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t Test Your Knowledge i can you answer eeven of these ten questions? Turn to page Four for the answers. 1. Where did Solomon erect the Temple? 2. Can an invention be said while a patent is pending? 3. Name the British Ambassador to Germany. 4. Who won the 1937 National Amateur golf championship? i. What is the chief constituent of coal? 6. Name the principal river of Nebraska. 7. Where is the Assuan Dam? 8. Name the capital of Sicily. ». What is the name for male fish

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In breeding time? 10. Name the moat abundant of all metallic elements. ——o TRAINS COLLIDE, (CONTINUED FROM FaOE ONE) rescuers cut through the twisted steel plates and girders of the mail car. "They were still cutting into the cars hunting for a third clerk when I left," he said. Death List Los Angeles. Sept. 20—<U.R) — Casualties in the Southern Pacific railroad train wreck: C. E. Morton, engineer of the Californian. Robert N. Richardson, engineer of the Argonaut. H. R. Parsons, fireman of the

Argonaut. Mrs. C. A. Hall. Luma Linda. Calif. Mrs. Emma Hall. Loma Linds. Calif. Unidentified woman. Unidentified man. Injured To Hospital Yuma. Aris.. Sept. 20—<U.R>Thirty Injured passengers from the Southern Pacific westbound train, the Argonaut, which collided with the east bound Californian near Niland, were brought to the Yuma general hospital today. Names of the injured were not available. Eight of the injured were in such serious condition they were

V'THE MANDARIN HOUSE MURDERS" I * by

CHAPTER XVII In another room of the same building Sir Guy Huntingden was more calmly but more acidly giving vent to similar sentiments. “Have you gone clean out of your head? ’Pon my word, Major, only a fatuous greenhorn would have even considered North’s absurd proposition. I know he has a remarkable record and all that, but it was up to you to recognise his mistake and turn it to our advantage.” “Sorry, sir, North’s generally steady as a rock. I was sure he’d lead me to Spurr. Once we have Spurr we'll soon locate Adams.” “Dammit, man, you’d no right to listen to him. Do you recall that the Foreign Office expects us to produce Adams today?” “We may yet, sir,” was Kilgcur’s lame reply. “Don’t forget that Spurr did call the Palace and got the message from Marya Gallian.” “What if the scoundrel did? No doubt she was giving him warning —they're birds of a feather, after all. I’m afraid, Major, you’ve committed a frightful, irretrievable blunder; which is a shame after your excellent record.” By half-past six even Hugh North was prepared to admit his defeat, and he looked so quietly wretched that Kilgour went over to lay a hand on his shoulder. “They’ll have our official heads, of course. Rotten shame—” The telephone suddenly shrilled and once they had caught up duplicate receivers they heard a low, quivering voice say,

“We’re at the Soochow Inn. Couldn’t get away 'til now. You’ll have to hurry—we’re leaving almost any minute.” Neither man lingered, but dropped the receivers and took the stairs three at a time. On the sidewalk North paused an instant to sail, “Be careful—the Soochow's a bad spot in a worse neighborhood." “We will be.” Then in his turn the British agent hesitated. “I say, Hugh, did you notice how her voice quivered? She may have been forced to 'phone. You don’t suppose this is a trap?” “It’s possible,” North called over his shoulder. “We'll see when we get there.” Like fleet juggernauts the police cars tore through streets on which strollers in evening clothes were already appearing. Rickshaw coolies screamed in terror, outraged Sikh police roared futile commands, porters ducked and squealed and more than one barrow coolie narrowly missed annihilation. “May Kwan-yin preserve this wretched ant,” gasped Chao Ku who, riding beside North, had shut his eyes and was clinging to the taprobe rail with both pudgy hands. Ten minutes could not have passed before the police halted at the mouth of Wehei Lane, unaware that half a block behind them an inconspicious taxi, operated by the Arrow-like-Speed company, also had stopped. Cautiously, its Chinese driver was craning his neck at the huge touring cars and their hurrying passengers.

“Sappose you take the front. Kilgour,” North suggested “We'll cover the rear.”

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carried bu stretchers to the hospital, three miles from the station. The others were placed In an ambulance and in delivery trucks and private automobiles Most of them wore cut and bruised Railroad officials said the less seriously injured passengers from the Argonaut would be taken to Los Angeles on a relief train this afternoon. Dairymen Meet At Monroe Wednesday G. A. Williams, dairy extension specialist of Purdue University, will meet with the members of the dairy herd improvement association and other interested dairy-

Though the rest of North's men quickly took up strategic positions commanding nearby courtyards and alleys. Inspector Chao Ku lingered near the police car and when everyone was out of sight he waddled from the dingy environs of Soochow Inn towards the Arrow-like-Speed vehicle. Meanwhile Captain North was giving his subordinates a final admonition. “Under no conditions shoot unless in self-defense—we’ve got to take Colonel Spurr and the others alive. Thorvaldsen!” North beckoned one of the few Americans on the S. M. P. force. “You’ll go in with me." Sundry pigs and chickens expressed surprise and resentment when they beheld strangers tramping through their squalid domain in the rear of the Inn, and a quartet of chow dogs—in she process of being fattened for table—flew snarling at the invaders, but Thorvaldsen’s sturdy boots sent them howling to cover behind a row of delapidated sedan chairs. "Watch the outer courts,” North warned the detectives on either flank. “We're going in now.” Over cobblestones slippery with the slime of years. North and his companion bore down on the steam clouded back door.

