Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 21 August 1935 — Page 4

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Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER, Inc. |ls Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. We don’t like to poke fun at our neighbors, but imagine Bluffton wi'ih a 96-cent civil city tax levy, compared to Decatur’s 40-cent rate. — ■ Decatur is a bee-hive of activity. Crews of men are working on the ornamental street; lighting system, the Cloverleaf Creameries, several new houses and at the Homestead. Employment is good and so is the attitude of the people. In addition to assuming a good share of the tax bill, the electric and water departments waive all charges for ornamental street lighting and tire hydrant rentals. It is well to remember hat these charges would total about $20,000 a year, which added to the budget, would increase the city's tax rata nearly 50 cents on the hundred. The efficient management' ,4 the city utility make these savings and donations possible. Other towns may tax levies for next year, but Decatur’s is going to remain where it is. The council and city officials have agreed that the levy shall not bo - increased, despite the necessity of . making additionaj appropriations for street and sewer repairs and other public improvements. Although the budget is higher than a year ago. the rate per hundred dollars will remain 40 cents. This ■ levy will raise a little more than ■ $17,000, the bajance of the revenue «- coming from state taxes and $5,000 » as a donation from the electric and wa er departments of the city plant. It’s a good showing and the council is to be commended. The Adams County Memorial hospital is malting a good financial showing and following the present po'icy it will be only a few years until income will balance operating expense. For 1936. the hospital trustees ask only $3,431 for maintenance, out of a total budget of $28,431.69, ithe balance of $25,000 coming from operating revenue. "When the hospital was first established the county contributed between five and seven thousand dollars a year, the amount growing smaller each year as income from ■ operations increased. The appropriations asked for in 1936 is nominal and proves the trustees and ” superintendent are making every

(money TO I ■ LOAN!; ■ AT NEW LOW RATES ■ You can borrow up to S3OO u ■ on your own signature and I security, quickly and confi- j ■ dentially —through our now I LOW COST personal finance ■ plan. Also investigate our a low rate AUTO purchase and 1 I refinancing, plans. L SEE THE ‘'LOCAL” ; I When you need money for s ■ any worthy purpose. Full f ■ details gladly given without ■ any cost or obligation. 't, ■ Call, write or phone. |OCAL | PAN J Phone 2-3.7 Decatur. Indiana Over Schafer Hardware Store

effort to get the Institution on a self supporting basis. The state and federal government officials advise city officials to apply at once for a WPA loan and grant for the building of a sewage disposal plant and interceptor sewer. The state officials advise thaj eventually Decatur will be forced to building a sewage treatment plant and that it stands as good business to get the advantage of the government’s 45 per cent grant. There isn’t any doubt that public health is benefited through the elimination of river pollution and every progressive community will at some time in the future offer that advantage. The cost is a little high, but no

improvement can be made without the expenditure of funds and if the benefits offset the financial outlay, the community generally prospers as a result. MOTOR TRAFFIC HAZARDS: Governor McNutt cited several leading hazards which confront motorists on Indiana highways. In his weekly radio address he urged co-operation of citizens and lawenforcement agencies in the safety campaign which has been inaugurated by the state police force. The average driver is familiar with the recklessness which contributes to so many accidents. High speed in congested traffic, failure to exercise proper caution at grade crossings, taking curves at an excessive rate which forces the car into the other traffic lane and reckless weaving in and out of motor queues are the reasons for many casualties. Two other factors mentioned by ' the Governor have been responsible for many automobile tragedies. One is failure to dim lights. The other is the menace of the slow ! driver — the "creeper” who causes ( needless congestion on main highways. The driver who refuses to dim his glaring lights may be an elusive offender, but the state police should concentrate on this individual a road hog without the slightest consideration for motorists coming from the opposite direction. Some of the lights are 1 so glaring that the victim can not see the road. He runs the risk of crashing into traffic or leaving the road, facing death or serious injury unless fortunate enough to run onto a level "shoulder.” If state and local police bestir themselves, they could easily eliminate the slow-driver menace. This < type is equally selffish in ignoring , the rights of others. The desire . o enjoy the scenery may be laud» 1 able enough, but it should be grati- , lied on side roads where slow speed will not involve serious traffic risks. Tourists wishing to make time on long trips are compelled to creep along at twenty or twenty-five miles an hour on major highways, with the resultant weaving in and out which results in many mishaps. There are laws supposed to govern the slow-driver menace, but they have been added to numerous dead letters on the statute books. A vigorous enforcement campaign should eliminate the creepers from major thoroughfares, both in the cities and over the state. Modern traffic has speeded up until safety demands that slow drivers, especial'y during

