Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 20 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-Presideut 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 mdiana League of Home Dailies Its a little hard on the coal man but a lot of folks are hoping that the mild weather will continue about six months and then get milder. Police and citizens of Chicago have killed off sixty bandits since January Ist hut the statistics fail to say how many lives were lost in accomplishing that service to mankind. Only one out of eighty murderers get the extreme penalty in this country according to the statistical dope which probably accounts for the fact that we have more than all the rest of the world combined. Old Santa is coming in a couple of weeks, with his reindeers and] his Esquimos and jingle bells and every 'thing. It ought to be a great day for the kiddies and a good I time tn start or finish your Christ- ’ mas shopping. Thapksgiving season approaches I and it may be well to start now trying to figure out just what you | have to be thankful for after two | tough years. There is much if you' have health and the ability to earn i for we believe the clouds are pass-{ ing Mid that the sun will shine soon. Looks like they may try out the. League of Nations to prevent further trouble in Manchuria and that the United States will be ask- ' ed to send forces there to assist. I That jmay be the thing and then I again it may be the beginning of | .some real difficulties. Clifton E. Striker will continue to serve as president of the Adams * ounty Sunday School Association, a plat e he has filled so splendidly | and will so continue. He will be I assisted by a corps of capable and earnest men and women and the organization should continue to gain momentum. Senator Fess is having a tough old break with his job as chairman of the republican national committee. Most of the stalwarts would like to see him thrown out on his nose but so many are afraid of the consequences that he maybe permitted to limp on a while. Milions of dollars have been raised in this country for the Red Cross, for taking care of the un-’ employed and the needy and for other charitable purposes, showing | that this nation is not entirely' • busted” and that after all-this is the fairest land under the skies. Whatever the results at the meeting of the democratic state committee next Tuesday we will continue to be for Lew Ellingham,

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stalwart leader of democracy in this section of Indiana for a third of a century and willing to go on fighting for the cause. So far we have not read or heard ’ an explanation as to why we should t worry so much over the ChineseJapan war in Manchuria. We can't ! help feeling we will be better off j when we stop trying to regulate i I every country in the world and at1 ' tend to our own business which 11 just now seems to require some 1 1 tonics. With the outlook bright for a democratic victory in Indiana next year we seem to be playing the game for which we have been famous for a half century—quarreling among ourselves. The party leaders should have the wisdom to see this and head off some of the difficulties that now seem to be in the offing. A special session of the legislature just now would be a good show. Immediately a score of candidates for governor would appear on the scene, each hoping to make such a speech as would delight the voters and not caring so much about the results. Before that session is called it would be wise j to know what the idea is. In other : words what is the tax relief that there is such a demand for? United Charities have about SSOO as a result of the recent drive. Not a great sum but sufficient with which to start the winter for they have some fruits and vegetables, some clothing and shoes and by watching carefully can manage to care for those actually needing assistance. If more funds are needed they can be secured later Iwe feel sure. In the meantime it becomes the duty of every one to assist in every way they can to provide employment for those able i to work. Five thousand acres of sugar i beets in this immediate vicinity I | would be wonderful. It would I mean a profit to those who province them and the operation of the I big plant here employing labor. Os | course this community is hoping that this will result. Don't put it off. In Michigan plans are being made to reopen every sugar plant i under the fifty-fifty basis used so I profitably this year in four factori ies. If that can be done there we certainly ought to get plenty of] acreage in this territory where we have the only mill. ” TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY F-wn the Daily Democrat File * -• Nov. 19, 1911 was Sunday. ♦ — # Household Scrapbook | By ROBERTA LEE *— (U.R) ♦ Clinkers Oyster shells burned in a range or grate will remove the clinkers. Frost Bites Rub the frostbitten parts vigorously and bathe in cold water until the blood circulates freely; then rub with mutton tallow. Cold Better To avoid breaking when butter is 100 difficult to cut. try dipping >he knife into hot water. o — ♦ ; # Modern Etiquette -byROBERTA LEE • <U.R) ♦ Q. How should friends and rela-1 tives respond to a birth announce- j ment? A. By calling on the mother, send-' ing flowers to her, or a gift to the | baby. Q. When do guests leave after I eating breakfast? A. From fifteen minutes to an , hour after the meal is finished. I Q is an acknowledgment neces-I sary upon the receipt of a P. P. C.' card? (P. T. C. means “to take I leave.”) A. No. I' o NOTICE • No hunting or trespassing on ' farms owned or tenanted by the ’ following: Otto Peck. H. J. Bulte- | meter, Wade Mcßarnes, Win. I Wheeling. L. Reinking. Chester i Lott, Ernst Ehlerding, Gus EhlerdI ing. Lew Selking, Frank Rush. ’ Fr-Tu-Fr-x Get the Habit—Trade at Home.

