Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 257, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1931 — Page 4

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T he. three young men charged with stealing sheep must feel disgraced for not so long ago it was »bout the worst thing that could be said of any one that he was “low enough to steek sheep.’’ Mrs. Carrie Simmons, Lebanon ' woman on trial for the murder of her children at a picnic, is unafraid | looks the court and jury squarely a* she tells her story of denial. \\ hat an ordeal for any one to go through if innocent? - Beginning today cars will be ' permitted to park along the curbs I pn Second street. The past week I ’ytiHe* the street was curing park- ' ing was confined to the center of | the street but announcement has i been made that the old system can be used now. * • Prices on farm commodities are showing a slight increase and there are some signs that this may continue. Wouldn't it be wonderful I if corn, wheat, oats and hay would I be marketable at a profit? It would I be the surest sign in the world that I the depression is actually over. Nan Britton is a smooth woman it seems. She wrote “The President s Daughter" and made a lot of money, collected all she could from the Harding family and now Is suing the author of an answer _£° llfcr book for libel. In other : words, she has the system whereby she gets them going and coming. , The clouds look snowy and the wind sounds cold and we approach the edge of winter. Most signs point to severe weather the next several months but ’some times they fail. Os course the safe thing is to be ready for whatever comes and most folks in this section have had that in mind the past several months. Those who ride in buggies must carij a bright light under the laws of fftdiana and the state police are matring a special effort to enforce B. That may sound harsh hut the law is intended to prevent r.ccidenls and few people who have driven cars at night but will re-

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member narrow escapes from striking a buggy along the road. Senator James Eli Watson will be the headliner at the meeting of the Berne Chamber of Commerce. He will make a non-politieal address, it is stated, though that’s a tough job for the senator, and we predict he will get by with it. Whatever may be said of Jim no |one will deny his ability as a public speaekr. It begins to appear that Henry Ford and the railroad officials have changed their mind as regards wages of employes and announcements of reductions are now being made. The average man who is trying to get along is probably more interested in a steady job at right wages than lie is in one for a day or two a week at any scale. The Halloween season never gives any person the legal right to destroy property and surely this year the average boy will lie mindful of the fact that it will be a worse crime than usual to cause any one needless expense. Have a good time but be careful and you | will get along alright with the police. Attorney General Ogden Is goi ing to appear before the Grant ' county grand jury and tell them ! what he based his statement on | that the city of Marion is overrun I with vice and corruption. He may | get along alright before a grand I jury but if he is called as a witi ness and some sharp attorney gets po cross-examining he may have some embarrassing moments. Bluffton and Decatur are enjoying their annual footbal contest this afternoon and a good natured jcrowd of happy youngsters are rah uahing for their favorites at the I field. In the old days when these ! two teams met there was a feeling akin to armies doing battle but no*, it is said the boys are buddies who fight for their schools as well as they can but continue good friends after its over. That’s the proper spirit and we hope it continues many years. • MacDonald won a great victory i and it will now be up to him to prove that what he claimed in his speeches is the correct thing for his government. He will immediately start on that program it is said and it includes tariff measures. adjustment of war debts, reduction of unemployment, economy tnd a few other things that look rather difficult here, at least when much of it is to be done the next six weeks. Well what helps England will probably aid the rest of the world indirectly. o Lessons In English Words often misused: Do not say “H is a very ornery fellow." Say disreputable. Often mispronounced. Prodigious. Pronounce pro-dij-us, o as in “no" i as in "unit,” accent sacond syll able. Often misspelled: Flea tan insect - -Distlnzirfstr -ft uiu flee: Synonyms: Concern (noun), regard. solicitude. Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word; Illiterate; unable to read; uneducated. “It is said there are more than five million illiterate nativeborn citizens.” o > .. Modern Etiquette -byROBERTA LEE ♦— (UR) - Q. Is It proper to tip a stranger who has returned some article dropped on the street? A. Not unless it is valauble article and the man looks shabby and in need of money. Q What is the most important duty of a guest at a musicale? A. To remain quiet during the selections. Q Must formal dinner napkins match the clothes? A. No; they are often of fine linen rather than damask. —o Patrons Notice My dental office will be closed on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday, November 2nd. to 4th. Fred Patterson. 256-3 t Get the Habit—Trade at Home

