Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1932 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. I I. H. Heller Pres, and Gon. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Scc’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies $ .02 One week, by carrier .10 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 ■ Cte year, at office .. 3.00 Prices quoted are within first 1 and second zones. Elsewhere , $3.50 one year. __ - ( Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER. Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 415 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The ( Indiana League of Home Dailies. • I Tlie valuation on real estate in . Fort Wayne dropped about thirteen , million dollars this year, which 1 will give the hoys down there as 1 much trouoble to balance the bud- 1 get as congress has been having. ’ Don't double park. That's police i orders and its good judgment be- | sides. If you do it. the other fel- < low will also and some day you t may be mixed up in an ugly acci- ( dent with bad results of several brands. ... ■ ( We have been trying several days | to figure out whether the prohibition plank of the Republican national platform is wet or dry and , lave decided to give up and let j Senator Jim Watson make it clear.. , As Bill Rogers put it, the idea evidently is that every one should | be dry in the morning and wet in the afternoon. , Everett Sanders, Indiana man. who served in congress and later as private secretary to President Coolidge, has been selected to be chairman of the Republican national committee. His will be a tough job for this is a gigantic task this year, but he will do it as well as any one could and perhaps better He deserved a better break. Whoever handled the Chicago convention for Hoover and Curtis was an organizer. Those opposed could not even reach the platform and jf by accident they did. were hustled off by men of strong arms. It went through slick as a whistle, indicating that the bosses knew their business, except that some of the program, may not appeal to the voters very strongly. A car load of flour is now being distributed here through the township trustees and the United Charities. It was secured through the Red Cross and will lie apportioned to the needy by the week, a real service towards relief. There are many applications we are informed and plans are being made now to secure additional shipments when this supp’y is exhausted. Liquidation of the Old Adams County Bank assets should be as economically administered as is possible, should of course be done |I4 4 i I* 5 J J If So, See Us! You can get any amount up to S3OO here—get it the same day you apply. Small weekly or monthly payments, arranged to suit your convenience. Interest on unpaid balances only. A state-licensed. stateregulated service. franklin Security Co. Over Schafer Hdw. Co. Phone 237 Decatur, Ind. Hp to '3oo°°

ar. speedily aa It can be, but likewise with the least Injury to the borrower, stockholder and citiaen. That ia always good judgment and a little patience and a lot of cooperation from the citizens in general, will make this possible. This is the tenth panic or depression thia nation has suffered since 1857 and the longest duration was that of '?5 which continued thirty inontta. If we don't turn the corner soon we are going to "bust" that record all to smithereens. We doubt if the country ever passed through a more serious cne than thia and we believe we are approaching the end and that scon we will all be smiling again. Any way we don't you? The Democrats are moving into Chicago and preparing tor their his show which Mr. Shouse guarantees will make the one held this week look like an aniatuie performance. We usually do put on exciting conventions Iwt this one should be more than that. It should be a thoughtful and sane end sensible session, devoted to the adoption of a platform for the people and the nomination of candidates which will stand firmly on that platform and then it elected, deliver the goods. For twenty years the Republicans of Indiana have used the prohibition movement as a vehicle by which they could ride to office Now the leaders have concluded, evidently .that its time to change boats and in both state and national conventions, they fought for the wet side of the question. It will be* interesting to watch just how a lot of supposedly dry folks will accept this for there are still several hundred thousand people in Indiana who were sincere and have not changed their minds about the Wright law and the eighteenth amendment. The Democrats are gathering at Indianapolis for the state convention, more important than in many indications favor that party carrying the state for the national ticket as well as electing state officials While there are as always, some divisions as to platform and nominees, it is believed that it will be an enthusiastic and harmonious session, in which the delegates will do their best to work cut solutions for the vexing prob-

kms now confronting our people. There will be some interesting contests for the various places on the ticket but we anticipate no serious breaks either there or in the national meeting at Chicago the week following. o Household Scrapbook -By- * ROBERT AJJEE * Freckles, A remedy for freckles is one dram of ammonium choloride to four ounces of distilled water. Apply to the face niglut*and morning Fresh Watermelon Watermelon will keep fresh for two or three days after it is cut if waxed paper is placed over it. Shoulder Straps Fasten one snap on the shoulder seams of dresses and the other side of the sntf? on the straps of the slips. The straps will not slip off the shoulder. ♦ ♦ Answers To Test Questions I Below are the Answers to the j Test Questions Printed on Page Two. * 1. Saccharine is much sweeter. 2. June. 3. The daughter of Herodias. 4. January. 1920. 5. Jugoslavia. 6. The English bulldog and the English terrier. 7. Poland. 8. Erich .Maria Remarque. 9. Lawrence, Kansas. 10. Skunk. King Tut Paintings Found Paris, —(UP) — The Academie des Beaux Arts has just announced the discovery of Tutankhamen's period by Professor Hippolyte Boussan in the Theibin negropolis. The paintings are said to represent the ruler seated on his throne. .e---ceiving tribute from representatives of the (peoples under his dominion.

