Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 8 July 1941 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ftMliUd B-.r, B'MIOC Kxcepl Sunday by TH* DKGATUR DEMOCRAT 00 Incorporated. ■atered at tbe Daeatur, lad. Post Office as fiecoud Class Matter. I. H. Hollar Preeideut A. M. Hoitbouso, Smy A Das. Mar Dick D. HaUar.w ..Vice-President Subscription Rates Jln(la Copies — I 02 One week, by carrier —- .10 Ono year, by carrier iOO Due month, by mall .36 Three months, by mai1....,™.... 100 Six mouths, by ius.l 176 Ono year, by mail - .3 00 Ono year, at office ............. 3.(10 Prices quoted are within a radtus at ItM* miles. Elsewhere >3 50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on ApplicationNational Representative HCI LEWI ER a CO. 16 Lexiugtou Avenue, New York. U East Wacker Drive. Chicago. Charter Joembers of The Indiana la-ague of llmne Dailies • MBmuMaamwsHWwwaatataSßiMesnawmmmhha» These ar r tile days when you lietter enjoy naltire from afar it you are alb-rgli to < hixx'-rs or poison Ivy. Th-y say both are unusually active this season. —o Th! street fair with ail it* entertainment. fun. displays of aari< ill tural produt ts. live stick and ma < hlneiy, parades bands, the midway and a good time will Ih- on in three weeks, Get net Those pamphlets advertising the navy make it *o attractive that it inakiv ns wish we could join up and sec th* world timid pay. learn • a trade. (< t a good living and your * lollies and a chance to earn up to • 12»i on six year enlistments O—O Joe DiM.igglo has nu*e sei a pat tern for hitting safely in conse« ulive games that's going to be ha id to match and which probably won’t hurt hl* 191! contract very mu* b lie Is proving the moat valuable man In the game just now with Williams of Boston a close second. O—O The city council In Shelbyville met tn ape< lai session to adopt daylight saving time. It went through with a whoop and then to further enjoy the summer months, the city dads voted to meet only once a month during July and August. That's meeting the time proposition half way. O—O Walter Wlm hell who hae be< n called a war moger and a lot of other names because of his vigorous attacks against communists ami Nazi organizations wilt report for duty in the naval reserves August Ist. Time Magazine has apologized for a recent statement to the contrary. —o This country is luiulng out a new ship every day and (hats really doing something for defense. A tew weeks more and we will he pretty well prepared for any thhig that comes It's been hard to get started but we are on the way and Will soon ire the best prepared of any uatkrn In the world Lewis Lawes baa resign'd as warden of Hing Hing prison in New York state after thirty-six years in that kind of work, twenty-one of which were spent there. He was long been recognised as ths outstanding warden in the country and nndet his supervision Hing Hing has become a model prison. He will devote his time to writing and factoring to project his Ideas and convictions. He has betu a great public servant , Gary is attracting attention because of its new method to control wver-pight parktag. la order to facilitate night street sweeping garageless car owners are permit t ed to park on the odd nights of the