♦ * ANSWERS TO TEST QUESTIONS 1 | Below are the answers to the teat questions printed on page two ’! 1. He never attended college. 2. The nautrical mile is longer. 3. Cleopatra. 4. "Dorothy Dix.” 5. Norway. 6. The tides. 7. The District of Columbia. 8. “Our American Cousin." 9. In April and May. 19. Mashachusetts. D Household Scrapbook * I By ROBERTA LEE • (U.R) ♦ Selecting Furniture The furniture should be selected to harmonize with the woodwork, I or the finish of the woodwork to I match the furniture. The wood work should be white in a small room with mahogany furniture. It’ the room is large have mahogany woodwork with mahogany furniture. Preparing Water Glass To prepare water glass for use. boil and cool nine quarts of water. When cold, add one quart of sodium silicate and mix thoroughly. Hooks and Eyes When sewing on hooks ami eyes, use a buttonhole stitch and they will not come off. o YEARS * AGO TODAY I F-'im the Daily Democrat File » « October 30. 1911.—Harry Pierce of Decatur fined five and costs at Fort Wayne for driving his auto-| mobile without license tags. Wild geese are flying south and! pass over Decatur in droves. Patrick Hirsch of New York and j local officials of Fort Wayne & | Springfield Traction Company inspect the route between Decatur and Portland, with view to financing. Lee Martin arrives here from! Fairbanks. Alaska. Announcement that Bernard Holt house and Miss Nellie Williams were married at Jonesboro, Ark., on the 25th. Rev. C. C. Hudson, former pastor of the Methodist church here, dies at Anderson. Indiana. Miss Faye Smith gives reading. “The Tale of Two Cities," at the Bluffton high school. John Hocker of Monroe has invented a gasoline can that looks , like a winner. Fred LaDell and family have narrow escape from burning hotel at i East Liverpool. Ohio. o NAVAL BUDGET CUT ON TRIAL i (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE, . Hoover’s efforts to shave $61,000,000 from the 1932 navy budget now in preparation. For some weeks ■ the executive has been annoyed by . propaganda against him, which he has charged, was stimulated by suborinates in the navy department. I The Navy League questioned his : whole navy policy but its charge l of lack of knowledge was directed at his now almost forgotten, proposal to exempt foodstuffs from the list of contraband articles on the j high seas in war times. The President struck boldly back at his accusers in a statement issued before he left his executive of- . fives for dinner last night. Through- . out the day he maintained silence ( upon the Navy League statement. . But his response was a direct re- . ply to Gardiner, although it mispelled Gardiner’s name by leaving out the “I." The President’s statement, one of the strongest of his administration follows: t "The Navy League states in its - a nnni|nrop)An*q thclt it h'l? ‘f°T S quarter of a century specialized in accurate information as to navy mateers’ and ’the principal activity of the league is to disseminate facts bearing on navy matters to ’ the press.’ "In order that the country may know the untruth and distortions of fact in Chairman Gardner's recent pronouncement, 1 will appoint a committee including members of the Navy League to whom agencies * of the government will demonstrate | these untruths and distortions of ! fact. Such an inquiry will absolve the members of the loague who * not participated in tin- state r ment. Upon its completion I shall * expect Mr. Gardner to make a pubice correction ot his misstate merits ■ and an apology therefore. 1 “It is desirable tor the public to know the character of this indirect t campaign of misinformation to defeat the efforts of the high officials i of the navy department and the administration for reduction of feders al expenditures not immediately essential in order that we may - avoid increased taxation of the people In these times." Gardiner immediately replied informally to the President’s statement. saying he was not sure 1 whether the league would appoint . members to the committee as Mr. Hoover asked. t “I am somewhat surprised.” he i ; said, “at the suggestion of Presi-

