Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 11 March 1935 — Page 2

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Great American fortunes arc the target of legislation proposed by two outstanding senate leaders, George W. Norris of Utah and Huey Long of Louisiana. Both agree on the principle that the vast wealth concentrated in the hands of a few families should be redistributed, but they disagree on method and extent. Long favors a “share-our-wealth” program which he claims would give

* * Test Your Knowledge { I ! Can you answer seven of these ten questions? Turn to page Four tor the answers. 1. What is the name for tho thorny, dry-ground type of thicket, especially characteristic of Texas. Arizona, New Mexico and old Mexico? 2. Name the four lawyers who defended Bruno Richard Hauptmann. 3. Os what city was the late A. J. Cermak mayor? 4. Who wrote ‘'Looking Backward?" 5 Where are the new U. S. government “baby bonds" being printed? 6. What is the Royal Household of Great Britain? 7. Name the Emperor of Aus-tria-Hungary who died during the

Public Auction We. the undersigned, win sell at public auction on the John Knott farm, one mile west of Willshire, on Road 527, on TUESDAY, March 19,1935 Commencing at 10 A. M. HORSES—4 head of good work horses. 10 HEAD OF CATTLE —Consisting of fresh and springer cows and young cattle. SHEEP—Five head of ewes, will lamb April 1. IMPLEMENTS ANO TOOLS—Words on tractor. Oliver tractor plows. Massey-Harris biniler, Emerson mower, Easy Way hay loader, Rcvk Island hay loader. I. H. C. corn planter, double disc, single disc, cultipacker. Brown-Manley cultivator, walking com plow. 2 Oliver corn plows, Oliver breaking plow. Gale breaking plow, Syracuse breaking plow. Hammer Mill, feed cutter, corn sheller. 3 wagons, spiketooth harrow. 5-shovel cultivator, wagon box. set. hay ladders, grain drill, clover seed buncher, John Deere sulky breaking plow. Sandwitch gasoline engine, International gasoline engine, double shovel plow, manure spreader, set work harness, some horse collars, long handled shovels, scoop shovels, shovel handle®, pitch forks, post augers, garden hoes. Jtarden rakes, clover seed broadcaster, water fountains for chickens, land roller, garden plow. GRAlN—Twenty bushels soy beans. AUTOMOBILE—I924I Model T Fordor Sedan. HOUSEHOLD GOODS—'Perfection oil stove, Quick Meal oil stove, Wilson heater, sofa, kitchen table, walnut drop leaf table, commode, square table, tubs, pans and buckets, pair of curtain stretchers, bed and springs, folding cot, some dishes, bookcase, Universal folding "bench with wringer, buffet. ~ TERMS—CASH. Stetler, Knott and Ervin "Roy S. Johnson, Auctioneer W. M. Patterson.- Clerk bunch will be eerved.

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every family in United States $5,000 free of debt. Norris would increase- the tax levy on fortunes in excess of $10,000,000 from 60 per cent to 90 per cent and devote the income to government service. Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, Andrew W. Melloa and John D. Rockefeller are among the multi-mik Honaires whose fortunes would be the target of. such legislation.

, World War. 8. Where is Charing Cross? 9. Name the chairman of the Home Owners Loan Corporation. 10. Where is the Strait of Belle Isle? • j . 1. Who wrote the novel, "The . House of the Seven Gables?” 2. Name the Roman Catholic Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, New > York City. 3. Name the capital of West Virginia. 4. For whom was the Morse Code of telegraphy named? 5. In international law, what is a belligerent? 6. Name the Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism. 7. What was the name of the imaginary nation of horse* in ‘ I Swift's “Gulliver's Travels?" 8. Who was Robert Emmet? ! 9. Name the capital of Prince j Edward Island, Canada.

