Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1939 — 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 as Second Class Mutter J. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec y. & Hus. Mgr. Dick D Holler Vice-President Subscription Rates: dingle copies _ —I -02 One week, by carrier _ — .10 Ono year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mall - .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at otilce 3.00 Prices quoted are within a radius ot 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 o£ The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Renew your subscription to the Daily Democrat. Don’t put off renewing your subscription to the Daily Democrat any longer. Help us print the best . newspaper by renewing promptly and by sending in news items. ■UOZaMMBUM If you think the cold snap the past few days severe just think back three years when we had below zero temperatures for about two months. That ought to warm you up. The pastors of eight Decatur churches exchanged pulpits Sunday morning, adding to the interest and proving a happy feature service, as well as a friendly and helpful feeling. Contractors in this locality anticipate a lot of activity for the ■ spring and summer. The house building of the past two years will continue and there will be numer- I ous additions and improvements. We do not publish communications in which charges are made, without affidavit or any thing that would support it. Libel laws in Indiana are plain on this subject. Those who know of law violations should proceed legally. This is National Thrift Week and special effort is being made to interest every one to start a savings account. The First State Bank here extends a special invitation to you to join their big family of money savers. The 1939 Indiana state fair, always a great event for thousands, will be held September Ist to Sth. I inclusive, so make your planr now to take a little vacation and attend. It's a great fair always and this year promises to be better I than ever. The names of all voters in Ad- ' ams county, as well as in every other county in the stale, who have failed to vote the past two ' years are now being taken from ' the registration lists. It will be up to these to reinstate if they i wish to vote in 1910. Employment in Indiana gained more than three per cent for the , period from the middle of No- i vetnber to the middle of December, the lifth consecutive month to j show the upward trend. We are coming back and one of these days the unemployment problem will solve itself. We have heard so many fine things about the recent meeting of the Chamber of Commerce that we wonder why we don't have them oftener. The event pepped up every one who listened to the program and the fact the His business men interested in the community get together Io exchange ideas is a good tiling of itself. It will be well lor Hie members of the legislature to remember that

the expenditures necessary durlug ‘ 1938 were five million dollars more than the Income. If this keeps up a couple of years more there will be a deficit and that, means the law makers will be t seeking more means of raising money which equals higher taxes, t Now is the time to head that off ' by getting under a log on spending, i *1 I Few people have hud the ex- ' periences that camo to those ten ) people of the thirteen who were > aboard the flying boat Cavalier, J forced to land in midocean and ) sand in a few moments, and lived > to tell it. For eleven hours, they ! clung to life belts. In water of less than fifty degrees, cried out for help and were finally rescued by officers of an oil tanker. The [ 1 suffering is not over by any means ! for they will probably never erase from memory those terrible hours. j i Two of the women saw their hits- , , bands give up the battle and sink i beneath the waves. How many of I them lived is a miracle equal to any story book fiction ever wfitI ten. The primary system, instead of curbing the power of bosses and blocs, has been a lever in the hands of political manipulators. A ! compact and controlled group, or , faction, can have the balance of power that will name its slate on a long primary ballot. The primary may appeal in theory to theory to those who do not stop to think, but it does not work in i fact, as they hope. Ours is a twoparty system in which nominees are expected to carry out a party policy. Under the primary pro- ’ gram a candidate goes it alone and is answerable to nobody but the bloc he thinks put him over. I It weakens party responsibility which is essential to good government hi this country or state. — Indianapolis Star. The oldest newspaper publisher jin Indiana -91 year-old John B. Schwin of Covington — will be a ; special guest of honor at the bau-j ' quet of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association in the Claypool Hotel Saturday. February 11. Dean L. Barnhart of Goshen, presi- . dent of the association, announced that Mr. Schwin would sit at the I speakers' table and would be introduced. He is the father of George I’. Schwin. editor of The Covington Friend, and grandfather of George P. Schwin, Jr., editor ' of The Rockville Tribune. Mr. Schwin bought The Covington Friend 51 years ago. Despite his advanced years, he goes to the . office every day and takes an ac- , ’ tive part in the business. He drives his own automobile and keeps up on otliee affairs. The Republican members o£ the house, led by a man named Evans, wlio says he is agaiust any thing . Governor Townsend favors, wants i the Hoosier Democratic club übol- , ished because it asks Democratic job holders to donate two per cent jof their salaries to a campaign . fund. The GOP has used similar j : plans for years, demanding as much as five per ceut during the ■ Leslie administration. Just what j business it is of theirs no one has been able to figure, it doesn't, cost the taxpayers, it is raising money from those who benefit, it does away with placing a political party under obligations to special . interests and there is nothing ! wrong wth it that we can see. [ Mr. Evans evidently has to have j something to build up on since his attack on the gross income tux proved a "hot potato.” k Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee ♦ ♦ Care of Face and Hands Tiie face and hands will be v/hitj (•tied, and kept soft and smooth, j if they are washed once a day witli pure white soap and warm water, then washed in warm (not hot) buttermilk. or sour milk. Wipe lightly on soft cloth. Cooking Odors If the odor of looking permeates the house, as it. so often does, mqke i a small cushion of pine necdJats and

