Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 29 January 1937 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT DECATUR Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter. [ f. H. Heller... - President ,L R. Holthouse, Sec y. & Bus. Mgr. pick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies > -02 One week, by carrier — .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mall .35 Three months, by mall 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. Inc. |ls Lexington Avenue, New York. 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Give to the Red Cross. Renew your subscription by mail to the Daily Democrat —NOW! The groundhog will probably never get out of his hole, especially if he has been wintering along the Ohio. Remember the President’s Birthday Ball tomorrow evening. '-That too is important for the funds will be used to aid unfortunate victims of infantile paralysis. It will probably be sometime before we wish for open winters again. This one has been far worse than those which were more or less uncomfortable from the cold. - The flood has so absorbed the[ interests and the emotions of the people that the strikes and other things which seemed important a week or two ago have dwindled into insignificance. Surely you don’t want your newspaper stopped now with all the important news breaking. If your subscription is due and you receive the paper by mail, be sure to renew at once. This is the off year and you don’t have to worry about an election, but there will be many other problems of importance and interest and much to be done in the program to go forward. I Saturday is Red Crocs day in 1 Decatur, another appeal to further increase the Adams county cash donation for flood sufferers. Girl ' Scouts in Red Cross uniforms will take care of your gifts. < It would help walking consider- 1 aldy if at the first opportunity, we could get the ice off the walks in 1 front of the house. The downtown 1 section is in very good condition ’ but it’s tough “hoofing" along the ' way in. — < Girl Scouts in Red Cross uni- 1 forms will receive any contribution 1 you wish to make tomorrow. They 1 will be located in various places ' of business here and you are ask 1 ed to give whatever you can or 1 feel like donating for the flood 1 sufferers. — , Now comes the check up on the i loss of human lives from the flood i and it grows alarmingly. Thousands now ill as a result of the suffering and privation, cannot re-| cover. It's a terrible disaster, the worst ever recorded in peace CHANGE OF ADDRESS Subscribers are requested to give old and new address when ordering paper changed from one address to another. For example: If you change your address from Decatur R. R. 1 to Decatur R. R. 2, instruct us to change the paper from route one to route two. When changing address to another town, always give present address and new address.

[times in this nation. We must and will help all we cun. Remember the Chamber of Commerce meeting tonight. New dlreci tors will be chosen and a general discussion of what can be done to help Decatur go ahead a few strides. It’s very Important. We have the best town in the middle west and we not only wish to keep I it that, hut even to make It better. I " We who are comfortable in our own homes can scarcely realize the 1 situation in the storm stricken localities where for more than a • week families have been separat- ' ed, where all their household goods and wearing apparel have been lost, where the future looks dark I and drab and for whom hope can I only be restored by our gifts. Forty thousand men with one of the General Motors corporation plants have returned to work, which is encouraging. Hope they keep on going and get over the idea that it is profitable to use force. That doesn’t pay either in war or peace times. Surely we can adjust our business matters without restoring to the ideas of; the dark ages. This county has given liberally I to the Flood Relief fund and it is appreciated by the local officials I of the Red Cross as well as by all j others, including of course those 1 victims of the terrible flood who i are being aided. Now more is asked because with all our efforts, the task is almost beyond what can be done with money. As the waters I recede the expenses will increase) as ruined citizens of that territory [ attempt to retrieve some of the loss. It is our duty to do all we 1 can. Mr. Hoosier, listen to what the commissioner of education up in MaTTie said the other day: "In 48 towns of Maine, school teachers ( have not been paid for periods ranging from three weeks to three 1 years." Aren’t you glad such a thing can't be said about Indiana? The Maine situation probably has no connection with last November’s election returns, but it does suggest that if the stern and rock--1 bound Old Dealers up the New > England coast had been as concerned about their home budgets! as they were about the federal; budget, these teachers somehow [ might have been paid the money [ due them. We here in Indiana | don't realize just how fortunate we [ have been in maintaining our school system through these last' cricial years. — In an hour of trial, you are proud of your friend and President, I, franklin D. Roosevelt. In your! ueart, you know that Franklin D. j Roosevelt is competent to handle! the strike situation. In your heart, 1 you know that he is competent to handle the flood situation. And ■ could you say as much for any other president in the recent history of the country? It is deeply significant that the American people have such tremendous confidence in the ability and resources of the present chief executive of the United States. Such confidence is well placed. Your President and your governor as well are doing everything in their power to alleviate the flood situation in the Ohio river valley. Even considering the problems which they face, the J chances for success on their partare very good. -Fort Wayne Jour-nal-Gazette. o *~fWENTY~YEARS~* AGO TODAY i | From the Daily Democrat File | j • 4 January 29, 1917.—Suffrage bill in Indiana legislature dies in committee but another is offered. Henry Krick buys 240 acres of rice land near Lake Charles, La. Ed Whitright resigns from Conter Ice Cream company to start his own ice line. General Pershing is withdrawing his troops from Mexico. I Dick Miller is a candidate fori ’ the Democratic nomination for mayor of Indianapolis. I. A. Kalver is attending a Ford meeting in Indianapolis.

