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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. J. H. Heller Pres, and Gon. Mgr. A. ft. Holthouse Sec’y & Hus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: dingle copies I 02 One week, by carrier - 10 One year, by carrier 5 00 One month, by mail 35 Three months, by mail 100 Bix months, by mail — 115 One year, by mall 3.00 fee year, at office. 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere $3.50 one year. Advertising Rates mane known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHERRER. Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 415 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The imli.oi.i 1., ague of Home Daillee. The repeal measure has passed the house and now they will have plenty of time to consider some of the other measures which many feel are just as important. The St. Lawrence waterway project ought to put a lot of men to work and keep them busy for several years. The agreement has been signed between Canada and the United States, each to pay half ts the hundred million dollars. Hope they get busy at once. — Andrew Mell o n may resign. That's the wide open rumor in London. He is in this country now start id is said feels that the job should go to a younger man. He is right. Whatever his power and his ahiiity may have been a fewyears ago he is not of the vigor to meet the present day battle. . In the 1928 election a total of ?,6.000.000 votes were cast and it is

predicted the number this year will teach 45.000,000. This is predicted on the tact that millions are out of ■work*. ,the eighteenth amendment is an there are 6,000,000 new «otet7*and about every one in the country favors a change. B:iin Indiana was the lowest in fifty years the past thirty days, according to official state'ments given out recently. That •night be a good item to refer to Senator Watson who some eighteen .months ago predicted that within J):irty days after the passage of the Jew tariff bill, business conditions ' Jould be back to normalcy. . J • •» It is claimed by some that the J'.ost in general business throughout the country is a gesture to give Jfce Republicans a chance to yell •let well enough alone.” After the “past three years its going to be •j st a bit difficult to convince most <eoplo. if they could do it, why in «4ile world did they wait until every <ne was on the rocks? ’ • When things are topsy turvy and "your nerves feel like they are go- • «ing to jump crossways, when your •head aches and your hack hurts find your brain feels muddled, its JJi good time to close the old desk Jind take a vacation. Os course we ’fcll think that's impossible now but ■remember that like every thing •else that's cheaper this year than -it has been for a long time. «f. Up to 53 00 loans quickpS ly and quietly arranged, « No red tape —no etn•y . barrassing questions or investigations. Lawful ' • Uli i nterest rates — liberal repayment terms. You g ; ..J * will like our prompt, ■ ~ courteous and confiden- “ tial service. ~ • Mj security co. FRANKLIN B* ■ Phone 237 Decatw Indiana loans ; ,

Ma Ferguson leads for the gubernatorial nomination In Texas but that does not assure her landing the plum. She has to run it off with Governor Ross Sterling. Mrs. Ferguson led Sterling in the first primary two years ago but was badly beaten when the regular primary came. At that she seems to l.e a rather popular lady down Garner way. Action on the Wright law repeal was deferred Saturday because' twenty members of the house were absent, having gone home for the week-end. Expect most of them wished the boys would go ahead and decide the vexing problem, thus relieving them of the responsibility. You know these hotly contested lulls rather put" the t>oys "on the spot.’’ We hope the good news ot mills reopening continues, whatever the purpose. It's better reading and it’s cheering to every one. No good citizen but wants the depression to end and most of us will do any thing possible to help the upward movement along. We insist however that its far more important that the prices for farm products are boosted to a point where there is some profit. If that ever comes, the mills will not only open but remain open long after election. The state police are looking for those car owners who use one license plate on a car, one head light and who otherwise pay but little attention to the laws. Officer Hollingsworth has no desire to cause any one needless trouble but he has received orders to enforce all Ute laws that pertain to motoring. We can make it easier for hint by cooperating. Most of us know when we are doing those