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♦ 1’ The People’s Voice — This column for the rise of our readers who wish to make suggestions for the general good or discuss questions of interest. .—lease sign your name to show authenticity. It will not be used if you prefer that it not be. I • « Our Schools Are the Decatur schools doing things'? Yes—l was surprised beyond words this morning when 1 entered the Decatur high school building and saw more than 40 children composing "The Riley Harmonica Band.” all dressed in red and w hite uniforms. You would have to see and hear them to appreciate them. We have teachers in our public schools that are going Aie limit in giving their strength, time and ability to fit our children for the responsibilities that will be theirs I in a few short years. | Schools should have the support I of all loyal citizens, especially par- ■ ents. —lnterested. LUCAS SEEKC CLEAN RECORD I tCONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) I fact that he is innocent, if such , i is found to be the case, proclaimedl ■ in the court's records. Three suggestions are made in the petition: That a commissioner be appointed to take testimony from witness-1 I cs who testified at the trial and I I any other persons to determine the | truth or falsity of allegations and - affidavits presented in Lucas’ be- | half. | That the supreme court revise ► its ruling in the case so the find | i ing would be "not guilty.” That the court grant some other I i remedy or relief suitable “as is inI herent in its power to do justice." Wide public interest has been aroused in Lucas' predicament. Evidence that he was "railroaded" to prison through perjured testi- 1 mouy and the connivance of auth-I orities of Mount Carmel, HL. where | he was convicted on a murder I charge in April. 1909, has been '

, brought forward by interested eiti zens. Although he is at liberty on 3-1 year parole, Lucas is not satisfied. “I don't want a pardon. I am guilty of no crime. 1 want my good name back," he said. The principal witness at the trial was Richard Conrad, who had served sentences for a statutory offense and for manslaughter and had once escaped and been recaptured. Letters from IL M. Phipps, then , state's attorney of Wabash county, included in Lucas’ petition, Indir cate Conrad was promised a parole . recommendation for his testimony [ in Lucas trial. Conrad since has 1 died. j Three girls were the other imi portant state's witnesses against , tne young river fisherman. Two of I them, now married women, have signed affidavits that their testimony was false and that they were • terrorized into saving what they , did. I Testimony at the trial was to the . effect that Showalter, young farm--5 er, sold a load of hogs for $1,455 on Oct. 15. 1905, and set out to enjoy himself in Mount Carmel. That night he disappeared, i

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.Months later his body was found I in a ereek near the Wabash river. Oma Johnson testified 23 years I ago that she was behind a lumber pile with Richard Conrad that night and saw Lucas strike Showalter on the head with a baseball bat and then go through his pockets. According to her testimony, Mrs. Margaret Lucas, Jesse's motlysr, came home from the house witli a quilt and spread it over the body and Lucas threw it into the river. In her affidavit quoted in the petition filed today, Mrs. Oma Johnson Christian, now living in Arkansas, declared she did not know Conrad at that time and that her story about the murder was false. She said it was told her by Conrad in a note they passed from one cell window to another after she met him just before the trial. Myrtle Mercer, a young wife at the time of the trial, testified that she was at the Lucas home and saw Showalter’s hotly with Jesse Lucas standing over it. She also testified to hearing Showalter plead. “Don’t kill me, Jesse,” and to being threatened by Lucas. Mrs. Myrtle Mercer Ozee's affidavit in the petition stated that she OMk

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