Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 103, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1943 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Pcbllabe-! Every Evening Ex cep- Sunday by HOC DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO Incorporated Bntered at the Decatur, Ind.. Post Office as Second Class Matter I. H. Heller President A. R. Hol’bouse, Sec y & Bus. Mgr Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Copies — 1 .03 One week by carr.er .15 By Mail Within 100 Miles One Month 35c; Three Months IL Six month* 11.75. One Year 33.00 By Mail Beyond 100 Mlles One month 45c. Three months 31 25 Six months 32 25. One year 3100. Subscriptions for men In service |3.50 per year. Advertising Rates made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue, New York 15 Eaet Wacker Drive. Chicago, 111. /c w .*1 tnr/J Charter Members of The Indiana League of Home Dallies Only two more day- foi tax pay Ins, tomorrow and Monday Yon save money by getting in by Monday evening. —o It John I. 1,. m.ik* . h big strike iti<k. we may hav< to .ill Join the ground hogs and 'h. polar bea, . and burr w in next winter. —o Keep the ga d n tool- loek.-d up. W have he I d of „vera| cases where they hav< dl“ ippe ired. And they are hard to ...p', : , ■ thee day- ! -0 Dirt ir flying the** day- as the clean-up Sih - along ill homes and store- and shops It’s time to I bt.ghteti the parks, the streets and alb ys. o—o—Tiie big \pii! bond campaign! over the loiintry v.a a succres | Few i oininiiuities failed to meet j their quota and almost every Individual who could dig Up fl* 75 O' ! more b ight a bond or mote. That’s! the spirit that will win the war. —o Wi h 725.'"'" < ..pi - Willkie ■ new ' hook “One World old 'ha' Rushville fa.-mei -le uld not la worrying much about the price of hogs or getting a job. What he ought to do to f itt n his bank a<count is to produce n new best seller each few months. -0— Accoidiug to Renato. Wiley t Wisconsin there I- an overpopulation of elk and buffalo in the w>-st and it would be easy to provide two million pounds ot tine meat. He adds that we inn ent i ally tasted meat until we eat a buffalo or elk T-bone. —o A lot of radio lati« who like Rochester <n the Ja< k Benny program will bar k bis "hois’’ Burnt Cork in the Kentucky Derby Satmday He will have to beat several good on a to grab off the main prize and Rochester and Jack may have to return in their Maxwell. —o OPA was. treat d to protect, no pcruecute 'he consumer, and from n d.liars and cents angle, u doing a swell job. Through the end of IMS. consumers wer saved nearly six billion dollars, or about 31 to for each family, on a basis of prices in the last war compared to now. California has jump'd fnm a fruit and tourist state to one of the leading manufacturing sec tions, in

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the past four years total manufactured goods have increased in value from three billion dollars to nearly nine billion. Planes and shifts account for meat of the boost. —o Judge Ewell out in Vancouver, Washington, thinks the Victory gardens are more Important than I the doge that roam around and destroy the vegetables. He is dialing out heavy fines to the owners of dogs that permit their pets to i thus interfere with the thrifty gardeners. Chicago police have been ordered •»> run down and shoot stray dogs. The order Is th. result of an epi- | demic of rabies During the past month 225 p<- >ple have been bitten I by dogs and already twenty-two of . h. d gn put to death were found ; have had aide- In renn of the | otbttrh* it is reported dogs have ■ beiomi wild and run in packs like Wolves. O—O Now Hi.- < l i'tn is made by coinin titators that there are 25"'"' Jap- on the Aleutian Islands, which f. six times a« many as were snp- ]<> .'! to lie there a year ago If that's true, they must be landing th- m steadily and In the face of constant bombing That seems to he one important end of the Pacific war territory where the enemy is gaining ground in spit, of our efforts. -0 Lloyd Kreis, her. commander of Adams Post 13. American Leg! n. will be in . hare- of the May -ale of war bonds for Adams county. ! He will be ae-i-ted by members of the post and they plan to put the quota over ar speedily as possible. Th. Ix-gion will have charge aW lover Indiana tor the month and It is expe.ted the lampaign will be a xU'cms for these men who did •he bit m the first World War know how to g-1 thing- done Back up iitue men who end so well I twenty five y. ar-- ago and who still ; believe America worth fighting for. -0-0— I’, -id. nt Roosevelt is back at his desk in the White House at Wa hington after a tour of nearly *.""<> miles, for flist hand inxpecion of military camps and important industrial .enters. It wa- not a pleasure trip bnt one designed t<> inform liim-'-lf of what is going on and how well w.- are meeting the situation to provide the best army and navy In the w. rid He flads on his desk several important matters, not tin- least of which Is John L. Lewis and his threatened walk-out of coal miners. His Is a stitiuous job. largely because many who should be giving him support towards winning the war are seeking personal advantages. O—O All employes charged with the maintenance of Indiana’s io.o'X) miles of state highways ate now working an hour longer each day to keep the roads in the heat possible condition for essential traffic it has been pointed out by C. H Hadden. «hairman <f th. alate highway commission. Work hours of these maintenance workeis were recently increased by the commission from <0 to 15 hours per week. Maintenance has become the major problem of highway operation since ? nly 'imited construction and reconstruction can tie done during the war t> riod although the roads are a part of the transportation system over trhfch military supplies and equipment, food and other materials must move regularly.— Hartford City News-Times. O—O Additional errors made by the legisln'ure are etming to light almost dally, with this week's example nt '•effi. lency'’ being the new law for a state school attendance officer. The legislature back in IMI cut the appropriation so much there wasn't any attendance officer, so. trying to correct their error, the boy. appropriated 32.2W' for Mtary tbi. time But they wanted U be sure they cowtroUed the appotnrnient so the bin was writ tea » gtve the power to the stats

