Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1938 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by fMK DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. lacorporatMl Entered at the Decatur. Ind. Post Office as Second Class Mutter I. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse. Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies 1 .02 One week, by carrier — .10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mail ._ .35 Three months, by mall 1.00 Six months, by mall 1.75 One year, by mall __ 3.00 One 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 Indiai a League of Home Dailies. Through newspaper advertising you can reach everyone, everywhere, at any and all times. Business is picking up and trading is improving. The stores report heavier sales with the approach of the fall season and the activities incident to getting the children ready for school or college. Now is the time to lend your dollars to the buying campaign. Several towns in Indiana, where they have municipal plants, are petitioning for reductions in the electric rates. Those we have seen start their schedules at five or six cents in the lower brackets, which patch the small user. In Decatur the rates start at four cents per KWH, which gives the saving to the little user, as well as to the larger customer. You don't like to read about the deaths in the Philadelphia prison. Something went hay-wire and some one is in a jam. The warden denies that the four hunger-strike convicts were scalded to death, but two guards have been arrested. charged with neglect The men are dead and evidence points that steam or excessive heat was turned on them. It's a sordid mess, to say the least and someone is to i blame. I TTtr.'-f—— ■.J i I , The Municipal light and water . plant renders varied and important ; services to the com in unity. It , waives all customary charges for . fire hydrants and street lighting and also furnishes electric current . for the soft ball diamonds and oth- , er public fields and parks. Waiv- , lag of these charges save the tax- , payers many thousand dollars and , go s with the spirit of being of th, greatest help and service to the , mass of people. I, 1 It will not be necessary for three of the townships in the county to levy taxes for poor relief next year. The townships are, Monroe, Hartford and Wabash. These taxi lug units have sufficient balances to defray estimated expenses for , another year. Although poor reIt .f costs have gone up in cities, ' , the rural sections seem to be in better shape. The rate in Preble township is two cents on the SIOO i valuation, a nominal figure and in keeping with former levies made [ ( there. — - ■■ The Indiana corn crop is esti- 1 mated at 159,856,000 bushels, 76 percent of last year and 12 percent more than the 1927-1936 average. Favorable weather condi-. lions Improved the prospects dur- j ing July, the estimate up to Aug-1 ust J. being 39.5 bushels per acre. ( Indiana is one of the leading corn growing states and our farmers i grow as fine corn as is found anywhere in the country. It is encour- 1 aging io note the better prospects j and all of us hope that the market I price is good when it comes to harvesting the yield. The Adams County Memorial j hospitaj budget for operation of the institution in 1939 has been —- reduced, the trustees asking tor

| only $5,700 in tax revenue, ove and above regular income. This li a reduction of more than $7,001 ! under the amount levied this yeai to complete building improvement! I ami install needed equipment, in t eluding the sterilUer and laundry machines. The amount usked it ( near the former appropriation and t docs not seem excessive. No hospital tn the country is a profit- , making institution, gifts or taxes i) making up the deficits. Our hos--9 pital is recognized as a good one '* and Its services are appreciated J j and much in demand. —— — ) Lack of patronage caused the big circuses to puil iu to winter quarters early this year, so Musicman Capehart of Chicago is supplanting the five ring acts with the Republican clam bake at his Davies county farm today. A tented city has gone up and thousands of the hungry are expected at the Capehart farm to enjoy his hospitality and food and listen to political speeches. As they sit around or mount the speaker's platform and “view with alarm" everything that is being done in the country, ' they might reflect that there is an abundance of food in this country and that after all. men can travel over modern highways, have elee-1 trie lights strung to the farm. | drive fine automobiles and even. finance such elaborate