Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1935 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published jj Ba THE Every Eve- DECATUR Sing Except DEMOCRAT Bunday by CO. ■ntered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouae, Sec'y A Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies — ... — $ -02 One week, by carrier —— .11 One year, by carrier $5.00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by mai1......,..™ I.o'i Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail —™_ 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices 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 Eaat Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Help keep your city streets clean. A third party will always be third in line. _______ i Only six days left to do your 1 Easter shopping. ■ i The cistern is probably showing , 1 more results than the garden. , i JL2LL—I ~ 11 This section of Indiana is willing ■ to divide with the west some of the ■: rain it lias received the past week.; 1 if someone figures out how it can i be done. 1 I Someone said that the size of , the Saturday Evening Post was a | barometer of business conditions. ] When advertising is heavy, busi- j Hess is good and magazines, large and small eity dailies are beginning to talk about volume. The sand storms are causing millions of dollars of damage throughout the west. The coming months may see higher market prices and a continued rise in foodstuffs, which get us back to the old formula of supply acd demand. Assurance has been given that if 150 farmers are willing to sign contracts for the growing of tomatoes, a canning factory will be established here. Details of the proposition can be obtained from President Rice of the Chamber of Commerce. President Roosevelt is back at the White House and final interpretations and decisions are being made in regards to the distribution of the public works fund. He has a great responsibility, but is equal to it. The trouble lies in not being able to satisfy everybody everywhere. Tomorrow is Palm Sunday and us we rjqmembcr the Bible stories it marks the anniversary of Jesus Christ’s triumphal entery into Jerusalem. On the coming Friday the world commemorates the God Man’s death on the cross, denoting a change in moods and allegiance even 2,00 U years ago. It appears that the proposed auto tire strike will not come to a head. It should not. The country is beginning to forge ahead and nothing upsets commerce and trade like strikes. Only a few thousand of the many thousand of employes favor quitting work and the minority should not be permitted to harm the others. Graduates from the seven rural high schools will hear Kenneth Shoemaker, youthful Geneva banker and inspirational speaker at their commencement exercises. Mr. Shoemaker will deliver the address at the various schools, the first of which will be held at Geneva. April 22. He will have an interesting and worth while message. The selection of a local man as speaker is somewhat new, but Mr. Striker and the trustees could not have picked a better one.

The bus driver was unhurt, but 14 children wore killed in a wreck at Rockville, Md, when a fast Baltimore and Ohio train struck the school hack. These tragedies make us ail wonder if such terrible things can’t be prevented. No sano man would drive onto a crossing with a truck load of children and wait to be killed. It’s hard to find an ana-1 wer, which If could be made, would uot bring back the tiuy tots and loved ones. Jess Rice. Dan Tyndall and Roy Runyon of the Chamber of Commerce. in cooperation with the owners, made it possible for the city to establish a free parking lot. Messrs. Steele and Haugk were contacted, an agreement was reached and leases signod for the ground. As a result the city will improve the site, one of the most favorable and easily accessible in the up town district and within a few months will open it to visitors for free parking of autos. The grounds will he lighted and drive-ways made. When you come to Decatur, use the free parking lot. Indiana friends of Governor McNutt are launching a campaign urging his nomination for vice-presi-dent. No one disputes the gover-' nor's ability to grace the vice-presi-l dent’s chair. He would make al great presiding officer and would) at any time be equipped to fill the higher office. Governor McNutt is probably one of the best known state executives in the country and i has a following in many of the 48 states. There are many who would like to see him remain in Indiana.

