Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 13 May 1941 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Ptobliahed Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. incorporated. Inured al the Decatur. Ind- Po*t tMEce aa Second Class Mattar. A H. Heller.... President A K Hultboaae, to Bua. Mgr. (MO D. MailerVke-Preeldent Subscription Rates (ingle Copies —1 .02 )ne week, by carrier .10 One year, by carrier..———— (.00 One month, by mail— 35 Three months, by mail. — 1.00 gla months, by mail — 1.7( One year, by mall 3.00 Otoe year, at olßco—— 3.v4 Prices quoted are within a radius of 100 miles. Elaowhere |3 50 one year. Advertising Kates made known on Application. National Rvpreseutetive BCHEEKEK to CO. II Lexington Avenue. Now York U East Wacker Drive, Chicago Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Huy bonds and postal saving stamps. Help your nation, be a partner, be a good citizen. The Brooklyn Dodgers, the Cleveland Indians and Whirlaway seem to hold tlic hot spot in sports right now. Join the clean up parade, get after th" yard paint and fix up the property generally, do a little landscaping. boost for a < Ity beautiful. The temperature feels like snow when the sun gets behind the clouds but in Miami and lais Angeles they are suffering from a heat wave. —o—c It s easy to drive your new tar seventy miles an hour but it's not any safer for you than it was tor the thousands who have met with serious accidents. O—O Indiana again furnished a shocking weekend list of traffic casualties and one of the serious ones occurred just north of this city. Speed accounts fur many ui the accidents. ——o —o— — May 34th will be Poppy Day ami the Legion Auxiliary here will conduct a sale ut the- little red flowers, the proceeds to go toward helping the boys who are patients in the various government hospitals. —o We seem to have reached that point in tb«- world catastrophe that what ever we do will b< judged by many to lie wrong. If we could agree on a policy and stand for it, the results would be assured. o—o— — Olin Miller says the doctor advised him not to work if lie didn’t feel like it but says the trouble is if be doesn't work when he doesn't feel like It he can't eat when he wants to and he often feels that way. It's a tough grind. o—o The frosts of the past week did some damage In the low black ground of northern Indiana where tomato plants were just getting a start but generally according to report* little barm was done otherwise. The fruit is not thought injured to any extent. —o This is a good lime to remember that most of the troubles we worry about realty never happen. The future looks gloomy just now but perhaps the clouds will disappear some day and the sun shine through brighter than ever. Maybe the war will result in a return to the teaching* of God and His Golden Huie. ’* O o ■■■ It is diScuit to discern what benefits can come from the General Motor* strike while on the other band It la e**y to lft»9 u «•* be vmr detrimental. This te not •

time for such a contest. We need the cooperation of every good American anil we should avoid auy action that tend* to breeding hate and disruption in our rank*. O—D’Tile bombing* in London over the week end were terrific and damaging Beside* the destruction of many homes and busines* house* *u> li historic edifice* a* W> stmlnster Abbey, the tower that houst* the Big Ben clink and the house <>f parliament were badly damag'd The destructive war got* on and gtow* in seventy with a loss that cannot Im* made- up ni a century. O—o There is f'nni for earnest consideration in the address by ex President Herbert Hoover, lie advises that we consider the- haid tact* before taking the step* that will plunge the uatloii lulu war. Before we put the navy into action, he dei lares, we should b. well prepared at home, lie favor* increased aid to the alite*, increased production in our plants and action that will unite the leader* of the country. He also