Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 260, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1931 — Page 4

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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, t>y 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 3ne year, at office 3.00 Prices qucted 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 Indiana League of Home Dailies Tax paying is over and those who made the grade can stick out their chests and breath easy a few days. Then it might be a good idea to start saving up for next May when a similar ordeal will have to be gone through. Gas taxes collected in Indiana during October totaled $1,769,702.99, which is a gain over last year of $64,000 and a gain over October of 1925 of more than a hundred per cent. We say we are broke but we don't show it in these figures, do we? Tht price of corn is up slightly and the price of hogs down. Strange as it may seem these two • rarely travel up or down together J though it takes the one to make the other profitable. So far we haven’t found any one who can ’ tell us why. , If you can find some work that ought to be done around the house 7 or yard or any where else, this is a splendid time to have it taken care of for a number of men need work. You can save money, do a good act and help the community all at once. Tliis is election day at Monroe. Berne and Geneva, also in all other towns of the state and in many • states congressmen, governors and , other officers will be chosen. In- ’ terest is greatest in Kentucky where the state officers are being chosen. . A sugar beet meeting will be , held at the Monroe high school • building Thursday night and those • interested should be there. It is • something worth while that if w-e • can get the factory reopened here, . you can contract on a 50-50 basis . that is fair to- every one. Let’s ' boost this enterprise. Its only three weeks from Thursday* < until Thanksgiving and while at first blush you may think you have nothing to get enthusiastic we opine you can find many ' things to say "thank you" for if ' yniujust sit down and think it all ’ cv£j, seriously. Perhaps it could biCjpuch worse. APtoere is a lot of talk about improved conditions and signs of bet-tet-vtimes and while we haven't notEed it much yet, we are sure

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that is better than the continued report of decreases in about every thing that goes to make up a trade report. If they can continue to find . this for a few months we ought to be getting some where by spring. The Supreme court of the United States doesn’t even care to ! monkey” with the Capones. When J Ralph's case reached that court ; they just refused to review it and 1 the young man wil start serving , his three years immediately. The i court at the same time likewise declined to review a number of cases thus clearing the docket rapidly. While considerable damage is reported from other nearby towns and cities as a result of Halloween pranks, there was very little here, a fact which should commend our young people to every one. Destruction of property is a serious thing and any thing but a joke for those who have to stand the loss. We are glad the young people here devoted their time to masquerading and having just a good time. Twelve hundred boys and girls from forty-four states and Canada will visit the International Live Stock Exposition which opens at Chicago the 28th, this being the thirty-second year of the big event. : These will be or have been selected from the 850,000 members of the 4-H clubs of the country and they i will represent all manner of farm activities. Twice during the past three years 4-H members have captured the open class steer grand championship and it is said they have eyes on numerous honors this year. Its a wonderful organization which is doing more perhaps than any thing else to create interest among the youth in farming. In Tulsa and other Oklahoman cities, in Texas and Kansas and other southwestern states, public jubilees similar to those held when the armistice was signed were indulged in the past few days over ,the advances in prices for oil and , That country has been hard pressed because those were the chief products and when the bottom fell out, it left them helpless. The price of crude oil reached a point where a barrel of it was equal to a gallon of gas and there was practically no market either tor that or grain. There are indications that we have rounded the corner of depression and may look for better times and that's good enough news that every community in the country will feel like putting on a celebration, once they are convinced of the fact. ♦ « Household Scrapbook ROBERTA LEE ♦ (U.R) « House Plants The House plants will thrive if a solution of one teaspoonful of ammonia to one quart of water givdb them occasionally. Stains Stains can be removed from ivory by rubbing with a flannel cloth dipped in powdered tripoli mixed with sweet oil. Wash ivory with alcohol, as water turns it yellow. Cooking When it is d sired to boil food quickly, do not leave a spoon in the saucepan as it carries off a great d'al of the heat. , .... . o >— . e Lessons In English Words often misused: Do not say “She borrowed it off of me." Say, “She borrowed it from me.” Often mispronounced: Confetti. Pronounce kon-fet-te, o as in “obey" first e as in “let.” last e as in “tea" accent second syllable. Oft n misspelled: Surgeon. Observe the eo. Synonyms: Praise (verb) laud, applaud, commend, eulotize, glorify 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 Anticipate; to foretaste or foresee. “We are anticipating the pleasure of your visit." NEED SPECTACLES? I have good light and heavy i ontes at low prices. Now Is a good time to bring your watches and I clocks in for repairs. M. S. ELZEY, Jeweler, Decatur.

