Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 219, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1931 — Page 2

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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 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail 35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mall 1.75 One year, by mall 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 •15 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The mdiana Lbague of Home Dailies - The exhibits, the free acts, the features and the whole fair is just __as advertised, better than ever and every one seems to be enjoying the event though perhaps a little thrifty about spending cash. If pep was ever a necessary quality it is now both as to individuals and communities. Use your stored up snergy and get things started •’■and then keep going. You will get big results and be happier. • .1 II I —I Doles and moratoriums are nice to talk about but the trouble with both of them is that if some one gets something for nothing and some one else has a debt wiped off. some one else must pay. What little bottom there was to the stock exchange market has been sagging again the past fewdays and holders of stocks have about made up their minds that the , sooiter the zero hour is reached, the better it will be. The weather man is certainly acting funny this week and his actions’ "“are effecting the crowds at the strept fair considerably. Just the sanjj? its a big show and a good one and those 1n attendance seem quite happy about it. We watched the school boys and girls go swinging by in the opening parade of the street fair, happy and laughing, and decided they were a mighty fine bunch and that if the fair makes them happy, its worth the effort and expense. A Delphos boy, charged with automobile theft, escaped from the Van Wert jail and went hornet His father grabbed him by the collar and took him back to the sheriff, evidently believing that the law should take its course. The father Is apparently such a citizen as to deserve a better son. Gandhi, the Bryan of India, believes the wav to restore peace arid happiness to the world is to do away with all our modern inventions and go back to the days of the spinning wheel and the hand plow and he may be right hut he will never be able to sell it to the people of America or Europe where they have had quite a taste of modernism. Senator Borah is willing to accept the republican nomination for President and has a following. However the big wing of the patty will never consent to his nomination for he is a progressive and never hesitates to sb express himself. He WHT play a big part in the coming session of congress and may get strong enough to make the standpatters negotiate and perhaps compromise on the platform. It looks like a mess.

Special Attention for the Proper preparation of funeral shipments anywhere, time or distance. W. H. Zwick & Son FUNERAL DIRECTORS Mr® Zwick, Lady Attendant Funeral Home Ambulance Service 5W N. Second Tel, 303 and 61

The Decatur business men will cooperate with the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., to make Dairy Day, October 14th, a whale of an occasion, offering special attractions in the evening and displaying autumn goods. They will extend the hand of welcome to the visitors and make them feel they are at home in the best town in the middle west. Details will be announced soon. The effort to free Louis Mazer, who confessed to having taken part in the murder of Don Mellett, newspaper man of Canton, Ohio, a few years ago, because of an agreement with the court that if he would turn state's evidence, he would be treated lenient, ought to he referred to Judge Wilkerson of Chicago, with power to act. The Chicago jurist it will be remembered refused flatly and firmly to make any such a deal with Capone recently. We will never get rid of crime by being lenient with hardened criminals and murderers. In the stress of these depressed times many folks have almost lost their heads in seeking some method by which we can come back out on the plane of normal times. Freak methods, isms, panaceas, legislation I and all that sort of thing are just | so much delay in the path of pros- ■ perity. The old remedies still hold i good and it is not by hitting on s something new but hy getting back to the old, the sound and fundamental principles upon which America was founded, that we are going to work out our future. Hard work, sacrifice, honesty, privation, saving, management anil the principles of the Christian religion are the rules for success which our forefathers used to conquer a i wilderness and lay the foundation I for the greatest nation in the world today. Prosperity brought with it ! the dreams of short cuts to fame j and fortune. America chased the bubble until it burst and now most of us are sitting down trying to I i think of some short cut or scheme I ito get back bn prosperity's road I again. We need rather to get back ; sound common sense. The world! I has changed but the principles up- I lon which civilization was founded! j have not changed. The unequalities I under which we are now chafing I are the result of our disobeying the ( 'fundamental principles listed above.; Instead of further fooling ourselves i by following some of the many who j are proposing unsound ideas about 5 the return of prosperity, let's get back to the old remedies. They j will stil hold good, if we but apply them —News, Lenoir City, Tenn. o o TWENTY YEARS I AGO TODAY I F—im the Daily Demcirat File » « Sept. 16 —School tax levy fixed at i 99c. an increase of 5c per SIOO val- j uation. Portland has given up efforts to I secure right-of-ways for the Fort, i Waytie and Springfield Traction . line. Clarence Uhrick of Monroe re | ceives a broken leg and other in- . . juries when h° walks from a second I story window in his sleep. Free Frisinger leaves for Bloom- I ' ing for his sophomore year, in I. U. I Miss Helen Niblick will leave for j Mt. Holyoke, Mass, to enter college. Prices of candy advancing be-1 cause of higher price for sugar. 501,000 copies of Mrs. Gene Strat- . ton-Porter's books have ben sold j by Doubleday, Page and Co, publishers. Miss Bessie Boyers will leave • Monday for college at Champaign. , 11l and Miss Frances Dugan will reI turn to Vassar. 0 A K, RIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Thetus Hocker of i Austin, Minn., are the parents of a nin? pound girl baby, born at the , Hospital in Austin, Monday morni ing, September 14. 1 his is the secj ond child in the family and the secI ond girl. Mr. Hocker is the son of i Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hocker of this city. o I ~ notice ,To dispel any rumors, we take this means of notifying the general public that Mr. H M. Gillis. former manager of the American Security , Co., has not taken over the Insurance Department of said Institution. , American Security Co.