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TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File Margaret Faurot becomes bride of Fred Wagoner. George Wemhoff receives letter from his cousin. Clem McLain, in Washington regarding cannons for monument to foe built here. Mrs. Mattie Avery (purchves "Cool Breeze Cottage” at Rome City. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Lyons buy Frank Mann residence on (Adams St. Decatur Shamrocks are playing a fast game of ban at* Monroe. 144 graduates from the common schools of county receive diplomas

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By HARRISON CARROLL. Cwjyrifht. 1132. Sine Feature* Erndiral®. inc. HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 00.— Though Vicki Baum sojourned but briefly in Hollywood, her influence has been far-reaching. Hotels, rail-

road stations, steamships have been glorified, and now Para mount will perform a like service for the suburbs. This new first cousin to “Grand Hotel” goes under the present title of “T h e Night of June 13.” Vera Caspary originally called her novel “Soburb” and wrote of the

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events of a single night in a small community on the outskirts of a I city. ! In its talkie form, the story will i enlist the presence of Clive Brook, Frances Dee and the blond and increasingly successful Gene Raymond. The job of directing will be given to Stephen Roberts, whom Paramount eyes with great favor these days. It is a swell idea of Homer Croy’s, that collection of “Epitaphs of the Living." I particularly like the one on Groucho Marx. “Bury me next to a straightman.” HOLLYWOOD OBSERVATION POST. Clark Gable still is up an the desert recuperating from that case of influenza. ... Another star on the siek list is Elissa Landi. . . . The Agua Caliente Hotel, famous playground of the stars, plans a promotion campaign to stress its advantages as a health resort. Though best known for its casino, this Mexican beauty-spot is as well equipped as a spa. In the old days, the site used to be Tia Juana Hot Springs. ... Jean Harlow will build a home in Beverly Hills. . After four years of marriage. Al Jolson got up at S A. M. the other sunrise to say good morning over the long distance telephone to Roby Keeler in New York... . The waltz is coming back

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( ( at Berne. I Kirsch, Sellmeyer and Sons are ' awarded school coal contract. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Dorwin re- , ; turn from Evanston whee they visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vaughn! and son. Credo. •Frank Gessinger, son of Mr. and j Mrs. David Gessinger returns front ‘ Albert Lea. Minnesota. J. D. Hale returns from week’s ! I outing at Rome City. Cop’s Wife Wins Bet • i * (Budapest —(UP) —The wife of a ■ ; police officer won 13.628 peugoe on ■ ; a five-pengoe double totalisator bet ; here. Her winnings amounted to i about >2,960. The “tote double" I. a 1 bet in which the bettor seeks to i i pick the winner of two races which > ! the track has parlayed for the day.

in the dancing places out here. . . . Universal officials registered chagrin when George Brent paid a visit to the studio this week. They had him under contract for six months and let him go. Wager you don’t remember him in “Homicide Squad.” . . . Spencer Tracy has bought another horse, which makes three. One more and he can get a chariot. ... Saw James Cagney and his wife at the Frolics. Also Jimmie Dunn without Maureen O’Sullivan. His dancing partner was Irene Ware, once “Miss United States.” . . . Queer about the way colors photograph. Karen Morley wears light blue before the camera and almost never, in private life. Gratitude is a strange thing, reflects a certain Hollywood assistant director. Some time ago, he was nominated to ride herd on a Broadway actor, who is noted for too much elbowbending. It proved a pretty tough job, and often required force. Finally, the picture was finished and the actor took the train east. The next morning, the assistant director got a note. “Thanks for what you’ve done for me. Buy yourself a cigar.” Clipped to the note was the actor’s check for $250. . And it was good. The talkies are warming up to Victor Varconi,

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Trenker, who also directed Varconi in “The Doomed Battalion.” The picture will be a costume film of the Napoleonic era. DID YOU KNOW— That Ralph Bellamy used to work as a stage carpenter?

