Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1938 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Suuday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered st the Decatur, Jnd. Post office as Second Clans Matter /. H. Heller President A R. {tollhouse, Sec y. & Bus Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies —— —l -®“ One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mall —— -55 Three months, by mall 100 Six months, by mail —- 1.15 One year, by mail 3.00 ()ne year, at office— 3.00 Prices quoted are wltbln a radius ot 100 miles. Elsewhere $3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application, National Adver. RepresentaUve SCHEERER & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. The pencil dodges around considerable trying to write '3B but Is gradually coming to It. Help enforce the traffic laws, not only to avoid the penalties but because It makes it safer for every oue. The Daily Democrat, every week| day iu the year, in the first 100mile zone for only three dollars. Tell your friends. ~~ Those who followed the New Year celebrations clear across the dial felt almost as all in by morning as those did who were really in where it cost money to "screech." It was one big party. It's the season of clearance sales when the wise merchant cleans up his stock and when the smart buyer can take advantage of some real bargains- Watch this paper for announcements. They will make you money. The average business man will he pleased if the new year treats him as kindly as did the old. Predictions are that while we will start rather slowly, we will gather momentum and come through iu a big way. If you really try to obey the new ordinance which provides for parking your car, there is not much chance of you having any difficulty, for the officers will be glad to help you by telling you just what the demands are under the law. This is the time of year when our good subscribers renew their subscriptions If they take the paper by mail. Hundreds already have done so, we have added dozens of new members to our family of readers and we are hoping the good work will go on. The weather over the New Year period was about the most ideal within the memory of the oldest settler. The rains on the last day of the year stopped, the clouds floated away and the stars came out with New Years day just snappy enough to be perfect. See that you don’t park wrong or violate other provisions ot the new city ordinance or you may get one of those 1-2-3 cards. For the first offense, the fines aro to be nominal, one, two and three dollars, unless of course your misdemeanor is so flagrant as to make It a crime. The candidates are announcing and the big, friendly battle for nominations for county offices will be in progress. That's always an exciting period and there are few events that compare with the returns of a primary in a county like this where nomination is usually equivalent to election. Newcastle, a lloosier city of about 12,000 population, makes the proud boast of the third straight year without a trsflh death In *938 they won the government -

safety plaque for cities that size and with a clean record this year, will no doubt keep It. They are being careful there and are sett- > ing an example that every etty may well follow. it Congress is convening and for t the next six or eight months will '• battle over the nation's problems. 1 Porhaps if they let things alone it wofild be better but they won't so 2 you will hear much from them and jj the commentators. Every one 5 hopes for proper legislation and 2 for a more friendly feeling as be* j tween social factions. There should ) be no class in America. The nation ought to be pretty well recovered by now from one of it's biggest celebrations of aj New Year ever staged. From l Maine to California and every where up and down, the corks popped and the folks ate, drank j and were merry as the old year Hopped and kicked it's way out j , with a banter that if ’3B does as; ' well, he will have something to j ; boast of when the gay period combs J next December 31st. Now it's all over and we get down to brass; tacks, bet's do things. If an active road committee is organized in Adams county, a 1 bunch that will work at the job of presenting our cause, we can have the pavement between here. and Huntington completed, a four-; lane road to Fort Wayne, improve- j i ment of 101, completion of the De- j catur-Monroe project, farm to market roads, an east and west highway through Geneva, improvement of the road east from Berne and the town and city streets improve-1 ed. That’s a program that ought to provide plenty for a group that wants to serve on something worth while. One sure way to measure the | past year is by the large increase,, in kilowatts used by local manufacturers, exceeding all previous records by more than two million. 1 The Decatur Power and Light is a plant that any city could well be proud of and we sure are. It's a great institution that not only provides cheap power for the > manufacturer, low rales for the light and power users, but also; ( shows a profit that helps operate j the city, gives us the best lighted I town in the middle west and builds I a reserve that gives this city euviable credit. t —- - ‘ 1 The high cost of building houses 1 is not so much in the material and | labor but in the extras that have; come into vogue the past few years. [ Ii is possible to build a fairly good 1 five-room house with water, toilet 1 and sewer for $2,500. But when | furnaces, bathrooms, insulation and hardwood floors were added along with basements with cement floors that adds another SI,OOO to j, $1,500, making the total $3,500 to $4,000. It is a rule of thumb in the construction game that the ] average man can afford to buy or build a home costing 100 times his > average weekly wage, or the equivalent of two years' Income. The higher the wages the better house he can buy, us it is fair to assume that the man with SI,BOO income j can spare a larger per cent of his income than the man with $1,500.! One saving feature is that under j the government plan interest rates are lower and principal payments | are smaller, due to the longer time granted to pay out. It is not so much the daily or weekly wage that the man earns that determines his ability to own a home so much : as the yearly income or steadiness i of his employment. Newcastle! Courier-Times. o MEMBER DRIVE f (OOft'r'iwukiu ritoM r-Aitw unb originally set at S2OO, raised to!' 3800 and then again to $1,200. The chapter raised and sent into the general Red Cross headquarters a total of $8,447.88. Special commendation has been!' received by ihe local chapter for I ] its part In the flood relief aid. ■ < .100 Johnson of Wren, Ohio a shopper here today and renewed his paper. ‘ j,

