Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 80, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 1940 — Page 3

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with thirty memlters present. Mn. Walter Deltxh hart the devotional* reading an Interesting paper In keeping with the la-nten sea son Mr* Jame. Borders presided over a short business meeting. (lames of contatk were enjoyed and prises given to Mrs L. Fogle. Mrs Fred Ashbaut her. Mrs. Albeit Fruthte. Mrs Harry Knapp and Mrs Floyd Andrews. A delirious one course lun< heon wan nerved by the hostesses, the Mesdames O U Kirsrh Ix-land Frank. Floyd Hunter and Lura Mil ler. MRS FRIBTOK IS CLUB HOSTESS Mrs. J. N Fristoe wan hostess to the Research club Monday afternoon at her home on Men er Avenue After the routine opening and current events. Mrs. Hale Ross gave an Interesting paper on "Tapestry." Rub-topics were given by Mrs L Fogle and Mrs W liny Brown The neat and final study meeting for the duh will lie held at the home of Mrs. 1-eo Saylors Monday afternoon at two-thirty o'cltx k Mrs. R. D Myers will be the leader The Hpanlsh American auxiliary will meet at the Ixion Hom--Thursday evening at seven-thirty o'clock. This will be an important business meeting and every member la asked to be present The Ave Marla discussion group will meet at the K of (' hall Frl day evening at seven-thirty o'clock All members are asked to tie present as this will lie an Important meeting BCHNITZTUTEWILER WEDDING ANNOUNCED Announcement was made today of the marriage of Miss Marcella Tutewiler. daughter of Mrs Charles lies re of Second street and Bob Rchnitx. son of Mr and Mrs. Merrill Rchnitx of Fifth street The wedding occurred Sunday evening March 3. at ten o'clock In the parsonage of the Grate Methodist chart h at Marion Rev Megenity received the vows Mias lona Schnepp of Decatur attompanled the couple Mr. ftchnitl Is employer! by iSheets Brothers and Mrs Rchnitx is tmpltryed at the Staley Confection-

radio show. a flve-year-old girl was introduced. "You can atay artwrt ■ here aa long aa you like, dear," I said Hope, "but don't let Jeaael see r you ” r - — i Nice to hear that Penny Single- ■ ton la not aa aerioualy Injured aa [ was first reported after that motor crash. She haa no broken riba i only a torn cartilage. And she : | haa no spine injury, only a ' wrenched back She'll probably be • in the hospital for two weeks, how- ' ever. Orson Welles reports that the ’ last of the 11« law suits filed aftei ' his Martian broadcast has beer i settled out of court It was a dam . ! age action brought by a New Jer- | sey fanner who claimed he suf . i sered injury when he became l frightened and dropped a case o canned goods on his foot Funny how there's s fire on al most every set where Bette Davb , works. Her own costume waa ig nitsd on both "Juarea and "The . (Nd Maid." Recently a ahortee l cable caused a blase on the "At l This and Heaven. Too" set A hack . drop went up in emoke and a i wooden catwalk caught fire. Fran English, one of the most admired cuties of the George White "Scandals." will be given a screen , test by Arthur Lubin. ... As soon , aa Jackie Coogan returns from a personal appearance tour, he Is slated for a role in the O. V Gon- ; tard-Kurt Buis stage production. "Thank You. Columbus ... How , the kids do grow up. Cute little Ann Gillis was twoing It at Karl ' Carroll s with Dick Kurts. . . . Ernest Truex can't decide between ' Julie Jenner < Monte Prosser s ex I and Ann Taylor, the pint sited clgaret girt at Clro's He takes ; them to the Sphinx club on alternate nights . . . You should have seen the lads trying to find out the name of the beauty with Attorney ' Roger Marchetti. If they are still Interested, it was CkUs Caldwell, who won the Hollywood. Lie Angeles and U. S. beauty titles a 1 while ago. ... Pat O'Brien really had himself a time singing old Irish songs with Frankie Gallagher at the House of Murphy. Pat's mother listened approvingly. . . . Flfl Dorsay is seeing New York with, of all people. Michael i Whalen . . . Carol Parker and Jeffrey Lynn are a new combination ... Is Eddie Albert's face red’ He volunteered to cook Mscults on a week-end yacht trip to Catalina and ribbers caught him i on tne old gag of putting powdered plaster of Pana in the baking i powder can —