week-ends, be diverted to other than important state and Federal roads. —Indianapolis Star. 0- * Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE Q. Which expression should be used in a social note or letter, "Dear Mr. Allen." or, "My dear Mr. Allen”? A. That depend.- upon whether the note or letter is formal or informal. “My dear Mr. Allen” is '.he more formal. Q. When calling on a friend, should one pay respects to the friend's mother and father? A. Yes, it is the courteous thing to do. ’ • • # Q. Is it necessary to acknowledge a wedding invitation when sending a gift? A. No. it is net necessary. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two. 1. A braaidy taking hs name from a town in France. 2. The path of a body moving under given forces; like that of a comet or bullet. 3. Surinam. 4. Tennessee Valley Authority. 5. Battle of Mons. 6. About 150. 7. American actor, author, and producer. 8. The seamstress who. according to tradition, made the first American flag. 9. Guillotine. 10. Recluse or hermit. o 'TWENTY YEARS “* AGO TODAY From the Dally Democrat File August 21, 1915. — The situation with Germany is tense again on account of the sinking of the Arabic. Adams county autoists have paid $5,543 to the state for licenses and i

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’ the county hazs received back $6.- ■ i 463. j Indiana receives second prize in i J educational exhibit at the Panama j i Exposition. Old timers are reminded of the, j tales of their fathers who describe, the summer of 1816 when there was no summer and ice and snow in July. Mrs. Carrie Ebinger and son i Hermon are visiting at Minster,! Ohio. Raymond Kohno returns from ■ visit with sisters at Fon du Lac. Wis. Miss Veda Hensley is taking nurses training at Hope hospital in Fort Wayne. Harry Jeffrey of Three Rivers. Michigan, visits here. Miss Leota BaJey returns from visit at Westfield, N. Y. * Household Scrapbook by ROBERTA LEE « Acids i A’ways keep acids in glass containers. Then there will be no action to cause a change in the ! articles, euch as is liable if acid is kept in any metal container. A Dirty Carpet When sweeping a very dirty cu.pet, scatter damp bran over it and

•of the “Blue" army, ard Col Thomas W Brown, commander of the Red army, directed operation* as tanks, anti-au-craft batteries an d_inf an try units went, into action,f

he dirt will be taken up with it j when sweeping. The Saucepan If the bottom of the saucepan is i burnt, don't try to scrape it. Put a little salt in it, add enough water Ito wet tilie salt, then let it stand i until the next morning. Repeat .this process if necessary. Religious Drama At Winona Lake "Tt'io Christus”, a spiritual and j religious drama under the direction I of Alfrfd Btury and Dr. George Tenney of Chicago, will be given on ( Saturday, August 24 at 8 p. im. at Winona Dike as this year’s leading attraction. The Biblical days of Pontius Pilate. Judas Iscariot, Mary Magdalene. Peter, John, the disciples once more will be revived and the story of the life Jesus Christ will be rev red und glorified. The cast is composed of: soprano, Ruth Rodeheaver Thomas. Altc, Grace Shera Hart; tenor. Walter Boydston; bass, Rollin Pease; Mary, the Virgin. Rosalyn Carmen; j Ji..- pii. R. A. Woods; Judas. Homer , Rodeheav r; John. Paul Lillyquist; j Mary, Mother of Jesus; Helen Dickey; Judith, Wilma Stout; Mary Magdalen . Rena Olds; and Simeon | it Ilin Ptuse. ** * 1 It

