Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1932 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DfcCATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. I. H. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthou.e Scc’y & Hus. Mgr. Pick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Buigle copies „ I .02 Due week, by carrier 10 Dne year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail 35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Hix months, by mall 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 Cae year, at office 3.y0 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 115 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailiea. DeVOSS FOR JUDGE: The Democratic committeemen and women last night elected Huber M. DeVoss, well-known local attorney, as the candidate for judge of the Adams circuit court. It was an interesting event, to which the public was invited and a large crowd witnessed the proceedings which were conducted without controversy. There were sixty-eight party officers entitled to vote and ell were present either in person or by proxy. Only two names were presented, tMtteof Mr. DeVoss and Henry B. Heller and the count showed the sentiment almost equally divided, being even several times as the ballots .were counted out one by one. JThe contest was conducted by the candidates and their friends ouring the past several weeks and was earnestly and vigorously carried out. Mr. DeVoss is a capable and well qualified candidate, deserving of the support of the voters, and will be elected in November. He has practised law here a number of year.s_*nd his early training included a yjjar as deputy clerk, a long servirF as official court, reporter, city c>rk and mayor of Decatur." tn all of which places he demonstrated an industrious devotion to his work. He will assist in the coming campaign and as he stated last gening "expects to meet the workers and the voters in their own JJrecincts and townships between now and election day.” At -last night's meeting, tickets in Washington and Blue Creek townships were also filled, the conuStteemen from those townships holding seperate meetings. The fflterest manifested throughout and the general good feeling are significant of the unbroken front which the Democrats will present in the coming campaign, assuring a victory on November Bth. Mr. DeVoss won a tough battle and is deserving of congratulations, which we assuredly extend. The campaign in Indiana will be real warm only about five weeks, according to present plans of the state committee. The time between now and October Ist will be devoted to organization with occasional

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meetings, but form that day on until November Bth, there will be t plenty going on. Every poll shows j n decided Democratic trend, according to information at hand. lt That party will try to hold and Increase that hold while the RefiubJ' Leans will leave nothing undone to t change it to their advantage. 2 Indiana will get $300,000 of the 0 federal aid money for poor relief. ? maybe. Seems as though to get D it, each county which gets any porjj tion, must show that every thing D possible has been done and no money can be secured and the other’ fellows decide what possible is. In other words the county must be I loaded to the limit and up against a brick wall, before this money is mailable. It all sounds good when being discussed by politicians but getting federal assistance is quite another thing. The farmer's strike has become serious and they are considering I sending federal troops to Nebraska, basing the right on the claim that . the strikers are interfering with inJterstate commerce. That brings , up another very difficult proposition s and one that deserves the earnest thought of good citizens. The . farmers have real complaints but I it is to be hoped the movement will L not reach the stage where military operations are necessary. With a united front Adams county Democrats will roll up an unprecedented majority this year for the entire ticket. If there is any one here who doesn't feel that some changes are necessary in congress and administration, we haven’t heard them express themselves. i The local ticket is one of the I strongest ever named here and there is no question as to the sucI cess in November. Business men along East Madi1 son street complain of sewer gas which during the hot and dry weath- ! er has been any thing but pleasant. We are infomed that the sewer ’ was never extended to the river but haven't the least idea as to what ' the records, if any, show as to that. It does seeem that some at--1 lention ought to be given the matter and corrections made that will 1 properly take care of it. Let's smile it through boys. Times ■ are not what we would have them. I niany things go haywire these 1 days, but after all, that's life. It's ■ up and down, and easy and hard. ' anfl joys and sorrows, and sue- • cesses and failures and a lot of ■ fun any way. Well, if you are going to take l that vacation, get at it. The sum- j : mer is slipping right along and it ■ : will coon be time for school, bus ' . iness and preparations for the tall' i and winter. t o * TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY J — From the Daily Democrat File > _____ Home coming committee selects I t motto "Decatur Can and Will”. Miss Helen Niblick is spending' the week-end in Chicago. Dan Erwin and Joh» Falk are re- ■ modeling Rcss property on Adams Street and building a new house on adjoining lot. Fred Fruchte who suffered a broken leg in a runaway a month j ago is able to sit tup. Miss Maude Migley is recovering from walking typhoid fever. Mrs. Will Butler and daughter, Monai. leave for Lansing, Michigan to visit the Otis Dibble famly. Chris Musser of Berne locked after business here today. Miss Anna Adler returned to Linn Grove after visit with her sister, Mrs. Orval Harruff. Mrs. Andrew Applenun, Mrs. Godfrey Nesswald and daughters are in Coldwater visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Loshe. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Tester are ‘ spending week at Henry Cotta, O. o ■ Tomato Like Doughnut Richmond, Va., —(UP)—A tomato which took the unique form of a doughnut, with a hole and all, was displayed here by N. J. Dacy, R. F. '• D. Dumbarton, Henrico County, who said he found it In his garden. The I tomato weighed nearly a pound. 'O' - Q— — . - (BARGAINS — Bargains in Living Room. Dining Room Suita, Mat- j tresses and Rugs. Stuckey and Co. I Monroe, our Phone number Is 44 ct. j