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY. APRIL 2. J 910

CLUB CALENDAR BndPty Dead line, n a. m Fanny Macy Rhone* ’OOO — toot Tuooaay > Psi lota XI Program Meeting. Mrs. Paul Calms, 7 jo p m Eta Tan Sigma sorority, Mrs. Mil dred Schenck, 7. Jo p m Dutiful Daughter* Class. Mrs. 1 | Hebert Feasel 7:30 p m. Young Matrons Club. Mrs. Albert | .Beery. 7:30 p. m Catholic Indies' of Columbia. K. I of C Hall. 7:3tl p m |i Tri Kappa Soria! Meeting. Elks Home, g p m. i WeonsMay . Historical Club. Mrs. F.d Ahr.i 1,2'30 p m. Thursday Pleasant Dale Indies' Aid Society. Mrs. Paul Arnold, all day meeting. I'nlo' 'ha pel tardies' Aid Society. , Mrs. Henry Bauman. Mrs. Thur- . man Drew. Jam I'. It. Ijidies' Aid Society, Mrs. I William Rtrahm 2 p tn W M S„ Evangelical Church. . 2 p m. Methodist Ever Ready Class. Mrs. Frank Crist, 7:30 p. tn Presbyterian Missionary Society. . Church Parlors. 2:30 p. m. So Cha Rea Club. Miss Anne Murtaugh. 7 30 p m F rtday Shakespeare Club. Mrs E B. . Adams. 2:30 p. m. Happy Homemakers Club. Mrs. , Herbert Hawkins, 71*H N. Second , St. Ave Maria Discussion Group. K of C Hall. 7 20 p m. Saturday , Spring Dance. Members Only It I' O Elks. S SO p m Monday Research Club. Mrs. Ice Saylors. 2 30 p. m ery They are at home at 1134 West Madison street In this city — O Adams County t Memorial Hospital I , « « Dismissed Walter Rills. Jbmr; Rob August. 226 North Tenth st.. - Theodore Baker, route 1. i Admitted Pat Costello. Decatur. — 9 — Hartford’s Honor Students Listed , R II Rteiner. print ipal of the i Hartford township high school, today annoum ed honor students In , the IBto graduating class Ernest Fennig. son of Mr and Mrs. Fred Penning, earning a fouryear average scholarship of 91 *3 percent, will lie class valedictorian. Miss Doris Moser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Moser, second with so *9 percent, will he valutatorlan. Baccalaureate services will be held Runday. April 2«. and tommencement exercises Monday. April 21 g Dance Wednetuiav Sun Set

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■PERWAIS Mrs. W. a. Ixtwer and Mrs. C. D. jTeeple left today for Fort Wayne where they will temaln for two days attending the I'rttobyterlal being held there. The women were selected as delegates to represent |the local missionary society. Mrs. John Peterson and Mrs J. Dwight Peterson and children Patty. Rally and Johnny Pete arrx i 'pending the day In Fort Wayne as the guests of Mrs. Charles Keller and children. Hale and Karen. They will enjoy a luncheon in honor of the birthday anniversaries oj Mrs. i Keller and son. Raymond Bluhm of route I, Monroe was among the business visitors ' here this morning. The revival meeting at the country club mission house was well attended last evening The public Is cordially invited to attend these services and hear Rev. I:vln Roe tell of his new experiences of conversion County clerk Clyde Troutner attended a meeting of county clerks in Fort Wayne last evening. Johnny Hchelmann. Jr.. Is serious- : ly ill at his home at 203 Routh Eleventh street. Mrs. Hchelmann is suffering from < ompllcatious and no

