Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 154, Decatur, Adams County, 29 June 1932 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATI’R DEMOCRAT CO Entered at the Decatur. Ind.. Coat Office as Second Class Matter. , J 11. Holler I’res. and Gon. Mgr | A. It. Holthouse Sec y A- Hus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice President Subscription Rates: Single copies . $ .02 I One week, by carrier ... .10 J One year, by carrier s.ot> One month, by mail ... .35 | Th*av months, by mail ... 1.00 ' Bix'nionths, by mail ... 1.751 OnjCvear, In- mail 3.00; Pae year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones Elsewhere 13.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver Representative SCHEERER. inc., 35»East Wacker Drive. Chicago i 415 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Next Monday is the Fourth of July, celebrated as Independence I Day or the nation's birthday. Be j careful that the celebration does ' rot turn into disaster. A proposal to strike out the en tire 23 cent state tax levy will be. made to tile special session Os the legislature and no one will kick if such a feat is accomplished. Wonderful summer weather with everything growing and ripening for the harvest, so why worry too much about material things which after all are not quite as serious as you might be inclined to think. Tile order of business at the contention will b> the same as follow- ; ed at the 102 s meeting. This program ca'ls for adoption of the plat form and nominating speeches to- j day, balloting for president on i Thursday ami then for vice-presi i dent. If anyom doubts that inter- ! i st and enthusiasm is lacking they should tune in for an hour or so. , Senator Huey Long won the scrap to seat his delegates in the i i Ziention. A roll call of states < foUywcd the two hours of speech j ait£ debate and the fiery, rough j Plf*fl Louisiana leader was victor- i ions. Indiana's delegation voted j tor the minority report, in other ; words opposed the seating of the “hijigtish" of the south. Aside from the news from Chi i cago the trial of John Hughes Cur j t.s. world's greatest hoaxer in the Lindbergh case comes next in importance. Curtis is being tried on I charge of obstructing justice as e. result of his connection in the kidnaping case. About tile safest place for that rascal is behind the ■ bars. Senator Tom Walsh of Montana is the presiding chairman of the

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convention, the Roosevelt forces winning in the spirited contest in which Jouett Shouse was the opI posing candidate. Walsh, probably I< ne of the greatest prosecuting attorneys In the country, will preside i with dignity over the big meeting land keep things in order. He has i had the experience. Delegates to the state convenillon of the American Legion at j Kokomo next month have been I named by Adams Post and plans I | are going forward to make this I year's meeting one of the largest | and most interesting in tile history of the organization. It will bo for this year is convention year and it I -eems to run In the blood. The ; boys will put on a big show, giving 11he public plenty of thrills as they ' march in the military parade. Tlie strength of the Roosevelt I forces is given at about 540 votes 'er l.'h) short of the number requir■<l to nominate. It the result of yesterday's victories did not draw 'the lines too close, the New York [governor might be able to obtain pile necessary votes to put him 'over. In the event of a deadlock 'the delegates are likely to turn to j Newton Baker of Ohio or Goveri nor Ritchie of Maryland. Both of I II he later gentlemen loom as popular and strong candidates. It's not surprising that the assessbh valuation of property in Adjams county dropped more than j>ight million dollars this year. Compared with a year ago, or rath- ■ «-r four years ago when the last real : estate assessment was made, it is ia reduction of about 25 per cent, j The average drop over the state is in little more than 20 per cent., so I Adams county is running about i I• ven with other counties. The esti- . i mated total of assessable vain- . jations is a little more than 24 mil i< n dollars, compared with 32 mil I I Ron We re living in the period of j epression. i Mrs. Jelke, widow of the oleoj margarine king left a will disposi nri' of'seven million dollars worth cf property, but when it came to , ; probating the document it was' burned that the estate had shrunk' Ito about $;oo,ooo. The will was ; written in 192 s when values were high and the woman failed to sign ’ a new one which she had prepared a short time before death. This Case is not the only one like it. Men and women worth millions when they wrote their wills would now find the value of their estate induced one half or down to a few i thousand dollars. Such is the run jet events in a nation that witnessed the greatest prosperity in his|t<ry and within a few years saw the bottom drop out of things.