adds w< can lic k the world if necessary. The dosing day* of school approach and the Itoy* and girls are busy in preparation for the various events, it's a happy time of life and we hope every one of th'm get* the full measure of happiness out of it. You will aoon In- entering that phase of your life when you must carry a share of respemslbility Don't be afraid Holl up your sleeves and go after your job. t Never was there a greater demand for those who call do things and the better you do th- in the better your opportunities aie. ilev. John P. Sc hall, rec tor of St. Vincent de Paul c hurch at Logansport, will give the commencement address at the graduation evetcise* of the Decatur Catholic schools Friday evening. June 6th. it will mark the uiu*te>uth annual commencement of the high school and thirtysix boys and girls will receive diplomas. Eighth grade graduation exercise* will tie held in connection with the high school event. Rev. Sc hall is an outstanding public speaker and hl* message will be valuable to all who bear him. O—O Hospital day was observed yesterday and all over the country upen house was conducted, the public being especially invited. These institutions perform a valuable service to mankind and we here in Adams county boast proudly ut one of the best in the country, Adams County Memorial Hospital. The welfare law* now effective over the United State* have increased the number of patients and every where there is a demand for Increased facilities to care for the demands. We must keep up with that demand. ♦ 11 ■ ~ —T —• Answers To Test Questions Below are tha answer* to th* , T**t Question* printed on Pag* Two | to . — ... ■»to 1. No, 1 Egypt. 3 Nova Scotia. * The privilege of sending postal matter gratis, 5. Ye*. 6. Martin Van Buren. 7 Stanford White. 8 Only when the parent* are United Stet** cltixeni. 9 Scone. 10. No. —•— o Modern Etiquette * ay ROBERTA LEE | to 0 Q. When kwo persons are not on speaking terms, and are seated together at the table, is it necessary for them to te‘k to each other? A Yes. ft it, rude and 111-bred if they do not. Sflch action might be overlooked in children, but not in adult*. Q. if a bride wishes to wear her engagement ring during the wedding ceremony, on which finger should she wear II? A On the-third finger ot her right band Q May • young m«u invit* a young girl to a weekend party at

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ENROLLMENT IN COC IS URGED Ct’C Enrollment Period 1 To Ik Held In Indiana lluring July ' Youths leaving school this May,' and Juno with no job possibilities | should Investigate the opporttonitle* 1 of the civilian conservation corps. 1 Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp. Adams county welfare director, said today ■ The ('<'<’ I* offering to Iwiy* between th'- age* of 17 and S3** opportunities to gain work experience. vocational training and academic instruction." the director said. Experience in such Job skills as automotive mechanics, elementary electricity, wood working and metal work may lie obtained In the corps, the director pointed out. "Also youths may obtain work experience acceptable by tnduatrial peraonnel director* for jobs In private industry." During July a CCC enrollment, period will be held in Indiana for | all youths interested in becoming 1 members of the corp*, the director said Youth* may obtain application blanks and pamphlets describing ('('<' activities at the Adam* county welfare office, located ill | the court house. Decatur. While youths are member* of the ('('(' th'-y receive |3u a mouth. Ila of which Is sent home to aid dependents. Seven dollar* a mouth Is placed in a special saving* account with the war department. The remaining |8 may be used by the enrollee for amusement or recreation. the director said. To be eligible for CCC metnlierhis home? A The invitation to a young girl who Is a friend <rf the son of the -family must always come from the mullier. or drum his slater.

