Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 18 December 1931 — Page 7

■onefh.es ■fPESI. TODAY L of Indictments Is Mtliicked In 118- ■ Page Brief p, (U.R) —AI C:i- i ..... his convict ion onio tax evision tim circuit court Kis. •• d on counts . imome ' hi on sentenced 11 lie lias ing action <>/) to i, p. i, most n „ served. ?> . < . dealt indictments. I)e- . ...» ha e |H n! io tile a brief and . 'lays An ■ h.c’l.v will be set. DIAMOND BAST'S FAMOUS ■ GANGSTER DIES B. ■iNI'ED ROM PAGE UM,. ■ li ipped m ‘ ’ hoiel. New .. uh wonld.be when i> d at him ■e. tin- Catskills. \ M . muscled in" on thI > 't through ;Im

4r< 1 :l 411 lowest Prices on Fine Floor ■ Stock Up! I Avondale« 45c I GOLI) MEDAL or Pillsbury’s 21 lb. bag I COUNTRY CLUB FLOUR 24 lb. 4Q P | <• PASTRY FLOUR 5 lb. bag 1 S| COUNTRY CLUB iOV ERACKERS I ~ 19c PUMPKIN ~ 2" 15c MaISINS in bulk, seedless AlJLK—Country Club 1 77- ■ lbs tall cans, 3 forl It ■ATES, bulk, new crop O9z» All STARI), prepared 1 A/ 1 ■ lbs <-’)v Quart jar 10l •WEL COFFEE, “Fresh" t(1 OLIVES, Plain 9Qp Bound > 1 .71, Quart jar loRN, 3 No. 2 cans 29c CLUB—White Kernels •ALSTON, 2 Full Size pkgs, '■ ■ hc Vitamin B Breakfast Food L ■UGAR 10 lb. cloth bag 4Sc Bure GRANULATED XC>V I FRESH FRUITS AND . CETABLES L Lettuce 2 lbs 19 c I ORANGES \PPLES, Cooking ji California Navals 10 I! I ICO size—dozen .... 00c BANANAS. Golden ■ 12t> tize—dozen 49: Ifiiw kdvV ■ lEO size—dozer: . . 42c '“‘ H - " ’ ' I size—dozen —33 c (,R \|’E FRITT. | ■c ■ size—dozen .. . 29c e . ■ <: f (1 - ■ £SO size-dozen -19 c > U>» » f 0 101 SELECT QUALITY ME \ at Lowest Prices Pork Roast lb 7ic SWISS STEAK ilh 15c r£ NDER, JUICY H)RK CHOPS ,b - 15C ce NTer cuts bacon, sliced, lb - 25c CELLO WRAPPED COMBINATION- 1 lb. Bamberger and 1 lb. Sausage, for ' LARD p,:re ’ Eu!k 3 lbs 25c

| right temple. A heavy calil.i. • tol was used. Dr. Thoillas ” l £’ tnes, who attended Diamond aftei Aiatoga inn shooting was sutnmoned by a Illyst “ io «’ * phoAe call. He found Diamond Iv .•ng tn bed. disrobed, He .... ... ed him dead and notified police I Mrs Alice Schiffer Diamond 'the aeketeer ; wife, who « as i, lh . house at the tinm. was held bv pm ice tor questioning. i) istrict 1 torney John T. Delaney, who took I charge ot the investigation, declined to issue any statement un i' ho >«3<l interviewed witnesses Mrs. Diamond was the only on known to be held. While ii w believed Diamond was pm , l;i lh . spot by gangland foes poll. .. s aid i this was not entirely positive. | All police reserves were imniedi lately mobilized by Chief of [> ()li( .., David Srnurl to investigate. h..' ordered a watch kept on all roads [leading tn the city and a checkup ion rooming houses and hotels to iPick up all known racketeer; in the city. State police throughout tlm state were notified through timir tele type system and asked to keep a close watch on all roads. The house in which Diamond had taken refuge is in a ouiet section "1 the city. The gang chieftain was higli ■ spirits when he left the Troy ■ <>urt house last rtight with his wife. "Gee,’’ he said, "it sure will be great to get away from it 11. i feel like a different man already." o Missouri Mechanics Take Cuts % Boonville, Mo.- U.K -Mechanics I in the various building trades in *' Booneville have agreed to take a 1 voluntary wage reduction of from' ‘ 20 to 33 1-3 per cent, in order to 1 stimulate building ami repair work |] here during the winter. i.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18,1931.

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)eter:nined to continue their efforts in the cause < ?f international peace, members of the Christian endeavor Union recently called upon the President it ’he White House with a petition renewing their ,xeas for international friendship. Left to right

Village Lacks Jewels, Horsts Claypool. Ind.—(U.R) —Claypool is one town where there are no horses nor jewelry, according to the township assessor's report. It was recalled that scarcely more than two decades ago nearly e’w:, resident n Claypool possessed a horse.