FIGHT STARTS ON ROOSEVELT , (CONTINUED FHUM PAGE ONE) ‘ plank will provide for modification jof the 18th amendment in away jthat will protect dry states but which will permit states desiring ! to do so to withdraw from the pro ? hibition experiment The chief difi terence which Shouse anticipates j between the Reipublican and Democratic platform is that the Ijtemo- , < rats will avoid the Republican plan t i of giving congress the right to pre- . scribe the detailed provisions of ( sale and distribution of liquor for t states which chose to restore liq- > i uor ’ ( ; "I doubt very much,” Shouse ! said, “that the Democratic party , , will go on record tor repeal.” Fifty or more sample prohibition planks have been received for the consideration of the platform committee.

| The fight of Shouse to become . permanent chairman will start the Democratic convention off with a good old-fashioned struggle. It will constitute the first showdown between the Roosevelt and the antiRoosevelt forces. Shouse c'aims that Roosevelt promised to support him for the chairmanship. Roosevelt forces declared for Senator Walsh recently after intimating that Shouse was giving aid and comfort to the enemy. This situation caused Speaker Garner’s Texas campaign manager. State Senator Walter F. Woodul of Houston to issue a sharp-edged statement. After remarking pointedly that Garner was "well fitted to make a strenuous campaign,’’ Woodul said: "After the Roosevelt forces agreed to the selection of Mr. Shouse and after the candidate himself publicly stated that the honor to Mr. Shouse was due him and was in recognition of his untiring labors and loyalty to the Democratic party, to new renege in the hope of some fancied gain for seif entitled Mr. Farley s management to wear on his breast, along With his other trappings the insignia of the order of the ’double cross' and I predict that as he calls into conference the leaders of democracy, whether they be for or against him, they will see there the sign of the ’double cross.' At least half a dozen Democratic candidates have reserved lakefront rooms along the famous second floor corridor of the Congress Hotel. The Republican national committee vacated these quarters yesterday. Headquarters rooms have been reserved for former Governor Harry iF. Byrd of Virginia, Governor Ritchie of Maryland, Governor William H. Murray of Oklahoma, Speaker John N. Garner of Texas, and Governor George White of Ohio. William G. McAdoo of California, a leading candidate for the nomination in 1924, will be here this time. He helped carry his state for Garner. The three former candidates for the presidency. Smith, James M. Cox of Ohio and John W. Davis of New York and West Virginia, will be present. Only Smith is an avowed candidate.

who, like many foreign actors, had a lonesome time of it at first. Mr. Varconi leaves here Friday to proceed in leisurely fashion to Europe, where he will play the lead in a picture being made by Universal. The setting will be the A u s t r ian Tyrol and the director Louis

DAWES AGAIN SEES UPTURN (CONTINUED FROM try, for instance. Is now demonstrating this. •'ln the general interests there must now be in government, state and municipal administrations the same liquidation In expenditures which individuals and .private enterprises have already affected ‘Taxes must come down and this must result primarily from reduced governmental expenditures, national, state and municipal. That is essential to the full recovery of business. • The President pointed out the other day that tn the Iff years ending with 1930 the federal government 'decreased its indebtedness by nearly 31 per cent, whereas the municipalities Increased their indebtedness by nearly SO per cent. We must remember that municipalities present the greatest tax problem great as the others are —and that work for tax reduction will be effective largely in proportion as it has specific and local objectives.” Turning to the situation in his own city. Dawes said: "The press of Chicago is stating our own tax problem aggressively and clearly. Nothing will contribute more to business recovery

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SYNOPSIS Lola Carewe, night club habitue, receives a death threat. New Year’s Eve. Previously her dog and parrot were mysteriously killed. District Attorney Merle K. Dougherty suspects Lola of being the “brains” of the jewel thief ring that has baffled the police. Although her husband, Gaylord Gifford, died practically penniless, Lola lives in luxury. Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt places a guard is Lola's penthouse apartment. warning her that she must not be alone in a room at any time. Mrs. Carewe, Lola’s mother; Chung the butler, Eunice the maid, and Vincent Row land, an attorney, are present. In the living room, the Commissioner finds a bag belonging to Christine Quires, Lola’s guest. It evidently had been used that night, yet Lola informs Colt that Christine is at the Lion's Paw, a roadhouse, where Lola was to have joined her. Colt is surprised to find Mrs. Carewe's room in strange contrast to the surrounding wealth. Lola’s own boudoir is a gaudy contradiction of the living room's elegance. Lola refuses to reveal the identity of the young man whose photograph adorns her dresser. Five minutes before the death threat dead-line of three Lola tells Colt she is going into the guest room for her cigarette case. CHAPTER EIGHT "TJEALLY, Mr. Colt," Lola car|Y oled, suddenly entering into * the living-room, and closing the boudoir door behind her, “you mustn’t pull such a long face. It isn’t worth it Nothing is, you know." She laughed —alow humming laugh. Then, walking very near to Colt she suddenly put her hands on his shoulders and kissed him on the cheek. As he stared at her, too startled to speak, Lola turned and walked on toward the guest-room. “Miss Carewe”—now Colt’s voice cracked like a whip—“don't go in there —alone!” “The deuee with all that!” was Lola's sirdden, fierce rejoinder. “I want my cigarette case.” Before anyone could stop her, she had entered the guest-room and closed the door.