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« — *! Answers To Test Questions I Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two ♦ - 1. Yes. 2. St. Johns. 3. Georgia. 4. In the upper jaw. 5. French painter. 6. In Carpenter's Hull, Philadelphia. 7. Oklahoma. 8. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas, 9. Harvard University. 10. IWbert bonis Stevenson. o f TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY j From the Daily Democrat File | ♦ —— ♦ Jan. 3 —Frank Reed asks that a receiver be appointed for the Also Products Co. Jacob Martin is quite 11l with smallpox. Several other cases reported. X. 0. Groves of Sturgis. Mich., buys the Dowling-Schuey hardware ; store here. L. L. Baumgartner appointed deputy surveyor by Orval Harruff. Colonel House says American 1 troops must be rushed to France if Allies are to win the -war. Bernstein's annual clearance sale will open the Gth. o ♦ + Household Scrapbook | By Roberta Lee ♦ J The Newspaper To prevent the newspaper from blowing away, fasten a spring ! clothespin to the porch railing, or any convenient tdaco near the front door, and any obliging paper car- : fier will he glad to snap it Into this pin if asked to do so. To Separate Eggs One easy way to separate eggs j is by use of an ordinary funnel. The white will go through, leaving the yolk in the funnel. Discoloring of Bruises it is said that if a fresh hump is rubbed with wet starch, it will not discolor. S) 1 f k/p W. BRAUN I VJKe Safely '■Maajf/}' The most important thing in all ! the world is the thing you have, in mind to do. No sane man will leavo I ids house unlocked, windows open, a fire burning in tho fireplace, the gas water heater turned on, and the i electric iron still plugged in. No safe and sane driver will leave his truck unattended unless he does the following things: ■Shuts off the engine and sets the emergency brake; .places it in low gear; makes sure that he is not stopped on a curve, or on a crest of j a hill, or at any point where traffic can not see his vehicle from all directions These are some of the important things in driving. i i

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I* •t 1 Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE I ♦ ♦; 1 Q. What should a hostess say in 1 greeting her guests at a reception? 1 | A. “I am so glad to see you.” "So . 1 iglad you could come. Mrs. Brown.” |' ! "So happy you could come, Mrs. j 1 Smith, and meet Professor High-j brow.” The guest should then <be i f introduced to the guest of honor. j 1 1 Q. What is the proper way to hold 1 1 a drinking glass in the hand? A. The glass should be held sligh- r ly below the center, with the thumb j and first two fingers. I . Q. When a man and a woman I I meet on the street, which one | should make the move to step for a short conversation? A. The man. o SEVEN DIE AS J _ ( CONT INT. Kp FRniT rx nK riNTO 1 it been on time, he said, it would | have passed the crossing 20 minutes before the students arrived. j Witnesses said the driver of the ( car apparently had failed to see i the lowered gates or lights of the j \ approching train. i 1 o ! ( CITY TRAFFIC 8 ..■nvT-.vi'Kr. KKo-c .- m;k onr) j Second and Monroe streets give; space on those two streets to shop-1 1 pers who wished to drive up in i \ front of the stores an dshop. Many , persons expressed themselves fav-', i orable comment for the new regu-1 1 laticms which became effective' j January 1. o i JOHN HIRSCHEY (CONTINCKD FROM PAOB ONE* iu the case was made when Mrs. j Hirschey, wife of the defendant, was Injured in an automobile acci- 1 I dent. Under the laws of Indiana the' penalty for the rape of a minor j girl is life imprisonment. Purdue University Official is Dead ■ ; Lafayette, tnd„ Jan. 3 —(UP)—j Funeral services will be held tomor-' row for Wuyno E. Leer, 40, state • leader of the Barberry Bush eradi-! .cation campaign for 14 years fori Purdue university and the depart-' j ment of agriculture, who died at , his home early Sunday. [ Taken ill in September, Leer continued work until Nov. 27 when he was confined to the home hospitaL Born near Fairmont, Leer was graduated from Purdue In 1019 and '! formerly at the University of Maryland. The widow, the former Eltzajbeth Powell of Washington, D. C. two daughters and his parents sur- ! vive. | ’ o— Jack Srickland Dies After Short Illness Indianapolis, dad., Jan. 3-<UF) —Funeral services will be held to-! morrow for Jack- Strickland, 35, for- j mer state manager of the Homo i j Owners' Loan corporation, who died j.