Solar Eclipse Draws Science To New England *** * ♦ * Savants from American, Canadian, English, Russian and Japanese Universities Flocking with Thousands of Tourists to Conway, Center of Totality • ,' F* s- Eclipse | BBUHBKBHI-I iSKI ■PH \ >, «un | L," ■" | f *' |moom| ./y | How it Happens " \ . r Mramhi f ; ifMR i B| '/n _KB< ® HP? T"' i liißßßir ''* tX, J— 4 jgM.rTI Dr. Oliver, rs- Lbe Capt Barnett Harris

Conway. N. H.—From all corners of the world the scientific observers who will watch the total eclipse of the sun here on August 31 have been arriving by train and plane for days now. This White Mountain hamlet, usually quiet and peaceful, is rapidly being transformed into a great scientific laboratory on which the eyes of the world are trained. For here, according to astronomical data charted years ago, is the focal point of the coming eclipse. Here, mathematicians say, the sun will disappear completely behind the moon at 3:30 in the afternoon of August 31. permitting the magnificent spectacle of the corona to flash into view. Sixteen scientific institutions will have representatives scattered between here and Fryeburg. Maine.

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By HARRISON CARROLL. 1 Copyright, If 12. King Featurei Syndicate, Inc HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 00 ’ —Sherlock Holmes’ famous query, | ‘What <io you make of that, Wat- ( son?” is being paraphrased today ( by Miriam Jor- j _ dan, a newcom- | er to the Fox < lot - She is sa - v - i >ng "What do , r 188 y° u rn »fc® of K •*®' -*jjM that, Miriam?” >BB Along with , ■P ' awarding her a . IL z, | long-term con- i jj» ■ tract, studio ofz - ficials this week , > looked over her ife’Lr’jßßß* tests and or- » A C-> dered her to go to work MonMiriam >« “SherJordan ’°!* Bayard Veil- . ler’s version of the detective of detectives. Under the tutelage of Director William K. Howard, Miriam Jordan will find herself in the company of Clive Brook as the detective, Herbert Mundin as Dr. Watson and Ernest Torrence as Moriarty, Sherlock's arch-enemy. Miriam Jordan is the girl who quickened the eyes of studio scouts when she played here at the Biltmore in “Cynara.” Her other picture work since being signed by Fox is “Six Hours to Live,” the Warner Baxter-John Boles piece. The screen is making heavyraids on that “Cynara” cast, what with Fox signing Philip Merrivale, . its star, to make “The Passing of the Third Floor Back.” Moss Hart has been shown. Hart I is the co-author of “Once in a Life- ' .time,” the Hollywood satire, which among other things depicted a playwright rushed out from New . York and then waiting months to ; get an assignment. He stepped off the boat here on I Sunday, saw Irving Thalberg on Monday and in ten minutes was put to work on a story for M-G-M. BOULEVARD CHATTER Mary Brian took, her mother to the opening of Tom Coakley’s band at the Roosevelt. Mary is taking riding lessons from George O’Brien. Hollywood’s inveterate riding master. . . . Saw Greta Nissen at Fox, talking to Alonzo Stagg, who does more painting than coaching now. Later Greta and husband Weldon H eburn did the Roosevelt Roof Garden together. Martin Flavin's eyebrows project like a roofthatch. . . . “Hang Up Your Hat,” at the Music Box, brought out the music-show fans. Saw Ruth Roland collecting autographs while Ben Bard tried to get her a root beer. The autographs are to surprise a Chicago friend, although Ruth has kept up her own signa-

