Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 260, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1943 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FtbUsbed Every Eventag Except Sunday by rar DBCATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated BntorM at the Decatur, Ind., Poat Office m Second Clean Matter |. H. Heller President f. R Holthouse, Sec'y A Bui. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rate* Single Coplee 1 .03 One week by carrier .... .15 By Mail In Adami. Allen, Jay and Wells countkw, Indiana and Mercer and Van Wert counties. Ohio: *4 50 per fear; |2.50 forelx months; |1.35 for three months; 50 cents for one month. Elsewhere:—ls 50 per year: 13 00 for six months; J 1.65 for three months; 60 cents for one month. Men and women In the armed forces, |3 50 per year or 11.00 for three months. Advertising Rates made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue. New York 25 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. Get your st rap pap. r r<-.i<ly and brlp the Boy Scouts score another victory. —■ O—O i 1 These me tough day* for every one hut about all we call d > is grit our teeth and keep on trying. -0 I'ncle Sam ought to furnish a good. old fashion, d reading glass for thoe< who hav> to d< < ipher Vletters. -0 Put aside a five or ten forth" War Relief Fund. The campaign opens Monday and we should go ov- r the top in a hurry. The Boy Scouts did a g od job of gathering tin cans Saturday and th- housewives met the situation by turning in a large supply. It will help provide necessary metal. —o laird Halifax says any thing can hupp, n in Germany. Millions of people living in Hamburg. Berlin and other cities where frequent bombings have <>< < urred. u<> doubt feel things have already bappemd. —o Reports from a northern < ity say that much damage was recently done by a storm in which Ice pellets the site of bullets till'd the air. N w they are addressing Mother Nature with; Lay that pistol down. ' -0 The coal miners strikes have stunned the American people. Regardless of th. merits or demerits < f their case it looks as though during the present crisis they should continue work. The next few days will mean much to every man. woman and child in America. Save your pennies for a one-cent advance in the cost of postage. This amount will In- added to th" two-cent stamp* of today if a measure now in congress goes through and It I oka like it will. The bill hae been approved by the house way* and nitons committee. —o Secretary Hull did a line job in Moscow, according to reporta and deserves a lot of credit. It’s somethin* for man of his age and not in the best physical condition to make such a trip but evidently h«- was tb< one man to do the job and he did it. He assisted in making some real history. —o Every boy in service will appi-t---ciate what we do In Adam, county Cor the War Relief Fund They know from experience what it mean* to go to some organisation

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or club for entertainment, for a place to write letters, for information of every kind. It ail coat* money but it's worth many time* the Investment if it keep* your boy from getting homesick. o—o The average politician may not be -o much Interested in today’s election* over the country, taking them as a matter of cour»e. But the leader* who keep posted and usually know the answers will be waiting and watching the return*. Th<y will take them apart and probably be able to discern trends that most of us will overlook. —o You can help keep prices down, avoid inflation and help Uncle Sam win the war by following the suggestions made by President Roosevelt lust April. They are: "Buy and hold as many bonds as you can; pay your taxer willingly; pay fl your debts; buy life insurance; pay no more than ceiling prices; buy only what you n<cd and don t try to protit from the war." -0 One commentator predicts the war in Europe will be over by Christmas and we all hope he H right. Others guess it will be In the spring while some think it will require a year or perhaps longer

before tin 1 Yanke» * and the Tommien aud their Allien can march down the streets of Berlin. singing their favorite songs. We don’t know when it will be but We do know It can’t come too noon. We have all had enough war to laat seven hundred years, we hope. —o Get your waste paper ready for tin- Boy Scouts. They will gather it in that part .if the city north of Madison street on the 13th and i week later In the south half of the city. Please tie the paper and magazines in bundles and it the weather permits, place them along the curb, otherwise on the front porch. The boys will load them Into trucks. The drive is in charge of Phil Sauers, c hairman of the committee and Decatur street commissioner. -0 The Moscow conference was a success. Os that there is no doubt in the minds of any one. Allies or Axis. The four Allied Nations will act together against common enemies and will continue an international organization to keep peace after the war. They will maintain armiea after the war only in those- countries where it Is necessary to conclude reorganization for peace. They did not of course make public any plans for future military moves, although it is the general conclusion that such actions were agreed on. The war should move faster now and it is hoped can be brought to an earlier conclusion. —o Hunter's Safeties: Hugh Barnhart, director of the State Department of Conservation has Issued a warning to all sports* men who engage in hunting. The s* ason tor rabbits and quail opens next Wednesday and Mr. Barnhart gives these “ten commandmenu” of gun safety: 1. Treat every gun with respect due to a loaded gun. This is the cardinal rule of guu safety. 1. Carry only empty guns, taken down or with the action open, into your automobile, camp or home. 3. Always be sure that the barrel and action are clear of obeUmtions. 4 Always carry your gun so that you can control the direction of year muzzle, even if you stumble. I. Be sure of your target before you pull tbe trigger. «. Never point a gun at anythin t you do not want to shoot 7. Never leave your gun ua-et-tended unless you unload it Brat. I. Never climb a tree or a fence Vita » loaded w •. Never shoot at a flat, hard sur-

