Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 231, Decatur, Adams County, 30 September 1931 — Page 5

COI

A LASSITER ; I|LL END ARMY J SERVICE SOON i» ! ..;W<ent Hawaiian (. omCompletes 40 Years' Duty Oct. 1 <u.R) - w iimui Lassiter, coni ' „f Hi'‘ Hawaiian Depart „„| p. rhaps Hie Army's pre-’lo>>e-trott. ■ "'ll retire at the ! . h .. alter more than ■ v-.: •ilitary service, ,.ffi.-.-rs represented ,.„nntn i” ma "- v foreign as Le-i' 1 R " r “ i’eters Va.. 64 year* ago ’ L»» B,ter ' ji; wa s appointed to the U. .Va<hmy. where he ‘ l^flj M t„l four years later. I-issi- ■ iriilg the Span war. an.;> mt of Lassiter's '^K ice has been abroad. He has ei! three - tl'e Philip- , nspeetor general Cuban i'.n itication in 19<>S .... visited China, and Korea on leave. •A-.-.f War. Lassiter (1 ;n Kratne From 1923 to |H, I; led file Panama Department At the end of t her< he was ordered to - President of pi, C<;mmi* on v - li tin- same year he ..... Enr .ft>d shortly afterI to his present of the Hawaidepartment. ■■ — Bret- Frosted In Spring ■ Budding In Montana . (U.R)the conn are about ready to wind . - on the IP.-’- apple trees are beginning to blossom. An .r. hard on the A. S. Lingle seven miles northeast of liiil h'iddod before the the blossoms never Now th-> are in full bloom and blnssom- bare the odor and i.znnr blooms. Lilacs ;.•< ust trees are also flowerM o —- ■merican Civic Ass’n. H Plans sth Annual Meet Detrui’. S- pt. (U.R) — The Traveling Annual Meeting of Ktie Ameri. an Civic Association is be held here Oct. 5 to 8, followconiplet mi of the program by Hke Detroit committee. ■ The innnal meeting, first held in fl*-). is ■ i acquaint members, unBer expert guidance, with the principles of regional and city plan- ■ Tim Detroit program includes Bisits to Greenfield Village and the Gardens in Dearborn, and to ■tan Arbor. Grosse Pointe and ■llooinfii'ld Hills also will be visitPAIR SUCCEED WITH TAB SHOWS I New York, Sept. f»._ (U.ft) _o»t ■west and in the south they supply ■tile only stage entertainment a lot lo'I o ' Places know since the virtual ■ death of the Toad.” In the hlnter- ■ land their name is as well known ■as that of Weber and Fields in ■ Manhattan 20 years ago. And now ■ they have come crashing Into ManI aitan — this young sister and I brother producing team. I started as a dancing act in I Keith Vaudeville, Marco Wolff and I his sister Fanchon. They were still m their teens. That was 15 vears “s®', The >' are still in their early Hurtles. Now thy are known as ranchon and Marco. TKey have made a number c* [discoveries': Lyda Roberti. Lu rille Page. Mary Lewis, Mltsie Mayair. Nell Kelly, the Dodge Twins. aoces Williams. Paul Ash, Rube 'olf, Horace Heidt, Harry Richnian and Abe Lyman. New York State Builds Airplane Johnstown, N. Y.. Sept. 30.-(U.R) Alphonse Courtines is only a thaf l * >Ut h® has made a plane has been down successfully. tourtines, a high school stu»«nt. constructed the craft in his ■Pare time. Guy Wilmot, a Gloversue airport pilot, and Adison Put- ' n another pilot, took the ship P twice and pronounced it fit. vl>a! Bt .u year th ® youth bullt a er that flew successtuily. Houston Puts Ban On Lazy Unemployed John “o'?' Sept ' 30 ~ <U.R)-Capt. who s ™ ith ’ 8 ancient rule that "he wit? ? not work Bhall not eat" hero is- lntokfi<l a *ainst transients e thlß w *nter, F. M. Law, chair-

