Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 281, Decatur, Adams County, 30 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. He11er..... Vice-President Subscription Rates Single copies $ .02 One week. by carrier 10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mall .35 Three months, bf 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 115 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies ■ Its tunny how beautiful snow is when it comes and how its any • thing but that when its going. You can take the screens down any time now and put the bottle of flit away for use next year. The flies and bugs seem to have defi- ‘ nitely hibernated. From what we have heard this store tax is not going to be any more popular than any other tax which must be paid direct. The - only taxes we don’t complain of is -what the other fellow pays or what -we don't know we pay. Ed J. Gallmeyei-, postmaster at Fort Wayne and Janies J. Patcbell, who holds a similar job at Union City will speak at the dedication ot the new federal building here tomorrow and each will have a message worth your attention. Some one has stolen the late j Thomas Marshall's phrase, “What' this country needs is a good five- j cent cigar’’ and written a rolicking song that is making quite a hit ” these days. - The stocks continue to get so _ close to the floor that there is danger a cyclone cellar will have «to be providdft to take care of “ them. They might list them as * minus or so much less than nothing. ■ Ijani Cleland, Allen county democratic chairman said in his Gary speech Saturday evening that the United States needs a great leader. Well, Sam. there are a lot of fellows bidding for that job right now who think they are great. The average cigarette smoker perhaps doesn't often think that he is paying a heaVy tax but he is. 1 he fellow who smokes a package a day is paying $21.90 tax to the government which is equal to the income tax paid by one who has a profit of $5,000 a year. The total irom this source is nearly a hrlf billion dollars a year. The local murder trial is moving right along and by the end of this week should be near the finish. Perhaps next to the defendaat the ones happiest when the affair is over will be the jurors who are being kept together during the trial. They attended church in a body yesterday and appeared today in good health and spirits but its no picnic. Santa Claus is coming next Saturday and will entertain the youngsters all day, driving his big sleigh drawn by eight dogs from the far north country, around the city. At Not Appendicitis— Gas Pains Fool Him “I had such pain in my right side I thought I had appendicitis. But it was only gas. After taking Adlerika I've had no troitble." — W. L. Adams. You can’t get rid of gas doqtoring the stomach. For gas stays in the UPPER txiwel. Adlerika reaches BOTH upper and lowet bowel, washing out poisons which cause gae. nervousness, bad sleep. Get Adlerika today; by tomorrow you feel the wonderful effect ot this German doctor's remedy. B. J. Smith Drug Co.

the same time the local merchants will offer special inducements to those desiring to start their Christmas shopping. i. j — The closing of the football season brought such an unusual and t unexpected result that its just a guess as to what team is champ--2 ion. The Army, twice defeated and ■J tied once, beat Notre Dame and 5 Purdue knocked Northwestern from ? the ladder top. The teams seem ) to have been rather equal this year, victories resulting from the breaks, so weaian each select our own fav|Orite as the winner. The new post office building will be dedicated tomorrow afternoon with an appropriate program, including addresses, music, songs by the children and the raising of the American flag. Mr. Anderson, the contractor, will formally present the building to Decatur and it will be accepted by Mayor George Krick. The building is very beautiful, splendidly constructed and modern in every way and the people here are very proud of it indeed. Farmers in this section are enthusiastically in favor of reopening of the sugar plant and are willing to contract on a fair basis. Mr. Gallagher says there is no doubt the enterprise can be financed if the acreage is secured. Looks like we ought to be able to work that out and to the benefit of every one concerned. Just now we are feeling the absence of this plant which has operated at this season for the past nineteen years and we are all hoping sincerely that nothing will interfere with the plans. Frank R. Kent, noted national political writer spent last week in > Indiana and according to his report ■ failed to find any thing very enI couraging to Senator Watson who will be a candidate to succeed himself next year. Kent points out that the democrats elected nine of , the thirteen congressmen last year and so far as he can ascertain ,' there is a decided inclination to finish the job at the next election. The only optimism he found was with Mr. Watson himself and that was perhaps feigned to some extent because of his personal desires. o--I r~TWENTY YEARS~* AGO TODAY ’ j F~nm the Daily Democrat File » 4 Nov. 30, 1911 was Thanksgiving Day. 0 Lessons In English , Words often missused: Do not say, “Our water pipe bursted last night.” Say burst. * Often mispronounced: Risque, i Pronounc-3 res-ka, e as in "me,” a I, as in “day” and accent last syllable. Often misspelled: Suave; not E swave. Synonyms: Conflict (noun) fight, battle, combat, contention, encounr ter. Word Study: “Use a word three 5 times and it is yours.” Let us in- . crease "our vocabulary by master- ; ing one word each day. Today’s word: Unsophisticated; not worldly J wise; innocent. "He was a raw and - unsophisticated youth.” o Household Scrapbook i 11 By 5 1 ROBERTA LEE ♦ <U.» • Winter Laundering During the cold months, b.ore hanging clothes outside, wipe off the line with a cloth wrung out of 1 Salt water, and it will prevent the clothes from f. eezlng to the line. Floors t Tj improve the marks on the • hardwood floors, that are caused by rockers or furniture casters rub the scars with stesl wool dipped in soap water. Rinse with clear water ' i and polish. Raisins |t Raisins will not sink to the bottom of the cake if they are scalded well, then rolled in flour. It this does not prove effective, try rollr ing in butter instead of flour. s o BARGAINS — Bargains in Living Room. Dining Room Suites, Mattresses and Rugs. Stuckey and Co 1 Monroe, our Phone number is 44 v « ,f | Three barbers at Frank's ’• s Barber Shop, 234 N. 2nd st, j Open Monday evenings.