"There goes Kilgour’s crowd,” Thorvaldsen muttered when a shrill jazz band suddenly stopped playing. Somewhere a table crashed and startled voices could be heard. Then from the Inn’s back door erupted a small torrent of Chinamen; scullions, waiters, cooks and guests alike sped into the back court. Standing to each side of the exit, North and his assistant surveyed the fugitives but made no effort to check their flight More of the Inn’s staff, chattering "with fear, came bounding out of the back door like rabbits from a warren invaded by ferrets, but there was no sign of Marya Gallian and her companions. “Let's go!” North waved on his companion. "Keep your eyes skinned for Kurt and the girl. I’ll watch for Spurr.” The smell of steam and the pungent reek of curry, ginger and a dozen other spices beat in North’s nostrils when he and Thorvaldsen passed through the grimy kitchen in order to block a pair of doors leading to the front of the Inn. Four or five white ducks added a ludicrous note by fluttering wildly about the kitchen and an enormous battle scarred cat bristled when the door in front of Thorvaldsen flew open and a sing-song girl pattered out, the bright kingfisher plumes in her hair quivering with terror. Everywhere sounded the thud of hurrying feet and the noise of doors being hastily slammed, but Kilgour’s voice successfully penetrated the uproar. “Stay where you are, everybody!” “What-ya mean, stay?” There followed the unmistakable crash of a table being violently overturned. Then a shot preluded the sound of feet racing towards the kitchen. Thorvaldsen snatched out a .38 and tensed himself. “If that’s Spurr,” North called, "remember, don’t shoot! I want—” He go* no further, for, like a bolt of 1 destruction, Wang's Chief of Artil- ! inry plunged through the door, an i automatic bl'ieVlc-k in hl* hand. “Gangway, flntfoot!" No sooner

men at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday, at the Monros high school. The main business of the evening will be the making of plans for reorganizing the association. The new year of the association begins October 1. This will include the election of officers. After a brief talk by Mr. Williams, a surprise feature will be Introduced which will be novel and entertaining. Each person attending is urged to bring a pencil. Oo La La! What a Bal»e<! DANIELLE DARRIM X 500 Sheets 8 Wxll Yellow Second Sheets, 35c. Decatur Democrat Company. »i

had he glimpsed Thorvaldsen thaw he fired from the hip and charged on through the kitchen, the white duck? scattering in terror before him. Instinctively North threw hit sights on that broad green back just at that point where the Sam Browne belt bisected it, but somehow his bul let instead went thudding into the kitchen’s flyblown ceiling. It severed an enormous string of driec onions, and amid a veritable rain ol vegetables North ran over to Thorvaldsen. “How bad?" “Through the shoulder. I'm okay.* North sprang up, conscious that Kilgour and his men were advancing down the corridor from the dining room. Sing-song girls fleeing from the Inn’s upper floors wen blocking the rear exit, but North ploughed his way through them, al' the while shouting commands for Spurr to halt. Then his hear! stopped; in one of the outer court! two reports had sounded in rapic succession. “Wonder if some of the crows shot him?” Biting the inside of hit mouth with anxiety, North ran or until, gaining the kitchen courtyard he glimpsed Spurr’s green clad fig ure dashing out of a gate at its far end. "Where did he go?” “Which way?” “Seen him, Thorne?” “Yes went that way.” "No! I tell you he’s hiding in the right hand court.' “He shot down Thorvaldsen!” "He's winged. See the blood?” “This way, men!” Promptly the pursuers scattered, urged on by Kilgour and North. The latter, however, pursued his search so diligently that before long the Soochow Inn lay several blocks behind.