month on the side of the street with the odd honee number* On even night* parking is on the other side of the street. This was rusorted to when an ordinance forbidding all night parking was found too diffl' till to enforce .Maurice Early in Indianapolis Star. —O——of people, particularly iu north- astern Indiana, arc sin- < erely saddened by the sudden death of Frank Careltun N'-toon of Auburn We all felt we kn* w this splendid man who for many yeais has published each Sunday in the Fort Wayne Journal-flaxetle, a poem that fitted the occawloh and inspired ihos. who lead them He was sixty two years old and a traveling salesman Funeral serVici* were held at Auburn this afternoon. O—O Over six hundred people 111 tbe United States lost their lives over the Fourth and the long week *-nd. according to reports from the National Safety Council. Os this number more than half were iu tralfic an identa while airplane crashes, drowning*, firework accidents and other causes made up the long I tat. Most of the accidents probably could hav<- been prevented by < are but w> become einhusiaatic and reckless and frequently thr thing happen*- almost before we know it. O—O Japan and China have been lighting four years as oi July 7lh and it Is said by many that If the Jape could get out and save their faces they would do so. They have made little headway and the future doesn't look so good China has live million man armed and no intention of giving up until they get liar k those sections of territory oc- | copied early In (he fight by Japan. War is like that. Destruction is terrible and the insults negligible. Why do the people of th*.- earth r ontinua to engage tn it? — uWoild students deciare there is nothing to fear about an invasion of this country through Alaska and any one who gives It earnest thought *an readily agree. To do so they would have to traverse thousands of miles of barren waste Hi Siberia and on our aid* would have to conquer Alaska, whir'll Is seventeen times as large as Indiana and hae only 7>uhio population. Both countries are mountainous and so cold most of the year that military ac tion would be impossible ou land, air or sea Those inclined to borrow trouble put this danger out of their minds. —o PLAY SAFI Hummer's the time for accidents and therefore safely leaders nrge the exercising of unusual precautions during thin season. Accidents are not r outined to automobiles. Net at all. Home accidents and those about the home are most prevalent al this time of the year, out door accidents predominate. too. Falling down stairs is a common mishap only the other day a Merrlllvillt tot met Its death in a fall down the basement steps A barber of our ar qualniuiicn broke a bone in his fool that way the other day. A lawyer we know fell off his riding horse and injured his foot He'll be hobbling the balance of the summer. Been Hying Into automobiles are extreme haaard: Auto drivers should anticipate such incidents and steel themselves to make a safe, off-the-highway stop. Bathing in the summer and we refer to the bathtub variety —in more frequent than at any other season, for obvious reasons Bathtubs are tricky inventions, and the users thereof should tread hi and out of tbe contraptions with exceeding care Hwimmlug is something else. Don t dive into shallow water! One s head is but a treble sbel! on a rock. Don’t go swburning alone or beyond your depth! Every youthful tamper know! that these are

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important precautions. Sun burne. and how! Expose yourself little by little to Old Sol and avoid painful and uftinies dangerous burns Along the same line, don’t becoin- overheated. Heat prostration Isn't pleasant; neither Is sunstroke Need We ' Olitltllle? Va< gtloll little Is trouble time utileM one oiops, looks, listens attd considers. Gary Posl-Tirlbiine. Answers To Test Questions 1 Below are tbe answere to tbe Teet Questions printed | on Page Two I Jewish historian and general. ! Octane ruling. J. False 4. MINVCXXXH. 6. Argentina. Brazil and Chile. d. Nine. 7 First 'blank, “health;" second blank. ' Losses." k. Wellington. It. Professional Iming. 10. Yes. O— — —— —— I Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee Substitute Ice Picks I! an ice pick is unavailable or Is misplac'd for the lime being, an ordinary hat pin gradually forced into the v producer a crack and 'iqraraie* it without sound .Med-ium-sited plecesH of Ice call lie cracked 'With a needle, or even a common pm. using a ihimble to to push It through. Moths in Carpets Rock ammonia, dissolved in IrdlIng water I* excellent for removing moths fir>m carpets, t'se four

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YOUR CHILD There is no substitute for gorsl health. There is no foundation on which a future grown-up citizen of the IT, H. call so securely build as g'ssl healllk. What parents can do to assure good health for their children is get forth simply and authoritatively In the booklet available from the Daily Democrat's Hervlce Bureau. t'se the coupon le-low to order your copy, enclosing with it a dime to cover return postage and all other costs: <T.IP UH PON HERE F. M KERBY. Director. Daily Democrat's Service Bureau, Dept B-117-101J Thirteenth St . Washington, D C. Hend my copy of the booklet CHILD HEALTH to N A M F. STREET and No. CFTT STATE I read the Decatur (tally Democrat. Itecatur, Ind

ounces of the ammonia to every quart of water. Apply with a flannel, then go over the material with ' a hot iron. Macaroni After boiling imwiironl. rinse it well in warm water to remove the excess starch prevent stickiness. 0 1 T Modern Etiquette * By ROBCRTA LKB 0 1 - 0 Q Is It ever permissible to "show off' one’s knowledge about different subjects of conversation? A. No. the most illti-lligent people arc usually the simplest and most modest. Q Should a man remove his has when he meets a woman acquaintance on the street and pauses h> talk with her? A Certainly, and hold it in his hand while talking, unless thvwea-thi-r Is dlsagn-eadde. Q What are some suggestions for "titi-riaiirment at a house party? A. Golf, sw I non Ing. tennis, hiking. picnicking motoring

