Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 310, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1935 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publelhed Every Evenfug Except Sunday by I IE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. tattered at the Decatur. Ind.. Post Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse. Sec’y & Bus Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates single copies $ -0One week, by carrier ..... lb One year, by carrier $5.00 One month, by mail .35 I Three mouths, by mail—— SI.OO , Six mouths, by mail — 1.75 , One year, by mail 3.00 One year, aj office .. 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones Elsewhere $3.60 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 Indians League of Home Dailies. Happy New Year and we mean HAPPY. Resolve to renew your subscription to the Daily Democrat at once I If you have postponed getting those 1936 tags for your car, you should do so at your earliest convenience. Start the New Year off right—subscribe for the Daily Democrat. Help us boost the community and every one in it. That can’t help ' but be beneficial tc you. The less you mtlebrate tonight. I the better prepared you will be to start the New Year off with the pep you will wanl to make 1936 the best you ever enjoyed. Albert Stump will be the speak- : er at the Chamber of Commerce ' meeting and those who hear him will be well repaid, for he will discuss the various taxes that now confront every one. It now looks as though Caleb J. Milne, who kidnaped himself, besides a desire for notriety, also, needed a little change and thought grandpa would drop the $20,000 demanded into his hat without question. if a fellow had a small part of the money that will be foolishly wasted tonight in the large cities, he could meet his income taxes and have plenty left for everything required to make himself comfortable for a long time. We still don’t believe that the Lindberghs will long be contented , to live in staid old England. They ’ have been too active and too American to really enjoy living outside the confines of this great country. Mrs. Roosevelt invited Al Smith to the White House but Al sends his regrets. Perhaps, he feels that if he accepted such an invitation he might have to change the speech he is to make to the Liberty League the 25tli. Contracts tor construction let dining December are the highest ince April of 19X1. Just another arrow pointing in the direction of prosperity for 1936 for all these projects must be built and this will require much labor and material. Governor McNutt predicts lhat 1936 will be a w-ondertul year in Indiana and bases his prophesy on the advances made the past year. He is right and much of the outlook for this condition is due to his tine offices, Indiana stands at the trout in progress and is financially sound and prepared to go forward in large strides. Deaths from automobile accidents in Indiana will far exceed that of any previous year. More than 130 have been killed in Marion county alone and i’aUuttivu in iilliur counties of the state are

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pretty much in proportions. It seems to be high time that something was done that will require people to be more careful. Evidently they won't do it otherwise. The newest name mentioned in the race for the Democratic gubernatorial race is George C. Cole, former state superintendent aud 4w vice-president of Indiana State Teachers college at Terre Haute. Just what his platform is or his plans we have not heard but his announcement somewhat complicates matters and may make the race more interesting. Thirty-nine congressmen favor the Townsend plan. That’s not very many out of 435 but its enough to make us wonder how such people can put over their own election in their districts. No plan, as impossible as the dreamy one proposed, has ever gotten as far and its time the people awake to the faot they are heading for d structiou if they don’t use good judgment and common sense. j The war in Ethiopia is get,.ng hotter and hotter as the Italian forces reach into the interior and are met by armies of fifty thousand and the blacks are no mean fighters. Properly equipped they could give any army a battle tor they never know defeat, it is said. They have the advantage of knowing their own country better and being able to stand the weather with far better results than the visitors from the north. Welcome to the students here for the January term of the Reppert Auction School. They arc a hue biuwli of men. coming from almost every corner of the country and they have conic to th<- right place t > learn salesmanship. No school of its kind in the country can rank with the Reppert Auction School. Hundreds of men of var ious age have come here, taken the intensive schooling and goto out to make good in a big way We assure this class of every courtesy mid Assistance to make Uieir stay not only ptafiiablc but likewise pleasan! - ——o— — Helium Plant Re-opens Dexter. Kans.—'(U.Re—The Dexter ■ helium plant, closed since 1933, recently resumed operations after a new market was found tor the gas. Lack of commercial buyers for helium and the opening of a government plant two years ago in Amarillo, Tex., forced the plant to close down.

Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the | Test Questions printed ou Page Two | 1. Charles Vernon Gridley. 2. Four, solar and three luuar, 3. Property thrown away or abandoned by the owner in such a manner as to ‘lndicate that he intends to make no further claim to it. 1. Ponce de Leon. 5. Equal ability to use both hands. 6. Arkansas 7. Shakespeare. 8. France. 9. Hero of one of the Arabian Nights Tales. 10. Peculiar People. * TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File i Dec. 31. 1915. — Estimated cost of a New Year eve supper in the New York "White Way” restaurants is

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Three events stand out in the headlines of 1935 on reviewing the news of the past year. They are the assassination of Huey P. Long, th- conviction of Bruno Hauptmann and the death of Will Rogers and Wiley Post in an Alaska plane crash. Other memorable dates of the past year included th--inking of the StaMner Mohawk with a Jou.- of 46 liv«k the kidnaping of George P. Weyerhaeuser,

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$72.50 for two. The Hritish cruiser Natal blown to pieces in London harbor and 300 are killed. *J. G. Bittner cuts his thumb off while butchering. John Cramer leaves for Kingmountain, Kentucky, to visit. Lewis O. Adler is admitted to the bar. Henry Thomas is putting out a unique calendar which shows a White Stag advertisement on the front page of the Daily Democrat. Judge James Moran of the IndiI ana Appellate court is visiting here. Ben Schrank plans to spend most of the winter in Florida. Judge R. K. Erwin of the Indiana supreme court calls on Decatur relatives and friends. Samuel Chronister is wintering at Doffeny. Alabama. o Finders Not Keepers Boston. —(UJ?>— Finders aren't always keepers in Massachusetts. A state law provides that a person > finding money or goods to the value of $3 or more must notify police headquarters, post public notice or i advertise the fact in a newspaper.

th- dust .-tornis in the midwest, outbreak of ho.tilities'between Italy anti Ethiopia, record-breaking -italmph-re flight, ■•nd th' deaths of Oliver W< ridel! Holmes, Dictator Joseph Pilsudski of Poland. Lawrence of Arabia, Queen Astrid of Belgium. Evangelist .Billy Sunday, Publisher Adolph Och-, .Senator Bronson Cutting, Actress Thelma Todd and the murder of Publisher Walter Liggett.

SEEK NITTI IN GANGSLSIING Boss Os Capone (Jang Sought In Killing Os Illinois Solon Chicago, Dec. 31.— (U.K) —Frank [ Nitti was the num in the old Capone gang who bossed the thugs. 1 gunmen, and sluggers and dealt out discipline to those who made mistakes. Today Frank Nitti is boss of the remnants of the Capone gang and police are seeking ' him for questioning in the murder of State Representative Albert J. Prignano, whose attitude, police learned, did not coincide with Nitti’s on gambling and vice. Prior to Priguano’s rise in 1934 ' to the post of Democratic committeeman of the "bloody ZUUI" waru and member of the state legislature, the dominant influence mere bad been Alderman William Pacell!, a cousin of Prignano. a member of the Italian political faction i alw-ays consiuered as friendly to | Capone. Pacelli recently became ill and went to Florida. Police have heard Nitti also is in Florida. With Pacelli away, Prignano displayed an indiii /ciiee toward factional co-opera3on in appointments, dispensing of gambling privileges anu political tavors. ponce learned. He attempted to build his power in his district to dictaorship proportions, and among those toes he trod upon during tne proi cess are said to have been Nitti’s Someone upon whom he trod arrangedto have three young man fire six bullets into Pnguauo uur- ■ ing a fake holdup, and ultimately bring about a reaujustmeilt in ward influence, police believe. Mayor Edward J. Kelly, head of the city Democratic organization of which Prignano was his 20th ward •’machinist.'’ yesterday issued a statement expressing his doubt that the crime had its source in politics. Witn police, working furiously, today had nine men and one gjrl in custody, the most important oi w hom was Angelo Lazzia, a second had auto dealer who sold the car used in the Prignano killing to Sam Lapicola. Police learned Lapicola s name was used on the auto license application but they are not overlooking the possibility that Luzzia and Lapicola might be the same man. and also that he mignt nave been one of the killers. Lazzia was captured today when he attempted to flee as police broke into his home. They snot his hat off and he hailed. In nis nome was found a shotgun, a rifle, and a revolver. Police also hunted the usual : blonde, this time the one who recently left the rooming house which Lapicola gave as his address on the auto license application. o WILL INSTALL CCONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ■ same amount that would build two ■ grade separations. Grade separations, carrying high-