Sunday at his home here after a , tvee<k’s illness. Strickland became the first district manager of the ludianapolis district of the MOLC in 1932 after serving in the sales promotion department of the Westinghouse lamp | company from 1923 to 1931. He was transferred to Washington in 1935 as assistant to the general manager of the MOLC and reutrned here in 1936 to succeed E. Kirk McKinney 1 as state manager. He resigned last July to enter the real estate and insurance business. UNEMPLOYMENT CENSUS REPORT Bikers Reports More Than 10 Million Out Os W ork Washington, Jan. 3 — (U.R) — A bureau of labor statistics report showed today that the hulk of in- i direct or “behind the lines” employment created by public works construction went to heavy industries. some of which have been attacked by the administration recently for alleged monopolistic trends. With a report by John I). Biggers ! that 7,822.912 persons filed cards in the voluntary unemployment census, the analysis of public works administration employment is expected to play a major role in congress’ decision whether the jobless should be kept on the j present relief set-up, put on the dole or cared for through a re-' vised PWA. The report, covering the four years ending June 30, 1937, showed that of 1.337,000.000 man-hours In “behind the lines" PWA employment. 611,000,000 man-hours went into the steel industry, which has 1 been assailed for keeping prices: too high. The cement industry showed 116,000,000 man-hours of indirect I ! employment created by PWA; | orders, while lumber showed 129,- 1 !000,000 man-hours, transportation,! 1114,000.000, and clay products 1 44.000,000. Last Saturday the federal trade; commission entered an order j against the national federation rtf building supply associations and; affiliated trade groups to cease! “certain unlawful practices," allegedly tending to suppress competition in the sale of building materials and to maintain high prices. Biggers’ report to President Roosevelt showed that 7,882.912 persons actually reported them- i selves out of work Nov. 20. the 1 date of the enumeration. Biggers said that on the basis of a checkup' of 1,950.000,000 persons to ascertain how many unemployed re*' turned cards, a nation-wide projection of the same percentages would bring the unemployed to 10,800.000 ppusmig Johu J. Habegger of route J, 'Berne was a business visitor here I today and renewed his pnper, i i

HOTEL PORTER HERO OF FIRE Heroism Os Negro Porter Saves Five In Seymour Fire j Seymour, Ind-, Jan. 3.~<U.RV hive j persons escaped injury because of the heroism of a negro porter when ! fire early today swept through the ! Lynn hotel in downtown Seymour, causing several thousand dollars damage. The porter, Booker T. Ford, discovered the fire shortly after midnight, roused all the guests, led four of them to safety over the roof of an adjoining building and led a fifth guest through a wall of flame to an exit. The guests who escaped in their night clothing from the third floor I blaze were Mr. and Mrs. Nathan ! Hardy, of Seymour, Hugh C. ] Mitchell and his daughter Jose- ; phine of Frankfort, Mich., and J. T. I | Ferris of Champaign, 111. When the fire was discovered, j ' Ford and George Sangster. manager of the hotel, ran through the I corridors rousing the guests, j Ford managed to round up those' ! on the third floor and led them to j safety through the smoke to the j ! only exit on that floor. He narI rowly escaped death or severe in- ! jury when he slipped from the top; !of an adjoining building and | clutched the side as he was about; to fall to an alley 75 feet below He dragged himself back to safe-! 1 ty and succeeded in obtaining a- - over which the four guests 1