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———4 Answers To Test | Questions j Below are the answers to the | Test Questions printed on Page Two 1. Hyde Park, N. Y. 2. Robert E. Lee. 3. One. 4. The Grand Canal (Yun ho), which rambles for almost a thousand miles through the, costal plain of China. 5. India. 6. Red stripe for firemen; white ; stripe for seamen. 7. Stitch painter and etcher. 8. Africa and Asia. 9. Eli Whitney. 10. Goldenrod. o Modern Etiquette j By ROBERTA LEE Q. At what age should a child [lie introduced to guests? A. There is no particular age. ■ hut it should be done while the [child is young, so he will possess a natural social ease as he ma- , tures. I Q. When a man calls at a hotel ' to see someone, is it necessary for ; him to present his card to the 'clerk? A. No; his name is sufficient. Q. When traveling on a steamer, to whom should one go to have 4- ♦ TODAY’S COMMON ERROR i Never say, “The wife complained that everything as to | the children's future was un- | settled;” say. “concerning the | children's future.” 4 , .

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 193/.

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any valuables taken care of? I A. The purser. , I Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee t Wet Shoes The principal reason that wet leather shoes become stiff is that ' they have dried too quickly, but; when this happens, cold cream will help wonderfully to remove the I 1 stiffness. Cake Filling A delicious cake filling can be [ made l>y mixing one cup of grated pineapple, one-halt’ cup of pulverized sugar, and one tablespoon of [ lei.Tbn juice. Faded Dress A faded dress can usually lie whitened by boiling it in cream of tartau. water. Mrs- Robert Helm, who has been ( seriously ill for the past month is improving slowly. She is able to ; be up a short time each day.

WORKMEN TOIL TO SAVE MffiO — Thousands Os Workers Strengthen Giant Seawail To Save City I Cairo, IU., Jan. 29—(UP)—Thous- [ ands of men tailing to save their ■ homes from inundation tossed the last shovelfuls of cinders and dirt [ into an emergency bulkhead today [ and waited for the flooded Ohio riv- | er to do its worst. The emergency breastworks will be completed by sundown, engineers ‘ said. After that the-e will be nothing to do but wait for Tie crest of [ the flood which has swept hundreds of persons to death and thousands of homes to destruction. The city has a giant seawall capable of holding the Ohio within its

l bankß Bt 60 feet- The emergency' bulkhead winds along the top.of UU three feet high a cage of timbers filled with dirt and cinder?, The men who built the . I — 1 *