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s Giant telescopic cameras have already been mounted. Super-power-e fill telescopes have already been e focused on that point in the sky e where the sun will be when the moon passes actoss its face. The last total eclipse in the Uniti ed States, like the coming one. t passed across New Rugland. It e took place on January 24. 1925. The cold was intense, hut crowds - gathered at Haven, Westerly, e R. 1., and on Cape Cod to catch a '. glimpse of it. t' There w ill be no total eclipse visI ible in the United States, after the a one on August 31. for thirteen ■ years, when one will be visible at o sunrise in Idaho. During that : eclipse, scientists say. the sun will 1 be too low to afford valuable obser- - vation. In eighty-live years—in the year

ture collection for years. . . . Frank Fay hit Bobby Vernon for a nickle to buy Barbara Stanwyck a drink. Bobby gave. . . . For her birthday this week, Sylvia Sidney got a Dob-ermann-Pinscher and two matched canaries. . . Charlotte Susa is telling the M-G-M crowd she learned her English from the talkies. . . . Clara Bow will be in from her ranch in a few days. . . . The fellow who watches such things at United Artists got all excited when Ronald Colman announced the Marquis of Annandale in the bathing beauty scene for “Cynara.” Investigation divulged the line had been put in there for an extra supplied by the central casting office. The extra was really the Marquis of Annandale. . . . Broadway loses playwright Brewster Morse to Hollywood. . . . Helene Millard and Geneva Mitchell cast for “False Faces.” . . Helen Twelvetrees is vacationing out of -town. The nursery is all prepared for the October appearance of her baby. . RKO-Radio's contract girls caught 300 mackerel at the beach yesterday. . . Creighton Chaney is on a fishing trip in Oregon. . . . For his first talkie, the Masquers Current Burlesque, Charles Ray is playing a country boy who turns convict. . . They gave Kay Francis a birthday party on the wrong date to surprise her. .«. Wallace Beery greets house guests with a phonograph record of the host’s private opinion of them. With all doubts wiped out by M-G-M’s deciDSHMeMenB sion not to make I ' eBB “Lulu Belle" A wil h°ut Jean BF w,.1 Harlow, plan* W J I for "Red Dust,” *4*’ J the platinum »-.-i, 'amp's current Pictuie, push on Hp top speed. | K M-G-M ha s settled on Mary ygfej&ffi Astor to play L Andre "Red / Dust,” which starts shooting in a few days Jean with Victor Harlow Fleming’s atmospheric hand at the directorial helm. “Red Dust” is laid in Indo-China among the rice paddies, jungles and crimson dust storm. Paramount has bought another “Grand Hotel” type of story. It is “International House,” an original by Lou Heifitz and Neil Brant The locale is an inn in China. No director or cast has been chosen, but it is likely Sari Maritz.a or Sylvia Sidney will play the lend. DID YOU KNOW_ Constance Bennett was captain of her school basketball team and a champion tennis player?

