Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT’ Publalhed Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind.. Post Office as Second Class Matter J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec’y & Bus Mgt Dick D. HellerVice-Presidem Subscription Rates Single copies * -03 One week, by carrier H' One year, by carriers6t"‘ One month, by mail -35 Three months, by mail sl.ov 3ix months, by mail 1-75 One year, by mail 3.0" One vear. ai office 3.<M» Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 tnllee Elsewhere $3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application National Adver Representative SCHEERER, Inc. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York 3ft East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League ol Home DailiesThe fellow who wanjed an old fashioned winter informs us he is completely satisfied and ready to talk confidentially to the ground hog when he routes out for his squint. This is the last week for send ing in your income tax report to the state and of course you save money by being on time. It must be in the mails by Friday of this week, so better do It a day or two before thai. The campaign starts off as though it was going to be a little of the old fashioned rough and ready. The radio wiil fairly burn the next six months if the eariy attacks anu counter attacks are any thing to base opinion on. The tragic accident at Grabill will probably never be solved but indications point that the father was visiting with his children and giving them candy, forgetting about the railroad crossing. We do not believe the act was deliberate with suicidal intent. Average payments on gross income taxes in Indiana show- a decided increase over the same period last year. The improvement is more than thirty per cent and we are sure we need the improved business more than we do „ less-' ening of taxes ——. .. , 111 ■ Daily reports of airplane crashes have just about convinced us that we will try to keep our feet on the ground. A peculiar thing is that most of the recent accidents occurred in planes piloted by the best men in the country. If they can’t do it, the ordinary fellow surely hasn’t much chance as a bird. Business, industry, employment, general conditions are much better now than a year ago. Every thing seems to be "obeydoke" except that some don’t like to pay their proportionate share and think they ought to receive special privileges. That is likely to be the backbone of this year’s election contests. The cold wave has taken ses-eral hundred lives over the United States and ft |« almort miraculous (hat the toll was not larger. Millions of people live in poorly heated homes, and some of them can ■jcarcely be called that and thousands have to find a place each •light in which to sleep or rest Attend the Centennial meeting tonight. You will enjoy it thorough ly and it will pep you up for the organization of the big event The court room should be packed and every one should leave there ailed '• ith enthusiasm to make the one hundredth birthday of the city md county a really outstanding affair According to the national weekly poll of public opinion. In which we still have little faith as to fairness cr purpose or plan, tlniir selected voters are 96% in favor

of uniform automobile laws, 82% for severe penalties, 70% for special marking of cars, 86% for strict tests, 73% for compulsory insurance and 68% for governors to regulate the speed. Funeral services were held yesterday for our old friend. Judge E. E. McGriff, of Portland. A splendid lawyer, a tine citizen, a gentleman of the old school, a man who loved his country and gave dti" respect to government, he held the respect of all who knew him. His , career was a successful one and sincerest sympathies are extended to the bereaved family. Floyd McMurray, state superintendent of schools J .mounces that all school busses must be of metal construction. All busses built or purchased before this may be used but from now on. such conveyances must be of the new specifications, i The change is made to insure: greater protection for the children. Decatur water is pure but surely there is some way to eradicate the discoloration and no one will contend that it tastes as good as when l it is pure white and sparkling Whatever is necessaiy to correct, we are sure the people would like! to have done. Al Smith made his widely adver-1 tiecd speech to the Liberty League : at Washington Saturday night and disappointed those who expected| him to call the President a lot of names or to announce his own candidacy. He disagrees with, much of the New Deal and seems to believe that Wall street ought ’ to continue to run the nation as' they have for 150 years. lie declared that ciass is being arrayed against class but if bis statement i is true, it is lite fault or the extreme element Smith himself now' is allied with, rather than the' national administration The veryworst thing at this time that could happen would be for the Smith Hoover • Raskob • Mellou - Shouse crowd to gain control CHICAGO TRAIN JUMPS TRACKS Fifty Injured When Two Cars Os Elevated Train Jump Tracks Chicago. Jan. 27 —'UP)— Fifty persons were bruised, cut or badlyshaken when two cars of a threecar elevated train jumped from the raijj on a curve near a south side station early today. Throe women were injured seriously. The two derailed cars tilted at a ■ 45 degree angle over the ground. 35 feet below. Firemen placed ladders against the elevated structure | and rescued a score of paesengeree. Passengers In the third car. which remained on the rails, were jolted severely but none was injured They waked back to a station when power In the third rail was shut off. There were more than Si) persons ! in the three tare. Motormau Albert J. Totte said the train was traveling about 15 .Tiles an hour when the trucks of the first car leaped from the rails. He could not account for the accident. Officiate sought to determine if the brakes had frooen Th* train was running in the center track of three tracks on the line. \ it round-d the curve, trucks of the front car jumped from the tracks and bumped along the ties. The second car followed. The trucks were torn from the first car after bumping along for about a car length and the train came to a sudden stop. Pwefigefis were hurled against th: l side* of 'he firt two care whidh tltlted at a precarious angle A score suffered cuts and minor bruises when they crashed into windows of the train COURTHOUSE Csltecftcn Note Myrtle VjUfd. aI wed 81ttt tor ths of a net* trom Lulu M Walters and the iurnmon* v.ae ieemd returnable February 7. E Sult Alvin Anderson filed an eject xent suit againct Hornet Fisherj and the summons, wae issued returnable February 6. —- -—'—o—— Fred Mtwr spefri Sunday with lii- parents, Mr. ami M-.s. L. A. Brunnei residing twelve miles south west of Decatur.