things which the laws provide we must not and by complying with the rules and regulations, we will all be happier. ! -1 There is one outstanding thing evident about Franklin D. Roosevelt. the Democratic candidate for President and that is that he does not believe in red tape. He did away with the notification meeting and is planning a direct campaign tnat will carry his messages to every part of the country. We need simplicity in government and If the Governor will install such a system he will perform a great service. Many of the acts of the recent congress are fine in purpose . nd would be splendid except they are tied up by so many strings of red tape that the average community cannot benefit. o * “radio program - * » «i Tuesday's 5 Best Radio Features 1 WABC. CBS network, 4:15 p. tn. -Reis and Dunn. WEAF. NBC network, 6 p. m. — Sanderson and Criirnit. WJZ. NBC network, 7:30 p. m.— I‘and Concert. WEAF, NBC network, 7:30 p. m. —Ed Wynn and Band. WABC. CBS network, 8:15 p. nt. — Fast Freight. Thursday's 5 Best Radio Features Copyright 1932 by UP. Central Standard Time WJZ, NBC network, 6 p. tn. — Regim<atalists. WEAF, NBC network. 7 p. m.— Big Six of the Air. WABC, CBS network, 7:15 p. m. —Mills Brothers. WEAF. NBC network, 8 p. m.— Dance Hour with Walter Winchell. WABC, CBS network, 8:15 p.m. —Fast Freight. Wednesday’s 5 Best Radio Features WABC, CBS network. 5:15 p. m. — Mardi Gras. WJZ, NBC network, 6:30 p. m.— Me'.ody Moments. WABC, CBS network, 7 p. m.— Guy Lombardo Orchestra, Burns and Allen. WEAF. NBC network. 7:30 p. nt. —Concert. WABC. CBS network, 8:15 p. in. Adventures in Health. 0 Swaps Dog for Cow Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. —(UP) — When Harry Quesnelle's collie dog strayed, he traced it to the home of ■1 farmer. The farmer's wife, however had become so attached to the stray that she offered Quesnelle a cow in exchange. Quesnelle accepted her terms and the cow.

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J hn Vail is erecting new hoop ; mill on Adams Street. Miss Jesse Winnt-s -.s visiting j Mr-. Sherman Gottschalk at Ottawa. Ohio. Mrs. Thomas Gtllogly has gone ■ to Portland. Mrs. O. L. Vance who became |ll ■ in Linn Grove last Sunday was

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By HARRISON CARROLL. Copyright. 1932. King Feature* Syndicate. Inc. 1 HOLLYWOOD, Cal., July 00.— 1 “If I Had a Million!” Man’s universal dream is ex- J pressed in these words, and now •

Paramount is to 1 1 use them as the ,' title of a motion ’ picture. Like so many ' recent films, this I story will trace the fortunes of halfadozencharacters—lives un- ' related until an I' embittered Croe- ' sus, dying and goaded by hoverin g relatives, picks their names out of the phone book and leaves each

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of them a million dollars. While the scenario department is working out the effect of this money upon the Chinaman, the prisoner, the prize-fighter, etc., who are made pawns in the millionaire's vengeance, Sam Katz is looking over the player field to secure the proper cast. In all probability, Carole Lombard, who is momentarily without an assignment, will draw one of the [ important roles in the picture. One of Hollywood’s most persisti ent moochers recently became such a pest that his friends, in selfdefence, arranged to get him a job. Two months later, however, the dead-beat and his wife were evicted from their apartment. “What’s the matter?" someone asked. “I thought he was working.” “That’s it,” explained a friend. “Re’s been so busy he hasn't had time to go out and borrow his rent.” — BOULEVARD TALK: Judging from their cable to Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., are having a gay time in Europe. The | other night, Bob was routed out of I bed by a messenger boy. He brought a cable written in five different languages. Next morning, Bob sought translaters. Each part of the message was identical! “We have learned the language." Bob is still trying to figure out a comeback. Rather amusing, the case of the little boy who hung around R-K-0 all day, trying to see David Selznick. He told gatemen he had some scenarios and would sell them four for a dollar. It was a neat trick of Ann Hardi ing’s, coming to the Premiere of

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J able to be moved to the b huo of j i her sister. Mr.-. Fr d Heuer. Personal property valuations in | '9l counties of the state fall off ■ $5,373,805. ► J S. Peters n and Carl Ernst of I

