Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 297, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1938 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind. Post Office a* Second Class Matter I. H- Heller Preeident A. R. Holthouse, Sec'y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Helli Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies ....... .——.s .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mail .35 Three mouths, by mail —- 1.00 Six months, by mail —. 1.75 One 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 & CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies In the rush, don't overlook the fact you can make next year's shopping easier if you join the : Christmas Saving club at your bank. The columns of this paper have been filled this week with the ■ messages from the merchants de-' signed to make your Christmas shopping easier. If you haven't | ’ done so, you should hunt up the I > copies and go through them over I the week end. You will be happily surprised at how much easier it will be for you to make proper , selections. !, Senator Byrd believes this nation must economize and will introduce in the coming session measures along that line. The country must go on and go forward but we must also realize that reasonable taxes is the best incentive business can have. In his recent speech in Boston the senator made a number of worthwhile ' statements. Only a half dozen more shopping days before Christmas and mucli to be done yet. Local stores are prepared to serve you with a fine choice of gifts and a guarantee of satisfaction. While the weather has not been as seasonable as many desire, it has been wonderful to live witn and holiday trade will measure up well with last years. Babson says there will be a twenty to twenty-five per cent increase in business next year as compared to this. Others predict a continued rise. We hope it’s all true and we believe it will be business, congress, labor and manufacturers sincerely join the movement. Selfishness is what spoils most of the programs, however good they may be. Several new filling stations have recently been built here and more are jinder construction, a good sign of a good town. Those who know how to figure locations tor > the sale of oil and gas do not lo- ’ . cate in slow business centers. They hunt the good ones and then try to get the location past which the greatest number of cars drive daily. It's a good sign. More than half a million dollars " in checks were sent out from the Central Sugar Company's offices this week to farmers living in ten counties of this section. Much of it was distributed in this trading radius which should assure good business and should make even greater boosters of those who have engaged in the business of raising beets. One of the fine things about the Central Sugar company and the Central Soya Bean com-

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pany is the fact that the raw material comes from home and near ' home. Republican leaders of the legislature are making preparations to I block any program that the governor or other leaders may have unless they get what they want. Os course they can do if they j hold their own members iu line ' one hundred per cent which is posed to do something besides doubtful. After all they are supplay politics and that's all these fellows who are now making the headlines, have in mind. The game they propose is one that will force ' the senate to protect themselves against attacks and will not meet the approval of the people if car- , t ied too far. If you are going to help the Good Fellows you should do so at i once, iu a few days it will be necessary to stast the buying pro-I gram and that of course must be | based upon what has been subscribed. The total to date is much j below the average and unless some . philanthropist comes through or a lot of folks awaken to the import ance of giving to this fund, some of the poor boys and girls will not be happy Christmas morning. Christmas seals will make your packages and letters look like Christmas and help swell the fund ' with which the tight against tub-1 erculosis will be continued. Two changes in President Roose- ' velt's cabinet the past month have ! caused the commentators to write , columns of guess, and predict all kinds of things. Homer Cummins retired as attorney general and now Daniel C. Roper has quit the important commerce poet. The ' probabilities are that both these men and other members of the cabinet feel that they should devote some time to their own business. It's a big sacrifice to serve the public and rarely does one . come out of his job with as much j money as he went in with. It is a great honor of course, but when one has served sufficiently to establish his ability there is little ' more for him personally except j the satisfaction of having truly served. COMPROMISE VERDICTS. There should be general indorse-I ment of the criticism by Herold H. Reinecke, agent in charge of the Indiana office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, that habitual criminals too often benefit from compromise verdicts. Other law violators, too, escape adequate punishment by pleading guilty to lesser crimes. The Federal G-man ' was the speaker at the annual dinner of Indiana prosecuting at-I tomeys. Recognition of this situ-1 ation was the subject of a recent skit in which a well known criminal was being tried for murder. I The judge suggested that he ac-I cept life imprisonment, but that was scornfully refused. Agents of j i the law kept begging the criminal ; to plead guilty to lesser crimes, j i at least, hoping he would accept • sentence on a misdemeanor charge. Since the slayer's victim I had been found in an alley, the prisoner finally agreed to plead i guilty to littering the sidewalk. This broad burlesque struck home in revealing a condition too prevalent in our courts. Evidence sometimes is lacking to obtain conviction on the charge which the crime requires. Under such conditions the prosecutor may be warranted in accepting a compromise and its lighter punishment rather than press more serious crarges and wind up perhaps with an acquittal. This outlet, on the other hand, may be abused by prosecutors lacking proper respect . for the responsibility of the office and their obligation to society. Acceptance of the lighter penalty permits a convenient escape from careful preparation for a long | court batlte. The prosecutor can point to his record of convictions i eveu though punishment is grotss--1 ly inadequate. Mr. Reinecke em-