It was a slightly flushed but entirely calm American gentleman who presently entered a dusty little drugstore operated by one Miguel Calvaho, a ginger colored Portuguese. Nodding, the newcomer sought an archaic telephone, put in a cal! for the American Club and spoke a few sentences in a voice so low that not even Senor Caivaho's sharp ears could distinguish what he said. This done, the American purchased some cigarettes and seated himself. Despite the robust odors of an imminent Portuguese supper, the American gentleman lingered to smoke and watch rusty hands crawl painfully on and on past minutes dividing the face of a dingy tin clock extolling groceries sold by a Mr. Mei Lan-pao. Somebody’s Number One boy came in to purchase a package of corn plasters, then a withered old Chinese scuffed up to the counter in search of a paper of ground tiger’s bones. His headache was very bad, he complained. The American had finished his seventh cigarette before the ancient nickeled apparatus at his elbow emitted a neurotic ring. Despite his long wait, he raised the receiver quite deliberately and murmured a number into the mouth piece. “Hot-blooded Colonel refuging in number 12 Kowloon Street. This insignificant person surveys front while chauffeur nephew observes rear.” (To Be Continued) CapyrlyM by p "fr.-k MtiM, Dfa<rlbut»4 by K'.ng /wturM Rmdlrtt*. Tne

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Berkeley Cal. —(UP) —Miss Hazel Niehaus is not such an ardent advocate of team work as formerly. She was walking down the street when two fox terriers dashed out from a yard as it by a prearranged plan and with perfect timing nipped her on each leg simultaneously. The dogs were simultaneously impounded for observation. 500 Sheets BVixll, 20-lb., White Automatic Mimeograph Bond, nealy wrapped $1.05. This paper is free of lint and sized for pen and ink. Decatur Democrat Company. ts NOTICE This Mutual Fire Insurance Company of French Township. Adams County, Ind., will hold their annual business meeting at their usual place of meeting in the Election School House, District No. 3 in French Township. Adams County, Ind., on Saturday. October 1, 1938, at 10 o’clock A. M. Martin Moeschbergcr, Secretary. JR. C. V. CONNELL Veterinarian Office & Residence 430 No. Fifth st Phone 102. N. A. BIXLER OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined - Glasses Fitted HOURS 8:30 to 11:30 12:30 to 5:00 Saturdays. 8:00 p. m. Telephone 135.

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PLEASANT MILLS Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Maun spent Friday in Fort Wayne. Betty Clark was a Sunday dinner guest at the home of Geraldine Ray. Virgil Neuenschwander visited his family in Medina. Ohio, over the week-end. Harry Mauley and sou Donald were Sunday dinner guests with the William Noll family. Mr. and Mrs. Wade Me Barnes of near Preble visited Sunday afternoon with Lydia Mcßarues. Thelma Ray of Fort Wayne spent tiie week-end with her parents and family. Mr. and Mrs Harry Ray. Rev. Emery Smith of Macy spent Monday afternoon with the Glenn Mann family. J. Franklin Halberstadt has returned home from Colon, Mich., where he has been visiting his grand father’s family, F. P. Halberstadt. Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Riley and Mr. and Mrs. Will Evans were Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Evans and daughter. Mr. O. L. Brentlinger of Van Wert. Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Shady Hall of Gary called at the home of William No!! and family Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Daniels, delightfully entertained at dinner Sunday Mr? and Mrs. Harry Daniels of Convoy. Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. i Paul Lobsinger and daughter Bevi crly Jean and son Jimmie Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Custer .est Saturday tor Lake Webster. They were joined by Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Beery, Mr. and Mrs. Burdette Custer and son's of Decatur. The wo- < men will remain for a week's vaca- | lion.

Dance Wednesday Sunset. Appointment of Idministratrfx with will annexed Notice is hereby Riven, That the i undersigned has been appointed Ad- < niinistratrix with will annexed ot the estate of Christian Roth late ot Adams County, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. Anna Roth, Administrarix Heller A Sr burger. Attnrnej* Sept. 13-30«-7 ■ —O « ■ " 1 ■*—- Appointment of Administrator No. X 502 Notice is hereby given, That the undersigned has been appointed Administrator of the estate or Herman F. Ehlnger, late of Adams County, deeased. The estate is probably solvent. Charles D. Ehinger. Administrator Arthur E. Voglewede, Attorney Sept 1, X 938 Sept. 6-IJ-20 ROY S. JOHNSON, Auctioneer Following Is a partial list of coming sales. I am booking fall and winter sales. My dates are filling up fast. If you are going to have a sale, please get in touch with me at once, so that I can reserve the date you wish. Sept. 21—Stillman Goff. Rockville. Ind., Chester White Hogs and Hereford Cattle. Sept. 24—Mrs. Fred Stauffer, 2% miles East of Decatur. Sept. 27—Elmer E. Tricker. 2 | miles south of Decatur on the , Mud Pike. General farm sale. I Oct. 5 —lndiana Guernsey DreedI ers. sale of Guernsey cattle, Fairgrounds, Indianapolis, Ind. Oct, 6 — Ed DeVries, DeMott, Ind., Duroc hogs Oct. B—Boyd Sbonkweiler, Sheldon, 111., Duroc hogs. Oct. 12—Walter Busick, Admr., 6 miles north of Decatur. General farm sale. ROY S. JOHNSON, Auctioneer Trust Co. Bldg. Decatur, IhU. Office Phone 104 Res. Phone 1022

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