Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 184, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1932 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Catered at the Decatur. Ind., Post Office us Second Class Matter. I. H. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. 11. Holtliouso Sec'y A Hus. Mgr. Wick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: dingle copies $ .02 Da** Week, by carrier 10 one year, by carrier ..... 5.00 Dfje month, by mall .35 I'fireo months, by mail ,1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75, Otrv year, l«y mail 3.00 I'Je year, at office 3.00 Trices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere $3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER. Inc, 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 4J.5 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dallies. Some one has suggested that the Republicans adopt “Hold the fort" aftheir campaign song. Os course Hint's what they want to do but it i£ doubtful it they can recruit etjpiigh soldiers to do the job. •The special session is about ready tq.wind up. No one seems to know jtgt when that will be but it can't b 5 later than a week from Monday. That will be the fortieth day and that's Ute limit under the statute. •If tliiugs lock unusually dark 'jfgust* 31st. don't get frightened ..ad think its the end of the world and every thing. A partial eclipse of the .sun is scheduled for that dgte. i ■ ——————— ladies from Cincinnati visiting here this week made a tour of the «b tores and shops and found prices ’here much lower than in tseir home city As a result they nnrehased several dresses each and WJSre loud in their praises for the splendid assortment and the prices and courteous treatment. »The“!irst test vote on the repeal the Wright law in the senate Was 23 to 22„ indicating it will be a r<aH>attle when it is called down tor business as it will be one of th*>se.,days. The vote was against it bu£ by only one vote and with tfre nnt voting the ultimate result ig stiß doubtful. -Il's'a little early but already several serious accidents have been i*portt'd because tall corn blocks tjje view for motorists. There are rtlo things to be done to prevent tjis. First is that drivers should nee caution when approaching such corner and the farmers as soon as tlfpy can should cut the corn Ugck at these points. • We, believe the best tonic this eemmjnity could have would be au advertising campaign. While tjis may be a between season its important that we keep our chins r|> and every time you spend a dolhrr for newspaper advertising you are doing much to help your community get over the slack business condition. -I’oljee are watching for those who ppeed on the streets of De- ~ FmiENTS ON YOUR FURNITURE, CAR. RADIO, ETC. IF YOUR MONTHLY PAYMENTS on furniture, radio, car, etc., are taking too much out of your income, . why-not pay ail or part of them off witjj a loan from us and take advantage of our low weekly or monthly payments? We will lend you up . to |3OO on your own signature and ■ security—no indorsers necessary—and on terms that will give you more time aod much smaller payments. franklin Security Co. Over Schafer Hdw. Co. Phone 237 Decatur, Ind. w fc; ■ ——— ;

t atitr. Recently It has been reported that a number of cars engage in racing on North Fifth and North Second streets and officers have been asked to keep their eyes on ' those law violators. It is a dangi rous practise to race on ,city streets and it continued is sure to result in an accident either to those in the car or some pedestrian. It should bo stopped and quickly. lamks as though the special session will complete its job by reducing almut everybody and everything but so far no one has suggested a means whereby we can make enough money to pay taxes, even though they are lowered. After all its better to earn money and to do that we must have some activities. Once we get to the bottom we can start going upward and that will be a glorious time for every one. No one enjoys the present steps but under all conditions they are necessary - If the robberies, hold-ups and safe blowings continue, it might help to rid the city of the tramps and beggars. We have noticed an unusual number of them the past week or two and these men, desperate and reckless, may be the ones who are putting on the midnight sprees. In a number of cities, these men are given short notice to move on and if they don't do it they are either sent out or placed tn custody and that may be necessary every where if safety is desired. The policy which Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic nominee for president, is pursuing in interviewing leaders in the business world is a good one. It shows that Gov. Roosevelt is not going on the theory that he knows it all. It shows that he is going to listen to persons other than those who worked to bring about his nomination. As the campaign goes on the nation will learn that Mr. Roosevelt is a broad-minded, tolerant, frank and able statesman, whose years of rublic service and whose fine qualities of character ideally fit him to lead the nation at a time when the co-operation of all groups is so vitally important. — Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. _, o « ——♦ Household Scrapbook — By— ROBERTA LEE Clean Hands, Make a good hand-cleaning paste by dissolving 2% pounds of white soap in 5>4 pints of hot water. As it cools and sets, stir in one pound of fine sand. The Coffee Pot If coffee is to be good, tlbe coffee pot must be kept clean and sweet. Try putting a tableslpoon of soda in the pot, fill with water and let it lioil fra few minutes. Then 1 rinse with boiling water. Do this about once a week. An excellent remedy for dysentry is to take the whisked white of an egg two or three times daily. o * TWENTY YEARS ? AGO TODAY 1 From the Daily Democrat File > - - - ______ « Special music at Presbyterian Church by Fred Hubbard and Frederica. Three girl baibies increase Decatur's population today, born to families cf John Kiracofe, Simeon Haines and Fred Harrington. Decatur beats Monroeville 10-7 Bruce Patterson returns tome fter several weeks in Winona. | Mrs. Anna Boese and Marie Heck- | man are in Dayton on business this week. Mrs. Wm. If. ißerling and ba'by cf Bluffton visit here. 11. L. Merry spends week end in Nottawa Mich. Mrs. Chester Imler and sister, Edna Steele leave for Attica for few days visit. Mr. and Mr I *. Will Vesey, Mr. and Mis. Dick Vesey spend day at John Niblick home. Miss Mayrne Deininger is spending several weeks in Northern Michigan and (Illinois. — o NOTICE —My cider mill will run Tuesdays and Thursdays starting Aubust 2. Earl Tumbleson. Bobo Indiana. klB2-3tx NOTICE —No hunting or trespassing on my farms. Anyone doing ; so will be prosecuted. W. F. Hilpert, R. 8 180t3x eod I

