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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT PwlisbU Every Evenlxi JBxcept Bunday by fU DBCATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated tßtarad at the Decatur. Ind., Post OAca as Second Class Matter I. H. HeUer President A R. Hoitbouie, Sec'y A Hua. Mfr. (Nek D. HeUer Vice-President Subscription Rates dtniCopies I .03 Tne week by carrier — .15 By Mall In Adami. Allen. Jay and Weill countlra, Indiana and Mercer end Van Wert counties, Oblo: 54.60 per fear; 52 50 tor six months; 51.35 for three months; 60 cents tor one month. Eleewherw:—ss 50 per year: 5300 tor six months; 5165 for three months; 60 cents for one month. Men and women in the armed forces, S 3 50 per year or 51-00 tor three months. Advertising Rates made Known on Application. National Representative BCHEERER A CO. 15 Lexington Avenue. New York 25 E. Wacker Drive. Chicego, 111. At thin season and for peace on • arth. buy war bonds. —o Hunting n Sundays, or at night is a violation of law in Indiana an 1 Kann- wardens are warning hunters that the law will be enforced. It pays to obey these warnings. —o The Yanks are doing a gn at Job in Italy where the enemy forces have been pushed ba* k to the plains on the road to Koine. Advane* inent is expected to be made mure rapidly now. —o ll*- sure tj buy your quota of December boink* Several counties in this part of the state fell down last month but old Adams was rtsclit there again doing her full •hare. Let's keep that record up —o Remember December 15th is the d-adline (or tiling your report on incomes to Will 11. Smith, federal collector of revenue for Indiana. Mr. Emshwiler will be glad to assist you if you want him to. -0 Japan didn't have much to celebrate on Pearl Harbor day. They admitted that the American and Austrlian forces are making It tougu in th*- South Pacific. They attribute Allied successes* to the overwhelming ruperiority in air t>ower. -0 W. A Klepper <f this city, manager of the Indiana division for the Kraft Cheese company, has been elected president of Indiana Manufacturers of dairy products. Mr. Klepper is recognized as one of the outstanding men in the business and bis services as president of the association assures a year oi progress. Save waste fats and take them to your butcher. He will pay y*u four cento a pound and give you two brown coupons, good for m ats, in addition to the pay. for your further convenience Girl Scouts will make another collection this week. The fats are badly needed by the government so please savtup all you can. With two and a hall tons ot old clothing collected here and more to critic aa other churches report makes a good showing tor the city. Key. Carey R. Moser of the First Baptist church of Decatur is ctusirman of the campaign and has o*me an excellent Job. The clothing will be cleaned and shipped to a central station and later overseas where It can be used to keep refugees and victims cf war comfortable.

