Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 294, Decatur, Adams County, 14 December 1937 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO Entered at the Decatur, Ind. Post Office as Second Class Matter J. K. Heller. President £ It. Holthouse, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. HellerVice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies I .02 One week, by carrier —lO One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail .35 inree months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail — 1.75 One year, by mall 3.00 Due 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 & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Do your shopping this week. Decatur stores have what you want and they will be here after its over to back up their sales. Health bonds and Christmas seals make it seem more like Christmas and provide the funds for fighting tuberculosis. Use them liberally. Indiana has the past few years gained a reputation every where for peaceful labor relations, fair taxes and a square deal to everyone. Let's keep it that way. The east is in the midst of the worst blizzard ever known there and many lives have been lost. It seems to center in and about Buffalo but extends hundreds of miles every direction. Don’t complain about the snow. They have sixteen feet of it in New York state and the suffering has been severe. Here we have just a little touch to make it really look like Christmas time. Business was excellent here Saturday, every store being crowded with customers and this week you can shop in the evenings in many of the business houses. This is a good town and a good place to trade. Watch the Daily Democrat for, lists of Christinas gifts and profit by it. You can easily make up your selection by going over the advertisements from day to day this week and then slip down town and get them without much difficulty. After all, what more delightful Christmas gift can you give loved 1 ones who are away from home. ■ than the local paper? It doesn't cost much but it's a letter filled, with the news of the community they love, every week day in the year. Have you seen the Christmas lights and decorations in the down town district? If not, you should. They are beautiful and pep up the Yuletide season immensely. CityElectrician Mylott and his men have done a good job and we: should tell them so. Only ten days until Christmas and the Good Fellows fund is running far short of what is needed to pass out cheer to the poor kiddies. Give your contribution this week. It may keep some boy or girl from having a broken herat ; at the holiday season. They say when you buy a pair of overalls now you pay 148 taxes. That may be true, we wouldn’t know, but the strange part of it is that you can buy the overalls for less money now than you coult

! ten years ago. so who pays all I those taxes? There Is a lot of I hooey in the propaganda sent over the country by various agencies not tn sympathy with the adminisII ration. it' — When the government opened t bids on new bonds, to bring only and 1 Interest, the bankSers of the nation offered 15 times the money required. They were 2 eager to get the nation as a debtor, y It they believed that Roosevelt has 5 plunged the country into another 0 panic, they would hardly be so U eager. If the bankers have faith 0 in the future of the country, the i common man can be reasonably assured of its security. I Some say the winter will be over by New Years and that we will have mild weather, others declare it will be a tough winter. We don't have the answer but it looks to us from the start we have had already that it's an old fashioned . one and as we remember them they didn’t break up until March. 1 1 That may not suit you but the wise ’ thing is to anticipate it and plan . for it and then it it’s better than you figure it, you are just that ’ much to the good- . Japanese bombed and suuk the , American gunboat Panay, a mercy 1 ship, in the Yangtze river, near i Nanking Sunday and a number of s Americans are missing. This is a ’ worse disaster than the blowing . ■ up of the Maine in 1898, the spark ■ that brought us into the SpanishAmerican conflict, but we have a different feeling now and it is be-, lieved that we will be too wise to ' try to get even by action which would cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars. This nation is ■ not in an attitude for war and millions hope it never will be again. 1 The Wall Street Journal, in a I : special survey of New York banks. 1 shows that despite recession their | 1 1937 dividend requirements will be covered comfortably. In some , cases nine months' earnings are larger than dividend requirements . for the entire 12 months. One | hopeful sign in the facts uncover-I ed is that business loans by New York banks are running from 400 to 500 million higher than last year. This indicates that credit for the business man is loosening up. Another good sign is that interest rates remain low. A balanced budget, reduced relief expenditures and credit-restriction i policies would make interest rates go up. Bankers would like that. Being only human, they iudeutiy their own interests with the country’s and preach balauce-the-I budgetism. Sam Jackson, Fort Wayne attorney. talked at a Democratic organ- ' iation meeting at Marion recently. I He called on people to keep the ' • faith—to remain loyal to the President- He said “the welfare of the worker and of the farmer, the best , interests of business, large and small, demand of us that kind of ' support of the President which is , whole-hearted, unswerving, unques- : tioned and unquestionable." While predicting that President Roosevelt is stronger today with the people |: at large than he has ever been be-i' fore, Jackson asserted “Roosevelt has never said he was. and no one ever expected him to be perfect | tion itself in cither policy or achievement, but wc do declare; that he has been 99 44-100 per cent • right through the whole of his adI ministration.'’ Jackson hands out ■ . some very sound advice. It is to i j the best interest of everybody to co-operate with the President I against the common foe, the pres-1 i ent business slump. — 0 . — — i Townsend Condition Is Reported “Good”; Indianapolis, Ind.. Dec. 14—(UP) ! Physicians at Methodist hospital today reported the condition of Gov. ■ M. Clifford Townsend as “very good” following the tonsil operation i yesterday. The Indiana executive is i expected to be releasd probably tomorrow.