head one of the state universities or fill other important posts where his energy and vision would bring | beneficial results. Anyway he does ) not have to worry about getting a I job. After all is said and done Indiana < handles the tax problems In about the most just and equitable manner of any of the states. Ohio has an awk|ft|ri form of sales tax. A few otWr States have the outright sales tax. which is not so bad. Out in California they are proposing to increase the gasoline tax from i three cents to four cents a gallon, the extra cent going to finance relief bonds. Generally speaking mo- < torists do not oppose the gas tax I when the money so derived is use<l in building new highways or < spent in maintaining them. They, do object however, to a tax ou gas , and used for other purposes, us S they are doing out in California. ■ lu Indian* all the gas tax is spent ( on state highways and city streets, f the motorist receiving the direct 1 benefit. o— ( 1 *STAR SIGNALS* i By OCTAVINE ( For persons who believe that human destiny is guided by the planets the daily horoscope is outlined by a > noted astrologer. In audition to information of general interest, it outlines information of snecial interest ‘ to persons born on the designated APRIL 15 Everybody should be very careful in speech and writing today. Malicious and illkiml words may slip past you. This is particularly true during the late morning and early afternoon. The later afternoon is the best time to work toward the advancements of your interests. Birthdate You should develop a sense of saving and economy or you may suffer In later life. Guard against theft during May, June and July. I!!”". Financially favorable April and May, 1936. Socially favorable June 29 through July 1. 1935. Danger July 15 through 23, 1935. Write letters or do clerical work on April 21 and 22. 1935. Readers desiring additional Information regarding their huroseonos are Invited to communicate with oc. taxiue in arc ut this newspaper. Enclose a 3-ceut stamped uclt-addrsssed envelope. —o Card Os Thanks We arc taking this opportunity to thank the neighbors and all others who have assisted us in remdving our home furnishings and helped u.s in inuny other ways aud also prevented further disaster, through the misfortune of losing our home by fire. We thank you all. Mr. aud Mrs. Erwin Bienz. - i Get the Habit — Trade at Home

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Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two.— 1. Ambrose Bierce. 2. Alberta. 3. A diseased state of plants. 4. The Congress of Vienna. 5. Henrik Ibsen. 6. Maryland. 7. Bigamy. 8. The Egyptians. 9. One of the most famous Amer-: : ican lawyers. 10. Jane Porter. o_ TWENTY YEARS 1' AGO TODAY | From the Daily Democrat Fite APRIL 1:1 —James Connell, game warden, filees suit ngainst HollandSt. Louis Sugar company for stream ; pollution. Samuel Fuhrman is wrecking the • frame buildings on Second street, formerly ooeupied by Lose and Shrank barber shop and Tim Cor- , bett'a store. W J. Myers is badly hurt in fall from steps while leaving a Geneva business building. Receiver Jtcss withdraws petition for funds to move CloverLeat division here. J. T. Myere elected president of the Decatur Retail Merchants Association. Dr. Lloyd Magley. veterinarian, opens office at Third aud Monroe. Billy Middleton. former Decatur boy. elected mayor of Paragould,

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Ark. Ben Lang and John Joseph sell ice cream store at Portland and return (here. Milton Girod buys sixty acre farm in Kirkland township from Fred Schlickman for $6,001). 9 Household Scrapbook ROBERTA LEE « • Window Cords If tine window cords are given a little attention, they will wear! longer, and also moke the w indows rise and lower much easier. Dust the write occasionally, then rub with a well-reased clothRoom Fragrance Try burning an orange peel ou a I shovel or tin pan, and see how it | sweetens the atmosphere of the i room, and the pleasant fragrance it Paztry Dough Add. a few drops of lemon juice to the pastry dough and it will make it more digestible. Q ♦ ♦ Modem Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE Q. How soon after attending >1 breakfast should a guest leave? A Usually from fifteen minutes to an scour; but of course this depends wpon the guest’s other engagements, and what the other guests seem inclined to do. . Q. Is it considered bid luck for 'the brute and groom to meet on their wedding-day ibeforo the ceremony? A. This is merely a superstition, just as the old superstition that it is

bad luck for the bridegroom to see his bride in her wedding dress before the ceremony . Q. What is the correct sequ ‘nee of pages in a short, friendly letter? A. First and fourth pages. o—. — STATE LIQUOR CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE ! in this case is SSO. Wine dealers permits in package I stores may be issued to holders of beer dealers and liquor dealers perj inits for off the premises consumption only. Sales are not less than one pint aud not more than 12 quarts to a customer at one time. The license fee is $25 and no hearing is required before a local board. ■ In all probability the commission I will make regulations to curb aI buse of repeated sales of both wine