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J Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE ♦ (U.P.) ♦ Q. Do husbands and wives have i separate calling cards? A. Yes. and joint ones also. Q. After dancin- with a woman. ' whom he is not escorting, what I should a man do? A Take her to her friends, or to her next partner. Q. If an invitation to dinner lias not been accepted, is it necessary : to make a dinner call? A. Yes. o — - ♦ I Lessons In English | Word often misused: Do not say “If it hadn't have been for her.' Omit have. Never use have after ’ had. Often mispronounced: Heyday.

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By HARRISON CARROLL. ♦ Copyright, 1931. Premie? Syndicate. Inc. HOLLYWOOD, Cal., 00.— Latest choice for Buster Keaton’s next comedy is a play, "If I Were

You,” written by none other' than P. G. i (Hundred: I Grand) Wodehouse and Guy ! Bolton. The piece has nothing to do with the Eng- I 1i s h author’s ' now celebrated , trip to Holly- I ' wood, as it was | purchased be- j fore he ever signed his con-

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tract. In case Buster makes this — nothing is certain these days—he will play an American barber who learns, to his amazement, that a nurse switched babies in a cradle, and that he is the rightful heir to i an English Earldom. The job of adapting the play for the screen falls to Al Boasberg and Edgar Allan Woolf. Larry Weingarten will supervise again. HE KNOWS ALL THE ANSWERS Maybe Will Rogers was peeved —or maybe it was a mistake. A ! scene in his new picture, "Dollar j Bill.” called for him to enter a : room and close the door gently i behind him. Instead, he gave it such a slam it almost fell off the hinges. The shot was spoiled. For a minute Will just stood there. Then he looked tp with one of those sheepish grins. "Well,” he drawled, ‘‘it’s always been my policy to give my boss just a little bit more than I’m paid for.” LATEST GOSSIP. After all, Marlene Dietrich may not appear in Emile Zola’s “Nara.” Josef von Sternberg tells me he is running up against almost insuperable censorsnip problems. “ ‘Nana’ is a great novel, and I feel an intellectual responsibility to it,” he declares “If 1 have to make it wishy-washy on the screen, I'd rather not make it at all.” If ‘‘Nana” falls through, there is no definite alternative . . . Ronald Colman’s original contract with Samuel'Goldwyn has only a short time to go, but the producer safeguarded himself last year by getting an option on two more pictures in 1932 . . . Billie Dove undergoes a real awakening in her new picture. "The Age for Love.” Somewhere, since she made her last pictures, she's found the key to her emotions. It s a great im-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1931.

| Pronounce ha-da. both a's as in ■‘ate’' accent first syllable. Often misspelled: Instantaneous; t vowels. Synonyms: Guess, surmise, sup I pose, suspect, divine, fancy, believe. Word study:: "Use a word three ■ times and it is yours,” Let us in l crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Tole ate. to endure what is con- ' tary to one s wil or desire. “She could barely tolerate his presence.” o HOSPITAL NOiFS Mis. George W. Dutcher. 416 Fornax street, was admitted to the Adams County Memorial Hospital where she will receive medical I treatment. Mrs. Leland Ma?. 815 Walnut street, submitted to a major operation at tbe Adams County Memorial : Hospital this morning.

