Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 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 ns Second Class Matter. I 11. Heller. Pres, and Gen. Mgr. a. R. Holthouse Sec'y X- Hus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller. Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies $ .02 line week, by carrier. 10 lino yi ar, by carrier — 5.00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Rix months, by mail 1.75 tine year, by mail 3.00 Uie year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere $3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Advpr. Representative SCITEERER. Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 415 Lexington Avenue, New York ' Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. The legislators made fun of Governor Leslie's speech, blufftai a whi'e and then proceeded to do what he had asked them to. Loyal Democrats compare their rational platform to a 1932 bath- i Ing suit —brief and with plenty of backbone.- -Chicago News. A few days ago they were boosting Gene Tunney for senator from Connecticut. Now they are talking about putting him in congress. He will fool around until he lands in the legislature. The bonus men will probably not be welcomed at Washington when congress reconvenes next-Decemb-er. The action the past few days would indicate that the administration has decided upon some rather drastic methods to enforce thtir orders. Why worry and fret about an income tax law when it is barred by the Indiana constitution? Those who favor that means of raising money will have the opportunity to so vote next November when a ha'lot will be taken for or against .1 change in the basic law. Buy an Adams County farm or e.ny other real estate here, hang on to it and in a few' years you wili more than double your money. We coming back and now that we are started you will be suyirised at l ow soon the real bargains will be gone. Vice-President Curtis is having some bad times along his tour to California, giving him some idea of what may be expected when the campaign gets going. There is no defense for the heckler but how to get away from him has puzzled the politician many years and will probably continue to be a problem. There seems to lie a much better spirit the past ten days. A local banker told us that today and Postmaster Graham says there han been a fifty per cent increase in receipts at his office. Lets keep it going. First thing we know the factories will be reopening, prices of fa'-m

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products will be up where they belong and every one will be happy. Albert Edward Wiggam, famous lecturer and writer, will be a headI liner at the Atlants County Teachit's Institute to be hold here Erl- • I day. September 2nd, which is [ enough to assure an Interesting day. There are few equals to this , /anmus man and thats only a part >I of the big program. ) J If all the hills designed to re- ' | duce salaries pass that are now beII fore the legislature, some of the boys will be paying for the honor and the joke of it is that even then the saving In taxes would be so slight, you couldn't notice it. That's not where the money goes for in counties like this the officials are ’ far from being overpaid. Mayor Walker denies his guilt and hands it back to Mr. Seabury in language that is plain and emj hatic. We don’t know all the deHails but we admire Walker for his i mirage and it takes plenty of that to buck up against Seabury who is an expert at making people feel uncomfortable, especially if he can get a little something on them. The merchants of Decatur have planned to have a little good will party each Wednesday evening during August and September. There will be band concerts and ether events, specials in some of ►he stores and a good old visit. Join this movement. It is not a plan to do a big business, just to show that your patronage is appreciated. It starts next week. This community has so many, travelers and tramps and cripples , these days that we wonder some times if surrounding cities don't make them move along and that , we are being somewhat imposed on. We have much respect for the 1 honest man. out of employment, v. ho is really seeking work, but some of those who happen along now. look as though they never did work and never intend to. The bill which will send half the gasoline tax back to the counties lias passed the house and senate and looks like a law. That will ease the tax situation here considerably and that’s after all what has to be done to bring actual relief to 'seal communities. The entire state tax on'y averages about thirty cents on the hundred dollars, so when they are doing away with that the actual reduction of taxes i. little, but when they arrange to aid the farm or home owner to get his taxes down where they can be met without selling every thing on Hie place, that’s genuine relief. o ♦ — ♦ Household Scrapbook -By— ROBERTA LEE ♦. * Tarts Tart molds can be made over the backs i f muffin tins. Make a syrup of sugar and water, drop fresh gooseberries in it, and cook for a few minultes. Fill the tarts end s rve with whipped cream. Solid Ribbons To clean ribbons, soak them in ga-oline for several hours. Then rinse in water, in which is dissolved a small amount of sugar. Dry by rubbing with a cleat; cloth, and the ribbons will be as stiff and nice us when new. Dresser Lamps (Have the lamps on the dressing table on a level with the fate. In tl is way they will casit the light on the face, and not in the mirror. NOTICE We will start our cider mill July ■ 2(1 and will operate every Tuesday I and Thursday until further notice, i Charges per gallon 2c. Minimum ] charge 50c. Factory North Third I st. PETER KIRSCH Mon., W. F. S. o ♦ * TWENTY YEARS | AGO TODAY t I From the Daily Democrat File James K. Martz of Berne looks tfter business here. Miss Ethel Barkley visits in Fort Wayne. The firm of Atz and Steele dissolve partnership. Miss Anna Yager is visiting in Fort Wayne. Mrs. W. G. Spencer goes to Rome City to spend week with Misses

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Tillie and Lollie Meibers. Miss Mary Erwin leaves for Terre j Haute to visit her sister. Ireta. Mrs. Ross Mallonee and son are in Sheldon visiting. Misses Marie and Letta Kintz are in Bendon Harbor visiting their brother Lea.

