Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 13 February 1939 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THK DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incerporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind. Poet Office aa Second Claw Matter J. H- Heller President i. ft.. Holthouse, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Ratos: Single copies .— ———..3 .02 One week, by carrier ..... .10 One year, by carrier ......... ..... 8.00 One month, by mail ............... .35 Three months, by mail —I.OO Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail —.... 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles- Elsewhere 33.50 one year. Advertising Ratos 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. Help get 300 members for the Chamber of Commerce in 1939. Where was Winchell in not informing the world about Marion Talley’s baby? Peace! Sweet peace of mind and" wnil. That's what the world cries lor. Lincoln's birthday anniversaries come and go. but his ideals and principles remain with us always. The Democrats aren’t the only ones having growing pains. According to the latest political grapevines, everything isn’t so rosy in Republican circles. Funeral services for Pope Pius Xi will be held Wednesday from St. Parer’s Catnedrai m Home and homage will be paid to the Man of Peace and good will to mankind. The Chamber of Commerce is a ' civic and public service organize-' tlon. You show your degree of civic pride and service to your community by joining. ** The defendants in the WPA case in New Mexico were found not guilty and that ends an attempt to I smear someone. It's one thing to '' thump up charges and another to ' Mprove them. — The bill forbidding the sale of firecrackers, except for public dis- ' I • plays, passed the house 94 to 0. • Looks like both Republicans and Democrats are of one mind when it comes to fireworks. A citizens committee at Frack- 1 vflle, Pa., has proposed to the city council that the policemen be put on an "arrest pay" basis. No ar- < rests, no pay. say the citizens who ' “want the town cleaned up. We're still willing to bet that it doesn’t reach zero this winter. This may be the last stand of the Weather man in trying to drive, down the temperature and most of : ’ >is hope he’ll give up aud switch , toward fancies of spring. ■ Auburn’s new sewage disposal plant, exclusive of some of the sewers, will cost $108,871, accord-] fug to the bid received by the' council. The PWA is aiding the project with a grant and the. balance will be financed through a bond Issue, the refunding of the cost being taxed to the water conFiremen at Amsterdam, N. Y., got a tough break the other day while trying to extinguish a blaze. The hose wan stretched- across arailroad track and a flier cut it in two. Another connection was made and again thu hose was cut by a second train. They give up and let the house burn. Smokey Stover should be called. Governor Townsend will address a joint meeting of the senate'andbouse ol the legislature today and

talk turkey to the members about state finances. He will explain the budget and point out where the increases are necessary and i show the cost of operating thei state government. Most of the Increase in the bi-annual budget comes tn the additional approprt- ' ationa for our state universities | and schools and the old ago penson department. With the age limit reduced to 65 years for pensions, the cost has climbed nearly fifty pen-ent and as long as the law is on the hooka the bill will I have to be paid. Fifteen years ago a booklet, "Decatur — Can And Will,” was published by the Decatur Industrial Association, predecessor of the Chamber of Commeroc. It gave interesting facts about the | town, its industries and institu- ' tions and depicted our community spirit. To appreciate that the ‘ town has grown, to realize that we have more and greater industries, all you need do is to scan the pages of the. old pamphlet. Reading an item in the Indiana History Bulleting of the printing of a 48 page pamphlet on “Indianapolis Today.” it brought to mind that I’ possibly we should re-print our ’ booklet and issue an up to-date one <m the town and facts pertain- ; ing to it. SAME OLD WORLD. BOYS: They tell us this is a newer and I sadder age. with the door of opportunity closed, and that life is indeed hopeless for the young fellows who are fighting for a foothold. But we read the newspapers und we arc beginning to think i it Is the came old world with the same old chance to get ahead. We note, as a casual instance, that Tom Carney, just named as president of Sears, Roebuck sic Co., began his career as a shipp- , ing clerk with that great firm 36 years ago. General Wood now be- | comes chairman of the board of : directors. We note also a series of stories lin the luuiuuapoiis Daily News about that paper’s former newsboys who have become successful business men. These are not isolated instances. We read such stories every day and ,we look around our own circle of friends and see the courageous and industrious men and boys climbing up the ladder. It is hard to be poor and to have to work. Maybe. Maybe it is just good training for the future career. We can not all become rich and famous, but there never was a , time when we could. Times are | different, it is tine, but the chances ] for success were never better, we ■ verily believe. The up-and-com-ing poor boys of 1939 will be the leaders and managers of the ’so’s and ’6o’s. t Perhaps you have no desire to be the big boss, and that the accumulation of a lot of money is not your idea of success. But you have some particular desire and l probably a definite ambition. I Then, we say, you have every j reason to be hopeful. — Farmer’s Guide. —o IWS j FRED W. BRAUN Ej- /? O Safety Some drivers feel that their ablj iify to get out of a tight spot is a demonstration of skill. They drive lecklessly. heedless of traffic rules, feeling secure in the knowledge that they know bow to handle a car. A driver may get a thrill from getting out of a tight spot by quick and expert handling of his car but he should not boast about it or get "cocky,” because of good driver rarely gets into a tight spot. He is- always careful oh the approach to Intersections, r-hools, crossroads an other places where there is a possibility of his meeting other : drivers. The anticipation of an accident at. these spots is the practice of ail | good drivers. It's smart to drive carefully. o —— 50U Sheets : White Parage" Bond typei writing paper 55c. The Decatur Democrat Co. U

