Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1937 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published Every Evening Except Bunday by CHE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. J. H. Heller President L R. Holthouse, Sec’y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies 1 -0" Dne week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier . 5.00 One month, by mall -35 Three months, by ma 11............ 1.00 Six months, by mall 1.75 Dne year, by mail 3.00 Dne year, at office— 3.00 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Elsewhere >3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER. Inc. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York, 85 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Dance Saturday evening at the President's Birthday Ball that others may walk. It's a great cause. A blanket circulated through the crowd at the sale here yesterday produced more than $34 as a donation to the Red Cross fund for the flood sufferers. When a college pays a football coach $15,000 a year and makes a long term contract what do you figure a man who has spent twenty or thirty years getting a doctor's j degree is worth? *1 In forty-eight Maine towns the school teachers have not been paid for from three weeks to three years, it is announced, which makes us gladder than ever that we live in good old Indiana. The most important matter regarding preliminaries for the new high school building and public auditorium, is that all agree and we begin the necessary operations in the cheerful manner of cooperation necessary to do worth-while tilings. Os course whatever is necessary to take care of the flood victims in southern Indiana will be cheerfully provided by the legislature. They can have some idea of how the people feel by the fact that in every community in the state out of the flood range, response to the Red Cross appeal has been spontaneous and generous. Whether the flood is under control will depend much on the weather of the next day or two. If more rains come, the results may be even more disastrous than have occurred up to this time, while if it slacken? for a few days the danger would be over at least temporarily. Maiiy of the towns and cities have almost completely been evacuated. The official annual meeting of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce will be held Friday evening and all members and all others who wish to be members are invited to attend. New directors will be chosen for the year and plans for progress discussed. “Please 1 attend " Is the request of President R. E. Glendeuing and his associate officers. Loss of life in the flood has been very low, due largely to the radio service and the wonderful cooperation of government, Red Cross, Legion, police and all other departments. After all this is some

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! country. We may scrap occasion'ally but when disaster comes, we take off our coats and give heroic service for the unfortunate ones. i — -5 '; Visitors are not desired in the it flood stricken cities aud will not ;be warmly welcomed until after they have had a chance to “clean t up.” The police and other officials have all they can do without hav--2 iing to keep an eye on strangers ! 0 You can best show your desire to I 9 aid by remaining away unless your j business there is urgent. 5' ) The flood is so serious that it 9 has caused a three-day adjournment of legislature and state offi--1 dais have devoted practically every minute of their time to attending ■ to those duties which will relieve suffering in the stricken area. Martial law has been declared in sev-l eral cities and towns, the militia placed in charge and every thing done to cooperate with the local officials of the flooded conuties. Though President Roosevelt was so busy with flood relief measures that he could not appear at the banquet held in New York to give an appeal for funds to be used in I fighting infantile paralysis, he sent : a message asking that this important matter be not overlooked in our anxiety over the floods. The | total will of course be greatly lessened by the disaster now on over parts of eleven states and that is one reason why more effort should be made in other sections. Howard Atcheson, Republican, Scottsburg, has been named by Governor Townsend to succeed John Wheeler on the state highway commission and has assumed his duties. He Is a splendid man for the job, according to those who know him best and assumes the important post with the sole desire to serve his state to the best of his ability. Mr. Wheeler, the retiring commissioner, has , made an excellent record, and goes . to the Burlington railroad as vicepresident. A six thousand dollar horse sale in Decatur this week was a reminder of the old days when horse i sale day was a big semi-monthly i affair, bringing to the city hun-l dreds of buyers aud others interested. There is every indication that these events under present management of the sales, will in- ' crease in every way and to the benefit not only of those in charge but to every merchant who takes advantage of the occasions, by properly advertising and otherwise showing an interest. The cash rolled in speedily in j this county in response to the call for the Red Cross and by the close of the first day the quota had been oversubscribed many times. One man. a farmer who declined to sign or give his name, dropped twenty ; dollars into the box at this office, | others gave liberally and various church organizations subscribed ’ good sized amounts. In addition | to this, Adams Legion Post request | for clothing and bedding brought a response that was remarkable. The Red Cross officials are most appreciative. Subscribing over a thousand dol-1 liars to the Red Cross flood fund ! within forty-eight hours after the call came was the worth while nee-j ord made in good old Adams county. Don’t hesitate to give for this cause. Remember that expensive job is ahead in caring for the kun1' dreds of thousands of homeless '' and getting them back into living quarters. It will cost millions and what you give will surely help. ' Until orders to quit giving cbffie , ( from headquarters all interested ; I will continue to aid the sufferers I in this, the worst calamity ever I known in this country. I o — I A « ' TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY i From the Dally Democrat File January 27, 1917. — Fifteen Cin- ? cinnati meu plead guilty to having • I sold their votes. ' Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany ceie-

