Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1943 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by raa DECATVR DEMOCRAT CO Incorporated •atered at the Decatur, Ind., Poet Office as Second Clan Matter I. H. Heller President A. R. Holtbouae, Sec'y A Bui. .Mgr Dick D Heller Vlce-Preeldent Subscription Rates dingle Cop las I .03 *>ne week by carrier — -15 By Mail Within 100 Miles One .Month 35c; Tbres Months 51 Six months |l.7#, One Year 13.00 By Mall Beyond 100 Miles One month 45c. Three months 5125 Six months 12.25. One year 5400. Subscriptions for men in carries 13 50 per year. Advertising Rates mads Known on Application. National Representative SCHEERER A CO 15 Lexington Avenue, Now York 15 East Wacker Drive. Chicago, Hl- © Charter Mem oars of The Indiana League of Home Dailies The boy* offer their liven You are only asked to loan your money on interest. A dog's life irn't going I be what it wan in the days :>f meat and no Victory gardens. O—O— Apparently Rommel has his back to the sea and the Allied ships and planes won't t ven permit him to jump in. -0 It Is predicts d that post-war tires will be good f“r 75.ih*o miles. You can vision hots we will all see America. O—o IVrhnp- if tin • ii.il>* < >mi»iitee that wants to visit th, Africa war an na will wait a whll. they can include Italy in their schedule. In England a pack of twenty cigarettes now cowts 44 cents as compared to fifteen cents here. They really tax so-called luxuries over there. —O—O War is wasteful and cosily. The price of vlct- ry Is high But all of us know that the price must be paid, for without victory, nothing matter*. —o The barefoot boy with checks of tan probably won't have to coax to dispense witli hi» shoes this summer. Thrse ration points will be precious. —o It does seem funny that a number of thou, wl.o opposed preparedness so strenously before Pearl Harbor now lead in the opposition to plans for post war and (teace. « o—o In the stat* conventions in Indi ana n>-xt year. Democrats will have 1.44* delegate vot-s and the Republicans 1.754. The delegates are selected on the basis <f one for each 4*H) voted cast for secretary of state. —o— The bond campaign in the rural sections of Adams county is being ca pt a mod by Dean Byerly. who is completing an organisation that will give every farmer an opportunity to invest their surplus cash in I’. K bonds, beat investment in the world. A meeting will be held here tomorrow evening to couipletthe pian u—o— The bond quota tor Adanu county b» iu ol the largest in the state

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according to population Compared to the 4730*100 quota here, Wells Is 1550.000, Huntington 55H0.00V. .Jay IBM.OOO and Blackford 52X0.000 The quota, we are informed Is based on the increase In deposits during the past year. Nothing w* do will better prove our patriotism than to meet the 5750.000 as requested by Code Ram. —o Alltn county was first to meet the bond quota In Indiana. They did It the first day when the Lincoln Life Insurance Company purchased 515,000.000 worth. The quota was 513.fi00.000. However, it is reported that a part of that subscript! 11l Will be assigned to the ci edit of other counties. Efforts to boost the total for Alien county to 520.000.000 are now under way. —o According to the Washington Star, this nation will be producing more synthetic rubber a year from now than we can use. This year the production will be 250,000 tons and next year It will be *53.000 tons. We are not out of the woods but we are on the way The new rubber is being turned out from 54 plants and one of the problems of lie government will be what to do with the production following the war for w< will still have to take much natural rubber from other | nations. —o Millions f Americans may soon, la-gin to study tuaiis of Sicily and Sardinia, stepping »ton<* to an Allied invasion of Italy Both Islands have played important roles in the history of the world, but in recent years they have been little more than colonies, Hitler Is making str- ngholds of Sardinia and Sicily defense outposts of Italy, which also is being heavily iortifid. it is generally assumed to be a military necessity for the Allies to octupy Sardinia aud Sicily before attempting a lauding on Italy. Hiller may attempt to make the reduction us either island almost as difficult ay T.»e*ia o—o It looks now as though there will Im- a grave shortage of echool teachers in a few years. In fact, it Is already apparent as will be substantiated by thus* ofikials who this year search for men or women to take the places of those called to war. or who have accepted other employment or joined the Waves or Warns or Spars In the teacher colleges attendance has dr pped as much as fifty percent and the end Is not in sight. This means that in two or three ycais. we will have no new supply of teachers or at least not a sufficient number to meet the demands. Young women have a great opportunity if they fit them selves now to teach. U—O Your Boys Are Counting On You: Here is a part of what Henry M .rgenthau secretary of the U. 8 reasury says: "The second front is no military ecret. W ( all know that, just over ho horizon, we of the I’nited Nations are piling up the thunderlouds of the greatest attack in bis ory. We are massing for that stack. now. The planning, th< patient preparation, the bitter time when we had to take blows with>ut returning them, because we weren't ready—all of that is past. "You can feel every confidence that the financial affairs of your government are in good condition as the United Nations go on the offensiv-. The situallcn » well In hand. We know where we re going. We know how nint h money our armed forces will need. "During this month of April we must get 13 billion dullara. We slu-11 then have boitowed about 20 biUton u Hara in the first four months of this year. We vrtll need to borrow about Xi billions during the second four muntin., aud. withcut any new taxes, another .5 .a the final period of the yeai. a total cl about 70 biilicHl duUais l»r the year "I would like to assure you that