CONTINUE DRIVE CONTINUED FROM PAGB r>NB ' mils have scut checks to the chair- ' man Several out of town dmiatiotts ; have been received and every indication points to a full subaciiptlon of the budget. The fair dates are July 28 to August 2. Inclusive, and one of the most Interesting programs ever planned Is being *hu|>ed by the directors and department loiad*. —— - -p WOMAN DIES AT CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONB county; two sisters; Mrs. Ixircna Inniger of Ithaca. Michigan; and Mrs. Bai4mra Hwbi gger of .Monroe township; and seven grandchildren. Funeral services will b- held al 1:30 p. 111 Thursday at the home at 2 o'cluck at to.Mlsa ryanohibthe and at 2 o'clock at the Missionary church, with burial in .M R E. cemetery. Money erder* were first accepted by the V. H postoffice department

COURTHOUSE Real Kstate Transfvrs Charles H. l-ehman et ux to Marcus H. l-rhmsn et si, in 37 acres in. Berne for II Anns M. Lindsey to Iran E Ford! et ux. 36 acres in Waliush township for |3SSH> Howard A. Miller to Hsmm-l M Troyer et ux. S" acres In Jefferson townohlp for |l. Katie Hchrock to Joseph J. Bchrock et ux i'j acres In Monroe town«htp for 11. Elma Llrchty et al to Linn Eicher. 7! acres in Monroe rownstilp for •ISchool City of Decatur Io Kath ryn E Jackson, parts of inlot* 211 and 24J> in Drcautr for II&V CHURCH REVIVALS I Baptist Church The revival service tonight and every night this w-ek begin* at 7:15 o'clock, featuring for the firs' finteen minutes the -portraying of a beautiful scene, by our chalk artist, Miss Maxine Roth. Also the organ will be heard in tspproprlaie selection* The service of song will begin at 7 3<» with me«<iage by .Miss Phyllis Idle. The public Is urg'd to enjoy itheae unique service*. - — f ~n7ws Os The World * By United Press Washington. President Hoosocvelt took over the military protection of Iceland after rv|«orts reached him that the (lermun general staff was conshl* ring attarkiug It to obtain a base from which to

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Confound it! North was actually flushing at Nadia’s flattery. In a vain effort to collect, to study himself, he gazed across the snowy expanse of tablecloth at Von Rentner —huge, fauitk-ssly dressed, and thunder-browed. The Prussian must be seriously smitten with Nadia; he was positively glaring over a bowl of flaming hibiscus set before him. To the German's right was Bruce Kilgour, talking pleasant nonsense with Ph«-dre Renuire, and apparently amusing her. Though his brain urged the fact upon him, North found it nearly Impossible to believe that a majority of this gay and brilliant company Were contemplating treachery, violence; even murder hovered in the flower-scented air and then—WAß! “You arrived early, no?" Nadia’s expression reflected only polite curiosity. “No." North hardly knew why he chose to lie—of course she knew better. She ignored the falsehood and, idly picking at her filet ot fish, smiled a little sadly. "Congratulations, mow CapitaifU. You have found the right line of attack." “I wonder.* “Yes,’’she murmured,"your seeking out our host was a masterpiece of reasoning, of intelligence. But do you imagine you have made any real progress?” "Progress?” "That was the word I used.” Almost impulsively her shapely hand sought his below the table. “Ah, you think you are brave, my gallant Captain. But yvor cleverness will avail you not at all. Why must you fly in the faces of the Fates?" He was too rapt in the candle-lit perfection of her features to reply. "You talked to our host—you think the affair is settled your way, no?” "Affair?" North sought a feeble refuge in a monosyllable, so great was the turmoil in his brain. “You think you understand everything. no?" Her hand tightened over his and pressed a tiny square of paper into his palm while her voice sank to a faint, desperately earnest whisper. “My phone. Please leave immediately after dinner.” "And when is the Japanese squadron due, Mr. Kanamura?” Vaguely, North heard the Lloyd girl putting the question in a transparent effort to be polite. The froxen-faced Japanese was trying to pretend it was a matter of routine importance! Wearied by nearly forty-eight hours of sleeplessnesa, North was stirred faintly by smelling smoke as of wood burning. But reluctantly, his fatigued perceptions relapsed into their quiescent state. The conversation veered to a discussion of tbe forthcoming Kamehameha Day. Suddenly a shrill, throbbing scream came echoing down those broad stone stairs which North had ascended on his arrivsl.