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brates his 58th birthday. C. W. Yager announces his candidacy for Democratic nomination ; for mayor. Decatur high school basketball I team defeat s Marion. 24 to IS.' Gehrig and Snyder were Hie stars! for the local team. Msis Rose Christen is winner of the business men's contest and is awarded a Maxwell automobile. Ladies of the Methodist church open a rummage sale in the Gregory building. o ♦ Modern Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE | • ♦ Q. Is high-hand shaking considered proper? A. No. High hand shaking is merely affectionate. The only proper way is to shake hands naturally. Q. What is the best way to address a letter to two sisters, un-

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i married, who are living together? A. Address the envelope to the ■ older sister. If they are intimate I friends, begin the letter, “Dear I Alice and Clara.” Q. Is it poor taste to use a high 'centerpiece on the dinner table? A. Yes. The centerpiece should ' be low enough, not to obstruct the view of persons sitting on opposite l sides of the table. o ♦ ♦ Household Scrapbook | By Roberta Lee * « Mending Stockings When mending holes in the children's stockings, always weave the | thread around the hole before bei > ginning to darn. This will greatly ■ | strengthen the entire mend. Raisins An easy way to seed raisins is to place them in the ovei, until they are thoroughly warmed, then 1

split them open. The seeds can be removed with very little trouble. Acid Stains A good way to remove acid stains from fabrics is to dampen the spots, then cover with salts of wormwood. Allow the salts to remain for about five minutes, then rub the stains with a dry cloth. o Police Question Murderer Os Wife Fort Wayne, Jan. 27. —(U.R) —Police yesterday questioned George Hyde, charged with the murder of his wife January 8, regarding a motive and threatening note allegedly sent. Hyde is in St. Joseph's hospital recovering from selfinflicted head wounds. Hyde, who is still in a strait jacket. was reported l>y police to have said he shot his wife “to save her the embarrassment of my ’ suicide.”

Answers To Test Questions Below are the ..nswers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two • ' < 1. Archaeology. , 2. James Madison. 8. A park or nursery containing a collection of specimen trees. 4. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky. 5 American painter. 6. It is 801.1292 miles per hour. , 7. Ulysses S. Grant. 8. The Mississippi. , 9. The emerald. 10. Gamma. MORE NATIONAL — ■■ (CONTINUED 'supply 2,000 persons. Militia from South Bend and Warsaw were mobilized last night to keep sight-seers out of the militia area and expedite movement of refugees northward. A medical unit was sent to convert French Lick Springs hotel into a temporary hospital. Evacuation of cities and towns along the 250-mile course of the Ohio river at the southern border of the state continued although

