Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 4 April 1932 — Page 5

Ld'from FAGE ONE) I Hulk, I). H. |l 3l , Ed N Wleku. Carl ■•Christian Hilt.’. Ferdin-, ■ Ann’s Burkhalter. ■ John HiHy I ■ \ Thomas Rhoades. J. ■ Bullay McCollum. Ben ■nocrat Candidates Ct: John W Blakey. Mon Otto Hoile. L ('Daries MagleYWinifred Gerke. Lie: Rudolph Buuck. preble: Rudolph Linnelirkland •’ *’• Fugate. MhiWton: Herman Maybee Heil fashlngtoii: James Bendjrles Marshand. ionroe: Adolph Hannie. j jfonroe: C. C Beer. |t Mar ys Ulmer Winans. | U e Creek James Parrigb. Hue Creek: Albert Burke., jantord. Elmer Ander.-on. j Hartford Clyde Striker. | jafrn Kraner. gsbash: Fred Mathys. lelferson: Harley Reef, person: Adam Reef. r 1A: William Linn. r IB Dee Flyback. I !A: J- L Ehler. f JB: David Adams. |

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■ When you c w here for ■ a loan you set your ■vquickly. Prompt, cottr- ■, friendly service on cash ■ up tn S3OO on your and security. Metal. repayment terms K can be arranced to suit ■convenience. ■mb or plu>n» jiw full ■kr< uv.lu>ul obligation. ■klin Security Co. ■er Schafer Hdw. Co. ■it Decatur. Ind.

HE CORT ■i time tonight - ■ Dunn and Sally £uers ■> fast steppint,' drama |ANCE TEAM" ■U'eil from a park bench' ■ 3'o. I- st lost i ■ the way. ■movietone News and ■omedy and Cartoon. I 10c-35c ■•day and Wednesday — j ■“THE DECEIVER" j 10M5c

. that portion < F ('ntindi L i loilii I I I jHy WASTE YOUR TIME J Running Errands? ■ e Pkone calls for repair parts and othersupplies quickly H *^ sn the miles regardless of stormy weather or bad roads. ■ trips waste valuable time. How many trips you H o°u.a eliminate by using your telephone more than you H , telephone is your messenger night and day--sav. H on 9 drives and speeding up farm work. Rain or shine—- ■ se your telephone more in the management of your farm. ■ ou need the time-saving services of a telephone to run 9 ,H your errands—in any weather. I Citizens Telephone Co

Decatur 3A: Ed Green, Raymond Hartings. Decatur .’IB: Mlles Rdop Herne A: David Depp Horne B: Wesley Neuenschwunder. , j Herne C: David p. Stauffer, Geneva A: J. A. Long. Geneva B: C. N. Brown. Rich 1 Briggs. -- — o — DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS ARE ON FILE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and St. Marys townships David J. Schwartz in Blue Creek and Monroe townships. Edwin Beer, In Hartford. French and South Kirkland townships. Albert Harlow In Geneva. Ernest Stengle in Herne. <). L. Vance, August Heimann and Dick Heller in Decatur. Eleven of the delegates are to lie elected in the Democrat prim ary. Opposition has been filed in all ' of the Republican delegate dis-: I triots except one. Following are I i the candidates in the six G. O. P. | ' districts: William Wells vs. Ernest ReichI eideffer in South Hartford. Ceylon. Geneva and Jefferson. ‘ Milton Girod vs. Emanuel Joray I in Union. Root. Preble. Kirkland. ■ French and South Washington Ralph Yager vs. C. E Bell in I Decatur first ward and second ! ward. B precinct. Menno Burkhalter vs. Harry O j ■ Jones in Berne, North Wabash: and North Hartford. Clinton Soldner. unopposed, in, I St. Marys. Blue Creek and Monroe I townships. Charles Burdg vs. Avon Burk in Decatur third ward ami second ward A precinct. ANTI-DRYS IN SENATE SCRAP I (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) • said the organization, "places a , tax on wort, which is a product 1 of brewing and can be used only I’o manufacture beer. The American taxpayers is being butchered ( to make an anti-saloon league ' holiday." Beer presents the lighter side of the tax picture as the senate finI incr committee prepares to begin • hearings on the bill Wednesday. I Congressional agreement to re- ] store Ik- i at this time would be ■ Stui'llifJ mote m!ra r ’i! n us than the . stroke of Moses’ stick upon the ■ rock to produce water. Senate labors with the tax nill do not begin auspiciously. The administration and house rtemoI cratlc leaders still are contradict- ! ing each other over whether the i bill and prospective economies will | provide the $1.241.V<>0,000 required |to balance the budget. Speak ?r i Garner insists that the tax bill as I it passed the house put the treas- • tuy's books in order < —— o Old Ronan Fire Fighter* The Vlgiles, the police of ane.cn) Rome, were required to prevent ano extinguish fire?. I'here wore seven cohorts, or batlU’iVS. and fourteen ! station houses. Police were sta ’ Honed at pusvlc places and. as fire I men, were provided witn axes. I rop<K, buckets and also a kind of lire engine known as tiie siplio. The , *hole force numbered about 7.<s«> o Gasoline in Tar Sand Chemists of too University of Al nerta have developer! h hydrogen eration process with which gasoline ! can be extracted from ear sands of I r). „r f i ■ .i . I >