A» though jerked by invisible wires, every head turned towards the hallway, and North suffered a second shock. A gorgeous red and yellow batik acrosa the ball was barred by shifting strata of smoke. The sting of the wood smoke assailed his nostrils again. ... That meant danger for the absolutely essential documents in the wall safe. His stomach felt like a vacuum. What if ht wtrt to lose Ate hardwon vict org f Fiercely questioning, North turned to face Nadia and found her face a lovely, inscrutable piece of marble. She returned his glance—calmly, almost sympathetically. Not w Abner Polk. Glaring £uri>

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control North Atlantic shipping 1 Um-s. a usually well Informed conI gresslonal wource said today. Ilamdmi. — Gi-rman attempt* to i croe* the Dnieper river have been , l thrown back with heeyy lo**e* and the Russian* have taken Herman I prisoners in the lighting, a Russian * oiiiiiiuui'tui broadcMt by the Mos- ! <ow radio said today. 11 l»nd<m American occupation of I ’ Iceland eventually will relieve ap- • proximately bo.ooo imperial British , troops who had held tbe island * i against the possibility of a Herman ) attack. It was understood today. Berlin. Herman forces are using . all milit.ir) B • grand stale I atta<k In an attempt to widen a break hi Itussia's Stalin line of de- [ tense. Nazis Intimated today. They believed they soon might smash . the last big Russian barrier to their . advance. i| t Moscow. — Russian troops are > holdnig the (»»rmatis firmly in six

ously, he stood undecided at the head of the table. "What the devil is this?” he growled, then his large frame seemed to contract He looked dangerous aa he called, "Come upstairs, Nevins!" A puff of wind blowing through the high-ceilinged dining room brought with it the unmistakable acrid reck of burning wood. "What's that!" cried Polk abruptly. “It is wood smoke, I think—" Kanamura had time to suggest no more before the great white house awoke to uproar. The dinner party broke up in wild confusion. "Quick, quick, savs the paintings!" cried someone. “Save the antiques!" yelled another. “No, no, the feather cloaks—they're irreplaceable I** Wild-eyed servants, streaming that the whole second floor was in flames, appeared in a body and rushed for safety outside. Kilgour got up quietly, waiting for a signal from North. The latter, brushing by, muttered hurriedly: “Get to the terrace—back of house—street anybody acting suspiciously—watch for strangers or Polk was out of sight, and North darted across the smoko-filled hall, joining other guests now bounding up the wide stone steps after their host. Loud sounded the dry crackling of flames and smoke made it hard to see. All the men, save Kilgour, were struggling on up. Von Bontner and Dunant were just ahead.... By the time he reached the head of the stair, sheets of flame were visible at both ends of the corridor! While North hesitated, a loud report sounded nearby and something seemed to rap him sharply on the shoulder. Hie first instinct was to flrs at that ghostly figure in a holfopen doorway, but reason warned that Me first consideration must bo the contents of Polk’s safe Doggedly ha lurched oa towards the steel king's bedroom. Suddenly his foot struck a heavy yielding object and ho fell to his knees and strained his eyes to recognise Chari-ton-Polk’s valet. Ho was lying in a pool of blood; from between Ida shoulder Hades projected the brass handle of a dagger! “Seflnoll/ StCtMf he hoard Von Rentner gasping somewhere in the murk ahead. Just then the electric bulbs wsnt out with appalling suddenness. Towards the door to Polk’s room Nofth was feeling his way when ho heard two ahots and someone gave an ear-shattering scream that ceased as abruptly aa it had begun. His head spinning furiously, he pressed further into the bedroom and so became aware of a figure which awayed in furious combat with another. Ho ignored them; Ms only concern was that wall safe. Was it open! Clawing his way along ths wall. North Anally reached the picture. But the safe had been opened, for the picture was swung forward, evtdsntly on a hinge. Shaken with a terrible tear, ho thrust his hand into the safe’s circular opening; ho found it empty. Who had got those precious documents! Ho spun heavily about, aware of scorching heat caused by hungry flames now licking through the wooden partitions of a door to tbs right. What had become of the combatants! He would have given mesh to know who that wse who lay sprawled tn the center «f ths bedroom fleer. But there was wot an did North retain Ha senses long •ough to /ted a wap through the