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SYNOPSIS i On the train, enroute to her 1 home in Los Angeles from college, • lovely Elizabeth Harmon meets handsome Gerald Bruton, young • stock broker. At luncheon, when Elizabeth compares college to prison, a hard look creeps into Ger- , aid’s face, and, later, when a man approaches their table and ex- ■ claims. “I never expected to see you in this part of the world, he turns white. At home, Elizabeth s i step-father, Colonel James MeCarthy. forbids her to go out with Gerald, so she arranges to meet him ■ clandestinely. Over champagne, at the swanky Miramar, Gerald tells Elizabeth of his love for her. She is deliriously happy and, Earing at the stars, waxes poetical. Had she i looked at Gerald at that instant, she would have seen a queer, ‘ strained look on his face. Their tete-a-tete is interrupted by the sudden appearance of two friends of Elizabeth, Nancy and Jasper, who are celebrating their engagement. The girls leave the room “to doll up a bit” CHAPTER IV Gerald replenished his glass. Jasper thought him a fine fellow and the ace of hospitality. He told him > so, hiccuping a little. A thought struck him. Why shouldn’t Gerald Bruton and Elizabeth make a go of it too? Wasn’t love in the air tonight? To think was to speak. "Say, she’s wonderful. Comes of one of the finest and oldest families in the country.” he declared with a flourish. "Her father was lieuten-ant-governor of the state, and her uncle the attormy-general. Now this old bird, the Colanel, who’s her stepfather, is retired from the Army , but he’s got loads of political pull. , Elizabeth herself—”—his imagination ran away here, because he was feeling so utterly happy and mellow, and because he had an honest wish to “promote Elizabeth’s stock with this good egg,” and because he felt he loved everybody—“ Elizabeth!! come into plenty when she’s twenty-one, which*!! be soon." In the cloakroom, Nancy was saying to Elizabeth: “Darling, you and your good-looking beau have simply got to be our witnesses and fly with us to Yuma, Arizona. That’s the reason I brought you out here. The idea suddenly hit me at the table. Isn’t it too priceless?" “But—Jasper?—you mean an olopement, Nancy?" Elizabeth was wide-eyed but thrilled. The champagne was in her head as well as in Nancy’s. The idea was stunning—fascinating. “Jasper’ll leap at it. You betcha. When I accepted him at the Colony Club he wanted to get a licence right away. But it would mean waiting three days under California i law before we can legally marry. And who knows, in three days I might meet someone else?” Elizabeth giggled. Nancy took her by the shoulders and swung her round. Her eyes were like sparkling black diamonds as she sprang her bomb. “Why not be a sport and make it a double ceremony, Elizabeth? You’re only young once. He’s got money, hasn’t he? He acts like a millionaire. And he looks perfectly marvellous! He j looks as though he could commit I every sin in the decalogue and get ' away with it beautifully. Devilishly fascinating. If It weren’t for Jas- : per, I’d make a big play for him myself, darling.” Back in the restaurant, however, Nancy either thought better of her plan, or her courage failed. But it was hatched in Jasper’s brain, born of champagne and of his love for Nancy, and of the fact that at half past three in the morning, “Home Sweet Home” was being played by the orchestra, and lights were being dimmed, and one must leave. “Let’s go to the Airport Gardens and have a quick one. The restaurant’s open all night,” he suggested. There was a light of determination in his eye. Nancy was slippery. Now or never! His mind was made up. • • • If one could have looked into the minds of the four people who stood before “the marrying judge” at Y uma, Arizona, with the hot wind sweeping over the desert at half past six that morning, one might nave been surprised at the diversity of their emotions. Jasper felt nothing. He had | “passed out” in the plane. The last I bottle of Gerald’s champagne had I plunged him in Nirvana- As h<= B i stood beside Nancy in what should have been ona of the most solemn

the water was reported receding us far west as New Hundreds of persons still weie >"»< a- ' lU Aarora-Sw>»<M. W«wr wceding, emergency llghta operating. situtaion good. latwrenceburg-Evacuated. Old town'' still completely inundated. Boonville— Haven for LOW refagees from Warrick county and Kentucky. Brooksburg -Completely inundatcd. • Bullocktown- Two hundred moved to Boonville. Cannelton— Quarantined by outbreak of scarlet fever. Evansville — Water shortage being relieved by shipment of 100 railroad tank cars ordered by national guard. At least 15,000 forced from homes but less than 5,000 leaving city. Hatfield — Residents moved to Boonville. Jeffersonville— About 2.000 of 12,(HW population remain in city, fllood crest apparently reached. Leavenworth— Only church spire visible above water. Lewisport. Ky. — Five hundred persons trapped. One dead, one birth. Pneumonia outbreak and national guard attempting to reach

moments of his life, his head nodded, and she had to prod him frequently and give him nil cues, or snores would have taken the place of responses to the marriage ceremony. Nancy was thinking mainly of the photographs of herself that would appear in tomorrow’s papers. With the tail of her eye she had spotted a couple of news cameramen as they came in. It was almost like being a movie star. She hoped that the pictures would do her justice. With Gerald Bruton at her side— Gerald slipping the ring borrowed from the judge’s wife over the third finger of her left hand—it was as though a great tidal wave of joy were sweeping Elizabeth up mountains. It was the most thrilling moment of her life. Tears intensified the deep blue of her eyes as Gerald kissed her. They were man and wife now. She trembled in the full-