man of the mayor's unemployment committee, announced. Capt. Smith promulgated this rule during hard times in the early days of Virginia. "Each transient will be given work on some city project,” Law said. "He will receive no pay but If he works eight hours a day will be given three meals and a place to sleep. Those who won’t work will have to leave town unless sick or disabled.” — -o— — Wales Still Has Appendix London.—(U.R)- Appendicitia has fallen to the last of three of the king’s sons, but the Prince of Wales stil remains in possession! of his appendix. The Duke of York was operated on for this complaint some years before his marriage, while the operations on the Duke of Giouster and Prince George were recent. EX-SLAVE REACHES 100 St. Catherines, Ont., Sept. '”). — (U.R) Katherine (Auntie) Deveaux. 31 years a slave, celebrated her 100th birthday here recently. When the Civil War freed her at 31, she decided to come to Canada. “It was hard for negroes to rent houses here when I first came," she said recently, “so we just worked hard and earned enough to buy one. I still do all my own work." Aunt Kate’s memories of slavery days are vivid. "We had a good master,” she . said. "There was no whipping on : the plantation: he wouldn't even I let us whip our own children. i “At Christmas we had a week’s | vacation. He used to tell us we j could go where we wanted. He al I ways laughingly warned us, how ever, “not to go to Canada.’ “When we were freed, the notion | of going to Canada just stuck in , my mind. I’m glad I did." “Auntie” says she isn’t in quite as good health as she was a few years ago, but still manages to “get along all right.” —o Trained Seal Exercises Great Voice Control New York. - —(VP)—t’Charley.fl the only trained seal in the world that exercises voice control plays a - prominent role in the two-reel comedy, “All Sealed Up" starring Al St. John. The seal, according to its owner and trainer, Ray Huling, can imitate a catjs meow, a dog’s hark, a horse’s neigh, and a number of bird calls. “Charley is a well-known animal I having appeared in vaudeville with | his trainer for the last 11 years. !

Hudson - Essex De Sota - Plymouth HO satisfy the demands of our many friends and customers, who have expressed their desire to buy an automobile in the lower price range, we wish to announce that after a very thorough investigation we have accepted the agency for the De Soto and Plymouth cars. The Plymouth car is the lowest priced automobile in the country containing all the features of the higher priced cars including Free Wheeling, Vibrationless Power, Easy-Shift Transmission, and many other features. We will continue to sell the Hudson and Essex line oE automobiles and we have in our stock at the present time several cars in the new Fall colors. In these four cars we have complete price coverage with a very wide variety of body styles and colors. Our eight vears experience in the automobile business has proven to our customers that a GOOD automobile backed by the service of a reliable dealer means 100 J automobile satisfaction. We invite vou to inspect and ride in these automobiles. P. Kirch & Son CORNER SECOND & JACKSON STREETS

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,1931

Pleads ‘Not Guilty* 'wr jfcfi -1 w. ' k\ > ' :-dWWHW:?;-:-- ->* Perry Swank, 15-year-old high school boy of Lowell, Ind., who confessed he slew an aged man to gain S4O in a robbery, spent a good deal i f his time in a cell at Crown Point, Ind., dressing up before ho appearI II in eourt Monday ami pleaded not guilty. A continuance was granted.

WHITE ELEPHANT PROVES PROBLEM FOR N. Y. TOWN I - [ Widow’s Bequest Gives Village Fathers Plenty | Os Worry WATKINS GLEN, N. Y.—(U.R) This villagp has a "while elephanl" on its hands; a beautiful country estate it can’t even give away. In 1927, Mrs. Emma Magee, widow of a coal and railroad magnate, left her property, consisting of a large brick edifice, a casino, boat house, several barns, spacious lawns and a grove of shade trees.) to the village for use “as the vil-j lage fathers see fit.” The village fathers couldn't see ai(y fit nse for the property. Alarmed by criticism that the I "tax-eater ought to be good for : something." the village fathers I paid the expenses of a delegation j • to go to Albany to offer the es-

