the garage and burned cottage' near which five bodies were re-1 covered caused the search to be abandoned there. The “detector," invented by a physician here, reacted strongly! when held over Hie spot where! Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher, her three! children and Mrs. Dorothy A. Pres-1 sler Lemke were buried. It showed no reaction at other places on the property, police said. Chicago, Sept. 2 —(U.R)— Harry F. Powers, parading his wiles then as Joe Gildow, persuaded a Hammond. Ind., woman to give him $5,400 after proposing to marry her and as a result spent! the summer of J 925 in jail ini Chicago Heights, police of tha(| suburb disclosed today. Miss Tania Fellows, who has since moved to Chicago, was the victim. Powers induced her to withdraw SI,OOO from a savings account and buy a new automobile for an elopement. They started for Joliet, 111., with Miss Fellows' suitcase containing SI,BOO in building and loan stock. At a filling station in Chicago Heights. Powers suggested that his "bride-to-be” Hide her two diamond rings, each worth SI,OOO in the suitcase. Then he asked I h°r to go around the corner and I mail a letter. \\ lien she came | back Powers was gone. Chicago Heights police located! I him at Mansfield. 0., and return-1 ed h'm for trial. He had sold the I automobile and rings and spent ■ the money. Polioe Magistrate A. I. Zeller ; of Chicago Heights held him to ' the grand jury. He spent the sum i ; mer in tail I lit was acquitted when brought to trial. "I asked him how he managed I to get off in court," Magistrate! Zeller said today. "I had a smart lawyer anil he! convinced the Jury that Miss Fellows gave me the stuff',' Powers' answered.” Magistrate Zeller, after compar-l ; ing photographs, said: "There's 1 !no doubt about it. Powers and' j Gildow were the same man.” Get the Habit—Trade at Homa.

French to Study Gulf Stream DINARD. France (U.R) —- Fishermen and meteorologists are going to determine whether the Gulf Stream is growing colder, or whether currents from the northern ice shelf have shoved it out of its usual path. The disappear ! I - .- - . . _

I .... — . . IL, = KI SHIRT HEADQUARTERS I r/ WWVNWVAAWW'VTXWVLvWVVVXXWWVVWVI.W \ pS WHKX HOB L" I LEAVES FOB COLLEGE, \ '' \\ SO DO FATHER'S SHIRTS \ T JL HAT’S our cue to step in and sell father the best shirts that ever decorated his manly bosom — lustrous Arrow Sanforized-Shrunk shirts. They are absolutely guaranteed for permanent fit. No creeping cuffs, climbing tails or binding collars that strangle after a few launderings.* Father’s shirt money will go farther than it’s ever gone before and father’s shirts will fit # H .05 father. Prices begin with Trump at . . . Holthouse Schulte & Co. John W. Kleinhenz & Sons Announce Opening The Kleinhenz Union Stock Yards Van Wert, Ohio Labor Day, Mon., Sept. 7 A program of entertainment comprising music, speech making and other enjoyable events will take place from 2 to 6 o’clock p. m. 1 his is predestined to be a gala event for Van Wert and we are desirous of having as many friends with us on that day as possible, we hereby extend to you a most cordial invitation to be present. Come to Van Wert, Labor Day, Sept. 7. Hogs, calves and lambs will be received on opening day, until 1:30 p.m., not later. After opening day calves and lambs received on Saturdays only, hogs 6 days of week. We do not buy cattle.

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ance of certain fish which formerly abourMvd in the stream ami reports of bathers that sea-water is colder than usual have led to the decision to sink thermometers over a 29-mile strip of the stream. o Get the Habit—Trade at Home.