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SYNOPSIS When Julie Allerdyce, 19-year-o!d daughte*- of Professor Allerdyce of the Ramsey Preparatory School for Boys, manages to get herself engaged to Dr. Richard Jessup, Fayette's most eligible bachelor, she i looks forward to a glamorous future as a married woman. Os course, most people in town had thought Dick would marry Millicent Dodd, who is 33 while he is 38, but Millicent hides her disappointment and gives an engagement party for Julie. Less tactful is Tommy Jessup, Dick's younger brother. He is still in college, and has always loved Julie. He tells her she will be sorry if she spoils four lives by marrying Dick. Julie tells Tommy to mind his business, but in less than six weeks she begins to find being engaged is boring. It is then she remembers the words of Pete Waddell, barnstorming aviator who gives flying lessons at a neighboring field. He had told her there was a great future in flying for a beautiful girl. She makes a trial flight with Waddell and decides she will learn to be a flyer. But the course costs a hundred dollars. She tries to make the money collecting minor news items for the Blade. CHAPTER IX “Well, well, Julie! Looks like you got a lot of stuff here.” Mr. Clark, editor, business manager, advertising manager and reportorial staff of the Blade flicked the six pages of typewritten copy over rapidly. “I ,et’s see... ’bout fifteen hundred words. That’ll run a column and a half. That’ll be a dollar and a half. Give this slip to Mable in the outside office and she’ll pay you." “A d-dollar and a halfl” Bingt Julie’s rose-colored balloon blew up. “Yes sir, we can use six columns of this stuff a week.” “Well, you can get it somewhere else! I’m through being a working girl,” Julie said tartly and clicked her heels angrily out of the office and up the street. She didn’t know where she was going or what she was going to do but she knew she wasn't going to go home and do any more sewing. Or any more telephoning, or any more magazine selling. She may have given up her industrial effort but she hadn’t given up her intentions. She was going to get that hundred dollars! Meanwhile she decided to stop at the drug-store and have a soda and do her thinking over it. She wound her slender ankles around a stool at the soda fountain and brooded thoughtfully over her straw. “Just missed your beau,” Joe Wilson informed her while he wiped a damp cloth over the fountain. “The doc! He come in here.. ..” The Doc. Dick was the last thing on her mind at the moment. For a few minutes she played with the idea of asking him to loan her the money but her good sense told her it would he a stupid move. She didn’t want to be in debt to Dick in case she’d ever.... But there was Tommy! She fished In her pocket-fcook for a nickle, powdered her noss, flipped the nickle toward Joe and went out. Fortunately she found Tommy alone in Judge Platt’s law office where he clerked between classes at the Law School. “Look, Tommy,” she explained carefully, “It’s only seventy-five dollars I need. I’ll pay it back, I promise! Don’t you see I need this chance? You've always been my friend. That’s why I’ve come to you.” j “Julie, this tops everything! You hsiven t got any more sense than a baby It’s dangerous! If you had any brains in that pretty, emptybead of yours....” 1 J ulie got up with great dign hy.

I could escape. ' Ford then returned to the nr* swept building and directed Fer- , rls to un escape when he was trap 1 1 ped by a wall of flame. *'e r f, B ' ' however, chose to dash through the, lire and succeeded In doing so j ter which he was led to safety hy ■ the porter. Ford and Sangster then attempt ] ed to fight the flames with chem-| ical fire extinguishers, but they spread too rapidly. The Seymour fire department arrived and got! > the blaze under control in 20 min-l f mes and cxtingirished it altogeth-t i er hi 40 minutes. ' t Officials today were searching, .■for the cause of the fire, which ' i evidently broke out in a third j floor clothes closet. ■ n was the third hotel fire htj ' two weeks in Indiana, one person j 1 having been burned to death and ! several injured at Greencastle and ] ; a score of guests being forced to ( flee in a second fire a few days. i later at Lebanon. Church Officers Elected Sunday — Officers were elected at the annual congregational meeting, held : Sunday afternoon at the Zion Reformed chnrch. David Adams and Ferd L. Litterer were elected elders I to serve for two years. A. K. Ash- ' baucher and J. H. Graber remain in officer lor another year, j George Buckley, Edgar Gerber ' and Calvin L. Yost were elected deacons, to serve with Cletus Miller, eorge Thomas and T. L. Becker, who remain in office. Albert H. Frueete was elected !trustee for three year! to serve with ! Albert Beineke and Dallas Goldner, ■ who remain in office. Franklin KelI ler wae elected treasurer of the be- 4

“Aw... gosh, I’d give it to you if I had it. But I haven’t, and when I get it, Julie, it will belong to Millicent to repay the money she loaned me for school." “Millicent!” Julie cried. “But she’s my friend! Os course. I’ll go to Millicent.” Tommy barred her way. “Look, Julie, I don’t count on you for much. But there’s such a thing as decency. You can’t go to Millicent. Do you want me to tell you why?" No, Julie didn’t; she knew. But 1 she ?aid, “Tommy, I’ve made remarks to you before about minding

