Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1941 — Page 4

PAGE FOUR

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT rublwbed Bvsry Evsulug Excock Sunday by TMC DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO Incorporated tutored al th* Decatur, Ind, J’ost Office a* Second (.’>»»» Matter. J H Heller .... — Pre.ideul AR. Hoithuu*c. Set :'f. A Du*. Mg Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rate* B.ngls Cople* I *3 One week, by carrier .... 10 One month, by mail - 3S Three month*, by mall . 100 Six month*, by mail . . 1-71 On* year, by mail 3 00 Price* quoted ar* within a radiu* of 100 mile*. Elsewhere S3:(o one year. Advertising Rate* made Known On Application. National Reptesentstive BCHEERER t CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York. 15 East Wacker Drive. Chicago. Charter Member* of The Indiana League of Home Dallies. A week from tonight i» when you catch that hour of »l<-ep you lost «heu we went on daylight sating time. -0 It's almost time to pay your fall installment of tax<a and the sooner you attend to this very important duty, the easier it will be and the longei you will have before the next on* i» due next May. The European conu-al awing* back and forth with the advantages apparent to one side or the other but ju*t about the time it looks like one of the force* will b< successful the other springs a j surprise and the entire sceneshifts. It * bard to keep up with. —o The sugar mill will open October 3rd and employment of the four hundred persons n-ct-aaary to operate the plant twenty-four hours a day are now being employed. It will bring the number of employed in Decatur industries close to the Z.iw mark, indications of a mighty good town and it i*. v e Os course if you are a member of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce and didn't take the interest to vote you should not complain of the result*). A fair is a good thing if we all woik at it but if we don't make- it the best one ever, we shouldn't bother with having an event. Life in a community is always a good thing. —o—o We have been asked by the department of commerce to warn our reader* against various rackets in connection with securing birth certificates Itou't waste a lot of money on this for it is not necessary In Indiana At a very low cost you can secure from the circuit court a certificate that will be accepted any where you may be seeking employment. —o Democratic editors are having a big play at French Lick Springs with a dozen celebrities attending The list includes two cabinet membora. Secretary of Agriculture Wlckard, former Hoosier, and Frank Walker, postmaster general. Besides these are many other* who have gained national recognition The event closes this even ing with a big banquet. —- The Indiana Farmer's Guide, long a stand by In the homes of rural Indiana has turned political and is using columns each week to "pan" the national administrating. Control was recently purchased by an Indianatiolis capitalist who employed a partisan editor and publisher and started to "dish up tho dirt.” The old boy may get it out of bi* system but be will have to eater to many who would still prefer a farm paper to specialise '.■s fsrsfe switefi.

Th* northern lights this week are beautiful but nothing to worry about though there are those who fear It may m*an something like invasion or th* end of the world. The scientific name I* Aurora Borealis, ft is frequent in northern Canada. Alaska. No. way and other section*. It Is believed to be an electrical discharge fifty to one hundred mile* above the earth and It effect* radio reception and interfere* with telephone and table transportation. -0 At the clone of the war, the United Stales should find herself in a position to have the last say and the deciding vote. By that time, we will he in shape to make suggestion* and hack them up. It I* going to be up to this couutry to work out. if at all possible, a program upon which peace can Inbuilt that will make Impossible in the future the thing the world has witnessed the past two years. It to a trem--ndou* task, but a task that the best genius of the age must rise and meet — Dearborn Independent. -0 We did not hear our "beloved” Congressman Gillie speak to th* wheat farmers at New Haven. Not hearing the speech, we cannot make affidavit as to what was said. But we would be willing to bet a (oul-deratc dollar to a douguuut that the “beloved" congieasmau did not recall to the I fanners the price they were receiving for corn, wheat and bog* when the last Republican president, Herbert Hoover, was letting agiiculture proceed on Its own untrammeled way without any gov- • rnment Interference. — Columbia City Post. —o ANOTHER ROAR:. Report* have eomi Lorn some piacea In the state that school bus operators and township trustee* may oppose the new state law requiring a 110 fee for new IRcuse plates for school busses. Opposition to the act rcwult* from the fact that 1041 plate*, already obtained and in use on the school busses, must be turned in and new plate* be applied fur al once. Private operators of school busses are under contracts made before the new fee law was passed. and township trustee* iu some instance* find a considerable additional expense fur which fumto are not available. The new law replace* a prevtoua at t exempting school busses from license fee charges. The complaint most heard I* that the law bceom- • s effective after private contracts for bus service arc in existence, and at a time when public funds for plate purchase* by township* arc not included in appropriations. The effect of the act In Wayne township is seen when It is considered that each of the township's 13 buese* must have new plate* at a total cost of *l2O. Much confusion and 111 feeling could have been prevented by making the law effective at the same time 10*2 license plate* must lie purchased for all motor vehicle*. Richmond Paladium-ltcm. - —— | ’ ini ii. — —i . ii i -i»— Answers To Test Questions Below are the answer* to the Test Question* printed on Page Two 1. False. 2. Shako. 3. London, England. 4. Anticlimax. 5. 3«*>4 times. I. The Confederate flag. 7. English jurist. I. James Madison. D Michigan. 10. No. 1. Ten. 2. Doing something superfluous. 3. Loudon England. 4. Vrauu* E. Abraham Lincoln. 8. Venice. Italy. 7. John Adams and Thomas JcCeraoa. 2. ISM. , , ». Kngltoh Parliament. 177*. 10. Germany. Japan and Italy. Trad* tn a Good Town - Decatur

