Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1933 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published mr a THE Every Eve- DECATUR nlng Except DEMOCRAT Sunday by CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Poet Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller ....Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse..Sec'y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies I .02 One week, by carrier 10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail 35 Three months, by mail .. 1.00 Six months, by malt 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prizes quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere $3 50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER, Inc. 115 Lexington Avenue. New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Homo Dailies. The Santa who used to just step in and get a handful of gold pieces from the bank tor distribution as Christmas gifts is out of luck tlus year ill more ways than one. Its no picnic to serve as a prison guard these days. A. H. Baumeister, an old timer at Michigan City was terribly stabbed yesterday but managed to prevent an escape of prisoners. He’s a hero but at rather terrible iprice. Help the Good Fellows club. Thia is about the last call for that splendid cause. Every penny of the money will be used to give toys and clothing to the poor kiddies. bet’s make it a Merry Christmas for all. Abe Rosen, the Gary unlicensed beer dealer may find out that he is after all, not the law. Most folks who set themselves up as bigger than their courts and government, discover they are after all just ordinary folks, subject to all the rules and regulations that others are. If you are doubtful about the work along the river being an improvement, step down and take a look at what has already b“en accomplished. We warn you in advance you will be agreeably surprised. The boys are doing a fine job and will do much more. Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh have completed a little 30,000-mile jaunt which took them over a large portion of the globe, arriving in New York yesterday for a big Christmas with their little son Jon. Every one is glad they are safely home and wish them the cheeriest season's greetings. Business is better here and all over the country. A survey of the large cities shows an increase in retail sales of from three to 33%. One Decatur merchant tells us his business has increased an average of more than fifty per cent over last year during the past month and practically every store has a report of satisfactory gains. There is a cause for it of course—perhaps many of them but they can be rolled into one —Roosevelt and his fight for the people. This county is a hundred years BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS ?]T Grttiinqglj SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS

old and many pioneer familleti have passed on. No relatives are left to care for their grave*. Surely then it becomes the duty of the r generation now living to do so. They helped make this country a better place In which to live and 1 we owe them some respect. Now this work of cleaning the old ceme- '■ teries can be made a part of the public works program and is being used In many places to provide employment. We are sure nothing ’ can be done in this county which I would be more generally approved. ' The bank deposit insurance law, I i guaranteeing deposits up to $2,500 1 and later to SIO,OOO will become effective January Ist. It Is believed this will tend to restore complete confidence iu banks, increase the deposits and eventually assist those who are required to borrow. The plan has required much work and will almost completely revolutionize the banking business, in the hope that losses in banks will be a thing only talked about in the "way back when’’ columns. A year ago cotton was 5 cents a pound and the growers thought 10 cents would be a good price; Now it is 10 cents and they want more because the price of the things the cotton grower has to buy has risen as much, if not more. But if cotton went to 20 cents what would prevent other prices from going up too? it would be a happy world if we could have infiation for what we sell and deflation prices for what we have to buy. — Attica Ledger. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace still refuses to go along with the inflationists and in his annual report takes occasion to repeat his warning that currency Inflation is “not a cure-all for farmers’ troubles.” In some quarters part of the program put in effect by Secretary Wallace has been regarded as sufficiently radical to meet the requirements of some of the Nonpartisan Leaguers and others, but inflation is not in his program. He has faith in the gold-purchasing policy of the administration and said: "It may not have any great effect for some time on live stock and dairy prices. Eventually, however, most of our raw material prices should rise to the extent to which the gold in the dollar is reduced.” He much prefers the program of economic planning as provided in the agriculture adjustment act to any other means of aiding the farmer. A few weeks ago a group of ten or twelve Western Governors went on record as favoring inflation and a delegation visited Washington to urge their program. The pressure undoubtedly was tremendous, but Wallace refused to be stampeded. The secretary may be misunderstood on some things, but his declaration against inflation is perfectly clear. —Newcastle Courier-Times. o TWENTY YEARS 1 AGO TODAY From the Dally Democrat File * 4 Decatur 43 Fort Wayne 28. Ramona, Dorothy, Gretchen and Richard- Smith, Lois Peterson. Louva Stoneburner and David Hensley attend Shrmers Christmas party in Fort Wayne. E. L. Carroll is called to Bellfontaine by death of mother. Missus Ida and Lydia Qunsett entertain Little Quilters with Xmas party. Tri Kappas study German opera i at home of Miss Frances Dugan. Mrs. Nettie Schrock and daughter, Bess, are spending three weeks in Indianapolis with Mrs. Oren Smith. Mrs. D. D. Heller and Mrs. J. W. Tyndall attend the matinee production of “Garden of Allah’’ in Fort Wayne Francis Stephenson arrives hose from Indianapolis where be is attending high school. Mrs. Walter Kauffman and daughter Katherine return from several weeks visit in Hammond. I o Huge Gold Nugget Mined Albuquerque, N. M. — (U.R) —The largest nugget of gold ever mined in New Mexico, according to generally accepted tradition, was taken from a mine in the Oritz mountains northeast of here. The nugget reportedly brought $3,400.

