Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 119, Decatur, Adams County, 17 May 1940 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur. Ind . Post Office as Second Class .Matter I. H Heller President A. it. Hultbouse. Sec y * Hus Mgr. Pick D Heller .. Vice-Pievident Subscription Rates Single Copies ) 02 One week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier .. .. SOO One month. by mail ...... .36 Three mouths, by mail... 100 Six mouths, by mall 1.73 Due year, by mall Joo One year, at office3.w Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Elsewhere 63 50 ..ne year Advertising Rates made known ou Application Saltoual Adver. Representative SCHEERER * CO 3 Lexington Avenue, New York t 5 East Wacker Drive, Chicago ze***»x VW Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Get rid of the Are hazards aiound your house or business plate That s the clean up program for the next few days. A dollar given to the lied Cross may save a life in th< war »tri< k en area Thais a Christian act and a g<M>d neighbot gesture o—o — Candidates should not for- t that b< fore May 27th they must file i report of receipts and expenditures of their campaign That's the law and should b< complied with. —o Plans for the li< *i . xlubit of live •to< k eve. given h<re being mad" by tho». m charge of the tail to Open July ,11st. other planwill make it an outstanding o< > asion, —o Those foreign n>ws broadcastera, censored. • an talk longvi and say less than the cigarette ati< tioto-er whom we can t under-rand at all. Guess that - what they get paid for —o Drop a dollar or two or more into one of the Ih>x>-s tor the Red Cross fund The quota is |1 000 Let's raise It quickly and send if on so the relief work call go on without delay o—o How an you coining with th. c lean up and paint up? Hundreds are working to make the spring overhauling the best we . v«-t had here and th* city is showing the good Cc-o-t. Make it complete —O- O — Herr Httl.-i seetu to In* riding at full speed with one foot in France- and the other just outside England How long h. <an keep up lhat pat > Is something al which we wouldn I even attempt a guess C—p Greatest <ha tty organisation in the world the- Red Cross is again trying to pre vent suffering to th'civilians In th. war stricken areas Thai's a great work and you are asked to give something towards it. Rev Graham will deliver th. beet alaureate address to tin gradu ating class of the De.atur high sc ho i| Hunday evening, his subje c t as gccounerd to be "The Adventure tri Living ” It's a live subject and We know the message will be well worth hearing. —o The majority of pedestrian a killed in traffic are meeting death after dark Four out of five- adult pedestrians killed la traffic lost their lives between 6 p. m and i a. in. December. with the fewest hours of daylight is often the deadRest month for those afoot Filling stations .nd other public ptoues are beautifying gad land seeping to live the property a more attractive appearance and that helps lu the campaign uow being waged here. After all the