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™-■ - - d Household Scrapbook f By ROBERTA LEE ♦ Match Scratches If marks have Iw-en left <m a white-painted uurfar-- as a resul" of scratching ntatcho* on it. rub them with a cut lemon and then with a damp cloth dipped into powdered whiting. R!n.«< with cold water and dry with a soft cloth. Kitchen Drawers It will save tim ■ if all the kitch en and pantry drawers are lined with white or colored oilcloth. A we can afford it. “But 7o billion dollxrt Is. "1 course, a lot of money It Isn't going to be easy to raise it. It means hard work But I have every confidence, kn wing the American people, and how- deeply serious they are about this war. that wc will get it. "The boy* at the front ate counting on them They ate counting on you."

Mint* Fields, Ditches Fail To Stop The Allies i M -st I ** —*~ . '"** - - .—VT*"* S’-:** - iag H A ” im* iisfe . • JbiCjf -v -MMB" LjjjK ' Near where units of the Bniish eighth army and An. riean second corp* troop* made a jaaettoo on the Gafe~-fW*4 r®*d I* l«y»H»4 April < Ml*** i«dh»phxo. wore taken At Ibr top Bntteh soldier* aoit ihi.mah the Gabes &v after the ssppef* had OH through mine fields wood by ilia rotnroUag Germans. Iteluw Bn tub armored veluUes cross anti-tank diubt*. Xou soldlci at Jookout post

, i- < loth i> ali 'hat is li- . . I to keep them clean. Furs , If sealskin fur h rubbed with hot •alt the dirt will be absorbed by t the salt. , -o , # < Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE A—, «, ■ —1.... I,— -i i ■'—* •— 0 Q. How can a family who has j moved Into a new neighborhood get . ' acquainted with the neighbors I without s- .-mlng to thru themk aelves on them? ■ A Ry going to (hurch and taking part in the community affairs. f Q I* it obligatory that all the t m< n in a wedding party wear the ( same kind of clothes? A. Yes. y Q. Is it correct for a man to use ' II a double sheet for hat personal s correspondence paper? A It is all right to do so, but u single sheet Is preferable. I- Nearly eight tniliou pouuds of B Wcol are used annually by factories for the manufacture of bate In the V 8.

Twenty Years Aqo Today • — • April 14—A petition U filed for improvement of the “G. E.” road from North Seventh to the corporation line of Decatur. .Miss Fion-ne • Biggs fittMhes fourth in the district high sihool dkicuMlon conte*’. Alvin Buffi üba: ger and Cal White ar- made foremen at the 0. E. Plant. The Pretfbyh rian Men's club met with Roy Runyon. Mr. anti Mi*. E. 11. Smith of Detroit visit here. .Miss Leona Bom-v is viaitiug in Indianapolis. Seek Ration Book For Seeinq-Eve Dog Edwardsville. 111.. Apr. 14 — tl'Pl — The EdwardhVill ration board is trying to get a meat ration book tar Phil, a seeing-<-ye shepherd dog. The board decided to act when l! discovered that the dog's owner. John Merkle, has