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GROSS INCOME I DUE THURSDAY Thursday Is Final Day To Pay btate Gross income Tax Thursday is the last day for filing annual state gross income tax i returns, Doe Fryback. local auto | license branch manager, warned I today. AH persons or corporations that received more than SI,OUO durI ing 1935 from all aourcen arc reqttired to file annual reports and pay tax on the amount above the | SI,OOO exemption 1 Indications arc, Mr. Fryback said, that the number of returns filed this year will be well above .he number tiled a year ago. The increase is anticipated because or improvement in general business connitions. Farmers, particularly, were expected to add considerably to the number of taxpayers, due to substantial increases in agricultural income in the past year. in tne state as a wnole, 302,565 ! returns were filed a vear ago as I compared with 277,134 the year before. | A last-minute rush at the license branch even greater than in previous taxpaying periods was predicted by Mr. Fryback. because ot the recent severely cold weather which caused many persons to postpone the filing of their returns. | 0 ,— Salem M. E. Tiie tn. < tings will odntinue tills week each eve ning at 7:00. On Tuesday night Mr. Marqquet of Monroe-

Thwarted Scottsboro Case Defendant’s Escape W ewwa v- ; * tT -Jf ■ &■ JU 'mt : : ' V» 'x*# X&Sa» ( X vßf ; *-Wt.s‘ i ; ~ jR jsWBMi t - \ I X x F*' -"If ’ L * hux v --1 wOk : UK* ; >■[ tt Ozie Po'.vsl!. Negro Scottsboro case defendant wa» shot after he slashed Deputy ShexiS Blalock aS Decatur, Ala., in attempted escape from custody of Sheriff J. 8. Sandlin, shown holding knife with eddek attack was made. Gov. Grave- ordered : tatc trooper to the city to protect the wounded man from lynch I threat. Sheriff J. £. pierce is and left je Powell aa huvoital doctor# worked to remove the bulleta

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To Whom Does United States Owe Money? , The Public Debt of the United States has reached a gross of more than thirty billions of dollars. To whom does the country owe this money? Is any of it owed to a foreign government? Did the government of the United States ever borrow from a foreign government? What is the difference I tween the ‘’gross" and the "net" Public Debt? How much has each War ftp reased the Public Debt? ’ A complete history of the Public Debt of the United States is offered to the reader.’ of this newspaper by our Washington Service Bureau in bulletin form. The only charge is a nominal one of five cents for postage and handling. If you want to avail yourself of this knowledge of the Public Debt, wrap up a nickel and moil with tin coupon below for this bulletin: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 372, Daily Democrat’s Service Bureau, 1013 Thirteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. Here is a nickel. Send me the bulletin HISTORY OF THE U. S. PUBLIC DEBT: ’ i N A M E STREET and No. CITY STATE I am a reader of the Decatur Daily Democrat. Decatur, Ind.

ville will give hte life story of how Goa wonuerfully saved and healed him. Wednesday night the Van Wert Ohio Gospel Team will be firesent to conduct the meeting. The Rev. Seth Painter of Monroeville is doing the preaching. Every one is invited- Miss Marie Rank will lead th' music with her cornet again this week. 81,357 Couples Get Honeymoon Rates in Italy Rome —(UP)—Cheap honeymoon trips to Rome have been celebrated by 81,357 couples, official figures reveal. These couplet; have arrived gluco July 29, 1932. when the eocalled 'Hon yinoon Special" railroad concession of «n per cent reduction went into force Os this number, there were foreign couples from be-

yond the Italian frontiers including the United State*. The concession known as tile "Honeymoon Special" is available to all .talian newlyweds who make application for the reduction within five days after obtaining a njarriag ■ certificate. Foreigners have 20 days in which to make application at the Italian Consulate nearest to their city of residence. The honeymoon reduction was conceived by Benito Mussolini in order to encourage young couples to marry. In some needy cases a subsidy was granted. o First Fog Horn In History Saint John. N. B. —(U.R)—A steel ! engraving of the world’s first fog ■ horn, erected on Partridge Island, near here, in 1855, has been found . among the bunch of old papers • here.

legally speaking| < > ~ JAv I / zSMBil *~rtq,ur- H d aM-aa-t . lUaaJ HaAA€AA/ Caaaa,. X Kaao A SOMEWHAT J;< f BURDENSOME - fl 7 f BUT LEGAL /f f METHOD OF £ / L Jf. ADDRESSING * ( W I M ONE IN 1879.... « VV f >Hal»n<f)c<u a I > - A letter with the above addres* was sent Nov. 15, ltf9; and contained M much public comment regarding its peculiar lengthy rec tatton of pla<.e of ; destination that Harper’s Weekly carried quite an article on n ana it* ! effect. •