RELATE VALUE | OF SOYBEANS — American Soybean Association In Annual Convention Evansville, Ind., Aug. 21.—<U.R> Increased uses for soy beans in the last decade were discussed by j speakers at the 15th annual convention of the American Soy Bean , Association which opened here today. Soy beans were described as one of the most versatile agricultural, , crops. W. L. Burlison of the University of Illinois agricultural experiment station said soy beans, a substitute ; food when the association was organized 15 years ago. now outranks all other agricultural products in future possibilities. Outstanding in the new develop ments is use of soy bean oil In paints, he said. Tlte history of soy beans as a food product was traced by W. J. i Morse, attache of the United States department of agriculture bureau of plan industry. Ancient Chinese literature reveals that <he soy bean was ex- , tensively cultivated and highly valued as a food centuries before ‘ written records were kept, he said. Secretary of Agriculture Henry

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L, - - CHAPTER XXXI Despite the Abbe's prediction, Bannister and Bully did not return by nightfall. Nor had they returned by midnight, when the hopeful monk sought his cot. A new and strange sensation began working within “One-Armed” Toole. He felt that his hour had struck, that the time to redeem that “arm” had come. “Big Jeff” Whipple had beaten him twice in New York; now he would meet the master crook for the third time—meet and beat him on his own stamping ground and against seemingly insuperable odds. There would be no asphalt pavement under Toole’s feet when he started on his mission, no familiar hum of traffic, no laughing voices, no flurry of radio cars to respond to his call should he find his “take” difficult to make. He was going out after Big Jeff Whipple — going alone in Karen Sire’s orchid airi plane to invade the camp where Jeff Whipple lay sleeping I Or maybe not i sleeping! It took the detective a long time to prepare his kit. He included a big automatic swung from shoulder holster, besides the “rod” thrust into his hip—the kind he used to wear when with New York's "finest” .. . Then came his parachute pack. Biscuits, water and some dried beef out of a can completed his outfit. Bannister had succeeded in guying ! him out of wearing the derby for the past few days but now he reverted to it and felt better. Finally, he pulled an old, outdated police shield from a bag and fastened it to his waistcoat. Plucking a feather from the tail of a stuffed red vulture on the Abbe’s mantel, Toole went into the open to catch the direction of the wind and determine his approach to the Whipple camp. He wanted to surprise Jeff and "get him” with a few rude tricks that he had learned while handling hooligans on or near the sidewalks of New York. Toole’s plan was simple enough; he intended to land about a mile : from the camp and make his way to the tents afoot. Banking on Jeff’s I fastidiousness, he hoped to find the i big fellow under a separate shelter. ' If Whipple were asleep, he would tap him on the head with a billy, | disarm and bind him, then load the I prisoner on his own horse for the I trip back to the plane. If he found his quarry awake—oh, well— It was two in the morning when I Toole stepped into the plane and laid his hands upon the controls—the first time he’d ever tried it without an army or police instructor in charge. He thought that al! the howling peresh of the desert had suddenly popped from nowhere and clung to the propeller as the machine hopped, bumped and skidded along the ledge before rising. Wild dogs of the hills, a thousand of them at least, seemed to be yipping and yelping at his heels Every mortal thing, as well as all the demons within a radius of one hundred miles, must have beer awakened by that take-off. And ir full cry, what a magnificent back ground of silence they had to work upon! Toole found himself wondering why they hadn’t invented a noise less airplane—-one that could take off and land in its stocking feet, ai it were—a sort of thing tnar coulc fly without a sound and alight lik< a butterfly on the petals of a flower That was the kind of plane hi needed in the present business. Th< orchid paint didn't help him t bit . .. The night was brilliant witl moon and stars, the air cold an< bracing. Toole’s plan was to fl; high and approach the camp fron the leeward side, to gain whatevei advantage there might be in that o: lessening the chance of awakening the sleepers. As he ascended, thi landmarks that had guided hin during the first minutes of his fligh disappeared. He dropped lower ti pick up, if possible, three tall pin nacies of red sandstone that market the edge of the desert. In the curling descent, Toole dis covered that the plane was flutter ing a long, serpentine tail of blu< flame. Something had gone wron; witn the alcohol motor! He felt th heat creeping through the meta body, heard a querulous spittin;

