Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1936 — Page 5

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Waters Dwindle Fergus Falls, Mont. — (UP) — Creeks and lake* In this vicinity were the lowest today since the first white man arrived three quarter* of a century ago.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1936.

OFFICERS SEEK BRUTAL KILLER Y. W. C. A. Executive Ravished, Beaten On California Beach — La Jolla, Cal.. Sept. 2.—<U.R>— A thickset man with a protudlng lip was sought by police today as the sex-mad slayer of Miss Ruth Muir, 35. Y W. C. A. executive whose ravished and beaten body was found in the swank La Jolla beach area Monday night. A few strands of brown hair clutched in the hand of the murdered daughter of a San Antonio, Texas, banker will identify the slayer it he is found, police believed. Two neighbors of the parents of Miss Muir, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Muir, said that while walking along the ocean front Monday night they saw her sitting on a seaside bench. Near her, they said, was a heavy- ; set man with a protruding lip. Lieut.-Com. Matt Calhoun, U. S. navy, said he had observed a man of the same description prowling in the vicinity for three nights. Polite questioned seven persons in quick succession last night after Chief ot Police George Sears i ordered a round-up of men known or believed to have been Involved in morals offenses. All but one negro was released, a id he was held on a charge of disturbing the peace. Chief Sears said that the murderer. if he is apprehended soon, would have scratches on his face. Blood was found under Miss Muir's fingernails which, with the strands of hair, indicated that she struggled before her skull was cracked The slaying again brought fears to residents of San Diego county of a repetition of the gruesome series of girl-murders, all unsolved, whicn took seven lives between 1931 and 1934. The neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Rogers, last persons save the ■ slayer to see Miss Muis alive, said | they first saw her reading on the porch of her parents' beach home at 9 p. ni. Monday night. Au hour later they returned and she was sitting on the beach. The small children of John Phillip Sour, Jr., were playing "treasure hunt" in the vicinity about 11 p. tn. and did not see Miss Muir. Hence, police fixed the time of the murder between 10 and 11 o'clock. The place where Miss Muir was killed is an eerie spot at night. The surf crashing against the I rocks at the foot of a low cliff ’ would have drowned her cries. The • place is dark even where there is I a fu>? moon, such as Monday night. The nearest residence is 150 yards away. Shrubbery growing in the cove was torn and trampled. Officers said they believed Miss Muir had been accosted, then dragged to the bottom of the cove where she was ravished and beaten. Her skull was crushed by repeated blows with a heavy object.

Her underclothes was almost torn ' from her body. According to Mr. and Mrs. Muir, their daughter had no men friends tn La Jolla. They had summered here every season for years. This year her daughter came to apend u month with them. Miss Muir was a graduate of Wellesley college, and was executive secretary of the Y. W. C. A. at Riverside, Cal. Aside from the heavy-net prowler, only one person was sought by police. A man stumbled into a restaurant at Crystal pier, south j of La Jolla, late Monday night and appeared frightened when he believed police were approaching. He was described as weighing about 200 pounds. o PLANS ARE COMPLETED Annual N. E. I. A. Teachers Institute To Be Held In Ft. Wayne Plans for the annual convention' of the northeastern Indiana teacher's association on Thursday and Friday, October 22 and 23, are completed, according to word from Fort Wayne, .where the convention will ■ be held. A total of 3,500 teachers from northeastern Indiana, southeastern Michigan and southwestern Ohio are exipected to attend. I Specialists in each line of educa- i ; tion are scheduled to address the convention. Convention headquart-, <ers will be made on the mezzanino | floor of the Hotel Keenan. Tickets may be secured by the teachers I , from either the county or city I school superintendents or from the convention headquarters. The annual business meeting with ; i the election of offk-ers will be held in the Allen county courthouse as- 1 sembly room at 4:30 Thursday afternoon of the meeting. The present officers are: O. R. Bangs, Ligonier, president; Mary E. Hollowell, Columbia City, vice-president and Frank E. Day, of Bluffton, secre-' tary-treasurer. C. E, Striker, superintendent of | Adams county schools is a member of the executive committee of the association. The Decatur high school chbrue. , will furnish musk- at the superinj tendent-principal section session on j Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock | in the International business college , assembly room. Walter J. Krick. | city superintendent of schools here, lis a member of this committee. Miss Kathryn Kauffman, local art teacher, is a member of the commit- j tee for the art session Friday morn- ■ ing at 9 o'clock in the Wolf and Des-1 saner auditorium. Special sessions of individual i branches of education will be held, at various sites in Fort Wayne: throughout the convention. College, and university luncheons will also be held.