SYNOPSIS Major Brucs Kilgour, of the British Intslligsncs Service, anlista the aid of Captain Hugh North, of the U. S. Army Intelligence, in aolving several puxiling murders in Cairo. On the left arm of each victim was found s woman's red and black garter. The police believe the killings sre connected with gun-running activities in Egypt. The killer is known by the pseudonym of “Mr. Armstrong.** Aboard the S. S Fort Lucknow enroute to Cairo. Kilgour and North act as strangers. It has been arranged that North sit at the Captain's table with an interesting group whoee acquaintanceship might prove valuable in Cairo. It consiete of M Lavaaseur. a sardonic Frenchman; Dr. Larkin Ladd, egyptologist and head of Lawrence College in Cairo, and hie lovely daughter, Lolita; a friend, Daidre Clark; Richard Follonsbee, salesman for Heineman and Schlager, arms manufacturers (Follonsbee claims be sells "sewing machines and reapers”); an exotic beauty. Natika Black, and Monsieur Phillipides, retired president of the Italo-Hellenic Chemical Works which manufacture poison gas Zara. Dr. Ladd's wife, is too ill to join them. Follonsbee. obviously perturbed about something. : asks North to visit him in his cabin later. After dinner. North goes on deck where he meets Dr. and Mrs Ladd. They go to the Bacchants Room for liqueurs. There North hears Natika conversing with Phillipides in Creek. Further on, Lolita site with Follonsbee and an Egyptian, named Ben Yamen Hasid Pasha. Zara'a personality puxxles North. Her features are strong though delicately molded and her wide cheek line tapered to a small dimpled chia. She wore a knitted drese instead of an evening gown, and no stockings. Just then Natika and Phillipides join the group with the news of another garter murder-the body of a German named Wolff was found in the desert The man had been dead for weeks. Follonsbee turns white. 'T have a letter to Wolff.” he said thickly. A discussion of the risks of gun-running followed, during which Zara makes her apologies am.' retires. The party breaks up. Shortly after. North goes to Follonsbce's cabin Getting no answer to his knock, be opens the door and finds the suite in wild disorder. In the bottom of the bathtub lay Follonsbeebound and gagged! CHAPTER IX The salesman's white mess jacket uad become a pattern of vivid scarlet stains. In the young chap's gray-blue eyes North read a remnant of intelligence but the light was shockingly dim. Even more poignant was Follonrbee’s bewildered expression . . . Rousing himself, North stripped off hie dinner jacket and rolled up hie aleevea ere, in hurried gentleness, he began loosening the gag He saw there was no hope for the wounded man; a man eannot live long with a shot through the center of his stomach. When North freed the young Englishman's mouth, he uttered n pitiful groan. “Hurts— Uh h! Stop it—do something—can't stand—” “Who did this?* - “Don't know— My head—” Only then was North aware of a terrible pulpy bruise distorting the back of the dying man's head. “You didn't e»4n glimpse your aaeailant at ail?” Follonsbee made dreadful efforts and choked out, “Confidential—talcum.” or something like that. “Shot me—watched—laughed!” A curtain seemed to descend over the victim's eyes. “Millions in it— Not afraid— Fool 'em— A lot of money. She was beautiful— Cruel —blue hand— Oh-h-h, it hurts— Mother, make it stop—” “Foilonsbee!" Desperately North tried to rouse the dying youth but gradually the agonised body's rigidIty lessened? Sweating. North stood up. heaved a small sigh and washed hie hands ere he began carefully to scrutinise hia surroundings. For a time be diecovered nothing of intoi eel, then on the loer behind

visitors are nllnwri! He has lieen 111 for the past ten days and critical since last Saturday evening Judge J. Fred Fnicbte and l-e<i Kirsch visited in Fort Wayne last evening. E R Chrlslen. Ira Fuhrman and Herman Keller altendeil the Peters meeting at Fort Wayne last evening. Harry Meshberger and son are attending a letting at Fort Wayne today. John W Tyndall was a Fort Wayne visitor last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hi it Ison of Brown City. Michigan visited here today. They formerly resided here and Mr. Brlttson served as postmaster and was In business a number of years. Hlnce leaving here he has engaged in real estate business and now owns and operates one of the largest peppermint farms In the country. “TTrs Wayne Zerkel and son. Jack of Gilmon City. Illinois, are spending the week here with friends and relatives. Mr. Zerkel will lie here over the weekend In the list of utstrict music inntest winners, held at Heine Saturday. Lyle Abrams, winner of the tenor saxophone contest, wan erroneously listed as living at Elkhart. Abrams is a resident of Huntington. the son of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Abrams Mrs. Abrams was for-

a towel hamper he eame across a small shred of cloth. It was charred as by a fierce flame. Further search rewarded him with another larger fragment. Then he hurriedly observed a firm rule of his and entered in a email loose-leaf notebook every one of the murdered man's last words. Three or four phrases stood out, “Talcum", “Confidential'*, “Blue hand.” A rather brief yet thorough search proved the murderer 100 astute to leave a spent cartridge cane on the scene of the crime—providing he had used an automatic pistol. Steeling himself to the unpleasant task of determining just where and how the victim had received his fatal wound. Hugh North again bent over the tub.

i . L Around Follonobee's left arm was a woman's fancy black satin garter with a scarlet rosette....

"Took a rhromiumetecl conscience to run a job like this,** he reflected. "Imagine tying the poor fellow up and dropping him into a tub before shooting him—through the body, too! Cruel!" Cruel? Follonebee had used that word. Apparently the murderer had lingered to enjoy his victim's throes. What a pathetic terminus to Richard Follonsbee’e dreams of quick wealth! The man from G-2 seiaed the corpse and turned it slightly sidewise. Ha! A dull gleam of bright metal shone beneath a jagged star of splintered enamel. No doubt now remained that Follonsbee had been shot while lying in the tub! Around Follonsbee’e left arm was a woman's fancy black satin gar ter with a scarlet rosette gathered by many Ano little stitches and secured here and there with weaver's knots! A queer sense of breathlessness gripped Hugh North on recalling to the last syllable Dr. talk in the Bacchante Room. Armstrong, ephemeral perpetrator of the Cairo garter murders, was aboard this ship/ Bruce Kilgour must bo informed at once. He severed the garter from the still-warm body, and held it to the light. The garter’s inner aide betrayed traces of white powder. Why? Um! And along its black lace edging there was a similar light diaMloration. Uneasily aware of the passage of time. North swung out into the living room and got quite a shock when he behold a small square of paper propped against the inkstand on a desk. Neatly printed was the men**"MAJ. KILGOUR. STICK THIS IN YOUR PIPE. BETTER GET RIGHT." North selected an envelope into which he dropped the pieces of singed cloth.