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SYNOPSIS On the train, enroute to> her home in Los Angeles from college, lovely Elizabeth Harmon meets handsome Gerald Bruton young stock broker. At lu»^ eon > Elizabeth compares college to pns on, a hard look creeps into Gerald’s face, and, later, when a man approaches their table and exclaims, “I never expected to « you in this part of the world!, he turns white. At home. Elizabeth s step-father, Colonel James McCarthy. forbids her to go out with Gerald, so she arranges to meet him clandestinely. Over cham- , pagne, at the swanky Miramar. Gerald Tells Elizabeth of his love for her. She is deliriously happy and, gazing at the stars, waxes poetical. Had she looked at Gerald at that instant, she would have seen a queer, strained look on his face. Their tete-a-tete is interrupted by the sudden appearance of two friends of Elizabeth. Nancy and Jasper, who are celebrating their engagement. The four young people elope to Yuma, Arizona, where a double wedding is performed. After the ceremony. Gerald refuses to pose for the news photographers. He and Elizabeth slip out a side door. Gerald is in favor of driving straight through to Tia Juana, but Elizabeth is too tired, so they stop at San Diego where Gerald suggests that she take a jingle room in her own name in order to keep their marriage secret until they cross the border. While Elizabeth is registering, a woman anoroaches Bruton and exclaims. “Why. Gerald. I’d no idea you were in California. Have you brought your wife along? Or *s Mrs. Bruton in Chicago?” CHAPTER VI The room clerk had given Elizabeth her key. From her stiff fingers it clattered to the desk. She picked it up. A wife? Was the woman crazy? A wife in Chicago? Mrs. Bruton? Gerald ? A great wave of faintness swept over her. She reeled. She put out a hand to steady herself and caught at the edge of the desk. The room <-lerk signalled a bellboy to show her to her room, giving him the number. With an effort she summoned her strength to get bcr to the elevator. Inside the car the gates clanged shut. The car shot up. It stopped at the fourth floor. “To the left, miss. Down the passage.” The bellboy stared at the pale, beautiful girl with the strange look on her face. He decided she had been drinking. That would account for it. He unlocked the door with his pass-key, throwing it open. She stepped in quickly, slamming the door in his face, and forgetting even a “thank you." He could hear the key rasp in the lock. He whistled softly. Some party I Inside the cool, quiet room, Elizabeth had just strength enough to get to the bed. She lay across it helplessly. The walls were leaping up and down, the bed shaking violently. She lay there for a few minutes, everything whirling. Then sharp nausea assailed her. Her physical distress was so intense that for a while it blotted out the mental. The paroxysm stopped. She lifted her head, saw her face deathly white in the mirror above the wash-basin. She sat down on the edge of the bath, her head in her two hands. Gradually it began to clear a little. If what the woman said were true , . .? It couldn't be! Gerald would never be such a scoundrel! A still, small voice inside her whispered: “What do you really know about him?” She racked her brains to remember all their talk last night and the previous night. It evaded her. It had been a mad medley of love-mak-Aig to the accompaniment of music, and loads of champagne, and Spring glamour, and moonlight on the ocean. In the plane whirling over the eerie desert that lay whitely below them, Gerald had held her hand, but she could hardly hear what he said to her over the roar of the twin motors. They had drunk champagne in the sky. It had made her mad for him, utterly reckless. Nothing in the world had counted but himself and >er, and the electrifying knowledge they were to be married immediately. She remembered now, with a sickening sinking of the heart, his desire to get away from Yuma, his dread of publicity. Why, he wouldn’t even let her wait to say good-bye to the other couple; nor had he wanted to stop in San Diego, but get right on over the border into Mexico. He had told her to register in her own name in this hotel. Wasn’t that confirming proof ? Bigamy! Scarlet flooded her cheeks. She trembled with shock and horror. Why didn’t Gerald telephone her? Because he knew she had heard. Because he was unable to face her. Had he gone away? Ought she to escape now ? But where on earth to go, with hardly any money in her pocket-book? There must be an explanation! The thing to do was keep one's head .Wait here for Gerald to call her. No one had compelled him to marry her. He must have cared for her Hadn’t his actions, from the moment of their romantic meeting on the train, clearly showed what ho felt for her? A devastating thought struck her. He had realized that she was not the kind who would ever give herself outside of marriage, so- -for the joys of a brief honeymoon- -he had flung a sop to convention, gone through a meaningless ceremony! Her hands clenched. “I hate him!” IThen she broke down. i The storm of tears spent, she went over to the bum to Ke t a g i aas 0 , ice watec.

