Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1941 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT PnbUshed Every Evening Except Sunday by « THE WGATUR DEMOCRAT 00 t Incorporated. Metered at tbn Decatur, Ind. Poet » Office aa Second Clan Mailer. I. H. Heller President A. M. Hoitbouae. Sec j * Hua Mgr j Dick D. Heller — Vlce-l'reiiduUt _____ <1 •übecriptten Rstes * dingle Coplea — I 02 , One week, by carrier. .. — .10 One year, by carrier .......... I ot) One month, by mail 35 I Three mouths, by mall ........ lw , Sin months, by mail . 1.75 . One year, by mall— — 3 00 Ono year, al office - 300 * Price* quoted are witbin a < radius ot 100 milea. Else- ( where 83 50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on ApplicationNational Ropresentative seimtßEit * co. ii 15 Lexington Avenue. New York. M East Wacker Drive. Chicago. * Charter Umbers of The * Indiana lx*gue ot Home Dallies The Weather m.in God l>|c»* him. ll say* we will have a little reepttr from the heat wave. —o The new swinge will add to Hauns Nuttnun park ax will other Im- " provemenlK made at that popular place fur young and old You will " enjoy a visit there. - —o-o— There is not much danger of you » 3 or thw- youiiKsters getting burned ri fingers tomorrow ax there used to be but the danger of driving in tret v fie is much greater than ever, -0 '' tl Farmers east of town say they * haven't been getting the showers ( that visited most ot the county the ( past few days and rain is badly needed However, < rops still look very good over that way. ? s 8’ In baseball we have come to that y mid season classic, tli e all-star t game between the best of the Natlona I and American leagues. It t will be staged at Detroit ni’Xl Tuess day with <>dd« favoring the Amerhans. I, -0 We are (oiivineed by reports a from Berlin and Moscow that there , is a real war In progress but we „ are not < ertain as to progress, Re- ~ |M>rts are conflicting and appear t more as propaganda than accurate ( . news. I —o I The cooler weather is acceptable to the average person, even those who MWear they prefer it hot. We ( ought to get cooled off while we can , for we will probably go right back , into wwother heat wave after a few , days respite. ( . oo— — ( persons over fifteen years of age 1 must have a physicians certificate a while those under that age who I wish to use the public swimming i pool, may get their sat the pool to- t day or tomorrow afternoon. Get i yours and be ready for the opening I In a tew days. < —o ( Guess the reason for this: dur- 1 Ing the recent hot spell the temper- t ature was 84 al Miami, while It < was *8 at Eault St. Maris and Tor- i onto, Canada and Duluth, Minn, 1 and 85 In Detroit. They must be 1 trying to make Florida an all year I ranort. i —o t Frank hnoi. secretary of the 1 navy, thinks we ought to not only patrol the Atlantic but proceed to < blow submarines and warships that Interfere with general world traf- J •c out of there. He thinks right now is the time to act and he may be right but there are still millions who feel we ought to step cautiously In these trying days. The city council took prompt action on the request for an add!tional water well seer the shelter k bouse at Hanns-Nultman perk.