biggest thing about a work of this kind is one hundred per cent cooperation. O—O i \ billion dollars for defense will tell the world that we are not tint awaiv of what Is going on. will provide employment lor many and ( will meet the approval of almost . e very citizen lie-tier d<> it now 1 than have to hurry and scurry later. > ; —o—o—--1 Frank D Hints, lecturer. Dayton. > i ohi<>, will give the commencement ’ idelrcss to the sixty-three young l i iib n and women who will graduate from the Decatur high school the evening of the 2.3 rd Xiipeiliitendent Walter .1 Krick has completed arrangements for the always happy and Important occasion. Bluffton s peqiiiiaiioii as annoum e-d Is 5,117 a g.e.ti of 34.3 the past te n years This no doubt will lie Increased quite- a little- when lip' offie lai figures arc- given out from' Washington .end those- absent from there are counted It's a good showing tor much, if not all the gain, has bee n made the past year or two. w- are informed ..... q—Q--Wendell Wilkie tormei Elwood. Indiana, man who made millions th. past few years ley building up a pow.-r plant with annual earnings of nuirc money than he once ; thought there was In the world, but who » opposed to the New Deal, says be will lake the pies! 1 d> lie y of the I lilted state s If the people insist upon It They won't. o—o — Burn the hazard'' will Im the* next slogan of tin committee In c harge of ele aning th. c ity They a k ths: all inflammable- waste material on hands Im plaec-d in the alleys so R can be taken to the Hanna Nutt man paik where it will be burned Tuesday night at eight o c loc k Every oil. is <<<o|h rating to make the clean up a real sue- • o- o The- Inet c rop fen this year hecks good and We will he surprised II the price of sugar next winter i« not higher than now More than 14.mw acres have (»••• ti contracted here with an increased acreage In Adams county anil the managers •re pleased with the hue support given Planting any time this month should produce a good c rop i under average conditions —o Prices for wheat, soy leans, grains, stocks alld other commodities went down the past week with a thud, due to the foreign w <r. This is not unusual einbl-T such circumstances but frequently there is a comeback that .arries the prices up higher than when the drop came However, it Is not lielie vo-d Ry many experts that this will occur this yeai since the war has stopped the exporting of most grains ami many other articles. ——— Commander Ed Hauer of Adams Post No 43. American Legion, is completing plans for a Utting observation o; .Memorial Day here i the 3<Mh Services st the Decatur and Catholh- cemeteries, at the Moiiicm- street bridge and at the Peace Monument, with a parade will is- Inc ludecl The- Memorial address will be delivered by Rev. Glen Marshall on Sunday May 26. on "The Htewardahlp of I.Kc" The occasion will mean more than usual this unhappy year when wars are raging over the world. • -0 Recently two automobiles, a truck. and a fllimg ststlcin figured in an Intense thin ac c ident Within two days, the driver of car A. a front asst paaaeugc r, the driver of Car B. Hie driver of the truck, a policeman who happened to be •• the acene, and two employees of the gasoline station ail eye wit Hesses had made their respective reports Both cars were wrecked, the truck was damaged and a purl I of the lining statkrn was lorn away. None of seven reporrta agreed in i many of the important details

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Five Wein changed with tin permission of the judge-, following first hearing, four reports remained so incompatible with ea< h other, which with confused testimony, the jury was hung Finally »■ -ttlemeuts for damages were made out of court Safety Digest. I Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee Metal Coffee Pot M'lu n one use . a metal coffeepoi. see that the inside- is (•light and clean An iHiasional le>ilitig in soapy waler, in which a little- washing soda <« dissolved, will remove any di»< oloratlon Be sure to dean and rit -e with cold waler thoroughly afterward Saves B ittonholes Bi fore Ironing knitted garments. It is wise ot first baste the- liottoni hob In order to prevent fheti .ire-ie hlng The threads ean easily lie- re-movi-d when th" garment ha 111 led. Sagging Chair Seats If a cane chait seat sags, turn th*-

. GOVERNMENT IN ACTION Monthly Checks Bring Aged Security ■ E 1 Left—Tired, weary, this patriarch tramped the highways seeking aaly food and shelter. RightAged cowpie, secure in their little home, eagerly receive their eld age assistance check from the postman.

ALTHOUGH It was only seven I years ago that needy persona 1 1 sixty-five years and older, first received old age asristance from a 1 thoughtfu' government, during that time a total of 136.<37.562.16 , has been paid to recipients in In- ! diana. While it Is evident that the old age aaatslance laws will be liber- > allied, it la equally true that for many years opponents of old age pension legislation were success.ful in* preventing the passage of such i’lw in Indiana. Starting about 1920 advocates I of the old age pensio 1 repeatedly i attempted to enact a« eld age ponsion law in Indiana, but they I j were repeetedly defeated on they |

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rhuir up.ide down, saturate the seat with hot waler and allow to dry lu the »un. -— — o TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY » —. . _ ■ < May 17 Railway owners agree to a billion dollar in. roase ot wageio two million employe-' but will , lhav«e to iiicrease freight and pasI senger rates. , Th. A. J Smith company ships • a tram luaej ot liimln sixty-two hours after order Is re- < elvivl County i ouiii il appropriates 650 - mat for a new bridge at north > nd of Decatur. Tbe Salvation A tiny fund is 5S6* la-v‘ 1* Morton vii-e'pie-.ih'u' with Ib-njamin Harrison, dies in IViilghkeepsie. N Y and leaves estate worth Slummoeio , | H U font er and J H. Heller are at Indianapoll* for tin- Democratic , state convention. Canary Second Sheets, neatly wrapped. .35c. 500 Sheet* B*lXll Sunrine 3he ik-catur Democrat Co.

