Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 23 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, Dy carrier 10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mall 35 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 ♦ls Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The •ndiana League of Home Dailies Indiana raised seven per cent more corn this year than the average for ten years which would be fine if the price was the ten year average. Autumn began officially at 6:24 this morning but if you had dropped down here from Mars you would have guessed it was the middle of summer. The country it is announced has become “relief conscious" but we insist It would be far better if it became "job conscious." That as ‘er all is the only thing that will really help the nation to come back. We don't think the country is any worse off than it is now being broadcast but it doesn't look very good when the President. Governors. mayors and others in authority are urging us to get ready for <i cold, hard winter. Jack Deippsey got his divorce at Reno the other day and now Estella Is saying "just wait until I get mine tn Los Angeles." That ought to fix every thing so they are ready to start over. England wants an international conference to make arrangements for a redistribution of world gold. They will find that a rather difficult subject when it comes to convincing the nations which have it that they ought to “divy.” Dairy day. by the Cloverieaf Creameries, Inc., the Decatur Chamber of Commerce cooperating, will occur October 14th and the program will start at seven o'clock in the morning and last until late in the evening. Its going to be good. Drive the blues away, be a booster for dairy day. In good old Indiana the past year, the state has planted 15,000 acres of forests and individuals on the tax free plan have reconverted 50. 000 acres into woodlands. That's not only fine because it provides beautiful parks and groves but in a decade or two will prove about as good an investment as any man can make who owns farm lands. There should be more of it. The Decatur sugar plant should be reopened and we believe Col.

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Gallagher and his assistants have in mind a plan that will do that for next year. If it is we should all become boosters for Decatur made! sugar and encourage a development of this industry in a manner profitable to manufacturers, dealers, farmers, laborers and every one else. Think it over for we are sure you will hea v more about it soon. This is no time to quit and that goes for the man who is hunting a job. for the merchant who has let up on his advertising and for the community that wants more industries to furnish employment. The man who hustles will eventually land a job, the merchant who advertiser will reap large dividends and the whole community working together can get some new plants. Its all worth while. Tile Bluffton merchants supported the News Banner one hundred per cent and a thirty-two page edition boosting the street fair appeared Monday, each announcing that his store will be open evenings during the fair and inviting the folks to come in and make themselves at home. Incidentally they will accept any business that comes as a result. It shows a spirit of j splendid cooperating and the re-' suits should be watched by those' who desire to increase volumne. Sheriff Johnson seems to have discovered a new’ plan in use by distillers of whiskey. Its a kind of progressive game. A number of men cooperating own a still. Each I gets his mash ready and then along I comes a fellow with a still on his I truck. The whisky is drawn off i and as soon as that job is completed the still is loaded up and moved on to another partner. Slick, isn't it? But even at that there seems to have been a slip and the perfect | plan is “busted. - , This has been an unusual summer but don't kid yourself into believing that it will last all winter. Statistics show that after all temperatures even up pretty much during a year and after a mild winter last year, an extremely hot summer, we won't be surprised if we have plenty of zero weather the next six months. Thats not to frighten you hut the folks who get ready for it will be sitting much more comfortably than those who don't, whatever comes. o Lessons In English | Words often misused: Do not say "We can't do it so easy." Say, “We can’t do it so easily.' Often mispronounced: Hoboken, •’renounce both o's as in “no,” e unstressed, and accent first syllable. Often misspelled: Dissension; ' three s's. 1 Synonyms: Insolvent, impertin- > ent. impudent, saucy, overbearing. Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us in--1 crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Villainy; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness.' “He was a desperado, ready for any villainy." i o Household Scrapbook * By ROBERTA LEE • tU.PJ • Baby’s Stockings Try sewing loops of tape to baby’s stockings, through which to fasten the safety pins of the diaper. Mixing Batter If one wishes to make muffin batter ahead of time, place in the ice box until time to bake. The cold air prevents the leavening from working too soon. Mildew on Leather One of the best agencies for removing mildew from leather Is petroleum ointment. o Modern Etiquette * By | ROBERTA LEE ♦ <U.P.) • Q. Does ettiquete accept the invitation made personally, when meeting a friend on the street, or at the home of another friend? A. Yes; it is classed as an informal invitation. Q. What should be eaten at the wedding breakfast? A. The menu is practically the i same as a luncheon. Q. Should the servant remain afi ter bringing in the tea at an after- : noon tea? A. No. ' fiet the Haou —Trade at Heme