They granted It and work will b> started s<»on The improvement will lie appreciated by the Boy Scouts and thetr governora aa well as by the entire public that la ualng this wonderful outdoor gathcimg place more and more. - W-O" The boys from Camp Custer. Michigan, parsed through Decatur over luute 37 yesterday on their way bat k io the fort after sis weeks on maneuvers in the south. They »ay It was all lie t leapt tor lighting < hlggers, inoiw|Ult<H s bugs and anak< a. They are In en client condition however and one man. a veteran ot the first world war. remarked. "they, are the finest .looking bumh of men 1 ever saw.” -0 I’resldvnt Roosevelt still Lopes to keep this nation out of a “shooting war." Translate his words as yon will, the far t remains that he la n<>w and will irmtinue to do every thing he ran towards that of (Ogive he <an not guarantee that this nation will not engage In war for he nor any one else knows what the future holds but he ran and does state that he hopes we will not anti Is striving towards ih.it end. It s good news for America. -0 Men who have reached the age of twenty-eight will be deferred by the draft boards, this being the order from Waslihigton headquartera. Army men recoinnieiid'd a cbagr in the original law which hied the age for selection at from 31 to 38. several weeks ago. but a rush <>f appropriation measures and other bills before congress, prevented final action. However, a pull has shown strong support of the proposal of General Lewis Hershey. director of the dratt. issued the order by wire to the various boards tbi* week —o Toipoirow is the Fourth of July. gloriosM holiday celebrated In this country more than a hundred fifty years. It Is particularly significant this year for believe it or not, our liberties are endangered by the trend of the world at present. It should be the desire of every good American that we continue our way of life and our great Institutions. Here, where we think and speak and write and wurship us we please, we should be happy and certainly should be content with a government that gives us every personal right. So observe tomorrow because It is still "Independence Day. Hope we have hundreds of them in the future. We wilL —o Almost half of the population of the Cnlted States how belongs to I one or the other of 250 churches or religious bodies which flourish under our free institutions. This church membership has been steadily growing, according to the 1911 Yearbook of American Churches, and the bare figures speak eloquently of the position of religion In a society where all men are free to worship God according to conscience. Despite occasional small frictions, these 64,5b1,594 members of 250 churches Jive, generally speaking, in harmony with each other, and with the 68.00n.0v0 who are without such affiliation. Each of those 250 churches has an equal right to wiu new converts as It can. and most bf them are doing It. Such a situation ie one of America’s finest contributions to civilisation. Here, too, as in so many other fields, freedom is a priceless possession. — Huntington HeraldFiona. ■ o—- * Modem Etiquette * By ROBERTA LU Q Is It all right for a woman to cross the lubuy of a hotel or restaurant in order to speak to a man? A. No, auk the bell boy or the waiter to tell the man ‘jo come over at bls convenience Q- If the wedding reception is to bo an informal afternoon affair, what retrhshmenU should be uerved? , . A tfaudwicbes. a salad, followed by ice cream cake and coffee ‘ Q On what occasions should a

Nation Pauses to Observe Independence Djv In CONGRESS. Juix 4. w* State* of9^rtco, :' - KziFAiJLJ Jr -. ~ i ~ The Declaration of Independence; Thomas Jefferson, one of the signers and a scene In Independence Hall, Philadelphia, at the signing. Independence Day. July 4. has a new- significance this year as the United States again .Is nesr the brink of a war which has engulfed the European conunent. The United States pauses to observe, nationally. the independence from England those many yean ago. an England that today calls for, and is getting help from the group of colonies that became a world power

man wear full drensf A. At an opera, a liall. an even-, Ing wedding, a diun*-r when- formal Invitation* have been Issued, and at certain State functions, 0 — Answers To Test Questions | Below are the answers to the . Teat Questions printed on Page Two o - . m ——’ 1. Beetle. 2. Wilhelm 11. former Kaiser of Gennany 3. Nelson A Rockefeller. I The Holy Grail. 6. Helium. 6 independence Hall. 7. Kentucky Derby. I’reakness. and Belmont Stakes. 8. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington. D C. !• Daniel Webster. 10, England and France. „_ o Household Srraphook * By Roberta Lee For Burning Feet For burning feet, prepare a foot liath of water a* hot a* can be hornc This will tl«- found a great relief Baths of sand, warm and moist, are also good. Bury the feet in this up tn tin- ankles, and allow

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to remain from twenty to thirty i minute*. Rush Seats kpply a coat of white *hcllac to rush avata of the antique chairs. This will make them last longer and prevent them from splintering, as they are semetjnfes apt to do. Crotons S<>up( rototts can In- made canlly m the corn-pupper. They will crisp very quickly. Cut the bread the desired size, place In the (topper and toast over glowing coals. * TWENTY YEARS ' AGO TODAY p - ♦ July 3. 1921 -was Bunday. o— — — . COURT HOUSE Marriage Licenses Joe H Zimmerman, ik 4. Ih-calur. du-maker to Gelaine Kleiuknight. Bluffton, beauty operator. Shelby Faulkner. Bluffton, employed at Wayne Pump Co. to Mary Jane Beery, Decatur, stenographer. Leo F. Faurote. Decatur, contractor ip .Martha B Christen. Decatur, dark. p _— — Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