offered billa In aueressive seeslons of the General Assembly. In 1933, however, a sympathetic adminiat'ation and a sympathetic General Assembly enacted ths first aid age pension statute in Indiana. Payments were small, but it was a step toward fulfillment of a humanitarian need. Since that time (he law has been aaiearled to meet the requirements of ths National Social Serurity Act and the age limit wae dropped from 70 to *• years. Today more than 65.000 Hooaier men and women are living in ae- . rurity and contentment, aseured I by the knowledge that each month they will recalve from their gov.* ; ernment a steady income which

.-_-- ■ _ — - Answers To Test Questions Below are the answers to tbe | Teat Quoatluus printed on Page Two ► 1 Norway. > j 2 Sainui'l Frauds Smith. ■ i 3. Augusta. 1 4 1912. • | Burma. 6. Bureau of Engraving an<f Printing. Waahiagtua, D. C. 7. nevtrlcian. a Cornwallis. 9. Catholic 10 Fie aa and ticks. Modern EtiquetU* I By ROBERTA LEE ♦ • Q. When a man Is taking a train to a house party, and at th* station he ini-t is another friend who is going whu often, to pay hl* fare »h«mlil be allow this friend Io do so? A No; he should Insist upon pay- '' mg hl* own fare. <J What does the word endive I mean, pud how i» it pronounved? A. Till.- 1s a French Word meaning

keeps them within their own family circles. This thoughtful government is now se king ways and means to liberalise the payrounts which are not to ho confused with employment insurance psymenta. Employment insurance is an additional payme.it to those aged past i 65 who retire from gainful nccu- ■ patior.s. Old age aasiotaiice paymonte have increaaod in Indiana as follows: in 1934. when the law becaias effective, ||.3n,2»d.22; 1935—W.. 427.24f1.d3; 1934—23.77G.4M 04: 1937 — 9?,27d,43M2| 1931 — ' M.»35J31.37j 1939 — f 12.951-

. Latest Bulletin From Chairman of AAA Committee Au indication of the popularity of the 1!H" AAA farm program has been attested to by 14W farmers of Adams county who have signed lion of participating this year, refarm plans signifying their intenports Winfred L. Gerke. chairman of the county agricultural conservation association. May 1 was the deadline so rc-ompietlng and signing the farm plans. The number of farmers who signed farm plans represents 5» 5 percent of all Adams county farmers, compared to 40.7 percent sign-up last year. The sign-up this year indicates that aliout 60.9 percent of Adams county cropland will lie under the 1940 program. Mr Gerke says. The farm plan, which each farmer has worked out with the help of committeeman, includes th«" acrea salad herb. Pronounce en-dlv. I as in dive accent first syllable q Is it all right to present s woman to a dignitary of the church. Instead of following the usual custom of presenting the man to the woman? A. Yes.