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A. Wallace was scheduled to be lotto of the principal speakers this afternoon. The meeting will continue here tomorrow and close w,th a meeting at Purdue University, Lafayette, Friday. —o GUFFEY PLEADS CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE cent of the miners and that "with exception of a few selfish interjests,” it has not been opposed by I consumers. _ “The proponents of this bill are I intensely interested in its success,” he added. “They believe that its failure will bring immediate catastrophe to the bituminous industry, ruining many producers.

from the exhaust, and sensed the nearness of disaster. He must “bale J out” . . . j So Toole jumped overboard and c pulled the rip-cord without the preliminary count that would insure a safe clearance by the parachute. It > was the smack of the ground that he j feared most t The plane lurched, tipped sideways and thrust out a flaming arm, f as though the thing had life and . was trying to drag the deserting t pilot back to his post. He felt the c scorching fingertips on his face, . then the bump of the parachute as it jerked open and caught the air. . He was clear! 3 The orchid-hued plane—piloted r by Detective Toole, erstwhile novice flyer with the New York police—- ]’ became a whirling ball of blue > flame, shooting like a meteor toward t the earth and sending out showers , of brilliant, vari-colored embers. . The detective, his ’chute descending f more slowly, remained within the t plane’s wide arc of light, but drifted downward and away on a gentle j breeze. A black wall suddenly hid i him from the blinding glare and r the next instant he heard a terrific j explosion. The machine had struck r and blown up. While the echoes were still rever- ‘ berating, Toole felt himself being f dragged and buffeted until the white envelope of the parachute settled over him like a shroud, leaving him 3 prostrate and stationary. j The sensation of having been j buried alive moved him to sudden , activity; he was out from under in j an instant, gazing about his landing place. The darkness surround--1 ing him was absolute, impenetrable. 3 Looking upward, he saw a purple 3 segment of the sky, spangled with j stars. He had fallen into a deep e ravine! “I’m somewhere in the cellar of v Asia,” he observed, freeing himself j from the tackle and glancing at a r luminous faced watch which Bannister had given him. “Three . o’clock! Every speakeasy in the b neighborhood closed, I suppose.” 0 The detective was trying to jolly s himself out of the single fear that 0 ever assailed him—the fear of su- -, pernatural things. He felt like a J prisoner inside a black velvet tent, r with only a smoke hole through a which he could see the stars. For all e he knew, a single step outside that j tent in any direction would send him hurtling to new depths, even into the very bowels of the earth, where lurked strange, fantastic n terrors beside which sudden death d would be a joy. - Toole had heard of men whistling •t to keep up their courage and the ;• thought came to him that nothing 1* short of a police whistle could sup’t ply his present need. He was sorry e he hadn’t brought one with him. He set himself to listen for some d sound of life, peering the while into ’• that plush darkness. But he heard >- nothing—saw nothing. Finally he 10 turned his eyes upwards to the in- ’• digo streak over his head, wonderfl ing how far away those bright stars le might be. n After a while the golden buttons n fell one by one from the blue background; the blue itself disappeared ’k magically and naked dawn, flushed pink, began to race across the sky K with dazzling yellow hair streams' ing behind. ‘ 0 The detective began to take stock ‘s of his surroundings. He was at the bottom of a torturous gorge, sunk ‘ 0 at least five hundred feet from the r - igTeis »uove. Around him on ail >8 sides rose reddish yellow cliffs, i 0 touched here and there with sparse a vegetation. The air was damp. He thanked God for that—it implied •n the presence of water. Day had id barely touched a toe in that deep iy place but he knew it was coming m swiftly. -r “I hope this ain’t a blind alley,” 1 once nut on 8 top I il be able to see the old friar’s ie mountain and then it’ll be only a m matter of tramping back. Wonder > ™, r rm awa y from home?” to Toole meant the hut. of course, n- One direction meant the same to id him as the other, so he plunged along. He noticed that the gorge s- was becoming narrower as he proceeded and finally he passed under tea greqt arch of rock that cast a g ffidomy shadow at least a hundred ie feet ahead Another patch of dayal light and then another arch, this >8 one lower and longer, yet reveal-