rZZka a? the Ohio inched it* way up the ouhdde wall were confident it> would thrust back the worst the and children huve been taken outof.

The mirror gave back • Kjotesque picture of herself, tear-stained and appallingly grimy. The thing to do was take a bath. She would feel better then, be able to come to some decision, perhaps. The warm water relaxed her tired bodv She lay there, almost comatose, her thoughts in suspension. Someone had left a box of on the window ledge. She dusted herself with the fragrant powder. A heavy bathrobe of Turkish towelling was on the towel rack, one slipped it on. .. x u She splashed eold water on her face till her eheeks glowed. Then she applied powder and lipstick. The deep shadows round her eyes that had come from fatigue and anxiety gave depth to her beauty. She started in alarm and her breath caught in her throat as someone rapped sharply on the door of

ai 4H i . I * ' i I / ■ fcrWk \ ' I 6 I Closing and locking the door behind him, Gerald made two towards Elizabeth and gathered her in his arms. M

the bedroom. i “Elizabeth. It’s I—Gerald. Open. ; I want to speak to you.” She put a hand to her rapidly : beating heart, hesitating. i The peremptory summons came ; again. Other people would hear him. i If she wouldn’t open, there would be 1 a scandal in the hotel, Reluctantly, i and trembling as she held the bath- : robe tightly about her slender body, she unlocked the door to him. , The vision that Gerald Bruton saw , was so breath-takingly lovely that , it went to his head like wine. Clos- . ing and locking the door behind him, he made two strides towards Eliza- . beth and gathered her in his arms, , bathrobe and all, kissing her pas- : sionately, straining her to him. With all her strength she tried to throw him off, but she was powerless. “Don’t! Oh. don’t!" she half sobbed. He only strained her closer, his hungry kisses raining on her throat. With a violent wu-ench she freed herself, staggering back against the wall. “You dare to touch me!” she choked, dragging the robe about her, “You dare to come here!” There was horror in her yes. As he saw that look, passion subsided. “Good lord! Aren't you my wife ? What do you think I’m made of, Elizabeth?” “Your wife? Why, you’re married already! Don’t you think I heard what that woman in the lobby just said to you?” She laughed shrilly, hysterically. “Elizabeth, be silent! I tell you you’re mistaken. I’m married to no one but you. I have no other wife.” “But I heard her. A wife in Chicago, she said plainly. Don’t lie to me, Gerald.” “I’m not lying, Elizabeth. I’m going to explain. For the Lord’s sake, don’t make a scene and have the whole hotel about our ears. Come, sit here with me.” He tried to draw her towards him, but she shook him off as though his very touch were loathsome. “Go on. Say what you have to say. I’ll stand here.” 1 The expression on his face was i grim. He had thought her soft and yielding. Never guessed she could be such a termagent. He said slowly; “It’s really very simple. I have been married. I’m divorced now. You’re legally my s wife, Elizabeth.” , Her eyes never left his face, but he saw the horror gradually fade ’ lessert™ and the look ° f strain ; "F ’^ at r . cal! y is true - wi, y didn’t ’ y°“ tell me? Why did you leave me 7 to nnu it out from strangers?” “Because I happened to fall in ! love with you, and- -fool that I was 1 —I was afraid of the effect it might ; hav e on a young girl ignorant of the J world. Don t you know that love r makes cowards of the best of us. e Elizabeth? His voice had a coax- » ; r ‘^ atiatin K quality. His eyes had that warm, magnetic look in them she had first seen on the train »it «w ng h !? a f iv , anta Ke- he pressed f F d r n \ believe me. I’ll take f J ° u , t o, Mrs - St. Ives’ sitting room—rt 8 1 ‘ik Won ? ari w ho spoke to me in e wit 7 ' , al ? hou Kh I didn’t know e youd heard her—.and she’ll repeat ’’ divorce" jUSt Uld her ab ° U '' tny . o “But how am 1 to know it’s true ? it How am I to know you weren’t deh.°r k as 7 €il ,s me ? Since you I kept that back, posing u a bacho-