■ Indiana Lighting Company are in I Preble looking aft -r business. Mrs. J. S. Peteison entertains. with euchre party 1 r Miss Carrie i i Craig of Indianapolis, Mr. R. M. Wagoner of La Fotin-, I tame returns home after a visit I [with the Le nard Merriman family. Old frame business building be-

“Strange Interlude" in a black wig, and fooling everybody but Elissa Landi. One director even suggested she take a screen test. The incident calls to mind the time when Gloria Swanson, then much less on her dig- I nity, put on a wig and made un- | successful trips to see all the casting directors. Is this more film realism? The - other day R-K-0 hired a man to play a jailbird in the serial, “The Last Frontier.” When time came for him to work, he was missing. Finally, they discovered him in the city jail. . . . Lois Wilson, who is a sweet person, was so worried be- 1 cause Jackie Cooper wouldn’t warm 1 up to her on the set. Then she found out someone had told him she used i to be a school teacher. . . . Met j Hardie Albright, the dog-fancier, : Up at that Santa Barbara show, I Hardie’s wire-haired terrier, i “Punch Drunk," won three first prizes. Rupert Hughes and W. R. Burnett also exhibited. Good leading men are hard to find these days, even for a Constance Bennett picture. After failing to secure either Leslie Howard or Colin Clive, Director George Fitzmaurice is testing Joel McCrea again for the supporting role in j “Rockabye.” Phillips Holmes is an- ’ other possibility. Meanwhile R-K-0 has succeeded in borrowing Paul Lukas from Universal to play Connie's manager in the picture. Charlie Farrell’s dream of a vaca-

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Later on, Charlie Farrell will fill his engagement with Warner Brothers in “Central Park.” DID YOU KNOWThat Norma Shearer broke into pie- ' tures with a cough? A director was • looking over a line of girls at a New York studio. He had passed • Norma by when she coughed. He : i took a second look and—i

longing to Chaa Sether is being torn away. Lucy and Mary Leonard of Bluffton are visiting tine Zerkel Trlp- : Setts, Ruth, Frances and Eesther. o

* REUNION CALENDAR Sunday July 31 Haggard reunion, H. D. Osterman home, Winchester road. Fort Wayne I Pleasant Mills Alumni picnic, I Sun Set Park, east of Decatur, i Fuhrman reunion, home of Geo. • Meyers, 1 mile west of Monroeville. Berne reunion, Sunset Park, | rain or shine. Annual Cowan reunion, Sunset , Park, southeast of Decatur Myers reunion, rain or shine, Sunday, August 7 Blakey reunion, Old Chris Blakey homesteud, Union township. Schafer reuntwi, Legion Memo- ' rial Park, Decatur. Grimm reunion, Sunset Park southeast of Decatur. Annual Dettinger reunion, rain I or shine, Sunset Park. Sunday August 14 Hower reunion. Gordon State j Park, St. Marys, Ohio. Hitchcock reunion, Mrs. Cora Miller, State Line. Annaul Tumbleson reunion, Legion Memorial Park. Elzey reunion, Legion Memorial ' Park, Decatur. ] Rellig and Reohm ftmily reunion, ; Sunset Pa:k, southeast of Decatur, j The annual reunion of the Bienz i family, Sunset Park, Deeatur. Sunday August 21 i Springer and Brandyberry reunI ion, Lehman’s Park, Berne. Butler family reunion, Sunset Park, rain or shine. Ainnual reunion of the Smith faI mily, Sunset Park, Decatur. Kemmer family reunion, Sunset Park, southeast of Decatur. Annual Hakes reunion. Sunset Park, Decatur. , Annual Kortenber and Hackman ' reunion, Sun Set Park. Sunday, August 28 Annual Weldy Reunion, Frank Aurand home, Decatur. Annaul Standiford and Faulkner reunion, Wren, 0., Memorial Park. Urick reunion, Sunset park, Decatur. Wednesday, August 31 Weldy ■ Beery Family reunion, Legion Memorial Park, Decatur. September 4 Annual Brown reunion, Sunset Park, Decatur. Labor Day, September 5 Lenhart annual reunion, Sunset Park, southeast of Decatur. Reunion of Millinger family, Sunset Park Decatur. — —o Hursts Estranged Wife Springfield, Mo. —(UP)— You can t grab your wife's arm roughly in Springfield and get away with it. W. A. Williams tried it While talking to his estranged wife on | the public square. She complained that he hurt hi?r. and showed Municipal Judge M. A. Dood a small scratch. Williams is serving a 90 day jail term. o— Get the Habit — Trade at Home

