Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 214, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1931 — Page 6

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TEXAS PLANNING CANAL MEETING Corpus Christi, Tex., — (UP) —The annual convention of the Intercoastal Canal Association of Louisiana and Texas will be held here Nov. 6 and 7, Roy Miller, active vice-pre- i sident, has announced. Indications are that several hun- | tired persons will attend and pre- ; parations for one of the most inter- I estlng programs in the history of ■ the organization are under way. “This meeting should equal, or ex- j coed any 1/ ent convention because j of two things," Miller said. "First. ' the great interest locally, and sec- ! ond, increased interest in the in- ' terior of the state on the improvement and development of ‘feeds’ to ; the canal. "Now that the ultimate cample- i tion of the canal to Corpus Christi and even to the Rio Grande Valley i is assured, these interior sections j are anxious to get on the system by 1 improvfrfg some streams which ; reach far into the interior. Sections along the Trinity and Guadalupe ! rivers now have organizations seek- | ing to promote a movement for na- I vigation as 'feeders’ of the canal. "EvemSaSn Antonio had a navi- I cation district bill passed at the recent regular session of the Texas I legislature looking to the improve- < merit of the San Antonio river. “Completion of the intracostall canal will give critics along the I route a tremendous advantage in transportation facilities and charge I over their interior sister cities.’’ OCEAN FLIERS STILL MISSING (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) been unable to verify a rumor that ! a large monoplane had landed on ! an island off the northern British Columbia coast. The biers expected to complete

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This is the first picture to arrive in this country < showing streets of Hankow, China, under water as the result of the record rise of the Yangtze River. It is estimated that 31,000,000 residents of four

their hazardous 4,500-mile trans- ' Pacific bight about noon yesterday. ;As the long night hours passed i without reports of them, the Pacific : was credited with having claimed | two more victims. In event the fliers,did land near I some isolated settlement, or along I some desolate island beach, how- ; ever, it might take a month or : longer for word of their safety to ' reach civilization. That possibility was the only jilting which kept hopes alive today |that some trace of the fliers eventI ually might be found. o— Remarkable Sheep in England Ihe little girl had Just returned : to the heart of London from 11 ; week on her aunt’s farm in Sussex "I wish we kept a sheep, mother." she said, "so that we could have | fresh kidneys for breakfast every morning."—London Opinion

a. provinces are suffering as the result of the unprec edented floods. Thousands died, millions of hornet were destroyed and crops wiped out, leaving ten million to face starvation.

PER CAPITA IN STATE HIGHER r. I - 1 (Continued from pagx one) 1152.632,093. equivalent to $16.25 per; 'J capita. This was $521,693,131 more i ; than the expenditures of the year.! exclusive of payments for permanI lent improvements. The excess of I I revenue is reflected in purchase of j I investments, not shown in the sumI maty, the report showed. Property special taxes repre- ’ | serfted 28.3 per cent of the aggre- j gate revenue; in 1917 property and personal taxes constituted 68.1 per, I cent of the revenue. The per cap-1 ita property and special taxes were $4.61 in 1930, $4.20 in 1929, and ■ $3.10 in 1917. The sales tax on gasoline amounted to $16,832,448 in 1930 and $14,-! 033,711 in 1929.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1931.

, The funded debt of the state on I September 30, 1930, was $2,654,000. ! The net indebtedness was $.77 per capita, an increase of 3 cents over the previous year. o Where Curfew Rings Although the curfew hell was abolished in the Seventeenth cet, tury, there are still a few towns in England which retain the old custom. At Ripon. In Yorkshire: Sandbaeh. Cheshire; Cbeshatn in Buckinghamshire. and Workingltam. Berkshire, a bell is rung or a horn blown to announce curfew each night. o Saltiest Seas Bluest The blue of the sea stands in a constant ratio to its saltiness. In the tropics the tremendous evaporation makes for a more brilliant blue than In the northern seas.