I New« Os The World * By United Frees > • Moscow Josef Htalin admitted to the Russian People in a radio address today that the German} had made huge gains, warned them that they were fighting for tnelr liberty and their live* and called on the into fight to the finish. He said Jtu**ia’s main forces only now were coming Into action. Washington Non-intervention--Ist* senators resumed their campaign for a negotiated British-Gi-r---man peace today despite repudiation of such suggestions here and in London. Berlin Nazi* asserted today that the “remnants" of a great Russian army east of Bialystok would lie compelled to surrender before the weekend oi be destroyed In what wa* called a “battle of annihilation." New York The new German thrust southward toward Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, was reported today by the British broadcasting company quoting a Russian communique. Ixmdon -British lioinbers caused large fires in the industrial sections of Bremen. Cologne and Duisburg in northwest Germany last night, the air ministry said today

STRIKE THREAT ATCLEVELAND Plants Manufacturina Army Scout Cars Threatened By Strike By t'nltvd Proas Th<- United Automobile Workers Union (UKD threatened today to strike at two Ulevoland plants of the White Motor company, manu facturer of army scout cars. A strike vote was approved by »4 percent of 3.00« members, the I union announced, bocauae the com pany rejected union demands foi an hourly wage Increase of I" cents No date was set for the strike The company, which hold* |7o,ooo.<hm in defense orders, refused to admit union claims that rising living costs justified revision of an (-listing contract which expires in July. 1842. The strike threat coincides with a warning from President Roosevelt that the government will not hesitate to take drastli action. Including plant seizure if necessary, to preVent work stopjiages In defense Industries. Mr Roosevelt's warning was issued with his order formally returning control of the North American Aviation company's plant at Inglewood. Calif , to civilian management. The army seized the plant to break a strike June 9. Troops still remaining at Ihe fudory withdrew today to their

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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Moodily North strode back for a final inspection of the oily-smelling shack, and made a mental tally of the rim marks that certain great oil drums had left on the floor. "Plenty of crude oil-well, let’s be going, Bruce." He caught up one of the tarpon rods with which they had camouflaged the investigation. Three minutes later the H’at/uu, that speedboat which Kilgour had chartered, was drawing a broad white streak across the bay heading for Kalohi Channel at forty knots. From the speedboat's forward cockpit North cast a moody look back at the sun-gilded wharf. "Guess the bird’s flown for good,” he commented. "It puzzles me to know why Karen's crowd started to pull out so early; at nine o'clock Teodora's body had just been found.” "Yes, I thought of that, too. Os course a wireless on Oahu would have done the trick. But I wouldn't worry too much about that just now.” "I'm not. I’m wondering just where Captain Karen moved al) that fuel.” Kilgour blinked in the glare from the water. “So am 1. Ixird, if we only had time we could trace those oil purchases—” He glanced quickly up into the aching blueness of the sky, for—low over the water and not a mile distant—a black-painted biplane was roaring along. "I guess Karen pulled out as soon as word got 'round that sister Teodors had been keeping bad company," commented North. “Bad company?" “Kanamura, of course." And North elapsed into silence while Kilgour gloomily surveyed the Waiua'i American engineer and the hungry-looking half-caste boy who velped with the running of the ipeedboat How paradoxical It was, North nused, that on this lovely and peaceful sea the foulest of human emodons were abroad. Somewhere out to the westward a Japanese cruiser squadron was steaming steadily towards Honolulu and terrible fate.... Suddenly the U. S. agent noticed a black object floating less than a quarter of a mile to the left. Cupping his hands, he faced the stern and ordered the helm put over. "Hello!" queried Kilgour.''What’s up?" Very soon It appeared that what North had seen was a human body in dark clothes floating far out from the nearest island. Utterly vanished was the intelligence captain’s previous lethargy as ho ordered the Wailua’t speed checked; soon he deftly caught the unknown's collar with a boat hook end ordered the Wailua Into reverse. The body proved to be quite unrecognizable. On closer inspection it appeared to be that of a Japanese, his head crushed by some terrific force, in ouch manner that the skin was not broken I When the body had been hauled sboard, Kilgour stood looking on as North made the usual search. “No papers at all,” the searcher •eported. "Queer, he's still warm, Muldn't have been dead over fifteen Minutes." "Remember that plane?" Kilgour (ueried. “He might have fall«n out (f it. That would account for his uttered condition.” North was intent on examination >f an expensive gold wrist watth ehlch had been worn by the dead fapanese. "Somehow, I don't think that's • fuita the right explanation,” North -eturaad- “See? This watch has •topped at 8:10. It’S now E:2O, and hat plane must have gone by at east half an hour ago. 1 * "Perhaps,” Kilgour pointed out, It took sores time for the water to •et into the works.”