tion has faded away. He is a last minute assignment to "Salomy Jane,” the Bret Harte story in which Joan Bennett ahd Ralph Bellamy also are to appear. This company, shepherded b y Raoul Walsh, is scheduled to i leave in a few days for a location trip to the Sequoia Forest.

RUSSIA WILL LAUNCH PLAN Soviet Russia to Start Seeond Five-Year I lan Next January (Copyright 1932. by United Press) Washington. July 3* 4UR> ‘ I vlet Russia next January launch a second five-year-plan cal • Ing for »75.000.000.0 W <”> of i " provements in industry, nsricub ture and transportation, according to data made available today »> , the Soviet information bureau here. , 1 The projected outlay under th , new plan, on which Russia will embark despite economic depression in the rest of the world, is nearlv treble that of the first fiveyear plan, now virtually complete ( in four years. The colossal new project is expected to require large purchases of materials and machinery from other countries. Disclosure of its details comes at a time when Russia Is sharply curtailing her purchases from the United States and placing large orders with Germany and Great Britain as a resuit of new commercial agreements with those countries. Authoritative sources, however, informed the United Press that Russian trade representatives and Americans doing bttsiness with j Russia believe the Soviet may resume large-scale buying from the United States if credit and reciprocal trade arrangements can be developed. Conclusion of such a trade agreement with Russia as a means of increasing this country’s foreign trade was urged by Henry T. Rainey. Democratic leader of the house, in an article written for the United Press last week. The huge scope of new Russian

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CHAPTER FORTY "fTTHEN Basil Boucher met Lola ' I Carewe. That was eight years * ago. The meeting came about ' on the terrace of the Case Royale, ' just down from the Madeleine. Lola was at that time dancing in the Theatre Sans-Souci. She stopped at the Case Royale with an elderly admirer, said to be a Belgian who had made millions out of rubber in the Congo. Like Musetta in La Boheme, Lola sent the old gentleman off on some pretended errand, because her eyes had met those of the earnest young man beside her. Basil and she began to talk. He came directly to the point and told her that he loved her. He had recognized her instantly—and for weeks had he not been haunting the SansSouci, merely to see the dancing Lola? They agreed that fate had brought them together. In Lola’s car they drove to her apartment, where she lived entirely alone. It was the beginning of what seemed to be a high passion. “It lasted for only a very few weeks. All observers are agreed that Lola seemed quite as fascinated with Basil as he was with his enchantress. They were seen con-

stantly together. She neglected her , rehearsals and he made mistakes at the bank. His mother wrote Lola a letter asking her to send the boy off as she was turning his head. But Basil had promised Lola a ruby! “Then came the crash. The body of Basil Boucher was found in the Seine. He had left a suicide note. He had stolen from the bank and used half of it for the ruby and half to speculate on the Bourse—to get the money to pay back. The stocks went down, and all was over. In one desperate play he had lost. At the time, Lola told friends at the Theatre Sans-Souci that Basil had refused to allow her to provide for him. She had been eager to do that. She also declared he was the only man she had ever loved. After his death Lola told one girl who danced with her that she would always keep near her the furniture and other appurtenances of the room in which they first loved each other. It was a sentimental idea. I wonder if she really carried it out? I very much do not believe that she did. Women seldom die from sentiment. However, I may be unjust. The Paris police have lost sign of Lola Carewe. She left for America and we do not know what happened after that. All who remember her here still will tell you, however, that Lola seemed to be desperately in love with Basil Boucher. There is absolutely no reason to suppose that she killed the young man. The suicide seems absolutely proved. There was, however, some difficulty in identifying the body—but by certain faint birthmarks, Mrs. Boucher, the mother of the young man, i was able to make a postive identi- . fication. Please feel free, my esI teemed Mr. Thatcher Colt, to call I upon me for any further help, if , that is possible. And I shall be glad to hear the outcome of your astute researches. Yours fraternally, , . _ “DUPONT."