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lor. how am 1 Chv, ..... W Gently he t.., 4 hpr h fore we went on the p lan " M JW member I sen- am, . ■ hotel with mor., ■ • ... instructions to I, ■ a ’ ba ’«■ The bag yo,> U(lk , 0 y • brought here?" -MiM He nodded. "I checks it (,■ men s room ii - papers are tn :t. I see them for y ■■ She broke do . n l|,. ■ bing girl into I arn „ time without ,t 'or V. r . elder brother or f .i,. r e “You’re all on edge. [Jm bed. darling, and k t n- e up-” ■ “You’ll come back fnrmencij than six o’clock, ~-a ; c y He promised. H The room was dark and it ;e J

as though she years when she wa-i ar : peremptory rapping. There something in the l.c.r-h. quality of those krunks that Elizabeth spring from her bee mH affright, switch ci light. then stand heipl, :.-at‘kH door-knob which - i mg, though the <: '■ “Use your pass-k<-y, ' stentorian voice bo t 1 the grinding of the k' y in the ISM the door opened, r- •-eaur.g ttflM strange men. H “Where is he?” snapped onejß them, glaring at E!' ‘ peered about the b< m third strode into the i•ir •m- ■ “Where’s who? What do mean?” she falter,.; ""nB you? What do you want here. M “We’re from the district ney’s office. We want ..-rauiMJ ton.” The first man produced a per from his pocket. "A he’s given us. Here'-; a warrail' his arrest.” . . J Elizabeth Bruton stared at J detective, her face as ten. They had come here lor beq* They were going to , cause he had eloped " l . , Ju minor? He was to be punished cause she had deceived nn making a terrible take.” Her own voice soundea® away, like that of a trand l n, put out a hand to steady hcaught at the back of a chair. “Don’t play the innocent “V sister. You know what I me ■ - Had Gerald married her »«»■ already had a legal "“e>• ... divorce a lie? Would they b - . to go to jail together on a cha M bl T*he y detective tapped in his hand. He sniffed, know darn well he’s wanted W defrauding innocent in'e •* 'Frisco, and Chicago want r. the same count too. «■ —, hiding, sister? Come on. across.” , i; _. rfi She moistened her dry the tip of her tongue, She was choking. . ... n 4 “He’ll be here any minute. B explain. It’s all a mistake. y °“Yeah? The same rated him a two-year strew New York?” the bd She sank helplessly on i her face hidden in her ha i shudders shaking her. i The men from the district ney’s office were unmoved. . had witnessed too many ■ i this sort to be anything c ..]li< tical about them She " a ‘ '’ K t. i to gain time. P uttin ?. on tim e Ttl i “Second offence this t . be a long streten, and m- ■ ics won’t help any. i She lifted a face so dtmwn , tortured to the speaker tn. • touch of pity sounded m i as he answered her stamm ■ ■ ■ ~ 1 tion: “You mean, he s t>« . prison?” , ■ fe» 1 “Sure. Only out of the peti * months, and up to his i - again.” „ , , h . i She was stunned. But . r as clearly as if a great t tain had been suddenly s' r revealing her situation m ' ness and cruelty, that what the ! said was true. . So many things tauiod--1 (To Be 'Continued) ” OwrlsM. till. KIM