Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 99, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1943 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by FHE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office aa Second Class Matter I. H. Heller President A. R Holtbouae, Sec'y A Hue. Mfr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Ratee Single Copied .03 One week by carrier — .15 By Mall Within 100 Mlles One Month 35c; Three Months |l. Six months 11.75, One Year 13.00I By Mail Beyond 100 Mlles One month 45c. Three months |1 35 Six months i! 25. One year 31.00. Subscriptions for men in service 13.50 per year. Advertising Rates made Known on Application. National Representatlvs SCHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 25 East Wacker Drive. Chicago, 111. © Charter Members of The Indiana League of Home Dallies Just another week for spring tux paying We just have tint.- to gel in ahead of the tinal push. •an—O O ■ Those gardens planted before the recent squaw winter ure popping up now and will »oou b« ready to serve on the tables. -0 K- ep on Inlying bomb* That'.! the one thing we can't hoard tor much of now. Uncle Sam needs all we van Ivan him and then some. —o It is estimated that good weather Victory gardens In the United Elates will produce eighteen million t ns of vegetables, which certainly will s|x-ll the differences betwe- n plenty and scarcity. —o It was a grand Easter even if we did have to curb on < gg» and rabbits and baby chicks. There wae a sincere observation of the occasion which means so much to every Christian. —o An epidemic of spinal meningitis is getting an unusual start for this early in the season. At Colon. Michigan, all public meetings, including church, have been banned and precautions ar, being taken in other places where the disease has struck. Adams county lias met the seemingly impossible request by purchasing her quota of government bonds. Thai's something to remember as a worthwhile accomBlishmeii' and the fine thing is the wond- rful manner in which the people responded. We are proud of the aci'oinplit.hmcut and it our people, —o The biggest battle in the N<w York legislature this spring was over a measure to li gallic- bingo when operated by r> ligious. civic, fraternal or veteran organisation*. It finally passel after bitter opposition rrganixed by the State Council of Churches. G-rvcraur D- wey vetoed it and now It bids fair to become an exciting state issue In the nest campaign Bounds like a lot of fuss and fury when the world la fighting to exist. —o Again Indiana » Aral of the Is Mates to respend to a war need of the nation. Asked to lend 125 million dollars for war in three weeks. Hoosiers today had loaned 127 millions in two weeks to make Indiana

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the first state to pass its second war bend sale quota. It's been some time since we have heard much from the east about ''complacent Indiana” secure in the heart lof the Middle West "where they • 1 don't know there's a war." Perhaps I we won’t hear so inci'h about that hereafter —lndianapolis Tim-s. Since the value of "A" coupons in the rationing of gasoline has been r< duccd to one and a half gallons in the eastern section of the country, many owners of auto- | mobiles are deposing of their cars, I having come to the conclusion that it is not worth-while to pay registration fees, taxes on an automobile that to all practical intents and purposes cannot be operated The cars thus disposed of are being eold at good prices to dealers in sections of the c dntry where "A gasoline ration coupons are still worth four gallons each —Van Wert Times Bulletin. —o No war in all the history of the world was ever as important to the people as is this one. To lose it means to lose every thing, including the right to live free, to worship and to speak and to write as I we wish, to enjoy the Item file of ' m.dern Invention. It's a question of maintaining Christianity and it must be completely won. bo keep smiling and working and sacriflcing. Eighty years ago we were engaged In a great Civil War to retain a unit'd nation. This county sent seven hundred men to the army and the people at home lived on corn bread aud pone. This community wae poor but they did their part and they have continued to do it ever since. We will do and are doing it again, because extinction is pref-ruble to life under Japanese rule. —o— Grow Beets: Farmers in those territories that have beet sugar mills are being urged by Chester A Davis. U. 8. food administrator to g«w beets. II- appeals earnestly that an acreage at least as large as that cf last year be immediately contracted in order that a sugar famine may be averted. In a wire to war board chairmen of 21 sugar beet states. Davis asked all possible assistant e be given to growers in meeting sugar beet goals. Noting the farmers' indeed" ion ao to whether to grow sugar beets in 1943. as indicated by the 1 w estimate In the Crop Reporting Board forecast of prospective plantings, h. said “the marked reduction in farmers' Intentions ty plant sugar fleets, if carried out. would result in less sugar than we need in this country In view of the dilhculty of diverting boats needed for critical war uses to sugar.'* To reassure farmers who are worried by labor shortages. Davis said the United Hlatee Department of Agriculture is giving sugar beet labor problems "vigorous a: tenI Hou." -0— The OPA Effort: Those who kick the DPA around are not mindful of the fact that it ' was created to proter t and not per--1 secutc the consumer. This bedevil--1 ed organisation, which admits it is making some b'undera. submits statistical information contrasting food prices during World War I. when little was dom- to curb inflate n. and prices in force during ' this conflict. When the first World War was being fought, the average peak prices for sugar (if you could get It t was 25.7 centa a pound while the average level (or bis commodity last October was (.X cents a pound. Other contrasts of peak prices in 1917-18 and last October are. lard, then 42 cents compared with 17.3 cents; ccflee. 49 cents compared with 28 cento; fresh egg> *2 cents compared with M cent*. "Price control ha. saved cou.umen nearly s«.ute.<too,edd through the end of WU.” the Indiana o<flee of the UFA submits. "in other