Wage Adjustments Denied In Indiana 350 Indiana Cases Included In Denial Indianapolis. Apr. 14.— (UP* Alwiut 350 Indiana cases are Includ ed among 2.500 proposed wage and salary adjustments denied last night by the regional war labor board in Chicago in accordance with a new ruling from Washington. Regional WLB chairman Rob••it Hums says the denials affect all cases Involving only Inter-plant inequalities and which cannot be decided on the basis of the "little steel " formula or of living. The instruction from Washington is based on President Roosevelt's "bold-the-llne" order issued on April 8. Elimination of the 2.500 cases leaves only 500 petitions to be dis p sed of by the regional board, : which serves Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North and South Dakota in addition to Indiana An effect of the order having ini- ' mediate significance is that applications from dinners and other seasonal product ns for Increases in ' wages * ver last season must be de-. tiled except to the extent that they ■ •an Im- jiistiti d under the "little j steel’" formula of the substandard* | of living provision. The "‘little ; steel" formula provides tor a 15 per- ( cent increase In pay over the level ( of January 1. 1941. ( That development is vital in view ( of the difficulty anticipated by can- , iterles and other seasonal industries li en eating meat substitutes while I the dog has been dining on ration- I ed meat. The dog guides his blind master to and from Merkle's small 1 concession In the Madison county 1 courthouse.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN “One more thing I got to ask you, Henry,” Kumako said as he helped place the heavy carton in the boy's canoe. It developed that he wanted to che-k Herb's glib alibi—his story of th* exact time he had looked at his watch after giving up the mongot se. Henry listened to Komako with downcast eyes and seemed reluctant to spvak. Finally he said: “Herb looked at his watch. But be didn't tell me the time.” Then, uneasily: "Why do you want to know?” Komako countered with another question: “You not follow Herb to shore, see him go off to sampan, maybe?" “No, no! I went home from the ehicken houses. I don't know what time it wee. I don't know what Herb did." My thoughts were racing with the possibility of Henry's going to the shore, putting off in his canoe, himself, to do away with Delmar. But Komako seemed interested only in the fact that Herb's alibi was punctured. As we watched Henry and Mary paddle away In their canoe, there was a hail from the other side of the sampan: “I say, Mr. Hoyt!” It was the Rawsons, perched stiffly in an outrigger canoe among an assortment of wire nets, specimen jars, knives, notebooks, and balls of yarn. Mrs. Rawson was manipulating the latter with knitting needles, and 1 assumed the rest of the litter was in the interest of crabs and their nature and habits. Rawson was backing water while he spoke to us: “Have you made a thorough Investigation of the fish locker? I have a magnifying glees 1 can spare, also a microscope." Komako explained that the locker had been well washed out, but Rawson seemed impatient of such stupidity. “A shred of clothing, unnoticed by the naked eye, haa sometimes solved a murder, my man. Sherlock Holmes would never neglect such a possib:! ity. Here, take my glass.” He paddied close and held out a magnifying glass. As Komako reached over to take It, Mrs. Rawson looked up from her knitting with a cheery smile. “Gerald will help you solve it." Her momentary inattention caused her ball of yam to bounce overboard and her scramble after it almost upset the eanoe. Then Rawson began U paddie away and she reeled in the wet yam till it snarled with the wire nets in the bottom of the eanoe. It was all we eould do not to laugh aloud, but it wasn't long that we felt like laughing. Komako punched me suddenly and pointed towerd shore. The four other men of the white colony were leunching one of the big dugouts. They paddled swiftly towards us. “Now what?" I asked uneasily, but Komako only stowed the mag. Bifying glass in his pocket after testing it on his sleeve, end watched the oncoming quartet through narrowed eyes. The men were silent and grim-faced, giving us no greeting as they cams alongside. Thornton Most leaped aboard agilely and turned to lend s hand to Budd, while Herb secured the eanoe to the broom. Dr. Latham unfolded his awkward length and clambered over the side. He was the first to speak, addressing Komako: “Wo must do something right away about the body."

