Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1936 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by *HE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. t H. Hellor President A- R. Holthouse, Sec y t Bus. Mgr. Pick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies _____ —I .02 One week, by carrier — .IO One year, by carrier.™—— 5 00 One month, by mail .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Hix months, by mail— 1.75 Dne year, by mall 3.00 Jne year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are witbin a radius of 100 miles. Elsewhere |3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative BCHEERER, Inc. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York. 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dallies. Following the winter, we'd call this an old fashioned summer. How large a crowd do you think the Texas Centennial bas this week? Just because Decatur is one hundred years old is no sign why we wanted to see the thermometer reach that point. Ball players may obtain a lot of sport from the game but right now they are getting a taste of what the fanner has to contend with in the field.

Hoosiers liked the friendly talk Riven by Cliff Townsend. Those who know Cliff sensed the sincerity of his remarks. He talks like a Hoosier and is popular thioughout the state. If we have the hot weather now. the chances are it will not be so uncomfortable during Centennial week. Weather, like business, goes in epurts and we ali hope that the ■ peak of summer temperatures for the summer will be reached this week. Decatur is fortunate in having a good water supply. The wells are pumping more than 12 million gallons per month and residents are furnished with all the water they want. There is not any restriction on its use and the quality is good. The court house will be decorated with colored lights, starting at the tower and running down to a height about 10 feet above the ground. The building will be lighted during Centennial week and will form part of the decorative scheme which the city will provide for the birthday celebration. The drought is causing a milk shortage ip many of the cities. Out lu re in the rural section we don't know what that means. Daily, a large refrigerator truck comes to Decatur from Cincinnati, to pick up milk gathered by Cloverleaf, Creameries and hauls it back to the Ohio city. We might suffer from the heat, but still have many j things for which to be thankful. It would be a wonderful contribution to motorists, it before establishing detours for state roads, that the detours be prepared for the heavy traffic. Most of the de-1 CHANGE OF ADDRESS Subscribers are requested to give old and new address when ordering paper changed from one address to another. For example: If you change your address from Decatur R. R. 1 to Decatur R. R. 2, instruct us to change the paper from route one to route two. W hen changing address to another town, always give present address and new address.

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tours are over ordinary stone roads and the traffic diverted from the state roads is so heavy that the detours become a dust bed. It would not be very expensive to oil the roads before using them as detours and every auto driver who has occasion to use them would appreciate it. Modern day driving does not include riding over stone roads on hot days. , Within a two-day period the death Angel claimed the lives of two men who served Decatur as mayor. The sudden death of William H. Reed, prominent attorney of Fort Wayne, on Saturday morning followed that of Judson W. 1 Teeple. Mr. Reed served as mayor from 1891 to 1895, moving to Fort Wayne shortly after the expiration : of his term. He was associated here in the law firm of Schurger and Reed and was active in legal and civic circles for a numbt-r of years. Mr. Reed also served a term on the Fort Wayne school board, being president of the or-, ganization one year. Both he and, Mr. Teeple contributed toward the, building of Decatur and their deaths remove men once active inl i affairs around here. o ♦- » STAR SIGNALS -BYOCTAVINE 1 For persons who believe that hu- ‘ man destniy is guided by the planet, the daily horoscope is outlined by a noted astrologer. In addition to Information of general interest, It out-! lines information of special interest' to persons born on the designated! dates. Persons most easily influenced by ! today's vibrations are three who were born from May 21 through (June 20. General Indications Morning—Not dependable. Afternoon—Tricky. Evening— Bad. The day is generally adverse. Watch what you sign and say. Today’s Birthdate You should succeed at work I which is connected with tne manag- ! er of innkeeper. Your iphiloeophy a.’ life ehonld be sensible and you may have the opportunity to travel or take up stud-1 ies or subjects which you were j once interestd in from now through , August and algo during February! 1937. You also may travel. Avoid extravagance or too much , oelf-assurance during March. 1937.1 Danger from accidents, ranli ac-| lions or speech from Jul/ 27 j through August 3, 1936. —-o-' ' ICE — curb service at nqy yard on N 7th St. — Carroll Coal and Ice Co. 165t2