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♦ ♦ ANSWERS TO TEST QUESTIONS I I i Below are the answers to the ( test questions printed , | on page two • * 1. Thomas Alva Edison. 2. Robert Louis Stevenson. 3. The Semitic branch of the white race. 4. Approximately 50 miles. 5. Wood 6. Approximately 4.,230 miles. 7. Ln 1775. 8. American novelist. 9. Lightweight. 10. The stone Age. o r^TWENT^YEARS - * AGO TODAY F-nm the Daily Democrat File » * Nov. 3—Holland-St. Louis sugar 1 company incorporates in Indiana to build the Decatur plant. The fee is $2,800. Henry Knapp is moving his hard-. war? stock into his new building in

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By HARRISON CARROLL. * Opyrtrht Premier Syndicate. Inc. HOLLYWOOD, Oct 00.—This »ught to start an argument. Carole Lombard says she is not j going to have any babies until ' after she finishes her career; that

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she doesn’t believe she could j handle both I jobs satisfactor- 5 ily. Explains | Carole: “I'm not i the one who s would want to | see my baby > only once in ? 1 while, and 1 \ wouldn't want f it t-> be raised < by nursesl either” As she has four more years | to go on her

Paramount contract, it looks as if . the Powells will not be buying baby carriages for some time. Bill, of course, already has a six-year-old son by a former marriage. The child is with him part of every year, and is a great favorite with Carole. IS THIS ECONOMY? If you can believe Bert Hanlon, ' | a certain Hollywood restaurant is ' j hiring midgets for waiters, so the portions will look larger. ’ i GOSSIP OR WHAT? Consternation reigns in one of the larger film studios because of ' a new rule that requires a stenog- | rapher to take down everything j said during story conferences. A typed report is then sent to proi duction orficals. . Russell Gleason was at the Belasco Theatre with Maureen O’Suilivan . . Fifi Dorsay will return to Hollywood to spend the Christmas holidays with her fiance, Terry Ray, but plans to resume her vaudeville tour immediately afterwards. . . George Arliss is another who arrives here soon. He goes to work on his picture, “The Man Who Played God.’’. . .As if things were not bad enough with the surviving miniature golf courses, Tom Lennon went out the other night and single-handedly put one out of ! business. It seems the course of- • | sered SSO to anyone breaking par. Tom cut it a stroke. As he started . on another round, the owner 1 lowered par a stroke. Tom broke it again Then he promptly broke ; it a third time. In complete disgust, the owner made him out a

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I Monroe street. Eleven criminal cases dismissed from court docket for want of prosecution. Harry McGill in auto accident, collides with buggy of Rev. Roberts of Wren. Buggy was wrecked but no one hurt. County Chairman D. N. Erwin calls democratic committee to meet in one week to fix date for primary. The Cail stave mill at Cardwell Mo., stiff rs large loss as result of a fire in the sheds. Eastern Star lodge gives oyster social in the Morrison building. Aviator Rodgers reaches Imperial Junction, California on his coast to coast flight. Ered Frichte is closing several real estate deals. 0 HOSPITAL NOTE« Ralph Hobbs Monroeville Route I 3. underwent a major operation this mornin; at the Adams County i Memorial Hospital. Dance Wednesday Sunset.