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By HARRISON CARROLL Copyright, 1132. King Featurei Syndlcatt. Ine. HOLLYWOOD, Cal., July 00— With Paramount cameras set to make exclusive pictures of the salvaging of the Lusitania, Sam Katz

yesterday began picking players for the film that will commemorate this feat of maritime engineeting. He names Richard Bennett, Frances Dee and Gene Raymond for important parts in the story that will be made under the title of “The Lusitania Secret." While the

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starting date of the picture depends upon the salvage operations, Cyril Hume and Martin Flavin have been instructed to get the screen play into shape for early production. They will base it upon an original story by James Bernard Fagan, who wrote “Hawthorne of the U. S. A.,” and a number of other hits. Frances Dee and Gene Ray- ' mond, you’ll note, are being developed as a team by Paramount. I On that recent trip to the “Billy the Kid” country, Douglas Fairbanks and his party happened to board the train at Fairbanks, New Mexico. Jokingly, some one asked an inhabitant if the town was named after Doug. The old-timer replied dryly: "Well, actually it ain’t, but to save explaining to tourists we usually eay ‘Yes’. BOULEVARD TALK: Mary Pickford is very much sold on the Broadway hit, “Another Language,” but she is in a hurry for a story and producers won’t release this one to the films for a year and a half. Over long distance, she intimated she may consider buying it anywa” . . . The production of “The Road Back” has been postponed a month to allow James Whale a chance to visit England. He hasn’t been back for three years. R. C. Sheriff will return with him. Harold IJoyd is entertaining 150 foreign newspaper correspondents at his home today. They will see one of the real show places of Hollywood.' It was that embarrassing the other evening when LoweM Sherman and Geneva Mitchell happened in at the Frolics and were seated next to Helene Costello (Lowell’s ex), John Barrymore Colt and Mary Duncan. The tactful management made a quick switch of tables.

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I Mrs. C. O. France and daughter Hazel of Columbia City a:e guests I of Mrs. Fannie Peterson. r The Misses Agnes Koluie, lAgnes Meibers, Gen Brenierkamp and I Nl> mi Niblick have gone to Blue | Lake to attend a house party given I by Miss Drusilla Gandy.

Erich Von Stroheim (Are you surprised?) is one of the most regular patrons of the night life places here. In his party at the Frolics the other midnight was a little blonde who smoked a black Havana cigar . . . George P.aft is Mary Duncan’s latest, or vice-versa . . And June Knight dropped in with Hal Grayson. By the way, he’ll be taking his band to the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas soon . . . Ena Gregory and Al Rogell were another film couple dancing under the stars . . . And that petite brunette with Ernest Laemmle was Lupita Tovar. Those romantic days spent filming* “The Bird of Paradise” were too much for Josephine Remos and Arnold Gray. They were married here July 15. She is stand-in for Dolores Del Rio and he played a part in the picture.' Melvyn Douglas is turning down film offers because he and his wife, Helen Gahagan, want to return to Broadway and appear in a repertoire of plays next season. They played together in Belasco’s “Tonight or Never.” Douglas Fairbanks returned from New Mexico without that bar he went down to buy. As a matter of fact, his idea to get an authentic back-

ground for his Remington and Russell paintings, and he has his eye on another landmark that will do as well. It is McSween’s store in Lincoln County. Here was staged part of the battle in which “Billy the Kid” shot Sheriff ' Brady and made another of his famous escapes from the law.

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Doug is full of enthusiasm for Lincoln County, Tombstone and other haunts of the outlaws of the Southwest. He wants to start • movement to preserve these relics of the colorful past. "Americans contribute greatly to the support of memorials in England," he says. “They should not overlook their own land. If something isn’t done, all these famous landmarks will go uo looters like myself, and 1 wouldn’t think of buying them if they were not being allowed to go to ruin.” The star plans to bring Ysenio Salazar or George Coe (survivors of the “Billy the Kid” era) here and introduce the Old West to Hollywood. DID YOU KNOW— That Karen Morley received a fan letter written on ticker tape which measured a mile and a half long?