and whiskey. One of the features of the new j liquor law is the prohibition a-! gainst sal.es to minors The retail- ’ er is protected somewhat in that it a youth between the age Os 18 < and 21 misrepresent they are more . than 21 years old in order to buy I alcoholic beverages, they shall be j fined SSO or may be imprisoned not more than 30 days or Loth. Alcoholic beverages cannot be sold in houses of illfame and it is unlawful to sell to habitual drunk aids. The act also bars youths uni der age from public resorts, such ■ as dance halls, or any other public place where alcoholic beverages are sold. This applies to both girls and boys when not accompanied byparents and tprpprietore are subject to a fine of not more than SIOO to which may be added imprisonment up to 30 days for violation of this section of the act. It is unlawful to sell or dispense ethyl or wood alcohol as a beverage. Industrial alcohol permits may be issued to wholesale druggists, ! manufacturing or pharmaceutical ! chemists or chemical manufactur■ers, registered pharmacists, manu- ! tecturers using industrial alcohol, those engaged in denaturing ethyl elcohol. Applications for pharmacists industrial alcohol permits must be investigated by local boards. This also applies to applications from general business firms. Individuals may purchase alcohol from registered pharmacists, but not for beverage purposes. Sacramental wine, vinegar, home tnade wine and beer made in a person's own residence for his consumption arc exempted from the provisions of Hie act. Sacramental wine also is exempt from tho wine gallunage tax. Wort and liquid malt is subject to five cents per gallon tax aud malt syrup and malt extract also ■ pays five cents per pound tax. the I tax payable by the manufacturer. I wholesaler or dealer. Malt license : tees are. mauufacturers SSO: wholesalers $35; Heaters S 5. > Funds collected under tile provisions of tile act are distributed as

follows: AH fees from brewers, distillers, rectlfyers, wineries, industrial alcohol. beer wholesalers, liquor wholesalers, wine wholesalers, malt permits, temporary beer permits, diuiiig car and boat •permits, importers. port of entry and all gallonage taxes and malt taxes are paid into the state general fund.

star For a Night »■> JANE LITTELL

SYNOPSIS Moe Feinberg, producer of the musical show “Lady Bird.” takes Dixie Mason out of the chorus and makes her its star. But Feinberg is a wily one, and few of Dixie's associates can whole-heartedly congratulate her on the promotion. The oubt whether the stardom will i lasting. Dixie, still elated over the promotion, hurries from rehearsal to bid good-by to her brother. Bud, sailing for Rio de Janeiro to assume a coveted bank job. His cabin mate is Blinn Saybrook, a personable youth, who immediately takes great interest in Dixie. He surprises her by kissing her good-by and promising to attend the performance of “Lady Bird” October 25 in New Y’ork. The company is journeying to Boston for its opening, and en route Dixie is startled to read on the billboards that Ada Baird, and not herself, is the star of the production. Moe has pulled another fast one. Aa the company returns to New York Dixie’s thoughts are centered on the night of October 25. Letters

from Blinn tell of his eagerness to see her. and she feels chagrined that she will be merely a chorus girl and not the star of the production, as he expects. She appeals to Ada, but the star, although friendly to Dixie, refuses to absent herself on that evening. But, by fair means or foul, Dixie intends to play the role. At last the great day dawns, with Ada enjoying her usual good health. Dixie lays her plans. She sends a telegram to Ada’s maid, calling her out of town. Buying a quantity of sleeping tablets, Dixie invites heroelf to Ada’s for lunch. There she pours the tablets into the tea. Her plan works and she is called to take the lead in the show. Dixie is a hit and her dream is realized when she sees Blinn in the audience. Hut her happiness is short-lived for a sudden fear grips her that she may have given Ada an overdose of the sleeping potion. After the show, Blinn goes backstage and Dixie rushes to the security of his arms. CHAPTER FIVE Tn that moment when the members of the cast were backing out of the door, eyeing the stranger curiously, Dixie heard things, that increased her worries. The last chance that Ada would think she had overslept was gone now. If the members of the cast said the things to Ada that they were saying to each other, there wasn’t the slightest chance in the world of Dixie’s not being punished. And she had been clinging to the slim hope that she wouldn’t get caught. She realized that now. “Dixie knew Ada wasn’t going to show up.” “Sure she did. Remember how she sat around without her costume on until five minutes?” “Sure. And remember how she grabbed her makeup box when Moe sent for her?” “It’s a put up job. And what Moe’ll do to both of ’em is something I wouldn’t want to happen to me.” She had to listen. She had to know what to be prepared for. And

Blinn Saybrook was holding both her hands against his lips and saying things that she had been waiting three months to hear. And she wasn’t hearing them. And then she remembered that chorus girl who had jibed at her, as she dashed down to Ada's dressing room, “Oh! Oh! So you knew it all the time!” That girl must have known that Ada wasn’t in the theater. She must have come in late and heard Moe fussing. No, Dixie Mason hadn’t a chance. “ —- get back to you, beautiful, and you're a hundred times lovelier than I remembered.” Blinn’s voice was saying. She managed a quavery little smile at that. "It’s the grease paint,” she told him. "Too bad I have to take it off.” Oh, how awful to have this moment spoiled by a guilty conscience! How terrible not to be able to give Blinn her undivided attention. And she couldn’t. She couldn’t crush down her awful fears of what was to comeAnd Blinn was saying more nice things. She knew they were nice by the adoring expression on his face, even if her thoughts were racing and her ears buzzing so that she couldn’t hear them. “You’re tired, you poor baby,” h» said, and she did hear that. ‘Til wait outside while you dress, and then we’ll go to some very qtriet place for supper, and then—”