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• « I I TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE — | Cun you answer seven of these ; | test questions? Turn to page | four for the answers 1. What position in the federal government is occupied by Louis I). Brandcis? 2. Os what race are natives of the | island of Julo, I’. I.? 3. What is veal? 4. In what country is the state of j Puebla? 5. Who is Cupid ? 6. Who was Walt Whitman? 7. What state does Senator Joe T. RoMnson represent in the Sen i ate? 8. How many Presidents of the United States has California furnished? 9 What is the “V. C.”? 10.'In what month does the shortest day of the year (in the northern hemisphere) occur? Q ♦ # | TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY I 1 F~wn the Daily Democrat File Sept. 23 —Decatur truck is one of I of eighteen cars to make a perfect i score in a 200 mile test drive at I Chicago. Hickory nuts are most plentiful in years in Adams county. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Scott of Lafay- j ette are visiting here. ! There were 259 violent deaths j I in Indiana during August including j | 15 murders and 46 suicides. Glen Falk appointed agent for the I Oakland car. Miss Huldah Loser enters Luth- ■ eran hospital at Fort Waytie as a student nurse. Cal Peterson and Samuel Kunkle attended the Kunkle-Kleinknieht reunion at Tocsin. i Attorney J. C. Sutton is at Orville, ! Ohio on business. Tomorrow will be field day for the ; Anti-saloon league in Decatur. Kora Jones of Winchester made ! his first balloon ascension here and wants to buy the bag and start out. MAGLEY NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Losier Eek rote of | . Linn Grove spent the Week end with j David Scherry and daughter Marie and Marcella. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kruetzman I and son Richard. Mrs. Mina Rep- • pert and son Clarence were supper | guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fruchte and family ot Decatur Friday evening. Those who attended the Mission Feast of the German Reformed church at Berne from around Magley were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bloemker, Mr and Mrs. Edward Kolter. I Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kruetzman and son Richard, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hildebrand and family, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Fruchte and family Mrs. Caroline Jaberg. Miss Minnie Bloemker. Mrs. Mina Hildebrand Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bloemker. Edward Scherry, Vernon Bracht, Rev and Mrs. David Grether and family. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jaberg and daughters Donna Ruth were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Crist Borne i and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Helmrich and family entertained for dinner Sun-, , day Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kruetzman and children Benjamin, Lorlne and Marie Mr. and Mis. Earl Wood and I family Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Helm--1 rich and family. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Scherry and , family entertaineod for dinner Sun day Mr. and Mrs Gen •go Schwartz i of Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Loj tier Eekrote of Linn Grove, Daniel

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Scherry and daughters Marie and Marcella. Lewis Worthman Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Worthman Jr. and family. Mt and Mrs. John Hilgeman Ernst Worthman and family and Miss Amanda Worthman. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Miller and family called on George Miller and daughters Olive and Emma Saturday afternoon. ———— . o MARION KILLER IS UNDER GUARD (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) » slight chance to recover. Teal was captured in an outbuilding near his home. He offered no resistance. Police beleived that the return of Earl Galbreath, Mrs. Galbreath's husband, from the Indiana state prison, also incited Teal against his housekeeper. Galbreath. who was serving a term from Fort Wayne on a charge of auto banditry, was brought here in a three-day parole to visit his mother. Mrs. Galbreath is survived by her widower and two children. Teal has six children. NEW DISEASE KILLING BEES Carson City, —(UP)—Ranchers and bee keep rs in this vicinity are wondering if there is a possible connection in the presence of a mysterious disease which has caused paralysis among horses and bees. In recent weeks a number of horses have died from symptoms similar to paralysis. Large quantities of bees, in some instances entire colonies, have been wiped out by the disease, which lias the same peculiar characteristics of the former. Now a farmer residing in Carson Valley has come forth with the statement that, in making a study of grasshoppers, he found them clinging to stalks of alfalfa, unable to use their hind legs. A large number I had already died. PROHIBITION DISCUSSED BY LEGIONNAIRES mUTINUKI) FROM PAGE ?NEI Mass: "I voted for prohibition, i but I'm cured." With completion of yesterday’s mammoth parade, a spectacle in whit h 50.090 persons took part and which was witnessed by more than 500,000, attention turned today to the serious convention issues and to social activities. A football game last night between Detroit and De Paul Universities attracted thousands of the visitors. Interest of the Legion Auxiliary, holding its convention here also, centered about election of officers. > Mrs. W. H. Morgan of Illinois and 1 Mrs. Louisa Williams of New York ; were considered the leading candidates for the office of national commander. Detroit. Sept. 23 —(UP) — His name is A. J. Drinkwater. He deals in oil at Tulsa but is here for the American Legion convention And | his comment, on the prohibition j question li fore the convention was: “The ex-soldicr wants beer. ” —o— Steals Nest; hatches Brood | Eldridge. In — «J,R) — Elmer J. Kuhl was surprised when a white irnck puiut. just five and a half ' months old. hatched 10 chicks from ! a "stolen” nest.