# : ♦ REUNION ; CALENDAR Sunday July 31 Haggard reunion, H. D. Osterman 1 home, Winchester road, Fort Wayne Pleasant Mills Alumni picnic.l Sun Set Park, east of Decatur. Fuhrman reunion, home of Geo ] Meyers, 1 mile west of Monroeville. Borne reunion, Sunset Park, .rain or shine. Annual Cowan reunion, Sunset Park, southeast of Decatur Myers reunion, rain or shine, Sunday, August 7 i Blakey reunion, Old Chris Blakey homesteid, Union township. Schafer reunion, Legion Memo-, i rial Park, Decatur. Grimm reunion, Sunset Park : southeast of Decatur. Annual Dettinger reunion, rain {or shine, Sunset Park. Sunday August 14 Hower reunion, Gordon State Park, St. Marys, Ohio. Hitchcock reunion, Mrs. Cora Miller. State Line. I Annaul Tumbleso-n reunion, LeI gion Memorial Park. Elzey reunion, Legion Memorial I Park. Decatur. Rellig and Reohm family reunion, Sunset Pak, southeast of Decatur. The annual reunion of the Bienz I family, Sunset Park, Decatur. Sunday August 21 Springer and Brandyberry reuni ion, Lehman’s Park, Berne. I Butler family reunion. Sunset | Park, rain or shine. Ainnual reunion of the Smith faI rnily, 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 R-union, Frank Aurand home. Decatur. I Annaul Standiford and Faulkner reI union, Wren, 0., Memorial Park. Urick reunion, Sunset park, Decai tur. Wednesday, August 31 M eldy • Beery Family reunion. ! Legion Memorial Park, Decatur. September 4 Annual Brown reunion, Sunset Park, Decatur. Labor Day, September 5 Lenhart annual reunion, Sunset Park, sputheast of Decatur. Reunion of Millinger family, Subset Park Decatur. Unison Carried Into Suits SAN FRANCISCO <U.R) — The Ryan sisters, who make fancy | kicking a specialty in their dancI ing act, decided to stay in unison I and kick their husbands out. Mrs. I Thelma Ryan Macßrido obtained a divorce, charging her husband with nonsupport, the same day her sister, Mrs. Rosemary Ryan Rotelli. tiled suit for freedom from her spouse. Mrs. Rotelli also charged neglect. o BARGAINS — Bargains In Living Room, Dining Room Suits, Mattresses and Rugs. Stuckey and Co. , Monroe, our Phone number is 44 ct.

* Answers To Test Questions Below are the Answers to the Test Questions Printed on Psge Two. > ■ - 1. Toban.l. 2. A mountain antelope of Europe and Western Asia. 3. The United States government. 4. Six. ... | 5. A morbid dislike of | places. 6. Admiral Reinhard Scheer. 7. Great Britain. 8. No. 9. 1894. 10. Mercury. -2— -o —— MONROE NEWS Mrs. Donald Essex and family ol De Witt Arkansas is visiting relatives mid friends. Mrs. H. E. Farrar visited her daughter Mrs. Delbert Beals at Portland for a few days. Miss Mardelle (Hocker and Mabel Hocker of Monroe. Ramona Hoeker of Pasadena. Gilifornia and Lester Hedgecock of California visited rel- • atives in Fort Wayne Wednesday. Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley and Mrs. Frank Leichty and son Donald of . Decatur visited Mr. and Mrs. Rliymond Crist Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Smith and fa- | mily of Marion visited Mr. and Mrs. John Hocker Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Fl <1 spent Thursday evening in Fort Wayne with friends. Mrs. Amos Brandyberry returned ! to her home lifter a visit with relatives nt Hartford City. J. F. Hocker and Mrs. R. J. Mey- . ers attended the business in Berne Friday. Mrs IA. f>. Crist and daughter Ddn-

, ..,.m - "Murder Lad/ THE New THATCHER COLT DETECTIVE MYSTERY z-j by ANTHONY ABBOT

CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR THATCHER COLT had arranged a singular and discordant convocation. In the living-room of I the penthouse were gathered all those persons most concerned in the final solution of the two murder cases. It gave me an odd feeling, just to see these various characters assembled under one roof. Seated calmly in the most comfortable chair in the room, with its ecru linen walls ■ of uneven weave, was Vincent Rowland, the end of a cigarette making a red glow in the mass of white hairs surrounding his mouth. Beside him, her back to the nun’s veiling of a terrace window, was Mrs. Carewe. She had taken the most uncomfortable chair in the room. Dressed in black silk, with a fringed black shawl over her shoulders, the mother whispered to the debonair old attorney. It was quite evident that Mrs. Carewe looked to Vincent Rowland for reassurance and advice, and that the dapper old attorney was prepared to play the role qf the friend of the family. Mrs. Carewe paid no attention at all to Dorothy Lox, who sat on the other side of her. Posing theatrically in front of the fireplace, as if taking his position there for the rise of the sec-ond-act curtain, was Guy Everett. Since our last interview with the actor, he had been carefully attended by barbers, and, one felt, by his masseur. The man exuded that wellrubbed feeling. His mustache tips were exquisitely waxed, his cheeks flushed, but his eyes were dulled with the loss of sleep and too many highballs. Everett, too, was smoking a cigarette. On a divan left from the fireplace sat Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Quires. Husband and wife were close to each other, exchanging no words but staring into space, as if foreseeing an inevitable outcome. Beside them sat one I had almost forgotten — the plump and pitiful Mrs. Hugh Baldwin. Two others were in the room— Eunice and Chung. The maid was in a low chair in a dark corner, almost effaced by shadows. But the Chinaman, resplendent in a robe of violet silk, corded with gold, stood defiantly forth. His place was under a bracket of lamps where I had once before observed him—and the glow of light fell on his monstrous and misshapen head, always turned a little to one side. Chung was not grinning now, and yet I seemed to detect a hint of a smile , tugging restlessly at a corner of his wide lips. His hands at his sides, Chung stood there, respectful and quiet, a man to be reck- , oned with. In our party there were four— Thatcher Colt, Dougherty, Flynn and myself. We walked into this I tense assemblage, in utter silence. | Chung stepped forward to take our wraps, but Thatcher Colt motioned l i him off. We put our things away in > a closet, and then, as Thatcher Colt paced forward toward the center of the room, the rest of us grouped ourselves, as the chief had requested, near the door. All other doors and windows we r a guarded by bluecoata.

Killed Husband ■ 1 ’ - Isl Mrs. Dorothy Pollok, 26-ye«r-old ! Chicago woman, who telephoned the police and ealmly said. ‘Tve ' just killed my husband." She I then gave her address and asked ' the police to come over. Later, she broke down on the witness I stand and pleaded self-defense. Ina Lou of Winchester’ visited her ! parents, Mr. and Mrs. Forest An- ' drews. Virgil Wag ner o. Bloomington Is I spending the week-end with his ta- ] mily. Dan Niblick and s.m Harold of

I “I will not detain you long,” | . I promised the Commissioner, look- ( I ing around him quietly. "The po- , lice have come to the point where | we believe the two murders in . { which we are all interested can; be solved. I have asked you all to meet with me hero because you are ( all concerned in that solution. There are one or two points that I want ! to clear up, and to do that I wish | to attempt a physical reconstruc- ( tion of the crime.” Here the Commissioner turned to , Eunice, cowering in the far corner. { “Where were you at about 12:15 [ o’clock last night when Christine . Quires reached home?” he asked. s “Where I told you—in my own , room,” answered the maid, sulky , with alarm. “Please go there now," requested ’ Colt, and waited, while Eunice has- { tened with short quick steps across the room, through the rear door, { and into her own chamber. “And Chung,” continued Colt, ; “you said that you were reading ’ the life story of a movie star—in I the kitchen.” “You are right, Mr. Commissioner. I was reading in the third chapter of Book II in the life of Clara 1 Bow—and I was in the kitchen.” - “Please go there now,” request-' ed Colt. As the butler left, the Commis- { sioner now turned to Mrs. Carewe. “And you,” he added, “were read- ! ing from your favorite book in your own room. Correct?” i “Yes, Mr. Colt.” Anticipating his request, the I mother rose, cast a final glance of J , understanding toward Vincent Row- j ! land, and went at once into her I own room. Dorothy Lox went with her. Thatcher Colt now turned di- , rectly to Dougherty, Flynn, and { myself. > “Now, gentlemen,” he continued, “we shall first attempt to recreate { the movements of Christine Quires I from the time that she said goodnight to Mr. Guy Everett until we found her body. In doing this, I i must ask you to keep one fact clearly in mind—that through the , medical examiner’s evidence we , know that Christine was killed sev- ( eral hours before Lola Carewe, al- { though her body was the second j to be found.” I “Rigor mortis had set in,” Dougherty supplemented. . “Exactly. Now mark what hap- . pened. Christine said good-night to > Mr. Everett in the lobby down- , stairs. She then got into the ele- > vator and rode up to the twentyi second floor—the one below this.” “Pardon me,” interrupted Dougherty. “W as there anyone on duty in the lobby, besides Lowell Court- . leigh. the elevator boy who brought Christine upstairs?” 1 j „N° one - The lobby was deserted.” • . I g ee." rumbled Dougherty. “But I is there only one elevator in the ! building?” t "There are several.” Hmpf!” sniffed Dougherty, but I relapsed into a silence I knew was . wholly temporary. Guy Everett i cast his half-smoked cigarette into r the embers of the and at once groped for a fresh one.

