Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 7 February 1939 — Page 5

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I passed the senate. would exempt municipal utlliUea from taxation except the froas income tax. Roth O s these bills now go to second 1 reading. t. U. SCHAFER FKUM PAGiC ONKi ed The volume of business done by the 50 associates runs into the million* of dollars, which gives them a most favorable position in the wholesale buying field. Mr. Schafer explained that the jobbers and wholesalers associated In the buying organization would better serve their many hardware dealers through the advantages of low prices obtained for them and the personal contract with manufacturers. Products and merchandise of manufacturers will be brought within the purchase range of the organization and consequently the jobbers will have minute Information concerning values and new Items on the market. The bent fit of the organization lies tn the ability of the members better to serve the hardware dealers and the announcement of the formation of it has been received with favor in the hardware trade. ROOSEVELT ASKS (CONT IN L'ED FROM PAPE ONg> persons—in other words the greater part of 4,000,000 Americans will be stranded.” He said the second alternative would "require that employment by the end ot June will be reduced to a figure well below 1,500.000 persons." "In other words." he continued, "the program of present employment would be slashed considerably more than one half within a

DECAT UR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1939.

Anniversary of Lincoln’s Birthday Recalls Familiar Scenes in "Honest Abe’s” Life

— ■■■r" ——— < XotWKL -J 5 * TX mMHHBe k :: j Abraham Lincoln—born Feb. 12, , 1809; died April 15. 1865.

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period of three months "If, however, proper reserves were maintained at the end ot the fiscal year, employment at the end of June would drop still further—to a figure of only slightly ’ more than 1,000,000 persons. "Therefore, on a program of gradual reduction, from 1,500,000 to 2.000.000 persons would thrown out of works progress administiation employment — or, I with the addition of those depend ; ent on them, from 6.000,000 to' 8,000.000 Americans would no j longer receive federal aid "I ask that the congress com-; mence immediate consideration of these simple and alarming facts.” o HENRY HELLER — (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) they enjoyed dinner with Sheriff and Mrs. Ed Miller at the county jail. I fl— FORMER LOCAL .CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) j stated: "It's not up to us to prove* my client's alibi; it's up to the; government to prove him guilty." Hale is free under |2,000 bond on a charge of violation of the I Mann white slave act. No date I has been set for his hearing on. this charge. McNeal faces no I other charge. Kenneth McNeal. mentioned; above as freed ot complicity, Is a , former Decatui resident. He at-, tended the Central grade school I while a resident here and is remembered by many local citizens. .—6 Grants Injunction Against News Guild Chicago. Feb 7— (UP)— Supreme l court Judge Grover C. Neimtyer today granted a temporary injuncalion restraining the Chicago News paper Guild from il’egal picketing end coercion of advertising and distributing of the Chicago Evening American and the morning HeraldExaminer. * New Trial Denied To Former Banker Columbus. Ind. Feb. 7 —(UP)— AI motio nfora new trial in the $1,208,• 333 judgment award suit against Sot Meyer, former president of the fund Meyer-Kiser bank of JndiMtapolls today had been overruled. > Judge George W. Long ruled;

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Scene of birth near Hodgenville, Ky., in Hardin county.

i against the injunction when au out- ' of-court settlement was reached. Thomas E. Carvin, receiver for i the bank, who had been awarded the judgment, agreed to reduce the . ju'y award to $825,000. The differI -nee represents a payment Meyer made to the Meyer-Kiser Realty company in 1934. —o "Junker” Autos Are Burned At Ft. Wayne Fort Wayne. Ind.. Feb. 7—(UP) -Sixty-four “junker’ automobiles were burned in a SIOO,OOO bonfire here last night as the headlight of jthe second annual used car safety j week. Approximately 20,000 persons witnessed the blaze. Residents for miles around reported they I watched the flames shooting into | sky. The old automobiles, contributed by members ot the Fort Wayne j Into trades association, were towed j and dtiven to their graves last I Saturday and doused with gasoline I and oil. . o — Temporary Insanity Is Planned Defense Fort Wayne, Ind.. Feb. 7—(UP) Attorney George E- Class indicat-l .d today that a plea of temporary! ! insanity is being planned in the ' case of Mrs. Hattie Ruth Reaser, 139, charged with first degree mttr- ( ! der of her three-year-old son. Alfred I Junior Reaser. The accused mother allegedly i ; murdered her young son with a ( i butcher knife last Dec. 16 and set’-, ; toiisiy wounded another son, Mar-1 •! tin te Roy Rctaer. 5- with ihe sama >« oapon. Iler trial is set. for April I 4. ( OLD WEATHER (CONTINUED FROM CAGE ONE) tic.ials at Washington estimated there were 4,475 families home-’ less in 21 central and eastern Ken- I tncky counties; 1,057 families affected in Tennessee and southern ! Kentucky counties; 2.175 families ‘ affected in four Ohio comities and | Cincinnati; and 21,015 families af- | fected in eight West Virginia . ‘counties. They said an additional i 1,200 families were expected to be i I affected momentarily. | A summary of conditions in com- • munities most seriously affected: Newport, Ky.: Red Cross moves; J 215 families fr o m waterfrbut areas; sets tip emergency food I i stations Middles boro, Ky.: 151) persons.

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i driven from homes on Cumberland i river; public health nurses arrive I from Louisville to aid refugees. Pafntsville, Ky.: Water system : disrupted b'y flood waters of Lick ing river. Breathitt and Corbin counties. 1 Kentucky: Between 400 and 500 persons reported homesless; shipI memos emergency rations sent from Lexington to Jackson for i distribution to isolated count: unities in Breathill county. Huntington. W. Va.: 350 fam-'

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Jp' V ...wTiJ - ? Mary Todd, later Mrs. Llncoltg Born in 1818, she died in 1882

ilies homesless; water recedes and i city officials mobilize forces to j clear debris. Neville, Moscow and New RichI mond, Clermont county, Ohio: WPA workers aid 200 families in | | evacuating homes. Evansville, Ind.: River stage 40 feet, five feet over flood stage; waters inundate lowland areas and crest of 44 feet expected; flood several fantilies in outlying sections prepare to evacuate homes. Aurora. Ind.: Fifty families prepare to evacuate homes as Ohio

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reaches stage of 53 feet; crest of . 50 feet expected; Big Four rail-; road places loaded coal cars on bridge at the mouth of Hogan creek to weight it against flood I waters. New Shawneetown. 111.: Bar-i racks built for workmen and resi- [ dents while their homes are being moved to New Shawneetown from old Shawneetown — one of communities devastated by 1937 flood —made ready for occupancy In case old village flooded again. Little Rock. Ark.; U. S. army

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I < Xb, a ip ■''t’ Lincoln momentoes, top to bottom. his umbrella and hat; his signature, the pistol with which Booth shot him, and his bed in White House.

' engineers distribute 30,000 empty sandbags and hundreds of picks and shovels at strategic points along Arkansas rivers where overflows threaten. Trß«l* In 4 «■<>»• n —. T>o«'a*sf — ■■ ■ 1

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