Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1937 — Page 24

CITY WILL BE GAILY COLORED AT STREET FAIR Decatur To Be Colorfully Decorated For Annual Street Fair A colorful bedecked city will ■ gleet the throngs who visit the De-1 catur Free Street Fair next week.' Scores of overhead pennants anil : banners will issue a glad welcome, to the thousands of persons expec ted W attend the 1937 edition of ( the Decatur fair. Red, white, and blue banners, emblazoned with a bold "Welcome” i si rung over all strsets leading to I the city, will proclaim the staging of the event. Similiar pennants, hung from overhead lines, will curry the let-1 ters, “Decatur Free Street Fair.” j Doth these and the other tanners will be banked on each side by the American Flag and other ocdorfu! pennants. Banners will also be hung at various intervals across streets of the downtown district, center of ths street fair activity. All of the work ie being done under contract yby L. Roibert Rhem, i F.,rt Wayne decorator, who has had much experience in that line, i He has done similiar work for the city several times, the first occurring in 1928 during the celebration of Old Home Week. According to the contract with the decorations committee of the fair board, the decorating is to be , done by Friday, July 30. Members , of the decorations committee are 1 Robert Helm and Herman K'rueck-i eberg. The committee has stated that many d the banners were made especially for the loca.’ fair and that the decorated streets will rival : those in many of the larger cele-, brations of its kind. Several of the local merchants ' will also “drees up" the front of i their stores, further adding ta the | gaiety in colors. Old Coupons Redeemed Crane, Mo., (U.R) — Dr. S. N. Dalby, dentist, thought he would see I bow well Uncle Sam takes care of! old obligations, sending some gov- i eminent coupons that were payable in 1880 to the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis. Dalby received a check . by return mail.

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■ Couldn't Swim But He Saved Her Life i Philadelphia. July 29 (U.R) A | boy who couldn't swim—but saved I a gril from drowning—has receiv- | ed his reward. Marvin Long, 18. plunged Into :20 feet of water last Memorial | Day, “m ov e d his feet,” and I brought out Elsie laigler, 8, just j as she was about to go under for ' the last time. j At the June graduation exerj cises of Central High School, al-1 ■ though he was not a member of I I the graduating class, Marvin was [ ' presented with the special Barn-1 well Foundation gold hero medal. , And as a further reward ! father of the girl he saved is go-1 ing to teach the young hero how to swim. . Wed on 1931 License i Flint, Mich. (U.R) — A marriage j i | license issued five years ago was i used the other day by Mrs. Paul-11 ine Kowalczyk. 42, and Alexander, I 18. Danialczyk, 31. Two Probate I Court employees witnessed the ceremony performed with the 11- t cense issued Nov. 28, 1931. Illness I 1 and other complications, not “faint i i heart,” caused the long delay. « f

Tuskless Elephants in India Bombay (U.R) — The trend of evolution appears to indicate the de- ' velopment of a tuskless elephant in India, declared C. C. Morris in ‘a paper read to the Bombay Natural History Society. Already such 1 a condition had been established in Ceylon. A similar tendency a- ! mong Indian elephants was revealj ed in the number of males which failed to develop tusks. Plane Transports Town Winnipeg. Man. —(UP)—Trans- | porting an entire mining town, ini eluding machinery, equipmest, food , and supplies and peole, into an ■ “inaccaasible” spot of the Canadian : I wilde by plane is the latest achieve- ■ I inent of Canadian civil aviation. . The town was set up at Favorable Lake, Ontario, where gold is the I principal metal mined. o Musical Brothers Escape Hampton, N. B. (U.R) — Three brothers escaped from the county ’ jail here after sawing through the ■ cell roof to the tune of songs and j harmonica music. The men took turns singing and playing the ; mouth drga.il to drown out the , noise while they burrowed through I the thick ceiling.