-1 2017—the giant eclipse will be vis--1 ihle across the entire country from i. California to North Carolina. ’ i To the hordes who are hourly ar-1 ' riving In this little town, however. ! the eclipse which is only a little • j more than a week away is the only • ' one which matters. Most of the ' residents and visitors here realize that this rarest of nature's histri- ’ ’ onics is not at all likely ever again ■ to be acted out before their eyes. 1 ; But this eclipse will be recorded , so well and so fully that those who cannot be here to see it will view it anyway later in the newspaper 1 pictures and on the screen. ‘ According to Dr. Oliver Justin Lee. Associate Profe-ssor of Astronomy at Northwestern University, observations of the eclipse will be made from the air. Half a dozen , balloons and airplanes will be used by Northwestern alone. The balloons and airplanes will ascend to ■high altitudes, above any clouds which otherwise might obscure ' vision. Captain Barnett Harris of the ; United States Army Signal Corps will be in charge of a phase of the 'expedition. Captain Harris is * • veteran photographer of eclipses. His plane will carry a battery of four motion picture cameras. Radio broadcasting companies have already brought apparatus here, making ready to broadcast . news of the eclipse over a network 'of stations to all parts of the , vorld. I The shadow created by the eclipse ; will race across the affected area 'at the rate of 2.967 feet per secI end—or more than thirty-three I miles a minute. o * "REUNION * CALENDAR Sunday, August 23 Seventh annual reunion of descendants of the Revolutionary Soldier Thomas Archbold, Harrolds . Landing, Blue Lake. Dillinger reunion, Sun Set pari; Annual Weldy Reunion, Frank Aurand home, Decatur. I Annaul Standiford and Faulkner reI union. Wren, O„ Memorial Park. Wednesday, August 31 Weldy - Beery Family reunion, i Legion Memorial Park. Decatur. Saturday, Sept. 3 Mumma family reunion, Franke i Park, Fort Wayne. Sunday September 4 Roop family reunion, Legion Me- ' morial Park. Annual Brown reunion, Sunset | Park, Decatur. Kelly reunion, Loths Kelly, Monroeville, Indiana. X-abor Day, September 5 Lenhart annual reunion, SunI set Park, southeast of Decatur. Reunion of Millinger family, Suni set Park Decatur. — o— > Answers To Test T Questions j | Below are the Answers to the I Test Questions Printed | on Page Two. ♦ < 1. American Panther. 2. Perfect pigeon blood rubies 3. From Castille. a city in Spain. 4. Five and a lialf to seven and a 1 halt hours. 15. H. Rider Haggard. 6. Grand Dutchess. 7. Cremation. i 8. Watermellon. I 9. No. | 10. Nearly eleven million. Get the Habit — Trade at Home

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To Ute Editor: lit is my desire in writing this letter to correct in the public mind ' ,a wrong impression as to the character of Abraham Lincoln's ancestors. Probably no man in history has been more abused than Lincoln's father, Thomas Lincoln. He hits been labeled as “shiftless and improvident”, "a migratory squatter without strength of character,” "a' man who could neither read or, write”, "an idler, without ambition ' for himself or his children.” Contrtiry to text books add popular biographies, evidence has been found revealing Thomas Lincoln as descended ffrom an old and dis- , tinguished family—a family of at I least moderate wealth, certfun so-1 cial distinction, and very definite, political prestige. Instead of being 1 a squatter, Thomas owned all tiis j homes and other real estate and; wits in good standing with the local I merchants. Thomas went to work ■ as a day laborer, then a carpenter. ' He apparently was a hard worker ' and thrifty, for he bought four dis-l ferent farms und until he became 1 an old man prospered as much as ' the average pioneer. These records show that he was' directly related to the famous Lin-’ coin family of New England, one of his kinsmen being a governor of. Masshchusetts. another a governor* of Maine, and a third Thomas Jes-. fersons attorney-general. His own j grandfather. Lbraham Lincoln Sr., 1 was a prominent citizen and owner, of 5H544 acres of Kentucky Imd' when massacred by Indians in 1786. • His widow lost most of the land through faulty land titles. In denial of the c&rgs that Thomas Linccln was illiterate, a court document signed by him in 1803, six ■ years before the president's birth,; has been found. Although I have been engaged in Lincoln research for more than tef ydjrs, the last four have been de-' voted almost exclusively to examin- I ation of Lincoln's ancestry. This I has come about as a result of a com-! mission given to Paul Manship, not-' ed sculptor, to execute a statue of I Lincoln for the plaza of the Lincoln | National Life Insurance company I building in Fort Wayne. Ind.. He' was asked to depict Lincoln as a ' Hoosier youth of 21, an age at! which no ,photograph of Lincoln exists. To get the data that would enable him to portray Lincoln as a youth, II collaborated with Mr. Manship in a search of ail available Records, and it was in this search thht we found the evidence of the real

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