FIRST AIR MAIL PILOT TO FLY ON ANNIVERSARY Celebration Planned For 20th Birthday Os Service Washington. Sept. 23 <U.R) —The first air-mail flight, in which the pilot carried the mail sack on his lap in a wobbly little single seater, was recalled today with the celebration of the 20th anniversary of this modern method of communication. Earle K Ovington, who made the first flight, is still flying the air mail. He wil lhave a place of honor in the celebration, carrying a special batch of mail on the mountain-desert run from Los Angeles to Tucson. Ariz. First Hop Ten Miles Ovingtons inauguration of the air-mail, which led to the present day System in which American pilots fly more than 20.000.000 miles annually, was a hop of less than 10 miles from Garden City to Mineola. Long Island. "It wasn't much and shouldn't be mentioned along with the flights of our present day aiimail pilots." Ovington said in tellng of the trip. "It took place at the aviation meet held at Nassau Boulevard. I was duly’ sworn in as airplane mail carrier number one' on the regular post office form, except that the salary was I not mentioned. So I guess I'm! still an air-mail pilot, as I've never resigned and never 'been fired. "The time was Sent. 23*"to" Oct 2. 1911. I used a Blerlot monoplane with a Hendee rotary motor of 60 horsepower. 1 hopped the mail from Nassau Boulevard to Mineola, the great distance of I less than 10 miles." There was no extra charge for letters carried on the first flight an,i ordinary postage stamps we-e attached to them On the anniversary a special cachet will bo used on all mail carried on the lais Angeles-Tucson trip and on mail carried from Mineola. Au appropriate legend will be stamped on each piece. Hitchcock Was Postal Head Frank H. Hitchcock was the postmaster general in 1911. He arranged the first airmail flight in connection with an aviation meet which had been sponsored by Timothy L. Woodruff, late lieutenant governor of New York. From this Itt-miie route on Long Island there has deve'oped a system of some 400 planes in charge of 300 pilots. collecting and dispatching mail by air to every important city and town I throughout the nation. Passengers and merchandise have been added Ito the cargoes and tn the fiscal year ended June 30. 1931, mail pilots flew 21.350.517 miles with 8.579.422 pounds of mail matter There are now 23.48 S miles of air-mail routes operated in the United States. WAGE CUTS TO AFFECT MANY tCONT'NUED FROM PAGE ONE) boon to business: labor leaders at the same time reiterated their claims that wage reductions would cut the buying power of the nation, and thus adversely affect business. Wall street, and other world financial markets, it was pointed out. had anticipated the wage reduction announcements, and had brought steel and affiliated industrial stocks in the face of worldwide financial unrest resulting from •Great Britain's suspension of gold payments. This speculative interest aroused by the 10 per cegt wage cuts, is expected to result in better demand for steel corporation securities, based on the assumption earnings will improve with reduced labor charge These figures are cited by those who view the wage cuts optimistically: U. S. Steel savings in wages ami salaries this year are estimated al 57.000.000, Chat to increase as business picks up. U. S. Steel s earnings to be 85 cents more per common share as result of wage savings alone the latter half of 1931. Corresponding savings in other corporations would result, as Wall street viewed it, in better earnings statements, hastened revival of business, and increased confidence in American industry and the securities of American industrial corporations. Genera! Motors, employing 170.000 persons, announced salary reductions on a sliding scale affecting 40,000 employes. United States Rubber Co., one of the largest units in the rubber industry, announced its organization would go on a five-day week basis Oct. 1. That involves also a reduction of almost 10 per cent in .salaries and wages of 25,900 emj pioyes. DuPont interests, it was pointed 'out. have extensive holdings in both General Motors and United States