picnics as' the Republican cornfield gathering. I Down in their hearts, they know | conditions are pretty good and, that the government has provided I well for the people. Let 'em have I a good time. — SPEAKING OF COMMUNITY ASSETS In an address before the Pacific I Advertising Clubs Association Ed-1 ward Davenport, public relations; counselor and nationally known merchandising authority, gave newspapers a commendation when he said: "As merchants we can contribute certain amounts of cash, we can contribute our time on committees,, but in the end it falls upon the shoulder, of the now.n.per of your 1 city to get you new aqueducts when you need them for progress, new union terminal stations, better school conditions, promotion of beneficial traffic changes, new Golden Gate bridges and the promotion of an endless number of links that make up the whole chain of community health, pro-1 gress and financial security. I don't care what you think tier-' sonally of your publisher — the newspaper gives more freely of its. talent, time and merchandise i to the community than the greatest I benefactors in any given city. Only advertising support makes possible the contribution of hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of newspaper white space by newspapers year iu and year out for those projects that will make for a better city. “Not only is the newspaper the I one dominating medium for quick action in times of local, state or 1 national crises, but when emergen-1 ties arise in merchandising it is interesting to note that the newspaper is the medium used to meet, that emergency. “It alone tells quickly, fully and ' with pictures the news about everything as it happens. With the great mass of people the newspap- j er is the primary source of the information which they hunger for an’d need and, for many, it is the | sole source. As a result, the news.paper is the medium around which; 'the advertiser, local or national, can build his plans with assur-! ance of reaching his largest and, 1 most responsive audience.” ”° i*. -♦ I TWENTY YEARS ♦ I AGO TODAY j ■ | Front the DallyDeraocrat File I ♦ ♦ Aug. S3—The British are nearing I tumbles while the French and AmI ericaus drive toward Somme. Adams county teachers annual inI stitute convenes with C. G. Gawu ■of Michigan State Normal and H. H. Sherwood of 1..(J. as speakers Dau Huffman of Hartford township elected president o fthe Adams

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| County Pig club. i Elzey family reunion at water- ' works par. Daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. A- | dolph Marbaugh. Miss Frances Cole returns from a visit at the Bowers cottags, Rome i City. o I • Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the ■ 1 Teat Questions printed on Page Two L- 4 1. France. 2. A gambling card game. 3. New York, named for the Duke of York. 4. Tennis. i M iqciecinnl 6. Every ten years. 7. Centaur. 5. New York. 9.Kentucky. IV. Queen Elizabeth. o ■ Trade In A fiond Town — Decatar

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I Modern Etiquette I By ROBERTA LEE | Q. What is known as a “general invitation"? A. The general invitation is an engraved card with blank spaces that are to be filled in with ths name of the guest, date, hour, and | kind of entertainment. Q. At a dinner party, where should one seat the male guest who is second in importance to the guest of honor? i A. He should be seated at the left I | * the hostess. Q. If a mourning band is worn how wide should it be? A. It should be from 3 1-2 to 4 1-2 inches wide, ami made of dull broad- ’ ;cloth or serge. o 500 Sheets 8' /2 xll, 20-lb. White Automatic Mimeograph Bond $1.05. 500 Sheets B'/ix 111, 16-lb. Special Mimeograph, I White 35c. The Decatur Democrat Co. t(

I f Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee > « < . Stained Mattress Place a stained mattress in the sun. and cover the spots with a I thick paste made of starch and cold ’ water. Allow this mixture to remain ! an hour or so; then scrape off and I I repeat the process if necessary. i This treatment proves more effec- ' tive If done while the staiu is 1 j fresh. The Roasting Pan i It will not be such a task to wash : the roasting pan, if it is greased ' well before the roast is put into it. - All the essence of the meat goes to gravy and not into the can. Quickly-Drying Paint O7Ani»oa turpentine Tsakes the i paint with which it is mixed dry [ quickly. This is turpentine that has ' . oeen exposed to the air and sun- ■ 1 light. ■■-- ■ n — — Ben McCullough, trustee of St. Mary’s township, attended to business in Decatur this morning.