five-year plan is rtown by «>•»<[ lines of the project available One of the goals Is expansion of electrical power production to Ko“o0,000 (ID kilowatt hours JS compared with 17,000,000.. I 000 (Bl this year- , Coal production is to be Increas- | ~<l from 00.000.000 tons a year to j 250.000,000. 011 output Is to be trebled. * Railway trackage Is to be extended from 15.000 to It,ooo miles «| th Introduction of powerful ■ locomotives, larger freight cars, electrification and automatic coupling Pig Iron production is to reach 22.000.000 tons against 9 000.000 this year. Cotton and flax production are to bo doubled , grain output increased o HL' 000.000 metric tons against 8-.000.. 000 now. The commerce department re- ; ports that in 1930-31 Russia purbased more than three quartern • of total American exports of farm machinery, In 1931 it <•« the | largest buyer of Industrial machin- ; C rv. Russia’s total purchases from the United States last year, howI ever, were only half as great -as 1 in 1930. This decline is described by Peter A Bogdanov, chairman of the board of directors of Amtorg Trading corporation, as due largely to better trade relations developed in Europe, rather than dissatisfaction with American products. In a statement to the J United Press he said: "The reasons for considerable shrinkage of Soviet purchases lie first in changed market condi- • tions of European countries, for ' whom Russia has become an in- • creasingly important customer. ’ These countries have shown a growing interest in Russia as a , market which has not decreased 1 its demand for foreign products 1 and a customer which has con tinued to meet all payments as > they fall due. “This explains efforts by Germany. England. Italy and other I countries to widen their Russian

Colt looked at me with a mysterious smile. “The clue is there!” he exclaimed, his voice low, but tense with the exultant ring of discovery. “I felt sure it would be. A very slender clue —but it's there. Go home and get some sleep, Tony. My apologies to Betty. And be back at eight!” When I returned to Center Street at eight o’clock that night, I found District Attorney Dougherty seated opposite Colt, in the private office of the Commissioner. They were talking in low tones,with a sheaf of notes lying on the desk between them. The Commissioner was in dinner clothes, and looked as fresh and keen as if he had just arisen. Yet, as I learned later, he had not left the office all day; he had sent out for his dinner, and changed in the dressing-room that adjoins his consultation room. Dougherty waved at me lugubriously as I drew up a chair. “I understand the jewel-ring idea is all blown to bits,” was his heavy greeting. “And yet ” “And yet your investigation led us directly to the scene,” Colt re- , minded him. “A deuce of a lot of good that did,

too,” returned Dougherty with an Olympian wink around the room. “Did you go through that dossier I sent down from my office?” “I did," replied Thatcher Colt. “It did connect Lola with some of the principal jewel operators. But she was not acting as stool pigeon for them. She was jacking them up for blackmail tribute.” “There is still reason to believe I they might have ordered her death, then,’’ said Dougherty. But to this Colt shook his head decidedly. "That is impossible. This is what we knew it must be from the very beginning, Dougherty —an inside | job. It lies between the family and some of the intimates who frequented the apartment. Rowland, Guy Everett,—or the mother, the servants—it had to be someone who had access to those rooms.” "But you haven’t settled on the one you think is the most likely?” “I am beginning to. But it is too early still to try to theorize—too many facts j-et to be obtained. We have as yet found no trace of the missing Edgar Quires, brother of one of the dead girls. But our airplane police, whom I shot up to Rochester early this moming, have made one interesting discovery, k * egram which was received by Edgar Quires was from Christine, as we suspected. Immediately thereafter Quires and his wife burned to the railroad station and left Rochester without taking any baggage. From that moment on, all lost ” ” them SeemS t 0 have been “If we could only see that telegram. mourned Dougherty. , Colt smiled whimsically as he packed down the brown flakes of tobacco tn the bowl of his pipe, i Court processes are so slow,”! he complained. “But we did man- ' to see the teiegrani ,M Chuckled D °ugherty. what did it say?” Colt produced' a blank form for !