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The flu epidemic, or whatever the medics call it, now raging in Indiana and the United Slates from Alaska to Florida, is the most prevalent since the first world war. However the resulting deaths are nothing as compared to then, due no doubt to the advancement made In medical science, it is just as important now as ever, however, that we do not treat the ailment lightly. See your doctor, rest and avoid exposure, take the medicine prescribed and be careful. —o Christmas, 1943: This will be a Christinas similar to that which preceded it. Our minds will In- divided between lov- . d ones at home and loved ones far from home in the ranks of those fighting for our country These at home are being protected against the heartless savagery of our enemies bent on their d-slruction. Those abroad are giving their all. even risking life Itself, that those at home may continue to enjoy life and happiness in tiiLtr bb-ssed land Many have died in this horrible conflict, many have been wounded and are now suffering far from home and friends. Many are suffering in prison camps and the end Is not yet. What the toll will be no man can tell. It is too awful to contemplate. Those responsible will be called upon to answer before an all-wise and just God. These thoughts take us far from tii«- Christmas* spirit, but with that fortitude which must be shared by each we approach this Christinas with prayers on our lips and in our hearts for our loved ones wherever they may be and however they may be situated. In our poor way we can continue to care for those at home, and those abroad we commend to the loving care of an all- I wise («>d of love and mercy.—Elks Magazine. —o Dollars Make Jobs: If we are to prevent pmH-war unemployment we must not ignore the fact that, in our civilization, man d<es not work with his bare . hands. Rather men work with tools, machines and other equipment ranging in cost from 52.500 per worker in the leather Industry to 525.W0 in railroads and steel, according to Emerson P. Schmidt In the current issue of Naton’e Business. Stripi>ed to essentials, the unemployment prvbtern becomes an investment problem, says Mr. gehmidt. For every returning soldier who gets a job somebody must invest 55.<>Ou. Therefore, concludes Mr. Schmidt, taxation and all other factors that affect incentive to invest or to save money for investment also affect the ex soldier's chances for employment. — -o ■ . Special Services And Meetings Os Churches In Area Nuttman Avenue U. B. 'Huntington college day will be observed is special services Bunday mo:niug at the Nuttman Avenue United Brethren church. Rev. Delbert Cres . pastor, announced today Rev. M. I Burkholder. d*-an of the theological oemlnary. will be the guest peaker. The young ladies quartet will sing several special number st tb<- Sunday school hour and the regular worship service. During the services, a '‘victory" offering will be received for the interests of the toliege. The *rabllc :* invited to attend. Z<on Reformed \ Dr. Gilbert Sthroer. forme; misx.onary to Japan, will speak nt the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church la this city Sunday evening at 7:3k o'clock. Dr. hchrowr. commksetosed a gU’stosary in 1122. was of the Japan iu»»ou of t|e gvfagchcal and Rek.med chmeb at Mono.

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* RURAL CHURCHES j Monroe Friends Byron L<-a**er, pastor •* 10-10:36 s, in sunuay School. Wm. Zurcher, superintendent 10:30-11:30 a. in. Morning worship. Sermon topic, "Almost Defeated by Pride." 7:30 p. m.—Evening service. Saturday. Dec 11 Portland quarterly meeting at Monroe. Wednesday — Midweek prayer meeting. Friday. Dec. 10—Victory prayer band at the home of Frank Martz. o Decatur Methodist Circuit E. J. Arthur, Pastor Pleasant Vsllsy Preachiug Service al 9:30 A. M.. followed by Sunday School. Beulah Chapel Sunday Schoo! r.t 9:3U A M. followed by preaching -ervlce. Mt. Pleasant Sunday School at 9:30 A. M. Union Bible Class, Friday evening al | the parsonage. Mt. Tabor Sunday school at 9;3U a. m. - Pleasant Vsllsy Wesleyan Methodist Church Noel H. Wiuterholter, pastor Sunday School. 9:30 a. m. Morning worship. 10:3u a. m Preachiug each Sunday evening. 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting each Wednesday evening. 7:30 p. m. The regular monthly meeting of the Young Mlaioiiary Workers band ka. Japan. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Haidior, Dr. Schroer wa- placed in solitary ioufinem*-nt for aix mouths on chargtw ot espionage.. Freed of the charge, be was repatriated with the first group of war prisoner* exchanged ou the liner Gripeholm The public is invited to hear Dr Schroer's account of his expeiiences.

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'•ill b** tv'd Nui'day evenli'y '!'• ioocr<m *lll be as planned by Mrs. Haymond Harrison. A cordial welcome awaits yon net-.*, so don't miss Bunday Go to church Sun<l:*v It will •*■•' y nr mind and heart n Antioch (M.8.C.) Church J ho Bontrager, pastor Sunday School. 9:3® a. in. Ellis Sklbs. superintendent. Worship service. 10:30 a. in. Special music and message by pastor. Midweek prayer service Wedneaday evening. 7:30 p. m . at the parsonage. We*coidia!ly invite the public to attend our services. Q Calvary Evangelical Church F. H. Willard, Minister Sunday School 9:30 a m. James Darr. Supt. Prayer Meeting 10:30 a. m Otim Sbifferly, leader. Preachiug Service, Thur-day 8:00 p. m. Rivare Circuit Gilbert Eddy. Paator Mt. Victor Sunday School 9:30. Cloyce Crozier. SupL Class meeting 10:30 Gregg Knittie. leader. Prayer meeting Wednc day evenlug 8:00. Pleasant Grove Sunday School 9:30. Warren Harden, Supt. Claw meeting 10:30. Fred Bittner, leader Evangelistic service 7:30. Sermon by the paator. ' Note: — Beginning with Monday evening Dec. 13. Rev. L. D. Dellinger of Ruckford. Ohio will bring the evening message*. Everybody is welcome to these services beginning at 7:30. Mt. Victory Sunday School 9:30. Jim Bealiout. Supt. Note:—The ten-thirty period will

