Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1934 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published MUA THE Every Eve- DECATLR ling Except Jgl. DEMOCRAT Bunday by F CO entered at the Decatur, Ind., Poet Office a* Second Class Matter I. H. Heller President A. R. Holthouue, Sec'y & Bus. Mgr Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Ratea: Single copies 3 .02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier 36.00 One month, by mall .35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mai11.75 One year, by mail3.oo One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones Elsewhere 3.3.50 one yea< Advertising Rates mad® kuown on application National Adver Representative SCHEERER, Inc. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive. Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies Come on, lets make the Good Fellow fund reach the S3OO mark by tomorrow night. If any one knows whom Dillinger > paid for his escape from the Lake county jail, he ought to step un and tell it for it seems to be worrying a lot of folks. President Roosevelt ought to get in touch with the fellow who has invented gas that will put an entire army Io sleep. He might want to use th* stuff when congress gets , obstreperous. — Huey Long is going to bully his l way alon£ until he finally gives the' federal government a good hold on him and Then he will be through, washed up and settled for a long I time to (-wine. The proposal that the NRA be i continued, on a voluntary basis is [ • fine exeegt that it doesn't seem to I take the unfair competitor! and after ail he is the one that 1 needs looking after. While a lot of folks are guessing J > on Roosefelt's plans when congress I convenes," no one knows and the j best of it- is they are not going to j until the President gets ready to. tell them. He is a wise executive,! knows wljat the country needs and how to get it for them. The average person will not like j dole, even though he may have to take it temporarily to get along or , to take care of his family. The American" who wishes to accept. charity, isn't a very good citizen, provided lie is in good health and i can get along any other way. Mayor Bangs of Huntington is seriously considering the employ-! ment of a city manager, but he will i probably see that the contract does ! not interfere with his rights. We are told that the mayor-elect is a man who has opinions and believes in his rights to exercise them. | The mob that tried to hang a | negro charged with assaulting ai girl at Shelbyville, Tennessee. didn't perform much of a benefit for that community. Guardsmen shot and killed three and wounded several others of the mob. Then the court house was burned and

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much other damage done. It is tar better to let the law take its course than for a mob to riot. It's Christmas season and the snow adds to the appearance of this gay period. Give to those who need. provide for the kiddies, catch the Yuletide spirit and enjoy yourself Every one seems happier this year than for some time, there are smiles again and it looks like happy days. Edwin Moser did a brave act when he rescued two women from drowning and while the medal he received for thus risking his own life, was fine, the check for S9OO from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. is more substantial and will make Christmas a really merry one for Mr. Moser and his family. We are all happy for him. Mrs. Saunders may hate felt she had the right to have her husband put out of the way and her evidence indicated that she would I have been justified in taking her' affairs to a court of justice, but to release one who admits connection with cold blooded murder is also a serious matter in these days when we seem to be prone to pay little I attention to law and order. The new city officials, with Arthur R. Holthouse as mayor, will take over the city reins at noon on January Ist and plans for continuing the progress of Decatur as promised during the campaign are now being completed. Mayor-elect Holthouse has made his appoint- , ments and will make every effort I to give a good account of the trust I placed in his hands. Knowing him I 'as we do, we are sure he will do j 1 that to your entire satisfaction. Messrs. Yager and Kramer are making an extra effort to hurry I I along the liquidation of the Old I Adams County Bank and in doing ■ that are deserving of the cooper- ] | atiuu of every one. The sooner > ItliiS job and the de- 1 I positors paid, the better it will be I for every one in this community, 1 llf you are indebted to the bank, 1 you should make your best efforts f |to meet? the obligation, so the bank , ' can meet theirs. If you don t owe. i I perhaps you can assist some friend i who does. — — ■ ~,-n