' LEGALLY SPEAKING] ’ ; A ROGER BACON... WAS X •50 YEARS AGO/ ,/ / | ( A FOR PREDICTING/ .ps//IIIfU u . \ THE USE OF f \\ ir AIRPLANES iA* xSTEAMBOATS aW ,/WZ L—— “ — The English Philosopher was endowed with unusual foresight: and due to bls amazing predictions which allegedly disturbed world peace, he was thrown in prison in Faria and caused to remain many years m solitary confinement. «)

way traffic over or under railroad tracks, are an important safety factor at hazardous crossings while the flasher lights are designed for locations wtierc separations are not feasible or the hazards are not so great. In selecting crossings to be protected with the fishing light signals, the hignway commission ’ acted upon recommendations trom field engineers and special investigations of each crossing suggested i Governing factors in selecting a crossing (or installation of the ' lights were physical conditions, number of trains operated, amount ' of traffic, sight distance and tne record of accidents. A second list of highway-railroad intersections to be guarded by flashing liaht signals is now being compiled by highway officials. This list of about one hundred crossings will he selected from a group of more than two hundred which was submitted by officials of railroads ' operating In Indiana. This second program will be financed with 1 funds allocated to the highway commission by the federal works 1 bill. All signals will be of a type approved by the Association of American Railroads. One of the provisions for the installation is that the signals be placed at the side of the highway rather than in the , center. o BUSINESS OUTLOOK CCONTINUED FHOM PAGE ONE) to the Decatur factory. The plant employs 112 persons here. The Schafer company ami the Schafer Harness factory enjoyed one of its biggest years in point of sales and harness production. The harness factory operated throughout tlie year and manufacturing operations were nearly one hundred per cent greater than, in 1934. About 20 men are now employed in this department aud 12 traveling salesmen cover the territory for the company, in addition to the large office force. The Handle company operated iairly ate a d y through 1934 and at present is employing 25 men. Prospects are

&BBB9KdHBKB V ! SV- € 1I? Our wish for tho New Year is that happiness, peace and hope may fill our hearts; that courage may give strength and power to our minds, and that 1986 will he the best year we have ever known. The BLACK FUNERAL HOME Decatur Phone 500. S. E. BLACK MRS. 8. E. BLACK, Lady Asst. CLARtNCt WLBLR I ■

much better for 1936. C. E. Bell stated. Weather conditions have ■ an effect ou plant operations as ■ logs cannot be hauled in bad ‘ weather. Better conditions in the farm section are reflected through the number of inquiries received and ■ immediate sale for tile, officials of the Krick-Tyndall tile company staled. Production of tile on a large scale is expected to get underway about the middle of February. The plazit is now being remodeled. New machinery in | the molding department is being installed aud the seven large tile kilns are being repaired. Ten men are employed in making the , improvements and 1936 is expected to bring steady plant operations, officials stated. Edgar Mutscbler, president*and majiager of the Mutachler Packing company, stated 1935 was a much better year than 1934. The local plant has been running steady and about 40 persons are employed New coolers are being installed at the plant, increasing the efficiency lof the refrigeration department and adding to storage quarters. The past year also saw more building aud repair programs carried on than any time for many years. Several new houses were I built, scores were rebuilt and repaired and the 48 houses at the I Homestead were completed. As business dosed its book for 1935 and recorded the gains, executives stated that they believed the gains and progress would continue through the new year. — o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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