: BILBO SCORES WITH FLOURISH Mississippi Sen. Wants Voters To Know Home Products i Jackson, Miss., July 29 (U.R) —| Eating caviar and stealing horses I [ were sins of equal importance in | the eyes of Mississippi rural voters ' not many years ago. So, Sen. | Theodore G. Bilbo is anxious to remove the stigma from his former law partner, Stewart C. (Sweep Clean) Broom, placed on him in the senatorial campaign last summer. Bilbo, who carried his own campaign in a previous election by a substantial majority, was itn ; pressed by the majority turned in against his friend former Gov. Martin Sennett Mike Conner! last year the latter's campaign to replace Sen. Pat Harrison. • Bilbo campaigned for Conner and Broom stumped the state for ( Harrison. And Broom's sonorous• references to Bilbo's "cav-e-ah” j eating has been given much credit for Harrison's 3 to 1 victory.

Caviar Spread Thickly “Bilbo has been feasting on cav-e-ah sinbe going to Washington, and it has gone to his head be-1 cause he had been on a diet of | sardines and crackers," Broom i j told crowd after crowd about his , former law partner in an effort to ‘ , explain why Bilbo turned against his former friend Harrison and , supported Conner. Recently Bilbo saw a cartoon ( bearing the cutlines: “It's a fact that caviar is canned | at Natchex from roe of the spoonbill catfish.” Text of Letter l < He seized upon the opportunity i and wrote his former law partner: 1 “Dear Stew’ard: “Directing your attention to the 1 enclosed printed matter, the pur- i pose of this letter is to solemnly i call upon you to at once make ar- i rangements to retrace your steps of last summer, speaking at each , point that you covered in the late memorable senatorial campaign l and correct, in your emphatic way, the very egregious mistake and remove as tar as possible the great i harm done to me when you anI nounced that I had feasted upon ■ caviar from Russia since I have : been in Washington. i “You will see by the enclosed that true to my spirit of loyalty, fidelity and patriotist, I was only

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patronizing home Industry." | Broom acknowledged the "belated plea of confession and avoidance'' but declined to make any retraction, replying simply: "You admit that you were i plumb full of cav-e-ah.” I The battle of the caviar continue*, the while Mississippi's newI eat Industry thrive*. MUSEUM EGGS I ARE CLEANED Soap And Water Renovate Valuable Egg Collection Milwaukee, July 29 (U.R) — Even the dainty egg of a ruby-throated humming bird came unimpaired ; through a soap and water bath to which 3,328 eggs were subjected at the Milwaukee museum. , Marvin H. Adams, assistant curator of birds and mammals, ap--1 plied a soft brush to the collection to prepare it for new show cases ; after it had been withdrawn from 1 exhibition for a time. I All of the eggs excepting one are from North American birds. There are 795 sets from 720 species and sub-species, and 84 nests. Derivation of the collection ranges from the extinct passenger pigeon to the albatross and the California condor. They were gathered, often at risk of his life, by the late Benjamin Goss, a native of Pewaukee, Wis. Before his death in 1893 he had eggs of all the North American birds known to his contemporary ornithologists. o Fence Is Fatal Trap CATON, N. Y. (U.R)—The body of William E. Burch, 79. was found entangled in a barbed wire fence near his home shortly after his half-brother, John H. Walters, of Watertown, N. Y., had died while digging a ditch. Burch died from exposure. He had apparently wandered into the fence while walking to his nearby gasoline station, relatives explained. o City Fish Pond for Show ASHLAND. Wis. (U.R)—Ashland’s city hall fish pond is inhabited again following receipt of half a hundred German brown and brook trout through action of the North Wisconsin Rod and Gun Club. Caretaker William Lummery, city , hall custodian, warned visitors to the pond at the hall, to refrain from feeding or molesting the fish.