♦ ♦ STAR SIGNALS , By OCTAVINE For parsons win believe that liu- . I nan destiny is guided by the planets he daily horoscope is outlined by a ( i noted astrologer. In addition to ini formation of general interest, it outI lines information of special interest ] ; to persons born on the designated dates. ( DECEMBER 22 It is more important that you be i 1 in your own home or place of business today, than to hunt for something outside. The day favors cooking, baking and dealing with tood and liquids. The early morflI ing is the best and most important i time. Birthdate You should experience a constructive and conservative period from Feb. 7 through 24. 1935. You should gain in an unexpected way .from Nov. 5 through 14. 1935. I Danger Oct. 27 through 30, 1935. I Socially favorable from July 7 I through 9, 1935. Write letters or do clerical work ■on Dec. 25 and 26. 1934. Readers desiring addition information regarding their horoscopes r» invited to communicate with octavine in care of this newspaper, hn- | ■. i 3-cent stamped self-addresses envelope. — 0 ■ "■ i_V CHAWS' BY CHARLEY OftANT Seems like these days one meets a crook at every turn. Yep. love makes an old man wise and a young one foolish. fA l( ;r,e cl<aps who TAKE their lime GIVE their best. Many a romance is spiked before th’ feller is pinned. Yas sail, L. J 11. Sonic gals are both rugged and ragged. A really good atllltor is usually all WRITE NOTICE I will be out of my office from . Monday noon. December 24 until Wednesday noon. December 26. I 3UI-3tx Dr. Floyd Grandslaft.

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♦— • Household Scrapbook | | -by- | i I ROBERTA LEE J Dried Glue When the glue lias dried in the bottle or can. pour a little vinegar over it and it will be restored. Vegetables The water in which vegetables have been cooked is excellent for making gravies, soups, meat sauce, or gelatin salads. Cake Icing A good substitute for boiled icing if in a hurry, and the cake is to be served immediately, is to betit the whites of 2 eggs until stiff; beat in 2-3-cup of sugar very thoroughly; add 2 tablespoonfulls of melted butter. • twenty years AGO TODAY | From the Dally Democrat File Dec. 31 —Christmas itfay see the I bloddiest battle in history in Flanders and Alsace. Hundreds are j, ining the Christ- : mas saving clubs. City mail carriers using sleds to carry heavy sacks arriving hourly.; Apple exporters worried over next year crops for there is no long-

Peace Near in War-Torn Gran Chaco Region? af La Paz, capita! c-f Bolivia. 4"St, j! frsy . fl WWtwPWiKc A vA Dr Daniel Salamanca Squad ot Bolivian calvarymen in Gran Chaco. •

Peace is believed near in the prolonged dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran I Chaco in the heart of Soutli America. Observer* | saw an end to the six-year war as a result of the action of Acting President Jose Luu Tejada !

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1931.

Why Does Santa Claus Come Down The Chimney? What does the name ChrGtmas mean? When uas tin- first English Christmas celebrated? Who is St. Nicholas? Why is the Christmas tree’ Why do we give gifts on Christmas? Why do we hang up Btockings? Why do we use holly and mistletoe? What Is a yule log? Who .started sending Christmas cards? Where are firecrackers used on Christmas day? Where did the custom of singing Christmas carols start? Our Washington Bureau has a bulletin on CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS that tel'.-, about these and many other observances connected with Christmuct. You will find it full of interest at this Holiday Season. Fill out the couiHin la-low and send for it: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 316. Washington Bureau, DAILY DEMOCRAT, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington. D. C. 1 want a copy of the bulletin CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS, and enclose herewith five cents iu coin (carefully wrapped), or loose, uncancelled U. S. postage stumps, for return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET & No ... CITY . ... STATE 1 am a reader of the Decatur Daily Democrat, Decatur, Ind.