1 to Complete Work on Rushmore Memorial Zejl 'work on the Mount Ruahmore memorial at Rapid Qty. S. D., begun 14 years ago and terminated with the death of the Jnta Gutzon Borgtum in March at thia year, again goea forward under the direction of B-'-glurn’a M-year-old son Lincoln It Wga the wtgh of th* late sculptor that hia gon comBtete hl* work to he dt*d This i* a new picturo of the memorial From the ML we m the Mad* at P WMhwjton, Thoma* Jggeroon, Theodore Booneveit and Abraham Lincoln-

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ship, youth* must be between the'l ages of IT and 33*J, uut of school. I 1 I iiii'-iiiploy<|ii and in need I' of a job. Applications for mem-! bership are now being received at the county welfare office. —o * TWENTY YEARS * AGO TODAY May i.: r. : v O ■ M.li. 1 will deliver the Iwecalaureate sermon to the Decatur high school graduates at the M*-thodl*t church Sunday I Heer i» as plentiful In Chitago as in the liaimiest day* of the lon* ago. Mis* Gladys Flanders will conduct a kindergarten school here during the summer. General John J Pershing I* named chi»to ut staff <»f the U S. army. Dr. Fred Patterson elected Rotary president and W. A. Kb'pper. vice-president. Mr*. II B Heller 1* a patient in Hope hospital at Fort Wayne RURALROUTES ARE INSPECTED — Poatal Oflicialb Making Annual Inspection Os Routes The annual inspection of rural routes out of the Decatur post office is ix-ing made by la-o Kirsch, poetmaster and Carrol Cole, deputy. The post office officials accompany the mail carriers on their respective routes and make note of condition* found on each route. Where mail IniXes need repair, the patron is notified to comply with (he government requirements. During the first 15 days of May the rural carrier* compile a report of all mail and parcels delivered on

FEDERAL EXAMS ARE ANNOUNCED Special Need Cited For Workers Under Defense Proßram Announcement of open competitive examination* tor ' numerous federal position* Was made today by the United States civil -erviic "Hnmission through the Itecatur post office The announcement state* that there I* a special need for person* willing to accept proliatiotial indefinite appointment in conne-tjon with national defense tirogram, •where the period of eniployuient depend* greatly upon the availability .rs fund* allotted for emergency purposes Included in this list are • xamination* for the position of junior stenographer at (1.440 per year and junior typist at (1.290 per year. Examinations are also to be con- . ducted for: specialist in vocational education in agriculture. |3.800 per y-ar; junior fisheiy marketing specialist. (3.1109 per year and fishery marketing spi-i ialist. 13.800 per year. An appeal Issued by the commission also asserts that there I* an acute shortage of nurses in the national defense program Further Information relative to securing blanks and filing application* for examination may be twined frtan Francis It. Costello, secretary of the Is raid, at the Decatur post rtoflce. the mutes, together with any parcel post transactions completed. Post master Kirsch was on the route today and deputy Cole will make an inspection tomorrow. --■■■• 0 "— — Dance Wednesday Sun Set

WINTER WHEAT PROSPECTS UP Indiana Winter Wheat Prospects Above 10car Average Lafayette. Ind. May 13 Indiatm i winter wheat crop prospect* hn- [ proved 3.5 bushels per acre during j April, and as a result the prodm • tb»n for the year is estimated at 30.88M.U4H1 bushels, which I* betw<rn two and three parcent above last year's mark and also better than the ten-year average. Thl» Improvement In the wheat crop I ptospect* s« of May I. wa* re|H»rl- I rd today by M M. Justin, crop statistician for the agricultural experl-1 menl station of Purdue unlveitoßy and the I'. H. department of agriculture. A yield per acre of 19 5 bushel* I* e>|H-it«d this year and condition* ftrr wh'-at have coiiftnuvd favorable since the report was compiled a* of May 1. Hye acreage for harvest Is placed at 1(3.009 which is So pen ' lit of the area seed'd last antmini, and