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR, INDLYNA.

! THE APACHE DANCE , ***; WVSMM' a-—

Weather A Week Ahead As Pereoaot By PROP. BBLBY MAXWtLU Noted Meteoreiogiet a—- -«os—^m^pwasvu——am—awsa——a—w - teas*.. a y v jmhc bp-c. w ffi r-/Aj| V uwvk T he souTM-gy* COLD I r w ""wETapg¥ TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL Indiana — Sept. 22 te 21 The N. W. and H E portion* will lie cool. The remaining portions of rhe state will be moderately cool. The extreme N. W portion will be wet The N E and part of the cen. portion will lie moderately dry The remaining portion* of the Mate will be moderately wet. Protected by John F. Dille Company

WEATHER WASHED SOLID ROCK AWAY When you drive from Albany, N. Y. to Pittsfield. Mass, you pa»« over the Taconlc Mountain*. These : mountain* are one of the famous | sight* of America, and no tourtot ..hould mi** them. Tn* weather washed a full half mile of *n|.d ' rock off the top* of the Taconlc Mountain*. The New England rain falls with a geiitir [miter of drop*. Baowflake* fall silently, like white feather* When water rune down the Taronh- mountain slope*, it gurgle* from *tone to stone, ami finally flow* into many little sparkling brook*. In each brook there I* sand, and this sand to, the ground-up sediment of what wag not mi long ago In a geological sense the material of the mountain*. Rain, front and running water are the tools that weather use* to rut mountain* down. When weather work*, time mean* just about nothing. The weather works with a slow, implacable purpose that never let* up. Clouds, rain, and wind are far stronger than the ■olid gray New England granite. When you stand on the qrest of the Taconlc Mountain*, above the gap yvhere the road from Albany tu Pittsfield [>aaae* over the summit, you see broad beautiful valleys on ' cither side of the grim mountain ridge, and off in the distance yau see more hili*. Notf, the mountain you stand on I* the bard inner core of what was once a very much i larger mountain, and Uic broad > valley* on both side* are place* that were formerly filled with soft er rwk. Most of this softer rock is now washed awqy. so that wc get big hollowed out valley* where hljls once were. The gray micatilled rock* of the Taconlc Mountain* were bard enough to better

- /mil 11 -wM I VT / <>/ MWMI i KU ?>•> ft - IME< x ~THX A 3 a*"- • SMUttM * < TAM£N A CIQOQUIWK (a F «Hw iACUVI*w Ml 5««•••«•« ._ «■» W II •• 1 ■ '■ ' • ■"•• ' • * '■l**’*