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♦ • I Twenty Years Ago Today • • April 20 -Judge D. E. Smith •ells his Madison street residence to Miw Elisabeth Gregory and Mrs. Gregory sells her home on Fourth street to William Bowen. Bid" on the New Zion Reformed church building are all over the 34O.OO!! estimate and action is taken under loneideration by committee. Reub Wilkena. a favorite here, will lie a feature at the 1923 fair. L. C Waring leaves for Columbus. Miss , to visit sister. Twenty Decatur ladies are attending an afternoon bridge party at the home of Mtw. L. G. Eilingbam in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Gaa* of Celina are visiting here. ■ ■— o-— —— Household Scrapbook I By ROBERTA LEE « « Disinfected Carpet If one's vacuum cleanar does not have the proper parte for the disinfecting of carpets, try thia method: Tear a newspaper Into small | pieces and soak in a solution of formaldehyde and water. Wring out these pieces of paper and scatter over the carpet, sweeping them along with a broom The paper will words, consumers would have spent nearly more tor goods and services cousumed sine,- the outbreak of the war In September, 1939. If prices had followed the pattern of World War I. Thia amount." to about S!4u lor each farmily '*- Maurice Early in Indianapolis Star.

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1 purify the air and carpet, aud keep dciwu the dust as well. Baking Cakes If heevey wrapping pup<-r is cut to fit the bottom of the cake pan the cake will not stick, and the paper can be canity removed. Thin tea lietter method than greasing the pan Parchment Shades Parchment may be shellacked and varnished, then 1 'leaned by waablug with a white 1 aotip aud water uud brightened , with a little furniture polish. Q Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

1 Modern Etiauette I By ROBERTA LEE .!!■» _ I BUI ■'■III ■ 1 W 0 Q te It permissible to examine the various dishes 011 a cafeteria counter before eelecting a certain j one? A. Yea. if it can lie done with a ' glance, but ouo should not (Inger the saucers, or tie conspicuous in selecting one that srt-nw 10 bo tbu largest. Q. Isn't it a mark ot good breeding when a stranger who w asked 1 a question extends a court! oua re-