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ADMITS MURDER 20 YEARS AGO Man Held For Burglary Admits Slaying Section Hand Chicago, Jan. 24. — (U.K) Adam Schasky, 41. slept last night for the first time in 12 nights. For i 11 nights, in his cell at a district police station, he had been tormented by the vision of a man dressed as a railroad section hand. Yesterday he summond Captain Thomas Connelly and confessed the slaying 20 years ago of a Minneapolis railroad worker. He said the man he kept seeing hi his cell was his victim. “I got to get some sleep." lie said. "I ain't had no sleep since 1 been here. He said he and two other men, named Dominick and Jimmy, were i robbing a section gang in 1919 when one man resisted. “He came toward me and I shot I him. Now 1 keep seeing him place it on a heated radiator in one of the rooms. In a short time a faint fragrance will replace the cooking odor. Cleaning Picture Glars Picture glass may be cleaned by j using a cloth wrung from hot waler and dipped in alcohol. Polish at once, until dry and glossy, with a chamois or tissue paper.

Urge Early Filing Os Returns v 3 a & tea 7Jr r-t *'.-SanKa f Ittin

Indianapolis, Jan. 24 —More than ;■ half million gross income tax re-. Im ns will be filed during the annual | taxpaying period which ends Jan-1 ' nary 111 if the present rush contin- ! ties, officials of the gross income | tax division estimated today from | the increase over last year in the | number of taxpayers now filing re- ' turns in the auto license branches i throughout the state and a’ the tax | I oilice at 141 South Meridian Street. ' The division lias urged taxpayers to file their returns now and avoid last minute jams in the local branches and main office such as the twoblock long line pictured above ! which was photographed at the eni trance to the division's Indianapolis cttice on the last day of I lie 1937 an.nual taxpaying period. .i 111 making his plea to tiu luxpay-

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(every night. Jailers said Schasky appeared ■ relieved after his confession. They i said lie spent a restful night and i appeared to sleep soundly. ' Minneapolis and St. Paul police I were checking their records to de- j 1 termine the identity of the man Schasky confessed he killed. They said Schasky had served 14 years , ; in the Stillwater, Minu.. prison for j I robbery. He also served a six < i mouth-term at the Vandalia, 111., I prison farm in 1935, and three | i years at the Waupuu, Wis., prison I ' i for robbery. He was seized here Jan. 12 on a charge of burglary after the tact. Police said he was holding stolen watches and diamond rings for Mike Wojcik, who recently confessed he had stolen $40,000 in cash and jewelry in a series of ladder burglaries during the past three years. o f xModcrn Etiquette | By ROBERTA LEE Q. If the wedding is to be so small j that wedding invitations are not engraved, how should the bride and I bridegroom invite their guests? A. Tiie bride should write each , invitation personally. Q. Which is the correct form, when a husband and wife are signing a greeting card, Mary and John or John and Mary? A. Mary and John is the correct i form. Q. Should a woman include her j . husband’s name on the invitations . to a tea? A. No. |

■ is Clarence A. Jackson, director .of the division, said: “We want to l a of real service tc you. to make ’ your payment of tax as convenient and pleasant as possible; you can help us and help yon jpy fjp U g your •returns now." Another suggestion for preventing the inconvenience of last-minute tiling was made by Mr. Jackson: I “ taxpayers who expect to seek the assistance of branches or of the division any time on or before January 31”. Tim aulo license branch in Deca j tar, where gross income tax return forms and assistance iu filing are available. Is located at 127 Madison Street. Returns are due by January 31 t. om all persons who received more than SI,OOO iu 1038.