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I + _— . - - + I Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two 1. The spiritual guide or teacher. I 2. They are American citizens and liave free access to the U. S. 3. Louis XV. 4. Indiana. 5. British Columbia. 6. Polynesians. 7. Camille Chautenips. 8. Guatemala. 9. English critic and poet. 10. Mohammedan. 0 * TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY From the Daily Democrat File ♦ ♦ ; Dec. 14 —Frank Schultz, now over I . seas, says he was sea sick part of I the time, hut enjoyed the trip over. ■ Cleveland schools close for a j month because of the fuel shortage. Congress agrees to thake a two weeks Christmas vacation. Severe storms curtail Indiana ■ coal production further and the situation grows more serious in this I state. Bernard Miller enlists in the I i coast artillery and is ordered to Fort Thomas, Ky. Marriage license—Joel Neuenschwander to Miss Cora Wlntcregg of i Berne. o ♦ • ' | Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee Book Shelves A cheery appearance will be given if the insides of the open book shelves are painted with a lacquer that corresponds to the color of the room. Glassware To prevent tumblers from becoming stained, rinse with cold water, and two or three times a week add i a little vinegar to the rinse. Soaking Wash Clothes are correctly soaked if the very soiled parts are rubbed I with soap first, then soaked in cold suds it they are to be soaked over night. Use hot suds it they are to be laundered before cooling. PRES. ROOSEVELT ONE) Meiping. Japanese found the body and prepared it for burial. Later it will be removed to Shanghai. The toll of known dead in the Panay attack was thus increased to three. The United States cruiser-flag-ship Augusta was advised that the American bluejacket killed was Charles L. Ensmiuger, storekeeper first class, of Ocean Beach, Calif. In addition, the Augusta was informed, Sandro Sandri, one of the foremost war correspondents of I Italy—Japan's new ally in an ‘‘anticommunist" pact—died of wounds he received when fleets of Japan ese lighting nlaues swept dowa iu bomb and machine gun attacks on