■’EATING STANDS, j NOVELTY GAMES FAIR FEATURES Eating Booths And Novelty (James Predominate ‘ On City’s Midway I Novelty games and eating stand* will be the predominating c.lassifli cation of entertainment at the De- - catur Free Street Fair, according i to the chart of Chairman Dee Fryback. The novelties, including cork games, bal. on darts, ordinary J darts, aeroplane game, Grind Store [' and a devil's bowling alley num- * ber 16 of the total concessions to [ be represented on the streets. A total of ten eating stands, including church 'booths and others, run second in the classification. ’ The ever faithful ball games, !: consisting of "spi'l the milk" and ! such, number but seven this year, giving evidence of a waning popil- > larity in one of the first carnival attractions. Next in line with a total of six . is the “circus" stands, where fairi g->er* may secure crackerjack, pea- ' nuts, popcorn and the like. > Frozen custard stands, "pitch-till-you-win” and picture galleries t will be represented with three each at the fair this year. Stands that confine their line solely to cold drinks or ice cream number two each, while but a lone “penny pitch” has teen secured at , this late date. The exact numbei of conces- ' sions contracted tor the fair ac- , i cording to the tenative schedule of Mr. Fryback, totalled 63. o * « Many Reunions Scheduled For Summer Months ♦ ♦ Sunday, August 1 Shaffer Reunion, Memorial Park. Annual Bleeke Reunion at the home of Otto Bleeke. Brandyberry Reunion, Lehman [ Park, Berne, Indiana. , Weidler annual reunion, Hanna Nuttman park. [ Harker reunion, Legion Memorial park. , Dettinger reunion (rain or shine; / Sun Set Park. , Miller and Snyder annual re union, Sun Set Park. Johnson annual reunion, Sun Set Park. Sunday. August 8 Annual Durbin Reunion, Legion Memorial Park. Decatur. Annual Steele Reunion, Sun Set Park. Martz Reunion, Legion Memorial Park. Hitchcock Family Annual Reunion, Hanna-Nuttman Park. Annual Fuhrman reunion will be held at Hanna-Nuttman park, on Sunday, August 8. Rellig and Roehm reunion, Sun I Set Park. Chattanooga Zion Lutheran church picnic, Sun Set Park. Sunday, August 15 Butler Reunion, Earl Butler’s i Grove. Hackman and Kortenber Reunion, Sun Set Park. McGill annual reunion, Sun Set Park. Smith family reunion (rain or shine) Sun Set Park. Hinkle annual reunion, Sun Set ' Park. Sunday, August 22 Hakes annual reunion, Sun Set Park. Kuntz family reunion, Sun Set Park. Sunday, August 29 Wesley S. Miller reunion, Sun Set Park. Parker reunion, (rain or shine) Sun Set Park. Sunday, September 5 Wilson and Schafer Reunion, Sun i Set Park. Urick annual reunion, Sun Set Park. Labor Day, September 6 Annual Roebuck reunion, Sun Set Park. Sunday, September 12 Springer family reunion, Sun Set Park.

OLD FOBS CENT DEBT COLLECTED Former Bank Messenger Collects 40-Year Old Debt Minneapolis, July 2»—(U.R)—lt took 39 years, but J. P. H. Brombash, manager of the safekeeping department of the First National Bank & Trust Co., Anally succeeded in collecting the four cents the bank and Francis A. Chamberlain, executive committee chairman ' have owed him all these years. In 1897, Chamberlain, then cashier of the Security National Bank which later merged with the First ; Ngtioaul. hired Brombash as 4 I messenger boy. His salary was to have been SIOO the first year. His

pay was given him monthly and a mounted to $8.93. Those payments amounted o on ly $99.88 And for some reason, the bank never made up the odd 4 ued his service* to the bank, being promoted finally to head of the safikeeplng department. On completion of his 40th ye*r with the bam;, he mentioned the 4 cents to Chamberlain. A mooting of the bank's executive committee was called. And it was voted to settle the long standing account. The 4 cents was paid. Brombash agreed to waive the interest. which would have amounted to about 6 cents. The executive committee explained that the 4 cents will come out of the bank's contingency fund created to "meet just such emergencies." — o