I era foreign nrrrket so rthis fruit. j Cue to war and shipping facilities. I Keiss of North 11th street. Son born to Mr. and Mrs. Joo Shortest day of year and the start of real winter. Robert. Peterson and Dan Tyndall home from Indiana University. Miss Winifred Ellingham. who

has has been attending school at Washington. D. C. here for visit. I’eoph's Loan and Trust Com'prny •announces a Thrift Christmas club. Miss Vic Stone goes to Chicago for a visit. Get th* Habit — Trad* «t Mom*

Sorzano of Bolivia in announcing that Bolivia was ready to accept the League of Nations' plan for peace. Sorrano assumed the presidency upon the resignation of President Daniel Salamanca, who I was forced put by army officers.

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CHAPIER XXXIII Spike and Kelly ran down the plank and jumped into the big car. As they roared away, Spike gave Kay a feeble wave. Kay tried to sit still and wait, but it was no use. She rose and paced the deck, five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes, half an hour. Finally she heard a car draw up at the dock and ran down to meet it. Spike came out first, flushed and sweaty, then Kelly. Kay was holding her breath. To her relief Earl Harrow stepped out, smiling, and came forward. “Thanks, Kay,” he said simply, ; pressing her two hands. “If these | tramps had the brains you have—and if I had them—l might get i along better.” ' Spike and Kelly stood aside I sheepishly. “What happened?” Kay asked. j “Your hunch was right. If the bridge hadn't been up to let a freight boat through just when I left Spike and Kelly never would have caught up with us. It was a plant all right. When the boys drew up, the chauffeur tried to step on it and I caught on at once. I ordered him to stop and he stopped. Before I could grab him he was out of the car and heading through the brush. We chased him until we lost him and that was that.” They went aboard the boat. Har- ; row ordered Scotch for himself and Spike, coffee for Kay. Sitting across from her. he seemed to be studying ! seme abstract problem to be found 'in her eyes. There was a faint amile on his lips. i “We found Ida’s garage had been broken into. The car had been I ‘borrowed,’ ”he said. “I don’t know where Ida is. Out of town a day or two probably.” “Then you don’t think—” “That she had anything to do with it?” He looked deep into his glass as if it were a crystal globe. ‘I don't think anything.” he said. “I used to think things. Now I wait and find them out.” “Kay,” he said. “You probably t saved my neck tonight, with your hunch.” Spike approached them. “This intellectual giant didn't ’ have a brain cell working,” Harrow said. j “I’ll admit it, Earl. You can call me anything yon like, kick me anywhere you want.” “Spfke didn't have a chance,” Kay i protested. “No one could have sus- • pected anything." “But you did,” Harrow replied. “I don't g know — mine wasn’t brains; just a hunch.” “Earl.” Spike said, clearing his throat, “you ought to feel mighty grateful to little sister here,” “I quite naturally do.” “You've been talking for a long time about wanting to do something for her. Well, I’m not asking you anything about angles ami I’m not begging anybody’s pardon, but if I were in your place I’d give the kid a real break. And if this be trea-son-well—” and Spike grinned defiantly and shrugged his prizefighter’s shoulders. Harrow turned to Kay. “All of which is true,” he admitted. “But there’s more than meets the eye. Spike has had your interests at heart a long time— ’’ “Aw—” “Never mind. Spike. It’s all right, you know. We know your altruistic spirit. But Spike has a bee in his bonnet. I can tell. He knows we’re leaving here at once and he wants to let it out so we can hear it buzz.” “Well, I have got a little scheme I want to discuss with you, Earl.” “You see?” Harrow said with a graceful gesture of his hand to Kay. What the bee wa= Kay didn’t learn that night. The two men drove her home, Kelly riding in the rear seat, and at her door Harrowsaid, “Spike’s right, you know, Kay. I’ll want to talk to you tomorrow.” Sleep was hard to win that night after so much excitement, but finally it was morning and Kay awoke not especially refreshed but >ager for w-hat this new day might have to offer in the way of surprises. First she decided to call the hospital to inquire about Pete. “He’s no longer here,” the girl at the desk said. “No longer there! He must be.” "No, I’m sorry. He left yesterday afternoon.” The girl lowered her voice. “He shouldn’t have. It was against orders.” Kay let the receiver fall duliy onto the hook. What, then, did this mean? Pete out of the hospital against orders, the night another attempt had been made to attack or abduct Harrow. Vsawr maw •wmvwv VVU4M *MM VyV* WV