and shut up shop for good. ,IN THE NEWS. After an extended search, i Metro-Goldwy-n-Mayer is at last 'filling the roles in “Freaks,” Tod Browning’s story of sideshow life |in a circus. Harry Earles, the midget who played in both the silent and talkie versions of “The Unholy Three,” will have one of the principal parts. -Appearing with him will be his sister, Daisy, also a midget, who has worked in circuses but never before on the 'screen. Another sister. Tiny, is a midget, but oddly enough there is a normal brother in the family and both parents are of adult height. The Hilton Siamese twins will appear in the picture, too. POSTMAN’S HOLIDAY. i Home movies are becoming a | fad in Hollywood. Irving ThaL berg has a two-reel picture of his I son, taken with a small camera. Thalberg i - having it titled at the

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studio. Reginald Denny is anothe r who will have a complete jihoto- j graphic record i o f his n e w |baby. Even Producer Louis B. Mayer made home movies of his trip to Alaska. Bert W heeler and ' I Robert Woolsey J got a camera i record of their

European trip. Connie Talmadge ! did the same Bebe Daniels and j Ben Lyon photographed Honolulu. So did Warner Baxter. Jean I Hersholt went so far as to start a camera company He recently sold it, I believe. Buster Keaton ! is another home movie fan, specializing on all foreign actresses that come to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. Wallie Beery has bought all available special lenses and takes pictures from his plane. Mary Astor brings her camera to the studio and photographs the stara. It’s like a postman's holiday. WE’VE ALL WONDERED. It was J. M. Kerrigan who said of those saddle mules at the Grand Canyon: “I can’t understand how any animal that eats so much hay ' can be so hard.” DID YOU KNOW I That Jackie Cooper’s mother was a I child performer, too?

STATE PROBE REVEALS FAT SHERIFF FEES Texas Law Officers Grew Rich On “Multiple Mileage” — Austin, Tex.. Nov. 3—(U.R)- -Fat fees for Texas sheriffs have been revealed by a state investigation of claims against the state for their I payment. Chief fee producer for the sher-P ■ iffs has been collection of “multi- - pie mileage." The practice, once held lawful by the Court of Civil ' Appeals, has been banned by a , Supreme Court decision. Hundreds of thousands of dol- ■ lars were collected under it before the ruling. As explained at a trial connect- 1 ed with the cases, the multiple ' mileage system works this way: A man is indicted 12 times for bootlegging. The sheriff makes one trip to arrest him. Then the sheriff 1 turns in a fee claim for arresting 1 him in each of the cases. It in- I eludes charges of mileage for the distance traveled, 12 times, though 1 the trip was made but once. It is possible for a sheriff to I travel over 600 miles in a straight 1 line in Texas without crossing the state line. 1 Summoning the same witnesses 1 repeatedly is another method that has produced fat fees. No court ' ruling either for or against this I has been found. It has been al- I lowed in some courts. Others bar i ■ it. i In a recent trial it was testified ' the same witnesses were collected upon as summoned for two terms 1 of court. But the sheriff's fee i claim put them living in different directions and at different distances from the courthouse each I time. It was testified one sum i mons is sufficient. Later attend- ; .! ance can be enforced by mail i no* ice. I o ,* - — Modern Etiquette —by— ROBERTA LEE i * (U.PJ * Q. Is punctuation at the ends of I the lines correct in addressing envelopes? ■ iA. It may be used, but it is better i: form to omit it entirely. Q. How should coffee spoons be distributed? A. They should be placed on the I saucers when the coffee is served. L Q- If a stranger says he remem- ! : b?rs meeting you at another time, I i what should one do? A. Try to recall it and if you can't I be tackful in regretting that you I cannot remember the occasion. o Manufacturer Contests Tax On Bakers' Malt j Detroit. Nov. 3—(U.R)—A decisi ion is to be handed uown on Nov. ; 8 on the suit of the Standard Brands. Inc., against the state of | Michigan, seeking to enjoin the I state from collecting a malt tax on their bakers' malt. The company contended that | bakers' malt could not be used for home brew making purposes.Wiut the state chemist testified that he did make seven per cent beer with - it "and that it tasted fairly good.” Chancellor William S. Sayres will l make the report to the federal; i court in Cincinnati. The state tax was described as | I confiscatory and unconstitutional in 11 I the case of the company. MONROE NEWS Dr. M. F. Parrish of Sturgis i Michigan was calling on friends in i Monroe on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Thompson of Lincoln Nebraska arrived Sunday for a visit with Mr. and M.s. James A. Hendricks and Mrs. I. R. Hayn s. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Ray and i family of Grabrill were the guests | of Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson on ' Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. R. B. McKeeman of ! Fort Wayno called on Mrs. McKea-I man's mother M s. Jestine Hocker on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Webster Oliver and Gregg j Oliver of Indianapolis visited Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Rupert and Miss I Francille Oliver and attended the | funeral of Homer Oliver at Bluffton ■ on Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Crist and son Quentin and Kermit were the guests of A/r. and Mrs. Dewey : N< :gh at Decatur on Sunday. Mr. aud Mrs. Clyde Hendricks! and family of Fort Wayne visitede Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hendricks I on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. S Smith and Mr. I and Mr. Clarence Smith of Preble 1 motored to Bucyrus Ohio on Sun-; day and 'spent the day with Mr. and I Mrs. George Smith. Mr. and Mrs. John Gross moved! their household goods to Portland! on Saturday where they will reside [ Mr. and Mrs. John Crist enter- - tained at Sunday dinner Mr. and Mr? A D. Crist and daughter of