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Repeat Stories Os Riots By Internees San Francisco Paper Repeating Charges San Francl-co. Nov. 3 -(UP) — The stories of a riot In a California internment camp for disloyal Japanw- have not been killed by official denial*. The San Francisco Ex amltter ia repeating charge* that 8.000 demon-trating internees seized control of the Tule lake segregation center Monday for a four-hour period. The newspaper quote* an unidentified eye-witness According to the story, the Japanese were demonstrating for more meat, among other thing-. Some of them are said to have carried club* and knives. But the story claims the internees dispensed 'before any eriou* outbreak occurred. The war relocation authority denounces the story as inspired by enemy agent*. The WPA version I* that the adult male* of tile camp who have been refusing to work in truck gardens- gathered to hear a talk by national WRA director Dillon Myer. Official spokesmen way there was no rioting, and the meeting was perfe tly peaceful if it I* (trained and boiled gently. Then skim until thoroughly clear. o Invest ysv CHRUTMA4 I saving* in Uncle Sam's H WAR BONDS. Keep on Backing the Attack.

Returning Prisoners Back To Allied Soil Americans Land At South Africa Port Aboard the Motorship Gripsholtn, Port Elisabeth. South Africa, Nov. 3.—(UPI —Some 1.300 North and South America returned to allied soli today. They landed at Port Elixabeth and breathed air not dominated by the rising sun banner for the first time since Pearl Harbor. They were landed from the diplomatic exchange ship Gripsholtn. United Press correspondent Bernard Corvltt—a former member of the Manila staff—is among the passenger*, all of whom have been released from Japanese internment. He describes their 12-day trip from Mormugao, Portuguese India, where the repatriates switched from the Japanese ship Tela Maru to the Gripsholtn. Acording to Corvltt, the home-ward-bound Americans devoted themselvrw mainly to the elemental task of feeding themselves. They feasted on food cooked and served in the best American tradition. In the brief two week* of the

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Hilda Glenn Is relating the weird beginning of a reign of terror that soon put Havenhur*t-on-Sound in glaring headline*. Hilda, author of a hit radio isriai, ’’Love’* Wages,” just returned-to her old family summer home, Glennacres, at Hav> enhurst, is confronted with what she call* "the murder" of a red SStter. Hilda and her neighbor* . . . Pete Everard, a male menace and would-be playwright; his wifs, Nancy; and the latter’s former flame, Jack Drummond, a prosecuting State’s Attorney ... are dining in the Everard home when Commodore Knowlton, elderly and pompous, call*. He say* hi* wife, “Aunt Flo.” thought she “saw a ghost.” Hilda had known the cranky Commodore sines childhood. Some blamed him for the accidental death of her parent* about ten year* before. He was Pete's uncl* and guardian. He carried a heavy, gold knobbed walking stick which he brandished during a clash with Pet* over mention of th* drowning of hi* grandson, Henry Knowlton, 111, and hi* setter, “Red Rufus,” years ago. Hilda assured all that she had seen a dying red setter that day. Suddenly a voice from without declared: “You can’t lay a ghost with a blow of your cane, Henry.”... And the Commodors’* aged wifs entered, seemingly in a daze. The Commodore staged an ugly scene when hi* wife urged that he must produce Pete's play, after Pete had 4 brief clash with Wing, the Everard*' Japanese houseboy. ... Th* next day, Mrs. Higgins, Hilda’s housekeeper, warr that “this place is haunted” and alleges "Hank” Knowlton had killed himself. “He had such fun out of life-More than he could pay for.” Mrs. Higgins tells of working for th* Knowlton* and ssvcrely denounces th* Commodore's wife, a* she talks:

