Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1934 — Page 2

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FOR SALE FOR SALE-14 shoatt, weight 70 lbs. Fred Bittner. Route 5, Decatur. 7 miles northeast of Decatur. 173-O3t FOR SALE — Northern Michigan Cherries, Thursday morning. July 26. Texaco Service Station. I’r-’ble. 175t2x FOR SALE— 'lce box and •cornet. Phone 765, Mm. A. R. Ashbaucher 175-gßtx FOR SALE—Transparent Apples. .70? bushel. Glen Marshall. 1285 10th St. Phone 1012. 174-3 t FOR SALE—Fine city dwelling, excellent location. A bargain and investment for right party. For information call Fruchte and Litterer. phone 242. 175 t 3 FOR SALE—Last load far north ■ ern Michigan sweet and sour i cherries. Thursday morning. July 26. Manhan store, Monmouth; C. S. Bryan and Thomas Griffith, Kirkland Twp. Priced $1.20 up. Berries brought if ordered by Tuesday evening. 174-2tx WANTED For RADIO or ELECTRICAL repairs call MARCELLUS MILLER | phone 625. I specialize in auto I radio installation and repairs. ; Miller Radio Service. 226 No. 7th st. 172tf —o— FOR RENT FOR RENT — Nicely furnished house. 138 Mercer Ave. • 175t3 FOR RENT — Furnished light housekeeping apartment. Ground floor porch, basement, rent reasonable. Inquire 1127 W. Monroe St. 167-ts LOST AND FOUND LOST — Eye glasses at Adams Theatre Friday night. Reward. Bring to Democrat. 174-2tx

LAMPS ■ Lamp Plugs and Sockets for All Cars. ENGLAND'S , ‘ AUTO PARTS HI Ist Door So. of Court House W Phone 282 Electrocuted By Fan Glouster, o.— 'U.R) — Death by electrocution while she was using an electric fan. came to Mrs. Fred Householder, 32. Coroner L. F. Jones said the current was induced through her body because her feet were wet from sprinkling the lawn. o Cat Captured Carrier Pigeon Ashtabula. O.—'U.R) —"See what the cat brought ir ” exclaimed Vic Engren when the family feline tugged heavily at something on the front steps. The Engen family Joohed. found a carrier pigeon, enervated. The cat had not injured the weakened bird. o Fingers Worth $280.50 Each New Orleans.— (U.R) —Four tingerrs of John Calhoun were worth $£80.50 each the Louisiana Supreme Court decided here. He accidentally chopped them off while working for a lumber company. ■•lUm-CUAWNi TtIAJ RUToTfsMAUTYTCCtOTHiSSheets Bros. Cleaners N. 2nd st. Phone 359

|H’ JF < f•■ yfor the Manager es the Home Running a home, is a business proposition. It’s a problem of making the income take care of ♦he expenses Sometimes, like every other business, a temporary loan becomes necessary or advisable. At such times, we invite home managers to take advantage of our financing plan. We will k-nd you up to S3OO on your furniture, auto, ,• Piano, etc., and arrange repayment terms to suit your con- . venience. Our service is prompt, digniiied. confidential And we charge only the lawful interest rate Let us tell yon more about it. Come in, or phone Frank bn Security Co. <J”er Bchalor Hdw. <>., phone 2X7 Decatur. toil. A Pf RSONAI CONFIDENTIAL SERViCE

