Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1931 — Page 4

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, bv carrier in One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by’mail 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. t - National Adver. Representative SCHEERER. Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 415 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Just one more day to do your Christinas shopping and if you still have some to do, you will find the local stores and shops well stocked to care for you. Some one has defined a depression as being a period when people do without things their parents never had and complain much about it. The local merchants greet you in today s Daily Democrat with Merry Christmas wishes and they mean it. They are a lot of good fellows who deserve your business every day in the year. They are burning fiery crosses again over at Columbia City. Hope we are not getting ready to go through another seige of that "monkey business.” This is no time to agitate any thing but good sound sense and cooperation. The post office continues to be the busiest place in the city during these holiday times and 10,000 to 12,000 two-cent stamps are sold daily. That means handling a lot Os mail and the boys here are doing it efficiently. =- •Officials in this county are mak- • ing a careful and concerted campaign against those who steal thickens and those so engaged should" realize that its almost impossible now to commit these Crimea and get away with it. The Good Fellows fund is over * S3OO TTnd while it is short of the past several years will help much to provide Merry Christmas programs for a lot of poor folks. We know4he ladies of the Delta Theta Tau appreciate the subscriptions this *9?ar and thank you tor them. 7 Securing 10,000 acres of beets in "This vicinity is not an impossible Job and it would mean bringing Tack prosperity more than any one Thing we could do. By all means +et's not pass this up. We just •must not. Think of bringing a million hollars in for next year. That's something. — Berue entertained the members ■ot the state highway commission, ■always a happy and wise thing to •do for the oftener we bring these 4dfi(TaJs to Adams county the better it is for us. They have important and those communities which, make the greatest effort to «ell themselves are the ones first Aaken care of for they are the important places. • Its Christinas week, the period ■when we all forget the hum drum ■and grant ourselves the complete pleasure of loving others better than ourselves. Thats always good < — nil r*n CHINESE HERB I'll &■ QUICKLY ALLAYS I Isa LV PAIN and ITCHING If you suffer from itching, blind, protruding or bleeding Piles you are -likely to be amazed at the soothing, floating power of the rare, imported Chinese Herb, which fortifies Dr. Nixon’s Chinaroid. It’s the newest and fastest acting treatment out. brings ease and comfort in a few minutes so that you can work and -•enjoy life while it continues its ■soothing, healing action. Don’t delay. Act in time tn avoid a dangercis and costly oneration. Try Dr. Nixon’s Chinaroid under our guarantee to satisfy completely and be .worth 100 times the small cost or your money back. CALLOW AND KOHNE

for us and we ought to practise it more. Thinking of ourselves is about the worst thing we can do and thinking of how we can help others and make them happier is the best. The “great engineer" seems to have become the "great mistake.” And for that we really have regrets. we believe he has tried honestly but he has been up against a proposition that requires an entirely different person. He sang what he believed, prosperity is just around the corner, too long and then when he began to really look around discovered that it had slipped out a side gate and was over in France or some where else. I Whether he can do something to Induce it to come back remains to be seen but just now his political importance is at a low ebb. Have the American people lost their nerve entirely? Are they whollj' without that traditional Yankee courage, initiative and never-say-die spirit? This depression is bringing out a lot of cowardice and despair, but mighty little of that old fighting spirit which is characteristic of the real American when he is at his best. During the panic of the 70's when others were selling their land for what they could get a young man named Henry Clay Frick borrowed money and bought up coke lands by the square mile. It took courage but he won to the tune of millions. The vast Rockefeller business and fortune were founded upon a bold stroke in a time of economic dislocation. While others were calling him "fool” and "crazy’’ John D. was making millions. At the height ct another panic the steel industry was tottering dangerously and the big men in the business were frantically trying to get out from under. Andrew Carnegie stuck and became the king of steel. 0 i ♦ ♦ Household Scrapbook -byROBERTA LEE ♦ - ♦ | i J Loaf Cake If one hasn’t a tube pan for mak- ' ing loaf cake, try using a round paper mailing tube. Grease the tube and the cake will not stick. After Eating When one has that ‘loo-full" feeling a.ter eating, take a pinch of baking soda and follow with a drink of cold water. The Oilcloth To make the oilcloth look like new, rub with turpentine mixed ' with warm milk. o Lessons In English | Words often misused: Do not say "Not as I know.” Say “Not that I know,” or, "I do not know.’ Often mispronounced: Calaboose. Pronounce kal-a-boos, first a as in "at,’ second a unstressed, oo as in ’ loose,” and accent last syllable, not the first. Often misspelled: Tournament. Observe the ou. Synonyms: B.eed (verbi, generate, engender, procreate, propagate. Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabula y by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Manipulate; to handle skillfully. "It is very difficult to manipulate the intricate paits of this machine.’’ o ♦ ♦ Modern Etiquette | _ b y ROBERTA LEZ ♦ ♦ Q. What kind o' clothing should he worn by a woman staying alone in a hotel? A. The most modest and least conspicious dress appropriate to the hour of the day. Full dress should not be worn unless he has an escort Q. Must an invitation to a reception always be acknowledged? A. Yes, if the letters R.s.v.p. appear on it. Q. Does the hostess or her daughter pour tea at a formal tea? A. No; waiters perform this task. 0 Show Trips Cost S7CO,OOJ New York. — (UP) — Synical Broadway, “bearish” on what it I many years, received a shoik when terms, “flesh entertainment” for i Interstate Commerce Commission evidence showed that a single producer of flesh shows, Fanchon and ’ Marco, had spnt $700,000 annually ’ transpo.ting performers around the i I country. I BARGAINS — Bargains in Living I | Room. Dining 'Room suites. Mat- ; tresses and Rugs. Stuckey and Co ' | Monroe, our Phone number is 44. «