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CHAPTER TWENTY THREE A* darknr«* deepened, the »t< rm increased. Sondra. following her custom, turned on the eupola light before she went up to her ro. m Although the had not slept the night before. »he lay awake in her ivory-and-gold bed. a victim of her troubled thought*. Liane had *cnt word that she wouldn't be back. Her mot her needed her, and would Sondra please paek her thing* and send them over. Sondra wondered about that a* ah* lay tossing. Affection f-1 ;• r mother was something new tn Liane.... W*» her sudden thoughtfulness a result of her visit to Mis* Jacqueline? Or had Jean ... To break this line of thought she •prang out of bed and went to the window. Outside, the gray, windtorn world «’ii emerging in the leaden light that precede* the dawn. It had stopped raining, but the wind came shrieking down off the wooded mountains, battering at the window. trampling trees in the garden, and roaring on to tear the bay into a smother of flying spume. The highest tide of the month was ereaming almost on a level with the string-pieces of the shadowy wharves,. The O'M oore trawlers, to escape tha full force of the blow, had moved up to join Kemp's smaller vessel* on the anchorage above the American Packers' float. The Baltie was riding to a slipline on the sheltered aide of the Bate* dock. No light* were showing. No one was visible anywhere on the gray waterfront Key nail must have returned sometime ago. because hi* quarters aboard the Glory showed no illumination, either. Naturally—aince it was past three in the morning. But—were her eye* playing her trick* again, or was the Glory no longer moored across the face of the wharf? ... and that strip of water showing between the hull and the piling ... it looked a* if it was widening ... She suddenly threw up the window and leaned out into the wind to *ce better. A low cry broke from her. The Glory was free of her mooring* — and moving. With everyone aboard her asleep. Unguided. helpless in the dual grip of wind and Ude. the old ship was drifting down and across the channel toward that maze- of rocks and islands where the breaker* were beating white and high. Sondra’s first impulse was to rouse her grandfather and acquaint him with the Gtory'e danger. But •ven a* she wheeled toward the door, a disquieting memory halted her. Only a few hours ago Chris Sandvik had said. “Tonight... the highest tide of th« month . . . wouldn’t it be awful now if that floating cannery should slip her mooring* and go aground .. .“True, her grandfather had vetoed Chris's suggestion at the time. But maybe, later... She went back to the window. During her brief absence someone had turned on the Glory'e cargo lights, making the deck bright aa day. She saw Rcynall dart out, naked to the waist, black hair blowing. He shaded his eyes with a hand for an instant'* appraisal of hi* ship's position; then leaped to the scuttle that led down to the crew'* quarter*. Faintly on the wind came hi* shout: “A-a-ll hand* on deck! Lively, men!” The old ship's bell set up a clangor of alarm. Men boiled up out of the scuttle. Light flarhed on aboard the Battle; and through hand-cupped mouth, Reyna!! shouted something to Shady Lane, whose huge shoulders blocked the lighted doorway of the tug’s whtelhouise. "Sondy! Sondy" A stentorian bellow from her grandfather's bedroom drew Sondra on the run. She found the Captain sitting up In bed straining an ear toward the window. “What the divil'* busted loose »n the waterfront, gurl?” "It’* th* Glory. Dynamite. She’* gone adrift, and—” “Adrift in this wind and tide?” Ba flung off hi* quilt. “Where's me xue? -Me crutches? Here, Sondy) H«.p me awing this damned cast 3ve.- tie side of the bed. Help me ;ev to ibat wiudow.” f r'. sad Ute old shipmaster