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* Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two 1. Savannah and Chattahoochee. 2. The waters of the earth. 3. Federal Housing Administration. 4. A steam sterilizer for surgical instruments. 5. About one-fourth of the world's habitable laud surface. 6. No; “Leave hold of the stick” or “Let go of the stick is correct. 7. Cumberland River. 8. American Civil War. 9. Stockholm. 10. An agent for removing hair from the skin. o * Household Scrapbook j By Roberta Lee Short Blankets If, after washing the new blanket! that is not all wool, it proves too j short, buy a strip of unbleached muslin the width of the blanket | and the length according to the 1 shortage. Stitch this securely to the end of the blanket and use at the foot of the bed. tucking the buslin in under the mattress in place of the blanket. Thia will give you jus phasized the need of putting hab- ' itual criminals behind the bars ‘ for life. Dickering with any type weakens justice, he declared. The Federal agent also stressed the advantages of speedy trials, a factor recognized throughout the! land as essential to improvement in the efficiency of the courts. — Indianapolis Star. * j 0 RELIEF CLAIMS (CONTTNrrwD PRCX PAGE OJT —- ■' ■■ ■l, 111 -I —I 1 ' " ——™ ! lor poor relief during the last . quarter of this year and the similar quarter in 1937 with balances i ishown by plus signs) and deficits I (shown ly minus signs) is:

—1938— Township Sept. Oct. Nov. Balance Union » 142-99 $ ’8.06 * 880.73+ Root 35.07 106.02 267.22 173.47— Preble 23.45 415 72+ Kirkland —- 41.26 29.34 41.73 922.04 + Washington 2,147.14 1,872.63 2,619.»8 13,131.(6 St Mary’s 206 69 183+3 280.99 1,029.56— Blue Creek .... ’43 25 117.25 543 83 + Monroe - 52.51 161.83 127.02 3.324.69 + French 44.21 40.18 73.13 138.41 — Hartford .. ' ... 16.40 12.50 30.83 1,159.04 + ' Wabash..... ’ 84.26 193. »1 96.64 3,540.32+ 1 Jefferson 50 00 201.55 773.37+ —1937— j Township Sept Oct. Nov Balance Union * 62.35 $ 2.00 $ 37.00 $■ 717.41 + Root 52 46 23.00 49.11 237 64 + Preble 15.40 75*1 426.37 + Kirkland .... 157.46 10.47 XOO 493.88+ Washington .... ... 1,175.93 1.280.29 1.718.59 5,(23.96'St Mary’s ... 155.79 42 1.1 46.38 1,301.38 Blue Creek 83.23 ».W «90-8»+ Monroe ............. . 10.50 86.81 72.44 3.336.82+ French - 9-78 2.00 245.00 326.46+ Hartford 26.59 14.50 23.00 1.249.33+ Wabash 170.84 281.94 242 68 3,971.15+ 1 Jefferson 49.94 21.55 540.58+

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, DECEMB ER 17, 1938.

New Faces in Senate , • ■raw ter " 1 I • ** - — - Tom Stewart Tom Stewart, Democrat, is the new senator from Tennessee. the length you need. Cranberry Sauce A colorful and tasty topping for baked, sliced ham can be effected by the use of cranberry sauce. As- . ter the ham has baked for thirty minhtes. add one cup of cianberry 1 sauce to a pound-and-a-hait slice of ham. Removing Rusty Screws Appiy a red hot iron to the head of a rusty screw for a short time, .and then removd - with a screwdriver while the screw is still hot. . — o TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY . From the Daily-Democrat File ♦— * Dec. 17—The U. S. navy, now consisting of 300,000 men will be reduced to 375,000 for peace times. The coming legislature will revise the Indiana criminal code. Ty Cdbb, the greatest outfielder iu the business, announces he will

quit baseball. Rev. W. Patil Marsh Is given a Ist lieutenant commission from the chaplains school at Camp Taylor. C. H. Colter is out after a seven weeks illness with appendicitis. 649,000 Germans were killed in the world war. it is officially announced from Berlin. Prof. Don Burk, 26, dies at Manhattan. Kansas, from influenza and pneumonia. ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Archie Smith of 906 High street are the parents of a baby boy, -born November twentyeighth at the home. The baby has been named lairry Melville. 1 nttir In A T»wn — nx-ltj

Thousands of Ducks Find Refuge On Indiana’s Man-Made Lakes

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Flight of ducks and other waterfowl over the 1.000-acrc marsh at the Jasper-Pulaski Game Preserve.

Twenty-six handed acres of man- 1 made lakes and marsh in Indiana’s state parks, forests and game preserves are proving a major factor j in giving Hoosier sportsmen bet- 1 ter duck hunting, Virgil M. Sim-i nions, commissioner of the Depart-, ment ot Conservation, pointed out today. Although more ducks ana other waterfowl were taken in Indiana j this year than in preceding hunting seasons, there are thousands of ‘ these birds wintering over on the 1 Hoosier lakes and marsnes. The above picture, taken Dec. 8 at the I Jasper-Pnlaski game .preserve, i shows some of the dnuks, teal and' other waterfowl staying there. Establishment ot the twenty-six l