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* Answers To Test Questions | Below are the answers to the | | Test Questions printed on Page Two i 1. Centigrade scale. 2. Stanley Raytuoud ‘Bucky” Mains. 3. Lithuania. 4. 2,W0. 5. “Esso Baytown. 6. Switzerland. 7. Mu-nls'-i-pal: not mun.i.«fn’.»[. 8. The second fight between Tunu?y aud Dempsey at Chicago in 1927. 9. The Ten Commandments. 10. Federal Power Commission. 1. Solid, liquid and gaseous. 2. The Neva. 3. Colorado. 4. Arc de Triomphe, in Paris. 5. Criminology. 6. William Henry Harrison. 7. New York. 8. Mu-ze’-uni; not mu'-so-uni. 9 Chiromancy. JO. Arga. o f TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY | From the Daily Democrat File | ♦- ♦ Feb. 13 —C. D. Kunkle is elected president of the Root township Farr.,er’s Institute. D. F. Schenck, 87, who left here 77 years ago and lives in Fairfield county, Ohio, visits Decatur to find many changes. When he left there v ero not more than a dozen houses in Decatur Fisher Paper Co., at Fort Wayne l slitters a SIOO,OOO fire. | Gym fund is $1,005. Lots make It 31,500. Capt. Hugh Sumstcdt eaves Bay. mine. N. J. in attempt to fly across the Atlantic. John Everett and Cal Peterson buy the Simeon Brtindyfrerry farm south of town.

Body of Pope Carried to Sistine Chapel he “ * Si ’ t ,f j The body of Pope Piu» Xt, "Fore of Feaee.” it carried ia simple state to the Sistine ChapeL Six members ot the Vetfrey's Noble Gnxrrl bear the stretcher from the chamber in which he died. Picture was telephoned I to London then radioed to N«w York,

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► : — "♦ | | Household Scrapbook | By Roberta Lee The Umbrella Handle If the handle has come off the T cmbrela. an excellent way to mind i it is to fill the hole in the handle with powdered sulphur. Then heat 'he ferrule and push it into the Sulphur. The handle and ferrulo will be firmly fastened wlth'n a few minutes. i Mustard Foot Rath "! The mustard foot bath should Im? j prepared by dissolving the mustard in cold water first, then adding it to the hot water. If the mustard is just poured into the hot water, it is liable to stick to the skin and cause a blister. No Lard Taste The lard taste in pastry cau be

Pope’s Kin Mourns His Death f ; I ■ . ' \ ’til 3w - - Among the thousands of Catholics in New England mourning death of the n “Pope of Peace” is Mrs. Anselma Toneatti, 59, of Gloucester, Mass., one n of five blood relatives now living in the United States. Her father was a second cousin of Pope Pius XI, about whose death she is reading.

t avoided by adding a tablespoonfui I of vinegar for each half cup of waI ter used. | Modern Etiquette j By ROBERTA LEE | Q. When leaving a person to whom you have just been introduc- ■ ed, and this person says, "1 am glad - ho have met you.” what should your ■ response bo? A. “Thank, you” is sufficient. Or | if oae <au Say so sincerely, he may i say, "Thank you. I hope that I shall see you again soon.” Q. Is it good manners for a person to stretch his arms while at the table? I A. No, nor anywhere else in pubi lie. This healthful exercise should | bo reserved for the bedroom. Q. How should a widow sign her