The map* ahaw L al affset a* Hot, Cold, Wat, and Dry Ase te be aspacted next week. DAILY FORECAST Sept. 1 CDRUMO *mntPsrJWNWß>rrrntoW rr*l*t the anesult* of weather, and »o they now stand like a wall between New York state and Massachusetts. Many of th<- ridge* of the Appalachian Mountain*, for that matter, are ju»t th* stump* of bigger mountain* that existed there long agu. and which the weather has mostly washed away, imt iu most other place* this proves* isn't as easy to aee a* at the Taconlc Mountain*. It appall* u* a little to consider the vast strstche* takeu to wear these gigantic mountain* down, sand grain by »and grain, but even this time I* but a abort span in the whole history of the world. Poel* Ilka io tell us that the hill* are eternal, but this I* not »o. It is the weather that Is eternal, the patter ot raindrop*, the »oft falling nf snow and the gurgling of running streams, and this combination can cut to piece* any mountain that rear* It* head. Rain Gauge Rians The coming winter i* going to be a dry one in many places, and subholl moisture next spring will twscarce. The only way you can know how your farm In making out is to keep a rain gauge, and to watch bow much water your land is really getting. Prof- Selby Max- - —».‘te—.

well baa plant for an incxpi-nsive raja gauge which he offer* to you again at thia time ft will be tent to you FREE with the compliments of this newspaper. Just address your request for Rain Gauge Plan* to Prof. Helby Maxwell, care of thia newspaper. enclosing a stamped (Icl aelf-addretawl envelope for your reply. Weather Questions Q. Is there away to tell by grass, or plants, whether or not fishing is good* Mrs. H H.. Wit A. There la a email rush called an Equlaetum that ha* tiny spore*. Each of these spore* has two coiled springs about it. When the fishing is getting good these springs uncoil, and the spore bounces along on them. When the fishing will be bad the springs coil up about the sport. The springs respond to the moisture of the air. But these i rushes are not always easy to find, and their pores are even rarer. Q. Could you advise me how I can grind my own lennes and. so make a larger telescope* A J S —Minn. A. A good many people do grind tbeir own lenses, and some of them make pratty nice telescope* that way. But grinding a lens is a Job. that calls for plenty of steadiness and calm judgment. I suggest that you go to your Ixwk store or news dealer and order a l>ook on telescope making, or get in touch with the Hayden Planetarium. N Y. Read carefully before you start. Q 1 would like to know the formula tor finding the height of a convections! formed cloud C. P —lnd. A. Consult any standard work on Trigonometry. Finding the height of clouds I* a tricky job. because two observers are usually* necessary, and they must look at exactly the same part of the cloud and at the same Instant with their two theodolites. You could use an artillery range finder, but here the base line Is so short that even a slightly fussy edge to the cloud will give you an error. Q Why Is there sometimes a rainbow ring around the moon? H. F. — 111. A. A rainbow ring about the moou means that there is invisible mcatura in tbo air, and soon it will storm. The smaller the ring the higger the Invisible drops are, and the nearer lhe storm. M Why are official weather temperatures taken In the shade when it's the sunlight what Influences them? S. M. J. -Mont A. Th* shade temperature la considered to be the true on*. The direct ray* of the sun are 211 degrees outside lhe air, but the usual sunshine temperature on the | ground la about 130 degrees. A J great deal depends on how the ' thermometer I* exposed to the sun. This la such a complicated problem that weather men have all agreed to call the shade the real temperaton. Q. lam very much Interested In the study of meteorology. Can you tell me how to start? C. J. M. — Muss. -. r A< .Bure I can -Hubscribe to the Weather Map issued at Washington, D. C. It Is now gloriously complicated, far too hard for a layman to reed, but packed full of weather Information that meteorotegiate revel in. The price Is 3AM a year, and you can get your money's worth Then get a then tpomoter, a barometer, a rain gauge, a hygrometer and a wind