merly Mins Anna Bigham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Bigham Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. iiiinft-ii of l-aGningt* visited here a few hours today en route home after a month In Florida and Mississippi Mr. Ininten in <>ne of the leading attorneys of northern Indiana ant* is well and favorably known over this district. Gerhard Schwartz On College Paper Muncie. Ind . April 2. Gerhart Hchwartx of liecatur han iieen appointed a news editor of the Ball State News, student publication at Ball Rtate Teachers College, for the spring term. Appointments were made by the newly chosen editor-in-chlef. Dean lletwoller oi South Bend. Mrs. nmwartx. a sophomore, served on the editorial stalf of the paper last term. He Is also a member of lommerce dub, chnral society and the Y M C. A. o Adam Schafer In Seriouß Condition The condition nt Adam Rchafer. who has been tonflned tn the Lutheran hospital at Foil Wayne, was reported serious today He is suffering from a kidney ailment.

A cautious knocking caused him to retreat to the bedroom and resume his dinner jacket. This done, he closed the bedroom door after him and stood in the sitting room. Who the devil could this be? “Follonsbee?** a muffled voice queried, “how about • nightrap?” North ahifted to a spot back of the sitting-room's door — the one with the faulty lock Follonsbee had joked about Fervently North yearned for his usually inseparable .32 but po«»ed himself for action when, after a second soft knock, the door commenced to open. The hall light was casting into silhouette a profile and he relaxed instantly. He would have recognised that outline in a million. “Come in,** North rapped in a

sharp undertone, “and shut that door!” “Hugh! For Heaven's sake, what are pvu doing here?** Bruce Kilgour paused, hand on the doorknob. “Follonsbee listening?" The Englishman's long face had lost its habitual and deceptive expression of lazy good nature. "No." North’s reply was equable. “What brought you here?" Kilgour seemed to debate another question but instead he smiled, and his eyes betrayed a carefully sub dued excitement. “My reply from the Yard. Seems we're in luck. Thia fellow is Eng liab, a Manxman to be exact. His backers, a Central European muni tions firm called Heineman end Schlager, have chartered a small freighter, the Lyrta. They've loaded her to the guard* with arms and ammunition. Rhe cleared Fda yes. terday ostensibly for South Ai.*er ica, but she'll never ciear the Straits of Gibraltar.** Kilgour paused. “You can guess what that means?” "Arms for Arabs?” "Precisely! That's the beauty of it Wav.n Follonsbee and give him enough rope and then By the bye, where is be?” “In there,” North said and pointed to the bathroom. Irritation hardened Kilgour's features. “And you let me talk 1" “ft's no matter. Rruce. He's dead. Murdered with fiendish cruelty You’ll have to find some other stalking horse.” “Mutd The devil you say!" Before North’s eyes Bruce Kilgour’s gaunt figure seemed to grow Inches taller His law shut with a eliek. North added “He's not pretty. Don't overlook i the garter 1 found on his arm. It's ' on the washstand--drying." < «tyil«M to I tHMdBMto to »■•••*'•• IM

FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT DIES Herman J. Conway Dies Monday At Kort Wayne Hospital Funeral service* for Herman J. : Conway. &l. former Iw-catur resident. who died Monday at the Methodist hosiptal In Fort Wayne. Wayne, will he held Wednesday as-i ternoon The services will lie held at 1:301 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the home in Cedarville, near Fort I Wayne, and 2 o'clock at the |/» : Methodist ehurt It Burial will Im- at laso. The deceased left this < By about I 2<t year* ago after his marriage to Bessie Teeple. a Decalur resid- j ent He was World War veteran and ' a member of the la-o Methodist church The widow Is the only near sur-1 vlvor. Several resident* of this city are related to th* widow Relatives here were summoned to his betlslde last evening.

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Treaty Amendment Beaten In Senate Washington. April 2.- (UP) The »-nate today defeated. 36 Io 45. an amendment lo the reciprocal trade agreement* extension hilt proposing to freege ext iw taxes al their present level. ——■ ——9 Kvansville Attorney Is Cited By Court Indianapolis. April 2 'UR) Rtate Renatur William D. Hardy, It. Evansville, an attorney today was cited by the state supreme eourt to appear April 19 to show cause why hl* name "should not be stricken from the rolls of atlor neys of the court." o — W W Briggs of Geneva was a business visitor here last evening. REMODELLING? Let me give you an estlimrte on all kind* of remodelling and cabinet work: kitchen cupboard*. biMikeases. etc New equipment gives you lietter work at lower prices Phone Berne 19K2. collect CALEB HABEGGER