Komako nodoed. "But ba don’t jet buried yet, Right away soon 1

LENTEN (Rev. George S. Loiler, First Bvam»|| n! I 4 I “He that hath mercy on thorn will lead them 1 of water will He guide them.'*—lsaiah 44: to. ' *** *r God Is the All Merciful One. We should x I was. - ®«'ihigJ Mercy is not an earned consideration f or - h 1 goodly disposition of the soul for others | t It a J who is patient, compassionate and full of pily in its ministry, ft is the heart made warm by th/? concern for the unfortunate. It finds an iiluitiat/,tai of the good Samaritan. “ u 'iht3 Man is in need of tbs mercy of others; and a h» 1 mercy of God. Man cannot save himself The hu erring The world has lost Re way. it needs th* uL ’•1 Him " that hath mercy." “**M That AH Merciful Ono is available 4ill f 1 and a guide for the Individual, the nation and for ‘*l failure to accept His leadership has caused a ■ What a catastrophe! What ruin! What » failure- “’•ll The oiv- guarantee for peace and prosperity I and spiritual, is to follow the leadership of Hirn tn ,* Who " will lead them, even by springs of water will Hr,

INFIRMARY INMATE (Continued From Fags I) firmary. Before he retired last night. Durbin reiterated his statement. and asserted that "this i* the laet time you’ll talk to me.” Coroner Zwick placed the time of dath about 2:30 or 3 o'clock. Durbin, despite his total blindness, had managed in some manner to smuggle a rope into his room. He threw the rope over the radiator pipa, tied a loop around his neck and stepped off his Ixd. Hl* feet in competing for help in the scarce labor market. The announcement from Washington adds that the effect of the April 8 order is to place the manpower responsibility upon the war manpower commission. Seasonal producers arc sc advised Another Instruction to the regional board states that arbitrators granting wage increases which cannot be justified under the April 8 order cannot now be approved, even though they were rendered prior to April 8.

send some men with corpus up trail, and from plantation they take him to Wong. Wong is undertaker.”

Whether they liked this plan or not, 1 couldn't tell, but they evidently could find no reasonable objection. They said nothing. I could understand their anxiety to have the tell-tale wound put out of sight. Perhaps they hoped to wangle Koinako into letting it go as death by drowning. If so, they must have been disappointed, for Komako said: U 1 send along my report to deputy sheriff, too—and ho fix about inquest.” Budd looked at Dr. Latham disgustedly. “Well be in for a swarm of euriosity-hounds." "That must bo prevented," the doctor said firmly. Herb thrust his fat half-clad body forward and looked belligerently et Komeko. "You going to send the prisoner up, too?" "When I cutch him," Komako returned imperturbably. Herb glared at me. "What more evidence do you want?” Budd stepped closer, shoving Herb •side. "Let me handle thia." Neat, cool, worldly in spite of his (lower lei, he looked more than a match for the easy-going Komako. "Officer Koa, I will put this in words of one syllable: Wc want Mr. Hoyt locked up, as we consider him dangerous. Yelling threats at Delmar before he-” “I yelled at him before I knew he was dead,” I cut in, trying to sound calm, "f thought he had stolen my whiskey—it war the most natural reaction in the world.”

Thornton had been looking steadily at nso. "Why did you say you saw a fish spear in his back—and then only that the wound looked as if it had been made by one?” “I—l wa* confused—jittery," 1 began, but Komako cam* to my rescue. “Any fellow can act Jumpy, seeing dead body like that. Come, eome, we talk sense now. If Hasty spear Delmar and throw body overboard, he not telling you wild story 'bout body in locker. He would start engine and sail away quick." “Can’t we make you understand," Dr. Latham said carefully, “that he was—what do you cal! it?— pupult f Komako was smiling broadly. “Hasty not one little hit crazy. 1 know him long time. Not you worry. I keep him by me always— tha’s all name Jail." He clapped me affectionately on the back. There were no answering smiles. Budd *aid, “You would be assuming a grave responsibility. Officer Koa. It would be much safer to have him locked up until there can be a proper investigation.” Herb started to sputter about what could be done to a eop who didn’t do his duty, but Komako cut him short: “Your alibi fall down hard, Herb." I would have expected Herb to blow up like a toy balloon, but instead he took a step back, looking fishy-eyed, and stammered: “W-What d’ye mean?" Komako told him what Henry had said. Herb's red face grew redder. “He’s a liar! I said out loud, 'lt’s nine-three and we’d better give up the mongoose.' He heard me—not deaf! He’s got eome reason—them darned Hawailana!" Komako's brown face did not change, but Herb caught himself up with a .ough: “I’m not saytng anything against’em, y* understand. But it's an idea!" “Oh. come along!’’ Thornton said