♦ Answers To Test Questions , Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ 1. It is a narrow inlet of the Bosporus, separating the main part of Istanbul from Galata and Pera. 2. Pearl Buck. 3. The Union of Socialist Soviet I Republics. 4. Italian poet. . 5. The White Mountains of New Hampshire. 6. The Giraffe. 7. Alaska. 8. Ambidextrous. 9. A political party in the legis- ’ lative assembly and national convention. 10. Cheyenne. 0 * Household Scrapbook | I By Roberta Lee | Dogs Keep the water for the dog fresh ! and cool, and see that the con-1 tainer is clean. Water is as nec- ■ essary to a dog as to a person, and . it will mean better health for the pet if a little attention is paid to it each day. Napkins Cotton crepe table napkins re- ! quire no ironing, and are an appreciated convenience in the sumi mer cottage. Rose Bushes Soapy dish water thrown on the i rose bushes will cause them to ! thrive. ! ’ o — ♦ Modern Etiquette |, By ROBERTA LEE Q. Should one refer to his home! as his "residence?” I A. No; it is much better to say; "my home” or "my house.” Q. How should the names read i lon a joint card of a doctor and his ' wife? A. Dr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Al-i len. Q. When a woman is calling upjon another woman at an apartment' house is it all right for her to go' up to the apartment unannounced? A. Not unless she is a very inti-; mate friend and has been request- ’ ed to do so. The proper thing to! do is to request the hall boy to I phone your hostess. o f~TWENTY YEARS ~ * AGO TODAY II From the Daily Democrat. File ! July 14—President Wilson nature : John H. Clarke of Ohio to succeed 'Charles Evens Hughce on the UnitI ed States supreme bench. Heavy rains break the droughtl i and save the crops for Adams coun-: ty farmers. Weekly band concert at Monroe ’ and Second streets tonight. Ben Elzey and family return from 1 visit in Louisville. Ky. M. F. Worthman returns from, summer school at Terre Haute. Trustee Bentz of Union township

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is attending to ditch business here today. BRYANT FIRE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) town. Between the coal pile and the bulk station was a field of dry grass. The wind blew slightly towards the tanks. Gasoline trucks were filled with I well water and stationed between | the coal and the tanks. Ah all ■ night vigil was maintained. Should the tanas have caught j fire and exploded, it is believed that nothing could have saved the I ! town but a drenching rain as the ' ' majority of the buildings are of. frame construction and dried out: by the heat. Telephone communications were out for a few hours. o DEATH CLAIMS — | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) I I Matthew Worthman, pastor of the I I Bluffton Reformed church, official-1 , ing. Burial will be made in the! mausoleum at Fairview cemetery at Bluffton, o NATION’S DEATH (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) I keep track of the mountain toll of | deaths,” the St. Paul coroner reported. Newspaper dath notices in St.’ Paul filled two columns. Physicians : explained that many deaths were . caused by aggravation of existing I ailments but that scores were di- ■ rectiy due to heat stroke or sun ! stroke. O majority of the dead through- : out the country were elderly perIsons and infants. , The death toll for the twin cities I trading area reached 285, with 220 l in cities. Wisconsin counted 248 dead from heat or drowning since i the start of the stifling heat. In Michigan, the death list total- | ed more than 400, with most of the •deaths in Detroit. Chicago reportl ed 198 deaths with at least 50 more | in downstate Illinois. o FORESEE RISE ; FROM PAGE ONE) ’ milk used as fluid cream, an in-1 ! creiase to consumers of about one i cent per pint. Cincinnati milk was up one cent j effective July 16, ajid at Pitts- ' burgh, Pa., bulk prices were up I eight cents per hundredweight. I Distributors were absorbing the ■ increase, but a consumer boost, appeared certain. . ’ I Knoxville, Tenn., priyes will inI crease one cent a quart Aug. 1 in ! I to a one cent boost orderI ed July 1. The Indiana milk control board prevented a general advance in I itidiaua but petitions asking a 1 ■ boost were pending. The increase in mils prices, one of the first effects of thhe drought I to reach directly into the coneum- , ei s pocketbook, was made geherj ally to encourage increased proi duction, officials at the Pure Milk

Association in Chicago sajd. A serious shortage was foreseen unless production is increased drastically. Consumption is about 25 per cent below normal, the} said, because of vacationers. Return to normal would tax present suppllee seriously, they said. The increase agreed upon in 1 Chicago will raise the gross price of milk 50 cents over the condensary price per hundredweight, producers said. Previous increases were absorbed by distributors. Butter and cream prices, with the rising cost of milk, also were a source of worry.