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Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two. j ; 1. The Simplon Tunnel. 2. Brazil. 3. The Mediterranean. 4. John N. Garner of Texas. 5. Treatment of disease by sun I rays. 6. House of Lords. 7. Xavier. 8. Philip La Follette. 9. A French Engineer officer, friend of George Washington, who made the original plans for the City of Washington. 10. China. ——.— o * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File Otto Peters of the Eli Lilly Drug i Company, Indianapolis, here for 1 visit. Portland basketball team defeats Decatur 32 to 11. Elks send out sixty Christmas baskets. Willis Magner purchases old Peterson homestead from J. M. Frisinger 84 acres at $l5O per acre.

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By HARRISON CARROLL. • C i.'-'tht, 1931. Premier Syndicate. Ine. HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Dec. 00.— If Tallulah Bankhead’s next picture isn’t a hit, it won’t be for lack

of a strong supporting cast. Reports spread j along the Holly-; wood grapevine today were that Paramount will give the star both Clive Brook and Paul Lukas as leading men. She couldn’t ask for a more lavish gesture, as both these actors are very persuasive at the box of-

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fice. Unless objections develop, Tallulah’s picture will be “Thunder Below’,” a South American story by Thomas Rourke. The heroine is the wife of an engineer stationed in the tropics. Though the star still has to give her final okay, she has expressed satisfaction with the story to date. Richard Wallace will direct, and the cameras will be unlirnbered in thre? or four weeks. Having furnished the star with three mediocre vehicles Paramount is exerting every effort to make the fourth time the charm. HE'S SWIVEL-CHAIR PIONEER. The other night Harry Brand saw one of those Western serials, with the covered wagons. “You’ve got to admire the enthusiasm of the ’49ers,” he said, “but if they’d only waited 82 years, all the roads would have been paved.” GATHER AROUND; IT’S GOSSIP Some pressure was brought to bear on Dorothy Lee, so she’ll play that role in “Girl Crazy,” after all. Radio will give another good part to Rochelle Hudson, who had agreed to step into the breach. .. Ben Lyon will entertain 110 guests at the Hollywood opening of Bebe Daniels in “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney” .... Saw se. eral film celebrities at the “Blue Bird” sevue. Ivan Lebe-

Miss Dolly May Overhulser and Martin Ault married. Robert Garard returns (from Port- ’ land when he attended basketball I game. Lose and Thomas, cigar manufacI Hirers are passing out aluminum I match safes. The John B. Weber family go to ' Fort Wayne tor Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Orval Harruff go I to Linn Grove for a Christinas visit. Governor Marshall paroles ten i and pardons one prisoner as Christ i mas gifts. Q Woman Cobbler Plies Trade Eor 13 Years Rochester, N. Y. —(UP)—The I “tap. tap. tap’’ of hamer against 1 shoeleather is a familiar and heart 1 warming sound to Miss Nancy Sia- | mo, 25, a full fledged cobbler. Miss Siamo has been tapping ' shoes for tffe past 13 years, having ' been taught the trade by her father I John Siamo. On a recent trip to Pacciac N. J. ■ she caused a stir by plying her ' trade in he.- uncle’s shop. She had ’ gone there cn a vacation, but the “call of the leather” was too strong | 'so she slipped on ah apron, sat j down ahd went to work. -o Some nice quarters of Beef fronts, 6c; hind quarters, Bc. —Schmitt Meat Market.