Out in North Dakota, where they've been mixing poison with tlie bran they feed to the grasshop- , ipeis. they've discovered away of i living lots of money. Bran was | used to mix w ith poison for the grasshoppers because the long legged jumpers just love bran. It's roast chicken, potato dumpling, ice cream, and chocolate cake to the grasshoppers all in one. But real bran in these days and times is scmewliat expensive, so the great minds out in North Dakota went it to a huddle and decided that inasmuch as sawdust, which costs nothing at all, looks just like bran, to try mixing the poison with sawdust and feeding that to the grasshoppers. It was a sort of lowdown trick to try and make a fool out of an unsuspecting grasshopper, ; but it had to be done. And the grasshoppers fell for it. They gob- [ bled tip the sawdust as greedily as they did the bran and smacked 'their lips and called for a second helping. Then by the time they found out they had been flimflammed it was too'late to do anything, because they were quite dead. Anyhow. this grasshopper thing contains a germ of hope. If we've got brains enough in this country to figure out how to tool a grasshopper maybe some day somebody is 'going to suggest a plan for getting

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w a strangle hold on the depression.! There is hope.—R. 11. L. in Chicago' Tribune. o0 — — - ♦ Household Scrapbook —By—ROBERTA LEE ♦ ♦ Removing Peach Skins Before skinning reaches, place them in a wiieibasket nd slip the | basket into a kettle of boiling water f,r a second or two. The peach' skins will then slip off easily. Peaches treated in this way retain their shape and have a better color, i Stockings Always wash new stockings, particulitly the colored ones, before | wearing them. It will remove all surplus dye that they may hold. Summer Rugs Place a layer of newspapers under the straw matting, or woven rug and it will catch all the dirt. I L « CONGRESS TODAY ♦ <U.R) — — ♦ Senate: Debates second deficiency bill. Conferees continue discussions on Wagner bill. Conferees consider appropriation bills. House: Considers minor bills. Q Answers To Test Questions Below are the Answers to the Test Questions Printed on Page Two. 1. ,Tt is a New York State prison. 2. Martin Win Buren, Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt. 3. An i\metican woman financier. 4. "Ben IHur." 5. Jacob Coxey. 6. Thomao R. Marshall. 7. Ohio. 8 The term is used in the south for a Phantom or ghost. 9. Hanover, New Hampshire. 10. Manager of the Washington American League U seball Club. o TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File ♦ ♦ Clifford Lee, field se retary of Indiana Shiippers and Manufactu ■ ers Association, is busy getting new members. Adam Weis is elected Chief of Ben Hurs. Telegiaiph rates to 'be lowered July Ist. Miss Marcella Kuebler is in Tiffin for three weeks. New real estate firm of Leonard and Harvey commences business. Daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Liechty of Monroe. Misses Helen Frieberger and Hortense Grimrne return to Fort Wayne after visit with Mirs Fran-

Article for Citizenship Development Program By WM. JOHN COOPER. Un.ted States Commissioner cf Education