Do You Remember ’Way Back When- i ♦ — —♦ By Jessie Magley Kane (Mrs. Thos. Kane) Lafayette, Ind. Formerly of Decatur and the Daily Democrat staff. When the chief point of interest to be shown out-of-town visitors in the city was the new Maplewood cemetery. The long, hot, dusty Memorial I Day inarching by school children to and from the old and new cemeteries where they decorated the graves of soldiers with flags and flowers gathered from the town’s ■ gardens, before the day of greenhouses. The city's first street lights | (about 1885). How proud you were when it was elected to place i one of the “lanterns on a post” in i front of your very house; and how i interesting it was to watch Billy Closs, with his flowing white hair, come driving around in his twowheeled cart to light them at dusk. When Billy Closs played the part of Santa Claus every year. And what an ideal Santa Claus When w’indow displays were few (in the early eighties), what a splendiferous place was Jake Martin’s bakery at holiday time, with | its Christmas tree and ornaments. We made a special trip down town j every year just to see it, and it was a time of great nose-flatten-ing. When you got the most candy for a cent (or two-cent or threecent piece) at Donovan’s grocery. It was put in an intriguing, flat tobacco-ad envelope. The most noisy and interesting places in town were the two flour mills —the Patterson in the north part, and the Hart mill, Monroe | street and G. R. & 1. railroad. Honor Belongs to Woman The pioneer dally paper published In England In 1702 wax pub lixhed by n -• •—-n j Dance Wednesday, Sun Set.

SOIL PROGRAM CHANGES MADE Changes Made In Conservation Plans To Aid Drought Area Lafayette, Ind.. July 14—H f>l Indiana farmers. who have c °* op '‘ l '' ated with the government s eoil conservation program, are being no • tied of changes made by the agricultural adjustment administration to aid drought conditions in this area. L. M. Vogler, chairman of the Indiana soil committee, said today. The modifeations made by tne AAA were designed to preserve al available forage for livestock feed, and to urge farmers to increase the amount of forage crops for fall and winter feeding. Vogler stated. Three major modifications made in the program include:

1. A good stand of soil conserv-1 ing crop on land from which grain, hay or annual legume is harvested in 1936 is classed as soil conserving, provided a good stand of a soil conserving crop is growing on the land when performance is checked later thjs year. This provision is in- ‘ tended to add to feed and roughage J production, encouraging large summer and early fa'l seedings of le- ■ gumes and grasses and (prevent, with the stand of grasses during the winter and early spring, erosion ' by wind and water. 2. Farmers who have seeded soil . conserving crops in accordance t with good farming practice but who have lost such crops because of drought, insect infestations or other■ conditions beyond their control. I may qualify for soil conserving and , soil building payments on this land 3. Land which has been devoted to a soil conserving use may be used ‘ after this date for the planting of an emergency forage crop for harvest in 1936 without changing the' classificatio nos the land. Emergency forage crops include the sorghums. sudan grass, soybeans, millets. etc. The latter modification will aid farmers in areas where new seedi ings of legumes and grasses have been destroyed by drought and high temperatures or insects. FARMERS SEEK (CONTINUED -FROM PAGE ONE) ' Summers as said to have brought Mrs. Hill to the prison to have her I attempt to identify the suspect. While jail officers emphatically I denied that even if the man is held a policy of secrecy would be necessary to prevent a mob gathering at the prison. Only the regular guards were on duty at the jail as the state troopers were kept on the manhunt in the forests and swamps. The rumor of an arrest, however, brought a mob of 60 men