♦ CHAPTER EIGHT ” “My son Nate was a sailor aboard young Mr. Hank's yacht. He came back to Rockledge and told me what happened. So there's no doubt. Young Hank sent his dog. Red Rufus, ashore with the crew. After the explosion, the dog swam out and tried to save his master. Mr. Hank didn’t want to be saved. When they found him he had his two hands around the poor creature's throat gripping him so hard the dog’s eyes bunged out** "Don't!" I protested. “Don’t!" “I got to tell you," she said. “1 got tn. Because of yesterday. Because of the red setter." “Oh, come now, Mrs. Higgins." 1 objected. “You’re not trying to tell me that was a ghost dog—" “I'm telling you old lady Knowlton thought it was a ghost dog," she said. “The ghost of Hank's Red Rufus coma to haunt her for sending her grandson to his death." “Nobody believes in ghosts nowadays,” I said firmly. “Nobody who's intelligent.* “Crazy folks do.” Mrs. Higgins insisted. “And Mrs. Knowlton is stark, staring erazy. She sent Higgj:.i and me away from Rockledge because she was pretty sure we knew. She wouldn’t even give us a refeience after ten years of servAha! So now you're trying to got back at kor, I thought. “I don’t see why you want to make me hate Mrs. Knowlton," I said aloud. Mrs. Higgins responded, “Miss Hilda, 1 don’t want you to hate the old lady or harm her. I only want you to be on guard so she don’t harm you. She’s mad, she is. Mad! A lot of people blame the Commodore for thing* she's made him do. Cant you see *twas her must of killed the dog yesterday — firing rocks at him so he’d go away and not haunt her? Can't you see?" “The Commodore said she thought she’d seen a ghost.’’ I said it under my brusth, but Mrs. Higgins' ears were sharp “Look out the old lady don't get to thinking you and your sister are ghosts come back to haunt her for sending your maw and paw to their death, Mrs. Higgins warned, and would say m more. * Biggin* gave Aunt Carrie and me leaeh on th* tertace. TYe salad was crisp, the bread fresh, the ceid

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trip from Mormugao. their face* have started to fill out and shrunken waistlines show sign* of new resurgence. Many young people are among the passenger*. Friendships which started in the Teia Maru ripened on the Gripsholm. Many couple have become engaged. Soft bed* were a luxury for tho»who alept in internment camps on narrow beds so close together that neighbors’ elbows and feet wire always in their faces. Corvltt says to be able to walk and talk freely seemed the acme of freedom to them. And they were cheered by the large numbers of American magazines and newspapers aboard ehip. The passengers also were treat ed to three motion pictures—" Yankee Doodle Itandy," "In Which We Serve"’ and "Tales of Manhattan ’’ The picture painted by Corvltt was quite different from the one presented by U. P. correspondent Jcbn R. Morris at Mormugao Apparently the Gripsholtn trip worked wonders for the repatriates. At the time they changed ships. Morris say* aome of the Americans lie had known had aged as much as 20 year*. Some looked well, but others were ill. And st’,l) others were missing because they wer held by the enemy or bad died in internment. ——" o— Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