If the Great War established any i me thing clearly it was th it a whole nation goes to war with an-, other nation or that groups of na- , [ lions engage in battle with other . groups of nations. Accordingly, [ while mt n and women of all social c lasses are required to support it. ‘ the leadership in conflict fal's upon the educated classes. These men are required in the chemical [warfare, in aircraft battles, and in, the correlation of the various as- ' poets of service. It is inconceivlablf. therefore, that our educated ' I men should be entirely ignorant of ‘ the principles of war. In 1862,[ President Lincoln signed the first,, Morrill Act which brought into ex-[ i istence a new set of colleges. Each i; I >1 these has been required to offer ■military education. At the present I time good people are trying to have 'i military training dropped from these colleges. It is more conceiv- ' abll Io think of the Army as using an entire college. It will use such a college not exactly as the Army has used them in the past, but, to take a land grant college for example, one may think of the chemical laboratories which have been ces Deiningen t Mrs. Ward Cline and grand linden, M rie and Genevieve Lichten-1 > steigi r, ha > e gone to Fo t Wayae for a three week's visit with Mrs. Laura Baxter. Misses Marie Connell aid Margaret Smith entertain with pedro party for Miss Matilda Berling on ! he birthday. , Herman Gefm r is i » | from an appendicitis operation. ’ | _o Handshakers Prominent At Democrat Conclave CONTINUED FROM PAGE' ONE ( sorta ease up gentle-’.ike, stick out your hand, and get a shake. A political convention is the novice collector's delight. For the' politicians, knowing that every. [handshake is a potential vote, arc I only too glad to mitt one and ail.' * But your true handshake cdlectI | or. the connisseur of the business, iso to speak, scorns political conventions. Too easy, for one thing, ' I Besides, most of the political hand [ Mi hakt bet ome worthless aftt r the f i next election and have to be wash- ■ ed off to make room for new and i better ones. There is one true collector here, f however: a 75 year-old Kansan [named B. Buckley Muckle. Muckle [ 1 is reputed to own the finest collec-, Ition in the world. It, is he who '- owns the only authentic George 1 Washington in existence. To pro--1 tret his treasure, he wears a thick I coonskin mitten on his right hand, i. [day and night. i iWhat little collecting he does ■-Inow. is always with the left hand, t ! "I have been offered amazing i- ■ sums for my original Washington,"

modified in such away that their; work leads to the chemical war ! fare division at the same time that [ students learn the arts of peace.] They give attention to the manufacture of various kinds of gases cr the preparation of the defense against these gases. It is true that j there will be much less emphasis put upon drill as such for in general in trench warfare there is little opportunity to drill and very little emphasis needs to be given to marching. in a simitar way the physics department will emphasize, artillery and explosives. These; are as essential in peace time as they are in war. Science instruction in our colleges is not yet a hundred years old. Nevertheless, it now has a splendid position in practically every college. Just as the older form of college gives way to a newer type which gives a place to science, so must these new divisions emphasize the preparation required for a changed form of warfare. For it is only by having our educated men prepared lor war that it can be avoided. Tomorrow: Rear Admiral Sum .tier E. W. Kettel'e (retired). t Muckle said, "but have always .turned them down. The Washington has been in my family for years and years and to sell or trade it would be little short of treason.’’ The Washington was acquired by one of the Kansan's relatives Ist Valley Forge. Muckle explained he was in ChiI cago but for one mason—he needs c genuine Ella Boole to round out his political collection. It seems that every time he has encountered Mrs. Boole, she was wearing gloves. “And you know,'’ Muckle said, “I sorta hope I don't get the Boole. For if I do, I won't have much to look forward to. Os course, there is that dream of all collectors—the Venus De Milo—to be added. ; but I'm afraid I'm a little too old [to dare dteam of that." A crowd of young collectors swarmed by in the wake of Alfalfa Bi’.l Murray. “Young fools." roared Muckle. "They oughta know better than coded a Murray. Why shaking 'that man’s hand is exactly like 'grabbing the business end of a windmill during a stiff nor-easter. Before you can get loose, he’ll shake off half a dozen more valuable items. I got tarfgled up with him about six years ago, and before [ 1 could get loose I had lost a pip pl a Roosevelt, a neat little MaryMiles Minter, and a valuable Tex [ Rickard. “If they’ve not to get someone. , why don't they get an Al Smith? There's a man who knows how to ■shake hands." (Author’s note: If this doesnt make sense please remember it : was written at a Democratic conj vention.)

