Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 3 February 1934 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published hra THE Every Eva- DECATUR oitig Except jKg DEMOCRAT Sunday by SZL CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Pott Office a* Second UlaM Matter. 11. Heller Pree. and Gen. Mgr. A. K. Holthouse..Sec'y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: SlnglA. copies...™ 1 One week, by carrier 10 One year, by carrier 5 00 One mouth, by mall -35 Three..H>onths, by mail 100 Six months, by mail...™ — 1.7& One year, by mail 3 00 One year, at office...™ —3.00 Frizes quoted are within Brat 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 ot Home Dailies. With all these wild boys —kidnapers, murderers, bank bandits, and general desperadoes locked up in secure jails, every one should be feeling-several degrees safer. The groundhog hung around until about noon yesterday and then the sun came out and the old boy saw hie shadow and dodged back in for six weeks. Well, we would have had the weather any way. Dillinger says he couldn't possibly have beeu in East Chicago on the 15th. but a lot of folks who saw him there when he shot a policeman firmly believe that the impossible has happened. An up-to-date parking lot or two would be helpful to every business man because of the great convenience it would be for visitors to the city. That would be a worth while imi rovement. . a Verne Sankey is willing to plead guilty to about every thing he is accused of. except the murder of the Lindbergh baby, lealizing that if that is fastened on him, salt peter won't save his neck. Mr. Insull seems as reluctant to leave Greece as he was to go sailing away from America. We can understand how attached he is to his adopted country. It's such a nuisance to be moving all the time. Winners in the penmanship contest may never hfear the cheers of the fans but they are in line for good jobs when they mature and after all that's worth considering also. t The sugar plant will be sold at eleven o’clock Monday and with all due respect to others who have an eye on it, every one here hopes the present managers may be the successful bidders. They have proven their desire to be fair with farmers and employes and to operate the business in such manner as is best for every one concerned. There has been too much publicity of the Dillinger crew of bandits and too many feature stories, tend ilng to make heroes of these desperate killers. As a result, tho expected revival of bank banditry has opened all over the country and these crimes must be charged to some one else. Eventually they all meet the same fate. Dr. Ross of Muncie is out on a month s parole and there are rumors he may be permitted to continue his freedom if he behaves himself. Roas quarreled with a street car conductor over bis fare and killed him. At the time it soemod like a terrible crime and

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was ot course, but compared to some of the modem criminals who are serving the same sentence, he doesn't appear such a deep, dark p and dangerous man. Needless to say every one here t appreciates the increased hours for the CWA workers. The uew 24- . hour schedule which became effec- • tive yesterday will increase the 1 payrolls and make it possible for several hundred men to keep even ! while maintaining their families J during these trying days. Keep > smiling for within a few weeks. 1 spring will open and with it, a re- ( turn of genuine prosperity, if presI ent plans work out as anticipated. Stock prices are on the raise and there are many indications that this will continue for some time, perhaps until they have again reached the point where they are selling for more than they are worth and then will come another splash. Many stocks are quoted now for less than their cash value but the trouble is that so many of us are on the outside and have no {way of knowing just what these i pretty colored pieces ot paper arc worth. If you are wise you will stay off. According to questionnaires sent out from the office of the state superintendent, teachers who smoke or drink, will not be in good favor. Every teacher must reply, giving an opinion on these habits and at the bottom in bold type is the question. ‘lf there were two applicants of equal qualifications would you select the one who drank or smoked or the one who didn't?” And its important. The children will acquire bad habits soon enough without an example from their teachers, seems to be the idea. The postmaster of Fort Wayne has resigned but we have an idea the folks down that way will still be able to get their mail and that there will be no difficulty in finding some deserving man for the place. Mr. Gallmeyer, who is resigning March Ist, has. we are informed, made a very good record and had been informed by Congressman Farley that he would be permitted to serve his full time. Evidently his statement that he has other plans on foot, with which the postmastership would interfere is on the level. Bids for building the four bridges I on state road 527 have been rejected by the state highway commission because of notification from Washington that the thirty per cent as originally promised cannot be financed by the Federal government. This means the bridges will I be built under the NRA instead of the PWA and will mean a saving of a considerable amount. Yost Brothers who had two of the contracts will no doubt be able to secure their share of the work under the new deal and because of the advantages which follow the letting of this work to local companies. many will hope- they land as many ot the jobs as they bid on. o , TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Dally Democrat File February 3-February term of ( court opens and Judge David E. Smith orders the grand jury to re- ' port in one week. I A. D. Suttles files final report anil is discharged as receiver for the Coppock Motor Car Co. Harry Deam of Bluffton, well 1 knowji here, died this morning in ■ Chicago. T. M. Held elected president of T. P. A, Post X and C. M. Colter, ’ secretary i Dr. Harry Erwin is a candidate , for coroner in Allen county. Fire does ten dollars damage at L tho Haugk building on Madison 1 street. . Roads are bad and rural carriers aro having a tough time getting through snow and mud , Postmaster W. A. Lower notified . that the Bingen postoffice is to be discontinued. ( Miiss Harriet Wcrtzborger leaves for Monroe, La., to take charge of 1 millinery department in large store. i Mr. and Mrs. Carl Adler niom* to the Joseph Beery farm west of L town.