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separate sectors ot ■ •*. • „ a . fl the Ksthonian border to |fl abia. a Russian « i ~, •aid totlay. and ha*. three Herman Flinn h, Vl . ( fl Russo-Finnish front. ■ o- — ■ " TWENTY YEARgK AGO TODAY i, _———-... . I July H -Firowoik . I , 'h-gfl ern Indiana Fair h.ir u - t *fl Stephen B Fl'-in n.- ,t X-.fl (Tty visits here and ?,.-*L.nB times are coming. Hottest weather v-t red here. Trucks are h.iu ~j Fort Wayne. Decatur Rotary o.r ■ <tk| with Dr. Fred Patte- *,in , a -g as president. Phil Strahm of w- -i of > was a business visitor here Miss Veronica Anker rg from Winona where she j'tg the €. E. convention _ Trade In a Good Town - [>s

i inferno to reach the stair- Wltifl a clothes half-smolders ng, h« g ■ across the terrace and was how S i stricken to see a man behsnd ar* A bush level a pistol at him. w Desperately North tried to i out, “Kilgour! Don’t!" t At the last instant K ilgnur r-r 5 , nixed him; instead of camo bounding forward £ “Heaven, but you’re a pointed to North’s blood--" Idea l 1 , shoulder. “Who shot you?" “Dunno —only a grate -ui; r that—terrace!" were th<-first vIM ' North uttered, and his r»dj bloodshot eyes turned to a figure, on the center of tho tcrnfl ’ red-tinted by the flames. "Some Johnny I saw L-ggrsg y ’ out of the window with a e ai 1-1 J in his hand. Winged the blight , when he wouldn’t stop," ex;-* jj ’ Kilgour. With increasing fury burned 1 | mansion which tho millions of I f nor Polk had reared. "Here, where are you going" s "Look, must look — that ml , With tears from his tortured ej S streaming down singed J-n-m ; North shielded his head ar.ir.it 1 c withering heat and strugg d toi> I , broken figure which lay spraw ied t 1 the flags. He had just time to rex* ’ that tho dead man was a Japan* ! Eurasian of unusual site. whfiO . section of tho roof fell in r-dS ’ deafening crash. ■ . “Come on, come on1" yelled 1 ’ gour. “That bloody wall’s totts* —-join’ to fall!* But North, despite the furi* ’ boat, knelt to toot the dca! -*-•< various pockets, and even to a Anger into the instep of each M ’ Kilgour's hand, dosing on ’ collar, dragged him bodily NJ across the terrace and down a ffijj of stops not a quarter of a mjsJ i before the seaward wall of KsM ' crashed into smoking stone and M ’ rieualy biasing wood. J "Got to bo very careful r*J ' North rasped while his pa'nftj swollen eyes swept the town > want some other hombre teU gn 1 shots at me." “Glad it’s no worse---the , barely grazed you," Kilgour marked while folding a handtefl chief over tho akin wound on N toft shoulder, ao tho American u ' his colleague about bls In' ! with Polk. ’ Bruce Kilgour pressed cloo*| r "Then you got the proof!” "No, somebody-! hope it H ' Pelk—beat me to it," said hr. r"1 ’ found discouragement in his *' ! r , “But anyway, let’s look alive. Br j<M and see what’s going an; then ’ go to town and tabs stock.” By the glare of tho conflxgr*"the two circled ter back into ’■* k shelter of a grove of banysr , this vantage point they recogn"* in tho fast-gathering crowd the ’ lyfigureofVonßentner,thepl“* contours of Armand Dunsnt. •’ ’ the feline slenderness of the J*l* . nose ship chandler. . ’ Os Nadia Stefan, the Lloyd and Abner Polk, nothing could I seen, but presently Phftdre R< >’ v! ’ came to North to ery out in Fre« that she bad assn the Lloy i r’ ; screaming at a window where th , flames had trapped her. J "But where’s Polk!” North wso ’ sd to know. "I mast find Mm. WM . did you sec him tost!” u "Ah, Seigneur Dtou/ It was at d „ head of tho stairs,” she sided. I mon pmsoro ontf, but he cannot!" . dead—ho mast not be dead!" . Sensing tho Frenchwoman to* , badly shaken, North gasped, ”8* 1 . good lad, Bruce—see if you can fi’ 1 ’ P01k.... I’m all ia; ao to Him * . noire—get to sit down a bit" g (To bo continued) rase, wliis wro aw* • Maoswas w Uss rwans aieaau. *