"That'a truo—w»'U look into that

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home stations. Their commander. Lieut. <ol Charles E Branshaw. said army operation had been "nimpletely aucceaaful." At Trona. Calif... the American Potash and Chemical company operated with a limited force which returned after a 14 week atrike. ■ ailed by the I'nlicd Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers Union iCIOI. Workers who remained on strike maintained picket lines. The company said of LfifiT employes returned yesterday to accept the management offer of a compromise wage proposal The new wage scale ranged from 78 ■ eiits to 8120 an hour compared with union demands for 81 to 81-20. At St. Loua, 1.860 AFL building trades workers nt ruck yesterday

later.** North abruptly checked hie remarks when ha eame upon one of those tags, such as tailors sew into custom-made suits, stitched to the inner pocket of the dead man's coat Printed on the tag were a number of Japanese characters, then in English, “A Noguchi, Kobe.” On a dotted line the name “ W. lahi” had been Ailed in in ink. "I say, Hugh, he must have come from the plane,” Kilgour presently insisted. “Don’t you see? Ho mast have.” "Why so sure?” “Eyesight, my lad. There’s not been s boat anywhere near here, and the late Mr. Ishi certainly couldn't have drifted out from land and still be warm.’’ “Very true,” North agreed briefly, "he couldn’t But well, I’m going to catch forty winks before we fetch Honolulu—l’ve an idea well have a busy time tonight” During the remainder of the long trip back to Honolulu, both the intelligence men slumped down in the forwsrd cockpit and seemed to doxe off to sleep.... In his dote, North could see nothing save Nadia Stefan's exquisite features; quite effectively the arching brows, the red appeal of lips, and the play of lights in her eyes banished all other thoughts. ~. O 0 o o W Ishi had been a man of importance in the Japanese colony of Honolulu. Reporters flocked to the quarantine doek like flies, and North found it significant that these newsgatherers were not only from the Chinese and Japanese dallies, but from Honolulu's leading white papers as well. And soon outside the musty-smelling boat shed in which Mr. Ishi’s body had been laid out, Hideyo Kanamura appeared upon the scene. Kanamura did not Immediately notice Captain North who had effaced himself behind the capable bulk of a big Hawaiian policeman. The intelligence officer’s hand closed over Kilgvur*s wrist when Kanamura came to a halt beside the dead man. Ixioking very spruce in his white linen suit, the Japanese peered down at his compatriot a long minute, then drew himself up and joined His heels with a dick. Kananrara's sharply delineated feature* had suddenly become carved of wood. His hand crept out, almost timidly, and touched the chilled fingers dangling at an impossible angle over the edge of the canvas stretcher. While Kanamura murmured something in his native language, the four or live other Japanese present turned their heads away and gated at the floor. Then, like a man who determinea not to be daunted by a personal loss, the ship chandler faced the police inspector. “Who found him, please? When, where, and how?" The police inspector indicated North and Kilgour. “It was these gentlemen, Mr. Kanamura. They found ths body floating off the island of Maui, about three hours ago.” A deadly glitter shone in Kanamura’s bright Mack eyes aa he declared, "You I So it was you?" intelligence captain said, calmly ignoring the deeper implication of the question. “We were •orry it was too late to do anything tor him." Inscrutable, yet unspeakably menacing, was the look Kanamura shot at the white-dad American; two or three of the Japanese in the background murmured among themselves. “I am sure,” the ship chandler went on in a choked and quivering His double meaning waa so obvijs.ssj:.'* 4 “Well, gents, gum that’ll be all