BRUTAL MURDER SUSPECT HELD Indianapolis Police Hold Suspect In Woman s Murder ludiunapolis. Feb. 13.—(UR) suspect of the brutal hammer murder of Mrs. Carrie Lelah Romig last month is in custody of police today. They said the person un- i der arrest was W. Ray Butsch alias John Hoffman, a criminal ■ with an extensive record. Butsch. who told officers he was 40 but who appears to be nearer 50, was brought here from Anderson. where he was arrested in a rooming house last Thursday, as-1 ter he reportedly had pawned jewelry. • ‘ He was linked to the slaying of the 55-year-old, thrice • married blonde by police who indicated the jewelry included part of the woman’s gems found inissitig from her apartment. She was found beaten to death with a hammer name? A. Just as she did while her husband was living. Mrs. James O. Adams.

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SYNOPSIS At 19, Christopher Carson—Kit Carso>\ as he would be knownfound himself, with a price upon his head, in Taos, New Mexico, to which he had fled from Madison County, Kentucky, his birthplace. Apprenticed by his mother to a saddler, Kit had run away, drifting into Taos over the Santa F 8 trail in the spring of 1826. Three years later, he met Ewing Young, a captain of trappers, who was preparing to lead a party westward toward California. Ostensibly the men sought vengeance against hostile Apaches. Actually they sought the aontraband fur of the beaver. Kit convinces Young that he would be ■ valuable addition to the buckskinned cavalcade. And it is Kit who is first to sight, one May dawn, two hundred of the befeathered Apaches as, with faces painted for war, they round a distant mesa. CHAPTER 111 Kit was the only man who stood to fire. But ho had used bow anil arrow as a child in Kentucky and knew the savage arrows could not reach over the spur of mesa. So he stood slim as a reed on the sand, calmly looking down his long rifle. He saw the Chief, his white feathered headdress floating above the acalplock, but Kit’s narrowed eyes sought on, to a face that might have been raised from inferno. Painted with the carmine stripes of war, tusks curled from ita mouth, buffalo horns started from a low forehead, buffalo beard fringed the shaven skull. Around its throat were loops of human teeth. Around its painted waist scalps dangled. One clawlike hand shook a rattle made of skull. "Medicine, man!” muttered Kit, Tm taking you.” He fired. He watched the grinning face go down under knife-like hooves. At the same moment four other Indians fell under trapper fire. Their half-broken horses jerked from dying hands and fled over the dawn tinted desert. The Apaches pulled their horses back two hundred yards, out of rifle fire. "They’re turning," said Young. “Yet we only got five of ’em. Wonder why . . “I shot their medicine man. They have to elect another before they can fight any more." Yonng stared. It was Kit, youngest of his band, explaining. For himself. Young had selected the Chief, but the Chief, his feathered headdress floating amidst two hundred warriors, had been well beyond his fire. Young was being retaught this business of revenge by a beardless boy with a gentle girlish voice. “When they elect the new man, Kit,” he said respectfully, “you take him." Then for an hour they waited with readied rifles. The sun riding over the cactus-broken desert grew fiercer. There was no water. In their sandy trap the trappers watched the savages circle with •tamping feet in the scalp dance, offering the bloody trophies to earth and sky. Ceremoniously they selected a painted demon to serve as nedicine man. Then with quavering war whoops ■hey again sprang to their horses •nd shot for the mesa. "Hui-eeel” Their scream quiv•red over the desert Their finely made poisoned arrows whistled over the dune. One struck Captain Young on the shoulder, slanted from the buckskin and fell away. But he taw the slender, intent Kit standing to fire at the very heart of the new medicine man leading the charge. “To have a son like that!” thought Young, clapping a hand to his bruised arm. Not a trapper was wounded. Eleven more Indians were dead. This time the Apaches drew still farther away. Kit, watching, noted that this time they did not dance, toss sand to the four sky corners, offer their scalp trophies to the sun.’ "They’re not electing another," he •aid. v "Wonder why,” remarked Young "They think it’s a sign. Two of their holy m«a sis dead. Two u •

In her quarters last January 17. The fad that Indianapolis police went to Anderson with the victim’s husband, Harold, was understood to have indicated he I Identified some of the pawned ; jewels as being property of his dead wife. Romig, 28-year-old dime store employe, went to AnMichael Morrissey aud other ofdemon yesterday with Police Chief fleers. Police were reluctant to dis■dose what evidence :-tey had that lluked Butsch to the case, but Morrissey said: "Butsch is a susj pect.” Baffled by the strange case, poi lice have been investigating and questioning dozens of persons over the past month, but failed to turn up any incriminating evidence. Romig, who discovered his wife’s body and the death hammer used ' by her assailant when he returned home from work, has been ellinin- ■ ated from suspicion. Butsch, who was identified through fingerprints sent to the federal bureau of investigation, had been using the name of John Hoffman in Anderson. When he was I arrested on suspicion after visiting Anderson pawn shops last week, officers also took into custody a woman who said she was Mrs. Lydia Hatfield, 21, of Glen Alum, W. Va. • The girl said Butsch was her 1

holy number. They’re afraid. Seq, they’re going—not even trying to rescue their dead.” “Safe enough to leave ’em with us,” said Young. “We don't want scalps. You’re right. Kit, they’re riding off!” But as he praised, Young was chagrined. After the Apaches had raced over the horizon and the trappers left their ambush and the dead warriors to the wolves, he rode thoughtfully. The West recognized manhood. Young sensed the career of the young Kit Carson had begun. As for Kit, when they camped that night on the banks of the Gila River, he drove two more brass studs in his rifle stock—one for each medicine man. As he did so Young talked to his men. “Part of our work is done. We’ve

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licked the Indians and now we can 1 think of fur. Now, who’s going with > me?” i Some of the men looked doubtful. ' They spoke up. "Plenty of beaver on the Gila. 1 Why go on? There’ll be trouble ! crossing the desert sure.” “Better beaver on beyond," ' tempted Young. “In California—” . “There’s more than fur in Califomia,” said Valliant, the French i Canadian, ominously. "The Mex own California and don’t want visitors.” “The Mex own New Mexico too | and all the Southwest," declared Young; "they can't keep me from i fur and they can’t keep me from ‘ California." He knew the boy Kit would be ! with him. Sixteen more accepted , the dare. The others left them to set their traps on the Gila, that long romantic river so rich with beaver it was called the trappers’ paradise. , Young could look with pride on ..is band. The strong, the intrepid, the finest hunters, had chosen to join him on the dangerous trail to unknown California. Before them lay more than a hun-d’-edaniles of waterless desolation. “We must carry meat and water,” ordered Young. The trappers set out in various dlon’y three deer were killed. The hides were removed and filled with the brackish Gila water. The flesh was dried in the sun. The Indians called these long stiff strips of flesh—pemmican. At last they were ready for California. Slowly, not to weary the horses, they went toward the Colorado River. They were the first Americans to cross this lonely deaert and the first white men since Garces toiled over it in 1776. They were the trail breakers to i the Pacific. June passed. . . July . . . They were like ants toiling in i endless ruin ’ The horrible water was gone. Weakened men fought 1 staggering horses to prevent thelr eating the deadly cactus. The horses died, falling with awolleA tongues

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"We’ve read -I 1 - '” ' s K membered the list : ror. He 'aid, "A thousand we’ve come —for fur.” ’ At last the groat West had opened in the hunt for fur. the glint of gold would .’ire Now it was the shining of beaver in Western rivers three other white men end tratod Califor- . ' ' "if East: Jcdediah Smith m the Patties, father an i sen. —three trappers beaver trail. Beaver had the mountain men f’-om And beaver led them on . ing the twenty m- 'irh pastoral Calit-rr-ia. beauty and wealth. .-.-h witho wine, pasture 1 and cattla . • •’WJ naked brown lulls and warn into the wide empty plain 01 Sacramento. On this river’s edge th»y deerskin tepees and trapped lo.jM many beaver- Th is great era? ley was elysmm —ten year* Sutter came. Tales told later Carson would bring Captain A. Sutter to build his in the Sacramento. Th o had hca.’.l cf this parad-se • • «■ with salmon, deer and «n IH otter and beaver and bear •• • the Mojave Indians "f Ssutn« California. There were not fifty f " r -. s in California in I*"° and the cans could not hope tn attention of Mexican authority. W l,t was Kit who gave their place away. „ Kit loved California. He know it as no man n>»™ perhaps none after. He w" turn to its wide and rich lon .JM long after the deer and and beaver had vanished ' banks of the Sacramento. ■ Twenty and ardent, in ing wilderness, Kit tarM ,o Her name—Teresita. He* "'fl fifteen. , a, S (To b« continuMl ■ CoostuM b? swirs ta ■ DUttlMktad toy |»