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WOMEN CONFESS KILLING FARMER Two Young Tennessee Housewives Admit Death Os Illinois Man Plainfield. 111.. Aug. 25—(UP)— Sheriff Ernest Burkett announced today that two young Tennessee housewives, who left their huebands two weeks ago to seek adventure, had confessed the slaying tor robbery of Fillx Shannon, 55. well-to-do farmer. Burkett said the women, Mrs. Jean Brooks, 23. Elizabethtown. Tenn . and Mrs. Beulah Honeycutt, 25. Johnson City. Tenn., had blamed each other for the slaylug. iHv said they had named James Wallace, 28, Princeton, Ind., as an accessory. As a result of their statements. Wallace has been arrested and is being held at Princeton pending extradition proceedings, Burkett said. Shannon was found shot to death

TOWNSHIP FORM 1 NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES 1 In the matter us determining the tax rates far certain 3 purpose* by Blue Creek Townehlp, Adams County Before the Township AdvUory Indiana. * Notice is hereby Riven the taxpayer! of Blue Creek Township, Adams County, Indiana that th. legal offhers «»f said municipality, at their regular meeting place, on the 6th day of September iSixW consider Pie following budget: 9 TOWNMHP Bl UOKT CLASSIFICATION TOWNSHIP FUND , ment, except School Rum Balan of Trustee S «W.W) TUTIo.N Fl NU Bu ’ ■ Trustee s traveling expense 123.00 Pay of Teachers >2,640.00 School Supplies other than ■ Office Supplies, Printing School Transfers 2,000.00 Janitor’s Supplies M and Advertising 325.00 Total Tuition Fund >3,610.00 Janitor Supplies 3 Pay of Advisory Board 13.00 NPICCIAL SC HOOL FI ND Fuel for S< hools Surety Bond 110.00 I Janitor Service 9 Eire Truck SU.J» liepair of guildiM* ami Transportation „f Children B Care of Cemeteries 200.M i Care of Grounds » SOO.OO tight and Pow, r Examination of Records 50 »*> I Repair of equipment, ex- Miscellaneous M Miscellaneous 100.00 cept School Busses 300.00 Total Special School ■ Total Township Fund 31,050.00 I School Furniture and equip- Fund t - g ESTIMATE OF Fl MIS TO BE HAIBED Funds llequlre.l For Espeoses Township Speelal |~l AukuM I, preseat year, to l>e«-eniber 31, of Fund Seh. Fund eiiMuinK year ( 1. Total Budget Estimate for Incoming Year >1.839.00 >3,330.00 t>9 2. Necessary Expenditures to be made from Appropriations Unexpended July 31. of present ■ year .... 300.00 2,320.00 isl 3. Additional Appropriations to be made August ► 1. to December 31, of present year 4. Outstanding Temporary Loans to be paid be- 3 fore December 31, of present year, not includ- J ? ed in Lines 2 or 3 B 5. Total Funds Reoulred (Add Lines 1,2, 3 and 4) 2,339.00 ’J.79 no ; J FuiiUn On Hand Ind Tn He HeceKr<l l r«m Soiircri* Other Than The Propo«e«l H»te Os Tax Lex> • $». Actual Balance, July 31, present ’iear 839.00 1,88n.00 ; 9 1 7. Taxes to be Collected, present year (December a Hrttlement) ... 488.00 2,419.00 :9 i 8. Miscellaneous Revenue, other than from Tax Levy, to be received from August 1 of present | • I year to December 31, of ensuing year. (See 1 s hedule in Trustee's Office) a (a) Special Taxes (See Schedules) •;9 (b) All Other Revenue (See Schedules) 1 j !♦. Total Funds (Add Lines 6,7, 8a and 8b) 1.327.00 7.30.’.i»0 ?.l9 10. Nel Amount to be raised for expenses to De- 1 (•ember 31. of ensuing year 1,032.00 368.00 1 ! 