MARKETREPORTS DAILY REPORT OF LOCAL i AND FOREIGN MARKETS LOCAL MARKET Decatur Btrnt Crtlgville Hoagland Corrected July 24 No commission and no yardage Veals received Tuesday Wednesday Friday and Saturday ! 160 to 200 lbs $4.30 200 to 250 lbs. $4.40 I 250 to 300 fba $4.50 ! I 300 to 350 lbs $4.30 , ! 300 lbs. up $3.65 I 140 to 160 lbs $13.40 i 120 to 140 Üba ............ $2.76 I 130 to 120 lbs $2.45 ' Roughs ....- SI.OO-13.00 i Stags $1.50 Vealers $4.75 Ewe and wethe lambs $5.75 Buck lambs $4.75 CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE July Sept. Dec. I ! Wheat, old 96% .97% .99% ! Wheat, new 96% .97% .99% I Corn 62% .64% .67% | Oats, old 44% .44% .45% I Oats, new .44% .45% FORT WAYNE LIVESTOCK Fort Wayne, Ind., July 24—(U.R) —Livestock: Hogs, 15 to 35c lower; 250-3001 lbs., $4.65; 200-250 lbs.. $4.50; 180- ; 200 lbs., $4.45; 160-180 lbs., $4.35; 300-350 lbs., $4.55; 150-160 lbs.. $3.50; 140-150 lbs.. $3.35; 130-140 lbs., $3.10; 120-130 lbs.. $2.60; 100120 lbs., $2.25; roughs, $3.50; stags. $1.75. _ * Calves, $5; lambs, $6.25. EAST BUFFALO LIVESTOCK East Buffalo. N. Y„ July 24.— (U.R)— Livestock: Hogs, receipts. 600; slow. 10c to I 15c under Monday's average; de- I sirable 170 to 240 lbs., averaging 190 to 200 lbs.. $5.10 to $5.15; 210 to 250 lbs., butchers qudter $5.25; 140 to 160 lbs., $4.25 to $4.50. Cattle, receipts, 325; very slow; scattered sales weak to 25c lower; bulk unsold; few common grass steers. $4; low cutters and cutter cows, $1.25 to $2.25. Calves, receipts, 75; vealers dull; mostly steady; good to choice. Sheep, receipts. 100; holdovers. 500; scarcely enough done to establish market; 25c and more lower; better lots held around $7.50; common and medium including weighty bucks sold $6 to $6.50. — LOCAL GRAIN MARKET Corrected July 24 No. 1 New Wheat, 60 lbs or better 88c I No. 2 New Wheat (581b5.) .... ■ 87c I Oats -40 c White or mixed corn 75c First class yellow corn 80t Wool 20 to 25 cents o . Novel Mental Exercise Paris.— (U.R) —A novel form of mental exercise has been discovered by the Jesuit Clavius, who has calculated that there are 585,261,767,384.976,664,000 combinations of the alphabet. Jesuit Calvius was inspired to work out this problem after hearing that someone had attempted to count the number of letters in the Bible. 0 “Water Witch” Active in Ohio Berea, O.— (U.R) — The “water j witch," with his peach wood divin- i ing rod, has returned to the great-' er Cleveland area for the first time j in years. The “water witch” told , A. M. Menke to drill at a certain ; spot for water 12 feet below the surface. Menke found water there, as directed, but only after drilling a 90-foot shaft.