> > “Just missed ycur beau,” Joe Wilson informed Julie. r

> your own business. I need not repeat them.” • • • ' * twelve-twenty roared dis- > tantly. The echo of its shrill whistle lay on the midnight air like its tas- : sle of , smoke. The Brook’s cow moo-ed a dumb protest in the lane back of the Allerdyce vegetable garden. A car backfired on Elm i Street. A pair of heels c'icked on the new cement sidewalk in front of - the Applegate’s house. !.. r “ lie . flu "8 ‘he light summer ' ♦ j* , ovcr the foot of her bed, turned her rumpled pillow to the , cooler side and thought “if it weren t so noisy 1 could go to sleep.’’ I She couldn t even keep her eyes : , yet an hour before when Dick had left she had been hard put t to restrain her yawns. : s h® gave the doctor a portion of 1 «« r th° u ßhts. He had taken it more - S SI ?L h "l. she had ex Pect.ed. He hadn t thought her insane “prettv ! little head with no brains’’as Tommy had done. She had ex- , ?w n l P aticn tly. prettily - that she felt so inadequate there nothi ne that she did well and now this was her chance. It wouldn't I make any difference to the ?wo of r th f'r ® n E a gement, she ex- . dS e ftbo n ne^‘ ,eVed 11181 ah * was i shm/ldT 1 ' H ® * houldn t have." 3 He should have protested that he feared wL, Lnl 1 1 u ®*twns about Pete , Waddell s credentials, licenses ard 'ataajswsi

jnevolent fund. Miss Eleano.- ' port will continue as treasurer U [ the current fund. Further Proceedings Are Ordered By Court Washington, Jan. S—(UP)- The supreme court today formally at. firmed a seventh circuit court of appeals order culling for farther proceedings in the Indiana federal ! district cort In the appeal jt the Indianapolis water company r.gaj nst 1 rates proposed by the Indiana Pus. ! He Service commission. The .action was Indicated last week, when after hearing attorney* , for the commission, the tribunal re- , fused to allow company attorney» to present their side of the case Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On No matter how many medicines vou have tried for your cough, chest cold, or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with any remedy less potent than Creomulsion. which goes right to the seat of the trouble and aids nature to soothe and heal the inflamed mucous membranes and to loosen and expel the germ-laden phlegm. Even If other remedies have failed, don't be discouraged, try Creomulsion. Your druggist is authorized to refund your money if you are not thoroughly satisfied with the benefits obtained from the very first bottle. Creomulsion is one word— not two, and it has no hyphen in it. Ask for it plainly, see that the name on the bottle is Creomulsion. and you'll get the genuine product and the relief you want. (Adv.)

ords that Waddell had sent her with her application fo#the course. She had been more than surprised herself at the organization back of Pete’s enterprise. At first she had thought vaguely that he was going to teach her tu fly the way that Tommy h’ i taught her to drive the Rattletrap. She h.'.d managed that business of the Rattletrap nicely. The Rattletrap was Tommy’s battered rr.-'or and without it, she would have had no means of driving to Cluncsvdie, eighteen miles away, for her flying lessons. Tommy hadn’t been very

gracious about it, saying he want'- 3 no part of her foolishness, but in the I end, he had grudgingly said sh* 5 might borrow the car. She’d P' ,sa ' 1 bly have to buy gas but that old t-* i can couldn’t require much ga-. It better hadn’t; she had on!? 9 $5.25 above her hundred. She hope* jj| classes wouldn’t stretch over mea- gj times. If they did, she’d havo to s»? 1 she was dieting. She wasn’t goini to take any basket lunches. She supposed she might ha'-'* g asked Millicent for more than the £ seventy-five necessary to eke out tho round sum. But she had found i ; ji hard to ask for anything. EI without the memory of Tommy *9 scornful eyes, she would have found ■ it hard to ask Millicent for the jj money. There in the darkness, she trie!; to still the piping voice of conscience that she heard above her own plans- “ Why shouldn’t I have asked her for it?” she demanded of horse... “I’m going to return it. Pete s S'* I’ll make money and I will. Mi-D* cent has plenty of money.” . It wasn’t the loan that bothered her. “Oh, the dickens! I know th» ! they’re like brother and sister. I'M* was over years ago. If she wan u Dick she can have him.” Instantly the words entered hemind, she banished them. She ha j not given up Dick Jessup. She still engaged to him. And she n.e» r '. to stay engaged to him. What if t *’“ ■ dying career didn’t work out? . But it would. Oh, it would! ah® thought gleefully. (To be continued) Cor-njht in uant siimM outributtd t; KI&J rwsam trudiuu. !aa .