- Bacchus in Bondage Awaits Release by Repeal * * * * ♦ ♦ One Million Bottles of Choicest Champagne Gather Dust and Cobwebs in Sandusky, 0., Looking Forward to a Wet America. Zi ■ z w’''W' 'St t HaEsS ; ’ V'i 1 y *- E—! " CUE O* MIGHABL HotTMfil, TURNING THE In a aloomy cellar in Sandusky, Ohio, serving as an anchorage for innumerable cobwebs and covered with layers of dust are more than one million bottles of the finest champagne, carefully preserved against the day when the act that made the aristocrat of beverages an outlaw may be abrogated. It >• the stock of the famous Hommel winery which once formed one of the Ohio city’s major industries. Established nearly fifty years ago. the Hommel cellars are famous throughout the world for the excellence of their product. Michael Hommel the founder, was brought from France to St. Louis to manage a winery and he rapidly acquired fame as an artist in winemaking. His product won a gold medal at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and later won a grand prize at St. Louis. Hommel died 25 years ago, but his son. William, seemingly inherited his talents, for he is now employed as a wine maker by the Canadian government. Michael • widow ia •till living and resides in a house adjacent to her famous cellars, in the event of prohibition repeal, Mrs. Hommel will become a very rich woman—considering that one pays anything from $lO to $25 for a bottle of “sham-pagne” in any of our night clubs. Meanwhile the cellars are being run at a dead loss, the small sales for medicinal purposes being insufficient to pay for the work of keeping the wine in condition—the posttioD of each bottle must be changed periodically—and keeping the giant presses in repair so that they caa be started up at once, if and when prohibition is repealed.

SANDUSKY. O. —In these days of national travail, while the world is waiting for the sunshine ’to break through the dark clouds of depression, there are more than one million bottles of that same sunshine imprisoned in a gloomy cellar of this thriving city. Champagne, made famous by the great Hommel. Sparkling wine of the gods. Dancing sunbeams, im- 1 prisoned by the fruit of countless grape vines and liberated by man's: agency, only to be incarcerated once more in a glass fortress. One million bottles of the aristocrat of beverages doomed to serve as an anchorage for numberless spider webs, while the owners patiently await the word that will loose its golden flood on the repeal of the prohibition laws. The champagne is gathering: dust and acquiring mellowness in the winery of M. Hommel. which once formed one of Sandusky's! major industries. Automatically consigned to imprisonment when the prohibition law came into' effect in 1919, the vast cache of liquid sunshine has been carefully preserved against the day when; the act that made it an outlaw would be-a brogated. The Hommel cellars were estab-, lished nearly fifty years ago by Michael Hommel. famous throughout the world as a wine-maker par excellence, who had been brought from France to St. Louis to man-' * RADIO PROGRAM ( I* = *1 1 Thursday's 5 Best Radio Feature Copyright 1932 by United Press | WABC —CBS network 5:00 p. m.—: Cliff Edwards (Uketele Ike) I WEAF —NBC network 5:45 p. m.—, The G Idbergs. WJ —NBC network 5:45 p. m. —! Gene Austin. WABC —CBS network 7:15 p. m.— ■ Mills Brothers. WJZ —NBC network 9:00 p. m. — Pickens Sisters, Friday’s 5 Best Radio Features Copyright 1932 by UP. Central Standard Time WABC, CBS network, 3:30 p. m. —Skippy. WJZ. NBC network. 4:15 p. m. — : Graham Prince and Orchestra. WWEAF, NBC network, 8 p. m. I —Paul Whiteman and Orchestra. WABC, CBS network, 8:15 p. m. —Fray.and Bragglotti .Piano team) WEAF, NBC network. 10 p. m. — Dream Singer. Saturday's 5 Best Radio Features WEAF. NBC network, 3:30 p. m. — Melodic Gents. WJZ, NBC network, 5:15 p. m. — Frankie Master's Orchestra. WABC, CBS network, 8 p. nt. — Ruth Etting. WJZ, NBC network, 8:45 p. m.— Object Matrimony (Comedy i. WABC, CBS network, 8:45 p. m. —Coral Islanders. o ♦ * PROGRAM FOR Y. P. MEETING SUNDAY NIGHT ♦ ♦ The Young People’s Council of Religious Education of Hartford township will hold its monthly meeting at the Union Chapel Methodist Episcopal church Sunday evening. August 7 at 7 o'clock. The speaker of the evening will