COURT HOUSE Real Estate Transfer* Ben B Colter, exe to Claude Buchanan Jr . et ux SO a< res In Blue Creek township for 33700. Robert 11. Heller, et nx to Ruth E. Human inlot » In Decatur for IM ~ „ Barbara Bleherich to Naomi F. Hlcberlch 3* *<♦<•« Ju Kirkland township for 11200 Hugo Btrfner to Maxine R Margolen et al Inlot M In Berne for II Floyd Acker, et ux to Ernst < Thieme, et ux Inlot 5 tn Decatur for It. O, M. McManama. et ux to John 11. Baumgartner, et u* SO acre* In French township for It. Catharine Innlger to Jacob C. Maselln. et al Ou acre* In Monroe township Cor 11. George J. Tricher to Anna 8. Trlcker part of out lot II in Decatur for 11. ' - ■ O — Household Scraphook | I By Roberta I-ee Cod Liver Oil Stain* Cod liver oil slain* can be removed by using soapy water or tarbon tetrachloride. If the stain* are on a bib or wash drees, rinse force indicator. You can make these for a few cent* each. We I will send you free plan* upon request. War Pendulum Five day* of thi* week'* weather will be warm and cloudy and will favor the Brittoh. Two day* will be coot and clear and will favor the Axis. Hix day* of thi* week » weather will be cool and clear and will favor the Naxl*. Ou<- day will be warm and cloudy and will favor the Russian*

t— --—J ■ S

CHAPTER SIXTEEN “Well, young man, you were all for sending me to the chair,” Brcanu began genially. He swished hie etick against hie leg. “I think we'd better eall a truce, don’t you?" David glanced at Fan, who nodded imperceptably. He straightened, and said, his frank blue eyes on Breanu, “1 never meant you any harm.” His original admiration returned. Breanu was a square guy, and big—“a big shot," indeed. Breanu tapped David on the shoulder with the handle of his stick. It wasn't tbe same stick which had been shown at the inquest, David noticed with a peculiar shock. This one had a thin gold ring at the elbow bend of the handle. “Just to show we’re friends then,” Breanu pursued, his teeth white against his olive skin. ’Td like you and your charming fianede to dine with Mrs. Rubley and myself tomorrow, at my apartment Or any other night you prefer." Something phoney about this, David thought He eaught Fan's eyes again, misty with pain. Ho remembered the way Breanu had looked at Jane. So that was it I The heel was after Jane! “No!” David exploded. Muscles worked in his face; veins drummed. "Miss Rider wouldn’t care to dine with you.” There was a silence that made its own sound in the polite air of the shop. Breanu’s eyes shone on the surfsce, fathomless behind hi* look. "Perhaps you and Miss Rider will be glad to dine with me some day,” ho said, and turned away. Fan went with him. David stood rigidly where he was. If Breanu made one more crack— But Breanu didn't Oblivious to the display around him, he went up to Slagan, murmured a few words, walked out with Fan. Proprietor Slagan, his cheeks empurpled, motioned to David. He could hardly speak, as if some pressure still strangled him. "You’re fired, with two weeks’ pay!” ho said. He looked old. "I’m sorry, my boy. Mat Breanu could—hurt my business. Perhaps later we can fix it up." "That’s all right, sir.” David was stuaaed. Why, old Slagan really liked him! He straightened his shoulders, and gave a ghost of his grin. David knew he certainly was in a jam now. o e e e Through her window early Wednesday morning, Jane Rider heard a sound which transfixed her. She would know the bleat of that horn anywhere. It carried in the clear country air. They were bringing back her car sooner than she expected, after Monday’s inquest. "The Rumble Seat Murder.’’ they called the tragedy that had put a violent end to lovely Carlie Brvanu. What hadn’t it done, Jane thought bitterly, to herself and David! The old farmhouse was silent. She and her mother had breakfasted soon after dawn, in the cheerful kitchen. But Jana couldn’t shake off the lassitude, the numbness she had ftlt ever since she lashed out at David before he left for town Monday night; she had driven him away from her. “I’m aot his type," she told herself. “He needs a girl who adores people and thrills ” She smothered the dull ache that throbbed inside. The horn gave rubbery tongue again, much nearer this time. Jane turned swiftly from the window, and did her hair over, with a few brush strokes on either side of its parted brown waves- She snatched up a brown beret with u orange tassel;