lie In charge of the committee on Christmas program. The pastor will be pre-ent. Please don't forget this is Huntington college week, bring your offering for ibis worthy cause. U. B. C. E. Services at 7:00 H. ChronUter, president. Prayer meeting Monday evening Louise Bunner, leader. Willahire Circuit U. B. Church L. A. Middaugh, pastor Willahire 9:80 a. m Sunday School. 10:30 a. in.—Class meeting. 7:30 p. in — Wednesday, prayer meeting. St. Paul 9:15 a. m—Sunday School. 7:30 p. in. Tuesday—Bibk- study and prayer meeting. Winchester 9:30 a. m — Sunday School. 10:30 a. m.—Preaching service. 7:00 p. m— Evangelistic service. Revival now in progress. 7:3U each week evening. 0 — Union Chapel U. B. Church Dwight L. Patterson, paator I Sunday School. 9:30 a. m. I Morning worship. 10:15 a. m. Christian Endeavor. 8:45 p. m. Evening aervica, 7:30 p. in. Midweek prayer service Wednesday. 7:30 p. m. o ——— * Twenty/fears Ago * Dec. 10 -‘Harding memorial week is observed nationally, otar’ing campaign to secure fuudi for a memorial to be erected at Marion, Ohio. Alfred Boyd has public sale and will move to Michigan. Federal taxe- will be cut 5325.ooo.ouo uuder a bill approved by Preaident Coolidge. Fred Haacber'a car damaged in a collision with a parked car on

American Woman Is Rescued By British Wife Os Italian Navy Officer Is Rescued With the Eighth Army in Italy. Dec. 10.—(I’P)—British Tommiee hardly could believe their eyes when they saw a woman with a baby in her arms, running toward them out of the shell-torn muck that had been the Bangro river battlefield. And they were certain they were suffering from shell-shock when they heard the woman tell them she was an American. Here is her story as related by United Press correspondent Richard MacMillan, who Is with the eighth army. The woman Is Mrs. Bonita Castelgrsnd Caputl of New York City. She went to Italy with her Lieutenant Caputl of the Italian navy. Soon they were married, and as a navy wife, she followed her busband from port to port. She believes that her husband went down with the Italian battleship Roma, which the Germans sank soon after Italy made peace with the Allies. With her baby. Barbara. Mrs. Caputl finally made her way to the town of Lanciano beyond the Sangro river. But the Germans made life unbearable. And with other civilians, she went to live in a cave. Every night, Mrs. Caputl could bear the thunder of the eighth Second street. Eight deaths have occurred in Fort Wayne's typhoid fever epidemic. Steve Oslakovic is painfully burned by hot lime at -ugar factory.