11. operating Balance (Not iu excess of Expeaae * January 1, to June 30, Miscellaneous Revenue for same Period) 300.00 2,0h0.0« |9 12. Amount to be raised by Tax Levy 1,532.00 2,368.00 19 PROPOSED LF% IKS Net Valuation of Taxable Property >933,357.00 Number of Taxable Pulls = FI'NDS I,eßy on \hmmm Property Hr 1(9 iTowiisuin | IK I l 9 ■ Special Ei hool .25 . 9 ! Tuition . . ,0| 9 Total .... . .38 3.89 COMPARATiVB STATEMENT OF TAXES COLI.EC TED %ND TO HE COLLEt TED Fl MIS Collected Collected Colle.-led C'ellg IWld IB3T IU3» I* Township *1.15100 *1.3*<.00 * »fl.o<l 11 Special School 3,000.00 4.H0 On 4,120.00 !.-■ Tuition 3,000.»0 3,140.00 600.00 isl Bond ....... ....... . . 773.00 , Four 676.00 I Total 7,132.00 0,342.00 6.321.00 S.’| Taxpayers appearing shall have a right to be heard thereon. After the lax levies have been iri' ll "® ; and presented to the County Auditor net later than two days prior to 111# second Mondai in September, ■ tlie levy fixed by the County Tax Adjustment Board, or on their failure so to do. by the County Auditor! or more taxpayers feeling themselves aggrieved by sueii levies, may appeal to tile State Boaru us Tax miasiunera for farther and final hearing thereon, by filing a petition with the County Auditor not later I October 15, and the Slate Board will fix a date for hearing in this County. Dated August 23. IS3S DAVID D. HABEGGER, Blue Creek Town..up 1' » At’GVST 28—SKFI EMBER 2. TOWNSHIP FORM NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES In tlie matter of determining the tax rate# fur certain Before the Township Advisory Board. purpo«eM by Root Township, Adams County, Inuiana. Notice is hereby given the taxpayers of Root Township. Adams County. Indiana, that the P["P er H officers of said municipality, at their regular meeting place, on the 6th day of September, 13’8. will I ' aider the following budget: TOWNSHIP Bl DGET < I.>*SIFI< VITON TOM n*H!I» FIND School Transfers 1*0.0() es ... J Salary of Trustee > 720.00 Total Tuition Fund >8,300.00 School Supplies, other than Office Rent no.oo HUND FIND Janitors’ Supplies Trustee’s traveling expense 130.00 Principal . >2,625.00 Janitor Supplies Office Supplies. Printing Interest 1,178.00 Fuel fur Schools 11 ’ and Advertising 300.00 Total Bond Fund >4.103.00 Loans. Interest and InPay of Advisory Board 15.00 SPECIAL SCHOOL FUND surance Care of Cemeteries 20.00 Purchase of Ground > 123.00 Janitor Service Examination of Records 35.00 Repair of Buildings and Transportation of Children - t . Miscellaneous 170.00 care of Grounds 300.00 Light and Power :j Total Township Fund >1,300.0v Repair of Equipment, ex- Contingencies rept School Busses 250.00 Miscellaneous Tl ITION Fl ND School Furniture and Equip- Total Special School . Pay of Teachers >8,400-00 ment, except Schoo! Buss- ‘Fund ESTIMATE OF FINDS TO HE HAIMED l iindn Itrquired For Ejpcnkrn Township Special Tuition Auaust 1. present year. Io December 81» of l uad School Fuad Fund ensuing year t Total Budget Estimate fnr Incoming Year >1,500.00 > 5,670.00 > 8,500.00 ♦' I 2. Necessary Expenditures to be made from Ap- * propriations Unexpended July 31, of present year .......... 733.00 29.198-00 4,000.00 Additional Appropriations to be made August 1, to December 31, of present year 2,500.00 1. Outstanding Temporary Loans to be paid before December 31, of present year, not included in Lines 2 or 3 . 5. Total Funds Required (Add Lines 1,2, 3 and 1) 2,225 00 37,368.00 12.509.00 Funds On Hand And To He Received From Sources Other Thun The Proposed Hate Os Tax Levy Aetua* balance, July .»t, present year . 