TELLS NEED OF CHANGE IN LAW President Is Dissatisfied With Communications Commission Washington. .lan. 24 (U.R) President Roosevelt said today I he was “thoroughly dissatisfied" | with the legal framework and administrative machinery of the fed-i eral communications commission, i He recommended legislation to reorganize it. The president made his views known in letters to Chairman Burton K. Wheeler. I)., Mont., of the senate interstate commerce committee and Chairman Clarence F. Lea, I).. Cal., of the house com-! mittee on interstate and foreign' commerce. The letter to Wheeler said: "Although considerable progress has been made as a result of efforts to reorganize the work of the federal communications com-, mission under existing law. 1 am thoroughly dissatisfied with the present legal framework and administrative machinery of the commission. 1 have come to the ; definite conclusion that new legislation is necessary to effectuate a satisfactory reorganization of the commission. "New legislation is also needed Ito lay down dear congressional I policies on the substantive side | —so clear that the new adminis- | trative body will have no difficulty iin interpreting or administering I them. "1 have much hope that your Mystic’ Found Him? *«■£*** < V * • i i \ Jly » jPUg **-11 Jim, iyJI umL Jnl Lloyd Comstock, Jr. Through a crystal gazer appearing at a Fort Morgan, Colo., theater, Mrs. George H. Dennis of Fort Morgan located her 10-year-son, Lloyd Comstock, Jr., in Des Moinas, la-, according to the story told police by Mrs. Dennis. The boy left home five years ago with his father and did not return.

FAVOR DIRECT PRIMARYVOTE Sentiment At Public Hearing Favors Direct Primary Indianapolis. Jan. *4 (U.R) Hoosiers will have a direct primary nominating system if sentiment voiced last night at a public hearing of two Democratic measures is Indicative. While only about 25 persons other than the senate committee on elections attended the hearing, no one spoke in opposition to the return of the primary system. Majority of the discussion centerI ed on the benefits or faults of the two bills. The committee, headed by Sen. Joseph Sexton. Indianapolis Democrat. announced the committee would take both bills under advisement and would report one out today or tomorrow. One of the bills, offered by Sen. . John Webb, Indianapolis Democrat. provides for nomination by plurality of U. 8. senator, governor, lieutenant governor and all i other state officers, and offers a preferential presidential euoice. The other measure was sponsored by Sen. Walter Vermillion, Andersou Democrat. It would nominate only U. 8. senator and governor by direct primary, each successful candidate being required to receive 51 per ceut or more | of the votes. If no candidate re-1 ceived a majority, then the nomination would revert to the state convention, which also would select all other state candidates. Both Webb and Vermillion spoke in favor of their own bills. Vi million's abjection to Webb s i bill was that it would be possible i for all candidates to be selected from and by heavily populated districts. Vermillion's bill would provide a geographical distribution of state candidates nominated by convention, allowing the more sparsely settled southern section greater representation. Webb struck at Vermillion's ! measure on the basis the old party convention system could be invoked by merely throwing in so many candidates in the primary j election that no one candidate could receive 51 per ceut of the votes. One of them then would be chosen by party convention. Sen. Elliot Conroy, I).. Ham- ! ntond, a co-author of Webb's bill, j read telegrams from U. S. Sen. i Frederick Van Nuys. I).. Ind . and ! j Rep. Louis Ludlow. D. Ind., both jof whom came out strongly in ; ! favor ot a primary. Sen. Floyd Garrott. D., Battle- 1 ground, a co-author, was the only other person to speak in favor of Verm.ilion's bill. Alex Gordon, chairman of the l Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, was among those urging ; adoption of a primary system. : Others included John Barttne. I who appeared as a spokesman for the committee of industrial organizations, ami Paul Stern, secre- j I (ary of the Indiana farm bureau. o__. SURVIVORS SAY (CONTINUED FKOM PAGE ONE) : Paul E. Bewshea of the Imperial . Airways. An expert of the civil aeronautics authority will be present, but only as an observer. The United States lias no official part in the investigation. It has agreed, (or a period of 15 years, to accept British certification of air-worthi-ness of British ships operating out ! of American ports in return for a British agreement to accept American certifications. The survivors said there had been only "six or seven” life pre- ■ servers for the 13 occupants. They did not know whether there had been more in the plane which were not used. Returning to a tumultous greeting in the harbor and on the pier, the survivors appeared to be in good physical condition. Physicians and ambulances had been waiting but only two of the 10 — women whose husbands were among the three who died—need;ed medical attention. By contrast, the other eight waved hapI pily to the weltmming crowd. Mrs. Edna Watson. 43. ot Bermuda and Montreal, told the Thost vivid story ot the passengers. She said that, not until the plane had struck and water was knee deep | in the cabin, did steward Robert ' Spence stanll at the emergency j exist in ine smoking room and pass out the buoyant cushions which were to sustain them for 10 hours. Before Spence had talked about “landing for lunch.” committee will consider the advisability of such new legislation. "1 have sent a duplicate of this letter to Chairman Lea of the | house committee on interstate I and foreign commerce, and I have asked cliairmim McNinch of the commission to discuss this problem with you and give you his recommeiidatioiis.” 0 Public Auction. Household Goods, Tomorrow 12:30, on j No. 224, 4 miles East of Decatur. Mott.