10. Who was the author of the I storv "Monsieur Beaucaire?” ANSWERS COURT HOUSE Real Estate Transfers Roland T. Grote et ux to Anna J. Ne&swald, 120 acres of land in Union township for $1 00. Anna J. Nesewald to Roland F. Grole et ux, 120 acres of land in UnSALE CALENDAR March 12—Troutner & Spitler, 2 miles south and 2 miles east of Willshir®, Ohio. March 13—Fred Barker, 3 miles north and 1 mile west of Convoy. Ohio, on Lincoln Highway. March 14—N. J. Wyss, 8% mile® south of Fort Wayne on State road No. 27. Mar. 16—Anna C. Burkhead, so. 13th st., Decatur; 6 room house and 7 acres of land. o— —— XOTUE <*»' FINAL SETTLHMEXT OF ESTATE VO. 3033 Notice is hereby given to the creditors. heirs and legatees of Martin Reef, deceased to appear in the. Adams Circuit Court, held at Decatur, Indiana, on the 30th day of March 1335, and show cause, if any, why the Final Settlement Accounts wjth the estate of said decdeut should not be approved; and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shareu I Harley .1, Reef, Administrator I Decatur, Indiana March 4, 1935. i Attorney Nathan C. Nelson. March 4-11 OAppointment of Administratrix Notice is hereby given. That the undersigned has .been aPß°Biteii Ad* in'inistratrix of the estat* of Lamont Broughton, late of Adams County, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. Lota O. Broughtou. Administratrix Eichoro. Gordon and Fdria. Attys. Mar. 4, 1935 March 4-11-18

The Trustees of Mt. Tabor M.E. church WILL RECEIVE BIDS For Interior Decorating, Painting or Crometex uo until 7 p. m. Wednesday. Specifications at parsonage.

DECATfR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY. MARCH 11, HOT*-

loti township tor $1 QQ. Marriage License Gordon W. Blacker, ice cream manufacturer. Berne, and Agate B. Amttrtz. i»totoai)»r. Berne. Lehr BeideMchies. dairy farmer, Van Wert. Ohio, and Hasel Wise, teacher, route 3, Decatur, —.. 1 ———o ———— — Takes Fire to Firemen Beltadre, 0. —I VP)-This time, the fire was brought to line tire de-

"TRe Cold Finger Curse" * by EDWIN DIAL TORwGEPwSON .

SYNOPSIS During a party at her home, wealthy Mrs. Violet Elderbank is murdered and her jewels stolen. Among the guests were June and Jimmy Kirkman, her neighbors, and their tenants, St. Gregory Valcour, pseudo artist, Glenn Thurber, a newspaper reporter and dignified Douglas W. Coultney, a statistical expert. Marjorie Clarken, Thurber’s fiancee, and Roger Duane, a specialty dancer, are also present. The crime occurred while the house was in darkness ana drums were beating lor Roger 3 Zulu dance. Violet had been summoned to a private telephone in her bedroom. Her maid, Elsie, found her chloroformed and gagged. About that time. Price Merriam, Violet’s secretary and companion, who operated the lights for Roger's dance, had difficulty in turning them on after having put them out for Roger’s entrance. Thurber disappeared during the performance to make a telephone call next door. Valcour had gone there to get some of his paintings for Violet. Elsie the maid claims she was busy in the kitchen when the telephone rang, but both Merriam and Cuppies, the butler, state she was not there. According to Cuppies the call was from the telegraph office stating it had a message from Montreal for Mrs. Elderbank. A check-up reveals there was no such call but that Glenn Thurber telephoned at 12:21. Thurber emphatically denies this. As he is about to let Darden into his room, Thurber discovers his key is missing. The reporter’s fingerprints are found on Mrs. Elderbank’s phone. Valcour claims that while he was in his studio next door, he saw Thurber come in, but did not see him go out again, nor did he hear Thurber telephoning. Roger tells the police he was putting the finishing touches to his make-up between 12:25 and 12:45 P. M.. the time the murder was committed. Marjorie is the last to be interrogated and is furious with Darden for being kept waiting so long, threatening to use her wealthy father’s influence to crush him. “The rich mustn’t threaten the poor, lady. It makes the poor see red and the poor make up the mob which is a terrible beast to have after you,” Darden replies, cheerfully. CHAPTER XVII Marjorie liked him better. "Maybe you’re not so dumb,” she said with a more cheerful insolence. “I’ll give you a tip.” “Good. Do that.” “Watch this cockeyed butler Mrs. Elderbank had working for her. He’s a crook if I ever saw one. How do you know he didn’t commit this crime?” “I don’t know,” said Darden genially. “But I know he didn’t put in the fake call that got the poor lady upstairs, and I know he didn’t leave his finger-prints around.” “Canary whiskers! Nobody believes in finger-prints but detectives in books. You look like a good, honest, hardboiled. flat-footed cop with common sense. You ought to know better.” “Thanking you, I remain—- “ Let me tell you something about this sneaky butler. He has been slipping up behind people all night trying to hear what they were saying. He served three times too much liquor, trying to make everybody cockeyed.” “Did he succeed? “They were all pretty ripe, if I’m a judge. Some of them thought the murder scare was all on the program, until they saw your hefty bluecoats trooping in. What’s more. I saw something from the roof that nobody else saw.” “What?” “I was up there with a lot of people when we were looking the house over. And I peeped over the front parapet and saw this butler go out on the sidewalk as if to look for a taxicab. There was a man slouching in a doorway across the street, and he came across sort of casually and when he and Cuppies saw no one was around they stopped wnd said something to each other.” Darden grinned. “Yeah? Maybe Cuppies told him to move on. Did he go?" . “Yes. But that wasn't what Cuppies told him. It was something confidential they were saying. “Yeah?” Darden, still grinning, made a note of it. “AU right. I’ll look into it. Say?” He looked at her quizzically. “Tell me—what are you boiling around Greenwich Village for? Looking for thrills?”