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By HARRISON CARROLL Copyright, 1>34. King Featuru Syndicate. Inc. HOLLYWOOD, .—Bob Richie is shuddering to think what the headlines might have been if he had punched before he looked tlie other evening. The adventure began, like true melodrama, with the telephone ringing eerily in the

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middle of the ■ night. Bo b roused out of sleep to answer. The person at the other end of the wire was Michael Farmer. He said that Jeanette MacDonald had been trying to get Bob for five minutes; that someone was breaking into her apartment. Grabbing a robe, Bub dashed

down two flights of stairs to find ' Gloria Swanson and Michael Farmer (coats wrapped around them) .standing in front of the door. Just .xs Bob entered the apartment, he heard a noise in the kitchen. Another dash, and he flung the door open. There, before him, he aw the shadowy form of a man. Bob hauled off to hit, but in a splitsecond change of mind, grabbed for the light-switch. In the sudden glare was revealed Josef Von Sternberg. Behind him were Jeanette and several other people. It was all a practical joke. But Bob still gets the jitters when he imagines the headlines: “Bob Richie knocks down Josef Von Sternberg in the kitchen of Jeanette MacDonald's apartment.” Tho trial separation of Lupe Velez and Johnny Weissmuller beconws funnier every day. Now it develops that Johnny hasn't even moved out of the house. A youthful driver, trying to make it to school by 9 o’clock, came through an intersection and banged into Ginger Rogers’ car the other morning. Both machines were wrecked, but fortunately no glass broke. Ginger piled out of the car, bumped and bruised but otherwise uninjured. Says Ginger; “I was so seared I knpw my hair had turned white and Il would have to play character parts.” As a matter of fact, she missed

| rHousehold Scrapnook — BY—ROBERTA LEE ♦ — ♦ The Umbrella The rods of the umbrella will not • i on other people’s belongings, i when on a crowded street car, if -a rubber band is wrapped around the lower part of the handle and then slipped over the tips of the rods. Cleaning Pans As soon as lioiling mil-k has been i poured out of a pan, place a cover i over the pan before the steam is- ' capes. Let the pan cool before takj iug off the cover, then fill with cold I watpr and allow it to soak until

unly half a day’s work on “Finishing School.” Katherine De Mille is confiding to friends that she hopes evi ntually to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a motion picture director. So far, the pretty daughter of “C. B.” has confined her efforts to acting. She has a good part in "Viva Villa”—is one of the three women who accompanied the troupe to Mexico—and she is up for an- ! other role at a different studio. You can’t get her to talk much | about her directing ambition. “It’s too early yet,” she says. QUICK GLIMPSES: Don’t be surprised to hear of Lee [Tracy being forgiven and taken back at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. . . . 1 Backed by the reaction of the motion picture exhibitors throughout the country, Warners have notified Joan Blondell that she can’t change her name to Joan Barnes.. . . Since this column ran a story about Ann Dvorak being interested in bacteriology, the star has had numerous

letters from j fans. One queru- ’ lous gentleman complains: “The - idea of you I thinking you can I learn anything I about the subI ject in such a | short time. I’ve | been studying I bacteriology for I 34 yea r s and still haven’t scratched the _ surface.” . . . The fog-horns you’ll hear in “The Gentleman From San Fran-

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cisco” are really the voice of Barney Flynn, property man at Warner Brothers.... Adrienne Ames hasn’t missed a luncheon with Bruce Cabot since he went to work in his new picture at RKO. . . . Sammy Finn (once George Raft’s shadow) writes that he’ll be back in about a week. A little bird whispers there’ll be a surprise awaiting him if he docs. ... Bill Gargan has rented a house at Palm Springs and is moving his family down for three months. . . . And the Warner Brothers’ research department has now amassed 500 photographic reproductions of likenesses of Napoleon. DID YOU KNOW— That Una Merkel w as named Una (meaning “one'') because her mother knew she could never have another baby?