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Jdent Hoover that he will personally! 'appoint a commission to invest!-' [gate a question touching administrative policy, especially considering the tact, as I understand it, I that congress, is the investigating i branch of the government. Of■ ► course, I shall welcome a congress-, ional investigation to bring out all Jthe facts and publish them.” Gardiner was expected to reply i more fully today, along with chairman Fred A. Britten of the house naval affairs committee, a staunch I big navy man. The 1932 naval budget dispute now is in the process of arbitration between budget Director Roop and the budget officer of the navy. Re- , suits of their conferences are expected to be made public within the next few weeks. The biufllet i must go to congress the opening . week of the December session. j Reports from the Roop conferI ern es indicate the economies will | be less drastic than originally planned. Mr. Hoover called for a cut j of $61,900,900 in the outlay for next I [year. Secretary of Navy Adams countered with an offer for a $52.900,000 slash, including some projects which since have been eliminated from the economy list. Indications are that Roop is planning a program by which Mr. Hoover will get about two-thirds of the reduction he originally sought, or about $40,990,900. The whole dispute is expected to furnish congress with material for one of the most important contests, of the coming session. After the budget is sent to capital hall by the President, it must be analyzed by naval committees which are not ! in sympathy with the President's proposals. In the end both houses will have to vote upon the appropriations. CASE RECESSED UNTIL MONDAY; LASTS 5 WEEKS ' ICOUTINUED FROM PAGE ">NE) nons and her son. Dale, on that day. She wound up her testimony ' by contending that she had never I ’ held ill feeling toward the Simmons family. John Simmons, she said, is her only brother. Horace Jackson, recalled by the state, denied that he made threats against John Simmons or his family in the hardware store of Bedford Parker. Willow Branch, several years ago. on cross-examina-tion be told defense counsel that ho had never blamed anyone but himself for his trouble. Jackson had been accused by one witness .of threatening the lives of the Simmons' family j shortly after he returned from serving a prison sentence, on the contention that he would not have been sent to prison but for their a< tivities. Lens Jackson, daughter of Hqri ace. testified that she had assisted in serving refreshments at the Simmons' 25th wedding anniversary celebration two years ago. at their request, and that she saw her mother give Mrs. Charity ' Simmons, her grandmother, $1 for a present. Several defense witnesses testified adversely as to the character ' of Charles T. Davis, who late yes- ' terday provided an alibi for Hor’l ace Jackson on each of the two dates when he had allegedly purchased strychnine poison. Among ' these were Lowell McDaniel, Clarence Williams, and Henry Williams, a third cousin of Joins ’ Simmons. Noble Martin. Willow Branch druggist, was asked by Charles Tindall, defense counsel, if he sold Mrs. Charles T. Davis strychnine ’| during the spring of 1931. The state objected, and was sustained , by Judge Hornaday, on the ground ’ that the question had already been ? answered. Her husband, Charles Davis, admitted the sale. Martin was the last witness. -o-~ DAIRY PRODUCTS ; EXHIBIT OPENS i I Atlantic City. N. J.. Oct. 39.—(U.R) si—From all parts of the United e States and 20 foreign countries t: thousands of dairy plant execuf,tives, scientists, engineers and stus dents are gathering here today to « attend the sixth annual Dairy Inf dustries Exposition and the con--3 current conventions of the Intert national Association of Ice Cream ■ Manufacturers and International 1 Association of Milk Dealers. >■ A California - delegation Is near 3 ing New York in a specially chartered vessel, while one Californian 3 is preparing to fly his own plane t across the continent in less than !- 24 hours. s Dr. Julius Klein, assistant Secre- - tary of Commerce, will officially - open the exposition with an ad- ■ dress from the exposition hall on i’ "What Price Prosperity?” a The exposition, which it is indicated will this year be the largest • trade exposition held in the United -States, presents exhibits of the mat chinory, equipment, supplies and t services which make it possible . for the urban dweller to obtain his daily supply of dairy products. 9 ' —O • Get the l-.aoit —Trade »’ -oma

RUTH JUDD ON WAY TO PHOENIX ; I Killer-Suspect Being Returned By Automobile To Scene I Los Angeles, Oct. 30.—(U.R) —Win-! nie Ruth Judd was speeding toj Phoenix today to face charges shej murdered her two best girl friends. | An automobile, loaded with Arizona and California officials and trailed by halt a dozen press cars, was bearing her back to the city [ where she allegedly killed Mrs. | Agnes Leroi and Miss Hedvig Sam-! uelson. Her return to Phoenix started last night, almost two weeks from the time authorities claim she shot and killed her former room-mates. Mrs. Judd appeared frail and sick as she climbed into the car | of Sheriff James McFadden, ot I Phoenix, for the journey. | Already tubercular, Mrs. Judd I showed the strain of the past two weeks. She seemed worn to the point of being bored and submitted to photographs only on the insistence of Sheriff McFadden. “I don't want them to take all those pictures,” she said, and then ( when Sheriff McFadden insisted. “Well, please have them make it short." She smiled sadly to jail matrons as she left her cell. Sheriff McFadden said he expected to make the trip to Phoenix in from 10 to 12 hours. Stops enroute were scheduled only for fuel and sandwiches. Before she left Mrs. Judd conferred for two hours with her new attorney, Paul Schenck. He advised her to say nothing to anyone about the slayings and told her he would be in Phoenix at her preliminary hearing. This hearing, according to an agreement I with Lloyd Andrews, Maricopa, I county attorney, will be held in al week or ten days. Fred Williams, who said he was a chemist from El Paso and claimed to have helped Mrs. Judd kill the two women, was released from I custody last night. He had been held as a material witness. Sheriff McFadden said he did not believe any part of the youth's story. Michigan Hotel Starts Service For Hunters Manistee. Mich., Oct. 29.—(U.R) — A local hotel which caters to lunit ers and sportsmen has annouiiced a new service, reminiscent of the old hostelries, where one's horse was given attention even as was the guest. o SAYS PANICS WILL RETURN CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | restoration of credit in Europe and consequently the revival of business in the United States depends upon (1) rapprochment between France and Germany; (2) reduced reparations; (3) reduced interallied debts and (4) reduced tariffs." The five causes of depression listed by Wiggin were: 1 — "Impediments to international trade through excessive tariffs and other restrictive policies.” 2— “The abnormalities in certain commodity markets due to governmental and private attempts at valorization." (He presumably reterre 1 in part to the farm board). 1 3—“Tlie tardiness with which wholesale prices on finished goods retail prices, wares and rentals have adjusted themselves to the rdrarp fail of last year."’

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4 — “Low money rates and excessive credit in the past which led to undue diversion of bank funds to slow and speculative lousiness." 5— "Political difficulties, especially in India, China and Russia." Chairman La Follette of the committee asked Wiggin if the prosperit credit policy was “too

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