' part meat. "W a cau<W ‘ lro > here, the driver calmly d'' It a half block to the csntral tiro station. Instead of calling the firomen to the j bus. CUarlea Jewell, tire truck dti'-. ‘ er, quickly put out the blaze with a small entlngutaher. — o— — — Husk Corn Crop In * D, f Robinson. Kan — <U-B> — torn, husking usually is a lough job for j i t) le farmer, but Ross King had lit-

"1 was.” Marjorw raised her hands. “But if I ever go prowling again I hope papa will feed me to the cat!” “Does your papa know where you are now? Have you telephoned your people?” “No. They know I’m ’out, and that’s sufficient With your kind Set-mission I’ll go, now, and get li-nn Thurber out of jail. Is that where you’ve got him?” “Yes. And you can't get him out —not to-night. Tomorrow perhaps your papa will buy the jail and the city hall and a couple of governors. But you’d be wasting your time tonight You’d better go home and sleep over it.” “Thank you, I will, then. But 111 be back tomorrow.”

' 18. ML W V 4 W v < i Hat 7 ■. J ‘ I MSI li tow x\ l|i “Watch this cockeyed butler Mrs. Elderbank had working for her. He’s a crook if I ever saw one,” Marjorie told Darden.

“Shall I get you a taxicab?” “You’re getting sweet now, Sergeant. That’s the way to treat a stubborn lady—feed her sugared milk. Haven’t you got a police car I could ride in?” “Why, I think there’s one outside. Yes, I’ll have some one run you up.” “That would be swell. You’re a good egg, Sarge.” She shook hands with him solemnly. The Sergeant blinked his eyes and shook his head vigorously when she had gone. Then he grinned. “Cute little devil!” he murmured. “The man doesn't live that some woman couldn’t make a fool of!” He cast about cheerfully for something more to do before calling it a night. Merriam, who looked as though he had bathed and freshened up with a new dress shirt, was affably or. hand to assist him further, still the impeccable master of ceremonies. Darden thought he looked much too pleased with himself. He disliked handsome men. “Why don't you go home?” the Sergeant demanded. “Where did you say you lived?” “Oh, just a step away. Three doors up the street. I have an apartment at Two-Sixty.” “In the same block, eh?” Darden appraised him with a swift slant raze. “Maybe we'd better go-over and take a look, eh? Trap door to the roof ever used there?” “Why, it’s right in my apartment,” said Merriam, a little startled, “but I don’t know that it has ever been used. Let’s do go over.” Darden held private conversations with the plainclothes men who had come from headquarters. There was a call from Detective Samuels who reported that the colored maid’s friend, Johnny Han- > kins, had nut yet returned to his I lodgings in One Hundred and

tie trouble with his crop last fall. He busked his 16 acres in ons day. The yield was SO bushels, mostly nubbins. Canada’s R*H Ch««P I Ottawa. Ont.-4U.Rb-A claim that Canada has the chea|>eel railway rates tn the world was made M C. P. Fullerton, chairman of the board of trustees of the Canadian . Natonal Railways, tu an interview here. ■ __