► provement over the coolly beautiful Billie Dove of yore . . . Another one of those queer twists of circumstance. Eighteen years ago, Roland West, then a Broadway leading man, was called in to head a road company of "Jockey Jones.” At the first rehearsal, Emmett Corrigan, author of the play, listened to West for five minutes and then walked out of the auditorium. Today, Corrigan is nbiymg in “Corsair,” and Roland West is the producer. Rut he hasn't done any walking out yet, PARTICULARLY IF THEY’RE HERRING. Over in Al Jolson’s dressing room a little group were looking at a picture of a 672-pound marlin swordfish caught in Catalina. With an exaggerated shrug Al threw the paper down. “Anybody can catch a sw’ordfish,” he said. “But a minnow—that’s different. You have to lean over the side and croon to him.” WE LL SOON HAVE HEF.BYJEEBIES. The screen is recognizing the appeal of the Macabre. At Paramount, Irving Piche] is scheduled to play Hugh Walpole’s sadistic hero of “The Man with Red Hair.” And Frederic March will re-create the horrible transformation of Dr. Jeckyll to Mr. Hyde. At Universal, James Whale, one of the more distinguished directors. is about to start “Frankenstein.” As you may know, this is the story of a young scientist who robs graves and patches up the body of a man, intending to create I a super being, he by mistake, gets hold of the brain of a criminal. When electrolysis gives the creature life, it turns out to be a

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monster with the strength of I [ ten men. Playing the monster will be Boris Karloff. If you saw “The Criminal Code” vou will recall him as the convict who shaves Walter Huston. R e m e mb er? Huston asked him: “What are you in for?” And he replied, chillingly: “For cutting a man’s

throat.” Mae Clarke plays the girl in "Frankenstein” and several of the “Dracula” cast will be seen. DID YOU KNOW That Roscoe Atts’s first connec--1 tion with pictures was as a tickettaker in a nickl’.cdeon in HatciesI burg, Mississippi! %

1 TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE j Can you answer seven of these ; | test questions? Turn to page | four for the answers ; ; QUESTIONS 1. Who said "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel?" 2. What is Ihe average height of men in the United States? 3. Who is Will H. Hays? 4. What position in the United States government is held by William Mitchell? 5. Is a naturalized citizen of the United States eligible to the VicePresidency? 6. Who is Frederick M. Sackett? 7. What continent is the home of tile black race? 8. Who is Channing Pollock? 9. What is the form of government of Siam? 10. Who was the third President of the United States? Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE ♦ (U.K) ♦ The Oiled Mop Instead of shaking the dust out of the oilmop try brushing it with a whisk broom. This will take out all the dust and keep the mop nice and fluffy. Closets If a closet is very dark, try paint ing the inside walls and the woodwork white, and see how much brighter it becomes. Breaking Eggc When it is d.i sired to separate the white trom the yolk of an egg, break it into a funnel. The white will pass through the yolk will remain in the funnel. o \ CRAMER PLANE FOUND WRECKED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE! Detroit unheralded early in August and flew to Greenland before the world knew of their adventurous project. They flew by easy stages and reached the Shetland Islands safely August 9. The fliers took off from the Shetlands the next day and were never heard from again. Radio stations throughout Scandinavia sent out signals and listened for word from Cramer for days, but the only trace was the reported pickup by a Norwegian steamer of the cry of "Help. Help,” said to have been in an American accent. Several days later a part of a seaplane was washed up on the Norwegian coast and was believed to have belonged to Cramer's I machine. The position; in which the sea i plane wreckage was picked up by the British trawler indicated that Cramer and Pacquette had been forced south, off their course from the Shetlands to Copenhagen.