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CHAPTER XXIV The two quarrelsome inseparables, Clendening and Cross, were among the witnesses summoned. Cross, looking very healthy, sought my sympathy at once. “It’s absolutely inconsiderate, making me come all the way up here!” he complained. “They should have held the inquest at the cottage, if they had to hold one at all, don’t you think so, Mr. Fowler?” "They probably won’t keep you more than a few minutes,” I said. Clendening interrupted with a short, sardonic laugh. “It won't hurt a big fat hulk like you,” he said. “I wish my heart was as good as yours.” “If yours were as bad as mine, you’d probably be dead!” Cross retorted angrily. “Why, the specialist in New Y’ork told me—” “I know what he told you. Milton. My lord. I’ve heard it often enough! He probably told you you had a bad heart just to get rid of you.” A deputy sheriff stepped through the door of the manager’s office and called, “Mr. Cross I Mr. Cross!” “You don’t have to yell at me,” Cross replied with great dignity. "I’m coming.” The crowd made way for him and he walked to the door at his usual slow, timorous gait. Clendening sat down in a chair. He was pale and his respiration was rapid. “What’s the news of Lakeside?" I asked. Clendening grinned. He took off his glasses and began to polish them. His eyes looked strange and unseeing without the spectacles. "Milton got in a temper last night and smashed my record of ‘Waiting For You.’ I’m afraid I annoyed the poor sick fellow, playing it so much.” “You seem very interested in that record,” I remarked. He replaced his glasses and looked at me. “I hear your friend Hillyer's a buddy of Finn’s now,” he said. “If he’s trying to solve Vail’s murder, it might pay him to listen to that record.” “What do you mean?” He leaned closer and whispered. "That record means something! I don’t know what yet, but there’s some reason that particular record was on the phonograph when we found Vail. I’ve been studying the words. 1 copied them all before Cross got sore and smashed it.” "You think there’s some significance in the words?” He nodded solemnly. "It’s there, all right. Sometimes I seem just about to understand it.” He sighed. “But it always gets away from me.” Cross came out of the room then and Clendcning’s name was called. “Tell Hillyer to look into it” he said and then he went to give his testimony. Cross went directly to Um portico in back of the building, get in the waiting bus and was driven back to his cottage, looking as though he expected to be fatally stricken. I saw Ruxton on the other aide of the foyer and went to join him. “How are you?” I askeff. “Very well, thank you,” he replied. He did not look it, but it ■was one of the cor. Tentions of the sanatorium that most patients never admitted to feeling badly. Ruxton sat with his chin in the palm of his hand, and he glanced away from me the moment he had spoken. Apparently he did not want to talk. I respected his wish and left him. I smiled as I thought of Clendening’s rather childish belief that the banal words of Vail’s favorite song had some hidden and significant meaning. But, as no news was too trivial for Mark, I decided to repeat it to him. Presently I went outside, lit a cigarette and began to stroll around the grounds. As I passed Anderson’s office I could see the several reporters sitting by the window. They were all leaning forward, looking very alert, and (wondered how mu“h of the truth they were hearing. Later I learned that

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Finn and the district attorney had conspired to present the case very cleverly, stressing Joe’s tenuous connection with it and passing very lightly over the •inexplicable circumstance of the phonograph. The exchange of rooms between Vail and Ruxton was not even mentioned, but much was made of .Joe Barker's acquaintance with Felipa and Felipa’s flight. The verdict of the jury, returned late in the afternoon, was that Vail died at the hands of some person or persons unknown and that Joe Barker had died by his own hands. The implication was exactly what Anderson had wanted: that the evidence against Joe was not legally conclusive, but that there was little reason to doubt that he was the murderer. That evening we learned that Finn considered the case closed and was leaving the sanatorium the next day. Dave Finn was not an intelligent man, but he had the shrewdness, the talent for survival, common to politicians. The management of Sherwood Forest Sanatorium had wanted the investigation of Vail’s murder closed as quickly as possible. Recognizing the political importance of that wealthy community, Finn had been most anxious to oblige, and Joe’s death had given him his opportunity. The inquiry was unofficially closed. Nevertheless, Finn was not at all convinced that Joe had murdered Seifert Vail, and, though he concealed these doubts from the sanatorium officials, he did not w r ant to leave without providing against possible unexpected developments. It was natural that he should go to Mark for assistance. The day after the inquest, before he and his deputies went back to town, he made a quiet and hurried visit to Mark’s room. Mark told me about it, imitating the sheriff’s heavy voice and slyly exaggerating Finn’s important official manner. “I’m a minister without portfolio," he said. “I’m an unofficial ambassador. I’m the sheriff’s eyes and ears and brain here, and if you ask me, I’m a great improvement on the original. Finn has made a strategic retreat, but he’s keeping his rear well covered. If anything happens while he’s away. I’m to let him know, so he won’t be caught napping.” “He didn’t have much trouble persuading you to accept the job, did he?” I asked. Mark laughed. "No,” he said. “I’m not bashful, you know.” His laughter increased. “Finn was in a spot. He wanted to use me, but he was scared to death I’d go poking around digging up a lot of embarrassing information. He couldn’t ask me not to in so many words, and Finn isn’t a very good diplomat." He sat up in bed and, with a worried frown, began tugging at an imaginary mustache. It was such a good burlesque of the sheriff’s usual manner that I burst into laughter. When Mark spoke, his voice was ponderous and slightly embarrassed: “Jnst keep your eyes open, Mr. Hillyer,” he quoted the sheriff. "Os course, I don’t expect anything to happen. The case is practically washed up. But you never can tell when something’s goin’ to break. Just take it easy and let things ride, but let me know if anything happens.” He became himself again and, reaching over, pulled a photograph from under some magazines on his bedside table. “Here’s an enlargement of the photograph of the murderer he gave me for a souvenir. When I’ve solved the case, I’m going to ask him to autograph it—if he can write.” I looked at the picture, magnified many times. The original had shown the vague, blurred outline of part of a man's back in a break in the foliage behind Lakeside Col-