impoverishing half a ers and their ami jeopardizing tl„. » supply." Kentucky Guardsmen II Indicted By ,lu r fl Harlan, Ky.. Aug 21 il'pß Nineteen etale ami ~a !. :|l|] officers were imlH i ~ ' W liarland county irraml B suit of troop no.ven, • ,| August 3 gubernatorial election. The indictments w r,. r „ hlr fl less than 24 home ati,.,- a^l{ B general Henry 11. |> ~rdt ..B k< ntucky National , , dieted ou elwrge.s of . , in., B tempt of court. H

ing, at the far end. n faint suggs tion that the sky was s:,;> “I’m walking uphill, vet goi, underground,” he ruimi aini uni, ily. "Anyway, I’ll go as far as tl next opening before 1 ta..e the i>ai trail.” The next opening proved to be vast funnel, spreading tn a circle at the top. Beyond him oa straight course nothing I ,t blac ness presented itself. The g .rge hi become a cavern. “I haven’t got any friends there,” Toole told him.-i ls wr.n ro viction. Still he thought he h< ard a soun He listened. The soft g irgle water came to his cars from tl dark depths. Looking down he si that the stone floor of the gjrge w more than damp—it «as wet a: the water was moving. “Yes, I picked out the wrong < rection,” he said, turning. Aga he paused. Another sound. It w not the pleasant splashing of wat this time but a low, unsteady, mu fled patter as of sonic wild bea approaching from the darkness, the cave. His scalp began to pnekl Toole plucked the big automat from his holster and dug a small weapon from his hin. was gw with both hands—the In tie copp button in his lapel told > f that. Bf he would have prefci r, ! .htf Whi| pie as an antagonist rather tha the unseen thing that was maki> its way toward the dim spot < light where he stood waiting. The patter stopped abrupt!; Toole had never learned the strati gy of retreat—a fugitive alwaysii vites a chase. He walked forw»n Far back in that black sink he sa a pair of baleful green eyes giai ing at him. “Come out in the open, come out! he bellowed. A snarl answered him; not th timorous bluff of a scared beast bo the savage defiance of an arum unaccustomed to refusing a cha lenge. In a moment the creator , emerged into the pale light, it wa a fearsome, gory, full grown wound ed snow leopard. "Don’t shoot, Toole! He'a n game!” Strange and hollow as the voic came from the black depths, the de tective recognized it a.- Bannister'i A moment later Bully bunl through the darkness and began t harry the wounded brute. In an eventful lifetime of forty six years, "One-Armed" Toole ha I heard many sounds that fell mud cally upon his ears. As a detectie on the lookout for “dips" he ha . mixed with the crowds in front o Old Trinity, listening to the Christ . mas Chimes at midnight; he ha . heard words of commendation fron . police commissioners for .-gnalact of bravery; once a supreme cour ' justice had spoken of him as a “bril- , liant and courageous member of tiu headquarters staff.” But none d I those pleasurable mom ■ - equally , in sheer joy the sensation he M when he heard Bannister's voic« . coming out from that biack pit oyet the hunching back of a wounded , snow leopard. Dangling an automatic in each I hand, Toole waited. The harried i beast, trapped between two men wM , held death in their fingers, wavered finally choosing as his aniagonis the enemy of whom, as yet, he kne« nothing. In a desperate crouch, m ] slithered toward Toole, his moms 1 open, his eyes ablaze with fury. I Toole had raised his right an» I again when Bannister stnggw" into the dim light. The det .ctivi s» his friend lean weakly against ti» side of the gorge, saw him brings i gun slowly to his shoulder and I —a fusilade! It was only one rt* , but it seemed to linger on in a nu«- , dred echoes. The leopard on all fours, humped up like a W > cat, sprang into the air and fel 1 " i ertly across the thin stream that i sued from the cavern, i “Keep away from him, I ■ warned Bannister. “Back, Buby But the leopard was d oad - "1 ■ brute that had deserted his ma e 1 his cub had been shot through I heart. . ! Bannister seemed to have j ; last ounce of strength into th , fort. Dropping the gun, he toiterw j toward his friend on loosely coup» ’ leSß ' (To Be Continued) I Cwmcht, Ills. Ch-‘I Hl' 1 • DUlrUvnU 6J Kla« Fwturei SlMiu *