Scandinavian fliers covered the I coasts of Norway and Denmark and flow inland in the hope that Cramer might have found refuge in some rocky nlct or Handed in the interior. The fliers were handicapped by storms ami fog prevailing at the time. The regular air route which Cramer had intended to follow had been aliandoned for the season due to bad weather. POST OFFICE ROOF PLACED tCt'NTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) east side of the post office, Mr. Swimmer stated that his company did not have a contract for the job. It has been suggested that the matter be taken up with U. S. Treasury officials and with Congressman Albert Vestal, asking that the government use part of the unexpended appropriation for the competing of the alley. Property owners and city officials do riot feel that the cost of improving the alley should be assessed against them. The unexpended appropriation on the job is more than |25,00ti and as the post office will use the alley in getting to the building, the government will largely benefit by the improvement and the cost could be [>aid out of the fund already appropriated. DRAINAGE CASE TAKES RECESS (CONTINUED b'R<>M PAGE ONE) whose lands lie immediately below the terminal of the proposed drain, on the grounds that these lands' will be d-owned out during floods. Third — Remonstrance by five persons who set out assessments in Ohio, claiming theirs are too high. Fourth — General remonstrance in printed form. To each of these attorneys for the petitioners today filed demurj ers. Attorneys stated that these would conclude the making of ; issues and it is expected that the ■ taking of evidence will begin to- ■ morrow. FOR PARKING—Space for parking ! at the Community Sale Barn. L. W. j Murphy. 218-stx

BRITISH NAVY SALARIES CUT Sailors Form Mutiny When Informed That Wages Are Reduced London, Sept. 16 —(ti.R) Mutiny in the British navy over a cut in pay was met by the government today with an offer to consider the claims of the men. The great Atlantic fleet, helpless off Scotland by the refusal of the men to work, has been ordered to proceed to the home ports at once. Sir Austen Chamberlain', first lord of the admiralty announced in the house of commons. Sir Austen said the government had authorized the admiralty board to investigate the extent of the hardships that the pay cuts would work on the men. and make proposals for alleviating them. Ijibor members mot the announcement with cheers and taunts of weakness against the government. The pay cuts, affecting all officers and men nf the navy, had been ordered as part of the general economy program. The mutiny appeared to be confined to the Atlantic fleet, but every vessel was involved. The men refused to work and' marines and officers were handling th° ships. Dispatches said the mutiny started when the fleet was ordered to sail yesterday for maneuvers. The sailors declined to obey the order tn weigh anchor, gave three cheers for the king and sat astride tin- anchor cables, preventing them from being drawn up. Outstanding in the mutiny, an event which has dumfounded the nation, was tbe fact that no disloyalty to tbe crown was shown. All reports spoke of the men singing "God Save the King” and cheering the sovereign. Officials believed the government's decision would pacify the men and that they would consent to call off their "passive strike” until the admiralty’s investigation is completed. The decision was reached after a cabinet meeting and a conference with Roar Admiral Ragnad M. Colvin, chief of staff of the fleet, who came to London to report. The fleet was anchored off Invergorden, Scotland. It is 20 miles west of Lossiemouth, home of Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald, across the Firth of Moray, and 70 miles southwest of Scapa Flow, where the German fleet was scuttled. BOMBINGS ARE BEING PROBED

FROM PAGE nXEi came within 24 hours, followed a feud between theater owners and members of the Chicago Motion Picture Operators' union. The owners ousted the operators after a dispute over wages and imported other operators from New York and other cities. Thomas Maloy, head of the operators unions, announced a meeting for today at which he said a $5,000 reward would be posted for information leading to capture of the bombers. The reward, Maloy said, would answer the theater owners' charge that union ojierators were responsible for the bombings. Police held four youths, captured in a stolen automobile in which was found 500 pounds of dynamite, as suspects. Mayor Anton J. Cermak ordered trfe "Soctland yard” detail put to work seeking the terrorists. "Bombing must stop." said the mayor. "It necessary, every man on the police department will be assigned to hunt bombers." The south side theater bombing, which did $4,000 damage, was the 73rd in the city so far in 1931. Prop erty damage done by bombs in the last three years was estimated by the Chicago Employers' Association at nearly $1.0000,000. COLLINGS BODY FOUND IN BAY — (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE, hysterical account of how two men boarded their motor boat, the Penguin, trussed her husband up, and threw him overboard. Inspector King announced that while he had not inspected the body, he understood the skull had been fractured. Mrs. Collings had reported that while she was locked in the cabin of the boat, the two pirates had struck her husband over tbe head with bottles, while he cried for ' help. Inspector King started at once I tor Lloyd’s Point, and intended to I pick tip District Attorney Elvin ; Edwards of Nassau county and the j medical examiner, on the way. Finding of Collings' body vtwno ,as a shocking climax to his wife's declaration, in her latest question