•deff, along, Josef von Sternberg with another man. Glimpsed Clara Beranger. . .Edward Everett Horton is reviving Dion Boucieault’s “The Shaughran” for his new stage venture. Had lunch with him at Levy’s and he has high hopes of the production. Laura La Plante and Ruth Weston are in the cast . . Saw James Cagney at a nearby table.. .. Tom Mix has left the hospital .. .Jack Gilbert gave a party for Lupe Velez the other evening. . . If Frank Fay really wants to know, I’m neither a paper-bag puttcraway nor a string-saver. Anybody will tell you I’m a paper-clip hoarder... Ruth Nagle took the train to Washington to spend Christmas with Conrad. Enid Bennett went along as a traveling companion and will continue on to Europe... R-K-O’s “Frontier” has been postponed for CO days Story isn’t ready. MEET HOLLYWOOD’S PRIZE PESSIMIST. Russell Mack hears of a scenarist so discouraged he is writing his scripts in red ink. —— 'UM IN THE NEWS. Picked as “Miss America” in 100’7 A- TA- — - •- •I.VM*, I.UHVLIUC X/MIC *3 CUtCIUIIg up with fame a second time as a Warner Brothers player. She has

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finished the sec- . on d feminine lead in Dick Barthelmess* picture, and now will play a part in “The Ferguson Case.” Cou r - tenay Terrett and Granville Moore wrote this one. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Miss Dore is the first “Miss America” to win substan-

tial recognition in Hollywood. Fay Lanphier was out here for a while, but as a secretary at Paramount. She’s in Oakland now, I believe. DID YOU KNOW That Kay Francis was born on Friday 13 T

BARGES WRITE NEW HISTORY ON MISSISSIPPI Huge Loads of Freight Hauled To Gulf Ports Memphis, Tenn., Deo. 23—(UP) Hundreds of snub-nosed towboats ami barges quietly churning their way up and down the Mississippi and its tributaries are writing new annals to commercial history of this country. Yet their presence apd the freight | reco ds they are establishing are getting little attention. One tow recently passed down river from St. Louis to New Orleans with enough freight aboard to load to capacity two good size ocean liners. Its mixed cargo from Middle Western factories and fartns was stoked away in huge steel barges and the single pusher towboat handled it without difficulty. The depression, of couse, has been a factor in creating this new form of transportation, but it is not entirely responsible for the increa re in business. New designs tor river barges cheaper and more powerful tug- • boats and better f. eight terminals i and a network of truck lines have I been important factors. From August 1, beginning the ' 1931-32 cotton season, to December I 4, a total of 127,5557 bales of cotton | had been shipped out of Memphio i by river, exceeding all previous riv-1 er shipments. The boats today are built to carry I cargo with a minimum draft. MAG£EY~NEWS * * « M.-. and Mrs. Milton Scherry and family Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Worthman and family and Miss Amanda Worthman were supper guests of Rev. and Mrs. Matthew Worthman and daughter Franclle of Bluffton Tuesday. M.’. and Mrs. Rudolph Kolte” and son Raymond. Mrs. Ernest Kruetz man. Mrs. Walter Kruetzman, Mrs Edward Borne and children Ruth and Glenden. of Preble, and Mrs. Albert Fruchte of Decatur attended the entertainment in Decatur Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lwis Worthman Jr. and family Mr. and Mrs. Milton Scherry and family Mr. and Mrs. John Hilgeman and family Lewis Worthman Sr. and Miss Amanda attended tne pageant at the Reformed church in Bluffton Sunday even- | ing. Mr. and Mrs. 'Arthur Fruchte I ipent the week-end at the ome of I the latter’s Father Edward Scherry Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dettinger j we e dinner guests Sunday of Mr. I and Mrs. Dick Farr of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kolter and ' son Robert attended the entertaininent at the Re o: med church in ■ Decatur Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fruchte of Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin F.uchte and family were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fruchte and daughter Sunday. James Hower spent Monday at the heme of his brother Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hower of Bluffton. —o MONROE NEWS Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Crist motored ! to Winchester on Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Crist. M.. and Mrs. R. J. Meyers called on relatives in Geneva on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Ira Wagoner is spending the week with friends at Columbus, ! Ohio. J Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hocker called on Mr. and M.s. B. M. Smith at i Brne on Sunday afteinoon. Mrs. Ferd Smith, Miss Ruth Bahner and Doyle Huffman spent Monday afternoon in Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Crist and ?on Quentin and Kermit were the

