Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1940 — Page 6

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ThU graphic scene show* the raging Are which raced through the | hay hlieu winter quarter* of the Cole Bro*. and Rubbing circusM I at Rochester Ind., roasting alive at leant 150 Ilona, tigeia. ’.eopard* I

REVIEW SHOWS BUSINESS DROP Indiana Business Showed Two Point Decline In January Bloomington, Ind.. Feb 22 U.Pj Indiana business continn-d itsi rapid recession—which started th>- i first of January and d*< lined ' nearly two points last month, th--Indiana hnslneaa review Issued by the Indiana university bureau ot ' business revealed today "The January decline waa ala I niflcant for two reasons." the re-i view stated. "It was relatively , small when compared with th- , average month to month change i of about four points for last year I and It represented small scattered ' declines among many businesses rather than a major slump In a single Important Industry It should also be noted that at the level after th» decline from the Ilecemlter high, the indea waa still higher than at any time since l»g» with the single exception of last month." The review pointed out that new car sales, coal production and live . stock sales In January were seas , finally better than th* previous month. After making allowance, for seasonal difference*. automobile production and electricity out put were unchanged, while newspaper advertising, bank debits, department store sales, building pig Iron production and stot.e outpu' rdfreed-d slightly, the report show-1 *d According to the review much of the last quarter of th- 133 S re j covery movement waa aided by I war orders and prospective war orders “The prospective war business j has been pretty well discountett the review added "Fram this' poln' the upward awtng will de

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p*-»»«l upon the utrength of our! domestic recovery and actual «ai i buaiueaa ” lliventoriea are relative to aalea. J I the review declared The fatal-{ neaa bureau hinted that thia might j Indi, ate the alate haa reached a • I point In inventoriea which augI geata Itn reaaed aaiea or decreased i j production Thia problem, ’he re-1 view raid. arla<-« each time after I I a decline in buatneaa McNUTT FLAYS I (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEt aome 5.000.000 new employable* | | have been abaortw-d itim Indiiatiy | Legitimate hualneaa haa increaaed | to a point cloae to the phony proa-1 perity of boom year*, and indita-! trial activity ha* mounted from a ( amall frat'ion of r apacity In 10M I to near capacity In IM> and 1M0." McNott aald that of th* 120 <*«> •, 000.000 in ihe national d«-bt. f2.od<> 000.000 wa* incurred by prepav ; ment of war bonutea already obli- i gated. 12.000.M9JM la In 'he reserve account of the old age! insurance fund: 13.0M.0M.0M la, In the ireaaury caah account; It.* <M*i.ooo.ot*i in the stabiiiaatioo. fund and the government ha* |3.OOOOOOOtHi jn proprietary corporation* Thia McNutt aald. leaves' a net increase of !• 000 mo 000 in | the nation'* debt ■l' faHt.oM.wto to roatore tol i American* hope courage and an opportunity to live decent. »elf respecting Uvea-for the wealthiest nation on the face of the gloi.e ; to take feeble and aged citigen* ! out of the poor house and give I young hoy* and girl* a chance to, live yon’hful and healthful live* tn school and (VC camp*—to reduce by >,<hio,<<oo the rank* of unemployed bread winner* and to provide nmo insurance against the temporary lo»* of job* "Thi* 1* the bankruptcy th. Democratic party h»« brought to the people " — , — T ’*S* in a Oom Town — Decatur

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BATTLES POLICE OVER AN HOUR Ex*Convict Kills One Man. Wounds Another And Shoots Self Boston. Feb 22- ’l"Pi—Charles E. Spencer 20-year-oid former reformatory inmate, killed one man. wounded another, stood off !<«• be- ' selging policemen for nearly an hour and then shot himself but refused to answer any question* to- ’ iday until he had talked to hi* ”gitl| ’ friend Mollie." Police snare h»-d the south end al! ! '■ night but were unable to find anyone identifiable a* Spencer'* Molj lie." and so they questioned his wife, a scrubwoman at city ho.pl : tai. hut all she wa* aide to tell i them wa* that her husband had left a note saying he wa* leaving home Police said '.Mollie'' had 'caused trouble in the Spencer home The dead man was Dr Dernkardt , it. Gli< krr.an. 32-year-old Dorchester optotr.etrlst whose patient Spencer had been. The shooting took place in a downtown jewelry store before a s<-ore of clerks and customer* Before he died in a hospital. 'Glkkrnan said: "It was an acrident. It was an accldetjj He was showing me the gun and it went off accidentally." Spencer, an unemployed Janitor, ran out of the store eluded several men who tried to stop him and e»- . caped in the crowded theater sec. timi Sergeant dame* L Guileton heard the police broadcast for Spencer'* ! arrest and went to the Spencer'* j south end home where he found the youth waiting In a hall Spencer retreated up a stairway, I both men firing Gulleton missed A bullet from Spencer'* gun shat-i tered the policeman'* jaw. Police commissioner Joseph T. I

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1910.

i Tlmllty ordered all available ofI Geers to the scene by |M>i«e cruis!ers and taiicab* while tear gas l>onib« and riot guns were sent to I the address from South Boston. . Spencer made his last stand on jthe roof of the five-story building, filing shot after shot at the i police. Finally, a doten officer* rushed the building and were c raw- ' ling up darkened stairway* toward [their quarry when they heard an- ‘ other shot and saw a pistol fall through the stairwell. On the roof they found Spencer, critically wounded. '■■■■■ 0* ■ —l II I I *■! >M*M* FINLAND ORDERS i 'CONTINUED FROM WAOK ON» that in the Kolvfsto area of the [ Karelian Is’humu* It was said that 1* Finnish plane* were shot down in air combat*. The communique, issued through the official Tass new* agenc y. said: "Nothing of important e at the front. "Feh 1# to 21 Soviet troops occu-, pied alone and including the for’res* of Koivisto. 178 of the enemy'* defensive fortifications including 27 iron and concrete artillery forts., Soviet aviation acted against the enemy's troops and military ole jectlvk* Sitteen enemy airplanes were brought down in air cotnbatßTass reported that chairman of the council of people'* commissar* of the Soviet union had received the new Swedish and Bulgarian ministers. P V. G A»sars*on and Todor Christoff. o Roosevelt Observes Washington Birthday Aboard Destroyer latng in In the Pacific. Feb 22-<l'PI-Pre*ident Roosevelt Interrupted hi* inspec- , Hon of distant Panama Canal defense* today to observe Washing- > tlon * birthday aboard the crulaer Tuscaloosa, anchored off an unre- . vealed island in the Pacific.

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