JUST RECEIVED a new shipment of COATS and DRESSES MRS. M. MOYER. 127 N. 3rd st.

ing by authorities, that despite the attack, she believed her husband was "still alive.” Mrs. Collings had been unable to give a reason for her belief, however. The discovery also bore out reports by a party of yachtsmen who approached the Penguin in the darkness of last Friday morning, finding it deserted except for the Collings' five-year-old daughter, and who reported the sounds of "someone splashing in the water near the boat, like a spent swimmer.” No traces of the body were found when the yachtsmen boarded the Penguin. Mrs. Collings was discovered. several hours later, in a motor boat some miles from tile derelict craft, where site had been taken by the two "pirates”, one of whom attempted to attack her. A brokun oar, stains presumed to be blood on the deck, broken glass, and a missing anchor also entered into the circumstantial and material evidence of a murder. o SAYS LAWYERS ARE ON TRIAL (CONTINUED FROM FAGS ONE) much as lies within our power. "Let us frankly admit the shortcomings of our profession.. We may deplore tlje existence of prejudice against it, but with it all we know there is some foundation for the criticism. We should cease being so self-satisfied and so loud in voicing our own respectability. "The government of the United States is, and always has been, a lawyers' government. One branch of it. the judicial, is given over exclusively to lawyers. "It is well that we rebaptise ourselves at the fountain of justice for a renewal and revitalizing of our determination that at any and all odds our government shall be at all times an orderly government." FOUR KILLED IN AIR CRASH (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) 10 minutes later. Flying low over the housetops, its inotqr sputtering the mail plane headed out over the bay apparently to turn for a landin- at Alameda Airport, near the waters edge. AiiTort attendants listening in the dark for a sound of th" motor, suddenly heard it stop. The next instant the plane had crashed into the watei, a mile short of its goak Police patrol boats from both sides of the buy responded to an alarm and began a search for the bodies. o Aimee Doesn't Worry Iz>s Angeles. Sept. 16.- <U.R) —lt takes more than a process server bringing official notice of a $200,000 breach of promise suit to push apart the two pillatSs of Angelas Temple, Aimee Semple McPherson and her husband of three days, David Hutton. The bride s smiling “dou t worry about it, dear; what's another suit In the McPherson family?” rang in Hutton's ears today as Myrtle Henrietta Joan St. Pierre announced through an attorney that she might agree to a settlement of her $200.Out) suit. Get the Habit--Trade at Home

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Sill I SWlfl ASHOUSfI Touomih. \ , Ml the Ne(„; ■ cabin, to tin | sna W U| ’ ” ;i ' lh ' 11 '■ l>. or la'S front yard. H Practically .very nn „ ■ old desert . , ■ resident ing camp ~f „ ada . J They a:e W "'I hat ■ pointing. every night, ;i Noticing shl||| M hls ''isitoi. I x rmri.,.,l ■ iess." 11" s 1h! • ' ■ clear ot bn. M "f all. they le . , ,r.. ■ way. S "A rattle-i, s , ar H ' 1)11,1 snake ,|, |„ tween a bull a|ll| ■ • the bull wii; .. ■ snake is not ,■ j |, V t bite. He liints.-if J ; tattler ami . , !1( ,S him." E! I Youth Marries l or ■ Age For Companifl Philadelphia. S.-pt. 16,-i Seventi en til companionship That's the Charles 71. ami Mr- Charle- Ma 1 I Kensington, t. ■ ! ~ ■eu thi 1 j rtage. ami aft. a par of (life, celebrated r. .. .nly, t | (that way m.,r. ~v er | Before her ni.n r..i. \|p (widowed twice, h ~| j [ ' the Old Didios' Ib.tne at W Ing for two years ■I , NOTICE To dispel any runtt ' fake this means of no the general public th H. M. (Jillio, former m ‘I of the American S , Co., has not taken ov 1 Insurance Department Institution. American Sccnrl

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