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■ " f ~ AND I FIGURING TO \ \ ©OUGHT MY I \ y t \C\t —w. / BONDS FOR MORE i fog - ' f - 1 ■ WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! ” Cofifitiht. IMf. br Tin Pbiliitlpbit Inqurtf

< — —-—• Twenty Years Aao Today \pril 30 Businrw will <ease in Deia'ur tomorrow tnoinni- during the funeral services of Judge John C. Moran, widely beloved jurist. .Miss Emily Cri«t. for four yaiw head uuiee in th-- I". > h i'pltal In the Canal Zone. xel"< t"d head nurse for she Adams county mem orial hospital. Citizen’ Telephone company petitions public service commission for permission to Install a new central energy switch board. Annual clean-up of stre ta and alleys starts in Dj-catur Mr. and Mi- James R Biair an visiting In St Mary’s Ohio. o I Modern Etiquette By ROBERTA LEE > ♦ Q 1- it all right to a-k “Who I* I this" it someone answers the telephone and you do not recognize the voice? A. No. The correct thing to do m to ask for the person with whom you wish to speak. <J. is It correct for a hostess to urge a dinner guest to eat or “take large portions of this and superintend*lit of public instruition. But the boys couldn’t get tog- thi-r on ihat. either, so Anally it was amended to let the appointment b, made by the state school attendance board The j-ker was. however, that the law providing tor creation of the attendance board had l»-<-n refiea’ed. So It finally wound up with the legislature appropriating salary for a state school attendance officer to Im- named by a board which does n* t even exist. Izx'ks like Attor-ney-General Emmert Is going to be very busy elralghieuing up the mess.

YANK TANK-DESTROYERS LIE IN WAIT FOR FOE —. -p* ; . ._• ▼ 1 *■ * &** £ MH -m. *'' * * * * " . '-’j \ *"■•’*’ 1 * " A ’ I ' HH ’ HPoE * •« * ** .... _ r “ fc V, er ** • « ., ‘ ■ * . y«» TANK PUTaOYW ROLMttS « tt* v. g ImmC Amr Cw>e in TuaMa taA cover in a tauiX' Mtactoe »y an everiurtfag Mge. Ur* ao they Ua in watt te aoew at the Asia tanka to coma witiun range- Left to ngfct araPvta TMraan Barter at North Care Una, Leo jaakneMo of Warth Da- > kota and O"*— aatoo at Teamaeee. Photo taken near D Guattar. »> (latuuttiaaal Souadpinto)

HERO SON VISITS AMBASSADOR I / < L r t iOL < - ? jißil MK yDßrhb A' ** * PRIOR SHOWS on the face of I»rd Halifax, left above, British ambas- j aador to the United States, as he talks to one of hit sons. Lieut. Illchard Wood of the British Eighth Army, who arrived in Washington to visit his father. Lieutenant Wood lost both legs during a Stuka dive bomber attack on his unit ouUida Tripoli during the Eighth Army advance across North Africa. > (Internttionil Soundphoto)

I ihat'*. I A No; It Is not good mauneis to uriff- a person to eat more than he desires. Q Is it al! right to look ever one of the players' shonldcs wln.n watching a game of card-'? A. No. it in rude and irritating to the player to do so. o— -- ♦ — n • —7 * Household Scrapbook Bf ROBERTA LEE Cleaning Silverware To clean silverware, put four quarti, of noft water Into an aluminum pan. and add one heaping