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CHRISTMAS IS CHAPEL THEME rCONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE; , Boy Blue," by • Martha Jane Linn; l a clarinet duet, by Martha Erma j Butler and Helen Becker; a saxa-' , j phone solo by Mary Katherine Tyn- j ' !dall; a saxaphone duet by Mary I Katherine Tyndall and Marceil I Leatherman; a baritone solo by! Vera Porter, a band number, | I “Christmas Greetings,” and a I march, “AU Americans." I At Central a. miscellaneous program was opened by singing, "It I Came Upon the Midnight Clear." Miss Eileen Odle gave a recitation, “Visit from St. Nicholas;" the 7-AI quartet sang, “Silent Night.” Mem-1 hers of this quartet are Evelyn Ad-. jams, Lois Sovine, Kathryn Jack-1 son. and Kathryn Murphy. Miss Kathryn Affolder gave a <’ citation, “Mince Pie," the 7-A sextet sang, “The Light of Bethlehem." i Members of the sextet are Evelyn; i Adams, Lois Sovine, Kathryn Jack- 1 son, Kathryn Murphy. Robert B.odbeck, and Harold Zimmerman. I With Margaret Kimble gave a ' ! recitation, "The Pretty Fir Tree”; a quintet composed of the Misses I ' Ruth Porter. Agnes Nelson, Melba Kraft, Agnes Foreman, and Lois . Sovine player Christmas carols on ( I violins' Margaret Huffman gave a rec" *' ;.n. “For Some W .- Dreamer s Cause.” - Betty Rutn l 111 played a flute solo; Phyllis Tooke gave a recitai tion. "How He Does It”; Barbara Burke played a piano solo, “Minuet 'in G”; Evangeline Fuhrman gave I'a recitation, “Under the Christinas II Tree," and'the program was eon-! ! i eluded by singing, “Hark the Her- i laid Angels Sing.” —o MT. SUMMIT IS SCENE OF BANK HOLDUP TODAY (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) ' Mrs. Province were the only perI sons in the institution when the ■ . men entered. Lamb, who is a director of the 1 State Vigilante organization, torn lied off the alarm unnoticed by the

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robbers. ‘, While the “two gun" bandit p herded the employes into a corner) and covered them wi.ti his weap-■ Oils, the Other . ,-op e d up the); money in’-• . sack. Holding Airs. Province in front II of them, the bandits started io-' ward the door. Earl Osburn, a vigilante, was the I first to answer the alarm. He arrived with a double barreled shot 1 ' gun and poured two volleys at the bandits as they came from the bank.- limy, and the two waiting in the auto, returned Osbun’s fire. ) The bandits, still holding Mrs. Province, dashed for their auto, firing continually. Other vigilantes arrived and ) rained shots on the bandit car as | it speeded from the scene. Mrs.) Province, after she was freed, said she was unable to determine! whether any of the bullets . had j struck the machine. Lam,'l described the two men! who entered the bank as “foreign- 1 erß ”_ ' I' Student Unable to Sell Gold Panned In Yukon] Toronto, Ont. —(UP) A Univer-' sity of To.onto student is “broke" I with S2O in void in his pocket. The student spent th? summer! panning gold in the Yukon. He s dd, l part of his earnings in the n rth I ou’itry, and brought more than an I I ounce back. « Now he can't dispose o ' his ounce i of gold. The banks won’t accept it. ) i tii jewelry stuns said the am nuit ’v a i “too small I bother with" and ; I . lie .;< fineries agreed. B's a funny sitration when y.> i I | can't sell .old" ib’ said, “but may--1 be its th; gold standard. 0 —. — Snake Is Student's Pet Raleigh, N. C. (U.R) —"Oscar" is the name of a pet rattlesnake of! IC. N. Cone, senior at North Caro-' T-ia State College. Cone keeps the i four and on-half foot reptile ini his dormitory room. o Rattler Weighed 50 Pounds Deleo, N. C. —(U.R) James Webb captured a rattle snake weighing: 50 pounds near here.

♦ ——| DON’T QUOTE ME ' ♦- — (U.R) —4 1 Washington, Dec. 18.—(U.R)—The United States department of agriculture is going to be a customer 1 !for automobiles to the number of 1 399 during the coming year. It’s ' just another of the things ‘one ' learns by reading the budget wjtich | ‘ the President presented to congress ) last week. The vast volume con-D tains quite a study of the depart-1 nrent's dealings on automobiles,. < covering some 10 pages. i One finds that in buying the 399 cars the department will trade in 233 cais, but will get an average > of only about SIOO apiece for them.! I The net ccst of the 399 new cars I < will be $225,000. I i They range from moderate price ' ‘ cars for more important officials down to the popular priced coupes, 1 and roadsters, with a few trucks end station wagons thrown in. 11 There will be a S6OO coupe to be i used “for visiting resin and turpen-l tine stills.” Another S6OO coupe) I will be "for travel for Galesburg,!: Illinois, on the cattle grub invest!- |

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gation.” A coupe for travel from Fairbanks, Alaska on the reindeer I hot “investigation" will cost $750. I The reinder hot, in case the reader is interested, is the larva of an insect which gives reindeer the tummy ache. Another $60(1 car will be for “use in the inspection ot Larch canker and Dutch elm disease” in New England. And so on --each of the new cars has its specific purpose. The department estimates it*will cost $210,490 to maintain its auto-; mobiles for the year. — Tlie state department doesn’t go I into the automobile business as heavily as the department of agri-! culture. It’s heaviest automobile item is S3OO a year for the “storage of the secretary's limousine." I The secretary's limousine, incidentally, is a handsome, shiny black car, long and fast. Its license! plates carry the number "112.” I The state department, it may be i interesting to know, is asking s4(t i for the care of clocks and $Bl for I street-car and taxicab hire. It ' got that much last year but only'

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spent $45. Congress lias a silver investigation in progress, but it hasn't anything to do with bi-metalism or any thing ol that kind. It is designed to reveal how so much silver marked “House of Representatives" found its way into the senate restaurant. A congressman dining in the senate dining room discovered I that his knife was marked “House of Representatives.” He started it I all. Private Company Fights Fires Durand. Wis. (U.R) —The problem ot rural fire protection has been solved here by the organization of | a privately owned company, which tights fires for pay. The company I was formed after the city of Durland refused to allow its fire department to leave the city limits. o_ Dance, Sunday, Sunset. Q ! 2S Beautiful Christmas Cards, colored etchings and parchment folders, 89c. Cal!o}y_& Kohne.