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER &

immediately in warm so*p water. I For woolen garment*, use the car bon tetrachloride. Burning OH Hand, eerth. gravel, flour, meal, any of these are effective to throw on oil that to burning But never try to put out the fire with water, as it only spreads the flame*. St* 1 * Bread A loaf of stalo bread can be freshened by dampening II with hot water, then covering with a damp cloth and placing It in th* oven until it I* hot. .Modem Etiquette By ROBERTA LU o ♦ q Hhould one ever take hold of another person'* arm or touch him in any way while talking with him? A. No, some people resent thi*. Q In whose name should wedding announcement* be sent It the parents of the bride are dead and her only relative I* an older brother? A. Ilavr the wedding announcements sent out in the name of the brother. Q. Which la the correct phrase. "I beg your pardon" or "pardon me"? A. "I beg your pardon." s i f ~ TWENTY YEARS~I AGO TODAY Hept. 20 — Adam* county has 4,034 dwelling* and *,7(3 families, 10,*07 male population and 10.01* female*, according to the official ceMßa. John L. Lewi* flay* the radicals of labor In a speech at the miners’ convention in Indianapolis. Senator Borah oppoae* the Harding Hughe* treaty with Germany. An artificial nitrogen plant at

a checked sport coat. Then she stood ] breathless, waiting, j She had made a decision which i was to alter her life. Trooper Ed Blagden had asked . permission of Sergeant Wayne to . return Jane’s car when the experts i finished their vain search for clues r in the rumble seat where the body . had been found. , Ed argued that Jane and Mrs. Rider were obviously innocent of a t erime that had reeked the county, i In its mystery and absence of moi tive, you couldn’t pin a knife mur- , der on two kids like Jane and her r redheaded boy friend. Thus BlagI den staunchly insisted to his supe- . riors, and the stony-faced detectives , sent from New York to cooperate i with the state troopers. I He thought of all this, as he i drove the aging coupe at a mild . thirty from hie headquarters at . Bardonia. A feeling of spring moved through the September day. The , brilliant maples, the gold of birches i and copper leaves of oaks were like > a supreme splurge, a flaunting of I color to the evergreens. , The trooper swept from the highway onto the dirt road. At least ho i was giving Jane a chance. She had , her job In the library. How eculd i she get there every morning without her bus ? i He parked the car at the bottom i of tbe path sloping to the browni stone house, isolated now from the , fields and orchards Jane's father - had sold bit by bit to city folks. The i road was still trampled by car . tracks and footprints, at which Ed Blagden frowned. He paused, listening to the smack of an axe in the woody grove oppo- , site. That fellow Kurt Helm was a i queer duck. A writer—oo they said! Jane opened the door. "I heard you coming, Ed. It’s awfully nice of . you to bring back my car.” i She looked past him, her stare widening, as if she were seeing the whole ghastly thing again. But it 1 was David she thought of; his eager i blue eyes, his eager mouth on hers, his voice saying "hon”, sitting close i beside her on the now empty seat next to the wheel. , “I thought you might need it.” Ed fingered his broad-brimmed hat; i six feet of trained brain and musele i smartly outlined in his greenishgray uniform. He stooped to pat the broad head of Timmy, the pup, whose shaggy body gave frantic wrlcotn<« Jane softly closed the front door. Her mother didn’t want her to go , to work just yet She had said so i last night i "I’m driving in right now to the • library, Ed,” Jane said urgently. "Mother would make a fuss if she . knew." She went on, "Os course, one of , the Bardonia cars will come for you soon. Go around to the back door. , Mother will love giving you coffee, , and she’s made lota of popovers.” , Her hand clutched her friend's arm. “But don’t tell her, Ed—don’t tall i her I’ve gone, until I’m on my way. I She—worries." [ “Well, 1—" Ed began uneomfort- ' ably. I Jane smiled. "Please.” She ran ; from him down the path, calling . over her shoulder, “Hold on to Tim- ■ my.” Ed’s whistle summoned the pup. . He and Timmy went together to the i back of the house. Popovers and I that swell strawberry jam! But , Ed, shifting his bolstered gun at i his belt, didn’t feel quite right. sees I Jane's determined chin jutted out, > as she stared at her obj car. She I braced herself, and slipped bshind i the wheel. • Then Kurt Helm's lithe figure, in