COURT BOOSE | Guardianship Caaaa The current report was Ried by Cora Habegger. guardian of Lewis G. Habegger. The report was examined and approved. The trust was continued. The current report was filed by , Frieda M Miller, guardian of Fran-| cee F. Miller. The report was examined and approved. The trust was continued. Estate Cates Inventory number one was tiled, examined and approved in the estate of John F. Fuhrman. A petition was filed by the administrat-, or to have the inheritance tax de-' termined without reference. This j was filed, Submitted and sustained. The final report was filed. Notice was ordered, returnable January J 21. Guardianship Case The final report was filed by Milton Miller, administrator of the ! estate of Joseph Walker, guardian, of Amos Wheeler. An application j was filed by Milton Miller to be appointed guardian. Milton Miller was ordered to file a surety bond In the sum of $3,500. Appearances Filed Appearances in person were filed by Thomas J. McKean in the subrogation suit brought by John Brown against the Bank of Linn Grove. An appearance in person was filed by Albert Lanning. Appearances in person were filed by Icy B. North Bears, Elmer E. Stout, Ocie Stout. Vernon Pontius. Homer Pontius. Lucy Pontius, heirs of Dan Pontius, William Vance and j David Spichiger. The defendants 1 were ruled to answer. Case Dismissed A suit to collect damages, brought by Waldo C. Brown against ' Robert Johnson .was dismissed ' and costs paid. Judgemnt Rendered A judgment was rendered on the * verdict of the jury of $265 in the i claim by Lesley Paul Wendell I against the estate of Phillip Wendell. John H. Schindler. Gdn., to Levi Stucky, et al 1-48 interest in inlot 452 and part of 451 in Berne for $40.00; £aul Moser to Beatrice Moser 49 acres in Wabash township for $1.06; Anna E. Winnes, et al to Chester H. Kleinknight, et ux parts of inlots 146-147 in Decatur for $1.00; Edward R. Davidson, et ux to Francis Rieseu inlots 329330 iu Berne for $1.00; Leroy L. Longshore, et ux to Ora Fennell, et ux inlot 8 in Linn Grove and 1-4 acre in Hartford township for $1.00; Oren T. Brunner et ux to Frank Click part of inlot 957 hi Decatur for $40.00; Dallas Brown, sheriff to Rose Confer part of inlot 56 in Decatur for $6500.00; j William S. Wilson, et ux to James O. Price, et ux 2 acres in Hartford

hundred acres of lake and marsh, and the planting of these areas with aquatic vegetation to fu-nieh food for waterfowl. Many of these birds j stay in Indiana through the winter ' and the spring nesting season. i Major areas constructed have j been on the Jasper-Pulaski and Kankakee state game preserves, with approximately a thousand acres of marsh at each. Lakes have j been built at Lincoln. Slrakamak and Spring Mill state parks, the ■ Brown County state game preserve, i and at the Clark County, Ferdinand, ; Jackson County, Morgan-Monroe, i Salamonie River, Greene-Sullivan i and Pike County alate forests, j These lakes also provide fishing, rej creation and a source of waler sup ' ply at the conservation properties.

township for $1.00; D. W. McMillen. st ux to Adrian J. Girard, etl ux Inlot $ in Decatur for $1.00; Henry A. Rentschler, trustee for Ernst 8. Scott, t ux Inloet 1 in Decatur for $900.00, - ■ o- — ♦ — 1 ■ — —4 Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE Q. Should a man Insist on paying a woman friend’s fare if they happen to enter a street car or bus together? A. No; If she prefers tn pay her owu fare it would be bad taste for him to urge the matter further. Q. May the phrase "Please reply" be used on an invitation, Instead of R. s. v. p.? A. Yes; some 'people prefer it. Q. Where should the oyster fork be placed on the table? A. At the extreme right of the cover. oloss in McKesson (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) name George E. Dietrich, was assistant treasurer of McKessonRobbins, in charge of all details of the crude drugs department. He was at Philip’s home at the time of the suicide. He was arraigned before United States Commissioner Robert Alcorn at New Haven, Conn., on four charges of having Hied false information to the securities and eexhange commission, and was jailed at New Haven, pending transfer to New York. Arthur Musica, who was George Vernard. had some vague connection with W. W. Smith and company and Manning and company,

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° hsndiw the •epartmont", p« lfha finances. b ßt whj( . * l *l •y nothing but nk addrasaes .J stenogrsrner each 1 * *1 ity by eity Wle e H their way | nl „ h( drawn revolver. .J**! h «' »n automobile luggage Wag parked ' way Robert Musk*. wh "on with the affa ir known mm yeHteni,, ’he name Robert Die,J*' “ a hi other of GeZ^ l ’ and insisted that he ing agert l n th* M M divtalon ot McK »n<l 'hat that branch »?* volved in the was jailed here, * lUB Higued false inv oMadmg. Hewa, wt * «hc human hair' „ being nine ye a rb oM 4 The Musica f ßmily . _ grated fiom Italy ia Philip was six, also include/ daughters. Ixiuise and " addition to the father i and the mother. A 3BUn!a T* mer Lon Isa Musica wu J, J as Mrs. Robert chief gardener on th, Secretary of the Morgenthau, at Fishkill. n.T Covered Bridje* Pr, twa Harrisburg, Pa,fans are moving to resemi “old covered bridge." movement is the PeZ2 Historical Commission, with i co-operation of the sut, da inent of highways.