! ’»K<>i hg of this alm, they t ' considerable n ( |ap lH , tl|| Ing credit requirement, J?’ organizations a, „ , ’’i tern of long-term (<?*■ Soviet orders has in contrast with tki! , conditions of fll!a| « , purchases In this ~, I Ino improvement, ,i .|U.-me , ... ■" | , Amtong last ~4 r (| I cent from sll4.wo. w „' 151,000.00<i. It ls „ 'J • a large part of ~u i, b ,! Europe consist O s ln ,| u „’ : 1 ing. construction lUl d 7 I machinery and eq llipw * I’ which the United Statesa . especially favorabk , * . supply." | ,L—_— Answers To Tm J ; Questions I .1 —- ’ | Below are the Answer,.. II Test Quest io M p n J ‘J | on Pag# ’ 1. January 1. ] r 2. Straits of Gftralttf. i f 3. Alexander the Greet 1 5 4. A knot. 5. Pluto. 6. Jonathan Swift. ,- 7. Nance. -1 8. Jann-s R. Garfield, e 9. They range from u J cording to st itc and (,d,J e 10. Louisiana. 0- . J r One Up on Burjt, I- .. Pueblo, Col.. (Ul’t-qd a the Royal Case ar one b>, a burglar who b ke into tint d . establishment. The bu:?ht|j si loot the vending niac.iintsg i- after carrying the niachse’ s kitchen of the case to When he dep.rted, bt m > take with him a BM g r which the owners found gg n morning.

carbons of official reports ai aloud: “All my worst suspido firmed. I know 1 in $ Come and rsacue me. “CHRBH I On hearing this devehgi i confess that a sense of alrsal less bewilderment settled a, : The riddle seemed to 1 with every hour. Would its 1 solved? This telegram rm ■ gular questions, indeed. HI > tine Quires knew that shei ! danger, was it a danger fra i —who was herself tr.unW i from someone else? If that t so, why did not Lola and (k . cling together, act together,| t their common enemy? Si t if Edgar Quires had stars t New York in answer to tht s ntons, where was he now' II he not appeared at the «» - and demanded his sister?l know what had happened S ! i tine? Or was it possible! ,• same unseen a- assin hadih able to strike at the brotig 1 Would his poisoned body! - next to be discovered? The even voice of Thatdl , dispelled my momentary F

pation with these riddles. “We are still search! gently for Mr. and Mb. Quires,” he stated. “Perhigl the night is over we sbl some information. Meanw have been goinc forward* lines of investigation. One« was the atory told to ■ I Guy Everett.” , “The guy with ar acce< bled Dougherty vengefully l mon with Inspector Flynil trict Attorney iarboredlS sentment aga st the detad apparently har s theats “I am sorry to say,” d Thatcher Colt, "that in alibi furnished : y Mr. proved to be no more reluw the first. We have now b* to check, not only the empg Also last night s cash «« No one at the <' b remem* ing him there last night-1 Everett persists in his he did go to th North S* and drank pur.cheoM 0 • tween the time he left ™ and his return to the A«» “Can he cal! the naw' person that he saw >" “J Star Club last night. Dougherty shrewdly. “Yes,” replied Tb.atrtt promptly. “We tried that• him, and he called the three men and two w' l -' it is fact that those three two women were in the Club last night, and at' that Guy Everett places hi* “Were they regular p»» “Not all of them The does have its puzzlin? all saw Everett when « the pent-house. He raa drinking. But he wa»' • intoxicated. His memo 1 i iy clear as to his nl< ’';'x sets that forward as there is no one to s(To Be I C w ri B ht IWl.br • Diatabutcd bj L.ua )'