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tage. The enlargement had magnified that overalled torso, but had made it only more indistinct. I looked at it. shaking my head. “You could magnify it a million diameters, and it still wouldn’t show anything,” Mark said as he took it back. “Poor Finn I It seems as though the murderer was in cahoots with everybody to bedevil him.” “Are you going to let things ride, as Finn asked you?” “You should know me better than that. You know what a nasty prying keyhole peeking sort of mind I have. Let things ride, heck! I’m going right on with my quiet little investigation, and you’re going W help me. I want you to take a little trip for me.” He picked up a blue-covered timetable from the stand beside him and opened it. “I’ve been reading time-tables,” ha said, “not that I expect to use them myself soon, but just out of curiosity. Finn seems to have forgotten it. but you may remember that Vail was expecting a visitor the day he was killed. I thought the visitor was right here in the sanatorium, but there’s a possibility that it was someone from New York. “When Finn found out that none of the taxi drivers in Cold Valley had driven anyone here just after rest period, he decided that the visitor didn’t come from outside. But remember, Vail wanted to see that person very privately. If I wanted to see someone without the whole sanatorium knowing it, I wouldn’t let him get off the train at Cold Valley. I’d tell him to get off one station above or one below and get a taxi there. It wouldn’t, be a much longer ride, and it would be a lot more private.” “There’s an idea!” I exclaimed “Why didn’t someone think of it sooner?” “I should have,’ Mark admitted “I hope the trail’s not too cold now. But last week there were so many other things that for a while I forgot the mysterious visitor.” He opened the time-table. “The afternoon train that arrives at Cold Valley at 3:02 gets to the station below. Echoville, at 2:49. It arrives at the station above Cold Valley at 3:18.” “That would be too late," I said. “If you wanted to get to the sanatorium just at 3:30 you’d have to get off either at Cold Valley or Echoville." Mark nodded. "Smart boy. By a process of elimination, it appears that Echoville’s the place. I want you to go. there this afternoon, right after lunch. Don't drive down, take a taxi. See if you can find any taxi driver there who brought anyone to the san last Thursday afternoon.” Immediately after lunch I set out on my mission. My taxi I summoned from Cold Valley. As I drove down the long road through the woods that led to the entrance of the sanatorium, I wondered how I could make my inquiries without seeming too officious. I regretted that I had not discussed it with Mark, but after some hard thinking I found away. I settled back in my seat, very much pleased with my ingenuity. We rolled through the gates of the sanatorium and out on the smooth state highway. It was fairly cool riding, but the country showed the effects of the long heat wave. The grass was sere and the leaves of the trees were drooping and lustreless. We passed a few poor, scattered farms, a golf course, and several frame summer hotels on whose verandas women rocked and fanned themselves and gossiped. It took us about twenty minutes to reach Echoville. and there at the railroad station I dismissed the taxi. (To Be Continued) CoMrlght. l»t>. Or Into CUjUn Mid Mlleota Lotin OHtrlbulld or Kina Fwta-ai ttndl<w» lu.