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and halted all construction « '<*4l at the 84.(«Mt,n00 Jefferson army post. The strike w. 14 i * o< to protest employment of u of.thi painters and plumbers on ~ built structures. ot The national defense 1 4 board demanded a reply ■ 1 Western Cartridge . ton. 111., by 5 p. m. (EBT> t its recommendation that . - pany recognize the AFL .- n I Q a workers union. iistat Washington reports Mid V hffl ernment might take over ’h< unless the dispute Is setth-d coon union has threatened t nlal ! Bunday, interrupting work tor I 448,841 In defense contract* .: WnW company refuses recognltb Kaon

for now," the police Inspector tjggjjS nounced after shutting his r M . with a snap. “May have to cal! y ' for an inquest.” "We’ll be glad to do anythin .-'Grow ean,” North aasured him. k'.onffMd Kanamura’a baleful glar", Nad stalked out of the shed, hailed a n-g w< and drove off with Kilg< >ur tlmoi asked, “I say, Hugh, where art heading?” “To a watchmaker,” North • 'j plied as the cab threaded its m ? through milling traffic. “You » I’m curious to find out exactly h co> long it takes this watch,” he ■ duced Mr. Ishi’s square gold » for ti watch, “to stop when immersed wha I water.” their Half an hour later the wa’chrwf out er had repaired Mr. Ishi's wsu “Ml Shortly after that, in the « wa a | armchairs of North’a room. , ur K telligence men were relaxing . mentarily. Finally Kilgour . ed, "Weil, Hugh, my lad, I sh wonder but ft’s time for a sun •' up, aa a barrister would say " “Sure thing,” North agre. t » them a long sigh. “At last we'v< .That something definite to go on- • know how Teodora Mazro died." ?r ivil Bruce Kilgour straightened t ■ body to stare curiously at his r: < panion. "And just how do you tta she died?" "A needle thrust.” CON “Hum—you found that out at 1 morgue?” Cl °* “The proof, yes; but I gw on Abner Polk’s float” "So far so good,” the Engl *■ rK-|l* murmured, “and now will > > K-tllb ms how the body came to be 1141 it was found?" m; "Please think back,” North i ug vited. "You recall there was r 1 |g in sight before Teodora’s bv > »> ... found?” “J "She might have gone »•.- J? ming,” Kilgour objected North made impatient souute 123 “Good lord, Bruce, are you g f' J 24 suggest that someone swam u: •' drove a needle into her mtdut-iIM nerve center?" |t? "I didn’t mean that,” snapped th Englishman, coloring a little j.jgj meant she might have gone Eng with someone who mur ! : r on the beach, stripped her event identification, and J! out to sea Jost aa Clark br r 3 her in to the float" Judiciously, North pursed hul.p UMj ’‘Possible, but hardly probable.’’ C-iM “I told you that,” Kilgour minded, "but—what are you go.:, uyj to do now ? Are you mad ?" (* jM His eyes followed North wM hsQ M brought forth Mi. Ishi’s watch H held it over a glass of water. "Possibly," North admitted "fi: JT please look at my watch and <!- J” take your eyes from It When 1 *’* ’now,’ note the time carefully again when I say fatop.* ” When the watch show ! >' o’clock sharp, the intelligcne« car hU tain signalled “Now!” and lowered the wrist watch into t tumbler holding the glass up to r light to watch that tiny minute has * ticking around. “Ira slowing," North at the end of several tense and a'COlf pan-ntly endless minutes. “ Inside the glass the wrist minute hand faltered—stopp'd North called, “Stop!” ‘‘ w “Eight minutes, twenty-two Ml ends past six o’clock," cam'' h way guar’s prompt announcement -s S “Thank you.” The intell captain fished the watch from *oug| watery position. “Guess our late > -f| mented Jap friend couldn’t pov : Joat have fallen from the airplay ’ (a | { aaw. That plane wont by at :, ' i 's, wa twenty minutes before we sighted the body; Ishi's watch only stopped ten minutes before • healed him into the boat” “Neat!" was the EnglishmfjJJß admiring comment “Uncon. neat! Point proved!” (To be ebntiaued) teißtSki. ISM. WV M WrS M»« Ml ug mm IWiwu '*** Wb