Lu.laa Ig JBn " r ' e, - , ' 1 *MM b«s titty . I gjjg. '' u ■ ober 4th t., . *■ Jptf’ lx»» Angi I- I W. Jshovsh', Wu,— I Bunday s. „ ■FW " , ' " A ' >' MW using tii. \ u .... ]. , 1( . ■ ||| •• ?MH V . ipil thou U|.l„. . • '' ■ (<•>.». All '""'b : • t« .. - Mee,it, at n l Tum-i'lii I i|Zimm, iin.': ~ VI illOllgh. i. . ' -‘S' '■ . ii > d!-..w. •- Fire Le-t.ar-jun r Jag I I-, Company S - i -t.TjW 'tain to Moliainined It r« gtUe out ls<.i • j.u- ■ JMB ' »>>;< ii Im.i,> *M| th>- llreborno-. EmH ■ I'tKtT • .... Sil. h * .!< . g<H"l Ohly 111 B. let I. - . ing I* -.ii*. - i ,'..--.iHg in. ailing . . |

I his old lea’h" r’erigß || trouser* ,-«■> I like * hunter, lb starting t<> cr •» thr rsi B. Jane ’hook her h'sdrltaß, I away. H<r tire > him seemed a- • •' : t-tvsK •of her<-m- '> • I'.neiulH' > Mountain It •> ■ • ta-al 1 ' ant house”: • ' were steady, her b a-j t rh. ■ “No one is in here »’!■ • kept on mooin) -:iy.r.j.. .(aliß ■ the woman sb •.: r.wireiM ■ life, was no long, r in thtra*B ■ seat. Poor Car Xsr B ’ vid sitting besid. her. Dsr.i- B Why hadn't he •• phoad! fa ■ ' if it was all over t> • v*»s tire » B 1 could have 'ph 1. H.'ickuß 1 hers ... th* sealed hadn’t ment; ’ ■ : . i'.'J B ' sealed envelope 1 ariie p’t u B 1 on the ferry-f rR. .*:.'<»'r«B Should she bury her pna c B 1 ring him up’ Nev.r' Hr r.ldrfxß told her not to t» b; -. me Lrsstls ' gan's Sport Sh ;. unlrii up» ! emergency, lb r |r de rdasdx admit emerge- ) Ja-<i. It'.be that David had r. fired. day, from fUagan's. Driving down .Main Ftreet.« felt her car a tar»--1 Mr itarta M she imaged other faces: Matßv anu, smiling at her, sv’.ogiM ■ ebony stick; (.arriFS, guished, reticent; Far. RiA'l.W tali, creamy blonde, wws' - E eyes were so ac j-sitive vtttw looked at David. . The library stood st tlie«< tbe street, opposite the r-<* ©files. Everyone - 'med swyrm to see Jane. Th« y were r»d * too good, ail day. Women •** changed knitting stitches IM * ipes with Mrs. Rider, twtria somewhat like an invalid. Cn. »« who usually swarm'd ato* ", gaped at a distance. Jew quietly about her work. , It was Emmy I/>u, a child of ton, who psralywd one. "Miss Jane, ar* you » ""T Jiri?” Her inquimt-ve ane turned away, until ders straightened. _ Mias I.ucia Sims, the hssf®* riau, led Jane into a side r~' n '-* L/ucia was a person of mint>« F portions, with lilscs m 'J frustrated romance and a rigid sense of duty. »*■ was kind, very kind. . Shstook Jsne’s relurtosthWJ both Os hers. "W* hsd s ths Bosrd yesterday, my dean ™ said. "1 telephoned your W-*' Didn’t she tell you?" , "No. Mother didn t know J « coming here today." Jan' hand sway, standing tail and Mias Lucia waa-oh, ao “We think it wisen ihy taka a rest for a whne. A may help you forget the tn.-/ ribs. through.” Her words ly Into Jane’s blurred co®* "To indeed, ahr missed. In fact, despite the W funds, she would receij' ’ * ternary two weeks full F >• considering her dear mnthr all, Jane eould take a on half pay, until such » W well, the Board felt it wise to resume work. . jt Miss Lucia looked up at , young face. “Don t take it ' child,” she murmured, or none of us think that you Ferland had «'y thl , ne n'’,\ h e with what happened. Bu l Thank you, Sims.” (To be continuodi CRUMS' Man* PUttlKtsSW MM ’