governors WILL FEATLRe'Wz 1. D. E. A. DINNER FEbK fl 15,1 ¥ I Ti raX vl it ‘ 41 t ’IMF aS* W. s ■%.; / ST I ; #• Ob. mW t Gov. M. Clifford Tonnsend Gov. .4. B. P‘ r,s The Governors of Indiana and Kentucky will ,h, r , p honors at the Ind.ana Democratic Editorial A.,oc>«t,on the Claypool hotel. Indianapolis, Saturday night, Feb. 11. address, Governor Townsend will introduce Governor* . Chandler, the colorful chief executive of the Blue Grass state ets for the banquet are $2 each and are being sold by State b ° Frink G Thompson, Room 238, State House, who is £ ''’ ticket committee, and at The Hoosier Sentinel, 210 pa Early ticket sales indicate a large attendance. The dmner biggest Democratic politiral event of the winter.

Lloyd Shrine Head Jr '’’lß ; TV S SB ■i I j ■ - -< ■. MW J , Harold Lloyd To Harold Lloyd, film actor, goes the. high honor of being head of the Al Malaikah temple (< the • shrine in Los Angeles. Although the city is the home of many motion picture people, this is the first time an actor has headed the Los Angeles shrine. Capt. Aldersou and members of i liis crew would not discuss the | technical difficulties that had brought the plane down, but it was evident that ice had formed in the carburetors, stalling one after another of the four motors, causing the plane to lose altitude from 12,000 feel until it was barely skimming the surface, then to j . crash into the surging sea with I such force that it stove in the I plane’s bottom. Water gusbed in instantly and ! ; by the time the last of the pass- [ engers and crew had stepped out : the doors, the cabin was almost j filled. There was not time to gather up anything more than the life belts. That was a little after 1 p.m. ; Saturday. In the 10 hours that , followed, three of the men died. I Two members of the crew swam \ about the raft they made by tying i the life, preservers together, in re- ■ lays, splashing and yelling to frighten off sharks. The women revived the spirits of all by sing- i ing; they couldn't remember what . sougs they sung At dusk, a ship passed in the distance and they shouted in unison but tailed to attract it. it was 9 p. tn. before the Standard Oil tanker Esso Baytown, which had veered off its course from New York to Bay town. Texas, in response to the plane's SOS. heard their cries. Two hours later its life boat pluucked tlißin out of the sea. o Answers To Test * i Questions | Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two 1. No 2. The harp. 3. Kentucky. 1 4. The dinar. 5. Tegucigalpa. (1. Frank R. McNinch. i. Lev-ant’; not lev-aut. ! 8. Two. SI. Passion flower. 10. Twenty-fifth.

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