SEVEN YEAR OLD DEATH MYSTERY Kidnap Slaying Os T«rre Haute Girl Still Unsolved — Terre Haute, Jud., Jan 27. —(U.R) • —Seven years after the mysterious kidnaping and slaylug of Edith Mae Dierdorf, 11-ycnr-old paper carried, the identity of her attacker today remained unsolved. Edith Mae disappeared after finishing her regular Sunday paper route the morning of Jan. 27, 1929. i Her body was found tn a clump of I bushes in the Busseron creek bed near here a week later. The little girl was the daughter !of Mr. and Mrs, Fred Dieroorf, ■ West Terre-Haute. She attended Sunday school on the morning of her disappearence and then started out on her paper route. Her little sisters and brothers were the last members of the family to see her alive. They were riding a west-bound street car, enroute home, when Edith Mae signalled to them from the street, that she was going to the east edge of town to deliver one > more paper before starting home i She never returned. During the search which expanded into nation-wide proportions, ’ several meager reports were made • to local police by persons who be-

■ j Ifeved they had seen the child and I her abductor, but none led to defi- i ! nite dues. i ' Tlv- first tangible development : i 'was the fludiug of her bloodstain i ed newspaper bag near Hnsseron ! I creek, 34 miles south of Terre j I Haute. An extensive search of the > vicinity was fruitless. I Later the body was found in the : Inrsseron creek bottoms by Nimrod , Slavens, superintendent of PleasI antville schools The child's feet were tied and two handkerchiefs ’ were In her mouth. Slaven was given ft,ooo reward ' for finding the body, A? 2,000 re i ward for capture of the murderer I was distributed donors four years I ago. o WANTED— Good, clean, big Rags, suitable for cleaning machinery. Will pav 4c ib Decatur Daily Democrat ~ , - - —! I CORT Tonight & Tuesday ; “STARS OVER BROADWAY” P«l- O’Brien - Frank McHugh Jean Mntr • James Melton Jane Froman • Marie Wilson and News. Wed. Th yrs Warrdn Wtfltam « PSrt-y Mawtf i "Ths case op lucky ueos" p| rst evening s'uw at »:00, Coming "SHOW THEM No MERCY" Rochelle Hudson ■ Bruce Cabot , Caesar Romero ■ Edw. Narriss

* Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed || on Page Two • 1. Ohio. 2. William tullen Bryant i 3. German historian 1. Indianapolis, ’nd. 5. One Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. «. Sahara. 7. A round convex moulding along one side Os which there is attached a small, projecting fillet or flat member, «o called from a resemblance to the keel of a ship. S_ New Jersey.. S». A naval officer appointed by the President of the United States. ‘. lu. Rasputin. o- —■———— DEATH TOLL IN • (CONTINUED FliOM PAGE ONE) ■ toll of the blizzard to approximate- ■ ly 30. The subzero wave was pushed into Indiana last night by a 20- | Tnue-an-hour wiud, and low tempI eratures are expected to remain i for at least 36 hours. II Central and southeast portions . of the state, where temperatures of 10 degrees Delow zero were reported, bore the brunt of the wave. I The mercury in the northern por . tions was slightly higher. Fort , Wayne reported eight degrees be- . low zero. 1 Low temperatures will prevail to-

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nlgh '’ W1 " 1 around to b «7 central and so „ thern “nW possibly 15 degree, tX?”® northern couiitii ß(j * HS Fair weather jR , ■ Indiana barely had ■ from Its first bli Mllr(1 Wednesday „ n ,| SP| „ to record lowh of 1S ,*>**«■ zero A slight rise day. but th- ln ,. ’»■ drop late Saturday Jri ® With snow on th. ,, 01bu ■ ready packed tht..„. , h , “’*■ er of drifting anq Z® blockading of him- fl y.*® were paralyzed hy lh /. W zard. "T IM Schools throughout state were "xpoctert tr, day. r Tonight AL Tumor'll Yesterday’s packed B raved over this swell p ; Myrna Loy ■ in “WHIPS\W"| with Spencer Tracy. h ts J Also—Comedv and CarJ 10c.25c *' WEDNESDAY Our First Gum ■ bank night B $25 award—Be Slire to ■ come for fun and proftt, B ! Wed. 4 Thurs. — Frank p-B an”s Funniest Comedy. "A Perfect Gentleman- fl fl Friday 4 Bat. — Another taß Show! “If You Could Only {fl Jean Arthur, Herbert M»*S Leo Carillo. I Coming Sunday ’ COLLEGt*f|B <l®D Tonight «SL Tomorm Sizzling Adventure Mystaj “REMEMBER LAST NIGHT ; Edward Arnold, Consta ; Cummings. Robert Yon| Sally Eilers. Robert An strong, Reginald Denny. ALSO —Andy Clyde Csmg) and Cartoon. I0»20c Fri. 4 Sat. — Another Hoy A-b Cassidy Thriller! "BAR 70 R® AGAIN" with William to Jimmy Ellison. Coming SundayBig Double Feature! j CALLING OF DAN MATTHE* with Richard Arie". ’ Also — “GUARD THAT GIWL*