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son and family at Ossian on Sun-j guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Parkiday. Mr and Mrs. Wilford Ray and son Carl and Bobby of Grabill were guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson on Sunday. Miss Katy Diggs of Fort Wayne spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hendricks and son McGee. Mr. and Mrs. William Stucky entertained at Sunday dinner Mr. and -- ♦ » o-.uNir AlMl’B. -ntJUi) ovuuHiiei bert Augsburger and family of Berne. Mrs. Stuckys father Mr. Peter Bibeistien and son Elmo and Weldon Stucky. Mr. and Mrs. G. H Hendricks of Jackson Michigan spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hendricks. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Graham and M.’. and Mrs. Paul Graham and daughter Rosamond of Decatur called on Mrs. Harriet Graham on Sunday afternoon. Mr. ami Mrs. Crist Ebnit of Fort Wayne Mr. and Mts. Ferd Smith and Mr. Gorrman Eariiart were the I guests o: Miss Marguerite Lewellen ' on Sunday evening. Mr. Noah Hewit is spending the ■ week with his daughter Mrs. T. J. | Rayl and family. o Chicago May Buy. Bank Chicago.— (U.R) —Purchase of a vacant million dollar bank building was suggested to Mayor Certnak as a means to consolidate the many , city bureafis and departments now scattered about the city. It would effect a saving of mere than S7O.- • OOi) a year in dentals. Twins Run in Families Southbridge, Mass. —<U.R) —Dr. J. T. Lacey. Harrington Hospital surgeon. is satisfied that twins run in An investigation he made disclosed that in one family’s history 818 of 1.156 children were twin’s. The history of another family. with 2.226 children, showed no twins. o Students Using Less Liquor Syracuse, N. Y. —(U.R) —Dr. Geo. B. Cutten, president of Colgate University. believes the use of liquor on college campuses is diminishing. Dr. Cutten expressed approval of the 18th Amendment, pointing out the improved conditions among the laboring classes. • What are “Crazy” Crystals? See this paper Saturday and drink your way to health.

| THE SEASON 1 OF GOOD CHEER I J The Christmas tree with its gay decor- > atidns—the family dinner and happy reunions, the laughter and merryf making of the children—may all these make up a truly J MERRY CHRISTMAS x for yourself and family and may the coming year be filled with happiness and success for you. ► 1 CL ’I •W'TI I CLOVERLEAF CREAMERIES INC,

TONNAGE LIMIT FOR SHIPS URGED Paris, —tUP) —A Locarno of the Seas, or at least a Washington naval pact for commercial fleets, is asked by many private shipping operators of Europe and the French government seems inclined to favor such u building truce. The suggestion was made by the important French overseas journal, the “Depeche Coloniale” that the governments meet and agree to fix th tonnage of future passenger carrying ships. This publication urged that the maximums be fixed at 30, 000 tons for the North Atlantic llncan service and 15,000 tons in the ers, 20,000 tons in the South AmeriFar Eastern traffic. Shipping companies agree that at present the monster liners of all countries are running at a finan-

i i Accept our hearty good wishes, for a season of caln) and cheer. May Christmas Joy reign in your heart and gladen the coming year. SAYLORS MOTOR CO

cial loss betwee n Sontinental ports c ( 2 '"’kM keen. how.-",. . . K such recent shipT^", 0 " J in speed, by the new Pr P ° S ‘® I’m iSh nick, Boston artist. ■ attained glass „ 4 , “ • and 25 feet wide for ■ ral, San Fran. 0 . ,a “B Radio Stations Fi J Clinton. Ind qj.R)-Tw 0 raJ Tex., radio stations aided in ing Mr and Mrs. Paul D « vaudeville artists on tour*B then- daughter. .laeq, lPi , ne at the home of her gra M J here.