Decatur attended to h U Monroe Friday. Sylvester Johnson o f J!t . whs visiting relatives » n / , on friends in Monroe Friday’** 1 “ r () —- — _ f RADIO PROGRAM Sunday’s Five Best ' (Copyright 1932 by Vni tlll ~ Central standard time | hri . WARC, CBS network. 1 is, ~ Symphonic Hour WABC, CBS network, r, -,' 1 Anniversary WJZ, NBC network 7 „ Melodies. WEAF, NBC network, '•]s Album of EanJ I ,' Music. 1 WABC. CBS network, s M High Lights. ' Monday's Best Radio F H t M i (Copyright 1932 i, v i’ niM Central standard tune throno ' Wjfc, NBC netw. rk 7 01 l " Minstrel Show WABC, CBS network ?’ls n. Mills Brother, WEAF. NBC netw,„k, 7. ;! „ w Parade of state, WABC, CBS network, x :! ()' w Guy Ixunbardo On tra. WEAF, NBC network. 9;]apj Paul 'A hltenian', q — —. Book Saved 5365 LODI. Cal. (U.Rt By a book from a friend instetf l the public library. J yj T| t figures he has saved $365 , I years ago Tubbs ixirrowed a h , from his friend. Melvin F t When he returned it | le that he had had the hojij , than 18.250 day-, which. at the customary two-rent |w r library fine, would have cost $335.00. NOTICE — Return io Mott's Place.ind _■ t a paddle free ’ “SI

I “Christine, if we are to belie the elevator boy, left his ear or. t) {floor under this,” resumed Thatch I Colt. “He closed the door and st i downstairs. At least, that is i {story. We have considered thepo ! sibility of his having attach ! Christine. But the theory -remit • far-fetched for sober considerate For one thing, we have the tai meny of several groups of tenaai in this building who furnish hn with such an alibi, that only an gin of two or three scattered sa utes remain for him to kill CH tine, hide the body, and eventtai to spirit the remains into a rooni this carefully guarded apartmek “You can count out the eienti boy,” growled Flynn. “1 had a lea session with him and I know wsi I am talking about.” “Accepting his alibi, then," «t i tinued Thatcher Colt, “we hit Christine Quires outside of the el vator door, on the twenty-secs floor of this building. From th moment on, her n- a menu m mystery. She is n t to be m again, except by her murderer, 1 til we find her body.” “What, then, could havehh pened?” “Let us imagine that we car. ft ' low her footsteps. SI is not!« ing well. She has left het Ke Year’s Eve party t„ -ruse of il ness. She has. let us s ay. but « idea—to get to bed So, f«h very ill. she trave: -''- 'he longer ridor downstairs, t e mounts d twisting iron staircase that lea to the entrance doc- of this pcs {house door. From her purse si takes a key. She op« the doom enters this room. “She sees no one Lola is 01 Mrs. Carewe is in 1 ' room. « the door is closed, he serrn are in their quarter She Is cold. She goes ove to the l» place. She puts her : -e. wet fn only a few momer.' exposure the sidewalk, on the mantel »> it remains unnotice: -nil J P'“ it up last night. Chris"tie i’ y* very il) now. The report n ‘ medical examiner s! ws that stomach had been u; tby indifl tion.* j, “Recently eaten food?” tl*"l Dougherty. "Within an hour.” “Then it was the food that ■ ate at the Lion’s Paw ' “Undoubtedly!” Lumberingly, Dougherty tu ■ and looked again long and de at Guy Everett. "Did you have anything to at that night club"” he har' f, _ “A little,” answered crett, manifestly very ill at e “Did you get sick, too? “I did not!” “Did you have the same that the girl did?” “I believe 1 did. D' “Hmpf! Thought that "i*” didn’t you? Then you realUM could check on you out the find out exactly what you ® r ’ Learned a lesson from tha Parkway business, didn t you. listen, Everett •” (To Be Conti r :•*> . Cepvright 19.11. by I" s, n dic»«. !l Distributed by King teature* Sr