, ready to wash. Removing the Shine ilf the coat collar is shiny, moisten a doth in either vinegar or am- , monia and rub the collar thoroughly C. G. Egly of Fort Wayne was a visitor here a short time this morning- lUIIHUM

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' EARLY RETRIAL. OF C ASE Abhbl) I deadlocked. lie | veal-d that the 12 men had been ZS to agree on the - first queetion raised, on the guilt or cence of Roger Touhy. Factor had identified Touhy M the leader of the gang which abducted him and held him in a basement for 12 days. He identified bchaeffer as a member of a band of a dozen men who seized him and Kator as one of the guards who watched over him. The defense introduced Rev. Joseph Weber, Indianapolis, as a character witness. It was the priest s testimony wnich w-as reported to have had an important part in the minds of some of the jurors. The defendants received news of the deadlock with jubilation. Fac- , tor said he considered the mistrial j a "travesty on justice.” Stewart said he believed that if the jury had continued its deliberations, an acquittal would have ensued. Due to the pressure of other work I Harry W, Thompson is discontinuing his radio service work for the present. Dee. Fryback. local insurance agent, is confined to his home with a severe cold. His condition it greatly improved today. Charles Brock has returned from Indianapolis where he attended the i hardware convention. John H. Yaney of near Celina, ' Ohio today sent his renewal to the 1 Daily Democrat. He has beeu a j subscriber for the past 23 years. Among the Bluffton tans who at- | tended the basket-ball game hero ! Friday night were Mr. and Mis. : Roger Swaim. D. H. Swaim. Frank i Thompson, Mr. and Mi’s. Lew Smitn ' Mr. and Mrs. Homer Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Weickiug, Mr. aud Mrs. Pete Foster, Bob Cummins. Harold VeniS. Junior Warnock, William Spain. Jr. Wendell Paxson, Joe Seabold, Neil Redd, and Miss Dorothy Leimgruber. Marion Michaels of near Monroe was a business visitor in this city today. Miss Josephine Archbold, who I has been ill here several days, will - return to Indianapolis tomorrow to

WHAT IS a ,| ggWMARDENj

Flowering Hedges to Edge Walks ■

LOW bedgea of Strong-growing annuals to be planted along walk*.' particularly between walks and fences, such long narrow strips of, frequent occurrence in the backyards of town lota, have become very popular since their ease of growth and culture have become long* narrow bed. dug the length of the walk and on either side of it. offers a fine opportunity for ornamental planting, while I making the mowing of the lawn much easier by getting away from the edge of the walk. For these hedges there aro several annuals which are ideally adapted. Four o'clocks make miniature roundtopped trees, with dense foliage j 1 1 studded each evening with scores 11 of their salvers of various dainty i colors. The old-fashioned balsam, pinched back early in its growth, gives a beautiful display of its double bloom in attractive coloring for the greater part of the

resume her duties in the office of the state superintendent of public 1 instructions. Miss Marjorie Kerfoot of Bluff ton is visiting Miss Mary Kathryn Hyndall of this city. Cecil Harvey is planning to move to the Niblick farm, east of the Monroe street river bridge. James i Anderson, who recently moved to Kokomo, where he is in charge of a dairy has leased the Dr. S. D. ( Beavers farm, west of Decatur, formerly tenanted by Mr. Harvey. The I Anderson family will occupy the , Beavers farm. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bulmohn. who have resided in Friona. Texas. for the past nine years, have • returned with their family to their ’ temporary home north ot Decatur. Mrs. Bulmohn is a daughter of Mr. > and Mrs. A. J. Bienz and Mr. BuiI mohn is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Wili liam Bulmohn.

summer. The dwarf French like-wise form a regular follaged dwarf .’K, i myriads of velvety. y e!!( , u and mahogany red l,| uoni fire plant. Kochia. j s w ■ used for this purpoK,. Ihat i become almost t<,<, its foliage u always either in its ,-arl> >.as„ n b ‘.*M green or the lai., KlarlM Zinnias mak, H b.-autism ering hedge and ur<>» ta | t to make a more i n ,p reßsiVt than the plants previously Honed. In addition. u wealth of niatnul j for the house. Plan this year ' back yard walk a bod wide along the walk will 'remarkable result... ;n the bloom, if given only d imi t SH tion m the way llzation and < iilt.v..- , n year.

PASTOR'S DEATH IB IS UNEXPLAC® (CONTINUED fl; -M p VIE picked up. Mrs. Saunders Wabash upon !>. i ~ . .... husband’s daeth bn- p„|j, she could as . rib. .-. as. 1 the killing. “Bathers said • . to see Saundei- „:nj . minister had left - . tion of driving f, w aba-b. had been drinkin-- Mathers No trace of tin u 6,,. shooting lias bei .. ■ autopsy showed tr,.>- i... ■ burns were on tie winch indo al not kill himselt ;. Mrs. Sanud-t- . : ■ return of the body '. uflH - ttiis morning. I' will In held t< n. - bash Street chu: