Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 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 Matter I. H- Heller President A. R. Holthouse, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller...- Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies .. I 02 One week, by carrier .10 One 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 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 36 East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Public questions which no legislature ever settles include taxes and liquor control. A bill is listed as the model marriage law-. Now we want to see model marriages. They have opened the San Francisco fair and now all that is necessary to make it a success is visitors. Watch your diet, gargle your throat, don't neglect your rest, if you want to combat the flu germs, or whatever the demon is. The Nazi press in Germany doesn't like President Roosevelt, which is proof to me people in this country, that our President is right and stands for Americans. An epidemic of flu is prevalent in town. Os course one of the best things to do is to consult a doctor, and then go to bed and stay there until you have licked the disease. A permit has been issued in Indianapolis to a man to tie his saddle horse in front of his property. That will bring up another traffic problem, except that most fellows can’t afford a mount. ■■nnKwsnKki Most of us like a blanket of snow arouud the holidays, but when you have several inches of the sparkling Hakes to wade through in February, you feel its out of season. Postponement of an execution is one privilege which the average fellow, we believe, would not hanker for. Knowing that death stalked you in the face, putting off the fatal hour, just prolongs the agony. Both parties are agreed on > amending the liquor control law, eliminating tin present import system It sounds like the thing to do. If the state wishes to lax ! outside breweries, a cap tax can be placed on out of state beer. The Spanish American war vet- 1 crans of the district will meet in Decatur March 5. Hany Reed, a member of Arthur Miller Camp No. 52, is arranging the program and assures visitors a cordial welcome. Decatur will be glad to entertain Ute boys of '9B. Governor Townsend wants to maintain the S7OO per year to-1 wards teacher’s salaries in the I state and to do this he must have ' the money. To shift this burden on local communities would greatly increase school taxes and in ionic places make it impossible to operate the schools nine months out t.f a year. The litteeuth annual farmer's banquet will be held at Monmouth on March 2 and in addition to an entertaining and instructive program, the women iu charge of the

j banquet tempt you with an al’Petlz- ! ing menu. You are Invited to get your ticket and Jolu in the annual observance of farm and 4-H aei complishnients of the year. = — - t Thursday will be Boy Scout night at the new Junior-Senior I high school building. The service ’ clubs will join in the observance | of the event and the banquet will ibe served at 6:30 o'clock Scout- ' ing develops the hoys and it is II correct that every community Joins 1 In stressing the importance of helping build the men of tomorrow. The annual meeting should ’ prove beneficial and enjoyable. Radio station WLW is tiling an appeal with the United States Circuit Court of Appeals against the ruling that it must reduce its power. The station is the most powerful in the country, and as a result covers the widest territory. Powell Crosley. president, in a statement reviews the pioneering done by his broadcast company and cites that now to reduce its power would be to injure the millions of listeners to WLW. The state highway commission has prepared plans for the installation of flasher warning signals at SO railroad grade crossings in the state and bids on the equipment will be received this spring. In the near future C. 8. road 224. in this city, will be routed west over the Pennsylvania railroad , crossing on Monroe street and the flasher lights should be installed at that poiut. as well as on Adams street. Jefferson street and North Second street, according to the original argreemeut between the city council and the railroad. It is always wiser to lock the barn before the horse is stolen and it’s wise and more prudent to install proper safety protection before accidents occur at railroad crossings. AMERICA AND AMERICANS: Vii February 15 the temperature was 67 degrees above zero in Philadelphia and 49 below in Minnesota. There's a difference of 116 degrees. That was unusual, i but the climatic differences in this big. varied country every day are very great. There is great diversity, too, between different areas, in the rainfall and snowfall, in winds and other natural phenomena. And of course the outward aspect of nature. the environment in which we live, is infinitely varied. Strangely enough, however these differences are not reflected in the people themselves. They differ somewhat, to be sure, from section to section; New Englanders usually can be told from southerners, easterners from westerners. But i the human differences glow less I and less, especially in our thinking. Year by year, the newly develop- ■ ed art of canvassing public opin I ion finds citizens of the different i regions thinking and acting more alike on public questions. Travel, newspapers, magazines and books, mail and radio and telegraph and telephone, business and govern- | ment, are welding us rapidly into such a homogeneous nation as ha* \ never existed, on so great a scale, anywhere on earth. o- — * Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee W ish the corduroys carefully, 'hen rinse until the water is clear. 1 Do not squeeze out, the water at I Hi.- last rinsing, but throw the garI ment over the line in a shady place while dripping wet. This keeps the | material soft and fluffy. Frying Basket Don't forget, when using a wire basket for frying croquettes to dip ; it into the hot fat betorc patting tn the croquettes. so that they will not stick to the basket when done and ' be difficult to remove. Play Safe , It doesn't pay to lake chances with stain removers on colored fabrics. Try it on the underneath part iof the hem of the (reck first to see . 1 if it affects the color. | o Trade lu A Good Tuwn — Oecala*

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Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to the Test Questions printed on Page Two j ' 1. Caspian Sea. 2. National Youth Administration. 3. Commander. 4. Condor. 5. Barcelona. 6. The English Channell 7. 1.728. 8. Ab’-la-tiv; not ab-la’-tir. 9. Walter F. Brown. ' I 10. Ecuador. 1 o— L ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ Feb. 22—Germany is ablize with a revolution and fighting is reported front numerous cities. Jefferson Schwar'z of Berne dies at Camp Taylor, Ky , from pneumonia. Rev W. Paul Marsh accepts the: pastorate of the Christian church a: Middletown, Ind. Centr-.il Federated Union of New York City has a slogan “No beer,; no work' which has been approved by 166.<i"ii members. Mis l L Fulton of Portland, Indiana visits here en route home from Los Angeles. California. Mr and Mrs. R. E. deadening of Genova visit here. o CITY COUNCIL -> iCON'TINT'ED FROM PAGE ONE> delinquent. This, he said, would I be adequate, since the city gives] a 20-day notice of bills due, in- 1 stead cl the 15 as required by | law. Dick Toimeliet. city engineer, reported rapid progress on the | storm sow. i- survey and promised : tangible evidence would be given tile i onneil in about t-wo weeks. VETERAN G. E. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Mr. Morgenthaler expressed hie appreciation to Mr. Gage and thanked him for his unselfish services during his quarter century employment with the company. Mr. Gage responded and said. “My heart is with my work and I have enjoyed iny long employ-; ■ ment with the company and asso-1 ciation witli official and employe. | I greatly appreciate the honor glv , en,” said Mr. Gage with emotion. 1 The certificate of award reads: Charles A. Coffin Foundation Established by General Electric Company For the encouragement of signal contributions by employes of the General Electric company toward 1 the increase of its efficiency or progress in the electrical art: Awards Charles A. Coffin Certificate of Merit to Bert Gage in recognition of his ingenuity an initiative, over a period of several years in devising new aud improving old mechanical operations and processes in the manufacture of fractional horsepower i motors which has resulted iu Un-

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proved quality and lower costs. Gerard Swope, President. W. W. Trench, Sec y. Sincere expressions were made by the speakers in paying tribute to Mr. Gage and each stated that they did not know of a person whom they would rather see win the award than Mr. Gage. The three Fort Wayne employes who received Coffin awards today are: Ralph Hall. Edward Jackson and Alfred N’icholseu, | About 10 years ago, Miss Flor- ' ence Kuhn of this city was awarded the Coffin award. Mr. Gage has been ent ployed by | the General Electric company for i 27 ynarß hss foreman of the iocal plant since it was established here in 1920. HOUSE ACTION i (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) independence in 1946. 3. —Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthan. Jr., in a letter to Chairman Josiah W. Bailey. 1) N. C.. of the senate commerce committee .urged establishment of a coast guard air base in Alaska in the interests of national defense. It was estimated that the cost would be $2,490,000. Mission Child Found *** jW i Ik ' XX Mi* K, > , W <s«»***■ / , * Wk, ***' W * • Mat* /IL F&RAnne Louise Sweitzer, top, and Townsend Davis Asserting he believed the child was not well treated at home, Townsend Davis, 40-year-old Pasadena. Cal., gardener, attempted to explain to police his motive in I taking 8-year-old Anne Louisa Sweitzer to the home of his aunt. The child when found was un--1 harmed, police said.

ABOUCTOR FACES ■ LIFE SENTENCE ‘I California Man Confesses To Morals Offenses Against Girl . i Pasadena. Cal., Feb. 22. —-(UP Townsend Davis. 40, lanky church ■ organist, faced life imprisonment today for the abduction of eight-year-old Anne Louise Sweitzer and several morals offenses which police said he admitted committing upon her. • The child stealing charge which 1 the parents of Anne Louise tiled yesterday, when she and Davis were brought back from a flight across state, would, police said, be bolstered by at least four other felony counts. They said lie had confessed he ravished the child that number of times, twice in an automobile court in the desert : town of Indo Sunday during their flight. Child stealing carries a maximum prison sentence of from 10 ' to 20 years and conviction on tlm morals counts would imprison Davis the remainder of his life. Police questioned him today about 1 other attacks on children in the same neighborhood in which the . Sweitzer child lives. When the organist was returned ! with Anne Louise yesterday, her father, Ralph Switzer, was only prevented from attacking him by j a guard of husky police. A World i War veteran, partly disabled, he ; lunged at Davis with an oath but was quickly suppressed. The child, once home, was hor- i ' rifled by what she had done. | i Though she had said, when police 1 halted Davis, car at. the Arizona line, that she did not want to re- | turn home, today she sobbiugly said she was glad it was all over > i and she was again with her par- | I unis. Davis took her from a play- I i ground Sunday. For days he bad cultivated her friendship with lav- ; ors. ■ o 1 Berne Residents Are Injured In Georgia Word was received here today ; that Mrs. Abe Egly and Ben Sprunger, both of Merne veer in hospital at Dalton, Ga„ following an automobile accident Tuesday while on I < their way to Florida. Details of ■the mishap were not learned. Mrs. i Sprunger and Mrs. Dan Stucky, ! other occupants of the car. were tjot | injured. The party left Berne Mon I day for St. Petersburg, Florida. The I car was damaged considerably, ac- j i cording to the report. Both of the I injured people were expected to be released from a hospital today. I ; — 0 : —■ Former Berne Barber Dies At Greencastle I Otto Coffin, former Berne bar- • her, died at his home at Greenj castle on Monday, according to word received here. Mr. Coffin op l erated a barber shop al Berne a cumber of years ago. He had been iu ill health so rsomo time. The luueral was held this afternoon at Greeucutßle.

ADMITS KILLING CLOSEST FRIEND Illinois Farmer Confesses To Killing Wealthy Friend Morris, 111., Feb. 22 — (UP) — Sheriff's deputies hurriedly removed Elvin Wood. 37 from the county jail today a few hours after he had confessed he killed Abner Nelson. 3S. a wealthy farmer. Nelson was h'< closest friend, lodge brother, and former school mole. News of the confession spread ' quickly through the community. Wnen men began gathering in front of the jail. Sheriff H J. Hoyt ordered Wood removed to the Will county jail, in fear attempts would be made to lynch him. Nelson was a bachelor, the son of a wealthy retired Morris farmer. He lived alone in a modern buugalo on a IM acre farm four miles north of Morris. H» disappeared Sunday and it had been feared he had been kidnaped. Wood, also a s s niter, is well known throughout the country. He was arrested yesterday after neighbors renoi-ted thev had seen his

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SYNOPSIS In the spring of 1829, Kit Carson, then 19, first rode with a party of trappers from Taos, New Mexico, into California in search of beaver fur riches. Fighting the Apache, harried by Mexican authorities, ambushed by the Mojave redskins, adding always to their store of thick pelts—the party reached Los Angeles before they turned back toward the dark-eyed women and fiery "Taos lightning" they had left behind. In the fall of 1830, Kit rode again with a band of trappers, who followed what would later be the Oregon trail. Snow-and Blackfeet—halted them in the region later to be part of Wyoming. There Kit first caught sight of the beautiful maid, Pine Needle, daughter of Chief Red Bear, destined to die by Kit’s hand. When next the young scout met Pine Needle he saw that her eyes were blue and her skin pale gold, but . . . fiery hate blazed from those eyes, hate for the white man who had slain her father. ... A few weeks later, Kit had to ride against the people of the maid he had already grown to love. In the fight at the Indian village, a rifle ball struck Kit's throat and passed through his shoulder. It was Pine Needle who packed his wounds with snow to stop their bleeding, then sent him away on his horse, while hatred still fought tenderness in her eyes. CHAPTER XI Before breaking up the rendezvous that September, the trappers held council. “Sooner or later,” Kit argued before Bridger and Fitzpatrick and the others, “we’ll have to whip the Blackfeet * There’ll be no peace on the Southwest plains till they learn to respect white faces.” The older men, the leaders, dropped their eyes before his of blazing blue. “We’d better he careful,” they countered, warily. But it was agreed that the trapper bands of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, dividing, would harass the Blackfeet and drive them slowly backward to the Rockies Then Kit reddened a little. “If any of you come across that gat, Pine Needle, wal . . . treat her like a lady. She saved my life. Besides, I like her spunk.” He thought of her often as he trapped through the Yellowstone and Laramie Plains. Meeting with bands of friendly Crows or peaceful Snakes, he asked of Pine Needle. Someone reported having seen her riding northward among Biackfeet. Then for a time Kit heard no word of her. But trapping, wondering, questioning, Kit met with a strange adventure. The trappers exhausted the buffalo and deer around their camp and were reduced to living on beaver meat. Kit set out alone in search of more tempting fare. After shooting a huge elk, Kit, saw two grizzly bears standing on their hind legs in the brush, surveying him with hot and hungry eyes. “Monarchs of the Rockies,” trappers called these most ferocious of Western animals, so strong they could attack and kill buffalo! Kit knew they meant death. He could not reach his horse. He fled, dropping his useless rifle. A hundred yards ahead was a silverlimbed cottonwood tree. As Kit scrambled up its slippery trunk, gripping his hunting knife in his testh, hn heard the growling bears thundering on his heels. Panting, he reached a forked limb and looked down. Rears could climb trees better than any man. Th®. great snuffing creatures hunched their way up the treetrunk. All Kit had was his broad thickbladed knife, a futile weapon against long hairy paws and razor claws. Kit wedged his body firmly between trunk and limb. He thought in desperation: “A b’ar’s only soft spot is his nose.” The words seemed to leap at Kit from memory. He had heard them from some old trapper, Jim Bridger

mrtauoblle parked near Nelson’s home Sunday. In his confession ho 1 s.ud he went to Nelson s home intending to kill him and then send ransom notes to his parents. Ho said he chatted with Nelson for two h 'Urs. then suggested they go to the village center. As they stood in the front yard, he said, he fired five bullets into Nelson's back He passed his own home where his wife, two children and aged mother were watting for him to roturn to dinner, and drove five miles west to a bridge at Sencca. 11l There he dumped the body into the Illinois river. Then he [ went home. Nelson was reported missing | Monday by his brother, Sydney. Wood, in the roll of a friend of the family, offered to help in the search. Hoyt arrested him yesterday. Investigators found stains in his automobile. He denied they were bleed stains but analysis showed they were. Then ho broke down aud made his confession. He said he had given up l.is plans to demand ransom because of ths furor caused by Nelson's disappearance. He said he had borrowed money from 'Nelson in order to keep bis farm but that increasing financial reverses had kept him in debt. He became desperat for money and finally decided to do away with Nelson and ask ransom He said he hadn't decided how

or Joe Meek. Thought was action with Kit. Instantly he slashed a straight branch from the iimb he straddled. Rapidly ho slashed off twigs, trimmed a staff four feet long and pointed it to razor sharpness as the foremost bear reached the top of the trunk under Kit. The grizzly ' snuffed, snorted, reached out a heavy paw. The nails shot out from the large pad like driven knives. Death — had they landed! But Kit clung to his bough and leaned down. The sharp cottonwood spear stabbed that broad black questing nose. Blood rubied the black snout. The bruin grunted, clapped his paws to

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All day long Kit fought off a huge grizzly and its mate with rapidly improvised cottonwood spear.

his nose in pain and fell crashing to the earth below, carrying with him the second bear. The injured boar stopped rubbing his nose. With a menacing growl he hunched his way back up the tree top. Again Kit stabbed accurately. Again the monster crashed to earth with howls of pain. The second bear rose with a startled air. Curiously she surveyed her sere-nosed mate. Ominously she roiled her small reddened eyes up the cottonwood tree. Heavily she started up it. All day this continued. The enraged bears climbed in turn, the watchful Kit leaned and stabbed with the spear he sharpened again and again. The sun sank over the Rockies, a round red friendly face he might not see again. All night he heard ursine grunts of rage and the crash of great bodies. Through his buckskin leggings Kit often felt the hot breath c.f the animals as he leaned and clutched and stabbed. His recently - healed shoulder ached. He fought sleep. Never again would Kit await so delayed a dawn. At last the sun thrust red spears over the plain, and boars and Kit were weary. The grizzlies sat in grunting consultation, rubbing their sore noses, and suddenly fell to their four paws and trotted away. Kit could not believe they had given him up. A long time he sat, resting his stiffened body in the hot morning sun. Then he slid painfully down the cottonwood trunk and raced for rifle and horse. But the elk he hail shot for the men in camp—only its bores told of the night ravages of the great black wolves! This fall and winter of 1834 Kit spent with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company men trapping beaver on the Lar&nne Plains. They trapped northward into th« Yellow-

much money to Deputies found the death J bidden In Nelson's J Jtieg began a se ttlctl ( fl Wood's neighbors 1 Nelson often atende Ucenutvl function# togothei been inteersted 1 mei-8 into a marketing , OC J Police said that Wood J was chosen the freshman J most perfect physique at nJ versity of Wisconsin, | —__ ♦ Modern Etiquctti L By ROBERTA lee <l. Wou: i ■ , troduction, to say, ■ \p M this is Miss Wilson”’ A. Reverse the names. Th should be presented to the, Say, “Miss Wilson, this is Mi : shall.” Q. Should the wedding ~.i . be held several days prior wedding? A. No; it is customary tt ' the rehearsal the day or ' preceding the wedding. Q. When calling to see a ' who is ill, and one is not pei : j to see him, is It all right to 1 1 short message on one’s card ’ A. Yes. ' Trade lu A Gaud Town — |

stone region. All this w&s jl • feet country and every squar3 : of it promised danger. Their| pany numbered one hundred, fl men trapped and hunted. Fiftl mamed on guard in camp. (I I Kit surveyed longingly tn» 1 band. 1 “W’ith one hundred men,! 1 said, "I could teach them thia Blaekfeet a lesson.” ] His captain hesitated. ThebJ was choice, and although they! one hundred strong, about til thousand Blackfeet roamed ■ plains. Fitzpatrick urged pew “There will never be peace.’! ; would answer in his soft da

“until we deride who's <tr<xige«O Blackfeet or white mm J And he was tormented by theaO ing words of th** girl in decked doeskin: “The have beaten you. Kit Carson. ■ The trappers settled winter camp on the Big Snake- T™ built Indian lodges buffalo nM cones with holes in the peak’ ■ smoke. They stripped the bark of cottonwood to sustain ■ horses through the long *'' n J And this was dangerous fodder. the buffalo loved and could scent ■ many miles and might come ■ great herds to stampede the canffi and trample men and horac* W death. .. But the real fear -the danger—was Blackfeet. ■he fl pers wore watched constantly J unseen eyes. Whenever a ’"’aj band of the men rode out ot "j they wore attacked Kit Mu T others, riding the “trap Imc, J surrounded by fifty ’ ,lac wearing the black gave them their name, P"in«l tarred, half-naked, hcfeatiwrj The white men retired to a or j thicket, shot their horses »J fought behind the horseflesh q ricado. , , .. v . -J The Indians rubbed slick’ 1 made fire and tossed W®J ins vd on their brush thicket. But k *1 selected brush that would no 1 easily* » Kit’killed the medicine ma»*"l the Blackfeet at last left them- j There would be. trouble now, M knew, and his anger moun'eo "’rLTsix returned to rsniP foot, having trotted all day o iq plain carrying their guns. i That night Kit sat on gu» d the fire. He was certain would be trouble. He heardl the dogs bark and the snap o in the outer dark. (To Be Continued) CopyrUh» h* ‘ DUUibuud 0/ KU! Ft*uuu

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