prosprvta for this rrop also are above average. Justin predicted 1 M*,OM bushels compared to 1,473. ME for the ten-yar average. Pry weather In April apparently ! 1 ha* not hurt hsy and pasture, as t, I the condition of pasture was report ! ill a* m 3 percent normsl cmopan-d Ito the average of 7< percent. OeI caakinal reports have been recalvI «-d that the dry weather of 1940 i killed some of the new clover and I grass sredliiaa. resulting in ruther I thin stand* this year. The carry lover of hay on farm* is estimated I at 379 'hmi ti/n* <otupared to 337.000 ton* last year and an average of 34M,0w ton*. Apparently last year's heavy hay crop was well balamrd with un fii< reased number of hay I | eating animal*. While the poultry flocks on crop' reporters' farmers were smaller I than last year. 93 < ompured to >N han*, the egg product ion was the 1 highest <m record, 62 * egg* per 100 Ik-iis against the ten-year average of 5v 3 eggs per 109 layer*. Likewise, dairy production also I* up, helping meet the demand for more tiHHlstiiff* of certain kind*, notably egg*, milk, and pork. Cow* on reporters' farmer* on May 1 prodti< «-d 33 pounds of milk per day compar'd to 21 I pounds a year ago. The percentage of cows being

leaned from the high open window intu the gray dawn. They looked down, a* from a box at the theater, on the lighted length of the Glory. Broadside and helpless in the narrow channel, she was driving swiftly toward the tidecovered sandspit that jutted out from Stag Islet, directly across from Echo House. The Bathe, which should already have been speeding to the old ship's aid. still sputtered impotently at the wharf. “Engine trouble! That does cook Reynall'a goose.” The Captain's rasping tones held more of contempt for Reynall than concern for the plight of hi* old command. “Hi* tug can never get out there now in time to save the Glory from strandin' on the spiL” "Oh • h • h!" moaned Sondra. "Couldn't they atop her by dropping the anchor?” “No ehanee. Droppin’ the hook there would only swing her heel instead of her head onto the bloody •pit. Twould but make matters worse, as even Reynall must know." “Then he can’t—nothing can save her from grounding?” “It might be done—but not by that lily-fingered yachtsman! Look now—the ship's stern ia still over deep water, her head swingin' round to strike the spit. A real saiiorman would heave a drag over to windward from 'midships, and rarry a line from that to the bow. Then, as the tide seta the old girl down channel, be could haul her head up--But that brass-bound imbecile hasn't sense enough to—Hah! Now, what’s he . . . Well, by the horn-billed jeex-wax!" Men, under Reynall's direction, had hoisted some heavy object to the midship rail and toppled it over, raising a mighty splash. “A drag!" chortled the Captain. He was heart and soul the seaman again, concerned only that his old ship should be kept from stranding. “He’s made a drag from hi* hatch rovers! Just what I was tailin’ ye, Sondy. See—they're haulin' her head up now to clear the spit.” He raised hie voice. “That's well, me hearties! Smartly, now—check the swing of her stern! Hm-m-m. Not bad—for a yachtsman ... Sondy. fly and fetch me night glasses from the •ittin’ room. Lively, darlin’l" Sondra brought the glasses and thrust them into his impatient finger*. "Is the Glory—" “Aye, she's clear of the spit now. She's settln’ in toward the enter point of Echo Islet, just below our l>anya.“ He turned the glasses on the old ship, drifting stern-first down channel on the racing ebb. Reynall's half-dressed erew flashed about their work in orderly baste. Reynall himself aeemed to be everywhere at once—directing, aiding, animating them all with hi* vital strength and energy. Sondra, mot ’.ntanly forgetting all else, followed him with her eyes and her heart. “She'll pa** safe by Outer Point," broke in the Captain's practieal vok-e. “Then, with room to awing her. he can drop the hook and wait for—Oh, the eddy I" He dropped the glasaee and turned to Sondra a faee suddenly gray with consternation. “The eddy that seta square across channel from Outer Point! Once that grips the Glory'e stern, she'll go lurchin' across a* if the divil had hi* towline fast to her keel. And there—" hi* voiee eracked a* he lifted a hand to point—“there’* where *he*U land. On Spearhead Kocks!" Through the gray light. Sondra eould see the semicircle of spume that marked those sunken rocks. “That mustn’t happen I It mustn’t!" Sondra thought passionately. Beside her, the Captain leaned far out and lifted his voice in a mighty roar of command. “Aboard the Gloryl Mind that eddy off Outer Point! Break out your jib, and stand by to elub-haul when her •tern swings off!" On board the Glory not a head lifted. Not even the famed O'Moore bellow could carry across a quartermile of screaming wind and pounding sea. "They ean’t hear you, lamb. But look! Those men up forward are unrolling something—canvas, I think—" • A groan from tha Captain eut bar off. "Tha eddy baa caught her