DECATUK DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, APRIL I. 1932

Further Radium Deaths May Follow Millionaire 's *** * * * Eben Byers, Killed by Radium Water, Had Recommended it to Many Friends. Fatalities Among Women Radium Workers Recalled. __ x Mth ' Tflr ' M , •*«*’ ICj. J A' W; Stir M ia, AS& M . jV / jft I JjfF’W'' '- : • i ■■ • ‘ r~ ibu \ Tags w*VU r SII. h: - 'X \ K x i X ° 1 QA %. a. EtheWYMNE Grace. Fryer. MrsGihntaM'Donaxo Mertz Sew. Disclosures which followed the death of Eben M. Byer*, million • ire steel manufacturer of Pittsburgh, revealed Byers had recommended the radium preparation, which eventually killed him, to many of his friends. It is feared that if they had as much faith in the deadly preparation as Byers had, many are now beyond hope and must even tually suffer a similar fate to that of the millionaire. The death of 1 Byers recalls the terrible series of fatalities that occurred among women employes of the U. S. Radium Corporation, at Orange, N. J., a few years ago, causing a national sensation. A large number of women contracted the same disease that killed Byers through their practice of pointing the brushes, with which they applied radium paint to watch dials, with their tongues. By 1930, eighteen women had died of the malady and sixteen more were doomed—many have since died. Four of the victims are shown above. They are Katherine Schaub, Grace Fryer, Mrs. Guinta McDonald and Mrs. Ethelwynne Mertz. In the case of Mrs. Mertz it was claimed that her son, Edward, also contracted the dread malady through pre-natal influence. Science is pow. erless to do anything for an afflicted per.on once the malady takes • firm hold. ° The radium continues to batter at the bona structure of the bod* until il destroys it. 1

’ New York. April 4. — Investiga- ' tions following the death, through radium prisoning, of Eben M. By- ! era. millionaire steel manufacturer 1 of Pittsburgh, Pa., disclosed that I scores of people in the I nited States may be afflicted with the ’ I deadly disease brought about by {drinking the so-called radium water which caused Byers' death. ' It is known that tne millionaire ! had recommended the radium water | to many friends and acquaintances and it is feared that those who shared his faith in the deadly com pound are already doomed to a {similar fate. Tlie terrible disease, whieh is the • result of a wrongful application of 'radium, was unknown up to a few {years ago. Even then it was only 'discovered by the merest accident; 'or it is only in the advanced stag- ■ es of the disease when the victim {is beyond hope that if can be successfully diagnosed. The first radium poisoning cases, which later developed Into a national sensation, were a medical mystery tor a long time. A young woman, who had suffered agonizing toothaches for more, than two 'years, finally went to Dr. Joseph Ip, P. Knef, specialist in diseases 10l the mouth. { He found her jawbone spongy and treated it for necrosis, but I there was no response to the treatment. At last he had to remove {the jawbone. Still in hideous pain, 'the woman died a month later. I Dr. Knef, puzzled, put the bone lin a drawer intending to give the 'problem more thought. There were I some unused X-ray negatives in the same drawer, which the doctor found some months later, to have .been fogged as if they had been exposed to radium rays. Thus did science accidentally learn of the disease of radium poisoning and of the death sentence inflicted upon many of the young women and girls who had worked with his first patient in the plant of the I’. S. Itadfum Corporation at Orange. N. J. It was learned that the women, who were employed in painting luminous watch dials, were accustomed to point their brushes with their tongues in order to get the fine point necessary for delicate cate work of numbering the dials. Soon the effects of the disease began to tell upon the women engaged in this occupation. One by lone they died in terrible agony, I while medical science stood by i powerless to help; for there is no cure, nor even a palliative. By {1930 eighteen had died of the [malady and sixteen mote were ' doomed. | The death of the Pittsburgh millionaire is attributed to the exact