1,072.00 28,187.00 6,803.u0 '• >i a 5^ 8 lo Collected, present year (December Fetdemein) 6;o , on 3.200.00 100“0 s. Miscellaneous Revenue, other than from Tax Levy, to 1>“ received from August I of present Vvar to December 31, of ensuing year. (See schedule m Trustee a Office) (a) Special Taxes (See Schedules) 815.00 5,235.n 0 „ ,A U otller Revenue (See Schedules) t. 355.00 Total bunds (Add Lincs 6. 7. Sa and BF>» 1 722.90 3XOOIOO 13,495.00 i 19. ..qt Amount to ur raised for expenses to De- , !•> " e ’ n 6er •.!, of ensuing year 503.00 5,366 00 11. Operating Balance (Not In excess of Expense January 1, to June 30, Less Miscellaneous Reve- > nue for same period) 7',0 on 2 100.00 1,300.00 I 1-. Amount to be raised by Tax Levy . . .... 1,253.00 7,166.00 186.00 I'IIOIHtSEII I.EVIES Net Valuation of taxable Property School Township lI.Vss.SSI.OO —*Civll Township ’ A ni () un Projirrl) Br *r" I Township , or * ’!■: Special School . n, ' j, (Tuition ... , Bond civil Township 'i ;! j School Township ,!’n Total •' '.si 11 FUMPAHATIVE STATEMENT OF 'TAXES 1V5.-L-EI TEU AND TO BE COLLECTED Collected Collected ‘"‘.Til" 1 Township 1937 Vi (Hi I Bond . 945.00 1,891.00 -W 7,3. ... 1 °‘ al 8,867.00 7.833.00 8,094.00 ‘” m and to P ?h^ r <'nn ‘j I "** ’3? Ve “ rl » ht to bc *“ ,ard thereon. After the tux levies have been d iihp| . tlie levy fixed b°v tb.V? U , * ud,tor llo * •“ter than two days prior to tlie second Mmida.' ' ■ 1 Ku ,nt.'i. Oi more taxuayei sm«lb. U J‘A Tax Adjustment Board, or on their failure so to do by the Tax < iniasiouers forYurther » .“1 t n, e, '! S “ Ves 1 aggrieved by auch levies, may appeal to the tate V..’ . lu ,t later October 11 and tlVe State^oknl 1 ,vm r r 8 “ petition «ith the County AudUot -Dated August "4 193 S le Bo ’ r d "dll fix a date for hearing in this County. Trustee. [AUGUST ?6-SSPTEMBER 2. 1?A " PJl W !UC ®' ,tOOt Town81 “ 1 ’ f ‘ U

I la hit homo at nearby Mount Crlo . early Monday aev«ral houra atter ' he had picked up two girl httenhikerg near Princeton auil hud brought ' them to Fairfield. I Burkett arrested Mra. Brucks and Mrs. Honeycutt at Hopkinsville, Ky., Tuesda ynl<hf After he had ’ had trailed thorn across three' stales. Burkett said the girls had hitch-! ed a ride with Shannon end hit • eight year-old son, Carlyle, Sunday? I Shannon let the girls out near | , Princeton after be ha darranged to' meet them later. He took his son' 1 Somerville. 'lnd , whe-e Mrs. Shannon, from whom he Is separated. lives with their five children. Then he returned to meet the girls, Burkett «aid. “The girls told me," Burkett said, •That they were not sure they would keep the date. But they met Wallace, whom they had known for some time, and told him they bad met Shannon. Wallace told them Shannon bad money and to ‘go pick him." " Burkett quoted Mrs. Brooks as saying: “We went to Shannon’s home with him. Late that night I heard ehots and ran Into his room Beulah

1 t0(lk the gun .nd Oo ' H i *h->t but didu t hi( hi y Uurkett »aid llut \ ■ i cult had charged that Mr, fl p-«'l fired all the shuq,. 'fl suilty t 0 the S ) a y4 Ed Wilson on a i Hints signed by p er ry sh '9 | victim's brmh.u ' weie two bullet wound, in in I ! Burkett found a pah' o “ shoes m Shannon's aut,>ni obil °9 ?d a mile and a half from hi, 9 A revolver with three diiefl cartridges was lying n e a . I chine. A woman's p UI „. wa R , in Shannon's home. Caterpillars Ar e Raced I San Francisco <U.R> - |,.,8 , by the famous annual ing contests of the Mother ■ 'country. San Francisco R children have originated pastime of caterpillar raci ul .B tests. ‘B