UNIQUE CHURCH BUILDS HOME Kansas City, Mo.. —(UP)— A church with no pastor, no organization and not even a member, but with 250 Sunday school teachers, is erecting an SII,OOO building here. This church, which might have a railroad brakeman in the pulpit on? I Sunday and a millionaire business man the next has been meeting in an old duelling house, or in a room over some shops, for the past seven years. Finally, however its congregation—it doesn't have any regular members, since no roster- was ever started decided to put up a building. It raised SB,OOO in two weeks added this to a fund of $3,000 which had been accumulated, and began work on the building, most of the labor being done by the congregation. Archie Payne, an English evangelist. was the inspiration for this free and easy church organization. A group of persons who attended Payhe's meetings here in 1920 1 wanted to keep up a study of the Bible together. They were, mostly members of other denominations, attending church at different places so they formed this undenominational. yet orthodox group of Bible students, ami met in an old mansion which they called the Central Bible Hall. Their one purpose was to train Sunday school teachers. So anyone who attended the class might be called on at any time to teach the lesson. Before long, other Sunday school teachers joined, until now the new hall will be built to accomodate 700. o Let Children Play This gamesome humor of children should rather be encouraged, to keep up their spirits and improve their strength and health, than curbed or restrained.—Locke. “Muskegon” The name “Muskegon" is an Ojibwa Indian word meaning, according to most authorities, "marshy water” or “wet prairie"; one authority, however, gives its meaning as "Tamarack.'’ from the abundance of these trees on the river banks. There is a popular myth that an Indian dropped his musket Into the water front his canoe and. as It disappeared. exclaimed "Musket gone.” —Detroit News. o All Married People Quarrel “It Is always assumed by witnesses in this court that all married people quarrel.” said Justice Hill in the Divorce court of London a ! short time ago. This statement followed a remark l.y a woman vvitj ness that she and her husband “only quarreled like married peoi pie do." o . Fisheries' By-Products By-products of the Canadian fisheries are produced cn a large scale. They include glue, fish meal fish oil, fertilizer, herring scales for use in the manufacture of pearl es- ■ sence, poultry grit, whalebone, etc., ns well, of course, its medicinal cod , liver oil. All told, the by-products ordinarily add several million dollars to the value of Canada’s annual fisheries production.—Canada Week by Week. — o Gerard’s Bank In founding his bank, Stephen Girard Invested largely in the shares of the old Bank of the United States in 1810, and In 1812. upon the lapsing of Its charter, purchased a controlling interest and the buildings. He named it the I Bank of Stephen Girard, and. retaining the old offices, niade it one ; of the foremost financial Institutions of the country. Muriel McCormick Engaged to Wed * iAf Miss Muriel McCormick, daughter of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick of Chicago and granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, whose engagement to Elisha Dyer Hubbard of Littletown, Conn., was announced Wednesday by iter mother. No date for the wedding • has been set.

ASKS APPROVAL OF TAX BOARD (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONK) i surveyor's transfer, 135; highway department transfer. $128.16. The appropriation for $1,250 for a special judge in the Wabash river i vase was allowed. The state will later reimburse the county for the amount paid to the special judge. The money appropriated comes : out of the general cash balance and the amounts wtre not included in the 1932 budget. Approval of the state board must . be obtained in making special ap- ' propriations, Mr. Harlow stated. . O— H. P. Davis Expires — Pittsburgh, Sept. 10. — (U.R) —Dr. Harry Phillips Davis. 63, vice president of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company and known as the "father of radio broadcasting," died here today. Davis had been ill several months

$12,000,000 PAYROLL E OF MIDLAND GROUP B AIDS INDIANA TRADE B Kbet ‘ PUBLIC utility companies of the Midland United K Company group paid $12,371,039.50 in salaries and H wages to theii: employes, residents of Indiana, H during 1930. These companies, in supplying more than 830 Indiana H communities with electric, gas, transportation and IB other services provide employment for thousands of IB workers in scores of different callings. Linemen, meter readers, construction workers, clerks, B stenographers, accountants, engineers, interurban and B street railway trainmen—this enumeration is far from IB complete, but indicates the variety of talent necessary IK to provide customers with service. B IK Good public utility service is impossible without ■ conscientious and competent workers. Reliability and |K> regularity of service are due to a large extent to IB progress which has been made in the improvement IB of equipment, but are no less due to the efficiency of | ■ employes and their pride in a good record. ■ Companies of the Midland I nited group strive to | ■ maintain capable organizations by thorough train- IK ing for specific tasks so that the aggregate result is j B good service. Thus, the public is benefited and IB employes arc provided with a means to advance | B themselves. | B 1 Employes of the Midland United group of companies ! B 9 are residents of Indiana. They are vour neighbors. I B They are spending their money in Indiana and ■ investing their savings in Indiana enterprises. Many 11 of them are home owners. They help maintain local I I business in all lines. They are making their contri- j I ■ bution to the progress of their home communities j I ’ and the state not only as members of public service I I organizations but as citizens. | ■ II Thii is the fifth of a series of advertisements | MF fmblished in the interest of a belter understanding I ■ of principlet governing operation of public utiUlia. I I , Midland United Company I 1 PRINCIPAL OPERATING SUBSIDIARIES: I Northern Indiana Public Service Company .. . Gary Railways Company JII Public Service Company of Indiana ... Indiana Service Corporation ’ g Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad .. . Indiana Railroad ! | Indiana Electric Corporation .. . Wabash Valley Electric Company i I j • Northern Indiana Power Company . . Gary Heat, Light & Water Company j | 3 H - I I

after an operation. Davis was chairman of the National Broadcasting Company and a director of the Westinghouse concern. His engineering work in radio, railway control apparatus, transmission equipment and other j electrical lines was known nation-11 ally. o Willing to Abolish It One party is for pronouncing It “staytic." and the other for “stattic." Tlie rest of us pronounce It a nuisance.—Boston Transcript. 1 o Killed In Accident Columbus, Ind.. Sept. 10. -(U.PJ— Two men were killed, a third was injured probably fatally, and two ;others were hurt, in an auto acci- ' dent near here last night. Haul Full. 20, Columbus, died ’ shortly after the auto in which he was, delivering mail, collided with another. Pleasant Armstrong, 23. 1 who lived near Hope, died in Barth-■ olomew County hospital. Morris I

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