■ cause that brought deatlt to those i women. But whereas they introduc- - ed the radium into their systems i- by accident, Byers drank it in solut tion as a medicine, 1 1 The effect of radium taken in- ■ ternally is briefly this: When the radium enters the body, it is at ■ once attracted to the bone structures, largely calcium. Imbedded ,'in the bone, it begins to throw out ..alpha particles with such terrific . force and regularity that the bone , structure is broken down. One gram of radium emanates 32,000.L 000 ‘pin-pricks.’’ launched with unidiminished speed over an indefinite period of years against the bones. { until their structure finally crumbles and is destroyed. And the terrible effect of radium , poisoning does not always end with the death of the victim. In the case of Mrs. Ethelwynne Mertz, one ' of the victims of the Orange poisoning, the disease .was contracted by her son, Edward, through rre- ■ > natal influence. { However, tlie prominence of Byers. coupled to the wholesale deaths : in Newark a tew years ago. will undoubtedly put a stop to the man- ' ufacture and sale of preparations { for internal use that contain radium. S O Hor#e»hoe Superi'iv.on Silversmiths, goldsmiths, cop . peis.nitlis ami blacksmiths have n’. w.ig s been held In a sort of inyste riitus r* -mwn. Their work of weld iiu ami si.aping him t go'll deal of ' mystery in It •->l>i< h mln stered to vupei s*ition Some roll'-® of tills ■ superstition made much of sm’t!” ■ and their work, especially of the!’ horseshoes ’r t'mes Appeasing the Dead The expression "to appease hl.panes" means to do when a per 1 son Is dead what would have 1 pleased him when lie was alite. The 1 ! spirit or ghost of the dead wits called hi* “manes" by Hie Bomans and It was supposed never to rest I quietly in the grave as long a* stir i (Ivors left its wishes unfulfilled •I February Hi was the day when all the living sacrificed to th* shades 1 of dead relatives ami friends. i, T'L“7 —~ Ostrich Feather* Feathers are clipped frnio ostriches every nine months. A prime bird yields about 20 ounces nf featb I ers at a dipping. 'l_ „ - How German Treatment Stops Constipation , Acting on BOTH upper and low- ' er bowel, tlie German remedy Ad- ’ lerika, tops constipation. It brings out the poisons which cause bloating and bad sleep B J : Smith Drug Co.

Political Calendar NOTICE to candidates I Announcementv will be made in 1 this coltinfH foT candiilatea for pub- ( lie offictv at the following ratea;! 12:00 p«r week for single week.l 11.75 per week for every week from, now until primary election. Cash , must accompany order. We solicit your orders tor can-! 1 didate cards. FOR SURVEYOR Flease announce that I am a , candidate for the nomination tor County Surveyor,l subject to the decision of the voters at the primary, Tuesday, May 3. Your support will be appreciated., RALPH ROOP Registered Engineer 6!t-May3 FOR PROSECUTOR Please announce that 1 am a I candidate for the Democratic! nomination for Prosecuting Attorney, subject to the will of the voters at the primary, Tuesday, May 3. I shall be grateful for your support. ED. A. BOSSE 72-May 3 FOR AUDITOR Please announce that 1 am a ! candidate for the Democratic nomination for County auditor, subject to the decision of the voters, at the Primary, Tuesday May 3. I I assure each and everyone that: I shall appreciate their vote and: 1 support. FRED T. SCHURGER : 74-May 2.' FOR TREASURER Please announce that 1 am a candidate for the Democratic' nomination for County Treasurer,] subject to the decision of the voters at the primary. Tuesday, May 3. Your support will be appreciated. JOHN WECHTER 68 May 2 FOR COMMISSIONER Yon are authorized to announce that I am a candidate for the Democratic nomination for County Commissioner from the First district subject to the primary, Tuesday. May 3. 1 will appreciate your vote and support. A. FRED THIEME 75-May 2 FOR CONGRESS Please announce that I am a candidate for the Democratic : nomination for Congress, Fourth I district, subject to the decision of I the voters at the primary Tuesday! May 3. I will appreciate your sup-1 I port. TRURMAN A. GOTTSCHALK 75-May FOR AUDITOR Please announce that 1 am as candidate for Auditor of Adams i County at the primary. May 3. The] undersigned, a born citizen of Ad-: ama County and a life long Democrat, firmly believes that a public office is a public trust and the hold er of such office is a servant of the public. Thanking you for your sup-| port. RUDOLPH SOHUG 76-May 2.1 FOR RECORDER P.ease announce that 1 am a 1 candidate for the Democratic nomination for County Recorder,l subject to the decision of the voters | at the primary, Tuesday, May 3. i Your support shall be appreciated. I MRS. CLARA ANDERSON 68 May 2' FOR AUDITOR Please announce that 1 am mak ! ing my second race for the Democratic nomination for county auditor, subject to the decision of the voters at the primary, Tuesday,! May 3. Your support will be greatly i appreciated. GLEN COWEN | 77-May 2' PROSECUTING ATTORNEY Please announce that I am a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Prosecuting Attor-! ney. subject to the decision of thej voters at the primary election, 1 Tuesday, May 3. Your support will I be depreciated. NATHAN C. NELSON 1 68 May 2, FOR SHERIFF Please announce that I am a candidate for the Democratic] nomination for Sheriff of Adams County, subject to the decision of | the voters at the May primary. Will: greatly appreciate your support. BURL JOHNSON | 68 May 2 FOR SURVEYOR Please announce that I am a candidate for the Democratic nomination for County Surveyor, subject to the decision of the voters at the primary. Tuesday, May 3. I will greatly appreciate your vote and: support. HARLEY A. EHRSAM Civil Engineer 79-May 2 FOR COMMISSIONER Please announce to the voters, that I am a candidate for the Democratic nomination for County Commissioner, First district, subject to the decision of the voters at the primary, Tuesday, May 3. I shall appreciate your support. PHIL SAUER 68 May 2 FOR CORONER Plea.-e announce that I am a candidate for the Democratic nom- . ination for County Coroner, subject to the decision of the voters at the . primary election, Tuesday, May 3. Your support will be appreciated, trrno LORENSTEIN 81 Mai .’ y - ■ ’ ? I Get the Habit — Trade at Home