“Oh, don’t excite her, Colt!” begged Vincent Rowland. “She’s perfectly safe in there. Nothing can happen to her. Let her calm down!” At that instant, a woman screamed. It was a harsh cry, choked with horror. The awful sound of it rose to a piercing height and then was throttled off. There was a crash like the fall of a body the floor. In one instant, Colt’s hand was oil the knob and he flung back the guest-room door. On the floor of the guest-cham-ber lay the body of Lola Carewe. The soft lamps, left on since we were last in the room, bathed her white and lovely face in a warm giow of light. What had happened to tjer? Was she in a faint —or dead ? If dead, from what cause ? While Colt knelt beside her, these riddles sparked like fireworks in my bewildered brain. P e o pie came running from other rooms. Suddenly I heard a sound which haunts me even now. From somewhere in the pent-house a clock chimed three brazen strokes. We were in the presence of a mystery that soon would have a nation by the ears. No wonder that Thatcher Colt was resolved from the first to solve this mystery above all others — this crime committed against all his precautions. The scene in that guest-room, transformed now into a chamber of fantastic mystery, is graven indelibly on my memory. Lola Carewe’s body was sprawled rigidly on the floor, contorted almost into the farm of a question mark. She was still wearing her

here than Its solution.'’' Upon his arrival here st 9 a. m Dawes immediately took up the direction of his private affairs, going to the Central Republic Bank and Trust Co., of which be is honorary chairman of the board. He was accompanied from Washington by Mrs. Dawes and was met at the station by his brother, Henry M. Dawes. The former vice president, who recently turned down the demand from many slate delegations at the Republican convention to become the vice presidential candidate, broke into a familiar "God damn It" as a crtffxd of newspap irinqn grabbed the copies of his. statement, which were already typewritten and enclosed in an envelope in his coat pocket. Dawes had prepared only 6 copies. He posed for photographers with Mrs. Dnwes as he left the train. o —- — SEES DEFEAT OF PRESIDENT (CONTINUED FROM FAGS ONE) and since I reached . home with telegrams from men and women, the general tenor of which is We're through: no matter what the Democrats can do, it can't possibly be as bad as what the Republicans have done'," Butler

French flannel bathrobe, tied with a sash and buttoned. Her cloud of black hair was tousled and disarranged. On hey pretty face was a livid flush. At the right corner of her lips glistened a spot of blood. The eyes were wide open and fixed in a glaze. She did not seem to be breathing. Beside the still figure of the woman knelt Thatcher Colt. His face was stem, his black eyes narrowed. His fingers played around Lola’s wrist, seeking her pulse. Listening, he laid his ear against her heart. Then, very deliberately, the chief brought his nostrils close to the parted lips and sniffed audibly of her mouth. We who were watching him could not tell from his manner if indeed he had discovered an odor of poison, the purpose of that last grim action. In stiff attitudes we stood there watching. I was close to Colt; Dougherty was bent over, on the other side of the girl, his red hands spread over his knees, bis popping blue eyes fixed on her in bewilderment. In the doorway suddenly appeared Mrs. Carewe, her features white and pinched with fright against the gray horizon of her hair. She ran forward, fell beside Lola, and kissing her frantically, cried to her to open her eyes. Dougherty led her back to the door. Peeping around the edge of the door was Vincent Rowland. The attorney's eyes were curved slits, and the fingers of one sleek old hand worried at his whiskered chin. Beyond were clustered a group of startled faces—the maid, the butler, and our woman detective. Colt’s voice, crisp, precise, broke the silence. “This girl seems to be dead. Chung—did Doctor Baldwin say he was coming? Before he could reply, Mrs. Catewe, who had insisted on remaining on the threshold, took a quick step back into the room, repeating: “Dr. Baldwin! Why did anyone send for him?” Still kneeling beside the unmoving figure, Colt looked across at the Chinese butler inquiringly. “He promised to come at once, Mr. Commissioner! He will be here in three instants.” Then Colt looked at Mrs. Carewe. “Do you object to Baldwin?” he asked. “What does it matter now ? Get a doctor — any doctor —for my poor Lola.” From the other room came the bland and placid voice of Chung. “I supplied the name of Baldwin to the Commissioner, madame. I hope there was no impropriety?” Without answering, Mrs. Carewe sank into a chair and buried her face in her arms.