WEDNESDAY. AH| tu

were touching the f|«. J wa» found Death v H J strangulation. Durbin had b-« the infirmary since ( fibout tw i. in agoT3| in .Monroe townshi# » ix«l and WU ntnr was the last of hi, ! it ,-J* l a member of the F.nm-y Friends church. " Only near »urvi»on w nieces. .Mrs Ora Henry Cook 0 ( Decant / nephew 0. 11 burw x vllet. Mich ’ Fun- ial •enrich Wij h be held Friday o'clook at the MitcDi] uJ West Adams street, Im- In the Decatar c«ae«j The body will u Mitchell residence lr« m funeral home Thursday ■ and may be viewed itoi time for tb services Os the 51*27 resMggg j Panama zone in l»w. 18.524 of negro ancestry.

angrily, and ihwd Hen canoe. 1 hisni anotherMg|M ter ft >.tn one of the rr.er tttkM that Herb * tongu* sup* all end*. They all crovdii «■ canoe, apparently thiGiigtlß to give up th* arf.rrrMeO time being over locking» a I Komako, wstchinc '..-.• >■ toward shore, chucked ndM "You sc* what them fomeiM I am dumb cvp but you tngfl a* them. They not saiitpsgfl ing around with me!* I 1 said emphatically: “TuM you don't have to depotae nj snoop with you. AiyosrpaO 111 be right there with xyd open. But, Konuke, Its Miff ever convinced from whit Ml drop that the H*waiiami««l thing up to the neck. Yoswafl to have to eviimine nor heetedl luau, whether you like :’.*l Komako took little dock dl ease I had built up and Mary on the premies MM mar had been sonoyiny »M While I wa. still srguisgiM he began laboriously U »>*|| report to the deputy ahertf MM he intended to send up th M with Delmar's body. I »*'MIB dubiously, hoping that wMI brought Sam Ota does til charge, we could unearth troll flnite clue to counteract thsm| nists’ case against me t»*M thought was in KmiuiW for as he folded it he said ■! rich chuckle; I “I think Sam not quick, maybe. I ull him >.«'•» <1 aiek fellow, and take care >■ Sam is big baby when nA half Jap and little bit Ml and that make Hawsussaß forget to be stout fellow I It was not until we were*J way to the Hawaiian vi..a|irt Komako was to select to carry the body totstaker’s, that I r-t arisee««' anent the possibility of «“’■ ing committed the murder, in -I think Mrs Raw** a lot to go on in her euff We've seen some thing* ««■ Certainly you noticed th* didn’t want th* body when you were wr ding w And you couldn’t have »•«* aatislaction that Ik.msr «*• when he was lu«‘M ** ” in the procession " . Komako merely grun-e-l I severed, going back te »“• hatrod I saw Mokino «< * display on the night of W when Delmar had their pet shark I had t>* MJ to tell him this part before. . “Shark!" he eachlnM.*** me recount every detadm»“ cation which had precedes w fight with Delmar. q "Os course," I ’ w ®* T . shark wouldl »*'d!y prj** * five for murder-but it « . intensified the f ( * lw f ,'jjg against Delmar b*e*w»* „ “Not to be too jew. ’ w men ted very that shark And that was all I **«£ of him until the ' tr *^ w |M meats that night at tn* “* him to an explsMt'* 8 - . In the mesntim* ba were devoted msmlf b nists. and he found (To be eon' tvs"""