SMITH LEADS ANTI GROUP CONTIM ED I'Ri'M PAGE ONE ed their claims. He is playing , somewhat the same role that form er Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty played on behalf of Warren G. Harding in the 1920 Repub-' lican convention here. Acting in the role of comproinis , er of divergent elements is former Governor James M. Cox of Ohio, 1920 Democratic candidate. The Smith candidate is Governor 1 Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, a I candidate who satisties the conservative business and financial interests with whom Smith now is! associated. The ballyhoo for tile handsome Maryland governor—the best looking of the presidential us piranfs is on in full blast. One hears talk of him everywhere. If it turns out that Ritchie can not make the grade ami is not strong enough to hold the necessary 385 delegates in line — and Ritchie lacks strength in some sections of the country—then the coal-1 ition will turn to Newton D. Baker, devotee of Wilsonian principles, wh o it a s considerable reserve «tr. No mihlic i amnaign has

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SYNOPSIS j Despite the police guard placed in ' her home by Commissioner That- i cher Colt. Lola Carewe, suspected j “higher-up" of a jewel thief ring, is mysteriously murdered. Dr. Hugh I j Baldwin gives heart failure as the I cause of death. Those present at the time, besides Colt and his aides, were Lola’s mother, Mrs. Carewe; j I the butler, maid, and Vincent Row- I land, an attorney. Colt feels the I young man whose photograph j adorns Lola's dresser — and whose identity she refused to reveal beyond ' his first name, "Basil"—is connected with the mystery. At the mention I ■ of his name. Mrs. Carewe becomes hysterical, saying Lola was a ; cruel beast and never loved Basil. Christine Quires, Lola’s guest, cannot be located, although the elevator boy claims she returned around midnight with her escort. Guy Everett, j and Colt found the bag she carried. | A clue to Lola's murder, in the form of a small wooden box, is picked i up under her window. Chung, the butler, reveals that Everett had threatened Lola and that Rowland, the lawyer, warned her she was playing a dangerous game and would be caught. Eunice, the maid, discloses that Christine quarreled with Mrs. Carewe about money the afternoon of the murder. Mrs. Carewe told r hristine to see Lola alaiut it and ine latter replied. "All right—if Lola lives that long.” The maid further states that both Lola and Christine were afraid of Guy Everett. Lola 'ad induceo him to make poor investments. And Eunice also adds that Dr. Baldwin to>d Lola his life would be -uined if Lola told what she knew. Guy Everett arrives. He .■aims he left Cnristine at the elevator at 12:15, and then went for a ride on the Motor Parkway, alone, returning home after three. A card with Everett’s phone number is found among the maid's effects. She confesses that he paid her to report the happenings in the apartment. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN FT was here that at Thatcher I Colt’s request I turned over to Inspector Flynn the note of warning which Lola had shown us at Mayfair. Flynn studied the message dubiously. "Trace the manufacturers of the paper and ink—after that the re•ailers," instructed Colt, and Flynn nodded gravely. "They sell this sort of cheap stuff ! all over town.” he said, “but of course if we find a shop in this neighborhood—l’ll get right to it.” Colt now called for Doctor Baldwin. “Doctor,” he began, "some remarks have led me to believe that you had some persona! differences with Lola. Is that correct?” , The gray-haired and athletic physician looked only slightly taken aback. “It is true,” he admitted, “that we disagreed. But it was only because she did not like the treatments I recommended. For the last few weeks I have seen little of 1 ! her.” Colt seemed hardly to hear Doctor Baldwin’s reply for the door of i the guest-room had opened. Doc- : tor Multooler, in his shirt-sleeves, • stood in the doorway, waiting to i give his report to the Commissioner. 1 With a glance that bade the Assistant Medical Examiner to wait, ! Colt turned abruptly back to Doc- , or Baldwin. } “Good-night." he said in a brit- . x voice. “I shall let you know £ when we shall be needing you. I lease hold yourself in readiness." “Willingly!” returned Doctor ' u Idwin with a weary glance at the Commissioner. In silence he 3 took his leave Still Colt did not turn to the Medical Examiner. f Instead, he «poke to Flynn. “Shadow Baldwin too,” Colt adi’i vised. “No one else is to leave the bouse until the results of the au-

been made for Baker, though much quiet work. He is not even on the i scene. Smith is not paitlcularly wann tt.waru~B.tker. Ritchie Is his pretence. The Maryland governor is very satisfactory to Smith on the prohibition issue, being dripping wet. He and Smith are working side by side here for outright re I peal of tlie 18th amendment and [immediate modltieution of the Voljstead act. Rltehie is tlie "original !«et." For 12 years lie hits been I lighting the prohibition amendment lin and out of season. Some believe Ibe has been too prominently idenItlfled witli this one issue for a presidential candidate. i A careful analysis today shows 'the Roosevelt group here undoubtedly in the favored [tosition. The New York governor still lacks the necessary two-thirds, 770 votes, jwhich was made the rule of the convention after tlie abortive fight against it. but lie is near enough to that a crumble here and there will put him over. Some such crumbles are in the air—so attrac,tlve is the bandwagon—.is the convention approaches the balloting stage. Missouri is weakening. Former Senator Janies A. Reed, the favor