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR At s little past two, when 1 was coming down the front stairs, after helping Dr. Rogers get Pam to bed, I saw Greg's cream -colored roadster turn into the driveway. The unthinkable moment bad come. I dosed my eyes and stood with my hand on the banister waiting to know what Greg would do. After a while I heard hie feet pounding up the porch and his voice shouting with what sounded like dismay: "Pam! Is Pam all right7 Thoae doeton* can—what do they mean?” For a second nobody answered. It seemed impossible to project our voices through the blood-red fog that covered our world. Then I heard Romey Hodges • pvaking: “We've another murd.it hare, Mr. Mason. The Drury child.* 'Not Henny I* Grog exektmed. (Bui whu had ke oeme aeeretly and furtively to Mavesharaf hut nights) “Listen, man,” Dstsetlve Hodges Mid. And as ha talked I reconstructed the scene for myself and prayed that it was new and strange to Greg.... A child had been battered to death down on the beach. She must have screamed with pain. She must have fought for her life. Donato Harden had seen her diving from the Club float at tea. At one she had been already cold. (And whih / was at ChUf Calvia's office trying t» maha Aim believe that Naney Bvarard hadn't kilUd htr htuband and tritd to murder her cAßdren, tAo Havenburst killer had beea at work agora and Htnny had dird aloa*—si Ms end of the hooch and only half a milo away from all tAo holiday bathon at tAo CM... . Not Grog.,., Could U bo Grtgf) Thea 1 thought of Commodore Knowlton. His house was on the ledge of rock above Beach Cottage. The rad Mtter had beea killed below the Rockledge Cliffa. *IVe little girl’s life had been battered out against the last of the rocks on Havenhurst Beach, the boulder just south of Rockledge. 1 recalled the cane the old man had brandished ... onee against a yelping dog, then against a frightened child in the hall of Glennaeree. A dog and a child. I felt certain that both theee victime were part of a pattern. . .. 1 came baek to reality when the ambulance clanged in at Pam’s gate. Greg was down ou the lawn talking to Chief Calvin and the medical officer. Peggy aplit the silence with an accusing scream. “Why do thpolice mate so much time? Why d. n't they catch the murderer before there’s somebody dead in every house ia Havenhurst? Mfel* Sergeant O'Toole came out of Beech Cottage then, dragging Toya with him. ■ “Dent you be worrying your head. Miss Peggy." he Mid “You can be sleeping saf- from now ou. Tw this Jap', the killer.Nobody aMwered him. If Toya were the murderer But I couldn't believe that the crtr.gmg y.ilpw fey. 2°* A™! wrth <«•»■. bad murdered Pete or Olive or littfe Mer.ny.' '■ I couldn't believe what I feanj •Uher-«or escape H. ... grog had eoms secretly to Hgveahmt test mght Henny had hetod Gseg He «ated to marry Pam. Perhaps Henny would have been an obotoek As the ambulance drove eway, u ?.. thc porch ,te P’-

army's guks as they prepared to i storm the German lings. Finally one night the cannonading lit U p the whole valley around Her, the earth shook under her feet . . . She knew that the big British attack had started. Although ahe doubted that she ever would get out alive, the American woman prayed that the British guns would get still closer. When a servant finally told Mrs. Caputl that the British were there, she couldn't believe her ears. She rushed out on the field and saw some British troops. She called to them in English. "And. do you know." Mrs. Caputl says, "1 could have kissed every one of them.” Modern Etiquette I By ROBERTA LRR Q. isn't it rude for two persons who speak a foreign language to carry on a conversation In a group, when the others do not understand? A. Yes. This is the height of