rubber. Announcement of the rubber J company's changed labor policy i was made by F. B. Davis Jr., presi- ■ dent. Announcement of General Motors salary changes was made by Alfred P. Sloan. Jr., president. The Steel Corporation wage slash, whs announced by Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the finance committee, on behalf of the directors. As Taylor issued the statement. James A. 1 Farrell, president of the corporation, who denounced wage reductions earlier in the year, sat by his side. Neither Taylor nor Farrell would * comment on the statement today. The decision to cut wages, it was learned, was by unanimous action of the board, convinced, it was said, that wage cuts were necessary and inevitable. The action was not unexpected, as a cut in the dividend rate from $7 to $1 a share, and a reduction in salaries of executives announced in June had paved the way for the action. The major wage cuts announced Tuesday go into effect Oct. 1. Other corporations the country over were expected to follow suit. BARTENDERS FLOURISHING Reno Nev., —(UP)-—There is one profession that may have become passe in other cities, but still flourishes in true tradition in "the biggest little city in the world.” It is ! the profession of tending bar. I This city, with possibly 50 so-call- : ed "clulis" and night cabarets and I rendezvous, is the capital and mecca for purveyors of "Mickey Finns.” I "Tom Collins." "Ryehighs” and all I the other concoctions so dear to the memories of those who didn't care for the arrival of the eighteenth a mendment. Bartenders are drawing what a I mounts to union wages too. Their’ earnings are increased by the exI tent of their popularity with the j patrons who visit the various liquor | establishments. In the high class I establishments of good "barkeep's" | salary combined with tips will run i on the average of SIOO to $125 a 1 week. The lowest that any of the I profession receives is about S4O. Like the butcher, the cabinet ' maker and the bricklayer, who learned their profession over a per- _ iod of years, good bartenders with , personality are hard to find. t EARLY CLOSING STARTS MONDAY 1 ' “ I <CONTINUg.D FROM PAGE ONE) ' ter; Winnes Shoe Store; S. Brooks; ’ Ashbaucher Tin Shop. , it is said that a definite announce .Intent will be made later this week I regarding the closing. For many I i years local retail stores have re- ! mained open until 6 o’clock on week ( nights. The petition states that the . early closing would "save merchf ants fuel and electric bills." > o ■ FREEPORT GETS REFORMED MEET (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE' sions were devoted to reports of I the various committees and officers. The regular order of worship I was conducted at the Wednesday r morning period, with reports of I committees following. At 11:15 o’- • dock this morning a conference on stewardship was led by Rev. Charles H. Schmitt of Louisville. Ky., ' and the afternoon address was given by Rev. H. I. Stahr. D. D.. exe 1 cutive secretary of the Board of Christian Education of the Reform ed Church in Philadelphia. Pa. The convention will close Thursday morning, when final reports of , the committees will he continued. Members of the Girls Missionary Guild who attended the banquet Tuesday night included the Misses Eleanor Reppert. Clara Egley. Blanche Stevens. Mary Yost. Lorena Reppert. Bernadine Kolter, Virginia Miller, and Mrs. Janies Borders, The Mesdames Fred Fruchte. Susie Reppart. Fred Heuer ( J. Henry Graber, M. F. Worthman and Chris Lehman, members of the Women's Missionary Society of the . local church attended the banquet. ' and Rev. A R. Fledderjohann and ' Fred Fruchte, were also present. r BARGAINS — Bargains in living room, dining room suite, mat iresses and rugs. Sfokey and Co. Monroy, our Phone number is 44 it

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EXPERT FINDS FEVER POLLEN AT 8.000 FEET Flying Botanist Makes Experiments In Aii plane Over Lake WAUKEGAN, ill. (U.R) Pollen, the bane of hay fever victims, was found circulating 8.000 feet in the air by (). C. Durham, flying botanist, who conducted a series of ex- ! periments recently to determine (he amount carried in the air at , various heights. i In a plane equipped with glass slides and other paraphernalia for taking pollen specimens. Durham flew 30 miles over Lake Michigan, exposing vaseline-covered slides for five minutes at altitudes ranging from 10 to 4.000 feet. At 2.000 feet the hontanist ran into a cloud of pollen. More than 200 granules collected upon the slide in five minutes. At 4.000 feet he found the air to contain 25 per cent less pollen than at the same height over land. Many of the | granules were descending into the 11 lake, due to the coolness of the ! water. Flying 8.000 feet over land west ■ of Waukegan. Durham collected ■ only 14 grains after five minutes exposure of the plate. At 4,0v0 feet 24 grains were registered. ; while 345 granules were collected at a height of 100 feet. But 176 were registered at the same height I over the lake. Durham said he believed that . south and west winds apparently ! carried more pollen to the region titan a north wind. ' o— Washington Voters At War Over Highways Olympia. Wash.. Sept. ‘ (U.R) Reorganization of Washington's state highway department promises

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