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Answers To Test Questions Below a?e the Answers to the Test Questions Printed on Page Two. ♦ — —♦ 1. Jonathan Swift. 2. Radio-Keith-Orpheum. 3. David Copperfield. 4. Thomae Hood. 5. Col. Henry Shrapnel of the British army. 6. Hamilton, New York. 7. An English astrologer. 8. April 2, 1865. 9. The principal character in Edward Noyes Westcott's novel of the same name. 10. Emerson Hough. o • — 4' Household Scrapbook —BY—ROBERTA LEE ♦ —♦ Cold Weather If the child's legs from above I the knees down, are wrapped with 1 newspat>ers, under his leggings, it ' will keep his arm while out playing ■ in the enow. Fur Rugs Saturate fur rugs that have I moth larvae with gasoline. The fur | will be ruined unless some action i is taken. Washing Dishes There will not be so many dishes to wash if the baked foods are prepared in glass dishes or earthen casseroles. See that the dishes are pretty enough to appear on the table. JURY INDICTS SEVEN INDIANA UTILITY HEADS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) report stated, could serve the public efficiently at rates 50 per cent i below those now charged. In the Insull utility empire setI up the Northern Indiana Public • Service was controlled by Midland ■ Utilities, a holding company with i offices nominally in Indianapolis but actually controlled from the Chicago offices of Samuel Insull, Sr. , Through interlocking director- . ates the management of the oper- ’ ating unit and the holding companies were able to transfer assets 1 at will and according to the grand jury, always to the detriment of • the supporting company at the bot- ’ tom, which produced and sold 1 electricity while the holding companies took the profits. The report revealed an alleged • $L(|.000,000 bookkeeping ‘'error" I purposely made to deceive the Indiana Public Service Commission ) allegedly made in 1929. Another - charge was that properties, in many instances worthless, were 1 transferred to the Northern Indiana i Company through a system ol interlocking directories for the purpose of "milking the Northern Indiana Public Service of its surplus s earnings.” 1 The report asserted that the - funds and assets of the operating - company still are being ''constant- • ly depleted by the domination of - Midlaud Utilities and other parent organizations of the Insull group.”

Huge expense accounts forcer- 1 tain officials, covering trips to < California and Atlantic City and the sending of vast quantities of | flowers to hotels, were described, in the report as unjustified charges against the Northern Indiana Public Service. ' An investigation by the Indiana Public Service Commission and the Federal government with a view of forcing a reduction in rates was urged. The grand jury asserted it ’ was convinced the company, if not burdened with the task of supporting holding companies and helping weaker affiliates, could serve the public efficiently at rates 50 per cent below those now charged. S’ccording to the grand jury re- ' port, the 1929 report of the rompany to the Public Service Commission showed an item ot $7,320,000 J as a balance invested from surplus earnings and reserves, whereas the item should have been carried as , a red ink figure of $2,679,000. o ■ Liquor Cut her Alimony Merced. Cal.—(U.R) —Mrs. Isabel - Vaglino receives only half the alimony she did from her divorced husband, John. A superior court judge reduced tlie alimony from 1 $12.50 weekly to $6.50 weekly when Vaglino proved she had been bootlegging and had a comfortable in1 come from that source.