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> ness of her happiness. And what of Gerald’s thoughts? f There was a set look on his face. In 1 the hard, clear light of early morn- r ing in the little desert town, the lines t on it looked as though graven in i i bronze. 1 Only his eyes had life. He was j i thinking fast. He had just seen the j t news photographers. ■ Colonel McCarthy went straight • from his argument with Elizabeth ! to the brokerage house of Edmund ! ? Bruton & Company in Los Angeles. t Perhaps he was unduly old-sash- j t ioned and cautious, but he felt he ' t was doing the right thing. With a • girl as good-looking and headstrong i as Elizabeth, one couldn’t be too : careful. The fellow must certainly be looked into. r , That Satan found plenty of mischief for idle hands was one of his ! rayorite mottoes. Work was the ’ thing for her. Work in the home. 1 »« would be excellent discipline. Old ’ 2J. art „ a w . aa Betting P as t her best. ? Ju Filipino boy who attended to ’ the orange grove could do the heavy t cleaning in the house. Elizabeth—for a time, anyway, until she found s her head—should undertake the - cooking and the lighter housework. ' transacting a small matter a of business with Darrow, an elderly ’. man who had been associated with e Bruton 4 Company for many years, the Colonel, humming and hawing rattier nervously, made his inquiry. e Darrow looked startled. And em- , barrassed too. Indeed it seemed as t though he did not wish to say anvd thing. f “Os course this is entirely confit dential. Just between the two of y us, Darrow. Elizabeth is young and ignorant Her mother being dead, I n have to be extra careful of her. You it understand how it is.” d• * • d d J". ! ?? r - the Colom n an “«ry wal-1 n.rus. Darrow naa been guarded, as!

fiom Tell city. Madison R iv ,, r ■ 72.8 feet, 100 | lUil(ll|lfs "XH er. Midway—Evacuated B Mount Vernon .\ Va| ■ critical as Oh, () river , and nitration |MI!11I , b )a . tnonia patients „i ~n i pilal. Refuge tor er towns but estnna M „ W sary to move „ :irl ed quarters. Rising Sun Seven moved out. Tin,., down river. Patriot Only thre,. h B Churches and s. l 1(ll) | s |,,„7W gees. To alleviate those federal, state and agendas threw nt a]| sources. ■ Refuge camps were etquß in two score . iti. s as rushed as far north a , W out of the flood zone. Haß were thrown op. n to the Porterville, Cal. —tup ; one reason why Californiafeß . unmindful of the open that one hunter «... ? [ here after wanderinz nights in the open, . Kern River, loetng his j IJ: . i ally forget’ing his name. ■

befitted a confider/ »! the firm. Yet what the I loidj^^K., pried out of him was far isfactory. It seemed that Mr. Gerald had never been a member v firm. Nor had he ev» - ■. as a member < f th. ,iy, a it was true he was a nection. He had worked in York, but never stayed for long. Mr. Darrow ally hinted there w.re these movings. Indeed. Mr. Darrow had evident that he <■ dd say ably more, had he u < n su “Will you call Mns the Colonel snorte d ' : when he returned h.s h “She went out a good hour sir. She didn't say w here sh« ' going.” Kj:

“Humph! That sort of c* to atop.” He stumpehis orange trees. A spell • might calm him. He took > temper on the Filipino boyrascal 1 . , When dinner time came, no Elizabeth, a suspicion had been trying to thrust to back of his mind pushed itsen I ward. Had she dared to defy h»« * gone out to meet t-hatni "Mb went in to Martha, assms ' anyone had come to the h his absence, or if there b - g? any telephone calls'. “Miss Elizabeth had a not long after you went got dressed immediate yseemed so happy and 8,1 beautiful, sir.” Old Martha sighed symn™« ally and half enviously, Sh" M ways been plain, hje ® )■ been married, nor had she a beau. Shortly after dinner th’ told her he was going to t Club. He barked: “And *h " Elizabeth comes in, tell ■ me there immediately- in He became so absorbed M game of contract at the • he forgot his irritation- . f most eleven o’clock bes . ized that there had been n I® from his step-daughter. He would go home. beat about, the bush, he ■ her his ultimatum. ■ If she were not there We 11... it would be all th ■ for her! u„ She was not there. - » hour after hour. Irri way to anger • • • an f‘’ r eHt*i ° ; .*W that spent itself in a 1 stringent rules of c( ”? . ] formed for her. The Colonel ■ slumbered in his chair. s I (To Be