Winchester and Miss Creo Crist of. Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Sells of Grand Ra-pids Michigan spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. James A. I Hendricks and Mr and Mrs. Everett Rice. Mr. and Mrs. Ransom? Barkley and daughter Evelyn of Decatur were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Menno Roth on Sunday. Mrs. Forest Lake of Decatur! silent Monday with her parents Mr. , and Mrs. W. F. McKean. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wagoner I of Geneva spent the week-end with 1 Ira Wagoner. MISSIONARIES USE PLANES Vatican City, —(UP) — Catholic missionaries in remote parts of the | world are now making regular use i of the airplane as a rapid ami safe i means of transport, it is learned here. t According to reports made to the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith the use of airplanes is now common among bishops and priests in the missionary field, especially in Africa and Asia. Monsignor Grison, Apostolic Vicar of' Stanleyville, Africa, used to employ 51 days to rea-ch certain parts of his diocese. He has informed the 1 Rome ecclesiastical authorities that he can now cover the distance in three days by plane. Similarly in Siam where the first commercial air line has just been 1 inaugurated, the missionaries nowtravel regularly by air. The moral 1 effect on the natives of a missionary arriving by plane is stated to be ! evcellent, according to missionaryreports. o Detroit Pastor Urges Good Samaritan Drive Detroit, —(UP)—A Good Samaritan drive of laymen in Detroit's 600 Protestant churches was sugguested as the solution o fthe city’s unemployment problem by Rev. Edward ill. Pence. D. D., minister of the Fort Street Presbyterian Church. Speaking before the monthly seminar of the Detroit Lay-men’s Club the Pastors' Union and Upper Room Club, Rev. Pence urged his listeners to mobilize for neHhbo.ly relief. Neighbors must take care of their neighbors this winter, he declared.

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ABBE TO SEEK WATER FOR CITY Paris. Nov. 3 (U.P.) —Abbe lann i bert, officially known as the waterj finder of France, has been charged I by Marseilles to search for water . between Marseilles and Cassis. ' The success of his hunt will save 'I the drought ridden area. Curious experiments already have I been undertaken tn the creeks of i Port Miou and of Sormfou regions, but with little result. The land I still remains dry. i Abbe Lambert, who uses the pen- ! dulum in his searches, is assisted I by M. Gaillard, who employs the 1 divining rod for purposes of veri- ; fication. On this particular com- | mission. M. Lambert also will be i assisted by a woman spiritualist i with whom he has become acquaint-

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