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CHECKS MAILED TO THIS COUNTY 1 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) **•••*•»•»•-** .****•*. • kota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington, wheat section officials say. The wheat campaign was later in this region titan in other sections. Payments made to states to date, including those announced previous to this week are: Colorado . $ 7,176 Illinois 270.065 Indiana 749,964 lowa 135.572 Kentucky 32.885 ■ Kansas 4.935.488 i Maryland 442.472 | Michigan 128.821 Minnesota 207.000 Missouri 496.442 Nebvraska 278.813 Nevada 15,985 i New York 6.557 North Carolina 8.101 Ohio 723,781 Oklahoma 86,026 Oregon 2.751 Pennsylvania 369 South Dakota 42.100 Texas 253.613 Utah 80,330 Virginia 283,267 West Virginia 28.889 o Get the Habit — Trade at Home

REDUCTIONS IN DECATUR RATES GIVEN APPROVAL (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | rates, which apply to all user* of city light and power will total between $12,000 and $15,000 a year. Schedule of Rate* The schedule of rates us adopted by the council follows: Resident and office lighting rate: First 50 KWH per mo 06 I Next 100 KWH (per mo. ....05 All over 150 KWH per mo. .04 If not paid by 20th of month following service a collecting charge ot 10% will be added. Minim i* charge of .50 per mo. Power Rate: per Mo. First 200 KW<H 05 Next 100,000 KWH .02 All over 100,200 KWH .01% ; Minimum charge of .50 per HP. | per month for connected load. No maximum demand or energy | charge. Combination rate, for residence | lighting, power, heating and all appliances: First 50 KWH per mo 06 Next 50 KWH per mo. .04 All over 100 KWH per mo .03 If not paid by 20th of month following service, a collecting charge of 10% will be added. Minimum charge of $1.50 per mo. Business rate. Lighting, power, heating and display lighting: First 5o KWH per mo. .06 Next 250 KWH per mo. .05 All over 300 KWH per mo 04 If not paid by 20th of month following service a collecting charge of 10% will be added. Minimum charge of $2 per mo. Rural rate: Lighting .06 per KWH per month. if not paid by 20th of month in which due a collecting charge of 10% will be added. Minimum charge of $1 per mo. Cooking and heating only: First 50 KWII per mo. .04 Next 25 KWH per mo. .03 All over 75 KWH per mo.. .02% Minimum charge of $1.50 per mo. Separate meter required. Power: First 200 KWH per mo 05 All over 200 KWH per mo. .08’4 Minimum charge of .50 Ter HP., per month for connected load. Street lighting: .02 per KWH flat, per month and I maintainance charged at cost. Other utilities, Monroe and. Pleasant Mills: First 1.000 KWH per mo. .05 All over 1,000 KWH per mo. .02% Minimum charge of $45 per mo. One installation for stoves free, all other installations charged at

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cost. A power customer using more I |than 10,000 KWH per month will ! be allowed to use lighting at the I I same rate as power. Department will use their own - judgment in asking customers for , a meter deposit. Federal Police Force Beit Austin, Tex. (U.Pj -- Dr. C. M. Rosenqulst, adjunct Professof of I Sociology at the University of Texas believes a federal police force Ils the best remedy for the present! day crime problem. Because the I power ot municipal, county und 1 state officials is limited geograph- 1 Ically, they cannot hope to cope 1 with the Criminal and his modern means of escape, the professor ' said. Q — Get the Habit — Trade at Home

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