READ ‘em and REAP THE advertisements in this paper are guide-posts to the best values in town. If they weren’t the best values in town, by any chance, the advertisers would be foolish indeed to call your attention to them. Because no advertiser can afford to focus upon a fault! Just as you consult a road-map before taking a tour in your car, just as you pore over a bill-of-fare before ordering lunch or dinner; just as you read reams of booklets and folders before starting out on a cruiseread the advertisements before going downtown into the shopping traffic. • ' 4 .. ilk Advertisements are advance news of all that’s newest and best m merchandise and service. Thev show you, in the quiet and comfort of your home, what you may expect when you sally forth into the market-places. You can check the items that interest you, and “chuck” L ‘ he a<Kerti ~ Read ’em <2, i T

Directoire Dining Room —■ W- a . J < 111 W" .w■■- - - - r I • K ok ’**l ■I- >4l-*. •. bO Ms "" -JHteML Sl iff 'V. This small but formal dining room was decorated with f ßßds * tained under the Modernization Credit Plan of the Federal Hou M - Administration. The walls above the white wamwoting are blue, with a matching ceiling. The floor la of a composition material resembling marble. A blue tile window seat forms a.miniate* aervatory. Furnishings are black, white, and gold, and win*,, draperies arc of two shades of blue.

and boys to the jail. At first they ; stood quietly in small groups. When some of them began to I shout, Colonel Moore and three troopers hastily dispered thesm. j Two deputy sheriffs meanwhile admitted arresting a negro but both insisted it was not in coni nection with the rape of Mrs. Hill and the wounding of J. A. Hicks, ' who came to her aid. However, they told conflicting stories. One , said he was arrested for drunkeniness. the other in connection with a robbery. In event of an arrest, it was believed the strategy of the national . guard officers would be to keep l their troops on the outskirts of town, as if they were still on tbe hunt, meanwhile attempting to spirit the suspect off to Birmingham for safekeeping. Q NATION’S DEATH (CONTI NUED FROM PAGE ONE) I Terre Haute; Charlotte L. Hughes 73. Lafayette; Daniel Fitzgerald, I 39. Gary; William Auer, 63, Fort ; Wayne; Henry Bierbaum. 78, Fort i Wayne; Jules E. Cochoit. 77, Fort . Wayne; Mrs. Nellie Griebel, 75, | Fort Wayne, and Charles F.: | Breight, 52. Fort Wayne, died I from etfects of the heat. Chester Wethington. 19, Clem- ' entsville, Ky„ drowned in a Madi- ’ i son county gravel pit. II Indianapolis deaths —John Wurz, ■ 57; Mrs. John Ryan, 68; Claxenee ; Mayfield, negro. 48; Walter Merjrick, 28; William C. Brock. 44; “ Roy A. Barber. 47: Mrs. Louienne s Moore. 65, and Mrs. Harriet Os- - borne, 47. Carl Buck. 53, Elkhart. The body of Miss Mabel Travelstead, 16, Terre Haute, drowned

Sunday, was found by fisher three miles from the scene ot (accident. John Freemaji, 80, Winona U Knoch E. Caster. 49. Jay cola o BOOTLEGGER UPHELD FOR ONTARIO JO Toronto, Ont. — (l’P>— Then of bootleggers to accept got ment jobs has been upheld by Pi Minister M. F. Hepburn of Otti Defending the appointment of convicted bootleggers to jobs ii ernment liquor stores, the Pre declared that “There was a I when bootlegging was maid rather respectable" and pointed ' that “most of the respectable zens of Windsor were at one t connected with bootleggere" Indians Lack Buffalo Head Ely, Nev.—(U.R) A hundred dians of eastern Nevada ps: pating in their annual snn 4 i ceremonies, had to substring stuffed steer's head, symbobl an ancient diety. o World Grows Sweeter ! Honolulu. —(II P) — Latest N tics show the world is becig j increasingly sugar-conscious. . 1935 it consumed 1,071.2111 tons of sugar than in 1934. 1 Hawaiian islands contributed * 000,000 tons. Taught Landon to Swim Ashtabula. O.—KU.RJ Frank 1 • 77-year-old custodian of the sonic Temple, taught Gov. JI jM. Landon to swim. The | ' was the Shenango river. ■ i Greenville. Pa., and the time d 40 years ago.