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Peto'o to see if he had gone to his , home from the hospital Earl Harrow called with Spike. Both the i men seemed secretly amused. Spike stepped out of the car to make room for Kay and grinned as he greeted i her. “Something's up,” she said. “You bet,” Spike admitted. “Wait until we get over to the boat,” Harrow suggested. They drove over to the yacht and sat on the deck to sip cold drinks. Harrow turned to Spike. “Maybe you’d better explain it,” he suggested, “in your own inimitable way.” Spike settled back with an air of importance. “Suits me,” he said. “All right, Kay. The boss and 1 have agreed on several things we weren’t seeing eye-to-eye on before. One is. that staying here any longer is out.” Spike paused and looked at Harrow. Harrow nodded. “Anothing thing is that there’s no use keeping this hoodlum business dark any longer.” Harrow nodded again. “Better let me explain that,” he suggested. “Okay.” “Well, I doubt very much if the situation has been such a great mystery to you, Kay. Last season in New York the racketeers tried to work me along with a lot of other producers and theater owners. I wouldn’t work. It was as simple as that. They warned me. I warned them. They tried intimidating my ' help. I tried intimidating their help. They tried to scare me bymaking a fake attempt to rub me out, as they’d put it in their charming argot. Well. I think I can safely say I scared a couple of them a little myself. e Am I right. Spike?” Spike grinned and nodded vigorously. “And how you’re right.” “In other words, we reached a deadlock. So they began using those quaint little devices the newspapers call stench bombs. I had a bit of trouble with that in my theaters, but I managed to beat them at that game, too. Then they tossed a bomb through the ticket office window of one of my theaters early one morning. Os course, that brought the affair into the newspapers, and it made me resort to some rather unusual measures." Spike was chuckling reminiscently. “Well, the battle grew warmer,” Harrow continued, his lean facetan now, no longer pale—displaying a sly amusement. “We had a lot of fun. The papers had something to say about that, too. They tried to kidnap me, you know.” “I read about it,” Kay said. “I guess a lot of people did. The result was, anyway, that they began to let me alone and their rackets never entered my theaters. Os course, from then cn I had to watch myself a bit.” “I’ll say we did,” Spike added. It was that as much as anything else—though, I’ll admit there were other elements—that made me decide to get away from everything for a while this fall in order to be fit for the opening of the coming reuson. I came down along the r londa coast expecting only a little fishing, a good, rest and liberal doses of sunshine, and—well, you see what I’ve found.” He shrugged gracefully and “I was having quite an enjoyable 1 ’lay here—strange chance, you v 0W ’ thal ,n ade me put in during that storm-—when very suddenly things began to happen. You remember that day in St. Augus- • tine?” Kay nodded. 1 r a PP ens that we were being • followed and I had the good fortuneto recognize the fellow. Merest luck, you know. But I did recognize i him and I knew at once what was i coming. I got in touch with a pri- ' detective agency, I had Kelly and Wagner imported bv plane and 1 put myself on guard. Spike . here—” And he gestured with humorous • deprecation toward his little right- ; hand man. “Oh, sure,” Spike muttered. • Spike here was all for moving I on and getting out of Daytona Beach and on down into the keys ; and over to Havana, to keep away from such dangers—and others.” Kay had to smite; she knew well ■ enough what the other dangers I were. ; “But, I, on the other hand, hadn’t made up my mind to leave Daytona y p t and one of my great i faults, so Spike informs me, is stubI bornnesz. What is it you say, opike. You don t know when to : cover and take ’em on the top of Spike still has away > Oi tuiagiulf now and then in term’s