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♦— ♦ ANSWERS TO TEST QUESTIONS Below are the answers to the , test questions printed on page three. ♦— — • 1. “Os the value.” 2. No. 3. Menalaus. 4. On the island of St. Helena. 5. Dublin. Ireland. 6. Marcus C. Connelly. 7. Orange blossoms. 8. Moscow, Soviet Russia. 9. Lewis Carroll. 10. A native of the South Sea Islands. o ♦ ■ —-— —- + Modern Etiquette —by— j ROBERTA LEE ♦- (U.P.) ♦ Q. What tip is the least one should give to the waiter in a firstclass restaurant? A. Twenty-five cents. Q. What kind of affairs are given , to introduce a debutante, or a new- | ly acquired daushter-in-law? A. Afternoon receptions. Q. How should the prongs of the fork be placed on the plate when the meal is finished? A. The prongs should point downwards. DRY CRUSADER SHOOTS YOUTH — iCONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Gilday was held without charge; . by police pending the outcome of Knoll’s injuries. Police stated no I formal charge would be placed ■ against him until it could be de-! termined if Knoll would recover. | “Herman and I started out for , the open Mission House,” Knoll's I companion told officers. "We saw : a man weaving from side to side on the street and stopped to ask him if he wanted help. Herman told the man we would take him 1 home. Then the man pulled out a ■. revolver and 1 ran away. Herman • stayed and tried to take the gun' away from him. Then I heard a 1 • shot and saw Herman fall.” When police arrived they found, both Gilday and Knoll lying on the ‘ sidewalk. Officers said they found • a tear gas gun and a bottle partly . ■ filled with liquor in Gilday’s pock-' ’ ets. They also found stars issued 1 by the police department and the’ i state's attorney's office. Friends of the reform leader charged the bottle of liquor assertk edly found by police in his pocket was “planted.” E. J. Davis, superintendent of thej | Better Government Association, de- ) ciared Gilday “never took a drop. of liquor in his life.” 3 "Gilday has been at war with f the police," Davis said. "It is not f unlikely that the bottle of liquor 3 was planted on him. They wanted to get him and they had motive to say he was intoxicated." a Police and witnesses persisted 1 in their story that the reform lead- :> er had been drinking. 3 Records of the youths, are good, r and their story of the shooting was verified by other witnesses, officers said. In his conference with Englewood 1 police officers regarding a cleanup B of South Side vice and liquor con- [. ditions, Gilday had declared that "I am the fellow’ who’s taking the place of John Lyle.” Lyle was a g crusading Chicago municipal judge t . who was beaten for the republican , mayoralty nomination by William I Hale Thompson early this year, f Gilday has been porminent in "better element" organizations for S years. He is a director of tire ~ Better Government Association and superintendent o: the Englewood