TEN CLAIMED BY VIOLENCE (CONTINUED FROM FAOK ONE, <hl for Anderson. Wanatah, Ind., Apr. 4—(U.R) — j David and Roy Meyer, brother*, 22 and 31, respectively, were burned to death near here after! the auto in which they were re-1 turning to their home in Sandwich, 111. crashed into a truck and! overturned. Both vicllms were pinned under the wreckage. Leo Abraham, who was in the truck, was burned as he attempted] to rescue the brothers. Kokomo, Ind.. Apr. 4 (U.R)Ralph McDonald, 56. former local] sporting goods salesman, ended] his life by shooting. Despondency was blamed Franklin, Ind, Apr. 4 —(U.R) William R. Lusk. 72. a retired farmer, was killed instantly when the auto he was driving was struck by an Indiana railroad car near here. His wife, Mrs. Nettie Lusk, was injured seriously. Indianapolis. Apr. 4—(U.R) -Fatal I injuries were suffered by John ] Marshall, 17. when the auto in

T H' « S "AY ISII<KY: and Vicinity Get Ready r\VjHF The One | Outstanding W EVENT of the ■ YEAR! 7 / CLOSED Coming Right ■ at the Height f TUESDAY and I <>f ,he f WEDNESDAY Spring Season M AU/AITC ® NOTE! WW | I The Boston Store will he closed all (lav ■ Tuesday and Wednesday. Extensive preparations are now under way to reI arrange the entire stock and mark down VH H SKS a! ' prices for this gala event. It starts 1 KJ promptly at 9 a.m. Thursday, April 7th. ■ AT LANKENAU’S BOSTON STORE - A STORE WIDE EVENT - ENTIRE $3 5,000 STOCK TO BE SACRIFICED FOR CASH AT TREMENDOUS PRICE-CUTS IN A SENSATIONAL STOCK DISPOSAL SA I Fl nk Hhi KiEii WATCH TOMORROW’S PAPER FOR GIG\NTIC \ NNOU NCE ME NT ’

which bo wax riding with two other youth* overturned on the national road east of here. Gary, Ind., Apr. 4 —(U.R) An unidentified workman was killed Instuntly here when he was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train. o Cotton in Road Builuing 4 < an experiment, 500 feet ol Kind were built near Gonzales, Texas, witli unbleiiclied cunvas as ■ binder. After 15 months of heavy traffic the pavement showed no signs of wear. If the ma*’ *l*l continues to stand up well, it is said that the state will adopt this form of construction.

ADAMS THEATRE Tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday—loc-35c MARIE DRESSLER in ‘‘EM MA ’ ’ with Richard Cromwell. Jean Hersholt. Unrivalled I Unforgettable! No one but Marie can make you roar one minute, then cry the next, by tiie wizardy of her great art! Added —A Charlie Chase Comedy and Sport Subject.

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,| Farm Boy Finds Loot i Theresa. Wls.-(U.R) When Harold Brodzeller, a farm boy, hurdled a muddy ditch to Investigate a pc ■iculiur looking par kage on a atone ! fence, he found $7,000 in negotiable t! si'Clti iti<><, Autlioi ities said the ’ find Included all but $320 cash ofI the loot stolen from a farm home 'over a year ago. ... o- .. Oystvo l»»‘hi Oyster* should art be eaten during their spawning months, but should be protected la this period. It is merely ■ cnlncldem-e that these months In tit* year do nor enntalD the letter ’ r.’ 1 Oysters, however, ate not unwholesome during these months. If ea’en fresh front unpol lilted waters