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now! It's drivtn' hrr 'trosttfe the rocks, ai d she hr; .. t a »pnrs, no yard*, t. . a .u." “Oh. can't u-r I. vinethiaet 5. out our boat*—" “No time, Sondy Th< re's bechance now forth . iMM only if the man on h. r hr !?/«— a true master of » a j|." IL a fist impotently airairnt ths v» dow sill. “Steamin' shosls! '<3 can’t I be down there on her aseg — Ha! * He broke . *v. t< nuly sitto ing, as men erupted in s activity over the Glory' t f head. "Tbo«e la h ’hi re ■ n Uene ... Aye. by the go d saints, teiß they havel . . . Tha!’. ths t.-jn bullies!" Hia voire boomedsgt* provingly, while the full f )re ,< the wind stood hi* stiver thstdia end. “Rig that jib and »p;j be round! Lively, men!" Sondra’a eye* followed P.<n4 but with a swift v. 4 used to be. That eager, dark pay mate of hers, manruventif 1 sj ship on the tide pool below •t» s g stone eatueway. and dreamig d the day when he would hare a -to command. . . , Ti nderness for St boy, compassion for the mat, i»qt her. He was splendid and .-i.ag . . . and pitiful tonight. against odds to save his ship. Her grandfath- r’s ;» sionatcly profane plea to knis told her the fight had naehdiei crisis. From the Glory't bos •»» the ringing uhirk, wkink.nM4 metal striking metal. An atria dropped with a tremendous spte, but no rumble of eham. Thejilsd crawling up the f> r< '>y - »•: a crashing report and. whiis th Glory'l stern held a- if nailed to th spot, her head swung sharply to before the wind. "Smartly done, by thendtfl* roared the Captain. His torn ud Sondra that Reynall must hire performed some miracle of seamark "By the horn-billed jiciwai’tto Captain was bellowing delighted!!; “that’s one trick ye newt learned in your navigation «ch 1. me ter! Now, do ye be Mdin* her bo* • with the jib whilst ye ea ■ her ai«*i a bit, ladeen." His command*, which no onsbd Sondra eould bear, came im" quietly now. as if he km w his expat advice would be antieif ated by P-ff-n 11, even if unhenrd Ard to S* dra's amazement this war so. At her grandfather ordi n i and re* tured, Reynall on the Glory iaes» ably made similar g. stures vb® sent his men running to tarry ok the commands. The maneuvering en! i with us Glory riding to her -t'rn a«» just inside the semicircle of 'to Spearheads. “Phew!" Ti c Cap:® expelled a gusty breath. "She'rtMl close a boy could spit fr m her board rail to the near< t rock. »» ’tie the best he can do. I eouls • no more, meself. Barring •he'll bold safe there until h;» t'< —Ah, ’tia cornin’ now!'' The Baltic was rushing p*» ! * low, her blunt bow ba-tenng from the choppy sea*watched the gap shorten btiv<*« the tug and the Glory, her h«« clenched In a tense mental < hold off the williwaws—the «i“ devils” of the Thlingets-unul W Baltic could get a line on the to? leas ship. . Two men on the Glory made w end of a hawser fast wbue «• Baltic, rounding to off the p A rtl* took the hawser’s other end. T® Reynall'a arm went up m • circling motion, and the 1 roared aa she threw the full P" _. of her engine* against the towli.ie. The Glory. wHh * J and a mighty explo .-n of V* plunged into deep water »n rolling heavily. , tM Faint above the h° wl • ; cheated element* came ‘by umpbant tooting of the l>--whittle, the exultant J' I ' l1 * Glory’e crew. Sondra was d up and down In a deurium>4 But the Captain, once he r*« Glory afloat, turned » window and sank » nt » • "She's safe,’’ he said softly- > itfa she is.” , . Then, as if stating • f» et M plisbed but «“rly added, "And may I be an ufi4 Eskimo, if it wasn’t a Rey?»-‘ t . pulled the trick that saved her(To be continued) OaerruM ** o«t*u •““gSu ». PUUUUUS w awe {