Civil Servants Seek Equal Pay In England London, July 29—(U.K-Several million signatures of men and women civil servants in Great Britain are expected from a countrywide drive for equal pay and conditions for equal work between the sexes which will be launched this fall. A petition for presentation to the Prime Minister is to be prepared The Civil Servants' Clerical Association has removed the Idea that the agitation is being carried on purely to improve the position of women civil servants “We want all women, civil servants or not, to benefit,” an official said. Africans Like Cocktails Jahannesburg (U.R) — Cocktails and crime seemingly go together in South Africa, where an alarming increase in native crime has led to a ipolice inquiry. Despite the strict oan on the sale of alcoholic drinks to natives there are dozens of “speakeasies” where the natives can buy their favorite cocktail.

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GRANDMA JOE ROLLS HER OWN Acadian Woman Disapproves Os Drinking And Smoking Lake Charles. La., J, iiy 29 (U.R). -••Grandma Joe” la-Bleu still can , “roll her own" with the best, hut lately she has decided that it s, easier to smoke ready-made cig- ( arette*. This 97-year-old pioneer Acadian woman of southeast Louisiana, I who once declined to accept money , from Jesse James In payment for. a meal she prepared for the notorious outlaw, refuses to accept the passage of the years. No one but “Grandma Joe.” whose real name is Lanoise, can handle her business affairs and, she is pretty good at that. too. I Only one thing can take her| away from the worries and cares which she finds fn running her plantation, five miles east of here. ( That is when she receives a letter from one of her 28 children and , foster-children who are scattered 1 all over the world. “Grandma Joe" came to this •ection as a bride of 25. She started housekeeping in the Leßleu home which not many years before often provided a night's rest for Jean Lafitte, when that fa- i mous New Orleans pirate would make one of his many trips to Texas. It was at this house that she had her experience with the James brothers. "I was alone at the time,” she recalled, "when a couple of men came up on horseback. Something like veils was tied around each one's head. One of them said, “I want you to fix us something to eat.’ ” “Grandma Joe” prepared them a meal, and when they had finished. the one she later identified as Jesse, offered her SSO. But she

refused. Only when they gone did she find a note, she later lost, thanking io i Jorß | meal and her hospitality. B With all her smoking, the ||B Acadian woman disapprove., B I drinking and smoking of tin ,B ent younger generation. But B I cause she never "learned to 'B or write,” she thinks all ihu<|B should have an education. "I smoke,” she admits, nothing but cigarettes. It U5 ,, ( .8 I be as a girl that 1 would roll K | own out of twist tobacco aud i husks. Now there's a good sn lllh fl Crow, Cow Victims Os Electrocutik I Metz, France, July 29 (u.p.)B i crow executed itself atvl a B here. ■ While grazing in a field, ■ j cow rubbed itself against a inß i pylon carrying a big exteuß J wire. At the sament inouirntl ‘ crow alighted on the insulafl | touched the wire with one iB 'and the iron support of tlteß ! sulator with the other, and eaJ< .! ed the current. Both cow and < B fell dead. ■ o ■ Soviet Fliers in Film II MOSCOW (U.R) A cinema (■ “The Flight of the Heroes" ■ i been released in Moscow. The m (shows the preparations made ■ 1 the historic Moscow-North 1B Ju. 8. A. flight of Chkaov,'Baß i kov and Belyakov. ■ Farm Woodlots Protected ■ ST. PAUL (U.R) -Farm woodß ‘ are getting constantly ai < elerafl , attention from soil cosservatil ists in Minnesota, with the nB • thf.t 16,900 acree huvV recenß ; been fenced to keep out destiß tive cattle. 1 o- I Canadian-Haiti Pact Signed ■ i OTTAWA, Ont. (U.R) —A nl trade agreement, providing tor ■ i change of “most favored natiul ■ treatment in tariff matters, hl 1 just been signed between Canal 1 and Haiti. 1