of his late profession. Well, p 2r . I haps he’s right. He frequently is, I In this ease, of course, I wan stub- I born. For one thing, I wanted to 1 mop those fellows up and discour- I age them from hounding me around I the country. If I hadn’t taken that I attitude, it would have been an ad- I mission that they had me running. I What I suspected and still do n I that they came down here to kidnap I me and try to shake me down that I way. I doubt if they wanted to ‘rub | me out.’ I wouldn't be worth much I to them that way. I “At first I didn’t think you might ] be exposed to the same danger. My I only fear was that we might be to- I getner, unguarded, when they made j one of their attempts to do the trick. j But when you told me there was a | prowler at your house I saw at once I that I had let you in for something. I Then, that night, when the hoodlum | stepped out of the bushes I was thoroughly convinced. That's why I may have seemed severe in my attitude toward your Mr. Pete Ryan. I knew very little of him except that he disliked having you associate with me and that there seemed no legitimate reason for his being back in town at just that time. At any rate, I was not going to allow myself to be bothered by him, so I acted toward him as I did. Perhapz I was wrong. I don't know.” „ Kay flinched inwardly. She ironde red what Earl Harrow would think if he knew that Pete had left the hospital mysteriously and had been somewhere loose in the town at the time of the attempted attack in Ida Campbell’s car. “Y'our quick-thinking saved me a lot of grief,” Harrow continued. “They evidently stole Ida's car and tried to nab me last night as a last desperate measure, knowing that I really had made up my mind to sail atsi there might not be another chance. I don’t have to tell you that I was grateful, Kay. I've been grateful all along for your tolerance of my little idiosyncrai I think you know that. Well—this is where Spike comes in.” Harrow turned to Spike and Kay looked at the squatty man expectantly. “Well,” Spike said, “that's th® dope. So what I tell Earl is that here’s a chance to kill a lot of birds with one stone and pull off something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. If New York racketeers follow Earl Harrow to Florida and try to kidnap him, what’s that? I’ll tell you: news, big news! But Earl didn’t see it that way. The less said about it the less other hoods might think about the same idea and the less emphasis there’d be on the snateh racket anyway. You see how he had it figured? Well, you never know, and I kept harping on it to him. what swell publicity it would make. “And then I got another idea. You remember the day we went out fishing and you hauled the Campbell out of the ocean?” Kay nodded, smiling at Spike’s earnestness. “It hit me then, like a ton of brick. When I saw you drag her out and everything, and you ]•■ >king like a million in your scanties, what did I think? I'll tell you: Wow, what a photo! Sea-going Florida beauty rescues wealthy divorcee from sharks while on fishing trip with Earl Harrow, the famous producer. Get it? But Earl says no—it'd be cheap publicity. He’s funny like that, I tell you. You don’t know the trouble I have with him,” Spike said, glaring with mock indignation at his suave employer. “Anyway, I kept all that in my mind. And when Earl finally cot the idea last night that he wanted to do something big for you, I sprung it on him all at once. H r re was his chance. He’d been talking all along about wishing he could help you without being too obvious —another at his notions. So, I said, why not make a ten-strike’ Cash in on the racketeers, help Kay and help yourself all at once.” Kay looked in embarrassed bewilderment from Spike to Harrow. Spike plunged on, though: “I said, Kay’z a bug on boats and can swim like a seal. All right, make it lonk like the racketeers have messed up your boat, have Kay pull a rescue stunt in her launch, and have you discover she s just the girl you’re looking for to play the lead in a salt water opry a playwright’s been trying to push rn'o you for a long time. There is * bird, you know, that’s been wanting Earl to produce a show with the heroine a sea-going dame up on the Newfoundland coast. Toss in a few palm trees and it could be Florida. Get it?” Kay couldn’t find her voice. (To Be Continued) CoonUht i«U. Ktr: FMtara* SndietU. Im.