I tablespoon of salt and two heaping tabbwpoons of baking soda. Let come to a boil. Put the silverware into this solution and let sttnf foi a few minutes. Remove, and wash in strong suds. Rinse with clear boiling water. Dry thoroughly. Laundering Washt.b)e dresses should be squeezed in thick -oap suds and rlnaed thoroughly three or four times. Then roll in a towel and lay i aside until dry enough to lion. Dried Fruit To Insure keep.ag your over-sup-ply of dried fruit in perfect condi- • tlon. heat It and then seal In fruU f Jar<

State Traffic Toll Shows Sharp Drop 54 Percent Decrease During First Quarter Chicago. Apr. 30. — ft’Pi — The national safety council reports today that Indiana Is one of 12 states whose traffic toll for the first three months "f 1043 Is at least 5" petcent below the fatality rat. for the same period last year. The announcement at Chicago adds that the Hoosier state’s de erase f< r the flist quarter Is 54 percent. South Dakota’s R* percent drop tops the IL't. Nationally, the total number of traffic death, in the nation during January. February and March was 5.050. The corresponding quarter of 1942 claimed 7 96" traffic victims. Milwaukee. Wis . Is credited with the best three-month death rate among cities ot more than 500,000 |M>pulatlon. Kraft Is Chairman To Help Colleges Chicago. April 30 James L Kraft, chairman of the board of ih Kraft-Phenix Chec«e corporation. Chicago, has accepted the national chairmanship of the new development program for the Baptist board of education. Dr. Lu'her

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CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT I 1 went out Into the night and found that the rain was merely a sprinkle now. Acron the way. Herb heaved himself up from a ehaise longue on the doctor’s lanai, and lumbered along behind me. I did not ■peak and neither did he. I was not afraid of him, for I knew the more guilty he wan the more anxious he would be to preserve me as the culprit. I proceeded by the beam of : my fla-hlight directly to my dinghy. I Herb continued to follow me, and ’ the senselessness of it irritated me. . I shoe 1 off from shore an. took my I oars. As I rowed away, his figure I at the edge of the water merged : into the general darkness and mist. I had expected him to follow me i in a canoe and lock me in my own : cabin, but this he did not do. However, I locked myself Into the cabin. Then, instead of going to bed immediately, I opened my portable typewriter and wrote a letter to the police in San Francisco, together with descriptions of each and every one of the colonists—the list to go with the fingerprints if Komako could get them. I put them into an envelope, then sat there thinking over the day’s developments. Finally, to clear my * - mind, I put a fresh sheet into the typewriter and began setting down evidence, elues, suspicions, everything that had to do with Elaine. Out of the deep absorption of this task I became conscious that the sampan was rocking slightly. Someone was coming aboard. 1 stopped typing and listened acutely. It was net Komako returning, for the movi.nents above my head were cautious and stealthy. I was thankful enough 1 had locked my stout eabin door. I stood there, my scalp prickling, straining my ears, waiting for the sound of step# <w the companionway. Rut a deep silence ensued. Then I heard the faint splash of a paddle in the water, I doused my light and got up on a bunk to look out the porthole. Through the porthole I could see a canoe slipping across the dark water, moving toward the shore—i and towing my dinghy. I didn’t need to cast a beam from my flashlight on the paddler to know who it was: Herb, of course. It was his way of locking me tip—as if I couldn’t swim. Stupid! Then a thought struck through my impatience. Was this just another piece of Herb's officiousness? Or wasn’t he exhibiting more determination than any of the others ' to lay the blame of the murders on me—to keep the spotlight off himself? Undoubtedly, as I thought back over all the encounters, he was yelling the loudest for my blood. Very thoughtfully I lighted the gimbal lamp again and returned to my typewriter. 1 set down every suspicion we had against Herb, culminating In Mrs. Latham’s story of seeing him with a spear—my spear? —around the time of Delmar's murder. I made the same kind of report for every other member of the colony, meager though the evidence was. That made me feel obscurely better, though Elaine was still nagging the back of my mind. I mixed myself a nightcap and left the bottle of whiskey sitting on the shelf above the typewriter, as well as leaving my notes still in the machine. I waa that sleepy. Komako awakened me, some time after sunup. I unlocked the door to let him in. He was noisy, hungry, and seemingly none the worse for the “wake. He flourished a paper at me and boomed: "Everybody up early, so I get fingerprints fine. See? One by each name. Elaine asleep yet. but doctor go in and get fingerprint form" L “Didn’t you have any trouble ■ about It?" I asked, amaaed. * Komako twinkled at me. "Oh, at first they all dugust, and Budd say