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SYNOPSIS Gabrielle Snow, lovely 16-year-old daughter of wealthy Samuel Snow, oil magnate, falls in lova with Pater Parsons, a handsome young soda clerk. Peter, however, ■a a talented singing pianist and aspires to become a composer. Gabrielle's parents object to the match because Peter has no social background. So-one night, while out riding with Gabrielle's friend, Dorothy Mackey, and the latter's fiance, Tony. Gaby and Peter decide to get married immediately. Tony prevails upon Dotty to make it a double wedding After the ceremony. Gabrielle recalls that her uncle’s will stipulated that if she married before she was 21. she would not get her inheritance until she became 3S. "I'm glad of it." Peter announces. *‘!'d never have married you if I'd known you would have so much money. Now you'll have to be dependent on me!” At first, the Snows are furious, but = finally give their Viewing Peter I declines their offer of financial help. | insisting on supporting his wife himself, so the young couple rant an unpretentious SiS-a montbapartment. Despite its plainness. Gabrii elle awakens the first morning with i a feeling of supreme happiness. She calls Peter who. upon seeing her. says. "Then it wasn’t a dream!” But all is not so serene when Peter returns from work that night to find his home refurnished by his in-laws. Gaby and Peter quarrel and make up repeatedly. One day, Peter geta a letter from a cousin tn New York, saying the music publishers liked Peter’s song, that if he could only be there with an orchestra, he might get on a radio hook-up. Lack of money stops Peter and he squelches Gaby's suggestion that he borrow from her father, firmly believing that some day he will be succewful on his own. It is Gabrielle's birthday. Peter has apparently forgotten it, and Gaby is at a losa to know how to break the news that her parents have given her a car, without making him feel too badly about his oversight. She suggests a walk and Peter seconds it immediately, although he usually wanted to go to bed early. A shiny new coupe stands at the door. Gaby points to it, saying, "Mother's and dad’s birthday gift to me.” Peter stares unbelievingly, "Gaby-you simply can't take ill" he exclaims. “Can't take it!"she retorts. "Daddy would be hurt if we refused after he bought it for us.” CHAPTER ELEVEN She steered him toward it. although Peter held hack. He s<-erned like a man benumbed..,. Opening the door, Gabrielle said, "Get in. Peter. Drive it!” "No!" cried Peter harshly, pulling baek. “Oh. get in!”*he said impatiently, giving Run » push. Peter did get ite, but he sat stiff and straight as though in a daze, Gabrielle went around and got in behind the wheel. Placing the key in the ignition, she flipped it »n and started the motor. It caught at otn-e and began h>zmming a steady purring song of ite own. She cried out in vexation: "Oh, Peter, aren't you <me bit thrilled with having it for our very own?" "Okay, Gaby, |'m glad you have it. I hope youil be very happy with it," he said, hie teeth set lightly together. Then, after a seconds pause: "No, I’m not!” he denied savagely. “I only want you to have what I can buy for you myself!” "But Peter dear " "Oh. yes. yea! I'm well aware that what I can give you isa't half enough but it's all I can give you now , .." She caught the note of suffering In his voice, and laid one slender hand over his for a monwat; the slender fingers curled like tendrils. He didn't offer to lake the hand laid on his u> Gabtielle withdrew iL Peter certainly was funny, she thought, never doubling that ha would come atound to accepting the automobile in time. But then she rrnw-mlwrcd the scene when h« hail ducovered the apartment had been refurnished by her mother and father, and sighvd. Peter did make things so difficult She drove around tlowly. up and dawg the brdiiMUy ughiod streets

parents Three hitotmotive, loteioatinx seL T K I cuts can be obtained In a single pa, *, utMorH *U»s kmi ■ ,| bureau a. Washington Tl«. • H " '"’ m 'U Uhlld Hnahii ? L hU< ! Traln,n < M If you want this packet, sendth!" 11 " 1 11" 1 I ty-flvv to cover return poMUf.. J,B| promptly mailed to you ‘ 1 1 “ l<1 “"'B , .... . —...— CLIP COl'Pox ill-in' F. M Kerby. Dept PP ~ * I,IS Wi ■ Daily Democrat s Service Bureau 1013 Thirteenth »t.. Waahmpton ' o C ■ Ent looad find twenty five eeiits- „ ■ thiee booklets to - ,h - NAME ■ | STREET A No. . “ "MH ,TrV «tate .. '2W I read the Dei atur Dally Imm.M rat. Ih., <l<r

iijte allotments for his farm, the soil building practices which should In* . ’tarried out on the farm, and an estimate of the maximum payment l which the farmer may earn through , his I'ooperatkin with the 1940 national farm program. Farmers who have signed the farm plan aad who participate In the program this year will receive i payments for planting within acreage allotments, for carrying out ap proved soil building practices, for

downtown, around the oil derricks . whose many lights resembled a huge I carnival. There was a new pool just . opening, and derricks were spring I i ing up ovar night. She knew her , father had two wells about to come I in in this new field. Peter said nothing at all in spite i of her many cajoling leads. Hr maele I no move to look at the new den leks, I t although the din of the electric t drills filled the summer air, as did t the smell of the fresh crude oil. He , simply sat like a person in a coma , and, after a time, Gabrielle grew ! weary and drove back to their I . apartment. Peter hurriedly finished in the ( bathroom and went to bed. saying . not one word to her.