Thirty-Second Street. Samuels was ordered to stay on the job >•“ his man when he found him. Elsie Sceser. the maid, occupied the hall bedroom on the top floor of the Elderbank house and was ordered to remain there for the night, much to her affright Cuppies did not sleep in but lived at a boarding house in East Sixteenth Street He was permitted to go home, but a detective more or less unobtrusively followed him. There was also a report from Detective Mabry, who had “laid the eye” on the house next door. Roger Duane, it seemed, had been observed through the windows of the basement apartment, in brief converse with the artist, St. Gregory Valcour Presently Duane had departed and

detectives had shadowed him to the house where he lived, two blocks away. Evidently he had retired for what remained of the night. “All right,” said Sergeant Darden to Merriam. “Well take a look at your place now.” There was little to distinguish this dwelling outwardly from the other fine old brownstone houses in the block. The interior, however, had been furnished and redecorated to create of it a small apartment house that would be, as it was sometimes advertised to be, distinctive in its quiet elegance. Cushiony, softtoned carpets covered hall’ floors and stairs: windows at the landing* were of Tudor casement type, beveled mirrors relieved the walls, ami the few articles of furniture found in niches were authentic and desirable antiques. Merriam’s small apartment on tha top floor was furnished expensively and in taste. “Here’s the way to the roof,” said Merr>am, opening the door of what was apparently a clothes closet. “At the bottom here it is really a closet—and the steps to the roof are supposed never to be used, except for emergency purposes.” “No?” queried Darden softlv. He flashed his light up the stairs. There was a skylight trap door here, too. He examined the stairs for dust. “Mighty clean,” he commented, “for steps that are never used.” “Why, there’s a housemaid here who is a wonder.” explained Mernam. “When she cleans I mean she cleans Trained in England, and she believes in ‘turning out’ every room in the house once a week you know, taking out every article of furniture and cleaning thoroughly.” “Did she clean yesterday?” “Oh, she cleans every day. The turn-out is just once a week.” (To Be Continued) Cwrriiht. ill* kr ss*u> O T« (Inn) Dlltrttuued bj Kins FstUu* atuUuts, l a *

MARKETREPORTS -- DAILY REPORT OP LOCAL I AND FOREIGN MARKETS Brady's Market for Decetur, Berne, Craigville. Haagland and Willshire. ( Close at 12 Noon Corrected March 11. No commission and no yardage Veals received Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. ] - LOO to 120 Ibd.. *5 1 120 to 140 lbs. - 17-60 140 to 160 lbs S B - 3 0 160 to IM Ito — > 915 ■ 190 to 250 lbs. W- 3 5 250 to 300 lbs SS.2O 300 to 350 It*. * B - 90 j Roughs 67.75 , Stags —, . ——— S5-- a I Veals — —•— “ ’ Ewe and wether Lambs — 18.00 Buck Lambs *~-° 0 FORT WAYNE LIVESTOCK Fort Wayne, Ind., Mar. 11—<UR) —Livestock: Hogs. 15 to 25c higher; 200-350 lbs.. $9.65; 250-300 lbs., $9.15; SOOMO Ibe.. $9.15; 180-300 lbs., $9 50; 140-180 lbs.. $910; 150-160 Ibc $8.75; 140-150 lbs, $8.35; 130-tIJ lbs., $8; 120-130 lbs., $7.50; 100-120 lbs.. ST; roughs. $8; »tags. $5.75; Calves. $9.50; lambs, $8.50. CLEVELAND PRODUCE Cleveland. Mar. 11-(U.B-Pro-duce: Butter, market steady; extras, 35c; standards, 348»c. Eggs, market steady; extra white 20Hc; current receipts. 20c. Poultry market steady; fowls. 6 lbs., and under. 21c: ducks, young 31-35 c; ducks, old. 20c. Potatoes. Maine, sl-sl.lO per 10J--Ib. bag. Ohio mostly. 70-75 c per 100-lb. bag; Florida. $1.90-$2 per bushel. EAST BUFFALO LIVESTOCK East Buffalo, N. Y.. Mar. 11 — flj.R)—Livestock: Hogs, receipts, 4.300; fairly active; unevenly 10-25 c under Friday; weights below 200 lbs., off most; desirable 200-260 It*., $16.25; bulk 150-240 lbs., averaging 180-240 lbs., $lO-31015; 140-160 lbs., $9.25$9,75; packing sows, $3.5049. Cattle, receipts, 1,200; steer and yearling supply light; market unevenly 25-75 c higher: choice steers sl3 60; good steers and yearlings. $10.75413; mixed yearlings. $9.00310.50; medium. $8.75-610.75; cows and bulls strong to 25c higher; fat cows, $6.7547.50; low cutter and cutter, $3.85-$5; medium bulls, $5.5*45-35. Calves, receipts, 700; vealers unchanged, $10.50 down. Sheep, receipts, 3.600; lambs. 15c-25c over last Monday and strong to slightly over Friday; good to choice, $9.10-$9.25; few $9.35; medium and mixed grades, $8.35$8.85; shorn lambs. $8.15; fat ewes, $6 down. ■ '-i—O NEW YORK PRODUCE New York. Mar. 11.—4U.PJ —Produce: Pressed poultry, firm; turkeys, 19-38e; chickens, broilers 18-30 c; capons, 26-33 c: fowls. 1422Hic; Long Island ducks, 18H20c. Live poultry, easy; geese. 09-13 c; urkeys, 19-28 c; boosters, He; ducks, 11-17 c; fowls, 21-23 c; chickens, 15-25 c; capons, 19-27 c; broilers. lu-24<. Butter, receipts, 5,918 packages; market steady; creamery higher than extras, 33-33 *<4c; extra 92 score. 32%c; first 90 to 91 score, 32’4132%c; first 89 score. 32’4c; centralized 89 score, 3244 c. Eggs, market steady; receipts, 29.322 cases; special packs including unusual hennery selections, 334£-BSc; standards, SHi-23c; firsts 31%-21%c; seconds, 21’4c; mediums. 21-21Wc; dirties. 20%c; cheeks. 20-2o'*c; storage packs. 22-22 He. CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE May July Sept. Wheat .88H Cora .79 .75 .72H Oats 47 U .41st .397 s LOCAL GRAIN MAKET Corrected March U. No 1 New Wheat, 60 lbs. or better 87c No. 2 New Wheat (58 lbs.) ....... 86e Oats, 32 Ito. test 47c , Oats, 30 lbs. test 46c Soy Beans, bushel $1.15 No. 2 Yellow Corn. 100 Ito SI.OB CENTRAL SOYA MARKET No. 2 Yellow Soy Beaus $1.15 Delivered to factory.