TO BROADCAST POLL RESULTS Goodyear Company Broadcasts Political Poll Results With a long record of pioneer developments in the tire industry, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company has pioneered in another field by bringing to a politically- ! conscious nation the results of the Literary Digest presidential poll via a thrice-weekly broadcast, staj-ting Wednesday. September 2 over station, WLW at 6:15 P. M., C. C. Baxter, manager of Goodyear Services stated today. "Just as Goodyear has made it a traditional policy to keep several ! paxes ahead of tile needs of the motorist through constant research and laboratory work, so it is mirroring the interest in the current presidential campaign by making these returns, available almost as quickly as they we compiled,” he stated "Naturally we ate not in politics, and take no sides in the contest. Hut at a time like this,, when the approaching election tea topic of conversation ou all sides, it is apparent that the organization which brings to the public spot news reports of the trend of political thinking in the country is performing a public service.” A small army of statistical workers is employed to tabulate the Literary Digest returns as fast as they are received, after which the figure** are broke down to show not only the vote m it its forecast for next November, but also the manner in which the individual in i the last presidential elo:tiou, Mr. Baxter explained. "Thus listeners to the Goodyear ; broadcast over 64 NBC stations hear not onlv last-minute figures on the poll, but also interpretations of significant changes lu key sections of the country.” —--o ■ Trade In a Good Town — Oecatu’

Bob Burns To Play In Movie At Adams Bolt Burns, nationally known radio star and his famous “ibazooka" make their talking picture debut In “Rhythm on the Range" starting Sunday at the Adams, Burns won fame through his appearance on Bing Crosby's radio hour, and he has a co-featured part with Bing in the picture. The Arkansas humorist plays several numbers on the "bazooka”, which is made of two pieces of gas ipipe and a whiskey funnel. Another newcomer to the screen who is introduced in “Rhythm on the Range" is Martha Raye, dynamic night club singer and comedienne. Miss Raye claims her face is the funniest in the world and that her mouth is so large It makes a piker of Joe E. Brown. She furnishes an entirely different and fresh type of humor. Frances Farmer, also a new star, furnishes the romantic interest and Bing sings six new song hits among which are the popular "I’m an Old Cow Hand from the Rio Grande”, "Empty Saddles" and “You’ll have to Swing It." GOVERNORS OF yONTfflTgp TOOMPAGE ONE) ly the entire state of Neibraska has been affected by the drought, and 88 of our 93 counties are on the emergency drought list. The federal government must help us on both emergency and long-time basis. Gov. Clyde L. Mer ri n g—Six thousand, four-hundred farmers in lowa already have been forced to obtajn relief on WPA projects. Outcorn crop was stricken most severely by both grasshoppers and heat. Gov. Guy D. Park—Ninety seven counties in Missouri have b een placed on the emergency drought list, and the plight of the farmers in those counties is very serious. The governors of two other states, not included in the president’s original invitation, may attend a separate conference later and tell him: Gov. Hjalmar P e te r s o n—The crops of 12 counties in Minnesota have been destroyed, and at least 25,000 farmers must have work relief to replace their usual cash crop income. To protect the western pari of our state, the Red River Valley should be developed for water conservation, possibly along the lines of the TVA. Gov. Phillip E- LaFollette—The drought destroyed s*l to 75 per cent of the vital hay crop in north centra Wisconsin and most of the small grains. The agricultural officials of my state recommend fortige and seed loans, WPA work, lower freight rates on feed, reforestation. Treatment of land for drought-resisting crops, a resettlement program in marsh restoration areas, and construction of a tree shelter belt. Accompanying the governors and senators will be retinues of state officials and agricultural advisers. Most of the delegations planned to meet in Des Moines before their conferen :e with the president to consolidate their recommendations and include last minute reports. Gov. Landon said his program is "not quite complete" and declined to discuss it in detail at this time. He was expected to confer with his advisers en route to Des Moines.