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iI | When she turned out the last light ' in the email place, and crawled into bed beside him, she laid an arm ; at rvM his cheat gently. Peter, swal , I lowing a sob, gathered her close and Gabrielle, with a tiny sigh of relief because another quarrel had ter minatad. snuggled sgaiusl him. I The nest morning, however, when she straightened the apartment, she wa» amazed to find in the bathroom wastebasket two tickets for a <er--1 tain cinema which she nad said she'd particularly like to sea. They wen dated for the previous , evening and it didn I take much in- . tolligcnn on Gabrielle’s par* to piece out Peter’s little bir’hday surprise that had died abortively. His urging her m wear a hat and his good spirits until she had snoan him the car, were mute testimony. She was bitterly unhappy over it all and resolved tn make it up to him. Kat everything went on vriy, much as it had before. She went <o I most of the day-time parties th* young ciowd had. and occasionally. ' although Peter didn't know it. an corning one ar well. She was c» , trsmely careful about those affairs, escorting herself and bi.ngmg herself home. Always before Peter arrived. i One night in late August when i the heat had been paiticularly unbearable to them both, they sat in ’ the apartmont. try Ing to <at a supI I per which war not in any way ar--11 pet in tig. It bad com. firms tbedel>• I cateaM.i and Gabriciie had felt even | : U>o hot io taac any pains arranging the table. i Twilight had deepened into gloom, i making the apartment almost dark. I when Peter reached be- k and '-Jrncd ' the switch on a nearby .amp. Noth i ing happened He rose ami witched on another. Still the room remained > In shadows. i "What the heck's the matter with I th.-se lights*" he grumbled. i “I'm sure I don't know," replied I Gabrielle listlessly. i She was trying to quell the Uttlc j gnawing feeling of guilt that pci-. I Mated in making her uuconuortablc i She had never cooked Peter a single

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meal, aht nah) <ouM '■ - »n. f .cooking W Exru.mghi C.ellM Hie U ' '*- ti. •hl hrxi h.rr ». 6 trUinirlhe ght "Mi 11, 111 f„ , iarl compsr y," hi . li( j isn ta'. e I nr.eM a'l *wm tn t» in or*he wh.-e :ie<| areej'el fqxgß lu-i-i'i. > bill. Gab)’ " W A |e.,k e.f ..n.u-.ua, J Gabrielle', fsm. jjß shook her head. ■ "But, I gave yes

told you M-veiai '“l’.f *! and pay it AtthstJlWtJ they turned it off •> I you pay last swaths- St 1 curiously. , “!'ve never paid it I faltered ' I t'”** «►** | “My lord, Gaby! «■ suppose you've <pent them -W- il. you don't | that! "shi i rielangril-Tj | you pay the oi l bills- P* town every day!" . -You know how have," h. -aid evenOtown en iy day yours* l ' car, and you'vi n< '• 'I He stared at her S*" said “I'm K“>n< to I* Always they h»d «*• quarrels before they , Tonigh' Gabrielle. srw until noon, sat hyt»* mr for Peter to ■ ' 1.0 bed. a. he a »S)‘» : Peter didn't. She watted for ** breathing told her J sleep without hen up and frit her «W * J room Th... -he aM crept whrie She pn*****" ] maind'-rof the eight ( Sh< knew « h< " following morning J/rs* she didn *. Mbe the water in the though almost < going about i ito tell him ' tbs light I come andkis. hr rs Peter finished (| •nd then. ’’U'J in hei direction. » -jssir. shutting it Lgdl Ool.riel!.-r« “ P 'T gi l •er* cheek* which rouge ~ .(gsi » •■I simply •**. .t-|' .<«* gtorme.l funjm’d. M |s'W Igetad.'orc I • < Tv 1 ew^'-"* - '