chicken delicious, and the drone of bees in tbe early lilacs was cozy and r.-assuring. Mrs. Higgins and her old wives* tale began fading pleasantly from mind; and I found life at Glennacres taking on some of the sense of agreeable well-being 1 had expected to find there. “You go on back to New York this afternoon, Hilda,” Aunt Carrie said comfortably. “Write your script* or do your packing or whatever you’ve a mind to. And don’t you show up in this place before next Friday night. I promise you we’il have the cobwebs swept out of here by then.” I was looking up train* with help from Higgins when there was the sudden tooting of a horn, a screeching of tire* and brakes, and a brand-new cream-colored sports coupd drew up at the front door, and Greg Mason ran around to the terrace. “Here we are," he said. “Come and behold I" “Oh, Greg! How wonderful!" Then Pam got out of the car. “Isn’t this adorable?” she asked. I couldn’t smell the lilacs any more. The faint scent of springtime was submerged by the dusky amber fragrance floating from Pam's white flannel coat The frail, lovely color of the day yielded to the dazzling scarlet of Pam’s shoes and gloves, and the Chinese pagoda of a hat tied down over her shining black hair. Pam drifted up to the terrace. She took possession of it She even look possession of Aunt Carrie and I smiled because the black-velvet magic of her voice had it* usual etfect, for my plump and practical little aunt began insisting that our unexpected guest* must stay to lunch. Pam waved lunch away. She had greater excitement to discuss. Greg’s ear waa brand-new. He'd bought it yesterday—the yesterday when he had promised to drive me home to Havenhurst in his old car. Now he and Pam were christening the new beauty. Pam had come out to look for a house. But flrst, of course, they'd come to call on Hilly. Good old Hilly. “It’s pretty late for houses. They’re all picked over,” 1 blundered ineptly. “I’ll get one. J always get what I want" Pam wa* sure of it. “Don’t you want some lunch? 1 asked, wondering why Higgins had disappeared. Greg laughed. “Well, obviously, darling." So I rang and Mr*. Higgins ap peered carrying a butler’s tray set out with Mother’s silver and Grandmother Babcock’s Spode. She said Mr. Higgins had turned his ankle and she’d serve. “Aren’t you lucky," Pam said. “To have perfect servant* who don t mind unexpected guests and even anticipate your hospitality.” “They hear every word from the kitchen on account of everybody » having to yell so a* to include me, Aunt Carrie explained. I must have been a bit edgy that day. So many things annoyed me I didn’t like what Greg said after became back from th* butler's pantry where he’d gone to telephone Nancy Everard. “No wonder you eat on the terrace,” he said. “These old bouses are regular mausoleums." “This must have been a charming place in it* day." Pam spoke in a soothing tone she often use* in Love'i Wagtt. . , - “It's going to have another day. I declared. Just like that. As if 1 were fate. “I told Naney to pick us up here right after lunch,” Greg »•“*■ 1 we go over there those hrat* ofhers will be all over us. Beside*, it • no good using a brand-new rar to j*unt up and down the rutty back roads One of Aunt Carrte’S white eyebrows went out of alignment It positively skyrocketed later when Pete came along with Nancy *nd said he’d half a mind to join the bouse hunt “Yau can tell me about the pl«> between house*,” P*m *•« “Why, Pete, since when did ymj become interested In real estate Maney asked. I m*U • quick appraisal of Pam and I teß sure she knew just since when.

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I ’Why <U’t jos p i work on your play .-j, tering about it?” Gr-j* “Since when arejwj my play?" Pete ukdd , Before Greg , Everard twins case yes the lawn. “We came tErougfc* Dotty shouted. "Mummy forgot key Dicky announced. "And her rn.,neyi,’| “There’s nothing is it* “Yes, there is," [My but he didn't strut ‘Ge dime* in it now. Fiftw “Thanks, darling,* 1 “You’re very good to 1 “Me too," Dotty iitg They swarmed a; a and embraced their &a “Say good after Moss Nancy said. “And teS! you're glad to meet te “Glad to meet M.u D intoned. Then Dotty* make her curtsy to h and Dicky came and tut around me. “Cut this short, X you?" Greg wa> cw I "Pam hasn't all w«t* “Speak to your udi pered to Dicky. The child put hi* > around my neek. tuu gravely to Greg, and i* you do, Uncle Grtg!* “Hlo, brat!* Gng carelessly. Dicky laid his fsu I cheek and whispers!: 1 Dotty advanced nk said: “I’ll kiss you if jw Greg." Greg laughed: "YU bathing suit on. X«vf sake wipe your nose S# home, will you?" “Yes, sir.” D tty I walked off the terrace f “Where are your w* demanded. “Didn't js teach you to say rxd-k "Good-by,” Dotty e voice quavered,her All and she went peltiSf • lawn. "Dicky, go after jj Pete said sullenly. "• can do no less.” "Iley, Dotty, wait :* called. Then he “She’s a very P»d W ally. Good-by Aur.t Can Hilda and Min Pr-7 and Papa «r,d-«vtn» Pam’s laughtertrum pered after Dotty. 4 in your pl»ee. Gregory' "Those brats newl ■ theirs,’’ Greg Pam surprised sweit. I’m s< * hl., children.” L ng afterward’J” ber that I’am hnsß■ and to hope that • ' _ "Come on, •* going. I’ll be your** I So long. GknMl arm and n’ 3 ' l ’;’'™ front seat Lho-.’dcr. -You *l«n •** I Hilly- HI be Nancy- ,l’* u ’ oa |-j n but don’t first house «■ Auntie!" A* the c»r dro’? self wondering ■had >t ■ She must kno* y 1 I Pam s m»n ter “My. but Ps? | wme creature. * tn flupp** ’ "Why don’t .«• 'asked. . -sttesM “Why Too siiprl*^ { ir.d ' all.” Aunt g Mm Chn*:**, 1 ! **-!» “Paw s ■***-"•*