All license fees paid by beer retailers, beer dealers, liquor retailers, liquor dealers, wine retailers and wine dealer’s are paid into the excise fund. ‘Thirty-three ami a third per cent of the excise fund shall be distributed semi-annually June 1 and December J, to local school units on the basis of daily average attendance and shall be

“Oh, no!" she cried wildly. "You f wait for me right here! I—l’ll dress behind that screen. I — please, j Blinn!” "Is —is that customary?” he ' asked, half embarrassed, even though Ada’s dresser was waiting to hang that last act dress in its ‘ linen cover for the night. “Oh, of course!” said Dixie nervously. “I—people talk to me over ’ the screen every night. Come on, dresser. Let’s go.” * She suddenly realized that she ! didn’t know the maid’s name. And the maid then burst out and said, ( “My name is Cora, Miss Mason.” “Oh, yes,” stammered Dixie. “So , it is. I wonder why I never reI member?” i , “You probably never heard it,” said the maid calmly, as she pro- i ( ceeded with the unhooking. i Dixie couldn’t see Blinn’s face. ; i The tall screen was between them, i But she crimsoned under her make- I up. Couldn’t she get away with a I thing? Here she had kept Blinn < in the dressing room while she 1 changed so that he wouldn't over- | hear the things the cast would be I : saying as they straggled out, and < iii J- i -aj u.J

J then this darned maid had to open I j her mouth and blab. Oh, darn V . everything! Why hadn’t she let h Blinn find her in the chorus? Any- b thing would be better than this sort of a meeting. y j And then she was sitting before v the dressing table in one of Ada's v J dressing gowns, a rag of o cloth around her hair, vigorously ii , scrubbing off her make-up with a cold cream. As the make-up came s i off, she saw that she was green- u . ish-white with terror. She looked : like the Witch of Endor! She could- t . n’t let Blinn see her like that. Ii , Blinn was perfectly silent there « . on the other side of the screen, f , What must he be thinking? She had to say something to break that “ , awful silence. s . “That’s all, Cora," she managed, t i “I’ll do the rest mysdlf.” i “Thank you, Miss Mason. Will ! you want me tomorrow night if I Miss Baird doesn’t come baek? She n . pays me five dollars a night.” . “Yes — yes —oh quite,” babbled a Dixie frantically. “Good-night.” y Silence then, while the bottom of s the world dropped out, for Dixie, s . Blinn couldn’t help knowing. And b : with Ada’s name on the billboard, • and everybody saying things like g : that, he couldn’t help knowing. And li ; there wasn’t anything she could do > about it exc sp t keep perfectly r > silent. b i “I don’t see how you work in f > this hectic atmosphere,” commented ■ Blinn thoughtfully. “Just sitting b s here, feeling the awful tension in i 1 the air, makes me jumpy with ‘ I nerves. Is it always like this?” t Dixie giggled a little hysterically. “Tonight is worse than usual,” " ' she admitted. “You see, there's a a Hollywood scout out front, and [ r Moe Feinberg—he’s the producer—e is anxious to sell the piece to pic- s tures. That—that’s what they were 1 e all congratulating me about when I e you came in. They—they say I i gave an exceptionally good per- t t formance." “You were marvelous,” said 1 n Blinn with a gloating note of satisfaction in his voice. “And if you : o don’t hurry up and come out from d behind that screen and let me kiss s

you, I’m afraid I’ll turn caveman and come after you.” i “I—l’ll hurry,” said Dixie, half 1 frantic because the tears kept welling up into her eyes, and she didn't ] want Blinn to see her crying. Certainly when the man you love has I just come to claim you, that’s no ■ time for crying. She got the grease paint off, and a street makeup on, and reached • Jfor the dress hanging over the corner of the screen. Ada’s dress < A dress Ada had given her only last week. Oh, how could she have , done that awful thing to Ada: After all of Ada’s kindnesses! Tears that couldn’t be stopped streaked her powder as she scrami bled into Ada’s dress. If only she had worn something else tonight. I But she had purposely worn this . because it was so smart and expensive, and sho wanted Blinn to • see her looking her best. And she I looked her absolute worst, she de- : aided as she dabbed powder over I the tear stains. I And then it happened. Moe’s s voice, yelling into the telephone in the doorman’s little office, not s twenty feet away. e “It’s who?” demanded Moe. “Ada s Baird! Well, where the hell have e j’ou been? This is a fine time to be t> calling up. That show’s over, you dum cluck. . . . What?” ” Everything was over! Now Blinn II would have to know everything, d Just as soon as Moe heard Ada's t story, he would come stamping here to denounce Dixie. And there wasn’t