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topsy are known. That goes for Lola's mother, the maid, and the • Chinaman. Keep them all here : until you get word from me. Check . up with the elevator operator on . everyone who came in and went' . out in the last four hours. Also | . check up in the morning with the | i day force downstairs in the lobby i about the receipt of that death- ■ threat letter.” t When Flynn went out, Colt turned quickly to Multooler. “Now, what is the verdict, doctor?” he queried eagerly. "Mr. Commissioner,” said the As- . sistnnt Medical Examiner, “I feel , positive this girl did not die from ' poison. Os course this is only a i preliminary guess. But everything looks natural. If she took poison, , she must have swallowed it. for there is not an open wound on her , , body—except the hypo puncture. . But one thing I can tell you posi-' , tively—there are no obvious indications of poison. You said somef thing about a livid glow on her f face—well, it’s not there now." 5 Colt’s face was a profound ’ study. He felt for the pipe that . was not there; he was still in eveining clothes. . I “So the mystery deepens," ne t[ meditated aloud, and with a melan--5 choly tone. “It is too bizarre a Icoincidence to be believed! No! She . 'was certainly murdered. But.how?” 1 ■ As if in answer to that question,; a scream rose suddenly from a dis- ! t tant part of the apartment —a . woman’s scream, shrill with fright. . Again and again we heard it. as t we followed Colt’s rush across the f floor. Unerringly he had located the dreadful sound—it came from . Lola’s boudoir. f But before Colt reached the door. . it opened and the mother tumbled i, out. Her eyes were rolling Iler" o mouth was opened, but she could : . not utter a sound. She tottered I toward us. then pitched and turn-i . I bled in an unconscious heap on the „ I floor. After her rushed the faith- . ful Dorothy Lox, who had been in [the room with the old woman -I Colt was at the door; he looked v|in and his tanned face seemed i. [drained of all blood and life. A " look of incredulity and horror r seemed to magnify the Commist sioner’s sombre eyes. We clustered e behind the chief, 'Seeing, now for t ourselves what had shocked him so. On the floor lay the body of a woman We did not need tn be - told that sne was dead We had e'seen these symptoms before the -1 rigid and twisted body, the tor-

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tured face, the fleck of foul blood between the lips. j “Who is that woman?" Dougherty. I “Her name is Christine (M That unexpected, ans«efl I voice came from l«?hind M.J l turned to see a yellow l green robe b-Aing at as [strange exprt-ss .n. I Chung had identified the ™i '■; . J [his voice d< ‘i body is s wet-throtfl clothes to the skin. Where name has it been kept- , what ha., I. ■ d. FdlomM hypo give- her by D‘ lctor '*J Mrs. Can we. For about W | her own room. Then I 1 1 man had . ' ’■" d ’ il I The next ten minu “ J haul.:I I man fared with a despers«« | n ■; dv of ChlUtHB I | was carrma to tne ■ The uneonsao® 'rewew , p do «lhl [bed. From h's nftlce twin I missed — Decti'i I I L he replied: rt wfl .. It s . ?( .ms to be hean J [but I again ‘ l " v ': <? t ,, ni;ire ltfl I 'ins dn ' lP 0 ,, Once To" the du"'' , ' ,! 'sent out o. - thej this time to mi ■ - unconscious . of hl , n n«»l from now to be f printing ano h ttie M t 0 thP C! it was all examiner. L jt c r*| and done m asp-t | ergetic dispatch. £ Distributed w t " ni 9