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i, age a winery. His work in the I Missouri city so impressed a > wealthy Ohioan that the latter induced Hommel to come to SandusII ky where he rapidly acquired ■I fame and fortune. Michael Hommel died about 25 I years ago. but not before he had ■ won a reputation as the greatest ' artist in the wine business. 1 Hommel’s product won a gold t modal at the Pan-American Expo- : sition in Buffalo, N. Y., and later l won a grand prize at St. Louis, ft I would appear that he passed his gifts on to nis son, for William II Hommel. who was born in a house • above the wine cellar, is rated among the foremost winemakers i in the world and is at present in i the employ of the Canadian gov- ■ ernment in that capacity. The storage place of the huge quantity of champagne -in Sandusky is under Federal bond ami the golden wine may be sold for sacramental purposes only. In certain of our States, champagne may also be sold for medicinal purposes on the prescription of a physician, ; but sales of this kind are not | enough to pay the expense of the i Federal agent sent to the winery 1 at regular intervals to inspect it. | Meanwhile the winery is being ruq at a dead loss. For keeping j the vast cache is not a matter of paying the rent only. Champagne must Iri’ eartsi for. An even tem--1 perature must be maintained in i bo the Rev. A. R. Farrar of Geneva. An interesting feature of the pro 'gram will be the rendition of sevlera’ musical numbers by the Boy's Vested Chair of the Decatur Zion | Reformed church. The complete 'program for the evening follows: | Song service—Directed by Lloyd Munro. ! Devotionals. Song—Boy’s Choir. Convention report—Gordon Holloway. Song—Boy’s Choir. Address—Rev. A. R. Farrar.

Victims of Student Nephew Ih [A' 1 J ‘ gffl \ .. V * wr ' r~ ■ . L~ Here is a recent photo of Mrs. Lillian Babcock, Manila society matron and her husband, William Rider Babcock, president of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Association, Olympic games delegate and wealthy merchant. Mrs. Babcock was stabbed to death and her husband was seriously wounded by their nephew, George Douglas Templeton, Jr. (inset) University of California junior, while they slept in their Los Angeles home. The youth stated in his confession that he committed the crime because he believed Babcock had wronged his father. >

e the cellars and each and every one 1 of the million bottles requires in--1 i dividual attention from time to 1 time. The bottles must not be I allowed to remain too long in one 5 position, but must be turned reI peatedly if the excellent quality of t their contents is to be kept unim- ’ paired. 1 The big wine presses, too. must . be preserved for future use in the r event of the prohibition law being t thrown into the discard. All this . care of the wine and equipment J for its manufacture takes money. . So you see, it is not so easy to I keep one's treasure once the 3 wheels have stopped turning. I The value of the store of eham- . pagne is a matter of conjecture. . But one can form a reasonable . estimate by comparison to the cost of a bottle of the "champagne" i that produces very real pain on the morning after. The best night dills charge anything from $lO to $25 a bottle for what they assert 5 is genuine champagne. Consider then the value of one million bottles of the wine, the authenticity . of which is beyond question —a i nice little nest egg. The widow of M. Hommel, who lives in a house adjoining the i winery may still get some return, fl from the labors of her husband. For if the liquor laws are repealI eil, she will find herself a millionII aire overnight. Song—Boy's Choir. Offertory. Remarks County officials. Secretary's report — Josephine , Sales. • I Song—Boy's Choir. Benediction. o You are assured of the high dollar at the Decatur Community Sale. Tuesday, Aug. 9th. Need cash? lou can turn that surplus stock into cash here.