Thatcher Colt, still on his knees, sat back and in one calculating glance appraised the posture of the body and its position on the floor. There being no chalk at hand to make an outline, Colt did the next best thing: by the points in the pattern of the rug he fixed firmly in his mind the exact position of the body. This was the work of two seconds or less. Then Colt slipped his strong arms under the body. Rising easily to his feet he carried his burden to the bed. There he laid her down tenderly and once more fingered her pulse and laid his ear against her heart. “She is breathing!” he announced in a low voice. “Her pulse, which had seemed to stop, is now quite evident—it is getting stronger every second—almost too strong! Why doesn’t that doctor get here?” It was like watching a dreadful resurrection. The rigid form of the mysteriously stricken girl became mobile before our eyes. Spasms and convulsions shook the entire body and croup-like sounds came from her throat. Clearly, once or twice,

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so it seemed to me. the swollen ■ and tongue tried to speak fl failed. Then, just as suddenly, ■ anguish ended, and the body ofl more lay silent and inert. ■ “The pulse is gone again,” isl Thatcher Colt. “I wonder—"fl But he did not finish that melfl choly speculation. M< dily he efl looking down on the unfortufl Lola, until the front door-hfl sounded in a long-drawn bunfl summons. In all his unbent hnifl Colt faced the group at the dfl “You will now leave us alfl please,” he ordered. "I shall fl that Mrs. Carewe, Mr. Rowlfl and Miss Lox remain in Miss fl rewe's boudoir. Chung, answer I door, and then stay close by." ■ Vincent Rowland took the ■ mother’s hand, and with a co J sympathy led her away Aftertlfl trudged Miss Lox and Chung,-fl butler straight, rigid, and infl nantly self-possessed. Bu t hafl for a moment were Colt, Do J erty, and I left alone. At once ■ heard outside a brief murmur I voices, and then, framed in ■ doorway, stood the physician, ■ Hugh Baldwin, an athletic, gra haired man with yiung, inqfl tive eyes. Colt once compared ■ to a collie, in his restless and «■ mannered strength. In his ria hand Doctor Baldwin camei black medical case. Two kl strides brought him to the bedsil as Colt introduced us and expiail how we had found the girl and I recent symptoms. Without a wol Doctor Baldwin bent over the qa form. Like Colt, the physician 3 of her wrist and listened at I heart. j “She is still alive,” he prompl announced. “But there is just! tiny spark left. We shall see—j With swift but deliberate mol ments, Doctor Baldw in opened j bag and drew out a hypodera syringe and needle from a 1 tainer filled with alcohol. Wlj we waited in silence, he broke I tip of an ampule which I suppl contained some restorative (H This dose was drawn up into I syringe. Then, reaching across j body of Lola, the doctor seized I arm farthest away from him. IM ing back the sleeve of her lai robe, he found a place in the era of the elbow, and quickly wiped I skin there with a lump of cotl soaked in alcohol. Still in sil«j Doctor Baldwin inserted the nea under the skin, apparently in subcutaneous tissues, and slowly jected the medication.

“Immediately her pulse P' ; l up,” he declared, as with his t| hand he laid aside the syringe ■ needle. He was counting pulse-bj meanwhilF, his head to one side! an absorbed attitude. “What is that you have pl her?” asked Thatcher Colt. “Adrenalin.” “So you think it’s a hesrt I tack?" inquired Dougherty huskl “I fear so. I was formerly Carewe's physician,—she had » 1 tory of heart trouble." Colt's eyes closed. For a mom he remained rigid in thought T1 suddenly flashing open his eye’ demanded: “You would give a cerrifirite death due to heart trouble “Certificate of death ? She is i alive, sir!” Doctor Bn'dwin’s glare was wildered and slightly resentful, turned and anxiously scrutun the faee of his patient. “Once her eyelids fluttered, murmured over his shoulder. „ in the last three minutes-—-He looked around at us solei"; “I have done all that I dare, said. “We can only wait now-' hope!” (To Be Continued Tomorrt-’ Copyright 1931. brConci Jte , Distributed by King Feature Syn*