Stale Field Agent Here On Wednesday Gross Income Agent Will Aid Taxpayers Curl 11. Penne, field agent of the Indiana grow income tax diviaion will be In Decatur Wednesday to assist taxpayers! in filing 1943 first quarterly groan income tax returns, it was announced today by Cal F Peterson, auto iicenae branch manager. Returns covering income in the first quarter of 1943 are due April 1 to April 30. The field agent will be stationed at the local auto license branch, and it was urged that persons having unusual problems in connection with their tax returns obtain his assistance. Service of regular employes is available daily at the license branch throughout the year. Mr. Peterson pointed cut that all persons whose tax for the quarter exceeds fit' are required by law to file returns aud pay the tax Many taxpayers, however, have found it a sound policy to take advantage of the opportunity of paying quarterly even though the amount due for the quarter is less ply? A. Yes, decidedly so A well-bred person is always courteous in his manner of speech. As the old proverb says, “Civil, obliging language costa but little, and does a great deal of good ” Q. How should a girl announce her engagement if her father is dead? A. The engagement should be announced in her mother's name.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Komako and I sat down and cogitated in silence for a while. Finally he naid: “Elaine think maybe she ia Polly Morgan, so she fix hair same as, to aee if ahe look like Polly ?” “Let's start further back. The night Delmar told aomething of hia play, she reacted with definite fear. I saw that. I think ahe may have had a flash of memory then. The doctor thought so, too, I think, for he was watching her anxiously. Anyway, that’s the night I found her walking in her sleep, down by the pool, and she said to me out of her dreama, ‘Peter .. . Bloodl .. She was horrified—or frightened.” Komako referred again to the dipping. “Name here is Frederick P. Hawks.** “Note the middle initial. Might be for Peter." Komako thought deeply, then shook his head. "Elaine don’t seem like kind to kiU." “But listen—suppose It’s a case of split personality—l mean, one entity shoves the other out of the body at intervals. But never mind — you wouldn’t understand, and scientists are still cautious about that theory." “Hawaiians know all them things," Komako said unexpectedly. ! “That what make people pupulr. Bad spirit come and live in body—--1 shove out good spirit. 1 * “H’mm ... Well, well leave that argument to another time. I think Elaine was made aware of something by Delmar’s talk about the play, and waited till she could go | unobserved to Mrs. Delmar s house to look for the manuscript She came across the notebook and tore out this story of Polly Morgan—and I this page is what she was hiding in her blouse when we caught her this morning. She probably didn’t have a chance to compare the picture with herself until tonight Thea she must have been convinced she was | Polly Morgan, and that's why she ran straight to Mrs. Delmar." “Me, I am afraid you figure out right. Hasty. Maybe jury will be kind 'cause she lost memory and everything ... But what about killing Delmar?" "If we presume that the murders are linked—l think she might have done that, too. Let’s see ... She was uneasy about me, a stranger. She asked me if I had ever seen her in the States. Suppose she went out to , the sampan with a bunch of keys to try U> find out who I was—Polly , Morgsn would be very uneasy about ' detectives Delmar came out, probably went further with the Polly I 1 Morgan story—frightened her, anyway. She stabbed Mm—sort of re- i flex action from her first murder, i But 1 don’t think she cleaned up the i mess and heaved the body overboard. That was done while 1 was i talking to her. Could the doctor—?" i I tried to reconcile bis coming to Elaine's rescue when she was supposediy walking ia her sleep with i the time it must have taken to re- < move the evidence aboard the sampan. Komako stead up and put the i dipping away in an inner pocket. "We can't do nothing till we talk I with her and doctor. 1 guess I go i see how things is coming over there." 1 He hunched his oilskins about his | broad shoulders and went out into I the rain and darkness. I followed to the edge of the Isaai and watched him enter the lighted Latham house. I Glancing at Turva’s cottage 1 saw I that the Wests and Herb and Budd I were with her, talking, gesticulat- i iag excitedly, drinking coffee. Rest- I leaaiy I went hack to the Iwiag ream I mml iha aurwi ailaftot* cloacti am, a silence only intensified by the i 1 measteoous sound of rain. Ifeitaa ’ eppnsuve conacmuMwi M the dead I

U. S, OCCUPIES KEY ~ co n. .\L s1 A A NAVAI ANNOUNCEMENT that enerry for«, the Ellice Islands disclosed that the U. S. had occupSteSHb base. The exact date of the occupation was not oi the island is important because of its closeness to to' bert Islands, nearest threat to the U. S.-AuMralag v/nr •trow) stretching across th a wide Pacific.

than lid. thus avoiding payment of the full amount of tax at the end of the your. All taxpayers are granted an exemption of 3250 per quarter. Retail merchants, however, are granted an exemption of |750 per quarter upon receipts from aelliug at retail. This exemption is not in addition to the regular exempton. Penalties for failure to file returns when due range from 10 percent to 60 percent of the tax due. with interest charges at the rate of 1 ' percent per month; the minimum penalty is |2. 0 All of the 48 states now levy a tax on gasoline.