J the little Panay and three Stand-' ard Oil steamships. Many Americans and several foreigners aboard the Panay and the Standard Oil ships remained unaccounted for. though most of I them were believed safe. New •■Government" Peiping. Dec. 14.—<(J.R) —Japanese, authorities and Chinese cooperating with them today proclaimed a “porvisional government of the i Republic of China” and advanced it as the new ruling body of the country. It was announced that the “government" would exert authority in all areas from which Chinese government troops had been driven and would “assume responsibility" in all affairs that might arise between China and foreign govern-, ments. The proclamation was issued at 11 a. in. Foreign embassies were ' not immediately notified formally, but since dawn the old five-barred . Chinese Republican flag had been flying on official buildings. 1 (This flag had been supplanted by the red and blue flag of the ' present day). For the present there was no I effort to make a “president” or . other chief executive. The “gov- ' eminent” was being operated by | councils for the executive, legisla- ' tive and judicial branches of the regime, with ministries of administration, pubic safety, educaton. justice and reconstruction fqnctI ioning under them. | The capital of the "provisional” ior “temporary” republic purports ! to be Peiping, now renamed Pek- • ing as it was in the days of the i Manchu emperors, by its JapanI ese conquerors. The move to set up a “provisional” government in opposition to the Chinese central government had been expected. Japanese had announced that they would make some such arrangement as soon as they had taken Nanking, the national capital. o NEW ADDITION rrfiVTTKT'm rpnv n\’F) ruption tn presentations. An additional 250 seats will toe afforded by the enlargement and remodeling. The air-: eirigeration system has been moved from Its original position in the rear of tho building to a P'ace on top of the new addition. Vent: will be maintained to furnish the air to both rear and front of the theater. PROVIDE THIRD <rr»NTINITI<T> FHC.K «-*’>• ONE) ments are furnishing water and supervising the spreading of it in ■ the areas. The dikes arc being constructed by the civil works department, assisted by the WPA. 1 If freezing weather continues, it ' is probable that the rinks may be used Wednesday or Thursday. Decatur Woman Wins In Radio Contest . Mrs. By ford Macy, secretary to i 1 city •choirs superintendent. Walter i J. Krick, has received notice that I

f she is one of the winners in a re- ! cent radio contest sponsored by a nationally known toothpaste com- 1 ■ pany. Mrs. Macy is to be awarded a ,'adies wrist watch for her letter, stating why she thinks that brand of tooth paste is the best. By virtue of Mrs. Macy’s award. Mise Vlrgene Smith, of the B. J j Smith Drug store, is also to received a watch, Since the stere is the local sponsor of the contest. " o Mrs. John Sharp Dies In New Jersey Mr. and Mrs. F V. Mills today received word of the sudden death of Mrs. John Sharp, nee Mary Rey-I 1 nolds. 75. at her home at Blairstown. N. J.. Sunday morning. She suffered a stroke of appoplexy j and lived but a short time. Mrs.' Sharp was the daughter of the t late Rev. A. J. Reynolds, former! pastor of the Presbyterian church I here. She is survived by the hus- ■ band, one sister. Miss Grace Rey-| nolds and oiie brother. Rev. Walter ! Reynolds of Princeton. N. J. One ‘ brother. Rev. Clarence Reynolds is deceased. Mr. Sharp was superintendent of the boy's state school, at Blairsville for 30 years, retlr-j ing recently on account of his age. I o Berne Girl Is Honored By Class Miss Betty Schindler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vilas Schindler, of ; Be¥ne, has been nanifed secretarytreasurer of the freshman class at .Manchester college, according to' , word received here. ■ o Loses Fingers In Hunting Accident Rochester, Ind., Dec. 14 (UP) — Guy Mehrley, 35, was recovering today from gunshot wounds received . yesterday when his gun accidentally I discharged while he was hunting i rabbits. Several fingers of his left; hand were torn away. It was Fulton I county's first hunting accident this tall. Constitutionality Os Farm Bill Is Attacked Washington, Dec. 14 —(UP)—Two jnew attacks upon the constitutionality of the senate farm bill today impeded efforts of administration leaders to drive the measure to an I early vote. o Magnavox Company Seeks Bankruptcy > Fort Wayn, iud.. Dec. 14 (UP) —Officials of the Magnovox company announced today that they have filed a petition in the Federal I district court here to reorganize I under the bankruptcy act. President Richard A. O’Connor . stated that the assets of the coni- ! j pany far exceed its liabilities and that the petition was filed solely for ihc purpose of conserving those ..assets during reorganization. 4