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before the bromidea put her to sleep.” “I’ll go up to her ia a minute,” Greg Mid. “But I've got to speak to you first, Hilly.” "To me?" "Don’t you realise you’ll have to write Pam out of next week’s show?” 1 looked at him with sheer incredulity. How could he think of the show now? "It niMns five scripts for you to rewrite and practically no time to do ’em in,” Greg declared. "You’d bettor get going.” “Muat wo talk about this now?” Dennis parried. “Go up to Pam. She needs you.” "Sure!” Crick Mid. "Go on up and tall her to forget the show. I'll get Maida Willsor to play Dodi for a couple of weeks.” “That’s the way to handle it." Donato aftrmsd. “Hilda can’t do a rewrite now. She’s about ready to cave la. She was down on the beach—" "You let her see Henay?” Grog asked in a tight, hard voice. "Pam would have gone if 1 hadn’t,” I Mid dully. Greg made no comment on that. He paused, then said: "Do you want to rob Pam of all she’s got? That part’s hen. Shell go nuts if Willson plays it Dodi'a got to be written out for a week. Can 1 count on you, Hilly ?” There was a moment of uncomfortable silence. Then 1 said coldly: "lU rewrite the scripts." “Thai’s my Hilly!” Greg Mid lightly, and went into the house to Pam. “That finishes him with me!” Peggy snapped angrily. I thanked God for it all the rest of that nightmare Saturday. Work wm an escape from reality. I was forced to retreat inside my story and, as I schemed to write Pam out of the scripts, I had to write her more and more out of my consciousnesa. Dennis made me stop for an hour’s walk after lunch on Sunday. We went for a tramp in the woods back of our house and 1 sketched my for whisking the heroine to "Better outline two weeks with no Dedi,” he said. "Let her fly to Mexico City and And she can't book a return trip for ten days.” "Thanks, but Pam will be back in a week,” I prophesied. When Dennis and Crick left late that evening, I had one senpt ready for them to take along and another more than half done. Greg esase over to aee me Sunday night after Crick and Dennis had driven away. “Look here. Hilly,” he Mid. “There’s one thing you've got to know.” “I know too much now.” I tried to evade the issue for a little longer. "The thought of that poor child haunts me.” “You can’t bring het back by torturing yourself,” Greg remarked. I stared at him. This was a stranger, and pernsps the only Greg there had ever been. "Benny’s death to bad enough. But as you My. she's goer. Now I’m thinking of that beM^totod Japanese bey. Me hasn’t a “He won’t go to the chair if he's innocent What 1 want to know ia why did Drummond seoot out of town at eleven on Saturday? The poor kid must have boon killed between fen aad eleven. It cauldn t have been later. The food In her st mm eh waateo thoroughly digested and her body cold—” “AH right, Hffly. Greg SowU

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for my revulsion "AsjJ what 1 rame to talk “No?" I asked drftniyW “No. I camo to tell y J to go through with it Saturday night. I with Pam. I must te,l want you to know* I "Not now. Grtt,"!ynfl ha< no meaning nev-" ■ Suddenly (Ir'gUliyß in his two har. ii tsj drR ward him. •■!U\*-?.’imeM time? It’s got to to tell you—Oh, H:.!y! hfl what I want and it'i I buried all of the ?ml without a tear ‘1 usfl want now. too. Good-hy.l It was as simple u thafl if I didn't sleep much.lß the crack of dasm at M back to work on the <hcw At dinner that mght ■ began to talk again !ni been frozen into liknee fl urday noon, and our u'mJ tion had been let sithi limits of comment on tafl or how good the root «fl Characteristically it J who broke the ice. “Pm bed with the ahceti puikfl head. She acts as if «h« I nant with fate instesd I broken over Henny." J Peggy didn't pause. “Il to Beaeh Cottage this »!s take Pam some roses ar il me want to scratch herd She’s so sorry for-hend “What do you expertn "I want her to bs M Henny.” Then Aunt Came ud "We've al! b*ea w ihocto ny’s death that wc hawnl to think how terrible it id "She hasn't beard aM said.” Peggy comptou*- 1 1 raised her voice. "It ’ Jl 3 Pam because fate has d»JI her a smack in the fate- H Pam liked her child becaad hers— sort of a nice P*R erty— not becauae ahe girl with s life of her . "Oh, Peggy!" I pretty cruel and »eD' {1 * But Aunt Came »**' Peggy without «)M • ’ Today I know that »»’ great-aunt began tel rolling beada and (try. their crimson bition, and ancient ■ AH I could Carrie's fi«-d hear was the sudden bing that »h"<* her. me. When I P«‘ comfort her she ignored « gan to speak. Thio io the n-rrot ofoAunt Carrio ha* a*** I have. For the words through her racking d.d iJ I'm to bhm; >“ that Henny is dead. It was Peggy * back to «<’ «"' 1 ri. out of “You’re wacky. mJ “ gy Mid succinctly. fiaek spots and “ Si. leo >ou want to *cuP) to Toys'*! n, to., ■’"'a, COOiprcrSM * 1 ® \ u.grss sr& -