woman lying in the bedroom a few . feet away. i When Komako returned he had i Dr. Latham with him. Latham i looked more gaunt than ever as he moved into the circle of light, and , his face was drawn aa if he were in . physical pain. “Sit down," Invited Komako. “How is Elaine?” I asked. “Asleep now," the doctor said, not taking the chair. "I gave her some tablets and I’ve got to watch her. What did you want?" “You ever hear of Polly Morgan?" Komako asked suddenly. Not a muscle moved in the doetor's lean face, but he was a long time answering. Finally he said, "No. Why?” "Because Elaine is remembering somethings. She think maybe she was Polly Morgan before-time." The doctor was watching Komako from under lowered lids. “And who," ho asked, “is Polly Morgan?" “ ’Boot year and a half ago she kill a man in Chicago—follow name Frederick P. Hawks. Delmars know 'bout that." Latham looked stunned. Ho seemed to go over and over the information in his mind. Or else be was stalling for time. At last he burst out: “My Lord! You’ve got to be careful! I’ve explained her condition, but you don’t know a thing about handling such a case. You've got to leave her alone, I tell you! It’s bad enough now—she was sleep-walking again, when you bunt out with the horrible news, Mr. Hoyt She fainted. When she recovered consciousness she was dased — then hysterical. I won't know until she rouses from this drug-imposed sleep how badly she has been affected by the shock." “Yes, yes,” Komako soothed him. “We think good to tell you what she got in her mind worrying her.” “Well-" The doctor looked distressfully from one to the other of us. “I can’t talk now—l've got to get back to her." He started away abruptly. We were silent for seme time after he had gone, and then I said. ( “Poor guy I He told us ho feared i she might have been married in her | former life. But if ahe was a mur- i duress! ... It doesn’t make sense, I though, Komako. A girl like Elaine ever to have been a night club enter- 1 tainer and ail that ■., unless it’s the i split personality thing—" I He sighed heavily. “I not know I why I am in cop business, anyhow. I No time to swim er fish or be laxy i —always be feeling sorry for somebody— * | “Maybe," I broke In, "we're a couple of sentimental delta, preju- , dieed by a pretty young face and sweet manners." I “Could be." he acknowledged, then straightened himself deter- i nunedly. *1 am eep ea this job and I I got to find murderer." I “Right you are. But I think we 1 can be counted on to handle it ; decently and aa kindly aa possible." I I caught Komako regarding me with a long thoughtful look, one I compounded of affection and worry. ; "You forget--we got to save gon i from jail and trial aad maybe i noox.* “But everything's changed now," i I reminded him. “This murder has ; pet a different face on the whole I thing:" | And at that moment Budd and Herb and Thornton West walked t into Mrs. Delmar's laaai, bringing i the doctor back with them. In si- * lease they threw off raincoats and came to sur round us at the table tn I ths living room. Dr. Latham stayed j in ths shadows. Budd looked every i in* a prosecuting attarw. »• *“• < of his shorts and bare torso. Hteb was breathing loudly and excitedly, bursting to speak, but evidently

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’ h* Id Lack by Budd *'th srmi cro<<«! I • ’.«■.<♦. i • i trying t . fathom IM 1 r i up defensively. I delegation?" BHH Budd aiirenH IwHnS sat 1" '• ■ I Will have ar. :h»r L !v b ' " • ■ i “t- ‘ ky here, h •ssitf r< ; the .::g ■f B .;! at. 1 I 11, 'nnr g • .. W. uiivr h- re if y v u neepn-' ■■ •'.snu' up. H«rb." ir.g !,*C* II i. tte sgME walked st kaeSH v< .. v.- r- - . '-u.«|Eg Conic, wr.'re ;i it?" jMI “I keep all said with dignity. gB r Ir-mtM and I ,r. * a re, Min 'r Mrs. Delmar'- back." Bw I b. gan t • feel cold s!ntOK then Th rr.>n -tepps! t; maku at : >■' ! it » It to me. 1:> a« So •* rover ..|> f..r It'S gut to l> M Old « Hand it over " JH Komako hei long, r. th. ■ .»iy L-i pocket and brought tIjEH cover' d <■!.' Tti rt:a and 1" ’ 1 <r.. p»;« then h. 1 , t’.« » “You can identify tin. Jmß Os r-ur -1 couldnary fish k' ! 841 THS initials ’ H H H " on as to keep from rr.iiiM ■» Komako c • t- • -r “It wa< -t"l'n I F r- e . I ■ * kiHed.’’ "You ha»’ pr.v' vs that. ton asked -k.-ptirally. “It disapi- arrd '.hat as valiantly a I could Budd peered into *• corner * ■: I” standing motioniera plsave tell U» rounding the to * c*?* Vfl house s Lille Latham crime f his brow. H T-s* hesitantly. I ba< k door I -t ‘ here, stumbled -.ut M ed him up '* “How did he look. “""sirt: As anyone w-u d FtabW • W< * BS in ton rnterr- I X It was the doctors atartlcf I .■ I to Elaine” ~ 4 l ;. 1 . I watching, r-'t you know tbs'. M J"" there at back of ‘ ot ’*** ■ uauyba?" . sE -My rea««n the proper tmt»- . the doctor slo* ■ „ hto way