* Answers To Test Questions Below ar« the Answer* to the Test Questions Printed on Pago Two. * 0 * ■ “ 1. Proved Is correct; proven B archaic. 2. Winds. 3. U-20. 4. Copper and tin. 5. Chicago. 6. Four brothers, one sister, ana two half-brothers. 7. Algebra. 8. Famous actress. 9. Two hundred and fourteen. 10. Robin Hood. t PREBLE NEWS” .— ♦ Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Henry of Laketon spent lliursday visiting in Preble. Elizabeth Spade of Peterson visited Mr. and Mrs. Otto Dilling and family Thursday. Mrs. Robert Bentz and s ns of Indianapolis visited Mr. and Mrs. Eli Goldner, Thursday. Dr. and Mrs. Roy Goldner and family of Lansing Michigan visited ' with Mr. and 'Mrs. E. A. Goldner and Mr. and Mrs. ffrvin Goldner! dver tiae week end. Walter and Arnold Conrad visit- I ed with Mr. and Mrs. George Bultemier and family Sunday. Fred Llnneniier of Fort Wayne is visiting his mother and brother Mrs. Katherine Linnemier and I Rud. Iph Linnemier. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar 7.1 nmerntan and daughter Onlee dpent Sunday i afternoon in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Wm. Ftietag and Marylin Hoffman visited Mr. and Mrs. A. iHoffmin and family of Wolcottville Sunday. They were accompanied home by Kenneth Hoffman who will spend several days visiting at the Frietag home. Mrs. Lena Sd'arock and Berneta Hoffman of Corunna visited Mrs. Milton Hoffman and family Tues-1 1 day. Betty Wallace of Rochester is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bru-,

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CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT I SHOULD have known better ‘ than to bedevil myself with such questions. I have been with Thateher Colt too many years not to know better. The man never does anything without some basis in sound reason. Colt had seen something in that photograph which had escaped me —had escaped us all. What could it be? I confess I looked with new interest at the framed portrait which Captain Henry presently brought Into the room. There was the same smiling, youthful face. But what clue looked out at us from within the borders of the chased silver f rame ? Still I could find nothing whatever. Thatcher Colt received the photograph from Captain Henry and with a smile sent the old fellow back to Center Street. I am sure he wished to remain. Without waiting for the door to close, the Commissioner went back to his argument. “The final proof, gentlemen, is just now in my hands. The case has come to an end. The facts are complete. It remains only to place them before you, and to arrest the guilty person.” We looked at him like freshmen, absorbed in a lecture we found glamorous. There was a tenseness, like electricity, trembling in the air. What revelation would be uttered here in the next five minutes? Colt held uj the photograph. “As some of you know,” he went on quietly, “I was drawn to this photograph from the moment I saw it. It seemed to be the face of' someone I had seen before. The features evoked a recollection in my mind. Yet for a long time I could not identify them. “But logic settled that question, within two hours, I made a mental breakdown of that photograph. Whose eyes did it suggest? Whose mouth? Whose short, peaked ears? I got a little way with that—but I needed proof. Then I unframed this i portrait and got the name of the French photographer. By the telephoto process I sent that picture to Paris and asked the chief of police to investigate. “Meanwhile I was making other researches by cable. To my infinite surprise I learned that Lola Carewe had lived alone in London and in Paris. Who, then, was the charming old gentlewoman she had introduced to us here aj her mother? Was she a stage mother, family front for nobodies, as I have heard Is an old Hollywood custom? "Then, by a quirk of fancy, my mind went back to a moment last ■

Money Man The appointment of Frank C. iValker (ahovx) as treasurer cf the Jemocratic National Committer has net with general approval in party circles. Mr. Walker, a native of Montana and resident of New York, s a lawyer He will direct the cam- I i >aign for funds for the Democratic ! nationa 1 driva | sick and daughter Susan Ellen and i son Bobby. — Boy Handcuffed Mother I Portland, Ore. —(UP) —imagine the consternation of Mrs. E. A. Dan-1 ’ iels when her small son snapped a i pair of antiquated handcuffs about, ■ her wrists and couldn't find the key i The neighbors looked suspicions I when she asked f ;r a file and anythe steel was too tough. She fin- ; ally walked to a fire station, holdI ing her hands under her apron, and Police Sergeant Foote found a key | that would fit. AteohaG Good U«e Nearly 50,000,000 gallons of nice hoi are used each year In the radiators of automobiles t" prevent freex- , ing.