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Law and Order league. , Six years ago his home was bombed in what was attributed as a retaliation attack for his cam- ■ paign for the deportation of bombbers. Two years ago, Gilday found another bomb in the doorway of his home. He blamed the attack on bootleggers aud in the resultant campaign by federal dry forces 43 speakeasies in the district were closed. TO SELL FARMS AT AUCTION Two Adams County Farms To Be Sold Dec, 8; Farms Are Near Decatur Two Adams County and seven Wells County farms will be sold at public auction in three days i beginning Friday, December 4, by ! Jesse E. Eschbach and Jay L. , Knapp, receivers of the Interstate ! Farm and Mortgage Corporation, formerly known as the Straus Brothers Company, Fort Wayne. The Adams county farms will be "put under the hammer” j Tuesday, December 8, with the McCauley 161 acres, three miles I south of here, going at 10 a. m.; , and the Timm 80 acres, five miles , west of Monroe being scheduled ' for 1 p.m. The Wells county farms will be • sold on three different days, three being scheduled for December 4. ’ one for December 8, and three for i December 10. Those to be sold Friday, De- | cember 4. are scheduled as follows: McMahon 80 acres, two and a half miles northeast of Ossian, 10 am.; German-May 260 acres, three miles east of Ossian, 1 p.m.; Collins 63 acres, five miles southeast of Ossian. 2:30 p.m. The Naylor 80 acres, one mile east of Bluffton, is the only one scheduled for December 8, and I that will go on sale at 2:30 p.m. The three to be sold December I 10 follow: Hann 120 acres three miles southeast of Poneto, at 10 a.m.: Hann 86 acres, and the Hann 80 acres, both one and a half j miles south of Poneto, will he sold . at 1 and 2:30 p.m. respectively. The total acreage of the Adams ’ county farms to be auctioned in this sale is 241, while that for Wells county is 769. The entire auction, which will extend over a period of several weeks, is exI pected to be the largest ever held I In Indiana since 32 farms in Allen, ' Adams. Wells, Whitley. Hunting- | ton, Elkhart. Noble, Tippecanoe and Kosciusko counties will ba offered. These have a tqtal of 3.700 acres, including the richest farming soil in this part of the state. All buildings on the plots tire modern, some farms being equipped with up-to-date brooders, milk houses, cribs and the like. Thirteen of the 32 farms to be sold at this big auction are Ipcat- ■ ed in Allen county, one is in Whit- ' ley county, four in Huntington, two in Elkhart and one each in Noble. Kosciusko and Tippecanoe 1 counties. > Cols. Fred Reppert, Earl Gartin and Roy Johnson, of the National 1 Realty Auction company, will have > charge of the sale. Convenient i terms of payment can be arranged J for. This will certainly,be a goldi en opportunity to buy a good farm * at prices that should bring back memories of twenty-five and thirty i years ago.—ajjvt. r o : NOTICE— Wanted Furs of all I ' kinds. John Christi ner, % mile I' north of Monroe. ' 282t3x i

IDEFENSE GETS RECESS UNTIL TUESDAY A. M. ( _S ( '-- N - T - iri, H- ED - so excepting at one time when Mr. Lutz asked her when she next saw Doras after he left in his car the j evening of June 29th. The witness tried to answer but could not hold back the tears and there was a brief pause until she regained controll of her self. The witness said she lived one mile west of Pleasant Mills, is 23 years old, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James (Halberstadt and a sister of James, Jr., and Thomas who had testified in the case previously. She said she was the wife of Doras Werling, that he w’orked at the G. E. plant in Decatur and returned on June 29th kbout 5:19 or 5:15 o’clock ate supper and left in his car soon afterward for Pleasant Mills. He was dressed in his work clothes a blue shirt, overalls and work shoes. She next saw Doras at the Black undertaking establishment in Decatur the next morning. Who composed the family of Doras?” "Ou# sou Delane. 3, and myself.” “Did the defendant leave at the time of his de.ath a child which was still unborn.?” Mr. DeVoss made vigorous objection to this question but it was over ruled. Answer, “Yes sir.” The defense did not cross examine Mrs. Werling. When court convened this morning all seats were taken and a few were standing and the crowd increased some during the morning. The jury appeared rested and all in fine physical condition after a quiet Sunday which included church services. The defendant appeared a little more ashen in color than usual and did not seem to give as much attention to the evidence as before. However he is in good physical condition. Thomas Halberstadt was called back for cross examination aud again asked concerning statements made at the coroner’s inquest, the witness admitting the record which seemed to be practically the same as given irom the etand. Arthur Clark, policeman, testified he went to Pleasant Mills early the morning of June 30th, that he found the revolver, identified gun in court as the one. Dr. J. W. Vizard, Pleasant Mills was called to attend Doras and reached his side a minute before he died. Examined him, believed the bullet had gone straight through tight side and that Doras was bleeding to death but at the autopsy found the bullet had careened off through the heart. Dr. Vizard called the ambulance’and notified the coroner and then came here and assisted at the autopsy. He described the autopsy, his evidence being similar to that by Dr. Miller as to cause ot death. Attorney DeVoss cross-examined briefly. Clarence Weber and S. E. Black were called to give evidence as to the autopsy which was held at the Black undertaking rooms. No cross examination. Dr. P. B. Thomas was called just before noon. He is a practicing physician and has lived here 46 years. He assisted Dr. Miller and Dr. Vizard at the autopsy which he described in about, the same language. One important point brought out in his testimony was there were powder burns on Werling's breast but not on the knee and that Everett, whom Dr. Thomas also treated during that night had powder burns on his arm. That it was pointed out would indicate that the shot in the breast was the one fired direct while the shot through Joe’s arm landed in Werling's knee. The doctor said that he would judge that the shot which struck Werling in the .breast had been tired at a dis- 1 tance of from two to four feet. Saturday afternoon, 3:39 session, following recess. Cross examination of Thomas (Mutt) Halberstadt brought out that the last words of Doras were "Mutt, did he shoot me?” William Bell was called as a special deputy sheriff, sworn byMiss Nelson. Went to Pleasant Mills morning following June 29. , After return was with sheriff when ■ he showed revolver to Joe Everett ■ and asked him if that was his. He ■ replied, “Yes, that's my gun.” ’ Bell identified the gun. Luther Bovine, 15, a bright lad ■ who held his own through a rather i trying direct and cross-examina- ; tion, was the next witness. He , corroborated the evidence given by the Halberstadt boys, that they > met ut Mann’s garage and went - with Doras Werling to the quarry - where the Halberstadt boys' In- , tended to go swimming. Doras i threw a stone towards the bridge, s Luther said. Joe hollowed “wait a minute there, we'll see about i that,” after Jim had told him they 1 were going in swimming. Joe » rowed in and tied his boat. Had t been out 250 feet. Walked toI wards the boys. Doras sitting oil ■ a log which reached into water, i Doras “Boys if you want to go < swimming, go on' in and quit f arguing.” Joe pulled his gun and said "Now d— you, beat it.” • What did you say? II "Nothing, I beat it as fast as e I could run.” x ' Ran to garage and stayed there