TEACHERS MEET (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONK) i “Accountability." Dr. White in his address stressed the importance of being accountable in every transaction of life, and deplored the lack of persons being accountable for their respective branch of work. "The prisons, reformatories and detention houses are full today.” he told the teachers, “of men who were not accountable, either for their jobs, for their debt to society or even their own self respect and honor.” "Employers. Including heads of all large business institutions,” he stated, "have trouble in locating men, who are accountable for their posiltious. without the personal supervision of the employer himself. Every 12 to 15 men in each factory, business establishment, school and profession in the United States must have a foreman, supervisor or overseer to insure the efficient results.” The speaker gave examples concerning the theme of "accountability." and closed with an admonition to the teach ers to afford the students an opportunity to learn the art of being accountable. Close Morning Session The address of Dr. F. H. Gaige, state teachers college. Millersville, Pa., closed the morning session. Dr. Gaige. a prominent historian, chose as his subject, "The Hand of Providence in American History." relating the marvelous plifs leal structure of the country. "The country is so opportunely laid out and was s oinexpensively purchased, that rather than attribute the result to luck or fortune. we must attribute it to God. the hand of Providence." The speaker then related all of the purchases made by the United States since its start in 1779, including the Louisiana purchase, deemed by the speaker as the

greatest bargain of all history The buying of Alaska was the second greatest bargain made by the United Slates, in purchasing such possessions as Florida Texas, the great northwest, Virgin Is lands, and many others, he stated. "And the extremely fortunate part ot the purchases,” he said, “was the fact that not one ot the purchases turned out to be a 'bonanza', but all have formed into a wonderful productive group of possessions, matched by no other nation in the world?" Both Dr. Gaige and Dr. White spoke at this afternoon's session. Dr. Gaige chose an historical survey as his subject and Dr. White a psychological analysis. The Manchester quartet presented several numbers during the program. The institute proper was scheduled to close late this afternoon with benediction by the Rev. Lozier. Elementary grade teachers will meet tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock, and high school teachers and principals will meet in the afternoon at 1 o'clock to make final | preparations for the opening of school. C. E. Striker, county school superintendent was in charge of the program for the day, with the host city school superintendent, and principal W. Guy Brown, assisting. . o GREAT HELPERS OF MAN NAMED — Philadelphia.— (U.R) —Five Amer-1 leans are included among the““1101 great humanitarians of all time” | listed by social workers and civic leaders of the United Campaign, an, organization devoted to social re- j organization and progress here. The 10 men and women, nomi-! nated as a result of a cross-section vote conducted among Philadelphia citizens, are: Jesus, Moses, Flor-1 ence Nightingale, Abraham Lincoln, St. Francis of Assisi, Jane I Addatns. Louis Pasteur, Benjamin i Franklin, Julius Rosenwald, and Andrew Carnegie. The ballot was conducted to turn I attention to the manner in which religious leaders, scientists, states-1 men, social workers, philanthro- i pists, and other leaders have work i ed together for the attainment of social reform. The United Campaign is appealing to greater Philadelphia for 34,488.01*0 in a maintenance campaign for the support of more than 100 hospitals, health agencies, youth training centers, and children's or-

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ganizations of the community fund of Philadelphia and the Federation of Jewish Charities. Among other “immortals” to receive strong support iu the voting were: William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army; Father Damien de Veuster, who worked among the lepers on Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands; the pioneer German printer, Gutenberg; Herbert Hoover, for his work in Belgian relief following the World War; Charles Dickens, John Milton. Beethoven, Mahatma Ghandi, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. O— Princeton Buys Book Montreal —(UP) —McGill University* famous Gest Chinese library, conVpriariing been purchased by Princeton University, it fe announced here.

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I Yosemite Tourists Gain i Yosemite. Cal. — (UP)— Supervisors of Yosemite National Park predict that the pank will b« out of the , | "red" this year. A record mark of [.360,000 vieitore just before the de- . iprenelon is expected to be exceeded I this year with a total of 400,000 tourl ist visitors. Dog Story Saves the Day Arcadia, Cal. —(UP) —Caught in I the middle of a melon patch, a man • told the police he wan merely look- , ing for his lost dog. They accepted his explanation that the burlap sack he had with him was for the .purpose of carrying away the dog. o Plenty of Buggies , Belleville, Kan., —(UP)—Mayor i ■ W, M. Sloparisky wanted a second- • i hand ibuggy. He received 15 replies, 1 with prices ranging from $5 to >25.