FEDERAL CORN LOAN STARTED First Samples Received As Program Starts In Indiana Lafayette. Ind.. Dec. 14. —<U.R) — The new federal corn loan program started in Indiana today as first samples of corn to be used as collateral for the loans was rei ceived by the Indiana agricultural 1 conservation committee for test- ; ing. Eighty-nine percent of the early samples qualified for the loans by having less than 20 percent moisture content. No money is available on corn with a moisture content of more than 20ty percent. The driest sample tested today contained 16.45 percent moisture. The first samples were received from White, Pulaski. Laporte, j Cass and Newton counties. V. D. Sexson. Purdue university I extension representative, explain- | ed that application for the loans may be made at the county agriI cultural conservation offices In the I 85 Indiana counties eligible for j the loans. Farmers may borrow on eligible corn, properly stored In well-con-structed sealed cribs on their farms, at the rate of 50 cents per i bushel of two and one-half cubic | feet or more, depending upon the ■ moisture content of the cornLoans are available in all Indiana counties except Brown, Crawj ford, Jefferson, Ohio, Perry, Scott and Switzerland. WP A SUPERVISOR TAKES OWN LIFE Illinois Man Commits Suicide Shortly After Sentencing Rockford. 111.. Dec. 14 —(U.K)—Six hours after he had been sentenced to serve 1 to 10 years in prison on a morals charge, Raymond I Carlson, 44. Illinois supervisor for WPA art projects, killed himself in the county jail. His body was found last night :by jailer Roy Juhlin. Both wrists and the neck were slashed. A safety razor blade lay nearby. Carlson pleaded guilty two weeks ago to moral charges involving a “nudist club” frequented by boys and young men iu a downtown Rockford apartment. His j indictment came only a few weeks after he was given direction of ' state WPA art projects. Previously hv was an instructor in a private school for boys at Rockford. Sheriff Paul Johnson ordered a special guard posted at the cell of Frank Wiley, 47, an industrial enj gineer. who was sentenced to prision with Carlson on the same charge. He received the same terms. i Wiley, who also entered a guilty : plea, admitted he had operated the 1 club for several years. About 30 youths, between the ages of 15 and | 21. visited the apartment at regular intervals over a period of years, he said. When questioned at the state’s attorney’s office, the boys describ- ; ed sadistic “rites" practiced at the i club. “Carlson expected to receive pro- ! bation and naturally was disappointed when the judge refused to | set him free,” Sheriff Paul Johnson said. o COURT HUUSE Case Venued i A suit for divorce, brought by | Barbara Habegger against Robert Habegger, has been venued to Jay < ounty on application of the defend1 ant. Bond Approved The bond and oath cf the receiver was fi’ed in the suit to collect a | note and foreclose real estate brought by Edgar Mutschler and Faye Mutschler against Catharinj Hartings and the Adams coufity department of public welfare. Motion Overruled A motion to make a new party defendant was overruled in the mandate suit brought by John L. King against David D. Habegger, as trustee of Blue Creek townahip. New Case A suit in replevin has been filed l by the McKaskey Register company against Harold V. DeVor. Sum- : mons were ordered to the sheriff ! of Adams County, returnable, December 28. Marriage Licenses, lilerbert Shields, 24. Hartville, O. to Edith Kaaler, 21, Decatur, rural ■ route. Real Estate Transfers Aldine Dubach to Paul Yoder ct al, iniots S. D. 1 in Linn Grove for IL George F. Steele el ux to Clark J Lutz, 60 acres in St. Miry's twp. for $L Clark J. Lutz to George F. Steele | et ux, 60 acres in St. Mary’s twp. i tor |i. Trade In A Good Town — Decalm

Business Recession Not ' Due To Money Policies I Chicago, Dec. 14—(UP)—Federal reserve board chairman Marrlnw S. Eccles today absolved the capital . gain and undistributed protfts tax * and administration monetary poi; les of blame for the current busi. 1 ness recession. Speaking before the American | farm bureau federation. Eccles said "ithe basic causes for business re g cession were rapid advances in ' prices and costa of last winter and spring. 1 MAKE PLANS TO k - J-rQSTINVED FKOM rAay ONE) pleted the moving of all but five i-j of the 100 tons of coal in the Cen-,-jtral building to the three ward | buildings. The remaining coal will r i Ij—

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