until I saw Joe pass, then went back to river. On way up bank heard two shots, turned and saw Doras lunge forward. Cross examined by Attorney DeVoss, the boy said the stone thrown in the water was about tour inches long and two inches thick. Luther said he did not ! know Joe was there when he went down, that he did not intend to go swimming but "just went along the boys." Mr. DeVoss read a question ai«l answer from the coroner's inquest, record, but objection was made and the court said he felt the testimony was practically identical and sustained objection. Theodore Dauge was called as the last witness Saturday and told of going down to the river, with several other Pleasant Mills men after hearing the shots fired. He said they found Werling lying pear the fiver ■ and Thomas Halberstadt was standing beside him. Dauge said they all carried Werling to the top of the bank where he died. There was no cross-ex-amination. Court adjourned at 4:30 o'clock in order that attorneys could look after other important matters. JAPAN CLOSES U. S. INCIDENT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Washington, Nov. 30 —(U.R) — Secretary of State Stimson declined to take any publiq notice of a reported Japanese war office statement which said that* either he or Ambassador W. Cameron Forbes had distorted an assertion by Foreign Minister Shidehara. The secretary observed that enough had been said on tlH> Manchurian situation. Stimson banned the subject in his morning press conference except to say that the statesmen at Paris still were working on the league’s proposal to investigate conditions in Manchuria. WHEAT KING IS NAMED TODAY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) credit for my victory,” said Trelle a handsome, blue-eyed "ad'apted” Canadian, who was born in Utah and moved to the farm, some 450 miles north of the boundary, when « boy. Trelle, in spats and clothes that mighL have come from Bond street, looked anything but the typical wheat farmer. He explained that the press of thousands of people from all over Canada who came to »eek his advice as the foremost wheat farmer of the Dominion broke his health six years ago. He was in a sanitarium for many months.

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CITY OBTAINS BANK FIXTURES (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) ‘ pany, which was organized following the cloaiug of the old Peoples 1 Loan and Trust company. The new company was later merged with the Old Adams County bank of this city. ' Mr. Vance statetj that the new : city offices would be ready for occupancy about January 1. The llnoI leum will be laid this week and as ; soon as the counters and other fix- • tures are installed the two city of- . fleers will be moved to the ground - floor. Charles Robenold has the general i contract for remodeling the buildI ing and has practically completed i the job. , o Bowlers Elect Officers Indianapolis, ffov. 30.—(UJO —Officers of the Indiana Bowling Asso- • ciation were re-elected at the or--1 ganization’s annual meeting here.

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