■ night in the Crystal Room of the Ritz. Two girls—cinema perforImers —in blue, and a dowager mother were presented. I learned that the dowager was not really the girls’ mother. She was hired by the motion picture company to give the girls a family background. Such things were done. Lola Carewe had been in the movies and was thinking of going back again. Perhaps she had a hired mother, too, then—and perhaps after her marriage she found it impossible to get rid of her. “A cable to London soon settled that. Lola’s mother died immediately after Lola’s birth. These reports confirmed my suspicions. Lola had entered the United States alone. “I thus reasoned—and correctly —that the old lady we knew as Mrs. Carewe was a fake. She was an actress, hired to play the part. What was her hold on Lola? Perhaps she had blackmailed Lola—the blackmailer blackmailed—and thus held on to her job. But being a sentimentalist she insisted on having a plain room, such as she had always known. i “The two of them must have . known a lot about each other!” Colt’s voice was now very clear ‘ and distinct. He had told “Mrs. Carewe” tp keep her doc open. I had no doubt that she could hear , distinctly every word that was said. But there was no outburst, not even the sound of crying. Apparently, the old woman was taking it with the immobility of a stoic. • “This altered the situation,” Colt went on, his voice resonant and clear. "Even the most hardened policeman hesitates to accuse a mother of murdering her own child. But we were being more and more forced to that conclusion. There are no miracles. There were no secret doors. From the yery first Dougherty had said it was an inside job —and from the very first I have believed him. Moreover, I had put my hand on the old woman’s head —and found that her hair was wet! ‘lt was then that the information was received that gave me what I might call the impelling clue. “M. Dupont stated in his wire that the father and mother of Basil Boucher had been in the business of supplying hospitals with specimens! “There was the connection established over what had seemed to me an abyss in my reasoning. How could an old woman, hired to play a part of mother, know anything about scorpions from a remote region of Mexico? “There seemed to be no answer to that question. But now! The skies cleared in my head. I saw • the likeness—of course it was clear!

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Hie same sharp cheek-bones, slamfg r t'-nfl had I not nr.nn gether? I remember. n.y puM ment that no dead i: - ”, wasfoifl near the body of Lo a. Then membered who had ■ . ministeringly wh< ' «e :.fl her. I remembered, t , that *ifl Lola shrieked, all r„ : ■ nerfl sistance. But Mrs. t.areae amfl late —with the skill :' a cjr;uifl she had taken advai'aire ci tfl misdirection, whim concentrated elsew!.. to hi'dfl Christine’s body ar . fl floor. And 1 recalled. ' hew fl had accused Rowlard m her s.fl —the stenographic :■ rd of 'fl Lox shows that convetsatien a too direct, too lucid, t.. 1•• a part a dream phantasm. I i ad one mi job to do. I called M. Dupont the telephone and a- < ■! him to back to that photogra| i er—to 1 him if there were any . i.er picttr of Boucher —any of l.i" fathers mother—.and wire tl. m 1 ack to as fast as the tel< i ' re procs could make it. Or to s< nd me t cartes d’identite. “I have just received a piett from Paris. Captain .'!■ ry brag it to me, just as it «as develop off the receiving n:a' ’■ It sho a boy and his mother. 1 want J to take one look.” We crowded around him. 1 sight made us gasp. Mother and son had been tak together; she seated in an « fashioned rococo chair a id he—B sil Boucher — standing reverent behind her, the woman »e knew Mrs. Carewe. “Revenge!" cried Thatcher Col “For the death of that boy, who she regarded as destn yed, M and soul, by Lola. Lola had nevi seen her. Her path was long >■ devious. She got the job -and t* Bl ed long. She even went so w' to involve Lola in her plans lieve she made Lola buy the sc o pions which killed her. having n tempted her into planning mur —of Guy Everett and ChnstM Only a mind maddened by could plot so long and sc steak ' —delaying the pleasure of n’ ur —and kill an ii. orcnt gm ’ Christine who probably had > dentally learned the truth, deaths, to revenge the ruin of a in France years ago-— There was the sound rible rattling as if life and ® were struggling in a human thro We heard the voice of Dorothy ■ remonstrating—noise of a ' Then the sound of running 1 the crash of glass, twenty-. 1 floors above the street, a stifle 1 and a gust of cold wind. The killer of Lola and Chr tine would never stand trial. THE END , . . Copyright 19.41. hy Covici ' " Distributed by King ieaiuiw bynO- '