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When Gov. McNutt paid hl» official visit to the new| I World's Fair In Chicago, Thursday, July 19, he was t given a military reception In the Court of Honor, Im i eluding ths salute of 19 guns accorded governors, ind • then proceeded to Inspect the troops from Camp i Roosevelt, the Fair’s military camp. Hers he is seen with Capt. James Brown, left, and Major Morris M

horse when he crossed the Dela- [ ware? 1 o c ♦ A Many Reunions Scheduled For Summer Months > ♦ i Sunday jury 29 .... 1 Annual Haggard reunion, Legion t Memorial Park, Decatur. i Borne family reunion, Sunset i Park. 1 Cowan family reunion, Sunset Park. ' Meyer reunion, rain or shine. | Sunset Park. Sunday, August 5 Ninth annual reunion of Shaffer family, Legion Memorial Park. Decatur. Venis family reunion, Sunset park, east of Decatur. Brunner family reunion, Sunset park, Decatur. Dettinger reunion, Sunset Park, east of Decatur. Johnson family reunion, Sunset Park. Sunday, August 12 Tumbleson reunion. Legion Memorial Park. Decatur. Hitchcock reunion, Cora B. Miller home on the state line. Rettig and Reohm, Sunset Park. Beinz family reunion, Sunset park, east of Decatur. Steele reunion, Sunset park, rain or shine. Dellinger family reunion, Sunset Park. Sunday, August 19 Butler family reunion. Sunset Park, Deratur. Smith reunion. Sunset park, rain or shine. Sunday, August 26 Hakes reunion, Sunset Park, east I of Decatur. •Droll family reunion, Suneet 1 Park. Schnepp and Manley reunion, . Sunday, September 2 Urick reunion. Sunset Park. Sunset Park, rain or shine. • Monday, Labor Day, Sept. 3 Sixteenth annual Stalter reunion Legion Memorial Park. Decatur. Lenhart reunion. Sunset park. Decatur. Harper family reunion, Sunset j Park. Sunday, September 9 Bowman family reunion, Sunset Park, Decatur. o— — EXHUME BODY OF “GREAT LOVER" New Orleans (U R)—ERA work- | ers here are busying themselves ! digging up the skelton of New Orleans’ famous lover and commander of Spanish Fort more than a ; century and a half ago. The skelton. unlike that of!

Keck, at they pats before the colore in review, that ceremony the governor and hit official party ww rectived by Rufut C. Dawet. pretident of A Ce-tiwy of Progrett, and were guettt at a formal lunch*) in the Trustees’ room In the Administration building Later he participated In the Indiana Day certmoiH* at the Hall of States.

present day lovers, is in a grave—: not a closet. Louis J. Genalla. engineer in’ charge of the work on the ancient fort, said the “tomb" near the old, battlements is that of Don or “General" Pablo. IVccording to legend and Genalla. Pablo was slain for having a love affair with the daughter of the chief of a tribe of Indians living in southeastern Louisiana. The daughter was betrothed to an Indian brave. Don Pablo, his skull laid bare by the scalping Indians and then

Christen Stratosphere Gondola I fa n 11 1 1 ll j hZZSej 1 ' I i - i &. -C -w I,- ' ns B W S ? R / ! 4k. 4 i 1 I ’ i————.— ■- - ■ ' --■ "*■ Major Kepner Mrs. Tom Berry Captain Steve* This photo shows Captain Albert Stevens, right, and Major Willi® Kepner, left, army flyers, with Mrs. Tom Berry, wife of the goW nor of South Dakota, at the christening ceremony of *’• ■ goiwA| in which the officers hope to pierce the stiat n <phere. Mis. betrl christened the gondola The Explorer. DANCING Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday Night Charlie Ransome and His Radio Artists from WOWO—I ort Wayne FREE FISH FRY FRIDAY NIGHT Beer on Tap LINCO BEER GARDEN Oh Highway 16, one mile east of Decatur.

split by tomahawk blows, n buried near the fort between magnolia trees. The tomb, mane of hrict m cement, is being uncovered sloth And until that is done works cannot be sure that the ekelett is that of the gay Spaniard. Lincoln Picture In Post Ofli* St. I,ouis.-.U.R) Two prints tn i original photographic plates i President Abraham I ..n-,4n arei exhibition at the mam St. Ln i post office.