Wesley Smith, executive secretary of the board announced. The ndw development program, which reeks to provide fund* to help stabilize the flnanclal position of the «4 Baptist-related acade mles, colleges, th-ologlcal seminaries and 76 Baptist student cen ] tors, will be officially limtigurat.-d during May. The board ot educa tlon aims to provide help to youth on campuses not now beiug reached. A member of th ■ North Shore Baptist church. Chicago, Mr. Kraft has long been active In denominational and interdenominational as-

SFrom wherehit"|! /y Joe Marsh | Charlie JenkitiK writes me front | n tr< duced the ka..- 0*? down at camp: g of •’Dear Joe Somethin’ mighty *r> had agm swell happened to me on my last till ten... Memit day’s leave. I’m standin’ on the f«ug. t their corner, not knowin’ anybody in me f.. I Roo d BrtZrH town, when a stranger says likcth.it." •hello, soldler-how’d you like a Thoueht « I chicken dinner at home with me heßr K hat and the wife. j n thJf army “Well, it turns out they were they like to the kind of folks who couldn’t when they a r ~ZiW do enough to help out soldiers. They'd Invited two other fellows and just as soon as we're t ■ No. 59 of a Seriei Capyruhr, Un

I nonsense. They tel! me we are too ! far away from all science things for fingerprints. I play dumb cop, say all cops got to have fingerprints, so I got to have. And that crab fellow—Mr. Rawson—he back me up, all about Sherlock Holmes. Pretty soon they get laughing, wink at each other, then they make prints with lots of jokes." "Didn’t any of them show fear of fingerprinting?" 1 asked disappointedly. Komako shook his head. "I guess murderer know his fingerprints is not got by police in States. ’Cause they know you arc smart enough to send them-even if I am not.” "Whew! Then these wouldn’t bring any returns!” I stansd down st the prints, all such excellent ones. "Say, these were made with purple ink." "Sure. Herb, he boss everything, he have to fix up ink-pad—bring purple ink from his house." “So Herb links up with marking the calendar date of Delmar’s death ... whatever that’s worth." "Mr. Rawson notice that, too, come whisper to me about it" Komako yawned tremendously. "I sleep now for hour while you make breakfast.” And he rolled himself into hie bunk. He was snoring almost at once, completely undisturbed by my activities of shaving, dressing and starting the coffee to boil. I put the sheet containing the fingerprints into the envelope along with my descriptions and letter. Then I cooked baeon and eggs. The aroma of food penetrated to Komako’s hunger-consciousness and overcame his need of sleep. He was up and at the breakfast, as eager and refreshed as if he’d had a good night's sleep. "The fingerprints are all ready to go,” I told him, handing him the stamped and addressed envelope. "Might as well send ’em along." "Sure, sure. We send up to plantation first thing." He stuffed the envelope into his pocket "But we not wait tor answer to that. Hasty. Today we got to get story, t imehow, from Elaine. Tha’s tough job." “You bet it will be! No help from the doctor, of course—nor from his mother. And who are we to handle a delicate mental condition like that? We won’t even know, until she comes out of this sleep, whether the shock restored her memory or whether she's a raving maniae. We could cause inestimable damage. I dread it” "Me, too.” Komako finished his breakfast in a worried silence. The rain was over and the sun shining hotly, but I had noticed that there was a strong wind blowing, a gust now and again causing the sampan to heel slightly. I was surprised at the violence of it when we emerged from the eabin. The deck was already dry and clean as a whistle. The waterfall was so blown about that its place was taken by a tossing spot of foggy mist. The palms were lashing about, leaves and debris were flying through the air and littering the choppy waters of the little bay. It became Increasingly hard to row against it as we neared the shore. We moored the dinghy m the usual place beside the koa-Wood canoes and started up the beach on oer way to the Hawaiian village, bending almost double against the wind. It was then that I saw old Mokiae standing alone farther along the beaeh to the right, face up to the harried scudding clouds. He raised his arms and I believed he was chanting, though the sound of it was drowned by the roar of the wind in the palms. Komako glanced toward him but said nothing as he trudged onward up the ' beach bar. I looked back aa wo weal ; over the rue and gbmpsed Mokmo going through a series es feovements aS If putting something Into 1 tbs curved crook of hie ana. A sort |

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