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any wa.. . ... ;ape 1(lf Bffi ° Ut " f •*" pa» .. irre Oh, if she could ;B| Ei.n-i u. : ha-.> , she dashed olith H behind Pv . , Mrj from he r , vc ,. ... "MM upon the startled man. ’’Oh. Bli: ■ ’ Blinn!” she “I’m in t,.> T !>!(.. terrible Moe , ... w; - , n minute to tear my head off. Say you ’ ■.»: me! Promise me no nria: :iar w <' I beg of you”’ Hi.nn shifted ’he gone about her anv which when she fl- lng her-eif and laid r > cheek attains’, tier “What have they been my starch.!.!'.’” he murmuredvhH tender corn -(.if CG . Jrse , you. And Iri: going to away fnn. right now. tell that M ■ a, X( that y. u'iv r agh. Te.l can get someone else to sing lead m his show. You and I goinr t > he married first thinjiH the mor:, J I'm care of you forever a!—" Tha’ -i .■ wa.- never fitisldH Witb.'.)u: or a-.-himself in Moe burst in the door. H "Say, y i dumb chorine!’ |fl yelled. "Wh th:? al! abtutajM way? Ada - ; called up viti wild talo I ■■ ■ ake Mortfß of, and she says to ask niorigH it's all about. \V,", what »itdH about'.' Wi;at have v’j and thtß swell headed star of nine tuHM up on me anyway? Huh!” m “No-nothmg,” stammered tilH terr'.ho! least Ada v.:;; 't .pad. and tkH wiped aw.-..;. < ■ I'.:''e o! frantic worry. H “Don't lie tn me.” gritted hB 'TH get ' A :a. winiM stops sei- .■ ■. \’a: riHi that : he'- '' ■•"•'. a' : —and that you did it." S "She—-hv’.- aiibing,” wasa'illiH Dixie co:’.! manage. "Eeca.'tiH missed the show.” B “She says . poisoned hetSlß and tried t<- murder her. S’esnß you tried to get her to staraniß so you could sing the lead atdvheiß she wouldn't you tried to nitrtaß her.” B “Oh. Blinn!” wailed the tenqM girl. “Don't let them! 1 didn't!Dtril let them accuse me of that.” Blinn’s arms tightened about W J protecting!}’, comfortingly a-dowß her head his stern eyes met M«| furious ones. I “Suppose we all go and see IB I hysterical woman and find out ml it’s all about,” Blinn suggest* I “I’m sure you are doing Dm’ • I terrible injustice." I “Injustice, my eye! snorted I “This isn't the first lime i«”ti ■ an understudy go nuts trying I get the star out of the way. I “All the more reason rty!’ I should protect your star, Blinn. “A girl like Dw« >•» high strung to ambitious understudy s insane tempts to poison her. “You mean a star bke A® Baird,” said Moe. ~, “Just who is this Ada Ba "SX .« •> *■ star!” protested the * Blinn. "I saw the sho "'' ,mj, “You saw Ada ‘ pinch hitting," sari • Blinn felt the trembhn body slump against him, a t* shred of hope went he knew. Now it „ afttr ,1 Blinn couldnt love h * this. How coulu ne ’.“ 0 * b , wo ald help des J ,i ’ in « *fy ahehad! cheat and he the Scanet with --a-- ftTiwJ bered the letters s to him, the only in answer. Oh, i ; . j n th« him how Moe beginning, niajb« he gone on loving r- . rM if tellk® been able to make * because the kno' him pity the p ®°L,b enough t’f« ! who had been dumb, er S for Moe’s to And she was too P ' what a fool i an awful, awful fool-.B^ lort y i pity—was ut P'ty ° pn tno». . than his J" "the Bitter sobs tore 8 jnn i shaking figure tfet i tinned to hold tig , on h3 r4 ! Oh, if she ab out i those protecting arms ilt . And she had made tna i Oh, Blinn! 5 (To kti ! Copyright-sr«l ic * w ’ t Distributed by &ni