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Sal 1:1 —--JMw K ■‘•' I Burdg, P!lut ■* ■ “• 11 4p s 1 Ivx. ,- ■ I'-| s M F"i: -\ a ■-.•z Henry IL'iiv i..e. 'gU r '' l v c a ..i'. I'- " : ,'J mg! Monroe. plow t all M5-C. j , .'Lnn,-. ,1 .... ■ F'li; .. clo.er and timothy ise. I . . .. ■ FOR SALE—Ford good rnn'l:tiiw See Viz,. Pi a-ar.t U|H ing. N for —t -d a-® ors: 1 DeLaval So. 12 iH Hoi: x ■ i in zood ■■■.atea® hart .’."d '’J. lanH an.l Moi, • : FOR work. .. 1750 lib.: 1 OHM | tor plow. IJ-m.. 0 K 'ise® I livery. I. H. C.; One kfl loader. Un- Guernsey aM was fre-.ii >n January Chfl Friend . :i Fenners Stocks■ FOR SALE-Fine Guenu« | will be fresh last oft» Israel 11- nder. Route I, pfefl I> ■ ’' FOR SALE—2 sows. < I by side, also some vto ■i C. O. Manley, 4 mile* > • ■ 193'i Chevrolet l’z T. S« | 1931 Model Endowd and large type differeufi Bargain. $50.06 down. • | per mo. Phone IT9 ' ! FOR SALE-Roll to? de* . | ola Radio, can be used ’ i teries: clarinet; music rtl \ L. Durkin, 437 Mercer Ara | ' vvaatedl ’; WANTED-Will buy »» of furniture and JW ' ; | price is right. Murphy's w Excx'i.i WANTED - FW ■ electrical repairs caU « Miller, phone «?»• Me Manufacturers 1 Radio S' ' HELP . liable man wanted ““ • to deliver food projg“ Ur customers ' S2O to S3O weeklyi necessary. « X* I work 8 I'vuis dai'f K. Watkius ’ : sth St.. Columbia, For Better Health v Dr H. Frohnapf Licensed Chiropractoj anll ’ | NaturoP” i Phone 311 10 ' Office Hours: ‘° g B yto 5 P- 6 * Neuroealometer X-Ray Lat ” i — n7TS»® I 1 8:30 t 0 Ivs B.'^ S Saturday ’ Tplenhone