tate as “a gift from the village." The estate, state representatives were' told, was ideal for a normal school. The state was not impressed. Somebody learned recently that , the state needed a mental defective's school site. Messages were sent to Albany. Village politicians are awaiting w’ord that a benevolent state will at last accept the “white elephant." o — Tractor Plow Planned For Forest Fire War OKLAHOMA CITY (U.R) Tractors, specially equipped with a plow for making fire lines, will be used to fight forest fires in Okla hotna. The tractor and plow will be capable of making two miles of ■ fire line of an hour. Previously it had taken ten men about a day to do the same amount of work. The tractor used is a regular stock model. The plow is an adaption of a middle-buster type, mounted on the front of the tractor and provided with a lifting pnd lowering apparatus. The outfit can be operated by one man.

DOCTOR OWNS GOAT OF ARMS OF MISSOURI Pueblo Physician Bought Original Drawing Over 40 Years Ago Pueblo, Colo., Sept. (U.R) — The original drawing of the coat of arms of the state of Missouri is believed to be among the collection of old deeds, letters and papers owned py Dr. W. G. Williams, here. The drawing, carefully executed in pen and ink, depicts sketches of Washington and Jefferson on either side of the pears which grace the present state seal of Missouri, and at the top is the legend, “Future Capital of the United States." Two stamps, bearing a tecsimile of the crest, also are owned by the ' doctor. He bought them 40 years ’ ago, paying $126 each for them. He values them at present at sl,- . 500. No estimate of value has been placed upon the original of the seal, but it is believed, should it prove to be genuine, it will be almost priceless. Dr. Williams’ collection was started 44 years ago, when he came into possession of a letter Nvritten i by Artemus Ward, the humorist. Dr. Williams also owns an order issued by Gov. Brooks, of Massachusetts, appointing Ward a Lieutenant in the Third Cavalry, dated 1819. In addition to his collection on Ward, the doctor owns letters i which crossed the plains on the i pony express, newspapers dated back to revolutionary days, and commodity price lists issued in 1831. Deer Jump Fences To Ravage Gardens' Florence, Colo., Sept. . (U.R)— ' If it isn’t the drought, or the depression. or the ’hoppers, it's the I deer, truck gardners in the Pen I rose district lamented. When vigorous onslaughts against!

A TV A O UNCI N G P. Kirsch & Son CORNER SECOND & JACKSON STREETS Soto PLYMOUTH 1> E A L E II

The appointment of P. KIRSCH & SON as De Soto dealer in Decatur is proof of our conviction that the De Soto Six and its companion car. the De Soto Straight Eight, inevitably attract representation of the highest order. J We count ourselves extremely fortunate in securing P. Kirsch X Son to represent ( us in this city. They are splendidly a equipped, both in personnel and facili- « ties, to place De Soto Six and De Soto' Eight before the motoring public of Decatur in a manner that will reflect lasting credit on our product and on themselves. De Soto owners are urged to acquaint themselves with the exceptional service facilities provided by P. Kirsch & Son. We are certain that you will find thatlll every member of the organization has aMf sincere desire to serve you.

DE SOTO MOTOR CORPORATION nirixinn nt Chryxlvr Corporation DETROIT. MICHIGAN

grasshoppers began to show results, and the gardners felt confident that the remainder of the summer would do wonders for their vegetables and fruits, hungry deer began to wander in from the hillsides. Melons were their favorite dish, apparently, for vines and fruit alike were practically destroyed by this new kind of "pest." Fences proved no barrier to the agtle raiders, who leaped over wires of almost any height, to get at the gardens. NEW RATE ENDS OLD FLOOR FIGHT Kansas City, Mo., Sept. "".—(U.R) —Freight rate handicaps on southwestern flour mills have been eliminated with the announcement of new schedules by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The new rate parity climaxed an I eight-year fight by the Southwest- | ern Millers’ League and the KanI sas City board of trade. The new ' I schedule affects shipments from here and from Minneapolis and northwestern mills to eastern points of consumption. Under the schedule shipment from southwestern mills into the 20,000,000-barrel consuming territory of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky and West Virginia is on the same per mile'"oasis as that from northwestern mills. Under the rates in effect before ' the division, the northwestern ! mills had an advantage of from | two to ten cents per barrel. Judge Collects Fund For Jobless From Violators Klamath Falls, Ore., Sept. 30.— (U.R) It costs traffic violators brought before Police Judge Roy Fouch’s court an extra $2.50. I "When I fine violators I ask i them to donate $2.50 to the city i I charity fund for the unemployed .this winter,” the judge explained. "If they do not wish to donate, their fine is just that much higher.” 1 the Hamt—Trade a u om».

THOUSANDS GET RENO DIVORCES BY DEFAULT iMany States Refuse To Recognize Them As Legal Reno, Nev., Sept, f O .- (U.R) -The American's blind faith In a “piece of paper” is evidenced here by the thousands of default divorce decreases accepted by divorcees from states which refuse to recognize such decrees. New York, California and Illinois courts have time and again flatly repudiated the validity of decrees granted in Nevada, when the defendant has not been personally served with summons and copy of the complaint, and is not represented by counsel in court. Courts of virtually every other I state will deny the validity of default decrees. If a woman obtains a Reno divorce by default, she can be prosecuted for bigamy if she remarries in her home state. That is the law, yet it seldom occurs. However, if the defendant in the case signs a power of attorney and employs an attorney to represent him in court, he automatically places himself within the jurisdiction of the Nevada courts. But despite all the legal entanglements that can result from deI fault decrees, thousands are grantled annually. Efforts may he made the next i legislature to amend the law to allow divorces on the grounds of “inI compatibility,” using that word in the complaint. Incompatibility today is adequate grounds for divorce, but the statutory name for it is “extreme cruelty,” and there’s the rub. Default decrees means business for Reno commerce, as the plainstiff is required to wait from 40 to 1 80 days during publication of summons and attempts to locate the , defendant. o • Mother and Son Claim Record Fergus Falls, Minn. —(U.R) —David Driscoll, Jr.. New York, and his

I*. Kirsch & Son also will sell and service the New Plymouth, the car that took America by storm overnight. The New Plymouth with Floating Power and Free Wheeling is the vibrationless four for the millions— a car with the Smoothness of * an Eight and the Economy of a Four, : bringing to the lowest-price field performance features that never before were I even approached. 56-horsepower engine. « Speed of 70 miles an hour and better, n Marvelous acceleration. Easy - Shift 12 Transmission. Low center ol gravity, w Full-Size, safety-steel body. Other exit elusive features. .flEveryone is invited to attend the special llshowing of De Soto Six. De Soto Eight jß.ind Plymouth now in progress at the }|showrooms of P. KIRSCH & SON.

PAGE FIVE

mother today claimed an all time speed record for automobile travel after driving 1,776 miles from his home to Battle Lake at an .average speed of 57 miles an hour. They were stopped only once by a motorcycle policeman just outside of Chicago, but convinced him that they were not violating the speed laws. They wanted to see how fast it was possible to cross the eastern halt of the continent on modern paved roads. o mCounty Courthouse Bees Furnish Prisoners Honey Oroville, Cal., Sept. Lt. —(U.R) - Butte county was in a position today to go into the honey business, and county jail prisoners demand honey with their hotcakes. Harold Wickman and jail trusties have just removed three pounds of honey from an old chimney in the roof of the court house building after the bees had been dispossessed by burning an old sack. Another raid is planned on the “county apiary" when the bees replenish the supply. o Once Indian "Capital” Where the city of Washington now stands, prehistoric Indians had a village of considerable Importance, a sort of local capital for the region.

.. attacks COLD S 2* «■ I 1 bv stw' 0 "? 1 ' iSF' B2I3EEE2E3EIZSS